The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-21 00:00:00

heir countrymen, and had been most indefatigable in the
Gommon Council.--(Cheers.)
Mr. WILLIAMS (of Watling-street) seconded the propo-
sition.

The toast was then drunk with great applause.
Mr. TAvtou returned thanks. His public conduct had
always been dictated by a determination to persevere fear-
lessly in those acts which were calculated to benefit his fel-
low countrymen, regardless of all rzmarks that might be
made. It appeared, however, `,oat he had lately incurred
the displeasure of that e,onsistent paper the Times.—
(Laughter.) It had b-,en his fortune at former periods to
obtain its approbation.—(Hear.) He had, indeed, been
eulogised in its columns. All, however, he would say on
this subject, was, that he was neither exalted by the ap-
plause of that paper, nor depressed by its censure.--(Hear,
Lear.) 'All he wished for was, to stand well with his fellow
citizens. He knew they could not always agree ; but he
trusted no Englishman would be indifferent to the liberties
and welfare of his country at an important crisis like the
present.—(Hear, hear.)

Mr. WILLIAMS (of Watling-street) had permission to
propose a toast, which he felt confident would be received
with the enthusiasm it merited. It was the health of the
Earl of Durham.—(Cheers.) As the troop met under
very different circumstances that evening (in a political
point of view) to what they did last Wednesday night, per-
Imps they would allow him to make a few observations on
the state of public affairs.—(Cheers.) Last week the
country had an administration which, he believed were
anxious to promote the good of the country ; and if they
did not do so much as the people expected, yet they did a
great deal.—( Hear, hear.) That Administration, however,
was now defunct—it was consigned to the tomb of time.--
( Hear, hear.) The proposed new Ministry were well
known. Every Englishman knew they were, one and all,
in fact, the whole party to which they belonged had always
been; and always would be, hostile to the liberties and rights
of the people.--(Cheers, " Yes ; that is true !") The
Lumber Troop had always come forward in the cause of
reform, and he was sure they would not be backward in the
present important crisis.—( Hear.) It became them, how-
ever, to look at measures, not at men, and they could only
judge of what measures were likely to be proposed by de-
clared and recorded opinions. There was one eminent in-
dividual late a member of Earl Grey's Cabinet—( Hear,
near.) He belonged to the order of aristocrats—he was
possessed of a splendid, he might say, princely fortune,
who had, in and out of office, nobly, manfully, and
consistently advocated the most extensive system of
reform.—(Hear, hear.) Perhaps it was necessary for
him (Mr. Williams)to say that he alluded to that distin-
guished Nobleman, the Earl of Durham.—(Cheers.) That
Nobleman (unlike many professed Reformers) had pro-
mised something definite.—(Cheers.) The people, there-
fore, ought to rally round those who honestly promulgated
their determined principles.—(Cheers.) The principles
promulgated by Lord Durham were those from which alone
the country could expect to reap any real advantage.—
(Hear, hear.) He proposed the health of the Earl of
Durham, and an union of the people to support the senti-
ments promulgated by that Noble Lord at Glasgow.—
(Tremendous cheering.) The toast was drunk with great
enthusiasm.

In the course of the evening, Sergeant Bessington treated
the company with a new comic song, which created much
laughter. It was a dialogue between two costermongers,
relating to the dissolution of the Ministry. One line,
which runs " Vasil% it for Mr. Martin's pact the Duke
would get a vacking," created much merriment. The dia-
logue concludes by the costermongers' declaring " That if the
Duke don't grant further reform, they will not pay any more
taxes." This sentiment was loudly applauded.

THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES v. THE TIMES,
To the EDITOR of the MORNING CHRONICLE.

SIR,---I have great pleasure in informing you that last night
the company frequenting the Belvidere Tavern, Pentonville,
resolved to endure the venal Times no longer. It was unani-
mously discarded, and then the Morning Chronicle was as una-
nimously substituted instead. Three of my neighbours have
this day determined on the same conduct ; and I trust it will
be very generally considered disgraceful to patronize so
shuTing, mercenary, and unprincipled a journal as the Times.

I am, Sir, ycur obedient servant,
160, Gosvvell-street, Nov. 19. WM. HEWITT.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]—A number of gentlemen
in the habit of dining in the upper rooms of the Eagle
dining-rooms, near Woolnoth church, Lombard-street, came
to the resolution yesterday to eject the Times newspaper
from the rooms, on account of its unprincipled character
and infamous treachery to reform, by its advoncy of the
Duke of Wellington's cabinet. The paper was accordingly
ejected ; and it was hoped that the example would be fol-
lowed by every other similar public establishment, as the
best method of rendering the " treason" of the Times
harmless to the friends of liberty.

To the EDITOR of the MORNING CHRONICLE

Sta,---I beg leave to intrude on your columns by stating
what has come under my own observation, as well as in nu-
merous other instances. It is much to be lamented that an in-
dividual so justly celebrated and highly esteemed as the Lord
Chancellor, should be daily subjected to the malignant and
unjust attacks of the Times ; to enlarge upon which would be
unnecessary, as it is obvious to every one that they are as base
as they are undeserved and false. At a most respectable
meeting, at the Crown, Pentonville, last night, that paper
was unanimously consigned to the flames, with a resolution to
have it discontinued in the house ; and this is only one in-
stance out of a great many where it has meta similar fate.

AMICUS JUSTITIJE.

DUBLIN, Nov. 19.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPOINTIDENT.)
The Tories will have anything but idle times if they
really purpose to enforce the collection of tithes in Ireland,
and to " vindicate the law," as they talked of doing, when
they threw the Bill out of the House of Lords. It is ex-
pected, however, that the Duke will turn the corner on
Mother Church now as he. did in 1829, and pitch tithes
altogether to a person in black, who has derived more profit
from them in his time than all the Christian fraternities
that ever had the handling of them. They form a good
step-ladder, but an, uneasy throne.
The numerora undertakings of our Conservative land-
lords to pay tithes have at. length begun to produce a re-
action among the tenantry, and meetings have already been
held in the county of Wexford, at which a most threatening
and dangerous spirit has been manifested. The Roman
Catholic landholders of Ferns met on the 9th, and passed
the Wowing resolutions, among others, to a similar effect :
" Resolved—That we view with mingled sentiments of
sorrow, regret and indignation, the fixed determination of our
landlords to lend their whole weight, authority, and influence,
to forward the collection of a most odious, unjust, and blood-
stained impost.
" Resolved--That our forefathers, with patience more than
human, have suffered privations and persecutions, which for
severity and duration are unparalleled in the history of the
world. Ourselves are pressed to the earth by various insup-
portable burdens. Nevertheless, we stand pledged to the
country and to each other to violate no law—quietly and
peaceably to permit our property to be sold, and ourselves to
be torn from the bosom of our families and thrown into a dun-
geon ; but that we are determined never voluntarily to pay
tithes."

The parishes of Clough, Toome, and Ballycanew, speak
out more plainly :
" Resolved—That we consider the enforcement of tithes to
be attended with imminent danger of the dissolution of so-
ciety ; and we view with just indignation,' the conduct of.
those landlords who have joined a bloated Church to opp;ess
their already almost ruined tenantry."
The amount of tithes exacted in Wexford co-anty is ex-
cessive—in some instances as high as Bs. an -Acre, and rarely
less than 3s. The Wexford farmers tl.lrefore—a remark-
ably intelligent and independent class of men—were among
the earliest opposers of the irnp'Jst. A rapacious demand
of several pounds an acre from land on which tobacco was
cultivated, first roused their indignation, and induced them
to combine against tithes altogether. These men are not
easily put down, and yet their landlords have commenced a
struggle with them, which if suffered by the Government to
last any considerable time must end, as the people of Bally-
canew assert, in the dissolution of society. Several of these
landlords, young crack-brained uneducated fools, have
actually threatened with extermination all their tenants who
shall refuse to pay tithes. What makes the matter worse
too, the demand of tithes from numbers of their tenantry is
contrary to law ; for they are tenants at will, having no
lease of their holdings ; and the tithe of all lands not held
by lease of a date prior to 1832 is payable by the landlord
and none other. Yet these hot-brained fools insist on vin-
dicating the law by acting contrary to it both in letter and
spirit ; and as they have the right to disposses yearly
tenants, they declare openly that they will dispossess all
those who shall not voluntarily pay the tithes. It is the
most infamous proceeding of which any number of persons
pretending to the name of gentlemen could be guilty.
God grant that others may not be drawn into the ruin
which by their shameful conduct these heroes so richly
deserve.

The angry feeling which is beginning to arise against
the landlords, is not confined to the county of Wexford,
although the first indications of it have appeared there. A
requisition has been for some time in silent progress through
ies of Dublin, Wicklow, Carlow, Kildare, Queen's
• unties, Kilkenny and Tipperary, and thousands
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