The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-22 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESFONOF.NIC)
Mr. Shaw's eloquent description of the privation; endured
by the Irish Protestant clergy has made some impression. His
account of the clergyman who was obliged to dig fir his field.
fo7 the support of his family has moved, as indeed it is' calcu-
lated to move, the compassion of many. But the true infe-
re.ice from that story is
.fin. the House of Lords. Upon that
di jnified assembly it depends whether the clergyman descril.sed
so pathetically by Mr. Shaw, and along with him all the otlOr
Protestant clergymen of Ireland, are to be condemned to
life of servile labour and penury, or not. If they throw out-
the Bill now before them, the result will infallibly aril inevi-
tably consign two thousand Protestant clergymen to hopelest
beggary. There can be nothing more sure. The only chanc6
of a competent provision for the ministers of the Established
Church being ever realised is offei ed in that Bill. If the
Lords reject it, the opportunity will never occur again. Upon
them, therefore, and upou their heads, be the consequences of'
whatever decision they may form.
What can they expeci, if they throw out this measure ?
Will they enforce tithes at the point of the bayonet ? The
whole armed force of the country, were it all composed of
Orangemen, could not do it ; and I need not say that the
people and the people's House would never consent to the
experiment being tried. One farthing of tithe, or of money
in:lieu of tithe, will never be willingly paid in Ireland, if their
Lordships meddle with the appropriation clau,:e of that Bill.
They may storm and splutter about property aod so forth ;
but all their logic will avail them nothing. They will have
ruined the Church, as far as external circumstances can ruin
it ; and theirs be all the glory of such an exploit.
What hope can the Clergy have ? Look to this case of
Mr. Shaw's. We boast that all the property of the country is
in the hands of Protestants, and we boast of the devoted at-
tachment of our Protestant gentry to their clergy. Yet I:ere
we have them looking on at their beloved instructor toiling for
a- Llre subsistence, and earning his miserable mess of potatoes
by the sweat of his brow ! Not one of them offers him the
slightest relief, or any assistance beyond the cold pity which
insults rather' than soothes a generous spirit. Mr. Shaw even
confesses that tLqy would not lend him money on the security .
of his benefice, except on such usurious terms, that when the
million granted by his only real friends, the Whigs, came for
his relief, it was seized upon by these iniquitous money-
changers, and he was left to starve ! This is Mr. Shaw's re-
presentation of the sympathy afforded the clergy by the Pro-
testant possessors of all the property in Ireland. Can any
other Protestants be more inhuman ? Yes, the Lords may ;
and will, if they destroy the only hope that rests between the
unfortunate parson and cureless misery.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

WHITEHALL, AUGUST 19, 183:.

The Kin,* has been pleased to nominate and appoint John Wil-
liam Birch, Esq. to be Clerk-Assistant of the Parliaments, in the
room of William Courtenay, Esq., now Earl of Devon.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Auc. 19.

This day had audience of his Majesty, the Count Sebastiani,
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the King of
She French, to deliver a letter from his Sovereign, to which he
was introduced by Lord Viscount Palmerston, his Majesty's princi-
po Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir
Rolter.t Chester, Knt., Master of the Ceremonies.

WAR OFFICE, AUGUST 21

ment of Light Dragoons.—Lieutenant J. Rowley to
be
purchase, 'ice Wedderburn, who retires; Cornet
lcOethpta lfineg: by
N. E. Blacloll to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rowley ; J.
Long, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Blackall, August 21.
13th Regiment of Foot--Ensign J. S. Wood, from the 48th
Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Stretton,
who retires, Aug. 21.
23d Foot—Lieut. T. Good, from the half-pay Unattached, to be
First Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Bourchier, promoted,
Aug. 20 ; J. S. Capron, Gen:-., to be Second Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, Aug. '2l.
36th Foot—Ensign L. Rothe, f:orn the 59th Regiment of Foot,
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sir J. D. H. lay, August 21.
49th Foot—Gentleman Cadet J. E. Hall, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, by purcnise, vice Wood, promoted
in the 13th Regiment of Foot, August 2t,
58th Foot—C. L. Nugent, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Rothe, promoted in the 36th Regiment of Foot, Aug. 21.
79th Foot—Capt. lion. L. Maule, from the 95th Regiment of
Foot, to be Captain, vice C. H. Churchill, who retires upon half-
pay Unattached, Aug. 21.
82d Foot—Lieut. N. G;Tene to be Captain, without purchase,
vice Rawson, deceased, Aug. 14 ; Gentleman Cadet H. S. Smith,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
August 21.
84th Foot.—Capt. T. Rowley, from the half-pay unattached,
to be Captain, vice J. Cameron, who exchanges, receiving the dif-
ference, Aug. 21.
92d Foot---Ensign P. M. Petley to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Addison, who retires ; Gentleman Cadet Hon. H. B. W.
Cochrane, from the Royal :Military College, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Petley, Aug. 21.
95th Foot.—Captain A. Caddy, from the ISt West India Rg i-
ment, to be Captain, Vice Maule, appointed to the 79th Regiment
of Foot, August 21st.
Ist. West India Regiment—Captain A. Robertson, from the half-
pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Caddy, appointed to the 95th
Regiment of Foot, Aug. 21.