The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-11 00:00:00

DUBLIN, JULY 9.

" In my opinion, the advantage lies on the side of the
former scheme (the religion of the people) ; and thiq
opinion, if it be assented to, makes it the duty of the Ma-
gistrate in the choice of the religion which he establishes,
co consult the faith of the nation rather than his owN."—
PA LET.

Having just read the first night's debate on
Mr. Stanley's Tithe Bills, and not having seen
the letter of Doctor Doyle on the subject of
tithes in your journal, I send you a copy, in
order that your readers on the other side may be
enabled to form a correct idea of the probable
effects of the Right Hon. Gentleman's present
legislation. The sentiments contained in that
letter, and in former publications from the same
pen, are at this moment as deeply wrought into
the minds of the majority of tithe-payers as in
the heart of the Right Rev. author himself. In
fact, it is incredible how well-informed every class
and persuasion of Irishmen are in a knowledge
of the principles and grounds upon which civil
and religious communities ought to be founded
and supported ; the result of which is, that the
great body of the people are convinced of the in-
justice and impracticability of imposing on them
a tax for the support of a religion which was
never national, and has long since ceased to be
recognised as exclusively privileged. If, then,
torrents of blood have been shed for a century
past in the exaction of tribute which was deemed
legal and capable of being enforced, under laws
to which the community ought to yield, how
much opposition and bloodshed may not be ex-
pected in future, should Government continue
to enforce a payment which has now become at
once obsolete and obnoxious? A few years ago,
Mr. Stanley's Bills would have been welcomed
here as the harbingers of peace and tranquillity ;
but the time is past when the people can be
satisfied with such measures. In saying " the
people," I do not mean the Catholic cotters,
farmers, and franchised freeholders of the country,
I include the majority of the Protestant resident
landlords and landholders, on whom Doctor
Doyle's writing and the progress of events have
had such an effect that they are manifesting daily
proofs of their conviction that no tax bearing
the least affinity to tithes can be henceforward
collected. The daily accounts in the newspapers
of numerous meetings against tithes, convened
and encouraged by Protestant gentlemen of rank
and influence, afford ample proofs of what I am
stating. Mr. Stanley's Bills are, no doubt,
temperate, equitable, and conciliating ; but the
remedies they propose are too slow in their
operation. The distemper caused by the want
of timely application can now only be cured by
cauto y, and eradicating from the system the pre-
disposing germs of unsoundness. Such are the
opinions prevalent in this country, and which
we conceive it to be the duty of the English Press
to lay before the Legislature and people of Eng-
land, before the statute-book is encumbered with
acts of Parliament calculated to uphold agita-
tion and misery in Ireland.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL
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Several cases of cholera (three of which termina-
ted in death) having occurred at the Bridewell, the
Magistrates yesterday adopted the novel expedient
of opening the gates and setting every prisoner free.
The inmates consisted chiefly of vagrants, a few
pickpockets, and parties for committing wilful da-
mage. No persons arc sent here by way of punish-
ment after trial st the Sessions, nor to await their
'vial, so that no great evil will result from the mea-
sure, unless indeed the persons discharged should
carry the germs of disease with them into the low
lodging-houses in various parts of the town.

Several disorderly persons and some vagrants
were brough before Sir PETER LAURIE yesterday,
but he discharged them all, with an admonition that
he dismissed them because the disease was raging
in the Bridewell ; if, however, after this warning,
they committed offences which would subject them
to be sent to the treadmill, although by being so
sent their lives would be put in jeopardy, they must
not expect to misbehave themselves with impunity.
They were well pleased with their discharge.
A respectably-dressed, middle-aged female, named
Eliza Arnold, alias Jones, alias Foster, was charged
with defrauding various tradesmen. It appears that
she has been in the habit of dressing up her son,
about twelve years of age, in livery, who, with an
accomplice attired as a lady's maid, give her rather
an imposing appearance. She then hires a horse
and chaise from a livery-stable keeper, and easily
procures admittance to fashionable lodgings—her
residence in which enables her to obtain goods from
various tradesmen. Some time back, she obtained
a hat for her son from a hatter at Islington, who al-
lowed her to take it away without payment, on her
saying she would call again, and order something of
,ome value. The hatter lately met the son with the
identical hat on his head, and he immediately seized
him, and threatened to detain him if he did not give
up the residence of his mistress. The boy was thus
obliged to give a clew to his mother, who had taken
refuge in an attic in Pentonville.

There were several tradesmen present to prefer
charges. A green-grocer had allowed her to have
nineteen shillings' worth of vegetables in five days.
A milliner said the clothes on Mrs. Arnold's back
belonged to her ; and a livery-stable-keeper stated,
that his horse and chaise, after being kept from him
three months, had been sent back almost valueless.
The prisoner met every charge with looks of de-
fiance, and the Magistrates were obliged to dis-
charge her, as all the cases against hei were mere
debts.