The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.-DUBLIN, JAN. G.

(From the Times.)
Great exertions are at last making on the part of the
Irish Government to check the spirit of insubordination
,hroughout the country; the military are employed in all
capacities, and local subscriptions for the prosecution of
offenders are spiritedly supported at the Castle. Three
hundred pounds have been promptly offered by the gently
and farmers of the county of Kilkenny, for the appre-
,rension of the murderers of William Walsh, of Pottlerath,
This sum has been backed by 2001. by Joseph Green,
R.M. on behalf of Government. The county of West-
meath is suffering under a system of nightly outrage.
Early on last Sunday night three policemen were patrol-
ling in the vicinity of Killcar : they heard a gunshot
from the village, and turned their steps in that direction.
On arriving, they found a party of armed men, amounting
to !•200, who on being challenged boldly advanced
against them. The policemen instantly retreated to a
house, and sustained an attack, which ended in a demoli-
tion of the door and windows. They (lid not return the
assailant's fire, and the marauders retreated without fur-
ther mischief, The chief objects of attack on the part of
the peasantry throughout the country are, the cattle of in-
dividuals with whom they are at enmity. In the noto-
rious parish of Rath (county Clare), the scene of so many
outrages, 16 sheep have been lately houghed in a rent.
quarrel. The cattle of Mr. Laurence Thynne (who was
persecuted so violently last year) have again been scattered
through the country (at night) in all directions, and the
chances are against his recovering one-half of his property.
In a part of the county of Carlow (Barony of Barren)
another mode of destruction of property prevails—hunting
cattle by night over the precipitous cliffs in the neighbour-
hood of Lisdoonvarna.

In the city of Cork an incident occurred last Wednes-
day, at a public meeting to petition for a revision of the
mode of appointing the local Magistracy, which shows the
feeling on the subject of the repeal of the Union prevail-
ing there at present. In the midst of a speech delivered
by Dr. Baldwin, these words occurred—" If, for instance,
we should come into this Court-house to petition for a
repeal of the Union, and I trust we may"---when tre-
mendous cheers were given, which were renewed for a
considerable time, at last Dr. Baldwin was permitted to
continue—" When I witness such a manifestation of feel-
ing as this, I never can despair that Ireland will be a ra-
tion again. I never can doubt that we shall wrest front
the Parliament of England the power of making laws for
Ireland." Here the cheers were repeated.
The Orangemen in the North are proceeding vigorously
in the expression of their public opinion. The counties of
Tyrone, Monaghan, Antrim, and Ferrnanah, are organiz-
ing their several reactions to what they denounce as "the
Ministerial Revolutionary Bill," signing petitions and re-
quisitions, and endeavouring by all means to " promote a
co-operation of Orangemen in the present menacing crisis
for the preservation of the Protestant Church and Throne,
kc." The language of this ultra party is increasing every
day in violence and recklessness. They premise to speedily
outstrip their opponents in the phraseology of menace
against England. The incendiary plan of opposition
to tithes has now got into, operation in the county of Kil-
dare. The house of Mr. O'Reilly, one of the most inde-
pendent and respectable Catholics in the county, has been
burned to the ground, and a considerable quantity of
valuable property totally destroyed. The nightly legislators
are all-powerful in their opportunities of mischief.
NATIONAL POLITICAL UNION.
This Society had a meeting on Thursday, Mr. Guthrie,
barrister, in the chair. Several letters were read from
Irish Members of Parliament, in answer to the requisition
to them to attend the " National Council," convened for
this day (Monday). Mr. Ruthven, the Member for
Downpatrick, expresses in his answer his intention to be
present. The following is an extract from this gentleman's
letter :

" We have to complain of the project to limit the addi-
tion of Members for Ireland in Parliament to the number
of five, while even of those one is proposed to be given to
an exclusive ecclesiastical corporation. Ireland possesses
more than one-third of the population of the United King-
dom, and we are taught to expect that the appropriation
of representatives in the House of Commons is to be 500
for England, 53 for Scotland, and 105 for Ireland ; thus,
for 14,000,000 of inhabitants it is proposed to give 553
Members, while for 8,000,000 of people in Ireland, 105
are to be allowed. Is this a fair proportion ?or are the
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House of Commons."
Mr. Jephson, the Member for Mallow, in his reply
says--" The electors of Mallow have elected me to repre-
sent them in Parliament. 'When they shall think proper
to order my attendance at a meeting convened by the
Trades' Union of Dublin, I shall be prepared to adopt
that line of conduct which I shall consider due to myself,
and becoming the situation in which they have placed me."
Sir J. W. Holt, Member for Kildare county, says—
" I regret that 1 am under the necessity of declining to
connect myself in any way with the proceedings of that
day, as I consider that by doing so I should run the risk
of subjecting my future movements in Parliament to the
controul of previous engagements entered into in Dublin,
wholly incompatible with my ideas of political indepen-
dence."

Lord Killeen's letter adverts to the novelty of the pro-
posed meeting, the policy of which he considers doubtful,
and declares that even were that policy less doubtful, be
sees no paramount advantage likely to accrue to the Irish
Reform Bill at a time when more than half of the Irish
Reforming Members are in England.
Mr. O'Connell read a long address to the people of Ire-
land, signed by himself as Chairman of the Committee of
the Political Union. It is a forcible and well-directed
appeal to the factions which divide the country, particu-
larly the " White Feet" and "laok Feet," calling on.
them to put an end to their feuds. The appeal is also
directed to the Orangemen and Ribandmen.

where
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Sunday after-
noon a young woman about twenty-two years of age, pun-
chlsed some white precipitate and laudanum, 5, a chemist's
stthreeet,adjoiniv,
in Oxford-street, which she deliberately swallowed in
Marlborough-street. Several persons observed her, and
on ascertaining the fact, Messrs. DERBYSHIRE and HILL-
MAN, surgeons, in the same street were called to her aid.
One of the gentlemen instantly attended, and had her con-
veyed
desired effect, and
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