The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-09 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
On New Yeerfe Day Sergeant Perrin, who had received an
ineitation, signed by a neteetoes bedy of voters, to stand for Cashel,
entered that ancient city; amid the greetings and acclamations of an
immense mtiltitude. He proceeded to the house of Mr. O'Brien,
where- a platform had been erected, and addressed the people at
cofteitlefable len#til. After genie few prefatory observations he said :
His Majesty has been pleased to dismiss a Ministry to whom
we owe much. He has, in the exercise of his prerogative, selected
a not MiniStry: He has selected new Ministers, every one of
them epiettectli eiiiee the temmencement of their public lives, to
every principle of Reform; and to every teensure of benefit to the
country.—( Hear, hear.) How did the present Prime Minister
acquire his notoriety and flit importance? Ry his persevering and
obstinate resistance to Catholic Emancipation. —( Hear, ehd groans. )
For what place was he first elected? For Cashel ! And by
*bele? By the eficeitoei of those who no solicit your votes in op-
position to mc.—( Groans.) With all his itigenuity, and with all
his talent, he yielded that measure, not to conviction, but to ine-
vitable necessity. Did he not resist the great measure of Reform
—actively, steetilleilely, sett consistently resist it? Did he not
resist it to the last? What reason lieVe yen, then, to expect a
change in the evil system from him ? What reasen to believe that
he is not firm to his original principles? Do you expect anything
liberal from the men joined with him in the Adminstration? His
published declaration contains but two distinct and definite proposi-
tions, The first is that he will not apostatise ! The Prime Mi-
nester of England has such confidence in his °lmpolitical character,
that he finds it necessary to pledge himself not to be an apostate.
But from what is it that he will not apostatise? From those prim-.
ciples by which he was always actuated—those principles which
influenced hit conduct hefore, when he opposed the • Catholic
Emancipation—and, latterly, when he resisted Reform. If the
Government is committed to such a man, he will find it his bounden
duty to mar the effect of Reform.L(Loud cheers, and cries
of " He will, if he dare.") The second proposition which
Sir Robert Pcel puts forward, is that there shall be
no reduction of the enormous, inordinate, and dispropor-
tioned revenues of the Church Establishment which weighs
down this land.—(Hear, hear.) These are the principles he de-
claros—are they the principles which you adopt?—(Loud cries of
" No, no.") Having referred to a report of the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners on a solitary branch of Church revenue, to show
the immoderate amount of the whole, the Learned Sergeant pro-
ceeded to remark on that unconstitutional and tyrannical measure
the Coercion Act, and added—" Have the present Ministers a right
to taunt the house with that ? Did any one support it more vio-
lently, more perseveringly, with more asperity, than Sir R. Peel
Himself ? There were some other measures beside that act passed
by the Whigs of which I did disapprove ; but those measures were
strongly urged by the present Ministers. That Parliament, how-
ever, Aid some good. It is dissolved ; for the present Ministers
knew they could not get it to go with them. It was not a fit tool
to work with. That Parliament gave Grand and Petty Jury Bills, im-
perfect indeed, but still useful. That Parliament withdrew support
from the Kildare-street nest of Orangemen and bigotry. That
Parliament gave freedom to the negro, and opened the trade to
China; and in every one of those measures of public benefit was
it opposed by the present Mitiiitry.---( Cheers.) That Parliament
abolished Church Rates—that Parliament, by the Church Tempo-

ralities' Bill, took the first step to reduce the excessive revenues of
the Church—that Parliament reduced ten Bishoprics—that Parlia-
ment gave us the Bill by which you can vote---(Loud cheers)--
and in every step it was opposed by the Tories.—( Hear, hear.)
What then can we expect from the present Ministry ?—(Cries of
" Nothing but oppression and tyranny.") Gentleman, that Par-
liament, above alt it did, took the first plain explicit step to the
real extinction of tithes; and it would have gone further. The
last Act of the House of Commons relative to tithes was that of
1834 that Act was, to a certain extent, imperfect. It was, how-
ever, greatly improved by my friend D. O'Connell.—(Continued
cheering.) It was hailed generally by the country. But what
prevented the passing of that Bill? By whom was it stopped?—
By the Duke of Wellington and Lord Roden. It was a boon to Ire-
nrevented its being passed ? The Tories.—( Hear,
land. - Your votes to any one who will support
hear.) Will 'you grvo , --er.") If that Bill had passed,
the Tories?—(Cries of " Never, '-eeedy, the bloody
we §lteitid,,not hate to deplore the disastrous -...-
evil of RatheorirlJ; ff tlift Pill had passed, hos; many
in now
in their graves would, on this gidriders flay, thank that God who
has ushered it in, for permitting them to see the New Year. How
many orphans, now vainly looking for a father's care, Would receive
the paternal kiss. How many widows, bowed in affliction, wottld
on this day-be basking in the sunshine of their husband's affections.
( A great sensatic;ft among the multitude.) Ido not impute mali-
cious intentions to those who apposed that Bill--but if it had not
been opposed—if it had not been for the Tories, who did oppose it,
We should no longer have such lamentable seenei to deplere.—
(CrieS of " Bad luck to them," responded to be hearty ejaettlatiosns
of " Amen !") Read the declaration of the Prime Minister, and
consider his.acts. Did he not oppose reform in the tithe system,
which the late Ministry were pledged to give by the Bill to which
I hate ellude;1? And surely it was not to give a better Bill that he
advised the Pariiiiiient to lee dismissed. No, Gentlemen, -he knew
that that Parliament could not he converted into tools with which
to work his designs. The present Ministry dared not work with
that House of Commons, and they ask you to send a tool with which
they can work..-•--(Cheers.) If you want a man to work for the
real ktittellon of tithes, for actual reform in every branch of the
State, to carry out the principlee of the great measure of the Re- •
brm Bill, would you choose a man Who has. been all his life a Tory,
and who will give his steadfast support to a Ministry avowedly op-
posed to Reform." Having reminded his hearers of the state of the
close borough of Cashel before the Reform Bill, and alluded in
strait; teems to the necessity of municipal reform, in order to
enable the inhabitante to reesive the benefit of their own property,
consisting of 2,000 acres of land, now usurped by individuals in
the neighbourhood, the learned Sergeant concluded amid the loud
and hearty cheering of the whole assembled multitude.
In his. canvass he has been most successful, a great majority of
the electOrS !teeing promised him their support. The election will
take place early next week.