The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-07 00:00:00

IRELAND.

One of our Dublin Correspondents has called our atter
tion to the following diabolical manmuvre, which is but
characteristic of the party that has so long misgoverned and
oppressed Ireland :
" Several landlords throughout Ireland have served and are
serving ejectments, to be tried at the approaching Jazzed
Sessions, against such registered electors as are compelled to
obey the mandates of the priests, and who owed on the first
day of November last one year's rent. The cost of the ejet_.,
.et"
ment does not exceed 305., and the eviction reflects no caw
hardship upon the defendant than that of taking him out of
the hands of the agitators, by legally invalidating his vote."
Thus saith the Dublin Evening Post, the organ of that
party which with so many religious protestations declared,
not ten months ago, that the farthest thought from their
hearts was that of either directly or indirectly meddling:
with or violating the principles of the Reform Bill. Ye'
now they proclaim themselves about to disfranchise ever,'
Roman Catholic freeholder in Ireland ; for such is the
plain and obvious meaning of the words. To obey the
mandates of the priests is the same in the Orange vocAtbir
lary as to agree in opinion with the priests as to the choice
of Representatives, which Roman Catholic voters generally
do. The course of proceeding avowed here is in the highest
degree rigorous and oppressive, though to the mind of an
Englishman it may not appear so ; for in England the
tenant who suffers his rent to run a whole year in arrear
considered and is really a bad tenant, and not entitled t°,
any indulgence, setting all political notions entirely out 0'
the question : but here some of the best tenants of the
land are included in this Orange proscription ; for it is the
immemorial usage with such landlords to allow what is
called a hanging half year ; that is, they do not demand one
half year's rent until a second is due. The May rent is
paid in the November following, and the November rent i 0
May ; and thus at the return of each gale day the tenants
are legally indebted in one year's rent to their landlords'
This case applies to the most affluent as well as the poorest
farmers in the land. The hardship, and -if I may so nsP
it, the villainy of the proceeding announced in the Mail
this—a whole year's rent is now suddenly demanded ; 110
what a time too to require it, when with the utmost labour
and industry the occupiers of the land find it most difficult
to make up the usual instalment ! Now when wheat
is not a shilling a stone, the whole year's rent is de'
mended, not because the landlords expect to receive iti
not because they wish to receive it, for their tenants conk'
not possibly meet so unexpected a requisition, unless by
irretrievably ruining themselves ; but because they want t°
take advantage of a form of law to convert the tenantry
into serfs, as dependent as the Russian boors are upon s
very similar gentry, and to reduce all Ireland into an Orange
borough. They boast of the cheapness of the law, which
will assist them to perpetrate this gross invasion of the
rights of election. Yes, it is cheap ; for it is a law wader
by a Boroughmonger Parliament for the convenience 0'
gentlemen, in cases where the costs might fall upon them'
selves. When they wanted to inflict costs upon their onl)°'
nents, they made Stanley's Tithe Act, by which it is exult'
ingly stated, that a defendant may be punished, in a JO'
days, to the amount of a hundred pounds. Thirty shillings
suffice a gentleman to reduce an independent, voter to
nonentity. A hundred pounds are necessary for a fanner'
who would hesitate for a week about paying an exorbitant
and obnoxious impost. Thus, if you will, let me compare
my passively resisting countrymen to the turtle-dove--

Dat veniam eorvis—vexat censura columbas.

SHOCKING OCCURRENCE ON THE RUIN'S
ASHBURTON-HOUSE, PUTNEY HEATH.—On Saturday
ternoon an inquest was held at the Rose and Crown 11"$:
Putney, on view of the body of Mr. Thomas Fisher, tat".
proprietor of the above inn, whose death was caused by $
part of the northern wall of Ashburton House, lately dr
stroyed by fire, falling upon them, under circumstances 01,$
very frightful and afflicting nature. In addition to the (1001
of Mr. Fisher, two of the workmen, named Wilkins gm'
Elliot, received such injuries that at present they are ill ti
very dangerous state. The evidence taken upon the me"
lancholy occasion was as follows :—Mr. Williams, a builder,
deposed that after the destruction of the noble mansion'''.
fire, the ruins were purchased by Mr. Dunby, a malster, r"'
siding at Putney, for the sum of 4001. Witness, was e`'..
gaged by Mr. Dunby to superintend the removal of tlje
same. On Tuesday the workmen were employed in Put,
ing down the wall by means of long ropes, which were ar
fixed round them. Mr. Dunby and the deceased were near
the spot conversing, and witness, seeing that a very big.'
wall was on the point of falling, gave an alarm, and Mr;
Dunby and the workmen made a precipitate retreat out 0'
the reach of danger. A great portion of the wall, boo'
ever, fell upon the deceased, and he was completely ce:
vered ; a vast quantity of bricks also- fell upon the otho
two men. After much exertion the lifeless body of Mr;
Fisher was taken out of the ruins in a dreadfully mutilate°
condition. From the cross-examination of Mr. WilliaMs
by the Jury, and also from the testimony of other witncsses'
there did not appear to be any blame attachable to enli
party, and the Jury returned a verdict of " Accident 3,
Death." The deceased has left a widow and six orphan'
to lament his loss.

Yesterday afternoon, a vast crowd assembled opp°'
site the premises of Mr.. Reid, the undertaker, in Tottelv
ham-court-road, to witness the funeral of William Dav,i6'
who perished in the late calamitous fire in the *above ncif
bourhood on Tuesday last. During the morning number:
of persons were in the burial-ground of 'fottenharn-court
Chapel, inspecting the spot which was to be the lasfrestil
place of the remains of the unfortunate sufferer. Both 01
and young seemed to evince more than the ordinary curio'
sity of a crowd, and frequent]; gave utterance to their fee'
ings, which bespoke a sympathy suited to the solemn 0e:
casion. At three o'clock the coffin, containing the remain'
of the deceased, followed by a long train of mourners,l
conveyed to the burial-ground of Tottenham-court Chapel'
At the close of the funeral service, one of the mourners
was so overpowered as the coffin was lowering into tbo
grave, that he was obliged to draw back and support bin?'
self against a tombstone, being completely overwhelmed
an agony of grief. The remains of the other three sufferer'
—Catherine Rogers, aged 22 ; Louisa Tozer, aged f'4;
and Mary Ann Singer, aged 21 years, were consigned t°,
the grave on Saturday last, in the presence of an immen!"
crowd of people.
POST- HORSE DUT rES.—Several influential
hers of the House of Commons having intimated to tt
Chancellor of the Exchequer their wishes that the po.s'
horse duties might no longer be let to farm, but it boil
too late this year to make the necessary arrangements
for Government to collect them, they are now to be
for one year only instead of three years, with the perfeo
understanding that this is the last time they are to be
The report of the Duke of Montrose being, seri6usii
ill, is not correct. His Grace has had an attack of gout'
but is sufficiently well to take the, air when the weather
is favourable. His ailings are merely those. attendant °l'
advanced age, as he is now in his 80th year. The. 1.)01,13
was Master of the Horse to George 111., at the time
late Marquis of Salisbury was Lord Chamberlain to
Majesty.