The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-27 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Boswell, in his account of Dr. Johnson's " Tour to the
Hebrides," relates that in a company where the obligation
of an oath happened to be the topic of conversation, it was
maintained by some one, that every gentleman would be as
attentive to truth without the sanction of an oath as with it.
But " Dr. Johnson, though he himself was distinguished at
all times by a scrupulous adherence to truth, controverted
this proposition, and, as a proof that this was not, though
it ought to be, the case, urged the very different decisions
of elections under Mr. Grenville's Act from those formerly
made. Gentlemen will not pronounce on oath what they
would have said and voted in the House without that sanc-
tion." The Doctor was an unflinching Tory, and therefore
were he alive in this our day, he might, perhaps, remain of
the same opinion still, anything voted and decided by Elec-
tion Committees to the contrary notwithstanding. But he
would find it no easy matter to bring the electors of Carlow
or Drogheda round to his way of thinking, or make them
believe that a gentleman's word or wish is not sometimes
quite as good as his oath. The impenetrable stuff of which
the Committee on the Carlow Petition was constituted, has
quite bewildered public opinion in this country as to the
extent to which interpretation may lawfully be stretched. to
serve one's party ; and the general sentiment seems be,
a cordial wish that the liberties and franchises of
people
may speedily find some better and surer area sat, a
gu than the
oath which binds the Members of an
Never were two Members mor-
- ..s unequivocally the chosen
of a majority of voters than "section Committee.
Messrs. Raphael and Vigors.
Every unconstitutional,..et and means had been resorted to
by their oppone,-...,5. Intimidation, force, bribery, armed
banditti, wei:brought to bear against them, while the only
weapon. they used was—Popular Opinion. Yet they
wJre elected by a triumphant majority. But a Committee
of the House of Commons rejects them ! leis provoking
beyond all patience to see the will of the majority set at
nought by a cabal of quibbling Tories, and two persons
forced into Parliament as the representatives of Carlow,
whom Carlow, and all Ireland, abominates and disowns.
If this system is to last, let the whole country be at
once disfranchised, and invest the Squirearchy again with
the discretionary power of nominating and returning its
members. But no longer insult us with a mockery of pe-
presentation, which a long purse and a packed Committee
can at any time render illusive and nugatory. If justice
prevailed, Colonel Bruen, instead of being declared the
sitting member for Carlow, would be now undergoing a
prosecution, by order of the House of Commons, for send-
ing out hiS scouts to levy the Orangemen en masse, and
bring in their armed hordes from Wexford and Queen's
County, to control and terrify the freeholders in the exer-
cise of their rightful privileges. But a Committee of the
Reformed Parliament rewards this daring attack upon the
freedom of the subject and the public peace, by turning
two honest men, the real representatives of the people, out
of Parliament, and obtruding Mr. Bruen, and his stalking-
horse, Mr. Kavanagh, upon an assembly where their pre-
sence is an offence to the whole nation.

The English funds continue steady, and exhibit
none of that agitation which is usual when any Ministerial
crisis is pending, which may at any moment produce very im-
portant results. As the time is now drawing near for the
payment of a very large portion of the West India claims,
some speculation is exercised as to its probable effect on the
market, and no doubt is entertained that it will lead for the
time to a great abundance of money; and also, unless politics
either at home or abroad take an adverse turn, to an advance
in those descriptions of public securities which the claimants
may select for investment. All the arrangements of the Bank
and the Government, so far as they are allowed to transpire,
seem formed to assist this anticipated effect, and it is allowed on
all hands that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, since the ne-
gotiation of the West India loan, has attained a very compe-
tent degree of skill in the act of sustaining his operation in
the public market. Not only will the payment of the claims,
where undisputed, be expedited as much as possible ; but it is
fully understood that the amount of the disputed claims will be
brought into the circulation with almost equal rapidity, by
paying over the sum they represent to the Accountant-Gene-
ral of the Court of Chancery, who will in the usual manner
make purchases of stock with it. There cannot be the
danger of any measure from the Bank at present, to
act this state of things. The foreign exchaw-
tained, partly from the state of trade an,'
tions expressly entered into for that
the least consequence is n^-
world. In general,

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