The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-24 00:00:00

NEWPORT.

A very large and influential meeting of the electors
of the borough was held on Wednesday evening in the
Assembly-room, Green Dragon Hotel, Charles Day, Esq.,
in the chair. Mr. Ord, with some of the members of his
committee, entered the room soon after eight o'clock, and
was greeted with rounds of applause. The chairman intro-
duced the business of the evening in an appropriate speech,
and Mr. Ord addressed the electors in a long and powerful
address, which elicited the loudest cheers. After which a
vote of thanks was given to Mr. Hawkins for his conduct in
Parliament. The greatest harmony and the best feeling
pervaded the meeting.
The Tories have not yet found a candidate. Sir Wil-
loughby Gordon has positively declined, and a split has
taken place in his party ; the more moderate wishing to
avoid a contest ; and the genuine Tories, burning with impa-
tience at losing the chance of opposing Mr. Ord, use no
measured language as to their committee on Sir Willoughby
Gordon: They have certainly been ill-used. It is, how-
ever, their own faults. They never ought to have trusted
their cause into the keeping of a man like Sir Willoughby
Gordon, who has held office under all Administrations.
Certain hints about alterations at the Horse Guards have
not been thrown away on this crafty politician.

DUBLIN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
MR. GOULBURN'S LAST.

MY Loans,—l have had the honour to lay before the
King the loyal and dutiful address of the Lord Mayor,
Sheriffs, and inhabitants of the City of Dublin, assuring
the King that in case a new Parliament should be called,
there is such a re-action in public opinion as would enable
the King to retain in office his present Ministers.
And I have the satisfaction to inform your Lordship
that his Majesty was pleased to receive the same in the
most gracious manner.
I have the honor &c.
HENRY GOULBURN.
To the Lord Mayor of Dublin.
" And was not that a dainty dish to lay (or lie) before
the King ?" The date of Mr. Goulburn's epistle is not
given, but it was evidently written after the King had been
graciously pleased to accept the resignation of his late Mi-
nisters. It appears, therefore, that his Majesty had no great
opinion of the wit of the Body Corporate of Dublin, or he
would probably have tried the re-action they so confidently
assured him of.

The same Corporation, in another capacity, that is to
say, as the Term Grand Jury of the City of Dublin, took
the liberty to implore his Majesty not to call to his councils
the men who wanted to " destroy these ancient institu-
tions (meaning the Corporations of course) with which these
realms have been so long blessed, and under which they
have flourished." The craft is in danger ; nor is it any-
thing new, when the police are on the alert for the greatest
pickpockets, to set up a cry of " Stop thief."
As a proof the zeal for useful, judicious, and salutary
Reform, which inspires the supporters of the late Adminis-
tration, I would refer to the notorious fact that a universal
combination has been formed by the Tory gentry in Ire-
land, and is now in active operation, to limit and curtail the
elective franchise by all means, whether just or unjust ; and
that every device which ingenuity can invent, intimidation
promote, or corrupt influence effect, is resorted to, in order
to trick every catholic and liberal Protestant freeholder
who comes forward to the registry, out of his constitutional
birthright. These doings are as notorious as the sun
at noon-day. They should form the subject of a rigorous
inquiry in Parliament ; for if suffered to go on unchecked,
the voice of public opinion will be completely barked, and
then indeed the re-action will be perfect.

DUBLIN.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

The re-instatement of a Whig Ministry being now com-
plete, and the intelligence, so grateful to the majority of
the people, being diffused throughout the United Kingdom,
our quid nuncs have nothing to expect but the workings of
the change so auspiciously begun. Public curiosity is ac-
cordingly on the alert in this city to pick up every incident
that can illustrate the principles and policy of our new
Government. And as St. Paul's Cathedral is not more
visible and manifest to the busy folk of your great metro-
polis on their way to 'Change, than is the Hall of the Four
Courts here, the lieges who have any thing material or im-
material, legal, or otherwise, to perform, the latter rendezvous
was this morning, at an early hour, crowded to excess by
all those whom public or private business brings periodically
to this great lounging room. On this occasion, too, there
was a greater inducement than ordinary ; as it was under-
stood, that besides the farewell speech of Sir Edward Sug-
den, the Earl of Haddington was to add to the novelties of
the Court of Chancery by making his last appearance there
for the season. He had already presented himself in that
Court, to take an oath essential to the due discharge of his
high functions ; but it seems it was necessary to take a
second before the same august tribunal, before he could
become fiinctus officio, and legally relieved from the duties
of his station. The Court was therefore densely thronged
with the members of the bar in the centre, and many others
who gained admittance to the wings, when the Lord
Chancellor came, accompanied by his Excellency, who
having taken the oath required, withdrew without any
particular demonstration. Sir Edward Sugden, shortly
after, pronounced judgment in the case of Ellis v. Nimmo,
in favour of the plaintiff, in a luminous discourse remark-
able for a very clever exposition of the law ; and the juris-
diction of Courts of Equity since the enactment of the
celebrated statute of uses. He then proceeded to make
decisions in some points of practice, as to the taking of fees
by several officers of the Court of Chancery in Ireland ;
but as these decisions are of great importance, were read
by his Lordship from a manuscript, to which, for greater
precision, he had committed them, and are consequently
likely, very soon, to meet the public eye in an authentic
shape, I shall not attempt a commentary, much less a report
of them. It is, however, due to Sir Edward to say, that
the points have been brought under his consideration during
the short period of his presiding in the Court ; that he has
evinced much industry, and a high sense of duty, in dealing
with them as he had done ; and that the rules and decisions
laid down are beneficial to the public, and will no doubt be
carried into effect 'by his successor, in the same spirit of
amelioration and improvement which he has manifested to-
wards the new rules made by Lord Plunket, and which
have been in operation since Hilary Term. His Lordship
concluded his duties as Chancellor by returning to the Se-
cretary of the Law Society, a book containing these rules,
with some suggestions which the attornies, in their wisdom,
thought proper to submit for his Lordship's approbation,
with the expectation, no doubt, that he would order them
to be incorporated with Lord Plunket's rules, as an amend-
ment. As we understood his Lordship, however, he dif-
fered somewhat from these gentlemen : for he stated that
he had written such observations as occurred to him on
reading over the suggestions, but that his impression was,
the rules stood best without these amendments. He then
stood up to depart, when the ex-Attorney-General (Mr.
Blackburn) arose and said, he was confident he spoke the
sentiments of the Irish bar, in requesting his Lordship to
hear him express, to the best of his ability, the opinions en-
tertained by that bar, as to the manner in which he (Sir
Edward) had discharged the duties which had devolved on
him as Chancellor of Ireland. He then pronounced a
short but eloquent eulogium on Sir Edward's qualifications,
and the impartial manner in which he had developed his
great learning and acquirements for the benefit of this
country during the short time of his Chancellorship.
Whatever differences of political opinion may exist, there
can be no doubt but that the profession in general heartily
concurred with Mr. Blackburne, in testifying his high sense

of the able, efficient, and independent conduct exhibited by
this learned functionary since his arrival among us ; and
were it not for the remembrance of the party to which his
destiny allied him here, we should perhaps all regret his de-
parture. His rely to the address was short, but appro-
priate, and complimentary to the Irish bar. The Earl of
Haddington and suite are expected to go on Friday.