The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-10 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The Mayor of Limerick, a Mr. Piercy, who keeps an office
for some London Assurance Company, has disdainfully re-
jected the application of some of the most wealthy merchants
and respectable gentlemen of that city for a public meeting,
to address the Earl of Mulgrave. Like all Tory functionaries,
when required to do what they do not like, he has a horror of
" political meetings of any kind"—they " keep us divided"—
an amiable Tory sentiment forsooth ; but if the old maxim of
ilivide et impern were practicable, perhaps the objection on
that score might not be so very insurmountable. The sting
of the Mayor's answer, however, is in its tail ; for thus it

concludes :
" Besides, I am bound equally to respect the feelings of a
large part of the public, which does not, I believe, concur in
your sentiments regarding the personage you desire to ad-
dress ; and as no address from this city was voted to his im-
mediate predecessor, the Earl of Haddington, I can see no
occasion for voting one to the present Lord Lieutenant."
He can see no occasion, quotha 1 This, you must allow,
savours of the shop. It shows plenty of assurance, and per-
haps some policy; for the Corporation of which this pen-and-
ink gentleman is the Mayor, must see further than the rest of
the world, if it can see " occasion" to plume itself on the
business which brought Lord Mulgrave to Ireland. His Ex-
cellency, before he quits our shores, will see the city of Lime-
rick taken out of the hands of the Jobocracy, who share its
municipal dignities among themselves, and its chairs of office
filled by men worthy of regard by their commercial rank, and
just principles. Will it be believed that Limerick, a town
next in commercial importance to Dublin, is governed by a
Corporation which does not number a single mercantile per-
son in its Council ? The Mayor who preceded Mr. Piercy is
a captain in a marching regiment, and the gentleman who has
been just elected to come after him, is a surgeon and man-
midwife. There is a propriety, however, in this latter ap-
pointment ; for the Ccesarian operation about to be performed
upon the body corporate, to make it give up its ill-gotten and
illegitimate burden, may require " some of his functions," be-
fore it arrives at perfection.
A Dublin Paper, not satisfied with Lord Stanley's own ac-
count of the matter, declares that he was driven from the Li-
beral (quasi, Lie-beral) side of the House, by his disgust at
O'Connell's lies. He fled from I)an, and took refuge by the
side of Shaw. How much is his position the better by the
change ? Perhaps your friend Colonel Sibthorpe, by recurring
to his whirlpool fancies and classical recollections, could illus-
trate this passage.
Another Corporation—that of Waterford—has signalized
itself by a witty evasion of the dire necessity of addressing
the Reforming Lord Lieutenant. At a meeting of their
Common Council last week, Dr. Poole, a Scotch gentleman,
of high eminence in his profession, and much esteemed for
his liberal yet moderate opinions, proposed an address to the
Lord Lieutenant. It was seconded, and that was all 1
" The convocation gap'd, but could not speak."
A bystander pleasantly describeth their wonderment to the
Waterford Chronicle and its readers :—" Michael Evelyn
looked at Simon Newport, and Richard Hassard looked up
at Dr. Briscoe, and Dr. Briscoe looked down on Captain
Roberts, and Captain Roberts looked up at Sandy Pope. At
length some whispering was heard in a corner, into which a
few of the real sort squeezed themselves, and Mr. Edward
llobson came forth and mounted the rostrum. After a good
deal of oratorical labour, he handed in a written amendment
to Dr. Poole's resolution, and this amendment was—
an That
an Address be presented from this body to Daniel O'Con-
nell, as the Chief Governor of Ireland "
The funny rogues l They are resolved, like their friends in
the House of Commons, to die hard. Such a thing has been
known, ere now, as a culprit cracking jokes at the foot of
the gallows, and these municipal convicts are gilding over their
bitterness of heart by forced merriment, and real but thoroughly
contemptible insolence to the band which is uplifted to make
tliem nothing. The citizens of Waterford will do what their
half-dozen hole-and-corner self-elected magnates would not
do, and do it more respectably than they could do it. In the
meantime, O'Connell may congratulate himself on being the
ect, however derisively, of Hobson's choice.

The Earl and Countess of Mansfield will give a
magnificent ddeune a la fourchetic, on the twenty-third day of
this month, to the King and Queen, at their superb villa at
Caen Wood, Hampstead. The Foreign Ministers and their
Ladies will be invited to join the Royal party.
THE KIRK OF SCOTLAND.—Our readers, one
Lrlci all, will rejoice to learn that the question that has given
ri,c to so many bickerings between Churchmen and Dissen-
ters has, in the meantime, been disposed of in so satisfactory a
I.l3nner that even Sir Robert Peel, high Churchman as he is,
fairly succumbed and withdrew his amendment. A Commis-
sion has been granted in place of a Committee ; and can any
man doubt that the Report of such a body will be highly useful,
even in a statistical point of view ? Between two hostile and
contending bodies Government had a difficult part to play.
A Leith speculator, who bought the first eight
barrels of herring; caught this season, after steaming them to
London, and from London to Hamburgh, realised, we under-
stand, upwards of 231. per barrel, which afforded him a clear
profit of 19/. upon each barrel, or 1521. upon the transaction.—
Edinburgh Advertiser.
MELANCHOLY Loss OF A FISHING-BOAT WITH
NINE MEN.—On the morning of Thursday last, the 25th June,
seven fishing-boats, belonging to Fisherrow, in the parish of
lnveresk, met with a very severe gale of wind when about
forty miles to the east of the Isle of May. Six of the boats,
with difficulty, reached Fisherrow late on the evening of that
(I..ty , but unfortunately the seventh, named William the Fourth,
Mr. Robert Millar, master, was lost, and all on board perished.
By this melancholy event, the families of nine industrious and
r,spectable men have been deprived of their only support. Six
cf them were married, and have left widows and fifteen young
children ; and three of them have left aged parents to lament
their loss.—Edinburgh Advertiser.
HYDROPHOBIA.--At Theltenham, Suffolk, last
month, two girls, aged seven and five years, were in their I
father's garden, when a large brown water spaniel, evidently
labouring under the disease, suddenly came upon them, and
I eating the youngest down, inflicted a severe wound by biting
I,er through the bridge of the nose; it then made an attempt
to seize the elder child; but she escaped. The wound was
cf such a nature that the knife could not be used, but caustics
were ai,,p4cd, and the child appeared in its usual health and
spirits till Tuesday night, when, about eleven o'clock, the pa-
rents were alanied by'c. noise Fweeeeding from her, as if la.
bowing under extreme difficulty of breatbinti. 0,,n reaching
the bed they found her in strong eunvuliinns, w4h she
coutiatte4 to be sei7ol Fich short intervals, during, the whole
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