The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-19 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY.—The Lord Lieutenant held his first
levee yesterday.
The following is the Address of the Coyporation, and
his Excellency's answer :
" My Lord,—We, the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, commons, and
citizens of the city of Dublin, in Common Council assembled,
anxiously embrace the earliest opportunity of tendering to
your Excellency our most sincere and respectful congratula-
tions upon your appointment to the exalted station of Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland.

" We recognise the paternal kindness of our beloved Sove-
reign in the delegation of this high authority to a Nobleman
distinguished for his eminent talents and uniform attachment
to the priciples of the Constitution._ _ . .

" Tlie estimation in which your Excellency's political and
personal character is universally held affords the best security
that the unremitting care of your Government will be directed
to the firm and impartial administration of the laws, to the due
maintenance of the established institutions of the country,
and to the encouragement and protection of the trading and
commercial interests of the metropolis."

HIS EXCELLENCY'S ANSWER.

" I beg to return you my warmest acknowledgements for
this kind and cordial address, which is most gratifying to me
to 'receive from the loyal Corporation of the metropolis of
Ireland.

" I should be ungrateful if I did not take this, the earliest
public opportunity, of expressing the satisfaction afforded to
me by the friendly and respectful reception I met with from
all classes, on the occasion of my entry into the city of Dublin.
" You are pleased to say, that you recognize in my appoint-
ment to this high station a fresh proof of the paternal kindness
of our beloved Sovereign to his people.
" I shall endeavour, by my conduct, to justify his Royal con-
fidence in. me, although I dare not arrogate to myself the qua-
lities that; with far too favourable an estimate of my preten-
sions, you would thus ascribe to me. But, in attributing to.
me a uniform attachment to the principles of the British Con-
stitution, you do me no more.than justice. From that attach-
m`ent rhavi never deviated ; and I shall carry to my grave the
conviction that it is only by 4 firm and unvarying adherence to
those principles.thar the Government of this kingdom can
promoteits prosperity, or ensure to its people the invaluable
blessings of freedom and of peace.
" Our established institutions, sacred and civil, are essential
and vital parts of the Constitution. The anxiety you express
for their permanence is a proof of your loyalty and of your pa-
triotism. You may rely upon my assurance that it is the firm
and unalterable determination of his Majesty's Government to
protect, to uphold, and to strengthen them ; to protect them
against those who would operate their ruin, whether designedly
or from morbid love of innovation ; to uphold them by a zea-
lous maintenance of all those essential principles, on an ad-
herence to which the very existence of such establishments
must depend ; to strengthen them by a conscientious distribu-
tion of office, and an honest exercise of patronage, by exacting
from every functiOnary the strict and well-considered measures
of reformation alitnay be best adapted to the actual circum-
stances and condition of the country. Such constitutional re-
forms will be calculated to augment the beneficial influence of
our establishments, and enlarge the sphere of their usefulness ;
and, by removing as much as possible all practical grounds of
complaint, will recommend them to the increased respect and
attachment of the people. These ameliorations are required;
and his Majesty's Government having entered upon the consi-
deration of them in the most friendly spirit, and with the calm
and fixed resolution of adopting them, look with confidence for
the support of the best friends of established order.
_ _

" lo.ur expectations of a firm and impartial administration of
the laws shall not be disappointed. Justice shall be dispensed
without favour or affection, without reference to sect in reli-
gion, or party in politics ; for I am not come among you as
the representative of party triumph, but to preside honestly
and impartially over the affairs of a great country at an ardu-
ous crisis, and I am determined to do my duty.
" The important trading and commercial interest of this
great city demand, and shall receive my best attention. They
will meet from the Government of the coußtey with every en-
couragement and protection. It will r.iways give me sincere
pleasure to confer with you, gentlemen, and with others, the
respectable merchants and traders of Dublin, as the best and
most agreeable means of acquiring the information necessary
to enable me to perform this material part of the functions I
have taken it upon me to discharge.
" Ireland is, in some essential particulars, an improving
country, but she requires peace, and a long respite from ex-
citement and agitation. If she would not mar the bountiful
intentions of Providence—if she would turn to advantage the
exuberant fertility of her soil, and ensure the development of
her many resources, her people must return to an habitual and
settled obedience to the laws ; for there can be no permanent
national prosperity where life and property are not fully se-
cured.

" I will endeavour to effect so happy a result ; and bad I
but the power to conciliate and to allay, where so much is
daily done to inflame and to irritate, the issue would neither be
dubious or remote.

I feel that I have undertaken a difficult task, but I have
the ablest assistance. I shall look for support from all of you;
and if, by the blessing of the Almighty, I could contribute, in
any degree, to the tranquillity and welfare of a people in
whom I have ever taken a lively interest, I should consider the
hour in which I first set foot on Irish ground as the proudest
and happiest of my life.!'

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A magnificent gold box has accompanied the address, as a
present to his Excellency. .

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 17.—The Osprey, Payne, arrived this
afternoon from Lisbon, which place she left on Monday last,
everything was going on most quietly in Portugal. The Osprey
remained three days at Lisbon, and performed the voyage out
and home in fourteen days.
The Nimble cutter, Lieut. Charles Bolton, was lost c,;(1 the
3d of November on Key Verde, in the Bahama Chairael, with
70 slaves. The officers and crew and 200 slaves 'were saved.
The slaves had been taken out of a vessel which the Nimble
chased on shore. The Nimble had been a successful cruiser
against the slave traffickers. Lieut. Bolton, his officers, crew,
and the saved slaves, arrived at Havannah on Nov. 17.
We received this morning the Halifax Journal to the 30th
of December. The Arachne, 18, Commander Burney, sailed
from New York on the 12th of December, with Captain Kit-
son, Royal Engineers, he having successfully entered into con-
tracts with persons there for erecting the lighthouses on
Bahama Island. The following are extracts from the papers I--
QUEBEC, Nov. 28.—" The William Money (tea-ship),
which sailed for London on the 23d, went ashore in the night
of the 30th, 180 miles below Quebec, on the north side of
St. Lawrence, and was abandoned by all the crew except two
men, who preferred to remain or, board the wreck, than risk
their lives in the boats. The captain, purser, and nitre men.
took to the small boat, the chief officer and doctor taking the
long-boat, and the second and third officers taking the large
cutter, with their respective men, in all fifty-eight persons
saved, losing every article except what they had on at the
time. After encountering much hardship, they were picked
up by a schooner, and safely landed.
DISTRESSING SHIPWRECK. The American brig Hunter,
Howes, of Boston, from New York for New Orleans, has
been I:st, together with the captain, four seamen, and twenty-
three passengers.
The Belvidera, 42, Captain C. B. Strong, and Vestal, 28,
Captain W. Jones, sailed from Barbadoes on the 24th of
November for Port Royal, where a courtmartial was to as-
semble to try Commander M'Causland, of the Cruiser, upon
a charge of taking passage-money from an American gentle-
man, and to account for the Cruiser running on shore off St.
Juan Nicaraa, as stated in a former paper, by which she lost
all her guns except two.
The Belvidera and Rainbow arrived at Jamaica on tile Ist
of December.
The Swallow packet, Lieutenant Smyth Gfiflith, which
met with a violent hurricane in the Gulf c,i Mexico on her
homeward passage from Vera Cruz, arr:ved at the Havannah
on the 17th of November to refit ter damage. She reached
Falmouth safely on Thursday, a considerable freight.
The Netley (tender to :one San Josef) arrived from Ply-
mouth on Wednesday,
Plymouth. and sailed again to-day, to return to

At Spith,.,d_
Thr• - Curlew.
Curlew, 10, Hon. Lieutenant Denman, is ordered to
'..ne West Coast of Africa, and will sail when the wind is fair.
In Harbour—The Victory, Excellent, Royal George,
Actaeon, Rattlesnake, Samarang, Salamander, Victor, Cha-
melion, Water Witch, Seaflower, and Buffalo.
The following Clerks in his Majesty's Navy have been
promoted to the rank of Purser :—Messrs. A. Laidlow,
William Spriggs, J. P. Macnamara, J. Taylor, John Holmes,
F. Gore, G. F. Plumby, C. Wakeham, E. F. Roberts, John
Lord.

Mr. Sadler, Master, is re-appointed to the Buffalo. Mr.
11. Benctt, mate, to the Rattlesnake.

Major IL D. Campbell, of North end Lodge, appointed
Governor of Sierra Leone, and the West Coast of Africa,
is embarked in the St. Ann, and will sail when the wind
is fair.

Rather a laughable illustration of the adage,
" counting one's chickens before they are hatched," occurred
the other day at the election for the city of Hereford. The
Tories had made so sure of success as to prepare a triumphal
arch for their hero to pass through, and had, before the sum-
ming up of the numbers, with the consent of the Dean, actu-
ally set the Cathedral bells ringing right merrily. These re.-
joicincrs, together with the banqueting preparations, &c., 'usual
on such occasions, were proceeding with great alaeriV, when,
to their utter confusion, they ascertained upon tl,e
n:ent of the poll that their man was the reject. d B•rminghaill
Journal. z announce-

THE LATE ELECTION FOR CANTERBURY'"
Mr. Lushington has
.anno,:ittea his determination of institut-
ing a judicial inquiry :.,to the circumstances by which he has
been temporarily
excluded from his right of taking his seat as
one of the
'..epiesentatives of this city. " The result of the
:ons made by my supporters has been," he observes in his
address, "to place me second on the poll, as my opponents
well know ; and you may be assured, thut I will leave nothing.
undone to correct the unlawful return inade by the Sherif'.
The Sheriff and his deputies have, however, thought fit t°
exclude twenty persons who voted for me, upon the frivolous
pretences of mis-spelling, mis-named, change of residence,
and upon their own fanciful and contradictory notions of
dis-
tance from the place of polling. For every such exclusion
they are liable to a penalty of 500/., to be sued for in any °I
his Majesty's Courts in Westminster, and before those tribu-
nals they may have to answer for the wrong they have corn-
mitted."—Kentish Observer.