The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-28 00:00:00

MR. ROWLA.TT.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
All the efforts'of the Times cannot disguise the shuffle
n the case of Mr. Rowlatt.

Upon the vacancy consequent on Dr. Allen's promotion
to a Bisboprick, Lord Melbourne supposed that he had the
right to the nomination to St. Bride's, but it appearing, on
the authority of Lord Eldon, that the Flying was in the gift
of the Chancellor, Lord Melbourne withdrew his claim,
although he, had actually named a Gentlemen for the pre-
ferment. _ _ _

Lord Lyndhurst conveyed some promise to Mr. Rowlatt
that he would confirm the appointment of his predecessor,
Lord Brougham, but delivered himself of this engagement
by surrendering the claim to the nomination, which, there-
fore, rested with the First Lord of the Treasury.
The Times says— .
" It is utterly untrue that the nomination to the thrill.. was
transferred from one party to another with the view of defeat-
ing the claims or expectations of Mr. Rowlatt. When Sir
Robert Peel requested the Bishop of London to name to him
a successor to Dr. Allen. his right of "nomination, as First
Lord of the Treasure, was aillquestioned, and, as we have
already shown, he did not know that Mr. Rowlatt had had
the slightest expectations given to him, with regard to the
living."
Certainly, when Sir Robert Peel requested the Bishop of
London to name to him a successor to Dr. Allen, his right of
nomination was 'unquestioned, because the Chancellor, who
alone-could question it, had very suspiciously surrendered
the claim which his immediate predecessor had established.
This is the shuffle.
We believe the statement of Sir Robert Peel, that he
had not heard of the expectations entertained by Mr. Row-
latt ; but why had he not heard of. them? Why had the
Bishop suppressed all mention of Mr. Rowlatt as a claim-
ant or expectant ? This is a question which must be an-

swered. •
'the Times observes :
It is perfectly tine that Sir Robert Peel confirmed the
appointment of Mr. Eden to the living of Battersea, which, in
respect to the right of nomination, was similarly circumstanced
to St. Bride's ; but Mr. Edesi intended to resign, and did re-
sign, his other preferment in the church, and took upon him-
self the personal discharge of thfi, duties of the living. The
difference between the two cases is this—that no better ap-
.pointment to the living of Battersea could have been made than
that of Mr. Eden, and that a muzh better appointment to the
living of St. Bride's could be made than that of Mr. liowlatt,
to hold it in conjunction with the Readership of the Temple."
• Mr. Rowlatt did not insist on holding the living together
with.the Readership ; he thought them not incompatible ;
but he would have resigned the Readership, and would
gladly have accepted. the living on such terms, but the
Bishop would not grant theM.
The Bishop duly informed Sir Robert Peel that Mr.
Eden was a claimant to the living of Battersea, and as the
claim to St. Bride's is admitted to have rested on precisely
the sank ground, how happened it that the Bishop did not
also make the Minister acquainted with the expectations of
Mr. Rowlatt ? Eden, perhaps, is a name which holy men
cannot forget ; and if Rowlatt had borne it, and Mr. Eden
the other, we think it highly probable that the father of
eleven children would have found himelf comfortably. in
possession of St. Bride's. The man to ~trample under foot
is the unconnected man. Bishops, being then of peace, are

careful how they meddle with persons of good aristocratic
connections. A translation might be spoiled by such an
imprudence. The very man to hustle out of a piece of pre-
ferment was a poor Clergyman of no family and eleven
children.

DINNER TO MR. O'CONNELL IN

THE QUEEN'S COUNTY.

Mr. Lalor, the late Member for the Queen's County, at.
the instance of several patriotic and influential gentlemen,
wrote, a few days back, a letter to Mr. O'Connell, inviting
him to a public dinner. We subjoin Mr. O'Connell's an-
swer, and, in our judgment, it is one which \via be• read
with hutch interett

a • " Darrynane Abbey, Nov. 16, 1835.
"My dear Friend,—l feel highly honoured and grateful
at the invitation which the honest and independent men of
the Queen's County have sent me to a public dinner. Ido
of course accept that honour most gratefully, but it is im-
possible for me to name the day. I wish much to remain
in this county as long as I possibly can, and therefore would
fain hope that it might suit the convenience.of our friends
. .

in your county thati should dine- with them on my route
to 'Dublin. If we cannot make an arrangement suited to
their perfect. convenience, in the manner I speak , of, we
must arrange to have my apology accepted for declining
the invitation.
" I own I will come to this determination with the great-
est reluctance, because I am extremely anxious to meet the
independent men of your county, and that especially for two
reasons—
_ _ _

" First—l wish to cheer them as well as I can under the
cruel and unrelenting persecution which they are made to
endure for daring to 1)3 honest and patriotic. How silly
the men are who imagine that the crimes committed against
and to the people are to sink into the earth as rain-water
d sappears iu the land.
" The prospect of an honest government opens upon us
—and certainly Lord Mulgrave is doing all he can to miti-
gate the horrors -of Irish misrule. But what can he do,
surrounded as he is by the polluted instruments of the fac-
tion ? It is melancholy, to see. iniqu:ty in high places.'
Look at the lists of Sheriffs furnished, by my Lords the
Judges. Look at other counties---4o see Orange, partial
and ignOrant 'men, canvassing the Tories to make them as-
sistant-barristers, that they may hereafter disfranchise entire
counties. Look at the hideous state of things in what one
cannot speak of--the administration of justice—without be-
ing guilty of a legal libel, when the question of truth is shut
out of the jury box.
" I do wish to talk of these things to the independent
electors of the Queen's County, in defiance of the Vesey
power, and I believe there could not he worse—and of the
fatal fatuity of the Coote participation in the persecution of
freeholders. Ido wish to think aloud amidst the horrid
scenes of unrelenting cruelty which so many of your landed
proprietors display.
Secondly—l desire very much to mark the sense I en-
tertain of your merits as one of the first who resisted the
odious, unchristian, and blood-stained tithe system. You
did not resist it .by force or violence, but by a passive sub-
mission to the law.

" Ireland can never forget your services and sufferings.
I wish much to raise my voice of honest praise and unaf-
fected regard for those services.
" Believe ma to be, my dear friend, yours most faithfully,
" P. Lalor, Esq." " DANIEL O'CONNELL.