The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-04 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
A Sheriff's feast in this town on Tuesday last has given
great comfort to the poor dejected Tories. Mine host's
name is Hyndman, and among his guests he had the proud
honour of numbering Lord Loftus, the rejected of Wex-
ford ; Mr. Randal Plunket, the rejected of Meath, and
latterly of Drogheda ; Colonel Perceval, the rejected of the
Treasury Benches ; and Mr. Shaw, the bearer of so many
rejected addresses to his Majesty, touching the restoration
of the rejected of the nation. In short, it was a convocation
of out-and-outers, who came together to take a drop of
comfort under the Sheriff's mahogany, whose hospitality,
unlike that of the world, delights in providing a refuge for

the destituto, and a shelter for political outcasts.
The noble patrician who graced this solemn meeting with
his presence is but just emerged from infancy. He stands
a chance, should he live long enough to bury his father, Of
being Marquis of Ely one day ; and, judging of the future
man by the wit of its father, the boy, we may safely
pronounce will, in no degree, degenerate from the
wisdom of his ancestors. When Dr. Smith sang " God
save the King," Lord Loftus joined the eminent vocalist,.
laying a particular emphasis on the words Confound their
politics." When " The Glorious, Pious, and Immortal
Memory of King WilliaM the Third" was pledged with
nine times nine, Lord Loftus called for two cheers more !
And when his Lordship's health was drank, he said that if
ever he should desert the principles of Toryism, " Time
should lose its value, and he should forget what was due
to himself and his family !"
Sheriff Hyndman was the spokesman of the night, by
virtue of his privilege as giver of the wine, and prefaced
every toast with a short and apposite speech. He intro-
duced the spes ultinia Teucruni with a most curious feli-
city. '" We live in times of doubt and worse than doubt.
It is a pleasure, however, that we have one on whom we
can depend. I will, without further preface, propose the
Duke of Cumberland."
His introduction of Mr. Shaw was equally happy ; he
represented the Right Honourable Recorder as a Judge—
" an eminent Judge—one who was never equalled on the
Bench."

The eminent and unparalleled Judge replied in a strain
of confident and reckless assertion, not unusual with him,
but yet very startling, when we consider his remarkable and
ostentatious assumption of superior sanctity and puritanism.
He characterized the late opposition in terms as opprobrious
as untrue ; stating that some are for destroying corpora-
tions—more the Church—not a few of them the hereditary
peerage—and a great many of them the monarchy itself! !
There is a judge for you, ‘ who was never equalled on the
bench." He further declared that the income of the Church
does not exceed 400,000/a year, leaving on average about 200/
a-year to each clergyman." Now, it is quite impossible that
so good a judge as Shaw can have been deceived to believe
such a statement. Great ingenuity has been practised by
some of the Bishops to screw down the average, without,
however, diminishing the income ; but they have not yet
been able to reduce it so low as two hundred a-year : and
no man knows or ought to know that better than the re-
presentative of the Irish University.