The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY EVENING.
One could scarcely exaggerate in describing the
sympathy with the Queen in her bereavement
which is manifested by all classes in this country.
Yesterday one of the largest and most influential
meetings ever held in Belfast was convened by the
Mayor, in pursuance of a requisition, to give suit-
ible expression to the deep sorrow of the inhabi-
tants at the death of the Prince Consort, and to
their loyal and affectionate sympathy with the
Queen in her present affliction. The speakers re-
presented every political party and religious deno-
mination.
The following address of condolence with Her
Majesty was unanimously adopted, the Right Rev.
Dr. Denvir having moved that it be engrossed and
presented :
" May it please your Majesty,--
"We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal sub•
jects, the Mayor and inhabitants of Belfast, in
public meeting assembled, beg leave to approach
your Majesty with the feeling and expression of our
deepest sympathy and condolence in your sad
bereavement by the death of his Royal Highness
the Prince Consort.
" We are fully sensible that, as none could know
his worth, so none can feel his loss as does your
Majesty.
" Still, it mast be a melancholy consolation to
know that by all that was heard of his private and
domestic virtues, as well as by all that was seen of
his unwearied efforts for the public good, he had
won for himself a place in the hearts of all your
Majesty's subjects, and has left behind him a name
that must hereafter rank as one of the brightest in
the records of British history.
"It is our humble and earnest prayer that God,
who, in His providence, gives and takes away,'
and who alone is able to minister consolation and
good hope in all human sorrows, may grant to
your Majesty and to your Royal House His grace,
protection, and blessing.
" Signed in the name and on the behalf of the
meeting."
Another resolution was passed recommending the
closing of all places of business from 11 till 1 on the
day of the funeral, and the adoption of general,

of a Prince who has for the last 20 years been fore• mourning.
most in the support of every measure which had The antipodes of Belfast, as to the predominan,
for its object the advancement of the interests, the feeling of the population in religion and politics, is,
I
refinement of the tastes, or the improvement of the Drogheda ; and, only to show the universality of
moral and social condition of the people of his the sentiment of regret misled by the Prism's death.
adopted country. That Almighty God may grant the corporation of that town met at the same time
to Her Most Gracious Majesty resignation under to consider an address of condolence with the Queen.
this heavy affliction, and that Her Majesty may be An address was adopted by the Council, in which
enabled to derive comfort from the recollection of they say that, " in union with all her Majesty's sub-
the virtues of the late Prince, and from the sym- jeets, they deplore the bereavement she has sus-
pathy of her whole people, is the earnest prayer of tained." They earnestly hope that the "loss will in
this Court." (Hear, hear.) no way affect the auspicious reign of her Majesty,
Sir J. MUSGROVE, as the alderman next in and that she will be supported by a reliance on
seniority seconded the resolution, remarking of his Divine Providence in wielding her sceptre over her
late Royal Highness, as was said of another illus- extensive dominions for many years to come." This,
trious man, that nature made him great, Providence they say, will ever be the sincere wish of her " de
made him useful, and religion made him good. voted, loyal, and valorous subjects." No doubt the,
(Hear, hear.) corporation means by the last epithet that its mem-.
The resolution was then put and adopted by the ' kers are individually willing to lay down their lives
whole Court, with every mark of devoted loyalty 6: for her Majesty should circumstances ever call for
It was afterwards entered upon their records as a e the sacrifice,—which is, happily, not likely.
perpetual memorial of the occasion, and a copy sent - The Dublin Evening Post earnestly urges the
to Sir George Grey, the Secretary for the Home claims of Dean Kirwan, of Limerick, to the vacant
Department. '!' see, as he has the rare advantage of being popular
PRESENTATION OP THE NEW ALDERMAN. ~ with both Protestants and Roman Catholics, and :'
Mr. ORTON, an officer of the Lord Major's Court,: has superior professional qualifications.
appeared at the bar and reported that the election . A petition was presented to the Lord Chancellor
of an alderman for the ward of Aldersgate had i yesterday, on behalf of the Lord Mayor, the Dean -
fallen on Mr. Robert Besley, citizen and loriner. - of St. Patrick's, and others, relative to a charitable ..
On the motion of Colonel Wilson, the newly. _ . fund which had accumulated from an annuity left
chosen alderman was called in. He was accompanied - some years ago by Mr. H. Metcalf, of this city, to ..'
by many of the influential citizens resident in the : he applied for the establishment of an almshouse
ward. - for eight elderly Protestant women. In 1857 the «
Mr. NORRIS, M.P. for Abingdon, and a mem ,'s STATE OF NAPLES, present Lord Mayor, Atkinson, had given £l,oooe.
ber of the Common Council, said, addressing the ' -e to a similar object, and £3OO was subscribed be -
Lord Mayor,—l appear at the bar of this court : A letter from Naples, dated December 17, says others towards establishing an almshouse in New-
for the purpose of introducing to your lordship l'he priests have been, and are still, active in try street. The Lord Mayor now adds £l,OOO more.
and the members of this distinguished body s :ling to get up an opposition to the levy; in the con• and the object of the application to the Court of
gentleman who a few days ago was elected by ;,., fessional they work on the fears of timid women Chancery was to have the whole fund invested in
the unanimous voice of the freemen of the ward :. and, like the pestilence that moveth in darkness, trustees. The Lord Chancellor granted an order of •
they lose not a single opportunity of poisoning the , From the 49th report of the Commissioners of he,
of Aldersgate to be their representative in..: reference to the Master.
' Majesty's Woods and Forests we extract the follow
this the Upper Chamber of the Corporation of • •
minds of those who are under their influence. Stil i e Sir Croker Barrington, son of the late Crown Soli .4ing particulars relating to leases of Crown lands
London. I come thus formally to introduce him -,.., the levy goes on well ; that is to say, the balloting `-.., citor for Munster, Sir Matthew Barrington, Bart., -, granted during the year ended March 31, 1861 :
not because he is so entirely a stranger, but in ,i is conducted with great order, and, in many cases. i has been appointed,it is stated, to the office of Crown se
s_. the conscripts present themselves. " There have been seven leases of Crown lands
obedience to a good old custom usually and for- ~` Solicitor of Limerick, rendered vacant by the death :granted during the year, five of which relate to the
es lands of Serabster, Lythmore, and Stempster, and
malty adopted under similar circumstances, and s Perhaps more inquietude had been felt for the 'el of Mr. Fleetwood. 1 Dorrery forming the Crown's estate in the county
results of the levy in Terra di Lavoro, as a great:- The Ist battalion of the 15th Regiment has re- s
keg Caithness, the largest and most valuable of the
most honoured when most closely followed and ob- . . Z. .
majority of the Population there are Bourbonists eiceived the final order to leave Richmond Barrackl eluded properties now vested in the Crown in Scot-
served. Forty years ago Mr. Robert Besley corn:
menced the battle of life in the ward of Aldersgate. 4, yet tranquillity has been maintained. In Salerno lon the 26th inst. for Cork by the Great Southernt,land, and under the management of the Department
Endowed with rare qualities—industry, persevo- ' 111 those drawn have presented themselves, and e 0.7: and Western Railway, and to embark on the 27th Southern,:
the Woods and Forests. The rental derived from •
• in the other provinces the operation goes on mar :;;tor Canada. ~' these new lettings is as follows :—Lends of Scrab
ranee, honour, and integrity—at the end of a long' ster, £925 ; the grazings and shootings of Dorrery,
career he finds himself in the possession of a handje. rily. Saturday and Sunday last were devoted here; -: The Agricultural Review, in an article on the.`:
some competence, and exempted from the toils of ein Naples, to the levy. Disturbances had been!.,, winter show of the Royal Dublin Society, says : —£ 1,882 Bs. 3d. This improved rental being in
''-!1.:442 10s. ; Lythmore and Stempster, £514 18s. 3d. '
business and the anxieties of commercial life s.: threatened on the Sunday, but the National Guards' "Several of the managers of the model agricultu- the place of £575 for Scrabster, £221 for the grazing
~
Blessed with health and with a peculiar aptitude * ippeared in strong force, and public tranquillite '- ral school farms, in connection with the Board of e, and shootings of Dorrery, and £420 for Lytehmort ),
for public business, he has offered himself to the; was maintained, in spite of the priest. I visited k,' National Education cont.ributed samples of turnips s- and Stempster, making together £1,216, being an
..,, man olds carrots, parsnips, kohl.rabi, beans, oats:: advance of £666, or about 55 per cent. on the ..,,,•,
ward of Aldersgate :to serve them as an alderman ett several of the "quarters," and remarked that the
whole thing was
end a magistrate of this great city. They lhave;, conducted with the utmost fair. .' wheat, barley, &c. These were staged by them- -,:rental by the last letting of these properties. 4.
selves, ' not for competition, and included the pro-7- In the cases of Scrabster and Dorrery the ad .e.
accepted his proffered services, and they call on me tc. •ness and publicity. There was a large barrel,lduce of Glasnevin, Cork, Belfast, Kilkenny, Athy, 's vance is at the rate of 73 per cent. In the yea' s
I .:y. into which a small boy plunged his hand, drew the ;Gorrnanstown, Dromisken, Templedouglas, Bat
to bring him here to ask your lordship and thismanagement of the C
Court to receive him as a member of your body.eame, and handed it over to one of the secretaries, '' and Roscrea Union Farms. Samples of butter were -'Scotland passed to the _ ore .e.
• , elso shown from the Glasnevin and Cork Model keissioners of ber Majesty's Woods, &c , the '
Bath, t 41832, when the land revenue of the Crown in
We believe that the personal character of Mr. Bes- ..; who shouted it out. The halls were crowded with .
Farms, which were exceedingly creditable to both il whole estate of Scrabster, Lythmore, Stempster, and :-
ley will be acceptable to your lordship and your •,'. persons of the lowest classes, principally women,4
establishments. The butter from Glasnevin was the' Dorrery had been let by the Barons of Scotland at ;
some small portions of the lands ofd:DEATHS.
brethren. (Hear, hear.) Following the example e who took a most anxious interest in the proceeding. --• produce of cows fel on two feeds of turnips, one of 'the yearly rent of £7OO. The property
set by the members of this Court, we believe and i!iSome who were present were drawn, and took theite:. cabbage, 21b. of oilcake, with a little hay and straw educes, over and above the rent of a quarry net then
now pro .1. DALY.—On the 19th inst., at his residence, in Green-row
hope that he will support the majesty of the law :.billets kindly. After all it is only political oppo-6
. , fed on Swede and Aberdeen turnips, with 31b. oft Scrabster adjoining t e arbour, and now reserved 4
daily; and that from the Munster Farm, from cows"::, worked, and
..
HOWELL.—On the 19th inst., Sydney Howell, of 8, Glou-
and the dignity of the bench of magistrates. We e sition which has given importance to the levy, for ster-street Pimlico, aged 42.
goon Guards, aged 76..
terapecake daily. These interesting collections, ,toe ,-. for feuing or building purposes, a rental of £l,BB2es caster-street ,
believe and trust that in the adminstration of the '
s
„it is small, only six to a thousand; whereas in 1854eA
ether * r with a matchless specimen of the Windsor breedf_eBs. 3d. to be increased to £1,942 88. 3d. from Whit-e 4 , •
• VKINGSCOTE —On the 19th inst., at Kingscote Gloucester .
law he will mingle in due moderation a regard for -
t, there were three levies of nine to the thousand, andle4of
gl pigs just ready for the shambles, sent in by Dr. esunday 1871. In 1832 the larger part of this pro-t '
shire, Thomas Henry Kingscote, Esq., aged 62.
. at Nice, Edward Stephen Lee
the frailties of human nature and tincture justicA7though substitutes were paid for, they were never[sKirkpatrick,Headlnspector of Agricultural Schools, 4:perty was in a state of common, since divided ands` 44 I. Ts. _0..1.
Kth_ienor.2sthtreinetst ,
St. James's, and 44, Lincoln's-inn-
'provided, the proceeds having bum sacked by tbe lattracted no small amount of attention during the ':•,,,'allotted under the provisions applicable to such cases.
, fields', aged 42.
with mercy. (Hes.r, hear.) We hope, too, he willF;'by the law of Scotland •; but comparing the resentp'
emulate the virtues exhibited in your lordship'soGovernment. There can be little doubt, I thinlo eshow. • sO .44MAnsHALL.—On the 16th inst., at Reading, Mr. John
". Of the other farms conne.cted with public insti- „rental with that obtained in 1832, the advance will tee-
Marshall, aged 75.
!career, and which have earned for you the rare abut that the military career will shortly become d d''''found
e,tutions we have only to notice that attached to the Abeto be at the rate of not less than 169 perleelenvix.—On the 17th inst., at St. John's-grove-road,
distinction of bei * `%
highly ighly popular, so liberally treated are the troops
k barn twice elected Lord Mayor of ' sNorth Dublin Union Workhouse, the produce from ecent. This advance is in part attributable to an Southsea, Edward Marvin, sen., aged 81.
London. m
—y lord, cherish 14
we with the fondest de-e•
oand so different is the bearing of those we havelj which would do credit to the champion root growerslexpendit ure by the Crown in fencing, drainage, im_r_,,,,, ,Treeeee.—On the 18th inst., at Scarborough, Richard H.
1, votion the municipal " • t,l Tindall, aged 38.
institutions of our common us from that of those who have acted asi:riof the country. The various productions sent for- -p eve r ment of buildings and other works to the'fi
country, believing, as we do, that in the impulselicensed butchers for so many years under the ~.ward brAlr. Boyle, the agriculturist to the above extent of £3,600 ; and also in no small degree tot
given to those institutions b
ancestors the seeds of popular
planted in the popular mind,
i„
y our Anglo-SaxonVe Bourbons.
liberty were ira- •t -
During the last 14 days we have enjoyed a degreel
never to be eradicated.. of tranquillity which we have not known for a long esunion possessed peculiar merit, inasmuch as they, .
she general improvement in the agriculture of the,,
l' 'have 'been exclusively grown by juvenile inmates I.iclistrict, and in the greater facilities which no
ilof the establishment, and without
F. 4 any extraneous,: for
union beingti
expense in manure, &c., to the markets,"
r conveying the produce to the southernlii
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ia n the Precinct of the savoy, in the County of Middlesex
IA DlCedaY, December 23,1861.
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articles, the most important in some respects of the
,whole thirty-nine, were not drawn up at random

and that the Church of England had never actei
more wisely, more maturely, or with fuller consi
deration, than when it left open the questions o
inspiration, criticism, and interpretation. The

question of inspiration was left open because the
Church felt the danger of drawing any harsh lint
between the truth which Ged revealed to mar
through Scripture and the truth revealed through
man's reason. The Church left open the questior

of criticism for reasons which he proposed to argue
more particularly on a future occasion, but amongst
others because, though when the articles were draws,
up they had not the learning of the present day,
they were far too learned to endorse the fatal and
monstrous assertion of the Westminster divines that
the Greek and Hebrew texts were inspired by God,
and by His care preserved from alteration. The)
left open the question of interpretation for the rea
son assigned by Jeremy Taylor, that they knew well
how difficult it was to get at the truth in the midst
of the obscurities with which it was surrounded, and
that it was unjust to take the liberty of thought
from man unless they could secure him from error.
At this stage of the learned counsel's argument
pthe court adjourned to the 7th of January.

CROWN LANDS IN SCOTLAND.