The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.
DUBLIN UNIVE RSITY—ORANGE
MOVEMENT.
DUBLIN, Nov. 20.—The statement of the Dublin
Warder, respecting the anti-Peel movement amongst
the divinity students, has produced some excitement
in the University, and led to a decided course of action
on the part of the board of Senior Fellows.

The -Statesman, an Orange journal, contains the
following on this subject :
"An article quoted in another column from the
Warder, with reference to Wyse and Peel's proposed
University tamperings, mentions that the Regius Pro-
fessor of Divinity had spoken, in his opening prelection,
this term, of the possibility that this might be his last
occasion of addressing them as an officer of a Protes-
tant university.
" We understand that yesterday (Monday) the Rev.
Mr. M`Neice, Archbishop King's Lecturer in Divinity,
warned the students of the junior class, that any attend-
ance upon a political meeting of the sort referred to
would be a direct breach of academic discipline, and
would be so treated by the board. We understand, also,
that this day Dr. Elrington, Regius Professor of Divi-
nity, advised the senior class not to take any part in such
movements ; and also explained that he did not speak of
likelihood, but merely of the dangers threatened by the
enemies of the Protestant cause and of the University
and Church of Ireland.
" Of course, in consequence of these admonitions, no
public step of a political hue will be taken by university
students in that capacity.
" Since writing the above, we learn that a special
meeting of the board was held this day, and that it was
resolved to publish on the gate of Trinity College the
old rule of the board, which prohibits all students from
taking part in political assemblies. This rule, which is
now upon the gate, originated in 1798, or thereabouts,
we believe, and was revived in 1834 . but we do not
know that it was ever before published, or that in any
mode whatever a student could be reasonably presumed
to be informed of it. We see it, indeed, printed in the
recent new edition of the statues, but these will be in
very few hands. Of course the rule will be at once and
heartily obeyed to the letter ; but equally, of course, it
will be found a step not without deep and ulterior conse-
quences to tamper with any more bulwarks of Pro-
testantism."
THE CORPORATION AND THE TREASURY.
At the meeting of the corporation of Dublin, yes-
terday, the Town-clerk read the following letter from
the Lords of the Treasury, in reply to a communica-
tion from the Council, dated Sept. 10 :
" Treasury Chambers, Nov. 16, 1844.
"My Lord,—The Lords Commissioners of her Ma-
jesty's Treasury having had before them the letter from
the Town-clerk of the city of Dublin, dated 10th Septem-
ber last, in reply to the letter of this board of the 31st of
August last, upon the subject of the arrangements pro-
posed by the corporation of Dublin, for charging their
estates with a sufficient sum to pay off certain city bonds
and pipe water debentures, with a view to an annual
saving, by a reduction of the interest now payable on
those bands and debentures, I am commanded by their
Lordships to acquaint you that, under the peculiar cir-
cumstances in which the corporation are placed, their
Lordships are disposed to reconsider the financial scheme
proposed by the council, with a view to ascertain whe-
tiler the interest on the corporate debt can be reduced in
a manner more in accordance with the usual practice of
this board than that originally proposed.
" My Lords desire me to state that they continue to
entertain objections to the plan of parcelling out so large
a sum as that required by the corporation among credi-
tors of 1001. each.
" Their Lordships are, however, informed by the
Town-clerk's letter, of the 10th of September last, that
the Hibernian Bank would agree to consolidate the
bonds and debentures into somewhat larger amounts,
such as sums of 5001., 3001., 2001., and 100/., instead of
the present 1001. debentures.
" Such consolidation, if carried to such an extent as to
divide the debt among a large proportion of creditors of
5001. and 3001., leaving comparatively few of smaller
sums, would lessen the objections entertained by this
board to the proposed scheme. My Lords, therefore,
before they proceed to the reconsideration of the whole
question, would wish to be informed of the utmost ex-
tent to which the Hibernian Bank will consent to such a
consolidation of the 100/. debentures into larger sums.—
I am, my Lord, your most obedient humble servant,
" C. E. TREVELYAN.
" To the Lord Mayor of Dublin."
The corporation had given notice that they would
reduce the rate of interest on their debentures on the
29th September last, that being the gale-day, and to
enable them to make such reduction in the manner
then proposed, the sanction of the Lords of the Trea-
sury was required. Accordingly, a correspondence
on the subject ensued ; and now, to a letter dated the
10th September, on a subject to be concluded on the
29th of that month, an answer is forwarded by the
Lords of the Treasury of the IGth November ! The
matter so treated by the Lords of the Treasury related
to a saving to the citizens of Dublin of not less than
1,3001. a year. The corporation not having received
a final answer in proper time from the Treasury,
might have been involved in great difficulty but for
the intervention of the Hibernian Bank, which en-
abled them to keep faith with their creditors and carry
out the reduction of interest for which they had given
notice.

This conduct of the Treasury was the cause of
much severe animadversion at the meeting of the
town council, and the repealers availed themselves of
so good a topic.
RESISTANCE TO THE POOR-RATE.

The Mayo Constitution says :—" A police force,
under the command of Sub-inspector 'Walshe, and
Mr. Kelly, R.M., accompanied the collector of poor-
rate to that part of the parish of Islandeady which is
in the Castlebar union, on Saturday last. At first
the collector met with fierce opposition, and stones
were flung at him ; but owing to the conciliatory
course adopted towards the people, a good deal of the
rate was paid, and the remainder promised. It is
but just to Mr. Kelly to say that, in several cases
where he saw that persons were not able to pay, he
paid the rate for them himself. This creditable act
ought to be stated."
ANOTHER DISMISSAL FROM THE MA-
GISTRACY.

The Cork Reporter contains the following corre.
spondence, commencing with a letter to the editor of
that journal :
" The Rennies, Carrigaline, Nov. 18, 1844.
" Sir—Having had the honour of being admitted a
member of the Loyal National Repeal Association on the
Ist of July, I have been now visited with the usual
laconic notice of Mr. Henry Sugden, hich gave rise to
the following correspondence.—l am ur obedient ser-
vant, " LUKE JO EPH SHEA."
" Secretary's-office, Four Courts,
Dublin,
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I am directed to ask you, as a magistrate, whether the
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report is correct.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your
most obedient servant, b erpo fr t t hNdeo ;e Bpt Repeal 8411. rd
Association,
" HENRY SUGDEN.
" Luke John Shea, Esq., &c.' "
" Ringmahon Castle, Cork, Nov. 12, 1844.
" Sir,—Your letter of the Bth inst. did not reach me
until this day, owing to my absence from " The Ren-
nies," and being on a visit here with my father-in-law,
Mr. James Murphy, which will account for your not
having heard from me in due course.
"' By your communication I am informed of a report
having been made to the Lord Chancellor that lam a
member of the Repeal Association,' and you ask me, as
a magistrate, whether the report is correct ?
" ' In reply, I have the honour to state, for the in-
formation of his Lordship, that on or about the Ist of
July last I sent a letter to Smith O'Brien, Esq., accom-
panied by a subscription to the repeal fund, and I am
informed that I have been admitted a member of the
Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland, and I
hare further to add, I subscribed myself then, as I have
still, the privilege (at the pleasure of his Lordship) to
do, a magistrate of the county of Cork, and am your very
obedient servant, &c.,
" LUKE JOSEPH SHEA, J.P.
" Henry Sugden, Esq., Secretary's Office,
Four Courts, Dublin.
" ' N.B. Your letter directed to Luke John Shea,
Esq., I presume was intended for me.'
" Secretary's Office, Four Courts, Dublin, Nov. 15.
" have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of the 12th inst., and I am directed by the
Lord Chancellor to inform you that he regrets he has
felt it his duty to supersede you in the commission of the
peace.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient
servant, " HENRY SUGDEN.
" Luke Joseph Shea, Esq.' "
" The Rennies, Carrigaline, County Cork,
Nov. 18. 1844.
"' Sir—l have received an intimation from you, bear-
ing date the 15th inst., that the Lord Chancellor has
thought fit to deprive me of the commission of the peace
for tau county of Cork. I therefore beg leave in reply
to say, that intelligence has come upon me without sur-
prise, as I have already seen so many instances of the
practice, but in no case have I heard it alleged that in
any amongst the magistrates who joined and who have
been visited with the intended penalty of a supersedeas,
for so joining the peaceable association of their country-
men for a legal object to be obtained by strictly legal
means—have been guilty of the slightest violation of the
laws which they were sworn to enforce, or in any manner
infringed upon the principles of the Constitution, which
they learned at all times to respect, and under any cir-
cumstances sacredly to uphold as the safeguard of the
State ; in a word, I have yet to know how or when we
ceased to be loyal subjects, or impartial magistrates?—
You will, then allow me to say, that in my humbie opi-
nion, you do his Lordship the Chancellor, in his minis-
terial capacity, a great injustice when you make him
thus pronounce my doom 'sic volo, sic juGeo, stet pro
ratione voluntas:
" I respectfully bow to the decision of his Lordship,
but it makes the fact to me the more clear, that nothing
can serve Ireland but repeal. Promises have been made
and as soon broken. This kingdom has been the play-
thing of party in every age. A Government (exhibiting
some profession of good perhaps) chanced to have had a
short existence one day, but again the picture is re-
versed, and our faint hopes are blackened. We have
seen alternate courses of conciliation and coercion, tan-
talized by English friends, and oppressed by English
foes—lrishmen are MADE to feel that no consistency can
be relied upon except in the security of self-government.
This, I say, is the conviction on the minds of many, and
it is mine, though Government may think themselves
strong because they have apparently succeeded in
stifling, not the opinion, but the expression of it in some
—because magistrates who have *got aristocratic friends
are still silent— because barristers who expect promo,