The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.
"NO POPERY" CRY IN BELFAST.

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DUBLIN, DEC. 22.—For some days past there has
been a great outcry in Belfast, amongst the ultra-
Tory party, on account of the attendance of many of
the principal Protestant inhabitants at the consecra-
tion of the new Roman Catholic church of St.
Malichi, in that town. Amongst those who so
offended was Mr. John Clarke, the Mayor, who has
been selected as the special object of vituperation, on
the ground of his having been placed in that office by
a corporation exclusively Tory in its composition.
The " Belfast Protestant Operative and Reformation
Society," for warded to Mr. Clarke an address and
remonstrance, bitterly inveighing against his back-
sliding, and his treason towards Protestantism in con-
sorting with Papists in their chapel, even at the
" monstrous exhibition of the mass.'
The Mayor has returned a manly and dignified
answer to the Society, maintaining his right to exer-
cise his own discretion in the duties of his office, and
rebuking their insolent attempt at dictation. In con-
clusion, he says :—" Considering that the population
of the town is largely composed of Roman Catholics,
who are interested in its peace and prosperity, and
who contribute to its public burthens, I do deli-
berately think they had a right to call on me as
Mayor to show to them the same courtesy that I had
already shown to all other denominations of Chris-
tians.

REPRESENTATION OF TIPPERARY.—The Tipperary
Vindicator contains the following :—" A most impor-
tant meeting was held on Wednesday in Cashel, to
select a fit and proper person to represent this county,
in the room of the late deeply lamented Mr. Otway
Cave. Owing to the extreme inclemency of the
weather the meeting was not large. There was,
however, a respectable attendance, and what we prize
most highly—an admirable spirit of unanimity. All
present, without exception, and among those who at-
tended were some who have been always foremost in
the battles of independence in Tipperary—decided
that no one, however admirable in other respects,
could lay the slightest claim to the representation of
this county except an unconditional repealer. The
observations of our worthy and spirited representa-
tive, Mr. Maher, were unequivocally decisive on this
point, and the resolution proposed by the Archdeacon
Laffan, to the effect that the Honourable Mr. Hut-
chinson should be respectfully solicited to represent
Tipperary, was adopted without a dissentient voice."
MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE.—A young woman,
named Honors Ryan, late of Killaloe, servant to
Mr. Canty, baker, of High-street, went for a tub
of water to the public fount at Bank-place,
where she stood upon the parapet wall over the
river, for the purpose of placing a pail upon
the head of another girl, but lay some awkward-
ness lost her balance, and unfortunately, as she raised
the vessel, fell back into the water. The tide was
falling with a strong current at the time, as the alarm
was given, and crowds ran to the spot, amongst
whom was a resolute young fellow, named Thomas
M'Creice, private of the 9th battalion Royal Artil-
lery, who, on seeing the poor girl struggling in the
river, instantly threw off his cap and belt, ran down
the steps of the slip adjoining, and, plunging into the
water, swam to her assistance. She was net at the
time twenty yards from the shore ; but as soon as he
neared her, she suddenly caught him by the breast,
and having then entangled in him, he lost all power.
although he endeavoured to disengage himself from
her grasp. Both were drawn down under the side
of the arch of the new bridge by the current,
and a rope was quickly lowered from the battlement,
but unfortunately not long enough to reach the
water. The artilleryman, however, made attempts
to catch hold of it, but without effect, and opposite
the Custom-house, in the presence of hundreds of
agonising spectators, both sufferers sunk to rise no
more. What renders this sad occurrence more cala-
mitous is, the fact that M'Creice has left a wife (ad-
vanced in pregnancy)
.and. three children to deplore
his untimely fate.—Limerick Chronicle.

The Very Rev. the Dean of Jersey arrived in that
island on Wednesday, and was on the following day
inaugurated into his new office before the Ecclesiastical
Court.

" SURPLICE AND GOWN."—A rector in the diocese
of Exeter has settled this question in rather a comical
way. A few days ago he preached, without either sur-
plice or gown, in his great coat.
TIIE OFFERTORY.—In last week's Gazette it was
stated that one of our churchwardens had recently
received a letter from the Rev. Mr. Nihill, saying
that he should continue the Offertory of St. Mary's.
Much to the surprise of many here, the Rev. Gentleman
has since suddenly altered his mind. On Sunday morn-
ing, after making some very severe and unwarrantable
strictures upon his flock, he announced from his pulpit
that the Offertory would cease from that day at St.
Mary's Church! We always thought the "pressure
from without " must be attended with this result. When
the people begin to seriously talk of " stopping the
supplies"—to refuse making Church-rates—then it is
high time to yield to ppular opinion. Our vicar has
thought it expedient to do so, and it gives us much plea-
sure to state the fact public. Let other towns burdened
with Offertory impositions follow the example set them
by the Bridgewater folk.—Somerset County Gazette.
It appears that the Scottish Board for the encourage-
ment of manufactures are to discontinue the granting of
premiums for inventions in manufactures, and to apply
the funds at their disposal exclusively to encouraging a
School of Design. The following is an extract from a
letter received this week by Mr. Alex. Buchanan, in
reply to an application for a reward for a new descrip-
tion of fabric of his invention Board of Manufactures,
Royal Institution, Edinburgh, 14th Dec., 1844.—Sir,—
I have now to inform you that, as the Commissioners
have long entertained the opinion that the manufactures
of this country would be most effectually improved by
the encouragement of the Fine Arts, which must pro-
duce a most beneficial effect on the Industrial Arts, they
have with the sanction of the Lords Commissioners of
her Majesty's Treasury deemed it expedient for one
year at least, to withdraw that portion of their funds
which has hitherto been appropriated for premiums, and
to apply it to the extension of their School of Design,
which is of the most paramount importance in attaining
the advancement of the national manufactures, and
which is the object of their most anxious solicitude. I
have therefore no alternative left me than to express
the regret which the Commissioners feel at being unable
to afford Mr. Buchanan any assistance, and the docu-
ments which you forwarded to me in favour of that gen-
tleman are accordingly returned to you inclosed.—l am,
Sir, your most obedient servant, Taos. Drcic. LAUDER,
Secretary of the Board of Manufactures."—Glasgow
Saturday Post.
BENTINCK TESTIMONIAL.—We are very glad to
find that the first proposers of a subscription for a testi-
monial to Lord George Bentinck have had their propo-
sal responded to in so liberal a manner by the supporters
of the turf as to call forth an expression of their warm
gratification. We understand it is their intention forth-
with to take some steps towards carrying into effect the
object of the subscription, and that they have obtained
the consent of the Duke of Monfort, the Duke of Bed-
ford, the Puke of Rutland, the Earl of Chesterfield, the
Earl of Eglinton, and the Right Hon. G. S. Byng, to
act as a Committee for that purpose.—Sunday Times.
AIR AND EXERCISE.—PeopIe who are travelling,
especially in clear frosty weather, when the atmosphere
is of the greatest specific gravity, and more oxygen is
taken into the lungs at a single inspiration than in hot
or hazy weather will drink as much spirit with impunity
as would intoxicate them five or six times over, were
they sitting in a confined room. It is not an uncommon
thing for a man, whose maximum of whiskey toddy is a
couple of glasses, to find, after having ascended Ben
Lomond, that he has unknowingly swallowed a whole bottle
of undiluted Glenlivat. The Highlanders are proverbial
for the quantity of whiskey they drink, and for the little
injury it does them. Many of them habitually drink a
!vine-glass of rm., spirit directly upon rising in a morn-
ing. To them it is a " cup that cheers but not ine-
briates." They are not intoxicated by it for the moment,
nor do they suffer in any marked degree from the usual
remote consequences of dram drinking. They are not
like the tavern keeper and the spirit tippler of the
crowded city—jaundiced, consumptive, impotent, imbe-
cile, or paralysed, dying before his time. They are
hale, cheerful, and vigorous, despite their practices.
And wherefore this marvellous difference? Fresh air
and free exercise are the foundation of it all.—Medical
Times.

THE FROST AT HAMBURGII.—We learn from private
sources that on the 17th inst., the London mails of the
6th, 10th, and 13th insts., had not reached Hamburgh,
in consequence of which, in addition to the entire ob-
struction of the navigation on the river Elbe by the ice,
business in general was exceedingly dull. On the
16th the intensity of the frost was much dimi-
nishesl,and on the following day—viz., the 17th, the ther-
mometer of Raurnur exhibited one degree of
warmth. Ruin had fallen on that day from
morning to evening, but there were indications of a very
early renewal of frost. The execution of Tschech,
at Spandau, for Ills attempted assassination of the King
of Prussia, was known at Ilamburgh, and had created
no sensation whatever. The Turkish Government had
nominated a consul at llambnrgh, in the person of a
Portuguese gentleman, who already represents the Go-
vernment of his own country in the capacity of consul-
genet al, and he had not felt himself at liberty to accept
the appointment without referring first for permission of
the authorities at Lisbon. This is the first appointment
of the kind which the Turkish Government have made
it the north of Europe, and it is an indication of a desire
to extend the commercial relations of the empire, which
cannot fail to be interesting to the mercantile public.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—Monday afternoon, be-
tween two and three o'clock, a man, having the appear-
ance of a bricklayer, after ascending a ladder in front
of the house, No. 26, Chapel street, Pentonville, for the
purpose of doing some repairs upon the roof, and walk-
ing a :ew yards upon the parapet, either suddenly fell,
or precipitated himself to the ground. The house is a
three storey one. The unfortunate man fell upon his
face, and, though not literally killed upon the spot, no
hope can be entertained of his recovery. He was taken
up covered with blood, several of his limbs being frac-
tured, and was conveyed by the police, on a stretcher, to
the North London Ileepital, Gray's Inn-lane. The
name of the man could tsot be ascertained by our infor-
mant, but he lived in Howard's-green, City-road. A
woman who keeps a fruit stall opposite the house from
which he fell, and who says she had her eyes fixed upon
him at the moment, expresses her firm belief that he
tbxew himself off, but this must be considered doubtful.