The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-02 00:00:00

(Front the Star of Brunswick of Saturday, March 7.)

CATHOLIC DIVISIONS-LORDS.

NEW YORK.

" THE ASSOCIATION OF THE FRIENDS OF CIVIL AND
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, AND OF THE FRIENDS OF
IRELAND, IN NEW YORK,
" TO DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ.,

" SIR-By us patriotism is marked amongst the
most exalted of the human virtues, and every prac-
tical example which it affords of usefulness or well
regulated zeal attracts our undivided attention and
admiration. With approving sympathy we have
long witnessed your strenuous efforts in the service
of a wronged country : the lofty ardour, the untir-
ing perseverance, the discretion and magnanimity,
which have character.zed your labours, encourage
the hope that your exertions will yet be rewarded
with success.

" Impartial observers of the tyranny which has so
long enchained unhappy Ireland, we can scarcely
give adequate expression to the indignation with
which it has inspired us; we have beheld that ty-
ranny supporting itself by cruelty, discord, and ex-
tortion; by extinvishing rights and paralysing in-
dustry ; by annihilating commerce and reducing its
victims to imbecility—then despoiling her legisla-
tive assemblies and tauntingly forcing on her the
livery of a province. A crisis, however, ap.
proaches; the hour of Ireland's redemption is at
hand ; the eyes of enlightened nations are fixed
on you and your companions; recede not a single
step, cement your strength and your purposes,
arid though still religiously preserving the most
inviolable tranquillity, let not your vigilance re-
lax until the minions of corruption abandon their
machinations in despair. Yes, Sir, we approve of
your exertions and admire your talents; but the
principles you have promulgated in your speeches
and writings are eminently more worthy of our
praise. You have, Sir, proclaimed that your efforts
and those of the Catholic Association are not de-
signed exclusively for a sect, but extend to all deno-
minations of men. Yours is not a theological con-
troversy, as your enemies would represent it ; you
have indignantly denied the calumny; you labour
for Dissenters as well as Catholics, bind we were re-
joiced to perceive that the proudest and most suc-
cessful of your labours, was a convincing illustration
of this principle—for the course pursued by the Ca-
tholic electors at Clare was intended to manifest
their disapprobation of Mr. Pitzgeruld's illiberality
towards their dissenting countrymen. Again, we
say, proceed ; w hile your conduct is marked by such
principles, every enlightened friend of his species
must ardently wish your success. Circumstances
auspicious to your cause are multiplying in every
portion of the globe—happy combinations of events
are daily arising to aid our hopes. Look afar to the
east and to the west, and immediately around you,
and feel confident of success. Let the hopes of
your nation revive.
" Amidst the gloom that has so long lowered
over Ireland, perhaps it may be no inconsiderable
consolation to you and your countrymen, to know
that millions of honest and intrepid freemen in this
republic regard your condition and your struggles
with the highest degree of interesti Public opinion
in America is deep, and strong, and universal in
your favour. This predilection prevails over the
broad bosom of our extensive continent. Associ-
ations similar to ours are every where starting into
existence,—in our largest and wealthiest cities,—in
our hamlets and villages,—in our most remote sec-
tions ; arid at this moment the propriety of con-
vening at Washington delegates of the Friends of
Ireland,' of all the states, is under serious delibe-
ration. A fund will ere long be derived from
American patriotism in the United States, which
will astonish your haughtiest opponents. It is our
ardent hope that you will continue to preserve the
steady purpose in which you have been so long en
gaged. A sublime trust is reposed in you; a ques-
tion of surpassing interest is consigned to your care.
You enjoy the confidence of your countrymen; you
consequently possess a commanding influence over
their deeds. May you ever exercise this influence
with fidelity and effect,—with an uncompromising
regard for human rights,—with a firm allegiance to
the cause of liberty, and a never-ceasing hostility to
bigots, factionists, and exclusionists, whether of Pro-
testant or Catholic complexion.
" WM. J. INIACNEVEN, President.
" New York, Jan. 20."

W. BANKEs, Esq. is talked of as likely to
offer himself for Cambridge, in case of a vacancy ; but it

is generally supposed Sir J. SCARLETT will be the new
Attorney-General, and the present Solicitor-General will
be placed on the Bench when a vacancy occurs.
DUBLIN, MARCH 29.—Mr. O'CONNEL ar-
rived here front -Holyhead at an early hour yesterday morn-
ing; And, although the public were led to believe that he
would not appear in Dublin, until after his return from
Dow•ripatrick Assizes to London, a vast crowd assembled
at the mail-coach office, Dawson-street, on his arrival,
who cheered him in the most enthusiastic manner along
the streets, to his residence in Mertion-square. About
one o'clock he again made his appearance in the streets,
amidst the ahoute of the populace, and then proceeded to
the Corn Exchange, where a large number of gentlemen
had assembled, for the purpose of making arrangements
relative to the proposed fund for remunerating his public
services. As soon as it was known that he had gone to the
old Catholic Association Rooms, a great crowd flocked
there to know his opinion relative to the political state of
the country. The Learned Gentleman gave a very flatter-
ing account of the Catholic Question, and assured Lis
friends of Ireland and Emancipation that they were greatly
lode' ted to Government at the present time. He eulogised
the Administration of the Duke of Nor.rnuatnna.l.Aarn in
a very flattering manner, and expressed his satisfaction at
having so candid and impartial a successor to their late po-
pular Lard Lieutenant. On the question of securities lie
said but little, giving it as his opinion that the Govern-
ment was at length determined to have justice fairly and
impartially administered to the people, and to have their
causes no longer classified according to their conditions,
creeds, or influence. The Learned Gentleman is to pro.
peed tosmurrow morning to Downpatriek, and will return
to Dublin on Thursday, when he is to preside at a Charity
Dinner, to be held at Hayes' Tavern, previous to his de-
parture for London. It is almost unnecessary to say that
the ol•ject of the dinner will be materially served by his ad-
vocacy on the occasion, as a great number of tickets has e
been already sold,

We made arrangements for laying before the Irish public the
first intelligence of the momentous proceedings which occurred
hi the I louse of Commons on Thursday algid. For this purpose
a person travelled the whole way from London to 1 Iverpool, by
Express, to our Newspaper Agent there, Mr. Willmer. A.
steam-vessel was specially engaged by the Proprietor of thisJour.
nal, to sail the moment the despatch arrived, and a gentleman
from this office was in attendance to take charge of the packet,
with which he has this moment, ten o'clock, s.sr., arrived. We
should be ungrateful did we not acknowledge the liberality of the
City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, and the kindness of their
Anent, Mr. Perry, who, in the nu* handsome manner, placed
a vessel at our disposal ; and it would be unjust did we not ad-
mit that we take our report from the Third Edition of The Sun
Newspaper, assisted by the notes of our special Parliamentary
Reporter.
(From the Dublin Morning Register of Tuesday, March 10.)
THE LONDON PRIl39.—For a considerable time The Sun News-
paper has acquired a distinguished reputation for its extraordi-
nary exertions in the early Publication of parliamentary proceed,
l:iv3, or qncstions of great national inter;:st ; and we have had
rare than once to cOmpiiment this pubfic spirited Journal for its
invaluable and successful ettbrts. We row have to notice what
we regard as unparalleled in the annals of Newspapers—we mean
the publication and despatch of Mr. Peel's speech on 'Thursdaynight, in the Third Edition of The Sun. Mr. Peel did not con-
clude until a quarter past ten o'clock. The speech was printed
in The Sun, to the extent of seven columns, at a quarter to
twelve ; and, by the aid of special Expresses, and the prompt and
measwies or Mr. Willmer, our Liverpool Agent,
•
we received the speech at half.past eleven on Saturday morning.
Nye were thus enabled to give the speech of Mr. Peel in a Se-
cond Edition of the Weekly Register, and it was printed in five
thousand copies of that Journal, the remainder of our number
having been previously struck off and published. The prompti-
tudefrom Liverpool,
and activity of Mr. Willmer, in forwarding the despatch
I
are well deserving of our best commendation.

HOUSE OP LORDS.

(FROM A. CORRESPONDENT.) 1 The House of Peers.consists,at present of about
There was yesterday much speculation as to the 400 members. Among these, there are five Rival
numbers of the division in the Lords on the second Dukes or Princes of the Blood, three Archbishops,
reading of the Catholic Relief Bill.. We have seen 19 English Dukes, 24 Marquises (including the
denti-nifleial lists on the subject, and the result is as Representative Peers of Scotland and Ireland), 127
follows Earls (including the Scotch and Irish Represents-
For the second reading 219 I tive Peers), 26 Viscounts (including the Scotch
Against it 126 and Irish Representative Peers with that title), 27
Majority in favour of the second I Bishops (including the Irish Representative Pre-
This,i3 lates), and ISO Barons (including the Represents-
of course, omits Minors, Catholic Peers, and tive Peers of Scotland and Ireland of that rank of
those abroad, whose proxies may not have been oh- nobility). The list printed by order of the House
tained, which is the case with several, Lord Ileytes- includes the Catholic Peers, who, though they could
bury, Lord Prudhoe (now in Egypt), &c. not take their seats, retained their names on the rolls
All the Royal Dukes (with the exception of the of Parliament. Probably near 300 may attend in
Duke of Cumberland) vote for the second reading, I the House this evening, to pass a Bill which Will
by proxy or otherwise. add these Catholic Peers to their number.
Curiously enough all the Archbishops will vote
against the second reading :—ten Bishops, out of the
whole number, will vote for the second reading.
The Duke of Northumberland's proxy is for the
Bill, while the Duke's father-in-law, Earl Powis, it
is calculated, will vote against the Bill.
Lord Tenterden, the Lord Chief Justice of the
King's Bench, about whom there has been much
speculation, is put down as intending to vote against
the second reading.
The Earl of Shaftesbury (the Chairman of the
Lords' Committees), and who yesterday presided,
pro tem., for the Lord Chancellor, notwithstanding
all the rumours and speculations that have been cir-
culated to the contrary, it is positively calculated
will vote against the second reading.
The Earl of Lonsdale (the father of the Low-
thers) will be found, it is declared, in the minority.
Lord Exmouth will vote against the second
reading.
The number of Minors, and those who have not
taken their seats, are about 20 ; amongst whom are
Lords Craven, Gifford, &c.-11forning Paper.

BLUNDER IN THE NEW LICENSING ACT.

A deputation from certain applicants for. licences
waited a few days ago upon Mr. Estcourt, the ori-
ginator of the measure, in order to represent to hini
the mistake in his Bill as to the time required by. it

for the giving notices of applications for licences.--
The deputation consisted of the following gentle-
men, who had been refused licences, on the last li-

censing-day, at Guildhall, on the ground that they
had not complied with an impossible condition, mix.
—Mr. Francis and Mr. Cockerill, of the European
hotel, opposite the Mansion-house; Mr. Acland, of
Cannon-street ; Mr. Hillary, of the Poultry; Mr.
Thomas Elridge, vintner, of the Tower Shades, and

Mr. Boyce, or the Custom-house Shades. ,
They were received with the most marked pplite-
'less by the Hon. Member, who, extraordinary as it
may appear, had heard not a syllable about the
error on which so much has been said.

The deputation requested to call the attention of
Mr. Estcourt to the existing Act of Parliament of
the 9th of Geo. IV. c. 61, respecting licences. The
construction which the Magistrates of the city of
London had put upon this Act, had deprived those
who petitioned for licences of all the benefit it in•
tended to confer. By this construction the citizens

of London were literally prevented from obtaining
licences from twenty months, and then were com-
pelled in future to give nine months' notice of their
intentions to apply for such licences, when, in all
other places, six or seven weeks' notice only was re-
quired. This was a crying grievance, and the depu-
tation hoped that some efforts weuld be made to re-
medy it.

Mr. ESTCOURT expressed his astonishment at the
construction which had been put upon the clause
respecting the period of giving notices, and his rea-
diness to remler those who were aggrieved every
assistance he could give, with a view to the removal
of the inconvenience to which the clause had unfor.
tunately, but unintentionally given rise.
The Deputation suggested to the Hon. Gentle-
man the propriety of introducing a short Bill as
rider to that in which the error occurred, and im-
posing a practicable and not impossible task upon
those who were interested in the measure.

Mr. ESTCOURT stated, that when he was draw-
ing up the Bill he considered (and he believed it to
be the general supposition) that the city of London
was in the county of Middlesex, and of course that
the elsewhere, mentioned in the 10th clause, did not
apply to the city of London, but to all places, with
the exception of the city of London and the coun-
ties of Middlesex and Surrey. He regretted greatly
that any inconvenience should have resulted from

the oversight, but he thought that the interference
of the, city members would be more properly exer-
cised on the subject in Parliament than his. He
felt it to be a matter of delicacy to interpose on a
question entirely relating to the localities of the city
of London, as the objectionable part of the Bill 'was.
The Honourable Gentleman then suggested that
the matter should be brought forward as a public
measure by one of their Representatives; and be
added, that he felt convinced that every facility
would be afforded to do away the effect of the
mistake.

The Deputation then, by the advice of Mr. Est'
court, went to Mr. Phillips, the Under Secretary,
and represented the above-mentioned facts to him! ,
at the same time requesting, that through the UW
dium of Mr. Peel, some means might be adopted to
get the Act amended in such a manner as would
enable them to obtain licences for the remainder of
the year, if the City Magistrates should consider
them entitled.
From Mr. Phillips they received a communica'
Lion similar to that with which they had been fa-
voured by Mr. Estcourt, and they then resolved
upon applying to the Court of Aldermen, in order
to obtain the aid of the Magistrates who had seen
the defect of the law, and the prejudicial conse-
quences of that defeat. They accordingly petitioned
the Court, and set forth their claims, and the la-
cessity there existed for an immediate endeavour to.
make the Act a practicable one, as it regarded the
citizens of London.
Two of the deputation, Mr. Elridge, a free vint-
ner, and Mr. Boyce, represented in their petitions
that they had obtained in March, 1828, the sanction
of the Alderman and Common Council of their
Ward for licences to sell exciseable liquors by retai.l,
that they had, in the present year, received the same
sanction, and been returned in the general list of
Licensed Victuallers of the Ward, and that relying
upon the strength of their claims, and the powerful
nature of their recommendations, they had made ex!.
pensive arrangements for carrying on their business,
not for a moment supposing that such an obstacle
could have presented itself as the error which had
been already described, and that if a Bill was neces-
sary to remedy the mischief, they would endeavour
to get one passed through the House a Commons,
notwithstanding the great expense to which it would
subject them.
The Couit having deliberated for a short times
the petitioner's were called in and infoimed by the
Lord Mayor that they had resolved that they could
not interfere in the question.
Some of the petiiioners respectfully attempted to
expostulate with the Court, but—
His Lordship told them they were at liberty to
follow whatever course they might think proper to
adopt, and they accordingly said that they would fol-
low that course, and retired.

The Anti-Catholics in the City appear to hare
given up all hopes of the Emancipation hub being thrown
out iu the Lords. The result of last night's debate, in-
deed, seems to have decided the question, and we think
the most. zealous opponents of the measure must be ranuf
satisfied that the Bill will pass into- a law. The fact isa•
the opposition to it in the Commons amounted to nothings
or next to nothing. It consisted only of empty talk--73.„
mere letting off of cut and dried speeches, " full of sou
and fury, signifying nothing.," Fur-our part, we do not
believe that half the opponents of the measure were serious
in their opposition. They appear to us to have let them*
selves out to be laughed at, and to make the Protestant
cause look ridiculous.—Morniny Herald.

At the Monmouth Assizes, EDWARD BAR'
rum; a very fine looking young man, aged 22, was found
guilty of the murder of ESTHER STEPHENS, a married
woman, aged 37, (with whom he had fur some lira!
c)Latited.) The case excited great interest in the neigir
biurhoml of Monmouth. The prisoner received-
sentence of death with unusual compo.ure, after having
handed in a long written defence, the purport of which
was to show that he had committed the murder in sell-
defence, having been roused from sleep by the sight é
ESTHER. STEPHEN'S standing over him, with a knife in her
hand, avowedly for the purpose of cutting his throat.

The Deputation urged in strong terms the injurY
which they had sustained already by means of the
new Act, and that to which they were still liable ~
from a continuance of its operation.
Mr. ESTCOURT said, that in Acts of the kind, in
which localities formed an important feature, it was
usual for those who represented the places included
in the Bill to attend to and investigate the details,
and if there appeared to be any mistake, to have it
corrected before the Bill received the sanction of.
Parliament.

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to be had of all Booksellers.

MR.

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