The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-10 00:00:00

IRISH LORD LIEUTENANTS.

The public acts of the Lord Lieutenancy
since the union have generally been confined to
the execution of the orders of the Minister at
home. These have been fluctuating and irre-
gular, and until of late, harsh and unpopular in
their general outline. The Duke of Richmond
being a bon vivant, and having of course com-
panionable qualities, by mixing generally in the
society of Dublin, and familiarly with all, saved
himself personally from any share of the odium
which many of the public acts of his achnnistra-
tion deservedly obtained. The subsequent Go-
vernors, with the exception of one or two, were
mere money-getting men. They say, in Dub-
lin, that Lord Talbot farmed the cows in the
Phoenix Park, and let it out as a grazing ground.
This is probably a calumny, but the general dif-
fusion of such a rumour indicates the popular
opinion of his Excellency's system of pecuniary
expenditure.

Lord Wellesley was personally a showy man :
he could not, however, keep a Court, for his
affairs were embarrassed, and in the profits of
the office he sought the means of their re-
demption. He was, nevertheless, individually
liked, from his pleasing address, and all men
respected his principles, and gave credit to his
motives.

Never, perhaps, in the long catalogue of the
Lieutenancy was there a man for whom personal
qualities did so much as for Lord Wellesley's
successor, Lord Anglesea. A hasty phrase,
in utterance of a soldier's threat, undoubtedly
made him unpopular upon his arrival : he had
scarcely touched the shores of Ireland, however,
when, by his frank and generous manners, he
concilate4 the people. He rode out among
them, unattended by those trappings ; he crossed
the Tipperary mountains among a peasantry pe-
culiarly distinguished for barbarous strife, and
was every where received as a deliverer. He
visited gentlemen's houses as an equal, and spe-
cially interdicted all expensive parade of form and
ceremony for his reception ; and the people uni-
versally beheld in him a man who was viewing
their condition with his own eyes, firmly dis-
couraging the baneful ascendancy of party, and
determined to establish the dominion of the
Government upon the sure basis of reason and
justice. The popular confidence in the Marquis
became at once unbounded ; his declarations,
which were the emanations struck from a gene-
rous and chivalrous mind, by sudden contact
with a state of society of which he was not be-
fore sufficiently informed, were hailed by an ar-
dent and enthusiastic people, and communicated
through them with the heat and impetuosity of
an electric shock. The gloom which the abrupt
recall of such a man has shed upon the public
feeling of Ireland still continues. It is, now
that the feelings of factious strife is on the wane,
participated by all parties, who feel, that in losing
the opportunity of holding a gay and gallatat
Court, which would have attracted many of the
Irish gentry back to their country, and made
Dublin more the resort of foreigners who travel
in this kingdom than it has been, the nation en--1

dues a heavy loss, and the people are bereft of
one of the elements of social improvement.
Ihsuccessor of Lord Anglesea is a noble-
Man of high personal north ; but it is in vain to
assert that he has the public qualities fit for the
time and stctidn: Ireland is, and must b9 for
some time, labouring th-idef a crisis which re-
quires the application of great firmness arid Judg-
ment. It is essential, under such circumstances,
to have a Lord Lieutenant who will give per-
sonally a fond to toeiety, and appear at least to
be occupied by his public duties, The bustle
of personal action is indispensable for the popu-
larity of a Lord Lieutenant in such a country a 1
Ireland: The Duke of Richmond's punch-
drinking and racket‘playing, by bringing him
cheerfully and familiarly into satiety, saved him
personally from the stain of the bad niedt,ures of
his government, their alternate violence and weak-
ness. Lord Anglesea was neither a punch-
drinker nor a racket-player, and yet he was the
most popular Lord Lieutenant that Ireland ever
had since the time of Lord -Fitzwilharn, by the
plain and simple application of a manly and
well-intentioned mind to the business of his
office. Neither was he obliged to encounter
much fatigue and labour in the process. He
had only, to give the spur to his ordinarily active
habits—to affbrd a prompt reception to those
who sought audiences upon business—to attend
the public balls, and gossip with the company—
to appear on the roads and in the streets fami-
liarly accessible to every body, and always eager
to see and judge occurrences, without waiting to
have them communicated through the formal
medium of a secretary.
Any successor to such a man would have
been disadvantageously placed for the moment ;
but the Duke of Northumberland does not ap-
pear to see his situation. It is true he did not
seek the office, and there is reason to believe he
yielded a reluctant acceptance of it, to the com-
mands of his Sovereign. Still, the calm and
silent mode in which an English gentleman con-
ducts estates, requiring so little of complicated
management as those of his Grace, is not that
by which the affairs of a mercurial people are to
be conducted at a crisis when active means are
necessary to give efficacy to the benevolent inten-
tions of Government. Nobody sees the Duke
of Northumberland in Ireland, except seated
against the back of a close chariot with the
Duchess (who equally excludes herself,) drawn
by six horses, with showy harness and outriders,
and followed by another carriage and four horses,
with some of the ladies of the Powis family,
squired by that ancient Briton Sir Watkin Wynn.
The Duke lives in state, but in private ; he
mingles not with the people ; he has the character
of an excellent private gentleman, and the Du-
chess that of an amiable lady ; but they either
look down upon Irish society, or will not take
the trouble of encouraging it. They do -not
visit the gentry, probably in consideration of the
trouble which their cavalcade would give, by
crowding the stables of private houses with their
horse,~, and swarming the place with troops of
pampered servants; but why all this parade on
all ordinary occasions ? and if it must be, why
accompany it with so much real exclusion ?

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Mr. Harmer appeared upon the part of some of
the most respectable Proctors of Doctors' Com-
mons to complain against the practice of some per-
sons who, it seems, act as touters or cads for the
lower order of Proctors, who derive their livelihood
from chance custom.

Two of these cads were summoned to appear.
Mr. Harmer stated that the conduct of the de-
fendants was productive of inconvenience to the
public, as well as to the respectable part of the pro-
fession. They were in the habit of standing in
Dean's-court, St. Paul's Church-yard, and touting,
like the cads of a stage-coach, for custom, for the
gentlemen of the profession, with whom they parti-
cipated in the profits of the passing business. If
any respectable person turned towards Doctors'
Commons, he was sure to have one of these gentry
down upon him, brimful of information, and in seve-
ral instances they succeeded i❑ misdirecting people
upon business, that is, in introducing them to Proc-
tors whom they did not intend in the first instance
to employ.

The LORD MAYOR said, that it reflected very
great discredit upon► the Proctors who pursued such
means of obtaining business, and must, on the whole,
operate against them in their practice, if they had
any. It was disgraceful to see a liberal profession
touted for by cadgers—barkers to old clothes shops.
—(A laugh.)
Mr. Harmer said that the case against the de-
fendant who had obeyed the summons was not a
strong one, and therefore he should not press it.—
He should, however, certainly proceed against the
absent defendant, who had touted with a vengeance.
He (Mr. Harmer) had himself been touted to a con-
siderable distance, and he was, therefore, a very good
judge of the extent of the annoyance to which people
were subject from the Proctors' cads. He knew
there were other branches of the profession of the
law, the dignity of which sometimes was inade-
quately supported (laughter), but he had never
known any thing like this mode of forcing custom.
Mr. nobler thought that the best course for Mr.
Harmer to adopt, was that of " information" against
any future offenders.

In this suggestion Mr. Harmer agreed, and he
expressed the determination of the gentlemen by
whom he had been engaged, to proceed in that
manner against the cadger who had not paid the due
attention to the summons.

HIS LORDSHIP said that he hoped measures would
be taken to put -down so disreputable a practice.—
Now that such an outcry was raised in the other de-
partment of the law, it was to be hoped that some-
thing like respectability would be maintained in this.
GUILDHALL.

On Saturday William Brandon, a young man of
very respectable appearance, was charged before
Mr. Alderman ANSLEY with obtaining the sum of
3/. 'l6s. 6d. by ,means of a forged order from Mr.
Meeking, Holborn-hill.

The prisoner was remanded until Tuesday next.

111 A RLBORO U Gil-STREET.

On Saturday James Cummings, :who stood re-
manded on a charge of having attempted to murder
his wife, was brought up for re-examination before
Mr. DYER, jun.

Mr. Lyons, the assistant apothecary to the parish,
stated, that the female still continued in the most
dangerous state, and that not the least symptom of
recovery appeared. It was only by keeping her
quiet, and preventing anything like exc►tement
taking place, that her life had been protracted to the
present time. _ _

- Mr. DYER—Do you think there is a chance of her
creeehoevaer?ingmfrr.oLmyotnhse—lf I was to give an opinion Iwounds which she has re-