The Sun. — 1844-11-22 (London, England)

ISLISCIELM4NNIOI7II. . The new church at Camberwell, of which the first stone was laid in September, 1842, was consecrated with the accustomed ceremonies on Thursday forenoon by the Bishop of Salisbury. The service was commenced at 11 o'clock, by which time the church was crowded in every part by a congregation of nearly 2,000 persons, who were admitted by cards. Among them were Archdeacon Wilberforce, the Rev. Mr. Eden, and a great many clergymen; Sir John and Lady Pirie, Mr. H. Kemble, M.P., and most of the gentry of the neighbourhood. Another extra Gazette, extending to Sixty-four pages, was issued last night. It is filled entirely with a repetition of railway and other notices published in previous Gazettes.  - At the last meeting '..1; the Royal Asiatic Society it was stated that the Rajah of Travancore had established an observatory and a printing press, and that he appointed none but Christian Judges. Much interest is evinced in the musical word at the present moment in regard to the two new grand operas to be produced at Berlin—one by Meyerbeer, entitled Das Schlesische Feldlager, and the other by Spontini, named Die Athenienserinn. The latter composer, who is now at Dresden, will shortly return to Berlin, to superintend the rehearsals of Die Athenienserinn' in which a Mdlle. Jenny Lind, a Swedish lady by birth, who has lately been studying under Meyerbeer, is to make her debut.  Captain Francis Edward Holyoake, R.N., formerly our Consul at Dunkirk, died at the advanced agt of 85 years last week, at Studeley. The amount of O'Connell tribute collected in Limerick on Sunday was 3371. 4s. 63. The Limerick Reporter pronounces that " Limerick has nobly done its duty." The amount exceeds that of any preceding year save the last. The amount at Cork was 7641. 17s. The Examiner expects that this sum will be increased to at least 9001. Fermoy contributes 701., and Clonmel 2471."  A contemplated meeting of students of the University of Dublin at the Rotunda—to be attended in academicals—for the purpose of protesting against the Peel liberalising scheme with regard to Dublin College, has been put 4 atop to by the University aUtho• title&  are still silent—because barristers whd, expect pkomdtion, 'Countenance; or place, Still remember the wartiing of tord Ebrington, and say nothing—because the army and police dare not read the journals of the Liberal press or join in the cry for repeal—and because persons in every department of the few public offices in Ireland have received notice to quit or be mute. This, you will permit me to say, is at best but a very negative power, and while you stop the mouth of the volcano, you do not quench, but concentrate the fire, and notwithstanding that there are still many waiters upon Providence— many who are still content to take the crumbs which fall from the rich man's table—the truth is every day becoming more and more evident that the ranks of the repeelers are increasing—that nine-tenths of the Roman Catholics are practical patriots, and that a large body of the Orangemen, too, wish the cause to succeed, but their esprit de corps prevents them as yet from saying so ; for my part, I felt I would be doing violence to my nature, dishonour to my religion, and injustice to my country, in withholding my co-operation (humble though it may be) from the NATIONAL cause. I foreknew the consequences of my act, but could no longer stifle the expression of my conviction, when the master-spirit of our age—he whom Providence has raised up the emancipating pillar of the Irish nation—who, heaven directed, leads while he cheers his chosen people from their long captivity—was sought by legal mystification to be hidden from our view, whilst O'Connell was himself a captive, when an ominously sullen gloom overhung this land—when the last ray of hope was about to carry our faint prospects of justice to a foreign shore, to be afterwards so gloriously and unexpectedly revived there, by the voice of the immortal Denman, of whom it may be said in the language of the poet, Semper honos, nomenque tuum, laudesque manebunt.' When there was no longer in Ireland any chance of Justice to Ireland,' I came forward, but at the eleventh hour. I did not, on that account, expect an exception in my favour for so long a time, even to prove a rule, and though I could have anticipated this mark of his Lordship's displeasure by my voluntary resignation, I did not wish to commit so pusillanimous a suicide, but, relying on my constitutional right to act as I have done, I now willingly accept the intended degradation at the hands of his Lordship, and I shall rest content with the mens conscia sibi recti' to take my stand at the bur, as I am no longer considered worthy of a seat on that bench which cannot now be held by any one, but at the willing sacrifice of self-esteem and public independence. I cease to be a magistrate of this county, only to become a more determined national repealer.—l have the honour to re main your very obedient humble servant, "LUKE JOSEPH SHEA, ex-J.P., and Barrister. at-Law."