The Press.
London, England, 1854-01-14 00:00:00

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Puseyite prudes detected at their Sadleirism
must have resembled a party of monks of La
Trappe convicted of eating beefsteaks in the
dark.
Nor will any amount of their "Oxford logic"
dissever them from Sadleirism. It was the
very pivot of their policy last spring. In
Sadleirism the Duke of NEWCASTLE sunk all
his political stock. By Sadleirism the hand-
ful of Peelites obtained parliamentary num-
bers, before whom, in an evil hour fur their
fame, degenerate Whig families struck their
colours. By Sadleirism the Coalition was
floated—the sword of state placed in the
hands of an imbecile Premier—the policy of
the Czar made predominant--and the rules of
political party set at nought.
The arts by which the mediators who have
produced such important results attempt to
enter Parliament cannot be too widely known.
Failing to obtain the vote of a Dowtino,
Sadleirism menaced him with a gaol ; plotted
to seize a bond given as a security ; baffled in
doing so, set on a Roman Catholic priest to ex-
tract the bond from the reluctant fingers of its
faltering holder ; then got a spurious certificate
from a dying attorney ; marked a writ of imme-
diate execution for double the amount due ; and,
brandishing the surreptitiously-gained bond
over the head of the victimised and betrayed
Dowtnto, hauled him from the hustings into a
gaol, to prevent him from recording his suffrage
'against Sadleirism at the hall! By this act
Sadleirism would suspend the Habeas
Corpus, and afterwards turn the Court of Ex-
chequer into a Star Chamber, to suppress
the public report of its infamous enormities !
We will not in this place allude to the inci
dents of the trial further than to say that the
jury found their verdict without hesitation,
against the testimony of the disgraced ex-
Lord of the Treasury. He swore that he was
not cognisant of a conspiracy ! But why did
he not know of it? The intriguing priest gave
the bond into SADLEIR'S own hand, by his own
admission. SADLEIR gave that document, thus
disgracefully obtained, into the custody of his
partner MURROGH. SADLEIR then told MUR-
BOOR to proceed without delay against DOWLING,
and procure his arrest on the very eve of the elec-
tion. The whole of the nefarious case is mani-
pulated in SADLEIR'S office at Dublin, and in
SADLEIR'S bank at Carlow; yet SADLEIR swears
that he was ignorant of the conspiracy ! The
jury, also upon their oaths, found otherwise!
What could merely verbal evidence effect
against the strong suggestive facts coincidental
with the trial—the attempt of SADLEIR'S coun-
sel to prevent the proceedings being repo 41
—his partner MORMON not daring to ar
the witness-box—and the rest of
subordinates absent? Negative 'Acne_ .oz,
this often outweighs the mo' positive ttl,.
mony.
In the case of the wills-forgers, an
attorney was found guilty of complicity, trans-
ported, Rua afterwards allowed to return to
England. Ho applied to be restored to the
roll of attorneys, but the Court refused his
application, saying, " Though you may not
" have positively known the fact of the forge-
" ries, we think that there was shameful
" ladle* on your part. You ought to have ins-
" covered it.' And what was said then of that
ex-attorney will probably now be said of the
Duke of NEWCASTLE'S ex-Lord of the Treasury.
Nor must it be forgotten that the case of the
last election for Sligo, where Mr. ;Tenn SAD
LEIR was also the Coalition candidate, is to oome
before Parliament in a few weeks. But this
contest was only memorable for the assistance
he received from a clerical supporter who can-
vassed for him armed with a double-barrelled

gun !
Finally, let it be known that Sadlei►ism
would never have been powerful unless it had
been converted into a Peelite enterprise for
corrupting Ireland, and concocting a Coalition.
" The Carlow conspiracy" is a direct conse-
quence from the monstrous proceedings of
last year. To buy the Irish party cheap as
Brigadiers. and sell them dear as Coalitionists,
was a lucrative pursuit to those who
exaggerated the vices of Irish deniagogue.
Yet these were the men who, by the unscrupu-
lous use of a momentary opportunity, ousted
the Government of Lord DEASY, and installed
the Coalition in its stead,