The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-15 00:00:00

" IRISH IN AMERICA.

" Despised by the Americans ; themselves despising the
blacks ; with their bellies full for the first time in their
lives ; insolent in their looks; extortionate in their de-
mands; oaths in their mouths ; free from all restraint of
neighbourhood or parish priest; beggars upon horseback,
they ride full tilt to ... Enough for the present. I would
commit them to their clergy and the treadmill."
To take the taste of these bitter words out of
our memory, let us listen to-our author's ecstatic
mention of his first Sherry Cobbler :
" I met Captain Parsons in the street, and he took me
into a little shop, hung with white and pink glazed calico,
and in the centre of which was a clean counter and half a
dozen bottles of wine or spirit, and insisted upon treating
me to my first glass of American liquor. What would I
have ? Sherry cobler," mint j ulip,' Or a ' brandy smasher,'
—or any of half a dozen other delicacies which he named
I chose the far-famed sherry cobler, and curiously watched
the lad behind the counter squeeze a little lemon into a
large tumbler full of small lumps of bright, transparent
ice ; lay over them one or two bits of lemon peel (perhaps
a dusting of spice, I am not certain now), cover the whole
over with pounded white sugar, and then pour about a
wine-glassful of sherry over all. He handed it
to me with a glass tube about eight inches long.
I was shown how to push this among the lumps of
ice to the bottom, and to suck up through it the liquor
there. I did so. The day was excessively hot, and I was
fatigued by my walk and by wy exertions in fighting shy
of Mr. Beebee's coal mine. I sucked it up to the last drop.
Then, turning to Captain Parsons, I exclaimed, It is
worth a voyage to New York to enjoy that r "
We question whether any subsequent draught
of the same delicious beverage could prove compa-
rable to that first nectarian tumbler—under which
impression, will Mr. Beste forgive us for hinting
to him, very execrably, that his aptest motto for
the nonce might have been ne sutor ultra crepidam!
It is pleasant to find the travelled Englishman
paying the following wholesome tribute at once to
the habits and customs of the United. States' men,
where he observes of them :

" Americans are cleaner in their linen and clothes than
Europeans ; and though their sentiments of independence
and common citizenship give them a manner and
tone of equality, yet they also give them a sentiment of
self-respect which prevents them doing what would lower
thorn in public opinion."

There is one descriptive extract we must per-
force add to those already transferred to our
columns, the extract nobly and impressively de-
scriptive, descriptive in a reverent spirit, in a spirit
at once lofty and humble, of the mightiest of the
many mighty wonders of the New World, namely,
of

" THE FALLS OF NIAGARA.

" The Great Horseshoe Fall was close before us.
" Nearer—nearer came the waters.
" Majestic, in the majesty with which they had reco-
vered themselves after tho hurrying. and chafing of the
rapids on this the Canadian side, on—on they come ;
peaceful, though rapid, river. The channel is here about
half-a-mile broad ; and onwards--onwards came the ever-
flow of half the fresh waters on the globe. A rapid and
peaceful river, on they come. Suddenly the earth, the
solid rock-bed, fails beneath them. They spring forwards
unsupported. The sun glances through them ; and they
gleam with hues more than any emerald bright. For a
moment they gleam ; and then down—down—down they
go. A cauldron of froth and spray receives them. Clouds
of white foam uprise from the rock-girt pit below, and hide
whither they aro gone, and what has become of them, But
therciagain—lower down still—one hundred and sixty feet
below the ledge from which they had sprung; there again
they emerge from the foam-clouds ; dark blue, almost
angry black, though breaking occasionally into short,
flashing waves—on they go indignant, on they
hurry, they roll, they race from the scene of their discom-
fiture. They dig themselves a channel three hundred feet
deep below their own surface ; and onwards, in that wild
but narrow ravine, between those close overhanging rocks,
onwards they hurry, they roll, they race from the scene of
their diecomdturo.
" But is it all over ? No ' • not so. Look above. There
where yo marked them first come on majestically slow ;
there where the rock-bed, cut away in the centre in the
shape of a segment of a circle, or of a horse-shoe, fails
beneath them ; there where transparent, emerald-green,
they leapt from the pre,Apice and fell down—down into
the foam-cauldron below ; there onwards, onwards still
they come in their majesty ; there they leap ; there they
fall. A sentiment of infinitude, of eternity, oppresses the
mind. Onwards they ever come ; down, down they ever
fall. So have they done since the world was made; so
will they continue to do while the world endures.
The voice of the Lord is upon the waters ; the
God of majesty speaking in the thunder; tho earth
trembled and shook : the Lord ruleth the floods : the
Lord is king for ever.'"

Another passage, a passage of considerably larger
importance, we gladly append to the foregoing, ex-
pressive as it is of the liberality with which
iLornan Catholics of real enlightenment can talk
and think upon the subject of religion, remember-
as they do so, the all-embracing tenderness of
true Christianity. It were well for the subjoined
quotations from " The Wabash" to be conned alike,
and that meditatively, by Exeter-hallites and by
Ultramontanists.
" The Catholic religion," writes Mr. Baste, " was mak-
ing immense progress in the state of Ohio. About one-
half of the population of Cincinnati is Catholic. Besides
the twelve Catholic churches in the town, seven others
were in its immediate vicinity ; and the religion seemed to
be going a-head quite as much as everything else in the
country. 'rho archbishop himself being an American, and
a man of business and of zeal tempered by prudence and
liberality, was highly spoken of by all the people of the
state, and they seemed to be proud of him as a country-
man. His reverend brother partakes his views, and admir-
ably seconds them.
" For however timidly the Catholic hierarchy in Europe
may have allied itself to civil governments, and have al-
lowed itself to be considered the upholder of despotism and
the foe to progress, Catholics in America are able to de-
clare, as M. de Montalembert has declared in Franco, that
there is nothing in the spirit of their religion opposed to
the spirit of freedom ; that the fullest civil rights may be
asserted and exorcised by the most devotional mind ; and
that religion and temporal politics are quite independent
the one of the other. In the United States of America
all religions have a fair field and no favour ; and Catholics
there ask for nothing more. Where no man is taxed to
support what he believes to bo another man's error, reli-
gious charity only can lead ono man to interest himself in
the religious opinions of another man. The fire of religious
discord must lack fuel where no religion can boast of state
patronage. Nations and bodies of men do not quarrel or
fight to get to heaven, but for the loaves and fishes to be
eaten on the road, or for the full liberty of going thither
by whichever road they fancy - - or elsewhere. The
political principles of the United States are in accordance
with these convictions ; and amid such the Catholic faith
s
pro„pers.
Lot the gods avenge their own wrongs,' wisely
said Tiberius.
" Let each one mind his own affairs and pay for his
own priest and doctor if he wants one,' says the
.states-
man
Agreed,' says the religionist—` I agree that the State
shall look upon us as citizens only ; that it shall have no
right to inquire, and shall not inquire, what are cur indi-
vidual opinions, or whether we believe ourselves even to
have souls or not • but I myself do believe in ono parti-
cular religion, and I think it nay duty to try and persuade
others to believe it also.
" Practise, teach, preach whatever you like,' reiterates
the statesman—' I, as a statesman, am not particularly in-
spired to know whether your opinions are right or wrong ;
and as a statesman merely I do not care. It is no affair
of mine—provided only that you do not disturb the public
I shall come down upon you all alike.'
peace. If you do,
I " Hurrah, for liberty of conscience !' cries the citizen.
" Magna est veritas et prevalebit—truth is great and
it will prevail !' ejaculates the religionist.
" And, if it is not true, it ought not to prevail,' con-
cludes the philosopher.' "
Having encountered the celebrated Father Theo-
bald Mathew at Cincinnatti, our author gives an
account of the appearance presented to him by the
venerable Apostle of Temperance. The account is
rather painful than other rise, indicating, as it

WHITECHATEL.
Beef; 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; lamb,
4s 6d to 5s 8d ; veal, 3s 8d to 48 8d; pork, 3s 6d to 48 6d
per 81bs. by the carcase.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Aug. 11—Wind this day at noon, W.N.W.;
light, with dull sultry weather.

(PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived—Trefusis, from Middlesbro'; Cruiser, sea ;
Love, London.
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived —Chase, from Havana ; Empire State, New
York ; Inkerman, Quebec.
Off—Amour, for Quebec.
Sailed—Sarawak, for Philadelphia.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 13.
Wind, W.S.W.
Arrived—Primus, from Leghorn.

tide last hour's ebb ; weather fine.
(BY SUBMARINE AND Emma TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10.35 a.m.
Arrived, Aug. 15—Seine, from Boulogne; Louise,
Stralsund; Airdrie, Danzig.
WArirnivd;dlC, .A.W.u.g;. 14—Hawk, from memo.
DEAL, Wednesday, 10.16 a.m.
Wind, N.N.W., moderate.
Anchored—Benjamin Buck Green, from Mauritius, for
Loudon; brig Stratton, westward, for London.