The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-06 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.— The Belfast Mercury, a
thoroughly Liberal journal, in the course of some re-
marks, deprecating the interference of the Roman Ca-
tholic clergy at the late elections, points to ether parties
who were by no means free from blame upon the same
score:—

If we are called," says the Mercury, " to notice in
errs of condemnation the political interference of the
priests in other parts of Ireland, let us not overlook the
tact that wo have had some of our clergymen in the
north enacting no inconsiderable part in the struggle
through which we have passed. Let us not forget, that
we have had appeals, again and again, to Presbyterian
feeling and Presbyterian prejudice; and, if rev. men,
who have been active in the electioneering contest, exer-
cised their spiritual influence less than their Roman
Catholic brethren in the south, we will perhaps not err
very much in supposing that this may be safely at-
tributed to the fact, that their powers are more cir-
cumscribed. We have all heard or read of the exhibi-
tion of Dr. Cooke, the paid distributor of the Royal
largess among his brethren, and the endowed lecturer
upon that new science invented for his peculiar
advantage, and called by the name of "Sacred
Rhetoric' that exhibition which the well-pen-
sioned divine made, when ho was brought forward, on
the occasion of the late election for Antrim, and when
he perverted the hustings into a sectarian platform, stir-
ring up the passions of his auditors. If the bolts which
that meek apostle hurls are less dreaded than those of
the thundering Jupiter of Team, the fault is not his.
If the lightnings of his wrath are less blighting than
those of Dr. M'Hale, his weakness, not his will, is the
cause; and if he does not carry his terrors so freely into
the next world, it is not assuredly from any disinclina-
tion to play the spiritual ruler to the uttermost. But,
he does all he can; and even when there was no oppo-
sition, and appeals to sectarian animosity and factious
rancour were quite needless for any purpose in hand, the
political divine did not the less indulge his sectarian and
party feelings. Such performances, no matter on what
aide they appear, were better dispensed with; and, it
, People protest against the doings of one set of clergy-
men, they should be careful not to overlook similar con-
ductbetter for the
aon the part of another. We have had too many
Ritatingincoaleregrymen in the north, and the sooner they
learn to
There are few impartial more to their ate their ardour and confine themselves
appropriate duties, so much the
mseellvvbes and so much the better for the
country."
ohes, which organ of the Roman Catt3ad'e by
to dispute the truth
remarkable admission is the foregoing; but a much more
Poafrtial persons who would venture
who,
regard„ the position of the poor
states the case as fear-
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tY3 4 Privy Council. Hear
the Cork Reporter—
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doing as he thinks
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he has the power of e
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, You 11 vote or e on. Mr. Noodle
says the landlord,
for that p
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month.' ' Tim,' says
the priest, 'lf you sell yourvote u-
tor Noodle the sworn e Soul to the d---1, and
nemy of God and
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THE HOROS-T---f rat; PRESIDENT
OF FRANCE, AS COMPUTED BY G. T.
F. SMITH, OF CHELTENHAM.
(From the Cheltenham Free Press, April 17, 1852 )
The time of birth of the great Dictator has been
obtained from Paris,
and said to be near one of the
clock A.M. on the morning of the 20th of April, at
Paris ; and upon comparing the several dates with
the more remarkable events of his life that have
transpired, confirms me in the opinion of such time
and date being correct, from the Strasburg invasion
to the attack on Boulogne, when he was sentenced to
imprisonment for life in August, 1840; his escape
from thence, in 1846; down to the period of his
coup d'ettit, the whole of which are in faithful coinci-
dence with the several directions productive of those
results. It is not my intention to enter into any ex-
planatory allusions relative to either the mental or
physical constitutions of this personage, since his own
deeds proclaim the former. It will be sufficient for
my purpose to observe upon the directional motion
obtaining in
this horoscope, in order to illustrate the
more remarkable periods of his future destiny, and
although be wields a giant's power, attained by ty •
ranny and oppression, that he has crushed the national
spirit of an enlightened people, and banished the
talented of the earth, that freedom shrieked under
the expiring agonies of those brave defenders, and
that he is trampling his way to a throne over the
ruins and desolate homes of France ; with all these
to boot, the time of retribution will come, for male-
volence can have but its day and history its page of
gloom and sorrow.
Science enables us to point with the index of truth
to the consummation of these several changes in the
chapter of life. It has been observed " that some
may urge it is impious in man to endeavour to scan
those causes end effects, but it is obvious the Creator
governs Mrttl with reference to the faculties bestowed
upon him."
The first approximating period in the history of L.
Napoleon that I shall notice will be that of 1853,
during the Spring aced Summer of which new honours
and distinctions will be conferred upon him, when he
will obtain the summit of his ambitious bound—
when the blandishments of court sycophancy and
congratulations will crowd upon his self-proclaimed
dignities, all will be sunshine and " Merry as a mar•
riage bell." So much for his prosperous directions
in the year 1853, from spring to summer, but mark
the Contrast that immediately succeeds in the year
1854, from spring to the autumn.
1854.—From spring of 1854 to the autumn his
life will be in imminent peril, indeed I cannot explain
the consequences more appropriate than is conveyed
in the beautiful lines of the poet Cowper, as appli-
cable to nations :
The hand that slew till it could slay no more,
Was glued to the sword hilt with Frenchmen's* gore;
God stood not, though He seemed to stand aloof,
And at this hour the conqueror feels the proof:
The wealth he won drew down an instant curse,
The fretting plague is on the public purse,
The cankersd spoil corrodes the pining state,
S saved by the indolence their minds create.
Oh! could their great Napoleon rise again,
How would they take up the taunting strain!
Art thou fallen, and do we see
The robber end the murderer weak as we?
Thou that has wasted Earth, and dared despise
Alike the wrath and mercy of the skies.
Thy pump is in the grave, thy glory laid
Low in the pits thine avarice has mlcle.
We come with joy to observe the test,
To see the oppressor in his turn oppress'd.
Art thou the God, the thunder cf whose hand
principalities and kingdoms
1-lolled over all our desolated land,
She down,
And made the mountains tremble at his frown?
The sword shall light upon thy boasted powers,
And waste them as the sword has wasted ours.
'Tis thus Omnipotence Ills law fulfils,
And vengance executes what justice wills.
spring 07 summer in the year
Near 1854 the posi-
tion of this President of France will assimilate closely
with all those lines import; therefore it, is unneces-
sary to offer any further remarks. Such are the
fleeting ch snges coincident with worldly grandeur ;
violence awaits him at the appointed hour, when all
h
isNsTriettpelnete with signs of violence, and
will be moving side by side
wthiisatt is nativity
eivecirtoeyrresponding events of his life which time
will clearly reveal.

Cheltenham, April 14, 1852.
* Substituted for" Indian."

G. T. F. Saline's
B.
PREDICTIONS.
, The following is a short
The recent triumph of the - *
Hon. C. F. Berkeley
over his opponent, Sir W. Jon
was predicted by
G. T. F. Smith, from the es'
horoscope of Mr. Berke-
ley, and backed to any amount; the result of the
Town Bill, predicted from the ho i
Williams, Esq., the
Pr.;
itneipal
solicroscope of G. E.
or for the Bill;
the result of the election of coroner for the county,
predicted from the horoscopes of the respective can-
didates' Mr. Septimui pr
Pruen and Mr. Lovegrove,
first—the election for Pruen, secondly the trial that
terminated in favour of Mr. Lovegrove, predicted
twelve months prior to the contest coming on; the
success and non•success of Mr. Berkeley, truthfully
contest, M
predicted in each period of Ministerial ui Re-
signatien9, and Parliamentary Dissolutions, since the
year 1835, (published years prior to their occur-
rence), to the dissolution of Parliament in the year
1852, founded on the directions operating in her Ma-
jesty's horoscope, foregoin-
g events—both nationally
and locally—forming a series of uninterrupted
facts
have all been categorically predicted, and serve to
show the ascendancy of science in connexion with
human destiny. I court test and inquiry, and chal-
lenge refutation in the instance of any important
event that is known or understood to come off at any
given time, if the date of birth of the principal con"
corned be submitted, the result shall be anticipated.
Having predicted every Ministerial Resignation or
disruption during the last 17 years, connected With
England, from the horoscopes of William I.V.
and
Victoria, I intend publishing those of the ensuing 14
years (as a given time) of her present Majesty's
reign.
The President's horoscope, of France, dated from
the official dispatch, points unerringly to further ,
ag-
grandizement in the year 1853, from spring to sum-
mer, and his disastrous position in the spring or near
summer of 1854, as previously published in the
Cheltenham Free Press. If the circumstances enu.
merated when taken collectively and consecutively
be considered, supported as they are by incontrover-
tible testimony, it requires only a modicum of corn•
mon sense to determine upon the utility, either in
private or public life, to which the time-honoured
science of astrology is conducive, provided the per-
ceptive faculties of the student harmonise with this
Peculiar branch of natural philosophy..
G. T. F. SMITH'.

ANOTHER CUTTING OF THE ELEC.
TRIC CABLE.
Numerous statements respecting the operations of the
Electric Telegraph Company of Ireland, in their at-
tempts to lay a cable across the Irish Channel, between
Portpatrick and D ineghadee, have been of late going
the rounds of the English and Irish metropolitan and
local newspapers. Those accounts, however, were of
such a nature that we paid little attention to them; but
what we now relate we beg they will credit in earnest,
and let them hereafter publish their accounts of this
undertaking on reliable authority. On last Friday night
a schooner belonging to Larne, and bound to that port,
anchored to the south of the Copelands to wait the tide,
which here sets in with a very strong current. On Sa-
turday morning, while hauling iu his kedge anchor, the
commander found he had caught something heavy, which,
on being brought on deck, appeared to him to be a four-
inch hempen hawser. His crow hauled both ways, but
not coming to an end, they cut the rope, and pulled
away seaward until they bad on board about 400 yards
of what they considered a fine new rope cable. They
then cut it a second time, ke-ping
the bight on board;
and setting to work afresh, they hauled in seventy-two
yards more, still sithout arriving at the end of the rope.
The captain cut through a third time, and, with his
supposed hempen
Mind in the OQUNO of Wad* ID "Canitillieilted
prize bore away for Larne, where he

gregation,' Tim has a fearful consciousness of what it
is to be a helpless outcast, with a wretched family and
no roof above them; and Tim knows quite as bitterly
what it is to be an example' to the congregation, and
curses, in his inmost seal, the hour that gave him a free-
man's privilege, in a land in which he dares not act a
freeman's part. His is, indeed, a dread alternative; but
he must choose, and when the day at last arrives he
ivprobability for God and hii country,' send-
emore imposter into the House of Commons, and
consigning himself and his miserable family to the slow
extinction of the workhowe. Hs may do otherwise.
The dread of hie fate Way be too strong upon him. But
he will run a serious risk, and will, moreover, in 19
oases out of 20, have the bitter feeling superadded to
his misery, that he did not abuse his franchise to shield
nconsigningning all
one
g
himself and family from ruin."
THE BISHOP OF LONDON_. Tho Right Rev. Dr. Blom.
field is expected to arrive on a visit to the Irish Lord
PeM
m ace, Armagh, on the 13:11 of the pre-
THE WEATHER.—Yesterday, between two and three
o'cloek P.M., the city was vethed by a storm of thunder
and lightning, accompanied by torrents of rain, which
srni
tma toe, n t at
the P
lasted for ahem three-quarters of an hour, after which
the weather cleared uee and the rest of the evening,
atmosphere seeming to have been
though somewhat broken, was pleasant and genial, the
the storm of the afternoon. The
thunder cameos om
greatly urifi by
the north-west, and pissing
directly over the city, pro-
ceeded in a Southerly course. Two of the
pals were
terrifically loud, and the flashes of the lightning more
than ordinarily vivid. This morning is extremely tine,
with a cool refreshing breezy Weaving from the west. Serious fears, however, are entertained with respect to
the effects of the lightning upon the potato crop; but as
yet it is not known to what extent, if any, it has se'
fered from the electricity. A letter from Coleraine, in
the county of Antrim, says--
ge.ari y
We have
" The blight on the potato crop has become very ge-
nem', consequently the farmers are disposed to part with
th 3
The grain crop looks remarkably pro-
-1
misands, which has reduced the price to 3d. to
every prospect of an early and abun-
dant harvest.
4.eiiprner stone,