The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-04 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.
Commander :Frederick P. Warren (I. 85)) to be
agent in charge of the mails on the Australian line.
Lieutenants—Benjamin P. Priest (1842), at pre-
sent First Lieutenant of the Arrogant steatn-frigitt!,
to be First Lieutenant of the Termagant stesm-tri-
gate at Portsmouth ; Edward H. L. Ray (1849),.
serving in the Hound, 8, brig, on the West COBS; er
Africa station, since November, 1849, to the Excel-
lent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth.
Mate—Louis H. Vnrsturwe (1850), to the Hogue
screw steam-ship at Devonport.
Second Master—Edward C. L. Sturt (1852), to
the Magtera steam-ship at Sheerness.
Naval Cadet—W. Garrett to the Ajar screw steam-
ship at Cork. .

Gunner—Stephen Hayward to the Inflexible
steam-ship at Portsmouth.
Carpenter—William Thurston to the Inflexible.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.—In oratory, especially the oratory of self-
laudation, Ireland has never been, and, according to
existing appearance, is never likely to be, deficient.
The national vanity of the French exhales in dramatic
chows,—that of the Irish in endless periods and gingling
lyrics. No nation has ever received more of the unde-
served praise which the proverb truly informs us is
satire in disguise. The instinct of
.Irish orators has
usually led theta to draw for the topics of their pane-
gyrics on bright, vague, and dazzling anticipations of
the future, rather than on a retrospect or the unbending
and unmanageable records of the past. Five years
hence the state of Ireland may be prosperous and glo-
rious ; five years ago it was difficult to paint it in any
other colours than those of the blankest ruin and the
blackest despair. Your negative is the very best pane-
gyrist. When there is little good to be said of a thing,
one may, at any rate, assert or predict the absence of
evil. Lord Eglintoun would probably have done more
wisely had he attended to these time-honoured rules
in his Belfast speech, and if, while launching forth
into the boundless ocean of anticipations for the future,
he had left the past of Ireland to cur regrets, and the
present to our indignation. The time at which Lord
Eglintoun speaks is one little calculated to elicit words
of exultation and self-gratulation. The progress of
Belfast, to whatever causes attributable, is doubtless a
topic on which the Viceroy of Ireland may expatiate
with reasonable pride, whether it be_ due to the genius
of Irishmen, to the pertinacity ofWeotehreen, or, as
Lord Eglintoun suggests, to a happy union of the two.
But the very existence of this oasis at one extremity of
Irish desolation is in itself the severest censure on the
land to the condition of which it offers so striking a con-
trast. Why, if it has been found possible to build such
a hive of industry at Belfast, do the resources of the rest
of the island remain comparatively undeveloped? Teem-
ing with natural wealth, blest with a temperate climate,
possessing a boundless extent of water-power, harbours
unsurpassed in the world, and unrivalled geographical
positiots, Ireland is unable to support her population,
unable to develope her natural resources, repels the
capital which would willingly find investment with her,
and casts forth her people to cultivate other lands en-
dowed
of
fhe
by nature far less munificently than her
people, Lord Eglintoun tells us, are
t hing.
Why,percetphtei perception,
are full
they of genius,poor hd v fitr
ire they
eeyvemryi-.
mi-
serable?--why are they depressed? That should
be what she is, is no proof either or the genius or Wi-
sfrheeracatnheenhdpusroefshucerh
vgirnoesrsosi,a
tude of her inhabitants, duodirstdh fulsomena that, being
pr o
t.
owf adulation,htah teshueeivcieksn:
triumphantly that Ireland is a hEg
uess of her perception.Eglintoun has proved
country. He has excluded every possible
and prot,perous
glad
cause of
failure, and we should therefore bryg ad to see how, on
his principles, he accounts for theletfaicst that she is dis-
Weho,trethe fault of
dis-
contented, poor, and miserable.
as,srsen
tolded I
is
the disposition of the people, for that
Excellent, nor of the Government, for that we
beneficent and impartial, nor of education, for than
cannot be too highly commended. Where, then, is
.hat latent element of evil which turns all this sweet-
ness into gall, this prosperity into adversity, this hope
into despair? We will ourselves attempt to solve
this problem, but before we do so we must remark
on the singular infelicity with which Lord Eglintoun
refers to the opinion of the Attorney-General of
James L, that " there is no nation under the sun that
loco love equal and indifferent justice better than the
Irish, or will rest better satisfied with the execution
thereof." What honest Irishman could hear such a
statement without a blush, when made by the head of
the Government which has recently been called upon by
a coroner's jury to prosecute for wilful murder the
soldiers of the 31st Regiment for defending their lives
from the murderous onslaught of the mob at Sixmile-
bridge—a verdict which the organ of the very priests
.vho led the attack is obliged to disclaim as untenable?
In bow many instances have the ends of justice been
,rfitirely defeated by this justice-loving people in the
jury box, till it has come to be seriously questioned
whither those institutions which entrust the people with
the administration of the laws will ever take root in the
country, and assimilate and incorporate into themselves
the cheracter of the nation? The Attorney-General of
James I. might be pardoned for so utterly mi.:appre-
ciating the character of a semi barbarous and almost
unknown people; but the additional experience of 250
years should have taught a very different lesson
to the Lord-Lieutenant of Queen Victoria.
Lord Eglintoun has shown that Ireland cannot
be poor and miserable. So far from accounting
for the present state of things, he has triumpheutly de-
monstrated that it does not exist. We, on the other
hand, believing that Ireland is poor and miserable, have
sought and found a cause which may account for it.
There is much bigotry in Ireland, but bigoted and priest-
ridden countries have elsewhere been able to turn their
natural resources to account and support their population
in comfort. There is much discord in Ireland, aggra-
vated probably by the free institutions which we have
introduced, and which are used for any purpose rather
than that for which they were ordained. But even ei%il
discord and party spirit are not inconsistent with the
rise of a nation, and may stimulate in seine degree its
intellect and activity. The evils of Ireland are, we be-
lieve, to bo traced primarily to none of these things, but
to the reckless spirit which till lately animated the lauded
proprietors, who dragged down their country into the
same vortex of ruin as themselves, and to the listless in-
dolence which so strikingly characterizes the lower orders.
To live arid to multiply with the least possible labour on
the most precarious subsistence possible has been their
only idea of industry and forethought. The capital of the
rich has been squandered in frivolous and worth less amuse-
ments, and the labour of the poor occupied in the my:.•
tery of planting and digging up a small plot of pota-
toes. Once having established it as a principle that
discomfort with idleness was better than cleanliness and
abundance procured by labour, the peasant lowered his
standard of living
to a degree which rendered further
reduction impossiiee, pow d
miserable when rich and poor
c ouut
it e ad
icoo uthe
r any
afros i
pl torabee-
Lice of enjoying the day that passed over them. and
leaving the morrow to take care of itself?
not exist in a country where there were no savings.
Capital could
Without capitul there could be no improvements,
without improvements no means of suet:,
iliere'"inte, population. People were taughtliieyt to mis-
government to look for the cause of all this tntsse-.,
any
Go-
ors fort, rageidmlye:
governnaent and Protestant ascendeDshora
saysl religion
vornment could force the lazy to work.
Tee Encumbered Es-
make the thoughtless provieente.way
the
thrift,_
Leta pro-
tates Commission has cleared
and pestilence Hess more
prioters. Emigration,
'easantry; and it may well
be that, thus in a measurdeays
than decimated the indoflemndti
enlPeivered from her twin-born
before her. Still it would
curse, Ireland has better Lord Eglintoun to have
manfully on these subjects,
e demagogic arts to win a little po-
than to seek by the° •0113 tenure of which the history
spoken
ebue
oaten mtorraet
hcfreeldiyiisan
PreCari s will inform him.
of any of his Pularith °f ihne edecessor

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ADVICE TO BATIIERS.-At a period otifchthreeslrteaerd
when watering-places are thronged, bathing
to, and in this healthful recreation both indulgesexebissatinbing
dresse.
and often in company, wearing necessarily
To a good swimmer even, the dress, however‘,„,-
while to tha ordinary
light in texture,
is a serious impediment to free actio,tit its
use, by
such, life
swimmer it is a dangerous clog,lan 1 in
is very easily endangered. Firbsatny—
necessary for the
into
Beware w bile so clothed
venturing into water deeper
otriely_
Beware of plunging into
purposes of swimming. e:,hich you have not ascertained.
water, the temperature or.
the heat of the day, or with
___eware of bathing imme-
when the digestive organs are in full
diately after any
lastly,n'" when you use the bathing dress, let it
Thheirbdol•Yly—oßveewriaieracteodf.b:Volunghinly
activity; and, ;nd white in colour, or a near approach
be light in texturerve
the first caution you will, in case of
to it. If you observe
beyond the reach of the sight of any person
nif the water be muddy. If you attend
third, your system will not be paralysed
to the second
andaactctihdeenstu,rnfaoctrb,eevee
cold shock; if you heed the fourth,
Incertainty of a contrary course) cramps and their
(the more you avoid
death by
drowning or apoplexy. And if you heed
result,as your gar-
by a sudden
last, you, in way,
one lessen your danger,
the
willwhile, at the same
then absorb but little water;
gar-
ments h t
rescue in case of ac-
cident, as the colour of your dress will be the readiest
your whereabouts, and your probable resuscitation.