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

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of Captain. The gallant officer now promoted has
commanded the Philomel, 8, slcop, on the IVet
Coast of Africa station since FobruarJ, 1850, wad was
engaged in a special mission to the head-quarters of
the King of Dahomey in the interior of Aides, and
acquired much valuable information during his
journey relative to the slave settlements and the
persons engaged in that traffic.

APPOINTMENTS.
Commander Frederick P. Warren (1852), 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 steam-frigate,
to be First Lieutenant of the Termagcnt steam-fri-
gate at Portsmouth ; Eiward H. L. Ray (1849),
serving in the Hound, 8, brig, on the West Coast of
Africa station, since November, 1849, to the Excel-
lent gunnery -ship at Portsmouth.
Mate—Louis H. V,rturtne (1850), to the Hogue
ccrew steam-ship atDevonport.

Second Master—Edward C. L. Sturt (1852), to
the Mora steamship at Sheerness.
Naval Cadet—W. Garrett to the Ajax screw steam-
ship .t Cork.
Ginner—Sepben Hayward to the Iriftxible
stcam-ship rat Poesracutb.
Carpenter—William 'EmirEton to the InfLaible.

PIRIT of the PUBLIC JO LTIZ.NAL.S.
TIMES.—In oratory, es; ecislly the oratory of self-
lsedation, Ire:and hes nevi: bete, arid, tecoreirg to
seitieeg appearance, i 3 Lever I.kely to be, deficient.
Tee national vanity ef tic French exhales in dramatic
show --that of the Irish in endless price's and giugiing
Lyrics. No nation has ever received more of tart unde-
erved praise which the proverb truly informs us is
satire in disguise. The instinct of Irish creicra liss
usually led them to draw for the topics of their perm-
gyries on bright, vague, sod dazzling anticipations of
the future, rather than on a retrospect of the unbending
and unmanageable records of the past. Five years
hence tee state of 'retell-1 mey be prosperous and glo-
rious ; five years age it was &emit to paint it in any
other colours than these of the blankest ruin and the
blackest despair. Your negative is the very test psne-
gyrist When there is little good to be said of a thieg,
one may, at any rate, assert or predict the absence of
evil. Lord Eglintoun would probably have done more
,eisely had he attended to these tirne-bonoured rules
for the future,
in his Belfast speech, and if, while launching teeth
into the boundless ocean of anticipations
ho bed left the past. of „Ireland to out- regrets; arid the
present-a our indignation. Tie time at which Lord
Eglintoun sleeks is one little calculated to elicit words
of exultetion and self-gratulation. The progiees of
Belfast, to whatever causes attributable, is doubtless a
topic en which the Viceroy of Ireland may expatiate
with reasonable pride, whether it be due to the genius
of Irishmen, to the pertinacity of lehistchuien, or, as
Lord Eglintoun suggests, to a happy union of the two.
gut the very existence of this oasis at one extremity of
Irish uesolatioe is in itself the severest censure on the
land to the condition of which it effers so striking a eon_
trust. Why, ii it has been found possible to build such
a hive of industry at Belfast, do the resources of the rent
of the island remain comparatively undeveloped? Teem-
leg with natural wealth, blest with a temperate climate,
possessing a boundless extent of waterpower, harbours
unsurpassed in the world, and unrivalled geographical
positiou, 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 by nature far Imunificently than her
own. The people, Lord "8
mull
are
rlr?
Egentoun tells us, are
quick of perception, full
thofey poor?—why genius, an
serable
thing. Why, then, d fit for every-
? ?
Thatwh Irelandare they
shouldm i-
-why are they de
be what she is, is no proot?r either
apti-
tude of her inhabitants, and that,
ratof the genius or
she can endure such gross and fulsome being
what she is,
she ad
from th© lips of her Viceroy, is no proof
even
quick-
ness of her perception. Lord F phrnotoof of the
triumphantly that Ireland is a happy attiirdi has proved
prosperous
country. He has excluded every possible cause
hof
o
failure, and we should therefore be glad
to
see how
his principles, he accounts for the fact that ehe is,d(i)s a
contented, poor, and miserable. It is not the fault of
the disposition of the people, for that we are assured is
excellent, nor of the Government, for that we are told is
Deneficent and impartial, nor of education, for thas
cannot be too highly commended. Where, then, is
that 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
en the singular infelicity with which Lord Eglintoun
refers to the opinion of the Attorney-Goneral of
James 1., that " there is no nation under the sun that
does 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
etatement 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 defeadiug their lives
from the murderous onslaught of the mob at Siamile-
bridge—a verdict which the organ of the very priests
who led the attack is obliged to disclaim as untenable?
In how many iustances have the ends of justice btea
entirely defeated by this justice.loving people in the
ury box, till it has come to be seriously questioned,
whether those institutions which entrust the people with
:he administration of the laws will ever take root in the
country, and assimilate and incorporate into themselves
he character of the nation? The Attorney-Generel of
James I. might be pardoned for so utterly mieuppre-
elating the character of a semi-barbarous and stiteoet
unknown people; but the additional experience of 250
sears should ve taught a very different lesson
o the Lord-Lieutenant of Queen Victoria.
Lord Eglintoun has shown that Ireland cannot
be poor and miserable. So far from accounting
tor the present state of things, he has triumphantly de-
,eonstrated that it does not exist. We, on the other
trend, 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
.ntroduced, and which aro used for any purpose rather
than that for which they were ordained. But even civil
discord and party spirit ate not inconsistent with the
rise of a nation, and may stimulate in some degree its
intellect and activity. The evils of Ireland are, we be-
iieve, to be traced primarily to none of these thing', 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 and 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
worthless amuse-
ments, and the labour of the poor occupied in the mys-
tery of planting and digging up a small plot of pots-
*OSS. Once having established it as a principle that
liscomfort with idleness was better
abundance procured by labour, the peasant lowered his
standard of living to a degree which rendered further
redaction impossible. How could a country fail to be
miserable when rich and poor united in the same prac-
tice of enjoying the day that passed over them. and
leaving the morrow to take care
of itself? Cspital could
not exist in a country where there were no savings.
Without capitol there could be no improvements, and
without improvements no means of support for rapidly-
increasing population. People were taughthr to ngogms to look for the cause of all this
any
mis-
governmentGo-
and Protestant as if
any religion
vornment could force the lazy to wore k. a
E cambered Es-
' make the thoughtless provident. b
the thriftless pro-
tates Commission has cleared sY
awnid pestilence have more
prietors. Emigration, famineleassatry;
and it may well
than decimated tbo indolentP
delivered from her twin-born
he that, thus in a measure
days before her. Still it would
curse, Ireland has better
Lord Eglintoun to have
have been more creditable
manfully on these subjects,
spoken out truthfully anddemagogic arts to win a little po-
than to seek by
precariousthes tenure of which the history
polarity, of the
decessors will inform him.
of any of his Pre

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ADVICE TgO.
when watering-places oßacAeTs
narEeßt.Bl2.r—onAgetd,abatteinrgioci .
is
much resorted
to, and in this healthfulof the year
and often in company,necessarily bathing dresses.
wearingreceationboth sexesaiindinugfre freely,
To a good swimmer ev. en, the dress, however light in texture,
is a serious impediment to free action, while to the ordinary
swimmer it is a dangerous clog, and in its use, by such, life
is very easily endangered. Firstly—Beware while so clothed
venturing into water deeper than necessary for the actual
purposes of swimming. Secondly—Beware of plunging into
water, the temperature of which you have not ascertained.
Thirdl—Beware of bathing in the heat of the, day, or with
you use the bathing dress, let it
the Cody
aftero
avnedra,hnleyaast meal,tel dlv}h'eonurthly—Beware of bathing imme-
diatelywhen the digestive organs are in full
in colour, or a near approach
activity ;
hfirest caution you will, in case of
beto iltighlfinytoeuxotbusreervaendthwe
accident, not be beyond the reach of the sight of any person
at the surface, even if the water be muddy. If you attend
to the second and third, your system will not be paralysed
by a sudden cold shock; if yon heed the fourth, you avoid
(the moral certainty of a contrary course) cramps and their
result, death by drowning or apoplexy. And if you heed
the last, yon, in one way, lessen your danger, as your gar-
ments will then absorb but little water ; while, at the same
time, you have the strongest chance of rescue in case of ac-
cident, as the colour of your dress will be the readiest clue to
your whereabouts, and your probable restuoitatiou.