The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-30 00:00:00

CEBAREWITCH.

40 to 1 agst Scarecrow—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Stockwell—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Rusaborough—taken

ST. LEGER.
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3 to 1 agst Daniel O'Rourke
11 to 2 agst Songstress
10 to 1 agst Harbinger—taken
20 to 1 agst Longbcw
30 to 1 agst Lapidist

FRAN CE.

The Debata has the following article on Ireland :--
" If ever Ireland should become English, it will ;be
when it shall be occupied and colonised by the English;
but so long as it shall be inhabited by the natives, le is
probable that a fusion will be impossible. This antago-
nism between the two races is nowhere shows in suc h
a striking manner as in the administration of justice.
There is no country in which assassinations are so fri e-
quent as in Ireland; but in the eyes of tae Irish to ki 11
a landlord is not a crime, because in general he is
either a Saxon or a Protestant. We lately read that in
the space of twenty years nearly thirteen thousand per-
sons had been brought to trial in Ireland, on charges
of murder, and that out of that number only 260 ceuld
he convicted. This was not owing to the facts not
being clear to every one, but because juries could not
be found to return a verdict of guilty. Either the jury-
men, therefore, morally and tacitly absolve murder, and
only regard it as an act of legitimate revenge, or they
fear, by condemning the murderers, to expose themselvele
to reprisals from secret societies. It is. moreover, know n
that, according to the English laws, juries must deliver
their verdicts unanimously, so that it is only necessary
for the prisoner to have one friendly voice for the ends of
justice to be (Heated. Murder is, therefore, in the ()yea of
Irishmen deprived of its character of moral crime; it is no
longer anything hut a political act, which is to be judged
in a political point of view. This feeling is so inherent in
them that they carry it with them into every country
the world. We have an example of this in a trial w'e
is now before the Supreme Court of the Unit€d Stetes.
An Irishman who had fired a pistol at a landlord es-
caped to America. The English Government, by virtue
of treaties, has claimed his extradition, and it is probable
that it will be granted. But what has up to the present
time delayed it is that the guilty man is an Irishman,
Those
Irishmen there are several millions of his countrymen in
America
who make corea"lnactaeurseeliwseidth, hainind.
Zah
Iriehmen have been already
qaently have a righr, of voting, and, as the presidential
election is rear, the candidates seek for Irish votes at
any price. There has been thus formed in the Unit ed
S tates a party of sympathisers in favour of the
ranuelerer claimed by England. The fact of the
or lee is not disputed; only it is - •
wished to be
coesidered as a political act,
the expressions made u.e of in or according to
b4pmseirtisca3
.as. an
. he
ice-
lated act of a long drseett which
conquest of Ireland, and in the COUfiiefitiOrioorfl itsn soil by
the conquerors.' It is this uneetireniahahle hostility
of races witch in Ireland juritis; all acts of violence
which are called agrarian crimes, and all the insurrec-
tions against the laws. During the last elections there
was a disturbance in which the soldiers, being pelted
with stoney, were obliged to fire in self-defence. An
inquest was held, and although it was clearly proved
that the soldiers did not fire until driven to the last ex-
tremity and cnly in self-defence, a number of witnesses
came forward and swore that they had fired without any
provocation, and the justice of the peace and six or eight
of the soldiers have just been committed by the Coroner
to take their trials for voluntary homicide. The
witnesses knew that if they had given any other evidence
they would have subjected themselves to the danger of
being shot. A curious example was lately given of that
free-masonary which covers Ireland with an invisible and
invincible network. A murder was committed in 'the
open day on a Sunday daring the celebration of mass.
The murderers being pursued by the police, took refuge
in the church. The chief of the police thought himself
sure of being able to recognise them as they were in their
shirt sleeves, but when he entered the church, he soon
found himself compelled to abandon his search, as all the
men had thrown off their coats; they were all in their
shirt sleeves, and jeered at the police. Ordinary justice
is impossible in such countries, and under such condi-
tions."