The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-27 00:00:00

NUMBERS OF OUTRAGES COMMITTED IN TUE TEARS

11832. 1833. 1834. 1835. 1836.
Homicide
Firing at persons 211 130 105 8.3 78
Burning
Levelling
Attacks on houses 2122
.1446 923 818 518
Demand of arms
Administering oaths
Illegal notices
Total 6374 4020 13091 2945 12185

'Jere we see a progressive diminution from 6,000 to
2,000, upon the number of those characteristic offences
which have such a baneful influence upon the prospe-
rity of Ireland, which render property so insecure—
peace so precarious. That the bulk of Irish crime is
to be attributed to the Catholics, " amongst whom,"
in the language of Burke, " as being by far the most
numerous and the most wretched, all sorts of offenders
against the laws must commonly be found," is a disco-
very that reflects the highest honour on the sagacity
of the Standard. Our Contemporary's discoveries,
however, it is but justice to admit, are rarely of this
simple character. We have a striking instance of his
higher powers in the argument which he advances
against the Reform of the Irish Church, founded upon
that very moral inferiority to which the maintenance
of that Establishment in its present grievous magni-
tude and splendour has been mainly instrumental in
reducing the country.—Morning Chronicle.
The Whig-Radical functionaries connected with the
administration of justice in Ireland, acting in com-
pliance with the wishes of their patrons, are exceed-
ingly anxious to make it be believed that crime is in a
state of rapid decrease in Ireland, and that the country
is in a position of astonishing tranquillity. Anything
like a state of tranquillity in that country, we admit,
would be very astonishing, but, unfortunately for the
credit of Whig-Radical statements " facts are stubborn
things," and while the statements of tranquillity are on
one side, the facts are on the other. Ile evening
organ of the Ministry has lately employed itself in
quoting the most assuring passages of " tranquillity"
from the addresses and charges of Whig-Radical
functionaries ; and, if the facts of the case could be
kept out of view, such assurances would, no doubt, be
very satisfactory. Even the atrocious murders of
Allen and Finn, and the all-but murder of Macken-
zie, in the " peaceable" county of Sligo, on account
of their votes at the election, would have been hushed
up and most religiously concealed from the eyes of the
British public, if the Popish and Whig-radical journals
were the only records of the current history of Ireland.
But " murder, though it has no tongue, will speak
with most miraculous organ ;" and so those murders
found same organ of communication to make them
known to the public. Even then the Ministerial
journals abstained from noticing them as long as they
could, for such facts formed a very sad and unhappy
commentary upon the text of " tranquillity." " The
provincial journals," says the Dublin Evening Mail,
" from every part of the country, bear evidence of
the unruly and turbulent disposition of the peasantry.
The papers received since cur last publication, ex:mots
from which, as well as from the Gazette, we shall
subjoin—exhibit Tipperary and Limerick, in Mun-
ster ; Kilkenny, Wexford, Louth, and Meath, in
Lcinstcr ; and Armagh, in Ulster, as in a state of tur-
bulence, more or less violent—but all in diametric op-
posiition to the idea of .‘ tranquillity.' Longford and
Sligo not heirg included in our cataloilue to-day, we
811;111 not summon them or any part of Ireland, save
what appears on the face of our record in testimony
of th% -national unruliness." Here follows an extract :

From the Dubin Gazette.)
" October 18, 1837.—0 n the 11th ult-, at about three
o'clock p.m., a lime-kiln on Rehill mountain, in the parish
of Whitechurch, and county of Tipperary, the property
of the Earl of Glcngall, was partly thrown down by four
persons, and several stones taken out of the arch, four
shots having been previously discharged at the keeper--
thirty pounds," &c.

" October 19, 1837.—0 n the 12th instant a bailiff went
to the house of a man in Coolekenoa, in the district of
Newtown-Hamilton, county of Armagh, for the purpose
of executing a decree, and while there he was attacked by
two strangers, and violently abused, and in the same dis-
trict a man named Michael Canagher took an active
pert in rescuing cattle from the said bailiff, previously
seized under a decree from an assistant barrister—thirty
pounds," &c.

The following proof of " tranquillity" is from the
Limerick Chronicle :

"Daniel Nlolony, upon whom and his brother we de-
scribed the savage attack made last week by a party of
ruffians near Loughmore, has since died of his wounds. It
does not appear that any of the murderers arc known."
But the wonderful proofs of tranquillity afforded by
the Kilkoznq Moderator are the best of all. We give
the proofs in the words of that journal :
.‘ Tit ANQUILLITY.—TE XT AND COMNIENT.—TEXT•—
We were delighted beyond measure when attending the
Court of Quarter Sessions yesterday, to have heard from
the Bench, by the mouth of the Chairman, a warm eulo-
gime. on the peaceable disposit;on of the population of the
county of Kilkenny. Hid -Worship beautifully contrasted
their present perfect amenability to the laws with their
,ioulpast.tturhulence. Oh,' thought we,
this is just as it
he ; t'ne Sovereignty of the law is at last about to be
acknowledged, and the county of Kilkenny, at least, forms
eligltftadu exception to the gloomy aspect of the south of
;llonu e oasis in the ``desert.'
COMMENT --BUt on leaving the Court-house our dream
of social happi:iess was not a little interrupted, by learning.
that atis p::aceful county did, no later thanur
obedi(!•pour tice to a well-circulated requisition, forth yesterday,
itsln
hundreds of horse and thousands of foot to stop a tithe sale
it Thurles, and from Callan to Presider(' and Johnstown,
and the adjavnt neighbourhood, has to congratulate itself
in being able to add this additional laurel to its former tro-
tthies, over the prostrate laws of the land. The property
;eized, in order to satisfy the lawful creditor, was surren
dered up without resistance to the persons on whom the
seizure had been made."

The Irish philosopher, who promulgated the doc-
trine, that the most effective wad• to subdue one's pas-
sions was to yield to them, seems to have been the
Gamaliel at whose feet Lord Mulgravc and her Ma-
jesty's Ministers learned the secret of producing " tran-
quillity" in Ireland. They have learned that the most
effective mode of subduing the passions of the people
is to allow them peaceably to trample upon the law.

By so doing, much cause of irritation to the popular
mind is avoided, and) if the same principle be applied
to the opere.tiiins of the " swell mob," all violent hust-
Hoz; Vummelling, and semi-strangulation of the per-
sons who tempt them to evil by the airying about
watches, purses) retitlites, and pocket handerchiefs,
will 1-4 e fet4ered unnecessary. Let the victims be
csl.lhinissive and the law prostrate, and the gentle-
men of the swell mob, whti have; like the agrarian
legislators of Jtelaml, peculiar notions ioperty,
•
will be atabled to eeitiS'o their ingenuity without
hurry, violence-, tip tnn't'usion, and in the most traramil
manner possible. It is true Protestant tleigymen may
ftt.'ive because the law whi;ll gives the landlord rent
has given thew t. 3 oth:r provision than tithe, and the
tram-liar anti-tithe conspirators rob them of that.
• But what is the starvation of a few thousand Protest-
ant clergymen compared with the securing of that
" tranquillity" which Inflows from the prestention _
the /cry beneath the feet of the multitude? The
maintaining of the law agAinst those who called in
large bodies to violate it, might exasperate the people,
and probably drive them to more violence than if they
arc allowed to have their own way. Passive resist-
ance might be-converted into active resistance, and the
" tranquillity" of unopposed depredation might be.
driven from the land. We cannot but admit the force
of this mode of reasoning, which is no doubt the
logic that has enlightened Lord Mulgrave and her
Majesty's Ministers as to the best mode of governing
Ireland.—Morning Herald.
The Irish Election Petition Fund, of which the ob-
ject is, and the effect will probably be, to purge the
House of Commons of a considerable number of per-
sons believed to be seated there by means of intimi-
dation, fraud, and perjury, is a tremendous evil in the
estimation of our Ministerial contemporaries. For
the purpose of stigniatWng the subscriber@ to this
excellent and formidable institution—excellent pre-
cisely in the degree in which it is formidable—
nothing is too little, nothing too much, nothing too
mean, and nothing too intrepid for our Ministerial
and O'Connellist Contemporaries to do or to attempt.
Their great cheval de bataille is the real or sup-
posed imperfection of the tribunals by which the
validity of disputed returns is tried, and for
the improvement of which tribunal neither they
nor any other persons have yet suggested a feasi-
ble or practicable scheme. The plain truth is, that
the partisans of the O'Connell Ministry would not
be satisfied with any tribunal which did not encou-
rage the exploits, and protect the conquests, of inti-
midation, fraud, and perjury at Irish elections.
Without contending that the Election Committees of
the House of Commons are always impartial, imma-
culate, and infallible, we must take leave to deride and
to despise the argument of the Ministerial and
O'Connell partisans, which implies, if it have any
meaning, that until some better tribunal for the trial
of disputed returns be provided the composition of
that branch of the Legislature, so far as Ireland con-
tributes to it, shall be wholly at the mercy of dishonest
Returning Officers, perjured voters, domineering
Priests, and murderous mobs. If the tribunal be not
as perfect as may be desired, why have not Mr.
O'Connell's friends, during a seven years' possession
of power, attempted its amendment ? Why has he,
possessing, during an equal period, the ear of the Le-
gislature, suggested no remedy for the evil ? And
this having been neglected, can anything more impudent
and profligate be imagined than the pretence now set up
by the partisans of the Ministry and its great patron, that
fraud, perjury, and intimidation employed on their
behalf to vitiate and degrade the composition of the
representative branch of the Legislature, shall be ex-
empted from all chance of check, impediment or re-
buke ? A Ministerial evening paper of last night im-
poses upon its readers a • foolish story, borrowed from
the Dublin Evening Post, about an incident at the
registration for the county of Longford, in order, first,
to discredit the Election Committees of the House of
Commons, which the story, even if true, would scarcely
effect ; but mainly and finally for the absurd purpose
of stigmatising the subscribers to the Election Petition
Fund, who have had nothing to do with the enactment
or contrivance of the law under which the Election
Committees of the House of Commons are constituted,
and who merely, like all other persons pursuing rights
or demanding the redress of wrongs, rssprt to such
tribunal as the law and Constitution have provided for
the maintenance of the particular right which they
claim, and the remedy of the particular wrong by
which they think themselves aggrieved. It will
surely not be denied that the right of every subject
of the British Crown is invaded, and deep and
grievous wrong inflicted upon each member of the
community, when persons are introduced into the
House of Commons not legally and fairly chosen by
those upon whom the Constitution has devolved the
duty and conferred the privilege of election. Neither
can it be pretended with any show of fairness, or any
approach to common sense, that . Englishmen should
passively abandon rights or endure wrongs until their
country is blessed in every department of jurisprudence
with perfect and infallible tribunals. Yet these are
the absurdities into which the partisans of the Mel-
bourne-O'Connell Government are daily betrayed, in
the anger, or rather the alarm with which the success
of the Election Petition Fund has inspired them.
The Longford story of our Contemporary, to which
we have alluded, proves nothing, unless it be that ab-
suldity in the general structure of an argument is na-
turally followed by absurdity in the details, circum-
stances, and incidents selected for its illustration.
" It is," says our, Ministerial Contemporary, " in
the recollection of the public that the Committee
appointed to examine into the validity of the
Longford election swept away some ninety or a hun-
dred voters, having taken upon themselves to examine
into the value of the voters' qualifications." He then
proceeds to narrate how at the late Longford registrar
tion a certain Philip Brady of Long,hill, barony of
Granard, one of the " ninety or a 'hundred voters"
swept away by the Committee (mind, only one), was
re-registered. Mr. Philip Brady swore that his inte-
rest in his farm was worth 201. a year. Another wit-
ness, on the same side, who described himself as a
good judge of land, swore that Mr. Philip Brady's
interest was worth 151. a year. But some persons of
the neighbourhood examined before the Committee at
Westminster, and believed by a majority of its Mem-
bers, had sworn that, in their opinion, Mr. Philip
Brady's interest in the land was under the value of 101.
a year. From these facts our liberal Contemporary in-
fers wilful perjury on the part of the witnesses heard
and believed by the Committee, and gross partiality on
the part of the Committee for believing their state-
ment. The inference seems to us to be more hasty
than any person having much value for the character of
other men, or for his own, would have hazarded. The
discrepancy as to value between Mr. Phillip Brady
and his own witness is as great, within a hairsbreadth
(taking the story as it is given), as that between the
latter and the witnesses who obtained credit from the
House of Commons' Committee. And if it be just
or candid to conclude that the witnesses at Westmin-
ster were wilful perjurers because their estimate fell
short by 51. a year of that of Mr. Brady's witness at
Longford, we do not exactly see how the equal dis-
crepancy between Mr. Brady and his own witness as to
the same point can be accounted for without an im-
peachment of the moral character of one or the other
of those persons. The whole story would be worth-
less were it not that the whole manlier of telling it
shows to what desperate shifts and expedients the
enemies of fair and constitutional representation are
driven by the noble determination of the British
people to guard their own rights and those of their
fellow-subjects in Ireland from the usurpations of
Priestly tyranny, of mob insolence, of perjury, and of
corruption.—Morning Post.

The bakers in the city of Glasgow and suburbs arc
selling the 41b. fine loaf at 7d., household ditto, 6d., being
a reduction of id. We understand that some individuals
arc still selling the very finest at Bd.—Scots Times.

Yesterday afternoon, between five and six o'clock,
as Mr. Alexander Pilerton, a gentleman connected with
the Stock Exchange, was ascending the steps of his resi-
dence, in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square (after having
discharged the cab in which he had returned from the
City), when within reach of the door of his dining parlour,
he suddenly ruptured a blood vessel. He was supported
into the room. and seated in a chair, but instantly expired
from suffocation, caused by the effusion of blood into the
larynx.