The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-06 00:00:00

to the sublime. But if to expose its folly be thOught
necessary, we need say no more than this, namely, that
in our strictures upon the Constabulary Bill, or on the
progressive deterioration of the force existing under it,
it never could have entered our heads to affirm that
each member of the whole police body must thence-
forth, all at once, become an abettor of every sanguinary
violence against individuals—of every burglary—of
every plunder of arms—of every vindictive or calculated
murder—of every wanton and thrVtless breach of the
law, or offence to public opinion in this country, and
cause of distrust and apprehension to the Legisla-
ture. Neither we nor anybody else imagined, either
that so promptly after the passing of the Bill
the entire mass of the Irish constabulary could be trans-
formed into open assassins, or that at any time, how-
ever corruptly and disloyally composed, or however un-
reservedly devoted to the cause, and subject to the
influence of the trading agitators, it would be suffered
by them to fling off the mask prematurely. 'lt must
never be forgotten that, as a faction, however hostile
to the Monarchy its projects in their nature may be,
political Popery and demagogue disaffection have to
play a deliberate and complex game. O'Connell,
though detesting Protestants, and bent on having the
island one day or other restored, at least nominally, to
that same race .from which, nominally, it was wrested,
in a long course of ages, by the Saxons, has always,
and we presume sincerely, told his followers, that they
must bide their time—that they must afford no handle
to their enemies for crushing them, but, on the con
trary, go on maturing their preparations and augment-
ing their strength, until they shall be in a condition to
make these enemies their victims. Nothing, there-
fore, can be more absurd than to suppose that
guard of Irish policemen posted under one of their
own officers in a private house, with orders to de-
fend it, would not mechanically do their duty, no
matter how disaffected the spirit, or treasonable to-
wards the State at large the political feelings of their
secret leaders might be. Infinite pains will, no doubt,
be taken to prevent the rashness or folly of the humbler,
perhaps unconscious, agents of the grand conspiracy
from throwing the honest portion of society off its
guard, and thus warning it as to the expediency of
setting on foot due precautions, ere yet the hour of
final and fatal explosion shall have arrived. We re-
peat, therefore, that since the evil administration of
the civil force of Ireland is not, and never was alleged
to be, of such a tendency as to interfere with the accus-
tomed performance of military duties by detached por-
tions of that body, when it would answer no purpose
auxiliary to the general ends of treason, but the re-
verse, to betray the specific trust—we do repeat that
an order whereby individuals or families are stripped
of the protection against nightly massacre, which
would be afforded by the presence of armed and dis-
ciplined men, paid, as they are, by the nation for that
express object, and precious as is that object to the
cause of civilization and humanity, ought to be repro-
bated by all virtuous men, as among the most un-
feeling, merciless, and therefore, by a Government,
most criminal acts on record. It ma v, indeed, con-
template guilt of a more profound and atrocious charac-
ter than mere reckless inhumanity would imply ; but
that, if real, cannot fail of complete development before
much time has passed over us.—Times.
A very little fighting appears to have been more
than enough for the warlike stomachs of the belliger-
ent factions of '' liberalised " Portugal, when left to
decide their quarrel without British armed auxiliaries
on either side, or anything in the shape of actual
foreign intervention. Here, as in Spain, the party
espoused by Lord Palmerston has been worsted; for
his Lordship is a Pedroite, or moderate Liberal in
Portugal, and a Calatravist, or Ultra-liberal in Spain.
But whichever side he takes is the side sure to " go to
the wall." When Cupid forsakes his groves of myrtle,
and presides over the field of Mars, his military pro-
teges are usually rewarded .with a precious lack of
laurel. In the late ill-fated enterprise of the " Char-
terists Saldanha was his hero, though on this occa-
sion he lent him only his good wishes, not his marines,
while the magniloquent Bomfim, directed the martial
movements of the " Constitutionalists:. Our readers
recollect the account which we gave not long since of
the ludicrously-pathetic encounter between those wor-
thies, who, in the midst of the " shock of battle,"
agreed that it was better to brandish pens than swords,
and shed ink than blood in determining the quarrel,
and so resolved to settle the affair by the pro-
tocol system, which settled nothing except to make it
a " settled point" that there should be another appeal
to the sword. The account which our readers have
since seen in our columns of the defeat and surrender
of Saldanha's army must have proved to them the cor-
rectness of the opinion which we expressed of the
heroism of both factions, when we said that if
foreigners did not interfere in the quarrel, the military
prowess displayed on either side would not much acre
lerate the ordinary march of mortality. The field o
battle which decided the civil war in Portugal did no
present a more formidable list of casualties than some.

times occurs at an " Irish row." Yet, though the
army of Saldanha was beaten and compelled to sur-
render, not by the great Bomfim, but by the Viscount
das Antas, it cannot be said that Saldanha himself
was beaten, as it appears his army went into battle
without him—a thing of which, as we infer from his
own letter, lamenting the effusion of blood, he was
very much surprised to hear. Why he took the pains
to revolt against the actual government, and collect an
army of horse, foot, and artillery, only to deprecate
the effusion of blood we cannot pretend to say. He
ought to have considered that before he collected an
army, which he led about for months in marches and
countermarches, and then allowed to surrender at dis-
cretion, only to show his aversion to deciding the fate
of " charter" and " constitution" by bayonet and
cannon-ball. For our part we are glad to see the
liberal warfare at an end, as we anticipated, with so
little suffering and loss to humanity. This comes from
leaving the fighting part of the quarrel to the Portu-
guese themselves, while Lord Palmerston kept his
marines on board, and British " intervention" only
looked on at a distance at this " children's play" of
war, from behind its wooden walls.—Morning Herald.

BREAD FOR HORSES.—Every one knows that the
nutritive qualities of corn are much injured by being sodden
with cold water ; by what chemical process this deteriora-
tion is effected it is not for us now. to inquire. The fact is
sufficient for us to suggest whether it-would not be advis-
able, where any such corn is to be employed this winter in
the fattening of stock, to have it ground, made into loaves,
and baked. Cookery, that is, the application of heat in some
form or other, improves the nutritive qualities of grain, and
never was there more need of it than the present. In
an extract from a Paris paper, it is said to have been
proved by experiments, that 1,000 kilogrammes, or 2,2051b5.
of oats, made into 430 loaves, and two of these loaves
given daily to a horse will keep him in better condition
than six times the same quantity of oats given to him in
a raw state. The expense of fuel is the only consideration
to be put in the opposite scalie, and this is an estimate
which every farmer can make for himself. But the mere
grinding of the grain, or the d.es traction of its texture, by
making it pass through rollers, is of great advantage to the
animal which eats it, by facilitating his means of digestion.
Persons going to Madeira should be cautioned
against the excessively high dirties charged at present, to
the English visiters in particular, not only for what may be
considered luxuries, but also Co r the most trifling articles of
wearing apparel, for books (mm is especially), musical instru-
ments, drawing materials, telos copes, engravings, &c. &c.,
whether new or old. A yoi tr ig lady who lately returned
from school was charged b et,ween 131. and 151. on her
wearing apparel ; and a gent! e; man who arrived by the same
vessel, with his wife and sister, to spend the winter, has
paid 75/. sterling for the thin g he brought with him. One
article was an old pianoforte, ( which a duty of 161. was
charged, and for an easy chair 31. 18s. ; many other articles
he refused to pay upon, the e. 13 arges were so abominably ex-
orbitant, and he has left then, at the Custom House till his
return to England in the spr'a g. Soap, gunpowder, cigars,
and medicines are prohibited., The duty on a fowling-piece
is quite enormous, though tl ii :re is little or no game on the
island.

CORK ORANGEMEN .--Edmond Burke Roche,
Esq., one of the Membei lt for Cork County, has been
acquitted of the charge ( if heading a riotous mob, and
jury
pronounced an assault dunk g the late election. The
pronounced a verdict of ac ialittal without leaving the box.
The evidence clearly der at enstrates not only the total
groundlessness of the accuse tion—about that there is now
no question—but the more in iportant fact, that the charge
mutt have been bolstered up 1 by the Cork Orangemen, as
a means of venting their 51 )it upon a gentleman who so
signally defeated them in the; ecent contest.