The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

A correspondent from Cavan informs us that the Reverend
Marcus Beresford, son of the Bishop of Kilmore, has cam-
menced the work of extermination which he so frequently at
public meetings recommended to the Orange landlords of Ire-
land. A few days ago he ejected from his glebe lands in the
parish of Larah, eight Catholic families whose ancestors had
resided there fur more than a century, and supplied their
places with Protestants. These families occupied only a few
acres of land each, and the prof& sQed ground of their exoulsion
is a provision in the proposed Pe.or Law for Ireland Bill,
whereby landlords are made liable for all the pe.or rates of
tenements under the annual value of five pounds. By convert-
ing the eight tenements occupied by these families ii.to four or
fire, the value of each would exceed 51., and the landlord
would thereby be liable for half otily, instead of the entire of
the rate ; but whether the expulsion of these unfortunate beings
be founded in religious persecution, or in the poor laws, or in
both, it is a subject to which the attention of the Legislature
should be directed ; for if this extrminating system be car-
ried to any extent, it will b: impossible to preserve good order
or tranquillity in that country; for incirceration or transportation,
or even death, instead of operating as a terror, is a relief to
those miserable, hal-flake", half-fed beings, thrust out into the
open air in this inclement season without any fault of theirs.
It therefore cannot be a matter of surprise if they attempt to
e'er ci,,e their vengeance on the successors and the immediate
author of their affliction.

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There are about sixty other Catholic families on the same
glebe lands, all of whom this Rev. Divine las expressed an
intention to extermi.iate as soon as he can procure Protestants
to supply their places.

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On Friday se'onight, a capture of no less than 66
whales of the Delphinus Detractor, or Calling Whale of the
Shetlander, took pla,:e at the island of Eday. Seven bolts
well manned were engaged in an adventurous warfare with the
monsters of the deep; and though the content was long and
doubtful, victory at Isngth de,:lared in favour of the poor
islanders, who view their prize in a providential light during
this severe season of the year, when there are so many
mouths to fill, and so little to fill them with. The whales
were disposed of for 200 guineas to the Kirkwall merchants._
Giavoto Herald.

LITERATURE.

VOYAGES, ADVENTURES, AND ESCAPES

OF CAPTAIN 1?. FALCONER.
Churton, Holles-sheet.

Few hooks, of which amusement only is the object,
could have been more welcome to us than this cheap
and elegant reprint of Captain Falconer's adventures.
The original had for a long time been exceedingly
scarce—so scarce, indeed, that Sir Walter Scott ob-
serves, " endeavouring to add it to the other favourites
of my infancy, I think I looked for it ten years to no
purpose, and at last owed it to the active kindness of
Mr. Terry." We hare the testimony of the same
illustrious %%liter as to the pathos and beauty of this
delightful narrative ; and so closely does the fiction, if
fiction it be, resemble reality, that he seems at a loss
in what class of composition it should be placed. Per-
haps we shall not be cry far from the truth if we say
tb.c story is based on fact, while the superstructure is
in a great measure imaginary, resembling " Robinson
Ctusoe" in this respect, as it does in so many others.
There is the same strong reality about, it—the same
earnestness and simplicity of language which charms
us in all De Foe's writings. It is the lie with cir-
cumstances, and those circumstances so happily chosen,
and narrated in a style so characteristic of the suppOsed
adventurer, that it might very well be classed with the
singular, and no less romantic, history of the renowned
Sir Francis Drake; indeed, there is plenty of evi-
dence that Dc Foe himself borrowed his style, and not
a few of his incidents and descriptions, from the home-
ly but vigorous stories of the old navigators.
Captain Falconer, supposing him to be a real per-
sonage, lived in a .happy time for one who loved to
exper►ence or to write of moving accidents by land
and flood ; piracy was a fashionable occupation that
had a chivalrous feeling'about it, in some sort redeem►ng
its darker and more vulgar characteristics ; the Indians
of the new found world, and the savages of the various
islands, were so imperfectly understood, that, like all
unknown things, they were invested with every quality
calculated to excite and gratify a love for the marvel-
lous ; the uninhabited spots, where an adventurer might
be conveniently wrecked, abounded in every latitude ;
and the imperfect seamanship of the time gave too
many occasions for the enjoyment of this advantage;
and, though last not least, birds, beasts, and fishes,
had all something more or less wonderful in their forms
and habits, for where a modern discoverer is tied down
to the dry truths of science, the adventurer of other
days was not only allowed, but expected, to meet
with prodigies. Of all such good things our worthy
Captain comes in for his full share: he has more than
one bout with pirates, has his desert island whereon he
is shipwrecked, is made prisoner, and well nigh roasted
alive by the Indians, marries a squaw, and finally ar-
rives safe in England, where he sets up his staff in
peace and quiet.
Amidst such a mass of delightful details, it is dif-
ficult to know where to choose an extract by way of
sample. We will, therefore, take the first passage
that comes to hand, and chance leads us to his amu-
sing account of an animal, which, we presume, must
have been a Chimpanzee :

" The other creature was something like a baboon, but con-
siderably larger, with a face and long beard like an old man's,
and hairy, like a goat, all over the body; his ears bald, his
eyes black, large, and sparkling. He that showed it to us
called it a Cayon ; its tail is about four or five feet long, which
they twist round a tree, and so fling themselves to the next.
They are fierce and subtile, and, when wounded, will set upon
their adversary without any fear; and, if forced to climb the
trees, they carry their mouths and hands full of stones to throw
at travellers as they pass by ; and, when wounded, they set up
a shriek, that immediately brings all of their kind within
hearing to their succour, who stop the wound with leaves and
moss, which will soon be healed. This, that we saw, was
brought up very young by the person that had him, and would
play many comical tricks ; as he was shown to us, he gave me
such a salute with his tail, that made me stand further off,
which seemed to please him mightily, for he looked at me and
chattered, as much as to say, I have given it you.' The
Spaniard told us they used to play a certain game with the na-
tives for money, and would often win, and then go and spend
what they had got upon a liquor that made them drunk, and
as soon as they found themselves so, they would retire very
decently and take a nap, by which they were very often
caught."
After this we really think there must have been
such a person as Richard Falconer—no mere inventor
could have assumed such an exquisite tone of simple
credulity.

(ADVERTISENIENT.

WORKING 'VIENS' ASSOCIATION OF
LONDON TO THE WORKING MEN'S ASSOCI•
ATION OF LEEDS.

Fellow Citizens—We hail with delight the announcement
of your intended meetings of the Bth and 9th of January—
meetings which, we doubt not, will reflect the highest honour
on yoUrselves, and also be of the greatest service to the cause
of democracy.
We perceive, by the Northern Star, you have invited to
your meetings men who have endeared themselves to the De-
mocracy by their energetic and unwearied advocacy of the
cause of representative government. We find that one of the
individuals invited (Daniel Whittle Harvey, the Member for
Southwark), has replied to your invitation by letter; the con-
cluding sente,,ce of which letter, according to the Northern
Star's report, is as follows :
" I ought further to tell you, that the Bill I propose to
bring into Parliament does not go to the length of annual
Parliaments, nor, in the largest sense, to universal suffrage,
But it is quite satisf,ctory to the Working Men's Association
in London." The above assertion is not true! So far from
being " satisfied" with his Bill, we arc not even acquainted
with its merits or demerits. No communication has taken place
between this Association and Mr. Ilarvey on the subject.

We are unable to conceive what could have led Mr. Harvey
to suppose that the Working Mens' Association in London is
satisfied with his measure, when it must be known to Mr.
Harvey that we have not contented ourselves with merely ad.
vocating Universal Suffrages, but at this moment we have a
Committee sitting, for the purpose of dreting up a Bill for
Universal Suffrage, and all the other essentials itecestaq for
its full and free working—which Bill will be submitted to the
various Working Mors' Asiociations and Democratic So-
cieties throughout the country, and when finally agreed upon,
we propose to submit it to the citizens of London, and
trust the same will be done in all parts of the nation.
Fellow citizens of Leeds—We have upreared the standard
of Democracy in London--we have promulgated its principles
in the unconventional language of truth—and we shall perse-
vere in our course till the odious asp,rsions the tyrants of
the earth have cast upon the sacred name of Democracy are
supplanted by the love and adoration of the millions. Di
you judge of us by our acts. Let our actions be a reply to ca.
!tunny and falsehood. We know .we have excited the envy and
dread of all who love not principle—we have told the worleinu
millions to take their affairs into their own hands ! Th-e
vain demagogue who seeks power by the aid of the
multitude must dislike us—the men who would trade upon
the grievances and miseries of a people must hate us—while
the mean and arbitrary and ever-to-be-despised governing
powers of this nation must fear us ; but the millions, the
suffering, enslaved, and poverty-stricken millions, will sym-
pathise with our exertions and respond to our call—and see
in the living principles we are struggling to establish the
effectual means of putting down despots and despotisms, and
of eventually securing the liberty, equality, and happiness of
all mankind.

Democrats of Leeds! we desire to proclaim, through you,
to the men of Yorkshire and Lancashire, that we utterly abhor
and contemn the cruel and inhuman Poor-I4w Amendment
Bill—a Bill one of the natural results of non-representation,
supported alike by the selfishness of Whig, Tory, and Radical ;
and we will seek by every means in our poser to blot it out
from the pages of our Statute-book. But we believe all our
efforts to rid ourselves of this, and every other oppression, will
be futile, until the great principle of Univers,' Suffrage is
established amongst us.
Finally, Brothers—Our principles are before you—we have
proclaimed them to the people in language not to be miscon-
strued nor misunderstood. We belong to the Democracy—
in the broadest sense of the term we are Democrats. We
affect.no cant-about the " Altar and Throne," because expe-
rience has taught us that human blood has flowed and human
wretchedness been produced to uphold what the knaves of the
earth have called " Altar and Throne." Our civic creed
knows no superior—no sovereign power but the will
of the people. Our moral creed is based on the prin-
tiples of Eliot who was the meek and lowly founder
of Christianity, in its purity—of thin who taught us
that " all men are brothers," that "we should do unto others
as we would others should do unto us." Convinced, there-
fore, of the justice and eternity of our principles, we shall hold
on in the even tenonr of our way—we shall contend against
tyranny and oppression in woatever part of the world we may
find them to be raging—we shall struggle for the universal
freedom and happiness of man until the period of their final
accomplishment, or until the day of our death.
Believe us to be, brethren, truly yours in the cause of de-
mocracy, the members of the \Vcrking Mens' Association in
London.

Signed by the Committee on their behalf,
Robert Hartwell, Compositor, Henry Vincent, Compositor,
Thomas White, Hatter, Wm. Pearce, Brassworker,
ilenry Mitchell, Turner, Thos. Irelam), Warehouse-
Rich. Cameron, Brace-maker, man,
John Cleave, Bookseller, A. Dyson, Compositor,
James Lawrence, Painter, R. Moon, CArve.x.
‘Vm. Cumming, Silversmith,
H. HETHURINCTON, Treasurer,
W, 4.40V.ETT4 Secretar,i,

T Lip TR u
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SATURDAY EVENING DECEMBER 23, 1837.
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