The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-13 00:00:00

to secure the passing of liberal measures ? We
want an answer -to these questions. If the an-
swer to any of them be in the affirmative, then we
may perhaps be able to show that a much larger ma-
jority than any we have mentioned has failed to en-
sure the object aimed at. We shall probably be told
that no majority, however great, of the House of Com-
mons, would be sufficient to carry some of the mea-
sures of the present Ministers, as long as the House
of Lords remains true to its former solemn decisions.
and to what it has proclaimed to be the highest inte-
rests of the country. If this be so, then we say,
the question about a great or small majority is at an
end. It is not the Ministers that ought to resign
because they have a small majority, but the House
of Lords that must be reformed, because it resists the
will of the nation constitutionally expressed.

What this Reform is to be, we think of little con-
sequence. As it cannot be expected that the Lords
will assent to a remodelling of their House, the best
way would perhaps be to adopt the method sanctioned
by the practice of the last QUEEN that sat
in her own right, on the throne of England—that of
infusing fresh blood into the somewhat diluted and
impoverished—it would be harsh, however true, to
say degenerated—fluid that eirculates through the
body corporate of the Peerage. Precedent is all in all
with the advocates of Toryism. For this course there
is a precedent, drawn, too, from an illustrious reign ;
and pretend what they may, they are quaking under
the apprehension that this precedent will be followed ;
knowing, as they well know, that now Lord MEL-
BOURNE has only to state to his SOVEREIGN that
such an exercise of the Royal prerogative is necessary
—and the thing is done.

The brutal attacks of the Tory Organs upon the
Catholic and Liberal Protestant Constituencies of
Irtland, fill the mind of th© great bulk of the Bri-
tish people with disgust and indignation. Among
certain cliques of bigots and fanatics, the Munchausen
fabrications of the Orange Press respecting the exis-
tence of Ribbon Societies are greedily swallowed as a
convenient justification for railing against the conces-
sion of liberal institutions to Ireland ; but really sen-
sible people feel indignant at such an unwarrantable
and cowardly mode of keeping up the prejudices
against the brave and generous population of the
Sister Kingdom, which, to the disgrace of Eng-
land, are not yet wholly eradicated. For the
clamour about Ribbonmen there is not the
shadow of a foundation. There is not at this
instant a Ribbon Sociely in all Ireland—No,
NOT ONE. There was not a Ribbon Society in Ire-
land since the passing of the Reform Bill. Such
Societies do not even exist in the imaginations of
those who pretend to denounce them ; for there is not
a Tory scribe in the British empire who is ignorant of
the non-existence of Ribbon institutions in every part
of Ireland. The agents of the Hanoverian faction
have repeatedly; since the passing of the Catholic
Emancipation Bill, attempted the establishment of
such institutions among the rural population of
Ireland. Supplied with funds subscribed by the
Orange Lodges, villains have travelled through the
country for the express purpose of initiating the pea-
santry in all the mysteries of disloyal plots and con-
spiracies, in order to denounce them afterwards to the
Government ; but their infernal mission was unsuc-
cessful. In 1835 several of them were seized, and on
being examined before the Magistrates, confessed them-
selves delegates from the Orange body, of which they
acknowledged themselves members. The only con-
spirators now in Ireland are the Orangemen—the Ha-
noverians of the North—who in their drunken
orgies toast the murders of their Catholic country-
met,. It is the absence of outrage in Ireland that
infuriates the Tories. They are in despair at finding
that Ireland will no longer be duped, deluded, and en-
slaved—will no longer submit to the iniquitous domi-
nation of an alien Church, an absentee aristocracy, and
a combination of convicted Hanoverian conspirators.
Hence in a fit of ungovernable fury, the bigotry of
the apostate Times breaks forth in an attack upon'the
POPE, whom the religious luminary of Printing-
house-square asdenounces a " silly sverstitious old
man," who " exhibits some dirty rags, and some
chips of old wood at the " Vatican." This is rather
a roundabout way of implicating the moral and
political conduct of the Irish Catholics ; but it is
nevertheless, in perfect accordance with the established
Hanoverian system of sectarian calumny. The POPE
is head of the Catholic Church ; the majority of Irish-
men are Catholics ; ergo, Irishmen having no guilt of
their own to be held accountable for, are responsible
for the superstitious practices of the Holy See. If the
Catholics were to adopt this mode of reasoning, they
might turn the tables on the Tories with a vengeance.
If the morality of GEORGE IV. were adopted as exhi_
biting in the Head of the Church of England the
practices of the members of both sexes, the picture
would be far less to our credit than is the exhibition of
rags and old wood at the Vatican to the Catholics of
Ireland.

The Tories do not disguise the object of their tru-
culent and slanderous attacks on the people of Ireland.
They acknowledge that they are opposed to the exten-
sion of equal rights to Irishmen ; and by their efforts
to prolong the social and political degradation of the
sister kingdom, they likewise admit that the tools with
which they work are falsehoods, and that their hopes
of success are centered in the bigoted prejudices of the
British people. Mark the admission of the Times :

" Well, for modern times and for present times, we are
willing to refer the inhabitants of Europe' to the Irish
newspapers—to the fearful catalogue of Irish crimes pro-
duced during the debates on the Irish Coercion Bill ; and
to the atrocities which, daily perpetrated in Ireland at this
moment, outdo in cowardice and bloodthirstiness all that
has been recorded of the most untameable savages which
are not actual cannibals. Let the inhabitants of Europe
here recognize the services and the virtues' of the O'Cuii-
nellites, their title to an equality of civil rights and privi-
leges' with the English."

dastardly attack on the Irish Catholics as the following,
which we extract from the leading columns of the
Times of yesterday :
" The Pope can make a Saint out of any stuff, though it
must be confessed that in modern times the representatives
of St. Peter have certainly not shown much disposition to
manufacture them out of Irish timber. Probably their
Holinesses have seen that the O'Connell saints were handed
down to posterity in the Newyate Calendar, which rendered
it unnecessary to immortalize them in the Red-book of
Rome."

The employment of such disgusting language as
this by the Conservative Press; is one of the best ar-
guments that can be adduced in favour of an imme-
diateo repeal of the Union. In this ribaldry there is
evidence of a deep-rooted hatred of the Irish name
and nation—of an ill-concealed desire to drive Ire-
land to the commission of some act with a view of
kindling a civil war between her and Great Britain.
This is really one of the griat objects of the
Tory faction. The insults heaped upon Ireland—
the indignities offered to the religion of her
inhabitants—the menaces hurled at her in the event
of her offering the least resistance—are so many
goads employed to drive her into a state of rebellion, in
the hope of rivetting the chains which she is preparing
to cast from her. But the good sense and the grow-
ing intelligence of the Irish people, will render this
blood-thirsty scheme of the Tories, as abortive as the
PADDY IVI'IIuGH machinations of the Imperial Grand
Orange Lodge. They will continue to adopt the advice
of Mr.O'CONNELL—to banish dissension from among
them—to press on boldly but peaceably for their
rights, and—as an inevitable consequence—they will,
they must obtain them. If remonstrance fail they
have only to have recourse to passive resistance to put
down every abuse resulting from three centuries of
British oppression.
The Paris Journals of Monday are quite as unim-
portant as those of the three preceding days. On the
Sth the garrison of San Sebastian marched towards
Tolosa. They were opposed by a large body of Car-
lists at Urnieta ; but the rebels were defeated with con-
siderable loss. In Guipuscoa, Brigadier-General
O'DONNELL had a brush with the Carlists, whom he
likewise put to flight, after a stout resistance.
The latest advices from Madrid are to the 3d, and
from Saragossa to the sth instant. Don CARLOS
had re-entered Cantavieja, hotly pursued by Generals
ESPARTERO and ORAA. CABRERA had not been
shot, having made his escape, after mortally wounding
VILLAREAL in the presence of the Pretender. He
carried with him a large quantity of rich booty.
The following are extracts from the French Papers:—

Our correspondent at Toulon writes on the 7th—" A
report is in general circulation in the city that the expedi-
tion to Constantine will not take place ; and the report ap-
pears to be not wholly destitute of foundation. It seems
that on the 28th the two parties were on the point of coming
to an agreement. The telegraph is at work."
The English and German Journals, and after them the
French, have said a great deal about a mission to England,
confided to M. Dc Rumigny, the King's aide-de-camp, by
Louis Philip, the object of which was said to be relative to
the affairs of Spain. A French Journal has gone so far as
to say that M. De Rumigny had had a conference on the
subject with M. Matueschewic, the Russian Ambassador at
Naples, sent to London by his Sovereign for the same pur-
pose. This story is entirely false. M. de Rumigny set
out on the 24th of last month for Amiens, where he
attended all the sittings of the Council General of the
Somme, of which he is a member ; he then came to Paris
on the sth of this month, and since his arrival has not
quitted the capital for a single moment. He is even row
on duty ebout the King, while he is said to be travelling
and negotiating diplomatic arrangements.—Le Constitu-
tionnel.

The resumption of the negociations seems to be Affirmed
by the Semaphore, which we have jurt received by express.
It says—" A steam-boat has just arrived from Bona.
According to reports, the accuracy of which I cannot
warrant, the negociations had been resumed, and this
time it is said an officer of the Bey had conferred with the
Governor, and the difficulties which caused the rupture of
the negociations at Busnach have been removed. We look
with impatiunce for the confirmation of this news."—P,ivote
Correspcndence of the Journal du Commerce.
TOULON, SEPT. 7.—lt appears from the reports of se-
veral ships, that the squadron of Admiral Lalande, after
parting company with the Hercule, entered the Tagus, and
that it is there that the Fulton steam-boat delivered to it
the order to proceed immediately where it must be at this
moment.

The precautions which the Government has taken to
protect the Bey of Tunis, our ally, have made a favour-
able impression here ; it is an act of rigour that we did
not expect.
.The asimiere steam-boat is waiting for the
signal to depart for Tunis with dispatches from Admirals
Gallois and Lalande.

The English Journals, which have given news from Lisbon
of the 28th, have not noticed the presence of Admiral La-
lande in the Tagus.—Le Commerce.
An English Engineer has arrived at Havre, who is going
to Paris to lay before the French Government a project for
constructing a passage to cross dry-shod from Calais to
Dover. The whole town of Havre have been to hear Mr.
W. Coppett (this is his name), explain the nature of his
plan. Mr. Coppett asks of France only one million, and
as much of England. With this sum he will make cones
like those employed at Cherbourg between fifty and sixty
years ago. If the Government do not approve of this
system, he has in his pocket three or four others. For
instance, he will make a tunnel under the sea from Dover
to Calais, introducing from one end to the other cast-iron
pipes, 18 feet in diameter. This last mode of communica-
tion, according to Mr. Coppett, would cost only one mil-
lion, to be paid in equal portions by both countries.—Le
Commerce.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Psuts, SEPT. 11.
Five per Cents., 108 f. 45c. 35c. 30c. 40c.
Four per Cents., 100 f. IPc.
three per Cents. 701 54c. 45c 40c.
Bank Actions, 0,41,1
Riente ste Naples, 97f. 55c. Gsc. 40c. 50c.
Roman Five per Cents., 10!.
Spanish Actives, 214 Ysi
Spanish Difteres,
Spanish Passives, 4%.
Belgian Loan. Five per Cents.. 1043 .
Brussels Society, 1,675 f.
Belgian Bank, 1,450 f. 1,445 f
Portuguese Three per Cents. 05%.
Haytian Loan. 370 f.

OXCIIANUE ON LoynoN.
One month, paper, 25f. 42%c.; money, 25f. 40e.
Three months, paper, 25r. 27!..4 e. ; money. 251. 25,
—C9urs Aulhenhaue.

LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents., 10f. 51 e.
Three per Cents. 79f. 60c.
Bank Actions, 2,44nf
Roman Five per Cents., 101.
Belgian Loan, 104
Belgian Bank, 1,445 f.
Haytiau Loan, 1370 t.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 26.
Spanish Actives, 21.7 i.
Spanish Passives 4.
Spanish Differed
New Differes,

The basis of this insulting and atrocious declaration
is a single outrage, and against this one breach of the
laws, England during the late election can boast of a
clear Tory balance of upwards of fifty. Irishmen are
not yet base enough to accept two pounds
."a head as
the price of their liberties. They have not arrived at
that point of Conservative indifference, when they
might be safely treated with for the sale of their coun-
try. Neither are they so indifferent to their religion
as to select as their representatives men who have
vows—not in heaven, but in hell--for its extirpation.
Ireland will either have an equality of civil and reli-
gious rights with England and Scotland, or she will have
a domestic legislature. This is her determination, and we
would despise her did we believe her capable of swerv-
ing from it. If she be but true to herself—if she but
follow the counsels of her tried and faithful servant,
Mr. O'CONNELL, she may laugh to scorn the false-
hoods and the threatenings of the Tory faction. The
thunder of the apostate Times can produce no more
mischief than would the squeaking of a penny trumpet,
so long as Ireland continues to maintain her present
dignified and commanding, attitude. Indirectly the
Tory organs are fighting as hard as they can
the battles of the Irish Liberals. The brutal at-
tack of the Times yesterday on the Catholic religion
has excited the disgust of hundreds of the Conserva-
tives themselves, who have the sagacity to perceive
that such a mode of warfare will at once enlist on the
side of Ireland the honest feelings and generous sym-
pathies of the British people. What feelings' but those
of contempt and disgust could be felt for a faction,
that through its official organ could stoop to such a

THB FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Halifax Papers to the 8t1; of August, and New Bruns-
wick to the 18th of August, have been this day received.
The Halifax Nova-Scotian says, " Our Bank pays specie
again, and confidence and good feeling have taken the
place of bickering and distrust."

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1837.