The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-16 00:00:00

TPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Lord Morpeth has c!osed the correspondence with
Colonel Verner which was begun by Mr. Drummond.
His Lordship's letter will be found in the communica-
tion of our Dublin correspondent. For the announce-
ment in the close of Lord Morpeth's • letter we were
fully prepared. " Upon a full consideration of the
case (says his Lordship) his Excellency (the Lord
Lieutenant) will deem it expedient to recommend to the
Lord Chancellor that you should not be included in
the new commission of the peace about to be issued ;
and will also direct your name to be omitted from the
revised list of Deputy-Lieutenants for the county of
Tyrone." There cannot, we suppose, be two opi-
nions as to the propriety of removing from the magoi-
;:r c) a man who, like Colonel Verner, could celebrate
public dinner one of those disastrous conflicts so
on mon in Ireland. The memory of these feuds ought
l'r to be kept alive by any one entrusted with the peace
of the country. It certainly gives rather a low idea of
the standard of gentlemanly feeling in the north of
Ireland, when we find a magistrate and a Deputy-
Lieutenant answering an official communication in a
tone of which the lowest pettifogging attorney in this
country would be ashamed. Colonel Verner professed
himself unable to recognise the conflict alluded to under
the title of " the Battle of the Diamond," by reason
of the many such conflicts which have occurred in the
county of Armagh. Lord Morpeth refers him to his
own evidence, published in the Report of the Com-
mittee on Orange Lodges in Ireland, and more espe-
cially to the following question and answer, No. 92 :
" Question—' The Battle of Diamond-hill took place
the 21st of September, 1795, did it not? " Answer
—' It did.' " A country cannot be afflicted with a
greater curse than the having partisan Magistrates.
How could Colonel Verner's fellow-subjects of the
Roman Catholic creed, after so marked a manifes-
tation of partisanship in the worst sense of the word,
have the least confidence in his administration of
justice ? Colonel Verner has often figured, and not
much to his advantage, in party proceedings in the
north of Ireland ; and it cannot be said that he has not
been leniently dealt with. Our readers can hardly
have forgotten the accounts of the savage proceedings
of the Killinan Boys, in which Colonel Verner did not
figure greatly to his advantage. No wonder that the
Catholic peasantry, seeing the authors of the most
sanguinary outrages against them identified with the
very men appointed to give effect to the laws, should
have renounced even the idea of obtaining justice in
any case. To that long-oppressed class of men the
attempt of Lord Mulgrave to administer justice with
impartiality, without regard to creed or party, is cer-
tainly a new era. The dismissal of Colonel Verner
will be of unspeakable benefit. It will carry convic-
tion home to the breast of every peasant in Ireland that
the Government watches carefully over him, and that
no man, however high his station, may with impunity
trample on his fellow-subjects. It is a great achieve-
ment in civilization when indiiiduals abandon to the
Government the power of redressing wrongs. Hitherto
the poor Catholic has been obliged to do himself justice
—the wild justice of revenge—or go without any.—
Morning Chronicle.
It is the distinction of the higher orders of genius,
that as their contributions to human improvement and
happiness are seldom of a merely local or temporary
character, their fame is generally regarded as the sacred
and common property of mankind. Of this description,
unquestionably, is the renown of our own Duke of
Wellington, who is acknowledged to have conferred
important benefits upon Europe in particular, and upon
the world at. large. His Grace's immortal name is felt
to be immeasurably above the reach of party malig-
nity ; and accordingly, when any proposal is made
to bestow upon him a tribute of national gratitude,
the tide of popular sentiment is found to flow so ir-
resistibly in his favour, that his political enemies,
though fain to depreciate and ruin him, are con-
strained by the meanest possible policy to chime in
with the plaudits which they know it were hopeless to
oppose. But while this explanation may sufficiently
account for the goaded and mortified alacrity wherewith
the Whig journalists affect to support those public tes-
timonies to the Duke's merits, which they are conscious
no hostility of theirs could prevent, it seems to be
supposed by these infatuated persons, that, in propor-
tion as the achievements of a man of genius in other
fields may happen to be of a kind less likely to attract
popular admiration, his supposed connexion with the
Conservative party is a very sufficient reason for their
endeavouring to blast and destroy- him. For in-
stance, the moral benefits conferred upon the country
by such a writer as the Rev. Dr. Chalmers are,
in point of fact, not less meritorious than the
proudest military services. On almost all the great
questions of civil economies and moral science the
genius of that distinguished person, combining the
utmost opulence and originality of thought with a
constant practical bearing upon the higher interests
of our species, has worked out results whose incal-
culable value, though already realized to a considerable
extent, are destined to confer their chief benefits upon a
grateful and admiring posterity. No better proof can
he given of the public merits of Dr. Chalmers than
the shameful extent to which he has been pi-
rated both by the present Archbishop of Dublin
and by Mr. Senior, the political economist. The
good lie has clone, too, in elevating the standard of pul-
pit literature, and in routing various divisions of the
insurgent army of sophisms recently upon the march,
cannot perhaps be over-estimated, while, with reference
to the services he has rendered his country as a patriot,
the simple fact that the Melbourne Government have
declined to advance payment of the sequestrated sa-
lasies due to the professors in Edinburgh College, on
the assigned ground that " Dr. Chalmers would be
benefitted by drawing arrears to the amount of 7001."
—this of itself, we say, is an evidence of his constitu-
.tional principles much more forcible and significant
than any other that could be adduced. The public,
therefore, will not he surprised to learn, that as the
labours of the Doctor have generally been of that de-
scription, which, being least familiar to an ignorant
populace, afford corresponding facilities for vilifying
their author without incurring universal execration,
the Whigs, to whose church policy he is decidedly op-
posed, are assailing him with all those foul and viru-
lent aspersions, which, though not quite safe in the
case of a Wellington, are conceived to be hazardable
in this instance with a tolerable chance of impunity.
The dirt wherewith a morning inudlark has been
pelting Dr: Chalmers for these few days past may
well he left to dry and drop off of its own accord ;
and if we condescend to take the slightest notice
of these impertinences, it is not because the Doctor's
reputation needs any defence of ours, but because the
opportunity of exposing the ignorance and malignity of
Lis assailants is too inviting to be overlooked. To
charge this celebrated divine with being a mere political
partisan is a piece of gratuitous spite and spleen on the
part of the Whigs, in order to indemnify themselves for
the mortification which they feel at not receiving his
countenance and support. In contradistinction to the
church destruction prosecuted by the Melbourne Go-
vernment for the aggrandizement of the Papists, the
cause to which r. Chalmers is devoted above all
others is the cause of church-extension, for the benefit
of the poor. With him this is no party question at all.
On grounds which every man capable of appreciating a
lofty philanthropy and soiled reasoning will admit to
impregnable, the Doctor has shown, in a variety of publi-
cations, that the principal want of his native country is a
permanent and pervading system of regular parochial
instruction carried into the homes and hearts of the
people by means of pastoral visitation, so independent
:n point of
,provision, and so conveniently divided in
point of labour, that without burdening the pockets of
the population, the benefit of its influence may be
extended to every family in the land. Renouncing
the voluntary and infidel doctrine that every man shall
be left to adopt what religion he pleases, it is the
ceaseless effort of Dr. Chalmers to ply the country
with that local and habitual application of Chris-
tian doctrine and discipline which, according to
the internretation put upon Scripture by a wise and
pious ancestry, has long been established in these
lands as the faith and formularies of the National
Church. To the man who forwards this enterprise, be
he Whig or Tury, the Doctor gives the right hand of
fellowship. The accomplishment of it may truly be
said to be his ruling passion. His conscientious opi-
nion is, that the entire ecclesiastical policy of the

Whigs is unfavourable to its realization. He holds
them io be irretrievably committed in an opposite di-
rection; and because, while discreetly abstaining from
all unseemly interference in electioneering proceedings
—while neither speechifying for particular candidates
like Dr. Pye Smith, nor busying himself upon the
hustings, like the Rev. Gilbert Elliot—he neverthe-
less will not declare, with Mr. Joseph Hume, that the
black churchmanship of the Melbourne Ministry is un-
exceptionably white—therefore one Whig harpy after
another besets him with the most disgraceful epithets,
calumnious letters from the Parliament-house of Edin-
burgh are shamefully shot at him by Whig expectants
and paid commissioners ; the columns of the Govern-
ment prints are thrown open to every abusive falsehood
that can be forged against his sacred fame ; and the
journals that exult in the political interferences of Dr.
Pye Smith are revolted at the sore and influential re-
buke which Dr. Chalmers's quiescence inflicts upon
their patrons and paymasters. Where, we ask, can
there be a more decisive tribute to the power and po-
pularity of the man whom they alternately strive in
vain to make their vassal and their victim ?—Times.
A most gratifying proof of the anxious disposition
of the Mulgrave executive, to provide for the impar-
tial administration of justice in Ireland, is furnished ir
Lord Morpeth's admirable letter, published in this
day's Advertiser, to the Tory Colonel Verner, dis-
missing him from the Magistracy and Deputy-Lieu-
tenancy of the County Throne, or rather, in more
courteous phrase, informing him that his name will
not be included in the new Commission of the Peace
about to be issued, and that it will also be omitted
from the revised lists of Deputy-Lieutenants. This
dismissal has taken place in consequence of Colonel
Verner being present—we believe, presiding —at a
public dinner, when a toast—" The battle of the
" Diamond"—commemorative of an affray in which
several Roman Catholics fell victims to Orange fury,
was drunk with enthusiastic honours. The motives of
the Government are fully and forcibly explained in
Lord Morpeth's letter, which will be read with plea-
sure by every one interested in the extension of equal
protection to all classes of subjects, and desirous of
seeing the Bench occupied by cool and impartial Mi-
nisters of the Law, and not by fanatic, infuriated, and
vengeful partisans. None but those familiar with the
infamous manner in which justice has been superseded
by injustice, under sanction of Magisterial authority in
Ireland, where the decision of the Maeistrate is often
more influenced by the creed than by the cause of the
litigants, can appreciate the extent of the gratitude
which is due to the Irish Government, for this well-
timed reproof of official bigotry and truculence.
The insolent and false reply of the factious and in-
furiated Colonel, is commented upon in the Noble
Secretary's letter in a style at once severe and dignified.
A thrill of grateful exultation will pervade Ireland from
one extremity to the other, on reading that passage
in the letter wherein, contrasting the amount of blame
to be attached to parties in different positions of so-
ciety making violent manifestations of party zeal, Lord
Morpeth observes—" The peasant thus offending is,
in his Excellency's opinion, less culpable than the
man of station and education, who, on an occasion to
which publicity is given through the public press,
celebrates a lawless action arising out of the civil dis-
cords. of his country, in which the lives of many of his
countrymen were lost, as an event the remembrance of
which it is desirable to perpetuate with honour."
Altogether the letter evinces so much good sense, and
so great a desire to hold the scale of justice with a
steady and impartial hand, that it needs neither eulogy
nor commentary to enforce sentiments so creditable to
the Government, and so cheering to the people over
whom it so parentally presides.—Morning Advertiser.
The Government of Ireland continues to be admi-
nistered with that judgment and energy which have
already provedproductive of so much benefit to that
country. Colonel Verner, the red-hot Orangeman, has
been dismissed from the Commission of the Peace in
consequence of his recent toast at a public meeting,
commemorative of the " Battle of the Diamond." This
is as it should be. The great terror of all previous Ad-
ministrations, in regard to Ireland, has been that of
suffering the Orange party to escape punishment when
they had justly exposed themselves to it. This impu-
nity in the commission of crimes against their Catholic
fellow-subjects, only served to encourage the Orange-
men to assume a bolder bearing, until they at last ac-
tually did everything short of defying the Executive
in so many words. There are some men on whom
mildness is lost : the more leniently they are treated,
the more hardened and insulting they become. The
Orangemen of Ireland are persons of this class. Accus-
tomed to rule with a rod of iron themselves, when the
functions of Government were unfortunately in their
hands, they are only to be held in check by having
their own mouths kept constantly in the bridle, and by
having the corrective lash unsparingly applied to their
backs when they evince a disposition to indulge in any
of their vicious propensities. The lesson which has
been thus read to Colonel Verner, accompanied as
that lesson has been by a most energetic letter to that
gentleman from Lord Morpeth, in the name of the
Lord Lieutenant—this lesson will not be lost on the
Orangemen of Ireland. It will convince them that they
are not any longer to outrage the feelings of their Ro-
man Catholic fellow subjects, and to fan the flame of
civil discord in that country with impunity. It will of it-
self do more to strangle the monster of Orangeism than
years of a conciliatory course of policy would have ef-
fected. " The Battle of the Diamond" will not, we ven-
ture to predict, be openly proposed in Ireland, as a toast,
for some time to come—not, certainly, while Lord Mid-
grave continues to discharge the duties of Lord Lieu-
tenant of that country. Nor will the lesson, unless
we are greatly in error, be altogether lost on the Tories
of England and Scotland. There are still such per-
sonages, though their numbers are gradually dwindling
away, as Tory Lord Lieutenants on this side of the
water. They have not been backward—at least a
considerable proportion of them have not been so—in
converting their official power into an instrument for
thwarting the policy of the Government by whom they
are tolerated, arid of promoting their own party pur-
poses. Too much forbearance has been extended to
them. An example or two in this country of that
vigour and promptitude which Lord Mulgrave evinces
in the administration of Irish affairs, would be attended
with the most salutary results.—Morning Advertiser.
Every arrival from the United States affords new
evidence that the principles of honour and integrity,
upon which the commercial intercourse of nations
essentially depend, exert as powerful and efficacious
an influence among the merchants of the American
Union as in any other mercantile body with which
we are acquainted. The constant remittances of
bullion by every packet which reaches the shores
of this country, and which already amount in the
aggregate to a very considerable sum, is a proof, the
validity of which no man of ordinary candour and of
competent information can refuso to acknowledge,
not only that there exists among American mer-
chants a strong desire to fulfil, in the fairest and
most honourable manner, their pecuniary obligations
with their correspondents in Europe, not only that
they are ready, whenever the necessity arises, to
make great sacrifices for this meritorious- purpose,
but that, as a body, they are not inferior to their
contemporary traders in any other parts of the
world in reference to their possession of those solid
and ample resources which are requisite to carry a come
mercial community through those commercial con-
vulsions which are incident to every system of ex•
cessive and inordinate credit, That the commercial
relations which have gradually grown up between
Great Britain and the United States have been cha-
racterised by this vicious excess to an extent which has
led to consequences injurious to both—that the evils
which this execs have produced have greatly out-
scaUled all the intermcdiate facilities which it can
have afforbd to the mercantile body, or to individual
merchants, in either country—and that prOCIll re-
gard to their own haw. interests will dictate to both
communities the expediency of keeping their mutual
credit for the futnre within nar:roavef, !Tipp definite,
and manageable limits, are peopotianS t,q PkiPlt Xll
rational observers of what has taken place gnst
prepared to *hi a ready assent. But this is some-
thing very different from arraigning the honour and
integrity of the merchants either of Great Britain or
of America, or denying to the latter, with sullen in-
justice, the praise which they have unquestionably
earned by their efforts and sacrifices to extricate