The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-23 00:00:00

SIR ROBERT PEEL.

(From the llforTitng Advertiser.)
Much as we were surprised at. the indignant tone in
which Sir Robert Peel denied the statement of the
Observer, to the effect, that though it was expedient to
" keep up and enforce the No Popery feeling in Eng-
land," there " was no design of pushing the extermi-
nating principle in Ireland so far as actually to excite
rebellion," we were yet more astonished, notwithstand-
ing all our experience of Tory truculence, to find the
forbearance attributed to the Right Hon. Baronet,
and which by all but the most sanguinary Tories would
be esteemed a laudable forbearance, denounced by
the Tory press as being of a most inculpatory charac-
ter, and the statement that Sir Robert Peel did not,
in case of succeeding to the Government, mean to
force Ireland into civil war, contradicted in all
shapes and forms, from the retort-courteous to the
lie-direct, from the demi•classical " fabrication" or
gentle " Ministerial lie" of the Standard to the broad
blackguard Billingsgate " LIE" of the Times. The al-
legation of Sir Robert Peel's innocence of a design to
provoke civil war in Ireland, has been met by himself
and his partisans with a contradiction as emphatic and
unmeasured as if the charge implied some heinous in-
tention. The Standard defends the No Popery feeling
as necessary to " resist the murderous conspiracy for the
extermination of Protestantism" now existing in Ire-
land ; and by way of preparing a palliative for the me-
ditated horrors of civil commotion, it argues that as
Sir Robert Peel has no communication with the ribbon
conspirators, he has not the means of exciting a civil
war. Our Contemporary's vaunted discernment and
logical acumen are a little at fault, or he would not
need to be informed that Government always possesses
a variety of ways to excite rebellion without being in
collusion with the disaffected. If a people be aggrieved
and oppressed, it needs no collusion to excite them to
resistance. Whenever such a direful calamity as civil
war occurs, each party is anxious to transfer the blame
from itself. And the laboured ingenuity with which the
Tory press endeavours to prove that if a rebellion break
out in Ireland in consequence of a Tory Ministry coming
into office, that Messrs. O'Connell and Sheil, and those
who oppose Orang" ascendancy, will be responsible for
the infliction, implies a cool determination of purpose
more indicative of an intent to resort to extreme mea-
sures, than even the blustering and barbarous threats
with which, in discussing Irish policy, they are accus-
tomed to supply their lack of argument. In its excess
of zeal the Standard asks, " Is the No Popery feel-
ing so much less natural than the Popery feeling
to which it responds, that the first must be im-
puted to sordid motives, while the second may be
regarded as perfectly legitimate? Our Contemporary
was, we believe, an admirer of the French revolution
of 1830 that movement was provoked by Jesuit
propagandism. Now Popish propagandism in England
is to the full as offensive and dangerous as Jesuit propa-
gandism could be in France ; and yet Englishmen are
blamed for entertaining feelings, while Frenchmen are
applauded for overturning a dynasty in the same cause."
For the information of our Contemporary we may ob-
serve, that it is not Popery or No Popery, but intolerance
and exclusion united with either, or any feeling against
which the national conviction revolts. If the Papists
were to raise a cry of No Protestantism, we might ex-
pect no very lenient vengeance invoked against them
by their adversaries, who are now so anxious to organise
a system of extermination. Between the cases of France
and England, referred to by our Contemporary, there is
no parallel, unless the propagandism of the Established
Church in this country be regarded, as indeed it may be,
as furnishing an accurate representation of the progand-
ism of the Jesuits in France. And in whatever guise,
or whatever country, such system be attempted, all
honest men will rejoice in its downfall and annihilation.

ANOTHER VERSION !—The Bolton Free Press
states that Colonel Angelo resigned his situation as
Commissioner of the Bolton Police, on account of its
being intimated to him by Government that his half-pay
would be withheld so long as he continued to hold that
office.
" That there cloud," said a Yankee, pointing to
one, the shadow of which was passing rapidly over the
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can get a-head of the fastest cloud going now, and give
it time to take in water.
THE WEAsLE.—This animal, diminutive as it
is, appears to be the only wild one in this country which
ever dares to attack the human species. This weazles
only do when there is a number of them together ;
singly, they run off at the approach of a man, but it is
a serious thing to encounter a body of them, their
activity rendering it impossible to watch and frustrate
the motions of all. A young woman, on one occasion,
very narrowly escaped from their fangs. She was walking
from the town ofKirkcudbright to her father's house,a few
miles distant, and after travelling for some time she struck
off the public road, and took a " near cut ;" and while
crossing a boggy piece of low-lying land, at a distance
from any house, her attention was attracted to certain
shrill shrieks proceeding from the bottom of a dyke
over which she was climbing ; being a little alarmed at
this, she hastened a few steps forward, and upon look-
ing back she observed two weazles running after her,
while immediately afterwards upwards of a dozen more
issued from the bottom of the dike, joining the others
in the pursuit. Being greatly agitated, she set off at
full speed to reach another dike, over which she jumped,
hoping thereby to place a barrier between herself and
pursuers, but to her great surprise they came bolting
through the holes of the second dike also, chasing her
apparently with the most determined fury. Upon this
the poor girl ran on until, to use her own words, " her
heart was like to burst, and her legs to fall under
her." For upwards of a quarter of a mile the
furious creatures continued close behind, and it was not
until she reached a piece of rising ground on the other
side of the bog that she fairly outstripped them.
There can be no doubt that had she fallen or fainted
from fright the consequences might have been of the
most serious nature. The young woman reached home
safely, deeply thankful for her escape. Several years
ago, in another district, a farmer, while riding on
horseback through boggy land, over which he could
make but little speed, roused by accident upwards of
twenty weazles, also from an old dyke, in which they had
burrowed. They sprung upon the horse's legs and the
boots of the rider, and, though he defended himself,
dexterously with his whip, what with the jumping
about of the terrified animal he rode, and the agility
of his assailants, he declared he fought for his life to
beat. them off.—Scotch Paper.
NEW DISCOVERY IN THE ARTS.—The French
papers speak of a discovery by which books and en-
gravings, once printed, may be produced ad injinitum,
without requiring the aid of new plates er types.
A Paris periodical says " This new process is ap-
plicable not only to fresh printed sheets, but like-
wise to the oldest engravings, to the oldest books,
and which is of far more interest, to Greek, Chinese,
and Hebrew books. It consists in two operations :
—Over the page or engraving of which you want
a copy, you lay a particular composition. It is
placed upon the lithographic stone and pressed,
and the stone reproduces, with scrupulous precision,
the original engraving or book. This impression
should not, however, serve, such as it is. It is
itself covered with the same preparation, and it may
then print thousands of copies by the ordinary process
of every sort of lithography. Five minutes suffice for
both operations. The original engravings may be re-
stored to the portfolio which has supplied it, for it has
not been in the slightest degree injured ; the book,
thus wholly reprinted, may undergo another binding,
and honourably resume a place in your library. This
new process admits of a reduction of 75 per cent. upon
the expense of printing ; and as for engraving, that
which on copper would have cost 100 francs, will now cost
but 20 francs! What consequences will not this dis-
covery yield? It threatens the graphic art, engraving
and printing, with a complete revolution.—lnventor's
Advocate and Patentee's Recorder.