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

THE LONDON. THITRSDAYI OCTOBER, 10., 1839.

have so long enjoyed power and opul, trace under the
system, may advocate and promote ch anges to serve
their own interest, it cannot be a crial to in the poor
to strive for a change in a system under which they
have suffered so long. In all these c ases, whether
the individuals be landlords and clergymen calling
themselves Conservatives, or hardworking hand-
labourers calling themselves Chartists, they all seek
exactly the same thing—a change to promote what
they suppose to be their own advantage. There
can be nothing immoral or wrong in the universal
pursuit ; and, looking at the condition of the work-
ing classes in this country, the wonder is that so-
ciety should have rubbed on so long as it has in
pain and difficulty, rather than that it should now
appear to be on the eve of great changes promoted
by the efforts of landlords, priests, and Chartists.

We have not of late directed much of our own
or of the public attention to Ireland, considering
the subject a drug in the newspaper market. The
Monthly Chronicle, however, has adverted to one
point of the case which seems to us so apt an illus-
tration of the tactics of party, and of the difficulty
of getting accurate information on any Irish subject,
that we shall bring it under the notice of our readers.
The Earl of RODEN, on moving for the celebrated
Committee, on March 20th, closed his case with an
emphatic account of the persecution suffered by the
Protestants of the West of Ireland, on account of
their religion. Mr. NANGLE, and the persecutions
at Achill, have indeed been trumpeted abroad by
the Orange press of Ireland. The Noble Earl, by
reserving that case for the close of his oration,
deemed it, no doubt, the strongest and most impres-
sive, and he wrought it up with considerable skill,
so as to make a profound impression on his almost
exclusively Protestant audience.

Amongst the witnesses to the diabolical lan-
guage and conduct of the Catholics was a Mr.
REYNOLDS, the chief officer of the Coast Guard.
He swore, said the Noble Earl, that the
priest CONOLLY had declared in his chapel
that he would banish Mr. NANGLE and all
the Protestants from Achill, and any man who
should take their part. Having worked up
his auditory by this tale of persecution, and having
over and over again stated that the lives of Protes-
tants were not safe in Ireland—having condemned
the Ministers for neglecting the complaints of the
persecuted Mr. NANGLE—and having wound up
the Lords, so that they were ready to be-
lieve anything of the unrelenting, persecuting
Catholics, the Noble Earl concluded his harrow-
ing statement by saying, that in the meantime,
before Lord MORPETH had listened to the
complaints of the Protestants, one of the wit-
nesses whose evidence he had quoted, Mr. REY-
NOLDS, was murdered in Achill." There was a
thrill of horror in the assembly, and a corresponding
thrill of horror in the country, when the speech was
read, and nobody had the smallest doubt that the
witness REYNOLDS was murdered by the Catho-
lics to get rid of his testimony. We had no doubt ;
other persons had none ; and the Monthly Chro-
nicle very naturally adopted the same opinion

" Before the conclusion, his Lordship made a long
statement about the Achill mission; and intimated that
Mr. Reynolds, a Protestant officer in the Coast-guard
Blockade, had been murdered in consequence of the
evidence which he had given before a Committee of the
House of Lords."

But the Earl of RODEN, according to the report
in HANSARD, said nothing about the death of
REYNOLDS being the consequence of the evidence
which he had given ; he most cunningly left it to be
inferred, and created the impression on the minds of
his hearers without saying it, just as Sir ROBERT
PEEL, in the debate on the Irish Coercion Act,
told a horrid tale of a murder committed in Ireland
twenty years before, omitting the date, and induced
his hearers to believe that it was perpretrated sub-
sequent to the passing of the Reform Act. The
Monthly Chronicle gives the following explanation
of the case
"In reference to this statement and the insinuation it
contains, we refer the reader to the Monthly Chronicle for
April last, in which the whole case and the result of the
trial of Lavelle, the imputed murderer of Mr. Reynolds,
is given ; by which it will be seen that Mr. Reynolds
broke into Lavelle's house at night, attempted, without
the slightest provocation, to take his life, and was killed in
the scuffle' which ensued. The accused, therefore, was
not only fully acquitted, but the friends of the deceased
unanimously declared that the man was fully justified by
the circumstances and the necessity of self-defence. So
much for one of Lord Roden's special facts."

Such is an illustration, we believe, of nine-tenths
of what is called evidence on the state of Ireland.
One man, like the pious Lord RoDEN, creates an
impression which he knows to be false. Another
person, like the writer of the Monthly Chronicle, as-
serts, from the impression, that Lord RODEN said
what he only implied. Contradiction is given and
retorted, and truth is wholly obscured amidst a
world of fine writing and thorough-bred oratory.
Such exaggerations, and such contradictions, per-
vading the whole mass of the evidence given con-
cerning Ireland has disgusted us, and, we believe,
has disgusted the bulk of the English public, with
the subject.
We cannot conclude without observing that the
Earl of RODEN is imperatively required to clear up
this case. He either knew that Mr. REYNOLDS
lost his life in the manner described by the Monthly
Chronicle, and was not murdered, or he did not.
If he did not, he was culpably remiss in alluding to
the case in the manner he did, till he had ascer-
tained the fact ; if he did, in asserting that Mr.
REYNOLDS was murdered, he knowingly told a pal-
pable untruth ; and told it for a base and wicked
purpose. Such conduct, in our opinion, in a No-
bleman and a legislator, is a greater crime than
many of the crimes for which men suffer the penalties
of the law. Lord RODEN, from, a regard to his own
character, must prove that the case, as stated in the
.illoirthly Chronicle, is entirely erroneous, or he must
lie under the heaviest imputation that can be thrown
on any gentleman. At present he is accused of
having knowingly made a false assertion in the
House of Peers in order to excite a sentiment of
hatred against his Catholic countrymen. Can any-
thing worse be said of a Noble Legislator ?

•
The notice we have copied from the Manchesia'.
Guardian, of the reception given by Lord PALMER.
STON to certain memorialists concerning the China
trade, and his Lordship's reported opinions, will be
read with interest. We are not aware what mea-
sures the Ministers mean to adopt on that question,
but the country would support them in adopting
strong measures.

The case of WILLIAM CARSON, the Quaker,
which will be found stated in another column, is one
of those illustrations of clerical rapacity which almost
every passing day affords. Here is a man belong-
ing to a religious sect, known to be conscientiously
opposed to any acknowledgment of the principle that
the Gospel of CHRIST is to be preached for hire,
punished by the distraint of his goods, at the in-
stance of his parish Rector, because he objects to
pay fourpence haffpenny demanded of him as Eas-
ter dues ! These dues, as they are now called,
were originally voluntary offerings given to the
Priest by those who thought his piety, humility,
disinterestedness, faithfulness, or other good quali-
ties deserved a token of their good-will. The
Church, however, with that grasping spirit which,
in all her changes, has been her unchanging charac-
teristic ever since she was united to the State,
and which seems to grow with age, usurped as
a right what had been a mere matter of
grace and favour. Hence we see the free-
will offering of the grateful worshipper to the
conscientious minister of CHRIST, converted into
a charge extorted from a reluctant member of a dif-
ferent religion, by a person who is often notorious
for qualities the very opposite to those which merit
a good man's approbation.

The French Government, after blockading the
harbours of Buenos Ayres for eighteen months,
having failed to bring the President of that Re-

public penitentially to his knees, expends its ill
humour in a violent attack on the British Ambas-
sador at Monte Video, whom it charges with en-
couraging Roses to hold out, by promises of Bri-
tish mediation and support. This attack is appro-
priately made through the columns of the Journal
des Debuts of Tuesday ; and in addition to its
immediate object—the repudiation of British me-
diation in any form, and the denunciation in
particular of the conduct of Mr. MANDEVILLE,
Ambassador to the Argentine Republic—it affords
the French Government an opportunity of setting
forth its ultimate intentions. " Whatever obstacles
may be placed in the way of France," says the
Debats, "no matter by whom, it is impossible for
ner to recede, and she will not lecede. But should
the blind obstinacy of Roses find a support, in the
selfish policy of a foreign Power, it would be an
embarrassment the more in relations, which, through
some deplorable fatality, are impaired daily by
fresh difficulties, and the consequences of such a
situation would be soon felt in a sphere of more
exalted interests." In pursuance of this resolution,
which the Debats elsewhere distinctly states ex-
cludes the possibility of an amicable settlement of
the question in London, or the employment of
British:mediation:in any way, Admiral LEBLANC is
to be replaced in the command of the blockading
squadron by Admiral D UPO TE T, Who is to sail from
Brest, in a short time for the River La Plata. " His
arrival there," continues the Debats, " will prove to
the Government of Buenos Ayres that France is
determined on extorting satisfaction from them at
any price, and will prove to Roses, who seems to
rely on the support of England, that the Govern-
ment of that country sees with indifference the con-
tinuation of a state of things which is nevertheless
injurious to the interests of her own commerce, or
that France is not disposed to attend to her repre-
sentations in favour of Roses--that is, supposing
the Cabinet of Great Britain has deemed it expe-
dient to make any."

Thus rather than forego the paltry gratification
of a miserable triumph over the weak, distracted,
and obscure republic of Buenos Ayres, the French
Government openly and unnecessarily avows its
readiness to sacrifice the British alliance at the
very time when it is most her interest 10 cherish it.
The Debats attributes the frequent recurrence lat-
terly of incidents calculated to weaken the alliance
between the two countries, to a " deplorable fa-
tality." By what fatality, we ask, was the Debats
compelled to give insertion to the article upon
which we are now commenting? By what fatality
was the writer of that article led to state, without
any reasonable pretext for so doing, that
France would sacrifice the friendship of
of England rather than abate one jot of her claims
of vengeance against the Argentine Republic ? We
are not here offering any opinion as to the
justice of the claims made by France ; because
we believe that, among all reasonable people,
there cannot be a second opinion upon the subject.
France is herself perfectly conscious that she, and
not the Argentine Republic, is to blame ; but she
committed the blunder of proclaiming a blockade,
and lacks the magnanimity to confess herself mis-
taken, or even to extricate herself from a position
which disgraces her, by the proffered mediation of
a friendly Power. Her Government dreads the
ridicule of the Chambers and of the British Parlia-
ment more than the hatred of the people of
South America. This is, perhaps, as much
a matter of taste in the opinion of the
Debats as a question of morality ; but in
whatever way it is viewed, we think it highly
imprudent to employ it in any way which can con-
duce to evoke a spirit of hostility between the
Governments of England and France.

There is no domestic news of interest in the
French Journals. The little intelligence there is
from the East, and the accounts from Madrid
received to the 2d instant, will be found in
another part of The Sun. The price of corn con-
tinued to decline in most of the markets of France.
We find the following article in the fileditcrraneo, a
journal published at Malta :—" Letters from Tabriz state
that the Russian Consul having demanded satisfaction for
the insults which had been received by a Russian in the
late disturbances in that city, Mohammed Shah bad or-
dered the arrest of the persons who were guilty. But the
chief Imaurn having incited the people against this mea-
sure, a great crowd proceeded to the hotel of the Gover-
nor, to demand the release of the person arrested. The
Governor having betaken himself to flight, the people re-
paired to the prison, fired the doors, and liberated the pri-
soner; they then went to sack the house of the Consul,
and those of several other Russian subjects. It is said
that the Consul has fled to Tiflis, and has demanded that
the inhabitants of Tabriz shall b 3 severely punished.
These [disturbances are excited by Russia, whose designs
on Persia are manifest."—Journal des Debats.
We have just received the Barcelona journals of
Sept. 27.. They say that the Captain-General Valdez,
was on the 23d at Prats de Luisanes, and that the di.
visions of the army occupied a line four or five leagues
distant from Berga ; they were preparing to move forwards.
Lord Charles Stuart de Rothsay, formerly English
Ambassador in France, and one of the Generals who
were engaged in the war in the Peninsula in 1808, lately
arrived incognito at Barcelona. A guard of honour was
offered to him which he refused to accept.
A letter from Alexandria of Sept. 17th, says The
Government has 900,000 ardeps of wheat to sell, which
has been sold at 50p. (;.iastres ?) and at Burtijat 25
ships are wanting. The captains refuse to freight for
Trieste at 1 talare per ardep.
BOURSE.--PARIS, TUESDAY, OCT. 8.
first Highest Lowest Last
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4 per Cents lOl 60 ... 101 60 ... 101 60 101 60
3 per Cents Bl ... 81 60 81 53 ... 81 55
Bank of trance 2BlO ...2810 —2BlO
Latlitte Bank 1,00(11. Ski 1069 ...103,-1 ...1060 —1660
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Belgian 5 per Cents lOl% ... 101% 16114 1011.‘
Belgian 3 per Cents 7l ilk 71 90 71 85 ... 11 85
Bank 775 ... 775 775 ... 775
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Spanish Active
Passive 8 ... 8 ... ... 7%
Old Deferrcd 9 ... ... 8%
Portuguese 3 per Cents
5 per Cents 3P4 3454 ... 30.; ... 3414
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Roman lO3 10314-. ... 103% ... 10314

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