The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-11 00:00:00

and Learned Member for Clare, the most bat- '
encial and powerful leader of the Roman Ca-
tholics of Ireland, denominate, with characteristic
mildness and gratitude, " The doubly Algerinc
Act," and find him exulting in the notion that it
may safely be defied and effectually defeated by
a happy decree of his own. We fear the ques-
tion will bring down upon us the charge of
illiberality ; but we cannot refrain from asking
if this device of the HOn. and Learned Gentle-
man is to be taken as one of the proofs of Ca-
tholic loyalty and respect for the laws and con-
stitution which were to follow, and which
we are daily told have in fact followed,
the removal of religious distinctions ? The.
establishment of an office in Dublin for
Parliamentary purposes, to be maintained by
subscription, and managed by Mr. Edward
Dwyer, " the Gentleman who has been for some
years the laborious and exemplary Secretary of
the late Catholic A ssociation," is the ingenious
contrivance by which Mr. O'Connell teaches his
fellow-countrymen that they may safely violate
the spirit of the law. That this is the object
the institution really has in view, there can be
no doubt. Mr. O'Connell indeed avows it as
explicitly (perhaps more so) as is at all consist-
ent with prudence. We quote his own words.
" The subscribers will, I trust, form themselves

into a Parliamentary Society. I love perfect
candour, and therefore I frankly avow that I
look on this body of subscribers as most likely'
to form the basis of that great National Society
which I contemplate in order to render the
repeal of the Union peaceable and tranquil, as
it is 1 think inevitable. I would instantly com-
mence the formation of that Society but for the
existence of the doubly Algerine Act of the last
Session. This Act it is that makes it wise to

have the 'subscriptions paid in to a single indi-
vidual. Mr. Dwyer will publish monthly ac-
counts of the receipts and disbursements." Mr.
O'Connell is here plain and candid enough. He
evidently has no wish that his project should be
misunderstood ; but as the law cannot be out-
raged unless under a disguise, he adopts the
most flimsy he can imagine. An Anti-Union
Association—an Anti-Union rent—the Se-
cretary of the one, and the receiver of the
other, being the laborious and exemplary
Secretary of the • late Catholic Associ-
ation, are features of the project over
which it is not thought necessary that the
veil should be thrown, and these being seen all
the rest may surely be inferred, It is the impe-
rious duty :of the Irish Government to watch
with the most anxious care and circumspection
the proceedings of the Roman Catholic leaders.
To urge them to the adequate and effective dis-
charge of this duty, and, so far as we can, to
assist them in its performance, is the object of
that attention which we have paid, anti shall
continue to pay, to whatever is going on in Ire-
land. It is no part of our object to stigmatize
or discredit the important measure recently
adopted by the Legislature, but we must be per-
mitted to say, that if the advantages anticipated
by its advocates are to be realised, or _ the evils
foretold by its opponents to be avoided, the cor-
rective and repressive laws which accompanied it
must be enforced and upheld according to their
true spirit and meaning. And how, we would
ask, is a law to be upheld, if Mr. O'Connell,
or any other man, be permitted to arouse the
passions of the people against it ; to expose it to
their contempt and abhorrence by the most vio-
lent and intemperate abuse. To call a recent
Act of the Legislature, " a doubly Algerine
Act," is perhaps temperate and allowable dis-
cussion, or perhaps it is an inflammatory and
seditious libel. Upon this legal question we
would willingly defer to the opinion of the Irish
Attorney-General. But should the expression
be pronounced an inflammatory and seditious
libel by competent authority, we would then ask
the Members of his Majesty's Government if
Mr. O'Connell hare any longer an apology for
such a crime, and if the impunity of such a
crime, when habitually committed by such a
man, be consistent with the character and dignity
of the Administration, with a determination on
its part to uphold the law, with the tranquillity
and welfare of Ireland, with the advantages ex-
pected to follow the admission of Roman Catho-
lics to political power ?—Morning Post.

DUBLIN.

COMMISSION COURT—TursDA r.

Margaret M'Daniel was indicted for manslaugh-
ter, by throwing Mary M'Daniel, her mother, into
the Grand Canal, on the 19th of December.
Margaret Cummins examined—l live beyond
Leeson-street bridge. I knew Mary M'Daniel ; she
is dead. The prisoner at the bar is her daughter.
I was in the company of the deceased the 19th of
December last, about eleven at night. We went to
look for her daughter. She overtook us on the new
road, near Fitzwilliam-square. Her mother turned
round and called her a night-walking —. The
prisoner said she was no such thing. She appeared
intoxicated. When we came near the Canal the
prisoner got into handy-grips with the deceased.
The prisoner's arm was round the mother, and she
fell into the Canal. The prisoner then said " Now
she's gone !" The prisoner said she would go the
same ground herself, meaning that she would drown
herself. She did not seem in despair, but was going
to throw herself in, but I stopped her. The mother
cried out, " Margaret, Margaret !" as she floated on
the water. I screemed and screeched. She said
nothing but " Now she's gone."
By the COURT—What manner did she say it,
with regret or exultation ?—she said " she's gone,"
and then said "she'd go the same:ground herself"—
shc was going to drown herself, when I stopped her
—the mother cried out " Margaret, Margaret !"
She did not sink at once, but floated. I was scream-
log, the prisoner was crying. I screeched out, she
did not. She said nothing at that time but " now
she's gone." The body remained four or five mi-
nutes over the water, and then sunk. I took the
prisoner to where I live. She went freely with me.
I told a woman in the neighbourhood what had
happened, and then told her husband. Her husband
lives in a little house 30 or 40 yards from the place.
As we went along, the prisoner said to ale "nobody
knows but ourselves both, and you may discover
if you like." She gave me leave to tell. I saw the
body on Monday morning again. I left the prisoner
locked up in my house. She remained with me all
night until morning. Next morning I saw the body
on the Canal, and in about half an hour afterwards
she was taken into custody. She made no attempt
to get away. She might have escaped if she wished.
No other evidence was adduced.
Judge ;MORE briefly charged the Jury, who re-
turned a verdict of Guilty.

Huddersfield market has, during the three last
weeks, been unusually brisk. On Tuesday last a very
considerable quantity of cloth was sold, and a great deal
more would have been disposed of, if the assortment of
goods hail been suited to the demand. This not being the
case, some of the, orders were given by the merchants to
the manufacturers for such goods as the market did not
furnish. The demand for duffils is now neatly over for
the season, and the trade in the neighbourhood of Horbury
and Osset has in consequence fallen off so much as to oc-
casion several good workmen to be out of employment.
The two first markets in the year at Halifax and Bradford
have both been very flat, and little buying si was done in
either.—Leeds Mercury.