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

all connected with them in the Administration of 1
that country. To-day, however, after such long
and stupendous labours—after *e.stittg tnote words
than would have stifficed, if properly applied, to 1
writ a history of Ireland, and gain immortality
for its author—to-day the crack Vvtitet bt
the Times—the great accuser of the Govern-
ment—the Attorney-General of the Tories, says,
‘‘ It is possible that by this time the simple folks
who have heretofore been unable to understand
what the charge against the Irish Govern-
ment really is, may be beginning to get a glimpse
of its actual character." Poor, disappointed, in-
efficient scribbler. What ! your simple readers only
now begin, " may be," to understand, what you have
been writing about day after day for six months
What dolts they must be, unless you have been all
this time trying to mislead them, and now, finding
that you have failed, you turn round and try to
persuade them that they have never understood
you. We can inform the readers of the Times,
that the last is the case ; that for six
months the Times has been accusing the Mi-
nisters of abetting the crimes of Ribandism, by
pardons, by silence, by refusing to notice the accu-
sations brought against the Ribandmen, by not at-
tending to the ridiculous and exaggerated tales of
witnesses without names, brought forward by Mr.
ROW N. But to-day, the Times goes from all these
charges ; says that, " the:existence of Ribandism is
a vexatious embarrassment to the Ministers ;" and
limits its charge to " having committed the fraud of
denying the facts, and of lulling Parliament into a
false security," that is, in fact, to abet Ribandism ;
so that the veracious Times cannot stick to the same
charge, in the same column, on the same day, and
then pretends to wonder, that its simple-minded
dolts of readers do not yet understand the various and
contradictory charges it makes from day to day. If,
after its mortifying confession of this morning, veil-
ing an announcement that it has endeavoured to
mislead them, there be found one of them who shall
continue to place the least reliance on its political
charges, he will be a proper dupe for any impudent
quack to impose on. Our Contemporary is fre-
quently indignant with the Papists for the blind
confidence which they place in their priests. His
language this morning, ought to convince many
persons, that there are priests in politics, as
well as in religion, who demand a blinder faith
in their followers than is even required by Popish
priests. Our Contemporary, like the POPE, claims
to be infallible ; but urges his claim mare conti-
nually and far more arrogantly, and exacts a more
dutiful belief in his varying doctrines, than the pre-
sent humbled occupant of ST. PETER'S Chair.

We cordially concur in the remark of a Corres
pondent that " in the majority of cases when
e
inquests are held on suicides, they do no manner
of good, and they often do harm." Nay, we are
inclined to go farther, and assert that the frequency
of these inquests, and the publicity given to then.
by the Press, have led to ten times more violent
deaths than all the homicides and murders together
which they may have been the means of bringing to
light. Man is the most imitative of all animals,
whether for good or evil. What one does, how-
ever atrocious the deed, or however painful to him.
self, others are inclined to imitate, and the frequent
repetition of the crime strips it proportionally of
its terrors. It was the practice at one time to hang
up together at the Old Bailey fifteen or twenty
fellow-creatures for forgeries or some other offences
now not capital. Did these awful examples
check crime. One would suppose they rather en-
couraged it, for since the mitigation of the law
several of the offences formerly capital have de-
creased. An execution is looked upon with infi-
nitely more horror by the rising generation than it
was by their fathers, and consequently. has a greater
effect now in checking capital offences. The same
rule applies to suicides, and instead of blazoning
these before the multitude, by entering into need-
less details, and making frivolous inquiries to sa-
tisfy vain curiosity, it ought to be the duty of the
Coroner to check investigation at once, when, as is
the case in nine cases out of ten, there is no pos-
sible doubt of the cause of death. We have not
seen any returns of the number Of suicides in Scot-
land, but,, judging from analogy, we should infer
that they are not half so frequent there as in Eng.
land, solely because the 'particulars elicited during
the. investigation, and generally the fact itself, are
concealed from the public eye.

The Madrid Journals received this morning are
of the 14th inst. They contain no political news
of any interest. The Cabinet still staggers on, now
threatening a dissolution of the Chambers, and the
next moment a dissolution of itself. We find dread-
ful accounts in the Journals of atrocities committed
by CABRERA. One paper states that he horribly
mutilated a Christino General who sought an inter-
view with him in order to persuade him to surrender.
The sufferings of the wretches retained by him ac
hostages are incredible.