The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-13 00:00:00

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e pect it, in the extinction of tithes---without the sub-
stitution of any equivalent. The Irish Clergy are as
deaf as adders, and as blind as moles. They know
o
I:tiling, and can be made to understand nothing, of
0 e inighty
° change that has been effected in public
tPinton England, on the subject of ecclesiastical
They will
exactions within the last seven years.
,heY will continue madly in their present career till
lel' shall have scaled the doom of the Church tempo
talities in the Sister Kingdom ; and thcii it will be too
lat° to discover, that by adopting the salutary advice of
1,,
e7r. O'CoNNELL—by grasping the hand which in
h 'IV he held out to them—such a catastrophe would
have been averted.
A.

't
a public dinner given to Messrs. WEST and
11441LT°N, by the Tory electors of Dublin on
u"day last, the well-known MURTAGII
ti
V4N) who was present, let fl) one of his most viru-
_ht clerical anathemas against the Catholics, and
everything connected with Catholicism. "I do not
eelPect," commenced the Reverend fulminator, " that I
hs!l entertain you. Ido not seek to entertain you."
This 13 modest—far too modest—for MURTAGII'S
speech Was, in truth, the most entertaining one of the
:"1.1111)% i Others were simply stupid. He was rre-
:tthlY absurd. To be sure, Lord RATIIDOWNE,
° Was in the chair, essayed a joke touching
0,11
C"IsTELL's " tail ;" but what is a RATH-
°WNE'S facetiousness, compared to a SULLIVAN'S
ab
• surditY ? Think of the rev. Gent's. professing his
Ignorance of the words " Church Reform I" Think of
h
not knowing that the Irish Protestant Establishment
Xtams nearly as many shepherds as flocks ; and is,
things considered, about the richest Church in the
World MURTAGII'S wonderment betrays a fine
a?Prehension of the unsophisticated ; but, at the same
time,
same
it will deceive none but the unwary; for it is
r the clerical agitator, who, in the event of a change
o
Ministry, is qualifying himself for an Irish bi-
ti
thi°Pric, that will be likely to exercise influence over
le minds of considerate people. Let MURTAGH say
'at he will about the virtues of his darling church—
thatl church must be reformed. It Must be brought
t
harmonize with the times, or there is no hope of
prosperity for Ireland. Lord RATIIDOWNE, who made
vers speeches in the course of the evening, in one
()le
then], took the opportunity of comparing himself to
4,ClcEito." Possibly there may exist a striking re-
o Llance between the two orators, but we must
honestly confess that hitherto we have not been able
todetect any. But perhaps we are prejudiced. Mr.
4"., who was specially choleric and damnatory,
after abusing O'CONNELL, in the choicest vernacular
°}3f Wapping, next directed his polite attention to the
the
observing, " I believe the vote by Ballot to be
the
despicable resource of political cowardice, seeking
.means of authenticating falsehood, and cheating
honesty
of its best reward in the open testimony of fearless
marching
!" This is rich ! Conceive " fearless" honesty
Pching up to the polling booth at the tail of
8.4 agent or parson, with ten pounds in its con-
ceteutious pocket ! " Fearless honesty," indeed !
ertes, there was much of this same quality in the
,cluduct of some of the more dependent Devonshire
,electors the other day, when they were marched up by
'hundreds, like cattle driven to market, to vote for
wfit
Member their Tory landlords should think
t impose on them I We should like exceedingly
° know by what amount of " fearless honesty" it was,
bthat Mr. HUTT lost his election for Hull, and Sir
DONKIN for Berwick I When a Tory talks
about " fearless honesty," we are invariably reminded
of Jonathan Wild's sage discourse to his gang
Hhout virtue, integrity, and so forth. On the whole,
the dinner in question seems to have gone off very
iletvily ; and as there was not the slightest display of
"fluation—except on the part of MURTAGH O'SUL-
glit"' scems,to have an innate genius for the
4-eser& qu -
e and absur_
d—we conclude that the " strong
)
Th
were but of indifferent quality.

dissolution of the Spanish Cortes—of the &-
tali' of which a brief report will be found in another
7i4no--took place on the 4th inst. The REGENT
jd not attend personally on this occasion, her MA-
t."TY contenting herself' with decreeing the dissolu-
tion of the Chamber. Such a manifestation of
...°'nness on the part of the Queen REGENT might very
and very wisely, have been spared. No repre-
sentative assembly could execute the functions it was
called upon to perform with more moderation ; and we
"Ist confess, that if there be any thing in its past
,PTeeedings which calls for the expression of surprise,
,
is the uniform respect with which it treated a So-
' EIIEIGN who on more than one occasion took
by
for betraying it, and was only prevented
by
its patriotism from carrying them into effect.
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a legislative assembly, called together under the
Illnst adverse circumstances, the Spanish Cortes
Oanti its proceedings with unexampled calmness,
the instances were rare in which its measures
weret not based on the purest principles of represen-
taill "re government. It was not unknown to any
with
of that body that the QUEEN had intrigued
General ESPA RTERO to overthrow the Govern-
ment, and to dictate, in conjunction with the Camarillo,
the
(.i future proceedings of the Cortes ; yet in the
ebates that followed upon the upsetting of ti;-,s
infamous scheme, the QUEEN'S name was '%
.ever
e
Ini°lled but in terms of the utmos-k,
respect.
l".e manner, though it was known that
of I‘l-AJEsTv had received a V:oe of three millions
with the
to sign the contract
the House of 13,(17, entered into by TORENO
e "lines A 1 Hsctunn, for the working of
th• of aden—with a perfect understanding
onet:iatleis?lll":act so. entered into was different from the
tavt.• -mined by the Cortes—still the Cortex, in at-
all:t.ng. the corrupt Minister, carefully avoided all
"th:ltltt to the personal coiruntion of the SOVEREIGN.
Chamber denounced TOREN°, who had only
ioeitetsi
establish
1: one million by the dishonest transaction ; but
the by its Acts the personal irresponsibility of
SOVEREIGN, it was silent respecting the three mil-
t scandalously appropriated by the REGENT.
Lit to
CrOWn the moderation of its conduct, one of
•pz.eflftSt Acts of the Cortes *as to dismiss the charges
Co:red against TOREN() with the full consent of the
ftnittee that preferred them—thus establishing
®et' that
the
ing that the sole object of the Chamber in entcrtaio,
resolutions for the impeachment of that A3,linister
ai;rto° deter others from following ex,mpie,
kvou the North of Spiv. ;he accounts arc rather
ti "able than otherw;:se,
tt ESPARTERO has crossed
)•etrem, 44°, and preparing to attack Estella. The
_
ellect u" CARLOS has had a most disastrous
evil upon thq fortunes of the Pretender. " The
of hic:"eo."..cnces to Don CARLOS, from the failure
of . ..spedition," writes the Bayonne Correspondent
7. • Tory
inrMorning Contemporary, under date of the
qig r_ " are far from being brought to a close by
.eturn into the northern provinces. Besides the
"vital)]
teth Y moral effect injurious to his cause that this
Provitrn
;° t produce not only on the people of those
told • e 8) but on his partisans in other parts of Spain
111 •
%Vide Europe in general, it has given rise to the most
psin "read dissension amongst his chief officers and
!Itch
followers. There arc, it appears, as manyyartics
°°flictn
!Itch of • g
is
as there are individual
_chiefs,
g theajwnom is equally anxious and obstinate in urg-
This :option and execution of his own peculiar plans.
titiced nruskul of counsel has, it is said, al.ready pro-
s°The of artist
s, its fruits, by causing the !Arrest of two
chief VILLAREAL and LA
:fl RE, and f.j,e