The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-02 00:00:00

SIMULTANEOUS lITEPITINGS—. the Railway Commissioners ? They are against the THEIR MOMENTOUS CONSEVJENCES: extension of the elective franchise—they are against
1 education—they are indifferent to taxes, to corn-
( From the Dublin ALI-mug Registe)**o
r I merce, to agriculture—they invent nothing for the
It is quite impossible to exaggerate the imp grtan ee o , l
e people—they
(10
tI
e), interpose demand nothing-_ ot hi ng
when— h 11
ot
tigl
er ar
s-
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Providence t 1
a great national display on the 7th of April. Life am
cgZauds
aarehlicfrideavouring .to set hundreds of thousands of
death is nearly the interest at stake ; life. or death; cer-
tainly, to many—freedom or oppression to all! It ca,ar,•ot
be denied that the faction, who want to have an ospportts • of -.etarying people at work upon an undertaking
santage to the whole empire ? Yes, they de.
nity of trampling again upon the people of Ireland, carry l',ven
their policy in multiplied instances even to the destrtre, -
posed
railways on a great and comprehensive scale are
ov
beir, by this accursed faction—why er wherefore
tniieancan account for on any principle of action,
tion of human life. The devil has got it into their
half-crazy heads that there are too many people in
ontolier that Parks
i innate hatred of country and kind
the land—too many, at all events, as they think,
t,vhich,. en.sr
iiem in
hso many other instances. Let
of one persuasion. There is no way of getting rid of
tins faction- then,
easement of I'risnli, have no
Let them ninot thebe ma-
ths gallows, but the " clearance" process ; and is it not
tnask-rnasters let ti_
that they would turn‘lifsr their evil ways! Would
going on in every quarter of the island, and has it not
that they would feet that the God who has given
been going on these ten or twenty years ? If the details
and aregcoourdn,trayodwlodfchw
could be come at with any accuracy, it would probably
them W, has given' them
which
a ehn tiii
be found that five hundred thousand human beings have
tied to their sympathy
as yet been put to a cruel and lingering death by this hell- .
that they -
, is parricidal
born process. The great charge against Lord Norman s wculd that they would give up their
nature
insane and chi-
Government is, that he did not encourage and protect its
meric,ll notion, that it is in the .of things that
agents as cordially as some of his predecessors. He pro-
e again
they ca. . trample on the liberties of Ireland!
claimed the immortal truth, and acted upon its dictates,
Read • would the universal people be to hold out the
that " property has duties," and for this he is vilified 3
and denounced. His assailants want the recognition of hand of fellowship to them, and draw them close to
their confidence and affections. Alas ! alas! they have
no duty of property. They wish to have the power of'
given but too substantial proofs- that they are not yet
treating myriads of human beings, whom a sad destiny
to be conciliated. Sorry should. we be to believe that
has thrown upon their properties, as so many vermin.
the time is not to come, and ev(Da speedily, when Ire-
It has been noticed that within a few years succeeding
1816 they contrived to get six Acts of Parliament land will, in all sections of her people, be an united,
passed to increase their power over the lives, liberty, and happy, and prosperous country. But the advent will
Le distant, indeed, if we retrace our steps one inch ; and
property of their tenantry. It has been noticed that
for several years, with the cordial consent of the Irish we will not only make a retrograde movement, but run
the risk of being plunged back into irremediable ruin,
Executive, they had not merely a police force, but an
if our vablie men desert their duty on the 7th. Again
army at their back to protect them in the most wanton
their newly-acquired autho-
and capricious exercise of' and again we repeat that A GREAT NATIONAL DISPLAY
on that occas.on cannot be over estimated in its effects
rity. This is the system they want to have perpetuated.
They wish to reduce the population until it conies down on life, liberty, and property—on everything, in short,
to the level of their convenience. Indeed reduction of clear to this long-suffering country. An era has arrived,
mere numbers will not please them, if the numbers be and indifference to the duties it imposes upon every
not of that religion which has had a more glorious ex- being deserving the name of Irishman may not be re.
istence in this country than anv spot of the earth for paired by the struggles of a century !
upwards of fourteen hundred years. To put out Ca-
tholics—to banish them with fire and sword—will not
suffice if they be not able to colonise at their discretion
with Protestants. In their public meetings the evils It is pithily observed by an able writer in the London
of intercourse with Catholics are insisted upon— and Westminster Review, that " there may be many
the meritoriousness of exclusive dealing openly pro- coteries in a country, but there can be only two parties."
claimed. We must, say their orators l The present misfortune and peril of this country is that
have Protestants, not alone for our
domestic servants, and clerical ,
there only exists, for practical purposes; one party opposed
by a number of coteries. Perceiving- the advantage af-
but for the tillers of' our fields and the occupants of our forded them by the defects of the Reform Bill, the Tories
farms. In a Saunders ' s News Letter, Isl. bed
within
pu ishave completed their re-organization, and only wait th
a few days, Protestantism was set down as a necess their . . e
ar favourable moment to make union tell irresistibly
qualification, in one instance for a carter, and another
upon the disunion of their opponents. The very circum-
for a ploughman ! This, then, is the faction with which stance that organises them has disorganised the Reformers.
the Irish people have to contend. They are a ruthless The defects of the Reform Bill have not only crippled
and unnational faction. They hate the very name of their numerical strength, but alienated their minds,
Ireland, Irish-born though they be. We never will smothered their zeal, and split them into independent and
forget Dr. O'Phelan's open declaration in print, that he even hostile sections. Sooner or later the obvious conse-
quence must follow, and the nation be delivered over to
regarded England as his country.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead Tory ascendancy, unless the calamity- he averted by a
,
never to himself bath said, timely understanding and co-operation amongst the
Who
different sections of what should be the party of the
This is my own, my native land ?
Many and many such a man lives in Ireland. Dr, people, and which, being so, would render utterly
nugatory all hope of the domination of a faction.
O'Phelan boasted, in his book, that lie never claimed We are told that until a basis can be prepared and
Ireland as his native land, and he was rather a favoura- support obtaihed for a Ministry on the principles laid down
ble sample of your modern Con •
servative.There in our articles of last week, it is better to bear with the
. .
was nothing in Ireland, or belonging to Ireland, backwardness of the prasent Ministry than to incur the
that could engage his sympathies. He detested to evils of a Tory restoration. Be it 'so. We have net
hear any one talk of Irish genius—but who would counselled its demolition : but our position is, that agast
care for Dr. ()Theism if he were not of a school of the systematized operations of the Tory party the perms.-
Irish
politicians, and if there were not persons to ncnt support of the present Ministry is a moral impossi-
applaud him while he reviled and repudiated the bility. Its only chance is in the prompt occupation of
land of his birth ? We remember to have seen an ground on which it can be reunited with the multitudes of
the middle and working classes by whose means it carried
essay in the Mail in which the object was to prove that
the Refarm Bill; without that it must submit to the un-
the Irish were always a barbarous people ; that the
very names of their localities are savage ; that they have 17 ri
it ai fortunesisnoni t h a
badgeof a
oc
fo sae rite.o.
terTieheafintdialctyanof the Reformb
had no poets, no orators, no musicians, no painters, no banner ofya party ; and it is for a 'prolcsscdlyneve Liberale the
Ii
heroes, with a few—very few—exceptions—such as were nistry the worst Of all possible badges. It separates them
able to produce only one man tolerably distinguished in from their snpporters, and identifies them with their oppo•
the course of many ages. Who will forget the precaution vents. It pnts them continually at dabbers-drawn with
of the education worthies, who suppressed the fact of the their friends upon an abstraction; and the absurdest ab-
straction that has ever been canonised in legislation;
great proficiency, in a remarkable instance, as compared
with English, of Irish pupils, lest it should minister to and it now consigns the fate of their Government
the national vanity, and in that way disturb the " Pro- to the judgment, or the caprice, or the resentment, of
testant interest ?" In short,t lie faction are an unnatural
perhaps the smallest number of individuals that ever held
faction. It is not alone that they are tyrants, and bi-
Ilc interests should be thus poised, as it were, on a pin's
th. e balance
. of national change. Is it fitting that the pub-
gots, and exclusionists, but they are unnatural. They • e I
. its i' point. elust the cause of reform continue to be thus
hate their country ; they glory in shame and disrace;
g staked upon the turn of a die ?—and against so dextrous a
they do that which the inhabitant of the most ungenial - a pis:. er as Sir Robert Peel? The present Ministry only
region of the earth would blush to be guilty of in refer- I exists by Tory forbearance on the one hand, and ultra- '
ence to the miserable spot which Providence intended to 1 Radical forbearance on the other; and is only in a condi-
people, and in which it was the Almighty will that his lot ; tiou to exist upon this double forbearance by means of the
forbearance of its own supporters. it cannot be long
' should be cast. In one word, they are an unnatural
Faction. maintained in such a position. The choice must be made
between inevitable, perhaps disgraceful overthrow, and the
And this is the faction, forsooth, tow hose base uses
re-organization. of the Reform party. In that re-organiza-
all Ireland is to be sacrificed! They are not satisfied /
tthwen
stet
tmay co-operate. as honourably as any other of
with equality—they must have an " ascendency."
They have the impudence even now to openly declare I split ; caniodn,s
bo r
its into which the party has been
m • i
on, more e—ezent.y than any
that they seek for an " ascendancy" over the Catholic I other. Beside's, how is is a basis ever to be pepre a d
people of Ireland, who are, after all, THE people of I or support had, for a Ministry on the prineirplesin;
Ireland. How completely Ireland is in posses- question, unless some attempt be made to define the
sion of the Catholic people will probably ap. points about which a general agreement of Reformers
pear more strikingly from a glance at the i may fairly be anticipated, and to show the practicability,
following table than any other mode of illustration I the advantages, and the necessity of such union ? This
heretofore employed. Vl, re have compiled it from Mr. lis the task we have undertaken, little caring about specu-
W. Tighe Hamilton's abstract of the returns made up : lations on our motives, or minute criticisms on our projets
in the different ecclesiastical divisions of the country but anxious, above all things, to hasten, before it is too
late,l that general concurrence for reasonable objects, which
under the superintendence of the Commissioners of Public aon can prevent the many from becoming again the
Instruction. There is incompleteness in this respect, that plundered and insulted vassals of the few. And we ask,
its totals do not include the population of parishes which on what other grounds can an • ietellirsent ReformerToryism
show
embrace parts of two counties. On the whole, however, the Practicability of a permanent m
resistance. to
there is accuracy enough to lead to a just conclusion, and It cannot be effected on the policy of the present Ministry
and and there is no omission which does not affect one sect for that pokey is cut down to little more than their good
as much as the other : wishes. Even now it quivers on the single thread of Irish
administration. It cannot be effected by the hope, f pro-
gressive strength, for every election d'rmons'rates the in-
creasing power of the corrupt influences. It cannot be
effected by the combinations, threats, or violence of the
Chartists; for they only alarm other classes, invite
coercion, and add another coterie badge to the in-
signia that are already too much multiplied. It
cannot be effected by the popularity of economical reforms,
for these all pass one after another, into the class of unat-
tainables ; from the simplest of all, the taxation of Dis-
senters' consciences for the worship of a wealthy Establish.
ment, to the most generally interesting and odious of all—
the taxation of every person's bread for the profit of a
wealthy proprietary, every grievance is shown practically
to be contingent for its redress on a further reform in the
representative system. Where, then, can a stand be made
—how is adequate strength to be realised ?—what shadow
of hope exists, for baffling the wiles and force of the Tory
faction, but on the ground of such further representative
reforms as are most generally approved and most obviously
necessary ? As in the propositions themselves, those of
the Ballot, Household Suffrage, Triennial Parliaments, the
abolition of the property qualification, and a fairer distribu.
tion of the representation—we have been thought to go too
far by some, and not far enough by others ; so on the
question of time we have been deemed both too late and
pre too late we shall not be if our appeal is m—ature
re-
sponded to in a kindred spirit; nor can we think that we
are mooting too soon the re-organization of the Liberals
when the Tories are deliberating whether they shall, or
shall not, strike for the resumption of the Government.
The enemy is at the gates—we hold our own only by Tory I
toleration. Now is the time to sink our differences, and
uproar our best and broadest symbol of union. The petty
majority—if majority it shall be--on the lath, will do little
for the cause of Reform unless we are raised above the
peril of narrow escapes. Such a msjority may be indemnity
for past mistakes, as to the ground on which alone a Li-
beral Ministry can stand, but will, of itself, be no security
for the future. For that security we are endeavouring to
provide. It would, indeed, be sufficient for a full vindica-
tion of the present discussion of Representative Reform, to
point to the divisions on the Corn-law question. For the
manufacturing- and trading, and operative classes, the pre-
sent House of Commons bears the inscription which Dante
placed on tile gates of Hell. For them all hope is de-
nounced. They are not only told to go and perish, but told so
by a majority on which no exertion of town constituencies
can make any considerable impression. In the defects of
the Reform Act that majority stands invulnerable. Those
who will the end must will the means. The repeal of the
Corn-laws is an object for which there aro plainly, now,
no other means than representative reform ; and the most
practical reform, in kind and degree, is that which will
best advance the purpose of untaxing the people's bread.
We have endeavoured to indicate it. The honest advo.
cacy of cheap food left us no other alternative. Not to
theoretical speculations of political right, but to the prac-
tical terms of a practical union, have we invited the atten-
tion of all classes of Reformers. The more numerous the
points of disagreement amongst them, the more bitter their
recent disappointments, the more uncertain the prospect,
and the more critical the time, in that same proportion the
more urgent the occasion for giving our suggestions a full
and calm consideration; for acting upon them, if ap-
proved; and, if not, for showing in what other way there
is any permanent prospect of good government for the corn-
munity.—Morning Chronicle.
Rats, the Whigs of the vermin tribe!, are said to ex-
hibit an instinctive alacrity in abondoning their usual haunts
on the approach of any imminent danger. The prophetic
and calculating sagacity of those noxious animals has been
imitated during the past week, with characteristic shame-
lessness and singular succeess;by our quondam 'Ministerial
Contemporary the Morning Chronicle. Forgetful of past
favours, and entertaining no very lively anticipation of
favours to come, the Chronicle, abandoning the filth-stained
banner of Lord Melbourne, under which it has so long
crawled and crowed, now hoists the colours of his dupe
and victim, the ill-used, moral, Turton-and- Wakefield-
loving, melodramatic Earl of Durham. " The present
Ministers," says our newly enlightened Contemporary,
" have no banner; and, if they will not hoist that of popu-
lar right and security, others must." Having thus duly de-
nounced and discharged Viscount Melbourne, our Contem-
porary proceeds, "with good emphasis," but most equivocal
discretion, to call out his bidding for the future favour r of
the embryo Prime Minister of his choice the Earl of
Durham. The bidding amounts to •
I '
neitaer more nor less
than a copy of the recorded creed of that distinguished
and disgraced " Liberal :" the Ballot—Household Suf-

Protestants of' all
Catholics. descriptions.
Antrim, ... 87,3 A ... 223,142
Down, ... 109,446 ... 207,717
Londonderry,- 84,785 ... 104,445
Armagh, ... 93,161
... 104,446
" Fermanagh, ... 67,362
.., 48,318
T}rone, ... 146,785 ... 116,981
Donegal, ... 199,811 ... 85,275
Monaghan, ... 118,125 ... 44.324
Dublin, ••• 274,856 ... 87,168
Cavan, ••• 185,000 ... 41,438
Wicklow, ... 82,947 ..• 22,511
Leitrim, ... 95,263
••• 12,750
Queen's County, 107,088
... 14,324
King's County, 110,490
••• 13,655
Wexford, ... 159,778 ... 20,678
Carlow, ... 63,671 ••• 8,37
Sligo, ... 118,858
... 15,153
Longford, ... 97,763
•• • 9,618
Westmeath, ... 12,292
V“ Cork, ... 737 9,992
,197 . - 56,593
Kildare, ••• 92,255 ••• 7,742
Louth, ... 98,025
••• Meath, .. 157,257 7,695
••• 2
7
Waterford, ... 166,209 8,8
... 8,887
Kilkenny, ... 190.382
... 9,498
Limerick, .. • 300 909
... 11,959
Tipperary, ... 360,336
• . . 14,077
Mayo, •• • 368,938
... 13,393
Roscommon, ... 233
Kerry, • • • 261,903 7,290
,899 . • •
407,080 ... 7,022
Clare
Galway, ...
.•• 9,440
, .. • 253,211 ... 4,995
The reader sees by this that there are only two
counties of all Ireland in which there is any consider-
able Protestant majority-Antrim and Down. Here the
Protestants are somewhat more than two to one ; but
see the number of instances in which the superiority of
the Catholics is quite overwhelming. In Armagh,
Catholics and Protestants are nearly equal. It is
the same in Londonderry ; and we know a
worthy living pried-, whose father was at one
time, the only Catholic inhabitant in the ca-
pital of that county. In Fermanagh the Catho-
lics have a majority-they have a greater one in
Tyrone-a greater one still in Donegal and Monaghan
-and they exceed the Protestants by more than four
to one in Cavan. As for the rest of Ireland, to pursue
the comparison, except by the eye, would be a waste of
time. Look, we say to the reader, to column 1 and to
column 2, and decide whether Ireland is to be delivered
up as a prey to that portion of the minority which calls
itself Conservative or Orange. It is ever to be borne
in mind that some-nay, many-of the best, ablest,
and most wealthy Protestants in the country are
voluntarily and cordially embarked in the same bot-
tom with the people. Many of the principal landed
gentry, numbers of the professional and mercantile re-
spectability and wealth, and no small portion of the en-
tire middle, manufacturing, and agricultural classes of
the entire Protestant population are with the people.
It is only a faction that wants to tyrannize over the
whole island. It is not a small faction ; it has numbers,
and wealth, and rank, we are sorry to say ; it has perse- '
verance ; it has union ; it has courage. But look, reader,
to column I and to column 2, and say whether the peo-
ple of Ireland are to be trampled upon by this faction,
if it had ten times its present importance-nay, if it com-
prised the whole Protestant population of Ireland.
Let it. be asked what practical advantage this faction
ever rendered, or proposed to render to Ireland ? Many
good, and somegreat men, were against Poor-laws; but it
was the business of this faction, it was in their very
nature to be opposed to them. Did they ever battle
for one commercial or other benefit for the country ?
Many have been, in their desperation, for the re-
peal of the Act of Union-did this faction ever ask
for a realization of any one of the advantages that
Act proposed to confer upon Ireland ? They are
instinctively in favour of Corn-laws, because, what-
ever may be the effects of these laws upon proprietors
or occupiers, they assuredly do no good to the great
bulk of the people. But who can credit his „ears
when he finds this faction declaiming against at?out-
lay upon public works such as is contemplated by

ARISTOCRATIC LITERATURE.— In the de-
lightful new novel of " The Fergusons," we have another
instance of the growing literary taste and talent among
the younger branches of our highest nobility. The name
of its writer (which can scarcely long remain a secret) will
doubtless add another to the long and distinguished list of
the Normanbys, Mahons, Porchesters, Russells, Bray_
brookes, Nugents, Wharncliffes, Sec., who have recently so
well asserted the intellectual character and pretensions of
the mos tilustrious aristocracy in the world. " The Per-
gusons" gives as true and lively a picture of the actual
state of high society, both in London and the country, as
any work of the kind (and there are many and admirable
ones), which has issued from the press during the last few
years.
ANGLO-GERMAN AD VEll TISEMENT.---DUrek.
heim, at the foot' of the Haardt, Rhenish Bavaria.—Fur-
nished country Muse to let.—Great furnished apartmer t,
with linen, silver, table and kitchen utensils, to let for the
fine season, or longer, in part of the whole, at the rate of
nine guineas, or one hundred florins a month. Six great
reat
drawing-rooms area parquets, twentaryd -four rooms, stable
for six horses, coach-
house, g y , garden, belvedere
Durckheim is a fine country, covered with vineyards,
the entrance of tho valley of Hartenbourg, four leagues
from Nl2nhirn. Steam-boat from London to m
near the Rhine. Durckheim, a country town of
.1,000 in-
habitants, has Protestant and Catholic Churches:
Latinßoard.
Board-
ing schools for young gentlemen and ladies, apro
gymnasium, a salt work, steam and salt baths, physicians
and apothecaries. Its environs aro interesting' a-nClpleiciatup.s
resque.—Journal de Frany'ort.
A promotion will take place atnopg the
ship-
wright officers of the Dock-yards, in consequence of the
death of Mr. Stone, late Master Shipwright of Chathan
Dock-yard.—Det.onport Independent: