The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-20 00:00:00

ANSWER.

GENTLEMEN,—I receive your Address with cordial feel•
logs of satisfaction and gratitude.
If at all times it be to me a matter of just pride, to be
honoured with your approbation, how much more so, when
I consider the circumstances, under which it is at present
offered.

In appointing Catholics to office, the Government hare
done something more than merely conferring honours
upon individuals ; they have given sanction and effect
to principles. The Emancipation Act was never meant
to remain a dead letter in the Statute Book, but to live and
work through all branches, administrative as well as legis-
lative, of the country. In this sense, the Government
understand it : they are determined to make it a reality.
If Catholics should be excluded from office, merely
because they are Catholics, so also should they be
excluded from Parliament. If from either, the Act of
1829 is a fraud ; Emancipation has yet to pass.
In appointing Irishmen, Ministers have acted with not
less justice. Ireland is entitled to her share as well in the
government as in the legislation of this united empire.
We have made as many sacrifices for the public good, feel
as deep an interest in the public welfare, have as high P.
value fur our public institutions, and as determined a zeal
for their support as Scotehmeo, or Englishmen.
I feel highly honoured by being associated, even as an
humble labourer, in the great work of National Education.
You only do me justice in thinking that I have always re
garded it as the noblest object: -which could engage the at-
tention of the Statesman. A friend to liberty I feel that
tree institutions cannot long subsist unless supported by in-
telligence and virtue ; a friend to order, I know from recent
events that ignorance is no guarantee for its continuance: :
a friend to morality and religion, it is on truth, and the
knowledge and diffusion of truth, (feared only by those who
have no conviction in the soundness of their doctrines)
that I would wish to base them. But you feel not less than
I do, that by education, I can only mean, not instruction
merely, but training, and not of one portion only, but of the
whole man. You know as well as I do that by " National"
education I necessarily imply, not an education in the
shape of a privilege for a section, but the common birth-right
of every sect, class, and province, no matter under what name,
of the entire British people.. The time will soon conic,
when the question being bt;tter understood, the struggle
will close not by a triumph over any, but by the union of
all, even of those now most opposed, for the attainment of
this great object. We can a fiord to wait for that day—con-
scious that in the interval w e are doing our duty, and have
for allies the great majority of the civilised world.
I deeply regret that circumstances will oblige me to leave
Waterford on so early a day, that I shall find it impossible
to gratify my feelings, by acc :opting the honour, intended for
me, of a public dinner. At the same time I beg you to
be assured, that I do not the less appreciate the value of
the compliment, and I trus t I shall evince by better argu-
ments than words—by rent ;wed zeal in the public service.
and increased activity in Tiving effect to the principles I
have uniformly professed, t he heartfelt gratitude I enter-
tain for your kindness and c :onfidence.
I have the honour t o be, Gentlemen,
Your ob, :client faithful servant.
Sept. 13; 1839. THOMAS WYSE.

THE EAGLE RAY.- —A small specimen of this
very rare fish was found of a the shore of our bay on Wed-
nesday, by Robert Laml )ert of Tweedmouth, and pre-
sented by him to Dr. Joh: ason. It excited a good deal of
curiosity from its singular. shape and aspect, which was
compared by many to that of a squatted toad, but its sides
are expanded into wing a. like a skate, and the body
is terminated behind with a long tail, which
may be aptly compar ed to a whip, but it is
armed, near the root, wi th a powerful sting, toothed on
the sides like a saw. T 1 to specimen is peculiarly inter,st-
ing, since it establishes the claim of the fish as a native
species—a fact which has: hitherto been considered doubt-
ful; for the only evidence . we had previously of the Eagle
Ray being a British fish was founded on some parts of a
specimen, presumed to b along to this species, which were
procured from a fishermt in at Scarborough by Mr. Trait,
a surgeon in that place.- —Berwick Advertiser.
THE GOLD Dus T ROBBERY.—A paragraph
appeared in the newspapers some time since, stating that
Ellis and Lewin Caspar, Emanuel Moses, and his daugh.
ter, Mrs. Abrahams, wet .e to be sentenced at the Central
Criminal Court this set ision. The prisoners cannot be
sentenced until the Nove tuber Sessions, as the Judges will
not meet to dispose of t he legal objections taken at the
trial till that time.

The Croydon Railway . Company have given a
piece of ground adjoinin 1.; tneir station in Tooley-street
for the purpose of wideni 3 ng the carriage-pavement front ing
their premises in that at reet ten feet, and workmen have
been some days past emp,:toyed in making the much-desired
alteration in that great t lioroughfare.
CONCEALMENT 0 F BANKRUPTS' EFFECTS.---
A man of the name of Ja ck son was declared bankrupt some
short time since. There >< as little or nothing for the cre-
ditors expected, and all wits passing off without suspicion.
In the course of last week it was ascertained that the bank-
rupt had taken apartments, and the messenger in
bankruptcy thought it woult I be worth his while to visit
them, and see how the oc( !upant was getting on in the
world. When he arrived t here it was said the bankrupt
was out ; and he then aske, 1 the female who attended him
whether the bankrupt had any property? She replied,
" Only that box " pointing to a small box, which the mes-
senger carried off to the o fficial assignee. The box was
opened, and, under shoe ;,.s and other bed-linen, there was
discovered an amount • a f money to the extent of nearly
1,500/ in notes and gold. .
SUITABLE SOIL: I FOR TREES.—We cannot
help considering it as a wise provision of Nature, that
trees do not require the . richest land. The deep alluvial
soils so productive of co rn and pasturage, are not so well
adapted to the growth )f. trees. These seem to need a
more porous surface for t he spread of their lateral root,
and in near contact of amospheric influences, provided
they have also a substra turn of moist clay, or gravel, cv
rock,chalks,ubosroii;th
the
obefeeect r no.ne The oak
chalk;and almost all
clay ott
other forest trees affect .a lightgh from want of depth, it i 3
loam on a gravelly subsoil.
Thin moor earthy soil, tough
unsuitable for the gen arlity of trees, is not rejected by
the Scotch fir, the larc n, and several others of that tribe.
Bog earth, or any other vary moist soil, is favourable to
most of the willows ; • tnd deep bog earth is the natural
soil of the alder, and several of the poplar, particularly the
white or abele, the a, pen, and the black
Italian. —7l~e
Farmers' Magazine.

As the Pilot coac h was running along the streets
of Huddersfield last 3 .'ticsday morning from Manchester,
very heavily laden, s )me persons noticed the two hit,d
wheels to bend inward ;, and immediately called out to the
coachman, who pulled up, and on examination found the
axletree broken in two Doubtless but for this fortunate
discovery the coach w, mid have been upset in a few yards.
—Leeds Mercury.