The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-26 00:00:00

MR. O'CONN ELL.

The following letter was received in town this day:—
" London, March 22, 1839.

" MY DRAB RAY,—The people of Ireland will see with
satisfaction the decided and manly part which the Ministry
have resolved to adopt. They bring forward, on or about
the 15th of April, the question before the House of Com-
mons—shall Ireland continue to be governed on the wise,
humane, and impartial principles acted on since 1835, by
Lord Melbourne's Government, or shall she be handed over
to the truculent, the furious, and the sanguinary Orange
faction ? This question the House of Commons is to answer.
The House of Lords have, consistently enough, chosen the
worst part; and, under the guidance of that harsh
and ungenetrus old man, Wellington, declared for the
Orange faction. There was a time when you would have
been suprised to read the newspaper speech of Lord
Brougham, yelping in with the vilest of the Orange rabble.
But no one now is surprised at anything so unprincipled a
statesman writes or sings, says or yelps.
" Well, then, the tug of war is to come on the 15th of
April. I intend to go to-morrow to Liverpool, and on Sun-
day night, unless it blows a whole gale, to go to Dublin.
If not on Sunday night, then on that of Monday. Reckon
on me for Tuesday the latest.

" The fate of Ireland depends on Lord John's motion—
conciliation or oppression. There is time, however, for
the Irish nation to speak out—loud, long, and unanimous.
I mean to move on Tuesday an address to the Irish people,
calling on them to rally at once against the diabolical
Orange faction, a fact'. t enr:chei by the spoils, and red
with the blood of tl.e Irish nation. Let us peace-
ably, tranquilly, but at once meet, petition, and re-
monstrate. Let me present three hundred thousand peti-
tioners at the.bar of the House of Commons, calling by
their respectful but firm petitions on the British Legisla-
ture, to avert from our lovely green land the horror of
civil war and bloodshed; and to continue to us at least a
just, a merciful, and impartial administration,—until they
grant us the equalization of civil rights and religious free-
dom, which cannot be as long as the majority of the Irish
people support the Church of the minority.
Hurrah for this peaceful conflict ; I like the straight-
forward boldness of the blow of the Ministry ; it is what
we desire—a collision between the two Houses on a great,
a vital, and all important principle ; the principle on which
Ireland is to be governed, either for a faction, or for the
people. Hurrah for the Irish people I It makes me
young again to engage in this conflict. All Ireland will,
I trust, at once become " Precursors." It is the name of
peace in which we will fight our bloodless battle. Hurrah
for old Ireland

" Circulate these tiding—l will le with you to enkrc
these sentiments.

"Faithfully yours,
"T. M. Ray, Esq. " DANIEL O'CONNELL."

THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS AND NAPOLEON.
—On land, it is part of the Emperor's policy to surprise
the people by encountering difficulties of every kind ;
flying here and flying there in the face of danger ; accom-
plishing journeys, and doing all kinds of things, that no-
body else would do. Having exhausted all the themes of
wonder that land adventures could furnish, he is now seek-
ing to prolong the illusion by similar doings at sea. He
would have visited the fleet even had the weather been
fine; indeed, he spends part of every summer in the
Baltic; but to join it in the face of what, with Russians,
would pass for a serious storm, be knew would cause a sen-
sation—give eclat to the manoeuvres—which is precisely
the effect he aims at in all he does. To surprise, to im•
press with an idea of his intrepidity, coolness, and decision,
is what he lives for. He has taken another Emperor, who
long filled the eye of Europe, for his model in this, as in
some other things. " The end is nut yet." Will there
be any resemblance in their closing destinies ?—Brentner's
Russia.

MURDER OF LORD NORBURY.--A case was
tried at the Carlow Assizes on Friday which shox s that
there is sometimes danger in offering large rewards for the
discovery: of offenders. John Sullivan was indicted for
being a common vagrant without any lawful means of sup-
port, and Mr. Tuckey, a Stipendiary Magistrate. proved that
this person had come to him and declared that he knew all
about the murder of Lord Norbury ; that upon the day it
occurred he had been in the house of a man, named -,
a tenant of his Lordship, when another tenant, then under
ejectment, named Jordan, came in and said " The job was
done." He (Mr. Tuckey) had forwarded the statement to
Government ; but upon investigation it proved a complete
fabrication. Sullivan had been quite unable to identify
Jordan, and broke down in other particulars, upon which
he was committed to gaol. The fellow was found Guilty,
and transported for seven years.

DEATII IN PRISON.—A Coroner's inquest was
held on Saturday at the New Bridewell, Westminster, on the
body of Robert Parkes, aged forty-nine. It appeared from
the evidence that the deceased, having been convicted by
Mr. Gregorie, at Queen-square police-office, of vagrancy,
was committed on the 4th instant to the above prison for
one month. On Monday last he complained of a violent
pain in his chest and a difficulty of breathing. He was im-
mediately sent to the infirmary, where he was bled twice.
Blisters and other remedies were also applied, but without
effect. He died on Wednesday morning of (as the cur.
peon of the prison stated) congestion of blood on the lungs.
Verdict—" Natural death."

EFFECTS OF A DRAM.—Saturday last, a ware-
house girl was entrusted by her employers with some
shawls to sew after she went home. Instead of going
to work, she went into a house to get a dram. The dram
rendered her desirous of more; more she got ; and having
became unable to take care of herself, she fell into bad
company, and was robbed of her shawls and eight shillings
in money. The thief, a female of police notoriety, was
discovered, apprehended, and uas yesterday sent for 30
days to Bridewell. It will probably take a year's hard
earnings to pay for the shawls, and this is what the girl
has gained by taking a dram.—Paisley Advertiser.
NATIONAL PURCIIASES.—We learn wills ex-
ceeding pleasure that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has
authorised the purchase of three or four of the most admi-
rable pictures in the collection of Mr. Beckford, including
the superb work, the "St. Catherine" of Raphael. It was
formerly the chief attraction of the famous Aldobrandini
Palace. When the French (during the revolution) were
advancing upon Rome, to gather glory and steal works of
art, it was disposed of by the familly to Lord Northwick,
through the agency of Mr. Day ; together with " Christ
and the Doctors," by Leonardo da Vinci, and the " Christ
and St. Peter" of Carraci, both now in the National
Collection. While in the possession of Lord Northwick
this picture was engraved by the Chevalier Desnoyers, in
1824 ; his Lordship afterwards transferred it to Mr. Beck-
ford. The nation is, we understand, to pay for it 3,500
guineas, a sum by no means too great, as, independently
of its surpassing beauty, it is one of the very few works of
RAPHAEL that arc in a genuine state. The first idea of this
subject was among the Raphaels in the Lawrence collection;
but a larger and more high ly finished drawing of it (in
black chalk) is in 'l3e Louvre. Both these drawings are
undoubtedly from the great master's own hand. We may
congratulate the country on the acquisition of this noble
picture, and compliment the Chancello rof the Exchequer
on his sagacity and good taste.—Aft Union,

CHEAP POSTA G E.—We ate glad to see that the
Gia=gow Town Council have petitioned in favour of cheap
postage. Every town and village in the kingdom should
follow the example.

NIURDER.— On Tuesday, Mary Guff was
brought before the Magistrates at the Town Hall, on a
charge of being concerned in the murder of the unfortunate
Michael Donohue, but there not being sufficient evidence
to support the charge, the case was dismissed.—Preston
Observer.

LAMBETH POLITICAL UNION.—At a nume-
rous meeting of the Council of the above Association,
last Thursday evening, Mr. M. Saul in the Chair, the
following resolution was unanimously agreed to :—" That
the system of centralization, as attempted to be carried out
by the present professing Liberal Government, is contrary
to every principle of justice and humanity, grossly sub-
versive of the liberty of the subject, and abhorrent to the
feelings of free-born Englishmen. We therefore most
earnestly call on our brethren throughout the country to
resist, by every means in their power, the extension of the
hateful spy police to the rural districts, as being one of the
schemes by which our Whig oppressors hope to prevent our
attainment of the People's Charter."
TILE NEW ART.—Mr. J. F. Havel], and Mr.
\Villmore (the engravers), have, by covering glass with
etching ground and smoke, sketched, designs upon it.
Through the glass thus exposed by the scratches, the pho-
togenic paper receives the light, and the design, which the
sun may be said to print, may be multiplied with perfect
identity for ever I Designs thus produced will probably
become much more common, and even more generally
applicable than lithography, because all the means
are more readily accessible, whilst it will receive its
rank as an art, and be excellent in proportion to
the skill of the artist, as a draftsman, with the etch-
ing needle. The size need no longer be kept down
by that of the printing press, as the size of the glass can
alone limit the size of the design. This is a real and va-
luable discovery, applicable to a thousand purposes. It is
reported that Mr. Havell, and his brother, the well-known
painters, have succeeded in giving some trueperooldotuicres,d,alsboy,
to their productions, by the action of light. Beautiful imi-
tations of washed bistre drawings may be
stopping out the light on the glass by black varnish, which
will obstruct the} ransmission of light in proportion to tho
;specimens
like with wich the varnish is laid on and
like fine mezzotint° prints have been produced by this pro-
cess.—Literary Gazette.

EVENING EDITION.

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

Tim Times of this morning, in the course of a leading
article suggested by Lord J. Russell's notice of motion in
the House of Commons, respecting tha Ministerial policy
pursued towards Ireland, observes ;—" It is clear enough,
that whatever course of action Lord Melbourne may have
since been dragged into by his colleagues, with whom he
spent five hours of Friday last, in anxious parley and re-
peated communication with her Majesty, his object was,
while commenting on Lord Roden, to twist that Noble
Earl's proposition into such an affront to the existing Ca-
binet and himself, as to secure a loop-bole through which
to escape from the manifold perilS•and disgraces which the
state of the empire at home and abroad must bring down
upon the head of any Minister who, having raised such a
tempest of calamity, rhall abide its pelting by a longer con-
tinuance in office. He provided himself with a retreat, not
perhaps, the most honourable, but one wherein he might
have found himself unmolested; nor was it, as we have
heard, until many hours of Friday had elapsed, that the
Noble Viscount could be prevailed upon to change his re-
sAution, and accommodate his colleagues with yet one other
quarter-day."
Tile Morning Chronicle contains a leading article
which, taking for its text the question of the finality of the
Reform Bill, justly states that " the power of the Reform
Act for good government is gone— gone for ever, unless
some process of renovation endow it with energy for the
purposes of its authors. Much might be done by the ad-
dition of the Billet and. Triennial Parliaments; and, so

far, there is not a Liberal Statesman who is not free to g 0 •
But Triennial Parliaments and the Ballot, though essential
to the vitality of the existing law, arc not enough for the
bon:I of a re-union of Reformers. They leave the con-
stituencies as they now are. The question of the masses,
and therefore the question of all who desire to see the dif-
ferent classes of society harmoniously co-operating, is that
of the Suffrage! It is argued that, were Household Sit
frage adopted to-morrow, there would still be dissatis-
faction, and the agitation of excluded claimants. Be it so.
No Suffrage, no law, will satisfy the pike and dagger-men'
but the question is, not of their satisfaction, but of their
isolation. Household Suffrage would go far, among
.the
poorer classes, towards a separation between the politicians
and the ruffians. The doctrine of -finality is the drum that
beats up recruits for desperado leaders."
The Morning Herald, commenting on Mr. T. Attwood's
motion last night in the House of Commons urges the fol-
lowing observations :—" We trust that the bad taste o'
Mr. Attwood may not operate injuriously on the ultimate
decision of the great question which he has brought under
the consideration of Parliament. The dangers which
threaten England throughout her dependencies, and Orli
along her own coasts, are undoubtedly of the most alarming
description. Twenty additional line-of-battle ships, and
fifty thousand additional troops are required to place this
country in a position of security. The expense inseparable
from such extensive arrangements for national defence i 5
undoubtedly to be regretted ; but lot it not be forgotten
that a sordid policy is always an expensive policy."
The Morning Post observes, in reference to a leading
article that appeared in yesterday's Chronicle, advocating
further change in' the Reform Bill, " All this lachryllwv.e
statement of the unhappy condition of Liberal affairs 15t
neither more nor less than a bidding for another uprising 0'
popular violence in favour of certain talentless and spiritless
men, who find themselves unable to hold ground."
The Morning Advertiser contains an article in reference
to Lord J. Russell's notice of motion respecting Ireland,
in the course of which our Contemporary says, " Never
was it so imperative on honest practical Reformers t°
exert themselves as at present. On them devolves the
salvation of the State. It is vain to look to Ministers or
to Parliament for measures commensurate with the neeegi
sities of the times, unless urged on by the stern resolves
the people."