The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Times of last Friday condensed all its terrific
descriptions of the state of Ireland into the following
astounding paragraph :
" We ask all men, is it not now an unquestionable fact,
that the Protestants of Ireland, the clergy in their daily
bread, the laty in their persons, are those wl:o. suffering
from tle2 non-administration of the law, have neither them-
selves disobeyed it nor clamoured for the abolition of it,
but arc the ;I,ldt:fended victims (f violence, (f robbery, (If
wanton hatred, if c. tact murder, (!f evcry liiraz and degree
of persecution, of every excess of fiendlike malignity, that
ever cu) sed a devoted country, or rendered infamous the
deposit(); ies of power."
Sir Francis Burdett, an authority of like weight,
delivered himself at the Wiltshire dinner to the same
harrowing effect :-
4, What tl.e partisans of O'Connell called peace was at-
Wiled by miseries far more calamitous than a state of ho-
Dnurablu warfare. Beery day Protestant blood was shed
iri &net and out' agentis manner, only because men
were CM, afraid . to exercise their legal and constitutional
rights, and would not be deterred from voting according to
their consciene, s in matters which they believed concerned
interests and liberties of their countrymen. Like mar-
tyrs t,:,•se ;;;eit sealed their devotion with their blood, and
re. seve, ed to .4eicilding a just cause, undelcrted even by Me
fear ofileath."—(Chee7.7.)
Now, we have no notion of rutting any opinions or
assertions of our's in competition WILL. the statements
of two such perfect models of consistency and vera:iity
as the Times and Sir Francis Burdett. We think,
however, that some little weight may possibly be allowed
to the evidence of such men as the Irish Judges, even
though it be found to conflict with the testimonies of
Sir Francis Burdett and the Times. Without another
ward, therefore, we shall request the reader to cast his
eye cver the following series of extracts from the charges
i.st'i‘ered by tl.ese exalted functionaries to the Grand
Juries, at the Assizes which have but lately termi-
nated. Haling rruscd them, let him reconcile (if
he can I) the still-life pk.turc they draw of the state of
Ireland with the storm and ba:!le pieces dashed off in
such intrepid style by the great maters we have just
quoted :
CLARE.—Judge Crampton said—" It ;Ives me extreme
pleasure to state that the appearance of the calendar is
quite satisfactory, and, as it occurs to me, unusually light.
There are but 28 cases. I willingly hope and believe that
this :tate of the calendar marks an improvement in the mo-
ral condition (f the people.
Limsarflc.—Sergeant Greene observed—" I have to
congratulate you on the state of your calendar. It is un-
usually light—a cifcitnistaiice gratifying to all lovers Of
good order. One remarkable circumstance is the absence
of that list of felonious attacks upon dwellings which for-
merly constituted the chief part of the calendar."
KILDARF.—Baron Foster (a decided Tory) remarked—
" There was nothing in the state of the country that re-
quired any observatior. The cases in the calendar were
no*numerous, nor of an aggravated nature."
'KING'S COUNTY.—The same judge made nearly the
same remarks to the grand jury.
QUEEN'S COUNTY.—Judge Moore made the following
striking. statement :—" 'With respect to the calendar I am
happy to perceive that it differs widely from what it pre-
sented a few years past. It is gratifying to me to find that.
those agrarian disturbances—the fruitful cause of so many
misfortunes to the peasantry of thisfiize country—are com-
pletely subsided, and that security, and peace have at length
succeeded to terror and outrage."
ANTRIM.—Judge Burton spoke as follows :—" It afforded
him great satisfaction to have it in his power to congratu-
late the Grand Jury on the present peaceable state of the
country."
KILKENNY COUNTY.—Judge Johnson said :—" As to
the immediate business upon which you are engaged, there
is no occasion to occupy your time with many remarks. In
number of cases and character of crime the calendar is ex-
tremely lig.M !"
CARLOW--Judge Moore observed :—" There was no
crime of a heavy nature to come before them. Since the
last Royal Commission, scarcely anything criminal had oc-
curred. This was strong evidence of an altered and im-
proved state of the county."
LOUTH.—Judge Burton said :—" He congratulated the
Grand Jury that their labours, as far as related to criminal
business, would be very light, and as he conceived (on exa-
mining the calendar) highly creditable to and spoke well
for the improving habits of this populous county."
KILKENNY (City).—Chief Justice Doherty remarked :
" I am glad to observe that the criminal business is so
light."
Tile fact is, there was no criminal business at all ! There
was no occasion to empannel a single petty jury this assizes
in Kilkenny, one of the most populous and Popish cities in
Ireland
DROGHEDA.—Chief Baron Joy charged as follows :
" Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, it gives me groat pleasure
to be able, in addressing you, to tell you that your criminal
business will be light. The calendar is not heavy, arid
there are no (yl;mces of a serious character."
ARMAGH.—The Chief Baron again :—" Gentlemen, on
looking over the calendar it affords me very great p!easurc
to see so small a number of cases, the stunt/ell, indeed, I
have ever seen on the calendar rif this county. They are of
so little henortance, that it is unnecessary for me to make
any remarks upon them."
DONEGAL.— Baron Pennefather said--" He congratu-
lated the Grar.d dory on the state of the calendar, and as
there were few cases- of a serious nature, he would not
occupy their time with acv lengthened remarks."
MONAGHAN.—Judge Burion said—" He could congra-
tulate the Grand Jury on the state of the county. There
were ccmparatively few cases to come before them, and
none of them were aggravated."
WATERFORD (County).—Chief Justice Doherty briefly
" congratulated the Grand Jury on the lightness if the
calendar." _

expenses attending petitions under the present state of I ;
the law being such as individuals or local constituen-
cies are oftentimes unable to support, and the wrong
sustained being, as we have already said, one which
falls heavy on the whole public, it was natural for all
who felt a deep interest in the maintenance of our insti-
tutions of Church and State, and in the successful
enforcement of Conservative principles, to take corn-
montneasures for assisting the local petitioners against
specific returns, wheee sufficient ground was laid for a
conviction that such returns had been procured cor-
ruptly or iniquitously. No sooner, nevertheless, was
tt made known that Conservatives throughout the king-
dom had adopted measures for raising a subscription
in aid
of petitioners against a multitude of Irish intru-
ders into the united Parliament, than the Ministerial
pr es and partisans burst out with the most frantic
violence against the subscribers. The project was de-
scribed to he nothing less than a " conspiracy for de-
stroying the rights and liberties of the Irish electors ;"
" an attack upon the friends of liberal policy towards
Ireland ;" " a scheme for exasperating still further our •
Catholic brethren, by robbing them of the representa-
tives of their choice," &c. ; with sundry other figures
of speech, which we r3hal designate no otherwise than
as a further instance of that " abuse of words" which
we have more than once made the subject of remark
in this journal. It was also said that we English-
men had nothing to do with the results of Irish
:sections, and were impertinently busying ourselves
with " matters in which we had no concern."
Now, a single answer will do for one and all of the
Popish blusterers upon this question, whose virulence
may very well be taken as the measure of their fright
The purpose of the subscribers is to vindicate the
freedom of election, not to violate it. We Conser-
vative Protestants have suffered an injury not confined
to the interests of those places whence false returns
have been sent up to the Gazette, but involving the
most imminent danger to the entire Protestant commu-
nity, against which the system of wholesale intimida-
tion, perjury, and fraud, has been directed by the
leaders of the Popish faction in Ireland, The majority
now apparent in the Parliamentary returns on behalf
of the O'Connell Cabinet is, on the face of it, corn-
pose el exclusively of Irish votes. By such a majority
are laws to be made for every portion of the empire;
and when an universal belief exists among Protestants
that the returns are fabricated, false, and untenable,
what can be more monstrous than the application of
the term " conspiracy" to that unanimous effort of self-
defence which takes the form of a subscription for the
attainment of justice? Furiously as the Papists have
vilified us for recommending this vital subscription, and
our friends and readers for contributing towards it, they
have taken abundant care to follow the example which
they thus condemn. They have already held public
meetings for bolstering up the fictitious return of
O'Connell and his tool in Dublin, have established a
committee, appointed secretaries, collectors, &c., and
are in a fair way to get the start of our Conservative
brethren, if more strenuous exertions be not made on
our side than any that we yet have witnessed. It
would, however, be impossible to describe with greater
emphasis or correctness the case rested upon by the
Protestants against the late returns from Ireland than
in the words of the Popish advertisement itself, which
we find to be as follows :—The Protestant subscribers
for redress " have had the hardihood to affirm in refer-
ence to the popular returns" (for " popular' read
" rebel") " from Ireland at the last general election
these two things-Ist, that at the late elections freedom
of election has been completely subverted ; and 2d, that
intimidation,
personation, has happened chiefly by means of
personation, and polling of votes, of disqualified and
other unentitled persons, and have further imputed
that several of the returns of the Liberal' representa-
tives have been effected by these means." Yes, it
is all true ; we Protestants do impute the prepon-
derancy of Irish revolutionary returns to such flagi-
tious means as the above. We are ready to make
good our charge, by legal petition to the House of
Commons, and we do earnestly solicit and entreat a
prompt and liberal subscription throughout the whole
United Kingdom, but especially from all men in this
country who have discernment to understand the cala-
mitous effects which must flow from a political se-
; paration of the two islands—to come forward at once
with ample funds for carrying out petitions success-
fully through Parliament, being assured, that if jus-
t tice be done, the majority for the O'Connell-ridden
Cabinet, little more than nominal as it now is, will,
within two months after the meeting of Parliament,
cease to be even a nominal majority ; that our amiable
Queen will be released from an unworthy thraldom,
and this great empire once more present the same no.-
ble front to surrounding nations as under the most il-
lustrious of her Majesty's predecessors, and in the
brightest eras of English history. The reality, no
less than the extent, of those base practices by
which the rebel-association majority has been swollen
throughout Ireland at the late election, is too well
ascertained, and too powerfully attested, to need
much explanation here. But more to illustrate the
nature of the charges against the" Liberal" (Liberal,
quotha !) faction than to enter upon superfluous proofs
of their veracity, we just refer our readers to the pro
ceedings recently held before a bench of Magistrates
in the counts, of Sligo, and to the exhibition made by
a Popish priest, named Spelman, against whom evi-
dence was brought of his active participation in the
murderous tortures inflicted on two of her MAJeBTy's
subjects, whose only crime was their being Protestant
electors of that county, in the interest of Colonel Per-
ceval and Mr. Cooper. It appears that Allen, one of
the tortured Protestants, expired under the cruelties to
which he was exposed, but that M'Kenze, his fellow-
sufferer, who survived, providentially for the ends of
justice, has sworn in his examinations to the pre-
settee of Priest Spelman at the scene of outrage and
to his authoritative and most barbarous encouragement
of the savages by whom it was perpetrated ! Such are
the fair and constitutional practices to which it seems
Lord Melbourne stands indebted for that "sure and
certain majority" so loudly boasted of by our precious
Minister for Foreign Affairs, and for the display of
which to the world by funds raised through public sub-
scription the Protestants of England are termed " con-
spirators" against public liberty! We have still to
add from the Irish newspapers, that of seven Magis-
trates composing the Sligo Bench, five who were Pro-
testants refused, in compliance we believe with the
law, to bail the abovementioned Father Spehnan,
charged as lie was with being accessory to a capital
crime, but that two other Justices of the seven, viz.,
Messrs. M‘Dermot and M‘Donnell, being Roman
Catholics, had no such scruple, and bailed the reverend
accessory ! We should like to hear what part will be
taken by Lord Mulssrave on this grave occasion. He
has removed Colonel Verner from the magistracy be-
cause the Papists were not likely to confide in his
administration of justice. Will Protestants have such
confidence in Messrs. M'Dermott and M'llonnell as
to justify Lord Mulgrave in retaining them on the
bench ? We shall see. Mr. Cassidy is an edifying
instance of the Noble Lord's conscientious delicacy in
what regards public opinion and " impartialjustice."—
Times.

vYr
WATERFORD (City).—Judge Johnson said He was
happy to state that he could perceive but two criminal
cases on the calendar."

We give these extracts for a double purpose ; first,
to annihilate the monstrous statements put forward
hourly by the Tory journals ; next, to demonstrate
that there is a real and a marked improvement in the
habits of the Irish people. Surely this is a result
that no good man of any party can contemplate with-
out delight ; still less deny ; how much less endeavour
to mar. Far be it from us to deny that crimes occa-
sionally still take place demanding all the rigour of
the law. It is not in two or three years that- long-
confirmed habits of crime can be eradicated ; it is not
in a cour,try overspread with poverty that discontent,
the parent of turbulence, should all at once cease to
be ; it is not among a people racked by griping land-
lords that the efforts of any Government can produce
profound tranquillity. But how criminal is it to seek
by the detail of outrag,es, such as the annals of every
country afford, to counteract the moral lesson here
conveyed—that confidence in a Government is suffi-
cient to turn a people from the ways of crime, and lay
the basis of a permanent improvement.—Morning
Chronicle.

Considering the foul practices by which many in-
dividuals in the interest of the O'Connell faction have
forced themselves into the Imperial House of Com-
mons, we hold that it is the pressing duty of every
Englishman who values the laws, liberties, or religion
of his country, to endeavour, by the adoption of all
those ineanc which the Constitution prescribes or ad-
mits of, to oust the intruders and see justice done.
When a man has wrongfully obtained a majority,
although of qualified votes, at an election, or much
more, when through his agents he has procured
a colourable but false return. by a fictitious majority,
composed in part of votes not legally qualified, the law
of Parliament points out the mode of petition to
the House as the regular method of securing redress
for the injury. Nor is this an object wherein the
substantial interests of either the petitioning candi-
date or the petitioning electors are alone concerned.
By the theory of the-Constitution, each Member of
Parliament represents, not merely the place for
which he sits, but the people of the entire kingdom,
and from the nature of things it obviously must be
so, inasmuch as each Member of Parliament makes
laws fur the entire kingdom, and were he not re-
gaided as representative of the whole, would have no
more right to legislate for the kingdom at large than
if he were a member of the French Chamber of De-
puties. The whole nation therefore being, in its po-
litical interests, affected by the vote of each individual
Member of Parliament, nothing can be clearer than
the reality of the stake which the great body of the
public possess in the fitness of each separate Member
for the duties of a legislator, and in the lawfulness of
the means by which he has been enabled to assume
that important office. All this is so manifest to com-
mon sense, that we should never have dreamed of re-
curring to it but for the language lately employed by
the Ministerial press, in reference to the petitions now
ott hand against a considerable number of Ministerial
partisans, who have, through practices notoriously un-
lawir4l, been returned to the present Parliament. The

Looking at the low state of the Irish-petition-coh-
spiracy fund, a person unacquainted with the extent
of Tory depravity might be induced to suppose the
dearth of subscriptions to arise from conscientious
scruples against such a flagrant invasion of the right of
election as is now contemplated against the liberal
constituencies of Ireland ; but in reality this deficiency
is solely attributable to the Tory purse being kit in a
state of collapse, from the enormous drains made from
it by the bribery practised in. the recent elections.
Were a doubt to be entertained on the subject, it
would be set at rest by the expression of " pride and
pleasure" with which attention is directed to the sub-
scriptions by the Tory press, both in the metropolis
and in the country. The source of this " pride and
pleasure to any but Tory minds must be a matter of
difficult discovery. It is true that depraved characters
often glory in an attempt in proportion as its object
may be criminal, and thi# tenJeucy may Account
for the " pride" of the Tory press , • hat bow
the " pl.nsurc' of failing in their atrocious
design can be explained, is totally beyond our
powers of divination. It is amusing to gbserve the in -
consistencies in which the conspirators involve erph
other, in their endeavours to persuade themselves and
the public that their project promises to be crowned
with success, Of the Tory journals in the country,

TfIE "--UN, LONDON, MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 1537.

one complains of apathy, another boasts of enthusiasm,
and their metropolitan colleagues, resolving to harmo-
nize with both parties, -in the same paper, and even the
slme article, vaunt the success and regret the failure
of the conspiracy subscriptions. The vaunt is merely
affected—the regret is sincere ; for though the fund
was in the first instance established for the purpose
of making a general onslanOit against the Liberal
Members of Ireland, the Tories are now discovering
that their Irish brethren should fight their own
battle. The Standard introduces with- the follow-
ing piece of prefaratory pomposity the remarks of
a: correspondent, who states that " Dublin," ori-
ginally selected as the chief point of attack, ought
not to receive a single shilling of the " sacred
fund r' "We cannot" (observes our fanatic con-
temporary) close our reference to this subject. with-
out gratifying ourselves and our readers, by ex-
tracting a few lines illustrative of the effect which
this noble movement of the English people has had
upon the Protestants of beland. They are copied
from a letter, written by a gentleman of high rank and •
distinguished talent, connected with the Irish metropo-
lis."—Now, differing, as we do, from the Standard,
as much as opposites can differ, we cannot withhold
from our readers the " few lines illustrative of the
effect which this noble movement of the English
people has had on the Protestants of Ireland." It
would (writes the Standard's correspondent) be a very
imperfect estimate of the services now rendered by the
subscription to the Conservative cause generally, to
calculate its value by the amount subscribed. For
myself, I think more of the good feeling and co-ope-
ration of the English Protestants, thus manifested, than
if you were to send us half a million of your money. I
confess I shall be much disappointed if Dublin receive
a shilling of what I call your sacred fund.' Our first
city has wealth enough to take care of its own represen-
tation ; but we have smaller constituencies of a noble
spirit, but with little money; and for the procuring of jus-
tice to these, English kindness may be made available with
the best effect." So the electrifying effect of the
" noble movement" on the Protestants of Ireland is
to elicit a prayer that Dublin may not receive a shil-
ling of the " liamd fund," and that the " smaller
constituencies of noble spirit" may be helped with " a
little money." This is certainly highly illustrative of
the mendacious and mendicant spirit of Toryism. The
Standard improves upon this suggestion of a plausible
mode of backing out of a dirty and disgraceful con-
cern when it states, " We have reason to believe that
the Conservatives of Belfast entertain the same proud
feeling, that they ought to take.care of their own re-
presentation, professed by the writer of the foregoing;
and we have no doubt that the parties to several other
Irish Petitions will, like the Conservatives of Dublin
and Belfast, abstain from trespassing upon the sacred
fund,' so that there is no cause for fear that the li-
berality of English Protestants can lead to parsi-
mony, or remissness, in their Irish brethren." Now,
if the " reason" of the Standard's " belief" be
correct, where is the necessity of English interfe-
rence with those who entertain the " proud feeling
that they ought to take care of their own representa-
tion ?" It may be worth while to state that the effect
of the Tory conspiracy in Dublin was to call forth in
a few minutes, at a public meeting for defensive pur-
poses, an amount of subscription exceeding all that
was raised throughout the whole of England during
weeks of ineffectual stimulation for the purpose of the
conspiracy. The conspiracy itself is but a part of
Tory machinations against the rights and independence
of Ireland, a specimen of what that country might ex-
pect if the faction could but gain an ascendancy in the
Government. The hatred always entertained by Eng-
lish Tories towards Ireland is now aggravated by the
. defeat which they have sustained from the noble and
patriotic efforts of the Irish constituencies. Could
. they but obtain power to give effect to their malevo-
. lence, their revenge would indeed be direful. Even
now they rake up the horrors and barbarities of the
r past, in order to inflame the passions to similar atroci-
, ties, and under plea of a defensive system, hesitate
not to discuss the policy and practicability of exter-
n initiating Popery by fire and sword. To Englishmen
. of these times, fortunately, such incendiary and san.
. guinary suggestions bear their own antidote.—Morn-
trig Advertiser.

It is stated that the Earl of Wilton about to sel
his stud of racehorses, and to give up the turf, in come
quence or which Heaton Park Races will be discontinued
—Lincolnshire Chronicle.

TIIE CAPTAIN AND TILE DANDY.—The port-
folio of an ex-editor now and then sends forth some
amusing " odds and ends," among which is this good one
or a captain of one of our Nantucket whalers, an eccen-
tric fellow, and of rather an uncouth figure, who visited
one of our cities after a cruise of three years, and one even.
ing attended the theatre. As a matter of course, such a
rough, dark-complexioned old character in a box with
several fashionable ladies and gentlemen, attr,lcted some
considerable attention, and created much merriment amorg
the exquisites. Several times every opera-glas; in the
boxes was thrust at him, until finally aware that he was
the attraction of the evening, he left the house, deter-
mined to repay such impudence in their own coin,
on the following night. Accordingly, on the succeeding
evening, enveloping beneath his great-coat the ship's spy-
glass, about two feet and a half in length, be started for
the theatre. As soon almost as he entered Li; box, the
opera-glasses were in commotion. He waited till the pl•,y
commenced, when, upon observing a young f,rnan with
a Nme under his arm and a glass at his eye Fa ed direct
at him, he drew forth from his outer garment the spy-glass,
and drawing it from the case the entire length, aimed it
direct at the dandy, and continued to look at him until the
house was in a complete uproar, and the fop left the box
for the lobbies.—Nantucket Ingdircr.

THE CATTON CATASTROPHE.—Iii consequence
of the verd:ct of manslaughter returned against Mr. Coar,)er
on the inquest, the Coroner issued his warrant and gave
notice thereof to Mr. Johnson, into whose custody Mr.
Coop r had been committed by E. S. Long, Es 9• for fur-
ther ersamination, and subsequently the warrant itself was
indorsed by Mr. Long and lodged with Mr. Johnson. At
the meeting of the Magistrates in Petty Sessions on Sa-
turday, the case earna_came under consideration, and much
discussion took place as to the course to be adopted : the
majority of the Magistrates present were of opinion that
it was proper to take no further proceeding in the busi-
ness, but to deliver Mr. Cooper to the custody of the
Coroner—this was opposed by Mr. Recorder R ester),
who contended that the case had in the first instance
came before the Ct,untiMagistrates, that the offence was
committed in the county, and therefore that they had no-
thing to do with the proceedings before the City Coroner,
it was their ditty to deal with the case as they would with
any other which might be brought before them, and the
Learned Recorder expressed his determination of going
into the evidence by himself if no other Magistrate would
act with him. The other Magistrates having declined,
Mr. Recorder Preston alone ordered the depositions to be
taken, and all the witnesses not being then present, the
further hearing was adjourned till Sunday, at three o clock.
The evidence was, with very slight exceptions, similar to
that tal • before the Coroner. Mr. Cooper was then
asked whether he wished to say anything, and replied
t,s follows :—" No one can regret more than 1 do the
melancholy accident that has occurred, and so far
as my means will allow I will contribute to the sup-
port of the widow of the deceased and the fa-
roi!y. My father has already assisted the widow and
family of the deceased by my direction," Mr. Cooper,
having signed this statement, was fully committed to take
his trial for Manslaughter at the Lent Assizes for the
county of Norfolk. Mr. Staff appeared for the widow,
and Mr. Beckwith for Mr. Cooper. A warrant for the
apprehension of Mr. J. W. Cooper on a charge of mali-
ciously shooting at Ford, with intent to do him some
grievous bodily harm, was on Thursday issued by the City
ue
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Magistrates, ft has been backed by a Magistrate of the
county, and is lodged with Mr. Johnson at the Castle.
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On the 4th instant, some of the party at Flower-
dale, consisting of Lords Loftus, Alford, Joeelyn, Mr.
Wray, and Captain Stephenson, killed two magnificent
st igs, which, from their nneommon size, had been the won-
der of the neighbourhood for the last two years. The one
(without bead and offal) weighed IS, and the other, 17
Dutch stores.f4t. near the hind part was 41 inches
p. Tl:e distance between the extreme points of the
horns was, of the one 34 inches, of the other inches.
Two such animals, we believe, have not been k;Netl in the
highlands for many years, ft is et) ectraordinary circum-
stz:nee, winch shows the variety of sport on this moor, the
property of Sir Francis A. Naelcengie of Gairloeh, that op
the same day the party killed red deer, game, and ptarmigan
—salmon in that splendid river the Ewe, besides a haul of
sea fish. Lord Cantalupe and Captain Forrester, M.P.,
who had been on g visit to Flowerdale, left a few days pre-
viously, much gratified with their varied and c74oellpot sport
—lnverneu Courier,