The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-15 00:00:00

Mr. Bright and the Enemies of Englan

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TO TILE EDITOR OP THE SUN.
SIR,—Mr. John Bright having volunteered
assertion that " Wherever an Irishman plants I
foot, there stands an enemy to England," I 8
your permission to make " a very few remark
upon his statement in general and its application
this country in particular.
Although Mr. Bright is Member for Birminglin
and a man of prominence in what is called the Po
tical world, I do not believe he has ever been in tb
country. But as it so happens that I, an Irishrani
not only "planted my foot" in this "foreign Inn'
some three years ago, but have travelled func
therein, it is possible that your readers may col
sider it not presumptuous in me to give an ornic
on the subject in question, notwithstanding W
neither being a prominent man, nor coming until
Mr. Bright's definition of " an Irishman."
Undoubtedly there are many of my countryine
residing in this country who are, or at least stet
loudly that they are, "enemies to England." I has
met such, and asked them why they were so, an
never having received any definite explanation
answer to that plain question, it really is unnece.

sary for me to dissertate thereon.
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Oa the other hand, I have often met Irle wl
.1
il,
who told me they bitterly regretted having
former times, when in the old country, been `e,,
away by the specious speechifyings and writingei;
demagogues and trading politicians into joinillg,
that system of political agitation, es it is
which they now see was contemptible—consisll/4
chiefly of senseless abuse of "the Saxon," all
pn
practical whining and threatening about certsl
stated grievances that are now passed away,
with practical neglect of the material interests
Ireland, both present and future.
However, it is not my purpose to remark fertile:
on strictly Irish topics. Indeed, it does not eecT/e
to me that Mr. Bright, who pronounces
opinions with his usual dogmatic powers of asset;
ton upon Irishmen in "foreign lands," has eve
appeared to take much interest about them 0114
at home. It is true he took an active part Alts
that section of "liberal members," as they lir,
called, who, without having been entitled to ell'
credit for suggesting or originating that gene
e;
rally excellent measure, the Encumbered Etatti,
Act, helped to cause injustice to many pers"B
the unnecessary urging on of an immediate aPter
cation of its most stringent provisions—or, ill other
words, the uncalled for forcing of much propertY
the market, lowering prices abnormally, with della
ment to the legitimate interests of individuals, /11.0,
with no actual advantage whatever to the Pubilo
It is true, however, that some English speenllit°,4
bought estates, as the term goes, "for a song'' 8-6,
it was generally reported in Dublin at the tllll.,
that Mr. Bright tried to "do sotnetbnle
in that way" himself, but that the Irish attornelb
ot
were too 'cute, and secured the " bargains"
their clients or themselves.
Be this as it may, Mr. Bright has of course a Pt.;
feet right to give his opinion about Irishmen in tit/
abstract; and as assuredly as I am not an " o°lo
to England," so certainly doI believe him to be 0124 of
his public capacity of speech-making, as an oreitele,
ill-will between all classes at home, and a the e,
spondent and congenial friend of the trading poll 11
ticians and professional stirrers AD of anti-Brit-
ia
feelings in this country.
I can assure Mr. Bright, however, that the - me
rican people—not the " politicians"—are, :be
humble opinion, beginning to see through
„0
h .
" organised hypocrisy" of these raisers of a "-A,
and cry for selfish, sordid reasons against Eng- or
And ere long the people in the aggregate will re°oo
nise the fact that the material interests of bey
two countries are nearly identical, and that to
will submit no longer to be plunged into infertile
tional " difficulties," and brought periodically t°
0°
verge of a war consequent on the acts of those It
either seek the temporary aid of an " election
oelf $
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or strive to merge the disasters and crimes or
unnecessary domestic war in one equally a$

righteous.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,
AN IRISH TRAVELOII4

New York, May 2.

Poking "Fun" at the Royal Academy

I had hopes-1 know that they have proved to ben.
founded, but I cannot admit that they were unreasoul'of
I had hopes that I should have been able to avail toitr
the privilege of free admission conceded to exhibitors.
fortunately, I do not exhibit 1 tare)/
I sent three pictures: 1 (a pre-Raphaelite bit of 1211. t
"Docks and Marsh Mallows ;" 2 (an attempt to dePiGto
really unhackneyed historical situation),
"Charles
Second in the Oak;" 3 (a genre painting), "The 146
C orint
If iline." ollod
were becoming (which it is not) I could say a :we
deal about these works; but I forbear to do so. They -
all three rrjeoted by the Hanging Committee. tso
I have accordingly paid my shilling, and I mean t°
it out in criticism. The Academicians have exercised til°o
rights ; I shall use mine. There will be plenty of ba°l%ije,
fawn upon the imbecile canvas-spoilers, the raiseriu3d
crass, cringing, dull, feeble, superannuated, impotent,
abject Forty. Of those hacks I decline to be one.
4.,l°`—ecl
truth (uninfluenced by passion) is what the Will"—

dotards shall hear from me. for
I saw men prowling about (there was Mr. Thacker°,Yttirr
instance, as large as life, and a host of other "succesof
men—l hate success !) who had evidently made uP,tll,,hi
minds to be pleased with this, the most disreputable -o'"Zt;
bition that ever degraded British Art. Let them. Thotee,
is free, as Mrs. Brown said at the play; and so arB Isilillol7
It is all very well to get a set of literary time-servers to,
and nob with Academicians at the annual orgie which do
graces Trafalgar-square, and on which hundreds of 17°t d
are spent that ought to be devoted to the developrool/
talent such as that of—well, of some I could name; buir
was never invited to the so-called banquet. Banclite4ttoce
deed ! I would rather maintain my honest indeP6tor
though I had nothing to eat but a polony—and this !07 be
times the case ! Look at Young Mr. Marcos Stone. ~
bound to say he never eats polonies—and yet all Lonat*e,t
talking of his "Napoleon," whilst my "New Crin°llll
has not yet met even with a dealer I vrat
Look at Mr. Ruskin. What do they do to him
they asked him to dinner I What was the result t $OO
His Critical Notes have never appeared since!!
that it matters much.
Exhibition, indeed! Why, you can't see anything e 4
that there is much to see—for the crowd of gaping
that block up the hideous and uncomfortable rooms re
their proposterous crinoline—and yet the Aoademiciiill:.
jected mine I Then, the "swells "—a set of loungiri'e
sipid imbeciles, drawing out their vapid DundlearYi°;...l
and the old fogies, wagging their stupid old In 00
should like to knock a few of them together 1.--512-tee
smug, smiling fellows whose pictures have been ace 4
sett
and the "Art-Critics," who pretend to see power inoil)
like Millais, and poetry in a man like Hook, and 11.0533:5y, X
a man like Marks, but who are far too high and raiSae"-
promise you, to come up four pair of stairs ands :,,pre'
" Marsh Mallows,"—and if they did, they couldn't "'pp'
ciate them I There, I'm tired of the whole conc°,111:0-till
tures and painters and visitors and all—and Mrs. Ed to.
is bothering me for the rent—and. unless you print
show up up the impostors, and send the money 11 nett
shall have to paint signboards. David Cox painte%oll
and I dare say did it badly—for I never thought 131--
him I Or any other man I—Fun.

01:
THE NORTH-EASTERN PORTS. The `-/-
house returns for April show that 202,731 t°l°c,aB-
- 12,188 tons coke were exported over seafronilleli tope,
in that month, as against 163,334 tons coal and SP°'.,
coke in April, 1862; Sunderland exported 102,08 t„°tl3l6:o
and 1,924 tons coke, against 104,951 tons coal and tosi
coke in 1R62. The Hartlepools exported 69,8i7 t°osil oro
and 3,819 tons coke, against 53,096 tons coal al t
011
coke in April, 1862. With the exception of Middlesi'lliate
and Shields, the latter, with Newcastle, being a poraitt °port°
Tyne,
the smaUer ports show a falling off in therootre
oversea during April. Of goods other than cool 9-,(1 The
exported oversea in April the returns are as under 10,
Tyne, £12),130; Sunderland, £6,017; the
£52,194; Middlesborough, £31,165; Stockton,
s showing an increase of £33,881 on the Tyne alicl,7is ,28°
toekton, and a decrease of £'s7o at Sunderland' '.ll-9 414
vartlePS
at the Hartlepools, and £2,731 at Middlsborough' ~--/6sieNe
tons coal were shipped to London and coastwise h.°4.-0 tone
hr
4fcrsae,ssmtsl eltihntecAm Hartlepools,r April, fromln22B,soesahlta2ol:4:lsa ntden
87S,8fut5n05ind e ris
add,
19e
6°L-0 ug,
29,301 tons coal, 2,193 tons coke, 30,623 ct:ntsirofrn°,l33Bl3l3l,6l:6:7o;
cwt alkali were exported from the Tyne last we';g' coke,
returnsl show an increase in the shipments cf., 147 t°llo the
3 ,848 cwt iron, and 485 tons alkali, and a decrease ,„
shipment of coal of 16,962 tons. The state of the hia,t8t1.,...-
naces in the Cleveland district on May 1 was so uni last
the course ° cu.
In blast, 61; out, 19 ; total, 80. During
week a considerable number of new ships were launeheiroe,
st
screw
wWsetaera.nieMr
of 1,200
00j.toRns.
an iron ship of 1,050 tons, fitt d out for a troop or P 700,,
Messrs. Pile and
get ship, and the property of Messrs. G. D. TrrnarL fie&
of London. Five •
from other yards, one of them a clipper-brick, gl
venol iron bums. register;Oswald launched a largieoso
timber-built ships were also 15t1004136-0