The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-02 00:00:00

had already overturned, in more than one in-
stance, the recognized relations between rich and
poor, was to give the Catholic an identical inte-
rest with the Protestant in the state, and to
replace him under the influence of those
personal motives through which men in
the ordinary condition of society are actuated,
by extinguishing that other ail(' irregular
class of motives, which take possession of
suffering bodies of men, and bind them in a con•
federate cause by the chain of sympathy under a
common grievance. Who, then, was right, the
anti-Catholic, m this friend of Emancipation ?
In what state are the Catholics of Ireland now ?
Does the Association exist ? Can O'Connell
be said to exist ? Are priest and laymen united
everywhere, for the general exclusion of Protest-
ant gentlemen from power ? Why, in every
county, not only are priest and laymen disu-
nited, but the Catholic laity are absolutely
merged in the Protestant aristocracy, and their
priests are now, even while we write, taking op-
posite sides in an election between two Protest-
ant gentlemen, where no Catholic gentleman
has once dreamed of offering himself as a can-
didate :we mean in Limerick—a great Catholic
county, both as to wealth and numbers ! No ;
the spell is broken. The necromancer who
once commanded the hearts and hands of the

two most Popish countries in Europe, has exor-
cised the evil spirit of Popery on his native soil.
We repeat it as a fact, beyond all question with
men who know the truth, and are upright enough
to speak it, that emancipation, which has made
the Catholics our fellow-citizens, has taught
them that the politics of a persecuted sect be-
come not the spirit, or principles, or power of
freemen.—lbid.

We cannot too frequently or too urgently
call upon those who have the means of relieving
them to consider the wretched and perishing
state of so many of the less fortunate part of
their brethren at this inclement season. We

live in a country and in a metropolis renowned
for their charities; and seldom or ever was there
a period when such strong claims existed upon
the sympathies of all as at the present moment.
Next in merit to a liberal disposition, on such
an occasion, is discrimination in the giver ; anti
where people have not the means or opportuni-
ties themselves of ascertaining who have the
strongest and truest claims upon their bounty,
there is no better course which such persons
can pursue than consigning their alms to some
of those excellent associations with which the
town happily abounds, who are best able to
winnow the wheat from the chaff, to distinguish
the different grades of want, and, above all, the
truly miserable from the impostor. But, of all
the ways of relieving the poor, that of finding
them employment, %%hen it can be done, is most
praiseworthy and desirable. Yet who can walk
the streets of the metropolis, and not ob-
serve how totally this is neglected ? Can any
thing be so obvious as this mode of employing
the poor ?—we mean in making the streets and
footpaths passable, which, for several weeks, have
been one floundering mass of ice, snow, and
mud. Would not one-tenth part of the money
which is paid daily at the workhouses to able-
bodied men in the shape of mere relief, if given
as the price of this description of labour, be ten
thousand times better bestowed, both as regards
the public and individuals ? If parish Boards
were not for the most part impervious both to
shame and to improvement, they would not re-
quire, nor would they slight this hint from us.
All that we would at present add is, our earnest
hope that charity will ope❑ its hand wider and
wider during this sad period of suffering*; that
the very elements which bind up nature may
thaw the heart of man ; and that there may be
good sense enough found, among those who
distribute so large a portion of public bounty in
the shape of poor-rates, to expend it, as far as
may be, in productive labour ; which, while it
maintains the independence of the poor, makes an
advantageous return to the hand of the contri-
butor.—Morning Herald.

We present to our readers this day a con
tinuation of the proceedings at the inquest on
the body of Richard Hemming. Fifteen or
sixteen witnesses still remain to be examined.
This is altogether a strange case. The Rev. G.
Parker having obtained, for his electioneer-
ing services, from the late Duke of Norfolk,
the Rectory of Oddingley, near Droitwieh, took
possession of his living about the year 1800 ;
and, what is any thing but unusual, quarrelled
with his parishioners immediately respect-
ing tithes. Being a Westmoreland man, and
therefore probably, like all mountaineers, ob-
stinate and determined, he resolutely fought the
good fight till 1806, caring equally little for
the love or the enmity of the parishioners,
and disregarding all warnings to take care of
himself, when one afternoon he was shot at from
behind a hedge and afterwards despatched. The
murderer, there is little doubt, was R. Hemming,
ajobbing carpenter, instigated, there is every reason
to believe, by the stimulus of a purse of fifty
pounds subscribed by the farmers. But the sin-
gular part of the business is that Hemming, who
had been seen about the place shortly after the
murder, was himself murdered ; and his bones,
with the foot rule he used to carry with him, his
shoes, Sze., have been found in a barn, occupied
r 4 the time by Mr. Thomas Clewes, one of the
farmers who was examined on Friday last, and
has been committed for fprther examination. It
would seem that the intention to shoot the parson
was no secret in the neighbourhood. Several
witnesses depose to conversations to that effect ;
and, what is singular, Capt. Evans, a Magistrate
of forty ye4rs' standing, who died in May last
at the advanced age pf ninety-four, appears to
have been one of the loudest in his threats of
all the tenants, John Perkins, of Sale-green,
Crowle, deposed, that about three quarters
of a year before Mr. .Parker's death, he was
,Captain Evans's parlour at the Oddingley
Church Varg4, sFhpn Captain Evans, speaking of
Mr. Parker and the tithes of Oddingley,
said Mr. Parker was a very bad man? and there
was nobody in the parish, .excepting the witness,
that agreed with him, and said, " Curse him, he
is a :Very h 3.4 inn, and there is no more harm
in shooting him tb 4 !pad dog." At Easter,
1806, after the Meeting, at o'4 the Over-
seers' accounts were passed, there was a dionery
at which wzr.3 present John and Thomas Clewes,
captain Evans, Georg,: !htl Henry Bankes, Mr.
Hurcott? John and William 117 nett, Mr.
Jones, Mr. Biar;ball, and vvitness; Captain
Evans in the chair. Ci;pt;?,in Evans gave the
health of Mr. Parker left-handed, aiid ;,‘.l!. drank
it but Mr. Hurgott and witness, who was called
a Jacobin for his refusal. A witness (who, by
the bye, came forward in consequenc.; of the pub-
licatibn of the former part of the evidence--air au
ditional proof of the advantages of publicity),who
was servant at the time to Mr. Thomas Clewes,
states; " I knew there were disputes between
Mr. Clewes and Mr. Parker, about tithes. Words
arose about the milk. None of Melamil,y or