The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-07 00:00:00

beinn g productive of evil, and the hon. member for
Mail 4 ion concurs is the condemnatory view. The
spiri t of extermination is a very true description of
then latter, and it aptly designated the mode re-
sorted to. The veterinary scierce is declared by
the ho n. member to be the most retrograde of any
in the k ingdom, and certaily facts bear out his asser-
tion, for no cure has been found, and yet it is only
on the die Acovery of one that we can rely with any
security of 'on the future prospects of our commu-
nity. Mr. PEAcocicr, advises that, instead of the
Government providing slaughter-houses, they should
provide hospitals ; and had this advice been fol-
lowed, no dou IA by this time we should have been
in a better posiision; for it stands to reason that cur-
ing a disease by slaughtering the patient is a very bad
mode to adopt. We find it mentioned in this speech
that in Holland M. per cent. recover, and in Bavaria
they declare that a. complete " specific" has been
found. Quarantine has many grievous evils in
its train, but undoubtedly also it possesses many
advantages, and the hon. member cited Sicily as a
case in point. The cholera is raging along the
whole coast of the Mediterranean, and yet that
island is exempt from the infliction because of
quarantine being resorted to.
Referring to Ireland, Mr. PEACOCKE truly de-
clared that we bad great reason to rejoice at that
country having fortunately escaped the malady
hitherto. He had been travelling in the Emerald
Isle, and spoke favourably of its prospects. The
pig is no longer the ,f gintleman who pays the
rint," and in many respects great improvement is
observable. The Fenian conspiracy is here called
" a tempest in a teacup," and no doubt there is
truth in the declaration that when the Roman Catho-
lic priesthood set their faces against anything of the
kind it cannot flourish or be of long continuance.
In every possible way they have discouraged this
Fenianism which has been about.
It is positively quite a relief to find the subject of
Jamaica properly treated at a public meeting, and
Mr. PE ACOCKE'S remarks on the subject
are most appropriate and well-timed. After
citing the chief circumstances of the case,
as connected with the outbreak, he went on to
denounce in a right spirit the unseemly attitude
assumed by a party in this country, whose minds
are so peculiarly, and, it is to be hoped, so excep-
tionally, constituted, " that their sympathies are
not with their own white race, who have been the
victims, but with the black miscreants, who have
been the authors of these unparalleled atrocities."
It is certainly time that some man of intelligence
and spirit should come forward and set himself to
work to expose the mean course pursued by those
unfair and prejudiced persons, who are prejudging
a case of which they know not the full particulars,
and whose bigotry is only equalled by their intole-
rance. It is a disgrace to any body of men that
they should thus so forget themselves, and put
aside the claims of justice and the considerations of
honour. When Parliament meets the general sense
of the country will put down this affectation of
humanity, which is holding out a wemium for crime
under the plea of equality, is sanctioning the com-
mission of cruelties that makes humanity shudder ;
bit, in the meantime, we are indebted to those who
will expose the fallacies and declare the injustice of
these apologists for sedition, who are getting
up such a senseless clamour and virtuous rage
in many directions. Respecting America, Mr.
PEACOCKE rightly thinks that the unhappy insur-
rection in Jamaica should be a warning to the
United States in their difficult task of reconstructing

their constitution.
Mr. EAP.LE, the new member, also made a speec

and devoted the chief part of his attention to the
consideration of the celebrated speech at Black-
burn, delivered by the Brummagen orator of Bir-
mingham ; and he truly declared that Mr. Brawn-
could not have considered the new Reform Bill as
necessary for the extirpation of the Conservatives,
because they are already found to be " a decaying
faction." As for Catholic Emancipation, the most
eminent Tory leaders were in favour of it. Mr.
Du CANE followed in the same track, and set to
work to criticise the hon. member for Birmingham.
If hard words could break bones, he truly said that
no Conservative would be alive now, for since the
" legendary days, when the good old Archbishop
cursed the little jackdaw that stole his ring, never
had fallen from the lips of mortal man such a
thundering anathema of all and sundry who have
the misfortune to differ from Mr. BRIGHT in
opinion." Mr. Du CANE quoted the well-known
lines of the celebrated humourist in the Ingoldeby
Legend, which were admirably adapted to the