The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-29 00:00:00

will be ruined, and the lower orders, like the angry I
lion who lashed himself to death with his own tail,
destroy themselves, and, in doing so, will destroy us
of the middle class, and all those who rank above us,
even to the Monarch on the throne. I hope, Mr.
Editor, that the whole of this letter will be admitted
into your most valuable and patriotic Paper; and
still more do I hope that the advice contained in it,
however badly I may have expressed myself, will
be followed, and speedily followed, by his Majesty's
Government and by that class in society, which it
so seriously concerns. I say to the Government,
" Call on the middle classes to arm themselves—
offer them arms—) ou have hundreds of thousands of
muskets rusting in your magazines." To the middle
classes, that is, to the people, I say, " Answer
the call with one simultaneous voice—accept the
offer of arms, and learn the use of them." Govern-
ment—" Be jealous, be afraid." People—" Be su-
pine." Then farewell to the Government, farewell,
to the people, and let them prepare themselves for
such scenes as took place in Paris in 1792 and 1793,
and to sing "Io triumphe," to anarchy and confu-
sion.

" I shall leave this place to-morrow on my way
home, where I shall hope to find your Paper with
this letter in its columns, and God grant that my ad-
vice may be followed.
"I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
ONE OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES."
—Morning Chronicle.

When Mr. O'Connell first intimated his in
tention of introducing Political Unions into Ire-
land we expressed our regret at the prospect of
their adoption in that country. We did so not
merely because we objected to the principle of
Political Unions, as calculated to supersede the
functions of regular Government, but because
we were aware that the state of society in Ire-
land—a state in which political differences are
inflamed by religious animosities—was peculiarly
unfitted for the avowed purposes of such Unions,
the promotion of Reform by constitutional
means, and the establishment of peace and order
throughout the whole of the social confederacy.
It is true the public were assured by Mr. O'Con-
nell that the extinction of religious animosities
was one of the objects of the proposed Union,
but there was an inconsistency, an incompatibi-
lity between the means and the end, which it re-
quired no stretch of penetration to discover, the
association of large bodies and the delivery of
popular harangues being calculated to produce
any thing rather than repose amongst a sensitive
people. Such, however, was the expedient which
Mr. O'Connell resolved to try ; accordingly he
proposed the formation of a Political Union ; it
was formed at his bidding, and, though it is yet
but a few days old, its effects are beginning to
shew themselves. Amongst the first fruits of the
experiment is the starting of a rival Union,
an Orange—a Brunswick Union ; that is, a
union intended to keep alive the animosities
which Mr. O'Connell is so anxious to bury ;
a►►d this rival union is fairly chargeable upon the
original union out of which it has sprung, as
directly—though for a different, and even for an
opposite purpose—as any of the branch unions
which profess the same object with their parent
in Dublin. Another result, which has already
manifested itself, is this, that the repeal of the
legislative union between the two countries—a
question invoking the most awful consequences
to both—is mixed up with Reform and with re-
ligious considerations, so that the topics of dis-
content are multiplied in the new association by
the wider range to which it extends its guardian-
ship, as compared with the late Catholic Asso•
elation, where the unity of the subject prescribed
something like a limit to the - sources of excite-
ment and danger. Time and the progress of
knowledge, and the general improvement of so-
ciety, under a Reformed Parliament, where the
instruments to which most men looked forward
for the establishment of tranquillity, the over-
throw of prejudice, and the promotion of con-
tent in Ireland. But Mr. O'Connell pretends
to have found a substitute for all these in the
heat and urgency of inflammatory appeals to the
multitude. He tells them that tithes cannot be
collected in Ireland—that in certain parishes they
have not been collected for some time back.
His hearers shout with joy at the intelligence ;
they receive it as from authority that tithes
have been and can be refused, and thus a be-
ginning is made in the work of conciliation by
which Catholic and Protestant are to be brought

together, and all religious animosities buried in
n e
o common grave at the foot of the Liberator.
Now what purpose can such statements effect ?
Must they not rouse the people ? and must they
not embarrass the Government ? This was not
the course pursued by Mr. O'Connell himself
during the last Session of Parliament, when he
gave the most efficient support to his Majesty's
Ministers. Mr. O'Connell could then detect
and expose the inconsistency of Mr. Hunt, who,
while he voted for the Bill, said and did every
thing he could against it. And what is Mr.
O'Connell doing now ? Pursuing the very
same course which he condemned in another ;
and pursuing it at the very moment when the
Ministers are about to grapple once more with
the enemies of the Constitution. Even if we
thought the repeal of the Union were a measure.
fraught with advantages to both countries, we
would still say do not press it to the injury of
Reform ; but believing it to be dangerous, if
not ruinous to both, our astonishment is equal
to our indignation when we find it, at such a
moment, put forward to the detriment of the
great cause, on the success of which depends the
future happiness of the people, and, perhaps, the
existence of the State itself.—Morning Herald.
Rumours having reached us from various
quarters about a recent appointment at the
Heralds' College, we have been induced to make
inquiry as to the facts, and we are sorry to find
them verified. The present Earl Marshal, to
whom emancipation has been so lately and hand-
somely conceded, is the first Catholic since the
Reformation who has exercised the office. We
regret to find that on the death of the late Sir
George Nayler not only Mr. Lodge, a gentleman
so well known in the literary world, and espe-
cially so from his lives of illustrious persons, has
been superseded, but likewise many more gentle-
men of the highest respectability and talents. And
by whom have they been superseded ? By the
assistant of the Earl Marshal, Mr. Woods, lately
a clerk to Sir George Nayler, and Blue Mantle
Pursuivant, on the score of his having assisted
the late Garter for a very few years. We under-
stand there are other gentlemen in the College
who assisted Sir Isaac Heard as Garter for nearly
thirty years. Now supposing his Majesty were
to advance an Ensign to the rank of Lieutenant-
Colonel in a regiment, what would be thought
byof asulclhraanks in
n act
tihnetlaiermHyr Thus it ever is withse of Parliament and
the Reformers, breaking the word of promise to
the ear for the furtherance of their own sinister
7 purposes.—Morning Post.

MARCII OF INTELLECT.--A labourer read-
ing the newspaper to his wife, came to the following pas-
sage His Grace was received with three huzzas"—
which he read, " His Gracs was received with three
hunio," " More thaw esid the good ITOWIO.