The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-02 00:00:00

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should be spared, no energy should be wanting—always
however-keeping in mind discretion—to abridge that influ-
ence and to prevent it from going further. We have
formerly said, and we see no reason to alter our opinion,
that of late our affairs in the east of Europe and north of
Asia, appear to be the least ill-managed of those concerns
which we lament to see under the direction of the
present Administration. Fortunately our foreign affairs
have hitherto been free from the O'Connell pollu-
tion of political villany, and therefore Great Britain
has not been designedly abandoned to the hatred of
its enemies. But be they whom they may—at home
or abroad—who desire to do mortal hurt to our na-
tion, they will find a ready ally and confederate in
the favoured of the present British Government—
Mr. Daniel O'Connell. We find accordingly that on the
first rumour of possibly approaching war, Mr. O'Connell's
Dublin gazette puts forth its advertisement. We remem-
ber the time when it used to be said of the unreformed
House of Commons that if it pleased any foreign power—
even an enemy—to command a few seats in that House,
they had only to advance the money for the purchase of
some borough representations. Do not the En2/ish people
now see bow in the " reformed" House a good many votes
—to say nothing of spies—might be obtained at less ex-
pense and trouble. But this _is by way of parenthesis.
See what Mr. O'Connell's gazette, the Dublin Pilot, has to
say : _ _

War with Russia—which sooner or later must come—is
brought to our doors, and must at once form an active subject
of our councils. Our British contemporaries treat the subject
merely for our foreign policy and our Cabinet. We say it
will be governed by our domestic policy and Ireland. Russia
is vulnerable through Poland—England will be vulnerable
through Ireland, unless speedy justice be done. To be success-
ful, a war with Russia must be a war of liberty against tyranny.
Without that ingredient we must fail—with it we shall
triumph. A wide field here. We shall open it."
We beg of the English reader to pause here and pon-
der upon the fidelity and honour of the Irish Romanists.
While we were at war from 1802 to 1815, they clamoueed
for emancipation, and ever and anon threatened us with
the consequences arising from their non-emancipated state,
in a time of war. We despised the threat, and concluded
the war triumphantly. In a period of peace. em Incipetion
was given—given while pledges of eternal gratitude and
friendship to England, her institutions, and even Ler Es-
tablished Church, poured from the tongues of these false,
dishonourable traitors. And now, at the first sound—at
the bare rumour of possible war, they spring forward to
tell us that the privileges we awarded them shall be used
in our time of difficulty in order to wrii,g from us further
advantages for themselves—in order to beat down the Re-
formed Church of England and Ireland, which they said and
swore that emancipation should secure. We must say for
our own opinion upon this matter, that though the state of
Irish traitorism—we cannot describe the thing accurately
by any other word—and its influence in our Legislature
and Government must add very much to our danger
and difficulties in the event of a war, yet we think
that risk will be weeds the running, for the sake of
showing England what she must do if she would pre-
serve herself from the effects of Irish Romanist hatred. Let,
it but be seen clearly by England, in the event of a war,
that the Irish Romanists are leagued with the enemy, and
then let us have a general election. The result would be,
in our opinion, four hundred Members of the House of
Commons not only willing, but determined to put an end
to all Romanist interference with the Legislature and Go-
vernment of Great Britain. We advise the B. a ilish Roman
Catholics to look to themselves, and find out some means
showingof the British nation that they have no sympathy
with the Irish traitors of the same religious persuasion. It
is not not natural that England should much longer endure
the tyrannous and insolent interference in all her national
affairs of those who so ostentatiously hate her and her in-
stitutions. England must put an end to the politica power
of the Irish Romanists, unless it be exercised very differ-
ently from what it hitherto has been. Let the British Re-
menists look to themselves. A war would no doubt bring
on the crisis, and that effect of war we certainly should
not deprecate. We arc weary of Irish Romanist insolence
and falsehood.—Morning Past.
Russia, as Napoleon did, aims at universal monarchy ;
but the cautious and subtle policy by which Russia pur-
sues her
,plans of aggrandisement is as opposite to the
daring and energetic ambition of Napoleon, as the brilli-
ancy of his genius and the intellectual sp'endour of his Go-
vernment to the intriguing treachery and sullen despotism
of the northern Czar. Napoleon was disposed rather to
overrate his own in sources, with the view of intimidating
other nations into submission to France, the promotion of
whose glory seemed to be as much a passion with him, as.;
the achieving for himself extraordinary power and unri•
valled reputation. It is, on the contrary, and has long
been, part and parcel of the policy of Russia to underrate
her own resources, and impress mankind with a notion
of . her weakness, while continually employed in adding
to her Empire, or preparing the means of fu-
ture conquests. The emissaries of Russia invariably
act upon the policy of allaying the apprehensions which
her conquests are likely to produce in this country, by
gravely asserting that Russia is naturally weak, and
that every increase of her dominion makes her still
more so. Many shadow or simple-minded politicians in
England, though not Russian emissaries, assist the object of
the crafty barbarians, inculcating the same absurd and
paradoxical doctrine. And so Russia, with almost noise-
less step, steals from one conquest to another, in order to
furnish her apologists or dupes with new proofs of her in-
capacity and new arguments of her weakness. In this way
Russia, that long within the time of what we call " legal
memory," was buried in the obscurity of a forest existence
in a remote corner of Europe, has proved the inherent
weakness of her system and her incapacity to become dan-
gerous to her neighbours by extending the sceptre of her
iron dominion over one-ninth of the inhabitable globe—an
extent of territory considerably greater than that whose
limits circumscribed the flight of the Roman eagles when
the Roman power reached the goal of its grandeur. It is
only within a few years—only since the Whig Ministers
came into office, that Russia has realized one of the
great objects of her long-cherished ambition, in binding
"Turkey ;in the chains of vassalage, and converting the
Euxine into a Russian lake, where the once proud flag
of England dare not appear without her humiliating per
mission. During the same era of Whig Government, so
auspicious to. her ambition, Russia utterly extinguished the
independence of Poland—tore to pieces the treaty of
Vienna, by which England guaranteed the independence of
the Polish nation, and received in return from the mistress
of the ocean—chastisement ? No ; some millions of
British gold, to enable her to finish the conquest of " the
barrier" which we had raised against her ambition, and to
cover the whole of that territory, which once was Poland,
with her restrictive tariff, to the serious injury of British
commerce. It is difficult to say, while England is under
ite present rulers, what amount of injury and insult this
country will take from Russia with forbearance, and
almost with thankfulness ! It is true that our Anglo-
Indian Government has at length awakened to the
danger with which our eastern empire has long been
threatened by the machinations of Russian ambition,
but not until they discovered that, under Russian in-
spiration, a Persian descent upon the Indus was actu-
ally preparing, while 10,000 Russian troops were encamped
on the Indian side of the Caspian Sea. Some of our pro-
found writers in Asiatic and European journals write about
au invasion of India from the direction of Persia, as it were
absolutely impossible, forgetting how many successful inva-
sions of India there have been from that direction already,
and more especially mindless of the conquests of Nadir
Shah. From what we know by experience of the spirit of
our Government, we said the other day that it was likely
our feeble and fearful Ministers would be more frightened
at their own military demonstrations, or at those of their
Governor-General of India, than the- Russians would be,
and we already observe symptoms of cowardly alarm and
" truckling to Russia" in the Ministerial Journals. If a
Whig Minister happens to be betrayed into an act of spirit,
what is the next thing which we have to expect ? The very
sound of his own trumpet alarms him—
" Even And back recoils,atthe
sound h
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nion, and the feet of the Colossus, • instead of crumbling
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iron-hoof of Russia, and many more will feel it, aye, and
our Indian empire will crumble beneath • •
basely in • • It, if England,
spirit and absurdly in relies
policy, on the
weakness of the Russian aggressor •
for the protection of
her interests, instead of 1, .er own strength, vigilance
courage, and military resources.--Morning Herald.

Yesterday afternoon as a man in the employment of
Messrs. Barclay and Perkins, named Edward Batterman, was
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in the act of shovelling hops into one of the large coppers,
went legs into some hot liquor.
rescueded'heanwdas forthwith conveyed to St. Thomls's
his
3isng pfoitoatl,swli slipped,
on examination, both legs were found to be
dreadfully scalded.
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her left leg and thigh were dreadfully fractured.
a dangerous state.