The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-27 00:00:00

COURSING.

On Wednesday the grand match (the greatest private batch
ever run in Scotland), 200 toys aside, best of three runs, be.
twecn Lord Eglinton's Dusty Miller and Mr. P:An's Eden,
came off in the neighbourhood of Moffat. A -orodigious as-
semblage of sportsmen from the south ar
a from the north,
from the east and from the west, collecte;cl to witness this trial
of the comparative merits of the Englidarla Scotch greyhound.
Dusty Miller won • easily in two rulds. This match, it will be
remembered, arose out of the competition for the Glasgow
Cup. for vrhirh Ed'''. was the last bt..aten dog. His
‘. fi.,,i1,1," a-crih,(l his d':eat at Eaglesham to a b'id attack of
toothache, 11,1(ior whicti they said the dog lahouretl at the time,
and, to prove his superiority, challenged any ntle of the other
five dogs which remained on the last day of running for the cup.

PIGEON SHOOTING.
The Thatch between Mr. Lambert and Mr. Fox, for 251.
a side, cam e off yesterday at the subscription ground, Chalk
Ftrm. It possess
e.d tolerable interest in the sporting world,
andn
an there was a -good attendance. It was at seven birds each,
ty- one yards from the trap, and was won by Fox, who killed
six, be.atinelis adversary by a bird. There were some minor
mate...hes. afterwards.

Lord John 11115,4, as leader of the 'Ministerial
party in the House of Commons, will give a grand Par-
liamentary dinner, at his residence in Wilton-crescent, on
Wednesday, the 3d of 'February, at which his Majesty's
Speech on the opening of the Session will be read. Cards
of invivition on a most extended scale were issued on

MADAME DULCKEN.—This celebrated and really
Inagnificentl Pia n iste, has paid a high
compliment to that
portion of the musical world resident in Canterbury, and its
neighbourhood, by favouring Mr. Goodban with her pre-
sence and performance at the first -of his Subscription Con-
certs. Such an attraction has seldom been offered. Ma.
dame Dulcken is. sans doute a star of the first magnitude
in the musical hemisphere, and as such was received and
acknowledged by a numerous and fashionable audience, who
were alike astonished and delighted with the united bril-
liancy and delicacy with which this talented artiste executed
from memory the most scientific and delicate compositions.
We understand that this highly gifted female has visited
most of the rourt. of Europe, where her extraordinary
powers have been fully appreciated ; hut we believe this is
the first in she hq,s luiriolinA a provincial town with her
presence. Ail, however, who had -the pleasure of hearing •
ler performance, unite in the hope that it will not be the
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HAMBURG, JAN. 8, 18.36.
lIEINE BROTHERS, CONTRACTORS,
beg to state that it will now be too late for receiving
TICKETS before the Three First Days of Drawing of the 67th
HAMBURG GREAT LOTTERY; but Tickets warranted un-
drawn will sell between the third and fourth days at Ten Pounds.
The largest Capital Prize cannot be drawn before the fourth day,
as per Scheme.
In February, on approach of the fourth day, the price will con-
siderably advance, wherefore it is recommended to order in the
course of this month.

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party. ))erhApg the oceasion may have something
to do with this than we are fully aware of. We
cannot forget that The Sun is perhaps the only London
Journal, that for a period of seven ;years, uniformly
and sii*.sintalitly jilstke id tiA caMe
of oppressed and 'caldniiiated 4e'vbiej
its cOhinnis titie dachae. the pe.fsectited
Cit&ncs, though in itself the 'ConseietitionS itponent
of the Catholic creedthat slz,,lght to ao justice to
the motives dF tie piieStliond===that edibilated Oery
'oppWs'til'on ih ilefenVe • scif assailed
by cothiii'drailis 4 alien Chhrch—and that,
through t'3l its efforts; sioUght td enticiliatb file truly
humane, benevolent; ihd at4idti bt eVePg party,
by en'Aeaviiiiki, to prove to them that by
divisions they were impoverishing and en-
slaving their common country. Perhaps, too,
the question of railways may have something
to do with our more self-satisfied feelings. The
public has already done us the justice to recognise us
as the first, and in fact the only London Journal, in
which such modes of locomotion have been always
recommended as indispensable to the preservation of
the commercial importance of the British Isles. There
is no vain-glory in making this declaration, for it is a
meed of approbation for which we have long laboured;
and Ortit is more to the purpose, at a time when
Railway projectors were the scorn of the mightiest of
our Contemporaries.
Of the importance of the subject of this Meeting we
have already spoken. It is unquestionably one—to
adopt the language of the first resolution—which,
on the score of interest and duty, doubly claims the
attention of the British Government. The completion
of a line of communication which will bring, so to
speak, Dublin within a distance of twelve hours of Lon-
don, will have precisely the same effect, as if under the
mail-coach conveyance system, Ireland were transplant-
ed into the centre of Great. Britain. Dublin will be to
London then, what Birmingham is now ; so that there
will be as little cause, with respect to distance, for a
repeal of the Union between Ireland and England,
as there is now between England and Wales.
And with the increased proximity of Ireland and
England, will necessarily follow the amalgamation of
the tastes, the feelings, and the habits of the two '
countries. England will come to see the policy of
conciliating the Irish in the same way as she has done
with regard to the Scotch. Certain manufactures,
certain natural productions, and certain habits of
the country, will become popular ; and in return
Ireland will, in token of gratitude and good feeling,
introduce and foster among her peasantry habits now
considered exclusively English, but which in time will

form a bond of mutual good fellowship. It is only in
this way that abuses can be effectually eradicated—
that defects of education can be cured—that low vulgar
prejudices can be totally obliterated from the public
mind—and that different races speaking the same lan-
guage, but differing in matters of faith, may be brought
to blend and harmonize together as members of the
same body politic, possessing a community of noble
and vital interests.

The only disappointment we experienced in pe-
rusing the report of the Meeting in Dublin, presided
over by the Right 'Honourable the LORD MAYOR,
and attended by many of the most influential public
men in Ireland, was in finding no direct allusion made
to the scheme of the British and American Intercourse

Company, whose prospectus for carrying a Railway
from Dublin to Birturbuy Bay, on the coast of
Galway—and so facilitating the communication be-
tween the British Isles and ,the United States—has
already appeared in our columns. The Meeting, no
doubt, was fearful of embarrassing itself by grasping
at more than it could conveniently attain ; and,
perhaps, were we acquainted with its motives,
we should be the first to approve of its for-
bearance. Nevertheless, the last-mentioned project
is in some sort necessary to the completion 'of
the first. The internal trade of Ireland is in a wretched

condition—the peasantry have nothing to do, but what
they detest doing—namely, tilling scraps of ground for
the benefit of the parson and the landlord. The
moping lethargy in which they may be said to exist
rather than to live, is only to be dissipated by
the prospect of employment which shall remunerate

them for their toil, and the fruits of which they shall
be allowed to enjoy without an apprehension of the
malign power of their oppressors. Ireland is a mine
of wealth. The New World never offered half the

temptations to the money-loving adventurer which
Ireland does to the industry and the enterprise of the
British capitalist. As to the national jealousy of
the Irish—that is an idle bugbear, only fit to
frighten children. All the Irish are jealous about
is their religion, and the means of living by their honest
industry. Convince them that the first will not be in-

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why, it must be a killed."' o.ood Heavensare we
• • :t ,
to be deprived, at a period like the present;ihe
services of one of our most efficient Reformers, merely
becdum,hi) parne6tness, his sincerity, and his tran-
Plcell4tit New. tle nqt happen to tic rnood odour
with beftaiii iiitefeted; etittftigYs ?
pcissilile I Who *ds tile iiidst Micee§stili adifdedie of
Ministers last Sessibii Lofd HAN! i Who'
e9siiied the pagSiiig tii thb Mihlidipdl Ali ill the
Hoilse bf Peel's i3tit3bdtbiNi Whd
ever fcirerlidst at his post-.-4eddiest dt fi_TistL—:iriogi
triumphadt iii attack-=•diost digeniods iri ciefedce
Lord littBiidliA4 Whd gi'eticed the sneers=
partied the aro;dnients—add tad l 8 ditird4 the
sophistries of LYNDHURST ? Lord BROUGHAM 1
And is this the man to be passed by with neglect?
Not so ! Even though he himself may repudiate all
ideas of office, still the country has a right to avail
itself of every opportunity of demanding his assistance.
Much yet remains to be accomplished in the way of
Law Reform—much also in the way of National
Education—moreover, there is an Ecclesiastical Es-
tablishment to be purified--a Septennial Act to be
repealed—a House of Lords to be divested of its irre-
sponsible functions ;—and till these grand points are
gained, it is wholly impossible that the country can
dispense with the aid of one of the most consummate
Statesmen of the age.

suited, and that the second will be promoted by the
investment of British capital, and the presence of Bri-
tish enterprise, and the people will rise, in one body,
from North to South, and hail the advent of their de-

livcrance. We will return to this subject the mo-
ment further communications, which are to be sent
to us from Dublin, shall have reached us. In the
mean time we invite attention to the Resolutions
which were passed at the Public Meeting held in
Dublin on Saturday, of which copies are given in our
advertising columns. •

Our Tory Contemporary, the Times, is perfectly
frantic on the subject of DANIEL O'CONNELL, as
will be seen by the following undeniable specimens
of monomania which we quote from its leading article of
this morning :—" As Mr. DANIEL O'CONNELL draws
near to London, every post brings with it proofs and
harbingers of the coining pestilence."—"He is the most
deceitful, the most treacherous, the most vindictive,
the most selfish, and the most dastardly of the human
race. A lie is his favourite expedient !" This is
pretty well; but it is a mere nothing compared to the
description of the same individual which occurs in the
letter signed " Runnymede." " The mighty dragon,"
(DANIEL to wit) says the author of this refined epis-
tolary effusion, "is again abroad, depopulating our
fields, wasting our pleasant places, poisoning our foun-
tains, menacing our civilization. To-day he gorges on
Liverpool, to-morrow he riots at Birmingham—as he
advances nearer the metropolis, terror and disgust pro-
portionately increase. Already we hear his bellow,
more awful than hywnas—already our atmosphere is
tainted with the venomous expirations of his malignant
lungs ; yet a little while and his incendiary crest will
flame on our horizon ; and we shall mark the horrors
of his insatiable jaws, and the scaly volume of his
atrocious tail I" The reflections which this striking
description awaken in our breasts, are dishearten-
ing in the exrerne. What is to become of us all,
in the event of this ferocious dragon flying straight
to London, and banging his " atrocious tail" right
and left against all the public edifices of the
metropolis ? Is St. Paul's proof against such a bom-
bardment ? Is Regent-street ensured ? Have the
Houses of Lords and Commons been duly shored up ?
We ask these questions from no impertinent curiosity,
but in the bitter anguish of our hearts ; for though we
would fain hope the best, we cannot but anticipate the
worst. But even suppose that by the aid of the firemen,
and the household troops, backed by possees, without
number, of special constables—to say nothing of the
support we may reasonably look for from the valor of
Runnymede, ST. GEORGE D'ISRAELI, Esq.—sup-
pose that by all this united help, we succeed in
clipping the wings and docking the tail of this horrid
dragon, who, and what, is to save us from the " pesti-
lence" of his breath ? We may guard against the
cholera ; but how are we to guard against an unpre-
cedented infection of this kind? It may be conta-
gious—or it may be epidemic—or it may be both ;
but at all events, the public cannot do wrong in adopt-
ing every precaution against it. Let cannons then he
fired every half hour in the streets to purify the air ;
let the public hospitals be put into a state of prepara-
tion ; camphor-bags be distributed gratis to all who
choose to apply; and messengers, duly perfumed with
tobacco smoke, be dispatched to give us the earliest in-
formation of the approach of this " Derrynane pesti-
lence," as our contemporary the Times so happily de-
signates it. By adopting these timely precautions we
may perhaps contrive to escape the visitation with
which an offended Providence now threatens us, in the
person of DANIEL O'CONNELL, Esq. !

The Reformers of Great Britain—and more espe-
cially the Municipal Reformers—are making great sa-
crifices for the support of the good cause in which they
are embarked. In several municipalities the new
corporate bodies have made provisions for the
establishment of a liberal Press, as soon as
the Government shall have decided upon the
abolition, or even the reduction, of the stamp
duties. Nor are the Tories idle in their en-
deavours to paralyze the efforts of the Liberals
throughout the country. They have entered into
joint-stock associations for the support of Tory prints,
in the vain expectation that they will be able to in-
fluence the opinion of the people of England. In
another part of The Sun of this day will be found
an article from our able provincial Contemporary,
the Lincoln Gazette, detailing the efforts of the To-
ries to triumph over the public-spirited population of
that intelligent county, by establishing a new Tory Jour-
nal on the shareholding—or, in other words, the self-sale-
able system. The end of such efforts is obvious. The
people will not read Tory papers, and the Tories will
soon find that other uses may be made of money, be-
sides squandering it away uselessly in a bad cause.
Men soon lose relish for unprofitable apostacy..

Our Correspondent " MENTOR" has addressed to us
a second letter on the subject of " Lord BROUGHAM
and Law Reform," which will be found under that
head in another part of to-day's Sun. In this tem-
perate and well-digested communication, he points out
the peculiar merits of his Lordship as a purifier of the

Augean stables of the law—a somewhat superfluous,
however well-intentioned, task; for as the countryman
in one of ?ESOP's best fables says, " Praise HER-
CULES, indeed—who ever thought of praising him ?"
So may we say of Lord BROUGHAM. HC needs no
commendation by way of encouragement. His claims
on the gratitude of his countrymen are admitted by even
his bitterest enemies, and he can afford therefore to

In amother part of our paper will be found an adver-

tisement referring to a Meeting lately held at Edin-
burgh, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament
in favour of Mr. BUCKINGHAM'S claim to compen-
sation, for the unprecedented injuries which he suffered
some years ago, from the agents of the East India
Company. We are glad to perceive that the public
feeling so powerfully awakened in England—where
more than one hundred of the principal cities and towns
have prepared petitions on this subject to be presented
to the. House of Commons—has extended to Scotland,
and that Edinburgh, as in duty bound, has taken the
lead, in a cause which comes recommended by the
clearest and most obvious principles of justice. We
say nothing of Mr. BUCKINGHAM'S eminent public
services—we keep entirely out of view the fact that his
persevering exertions in opening the eyes of the nation,
and particularly of the commercial part of the commu-
nity, to the great advantages of a free trade with the
East, mainly contributed to the breaking up of the mo-
nopoly so long enjoyed by the East India Company, to
the prejudice of the national interests—we put all these
important considerations entirely out of the question,
and rest Mr. BUCKINGHANI'S claim on the broad and
sacred principle of justice. We hesitate not to say that
never was there a more wanton, or more flagrant
violation of -this principle, than that which was
committed towards this gentleman by the Govern-
ment of India. What are the facts of this atrocious
case ? Simply these :—Mr. BUCKINGHAM, residing
in Calcutta, under the sanction of a licence from the
East India Company, establishes a newspaper at a
great expense, which he conducts with so much credit,
that it acquires an extensive circulation, and a strong
hold on the public opinion in the Indian capital. So ,

dispense with the language of eulogium. Nevertheless,
we may still be permitted to inquire by what strange
accident it is, that he does not occupy a distinguished
position in the present Cabinet ? It cannot be that he
is too liberal. It cannot be that he is too much the
reverse. It cannot be that he is liked by the Tories;
still less that he is deemed incompetent by the Whigs.
To what, then, is owing his exclusion ? This is a
question that the country has good tight to ask; and
if we mistake not, it is one to which it will expect to
receive a prompt and satisfactory reply. That his
Majesty's Ministers appreciate the inestimable value
of Lord BROUGHAM'S services, we firmly believe; no
difficulty would exist there : the difficulty, we suspect,
lies in a far different quarter. His Lordship is
a stern Reformer : he is also known to be as
active and intelligent, as lie is conscientious,
in the prosecution of his remedial measures. He will
hear of no compromise with intolerance. He will
enter into no convenient alliance with corruption. Hence
he is more dreaded by the Tories than perhaps any
man that ever existed ; and the Tories are still far—
far too powerful at Court. But if this be the cause of
Lord BROUGHAM'S present exclusion, sure we are
that it is one which must ere long be removed. Back-
stairs influence must not be permitted to stand between
the people and their best interests. The snake must be
" scotched;" and if scotching will not answer the purpose,