The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-18 00:00:00

the noble Lord as friendly counsel,—not as an
exhortation,—not as a warning nor even a
grave and reasonable censure ; but it is prin-
ted in that newspaper which circulates espe-
cially among the Catholics of Ireland to whom
it is announced as a fact, not open to any
kind of controversy, that if he, Lord Cloncurry,
does not take upon himself the onus of a full parti-
cipation in Mr. O'Connell's war against the King's
Government, he shall answer for it to the people,
by being held up, on the authority of the agitator
himself, as the author of all their sufferings. Was
there ever, again we repeat, in the history of upstart
power, such another sample of mixed arrogance and
malice ? We shall not quote more, but we will to-
morrow sacrifice a column to the letter as a charac-
teristic record of that upright, humane, and gentle
discipline, through which an Inquisitor-General
might not blush to bend a feeble heretic's repug-
nance. If Lord Cloncurry give in to this fraud,—
if he do not retort upon the agitator with contempt,
—there is at least tile consolation left to his friend-
and those of the peace of Ireland, that a person ca-
pable of such pusillanimity, however employed as a
momentary tool, can by no accident become the
formidable leader of a party. O'Connell would
place this poor nobleman in front of the fight, speak
behind him till the fire slackens, and then make a
footstool of his corpse. But Lord Cloncurry knows
him. What, however, are the " miseries" which
the poor of Ireland are to charge upon his Lordship's
head,unless he consents to play jackal! to Mr. O'Con-
nell ? Is not hunger likely to be one of them ?
In another letter, to be found in the Morning Re-
gister of the same day, we read the following sen-
tence from the pen of the learned agitator :
" Every succeeding famine becomes more and
more desolating, and the famine which threatens
us in the year 1831 promises to be more hor-
ribly afflicting than any that went before it :
remember that we anti-Unionists are struggling to
apply the only efficacious remedy to all these evils !"
So, then, this predicted famine of 1831 is to
be cured by a repeal of the Union ; and if Lord
Cloncurry does not help to procure that repeal, he is
guilty of starving the people. If we remember
right, the " only efficacious remedy" for the great
famine of 1822 or 1823, was yielded from this
country, in the shape of the most munificent chari-
table subscription that one nation ever furnished to
another. Whether the bish dispensers of that
noble fund employed it invariably according to the
intentions of the donors, it boots not to inquire. But
could the wretched creatures have called to us as
" fellow-subjects" had the Union then been re-
pealed ? And how, or with what conscience, 1.1
they act as Mr. O'Connell instigates them, can
the famishing victims to the famine of 1831 apply
to England—the hated, the execrated, the calum-
niated England—for succour ? Let the famine
come, if God so pleases, and the Christian spirit
of Enghsh Protestants %% ill still be what it ever has
been—alive anti merciful. But let this Mr. O'Con-
nell beware, for if the people of England think
justly on the painful subject, never will one fraction
of the smallest mite be contributed for the relief of
Ireland from this country until he (the begging
patriot) shall have disgorged to the last atom the
whole of that enormous sum of poor men's hard
earnings sshich has been wrung from the wretched
peasantry during the last eighteen months or
two years—extorted from them by the tax-
gatherers, lay and churchmen, in sixpences and
twopences, levied from the pauper's hovel and
at the chapel-door, under the degrading title of
" O'Connell rent," and transferred into his pocket.
We say again, when fresh hunger comes upon the
peasantry of Ireland, let this man refund the pillage of
the poor, or let him, instead of Lord Cloncurry, ha re
to answer for their manifold sufferings. For the con-
dition of Ireland, under the effect of these procla-
mations, is it for us freemen to rejoice at such cala-
mities ? God forbid ! Ireland is stripped of her
Constitution. By whom ? By Lord Anglesea ?
No. By Act of Parliament ? Far from it ; but by
those lawless and furious men who aimed at lasting
despotism under the forms of law, and forced the
Legislature to anticipate them, by inflicting a less
perilous violence than their's upon the kingdom.
Mild laws are for sober times : if the empire be at-
tacked by unforeseen engines of destruction, strong
means of defence must be resorted to. It has been
said that we raise a "No Popery" cry against
O'Connell and the ambitious priests, his allies. Not
so. But when a cry bursts forth which has "No
Protestant" for its object, we answer it by an appeal
to the hearts and arms of all who hear the name of
Protestant. They have heard us—they are roused
—we know it; and we shall SOOll dismiss our appre
hensions.—Times.

Whatever may have been the character of the po-
licy heretofore pursued by the different Governments
of this country towards Ireland, or whatever may be
the course which justice would now dictate as the
most proper to be adopted, there can be but one
opinion in the minds of all impartial men, respecting
the agitation of the repeal of the Union at the pre-
sent moment. Who are they who are convulsing
the people of Ireland, and destroying their industry
0 and commerce, by urging them to demand a repeal
of the Union ? The very men who formerly agi•
tated the people respecting Catholic emancipation,
and who declared, that when that just measure should
be carried, nothing would be wanting to render
Ireland tranquil, prosperous, and happy, but those
improvements and ameliorations which time and le-
gislative wisdom would accomplish. And how have
they kept their word to those ‘vho devoted their time
—their talents—and their whole energies—to the car-
rying of the Catholic question ? Why, by seizing
the very first opportunity of disturbing the tranquil-
lity of the empire—of injuring its trade—sand of
re-producing the actual state in which unfortunate
Ireland was placed previous to the repeal of the
Catholic disabilities. And under what circum-
stances, and on. what grounds is it, that this new
source of embarrassment is produced ? The
grounds are that nothing has been done to conciliate
the people of Ireland, meaning thereby, to improve
their condition; and the circumstances, the forma-
tion of a Cabinet comprising a great portion of the
talent of the country—which fought the battle of
Ireland when her hand was against every one,
and almost every one's hand against her—
which has shown a stronger disposition to pro.
mote the. welfare of the country than any of its
predecessors, and in whose fulfilment of them there
are few, indeed, who have any doubt! The agita-
tors say that nothing is done to improve Ireland; but
they will not even give the men, who have always
had her welfare at heart, the time even to put the
measures into legislative form which are necessary to
regenerate tier ! They blame them for carrying the
law into effect against their seditious meetings; and
they themselves provoke the proclamations by as-
sembling to destroy the Constitution, to disturb the
public tranquillity, i;nd to spread dissension and
ruin among all classes ! But let them beware. 'I, he
Government is not to be intimidated, nor the Lord
Lieutenant turned from his purpose of maintaining
the law, by their factious proceedings. The law
will be found strong enough to reach them, and the
Government possessed of sufficient firmness to put
it in force; but if the former should fail, the extraor-
dinary case must he met by extraordinary measures,
and no friend to Ireland will iefuse to lend his sanction

to their enact►nrnt, or his aid in carrying them into
r ffect.—Morning Advertiser.

On New Year's Day Lord and Lady FA L K
LAND and suite arrived at their mansion, Leven Grove,
near Hutton Rudby, in the North Hiding of this county,
where they are now spending the honey moon, and we
understand are going to reside there for some time.—• Yuri'
Herald.

GREENWICH LATE FIRE.-A meeting of
the parish officers and Governors and Directors took place
on Friday morning, to investigate the circumstances of
the fire that led to the destruction of the theatre, ad-
ii Messrs. Wit EAT LE vs', coachmakers and proprietors,
'inextensiveii workshops and store-rooms, when the Board was
unanimously of opinion that the theatre was set on fire by
some incendiary or incendiaries+,