The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1836.

(the elections to the Extraordinary Diet), and to sow dis-
union wherever they enjoy some influence, with the view of
creating a new schism, similar to that of Saarnen.
Several have been arrested by order of the Cantonal
Government, particularly in the Catholic part of the Jura,
which belongs to Berne. The latter are so daring, on ac-
count of the vicinity of the French department of the
Doubs, where they are always sure of finding an asylum.
In order to curry favour with our Court Bishops, many of
them have already caused their names to be inscribed
among the members of the Catholical, Apostolical, and
Roman Association, lately formed in Paris under the pa-
tronage of powerful personages.—Courrier Francais.
We mentioned yesterday that M. de Tschann has re-
ceived orders from the Helvetic Directory to quit Paris
immediately. We were correctly informed, but having
been suddenly seized with a rather serious indisposition, the
Swiss representative despatched a courier to Berne to in-
form the Vorort that illness obliged him to postpone his
departure. He has already demanded his passports, and
will set out the moment his health will allow him to travel.
—Courrier Francais.

Our commercial interests will materially suffer from the
cessation of all intercourse with Switzerland. The affair
and its consequences are beginning seriously to alarm our
frontier departments, as also Marseilles and Lyons, which
carry on so much business with Switzerland. Savoy and
Piedmont, Genoa and Turin, will, in all probability, profit
by this non-intercourse to monopolize our trade with that
country.—Courrier de

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, OCT. 6.—THE ARCHBISHOP.—The Catholic
Archbishop of Dublin yesterday addressed a letter to the
clergy of his diocese. The Dublin Evening Post of this
day observes that " this letter will produce a most salutary
impression upon all minds but those steeled against truth
and charity. The rogues, fanatics, and apostates will abuse
it. The forger-Todds, the Crotties, the Cooke:, and the
Ebenezer-men will be up in arms. But such Protestants
as the Archbishop of Dublin and the Bishop of Killaloe—
such Protestants as Doctor Carlile and Doctor Montgomery
will as highly estimate a letter which breathes such truly
Christian sentiments, as the most devoted member of the
Catholic Church."

MR. O'CONNELL AND Ma. SHARMAN CRAWFORD.—In
a communication to a contemporary, Mr. O'Connell thus
corrects some misprints in his letter to his constituents :
" Having expressed my own opinions in favour of the total
abolition of tithes, it is added—' I qualify them only by
adding, that I would substitute a small tax on the landlords,
not payable by the landlord, lest he should absorb all the
advantage of the abolition.' It should have been printed
thus —A qualify this opinion only by adding, that I would
substitute for tithes a small tax on the rent—a tax pay-
able by the landlord, lest he should absorb all the advan-
tage of the abolition.' You perceive that, as printed, the
sentence is either nonsense, or if it have any meaning, it
means directly the reverse of what I intended to convey,
which was, a tax payable by the landlord on the rent he
actually received." Mr. O'Connell adds, that he will reply
to Mr. Baines's letter on Friday, on the subject of Peerage
Reform, maintaining that the argument is with him, even
on Mr. Baines's own showing. Mr. Sharman Crawford, in
a letter of the 4th instant, states, that he will reply to Mr.
O'Connell's letter on Friday.—Dublin Evening Post.
TITHE CAMPAIGN.—The progress of the war in this
district (county of Limerick) is thus reported :—Every day
brings us accounts of the progress of the tithe war in the
surrounding counties. The Rev. Incumbent of Pallas
Green had his rebellion ruffians out scourinc, the country
on Thursday morning last. They made an effort to capture
a defaulter, named John Leonard, but were disappointed,
as he got timely warning of their approach by the sounding
of horns and shouting of the people, who were assembled
in great crowds. Leonard, at the same time, was located
on the top of Knockgraney Hill, from which he made his
escape amid the cheering of the myriads present. This was
the second attempt to take Leonard, the former having been
attended with like success. The ruffians were assisted by
sixteen policemen, under the command of Chief Constable
Hodnett, of Barrington's Bridge, who seems (states a cor-
respondent) to evince a great anxiety in the collection of
tithes. The letter of Patrick O'Dwyer, written from our
county gaol, detailing the dreadful privations he has suf-
fered, in consequence of his arrest by Parson Coote, last
week, we have received too late for insertion this post. We
may be allowed once more to ask when and how this un-
holy war against the very existence of a people, is to end ?
We dare not trust ourselves with even our surmises on the
subject.—Limerick Star.
In the county of Kilkenny the rebellion ruffians are
actively at work ; but the people are not idle. The fol-
lowing is from the Kilkenny Journal :—ln the county Kil-
kenny, and throughout Ireland, the parsons, and the lay
impropriators, are busily at work, through the agency of
process-servers and rebellion ruffians. We shrink from
entering into an anticipation of the scenes which the coming
winter will witness in Ireland. But we trust the evils at
which the parsons—Ministers of Religion!—followers of
Christ (bitter irony !)—are madly driving, will be averted
by the people themselves. Let them in all parts of the
country contribute to the justice rent, and thereby be pri-
vileged to claim its protection. In this county, the pari-
shioners of Ballycallan, Clare, Blackrath, &c., intend to
meet in their respective parishes next Sunday, and to con-
tribute largely to the national fund. Every remaining
Parish should do the same. Those who wish to defeat the
parsons—those who wish for corporate reform—those who
desire to have justice done to Ireland, will send up their
contributions without delay, and become members of the
National Association.

EVEN-HANDED JUSTICE .—We beg the Orangemen, and
all revilers of his Excellency Lord Mulgrave's Govern-
ment, to read the following paragraph, which we take from
the Londonderiy Journal :—" It will be recollected that
at last Derry Assizes, two Orangemen were convicted of a
truly savage assault upon Mr. George Proctor, of New-
town-Limavady;and sentenced by Judge Torrens to twelve
months' imprisonment and hard labour. The assault had
been concerted in an Orange lodge, and Mr. Proctor, in
the darkness of the evening, was mistaken for another indi-
vidual upon whom the culprits were, according to their in-
structions, to have committed the outrage. In consequence
of an application for mercy made on their behalf by Mr.
Proctor, the Lord Lieutenant, in the course of last week,
directed the immediate liberation of the prisoners. The
public cannot have forgot the loud and protracted clamour
which was raised against the Government for having, some
time ago, upon an application made to it, and which
was at least signed by the then Mayor of Derry, abridged
the term of imprisonment of two Catholics of this city of
the name of York, to which they had been sentenced by
Chief Baron Joy ; so as to equalize their punishment with
that awarded to their prosecutors, who, in a cross case, had
been found guilty of the same offence. It was a clamour
as silly as it was vulgar and malignant—meant to create
the impression that the Catholics met with undue favour at
the hands of Government. The fact, that only a few years
before, a Whig Government, though not the very same
as the present, had, at the instance of Sir John Byng, now
Lord Stafford, liberated whole batches of Orangemen, long
before the expiry of their term of imprisonment, to which
they had been doomed for outrages at Magherafelt, of the
most savage nature (so Mr. G. Dawson at the time de-
scribed them) ought to have imposed silence upon the au-
thors of that clamour, had honesty or shame been an ele-
ment of their nature. But what will they say to this re-
cent instance of Vice-Regal clemency ? Why, they will say
nothing of it at all—unless, indeed, these few remarks of
our's provoke from them some observations conceived in
their usual flippant spirit ? Positive falsehood and the sup-
pression of truth are their favourite, indeed, their only, tac-
tics. We ought to mention that among the offenders li-
berated from Lifford gaol by his Excellency, on his last tour
to the North, were two Orangemen convicted of a mid-
night assault upon a dwelling-house in the neighbourhood
of Pettigo.
DUBLIN CORPORATION.-Our morning contemporaries
have rather halloed before they got out of the wood.
Their dirty Honours did drink the Glorious Memory, &c.,
as we find by the following notice in one of their dirty Ga-
zettes High Sheriff Veevers' Dinner.—By an accident
the following toasts, which were proposed and drank at the
High Sheriff's dinner on Tuesday evening were omitted in
our report of the proceedings The Lord Lieutenant,
and Prosperity to Ireland:—Three times three. Some of
the company drank Prosperity to Ireland ;' others for
' Hurrah !' cried,' Away !" The Glorious, Pious, and Im-
mortal Memory of King William the Third.'—Drank with
nine times nine, and all the honours ; and the Kentish
Fire. "

THE HARVEST.—WC perceive, with regret, says the
Dublin Evening Post, by two agricultural reports from the
north and north-west of Ireland, that the crops, particularly
potatoes, are in a very unfavourable state. In fact, another
famine amongst the poor is apprehended in the northern
and western counties. In the absence of poor laws, a re-
petition of such a calamity would prove most disastrous.
The following is the last report from the south :—We re-
gret to learn that the harvest is still very backward in the
country, where fields of oats and barley may be seen quite
green on the stalk, and without any evidence of approach-
ing maturity. This observation applies to several other
counties besides Limerick, where the grain is in the same
unripe state.
TORY SHIFTS.—The mercenaries of the Orange faction
having exhausted the ammunition of abuse for which their
party is so notorious, and finding the high character and
judicious conduct of Lord Mulgrave invulnerable against
all their attacks, appear to have retreated a little for a sea-
son, in order to see what can be done by unfurling another
Standard. A new commander of the forces, accordingly,
last Tuesday took the field, and it is confidently predicted
that the Lord Lieutenant cannot long hold out against so
consummate a master of political warfare. His first attack,
of which the following is a sample, displays considerable
. energy. His, be seen, is no bush-fighting ; he marks
his man, and with a noble disdain of political aims, vigo-
rously attacks the person of his enemy :—" Lord Mulgrave
is a vain man, and his vanity, that is within public observa-
tion, is of the meanest description—it is the vanity of being
thought a handsome man ; that such is the case, the pains
he takes, and the artifices he resorts to, for personal deco-
ration and exterior effect, prove the premises. A great
mind cannot descend to the fashion of a shoe-tie, and its
aspirations take a higher flight than the adjustment of an
elf, or love-lock. A man occupied by such cares is either
too young or too old to govern a country—he is unfit to
govern at all. Lord Palmerston is a coxcomb whose age
we all know, despite of his curls and his rouge ; but our
foreign and home policy alike show, that it is not Narcissus'
young or old that we want, but Statesmen." After thus
spoiling the beauty of one enemy, and accusing the
other of dressing in the fashion of other men, our lite-
rary Trojan makes a thrust at the Marquis of Anglesey in
the following graceful manner :—" The Marquis of Angle-
sey (quoth the Standard) was also a vain man, and a most
weak and silly Statesman, but possessed some redeeming
qualities. He stopped in the career of factious and guilty
subserviency. He would not serve under O'Connell, and
was succeeded by Lord Mulgrave. We shall resume this
subject in our next, and follow his Excellency to the iast
folly and mischief of his rule. Our labour, we trust, will
not be long continued ; we have a presentiment that the
sphere of his political antics will be soon changed." " A

presentment !"—nay, a certainty ! His Excellency can
never survive the repeated attacks of so able and deter-
mined an opponent. By next post we expect to receive in-
telligence that Lord Mulgrave is no longer Viceroy in
Ireland!
ORANGE FLOWERS AND Standard PROPRIETY.—The
Tories, everywhere in Ireland, as well as England, possess
one advantage at least, over both Whigs and Radicals ;
they have always at command a magazine of vituperative
terms, unequalled both for extent and the peculiar kind of
weapons contained in it. A new paper, apparently desi-
rous of obtaining that notice from the use of the most
blackguard Billingsgate which it seems conscious could not
be gained by its efficient advocacy of the Orange party, to
which it belongs, has convinced us that the Standard can
at least do the work of a scavenger in a style which even
the Times itself could not surpass. The Irish political
adventurer has contrived to collect together as much dirt in
one column, in order to calumniate Mr. O'Connell, as his
fellow-labourers in the same foul-mouthed vocation have ge-
nerally been able to heap up in several. Amongst other
names which this master of Billingsgate bestows on the
Hon. and Learned Member for Kilkenny, are—" execrable
ruffian "—" mendicant impostor "—" wretch ! "—and then
comparing him with Cataline, he exclaims—" How like the
sanguinary demagogue of ancient Rome is the Fiend of
Darrynane." Mr. O'Connell is, besides, one of the
Stinkbinksem of Africa ; " an " experienced cheat
and a practised liar " also. This is the language
of Conservatism—these are the terms of a Standard
gentleman. In another part of this exceedingly cre-
ditable composition, so truly Conservative in all its bearings,
Mr. O'Connell is designated the " blasphemous miscreant,"
and is accused of usurping the functions of God himelf!
Then follow close "impious ruffian," " rascal" " blackguard,"
"bloody-minded calumniator." There is much genuine
piety in the following passage—the absence of all arro-
gance and uncharitableness cannot fail to be remarked :
" The Scriptures," says this true soldier of the Tories,
" mention that Ananias and Saphira were struck dead for
telling lies about a paltry sum of money ; and would it be
any wonder if the thunders of Omnipotence were launched
against a wretch whose life, from week to week, and from
month to month, forms one unbroken chain of lies, curses,
and calumnies, uttered for the purpose of gaining money."
Language equally indefensible and atrocious is, we believe,
without a parallel. The article on which we have bestowed
more notice than it deserves, concludes in terms the fla-
grant nature of which needs no comment :—" We conclude
our first essay on this moving abomination, by acknowledg-
ing that he has practically verified that part of Holy Writ
which says, that the sins of the fathers shall be visited on
the children,' for he has proved, incontrovertibly, that bad
blood cannot be purified of its taint and virulence by cir-
culating through the veins of a scoundrel race for four
generations." We do not either envy the feelings of the
man or covet the reputation of the writer who can employ
against a political opponent such language as this. It is
disgraceful in the last degree.