The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-21 00:00:00

IRELAND•

Lul. :tiACIIALE AND 111`,:z GRACE if R. MURRAY.
Six,—Having just seen, in the Freeman's Journal of
-.Ntwsday evening, a letter bearing the signature of the
-.7Most Rev. Dr. Murray, I avail myself of the earliest op-
-phrtunity of stating that a passage which had reference to
me is utterly devoid of truth—namely, that an application
was.forwarded to the Board for aid towards the establish-
ment of a national school in my dwelling-house in Holly-
.mount. It is scarcely necessary for me to state that my
'dwelling-house is more than a mile from Hollymk.unt, and
that it never once occurred to me to coavert any portion of
a cottage, which is sufficiently small for my own accommo-
dation, into a national school. It is but justice to his
Grace Dr. Murray to state, that I am convinced he would
be incapable of any wilful misrepresentation. I only regret
that his Grace did not make himself better informed as to
the truth of a fact so improbable before he should suffer
himself to be imposed on by some not trustworthy re-
porters. I remain your obedient servant,
JAMES MACHALE,
Mountview, Nov. 15, 1838. P.P. Kilcoman and Robin.
The Mail, in its wonted liberality, and with its cha-
racteristic Christianity, sneers at Dr. Murray and the
" Priest," intimating that although the Romish Prelate is
not to be believed on oath, yet it does not see reason to
doubt Dr. Machale's assertion, as he is treating not with
heretics, but with a member of his own community.
In reply to the Rev. Jas. Machale's letter, the Evening
Post says that Doctor Murray made no mistake whatever
in the matter ; and the proof lies on the face of the docu-
ment containing the queries which the Board put when ap-
plication for aid is made to them. To the question, " Is the
whole building exclusively employed for the use of the scho-
lars?" the reply in the particular case in dispute is, " That it
is part of a dwelling-house !" and to the question, " If not"
(exclusively intended for scholars) " who uses it or dwells
therein ?" the answer is, " The Rev. James Machale"—
the applicants, as before stated, being the Most Rev. John
Machale, Archbishop, and the Rev. James Machale,
'P.P. It is clear, therefore, that wherever the mistake
lies, it is not with the venerated Prelate of Dublin.
Ma. O'CONNELL.—Mr. O'Connell was to be in Dub-
lin on Wednesday (this) evening, and a public Precursor
Meeting, it is expected, will be held on Thursday.
The Honourable Gentleman dined at Limerick last
Friday. He has now finished his Munster circuit of Pre-
cursory visits, after which he will proceed in rotation to
the other three provinces, which will occupy his time till
Christmas.
COLLEGES.—There has been a meeting in Cork for the
establishment of Lay Provincial Colleges.
O'CONNELL—THE:YEAR 1838.—The simultaneous col-
lection of the O'Connell Annuity for the present year, 1838,
is fixed to take place on Sunday the 9th December next.
in all the parishes of Ireland.

Some of the most influential members of the Wes-
leyan persuasion have recently been holding meetings at
Manchester and elsewhere, to devise the best means of
celebrating and commemorating the approaching centenary
of Methodism. It is at present proposed to erect a spaci-
ous and elegant edifice, to be devoted to the sole use of the
Theological Institution, or college for the education of
young men who are desirous of entering into the ministry ;
also, to build more commodious premises for the Missionary
Committee and Secretaries to transact their business in ;
and the large surplus which is certain to remain will be
devoted to other objects. In the space of two days the
subscriptions at the Manchester treasury amounted to the
astonishing sum of 27,000/. ; and it is confidently expected
that considerably more than 100,0001. wilt be realised when
the plans and intentions of the Committee of Management
are known. Many subscribed their 1,000/. each, still more
500/. each, and:so on in proportion with their 250/.'s, 2001.'5,
and 1001.'s.

The paragraph that appeared in our last number,
relative to Wheat and Wages, was sent by a farmer, who,
like many of his class, have been befooled by the landlords
into a belief that the Corn-laws are a blessing, and not, as
they actually are, a curse to the whole community.
Yesterday morning, between six and seven o'clock,
a labourer, named Henry Brown, while at work on board
a stone barge lying off Bankside, Southwark, slipped over
the side, and, falling into the water, was carried away by
the tide, and drowned.

At a public meeting held at Gloucester on Thurs-
day, in order to consult upon and adopt measures to pre-
vent the great destruction occurring from fires, it was una-
nimously resolved to form a fire brigade after the model of
that in London.

UNIVERSITY OF LEYDEN.—" The university of
Leyden requires no tests or declarations of religious belief
either from its professors or scholars, and consequently it
comprehends all sects and denominations, both Christian
and Jewish. The senatus consists of thirty-three profes-
sors, who are divided into faculties—Literature, Philoso-
phy, Medicine, Law, Theology, and Mathematics and
Physics. The code of instruction embraces nothing new or
suitable to the enlarged ideas of education in modern times.
Most of the lectures are still delivered in Latin, and the
public announcements of the curriculum are in the same
antiquated language. Last year the number of students
was 700. The students, who wear no particular dress,
reside in lodgings io the town, and are sociable and polite in
their manners, though perhaps possessing a little of the
wildishness of their brethren, the German burschen. A
large number of them own a club-house, where subscribers
dine and recreate themselves with various amusements. In
their reading-room I observed a profusion of German and
French periodicals and newspapers, but not one in English.
Many of the students, however, are well acquainted with
the English language, having studied it chiefly with the
view of being able to read the poetry of Byron and
Burns. Much as I had reason to be pleased with what I
saw in the society of the students, and what I heard of
their diligence in learning, I regret that impartiality
obliges me to warn young men against proceeding to Ley-
den for their education. Every new student is compelled,
during a period of six weeks, to be a drudge or fag to those
of older standing, and is thus subjected to a course of the
most mortifying insults. The practice of duelling is also
carried on without restraint from the professors or civil
authorities, and a young man has almost to fight his way
into general estimation among his fellows. The garden
behind the club-house is the usual arena for these; disgrace-
ful encounters ; and there, as I was informed, a combatant
was two or three years ago run through the body and
killed on the spot. How these things can be tolerated
among such an orderly people as the Dutch, is beyond my
comprehension."—Chambers's Journal.
At a Borough Quarter Sessions lately held in the
west of Cornwall, a person stood indicted for felony. The
defence was ably conducted by a professional gentleman
of the town, who clearly established the innocence of his
client ; but considerable hesitation was observed on the
part of one of the jurors in consenting to a verdict of
acquittal. Another juror remonstrated with him on his
obstinacy, when lie said, " Why should I give a verdict
or Mr. (the prisoner's advocate) ? He's no cus-
tomer of mine !" However, rather than be locked up,
he yielded, and the man was acquitted.—Cornwall Royal
Gazette.

Friday evening an inquest was held at the London
Hospital, before Mr. Baker, the Coroner, on view of ill:,
body of Thomas Blacker, a fine young man, who died in
that Institution. From the evidence it appeared that the
deceased, who was in the service of Mr. Hughes, a potatoe
salesman, opposite Whitechapel Church, took a mare out
of his master's stable to make room for a horse that was
brought there, and upon taking her back again, he incau-
tiously took the halter off her head, and struck the animal
with it behind. The mare then attempted to kick him,
and notwithstanding he was cautioned not to do so, he
,gain went close to her, and began to pat her, when the
animal
b :eked out, and struck him with one of her feet in
the lower part of the abdomen. He was at once removedto the Hospital, where he lingered in the most excruciating
pain for about twenty-four hours, 'when death terminated
his sufferings. Mr. Hughes, the owner of the mare, stated
in reply to the questions of the Jury, that she was by no
means a vicious animal ; that the deceased had been in the
habit of grooming her; and he attributed her kicking in
the manner described to the strange horse being brought
into the stable to her, and the deceased having incautiousiy
taken the halter off her. A verdict to the effect that the
deceased died from the violence of the kick was returned.
Another inquest was held on the body of Elizabeth
Roberts, a female, 76 years of age. It seemed that on the
sth inst. the deceased, who was an inmate of Bishopsgate
workhouse, was knocked down by the pole of a mourning
coach, in Bishopsgate-street, and received serious injuries,°
from the effects of which she died. No blame was attri-
buted to the driver of the coach, and a verdict of " Acci-
dental Death" was returned.

On the evening of Wednesday last, between six and
seven o'clock, the Glasgow and Perth mail coach, on its
way thither, was overturned on the road between Bishop's-
bridge and Ardoth. The fog was very thick, and the
guard cautioned the coachman of the necessity of proceed-
ing slowly ; notwithstanding, at a declivity, the coach was
drawn off the road and overturned with such violence as
to make it actually roll once round. The outside passen-
gers were, Mr. Hunter, younger, of Glencarse, Mr. Weekes,
the well-known comedian, and a Mr. Forrester, a cattle-
dealer, all of whom were more or less injured, the two latter
so severely that Mr. Weekes has ever since been confined
to bed in the Star Inn, and Mr. Forrester still lies at Crieff.
nceorsm
The guard had also a bad fall, and was for some days con-
fined, but is now better. The inside passengers escaped
unhurt. Mr. Weekes,
bruises, y at Dundee, but
the effects o. his from his full habit, are likely
to prevent any
him fulfilling engagement for some time.—
dramaticwetanadn, was on his way
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to join Mr. Rider's
Perth courier.

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at 20 minutes past Three o' Clack

LONDON
WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1838.

'We understand that the Government regards the
news from Canada as much exaggerated. No doubt
some alarm prevails at Montreal, but it is chiefly caused
by reports from the American frontier, which are
never much to be relied on. We hope, therefore,
that the state of things there may not he so bad as
it has been represented by a Morning Contemporary.

We will not assert that the news recently arrived
from Canada may not cause the Parliament to
he assembled before the middle of January,
but we believe it will not. At the same time, till that
came there certainly was no intention of calling it to-
gether till that period, as has been stated by the Tory
Papers.

By the arrival of the packet-ship Garrick at Liver-
pool yesterday, from New York, whence she sailed on
the 25th ult., we have received important news from
the Canadas, the details of which will be found in
another part of The Sun. It appears, that in conse
quence of a general anticipation of hostilities in the Ca-
nadas during the winter, Lord DURHAM had renounced
his intention of going to Washington, and fixed the Ist
inst. for sailing from Quebec direct to England. The
Inconstant frigate was ordered to he in readiness, and as
any delay was considered out of the question, we hourly
expect to receive news of his Lordship's arrival. The
prevailing rumour in Montreal and Quebec was, that
the Executive Government at Washington had received
a full account of an extensive plot having been formed on
the American frontier, with a view to aid the rebels with
men and supplies as soon as the winter would set in ;
and that, to demonstrate the friendly feelings of the
Federal Government towards England, the President
had directed all the particulars to be officially com-
municated to Lord DURHAM and Sir JOHN COL-
BORNE. The President also privately informed Lord
DURHAM that while the Federal Government would
employ all the power vested in it by the Con-
stitution to compel the citizens of the United
States to abstain from a violation of the Law
of Nations, by interfering in the disputes between
Great Britain and her Colonies, yet that it was of
the utmost consequence for his Lordship to understand
that the power vested in the Executive was really ina-
dequate to the complete prevention of such outrages.
All the disposable regular troops at Nova Scotia
and New Brunswick had been sent for by Sir
JOHN COLBORNE, who was preparing to act with
extreme firmness, and even unwonted rigour, in the
event of any hostilities taking place. Notwithstanding,
these precautions, the danger was considered immi-
nent. One of the Montreal journals, just received,
thus addresses its readers It is fully time that
every man who cannot make up his mind to face the
approaching crisis, and act his part nobly, should retire
from Canada. Civil war is close upon us—nothing
but a Government armed with unrestricted power, and
resolved to use it with decision, can avert the conse-
quences." The same journal adds, that early on the
morning of the 17th ult., on the road between St.
John's and Montreal, a person of undoubted veracity
saw four hundred men in a body practising military
evolutions under the direction of rebel chiefs. No-
thing, in fact, was waited for by the rebels but the
setting in of the frost, so as to cut off all assistance
from Great Britain, to determine them to try the game
of war a second time. That they will receive assist-
ance from all the scum of the United States, is
certain ; nor is it in the power of a Republic—
constituted on the principles of the Federal
Union, and having so extensive and ill-defined a
frontier to guard, to prevent the commission of acts
which would involve a more despotic Government in
very serious difficulties. To add to the danger, the
unlucky revocation of the DURHAM Proclamation by
the House of Lords, has led to the return to the
Canadas of some of the most influential leaders of the
first rebellion, to profit in their future conflicts with
die Loyalists by the experience gained by a first failure.
What, then, is to be done ? The remedy is easy if
the Government will not lose an instant in adopting it.
Send plenty of troops to the Canadas before the
closing of the St. Lawrence. There is ample time to
make the voyage before the setting in of the
frost ; we have ships in abundance ; and a large
disposable force, for which we have not the shadow
of any use at home. The cost of transport '
and the charge for providing officers and men with the
requisites necessary for passing the winter comfortably
in a colder climate, are of no account when balanced
against the prevention of a barbarous civil war. The
best economy is that which is sparing of human life ;
and Heaven only knows how dreadful will be the waste
of it in the ensuing winter in the Canadas, provided
measures are not instantly adopted by the sending out
of plenty of troops, to compel the insurgents to remain
quiet. All now depends upon the instant decision of
her MAJESTY'S Ministers.

In former periods the dominant Church of England
was content to plunder, oppress, and persecute the
Catholics ; and then it found, as in Ireland, that per-
secution had done its usual work, and had converted
while
o n theiro f
whose
could
receive feelings
counter outraged,
owl
tunderstandingsthe
masses,
the undeniable truth of Protestantism, into Roman
Catholics. In this, as in all similar cases, the blood
of the martyrs became the seed of the Faith. A
few years ago this oppressive and persecuting Church,
because the strength and the property of the Catholics
were required for the national defence, had the morti-
fication to see the State strike off the fetters which had
been placed on them ; till finally, its great political
defenders were compelled, in 1829, to remove one of the
last and heaviest links of its odious chain. Since then
our well paid priesthood have seen no chance of preserv-
ing the property, which, if not wholly received by the
public, and devoted to some more useful purpose than
the nourishment of bigotry, pride, and priestcraft in the
land, properly belongs to the Roman Catholics, ex-
cept by decrying the doctrine, the faith, and the con-
duct of the Roman Catholic priesthood. A few years
ago, then, they began itinerant missions, dragging into
light long-forgotten Catholic obscenities, and even
falsifying and forging documents, in order to convince
the public of the errors of the Catholic faith, and of
the crimes of Catholic priests. An old smuggler, it is
said, makes a good Custom-house officer; and who,
then, so proper to expose the conduct of the Catholic
priests as our own Clergy, who resemble their rivals
to a hair ; who profess a very Nsimilar faith, as the

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1838.

Archbishop of CANTERBURY has stated ; who claim
the Rlme apostolical surcf,s7ion who vim it
the ordination of Roman Catholic priests ; and who,
like them, grasp incessantly at wealth, influence, and
power ? We have little doubt, then, that many of the
accusations which :Messrs. M'GHEE, O'NEILL, and
O'SULLIVAN, with Drs. CROLY and PHILL-
POTTS, brought against the Catholic priesthood,
are substantially true, because they are borrowed
from their own hearts, and are but the reflection of
the practices of the priesthood in all ages of the
world. Having so much truth on their side, we are
now called on by that Journal which has fanned their
zeal, and stigmatized the Popish Priests, under the
inspiration probably of some Protestant Parson who
knows well the ecclesiastical character, as " surpliced
ruffians," to admire their success. What good have
the ruffian attacks of the press on the Catholic priests
and the Protestant priesthood effected ? What bene-
fit have they conferred on the Protestant Church ?
Hear the answer of the Times :

During the last ten years the extension of Romanism
in England has been going forward at a ratio which, unless
it be arrested by seasonable and judicious counteractives,
bids fair, in the course of a few generations, to bring that
odious imposture into general fashion and favour. The
amount of increase which Popery can actually boast o I
from the professed conversion of English Protestants is,
we fear, much greater than a superficial acquaintance with
the subject would lead one to suppose.
Even in Edinburgh and the neighbourhood, with it
strict Presbyterian worship, there have been, of late years,
several remarkable instances of conversions to Popery
among Protestant ladies of considerable station, talents,
and accomplishments : who, after having successively
idolized every popular preaches of the day, and graduated
through the various professions of Churchism, Rowism,
Irvingism, and Millenarianism, have at last (one of them
the daughter of a Scottish clergyman, and another the
sister of a Scottish judge), together with divers female
friends, smitten with the same distempered devoteeship,
sought a refuge from all their disquietudes in the bosom
of the Romish faith. Numerous cases of a similar
description might be adduced without. difficulty.
In addition to the older Romanist seminaries at Stony-
hurst, Bath, &c., a magnificent college has been lately built
at Oscott, near Birmingham. Numerous chapels of very
imposing architecture, have latterly sprung up in districts
where no Popish place of worship previously existed. A
very showy edifice was lately erected for a considerable con-
gregation at Hull ; and not more than a fortnight ago an
almost cathedral church was opened at Leeds with the ut-
most possible pomp, the ceremony having been attended
by a Romanist Bishop, with about sixty of his priests,
together with a grand muster of the principal Catholic nobi-
lity and gentry both of Yorkshire and Lancashire.

That, then, is the result of the modern persecution,
which is as favourable to the Catholic superstition as
were formerly the Penal Laws. The incessant vitu-
peration of the Ultra-Protestant press and of the
greedy Protestant priesthood, direct the attention of
pious minds to the Catholic religion, and they soon
discover, as compared to the Church of England, that
the advantages are on its side. They are taught by
the controversy that it has:antiquity in its favour—
and some Church of England Divines now reject
the Gospel for the Fathers ; that the apostolical suc-
cession claimed by the one is more certainly in the
other; that a venerable priest is the chief of one—of the
other the Minister of the day, who may be an infidel ;
that both claim an exclusive power of saving
souls, which they deny to the priests of other
Churches ; that the unendowed Catholic Church pro-
vides religious instruction for all the Irish, while the
endowed Protestant Church, wallowing in extorted
wealth, leaves millions of the English immersed in
heathenism ; they compare both the doctrines and the
deeds of the two Churches—one suffering and perse-
cuted, the other arrogant and oppressive ; and they
conclude that the English Church has few or none of
the characteristics of a genuine Christian Church.
It is, in fact, the old Roman Catholic Church, shorn
of the splendour with which that dazzled the people,
and of the virtues with which it soothed their doubts
and afflictions. It only serves to prepare the people to
go back to the Catholic Church. Does the Times
not begin to doubt whether it do well to support such a
costly instrument for restoring the dominion of priest-
craft ?

The scene which took place yesterday at the Man-
sion-house leaves no doubt, if any doubt could remain,
that a regular conspiracy or combination exists to keep
up the price of coal for the benefit of a few monopolists,
The LORD MAYOR, who some days ago seemed in-
disposed to listen to the charges made by the indefati-
gable BRADFIELD against the Coal-factors and Co.,
has in the meantime turned his attention to the sub-
ject, arid his inquiries have led him to the conclusion
that " there is something wrong in the coal trade ;" that
there seems to he " a great deal of obscurity, as well as
trick about it;" and certainly the proceedings of certain
officious gentlemen, who came yesterday to white-
wash the coal-factors, did not at all clear up the
obscurity, or disprove the tricks. A Mr. METCALF,
a coal-factor, with a host of his friends, appealed be-
fore the LORD MAYOR to rebut the charges made by
Mr. BRADFIELD, and unluckily for them, though
fortunately for the ends of justice, that gentleman
made his appearance just as they commenced their
defence of the coal-factors. The colloquies that took
place on the occasion will be found highly interesting
to all but those who rob the public, and starve the
poor by keeping up this grinding monopoly. The
LORD MAYOR deserves great credit for the attention
lie has paid to the subject, and for denouncing withou
ceremony those who are privy to the " tricks" in the
coal trade, and who are members of what his Lordship
called " a most injurious combination." We believe
Ins Lordship is a good Tory, and we may be allowed
to say that he has now a fine opportunity of not only
doing benefit to his party, but of making himself the
most popular Lord Mayor that ever sat on the
justice-bench, by rooting out this atrocious system of
peculation and robbery. We refer our readers to the
while report in another part of the Paper.

Some of the more zealous partizans of the old
" ascendancy" faction in Ireland, have lately laid their
heads together to revive the defunct Orange Lodge
system in that country. The pretence held out to the
public for this resuscitation of a confederacy so deeply
tainted with treason, and in consequence so odious in
public estimation that it was compelled to dissolve
itself, is the defence of Protestantism ; but the real
object of the parties who have taken the lead in this
affair, is entirely political. It is neither more nor less than
an attempt to regain for the Orange party that power which
it enjoyed in the good old times, when Toryism was
rampant in the councils of Great Britain, and Catholic
Ireland was regarded in the light of a conquered pro-
vince, fit only to be trampled on by the minions of the
conqueror. Happily the attempt is as ridiculous as it
is impotent. The public see through the thin dis-
guse thrown over the proceedings of the Orange-
men. If the protection of the Protestant reli-
gion be the object of these conspirators, why do
they not take a religious designation ? Why do they
not call themselves " Protestants" and not " Orange-
men ?" Wherefore have they selected that name which
of all others is most connected with political recollec-
tions, and most calculated to excite political animo-
sity ? No : the plain fact is, that Toryism is fast
falling to a discount in the sister isle, and this is a
scheme devised for the purpose of propping it up.
The flame has died away, and unless the slumbering
embers are roused up, there is danger that the sacred
fire may be altogether extinguished. This is evident
even from the Report of the Orange Committee which
preceded the new organization. One paragraph of
that pvecious document is couched in the foligwilig
terms :
your Committee cannot conceal that au extension of