The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-24 00:00:00

y a distress for tithe. Lord .Milton, who had
been at the place the day before the mischief oc-
curred, strongly recommended a suspension of opi-
nion till the whole of the affair was completely
Irefore the House. Some gentlemen spoke in favour
if the character of the clergyman, from whose
.nforcement of his right the mischief sprang up.
One seemed to indicate that he had not been she.

4erher amiable. Neither of these considerations

weigh much in a dry point of law. It is easy for
person in a certein situation of lite to precure high
'estimenies to character ; and, amiable or not ami-

tole, a man has a right to his riT,,,las. As to Ire-
land ever being any thing else than a constituent
part of one empire, of which England and Scotland
united are the other, the idea is absurd. What
would Ireland be without Great Britain? A deso-
late island in the vast Atlantic, unknown to, or for-
otten by, the rest of the world. We obstruct her
ntercourse with the continent of Europe locally;
tnd she is at too grtat a distance from the United
States of Atnerica to be any subject to them. She
must, therefore, be England's, but only et England
is her's, two parts making tip one whole. But to
return from these considerations to the affray at
Newtownbarry. Let it be minutely investigated ;
some general information or principles will be de-
luced from isolated facts, which may direct the
future measures of the Legislature.—Tittles.

We have copied from the Glasgow Chronicle a
paragraph, indicative of the intense interest taken by
the people in the Reform Bill. A plan has been
devised of communicating rapidly the news of the
success or defeat of the Bill in the House of Lords,
something like the fiery cross by which the Highland
Clans used to be gathered. Delegates are to be
chosen by the towns and villages round Glasgow,
who are to receive the news from a person, who
will meet the mail, on horseback at a distance, and
receiving the news, each delegate will start off
.o his respective Preses (President), who is to be
supplied with a black and white flag, and if the
news proclaim a defeat, the black flag will be hoisted
on some prominent situation ; " and by this system
of telegraphic despatch," says the paragraph, " the
whole of the inhabitants of Glasgow, and to a
distance of five or six miles in the country, will be
furnished with the result in half an hour after the
mail arrives in town." The whole paragraph is
eminently deserving of attention. A Council of
Emergency, in case of the failure of the Bill, is to
he formed, for the purpose of devising some mea-
sures to prevent anarchy and confusion, &c. This
is all very prudent and proper in the Reformers of
Scotland. It is well to be provided against the
worst. But the quarter of which they are in dread
can read the signs of the times. We can almost
assure them that they will have no occasion for their
black flags, and Councils of Emergency. The
Members of the House of Lords have too much at
stake to hazard the peace of the country, by an
absurd resistance to a measure called for by the
whole nation. We have no apprehension of the
House of Lords now ; though we should have had
apprehensions, if the result of the elections had only
given Ministers a small majority.—Morning, C'hron.

The dreadful affair at Newtownbarry was alluded
to last night in the House of Commons. Mr. Max-
well (son of Lord Farnham) said the clergyman
was a most humane and excellent man. Than Cap-
tain Graham, the Magistrate of Newtownbarry,
there was not, he would venture to say, a more
humane man in existence. The people had nothing
to complain of, as the parish was under the Tithe
Composition Act. The yeomanry and police were
fired on by the mob, and were obliged in their de-
fence to kill many of the mob. According to Lord
Milten, the firing of the mob was throwing stones.
To throw stones is, no doubt, very unjustifiable ;
but there is a difference surely between throwing
stones and firing. But, good God, allowing the
conduct of the mob to have been as bad as it has
been represented, is that an excuse for a wholesale
slaughter of them 1. There does certainly appear
some mystery in these butcheries in Ireland. Mr.'
Lambert said—
" He was much surprised at the disturbances which
hail taken place in Wexford, for he knew the people of
that county to be both loyal and peaceable ; he believed
that there had been some strong exciting cause fur these
disturbances, and he feared that latterly there had been
something of a disposition manifested to bring an a rebel-
lion in Ireland ; lives had been sacrificed without any
apparent necessity for the sacrifice, and causes of irrita-
tion seemed rather readily to be sought for. If that were
really the case, he cautioned those who acted in such a
manner, to remember that the days of rebellion had gone
by, and the age of revolution had come.—(Shouts of
cheering from both sides of the House.) He warned
those persons to remember this as a caution for their
future conduct. The people ought not wantonly to be
driven to a point at which resistance became a duty, and
At which a passive obedience was little better than a base
betrayal of that duty. Again he wattled such persons;
and he repeated that connected as he was %% Ali that
county, lie was quite sure there could be none in which
the people were of themselves more peaceably and loyally
disposed."
We trust it will turn out that the black designs
alluded to by Mr. Lambert are not really enter-
tained. But Government have despatched an able
and honourable gentleman (Mr. Green) to institute
an inquiry into the cause of that melancholy occur-
rence. It is melancholy to see how much the
Clergy of this country seek to add to the heart-
burninas in Ireland by their uncharitable bigotry.
The Rev. Mr. Melville, of Camberwell, in a sermon
preached on June 13th, for the relief of the distress
in Ireland, in St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row,
printed in the Preacher, No. 46, exclaims in a spirit
of true sectarian bitterness, _ .

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" Alas ! alas ! the frown of the Almighty seeing to
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rest upon Ireland. Nature hath done much for her—
there is fertility in her soil, and majesty in her scenery—
the navies of an empire may ride in her harbours—the
commerce of the world might float on her rivets and her
lakes—yet despite those advantages, which appear to mark
her out as worthy to share with England the diadem of
the waters, Ireland is still but a degraded and half civi-
lized territory, and there is no bringing out or develope-
ment of her internal resources, and violence is the atmos-
phere in which her children live, and human life too often

but her play-thing."
" God forbid I should hesitate to state, that I believe
the prevalence of the Roman Catholic religion lies at the
root of all this wretchedness. There is nothing of
bigotry in affirming that it is the very genius of this reli-
gion to keep a rude population still rude, just because it
keeps them still ignorant—and whilst the Irish population
continues unhumanized, and unhumanized it must con-
tinue until a moral influence isas been introduced among-t

its tribes, the landlord will have his excuse for absenteeism,
that curse and drain of the land ; and the cipitaliat will
have his excuse for not embarking his property in schemes

for the improvement of the country ; and thus the springs
of national prosperity will remain choaked and dried up;
and all for want of that moral influence amongst the
people, which can only be produced by diffusing the know-
ledge of the true religion of Jesus."
What would the Rev. Mr. Melville say, were he
to be informed that the most priest-ridden province
of Spain and of all Europe, perhaps Catalonia, is
cultivated like a garden, and a model in point of or-
der ! Mr. Inglis, in his amusing and instructive
Travels in Spain, in 1830, says, " We were now in
Catalonia, which in its accommodations, in the in-
dustry of its inhabitants, and in the perfect security
with which it may be travelled in every parr, has
the advantage over all the other provinces of Spain,
with the exception, perhaps, of Biscay. Catalo-
nian industry does not arise from any superior edu-
cation, by which men obtain a clearer insight into
their moral duties and higher views of the hum in
character; on the contrary, no Spanish peasant is
more ignorant than a Catalonian boor ; none are
more enslaved by the priesthood; and in no other
province have the inhabitants shown so much their
veneration for the Apostolical party, both in Church
arid State. The sweat of Catalonian industry is the
labourersi ne valley
of
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tShtewhieetazretrhl al
cultivate, and the world
Switzerland—se. saanmAel as that which has covered with fertility many
to the
in the land which
would become one wide cu nsetelfr-einstt,earesptr.opGerivve
extended garden. The
labours land upon which the Catalonian lab
his own or held by him upon
a leasoe is either
for lives, sometimes in yerpetuity, with as°firnetimeh fine upon