The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-01 00:00:00

cutta at the period of the starting of the last Overland
Mail for England, we may particularise that of the
probable appointment of Sir WILLIAM YARDLEY, the
Puisne Judge, as Chief Justice at Madras, in the
room of Sir EDWARD GAMBIER, although many
anticipate the possibility of his ultimately succeed-
ing Sir ERSKINE PERRY as Chief Justice of Bombay.'
Another report of not less interest is to the effect
that the chief command of the forces at Bombay will,
in consequence of the resignation of Sir WILLOUGHBY
COTTON, be proffered in the first instance to Sir WIL-
LIAM Gomm, and in the event of that offer being refused,
several are disposed to anticipate the elevation of Sir
WALTER RALEIGH GILBERT to the appointment. A
more brilliant officer could not by any possibility be
selected for the occasion, and we are bold to assert
that there is not one single individual who would
have the temerity to deny that Sir WALTER GIL-
BERT has nobly merited such a reward by his evi-
dences of generalship and by his many daring
achievements.

When our Gracious QUEEN'S intention to visit her
Irish subjects was officially communicated to the Chief
Magistrate of the city of Dublin we hailed the an-
nouncement with the most joyous anticipations; we
then foreshadowed the right loyal and glorious recep-
tion which awaited her from that gallant and Swarm-
hearted people. Triumphantly have our anticipations
been fulfilled—never was more heartfelt homage paid
to: monarch, never was loyalty and affection more

warmly manifested than in the enthusiastic welcome

which greeted her MAJESTY on touching the hospitable
shores of Ireland; and we felt assured her MAJESTY'S
Irish welcome will be long treasured amid her happiest
recollections. We looked upon her MAJESTY'S visit
to Ireland as calculated to be of the greatest moral,
social, and political importance ; we believe the
advantages are already beginning to be felt by the
right thinking of both islands. The people of England
will see the absurdity of those slanderers who would
brand their Irish fellow-subjects as rebels ; while
the people of Ireland will no longer think that they
are looked upon as " aliens in language, in religion,
and in blood," but will feel themselves children of
the same imperial family, under the protection of
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Deeply must our Gracious QUEEN have been affected
—how truly happy must have been her sensations to
feel that she, amid the crumbled and crumbling dy-
nasties of Europe, reigned triumphantly in the hearts
of her good people of Ireland. How sublime and
glorious the spectacle to see the Queen of a free
people receive the homage of hearts purified by sorrow
and suffering. What a lesson to the despots of
Europe. Oh ! if , they could but see that
chivalrous nation laying at the feet of
England's QUEEN the pure offering of a devoted
and unconditional loyalty, perhaps these despots would
then understand that the most impregnable ramparts
by which their thrones could be surrounded would be
" The hearts and hands of freeborn men."
The visit of her MAJESTY to Ireland has been marked
with a significance beyond the mere interchange of
kindly feeling between the SOVEREIGN and her sub -
jects. She has taught the bigots of Ireland a lessoh
which, we trust, will not be lost upon them ; she
has most pointedly indicated how that country is to
he governed in future—she has nobly rebuked the
bigots who would still attempt to govern Ireland
through "a paltry faction"—she has sounded the
death-knell of a vile ascendancy, to which for cen-
turies might be traced all the miseries of Ireland.
Sectarianism has long been the curse of that ill-fated
land, vain was every attempt to improve the condition
of that suffering people, while the monster of religious
discord was encouraged and fostered, and with pain
are we obliged to express regret that the odious
principle of " Divide et Impera" was not, before this
happy visit of her MAJESTY, sufficiently discouraged ;
but the bigots themselves have effected their own
destruction, they made an attempt to delude the
QUEEN into an act of narrow partizanship, by asking
her MAJESTY to subscribe to an exclusive charity—

vile and blasphemous misnomer—to unite erclusive-
ness with holy charity, charity that should be free as
GOD'S own bounty I that should " fall like the gentle
dews of Heaven" upon all GOD'S suffering children
slaw I CirlOry to IricroatA for her noble
response to this paltry and impertinent ap-
f plication. Her MAJESTY was asked to sub-
scribe to a charitable institution exclusively Pro-
testant, to which she replied—" Mr. ANsoN is com-
manded by her MAJESTY to state, that she will not

subscribe to the funds of any charitable institution

which is exclusively Protestant." Never was wiser
resolution come to than that contained in Mr. Ax-
sox's short but significant communication. The
charity itself may be most meritorious as far as it goes,
and there may be nothing unnatural, or even uncom-
mon, wader ordinary circumstances, in a Protestant
Queen subscribing to a Protestant charity ; but on her
first visit to a portion of her dominions, where unfor-
tunately religious differences have produced the most
ruinous and disastrous dissensions—in a land where
the blood shed in the mad and wicked struggle
of religious discord was yet scarcely dry
—it was the duty of her MAnny to
mark with her august condemnation any attempt to
make her a party in sustaining those principles of
exclusion and intolerance which have proved the bane
of Ireland, and have been the unceasing cause of strife
and blood for ages.
We are gratified to perceive that this refusal of

her MAJESTY was no transient ebullition of the mo-
ment, but the strong and marked indication of the
principles upon which that country is in future to be
governed. The principle is strongly enunciated and
carried out in a letter which we subjoin, addressed
by the Earl of CLA.RENDON to the Bishop of DOWN
and CoNNoR, in transmitting a charitable donation to
an institution in Belfast.

"Viceregal Lodge, Aug. 25, 18411.
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My Lord,—l beg herewith to transmit a letter of
credit on the Provincial Bank for 3001., and in the allo-
cation of this sum I am most anxious that her Majesty's
name should not, even in the remotest manner, be mixed
up with political or sectarian discussions; and that no
interruption should take place of that harmony and
goodwill which characterised all parties during the recent
visit of the Queen, and which were so peculiarly gratify-
ing to her Majesty. I have accordingly to request that
your Lordship will have the goodness to pay this sum to
the Belfast General Hospital, which I have selected not
only as an institution which confers vast benefit on
suffering humanity, but as one which all classes in Bel-
fast unite in assisting; for I am informed that it received
nearly the whole of the public and private collections
made during her Majesty's visit to that city, proving
thereby the universal estimation in which this charity is
held by all classes aid creeds.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your very faithful servant,
" CLARENDON.
" The Lord Bishop of Down and Connor."

Lord CLARENDON deserves the thanks of every
Christian and loyal subject for the wholesome prin-
ciples indicated by the spirit of this important letter.
Let us hope its wisdom and propriety will make a
deep impression upon those for whose benefit it was
intended ; let us hope that the glorious example set
by our QUEEN, and followed up by her able repre-
sentative, will be followed and re-echoed through the
length and breadth of the land. We must hear no
more of Orange processions or ribbon conspiracies.
The public press must do its duty—let it preach reli-
gious toleration to all—let its columns overflow with
lessons of peace and love. Let the good of all par-
ties unite in one glorious effort to raise their pros-
trate land. Let the bigots of all parties be boldly
told that the old notions of exclusiveness are obsolete;
that they are incompatible with the enlightened spirit
of the age; and, above all, let them understand the
enunciated by our illustrious
glorious principles
SovEREIGN, of equal laws without distinction of sect
or creed. Her motto is—

" Tros Tireusve nullo discrimino habetur."

TiIEST
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monument
has been removed from the studio of the artist, and is
now fixed in the position allotted to it in Westminster
Abbey. The visitor will find this fine statue in the
north transept, on turning to the right hand, between
the effigies of Sir T. F. Buxton and Francis Horner.
Fortunately it is placed in an exceedingly good light,
and can be viewed from both the front and either side to
the greatest advantage. The figure is a full length,
representing Sir William in the act of speaking; the left
hand resting upon a scroll which is supported by a pile
of books placed upon a pedestal, and the right arm in an
easy posture by the side. The attitude is calm and dig-
nified, and the costume is the forensic robe, but without
the head gear. The likeness appears to be admirably
preserved. This work of art, which we think will be
generally pronounced not unworthy the august pile in
which it is deposited, is front the chisel of Mr. Behues,
the celebrated sculptor.