The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-28 00:00:00

would be bloody:" These words, however, have
scarcely passed his lips when he proceeds to
apostrophise the Protestants of Ireland, and
amidst loud cheers at the end of every sentence,
to predict that " the time may come when their
sons NN ill he slatightered on their thresholds, and
their daughters may scream for help on their fa-
thers' graves !" We really do not understand on
what principle, or with what design, these Irish
friends of peace and tranquillity are alway pro-
phesying the general massacre of the Protestants,
,aitd rendering' the horrid images of these atroci-
ties familiar to:the contemplation of the rude and
ikniirant mass of their countrymen. Many a pre-
,.diCtiou'has owed its accomplishment entirely to
the confidence with- which it was originally as-
serted by the original impostor, and subsequently
repeated by his dupes.

[MORNING POST.]
The French Papers of Monday and Tuesday,
(which we received last night by Express), state,
as a report, that the independence of Hayti has
been
,recognised by France, and that a treaty,
the exact terms of which are not yet known, has
been concluded between the two Governments.
This is partly confirmed by the fears of the Quo-
tidienne, which deems the cause of Legitimacy
lost for ever, if the independence de facto of Hay ti
be made one de jure with the consent of the
Bourbon Dynasty. It is also corroborated by
the congratulations. of some of the Journals,
which rightly contend that if " within a year
the policy pursued by France be as national
and favourable to industry as that of Eng-
land, the French three per cents. will not be
seven or eight per cent. lower than the English
ones ; whilst, if a bigotted and arbitrary line of
conduct be adopted, they will
.not maintain
themselves even as high as sixty."—lntelligence
from Madrid to the -16th instant states that the
King, in 'order to discover and punish the indvi-
duals who under " specious pretexts and with
incredible malignity sow • trouble and disorder
amongst his faithful subjects," has determined to
create a Junta of Public Safety. This body Is
to make a weekly report to his 'iNlajesty concern-
ing all the dis Orders
,which May arise throughout
the kingdom, their causes, and the best means for.
repressing them and preventing their recurrence.
Such a Committee might be usefully established
under the present circumstances of Spain, if its
inquiries were carried on with discrimination
and its decisions taken with impartial' justice ;
but the manner in which it is said to be composed
does not-hold out great hopes that its conduct
will be different from that of other Bodies which
have been 'formed under various denominations to
pacify the country, but which have only contri-
buted to increase the resentments of parties and
the general agitation.' 'lt is' to consist of the
Duke del Infantado,' the President of the Council
of Castile, the Presidents, or, if a bsent, the Deans
of the other CounCils, and Generals Barons
D'Eroles and D'lnetrosa. The Decree announc-
ing this new creation, had not yet bee(' pub-
lished in the official Gazette, but had been sent
by the Minister of Grace and Justice to all the
Provincial Authorities. According to letters from
Venice, treat preparations were making there to
receive the Emperor and Empress of Austria,
who were expected in that city on
.the 20th inst.
On the 29th of this month there was to be one of
those fetes which cannot be seen any where save
at Venice. The two great canals were'to be
illu-
minated on the whole length, and there was to
be a promenade at night. Their Imperial Ma-
jesties were not to lease Venice till the beginning
of August. •

[THE PUBLIC LEfIOER.]
In
.the Frankfort Papers we fincran instance of
those gross inconsistencies into which arbitrary'
Governments, with all their vaunted vigilance
and caution, are liable to fall. The instance is
to be found in an Ukase of .the Emperor of
Russia, which, in. exempting persons charged
with the education of youth fro.rn having soldiers
quartered upon them, constitutes a kind of bonus
for the diffusion of knowledge.. Yet one is wholly
incompatible with the other ; and any attempt to
diffuse popular instruction, where despotism is
established, is the surest and readiest process for
the destruction of the latter. The Prussian Go-
vernment has recently pane a step further in this
way ; for it has published an edict, making it com-
pulsory on parents to instruct their children.
Amongst ourselves the art and mystery of misgo-
vernment are better understood, and there is no-
thing that its partizans oppose so tenaciously as the
instruction of the labouring classes. When any
plan of the kind is suggested they immediately
set up a yell, saying that it is a conspiracy
against the higher orders, and an attempt to over-
turn the Throne and the Altar, though we cannot
see how either the one or the other can be endan-
gered in this country by enlightening the People.
Knowledge is as necessary to.a Constitutional
Government as air is to animal life, and without
it Christianity degenerates into the rankest su-
perstition ; and the Protestant Religion in par-
ticular is perverted from its original cha-
racter, wherever a spirit of free inquiry 'is
stifled. There it is as inconsistent on the part
of persons in authority in this country, to oppose
universal education, as it is on the part of a
despotic Ruler to countenance it. Whilst the
-conduct of the latter constitutes an amiable
blunder, that of the former is the result of a cold-
blooded design to clestroy every thing by which
this country is distinguished from the generality
of others ; and to sink her to a level with the
most degraded and inglorious States of the Con-
tinent.

"MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The conduct of the Bank during these two or
three years past, cannot be too much reprobated.
The Directors added exceedingly to the distress
occasioned by the recurrence to a sound currency,
by the injudicious system of hoarding which they
so long pursued. Then they took fright, having
got it into their heads that the gold would remain
with them for ever, if .they-did not fall upon
-extraordinary means of getting rid of it. They
became mortgagees of Jand,stock, &c.; and the
gold, sure enough, slipped fast enough out of their
'hands. When they have paid enough for their
blunder, -.vs have no doubt that we 'shall again