The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-28 00:00:00

towers above our heads, let it be cast by the impulse which
your exerted energies can impart to it." The " boys" of
Tipperary are celebrated for their foot-ball play, and Mr.
Shed is Member for Tipperary.—Morning Herald.

The agitators of Ireland—following the example, and
obeying the precepts of Mr. O'Connell, the demagogue in
chief, the most impudent beggar of pence and of principles
is his Majesty's dominions, the principel ally and main sup-
port of Lord Melbourne's Administration—are busily en-
gaged in the tasi be has imposed upon them, of getting up
a furious excitement in that country upon the subject of
the wise and excellent amendments made by the House of
Lords in the Irish Corporations Reform Bill. These per-
sans seem to think that Englishmen are to be frightened out
of their senses, and totally deprived of the faculty of reflec-
tion, by mere dint of blustering and angry threats. They
calumniate, insult, and menace the House of Lords, in im-
prudent forgetfulness of the fact that the House of Lords
has dene nothing but what is fully sanctioned and approved
by the great bulk of the well-informed, sedate, and in-
fluential people of Great Britain, or in the vain and inso-
lent hope that the British nation is to he terrified and
overcome by the empty and silly bluster of mere swag-
gerers. If the people of Great Britain were not too rea-
sonable to identify the Irish nation with the foolish and in-
temperate declaimers who pretend to speak in its name,
they would speedily let them know what it is they really
ask for, when they demand for,their country an equality of
rights and privileges with the other divisions of the united
kingdom. The cry of equal rights is a fraudulent and
absurd cry. Ireland already enjoys more than that equality
which her desperate and wicked agitators so vehemently de-
mand on her behalf. And, if the heads and the hearts of
these worthless agitators were not devoid of all sound dis-
creticn and all genuine patriotism, they would not be insen-
sible to the danger that the clamour in Ireland for what
are called equal rights, may be responded to from the
shores of Britain by the less irrational and unfounded de-
mand for equal imposts and burthens. There is no injus-
tice, real or apparent, in the refusal of the Legislature to
establish in Ireland Corporations of which the sole busi-
ness would be to assist one class of the people to op-
press, tyrannize over, and insult another. But there is,
at least, an apparent partiality towards Ireland, in the
exemption which she is permitted to enjoy from many
of the fiscal burthens to which the people of England
and Scotland are subject. The towns of Ireland
without Corporations will be upon an equal footing in this
respect with many of the towns of Great Britain, which
have no Corporations, and desire none ; and in a situation
infinitely preferable to that of many of the towns of Great
Britain who find their Corporations, reformed as they are,
to be mere foci of local feuds—sources of useless expense
—hot-beds of political faction—nurseries of vulgar and
ignorant impertinence. Does Manchester suffer in its local
interests, in its political rights, in the estimation of the
community, in its influence upon the march of public affairs,
in comparison with Liverpool, because the latter has a
Corporation and the former none ? Do the inhabitants of
Westminster labour under any painful consciousness of
suffering or degradation when they compare themselves
with their neighbours of the City of London, because
they have no Lord Mayor's gilded coach to rumble
in their streets, because Municipal justice is adminis-
tered to them by Magistrates undecorated by gold
chains and furred gowns ; because they have no Common
Council, no Galloway, no Pearson, or because, if they have
Galloways and Pearsons of their own, the eloquence of the
latter does not derive its inspiration from turtle feasts or cor-
poration jobs ? But if Liverpool and the city of London
were relieved of the window duty while that burthen was still
sustained by the unincorporated inhabitants of Man-
' ehester and Westminster, or vice versa, there would then,
indeed, be, not an apology or pretext merely, but sub-
stantial ground of agitation for that portion of the King's
subjects thus invidiously and unfairly distinguished from
others. Upon the same principle, if there is to be political
agitation anywhere upon the ground that the Legislature with-
holds rights,. privileges, or advantages from one division of
the United Kingdom which it has conferred upon another,
the scene of that agitation ought, in all reason, to be Great
Britain rather than Ireland ; and its object the removal of the
great and striking inequality with which the Legislature
has imposed fiscal burdens upon different portions of the
empire. The terms of insult and menace which the Irish
agitators in the service of Mr. O'Connell and his dependent
Administration lavish unsparingly upon the House of Lords,
are, we find, very generally accompanied by the menace of
a dissolution of the Union. We can tell these blusterers
one thing very confidently, which is, that the people of
Great Britain will not permit them to repeal the Union,
and that any schemes which they may set on foot for so in-
sane a purpose will be resisted and defeated, from regard to
the happiness, and welfare, and peace of Ireland, rather than
on account of any distinct and separate advantage which
the legislative incorporation of the two countries has pro-
duced, or ever can produce, to Great Britain. The Irish
demagogues who would urge forward this mischievous ques-
tion will be restrained in their career, and they will be re-
strained by the power of Great Britain, exercised not from
selfish so much as from benevolent feelings, just as a hu-
mane man would tie the hands of a maniac whom he saw
about to apply a flaming brand to the dwelling in which
his own wife and children were asleep. All the declama-
tion about Repeal, if it be not merely hypocritical, is sui-
cidal and insane. There is but one man in Ireland who
could gain anything by the erection of a Parliament in
College-green, and that man, as might be expected, is the
selfish author of the project. A domestic legislature it might
well be called, for nothing can be more evident than that
it would be altogether a family affair of Mr. O'Connell's
and the Popish Priests, who would tolerate and assist his
rapacity upon the easy and welcome condition that he
should diffuse and gratify their intolerance. The rent he is
now compelled to beg, but multiplied tenfold in amount, he
would then extort from the impoverished people by means
of a House of Commons of which he would be the supreme
dictator, responsible only to the Priestly authors of his
power. The hatred of Protestantism, over which they
are now bound in prudence to throw a veil, however
imperfect and transparent, would then burst forth in
unmitigated rancour and unbridled fury. The unhappy
people of Ireland, Catholics as well as Protestants,
would at once be the victims. The former would be mer-
cilessly robbed, the latter unrelentingly persecuted. The
rights of property and the rights of conscience would be
equally set at nought. O'Connell would revel in boundless
wealth, the •Romish Church would luxuriate once more in
the exercise of unmitigated tyranny. But, however the
agitators may declaim upon the subject, and however they
may for a time succeed in imposing upon the ignorant and
deluded portion of the Irish nation, the good sense and hu-
manity of the people of Great Britain will protect Ireland
from the horrors of an O'Connell and priestly domination,
whether it be recommended by the name of a domestic
Legislature, or by any other appellation which ingenious
fraud may invent. The Protestant people of England
know Mr. O'Connell and the Popish Priests too well to
commit the happiness and welfare of their Irish fellow-
subjects to such hands. Upon these questions the Sove-
reign, and the nation think and feel in unison. We shall
be surprised, indeed, if Mr. O'Connell do not speedily re-
ceive some unequivocal testimony of the sentiments enter-
tained towards him by the people of England, and if a
similar admonition from another and a higher quarter be
not speedily administered to those dependants and adhe-
rents of Mr. O'Connell who fill tbe places which ought to
be occupied by faithful servants of the British Crown.—
Morning Post.

ROMANTIC LEGENDS OF WA LES.—A new Ro-
mance, under the title of " The Mountain Decameron," from
the pen of a mcst original and powerful writer, is about to
appear. It is remarkable, that whilst England and Scotland
have found such numerous, and, in several instances, such
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novelist. At length, however, a master of fiction has arisen,
who is likely to turn to account the rich materials existinn. in
Cambria, and to render her mountains, her lakes, her val-
leys, and the strong contrasted character of her inhabitants, as
well known and admired as those of Scotland, when displayed
by the genius of Scott and Burns.
The horse which Lieutenant Onslow, of the Pusileer
Guards, rode last week from the Infantry Barracks, Windsor,
to Hyde Park-corner and back again in three hours and three-
quarters, being forty-four miles, was so little distressed that
lie is capable of performing the task again with ease. The
bet was that he would not perform the journey in four hours,
but he had a quarter of an hour to spare, and did not appear
fatigued. Mr. Davis, of Eton, accompanied Lieut. Onslow,
as umpire, on the occasion.
CARRIER PIGEONS:IR the course of a lecture,
delivered lately at the Royal Institution by Mr. Mayo, on
sensation, when speaking of instinct, he gave the following
account of the carrier pigeon :—He stated that the Dutch
variety was the most valuable, a pair of the best kind being
worth from 5/. to 81. ; this bird is lighter than the English
carrier pigeon, and flies nearly as fast again. It proceeds at
the rate of 60 miles an hour—a mile a minute—and has been
known to complete a journey of 800 miles ; but this, it is pre-
sumed, is not continuous, but assisted by occasional rest.
When the bird is about eight or ten weeks old, the trainer says
it begins to run, that is, it flies away for four or five hours ;
then its education begins ; it is taken about a mile from its
place, and tossed ;it returns. And this manoeuvre is repeated
for every day for a week, and then the distance is doubled.
After a time it is carried 8, 4. 8, 12, and 24 miles, until it is
perfect in its exercises. The bird learns but one lesson : it
may carry from Antwerp to London, or any other place, but
it will only pass between the two places. It travels by sight.
When tossed, it circles, then rises in a spiral, observes its
route, and darts off. It will not fly at night, and should the
day prove foggy, its arrival will be much delayed, or the bird
may be completely lost,