The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-09 00:00:00

litELAND AND THE TORIES

(From the Morning Posl.)
We hear from Ireland that a good deal of uneasiness has
been excited there among the best class of Conservatives
by an article on " Romanism in Ireland," which appeared
in the recently published number of the Quarterly Re-
view. The class of Conservatives to whom we refer arc
landlords and their families, sincerely attached to the
Church of England and to English habits and sentiment'
generally, but resident in Ireland, both from affection to
the laud in which they were born, and because of the
duties which they owe to their respective la ighbourhoods
as proprietors. They have been sufficiently accustomed,
ever since they could read and take any interest in public
affairs, to hear of plots, and conspiracies, ands( cret machi-
nations on the part of Romanist priests and politicians,
against the existence of the Protestant Government
of England and the :security of the Protestant people
of Ireland. By long habit they had come to regard these
rumours as a kind of stock exaggerations convenient for
the use of speech makers in moments of excitement, and
of newspaper %%titers when " something strung" was con-
sidered anropriate to the occasion. They did not think
that such alarming statements were totally without founda-
tion, but they believed the: they went my far beyond what
cautious and calmly investigating persons could believe,
and that they themselves (the Irish Protestant landlords),
though not quite so safe as they would be in E !gland, had,
nevertheless, nut much to fear.
But the writer in the Quarterly Review Ins thrown up
a fire-ball--a horrible blue light—which discloses to them
the nets of Romish stratagem by which they are surrounded,
and the mines of Romish enmity and ambition which are
ready to be exploded under their feet.
The writer in the Quarterly is not only Ica: tied and
acute, but be evidently wishes to be very candid, and to
guard himself against being carried away by the exaggera-
tions of certain Irish witnesses, who testify with great ve-
hence upon the subject of Romish conspiracy. And yet
be goes beyond any of them.
He declares that the grand source of the evils of Ireland
—the tons et oriyo of all the various mischief—is religious
dissension. " The whole circle of life," he says, "is tilled
with jealousy, and bitterness, and fear, rumours of rebel-
lion, and secret conspiracies, which no art can fathom, be-
cause religious associations exist drawn up in array against
each other, each laid under spiritual obligation."
The writer is, however, of opinion that religious truth
should be the first thing considered, and he despises any-
thing like making terms with religious error, by what has
been called " conciliation." We cannot but agree with
him here. We doubt, however, that his way of advancing
religious truth would answer the end. Look at his illus-
trations of the state of affairs in Ireland, and the attempts
which are made to remedy that state :
" First, What would be said of a man who, on meeting
a naked, starving, infuriated maniac, should proceed to re-
liese hied by putting shoes on his feet, a cost on his back,
food into his mouth, and maxims of love into his head,
overlooking his one great calamity, disordered reason—
forgetting that the mind, and not, the body, is the man,
and that where the mind wants truth, in whatever degree,
whether in madness, or error, or ignorance, there to dress
up the body is only, as Bishop Taylor expresses it, to
wash the face of the dead ?' We ask if religious truth be
not the first and most essential of all truths, and whether
a nation, of which one portion at least, without at present
deciding which, must be destitute of this truth, is not like
the maniac labouring under a radical disease, which must be
cured before any other remedies can be .applied to its ills ?
" Under this head fall the evils of poverty, ignorance,
superstition, ill-management, intemperance, excitability,
falsehood, and the like, with which Ireland is now afflicted.
" Secondly, What would be said of a man who, seeing
an officer of justice struggling with a man for whom he
had a warrant, should fall into melancholy lamentations
over the anger and animosity excited by the struggle,
should endeavour to soothe the feelings of both parties by
texts from Scripture, and exhortations to mutual charity
and amicable association, forgetting that it wus the ap-
pointed duty of the officer to take the culprit into custody,
and the vi:al interest of the culprit to make his escape,
and that, while human nature continues, no struggle can
be carried on without at times risking violence and heat,
but that, where the struggle is a matter of duty, violence
aid heat are jar less evils khan quiescence and friendship
" Let this be applied to the second class of the evils of
Ireland—those wWolt arise front the conflict between the
old Catholic Reformed Church, and the schismatic intru-
ders of Popery, and consider whether it be possible, or
even allowable, to remove them, till in one way or other
the conflict is not suspended, but decided, and one party or
other is victorious." _ _ .

This is taking the " conciliation " bull by the horns,
at all events. There is no mistake and can be none about
this writer's determination that the battle should be fought
out.
But we think he is wrong, and that his own illustra-
tions show it.
The deduction at which the writer arrives from his con-
sideration of the prime source of evil in Ireland is thus
expressed:—
" here, then, we arrive at three distinct 'measures to
be alopted, one or the other, as the first step to the cure
of ti:e ills in Ireland, either convert Popery to the Church,
or give up the Church to Popery, or let both continue as
they are at present, and prohibit any rivalry, any conver-
sion, any attempt at mutual instruction, any jealousy, any
bitterness of feeling, or condemnation of error. Chain up
the combatants, and place them both in one cell, till they
have unlearnt their lesson of hostility.
" Of the three plans before us the last is evidently the
one contemplated by what arc called the Liberal politicians
of tie day."
The error cf the above representation we conceive to lie
in supposing that they who differ in religion must necessa-
rily be " combatants."
This writer manfully contends against the plan of non-
interference of professors of one religion with the belief
of the other. Religious truth being the most important
of all things, he proclaims the duty of inculcating it, and
deel Ares that the business of the Church is to proselytise.

If we connect this writer's views of the duties of mem-
bers of the Church, with his details of the means of per-
secution and punishment which the Romanists have at their
command, we are not at all surprised that he should have
made dutiful members of the Church in Ireland very un-
easy. But we entreat them to be not so easily carried
away by the melodramatic excesses of this author's mind.
If they continue just and kind to those around them, and,
in the best sense of the word, " charitable," we do not

think they have much to fear; and we know they have
much good to do, with the doing of which a sense of alarm
would seriously interfere.

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, JAN. s.—The average price of wheat last week
vv,is 18f. 28c., and that of rye 11f. 44c. per hectolitre. The
import duty on wheat is 37f. 50c., and on rye 21f. 50c. per
1,000 kilogrammes. The export duty on both is 25c.
per 1,000 kilogrammes.
Some time ago a quarrel took place at a tavern-keeper's
in this city between three Englishmen, which rose to such
a height that one of them received several blows and
wounds. This affair has been brought before the Correc-
tional Tribunal at Brussels. Edward Baring and Edward
Reynolds were condemned in default of appearance raeh
to six months' imprisonment and 16 francs fine for striking
and wounding John Eaton.

POPULATION CY BRUSSELS.
1839 Deaths 2,945
Births

EXCCfI3 cf Births

1840 Deaths 4,351
Birtha

Excess of Births ....... 167
The number of inhabitants of Brussels at this moment is
estimated in round numbers at 107.000.
A letter from Hanover of the 28th of December, says—

Colonel Radowitz arrived here from Frankfort, on the
2511 i, and had an audience of his Majesty on the following
day. It is thought that the Colonel will not set out to-
morrow for Berlin.

" The Princess of Restelitz, who assaulted n sentinel at
Buckingham Palace is, Is ithout doubt, the widow of a dis
tinguished Hanoverian cavalry officer, who is by birth an
Englishwoman, and one of her sons was implicated in the
attempt to excite disturbance at Frankfort in April, and
who was afterwards declared to be out of his mind."

tier Majesty the Empress of Russia has given to the
charitable institutions at Berlin her share of the property
of her father, King William 111.

tigL.OIA7N I, UNDS—Bauseato . JAN. C.
AetUal Debt. 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant ii6N
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent H4},2
--.—(ft4i q 116%
--- 3 per Cent. —
-------Thirty.seven------- .. 69!3
Loan of City, 1:332, 4 per Cent OO
Society of Commerce, 4 % per Cent no
Batik of Belgium, 5 per Cent t.47
National Society .
Exchange on London (short) ' ll 05
—Brussels Papers, Jan. 6.
: DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, JAN. 5.
Money. Bills.
Actual Dabt, t2Y4 per Cent
,)itto, ditto 5 per cent.
A,. t Svadie, 4 !..., per cent 8656 8134
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cant 70% 71
Commereita Company, 4% per cent 5,14 El t.%
Ontr, (1605 and :tin) b per cern.. .....
Loan I r:.37, 5 per cant.
Exchange on London, One month l2 0
Two months
Dutch Papers, Jars. 6.
A USTRIA N FUN DS.—VlErma , DEC. 5:8.
Five per Cents. Mctalliques • 106%
Foal per Cents. lO%
Tl.ree per Cents.
Bank Shares '576
_4llgenteine Zcilung, Jan. 3

HAMBURG
GRI
vvtieat. Marks 312 to c 42
- Magdeburg
- Anhalt, white 330 to 3722
—red WM to 340.
11runsaiek 1324 to 34S
--- Mecklenburg 270 to 354
---- Polish 'loo to 3:4;
270 to :iO6,
Rye,• Mecklenburg
- Dantzie
- Elbing and Ko
nigsburg to 2461
--- Upland
-- Hip 2lO to 240

MARKETS.
IN.
Barley, Meeklenourgb 151 to 194
-- Magdeburg ititt to 11i5
---- Holstein
--- Summer R32 to Int;
Oats, Eider l‘2) to 132
- ISleCclenburg „ 1%5
--
Holstein RIO to 13t4
East IF 5 to 1:11
ll'case, Mecklenburg „„„ 210 to:40
Beans 1125 ID 30G
Buck IV heat tit) to 05
Rapeseed, Hanover ; '223 to ‘2!)
Malt - 150
Tats
COVION, •

Carolina and Tennessee 7(4t0 9% laranharn
(;corgia. let suit 7 7144 Madras 4% 5
2cl
3d and 4th ... sy, titA Domingo
COFFEE.

tilecha 11 to 1:3!.4
Batavia
Sumatra

Domingo
La tia)
I'orto leo 5.

Rio 4% 5%
Bahia 4% 5%
SUGAR.— (With 5.% Discount.)
Uavannah, White ....... 6 to 9 Bala, Whim 57i, t 0754
Brown 5 i!4 Brown ' 5 53
Rio, White 5% 6% Pernambuco, White ...5% i%
Brown
v Manilla, Bro _ - _..

Ilavannah .l,i, ti>s,

11, 5 to 04

RELIEF OF TUE POOR.—In consequence of
the inclemency of the Eeasou, Levural parishes have called
upon the inhabitants to assemble and take into consilera-
ion the best means of relieving the distressed poor.