The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-06 00:00:00

TION OF IRELAND.

" London, Ist May, 1841.
" Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not,
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow ?
_

" Is there no balrninaii;.,Fi; there no hope ft,r Ire-
land? Out of her own limits, none. Beyond her own people,
none. None, I say, save from the intellect, energy, and pa-
triotism of Ireland herself. Thee are the facts. _

First, Ireland has nothing of good to expect from the To-
ries—she has everything of evil to expect from them. The in-
flaming of party zeal, and the excitement of religious rancour
—the swelling the magistracy with every interested or vio-
lent oppressor—the filling the Bench in the Superior
COurts with dexterous but malignant, plausible hut persever-
ing partisans, who will mingle political preferences with all
the infatuated zeal of religious animosity. The nomination
of party Sheriffs—the packing of party Juries—the
selecting jury-men merely because they are sure to convict,
whether the innocent or the guilty—the insecurity of life and
property, the destruction of the ft anehise. Put why should I
dwell on what is known to everybody ? The entire may be in-
cluded in one sentence. If the Tories corns into power, there
is not one single oppression that can gratify the avarice or ma-
lignity of a relentless party, or that can grind the faces of the
people to the earth, that will not be the familiar practice of
every-day life in Ireland.
" Secondly. The elements of Toryism in England are to be
found in the aristocratic contempt of popular rights, and the
eeltish desire of the peculation that attends misgovernment.
" Thirdly. To these elements are to be adde7l, in the case of
Ireland, the vicious but active stimulants of anti-Irish prejti-
judiee, and violent religious bigotry.
Fourthly. The great majority of the English people be-
long to the Tory party, and where they are not sufficiently
strong for purposes of mischief, their deficiency of force is made
up by the accession of the torch and dagger Chartists.
" Fifthly. There is in England no party favourable to
Ireland. Even among those who call themselves Liberals and
Radicals there are to be found many and many who prefer their
own wretched conceits and crotchets to the interests of Ireland.

"Sixthly. The Queen—God bless her—is anxious to have
equal justice done to Ireland. She has not power enough to
be able to obtain it.

Seventhly. The Queen's 'Ministers are anxious to obtain
some justice to Ireland, but they have not power to obtain it.
" Eighthly. There is no fact more certain and undisguised
than that the majority of the House of Lords will not suffer any
measure useful to Ireland to be carried into operation.
" What, then are the people of Inland waiting for? A man
would be wiser who should seat himself near the rapids of
Killaloe, waiting until the entire waters of the Shannon had
passed by.
" What, then, arc the people of Ireland waiting for ? Is it
to see whether Stanley's Bill will pass? He is a very unwise
man in his rancorous hostility to Ireland, else he would cease
to press that Bill for this simple reason—that it is totally un-•
necessary. The franchises in our counties are expiring of
themselves ; they are going out with a rapidity almost incalcu-
lable. They do not require Stanley's ext:nguisher. I have
"examined the
.Parliamentary papers carefully, and I am tho-
roughly convinced that, in all the counties in Ireland taken
together, there could not be brought to the poll so many as
25,000 voters Not 25,000 voters for a population of 8,500,000.
" Alas ! alas ! if the repeal agitation had been hitherto as
extensive and as energetic as it ought to have been, Ireland
would not be in the prostrate oondition in which she is at pre-
sent placed. Those who have hitherto di-countenanced the
only available agitation, may be (and many of them are), ex-
ceedingly well-intended persons, but hell itself is paved with
good intentions, and Ireland is writhing under the Tory lash
by reason of the misconduct of persons of good intentions.
" There are some in England, 's well a; in Ireland, who as-
sert that there is another remedy beirlos the repeal, and that
it is to ha found in a combination of the Reformers of the three
countries. This opnion is maintsineri by Mr. Sharman Craw-
ford end Mr. Ross, of Rosstrevor, amongst others in Ireland
and by Mr. Reebuek and Mr. Marshall, amongst others in
Englanri. Rut unfortunately the " others" in Ireland are not
very numerous, and in England are very few indeed.
„The plan proposed by the gentlemen whom I have re-
spectfully nsmed. is a eombination' of the reformers of Eng-
land, Ireland, anti Seotlansl, and the plan is saitl to be plausible
and practical. I admit that it is plausible, but unhappily I
am compelled to deny that it is practical.
" It is with unfesened anguish I say that the number of real
Reformers in England aid Scotland is too small to render any
such combination practically useful, even if it could be (which
I believe it could rot be) actually formed. The Tories, of
course, are not Reformers. The Chartists are not real Re-
formers : some of the most actise and influential among them
have joined the Tories. The Whigs are scarcely Reformers :
and the Radicals—Heaven help them !—are too busy, abusing
all but themselves, and are too full of cro' chets and fantasies,
to be practical reformers.
" There.is not the last hope in any effort for reform in Eng-
land, or for redress in Ireland, but in the Repeal agitaron—
HURRAH, THEN, FOR THE REPEAL !
" I have the honour to be your faithful servant.
" DANIEL O'CONNELL."

FETE DAY OF THE KING OF THE
FRENCH, AND CHRISTENING OF THE
COMTE DE PA RIS.
(From Galignani's Messenger.)
On Saturday, on oceasion of his Majesty's fete clay, the King
received the officers of his household and of those of the ether
members of the Royal Family, the Ministers and Marshals of
France; the grand deputation of the Peers and Deputies; the
=embers of the courts of law, the Institute, and various other
'public bodies and functionaries. At four o'clock his Majesty
.received the• corps diplomatique. Congratulatory addresses
'were as usual delivered to his Majesty on this occasion, and
the King made to each suitable replies.
CHRISTENING OF THE COMTE DE PARIS.
By eight o'clock on Sunday morning many persons who had
received tickets for the interior of Notre Dame had taken their
places within the cathedral, and by half-past nine all the galle-
ries were fully occupied. By ten the members of the Chambers
And public bodies had taken their seats. In the centre, in front
esf the choir, was placed a Roman altar, arranged for the core-
colony. On the right, a little in front, was fixed a dais of crim-
son velvet and gold, in the form of a dome, and surmounted by
a Royal crown. The aspect of the interior was on the whole '
very striking. Each pillar was covered with a velvet drapery, !
bearing heraldic emblazonments, on one side a gilt shield,
marked with the initial of the Comte de Paris, and on the other
another shield; 'ayith two angels sustaining a coronet. The
great Gobelins' carpet was used on this occasion, and had a
magnificent effect. Detachments of troops and national guards,
with a strong force of sergens de ville, kept the place, in front
of the cathedral, and at various points along the quays of the Ile
de la Cite. At 11 o'clock discharges of artillery announced the
*departure of the Royal cortege from the Tuileries, which took
the line of the quays and the Pont Neuf to the cathedral. In
sebe first carriage were their Majesties, the Duke and Duchess of
°Anne, and the Comte de Paris ; the other members of the
Royal fatee;ly and the Court followed in 13 carriages ; and the whole
was escorteaeljer detachments of mounted nee ional and municipal
.Marls, cuirieeeers, and chasseurs. Their Majesties were
greeted with loyal Acclamations a'l along their passage. Soon
after elesen the Ro-yli carriage reached the entrance of Notre
:lanse, and the Archbishop at the head of his clergy. with all
the rectors of Paris, received their M jesties as they alighted.
eLeieety declined using the canopy which had been prepared
for him; aid the clergy advanced in procession to the altar,
followed by :he Royal cortege to the sound of the drums, and
a brilliant mare.` executed by the crean. The King and the
Royal Family advaa74,,ee, saluting the, different bodies of the
place fronting the altar, which
State, towards the re: "."'d
had been prepared for the' Ceremony near the railing of the
choir. On the right of his elajesry were the King of the
33elgians, the Duke of Orleans. the Prince de Joinville,
Thke de Monpensier, and the Duke Alexander of Wurtem-
ImprA • and on his left were tee Queen, the Queen of
the- :Belgians, the Duchess of Orleans, Duchess of lee_
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• Princess Clementine. Madame Adelaide, and the
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg. The King wore
the unifor of the national guard. The King of the Bel-
gians and t,i."e Royal Dukes were in full military costume.
The Queen ari,4 the Princesses, as well as all the Ladies of the
Court, were in dress, with feathers and diamonds. On
either side of the Ro'at party were placed the Ministers, the
Peers, the Council of .state, the members of the corps diplo-
matique, the marshals and .'dmiral'r members of the Chamber
of Deputies, the Prefect of ther Seine at the head of the mu•
nicipal body, and the prefect of pclice. Round the altar stood
the three Cardinals, the archbishops o! Rouen and Lyons, and
the bishop of Arras, with all the seffragens of the See of Paris
and the bishop elect of Evreux. The Patrial eh of Antioch
was also among the crowd of dignitaries, clad in a purple Le-
vantine costume of great splendour. Their Majesties the
King and Queen stood as sponsors for the Count de Paris, who,
when asked his name by the archbishop, replied distinctly to
the question. His Royal Highness was bserved frequently to
kiss his governante. The act of christening was then signed
the King and other members of the Royal family, after
which the archbishop, cardinals, the suffragan bishops, and all
the clergy in procession, conducted their Majesties to the
grand entrance.
PRESENTATION OF THE SWORD-
At half-past one o'clock the Municipal Council of Paris, with
.the Mayors of the twelve arrondissements, and their Deputies,
Needed by the Prefect of the Seine, entered the Throne-room
ef the Tuileries, where they were received by the le'e'Elgs
Queen, the Duke and Duchess of Orleans, with the Comte de '
Faris, the King and Queen cf the Belgians, and the rest of
the Royal Family, Marshal &suit, and the other Ministers.
•Mitt Comte tie Hambuteau, the Prefect, demanded permission
of his Majesty to present to the Comte de Paris the sword
hteee had been voted to the Prince by the city.
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His _Majesty then took the Comte de Paris by the hand,
senting lum to the Municipality, said—" Give your
and, pre. . f •
we Pre ect, in token of your giving it to the whole
handto
, pee's." This was done and greeted by aeclarna-
,teiiontYsooffVice le Rni. !" from the whole of the members
of the Municipese." Council. The Queen. the Duke and the
Duchess of Orleans having thanked the Municipal Coun-
cil, the Royal party retired. The persons who remained
•
Pressed round the rich and splendid present, every one admiring
,the taste and beauty of its ornamente, and 'theskill with which
tkey were wrought. The hilt is surmonnted by a royal crown,
"Inlorted by four ; the base rests on two small figures
seated in a shell, and between them is a lion couchant. On
seach side of the hilt are two upright figures, one representing
Force, and the other, Wisdom. Around the guard is entwined
a serpent. In the middle, the three national colours are re-
presented by a diamond, a ruby, and a sapphire ; above these
as prow perched the Gallic cock on a tricoloured ring. The
rest of the guard is formed by the figure of a Chimera uniting
with the crown at she pommel. On the shell, between the
lilt and the blade
in his cradles which isthe s theCountde Paris is represented reposing
ar-
morial bearing of the city, made in the form of the galley,
the city, the inscription,
theotiprrotect protected by two figures, one repre-
sentingDieu le conduira.";pn the Fortune, with
es, Au Comte de Paris sa villee right side of
„e.
THE ROYAL tae, 24 Aout, INe7
BANQUET.
the blade is written,
.This took place at five o'clock. An immense table ran the
whew length of the Generic Louis Philie His Majesty had
the Qe een of the Belgians on his right hand,.
and the Duchess
m of °ti es on his lett. The Queen was seated between the
King of th e Belgians on her right, and the Cardinal Bishop of
Arras on bee left. Another table, in the horse-shoe form,;
was laid in the Salle des Marechaux, at which
'Orleans presided, having the Minister of ForeigtnheAlfflakrs on
e
Vile right, and the Prefect of the Seine on his left. The. Affairs
Ate .Montpensier Ind Duke Alexander of Wurtemberg had
s. its at this tabltable*.The Prince de Joinville presided over
a
ehie,3 table in the S'elon de la Paix, supported by Admiral Du-
e end Marshal Vallee. The total number of guests at the I
eeeee to tiles was 350, cirmyesed of the Presidents, Vice-Presi-
dents, am,' Seeretaries of tire two Chambers, the Ministers and
Marshals, the Staffs of the National Guard and. the garrison,
Ilayore, 'Deouties; and Municipal Councillors of Pens, the
Prefect of the Seine, Awl the Police, the Staff of the Munici-
pal Guard, and other official and distinguished personages. The
banquet lasted till seven W 4,40.

FRONTIEasS OF ITALY, APRIL 20. We
aceompanie4 by the Duke of
earn from Turin t` the King,
Saxony, lefkAshat eit r on the 13th to go to Genoa, and thence
to the Mad of Sarctinia, to see with his own eyes situ may
don& to promote the prosperity of that island. The man-
be • of soldiers sent to their homes has been much increased of
late ; en the whole the reductions amount to 18,000 men