The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-02 00:00:00

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IRELAND.
DUBLIN, URDAY.—The arguments on the demurrer
in the case of . Duffy, were brought to a close yester-
day, by the r ly of the Attorney-General, who con-
tended th e facts charged having been admitted by
the demurrer, the judgment of the court should be final,
without the intervention of a jury, as in a civil case, or
a charge of misdemeanour. The Learned Gentleman,
however, threw out a suggestion that the Court might
permit the withdrawal of the demurrer before judgment,
if the prisoner was desirous of pleading. Judgment will
not be pr..nounced until Tuesday; and then it will de-
pend on the decision of the Court whether a day shall to
named for the trial.

Mr. Dnffy's counsel, however, 'appear determined to
resist the doctrine promulgated by the Crown, that
judgment on the demurrer must be final. It is possible,
however, that the demurrer may be withdrawn on
Tuesday, and in that case the trial would of course
proceed.
DUBLIN, JAN. I.—Mr. John O'Connell has opened
the new year with a paraphrase of one of the Liberator's
Anti-Union epistles, addressed to the people of Ireland
—not from Darrynane, but from London, where Mr.
John O'Connell has been residing for some time, as a
director of the National Bank of Ireland. In the pre-
sent epistle the young Liberator inquires—
" What reason has been shown that we should be
long quiescent? What hope have we from others?
What shadow, even, of any great healing and relieving
measure has been traced out in prospect, by oven the
most ardent, most self-deluding, or self.interested pane-
gyrist of the Ministry, or of any English party?
" None! Oh, most assuredly none! Then what re-
mains? This, fellow-countrymen—that we must help
ourselves! That in ourselves is our only, but our most
assured hope! That we do well remember what has
been so often told us, and what is ever true, that—
Who would be free,
Themselves must strike the blowl'

"And it is still in our own hands to work out our
own political redemption.
" We have had enough of its being told us by profes-
sing or misjudging friend and open foe, that we were
inferior in aught to the people of other countries.
We have had enough of the unworthy diligence of pro-
fessing or misjudging friend and open foe, in conning by
rote and casting into our teeth an unfounded and exag-
gerated catalogue of our faults. Whatever they may be,
or may have been, they are as nothing, when compared
to the great, the singular, the intrinsic virtues of the
Irish character!

" I hold to the old doctrine! I believe that there is
no man like the Irishman! No man so true—no man so
good—no man so capable of great and noble actions—
no man so deserving of being free!
" And I will die or do my part to make such a man a
free man in his own land!"

The threat of dying for " the model free man,"
though ingeniously put, is not likely to be effective now.
Mr. John O'Connell promised some eighteen months
ago to die on the floor of the House of Commons, and as
he is still " alive and kicking," the people of Ireland
will, I think, permit him to die or lie at his leisure.
Touching the Repeal he says
" We have not been defeated ; and checked though
we have been for a little moment by the fell advantage
to England from a madness in which the Irish nation
had no share, we shall go on with renewed courage,
strength, and hope ; and with God's blessing soon ac-
complish the redemption of our country in the restora-
tion of her own Parliament

" Come forward, then, once again, to the glorious
struggle I Let the English Parliament, when in a few
weeks more it shall assemble, find you once more active,
determined, and persevering in the good cause. Speak
as the Irish people should, to your Representatives—
bid them to bestir themselves to do their duty faithfully
in this great crisis of our country's fate—adjure them
to remember that Ireland foregoes no claim—yields up
no right—compromises not one of her high demands, but
insists—insists, now, as ever, that justice—full, entire,
and all comprehensive justice, shall be done her, as it
can only be done, by the repeal of the unjust, the blight-
ing,and the ruinous Act of Union ! !

"Say, to such of them at least, as have been elected
by the people's free and favouring choice, that their pro-
mises at the hustings are fresh in your remembrance,
and stand against their names a damning or glorious
record, according as those promises be by them neglected
or redeemed I

" Say to them that he that hath no stomach for the
good fight—that he whose heart and spirit fail him—
whose mind inclines to waver, or palter with his duty—
if any such there be—should now at once resign, ere the
battle commences; and givo up to bolder and truer men
the high trust and the heavy responsibility to which ho
feels himself unequal!",.
SUICIDE ON BOARD THE RHADAMANTRUS.— On
Christmas eve, one of the sailors of the Rhadamanthus
(H.M.S.) put an end to his existence by cutting his
throat with a razor, while lying in his hammock. The
wretched man, it appears, after committing the dreadful
act, closed the razor and stretching out his hand with the
weapon to the man in the next birth, expired immedi-
ately after. An investigation into the cause of the me-
lancholy circumstances was held on board the vessel. 14
seems that the unfortunate man was observed to be in a
very desponding state of mind for some months past,
which resulted in his destroying himself. He was
much respected, both by his officers and messmates; and
has left a wife and children to mourn his loss.—Water-
ford Chronicle.

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