The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

PROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YISTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The sudden change in the tone and lan-
guage of the Times toward the Irish Catholic clergy and
their flocks, joined to the severe reproofs it has admi-
nistered to the Protestant Association for applying to
them the self-same epithet, and accusing them of the
self-same crimes, which had copiously filled the Times'
columns, have naturally excited mingled surprise and dis-
gust in the Association, thus deserted, betrayed, and de-
nounced by its former friend and advocate. The other
Tory Journals, less facile in the art of pirouetting, employ
considerable severity of remark on this portentous omen
to the cause of intolerance ; and charge the " Leading
Journal" with dishonesty in heaping upon the Protest-
turt Association " unmeasured and unwarrantable in-
sectire"—having shortly before praised its objects, its
efforts, its agents. We alluded yesterday to the.
appeal which the Standard deemed it right to make in
behalf of the Association, which, notwithstanding the
denunciations of the Times, was affirmed to " deserve the
support of the country." This morning the Herald devotes
a considerable space to the same object. A letter from
" A member of the Protestant Association is publishedin
its columns, and a long leading article gives effect to the
epistle. The letter complains that "a journal well known
for its sudden and unexpected changes of opinion on im-
portant subjects (witness those of late on Puseyism and
Corn-laws), has within these three or four days de-
nounced the Protestant Association,' as 'incendiaries " '
end the Editor follows up the impeachment by remark-
ing, that the writer of the letter " complains with great
earnestness, of the decree of condemnation which it has
pleased a Morning Contemporary to pass upon that body,
after its most imperial fashion of deposition and degra-
dation." The " leviathan of the press" is too much ac-
customed to have the charge of " apostacy" hurled at its
columns to be greatly disquieted by this fresh discovery
of its baseness. The hide of a rhinoceros is not more
impervious to the tickling of a straw than is the moral
feeling of the Times to anything like a sensibility of
shame. It is vain, therefore, for the Herald to at-
tempt to produce any such feeling in that journal by a
quotation from its own columns ; and to add, that
" our Contemporary himself, a few days before, anathe-
matised, as 'surpliced ruffians,'" the Catholic priesthood
of helmet; and, we may add, employed the degrading;
appellation of "savagery," as the characteristic portrai-
ture of the Irish people. For Popery or Protestantism,
except as party words, and as supplying weapons for
political controversy, on the principle which actuates
mercenaries in a campaign, the Times cares nothing.
The object for which the Irish Catholics were anathe-
matised is answered.
STANDARD.—The immediate effect of the New
Poor-law, in diminishing home consumption, cannot be
treated lightly by those who listen to the apology of the.!
"deficit Ministers," for the defalcation to which they
owe their names—the apology, that the success of the
Rev. Mr. Mathew's mission has seriously affected the
expenditure of the lower classes of the Irish. In So-
merset House there are three missionaries—we will not
affront the excellent teacher of temperance by calling
them three Mr. Mathews—whose ascetic lessons have a
far wider range of population to act upon, and
embrace a much greater number of articles of ex-
penditure than Mr. Mathew's pledge ; and there
is this difference between them, that whereas Mr.
Mathew leaves his followers to expend at their
pleasure the money which they save by his
salutary instructions, the stern disciplinarians of So-
merset House make the unhappy beings submitted
to their mercy still poorer by starvation. To look, how-
ever, no further than the immediate effect of the Poor-
law as a cause of the depression of the home market,
would be to take a very inadequate view of the mischie-
vous operation of a measure as unwise as it is inhuman.
The fear of the union workhouse compels men to make
sacrifices r.nd exertions no less injurious to the commu-
nity than to theni;elvcs. They abridge their diet, not
for their own profit, but for the gain of others ; they
overiask their powers, not to gain more, but to pro-
care any wages; and thus; in a market already more
than overstocked with labour, render miserable, and
shorten, their own lives, in order to force others out
of employment. And what is the general effect of
this ? To enable the money capitalist to. gamble with
the most r;omplete indifference in the lives and
happiness of his fellow-creatures, and in the safety of his
country. It would be perfectly easy to trace the opera-
tion of the New Poor-law in producing, by the. encou-
ragenr.,nt of speculation, the distress now afflicting .the
inanufacturing. districts. The money capitalist has
always had labour at his command at whatever wage., he
might please to pay ; and if wages de not seem to have
much diminished, it is because more toil has been taken
out of the slave for the same money, and he has been
iuiid fir a less number of months or weeks. Has any
gee ever heard of a manufactory silent for want of hands
since 1834, or of many manufactorieS where work has
been constant for the• last seven years? No, the New
Poor-law has changed all that. The money capitalist
can now take the market at his pleasure. and leave the
earners of his additioeal wealth to starve whenever the
market does not invite him.
COURIER—We took occasion a few weeks ago to
expose the groundlessness and fallacy of the supposition,
that a Conservative Government would find any peculiar '
difficulty in dealing with Ireland and Irish interests in
the new Parliament ; and notwithstanding' the more
than usual acrimonious virulence of Mr.-O'Connell and
his regiment of ragged partisans, notwithstanding his
turgid threats, and his tone of insolent defiance, we
have 60CH no reason since to alter or modify the decisive
opinion we then expressed. -With Ireland, we again
emphatically repeat, Sir Robert Peel will experience
no greater difficulty in dealing than with the other por-
tions of the empire, and for this cogent reason, that his
measures, and the whole course of his policy, legislative
. and admirristrative, towards that country, will be charac-
terised by the same rigorous adherence to constitutional
prineiples, and the same regard to the real wants and
wishes of the people, as will be his measures with regard
to England or Scotland. Those who pretend or fancy
they gee in the state of Ireland obstacles in Sir R. Peel's
path, reason about it as if it were a separate and distinct
nation, and nut en integral portion of the British em-
pire. They forget, or seem to forget, that all distinc-
tions on account of religion have been abolished, as well
as that all those questions that were wont to constitute
the battle-field of parties in the Commons, have been
finally disposed of. The subject of corporate reform has
been luckily set at rest. The tithe question—that fruit-
fid source of bitterness, heart-burnings, and crime—has
been adjusted on precisely the same terms as were pro-
posed by Sir R. Peel, during his brief but brilliant pre-
miership in 1835 ; in fine, as regards the business of
le,gislation there is no one leading principle—no one pro-
Minent or ialportant point of policy relating exclusively
to that part of the empire, from the handling of which
there is the remotest chance of embarrassment or per-
plexity arising to his administration. In this respect
the time of his accession to power is peculiarly propi-
tious.

The Lambeth Reform Festival is to take place
on Wednesday next, the 18th inst.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER SEA-HORSE
AT Hong ;T TowN.—The following is an extract from
i private letter:—" Hobart Town, April 11, 1841.
Yesterday much interest was excited by seeing a
magnificient steamer, under canvass, standing up the
Derceent, which proved to be the Sea-Horse, from
LOndon. This splendid vessel of 300-horse power is,
we understand, the first of the four powerful steamers
which are coming out to navigate our seas, and call
into existence the vast resources of these important
colonies. By our last advices from home we learn that
-the Juno, of similar power, was upon the eve of sail-
ing ; and we can only add that if she and the others are
• equal to the Sea-Horse, no such vessels have ever ap-
peared on our side of the globe. The Erebus and Ter-
ror, southern discovery ships, are in the harbour. They
have been further to the southward than any former ex •
sailing over the continent recently discovered
pedition
by the Americans.
AFFECTING INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.
w heN o rt l
had
---A respectable young man of the name of Robinson,
Ne
who resided at No. 4, Devonshire. street,
North-
road, Hoxton, returning from the city, whither
been to deliver some work (his employment being that of
a working jeweller), between the hours of eight and
nine o'clock on Tuesday evening knocked at the door of
o se, and up
his residence, but before it could be opened he was
speechless. At eleven o'clock he was a c
to then, from the timehe
several . entered, he had not been able
to utter a sentence, although he had made .
ineffec-
tual endeavours to do so. He has left a young wife and
four small children to deplore his loss.
' INUNDATION AT LANGLEY, NEAR SLOUGH.
—Upon the estate of R Harvey, Esq. who resides at
Blackpark, Langley, about two miles from Slough, there
was a large piece of water, in many places upwards of 15
feet in depth, and covering an extent of 20 acres. Some
saw-mills have lately been erected near this spot; and it
having been discovered that a considerable leakage had
taken place, It was resolved that the culvert, several feet
below the surface of the earth, should be bored down to,
to ascertain if the flood.,gettes were faulty. While this
work was in progress, and nearly completed (but
fortunately while the workmen were absent), the
force and weight of the water blew up the culvert,
scattering the bricks and earth in various directions,
. and, in the course of a very short time, the whole
of this immense sheet of water was dispersed, inun-
dating the neighbourhood of George-green and Langley
to the depth of several feet, for a considerable distance.
The lake is now nearly dry, and can be walked across
at any part. The fish, of which it contained an im-
mense quantity, are dispersed amongst the various
ditches, and a considerable portion have been left dead
(high and dry) in those places over which the current
passed.
' DISAPPEARANCE OF A STUDENT OF Ha-
• atzaToN COLA ece.—Yesterday information was reeeiveil
at all the metropolitan police stations of the mysterious
" disappearance of Mr. Thomas Hinds, a student at Ho-
- maleon College. It appears that the gentleman in
queztion, who is about twenty-three years of age, left
Gravesend for London on the morning of Saturday I
'kat, where he arrived in safety, having called at the
College about six o'clock the same evening ; since which •
time he has not been seen nor heard of. He is described as
being about five feet eight inches in height, with a full
face, and hair light and curly ; no wiskers, light blue
• eyes, and in person full bodied. Was dressed in a suit a
eat black clothes, a satin stock with long ends, fastened
With a Peruvian diamond pin ; linen marked, eT.
Hinds." Had in his waistcoat pocket a gold chronome-
tor watch, made by Frodesham, eec., London, with the !;
. initials "T. H." on the cases, worn with a gold guard
chain. In his pocket he had also U. and a Russia leather
packet• book containing_memorandums.
W the eduesda policemen's old great coats were
dios;it.ranilnuted.fo_r the use of the poor to the different metro-
.tt parishes by order_ of the Commissioners of. olice.
Many of themmeiiiirle \N"vCh•roy dareecent,andwtioll be of great service
to the poor
exposed the inclemency of
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the weatiLT.
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