The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF 'YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
When half of our towns shall have been razed—Dis-
sent, to its very name, done with—and " the gambling
speculation of our manufactures" annihilated—the Lords
of the soil, who will then have become wholly our lords
and masters, are to colonise their estates with our obse-
quious millions. It is the least they can do. We will
now toll our readers why we think they will not do it.
Why ,don't they do it (we may ask by the way) at this
present time ? Their parasites talk of the starving thou-
sandslof Birmingham and Manchester. If land-coloni-
sation is the remedy for this town-starvation—if land.
lords have only to say " Occupy !"—and millions of waste
acres will be occupied—why don't they say the word
now, and " drain off the sun plus population from our
towns into the country"—the happy country, protected
by police and Corn-laws! Aye, why not ? Because
they peopled the towns with their " starving thousands."
Because to dispeople the towns, and to new-people the
country, would destroy the profits which they have
reaped from the contrary operation. Because their
Corn-laws, which pinch the townspeople, would re-act
upon their rents, if they undertook, as the Quarterly
Review would have them, to feed the surplus popula-
tion of the towns for bringing wastes under culture!
Certainly, as we have said, it is the least they can do,
if not doing justice to those who suffer by the Corn-
laws entered into their reckoning. But precisely that
suffering, and the source .of it, are the reasons why they
will not do this j ustice. For, what has hitherto been the
course of improvements in agriculture ? To economise
the number of hands employed on the soil. What has
been the intention and (at recurring periods) the effect
of the Corn-laws ? To raise the price of the first
necessary of life. Proceeding, then, on the princi-
ple which has actuated the landlords in retrenching the
hands employed, and seeking to raise the prices of
the produce reaped by them, there can be no diffi-
culty in concluding that they will not bring on their own
hands, and render themselves responsible for feeding at
Corn-law prices, the " surplus population" whom they
themselves have driven to the towns from the coun-
try. It is not " the avarice of the masters" of factory
labour—it is not " the gambling speculation of our ma-
nufactures"—that is to blame for the fact of the enor-
mous proportion borne by the people of towns to those
employed in the country. No—it is " the gambling
speculation of our agriculture." It is that speculation
on employing the least labour, and getting the highest
price possible, which has turned small farms into large,
and protected fanded capitalists by Corn-laws.
(From the Standard.)
It is stated in the Dublin Journals of all parties and ,
of all religious denominations, that on Sunday last
Lord Morpeth, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State in Ireland, attended High Mass at one of the Ro-
man
Catholic chapels of the Irish metropolis. As the
statement is thus universallymade, and as no contradiction
has been offered to it, there seems to be no ground to ques-

tion its truth. The fact thus established, in our opinion
merits more attention than has been given to it, and we
therefore take leave to present it once more for public
notice. If any Roman Catholic, holding the high and
responsible office held by Lord Morpeth, had attended
as ostentatiously as the Irish Secretary appears to
have done, the services of his Church, we might
regret the sanction given to what we believe to be a
fatally erroneous creed, but we could have no just
reason to complain of the individual. The law
has given to Roman Catholics the opportunity of
giving the countenance of rank and station to error—
and the law must bear the blame. Lord Morpcth is,
however, a professing Protestant, and, as Protestants,
we must regard his conduct in the particular case as a
prostitution of the high rank and office which he
occupies, to the injury of the Protestant religion.
As a Protestant, Lord Morpcth believes, at least he
has sworn upon the Gospels that he believes, the sacri-
fice of the Mass to be an act of idolatry offensive to the
Almighty. Why, then, has he assisted at that cere-
mony ? He cannot, like Naaman, plead compulsion—
he was not bound by any official duty, and he was bound
by his obligation as a Christian Protestant to be at the
time in another place, engaged in a very different manner
of worship. Either the Noble Lord was sincere in his
participation of the ritual ceremonies of the Mass, or
he was not. If he was sincere he was a Roman Catho-
lic ; if he was not, his attendance was an affront to the
sincere Roman Catholics present, and a grievous insult
to the Being to whom he rendered a mock worship.

(From the Courier.)
A passage was quoted the other day from the letter
of a person styling himself the " Count de Solis," in
which he ascribes the " absenteeism" that most assuredly
does not benefit the Irish population, as the result of
" a loathsome, useless corporation called the Church of
England established in Ireland ;" and this establishment,
he says, is the " root of all the evils and misery that
have existed in wretched Ireland, the real cause of
poverty, disturbance, and consequently absenteeism."
Let us pause here, and inquire what is the real fact,
visible to every person with unsealed eyelids in every
country in Europe. Whoeo o. P.p.aey
religion, or, adopting other words, wherever the priests
can ride rough-shod over the people, there the lat-
ter are sunk into an abyss of ignorance, misery, and
crime. Look to Spain, Portugal, and Italy—each
almost infinitely behind its Protestant neighbours.
Lu this consideration it may be very useful to the in-
quirer atter truth to compare the state of the provinces
is Ireland which are generally termed " Catholic" and
Protestaut." In the latter, which consists chiefly of
uortlusca divisions, we find cleanliness, industry, and
as attention to domestic comfort, as it is understood
among the batter classes of daily labourers in England.
In these portions of the island there are no denunciations
from the altars consecrated to public worship ; no mur-
derous assaults, no assassinations the effect of priestly
violence, are the painful subjects of public conversation.
Murders arc occasionally committed in England and other
countries, but wherever a liberal and enlightened priest-
hood exists, there is consequently less bigotry, and less
deadly abhorrnce of the heretics enumerated in the
bull, " In Ccena Domini," which is annually read every
Holy Thursday, nothing of the kind that we aro har-
rowed with hearing of in Ireland ever occurs. Com-
pare Holland with any of the Roman Catholic states,
and we shall immediately find the diff,rence between a
population adopting the advice and following the in-
structions of its pastors, and a population submis•
sively attending to the dictates of its 'theses, them-
selves for the most part as ignorant as their flocks.
Mr. Peter Fanc, the lofty " Count de Sal's " of the
Dublin agitators for repeal, asserts that the Church of
England is the cause of absenteeism. He does not seem
to know, or he reserves, after Jesuit fashion, an obvious
fact—the insecurity of not only property, but that which
is of infinitely greater %Tine, life itself.

POLICI,' INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

Yesterday Ann irani: o, a young female, who had
boon summarily convicted at least fifty times previously,
was brought before Sir Peter Laurie, charged with
wantonly breaking a square of plate glass, of the value
of V.l/.
Mr. Butt, mercer and linen-draper, of 48, Ludgate-
-1111, stated that, whilst his shopman was putting up the
shutters last night, the prisoner walked up to him and
said, " I think I shall smash one of those squares of
glass ; it will be a spree at any rate," and immediately
seizing hold of an iron bolt, struck the glass a violent
blow. She then said she did not care a—, she could
only get three months' imprisonment, and when she came
out again she would have another " shy" at the window.
He said he never saw her before in his life.
Tie prisoner, who was exceedingly violent in her
conduct, and applied the most scurrilous epithets to S:r
Peter, was ordered to be brought up again to•morro:v,
and in the mean time to try whether a bread and water
diet might not have some effect in cooling her temper.
A poorly clad man, named James Bireliin, of a very
gentlemanly address, was charged, by Constable 109,
with brooking one of the street limps in Wood-street.
In reply to Sir P. LAURIE, the prisoner said his mo-
tive for doing so was to save himself from actual star-
vation, by being committed to prison. He had been
twice before committed for the same act, under similar
circumstances, Same years ago he kept a bookseller's
shop in Hanvrell-street, Oxford-street, and dealt largely
in old paintings, but some unsuccessful speculations in
the latter brought on embarrassments, and a fiat of
bankruptcy was issued against him. He then got a
situation, which he was compelled to leave in conse-
quence of sickness, and fell from one degree of misery
to another, until he was obliged to seek admission to the
Marylebone workhouse. This was refused, but the re-
lieving officer gave him a ticket which caused him to be
employed in breaking stones. The rule observed in
this ease is--the pauper commences work on the
Monday morning, when he receives a small quantity of
bread, but is not paid until Saturday night. The pri-
soner then proceeded to state that he worked for two
days, bat havinr, no means of subsistence while doing
so he was oblige% to leave off, and for this time he was
still unpaid.
Sir P. LAURIE—Why did you come into the city to
bo a burden in our BrideaVell instead of getting yours
colt committed in Marylebone ? Prisoner—l came into
the city to look for work, and was two days without
tasting food.

Sir_ P. LAuntE said he should decline committing the
prisoner. Let him apply to Mr. Rawlinson, the sitting
Magistrate, in Marylebone, for a peremptory order of
admission to the workhouse.
The prisoner was accordintzly disCb.srged.
....77,2-........„-- -- , •
77 To TEETO74LLEtts.--There has been in all
Gdvernments a i:'!'eat deal of absurd canting about the con.
smitption of spirits. We :::'?!eve the best -pith Is to let
people drink what they like and wear wha:: !" like; to
make no sumptuary laws either for the belly or, the back.
In the first place laws against rum-artd-water are m;de IV
men who can change a wet coat for a dry one whenever
they choose, and who do not often work up to their knees
in mud and water; and in the next place, if this stimulus
did all the mischief it is thought to do by the wise men of
curet, its cheapness and plenty would rather lessen than
increase the avidity with which it it is at present sought for.
Sydney Smith.

AFFRAY IN CORSICA.

(From the Gazette des Tribialaux.)
A discussion, which soon assumed an alarming cha-
racter,
had taken place bcto.cen the brothers Dari de
Taglio and the brothers Marchetti d'lsolaccio. The
bone of contention was a cow, seized by the latter, and
which the Darts claimed as their property. After ban-
dying a few words they took to arms ; shots were ex-
changed on either side, and an unfortunate woman, no
party to the quarrel, was wounded. This increased the
irr:tation : it was apprehended that a general onslaught
would ensue between the villages of Taglio and Iso-
laccio. Already the marine horn had sounded the
tocsin of the Corsican mountaineers. Each party had
apprised their friends and kindred of the neighbour-
hood to join the terrible conflict in which they were
about to engage. Meanwhile each party, on their
guard, watchfully observed the motions of their oppo-
nents ; individuals were seen taking up their positions,
and lying in ambush, in the environs of Taglio and around
Iselaccio. A number of the inhabitants of Porri, de-
voted to the family of Marchetti, had hastened, complete-
ly armed, to lend him their support. All threatened
the approach of a bloody conflict. It was in this state
of matters that certain individuals of a pacific character
interposed their endeavours in order to avert the
afflicting disaster which threatened their district. Phi-
lippe Muzi, vicar of Taglio, and Alexander Mari, of the
same place, offered their services as mediators. The
brothers Dari accepted this generous and friendly offer.
It was next necessary to know the minds of the brothers
Marchetti and of their numerous adherents. In order
to appease these, they must repair to Isolaccio, their
head quarters, confer with a numerous assembly under
arms, calm their irritation by clearly showing them the
danger and at the same time the absurdity of this ex-
traordinary tumult, this warlike attitude, assumed by a
number of villages on a question the utmost extent of
which was to determine which of the families, Dari
or talarchetti, should be admitted rightful owners of a
cow. The vicar, therefore, together with Alexander
Mari, took speedy departure for Isolaccio, bear-
ing the pacific olive branch, and determined to
leave no method or persuasion unemployed
in order to insure success to their mission.
On their arrival they found the Marchettis and
their partisans, to the number of more than 150, drawn
out, as it were, in order of battle, carabine in hand,
pistol and stiletto in their belts—in a word, armed to
the teeth. The two messengers advanced quietly to-
wards this multitude, seemingly awaiting but the signal
to rush down upon the hut of Taglio. They first ad-
dressed those who were apparently the least exaspe-
rated, and, telling them how they incurred general ridi-
cule by taking up the affair so seriously, so tragically,
(to all they used the language of peace and moderation)
they clearly showed how the sole cause of this great
tumult belonged, in right, to the Dari, urged the justice
of restoring it, and finally succeeded in bringing the
majority to their opinion. But here a sudden difficulty
arose—the Marchetti faction urged a claim ; they were
willing to overlook the past, to sacrifice their preten-
sions at tha altar of peace and concord, but with one
condition—namely, that the inhabitants of Porri, who
had embraced their cause, should, on their return, be
allowed to pass, in arms, through the village of
Taglio, without molestation. This ultimatum was
made known to the brothers Dari, who wil-
lingly accepted it, remarking, however, that as the
night was already advanced, the Perrinchi would do
wisely to defer their return until day ; otherwise, a noc-
turnal encounter might ensue between them and the
peasants of the neighbouring districts, who were hourly
expected to join Taglio, and who, ignorant of the peace-
able arrangements concluded between them, might give
themselves up to acts of hostility. These remarks
Muzi and Mari transferred to the Marchetti, and were
fortunate enough to elicit a promise from them to the
effect that the inhabitants of Porri should not depart
during the night. These two worthy men, after seeing
all their efforts crowned with complete success, were
returning on loot to Taglio, on the 20th of April, at
about nine in the evening, unarmed and with joyful
hearts, when, on approaching the fountain of Taglio, in
a dark place where the moon's rays could not penetrate,
they resolved on a halt, that they might confer more at
their ease ; their conversation was carried on in a low
tone and face to face, when suddenly a double detona-
tion resounded in the air. Alexander Mari clasped
with both hands the neck of the vicar, who cried out
loudly, " Beware, we are friends." On this Mari fell
to the ground and expired without pronouncing a single
word ; struck on the right shoulder-blade, the ball had
passed through his lungs. Philippe Muzi was slightly
wounded in the belly.
At the noise of the discharge and the cries of the
Vicar Muzi, the inhabitants of Taglio hastily left their
houses and betook themselves towards the victims.
Antonio Mario, Clavaldini, and Giovanni Cesari were
sewn hastening away from the spot whence the discharge
seemed to have been made. At first they were at a loss
how to account for this sad catastrophe. It was, how-
ever, remarked that Clavaldini and Cesari had been ab-
sent from the village since the evening, suspicion hovered
.‘“,-i- their heads : but at the same time there was a. diffi-
culty in believing that these two young men should have
attempted the life or two unofiending individuals, against
whom they had no cause of complaint, and who had just
acquitted themselves of a mission of peace and devoted-
ness. People were inclined to believe that, not recog-
nising. Altai and Alexander Mari, they had taken them
Ifor inhabitants of Porri who had come with hostile in-
tentions_

It was attempted in the indictment to inculpate Jean
Vito Dari, a near relation of the prisoners, and ho was
represented as having been the instigator of the crime.
Extreme was the exaperation of Alexander Mari's
kindred against him ; their fury was carried such a
point as to induce them, under the very eyes of the
magistrates, to fire twice on witnesses who were favour-
able to Jean Vito. But the innocence of the latter
shone clearly forth from every deposition ; Cesari and
Clavaldini alone were committed to take their trial at the
assizes. During their trial they unceasingly protested
their innocence of the charge which was brought against
them, and constantly denied the facts of which they were
accused.

M. Sorbrei, first Advocate• General, supported the
accusation. Messieurs Caraffa and Figarelli defended
the prisoners.—Declared guilty of murder and attempt
to murder, in consequence of a violent provocation.
They were condemned to five years' imprisonment.