The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-26 00:00:00

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Times contains in its Irish leaders an account
of sundry election outrages committed in Ireland, being
a continuation of a series of articles on the same subject.
Our Contemporary culls from the exaggerated reports
of the Orange press of Ireland the Most exaggerated and
harrowing • descriptions, and, exaggerating them still
More, serves up these be-devilled bits, to stimulate the
appetites of its readers, saturated and disgusted with
simulated horrors. It happens, however, - that
while the Orange voters are always, according to
the statements, the waylaid and • assaulted party, they
are always armed, and the Catholic peasantry are
always the persdns whO are wontided and slain.! The
others are at the very worst only waylaid. Without
quoting a word from the Irish journals of the opposite
party, this circumstance is sufficient to show that the
tales of the Times are calumnies of the Catholics, in-
tended to gloze over the outrages perpetrated on them,
and deceive the credulous public on this side of the
water.

Our respected Contemporary, the Advertiser, is
justly indignant at the conduct of the psalm-singing
Conservatives of Wigton during the late contest, which
ended so signally in their defeat. Lord Galloway, it ap:
pears, is .as great a persecutor of his tenantry as Sir Wm.
Maxwell. No one who is a Liberal or a Dissenter
is allowed to remain on his Lordship's estate. Both these
functionaries, the one Lord Lieutenant, and the other a
Deputy Lieutenant, have the character of being very
pious. Can men who punish their dependents for their
religion be entitled to this epithet ?
The Herald is furious against the Chronicle and
Globe, and, alluding to a remark made by these journals
respecting budgets and barricades, thus politely describes
them :—" Those who labour to promulgate such senti-
ments as are conveyed in the above passage, are traitors
and rebels in their hearts, and not guilty of overt acts
of treason and rebellion merely because they are alsp
cowards."

The Scotsman is unwilling to puzzle itself about
Sir Robert Peel's financial plans, being impressed with
the idea that he will trust to the chapter of accidents,
and leave matters as they are, at least till February.
Touching upon revenue matters, it suggests that if he
must beat about for some tax, that will not at least
be unpopular, he might gain some applause by extending
the inventory and legacy duties to heritable property.
Will the landlords, his masters, submit to anything of
the kind ?

• The Dublin Evening Post, in commenting on the
proposed Members for the New Cabinet, touches on the
qualifications of Sir James Graham for office. " Sir
James," says the Post, " has every pretension that Sir
Robert Peel could desire. He is a huge rat—he was a
Radical—he would have sponged off the national debt
for the sake of the landlords, and his own sake—he
would starve a host of Privy Councillors as you may re-
member—he was a Whig, a Reformer, and he is now a
Tory and an Orangeman—what would you desire more?"
—Speaking of the rains in France, it apprehends the
consequences of a short supply, and there a Bread In-
surrection has been always most formidable.

The Somerset County Gazette suggestS, for the pur-
pose of uniting the Liberals, that a meeting of the party
should be convened in , London before the Session in
January next, to which the Liberals of every borough
..and county, in the. kingdom should be requested to send
Deputies, to • deter Mine consentaneously what measures
ought to be' carried out, and a standing Committee ap-
pointed to:watch them. The whole Liberal Press, Lon-
don and /;'rovincitil, should also be invited to attend..
Betuse (says the Monnunithshire Merlin) we will
not admit the corn of America, she is determined to do
without us and our products. Iron, for example, which
she almost refuses to take. From what a vast field of labour
does the infamous bread-tax exclude the miners of this
kingdom.