The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-09 00:00:00

THE SUN-, LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1841.

the hostility of the agents from the Anti• Corn-law
League." It is clear that even before his opinions re-
garding the Corn-laws ware avry.ved, Mr. Lyttelton's
prospects of success were anything but cheering ; and
it is also [clear that part of the support he had was ob-
tained by allowing a misapprehension of his views re-
garding the Corn-laws to exist, for his law-agent, Mr.
Belhan, in a letter to the Morning Chronicle, admits
the " secession of several of our most active committee-
men, who entertain Corn-law notions," as soon as they
knew Mr. Lyttelton's views. Mr. Smith may succeed
or fail, but he is stronger Chan Mr. Lyttelton, for all
his supporters have had a frank explanation of his
opinions beforehand.
Let the industrious population of the country
remember these things. Let them remember when
attempts are made to bully or seduce old mem-
bers into withdrawing from the League, or to prevent
new ones from joining it, that the Liberal cause has, it
anything, been strengthened by the substitution of Mr.
Smith for Mr. Lyttelton, as candidate for Walsall ; and
that although there has been hostility towards the
League evinced by the partisans of Government, there
has been none shown by the League towards Govern-
ment. The League is independent of all parties—con
have nothing to do with any of them. It holds on the
even tenor of its way regardless of the effect it may
produce upon their interests, but without entertaining
any towards them.
Still more, let every labourer who has his meal cur-
tailed—every capitalist who is kept in constant leer of
the Gazette by the Corn-law, remember that men arc
only bound to act right—that consequences are beyond
their control. Do we blame Huss, Sydney, Wallace,
because their efforts were unsuccessful? Were their
efforts indeed unsuccessful because they were martyrs,
and the triumph of the cause for which they died was
reserved for a later period ? " The Anti-Corn-law
League is on its trial," says the Morning Ckonic/e. It
is ; but that trial will not finish with the,.Walsall elec-
tion. If that election'be lost many may fall of for a
time, but the best heads and hearts of- the League will
persevere, regardless of the storm of words whistling
round their heads. Their cause is just—their course of
action is the only, one which the "impotence of pur-
pose" on the part of our leading statesmen has kit
open to them. Their ultimate triumph may be deferred,
but can only he deferred.
A MEMBER OF THE LEAGUE.

IRELAND AND THE TORIES

(From the Morning PorLY • • • • -
We hear from Ireland that a good dell, of uneasiness has
been excited there among the best class of emiservatives
by an article on " Romanism in Ireland," which appeared
in the recently published number of- the Quarterly Re-
view. The class of Conservatives to whom we refer are
landlords and their families, sincerely ,attached* to the
Church of England and to English habits.and sentiments
generally, but resident in Ireland, both from affeCtion to
the land in which they were born, and because of the
duties which they owe to their respective neighbourhoods
as proprietors. They have been sufficiently accustomed,
ever since they could read and take any interest in public
affairs, to hear of plots, and conspiracies, and secret machi-
nations on the part of Romanist priests and politicians,
against the existence of the Protestant Government
of England and the security of the Protestant people
of Ireland. By long habit they had como to regard these
rumours as a kind of stock exaggerations convenient for
the use of speech makers in moments of excitement, and
of newspaper writers when " something strong" was con-
sidered appropriate to the occasion. They did not think
that such alarming statements were totally without founda-
tion, but they believed that they went my far beyond what
cautious and calmly investigating persons could believe,
and that they themselves (tile Irish. Protestant landlords),
though not quite so safe as they would be in England, had,
nvvertheless, not much to fear.
But the writer in the Quarterly Review hes thrown up
a fire-ball—a horrible blue light—which discloses to them
the nets of Romish stratagem by which- they are surrounded,
and the mines of Romish enmity and ambition which are
ready to be exploded under their feet;
The writer in the Quarterly i3' not only learned and
acute, but he evidently wishes to be very candid, and to
guard himself against being carried away by the exaggera-
tions of certain Irish witnesses, who testify with great ve-
hence upon the subject of Romish conspiracy. And yet
he goes beyond any of them.
He declares that the grand source of the evils of Ireland
__the Eons et origo of all the various mischief—is religious
dissension. " The whole circle of life," he says, "is filled
with jealousy, and bitterness, and fear, rumours of rebel-
lion, and secret conspiracies, which no art can fathom, be-
c,tise4igticus assoeeations exist drawn up in array against
ceeltaitther; each laid under spiritual obligation."
The Writer iae however, of opinion that religious truth
should be thelrst thing considered, and he despises any-
thing like making terms with religious error, by what has
bee:l called " conciliation." We cannot but agree with
him here. We doubt, however, that his way of advancing
religious truth wouldsensWerahe end. Look of
orations of the state of affairs in Iroland, and the attempts
which are made to remedy that state:---
« First, What would be said of a man who, on' meeting
a naked, starving, infuriated maniac, should proceed to re-
lieve him by putting shoes on his feet, a coat on his back,
food into his mouth, and maxims of love into his head,
overlooking his one great calamity, disordered reason—
forgetting that the mind, and not the body, is the man,
and that where the mind wants truth, in whatever degree,
whether in madness, or error, or ignorance, there to dress
up the body is only, as Bishop Taylor expresses it, 'to
wash the face of the dead?' We ask if religious truth be
not the first and most essential of all truths, and whether
a nation, of which one portion at least, without at present
deciding which, must be destitute of this truth, is not like
the maniac labouring under a radical disease, which must be
cured before any other remedies can be applied to its ills ?
" Under this head fall the evils of poverty, ignorance,
superstition, ill-management, intemperance, excitability,
lakehood, and the like, with which Ireland is now afflicted.

" Secondly, What would be said of a man who, seeing
an officer of justice struggling with a man for whom he
hal a warrant, should fall into melancholy lamentations
over the anger and animosity excited by the struggle,
should endeavour to soothe the feelings of both parties by
texts from Scripture, and exhortations to mutual charity
and amicable association, forgetting that it was the ap-
pointed duty of the officer to take the culprit into custody,
and the vital interest of the culprit to make his escape,
and that, while human nature continues, no struggle can
be carried on without at times risking violence and heat,
but that, where ;the struggle is a matter of duty, violence
and heat are far less evils than quiescence andfriendship ?
" Let this be applied to the second class of the evils of
Ireland—those whVi arise from the conflict between the
old Catholic Reformed Church, and the schismatic intru-
ders of Popery, and consider whether it be possible, or
even allowable, to remove them, till in one way or other
the conflict is not suspended, but decided, and one party or
other is victorious."

This is taking the " conciliation " bull by the horns,
at all events. There is no mistake and can be none about
this writer's determination that the battle should be fought
out.

But we think he is wrong, and that his own illustra-
tions show it.

The deduction at which the writer arrives from his con-
sideration of the prime source of evil in Ireland is thee
expressed:—
" Here, then, we arrive at three distinct 'measures to
be siopted, one or the other, as the first step to the cure
of the ills in Ireland, either convert Popery to the Church,
or give up the Church to Popery, or let both continue as
they are at present, and prohibit any rivalry, any conver-
sion, any attempt at mutual instruction, any jealousy, any
bitterness of feeling, or condemnation of error. Chain up
the combatants, and place them both in one cell, till they
have unlearnt their lesson of hostility.
" Of the three plans before us the last is evidently the
one contemplated by what are called the Liberal politicians
of the day."
The error cf the above representation we conceive to lie
in supposing that. they_ who differ in religion must necessa-
rily be " combatants."

This writer manfully contends against the plan of non-
interference of professors of one religion with the belief
of the other. Religious truth being the most important
of all things, he proclaims the duty of inculcating it, and
declares that the business of the Church is to proselytise.
If we connect this writer's views of the duties of mem-
bers of the Church, with his details of the means of per-
secution and punishment which the Romanists have at their
command, we are not at all surprised that he should have
made dutiful members of the Church in Ireland very un-
easy. But we entreat them to be not so easily carried
away by the melodramatic excesses of this author's mind.
If they continue just and kind to those around them, and,
in the best sense of the word, " charitable," we do not
think they have much to fear; and we know they have
much good to do, with the duing of which a sense of alarm
would seriously interfere.

STATE OF THE RIVER, AND PAR-
TIAL STOPPAGE OF THE NAVIGATION.

The ice, which had accumnlated in such large quanti-
ties, and seriously obstructed the navigation last week,
was completely dissolved by the thaw aid the rain which
fell on Friday night and Sunday morning, and notwith-
standing the intense frost of the last five days the river was
very clear of ice until yesterday morning, when, owing to
the severity of the cold on the two preceding days and
nights, the ice again appeared in large quantities. The
ebb tide of Thursday afternoon brought large quantities
down the river, from Fulham and Chelsea, which in-
creased to such an extent yesterday morning that a great
number of vessels and barges above and below bridge
were ice locked, and unable to move. At eleven o'clock
the ice was so thick all along the Lambeth shore, from
Westminster-bridge, that it was found impossible to bring
any lighters or boats to and from the wharfs, while the
pier at Lambeth Palace-stairs was blocked up, and could
rot be approached. At this time the wind was blowing
from the S. E., and a good deal of ice was blown over
towards the north shore, below bridge, which caused a
complete stoppage of the navigation inside the tiers, from
Irougate-stairs at the east end of the Tower to the west
end of the Custom House-quay. Several vessels, barges,
and boats coming up with the tide were terribly damaged
by the ice driving them against each other alongside the
Tower-wharf, and after a great scene of confusion, the
crashing of ice against the sides of the craft, and the de-
struction of several boats, a few vessels and barges got out
into the stream, while others brought np and remained im-
bedded in the ice. In the neighbourhood of Shadwell.
Ratellfr. and Limehouse, where the collier tiers are moored,
the ice-bergs had amassed to such an extent, and become
frozen together during the night, as to suspend nearly all
coals into the barges, as few
The ice on the river is much thicker and harder than it
was last week, and has already done much damage to the
couldtl. bu
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amongof discharging
shipping.
The
craft. ft came up in large quantities with the flood tide,
breaking and creaking against the bridges and piles, to re-
turn with the ebb, when more was brought down from the
up country. At eight o'clock last night the ice between
LondLii- bridge and Blackfriars was vary thick. The whole
surface of the river was covered with it, and thefrost would
increase it hourly.

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volence, have distributed large
Pic.tle Herring-stairs, liorsel) down. A billy-boy (elle-
masted Yorkshire vessel) was driving up the stream amidst
large masses of ice, with a boat hanging astern, when a lad
heionging to the vessel, fearing the boat would be crushed
by the ire jammina it against a barge as the billy-boy went
alongside, got into the boat to shove it clear. The vessel,
however, came upon the side of the boat, which was driven
against the ha: ge, when the captain of another vessel along-
side, seeing the boy in danger, jumped on to the barge,
and put his arm out towards him to save him, when kutfor.
tunately the billy boy came to, and jammed his arm bu
tween that and the barge. The l:9...Y'head was also dread-
fully cut, and he Tv4s. sA Wiien injured that it was found ne-
cessary to igniVeY 'hirli to Guy's Hospital, where he now
lies with little or no hopes of recovery. The captain was
taken to St. Thomas's Hospital, where his arm wag RkA.
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the to the fund now in course
artt.eibmuYry for the benefit of our poor
We have to qiingtmPt3 the rounineent gift of 211.
ofhy collectiono n . • 1/a
fellow-citizens at this inclement season of the year,—.Ken-
ttsl4 Gazette.

ADMIRAL STOPFORD AND
CAPTAIN BAKER.

"My DEAR cannot leave this place, which I
propose doing to-morrow, without expressing to you my
sincere thanks for the many valuable services I have re-
ceived from you in every circumstance relating to the
.cap-
tore of St. Jean d'Acre; the boundless pains you took in
slunding, and laying down buoys upon the most dangerous
shoals, rendering the approach of the ships towards the
works of the place perfectly secure.
Your spirited and gallant conduct in going on board
the when under the enemy's fire, for the purpose of
placing them in proper positions, which your knowledge of
the places entitled you to do, merits the highest praise ;
end whenever anything is to be done, you are always the
tJremost.

" Under thi3 conviction of your zeal and skill, I am most
happy in having such an officer, to whom I can entrust the
~.cfety of Acre ; for I am certain that the fire of the Pique
and Stromboli would contribute more to the safety of the
place than all the ctforts of the Turkish garrison.
" I therefore leave it in safe hands, with my best wishes
for your health and prosperity.

_
" Believe me very truly your's,
(Signed) " ROBERT STOPFORD.
" Princess Charlotte, Nov. 7, 1840.
" To Captain Beker, of her Majesty's ship Pique."