The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-15 00:00:00

LORD EBRENGI. ON UNMASKED.

(From the Cork Southern Reporter.)
The above is a heading which is appended to a sc-
ries of articles now publishing against Lord Ebring-
ton, by a leading Orange Journal in Dublin, which,
a tow months since, was heaping every species of
mawkish adulation on his Excellency. We exposed, at
the time, the hollow and dishonest nature of this praise,
and that in the course which they adopted, the To-
ries were actuated by no kindly feelings towards
the Lord Lieutenant, but that, on the contrary, they
hoped thus to injure him in the estimation of the people
of Ireland. For, well knowing the distrust and dis-
like of any man and of any measures which Tory praise
is calculated to produce in the minds of the Liberal
portion of the community, it struck them that a simu-
lation of approval of his Excellency's course would be
the very best method to undermine him in the esteem
and confidence of Irishmen. Had they succeeded in
this, it would have been one great impediment removed
out of the Orange march to place. For had the people of
Ireland been seduced to do the foul work of Toryism, by
resisting or thwarting the beneficent policy which in
imitation of his predecessor, the present estimable Vice-
roy has so steadily persevered in since he has been
amongst us—had the people, we say, been thus se-
duced into either distrust, dislike, or coldness to the
Irish Executive, it would, qt necessity, have occasioned
no small embarrassment to the Government, and by im-
measurably increasing those difficulties which Lord
Melbourne has to encounter, would have gone far to
pave the way for a return to the cruel and sanguinary
domination of Orangeism.
But we were not, as Cobbett used to say, to be
"so sweetly bamboozled." Under the guidance of
their patriotic leaders, aided by the cautions of the
Liberal Press, the people have steered clear of the
rock which, in Tory aspirations, they would surely be
wrecked on ; and regarding, with the extreme of con-
tempt, the wretched—the thoroughly shabby manoeuvre
(Parson 111‘Gliee would call it an " ingenious device," as
in the case of the forged Bull) by which their enemies
would have swindled them,they came forward,with a spirit
worthy of them, to record their confidence in, and ap-
proval of, the enlightened Nobleman who is so worthy a
successor of the illustrious Normanhy. The Govern-
ment of Lord Ebrington is as firmly founded in the es-
teem and affection of Irish hearts ai any that went be-
fore, not excepting even that by which it was imme-
diately preceded.
But the Tory Press is not contented with the
weight of infamy which the knowledge of its despicable
duplicity has procured kr it. It appears determined
to put the proofs of its dishonesty on record.
It will be recollected that some two or three months
back the Dublin Mad declared its " perfect ap-
proval" of the course up to that time pursued by Lord
Ebrington. This, it should be observed, was several
months after his Lordship had undertaken the govern-
• ment of this part of the empire. The same Journal
continued for some time longer its attempt at " damn-
ing with (not faint, but fallacious) praise") the fair
reputation of his Excellency. It continued, in fact,
this disgusting and palpably hypocritical game, until
it was apparent to the world that the trick would not
take ; that the people were not to be " done" so
smoothly as the impostors anticipated.
Having given up in despair the notion of upsetting,
by this unworthy artifice, the hold which Lord Ebring-
ton so deservedly possesses in the esteem and con-
fidence of Irishmen, the Mai/ has betaken itself once
more to its natural and appropriate business of abus-
ing the Viceroy in every term which its extensive vo-
cabulary of Billingsgate can furnish. And it attacks
him not merely for his present course, which is, in
fact, in perfect accordance with those principles on
which be accepted his high office, but for his conduct
during the very period when it (the Mail) was heaping
upon him its unwished-for compliments. Such an ac-
knowledgment of utter absence of respect even for a
decent pretence to honesty or candour, we should not
look for in another source T. but in an Irish Orange
Journal no degree of impudent infamy can suprise us.

SIR War. MOLESWORTH, BART., M.P.—The
electors and non-electors of Holbeck are so well satisfied
with the Parliamentary conduct of our excellent repre-
sentative, Sir Wm. Molesworth, that they contemplate
getting up a dinner to receive him during his visit to
Leeds in February next.—Leeds Times.
CONVENIENCE OF THE PENNY- POSTAGE.—
On the 10th inst. upwards of fifty of Hooper's Post-
office letter weights, each being under two ounces were
sent by post for 4d. to the-most distant parts of Ireland
and Scotland. For all light articles of a kind not to be
injured by being stamped and packed in the Mail, the
new system will be of immense advantage to trade.
FARM LABOURERS.—in many parts of the
county the condition of this useful, honest, and de-
serving class of men is still most pitiable ; bread, the
article on which three-fourths, at least, of their earn-

ings are generally expended, continues extravagantly
dear, while their wages remain miserably low :-9s. a-
week being the maximum hi most parishes. Almost all
the present race of labourers well remember the propor-
tion wlich bread and wages bore doe to the other only

a very few years ago ; they remember that when bread
was scarcely half the price wages were within a shilling
or eighteenpence a-week of what they are now ; they
contrast their present state with their condition at that
time, and they are fully convinced not only of the fal-
lacy of the argument that the rate of wages is depend-
ent on the price of food, but that however much the
farmers, the landowners, or the clergy, may benefit by
the operation of the Corn-laws, to themselves they are
of no advantage, but a delusion—a mockery. Nor are
the Corn-laws the only ones that press severely upon
them. The new Poor-law Bill is, we are afraid, in
many instances taken advantage of to the prejudice of
the labourer, and instead of being confined to its legiti-
mate purpose, converted into an auxiliary for reducing
wages to an amount barely sufficient to procure the
commonest necessaries of life. A most flagrant case
has recently come to our knowledge. The Corn-laws
on one side enhance the price of food without producing
an increase in wages ; the administrators of the Poor-
law, on the other, refuse either relief or shelter to any
man who has the offer of work, let the wages be ever
so inadequate. Thus is the unhappy-labourer driven
either to sell his labour at half price—to beg, to steal,
or to starve.—Wiltshire Independent.
TIIE TORIES OF MANCHESTER ADVO-
CATES FOR THE ADMISSION OF CORN AT A Low DUTY.
—There is now lying at the Chronicle and Standard
offices (Manchester), a petition for signature, the prayer
of which is, that Parliament will -be pleased to permit
the importation of corn at all times at a fixed duty ! ! !

This is getting on as we say. Had any Whig or
Radi-
cal prognosticated such a thing only three months since,
he would have been deemed fit for an asylum. But the
fact is, that this Corn-law Bill is no respecter of persons.
Remittances are wanted by all parties, whether Re-
formers or Anti-Reformers.
THE WEATHER IN PARIS.—At 12 o'clock
on Wednesday night the thermometer was at 5 2-10ths
below zero of the centigrade scale, or at 23 of Fahren-
heit ; at four on Thursday morning was as low as
8 7-lOths C., 1G F. ; but at eight rose to 7 7.loths
C., 181 F. ; and at mid-day to 4 4-10ths C., 24i F.
On the same night there was a fall of snow. On Fri-
day the weather continued intensely severe, and the
skaters in the Tuileries were numerous.
CHARTISNI.—DEIVSBURY, YORKSHIREVAN,
12.—Last night the town was taken possession of by
an armed body of men, and the private watchmen, six in
nu:nber, obliged to fly. Mr. Hale, merchant, who was
out as an inspector of the watch, on going towards the
Leeds-road-end, was stopped by about twenty with mus-
kets and daggers, and bid to stand, which he did, and
on finding that he would not be allowed to proceed,
turned round and retreated homewards, when he was
immediately fired upon, but fortunately without receiv-
ing any injury. The party afterwards continued to fire
their pieces off for upwards of three hours. Upwards
of 200 discharges were fired. Some +rifling damage has
been done to the lamps and posts, the lights being all
put out, and stones were thrown through the windows
of Mr. Mallinson's chamber. From 100 to2oo men
pareliva the streets, and every avenue to the town was
guarded. Reports have just been received that in
Heckaiondwieke 4rnrvl th@ *4me
full that dis-
prevads.-4Ku-
stv,oairnt of
ft proceedingsreoommile us.re greatest alarm sh4deptele We havo no military
heeds barrapw,o,ipti.

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RIOTOUS ORANGEMEN --We sec from the
D
t
that Orangemen have been
exhibiting
after
the good old fashion of
their *Opp. At a meeting recently held they
reduced
the Court-house to a wreck. rile whole business, it
seems, had been preconeerted. The leaders came for.
u'l slilre
theirchl .o
feelingslille
ward with their speeches cut...end-dry, and identified
',-,Jriselves with a low lawless mob. The Parsons wore
not idle, for they cncourefied, tistead of prevented, the
outrageous conduct of the runken Downpatrick rabble.
This riotous rabble put Mr. w ,
-m, “niinstone in the
Chair, and amidst uproarious shouts " carried !" the fol-
lowing resolution :—" A requisition having appeared in
certain Radical Papers convening a meeting, to be held
in this Court-house, this day, of the subscribers to a
document called,
pseudo-Liberal ' The Down Declare.
tion,' and the Said subscribers not having darrd to hold
such a meeting, we, the freeholders and loyal Protest-
ants of the County, resolve that the af)resaid ' Declara-
tion'
is a libel Pim! the County, Down,
and we confirm,
as the unanimous expression of the sentpcnts of the
Counts, the p.ddresforlPerly Pregented to Lord linden.'
SERIOUS CoAcTi
.ACCIPNT,—Qn Sunday
4fLetrigpn 4 seriousgetP!„?ectirre4 At Stamford-
hill, by the everturPing PlPristow's Qheshunt coach
on the reed to LoodoP• -14)P road was then hard and
icy, and in the descent tgwar4 the tnopilie the horses
became quite unrnaPageable, and tbo coach being
dmagg4 ;one tii§tgagC fan inpelomted Nti: with the
wheels clogged, was at length upset, and broken to
4,e!. Several passengers sustained severe injuries,
and were t*sp to Ole, shop of a medical gentleman in
the neighbourhood. . Such as Were ablp w 9113 (;opveyed
to their deptioations in an omnibus.

LOOSE LEGISLATION :-THE MU-
NIGI-PAL AND CONSTABULARY ACTS.

It has been often and truly said, that the leg slators

of one scssionNearve out plenty of work for those of the
next—that, in —short, not a little of the time of our

representatives is taken up in correcting the blunders,
and remedying the injustice, which their hasty handi-
work is constantly committing.
Until very lately, the notion prevailed that the
Council of any borough (as Gateshead, for instance),
was authorized by the Municipal Act not only to re-
ceive a grant from the Crown of a separate Court of
Quarter Sessions (should such a privilege be thought
desirable,) but to contract with the Justices of either
the county in which such borough might be situated,
or of any adjoining county, for the support and mainte-
nance of the borough prisoners. Ordinary readers, of
course, interpreted the object of this provision, as we
are quite sure it was intended, as a means of relieving
boroughs from the heavy county rates created by the
conveyance of prisoners to distant gaols, and their
trials at distant sessions, without, at the same time, re-
quiring that borough gaols should be built and main-
tained. Thus, in the case of Gateshead, it was be-
lieved, that the present great expense of convesing pri-
soners to Durham gaol might be saved, by procuring
a grant of a separate Quarter Sessions for the borough,
mid contracting for the maintenance of the borough pri-
soners, with the neighbouring authorities of Newcastle ;
or, in the case of Sunderland, that the trials of prisoners
might take place at a separate sessions within the bo-
rough, and the county gaol be still made use of, under
contract with the county justices, for the imprisonment
of offenders.

The Councils of Manchester and Bolton (two bo-
roughs recently created under the provisions of the
Municipal Act), having thus understood the law, claimed
separate Courts of Quarter Sessions from the Crown—
and they had their claims allowed. They, therefore,
by the 112th section of the Municipal Act became
"wholly free and discharged" from county-rate, so far
as the prosecution, maintenance, punishment, or con-
veyance of 'offenders (except assize prisoners) was con-
cerned. They were quite ready, however, to act
equitably towards their county neighbours. They,
therefore, entered into contracts (with the county ma-
gistrates), in accordance, as they thought, with the Act
to which we have referred.

But what say the Judges ? They tell us, that no
borough is authorised by the Municipal Act to enter
into such a contract, unless such borough have a gaol
of its own at the time of contracting ; and that as
neither Manchester nor Bolton has a gaol, the contract,
in both cases, is illegal.
Manchester and Bolton, therefore, and Birmingham,
too, are in this situation :—They have separate Courts
of Quarter Sessions—they can make use of their re-
spective county-gaols--and they are exempt from
any county rate for the expenses which their pri-
soners (except assize-prisoners) may entail upon the
counties ! !

Well, county rate-payers, what think ye of this ?
And, be it remembered, the opinions we are promul-
gating are the honest convictions of high legal au-
thorities. " Birmingham," says the newly appointed
Recorder of that borough, "is part of the county of
Warwick ; it has no common gaol ; and of necessity,
therefore, the gaol of the borough and the gaol of the
county are one and the same. But then it has been
said, What ! is the county to maintain the prisoners
from Birmingham ? Now suds is the law. It may be
a hardship, but it is the unavoidable result of a slip
which has been made, according to the Judge of the
Court of Queen's Bench, in the Act. Hardship, how-
ever, is not always a test of what is law."
Such is blunder No. 1 ! There is another, however,
which threatens to bring boroughs and counties into col-
lision—at least, if we are rightly informed as to opinions
entertained on the subject by persons of high considera-
tion in a neighbouring borough.

The " County and District Constables Act" contains
the following beautiful specimen of clear• and intelligible
legislation :
" Provided always, and be it enacted, that nothing in
this Act contained shall extend to authorise the Jus-
tices of the Peace of any county to appoint any con-
stable within any borough incorporated under the pro-
visions of an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign
of his late Majesty, intituled An Act to provide for
the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England
and Wales,' or under the provisions of any charter
granted in pursuance of the said Act; nor shall any
such borough, for which a separate Court of Quarter
Sessions of the peace shall be holden, be liable to con•
tribute to the expences of this Act, or to be charged
with any part thereof, in their account with the trea-
surer of such county."

Are Durham, Gateshead, Stockton, and Sunderland,
then, exempt from payment towards a rural police for
the county of Durham'? is a question of deep import-
ance, and one which cannot long remain usettled.
We are inclined to think, and rather strongly, too,
that notwithstanding the blundering section we have
just quoted, the incorporated boroughs of this county
are not liable to the county-police rate.

The Act is called " An Act for the Establishment of
County and District Constables by the authority of
Justices of the Peace ;" and the preamble states, that
" it is expedient that the powers [of justices] for AP-
POINTING constables be further enlarged, and that.
powers be given for charging the expenses of paying
such constables upon the several divisions in which
they shall be APPOINTED!'
_ _ _

The justices are authorised to " appoint" (with Ml-
sent of the Secretary of State) any number of con-
stables not exceeding " one man for every thousand of
the inhabitants, accord;ng to the last Parliamentary
enumeration of the population for the time being—the
population of the boroughs and towns hereinafter ex-
cepted from the operation of this Act being deducted
therefrom."
The justices, then, are prohibited from " appointing"
any constable within any borough incorporated under
the Municipal Act, or under any charter granted in
pursuance of that Act.
Again :—The county justices are to levy the police-
rate upon such parishes, townships, or places, as shall
have establishments of constables appointed under the Act.
Thus the Act is one for the " establishment" of con-
stables—but the justices are prohibited from establish-
ing or appointing such constables within the corporate
boroughs of this county—and the rates arc ordered to
be levied upon the places in which the constables are
established or appointed. So far the enactments are
intelligible and clear. We consider the county justices
quite incompetent to levy a police rate on boroughs in
which they are precluded from " appointing" a consta-
ble—neither do we think they contemplate it. The
number of constables appointed (one to 2,000 inhabi-
tants)* shows that the boroughs were excluded from
the appointment ; and we are quite sure that a fair and
equitable view of the whole Act, rather than a regard
to a blundering fragment of one of its sections, will
guide the county justices in their treatment of this
question.
Meanwhile, all these are " matters of -,nOtia„c,
highly deserving of public attention. Both in boroughs
and counties, a severer scrutiny should be applied to
the performances of our Legislators. Though a Par-
liament may be pure, its very negligences, it should be
remembered, can often inflict incalculable injury.

4 Eighty-one constables were appointed for a population
of 162,000—being the population of the county, less that
of the exempted boroughs. The to+al population of the
county in 1831 was 253,000.—Gateshead Observer.

EFFECTS OF CHARTISII.—An inquest was
held on Monday the Gth instant, on the body of Mary
David, tLe wife of a highly-respectable farmer in the
neighbourhood of Clynogwr, who had committed suicide
in the following extraordinary manner, according to the
evidence adduced. It appeared that about a month
previous to the late Newport Riots, a strange roan bad
called at the farm house, which is situated awongst the
hills in a retired situation, with a pipet which he stated
that unless she ar.d all her fzvpily would sign to bwoine,
Chartists, they woqld rise in a month and take her and all
away, and mnrkler them. The man woo left, and on the
hushand's return, he and his sons were informed of the
circumstance, and the deceased appeared to suffer con-
siderably in her mind, and after the breaking out of the
Newport Riots, she frequently exclaimed that the man's
wards had become true, and often urved liar husband to
leave all and quit the place, lest the Chartists should
oome and carry him and her sons away. She conti-
nued to be flighty and wild till Thursday last, ti 2d I
instant, when her husband, who was enagecl with
butcher in killing a pig, was called ko, one of his a
daughters, stating that she conic' net get her mother to
come from her bed-room sthough shq‘und been down to
breakfast. 'Vk;q husband went up, and found the de-
ceased no her knees in. in© act of praying by her bed-
side, He observed some blood near her ; but knowing
she had been naturally afflicted with hemorrhage, he
thought it was from that cause, and induced her to go to
bed, leaving his daughter with her, who shortly afterwards
came to him, and stated that she had found a knife
near where the deceased bad been kneeling, covered
with blood ; when he told her that he was afraid she
had been using a knife against herself, but she retyrned
no answer. A medical man was sent for, when Iya4
found that she had inflicted a wound on lke.r. nl4otnen,
extending five inches in lenph, as that the intestintestinesprotruded. She lingered till twelve o'clock on i'riday,
when she died, and about half an hear 'before her.
She stated that her mind had been howildeved
aboutthe chartists, and that she was tired of the world,
and wanted to go to God out of their way, Verdict—
‘.itOicide, whilst, in a state of insanity,” Na chin could
be bath to the villiain who had called upon the poor
woman.—Cambrian,
CORN-LA
Priest-ridden, Merchant
ws,--(Extractof a letter from liris-
tol,) In this Tory-ridden,
and Banker-ridden City, there is not one to ,
soul his own—to stir in the Corn-laws. .CIA
THE PENNY PpOST.-7.ciS a instance of the
e, ',
enormous increase, teiterb -under the penny scale of
postar, we way mention that on Friday last the re",
speotahle house of Messrs. J. and R. Raimes prepaid
upwards of 1,000 letters at the Post.oflice here.—
Correspondent of the Edinburgh _post.