The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-07 00:00:00

FACTS FOR ENGLAND.

It is exactly twelve years since the Catholic Relief Bill
was passed into a law. The position of Ireland at that
period was one of striking grandeur. We said, on a late
occasion, that when we read, in the relations of foreign
travellers, the conclusions they arrive at, profound and
most philosophical, their reasoning on our history, wha-
ther in its past events or future teachings, we are in-
clined to doubt that it is of Ireland—degraded and
despised Ireland—that such things are written or such
anticipations formed. But we never can repeat it too
often, the history of our people and or our oppressions will
be a hand-book for posterity. Our circumstances, our ne-
lineal character, our religion, the peculiar parties that ac-
quired an ascendancy amongst us, will be all canvassed,
and, as is proximity with England, will form one of the
greatest and most instructive pictures of History. We are
too near to understand or appreciate the magnitude and
importance of the influences of each day now passing
over us ; but, in the present state of European govern-
ments, the battle of human freedom, and the destinies of
countless generations, in the eye of the philanthropist or
statesman, are being tried and determined on by the strug-
gle begun and gaining. strength between a party in the
Empire, anti the whole Irish natiou.
Fresh f,om the crui ible of persecution, pure in their
morals, ranking highly in the scale cf human intelli;ence,
there is no family of the human kind better fitted to try its
strength with old and time worn abuses; and ne are en-
thusiastic in the hope, that, in spite of all, Ireland will
achieve her proper place in usefulness and prosperity
amongst the nations of Europe. We feel that sic only
give expression to a spirit now universally pervading the
nation. We thank Lord Stanley and his party for arous-
ing it. It is independent of all merely party questions.
We are beginning truly to feel that we are a nation, and,
with that feeling, justice cannot be long safely withheld.
No more magnificent spectacle was ever presented to
the world than Ireland in 1829. The population were
he poorest, as they continue the most wretched, in
Europe; they were lower, far lower, than the serfs sold
with the soil in Russia, or the slaves passing by convey-
ance of plantations in the [tidies. The slave was a pro-
perty, and the serf was an estate; but the soil was sold in
Ireland, and the wretched tiller was consigned to atarva-
time England, mighty England, with her wealth,
her power, her worthless Sovereign, her arrogant
Aristocracy, and her haughty ChurcifEstahliihment, all
was arrayed against any measure of religious toleration,
much less of Catholic equality ; and yet, although we had,
in addition, a hostile garrison of Orange bigots—stern,
combined, peaceable, and unyielding, Ireland forced a
recognition of her rights, and, to save the chances of cis il
war, the I)uke of Wellington declaied Catholic Ireland
admissible to the rights of the English Constitution.
We owe nothing to England—or rather we do, and
we would easily leave the enumeration of our obli-
gations to our haughty Mistress. Oh I she should
blush of very shame to scan her progress, and mark her
own misdeeds in Ireland ; but, nevertheless, we wish well
to England. liar present station is a magnificent one—a
mighty empire and unrivalled political eminence ; as far as
philosophical speculation is concerned no Government of
antiquity eter afforded clearer illustrations of the noblest
theories cf sage statemea. Ruler of 160,000,000, her
power is in her superior intelligence and civilization, and in
tee truth and justice of the principles of her laws and go-
verament. No other causes could have ever produced, or
maintained undisputed, such a splendid dominion; and, in
CO far, anti as the guardian of human freedom and enlight.
enment, England and her destinies will ever be to the rest
of the world a subject of the deepest interest.
Even to Ireland, who has so little cause to love Eng-
land, these are, in her dawning strength, considerations of
weighty meaning. It would not be our interest to turn
ourselves from England ; the internal management of our
own affairs must, as we believe, for reasons of even State
convenience, be eventually and usefully conceded to us ;
but, apart front England, they that love Ireland's prospe.
ity ran never desire her political existence.
We cannot, therefore, read, without keen indigna-
tion, the daily and coolly caleulaied falsehoods that
the Timis in chief, and the Tory press of England, are
multiplying, to weaken the ties 'of mutual interest that
bind the two ki'igdoms. Our highly re Teeter] Catemporary,
The S WI, in its number of Wedge day, makes excuses for
our calling the Times " a convicted liar ;" but it is not in
excited national feeling, it is in calm deliberate judgment,
teat we re-assert it. The Irish people look with indignant
sacra on the eii=grac:fully misapplied talents, wealth, and
influeece of that journal, and refer to the Lumber of Wed•
uc slay morning for a proud' of its unpi incipled profligacy. A
fevourite topic with the Times was the crimes and drunken.
fressofthe Irish. An elaborate and shamefully violent art icie
disgraces its eolutona, written expressly to traduce a noble
people for abandoning the very crime that formed the
staple and groundwork of the former invective. Carlyle
was right when he said the Times was the " Bible of
England," and, behold, that clever but base hireling is
exciting English ire against Irishmen, because they have
thought proper to become temperate. But they forget !
Whew there is deep wrong, thought and calm bring deep
aid dangerous resolve.

We, therefore, ask, and earnestly,of the Liberal press o
England, to set us light with that country. We are will-
ing to believe that, if things were honestly and strongly
placed before Englishmen, a tardy but prudent justice
would be done to Ireland.—Cork Southern Reporter.

EVIArNT ING EDITION.

CANDIA.

(From the Augsinergli Ga:ette.)
ATHENS, APRIL, 12..—Affairs in Crete are going oa
extremely well for Vie Greeks ; the whole island half
risen to a man ; and the Terks confined to the towns,
have not yet dared to take any measures against the in:
surgents. The insurrection—and this is a point that !t
is of importance to insist upon, as those which cannot fail
to break out before long in Thessaly and Epirus will re'
semble it in this particular—the insurrection, I repeat,
has a perfectly different character to that of the year
1821. At that period it was a war of extermination and re-
tribution, it was a struggle between religions sad
people Islam against the Cross the Greek
against the Osman race. It is now no longer
is now no longer the conflicting sentiments of church
and nation, but political interests that are the element and
soul of the approaching struggle. It is a wrestling be'
tween the principle of civilization, legal right, and pro-
ions
gress implanted in the heart of the Christian populat
of the East that now commences to spring up and flourish'
end the principle of arbitrary might and rude force that
has so long been the basis of the whole edifice of
the
Turkish State, and that still, is spite of the Monitor
Ottoman, in spite of the hatt'-scheriff of Gulbslllo
in spite of the European frock-coats of the Turkish
l
diplomatists, and the bottles of champagne that
sparkle on the tables of the great of the land, fortol
the last rotten foundation-pile of the tottering ;edifice.
We speak with the fullest and most intimate Conviction,
when we say that the second great struggle hetwebo
Greek and Turk that commences in the first year of the
fifth decade of this our century, will be a struggle of Prilac:
ciples ; and history affords us the great and sublime 'e,;
son, that in a conflict of moral interests it is the inward{{
stronger principle that necessarily and infallibly prevail
esen when in the outset it may appear the weaker, an
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be embodied under the weaker form. And it is this COn'
viction—a conviction of which they are more or less eon;
scious —that now animates the Greeks and that gloated
through the somewhat bombastic and high-sounding
phrases of the proclamation lately issued by the Cretan!:
It is with this conviction that that they are full of con
dence, difficult as the circumstances around them may 91)-
pear a.t first, in spite of the proximity of the great fleet
in spite of the deficiency of any prominent chief- --I°
spite of the material want of arms and ammunition. Tbfe
first engagements will prove who is the best leader and chic'
and victory will win them muskets and sabres. In the Wall-
while, the foreign diplomatists at our Court, as it would aP.:
pear, are pressing hard upon our Government with tilt
notes, and want to make it responsible for every succour re
men or war stores that may contrive to leave our port ieva
Crete. The number of the Athena of yesterday, in a verr/1.
vrtitten artic!e, throws more light upon this d',l;o.
matic pressure from wi hout. " Our Ministry, _
says, " does what it can ; but even if it were t°_
employ the whole army in guarding the many tboo
sand miles of extended coast, it would be inipossihnl!
for it to prevent small barks from stealing away unseen:
and by what right, we might ask, is the Ministry, or t 5,
foreign diplomacy assembled here, to prevent any Cre
or, generally speaking, any Greek from going to hell) big
brother in his need, when at the time of the first Grer
insurrection so many English, French, and Germans b F:
tened openly and unrestrainedly to aid the llellene ousel
Dirl not a certain German Sovereign then stand first sou
foremost with the noblest example ? And are the Amiss'
sadors of the Quadruple Alliance now to degrade the an'
thoritios of Greece into their police inspectors is the
tot of Islam ?" Such is pretty nearly the reply of the AO°,
to what has transpired reap ecting the contents of the dipe);
matic notes above alluded to ; and although the views diet.
expressed may not completely stand the test before the U
bunal of diplomatic theory, they will most assuredly ro:.
ceive the full force of valid right before the tribunal 0t
public opinion, not only in Greece itself, but everywberil
else iu Christian Europe.
The strangest reports are afloat as to the first incite-
merit given to the Cretan insurrection. The Governor,
Mustapha Pasha, and the English Consul on the island'i
are said to have attacked each other in recriminations .0
the most astonishing nature in the presence of other enti;
nesses, and with the attestation on both sides of written
e
gooddocumgeenattalreympapers ;
at
tnfidr itst would
eappear
et ha.te,boatlithot,7e,..
naturally each with a very different ends p
the present
tura matters have taken.

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FFECTS OF LIGHTNING.,--A correNpo- tt°
effects of lightning were wonderfully and awfully disPia3eer
that village on Friday evening, 2d instant. The show Ww
very severe in that vicinity, the lightning remarkablYreert
and in several instances followed almost instantly by "rhi4
e ha°
—leading every one to suppose it struck near by. I,‘
since been ascertained to be the fact. Two oak trees,
one foot to eighteen inches in diameter, standing about
Peen feet from each other, in a grove of woods owned hY., oft
Moses Whitney, were struck apparently by a horizontal ars
of the lightning, and from the height of fifteen feet the
roots, were literally torn into basket-stuff; the tops Front
trees were thrown upon the ground entirely uninjured:
o_, two
the base of the trees it spread in four different directio
_socks,
of which were from east to west, through two ledges eirrent is
one of which is about three rods in thickness ; a small_ wberit
visible where it entered the ledge, and a very large 0
it passed out—large fragments of rock having been brokenoor.
and thrown to a distance. From the ledge it passed on se;rrof
eight rods, tearing up the ground, and forming a
varying from six to twelve inches in depth; where trees sjoi
strutted its path it went two or three feet into the earth,
came out again on the other side.—Mercantile Journal. No JUSTICE FOR IRELAND.--Lord Aro
rew-a
peth's Irish Voters' Bill was, on Thursday night, defeated
in Committee by a majotity of 300 to 289—a nnajoriti
eleven in a house (including tellers, Chairman ad
Speaker) of 595 Members; leaving of the whole OS.,
ber but sixty-three absentees, paired or otherwislsa.
sent. It has been often said by such Irish Libera_.,`s,lo seek not for " Repeal," that Mr. O'Connell
u"''sp
to give up the agitation of that question, and to t
ply himself to such measures of Reform as are practies
of
at the hands of a British Senate, viz. :_an inereops,,
Irish Rrepresentatives in the House of Commetia,
slots of the franchise, Vote by Ballot, &e. ito Impeial Parliament is ready and willing to do justice as
Ireland, if what is practicable be only asked, but let
Repeal they will refuse at all hazards.. Non-ReP„eurba-
say, and have said, why not give an Imperial Iti
tp
meta a fair trial ?—and that then, if justice appears n4O,
lie had from it, they will all beccme Repealers theinselkisg
Will any of those Imperial Parliament-justice-seebeca
gentlemen now say that a sufficient trial has not hnag
given; and that, so far from a semblance of justian;T . ols
likely to be obtained, every proceeding of a
"(lois
Senate is marked by a deadly bate towards .00.
country? O'Connell has over and over said, eat,jaest
tice is not to be had from an English Parliament,
`4,,b0
events have proved that be was
right, and not those
is
thought differently from him),
and that Repeal was only panacea for the evils of this unfortunate conn"; 1
Let the Irish wait-a-whiles for justice at the hante.
Englishmen suffer repeated insults as long as they Pi'ehst,
Irishmen in general bear in mind with Mr. Buller, 1:00
if they are not immediately righted, they possess the 111— and courage to right themselves.—Limerick Reporter. 9
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recently ariscu of taking down in short-hand the serhfib--
of first-rate preachers, and of forthwith printing and public tbe
ing them for the pecuniary benefit of the person by whrlintba
short-hand writer is employed. We arc asked -wheeler 0
preacher can check such a practice by any proceedings et
th
the Courts of Law or Equity ? In other words, wile)( pi"
such an act as we have mentioned amounts to an Bet
de-
racy? The two main principles upon which copyright iv
ponds, are these—first, that it is originally a species of by
perty ; secondly , that it does not pass to other Bandst
the act of publication. There can be no doubt thatbs,
sermon, like a poem, a treatise, a history, or any „to
manuscript, is the fruit of a man's own labour that, °roil
the time of delivery, it is his own property, and thatn"loo
that time it is subject to his exclusive disposal-0,
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of
of copyright is applicable to a sermon. The difficulty
the question, such as it iA, will be found to arisen,
tie second. of these principles. The deliverya.
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men front a pulpit amounts to a publication. The heave,
listens for his own instruction, pleasure, and imp
de
meet. For the same object he may reduce the same
.0G writing; but it does not therefore follow that he may Pr
and publish, it for his pecuniary benefit. We see nntb,stdels
in tic relation cf the preacher to his congregation vVi,
can sanction such a step. His duty is to teach and
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td
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