The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-30 00:00:00

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" TVho runs may i ead."

FOREIGN.
From Madrid we have news of the 20th inst. On the

19t,11:i;paTte;: left that—City for the Ba'sques, amidst
the acclamations of the people. Never before was he
universally popular in Spain. To prove to the world
that his Government is not based on a military despotism,
he has left Madtid without a single soldier of the line,
trusting entirely to the loyalty, fidelity, and zeal of the
National Guards. Could his traducer, Louis-Philippe,

attempt such an experiment of his popularity among the
citizens of Paris ?

Monies de Oca has been shot at Vittoria by command
of General Rodil. This unfortunate Christino partizan

was for some time Minister of the Interior.

To the

honour of Martin Zurbano, for whose head Montes de
Oca offered 100,000 reals, we have to record that when
De Oca was delivered up to him, he made an effort to
save him. Zurbano is one of the most ruthless men in

Spain, and assuredly would have shot De Oca had he not

been his personal enemy.
Borso di Carminati has also been shot. These exe-

cutions, with that of the unfortunate General Leon,
include all that have yet taken place in Spain for the
revolutionary attempt. The Regent is disposed to act
with great leniency towards the insurgents.
The following significant paragraph is from the Ga-
zette de France. It is needless to say that the holder of
the pen alluded to is no less a personage than the Citizen
King :—" The answers of Christina to M. Olozaga were
only sent on Saturday, after it had been ascertained that
O'Donnell had entered France. It is unnecessary to say

under whose influence those answers were made:

The-y.

,
were written by the same pen that wrote the protest of
the Queen-Mother—and it is not a Spanish pen."
. The Gazette de France also states that a great deal of
ill-humour has been excited at the Tuileries by the
failure of O'Donnell's expedition ; and that on the other
hand, M. Guizot is very angry that the conspiracy should
have been concerted between the Camarilla of the
Palace and the Hotel of the Rue de Courcelles. He has
written everywhere to say that his Ministry was a com-
plete stranger to it. But proofs of the co-operation of
the French Government are coming in from all quarters.
The Pacha of Egypt has allowed all descriptions of
British goods to pass to and fro between Alexandria and
Sucz on payment of a transit duty of 1 per cent.

PUBLIC OPINION.

In commenting on the rumoured appointment of an
English Bishop to the See of Jerusalem, the Times has
these observations :—" If the views of our Bishops in
this matter are really such as they have been repre-
sented to be (and we cannot doubt it), it does seem not a
little extraordinary, that Jerusalem rather than Con-
stantinople should have been selected as the place for
the new prelate's residence ; that (in combination with
that circumstance) a clergyman of the Jewish race should
have been selected for the Bishop ; and, lastly, that the
plan should have originated with the King of Prussia."—
It does indeed seem extraordinary that a clergyman of the
Jewish race should have been selected for the Bishop—
so extraordinary that we cannot bring ourselves to be-
lieve the rumour. How can a prelate, who, being of the
Jewish race, must necessarily have strong sympathies
with the Jews, acquit himself as an exemplary Christian
pastor ? Duty will suggest one line of conduct, old
family associations another. At every step of his Epis-
copal career he will be hampered with his Israelitish
connections ; and the inevitable result will be, his utter
inability to adopt any definite rule of conduct. He will
he a Bishop only in name and in income, but this is not
the sort of diocesan wanted in Jerusalem.
The Morning Herald anticipates the speedy downfal of
O'Connell's influence in Ireland, observing:—" The Earl
of Shrewsbury first threw a bucket of water into Mr.
O'Connell's face, and he had scarcely recovered the use
of his vision, and done stamping with rage and wringing
his clothes, when Mr. Sharman Crawford struck him a
dangerous blow under the fifth rib ; while engaged-in
abusing that honest gentleman, his friend, Mr. -O'Brien,
has administered to his posterior quarter a most stinging
kick ; and young Mr. Porsonby has gladly, seized the
opportunity produced by the pain of this blow, to snap his
Whiggish fingers in his Carlow patron's face. "The straw
is every where moving,' Mr. Daniel O'Connell, and just
and impartial government by Lords De Grey and
Eliot will totally extinguish you. Retire, then, as grace-
fully as you can, at once ; do not ;wait to be hissed
and hooted from the stage on which you have been
so long strutting and fretting,' by the very gods'
who once received you with thunders of applause.' "
If the Irish Government be, conducted on the broad
principle of justice, then indeed Mr. O'Connell's popu-
lar influence-will be greatly diminished, for he is the
chosen champion of his country's wrongs, who makes
them known through him ; and in proportion to the ex•
tea of her, grievances, is the extent of his power of
agitation; but sVe have no reason to believe that the
so_manage matters, as to leave Mr. O'Connell
few or nci•vt'rongs to complain of, and to seek redress
for ; they will he'pretty• sure to give him plenty of em-
ployment in this line, - and so maintain his influence
unimpaired.
The Chronicle remarks, in reference to the extinction
of the old Dublin Corppration—" Nab-Oily but an Eng-
lishman or a Seotehman, who had lived in Dublin under
the old systeM, can form anything like a prOpei estimate
of the selfish manners, the insolent rapacity, laid the
vulgar impudence of the Orange Corporation of Dublin.
Very few of the respectable Protestant citizens had any
thing to do with it. Noisy and needy partizans, shabby
tradesmen, and brawling topers, composed the bulk of its
members; and not a few of them, the chief portion of
whose lives had been spent in toasting the glorious and
immortal memory, Protestant ascendancy, and perdition
to the Pope, were men whose intellectual capacity bare-
ly enabled them to comprehend that Protestant ascend-
ancy meant the old Corporation, and the Protestant faith
keeping tire `bloody Papists' down. Latterly there
was a kind of external decency thrown over the conduct
of the old corporation, as it felt that it was getting old
and was about to die. But the whole spirit was still
there,-the old' trust-in-God-and-keep-your-powder-dry'
spirit."—Twelve years ago, when Orangeism was in all
its glory, and anticipating a long reign of corruption and
misrule, who would have predicted the so speedy demo-
lition of its strong hold in the Dublin corporation?
Were Alderman Beresford, of Riding-house notoriety,
now living, the shock of its deStruction would have killed
him; or if he could survive that, never could he have
survived the presence of his arch-enemy O'Connell in
the Mansion Hoes°, as Catholic Lord Mayor of Dublin!
The Post says:-.--" However much we lament the cri-
minal violence of the opposition with which the present
Government is assailed, and however much to be re-
gretted the immediate consequences upon the minds of
the distressed populace may be, we think the Conserva-
tive Government is not unlikely to gain strength by it
in the end. The policy of that Government is evidently
to embrace within its pale all who are friends of good
order, and of moderation and good sense in political
matters, whether they have been heretofore called Tories
of Whie•'s. The Opposition, by which it is so virulently
assailed, is that of desperate and outrageous instigators
of political violence ; and we do not see hew respectable
men of any party can tail to be disgusted with this, and
to be predisposed to take the side on which this disgusting
violence is not."—The plain meaning of this flourish of
words is, that all who refuse to believe in the political
foresight and stern Spartan-like integrity of the Tory
Government are desperate and outrageous instigators of
violence ; and that all sagacity, all honesty, all love of
order and decorum are confined within the narrow pale of
Toryism !
The following is from the Corh Southern Reporter :
" The old and decrepid Corporation is no more ; it is
gone to the tomb of the Capulets, after existing, as a
Protestant ascendency institution for 185 years. It
would, in a short time, have died of inanition if it were
not thus strangled by the strong arm of the law, without
the regret of any party, and amidst the scoffs arid jeer-
ings of the people. The Corporation of this City was
established in its late form in the reign of Charles 11.,
avowedly for the reason of maintaining Protestant ascen-
dency in Church and State."
Speaking of some recent Tory appointments, the
Limerick Reporter remarks as follows:—" The profes-
sions made by Lord Eliot in his speech to the electors
of Cornwall have been eitherly utterly forgotten or were
never intended, when made, to be worked into practical
effect. The recent and coming appointments argue not
only a total oblivion of them, but a perverse anxiety to
outrage the people in every imaginable manner."
The Nottingham Review makes the following remarks
on the distressed state of the country :—" The manufac-
turing towns are swiftly hasting to ruin. In Notting-
ham, the meagre famished appearance and squalid coun-
tenances of men walking along the streets, or dragging
sand-carts from door to door, is truly heart-rending ; we
have many, every day, begging at our doers ; the cruel
Poor-law Commissioners prohibit relief out of the work-
house to the able-bodied who are unemployed, and rather
than go into the house, some beg, others steal, and many
sicken and die !"