The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-01 00:00:00

13. GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET, MAY ton, was murdered by one or more persons, perhaps,
111ISS STRICKLAND'S LIVES OF THE
including females, for the sake probably of a few
QUEENS OF ENGLAND.
THE SECOND VOLUME shillings. Not many months ago, a watchmaker was
IS NOW READY FOR DELIVERY, murdered in the heart of this-populous metropolis,
At all the Booksellers, price Bs. 6d. bound, with Illustrati:lls.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Cleat Marlborough-street. probably from a like base and low pecuniary motive.
Other similar outrages, which it is unnecessary to
enumerate, have been not unfrequently perpetrated
in and about the metropolis, and they have never,
that we are aware of, called forth from the Tories,
who are so careful to amplify all the similar occur •
rences which happen in Ireland, and even all the
exaggerations of the Dublin Evening Mail, any
general reprobation of the character and conduct of
the English, or any allusion to the influence of
the Protestant priesthood. If all the crimes of
Irishmen are to be attributed to the religion
they profess, we do not see why the crimes of
the English may not be attributed to their
religion and their Church. We are not,
however, about to undertake the invidious
task of proving it. We can, indeed, see
a much closer connection between the unmitigated
rapacity and avarice of our priesthood, and all the
crimes, including such murders as those we have
above quoted, springing from rapacity, than between
either the doctrines or the lives of the Catholic
priests of Ireland and the usual agrarian crimes com-
mitted by the Irish peasantry. But we will not, on
this occasion, enter into that subject, meaning to
confine our remarks to the presumed advantages cf
the English, which appear to leave their crimes
without excuse, and to the disadvantages of the
Irish, which can he pleaded in mitigation of the
severe sentence of their Tory Judges.

MR. THEODORE HOOK'S NEW WORK.
Now ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., with Portrait of the Author,
and numerous Illustrations by Phiz,
PRECEPTS AND PRACTICE,
BY THEODORE HOOK, ESQ.,

Author of " Sayings and Doings."
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great 3larlborough•street.

To be had at all the Libraries.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME

VEST RIS.
THIS EVENING, MAY:I,
Will he repeated Murphy's Comedy of
KNOW YOUR OWN MIND.

Millamnur, Mr. Anderson ; Dashwould, Mr. C. Mathews ;
Mated, Mr. Cooper ; Captain Bygrove, Mr. J. Vining ; Lady
Bell, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Bromley, Mrs. Orger ; Miss
Needle, Miss Emmeline Montague.
After which will be repeated. the entirely New and Original
Grand Comic, Romantic, Operatic, Melodramatic, Fairy
Extravaganza, in Three Parts, entitled rnd founded on that
popular Nursery Tale,
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD.

The Principal Charaeters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining,
Mr. J. 131an1, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C.
Jones, &c. &c.
Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second
Circles, Ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price,
2s. ; Gallery, Is.
Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to
eommense at Sevr2 o'Clock.

Tickets and plat e 3 for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of-
ce, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had
open application.
Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews bookseller
!6•7, New Bon-el-street.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. BUTLER.
THE HOUSE OF LADIES having been received with
unanimouse applause by crowded houses, will be repeated (to-
gether with " The Ladies' Club") every Evening until the end
of the Season.

THIS EVENING, MAY I.
Will be presented, for the Fifty-first time,
THE LADIES' CLUB.
Mrs. Fitzsmyth (the Chairwoman), Mrs. Stirling.
7o be followed by
THE HOUSE OF LADIES.
Mrs Fitzsmyth (Member for Chatterton)-11Irs. Stilling.
Mrs Morton (Member for Smallborough)—Miss Atkinson.
Mrs. Reokbv (Member for Edmondsburv—Miss Treble.

It is said by those upright men that no compa-
rison between the crimes committed in Ireland
and England can be instituted. We agree in the
assertion, but we are const • d to differ from
them as to which of the lit:countries deserves
the worst character. In Ireland there are two
lips
distinct races, professing two different religions ;
the one race is the governing, the other the go-
verned, or enslaved race. In the hands of the
former all the legislative and magisterial power was
for many years exclusively deposited; for their behoof
a Church, said to be of the utmost purity, has been
maintained in endowed and sinecure splendour,
while the far less pure, as is said, religion of the
people has been supported almost entirely by their
voluntary contributions. The bulk of the land is
Protestant, while the people are Catholics; and
till the year 1838, not one of these Catho-
lics, however destitute or starving, had the
smallest legal claim on the Protestant land, or
tithes, which they were compelled to pay to the
Protestant priesthood.

Mrs. Derby (Member for Melton)—Miss Fitzwalter.
Mrs. O'Donnell (Member for Donnybrook)—Miss Ayres.
Mrs. Bustle (Secretary for the Fashionable Department)—
Miss Stephens.
Mrs. Twankay (Speakerl—Mrs. Garrick.
Fancy, Miss Beachamp. Time, Mr. Edmonds.
After which,
A ROYAL COMMISSION FROM PARIS.
Monsieur Jolli;et, Mr. F. Firing; Alexis Kerbout, Mr.
Raker; Madame Jollivet, Miss Fitzwalter; Causette, Miss
Ayres.

THE MIDGET OF BLUNDERS.
Dr. Snngface, Mr. Wild ; Dr. Dablaneour, Mr. M. Barnett ;
Bridget, Miss Ayres.
To conclude with the New and Original Drama (by the author
of " The Ladies' Club"), called
GWYNNE'fH VAUGHAN.
Gvrynneth Vaughan, Mrs. Stirling ;
Owen Williams, Mr. Baker ; Evan Pritchard, Mr. Hall ;
Hugh Morgan, Mr. G. Wild.
Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
The Theatre has been entirely Re-Decorated, and embellished
in a novel and tasteful style, during the Recess.
The Three New Pieces have met with tumultuous al probation
from crowded audiences. and will be repeat• d every evening.
THIS EVENING, MAY 1,
Will be aeted an entirely New Village Tragedy, illustrating
Hogarth's celebrated " Harlot's Progress," entitled
THE LIFE OF A WOMAN ; OR, THE CURATE'S
DAUGHTER.
After which, a New Comic Drama, galled
THE WET NURSE.
Te eenc'ede with In entirely New Romance, entitled
THE VENETIAN ; OR, THE COUNCIL OF TEN.
The Scenery comprising some of the most splendid Views in
Venice.

Under these circumstances, the mass or the Ca-
tholic Irish have been for ages exposed to cruel
political and social oppression. They were denied
all political rights, and'were often downed to starve,
in hundrei:is and thousands, on their native land,
without the means of escape or the power of com-
pelling relief. Can we wonder that, und,a such
circumstances, the Catholic Irish should he filled
with hatred of the race of Protest-Ant, oppressors ?
The laws of mind are as iPera"iive as the laws of
nt
matter, and blood does not more certainly flow
from a wound, than hatre
A and a thirst of vengeance
from outrage and opir4tssion.

NEW

STRAND THEATRE.
CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.
There are IMPOSTORS in the field.—The great approba-
tion, and consequent patronage acquired by the Great
WIZARD of the NORTH has given existence to a host of
IMITATORS, of whom the WIZARD says BEWARE !
Would you see Necromancy in perfection, in addition to splen-
did apparatus ? If you would, visit the WIZARD of the
NORTH,whose eve-deceiving and inquiry-baffling arcana are
to be exhibited on THIS EVENING, and every evening dur-
ing the week, concluding with his celebrated and original
GUN DELUSION,
wonder-striking in its detail, and perfectly divested of the slightest
danger, and cannot be imita'ed or comprehended by itinerants.
There is but one Wizard of Necromantic fame—the GREAT
ORIGINAL WIZARD of the NORTH—J. H. ANDERSON.

A predominant, sentiment like that which must,
and we know daces, pervade the Catholic Irish, and
which such politicians as Lord STANLEY, and such
pastors
alive. "as the Bishop of EXETER, manfully keep
extends to the whole race of the oppressors ;
a..id it is very likely that some of the best and most
( worthy of that race may undeservedly fall victims to
the blind and indiscriminating hatred.. Such may have
been, for aught we know to the contrary, the case
of Mr. WEST or Lord NORBURY ; but we con-
tend that in the brutal and oppressive manner in
which the Catholic Irish have been treated by the
Protestant gentry and clergy—the manner in which
they have been rooted out of the soil, or shot for
defending their property against the legal assaults
of tli, tithe-owner, there are mitigating circum-
stances for their crimes which we shall seek for in
vain in England. Their vengeance is blind we
grant ; but so is the rapacity of their oppressors.
It cannot always find, nor always wait to select, the
most fitting sacrifice. In fact the revolting injustice
which they have suffered would lose half its odious
characteristics if they were not brutalised. Goaded
by privations or insults, or exasperated by injuries
inflicted on their wives or mothers, or the females of
their race—the widow MURPHY, for example
they cannot possess the calmness of a sage, nor
ascertain, with the discriminating care of an expe-
rienced engineer, the best means to attain a useful
end.

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In England there is no marked distinction be-
ween the races. We hare rich and poor, but
here is no insurmountable barrier which always pre-
vents the members of the latter from becoming rich
Till the Reform Act was passed the power of.
legislating was not exclusively confined to the
comparatively opulent. We had not till then a
well•defined master and slave class. The bulk of
the English are Protestants, and probably the ad-
herents of the Endowed Church far exceed in
number any other sect. For many years pro-
perty was constrained to support the poor, and
every pauper had a lien on the estates of the
nobility. Here the law has been administered
by Magistrates chosen by the people, or by gentry
in whom they had unbounded confidence. Here,
till lately, the tribunals have been unimpeached ;
and though the law be unjust it has been in gene-
ral fairly administered. In England there have
been few or none of those causes in existence,
which may be pleaded in mitigation of the Tory
sentence against the brutality and ferocity of the
Catholic Irish.
Such being the general features, let the reader
now look to the particular murders which have of
late been perpetrated in this metropolis. Here the
people live immediately in the neighbourhood of
the Court and aristocracy, and have all the benefit
of their humanizing and civilizing influence. All
that can he done for civilization by the drama
and by literature is done for the inhabitants of
London. They live under the most pure, ac-
cording to the Tories, of national religious esta-
blishments, and unquestionably the most powerful.
Churches meet their view at every corner and in
every street; and, crowning the whole, is that noble
Cathedral, which must be of immeasurable utility if
its influence over morality be commensurate to its
architectural beauty.

Nor are they without warnings. The new drop
at the Old Bailey, frequently, and the gaols of New-

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gate, Coldbatl►-fields, &c. daily, teach them an
impressive lesson. In spite of all these immense

advantages--here, in this metropolis in the heart of

our civilisation, where all is done, that can be done

by institutions, to teach virtue, repress crime, and

relieve distress, murders are not unfrequently com-
mitted from base, low, and sordid motives—exactly
similar to thos.e which dictate the Corn-laws and
the demands of the priesthood for more wealth.
In the ebullitions of revenge, such as occur
cruelty, in Ireland -_often the only check to
and the only punishment for
grievous injustice—we see something redeeming,
something generous, something of the nobility of
man's nature, which makes us agree with the Tory
ournals, that there can be
comparison b
the crimes committed in Ireland, and r
the foul,etween rib. i