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

EVENING SUN

THIEVES' QUARREL.
For several days we have been addressed in anony-
mous letters, written evidently by persons acquainted
:with what is passing in some small Conservative circles.
all assuring us that the Protestant cause is threatened by
the new Ministry, and urging us to resume the position
we occupied in 1829. We vainly sought to obtain per-
sonal interviews with the writers of these letters, in
the hope that we might by reasoning calm their appre-
hensions, if they really entertained any, which we moo
than doubted. - Our anonymous correspondents were too;
Cunning ; they were willing enough to commit us
to falsehood, but they would not commit them •
selves. We had no difficulty, however, in dis-
covering who they were from the nature of the proofs
of hostility to the Protestant cause with which their
communications overflowed these proofs being
that certain Irish Protestant leaders had been
neglected in the disposal of offices ; and all possible.un-
certainty was removed by an intimation, given to us in a
letter of Monday, that the line which it was found we
would not take, would be seen adopted by a most re-
spectable Irish journal of the same day. As that journal
was, to our knowledge, in a great measure influenced by
en individual, we were at no loss to know from whom
the threatened mischief proceeded. Circumstances of a
'private, we might say of a personal, nature render it
improper for us to name the individual, but Irish Protes-
tants can be at no loss to fix upon him when we say, that
he is the last man in the empire whom the Protestants of
Ireland ought to trust.
This morning we looked into the Irish journal to
which we had been referred, and with equal sorrow and
surprise we saw in that able and respectable organ of
Protestant principle:, the threatened attack upon Sir
Robert Peel's Governmmt. This has determined us not
to remain silent ; for when we find men, of whose talents
we have had proof fdr ::any years, and whose integrity
we can never doubt, thus grossly imposed upon, what
may not the less inforr--ed class of Irish Protestants fear?
Having said so much to explain the causes, and to
show the minute dimensions of the pretended discon-
tent in the Conservative party, we shall now enter into
the detail's of our distasteful task. We know that in
doing so, we shall give a day's triumph to the adversaries
of Conservative principles ; but better give them the
triumph of a day, than permit the growth of an evil
which, unchecked, must render their triumph final, and
end in the ruin of Protestantism in Ireland, as mined it
will be if the Irish Protestants do not heartily commit
themselves with the present Government.

The following is an extract from the leading article of
the respectable journal to which we have referred, as
being misled into an expression of discontent :
For ourselves we must speak candidly. We cannot
but lila with surprise and regret upon arrangements
which, however excellent and unexceptionable in gene-
ral, appear to exclude Inland from her fair share of
power and patronage in the Administration. Some fet
posts back we gave willing credit to Sir Robert Peel for A
desire to do justice to Ireland in this respect. One or
two minor appointments seemed to indicate that the
Conservative leaders of Ireland were about to receive
that consideration in the Cabinet, which not merely their
services to the Conservative cause, but the importance of
the country itself demanded ; and we could not contem-
plate the possibility that the tide of preferment was to
rest at those shallows, and that the heads of the party in
Ireland were not to share in the honours and employ •
ments of which Scotland had secured for herself a reir•
sonable portion at least, and which England was enjoy-
ing from a cornucopia. In the Cabinet, indeed, we havo
the 'Duke of Wellington, in himself a host, and Sir
Henry Hardinge, an excellent man ; but neither of them,
in the restricted sense we speak of, heads of the Irish
party. But, neither in the dm of secondary of
nor zn the Royal houselu.ll, is Ireland fairly represented.
We have no desire at all to embarrass Sir Robert. Peel.
As the organ of the Conservatives of Ireland we
fought his battles long and faithfully ; and it is biliruse
we desire to see' his Government flourishing and Iper-
manent that we take leave to remonstrate on an over-
sight which might tend to diminish the confidence of Ire-
land in his Administration. Official appointments are
the types of policy. We should like to see the policy
of the new Administration indicated by such unequivocal
demonstrations.

" With respect to the Irish Administration we
had something to say—part of which is anticipated in
the following letter, received, whilst we were committing
the foregone thoughts to paper, from an influential cor•
respondent :
" TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING MAIL.
" September 6.
" Sir—No small surprise, and I fear I must add alarm,
has been excited amongst a numerous body of your
readers, by the consultation which appears, by the Lon-
don papers, to have been held between our new Lord
Lieutenant, his Secretary, and the Marquis of Normanby.
Heaven forbid that we are to have more of • following in
the footsteps of a predecessor !' Many go so far as to
infer that it is intended to throw over, or sell the Protes-
tant party altogether ; but although this idea may be
absurd, there is no doubt of the excitement and curiosity
produced by the interview above alluded to, and we natu-
rally look to our leading journal, in which we all feel
confidence, for some explanation of an affair which at
present seems perfecty
'" I your obedient servant,
" 6 A SUBSCRIIER TO THE EVENING MAIL.'
" TVe confess our ipu!,;lity to expl tin; in any satisfactory
way, the untoward interview of which our friendlj correspou-
dent complains. We tl no—indeed we feel assured—that
his apprehensions, tied by the sufferings of the last
ten years, are too For LordD6 Grey we feel all the
respect and confidence due to his talents and character; and
his administration shall receive at our hands all the sup-
port, which, on experience, it shall deserve. We have no
wish to add to the difficulties of his position ; on the con-
trary, it is our earnest desire that he may be able to
surmount them all with honour to himself and benefit to
the United Empire. But we warn him that his path will
be beset with temptations and dangers, which it will require
great firmness to avoid.' If he seek to conciliate foes that
are really irreconcilable--if he neglect the friends who
are able and willing to serve him, and by whose co-
operation alone he can govern the country in the free
and generous spirit of the British Constitution—if, for a
false popularity, he surrender his discretion, or worship
expediency by the compromise of principle—we warn and
admonish him beforehand that he will not add to his
honour or his happiness by coming to Ireland. But we
hope, indeed we know better things of his Lordship, and
trust that our duty will consist not only with a hearty
welcome, but a zealous endeavour to sustain and facili-
tate the measures of his administration."

Such is the welcome prepared fora Consgrvative Ad-
ministration in Ireland, but we have more to add from
the London Correspondence of the same journal :
" Lord Eliot's appointment to the Chief Secretaryship
in Ireland is still the cause of great uneasiness here.
His Lordship has many faults, aud, amongst them, an in-
ordinate love of popularity. how many a statesman's
character has been wrecked on this shoal, particularly
in Ireland, it were needless to enumerate.
" Those who know Lord Eliot best have great fears
lest his Lordship's fame be compromised before he is long
in his new qffire. lie is a strange compound—this Lord
Eliot. Cold and distant with those upon an equality
with him, he is at the same time too familiar with those
who can minister to his vanity—and there is no reason
to doubt that he will lack sycophants in the new sphere
of his action, Under all the circumstances, therefore,
the great danger is that Lord Eliot will sacrifice too much
to popularity. It will be right, however, before pro-
nouncing any decided opinion, that he have ' a fair trial'
and let him be judged by his actions in Ireland and not
by his previous character."—Standard.

How TO KEEP A PRISONER.—The Boston
Post relates the following mode of practice of the late
Sampson Wood, once Sheriff of Middlesex county, Mas-
sachusetts ; "He often had to convey desperate prison-
ners from one part of the county to another, and when
night came, he used to iron himself hand and foot to his
prisoner, and go to bed, and address him thus You
can now go to sleep ifyou like, or let it alone. For my
part, I shall go to sleep. You can't get away without
waking ine up, and carrying me with you. You have
got one free arm and one free leg, and so hare I. Yet
you may make out to kill me ; but if you do you'll have
to carry my carcase with you, and that will be proof
enough to get you hanged for murder. So you see I
shall stick to you like death to a dead nigger, any waY
you can fix it. Good night.' It is hardly necessary to
say, that with this queer measure of precauie, no
prisoner attempted to escape from Samson.
THE NEGRO AND THE CHEESE.-1he
BosZod. Post says, that up at the west end
there is a good-natured fun-makirg negeo, naa3d
sis," who hovers round the grocery stores in that nnan_
bourhood rather more than is oesirzble.
~IYO
other gentlemen of colour, he piides upon_a bet
thickness of his skull, and he is always 11,T, r-forr his
upon his butting powers, and well he may
The other
head is hard enough for a battening i- of tha,tpcei,ity.
butt in Cle
day he made a bet in a store that he_ could
j.
He then took
cheese, which
head of a flour bat ee!, and he succeeidre;ge
up a bet to chive it through,, a very Urge
ccho‘vse,tothluieseepnhveislowpoeodl,
cwiteasrtonfbechczeereedn
uuniitbhs.a err
Thesh
.anudpParsis, starting off
to his ears in the
thine cto,lnecesittnoreutfg
17kaes pa liaoccendmiontiilt,ei:rboupleiredpobsisi d
considerable," A platA
,
sistible, and talked up "Pe,,,Y c,
inviting tcrget. Parsis now
.bi,egan to feel himself ir %-
him. There being some. ,
however, was soon coat
sale, one of them 1 Lken
was ptivatel y up, end wrap/32A
'ivr.T;ntdostol'ne'es
it were a second cheese, and Par-
looked precisely
as
if
another bet f •
up in the same m: :finer as t cheese had been, and
sis readily took ono' or ninepence, that he
would •
butt his head through it as easy as he sent it
through the first. The Interest of the spectators in the
operation became intense. Everything was caret-idly
adjusted, and upon the word being
~,tven, Parsis darted
like an arrow at the ambush grindstone—lie- shuck it
fair in the centre, and the next instant lay sprawling in
the middle of the floor, upon which he recoiled. For
some minutes he lay speechless, and then he raised him-
self slowly on his knees, and scratching his heod, said,
with a squirming face—" Bevy hard cheese dat,
massy
Dey skim de milk too much eltogedder be:ore clew him; dat's a fact.'
THE WEATHER._Since this day week the
weather has been exceedingly variable, but, on the
whole, very unfavourable for the harvest. This bad
weather, we learn, has also prevailed very extensively
both in Scotland and the south of England, rnd we fear
its consequences will be seriously injurious to the cro IF.
The temperature has also become much lower, and there
have been several cold, frosty rights.—MancLeste r
Guardian.

Wood, of Gloucester, was
The will and codicil of the late Mr. Jame
proved on Saturday in th
Registry of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Cou it
cil, by Sir Matthew Wood, Bart., Mr. Jacob Osborn e,
and Mr. John Surman, the surviving executors. Th c
property (personally) is sworn under 1,000,000/. Th c
probate amounts to 13,500/.
and Mr, Surumue which The legacy duty is 10 pe
cent., except upon that portion given to Mrs. Goodl : I
will pay 6 per cent.