The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-24 00:00:00

BATH ELECTION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Bath, June 22, 1841.
Sta,--From what has within these few days past been stated
in the daily papers, it would appear that the Chartists of Bath
had waived the Charter, and joined the Whigs in the cry for
" Cheap Bread and Cheap Sugar," A sweet bait, truly, but
it won't suit our palates just now. Some busy bodies, em-
ployed, we suppose, as correspondents to these papers, have got
the editora to assert in their leading articles, that we Are wil-
ling=judging, of course, by the steps we intend taking at the
coming contest—to be content with as much as wet can get
under pre'sent circumstances.
Nc.w, as such an impli&ition is liable to be mimonstrued by,
and thence to create and strife among, our Chartist
brethren, we beg to declare to them and to the world that we
shall not be content with anything less than. the Charter, that
the cry fur cheap bread and cheap. auger has not deluded us ;
but that the Whigs of Bath have • pledged themselves to
vote for our man in case we will vote' for their's,
on this ground they have united with us, and on this ground
we intend to go with them. We are friends to no party hostile
to cheap and responsible Government. Our present object is
to benefit the people, not to sacrifice them.
In Bath we are strong, and we wish to employ our power
usefuly. Let no man meddle with our business, who is un-
acquainted with the circumstances in which we are placed.
There shall be no compromise of principle, no wavering from
the Charter, on our part.
The daily papers that were pleased to make remarks on the
conduct of the Bath Chartists should have published their
address, and allowed it to answer for itself.
The Editor of The Sun is earnestly requested to give th's
letter early insertion, as the undersigned wish, though busy
in aiding the return of John Arthur Roebuck and Lord Dun-
can, to save themselves from all charges of inconsistency.
C. CLARK,'
G. M. BARTLETT.

LITERATURE.
THE PRESENT STATE OF THE CONTRO-
VERSY BETWEEN THE PROTESTANT
AND ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES.
By Hunter Gordon, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn.
Second Edition, dedicated to the Cardinal Archbishop of

Malines.

This edition contains an original dedication to
the Cardinal Archbishop of Malines, extending
to 20 pp., in which Mr. Gordon lays before his
Eminence a sketch of the temper andiactual po-
sition of religious factions in this co9itry, espe-
cially of the Anti-Catholic fanatics, tug a view of
the situation and prospects of the Catholic cause
in the United Parliament.

The fifflowing extracts speak for themselves :
t When the :honourable, and learned gentleman, to
whom here every Catholic bosom swells with gratitude,
and whose nervous eloquence, like the harp of Tara,
strikes both the sorrows and the wrongs of his country,
when Mr. O'Connell struck the shackles from the galled
body of Ireland, and the sores and bruises of two centu-
ries were exposed to the view, we hoped for a little in.
terval of lenient councils, a short suspense of the ribald
invective which her foes had never ceased from pouring
on them, like a caustic poison, burning and ulcerating
the imposthumation of former wounds. All men of sense,
how little soever informed, expected that at least the
present generation of Catholics, some of them nursed in
civil war, and all bearing on them the marks of their re-
cent fetters, would be permitted to enter, without dis-
turbance, on the enjoyment of those rights which their
inveterate enemies had yielded to them, and which the
law of the land had at length vouchsafed to them. 13ut
scarce had their chains fallen, when their adversaries of
the rival hierarchy, aided by their lay disciples, raised
the cry of vituperation with more fierceness and malig-
nity than in any former period. Those who took their
seats in the Legislature, found themselves vilified, and
their country, their religion, and even their manners held
up to ridicule, and made the prey of the lowest and most
vulgar prejudices. And such was the desire of these men
to prolong the discord and enmity of religious opinion.
which had so long filled Ireland with violence and blood,
that a new Protestant agitation succeeded to the former
Catholic agitation of Ireland, for the express purpose of
awakening the animosities which eondtt..titilig had allayed,
or at least much assuaged, and even of propagating in
England the same fury and intolerance which had long
run uncontrolled on the other side of the Channel,
"My Lord, your mixed chamber of Representatives,
either during your union with Holland, or. since the se-
paration, can give you no idea of the circumstances under
which the accession of the Catholics to tho United Par-
liament took place, or of the difficulties which they have
had to encounter. The Catholic Relief 11111, for the first
time, admitted the Irish nation to the rights which the
English had enjoyed for many centuries 1 and that peo-
ple, finding their constitutional history at length begun,
were eager to taste the blessings from which they had
been excluded. During their long proscription, their
wrongs had accumulated to a frightful height. The
vhole system of laws and institutions in that Island,
ish:rapivirvngrtbaereno,r_leaorned up without a voice in the Legisla-
T,hree,
unexampled
dmpvleeryd heavily tin the children of the soil.
spectacle of seven millions, taxed to
religion professed by one, was not their worst
al'rce. The Protestant Establishment there had been
laift and cemented le bloOdi and in the maintenance of its
reign had been hurried into-violent, and sanguinary ex-
ces,seSl/4-When the true remedy foOliese disorders was
at length found in fhe admission of the .Catholics to the
representation, the whole business of remedial legisla-
tion was to begin. The Irish Representatives were men
of genius and capacity, formed in the civil struggles of
their country, and thoroughly conversant in the conduct
of public business, to which its wrongs tad trained them,
by long practice in those lengues and ASSoelations which
had grown out of long misrule. ThZ-natiles or Grattan
and Plunkett are, probably, not known in Europe. Ire-
land required a Catholic organ. Such it found in O'Con-
nell. his influence, derived originally from the griefs of
his country, and supported by that organisation which
the Catholic Chureh can always supply, as well as by his
own great talents, reached its ascendanta mainly through
his unshaken attachment to the Catholic cause, and that
uncorruptible fidelity with which he adhered to it, re-
gardless of private advantages. Those who chargcd him
with ambition, knew that a great part of his life hod been
one continued defiance of thoSe allurements by which, of
all men, popular leaders are the most easily seduced.
Those who imputed sordid motives to him, knew not, or
affected not to know, that he had relinquished profes-
sional emoluments sufficient to satisfy the ambition of any
man. The baleful calumnies of the press, flung by lite-
rary mercenaries and Orange partisans, more easily re-
coiled from him ; and while he still opposed the rage of
vulgar fanaticism and bigotry, he had less to fear from
personal aspersions than from the unreasonable, but on
that account the implacable, enmity which here prevails
against the cause of which he is the champion.
" How this obsolete root of prejudice supports its own
vitality, and in what manner it feeds the virulence of re-
ligious faction, this is tint the place to inquire."

THE LASTItiSraOF ULSTER. 3 ;tole.
Madden, London, 1841.
The author of this historical Irish tale tells us,
in his introduction, that he is a British officer
who fought through the Peninsular campaign,
and being seriously Wounded at the battle of Sa,
laznanra, was conveyed by the humanity of his
countrymen into the city, where he was lodged
in one of the cells of the Ifigh CAW, Here,
when WilS guillelently recovered from the
&nets of his wound, he was permitted by. the
worthy father of the establiShniOnt to sp@nd his
leisure in their library, and " gratify his taste
by searching through the Irish manuscripts
which it contained." • One of thek itiantt-
scripts refereed tti the celebrated Irish
family VDOnnell, anti to struck the author's
fancy) that he resOlVed On thlnettilling if; ilialting
such alttitatlons as were neeesary to adopt it to
tie taste of the
.day; and; asili,6 tkle was
lost, of evil* it ,flit Utile or the Last king or
tiihwr.4 This is a hacknied mode of introducing a
story, and reminds us fordiblk F4if Walter.
Scott's ing.rdOn4 Intitd`dlieti.On to Quentin Dur-
ward; Ilia much of that transeendant
novelist's manner is -Visible throttu•hout the
story, thou •h 3 it intist be conlessed at
the Slane time that the imitation is any—
thing but a . sefvile doe. Tht principal in-
cidents flit supposed to have occurred during
the exciting period of the reign of Elizabeth, and
the scene alternates between England and Ire-
land. The " Virgin Queen" herself—as she loved
to be styled—is introduced more than once on the
tapir, but the introduction is seldom happy, and
leaves not the slightest impression on the reader's
mind. The author's two most successful cha-
racters are his hero and heroine—young O'Don-
nell, and his kinswoman, Cathleen, who after
undergoing the usual amount of vicissitudes,
are, as a matter of course, married in the last
chapter of the third volume, and left in a state
of supreme felicity. The cleverest portions of
the tale, however, are the descriptive, and We
have been much entertained with the author's
sketches of the storm at midnight on Loch
Neagh, and of the defeat and dispersion of the
NihaelinstieodrySipsapnii.osillixAarnmdadNva As
i r. e
dra:
nw,hoanlde ,thowever,
formal
neverarrie,
preparationsv are made for catastrophes
that

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COUNTY IVIEETING AT BANFF.—. ridav
seven
afternoon a special meeting of,the landed proprietors and
Justices of the. Peace of the county of Banff was held
in the Court-house, in terms of a requisition addressed
to the convener, under the conviction •` that the majority
a
thGe
nileiral attemptingAssemblyt o have
eosae h acted
ttedillegally and op-
pressivelye
clergymen
of the Presbytery of Strathbogie from their offices in
the Ministry, fel' having obeyed the law of the land.”
Amongst the gentlemen present were Sir R. Abercomby
of Birkenbog, Adam Gordon of Caienfield, and a great
number of the gentlemen of the county. Sir Robert
Abercremby of Birkenbog and Forglen, Bart., was
called to the chair, and in a speech of some length ex-
plained the object of the meeting. James Rose Innes
Esq., of Netherdale, read and proposed a series of re-
solutions expressive of their approval of the conduct of
the seven clergymen, and deprecating the conduct of the
Assembly in attempting to depose them, which were
unanimously agreed to.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT SEA.-- Tuesday
morning the Portuguese schooner Santa Maria arrived
at Fresh-wharf, London-bridge, from St. Michael's,
with fruit. On her voyage to England she encountered
a severe gale of wind, during which a young man,
named Juan Antonio, 22 years of age, who was in the
act of furling the maintop-sail, fell from the maintop-
sailzyeu-d upon the deckl upwards of 40 feet, with such
violence as to fracture his leg in a shocking manner.
E4ery attention that 'Could be afforded was paid to him
during'iye remainder Of the voyage, and on the arrival
of the Vessel in' river be was conveyed to"Gny's

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