The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 80, 1841.

trict which the charitable and Right Honourable
DAVID BOYLE would hold up as a model to the
Irish people. Has his Lordship forgotten, too,
the murder of Mr. ASHTON—has his prejudices
blinded him to the notorious fact, that a number
of Englishmen bargained to murder, and did mur-
der, a fellow-creature for the price of 101., and
expiated the horrible crime on the gallows?
Some of the workmen employed by this manu-
facturer had vowed vengeance against him for
some cause like that which led to the death of
GREEN; but, in place of committing the murder
themselves, they hired a man of the name of
GARSIDE, and two of the name of MOSLEY,
brothers, to perpetrate the foul crime, which was
ultimately discovered by one of the MOSLEMS.
This man appeared in the witness box, and gave
evidence which consigned his brother to an
ignominious death. Did the maligned Irish ever
commit such mercenary, cold-blooded murders
as this, or was Dublin ever so disgraced as Lon-
don has been within the last few years by tra-
gical deeds, one-half of which, as the Lord Jus-
tice Clerk says, have escaped the strong arm of
the law ? A Judge who can thus malign a whole
nation, and encourage dangerous prejudices
against his fellow-subjects, is not fit to sit on
the Bench ; and Irishmen may therefore say with
truth, that, in some instances at least, they have
no chance of being dealt with in Scotland as
they would be dealt with in their own country,
or among men of their own religion.

The sudden death of GeneralHAßßisoN, who
had been nursed in the cradle of the great
American Revolution, and who throughout an
honourable life boldly supported as a soldier, a
citizen, and a chief magistrate, the principles of
Government consecrated by that Revolution,
has naturally produced an impression of deep
sorrow throughout the United States. If General
HARRISON was not what is commonly called a
great man, he was at least a good one—a man
who regarded political power as a trust in which
only villains trafficked to advance their own in-
terests, or those of their friends. He had not,
like the majority of modern statesmen,
two consciences, one for his GOD and him-
self; the other for his country. The
bitterest of General HARRISON'S opponents
never denied him the merit of being an honest,
self-denying man, who dreaded nothing so much
as the growth of an aristocracy either of wealth
or of political influence, and whose policy, had
he lived, would have been directed to the putting
it out of the power of any future President, by
the help of a corrupt majority in Congress, to
overturn or undermine the free Constitution of
the United States. This course, it will be re-
membered, the late PRESIDENT indicated to
Congress in his inaugural address, only delivered
thirty days before his death.
The alarming crisis at which the financial state
of the country arrived under the Presidency of
Mr. VAN BUREN, and to which the sub-Treasury
and banking policy of that Magistrate was
supposed greatly to contribute, naturally directs
all eyes to General HARRISON'S successor, Mr.
JOHN TYLER, who, as Vice-President, succeeds
ex-officio, by the lamented death of his chief,
to the direction of the government of the United
States. That gentleman has lost no time in
publishing an address to his fellow-citizens,
setting forth his principles, a copy of which
will be found in another column. We profess
our inability to comprehend in what sense
strictly to understand it. President TYLER
does not profess much admiration for the
political principles of his predecessor, and
holds out no pledge to carry on the
Government in the spirit which he had
intended. He agrees with General HAR-
RISON in thinking that a constant vigilance
should be exercised to prevent the growth of
unconstitutional power in the hands of the Pre-
sident ; and he condemns sinecures and national
debts. But while he is for dividing the sword
and the purse, SD that one hand may not grasp
both, he is IHrnivicn fnr innvoctOng tnb ii.tyy, and
for putting the country more upon a war footing
than he finds it. About banking and currency
he is silent, although these are by far the most
important questions which can occupy the atten-
tion of the American Government. Some of his
expressions are singularly infelicitous, as where
he says, " Freedom of opinion will be to-
lerated.' There are countries where freedom of
speech is not allowed, but we should like
to hear of the region in which the freedom of
thought is not tolerated to those capable of
thinking. Before thought has found a tongue it
is as much opinion as after it has been shouted
by a thousand mobs; but to assume the right of
tolerating it at so early a stage is to assume a
function to which human authority is riot compe-
tent. But if by opinion the PRESIDENT means
the voice of the Republic, how is it that he dare
to propose tolerating that of which he himself is
but the creature ? Such language, as we said be-
fore, is very infelicitous. CLAY, WEBSTER, and
FORSYTH will consult the dignity of the high
office of President of the first Republic in the
world, by affording Mr. TYLER their literary as-
sistance in the discharge of his present arduous
duties.

We are not here attempting to prejudge the
career of the new President. His address fur-
nishes no materials from which we can draw
other than " most lame and impotent conclu-
sions." But, among his countrymen, he enjoys
a high reputation for honesty and talent. We
have not space for the extracts to this effect,
which we might glean from the American papers,
of every political hue, now before us ; and,
therefore, we shall only quote the following ex-
tract, from a letter dated New York, April the
10th, addressed to a Contemporary :
By the Constitution of the United States, the succestorship
devolves upon the Vice-President, John Tyler, of Virginia.
In many respects his political opinions differed widely from
those of General Harrison, and of the party by which he was
elected. Mr. Tiler is a Virginian, of the state-rights party,
di-posed to construe the Constitution strictly, and opposed to a
national bank, a tariff, and the prosecution of internal im-
provements, by the General Government. He is also opposed
to the exercise of the veto power by the chief ma-
gistrate, and believes in the right of the people to instruct
their public servants in the policy which they shall pur-
sue. He is a man of unbending integrity and unsullied
honour, and would refuse to exercise any power placed
in his hands in a manner adverse to the wishes of those
from whom he received it. During the canvass for the
Presidency, many important questions were before the
people, on which General Harrison was fully committed.
He was understood to be friendly to the distribution of the
proceeds of the public lands, to a moderate tariff, to the re-
peal of the sub-treasury, and to a national bank. His opi-
nions on these subjects are assumed to have been approved by
the people in his elevation to the Presidency. To this extent,
therefore, President Tyler will doubtless consider himself in-
structed by the people, and called upon to carry out their will.
If a national bank should be chartered by the next Congress,
he will doubtless give it his assent. He has already given in-
dication of his intention to pursue the policy of his predeces-
sor, by retaining all the 'Members of his Cabinet, and exhi-
biting a general acquiescence in all his arrangements.
On all new topics, undoubtedly, President Tyler will
Le guided to some extent by his own peculiar political
doctrines sod views of the Constitution. Our Virginia Presi-
d,rits have always been the most popular and successful in
their administration. Of ten Presidents—Washington, Jeffers
son, Madison, and Monroe, were natives of Virginia, and
served two terms of four years each; the two Adamses, from
.Massachusetts, father and son, and Van Buren, from New
York, served one term each, and failed of a re-election ; Ge-
neral Jackson, from Tennessee, south-west of Virginia, en-
joyed the common popularity of our southern Presidents, and
served two terms. Harrison and Tyler were both natives
of Virginia, and both pl ?Aged to the one-term principle. On
this ground Mr. Tyler will not be a candidate for re-election;
but I have no doubt that his administration will be al strong and
popular as that of any one of his Virginian predecessors.

The Madrid Journals received are of the 19th
instant. If the Puseyitcs in England are actively
co-operating with the Rmnish clergy in extend-
ing the Papal power in these kingdoms, the
Constitutionalists in Portugal and Spain are not
less active in diminishing the influence of the
Holy See throughout the Peninsula. The .11a-
drid Gazette of the 19th publishes two decrees
of the Regency, having for their object the sub-
jection of the spiritual to the temporal power in
Spain. In the preamble to the first it is stated
that the attempts of the Roman Catholic clergy
to usurp temporal power, and exercise a lu-
crative influence over the civil and political
affairs of Spain, have been frequent at dif-
ferent periods; and have always been maintained
with ardour, tenacity, and even with dAnger to
the public tranquillity, The national records of
Spain tefitify to the °natant uggles of the