The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-07 00:00:00

EVENING

DI I' tiN'
Franee for any assistance with a view fii:veli4t4w (i•
Pe ur Great European Powers in.' lb; ;rea'rrYi4.
into (Get the treaty of the Sili 71111; 141
the settlement of the Turco-Egypt ' iliffereacel6-
and indeed you are already informe %bk 'ett, isi,-
press of M. Rothschild to his house at Na itent' .----""'
the evening of the Bth inst. Lord PalmerstlibT-Lid\offf- :OS;
tclesrt
cially announced that the friendly relations betweec
Great Britain and France would not in the slightest
degree be interrupted on account of France being co
direct party to the treaty. The Acheron steam-packer.
after delivering her mails at Corfu, proceeded with Sir
Howard Douglas, the Lord High Commissioner of th.
'lonian Islands, to the Northern Islands, two of which
on the coast of Albania, heretofore usually the render,
vous of pirates. his Excellency formally took possession
of in the Queen's name, by planting upon them the
British union-jack.
" LATEST INTELLIGENCE.—By the arrival of the
French steam-packet Scamandre, from the Levant. we
learn that the British Consul at the Dardanelles hao
repaired to Mytilene with despatches for Sir R. Stop..
ford from Lord Ponsonby. It was expected the Ad.
'rural would leave Mytilene about the 20th instant, fort
Alexandria, where the Bellerophon arrived on the 14ta,,
and was to get pratique on the 17th. The Powerful
and Edinburgh were about proceeding to Beyruth and
Sr. Jean d'Acre, leaving the Castor between Beyruth
and Tripoli (in Syria). A Turkish frigate and a cor-
vette, laden with warlike stores have sailed from Con.
stantiaople for Cyprus. A line-of-battle ship, with
another frigate and a corvette, to escort twenty-foul
transports with 6,000 troops, were to take their depar-
ture for the same destination on the 19th. This expedis
tion is under the absolute command of Admiral Walker
late commander of the Vanguard. The Asia will ac-
company them."

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.)
(From the Globe.)
The selection of the Repeal question, as the theme ei
Mr. O'Connell's present addresses to his speech-lovitr,
country men, is a matter of necessity rather than of choice.
One by one—ma/gre Tory opposition, whether
assumed the form of political jealousy or of religious
hate of the Catholics—each of the practicable dis-
abilities and personal grievances of the Irish natior_
has been redressed. Catholic emancipation has beer
achieved. The irritating tithe-laws have been new
modelled, and the payment of tithe by the Catholic
peasant to the Protestant clergyman, so lone the
source of heart-burning and of frequent and fatal
collision, has been transferred from the tenant to
the landlord. The removal of Catholic disabilities
is no longer an inoperative statute, *not kin3'
the people by words of fair promise, while the Govece
went carefully neutralized its enactment by excludir
Catholics from every office in the State. The Mun--
cipal Corporation Act will terminate the long reign ,
Orange bigotry and insolence, which the monopoly 7
Corporation power and iufluence by Protestants enables
them to exercise over the Catholics, by a practical ex
elusion of the Catholic population from all participa.
tion in Municipal Government. A mild, considerate
but faithful administration of the laws has inspires
the people with confidence in their governors ; aid the
unbroken quiet of the country attests, but that for the
" Repeal cry," Mr. O'Connell would be deprived of:
single topic of national interest with which to embellish
his speeches, and to impart anything like excitement te•
his harangues. His language would be strictly congra,
tulatory ; and this would speedily pall on the car, and
would cease, from the absence of novelty, to interest the
populace. It became, therefore, essential, if he—who
had so long swayed an unexampled power of the millions
over his fellow-countrymen—were not prepared to re-
tire from the scene of his many triumphs into compara-
tive obscurity—for him to appear in a new-revivcd.cha-
racter, and as the leader of a new movement—that of Re.
peal. The decided failure of Mr. O'Connell's attempt to
produce general excitement sufficiently indicates the dis-
position to repose which pervades the community, and
justifies the Government in its abstinence from inter-
posing its authority to suppress what is not likely to
endanger public tranquillity. We fearlessly appeal to
the common sense of the nation, whether it would not
bo indicative of conscious weakness, which is ever the
concomitant of fear, were the Government to interpose_..
issue proclamations prohibiting such assemblages of the
people—recall the military to Ireland—increase the
police establishment—and by lu 1 means induce the
country to believe that there are really grounds for the
alarms which the Times would produce for the put poses
we have stated.

(From the Courier.)
Dr. Chalmers, in his last published pamphlet, takes
great credit to " our majorities" in the Church, th;:
they " suspended the operation of the Veto-law to the
extent, that it cannot have full or final effect to the pre-
judice of any patron or presentee, till the result of out negotiations shall have been determined." The
deliverance of the General Assembly, to which Dr.
Chalmers must allude, was given in 1839, when a
motion simply to re-enact and retransmit the
Regulations of the Act anent Calls was made
and opposed by a counter motion, not, in the eir-
eamstances, to re-enact and re-transmit these rep:.
lations. After these two motions had been for some
time discussed, the Procurator of the Church propose&
the adoption of a tbird—" that the regulations should be
reenacted and re-transmitted ; but that in all disputed
cases, Presbyteries should not proceed, but refer to
next Assembly"-1840. The first motion was withdraw=
in favour of the Procurator's, which was carried against
the second, made and persisted in by Dr. Bryce. Where
the Learned Professor can find the qualifying terms in
this deliverance of 1839, " till the result of our present.
negotiation shall have been determined," we are at. Et
loss to know. When the Assembly of 1840 met, the
exception made by the former Assembly in regard to
disputed cases under the Veto" terminated ; it was
no doubt again revived on the regulations being again
re-enacted, in opposition to a motion then made by Dr.
/Stearns ; but not " till the result of our present nego_
tiation shall have been determined," but " until next-
Assembly," 1841. So much for the aceiracy of Dr.
Chalmers's statement.

(From the Standard.)
When Mr. O'Connell has succ eded in maddenine
his miserable countrymen up to the very confines of re
hellion, the time has surely arrved to inte:Togate
Queen's Ministers plainly and openly. Are they pre-
pared to acquiesce in the Repeal scheme ? Then why
not acquiesce at once—why give to the Romanist fay
tion the encouragement, and the strength, too, of p.
second victory over the Government and Parliament
of the United Kingdom, supported by the whole
people of Great Britain ? If the repeal is ever to be
conceded, we say, concede it now. If the concession be
delayed, it will by delay be rendered infinitely more dau.
gerous. But the concession, say Ministers, can
never be made. We shall prefer civil war b&tore it.
But why force the wretched alternative of a dismem-
berment of the empire, or civil war ? 'Why allow
the evil to grow to a magnitude that will call for armies
to suppress it when you can now strangle it by peacefil
means? The Romanist Bishops we see have given in their
adhesion as Repealers the one after the other. Such is the
loyalty of Lord Plunkett's " most excellent and most ex-
emplary body of men in existence"—the rabble aro,
repeal-toad, everywhere that repeal has been agitate,'‘
And what are the members of the Irish Government-.
the Government that threatens to repress repeal by the
war, doing all the while ? Entertaining the repeal agt:
tator in the Queen's Castle of Dublin. Does the
Irish Government expect that the agitation will d.
of itself, or that a party favourable to the preser:,7
Ministers will rise to resist it '? The most impudect
of their apologists will not dare to suggest this. The
whole history of Irish disaffection demonstrates that
in Ireland agitation, though eas,ly withered by
the discountenance of rulers, or easily crushed by
the strong hand of the law, never dies of itself,
and always augments in ambition and ferocity by
indulgence. That history is but a commentary,
though a full one, upon the text of Nliraheait.
" what is yielded to menace never satisfies." What,
then, is the Irish Government doing to check the pro-
gress of the repeal madness We do not ask whetherit
has prosecuted the seditious. Repealers—generally
not .ove prosecutions. as instruments of government, any
we should hold it a crime. to prosecute any
prit while the. great incendiary is permitted to pas,
without punishment ; but without putting the laws
in motion, there are a thousand ways in which a Go-
vernment can manifest its displeasure. Has the Irish
Government manifested its displeasure at Mr. o'Con
nell s conduct in any of these thousand ways?
—Hasit openly reproved him ? Has it de-
prived him of the Commission of the Peace?
—,Has it scornfully rejected his recommendations ter
offce :'—Has it excluded him from Dublin Castle? No,
it has not, because it dares not. How much longer is
this to continue ? How much longer will selfish and
wicked men be suffered to occupy a station for which
they arc disqualified, if by nothing else, by those
complications with traitors which disable the!m
from checking the advances of treason ? It it
plain that they will not make way for others not com-
mitted to political criminals, and thereforein a con
dition to oppose them. But will the country tolerate
the anomaly of the continuance in office of the abject
tools of its now declared enemy ? Yes, Mr. O'Con-
nell has openly declared war against England, and yet
England submits to be governed by his slaves.

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beer( drivend
and
what has Mr. Eliason to ,3 11,
Oct, bee ; as we hear, on the 3(1 ~,,/
one himself to
Drury-lane i‘s,atroni,opaenidl,
now he has f;
td
1 ' ' and has sent an emissary to Paris, to do whz.t
the\ci:dursmeofi)suerized towards him ? He first made an offer
.;rmany,
uigd tccev
he can to secure foreign artists. tZt:.`...use he can obtain them
on more reasonable
This is not i
en
the 3d of Octobsr with promenade concerts instead of nu-
tional ope;as, he will no doubt regret it as much as any
mar. fie has taken the theatre, and he must employ it as
bfaleult, termsv.o 0d
if he
is Le can
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bl
o engage
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commence
m our
en a-
profitably as he can. It would be mere folly and madness
for him to enter upon a speculation, in which he woula have to pay those who me under him, in some cases, tsv
as much as their servicsa are really worth.— Observer.