The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-20 00:00:00

PUBLIC OPINION.

In a leading article commenting on Mr. Sharman
Crawford's Address to the Repealers of Ireland, the
Times has the following remarks:—" England is, and of
law years always has been, well-disposed towards Ire-
land—she is desirous to consolidate, by a natural inter-
change of good offices and affections, that union which
she feels to be necessary for the true interests of both
countries. She admires and respects the.many fine qua-
lities of the Irish people ; she has no motive or inclina-
tion to withhold from them any advantage which she
herself possesses. Those who poison the Irish ear with
the foul lie of English hatred towards them are the worst
of slanderers. The natural influence of Ireland in the
Imperial Parliament is very great, and no Englishman
wishes to see it diminished. But of late years it has been
abused, wasted, and Fquandered, till it is almost gone."
The Chronicle, in reply to some remarks in a Minis-
terial Journal of yesterday, respecting the injury done
by improvements in machinery to the labouring classes
says—" If machinery be hostile, in manufactures, to the
interests of those who toil, it cannot be less so in agri-
culture. Did the Tories know this, when in former
years they imprisoned, transported, and hanged, the
breakers of threshing machines ? Do they intend to
sanction such operations in future ? The threshing
machine does man's work as plainly as the power-loom.
Not only so ; but what are ploughs and harrows ? All
hostile, according to the Ministerial organs, to the
labouring classes. The ground could be dug and
scratched, and very many persons would require to be
employed in the work. Let the landlords' sophists look
at home, Nobody is foolish enough, or wicked enough,
to complain] of their machinery, although it be a sub-
stitute for human labour.' Many people wish it were
better than it is. And better it soon would be, to the
manifest advantage of all classes, were the cultivator
put "upon terms of fair and honourable competition with
the foreign corn grower."
The followinc, is from the Herald :—" Chartism is
the Whig Frankenstein ; the monster is of Whig crea-
tion ; it pursues its creators to destruction ; it will cling
to Whiggery everlastingly. It is in vain for the Whigs
to complain of Chartist interruptions, disturbances, and
violences ; they are the unchecked result of their own
former riots, interferences with public opinion, agitation,
and excitement. The Chartists are merely carrying out
in support of their monstrosities practices which the
Whigs originated when they were carried into office on
the shoulders of the people The ChartistA are to Whig-
gery what Shyloek was to Antonio—they merely better
their instruction."
.11.07LICULTUILA.L.

The crop of Corinth grapes at Corfu, this year, has
been excellent in quantity and quality. Cephalonia has
produced nearly 12,000,000 pounds ; Zante about
7,000,000. The olives are abundant.

NAVAL AND MILITATLY.
To-day the 99th regiment, 900 strong, will have a
field- day, and be reviewed on Chatham lines by Lieut.-
General Sir Howard Douglas, Colonel of the regiment.
Two new splendid colours will be presented on the occa-
sion, after which there will be a dinner, ball, and supper.
This regiment is under orders for New South Wales.

LAW AND POIAZCE.
The man named General Washer, after having under-
gone a lengthened examination before the Earl of Chi-
chester and a bench of -MagistratPs at Lewes, on sus.
picion of the murder of Hannah Devonshire, alias Smith,
at Ringmer, in Sussex, three years ago, was committed
on Monday to take his trial at the easuing Sussex
Assizes, on a charge of wilful murder, the lvlagistrates
thinking there was sufficient evidence against him. The
strongest point of evidence was the finding in possess;:mi
of the prisoner a pair of spectacles, which the man Smith,
with whom the deceased cohabited, firmly believed to
have belonged to the deceased, and that they had been
taken from her pack, which was found cut in holes.
-Washer protests his innocence. •