The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-05 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed,
from the returns made in the week ending February 1
1848, is 245. 11;id. per cwt.

" YOU ARE AT TVARr
DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

TO THE EDITO-1? OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The last Edinburgh Review commended the
gentlemen of the press, and in two distinct articles sung
them a song of placebo, such as is usual to monarchs.
It may be expected of us now to point out the inevit-
able consequences of invasion —Guards in full retreat,
Lord Mayor signing billets, and other hypothetical
indignities. The first consequence will be in Ire-
land—organized refusal to enlist. Then, as a " re-
medial measure," England—long choosing, and be-
ginning late—must grant a repeal, if not the repeal,
of the Union ; every other medicament for Irish
maladies being, however strange it may sound in
England, a chimera in the opinion of disinterested,
not uninterested, persons. Another consequence will
be, " the fortuitous discovery of a box of 11. notes,
to save the credit of the country." In 1797, the pay
of army and navy were doubled, without which
none of your " Up Guards, and at them," would
have roused that gallant corps to obey orders,
dress to their colours, and fire low: Faceza a
terra would have been the order of the day.
Sweet are the uses of adversity. Abbe Petrarch
says once,: " Idleness and pleasures bring secret hate
and open tyranny. Peace must be used modestly.
Proud and negligent manners offend her gentle na-
ture; she wings her flight, and will not stay to behold
the overthrow of humanity. Sylla in war was like
Scipio, but in peace a very Hannibal." Mutiny of
fleets at Fore and Spithead, exploiter'd the industry
of this country. In raising the price of blood and
coats of scarlet, Government unwittingly took counsel
from Napoleon. " Draw from the repositories of
wealth sufficient to supply all who want employment;
this creates a sort of market or sinking fund for
LABOUR, by which its PRICE MAY BE KEPT UP."
Parker, leader of the mutiny, made the discovery of
a box of 1/. notes on H.M.S. which transpired for-
tuitously to the pequins around. Without 11. notes,
pay of fleets and army could not have been doubled ;
without Parker's entreaties the men would have de-
serted in mass. He saved us the awful spectacle of
fleets towed over to Blefescu by Philargyria gigant
of Britain ; in fact, by scarcity and penury of prac-
tical national cash, for even then Ministers wanted
money to pay dividends (and salaries). For all that,
Parker was * * * * * d ; " one Milton, a blind man,"
as Doctor Sprat calls him, having narrowly escaped
the same reward.

" Sic vos riF,n vobis mellificatis apes."

It will be a singular coincidence if this invasion,
started as a fresh fox to puzzle the scent, should
halloo us on to the box of one pound, why not half-
pound (?) notes ; and all be mine about Threadneedle-
street, as Hannibal would say, but in a Pickwickian
sense.

Parker's last words show a malheureuse facilili
de se payer de paroles. He complains of being de-
ceived, and warns every one against triisting the
multitude. His plans were vast, but no honest plan
is too much for any one if he has patience and keeps
his own counsel. If he waits for others he is lost,
and this is the misfortune of your organizing minds.
O'Connell, M., failed so, but Father Mathew, a simple
monk, though of ancient family, relied on his
capacinades, and succeeded. " Sir Peel" has suc-
ceeded. 11. C. ARGENT.

IRELAND.
THE SOU THERN CONVICTS.

DUBLIN, FEB. 3.—The following is from the
Limerick Chronicle of Wednesday :
" On inquiry at the county gaol this day we learn
that William Ryan, Puck,' for the murder of John
Kelly, at Knocksentry, and Andrew Dea, for the
murder of Edward Murphy, at Duntryleague, ho
are both to be executed on the drop of that prison on
Monday next, at half-past two o'clock, are sincerely
penitent, and quite reconciled to meet the ignomi-
nious fate which awaits them. The Roman Catholic
clergy of this city, the ladies of the Sisters of Mercy,
and the members of the Christian Brothers are daily
engaged in administering spiritual consolation to the
wretched men ; and to their praiseworthy attention is
attributable, under God, the fortitude and resignation
with which those felons are prepared to meet death on
the scaffold. John Renehan, to be hanged on the
11th instant for the murder of John M'lnerny, of
Adamstown, evinces a similar firm disposition, and
is reconciled to die. Michael Howard, convicted of
the murder of Johanna and Cornelius Hourigan, per-
sists in proclaiming his innocence, at the same time
that he is resigned to undergoing the extreme penalty
of the law, as it has been the will of God that he
shall suffer for crime of which he knows nothing.
James Skeahan and James Quane, for the murder of
Mr. Ralph Hill, and who are to be executed on the
22d instant, are constantly engaged in prayer, and
also resigned to their fate. A memorial having been
forwarded to the Lord• Lieutenant praying for a com-
mutation of the sentence of death on Andrew Des,
who is to be executed on Monday, an answer was
received this morning, stated that the law must take
its course. Yesterday the High Sheriff of Clare re-
ceived at Ennis, from Dublin Castle, a reprieve for
Matthew Hourigan, who, with Michael Butler,
was convicted of the murder of Patrick Cleary,
near Broadford, and was to have been exe-
cuted on the 17th instant. Hourigan is to be trans-
ported for life."
CARRYING OUT THE COERCION ACT.
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HIGH AND Low CIIURCH.—A country rector, in
arguing at a public institution in London, against some
proceedings which he considered irregular, observed
that they were of " the Low Church." An alderman
who happened to be present said he considered that
phrase as highly objectionable, and that he believed it
was not to be found either in the Bible or the Liturgy of
the Church of England, to which he added, that he was
no more aware of there being a High and a Low Church
than of there being a high and a low heaven; and he
concluded by appealing to the Bishop of London, who
also happened to be present, whether such a phrase
ought to have been used. The bishop rose, and sub-
mitted to the chair that the gentleman who had em-
ployed it had dose so inadvertently, and was certainly
out of order ; upon which the chairman, having ex-
pressed himself of the same opinion, the clerical speaker,
to his great credit, at once apologized for having used it.
Presuming the bishop, the alderman, the chairman (and,
indeed, finally the rector himself), to have taken the
common sense view of the subject, it may be as well that
some modern Churchmen, who would be unwilling to ex-
pose themselves in public or private, should consider this
anecdote, for the truth of which the narrator pledges
himself.—Poynder's Literary Extracts (New Series).