The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-06 00:00:00

NO. 17,250.] LON DON, TH U RSDAY, 7i:VE ENING

ROYAL HOTEL, GRAINGER-STREET,
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.
CHARLES STATES solicits the patronage of his
BROTHER TRAVELLERS to the above Establishment, which
has recently been newly furnished and laid out expressly for a Com-
mercial Hotel.
The COMMERCIAL ROOM, one of the largest and most elegantly
fitted in the NOETH, It is hoped will he found complete in every
respect.
The BED-ROOMS (Sixty in number) have been furslshed is a
style which mast ensure the approbation of all visitors.
Gentlemen travelling with STOCK can at all times have MOW
ROOMS without any extra charge.
The Music Ball, Lecture Room and Royal hotel Assembly Item
are all attached, and under the same management.
The Royal Hetet is la the mist central situatioa is Newcastle.

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BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE,
1, Princes-street, Bank, January 5, 1848.
Notice is hereby given, that the ANNUAL DIVIDEND on the
Proprietary Capital of this Company is now in COURSE of PAY-
MENT, and may be received at the Office between the hours of
Eleven and Four.

PETER MORRISON, Resident Direotor.

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ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE
N ASSURANfIE SOCIETY.
26. CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital 1,500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
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has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
feiture of the policy, two•thirds of the premiums paid (see Table);
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
:crests to meet other conveniencies or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION €IIF PROFITS.
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at the annual meeting hell on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fifer
bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid em each
policy effected on the profit scale.

DR. IVI,HALE AGAIN.
TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL.

"Et pereuntibus uddita ludibria ut ferarum tergis
contecti laniatu,canum interirent, nut crucibus sffliciti nut
fiammandi, atque übi deicisset dies in usum nocturni
Itrainis uterentur."—Tacitus.

St. Jar Tuam, Feast of St. Thomas
of Canterbury, 1847.
My Lord,—Now that the cries of the famishing
poor cannot be drowned amidst the tumult of dra-
matic execration, wickedly excited for the purpose of
hunting down the character of the Catholic clergy,
allow me again to press upon your Lordship the para- i
mount duty of saving the surviving remnant of the
Irish people. It is a duty► from the repeated incul-
cation of which no impediment artfully thrown in the
way shall deter us ; and though your last reported
speech in Parliament would furnish but little hope,
as far as it was an index of your policy, still we will
not despond, being well aware that the earnest impor-
tunity of the petitioners often. wrings from a reluctant
Minister what a love of humanity or justice would
not yield. Your Lordship has now time for reflec-
tion aloof from the recent storms of debate, amidst
which the sense and propriety of the Members, as
well as the lives and reputation of the Catholic clergy,
appeared exposed to the same promiscuous destruc-
tion. The tender-hearted Peers have, doubtless, ere
now, recovered from the rapid succession of histrionic
horrors with which their nerves must have been

shaken whilst the graphic tragedy of the Roman
writer was again acted before their view, and bands
of immoral ecclesiastics were paraded on the plat-
form, clothed in the skins of ,wild beasts, covered with
pitch, and worried with yelping animals; and the
blaze of the faggots with which fanaticism pursued
them rendered the masked 7 monsters snore ludicrous
in the sight of their spettittarsr4.- • -
From the period in which the Roman historian
painted this first persecution o:f the Christians in the
circus of Nero, there is no other event that combines
more of the cruel and the ludicrous than this recent
onslaught on the Catholic people and clergy of Ire-
land. And what, it may be asked, has excited this
tempest of the passions in which reason seems to have
lost its control ? The people are on the brink of
famine, nay, they are plunged into all the depths of
starvation at Christmas, usually a season of festive
plenty. They are seen devouring raw turnips in the
streets. I have known whole families that would

have deemed turnips a luxury. subsisting for ten days
on rape alone, until they exhibited the appearance of
livid corpses. This is the condition of thousands in
this vicinity, of which I speak from my intimate
knowledge; and the condition of several districts is
worse, as I learn from the most trustworthy sources.

On inquiring of such persons, " Why not go into
the workhouse ?" their reply usually is,
.that there
was no chance of admittance until they left their

cottages, and that they see numbers who -abandoned
theirs repulsed from those counterfeit asylums of
charity, without a chance of again ever occupying
their little habitations that were inexorably thrown
down. Without admittance into the poorhouse,
and without the shelter of their own cottage, left be-
hind them in ruins, these poor people are made out-
laws from the protection of society, and left beyond
its pale, to draw their lessons from the laws of nature,
with such comments as hunger and despair once sug-
gested to the patriarchal wanderer in the desert ; and
if those comments have not been more terrible and
more frequent, it is because the angel of mercy
seasonably appears in the person of the parochial
clergyman ',refreshing the sad souls of the poor out-
casts at the fountains of grace, and pointing their
hopes to the reversion of a blessed inheritance. Nay,
I have known, on undoubted authority, a widow and
her orphan family to have spent four nights during
this inclement season stretched on the outside of the
wretched cot of which the roof was dismantled ; and
on inquiring how she could endure so long the
piercing cold without any other covering but their
ordinary wretched clothing, she replied that they
were in a state of perspiration, which slae could not
understand, but that it was God did it—a sentiment
of piety suggested, no doubt, by meditation on the
couch of the Child of Bethlehem, which breathed no
noxious inculcations, and which it would be well for

the profligate revilers of the Irish people and their
clergy to imitate.
Yet, in the midst of this suffering, which, if one
were to say would not be endured in England, might
be deemed a constructive incentive to crime, no out-
rages, thank God, have been committed. The Irish
are said to be a most peculiar race of people. No
doubt they are, and many an experiment of the
cruellest kind has been made on the extent of their
patience. But it has not yet been discovered that they
are found an exception to the general race of mankind
in the fei lings of hunger or of cold, or that they can
claim any privileged exemption from the alimentary
laws that govern the rest of the creation. Are we to
inquire with Job, whether the constitutions of the
Irish are formed of bars of iron, in order to test the
magnitude of their endurance ? No, they have the
same flesh and blood, and bowels of compassion as the
rest of their species, and, therefore, it is not just to
subject them to trials of hunger, or experiments of
patience, under which the human nature of the rest
of their species would sink.
Finding themselves members of a large and
wealthy empire, which, like those of the human body,
ought to assist each other--they demand, in the hour
of their need, a portion of that sustenance which has
flowed in a superfluous degree to one portion of that
empire, to the utter exhaustion of the other. This
their demand is founded on the obvious principle of
'reciprocal benefits and reciprocal burdens. They
labour—they till the land —they rear the crops—
they punctually pay and have paid all their stipulated
rents as long as God blessed their soil with abundant
harvests. And when the harvest is not sufficient to
pay the usual rent and maintain their families, they
are ignorant of any divine or natural law which
should oblige them to hand over the entire

of the produce to the proprietor of the land
and to consign their families, the companions o.
their toil in raising it, to utter starvation
They,. therefore, claim an equitable share in the fruits
of their industry, through the protection of laws in
accordance with natural equity, by which those fruits
will be secured. Self-reliance, dependence on them-
selves, are fine and specious themes to speak on,
especially when seasoned with the caustic admixture
of a sufficient quantity of abuse of their habitual
indolence. They should still prefer to have to rely on
wise and equitable laws, regulating the rights of both,
rather than on themselves and their landlords ; for
they have found by long experience that this self-
reliance, so much vaunted, is nothing else than an
inexorable requisition of their industry to minister to
the cupidity of their task-masters, and to starve them-
selves on the vilest esculents; and when they are un-
able to raise produce to the extent of their grinding
exactions, then they are humanely taxed with the
incorrigible indolence of their Celtic nature !
Brought to this humiliating crisis by a process of
laws which made every provision for the landlord and
none for the tenant, and finding their petitions for
commutative justice generally answered by coercion,
they repeat their loyal and constitutional claims to
participate, in the hour of their distress, in those
common funds of a united people to which they have
so amply contributed. And when they are repulsed
with contumely, as disentitled to share in the abun-
dance which flows from their own exhaustion, they
propose to the Minister a fair alternative of eithergiv-
ing them the full and stipulated benefits of the legis-
lative Union, or, if not, to dissolve it, and while they
continue attached to the Throne to let the people go.
Yes, coerce and re-coerce, and coerce again until you
fill up whole cycles of coercion. The people of Ire-
land will never cease to cling with an enduring
tenacity to the throne of their beloved Sovereign ;
and to demand of the Minister, as far as re-
gards legislative union, to let the people go. What a
dilemma! to be reproached with mendicancy on Eng-
lish bounty if they claim aid from an Imperial Trea-
sury, or with uniting against the State, if to escape
the degrading imputation of mendicancy they claim
the protection of a native Legislature. You may fancy
you have laid prostrate every hope of a native Parlia-
ment by your recent coercion. You may succeed in
bowing it down, it is true, but it is only to spring up
with stronger resiliency. The people see no hope but
in justice, and in the justice of recent legislation they
have lost all their confidence.
I really cannot account for the infatuation that has
come over the counsels that have suggested the recent
crusade against the ministers of peace, the preachers
of morality, and the preservers of order, for that this
onslaught has resulted from deep contrivances can no
longer be doubted.a The priesthood of Ireland can
deny, as truly indignantly, that there is any ground
for these monstrous accusations. They the instigators
of murders ! who have chained by their holy influence
the fury of the passions, and been instrumental in
preserving the lives of those who levelled cot Pages and
desolated the country, in despite of all the incentives
to oil trage which such deeds naturally provoked.
They have rather, as was time duty of ministers of
peace, thrown oil on the troubled waters.
With what exquisite morality the calumniators of
the clergy show themselves imbued, affecting such
horror for personal denunciations that have no exist-
ence, and feeling no remorse at their own denun-
ciation of this innocent body to the world. Those
who are now so profuse of this vituperation of the