The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-21 00:00:00

THE CHARTIST REBELLION.

The Chartist body, like all other bodies, has the usual
proportion of fools and knaves comprised in it. But
it has been its peculiar misfortune to have found
the majority of its councillors composed of
members of these extensive classes of society.
This has been evident on various occasions.
We need not refer to Chartist opposition to the
movement for the repeal of the Corn-law s, by which the
tax on the working man's loaf has been repealed; nor to
the steady determination of the Chartist leaders
not to take one point of the Charter unless they
could get all the others with it—unduly des-
pising the doctrine of instalments as
the
tappears
to all practical man—nor need we refer to signalact of folly, in refusing to co-operate with those who
would go for all the points, but not for the name, because
the name had been disgraced by brutal of ferocious doc-
trines of physical force and threats of civil war. These
facts are evidence enough of past folly. But the last and
crowning act of madness, is the determination of the
Chartists to unite with the Irish repeaters, in order to
strengthen Ireland, and to promote the interests of
the factious portion of Irishmen, and to play their
game at the expense of England. In pursuance of
this scheme, the Chartists have been wantonly
holding meetings, for the purpose of creating
alarm in the minds of the middle classes, by
threatening to rise and secure the freedom of Mitchel,
the pikeman. Their efforts at making a disturbance
have had no eflect beyond the creation of an uneasy
feeling, and harassing the police. Indeed, it would
be very surprising if they had. The leaders of the
disaffected Irish have professed their determination to
injure and degrade England. Mitchel gloried in the
thought of crippling " the bloody old British Em-
pire"—;hat was the degrading epithet he applied
to our country. Smith O'Brien and others hastened to
Paris, immediately after the Revolution, with the ob-
ject, as it appeared, of exciting the French people to aid
the Irish Repealers to rebel against England, and
to make war upon her, to shame and cripple her—
to bring disgrace upon England, and turn
loose upon her, all who envy her success,
and wish to plunder her of the fruits of her industry.
What interest can the working men of England have
in such unnatural vicious proceedings as these?—
and yet the Chartist leaders have been endeavour-
ing to join the Irish rebels, and have only been
prevented by the law seizing hold of some of the
plainer spoken members of the body, who spoke too
openly of their intention. Ws should be sorry to en-
courage feelings of hostility between races which, for
their own strength, glory, and profit, ought to be inti-
mately blended as one nation ; but we would ask the
working men of England, what they can expect to gain
by playing the Irish game of running down and in-
juring England, and endeavouring to degrade and lower
her in the eyes of Europe ?
The Irish democrats want to set up a republic—their
first fight would be with the British empire—their next,
if they succeeded, would be with the Irish priests—but
the sternest fight would be with the working classes of
England, whose interests, which are not at all promoted
by the competition of Irish labourers and workmen at
present, would be vitally attacked by the ruin which the
Irish policy, as now attempted to be carried out by cer-
tain of the Chartists, would entail upon the nation at
large.
In making these observations, we desire only to up-
hold the unity and stability of the British empire. We
wish to see equal rights and liberties extended to all—but
we do not wish to be a party to any attempt to drag down
this nation—the leader of civilization, and the benefactor
of nations—from the moral height she enjoys. She has
been placed where she is by the hand of Providence,
and we, her children, should be careful, lest by any
neglect of ours, she fall from her high estate, and over-
whelm all her sons in the ruin of desolation that must
follow her dismemberment.—.Eseter Western Times.

IREADruL BATTLE.—Of late a series of well-
contested engagements have raged in Renfrew-street.
These skirmishes take place between a gallant and
pugnacious, though diminutive cock, aided by the
ladies of his establishment, and a number of thievish
rats, who, without any invitation, drop in when they
feel inclined, and take pot-luck at the expense of
their feathered friends. The other day a rat of large
size coolly came forward to take a share of the
good things just laid down for the comfortable support of
the chuckies. Mr. Cock, irritated at such impudence, im-
mediately showed fight. Mr. Rat, nothing loath, accepted
the challenge, and to it they both went, teeth and wing.
Cock advanced to the assault, and struck with beak, heel,
and wing. Rat received the charge, standing on his hind
feet, and repelled it like a pugilist, occasionally making
effective use of his teeth. The dreadful strife raged for
many minutes with varied success, but Cock was game;
his honour, his food, and the respect of his female fol.
lowers, all were at stake, and he fought on only as such
a cock animated by the purest motives of cock honour
can fight. At last Mr. Rat began to show symptoms of
distress, and without waiting to take respectful leave of
his adversary, sneaked off to his hole, pursued by the
victorious bantam, who, when his pilfering enemy had
' disappeared, set up as loud a crow as his little throat
would permit, in token of his gallantry and success.—
Glasgow Examiner.

INDIAN PRIZE MONEY.—On Saturday the Direc-
tors of the East India Company paid into Chelsea Hos-
pital the prize money for the capture of Kelat in 1829,
due to the 2d and 17th Regiments of Foot ; and for the.
capture of Nepanoe in 1841, due to the 4th Regimentof
Foot, which will be paid to the men, their next of kin,
or legatees, at the Hospital, on the 17th of July.
ANTIQUITIES FROM MALTA.—A vessel arrived in
the Docks from Malta, has brought, in addition to a
large quantity of stone ornaments', in vases and other
stone work, and general merchandise, some packages of
antiquities consigned to a firm in the metropolis. Whe-
ther. this importation of antiquities be for deposit m a
public building appropriated to the reception of such
rtioles, or Waerwtbe, the arrival is of iateroat.