The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-11 00:00:00

THE IRISH NATIONAL PRESS.

The Irish national press exhibits undiminished wrath
at the Ministerial determination to maintain law and
order across St. George's ChanneL The Irishman of Fri-
day prints two of its articles in mourning for the passing
of the Peace Preservation Bill, which it calls the death
warrant of liberty of speech in Ireland. It sums up its
spinions on the subject by a single line, emphatically an-
nouncing " There is no liberty of the Press in Ireland."
The proprietor of the Irishman has personal as
well as public ground for discontent, as he
has received a notice from Mr. Heron, M.P.,
calling on him to produce his books in court as one of the
securities in the Tipperary petition. This is merely a
matter of form to prove his position, but the proprietor
denouncesit as inquisitive.

Thelrishmanfinas a social grievance in an advertisement
for a coachman. Mr. Warburton, who was fired at in
Queen's County, advertises for several servants, whom
he, not unnaturally, wishes to be Protestants and Eng-
lishmen. Such a stipulation, says the Irishman, does
more to exasperate the peasants to crime than the
journals which endeavour to repress such bad courses.
The Irishman, in another place gives this encouragement
for the future. "Had the Establishment remained domi-
neering over the country, Catholics would not have made
a stand against clerical despotism. One despotism
thus engenders another. After the Land Act,
other things will be possible—yet undreamt of.'
Priests are quite out of favour with the irate
Irishman. The tyrant majority' of the Longford
clergy not only rigidly suppressed the citizen rights of
Longford priests, but they took sure measures to destroy
the citizen rights of any other priest who should dare to
visit Longford. Any lay citizen might enter that county
and take what part it seemed good to him—might support
Greville, or speak for Martin. In doilyg so, he exercised his
free rights as a citizen, and none could gainsay it. Not even
the police, under the coercion rule, could order him 'out of
the country. But how different has it Men with respect to
priests ! The Rev. Mr. Mullin, in the exercise of his
free rights as a citizen, went to Longford to support
Mastin. In the twinkling of an eye there was a tele-
gram to his superior in his own diocese, and a message
back, ordering him to leave Longford within six
hours.' AVII2re was the respect for that priest's ' rights
as a citizen ?' If he did not leave he was to be ' sus-
pended '—orae of the most severe sentences that can
be issued against a priest. Thus, for the exercise of
his free rights as a citizen he was to have a severe spiri-
tual punishment—to be forbidden for an indefinite period
to celebrate mass before his parishioners." The Flag of
Ireland denounces the Longford priests even more bitterly.
It says " Every tittle of evidence given by the priests
themselves only confirms the disgraceful story ,of the
intimidation and undue influence which the earlier evidence
on the petition revealed. Priest after priest has been called
to the witness table, and each one of them has sworn
that he received money, with which he supplied drink to
his parishioners, organised violent mobs, and generally
acted as electioneering agent to the English guardsman.
Those self-denying clergymen received £3,500 over and
above the admitted expenses. What did they do with it ?
They are morally responsible for the sin, the drunkenness,
the violence, the blood, and the hatred .which disgraced
Longford. 'Longford proclaims that it is time the Pope
sent in a rescript to prevent the demoralisation of the
people and the desecration of the sanctuaryby electioneer-
ing priests for the purpose of the English party in Ire-
land. Religion itself ; the morality of the people ;
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LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-(THIS DAY.

Sales probably 10,000 bales.

farkot quiet.

OUR, Nyw TRAMIDAYS.—The opposition between
the tramways and the omnibuses may now be said to have
fairly commenced in the suburbs of the metropolis, although
it is difficult for the habitué of London to determine exactly
where London, strictly speaking, may be said to terminate
and the suburbs begin. It would probably equally puzzle
the Board of Works to solve the same problem. After
an amount of trouble, and in the face of difficulties that
would have disheartened any less energetic individuals,
the promoters of metropolitan tramways have carried
their point. Being well aware from past experience that
the forbearance and permission of vestries and local cor-
porate authorities is a very broken reed to trust to, they
were resolved to be in future independent, within certain
well-defined limits, of all such treacherons contingencies.
Accordingly, they went the right way to work, and
obtained an Act of Parliament to legalise their ulterior
proceedings. Had this wise method of commencing a
novel project been resorted to in the first instance,
it is more than probable that long ere the present
time we should have had abundance of tramways in and
about London. At any rate better late than never, andlow
that the scheme is properly organised and actually caffied
out, so far as the construction of the road is concerned, the
practical test will soon determine its value, will soon pro-
nounce whether tramways are to be an " institution " in
our metropolis or are merely to flourish for a while, only
to be consigned in the end to unremembered oblivion. W e
do not lay claim to the thankless province of the properly
or soothsayer, but we venture to predict that, if
conducted, tramways ought cortainly to become a perma-
nent medium of intercommunication among us.—The
Mechanics' liragaZine.
.UATAL TRADE DISPUTE IN BouturA.—A. collision
has taken place between the Imperial troops in Austria
and a body of workmen on strike. The other day the
artisans of several manufactories at Reichemb
e
were 011 strike, went to Swarow to induce the artisans of
sof
that town to desist from their employment in a similar
manner. They found the principal manufct cccupied
by troops, and a conflict ensued. The soldiers upon
the crowd, and five men were killed on the spot,. while 25
or
were wounded. One skilled,
.soldier was and
another wounded. Great agitation prevails throughout
the northern part of Bohemia, and all the manufactories
of Swarow have been closed, while reinforcements of
troops are being sent from Prague.
Captain Blacklock is stated to have received the
appointment of superintendent of the Atlantic Telegraph
Caple, at a salary of £lOOO per annum. Captain Blacklock
g-as for many years in the srvice of the Electric and In-
ternational Telegraph Company.
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The Commission whom the Emperor Napoleon
has appointed to organise the French portion of the In-
ternational Exhibition in London next year will have M.
du Sommerard, director of the Museum of the Hotel
Cluny, as Commissioner-General for France.
The trade of Limerick has greatly fallen off lately.
For a great number of years a steamer has left it for
London every week, whereas the last steamer that left
Limerick this year did so on the 7th February, and the
next will not leave before the 10th April.
A man was buried alive in a limo kiln near
Dorchester yesterday. The deceased, Robert Leach, was
in the employ of Mr. Job Lewes, a lime burner. While
at work a large quantity of chalk fell upon him, and he
was suffocated.

Much anxiety is felt in Liverpool respecting the
magnificent new screw steamer Sirius, Captain Smerdon,
which sailed from the Mersey on the 18th of January,
with a large and very valuable cargo for Calcutta by way
of the Cape of Good Hope.
By the Cape Mail we learn that the Bridgwater
bribery prosecutions were being actively discussed in the
Cape Press, interest having been excited through Mr.
Vanderbyl being a Cape man, and popular with the
colonists, the papers generally appearing to think hi
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