The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-01 00:00:00

LONDON:
MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1841.

Sir ROBERT PEEL appears to have been keep-
ing bad company of late, and to have acquired
some bad habits. We pointed out on Saturday
his jesuitical and contradictory arguments got up
to serve a temporary factious purpose, alr:t. now
we must advert to what we can only cbfAracterise
as a COntemptible,sneer. We suspect Sir ROBERT
has taken to studying the Standard since the
Times, by the help of its corres-,oderlt CATIIO-
UCUS," has cut him up and cast him out for food
to the bigots. At least his last oration has many
of the peculiar attributes of the Standard, and,
therefore, inconsistent, false, factious, and jesuiti-
cal as it was, it met with the, cordial approbation
Here are two or three passages
of that journal.
of Sir ROBERT'S speech
If the extension of t
with past enggem
he franchise were just—if it were con.
sisten
nts—if it were consistent with the
t
great legislative Act-, wa hichehad given emancipation
order
ripaantid social
otiahel
welfare
Roman
atholics—if it would conduceto_
4ff Ireland, he would entreat the House to forget the inflamma-
toryifnojrugreet
language of the Hon. avenhdicLheawrraisedsoGneanitelue
the spirit of his declaration, Gentleman—to
be
any cause, and to do what was just in spite. of the advocacy of
the Learned Gentleman. . • • • • Would it not
wise, therefore, that they should well consider the whole of the
question, not making any partial distinctions ; but if they were
e make concessions against their reason and coariction for the
sake of peace, they should make the whole concession that was
demanded from them, and not give to the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman that by which he would extort the rest, without
even purchasing a temporary calm.—(Cheers.) • • • •
If the present measure was a just one—if it was for the welfare
.of Ireland, then he trusted that, notwithstanding the wate-
anent* of that Hon. and Learned Gentleman, the House would
show its determination to do justice to Ireland. Let those who
had public duties to pnferm claim to themselves the privilege
of dispassionately considering whether the measure then under
their consideration was a measure perfectly consistent with the
best interests of Ireland, and whether it was calculated to ad-
vanceelfar e o the inthe dependence of the electors, and promote the social
wf cduntry.—(Hear, hear.)
Those who heard Sir ROBERT PEEL, and saw
_him, knew that these passages were meant to
taunt the Members with making concessions
io
Mr. O'CONNELL. He told. them to consider the
whole question, not to make partial distinctions
and concessions, but go the whole hog at once,
and do justice to Ireland. These taunts were
-uttered by a man nominally at the head of a
Varty which is powerful enough to impede the
-smallest advance towards doing justice to-
Ireland, which resolutely resists every at-
tempt of the kind, and renders it
vain. They were uttered by a man, too, who
has been all his life a I ule-o'-thumb politician,
w•ver looking beyond the hour, with no com-
prehension for futurity, and who, without the
least regard to justice, gave up to a threat and a
corrupt bargain, in 1829, just as much at the mo-
ment as satisfied the demands then made by the
Roman Catholics.
will and the power will
hi is the man with the
to
wh th _
'wart all attempts to do
justice to Ireland, o
taunted Ministers with
not embracing a comp
at once making all the rehensive policy, and not
c
requires. They consider coucssi on which justice
e re-
quires, but what the twno ot what
Rata will agree
to, Of Hwhaotuses justice stic
Parlia-
use would it

'be for them to consider what is due to Ire-
land ? They must consider what can be expected
from the Tories. We should like very much if
it were possible to act on the language of Sir
ROBERT PEEL, and if statesmen, instead of con-
sidering what bargains they can drive with rival
or allied statesmen, would think only of what
is due to the people. Of that they never do
think, though Sir ROBERT PEEL, knowing its
present impracticability, would have had Minis-
ters stop all the demands of Mr. O'CONNELL by
at once doing justice to his countrymen. Like a
big boy, who has taken possession of the play-
things of a little one, and sneeringly asks,
while he threatens him with his fist, why
he does not take them back, and what
what has become of his courage, Sir R. PEEL,
who, as a politician, has taken possession of the
political rights of the Irish, and is resolved to
withhold them, taunts the Ministers with not
daring to give, and the Irish Catholics with not
having the courage to take, their own.
Sir R. PEEL had referredjust before, however,
to Mr. O'CoNNELL's expressed wish to have the
whole revenues of the Church in Ireland devoted
to the public service, as one of the things
which it was monstrous in Mr. O'CONNELL
to ask. But why? Surely it is a great injustice
to apply the "Ole revenues of the Church, how-
ever small, to the spiritual instruction of about
one-tenth of the people. In no other country of
Europe is any such contrivance tolerated. In no
other would it be borne. It could only be
maintained in a country which is enslaved. It is
a badge of hateful inferiority. The law, which
ought to be equal, treats the Catholics as pos-
sessing an inferior religion, and an unworthy
faith which must be stifled, not protected by the
law. The existence of the Established Church
is an insult and an injury to the Catholics of
Ireland.

The English, we are quite sure, would not
bear for a single day that the whole revenue de-
voted to spiritual instruction should he given to
the Baptists, or the English Catholics, or any
other small sect. Why then should the Irish be
required to submit to such a wrong? Why.
should Mr. O'CONNELL not ask to have the Esta-
blished Church in Ireland put down ? If he
were to ask to have the Roman Catholic Church
established, and made the State Church, we can
readily conceive that such a demand would be
an injustice to all who are not Catholics, and
ought to be resisted and, on precisely the same
ground as that ought to be resisted, the present
stablished Church ought to be put an end to.
Till it be put down, justice will not be done to
the Catholics of Ireland, and they will have a
right to complain. We hope, for our parts, that
they never will cease their agitation till the
Church of Ireland is placed on a precisely similar
footing with the Catholic Church and the Inde-
pendent Chapel, and till it relies exclusively for
support on the voluntary contributions of its
members.

That would be justice to Ireland. At the same
time Sir ROBERT PEEL knows very well that in
the present state of public opinion, it would be
next to impossible for any Minister to accom-
plish that object. The English priesthood would
shake the State to its foundations to preserve
their flesh-pots. lle knows that the Catholics
demand, and justice requires, the abolition of the
Irish Church ; but, conscious of the power he
possesses, founded on the prejudices and bigotry
of the ileople, he taunts the Ministers with not
proposing, agreeably to the wishes of Mr.
O'CONNELL, to abolish the Established Church
in Ireland. For a grave statesman like Sir R.
PEEL to use such language in an important de-
bate; seems to us quite unworthy. It was, as
we have already said, a contemptible sneer,
worthy of the Standard ; and so we leave it to
the meditation of our readers.

We were obliged last year to dwell on Mr.
AINSWORTH'S defection, and we regret, after the
Hon. Member's promises of amendment, that
we should this year be compelled to renew our
animadversions. Though returned for Bolton on
the Liberal interest, Mr. AINSWORTH voted on
Lord MORPETH'S motion for the Tories. We
cannot comprehend such conduct. Mr. AINs-
WORTH pretends to be friendly to the repeal of
the Corn-laws. He has put his name to the reso-
lution agreed to by the Liberal Members for the
revision of the tariff and the reduction of duties;
we must consider him, therefore, as a supporter
of free trade, and an opponent of the bread-
taxers. Yet he voted with them on Friday morn-
ing. This is monstrously inconsistent. To vote
with Lord STANLEY is to vote for upholding the
power of that class of men whose scan-
dalous avarice, operating by means of a law,
is ruining the trade of Bolton, and actually impo-
verishing and starving Mr. AINSWORTH'S consti-
tuents. He voted with the landlords, and voted
that they may continue to oppress Ireland. If
the electors of Bolton do not call the Hon Mem-
ber to account, and compel him, if they can, to
give up that charge of which he is unworthy,
they will sanction his conduct, and make them-
selves responsible for it. But we know the men
of Bolton too well to believe that they will in
any manner countenance and encourage the
bread taxers and franchise destroyers. We con-
fidently expect, therefore, to see a requisition
from the electors, numerously signed, calling on
Mr. AINSWORTH to return into his proper and
native obscurity: They will not suffer their in-
terests to be misrepresented by him for the pur-
pose of enablins him to make his peace with the
Lancashire Tories, and be received in their en-
vied society. _ .

The attention ;of our readers is especially
directed to an excellent letter on the Danish
claims, addressed, by one of the sufferers, to the
Editor of the Morning Chronicle, which will be
found in another part of The Sun. We trust that
on Thursday next Parliament will satisfy the re-
maining class of claimants, that it was not to buoy
them up with false hopes—that it was not to
raise the cup of enjoyment to their lips only to
dash it untasted upon the ground—that it was
not to make their losses and wrongs an instru-
inent for reflecting discredit upon the plighted
promises of the House of Commons, that it
thrice voted their claims to be deserving of the
examination of the Legislature. That respect
which is due to the sanctity of its own votes, must
prevent the House of Commons from performing
a part which -would reflect discredit on the acts
of any po-pular assembly. But more to-morrow
upon a subject, which, having taken up, we shall
not entirely abandon till the claimants have oh-
'alined justice at the hands of the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER and the Government.

Madrid Journals of the 20th ult. have reached
us. M. DE LIMA, the Portuguese Envoy, had
met with a most flattering reception from ESPAR-
TERO, who expressed his great delight that
there no longer existed any grounds for the
prevention of the most amicable relations between
the two countries. Letters from Estella of
the Bth state that the General commanding in
that town had learned that a Frenchman was
travelling through the Basque provinces inciting
the peasants to Insurrection. Troops were sent
in pursuit of him, and he was discovered at Tren-
zure in the house of a Priest. He stated he was
aCaptain in the French service, but refusing to walk
the soldiers bound him and brought him prisoner
to Pampeluna. Ills arrest has attracted the
notice of
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*he Bourse. The
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Fives were done at 28i for
cash, and 28f at
days.

Saturday have
quote from
The Paris parier-7:7777-1. Friday and and
yinteresting
ontht:ie Secret Ser-
sbuemenmadiuylyofrteicieeivoext
eerin 1
in the Chamber of Deputiesgthem a
vice Bill, which has re-opened arbate
Cabinets of the Ist of Marcli
trouble cl i)
policy
c -of
carefulth.e
October on the Eastern question. the .29th of
speech will well repay theof tns,
perusal. The ex-Minister, notwithstanding
Ins
defeat, is still willing to support the Government
isolation
provided it keep France in that state of !
in which he left it on being driven out of office,
He does not call for .immediate war, but
he is for keeping up that excitement—that
jealousy throughout Europe which must
inevitably terminate in hostilities. M. TRIERS
says that while France remains isolated nothing
can be done in the East. Has, there, then, been
nothing done in the East during the isolation of
France ? Was it not while France was in a state
of isolation that Beyrout was captured—that
Acre was bombarded and taken—that MEHEMET
Am submitted to the Porte—that the Turkish
fleet was restored—and that a firman was granted
to the Vie ZROY, bestowin upon him the Pachalic
of Egypt? Were not all these facts accomplished
during the isolation of France ? And what new
circumstance has arisen to prevent the accomplish-
ment of equally important facts, should France
be mad enough to persist in her scheme of Isola-
; lion?
France is great wig powerful; but she is
neither so
great
t nor so powerful as to paralyze by
her silence theeater and more powerful exer-
tions of the rest o
of Europe combined in opposition
to her. It is
ssible for France to carry her
system of isolation t
Europe that the mosto ofar. It is possible to teach
government of the importantworld can
questions in the
concurrence
he ads well and as easily
t and ence as with it. We
e majority of the Chain-
tsruolvstetdhawtitmho.Gutohizeor
to
lesson to perceive that this
bers will have the sagacity
teach Europe. It
would be a dangerous

is always the safest and most convenient policy
when we can accomplish it, not to let our friends
know they can do without us.
We regret to state that typhus fever pre-
vails very much in France. Paris has all at once
become very unhealthy. The southern provinces
are again suffering from inundations.
Of general news there is very little in thes,)
journals. The following extracts from them in-
clude all they contain of any interest :
La Presse states that MAT. Rothschild, brothers, of Paris,
have just concluded the details of the new Belgian loan,
amounting to 83,000,000 in capital, and 90,000,000 in securi-
ties. The facility with which the MM. Rothschild have necro-
tiated this loan, notwithstanding the present scarcity of cash
.‘ is," continues La Ps ease, " a proof of the confidence which
that house enjoys among capitalists, and is besides a powerful
argument in favour of the maintenance of peace. The Bel-
gian capitalists have subscribed for 20,000,000 of this capital,
which was at first contracted for by the Belgian Bank, and
which failed to execute its arrangements."
To-day at twenty minutes past two o'clock water has at
length appeared in the well which the City of Faris has
caused to be dug at the abattoir of Grenelle ; the water is
said to be lukewarm. It was to be expected that on account
of the temperature of the low strata to which the well has
been dug, the temperature of the water would be higher than
that of the springs nearer the surface at Paris. The depth
to which the workmen have penetrated is 560 metres ; this
result, which has cost the City of Paris above 160,000 francs,
is the fruit of many years unremitting labour, and solves a
geological problem of the greatest importance, namely,
the existence of subterraneous sheets of water below the im-
mense beds of green chalk of the Paris basin.—Le Moniteur,
Feb. 27.

Our last letters from Madrid assign as the reason of the
assembling of a considerable number of troops in that capital,
the intention which Espartero is supposed to have to get himself
proclaimed sole Regent by the Army. We have a letter of the
19th, which confirms this supposition. Espartero is not only
said to have the Army in his favour, but it should seem that
the majority of the Cortes is likewise well dispo ed towards
him ; accordingly hardly any doubt is entertained of the reality
of the project and of its result.
The Cortes are to meet on the 19th of March.
(From the Courrier Francais.)
A considerable failure, that of the house of C—, has just
thrown perturbation and terror into the commerce of Milan.
This house, which had undertaken the dyeing of linen and
cotton stuffs, and which employed a considerable number
of workmen, has failed for four millions of francs, and,
though raid to hive property to the amount of three
millions, will probably pay but a small dividend. Besides
several houses in Milan much compromised by this failure,
there ale also some houses in Venice, Trieste, and especially
in Vienna, great losers. To add to this misfortune, the
inundations have again interrupted commercial communica-
tion on the roads of Genoa, Turin, and Piacenza. The con-
tinual rain which has fallen fur the last fifteen days, and the
melting of the snow, occasioned by the sirocco, have over-
flowed the Pe, the Tesin, and the Sesia, in such a manner that
all communication is stopped. The only roads that were open
were those of Switzerland, and these, it is feared, will also be
closed. The French courier from Bale has been delayed seve-
ral da3s, and that of the 20th has not yet art ived. The rail-
road from to Monza has been overflowed, and the circu-
lation hat been stopred since the 19th.
BOURSE.—Pmus, SATURDAY, FIE. 27.

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