The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-25 00:00:00

17 NY JANUARY 25, 1848.

his right of protesting against the confirmation of the
Bishop of Hereford, resting his claims, simple man as
he was, on the letter of the law, but who was over-
ruled by the more orthodox interpretation and. sterner
authority of the commissioners. Are these the
great destinies which the Irish Church is to achieve
when freed from dependence on their flocks, and
from popular subserviency ?' If so, it is, I trust, a
disastrous destiny which the Catholics of Ireland shall
never contemplate. This would ho a fate which
reminds me of the words of St. Hilary, the Bishop of
Poictiers, to Constantius You hate the preachers
of Jesus Christ--you build the walls of our churches,
in order to defile their worship--you ask the benedic-
tion of bishops, in order to trample on their faith,
and you invite those bishops to your feasts, in order
that rising from the table they may go like Judas
to betray their Divine Master.' Is this the glorious
vision which presents itself to your prophetic view
—the coils of Ministerial patronage gently and
successively drawn around the Church until she should
perish in the deadly embrace? Why not, then, at
once avow this project, and reveal to the world the
deep schemes of diplomacy now at work at home and
abroad to enslave her ? Has there been any recent
attempt to extort from Rome, ever watchful against
fraud, as she is firm against persecution, the delega-
tion of a portion of her authority to any lay envoy
of your Lordship's acquaintance, in order that the
discipline and next the doctrine of the Catholic
Church, as well as the reputation of the Irish hie-
rarchy, should be played at hazard in some of your
London saloons, and, like the balls of a billiard table,
be flung to and fro amidst an unprincipled circle of
political gamblers ? Some of the parishes in Ireland
hare the spiritual aid of perhaps only one young
priest, just turned out of college ! In what political
training school does your Lordship mean that those
young priests 'just turned out of college,' should be
formed for the mission ? Msynooth 1 Ah, May-
nooth ! I perceive is still felt to b. a failure. Not-
withstanding the hopes entertained from its recent
endowment—out of English money to 'be sure—and
that annual labour of the Duke of Leinster and the re-
formed visitors to exalt, expand, refine the notions of the
students by an insight into the mysteries of mangel
wurtzel and bullock feeding, as well as the fusion of
various metals into one, to signify how the distinction
of creeds may be confounded by similar amalgama-
tions—Maynooth is still, and will continue, like an
old monastery, where the students are peculiarly ad-
dicted to the study of logic and theology, and where
the love of country cannot be trodden out. Why
not at once reform these abuses, and trace to old
Dens, as their genuine source, all the iniquities of
the confessional and all the denunciations of the
altar ? You must look to the rising generation of
ecclesiastics. Let the old priests, like the old people
through the country, die away, or live as well as they
can, but you must take special care of the young
ones. As they hare proved ungrateful for recent
kindness, draft away at once those young incorrigible
Celts to Saxon land, imperialise the priesthood and
consolidate our colleges like the excise or the custom-
house, place them at once in London, under a board
of commissioners and teachers of every colour and
form of faith from Beaumont to Brougham, so recently
immortalised in the epigrammatic delineations of the
eloquent apostolical administrator of Derry; who, with-
out any compromise of their own opinions, for pro-
bably they do not know them, will give the Irish
pupils the benefit of them all ; let them ascend the
gradual scale of every heresy, the vital air of faith
becomes more attenuated as they rise, until they
reach the utter void of absolute unbelief; let the
fashionable levity of their carriage correspond with
the graceful evolutions of their creed; and let their
language—a perfect type of their mongrel faith and
their mongrel morals—be a mixture of Irish brogue
and English cockneyism, nay, bringing on them the
ridicule of the one country they are taught to admire,
as well as the scorn of the other which they are
trains I to disown • and when they shall have thus
become accomplished gentlemen by taking from
them all heart, all soul, and all affection for their
country and their ereed—send them back again a
pensioned, conceited, and an unfeeling priesthood, to
wear at every levee the livery of their servitude and
their hire, and to rival the idols of the Establishment
in casting salt on the sores of a suffering people, and
pouring oil on the heads of their oppressors ; and
then, indeed, may you hail the advent of Ireland's re-
ligious and political regeneration ! !"
One more extract, and a concluding one :
" What a melo-drama—what a ludicrous and tragic
mixture, this entire affair of Roman embassies and
Irish clerical denunciations Is your Lordship aware
that whilst one nobleman preaches and practises coer-
cion at home, his noble relative is said to be a most
enthusiastic worshipper of the wildest forms of liberty
abroad ? Nay, he is represented as the bosom friend
of the youthful Ciceroacchio, who, it is said, aspires
to be another Rienzi, and to restore the reign of the
ancient Tribunes on the ruins of the Empire of the
successors of St. Peter. It is even said that Lord
Minto, too, aspires to the fame and honours of Pe-
trarch, becoming a musical sonneteer in favour of the
coming political millennium, and he may be prolong-
ing his stay in Rome until, like the admirer of liberty
and Laura, he shares the triumphs of the young
Rienzi, by receiving the crown of poetry on the
Capitol. It is the representation.; of such an am-
bassador, said to be so hostile to the Holy
Father, you hare been strengthening by your ca-
lumnies on the Irish hierarchy. And for this public
scandal I now demand adequate reparation. Your
Lordship, at least, will not controvert the position,
that evangelical discipline requires that for public
sins there should be a public penance.' You are
perfectly right, my Lord; David was not a more cor-
rect casuist when, unconscious of the tendency of his
reply, he answered to the apologue of Nathan ; and
for your public denunciations of the entire Catholic
Church in Ireland, and some of its dignitaries in par-
ticular, we require your public atonement. You owe
it principally to the Bishop of Elphin aad the Arch-
bishop of Cashel, the successor of St. Corrnac, who,
though adorned with the crown and mitre, bequeathed
to posterity the richer legacy of his sanctity and Irish
literature. It seemed to have been the object of a
rancorous faction to make the Irish bishops pio-
neers of the Attorney-General ; to smooth his
approaches by breaking down the fences of the
sanctuary, and to hand over their innocent clergymen,
stripped of the reverence of the people and the
panopoly of their sacred character, to become the
victims of some persecuting bigots, in order that the
flock might be easily dispersed, after striking down
the pastor. Go, then, my Lord of Shrewsbury, and
for this grievous scandal against the Church do
penance, and weep between the porch and the
altar: The pear end of the staff to which you have
directed attention is emblematical of the correction to
be administered to penitents. This penance is to be
tempered with mercy, and even towards Peers, who
have generally more of proud flesh than other peni-
tents, we should forbear any unnecessary rigour, but
should rather stretch out the crook to reclaim their
wandering, and the staff to sustain their faltering steps,
as they approach the tribunal of mercy; thus realis-
ing the mystical signification of the pastoral crozier—
Pungit rebelles, sustinet infirmos, reducit errantes.' "
I hare the honour to be your Lordship's
very obedient servant,
;4 JOHN, Archbishop of Turn.

ACCIDENT On THE ICE.—On Saturday a eoroaer's
inquest was held at the New Miller Dam Inn, near
Bradford, Yorkshire, on the bodies of four youths, who
were drowned on Thursday evening last. It appeared
that on Thursday eight or ten boys were amusing them-
selves by sliding upon the large reservoir connected with
the Old Mill in Brick-lane, Bradford, in the occupation
of Messrs. Ellis and Priestman, corn millers. They
confirmed for some time to follow each other upon the ice
in rapid succession until at length, unfortunately, one of
them fell, and, as an unavoidable consequence, others
fell over him. Owing to the great pressure the ice broke,
when six of them were plunged into the water; two of
them, however, got out in a most unaccountable manner,
but the remaining four were drowned. An alarm was
immediately made, and by means of two planks nailed
together, and the use of two boat-hooks and the well-
creepers, the bodies were got out in the course of two
or three hours. The bodies were removed to the house
of Mr. Thomas Bates, the New Miller Dam Inn. The
names of the unfortunate lads are John Townsley, aged
twelve years, son of Francis Townsley, Thornton-street;
John Whalley, aged thirteen years, son of Charles
Whalley, of Chain-street, Silabridge-lane; Lister Dra•
cup, son of Abraham Dracup, of Silsbridge lane ; and
William Smith, aged eleven years, son of John Smith,
of Brick- lane. The dam is eight or ten yards deep in
some places, and the lads went down about eight yards
from the edge. It is somewhat strange that boys are
allowed to slide upon this reservoir, especially as so
many lives have been lost in the same place and under
similar circumstances. The jury returned a verdict of
"Accidental death."
SERIOUS CEARGES AT HARROW.--A man named
Parker, who had resided for some time at Har-
row, and who, it appeared, had secretly deserted the
place in the debt of several of the inhabitants there,
was on Saturday brought before Benjamin Rotch, Esq.,
a county magistrate, on a charge of feloniously stealing
a bay horse, a grey mare, ten pigs, household furniture,
&c., from a Mr. Jones. Much interest was excited, but
it appeared that the charge of felony could not be sus-
tained, Parker being the servant of Jones, and the
magistrate declared that he had done all that a faithful
servant would do. Mr. Parker was therefore dismissed,
and immediately left Harrow for Blackheath, whence he
had been brought in custody.

[PRICE 3D.

IRISH SPECIAL COMMISSION.

LIMERICK, J. 22.—This morning Jameg Quaine,
a heavy, loutish fellow, about forty years of age, was
placed in the dock, charged, first, with the wilful
murder of Mr. Ralph Hill in November last, and,
secondly, with aiding and abetting in its perpe-
tration.

The particulars of this outrageous murder were
detailed by us in our report of the trial of Jam es
Skeehan, who was on the 20th instant found guilty
of being a party to it, and the case presented to the
Court to-day was but a repetition of that which was
investigated on the occasion of Skeehan's trial; the
only additional particle of evidence being the fact
that the prisoner had borrowed on the night before
the murder a single barrelled gun from a person
named M'Namara, and that on the day after the
murder was committed he told him that unfortu-
nately Mr. Hill was shot—that what was done could
not be undone—and that he had concealed the gun
in a pigstye near the haggard, whence the shots were
fired. It was also proved that the gun was found by
the police in the very spot where the prisoner said he
had concealed it.
The jury, without retiring, found the prisoner
Guilty.
The wretched man, who had betrayed throughout
his trial symptoms of the greatest fear, and had been
most restlessly attentive to the whole of the proceed-
ings, was then remanded to the gaol for the purpose
a being brought up again after a short interval to
have sentence passed upon him. The trial was not
over until five o'clock.

The two men, John and Thomas Frewin, who
yesterday pleaded " guilty " to the charge of har-
bouring, with their brother William Frewin, the
notorious Ryan (Puck), were then placed in the dock.
The ATTOANB7•GEEEBAL said he had read the
affidavits made by the prisoners in extenuation of their
guilt., in which they stated they were ignorant of the
law relating to the crime of which they had been
convicted. The Lord-Lieutenant had done all in his
power to make known the law upon the subject, but
under the circumstances to which he had referred on
the preceding evening, he would ask their Lordships
to inflict such a measure of punishment, short of
transportation, as their Lordships should think fit.
The LOAD CHIRP JUSTICE then sentenced Thomas
Frewin to imprisonment for six months from the date
of his committal ; John to imprisonment for twelve
mouths ; the former being a shorter period from the
circumstance of his returning home only a few hours
before Ryan was captured in the house.
James Skeehan, James Qusine, and Michael Howard,
were then placed in the dock, and the Learned Judges
having put on their black caps,
The LORD Ciller BARON then proceeded t• pass
upon them the last sentence of the law, and fixed the
22d of February for their execution.
We understand that it is the intention of the
Attorney- General to apply to their Lordships for an
adjournment of the Commission for this county until
Thursday, the 10th of February next; but it is not
anticipated that it will be found necessary to resume
the proceedings, as the assizes will be held within a
few weeks from the present time.
On ➢Monday morning their Lordships will proceed
to Clonmel, and will open the Commission for the
south Riding of Tipperary soon after their arrival.

THE LATE FIRE IN THE BUR-

LINGTON ARCADE.

The following is a copy of the official report of the
damage done :
"Jan. 22.—Three quarters past 4 a.m.—Called by
police and strangers to the fire in Burlington-arcade,
which was subsequently extinguished by firemen and
the engines of the parish, London Brigade, County
and West of England. The cause of fire not known.
Damages :
" Burlington Arcade, N 0.14, Mr. Russell, walking-
stick maker. The building burned down, and con-
tents destroyed Insurance on stock and furniture
not known.

" Ditto. Nos. 12 and 13, Mr. Perry, hairdresser and
perfumer.—Front of premises severely burned, plate
glass broken, contents damaged by fire.
"Ditto, No. 15, Mr. Jeffs, foreign bookseller.—
Front of building burned, and stock in trade severely
injured by fire and water.
" Ditto, No. 59, Mr. Beaumont, ladies' shoemaker.
—Shop and contents dastroyed ; the first floor burned
out, and roof off. Insured in the Imperial Fire-office.
" Ditto, Nos. 60 and 61, Mr. Morn!, fancy jewel-
ler and stationer (the Civet Cat).—Front windows
burner!, and contents seriously damaged by fire. Con-
tents supposed to be insured in the Sun-office.
" l)itto, Nos. 62 and 63, Samuel Christmas, hatter
and furrier.—Contents damaged by removal and
breakage. Insured in the Globe Fire-office.
" No. 58, Mr. Buhl, bootmaker.—Front burnt, the
plate glass demolished, and contents extensively da-
maged by fire and *ater.
"Ditto, Nos. 56 and 57, Mrs. Louisa Asser, milli-
ner and haberdasher.—Front of premises damaged by
fire, and contents by removal and water. Insured in
the Globe.

" Ditto, Nos. 16 and 17, Mr. J. T. Campart, hosier
and glover. Similar damage to building and contents.
Insured in the Atlas-office.
" The middle of the roof of the arcade burned out.
The principal portion of the houses are the property
of the lion. C. C. Cavendish, and are insured in the
Westminster Fire-office."

The arcade was on Saturday night completely
thronged with people who had been drawn there to
visit the ruins. Owing to the admirable arrange-
ments of the constables, not the slightest confusion
prevailed.

Gls Est,Lostox Ix Souo.—Yesterday afternoon,
between four and five o'clock, a fearful explosion oc-
curred upon the premises belonging to Mr. Ellis, a cur-
rier and leather dresser, New Compton-street, Soho.
From inquiries made, it appeared that at the time above-
mentioned, Mr. Ellis, on going into the shop for the
purpose of lighting the gas, was suddenly hurled to the
floor by the force of an explosion which resembled the
discharge of a piece of ordnance, at the same time the
partitions of the shop were blown down, and the windows
sent flying across the street. An aged female who was
passing at the time was thrown down with great violence,
but, fortunately, she received no personal injury. The
damage is not extensive.
REMOVAL OF THE FEMALE PRISONERS FROM THE
CITY COMPTER TO THE BORoUGH GAOL.—The whole
of the female prisoners of the very crowded Giltspur-
street Compter are being removed to the Borough, or
Clink prison in Stoney-lane, Tooley- street. This altera-
tion has been directed by the Court of Aldermen, in con-
sequence of the packed condition of the City Compter,
and the insubordination that prevails amongst the female
and male prisoners. On the latter being, removed this
establishment will enable the authorities to carry out the
separate system more effectually with the male priso-
ners. The Borough Compeer is capable of containing
160 prisoners. Sinco the abolition of the police-office at
the Town-hall, presided over by one of the aldermen, it
has been made use of more as a storehouse than a prison.
It has, however, now undergone a complete alteration,
and being within the jurisdiction of the City authorities,
will afford the necessary accommodation for the increase
of prisoners in the City, until the contemplated new
house of correction at Holloway is completed.
PASSENGERS FROM INDIA.—ALEIXANDRIA, JAN. 8.
—The following is a list of the passengers arrived at
Sues on the sth inst., by, the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer Bentinck :—From Calcutta—cap„
tain and Mrs. Blackwood and three children, Colonel
and Mrs. Forbes and two children, Mrs. Greenlaw, Miss
Bowling and two children, Mrs. Gladwin, Colonel Ab-
bott, Mrs. Perreau, Colonel Young, Mrs. Onslow, Mr.
G. Cowan, Colonel,. Leggett, Mr. 'Warwick, Captain
Greenlaw, Mr. MiKinnon, Mr. Drabble, Mr. Barnes'
Mr. Anderson, Lieutenant Stullard, Mr. Stessor, Mr. T.
Boyce, Mr. F. S. Grey. From Point de Gall'e—Mrs.
Norris and two children, Senor B. de la Puente, Captain
Unton, Lieutenant Jackson, Captain Stanley, Antonio
Ximenes, Dr. Young, Mr. W. Galbreath, Mr. J. Wil-
liams, Mr. George Osman. From Aden—Captain
Schneider,
'
2d Grenadier Regiment • Lieutenant Polly,
17th Regiment ; Ensign W. C. Robinson, 2d Regiment;
Ensign 11. Sparrow, 3d Regiment, Bombay Army.
At the Insolvent Debtors' Court at Maidstone, last
week, Stephen Richard Bishop, farmer, at Boughton
Aluph, was opposed by Mr. Duncan, on the part of the
Earl of Winchilsea, and supported by Mr. Digby, soli-
citor. There were only two creditors in the schedule,
one of whom was the Noble Earl, the opposing creditor.
This was a creditor's application under the Act which
empowers a creditor to file a petition where the debtor
refuses. The insolvent had been turned out of a farm
belonging to the Earl of Winchilsea, and a claim for
dainag-es made on him for 1961. 175., which he resisted.
An action was brought against him, which was referred,
and decided against him with costs. lie then possessed
about 1,5491. in money, of' which ho gave 750/. to his
sister, as alleged, for money borrowed of her. He had
also paid a large sum to another sister. The question
in this case was, whether he had really owed his sisters
any money? The insolvent swore that he did, and so
did the sisters, but the Court was so dissatisfied with
the case, as to intimate that at the next Court he. would
be remanded for three years. Costs of prosecution
allowed.--Kentish Observer.
THE CREW or THE CONCORD, AMEZICLN VESSEL.
—The American vessel Adrian, Captain Scott, from
Mobile, arrived at Havre on Friday morning, having on
board the crew of the United States vessel the Concord,
of Boston, who were picked up at se, on the 27th of
December, when nearly exhausted with fatigue, in 28
Ideg. 20 m. north latitude, 55 deg. 16 m. west longitude,
their ship having sprung a leak and gone down. All on
board had taken to the boat, except one man, who
perished in the wares.