The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY

government, and the encouragement of such rank
impostures as the so-called miracle of Rimini, rival-
ling the superstition of the darkest ages. He now
came to the remedy. Where were they to look for
the power which should be able to grapple with the
evil ? Unfortunately, as proved by the fruitless issue
of the Council of Trent, called expressly for the pur-
pose of reforming the Church, they must acknow-
ledge that the Court of Rome was the greatest ob-
stacle to its own reformation. They were determined
to adhere to all their old abuses, and, as experience had
shown, to foster new ones. From the people alone
could the power of effecting such a reform originate.
They must join in one universal demand that these
abuses should be cleared away, and that the Church
should be restored to its pristine purity and simpli-
city. For this object every people should unite as
brothers, in order to obtain such a reform of the Church
as should restore to it its original character, as the
type of the universal religion which Christianity was
intended to be.

The reverend father concluded with a fervent
prayer that all religious differences might be healed,
and that every sect might unite in one common creed,
as they acknowledged one common Head and
Founder.

MR. JOHN O'CONNELL AND THE REPRE-
SENTATION OF LIMERICK. •

Mr. John O'Connell has addressed the following
letter to the electors of Limerick :

" London, March 10, 1851.
" Fellow Countrymee—l have this moment re-
ceived, through your respected mayor, a resolution of
your corporation calling on ms to resign my seat.
" I have also received by the same post a copy of
the Limerick Reporter and Tipperary Vindicator, in
which I find the majority who carried the resolution
analysed as consisting of eight Conservatives and ten
Young Irelanders, two of the latter being profession-
ally engaged for Mr. Russell, the gentleman who has
so long and so frequently intimated his intention of
seeking your suffrages in the event of my retirement,
or of a general election.

" I remember that in 1847 the Conservatives and
the Young Irelanders made a similar alliance to en-
deavour to defeat your choice of a representative, and
that their united efforts ended in registering no more
than 37 votes against 400, which you recorded for
me—a number which you could have increased had
there been any necessity.
"NS hat is your will now ? You have only to
speak it, and it shall be obeyed. Does this second
alliance of Conservatives and Young Irelanders, with
the additional element of professional men who are to
get employment in case of a new election—does it
represent your wishes ? If so, its call on me shall,
as I have said, be obeyed; but I owe it to you to
ask the assurance from your own lips.
" You know me to be a long time anxious to re-
tire. I hold my seat now, and have held it for the
last sixteen months, merely in obedience to you and
to convenience you ; and when you declare yourselves
ready to accept it, and to go to a new election, I will
instantly resign, and give you the opportunity.
" I respectfully beg to point your attention to my
explanatory letter to the corporation, and to the
general letter I have addressed to the Repealers of
Ireland. They both appear in the Limerick Reporter
and Tipperary Vindicator that I received this morning,
and they contain the fullest, the latest, and the most
decided statement of my opinions, convictions, and
intentions.

"I conclude by saying, that although I did not
originally seek your representation, you having, i❑
fact, compelled me to take it and to give up my kind
friends in Kilkenny; and although I have been so
long asking of yon to allow me to retire from Par-
liament, yet I have ever duly and fully appreciated
the high honour and great kindness you have done
me ; and whether you now decide on going to a new
election or not, you shall ever command my warmest
and most fervent gratitude. _ _

" Re;peetfally and devotedly yours,
" JOHN O'CONNELL."

AMERICAN JOURNALISM
We published a short time ago a speech of Mr.
Cobden, in which he highly eulogized the press of
the United States, comparing it with that of England,
much to our disadvantage. We extract the following
character given of the New York Courier by the
New York Day Book, as a specimen of the literary
amenities of our Transatlantic contemporaries,
whose example Mr. Cobden recommends us to
follow :

(From the Day Book of F0b,.1 5.)

The larger the animal the more ridiculous are its
flounderings and kickings in its last struggles—pro-
viding that animal, from its stealthy character and pesti-
lential influence, and long depredations on the coal
munity, has made itself loathed and despised.
Such is the case with the courier and Enquirer of this
city at the present time. Impudence, treachery, and
the worst kind of duplicity often, from various and mul-
tiplied causes, will succeed and be suffered for a long
time to exist in the community, especially in a city like
this, for the reason that time is too precious and the
business of each individual too important to enable any
one to take upon himself the duty which more properly
belongs to the whole.
The Day Book, faithful to its promise as an
independent journal, has taken upon itself to send one of
its arrows to the vitals of the Courier, and hold up the
blanket-sheet towards the sun, where its patchwork,
threadbare and rotten condition can be seen in its true
light.
At one time possessed of the talents of MM. Noah
and of James Gordon Bennett, it obtained a notoriety
which, as soon as they left it (as we believe in disgust
and abhorrence), was made the means by which the ac-
complished blackguard who now controls it commenced
his depredations on the community. And since that
time no press, in this country at least, has exhibited such
unblushing prostitution and profligacy.
And not satisfied with his 52,000 dolls. black mail
depredations, or the turning of widows and children
houseless and homeless upon the world, he adds another
arid another to his victims, by means which his own
cowardice would not allow himself openly to employ—
" murder most foul" and fiendish; an unblushing bully
too cowardly to do the deed himself, though ever after
gloating over his victims—over the dead, and the living,
too, not less helpless in their feminine innocence and
juvenile dependence.
Success in crime for a series of years deadens the per-
petrator to all shame, save the shame and inconvenience
attending personal duress and hard labour. This is
precisely the case with James Watson Webb, the pro-
claimed editor of the Courier. Vain of his successful
frauds and duplicity, for ever vacillating and treacherous
to men, parties, and principles, he goes on in his un-
blushing shame, while our bankrupt courts show his dis-
graceful profligacy, and oar criminal records chronicle
him as a sentenced felon.

And now to prove him alive to the pains of physical
dnrel,s, his coalition with William H. Seward is all suffi-
cient. We know of no other person, principle, or party,
during his long career, however deep and sacred his obli-
gations, which he has not abandoned in a much shorter
time than this coalition has existed. But Seward is too
smart, and continually reminds him that but for his cle-
mency he would have gone to the State Prison; and that
the mere hap that ho had the pardoning powor saved
him from hard labour, and, perhaps, from the occasional
lash—just the only kind of punishment of which the bully
convict stands in fear.

We give Webb the credit—for once he is true to his
friend, and we give him a long mark! The refined and
accomplished demagogue bids him mount the black hobby
of abolitionism and spread his blanket-sheet over all
the " seven beads and ten horns" of the black monster.
He does; and now, shot at in every by-path and corner,
the whole concern is reeling in its sickness and asking
to be propped up while it is grasping at every hold to
prevent its final fall. Let it be transfixed to that wall
where the Day Book has driven it.

How THE ARABS TAKE THE HYJENA.--The
Paris Constitutionnel gives the following account of the
manner in which the Arabs ,hunt the hyaena, and of
the intrepedity they display in that dangerous sport,
as related in a letter:—" A few days since, the com-
mandant of a battalion of Turcos (native soldiers)
was informed that a female hyrna had been seen
in the neighbourhood of Mostaganem, near Mazagran,
and that she had taken refuge in a cave about
one hundred yards in depth. Orders were immedi-
ately given to carefully guard the entrance to the cave.
Two Turcos, provided with a simple cord and a small
chain, went into the cave without weapons, and
merely carrying a candle, and, in about halt an hour,
to the great astonishment of the spectators, an enor-
mous hyena appeared muzzled, and allowing
itself to be led along with the docility of a sheep.
According to the account given by the Arabs,
the animal, dazzled by the light of the candle, allows
itself to be handled and caressed like a young dog, and
during this time the hunter takes care to muzzle it, and
thus prevent the possibility of its doing any mischief.
Two soldiers were, however, two days since seriously
wounded by ono of these animals, which suddenly re-
sumed its ferocity, and, after biting through the muzzle,
took to flight, after knocking down its two assailants.
It is impossible for anything to equal the courage and
temerity shown by the natives in these sports."
A new form of Post-office money-order :and
advice will be brought into use in all the money-order
offices in April next in the country. The new orders
and advices will be of a different shape from the
ones in present use, and the printing on which will
be red. The order before issued will be at-
tached to the advice, and will bear the same
printed number. When issued the former will
be torn from the latter and given to the remitter, and
the latter will be filled in and sent on to the postmaster
who will have to pay the order. Tne great advantages
of this plan will be that before an order can be paid,
a postmaster must have the identical advice which
was joined to it before it was . issued, because the
counterparts and printed numbers of both advice
and order must agree. As, therefore, the issuing
postmaster will not be able to use an advice in-
discriminately for nay order; and as at the end of the
day he will have the precise number of separate advices
as of orders he has issued, he cannot possibly forget to
write an advice for every order he grants, and as the
same numbers are printed on the order and advice they
must always correspond. Postmasters forgetting to
write advices, and the number of orders and advices
not eerresponeling have hitherto been two very fruitful
sources of error, and of consequent inconvenience to the
public.