The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-18 00:00:00

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, SATURDAY.

FURTHER DEFIANCE OF THE PENAL LAW.—
Whatever technical doubts may have arisen as to
the legality or otherwise of the prefix assumed by
" Paul Cullen, Archbishop, Primate of all Ireland,"
the name of a see or a locality being omitted, Dr.
BPHale has resolved that none shall exist as far as he
concerned, and in order that there may be "no mis-
take " on his part, and that no lack of " pluck " shall
be laid to the charge of so veritable a " lion,"
" his Grace" has addressed another letter to the De•
fence Committee, from which it will be seen that the
well-known signature is appended in the teeth of
the recent Penal Act of Parliament. The following
is a copy :

" St. Jarlath's, Team, Aug. 13, 1851.
" Gentlemen,—l beg respectfully to acknowledge your
kind letter of invitation to be present at the coming
great aggregate meeting of the Catholics of Ireland.
" As the hierarchy has been the body at which in the
first instance the recent persecuting enactments have
been aimed, and as they are the persons peculiarly con-
cerned in these results, we ought to feel grateful for the
affectionate solicitude with which the laity, ever faithful
to their pastors, are now rallying round them to guard
them from dangers in which their own dearest interests,
civil as well as religious, would not fail soon to be
involved.
" No doubt it will be a matter of surprise that you
should invite to your meeting defunct persons, atter
having first nobly combated, and then sorrowfully wit.
erased, the passing ut the decree that doomed them to
civil annihilation.

" It appears from this that you entertain still a strong
conviction that the Catholic hierarchy is not dead not-
withstanding the recent Act of Parliament. Though
there may be a diversity of opinion as yet on that point,
I trust that numbers of these venerable individual-,
whom the bigotry of the English Ministers deems mere
phanthoms, will present tnemselves ut your meeting, in
vested with all the attributes of life, cheering by their
presence and their sympthy the generous people who
are resolved, as ofien before, to share the vicissitudes ut
their fortune; and, as for me, 1 hope to be able to form
an humble member of the disowned body, in the un-
changed identity of the same person with which I have
the honour to subscribe myself, gentlemen, your very
faithful and obliged servant,
"t-1 JOHN, Archbishop of Tuam.
John Reynolds, Esq., M.P.
William Keogh, Esq.. M.P.
The Tablet expresses its perfect " delight" with
the letter of the venerable archbishop of the " west,"
but. what most tickles the fancy of this ultramontane
organ is the "unchanged courage with which his
Grace persists in assuming the style and title of
Archbishop of Tuam." The " Bishops" of Notting-
ham and Hexham are in equal favour as violators of
the Act of Parliament. "The signature of this latter
Prelate" to his recent letter, it seems, "is incorrectly
given"—it was signed " Hexham" only, "but it is
obvious that he, as well as his two co-prelates, means
to assume the titles which are forbidden by the new
law." This, at least, is satisfactory. But particular
tention is re quested to a still brighter gem which
adorns the columns of the Tablet. Speaking of the
aggregate meeting, the writer commences in the fol-
lowing strain of true orthodoxy:—
"As the time for holding the aggregate meeting
draws near it becomes more arid more certain that the
demonstration will be worthy of the occasiun. Our
reader. already know that the Primate, the Archbishop
of Armagh—the only Archbishop of Armagh (a certain
Lord John Ge-rge Beresford, who sometimes receives
That title. b,•ing the merest of shams and imp, stors)—
ale successor or St. Patrick, the representative of th,
Holy See and of St. Peter's chair, the chiet teacher of
Christianity in this island, authorised and commissioned
as such by oar blessed Lord and Saviour, has been re-
quested and has kindly given his consent to occupy the
chair. Cardinal %,‘ iserr au and all the other archbishops
and bishops in the three kingdoms—not, we repeat, in-
cluding in that description the superintendents of certain
Protestant congregations appointed by the State to re-
ceive stolen goods and to teach falsehood, but all the
archbishops who are archbish,,ps, and all the bishops
who are bishops, have been invited to support his Grace
on this occasion, and to lend the weight of their influence
and authority to this great event."
THE " CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY."

The Lord Cardinal has at length held up big head
and made sign. His Eminence has addressed the
subjoined letter to the University Committee express-
ing his sympathy with their labours, and intimating
his intention of giving them his aid in the great
work of fostering religious dissensions between the
two classes of the Queen's subjects in Ireland. Here
is the manifesto of the " illustrious metropolitan of
the British Churcb," as the Freeman's Journal styles
him :

" 25, Cadogan-street, Chelsea, Aug. 18.
" Having perused with sincere interest the address of
the committee appointed by the Synod of Thurles for
founding a Catholic University in Ireland, to the Catho-
lic clergy and laity in England, dated the Feast of St.
James ut this year, we hereby warmly recommend it to
the consideration of those to whom it is directed, as-
sured that its own earnest and glowing words will plead
'sore powerfully than any that we can write. The noble
and truly Catholic sympathy which Ireland has shown
with our trials claims from every English Catholic a
corresponding feeling, and now especially, that we may
say of the children of the Church and their pastors in
both i!latids--`.Eadem fides et passio vere fecit esse ger-
rnanos: Whatever is oone in Ireland to protect the
faith and secure a pure religious education must be con-
sithred as a common work, perromed for a common
got d. In this sentiment of the address we heartily
agrt.e: and though multiplied are our wants at home, we
trust that the generosity of English Catholics will not
fall below the high estimate which the Irish prelates
have formed of them.
" While thus we venture to address our sentiments on
this subject to all our Catholic brethren in England, we
further auttacriso collections to be made in all places
within the limits of our spritual jurisdiction among the
faithful by the Rev. Micha": Hope and the Rev. Francis
M.Gunry, who have been appointed by the University
Committee to boltett contributions.

" N. Curditial WisEmsN."

A man ph-dges himsi-1f to swim from Dover to
Calais, according to a letter dated Vienna (Aug. 10), where
he is et present. He offers to wake from 50 1. to 1.0u01.,
a ainst all corners, that he will du this in the month of
August or September; the money to be deposited before-
hand with a London banker. He has already swum, ac-
cording to his own account, from Vienna to Presburg, down
the Danube.

A BLIND WATCHMAREII.—There is living at
Holbeach, Lincolnshire, a watchmaker named Rippin, com-
pletely blind. He is a first-rate hand at his business, and it
is truly surprising to observe with what ease he can take to
pieces and place together again watches of the mot delicate
mechanism. Some years ago Rippin was robbed, and the
property taken consisted of watch-wheels, hair springs, and
other tiny things belonging to the trade. The thief was
traced, and convicted at Spalding sessions, and the writer of
this paragraph saw the blind man swear to his property by
feeling.—Stamford Mercury.