The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, j‘NOVEMBER' 3, 1834.

come, upon which last public income depends, by re-
moving legislative restraints upon industry, by which
industry is deranged and repressed. Tithe, perhaps,
was meant to be included among the reforms of Church
abuses, though the commutation of it was well entitled
to a separate consideration. But upon education,
which is of the utmost importance, both as it regards the
high and the low, the rich and the poor, Lord DUR-
HAM was altogether silent. The passions of mankind
may be easily inflamed by the manner of dealing with
the topics to which his Lordship confined himself,
and this object may be obtained without any very
sound or wholesome knowledge even upon such
subjects. But to deal with the operation of the corn
laws, and other legislative restraints upon industry,
requires a knowledge of the whole of these subjects
that is to be attained only by patient and diligent in-
vestigation, and by a careful observation, and a cool
examination and consideration of facts and circum7
stances, separate and combined, that are to be found in
tracing the operation of such restraints. We have
endeavoured to make up as far as our own means
enable us, for the absence of the advertance of Lord
DURHAM, and other public men, to the restraints to
which we have alluded. We have begun by contrast-
ing some of the more striking of such restraints in
France, with others not less striking here, and with
the consideration of some taxes which repress home
industry, and have suggested the modification of taxes
on import, through which the revenue may be improved
and home industry increased. We shall supply his
Lordship's omission of all notice of the Corn Laws, to
which his attention was so pointedly directed, and
advert also to other matters with which we hope he is
not altogether unacquainted, and we also trust he will
give his best assistance in setting them right.

The Orangemen of Down, with Lords HILLS-
BOROUGH, CLANWILLIAM, RODEN, CASTLE-
REAGII, LONDONDERRY, and twenty lowly and meek
Ministers of the Gospel of Peace, and a host of ladies,
from the slip-shod miss of eighteen to the spectacled
dowager of eighty, have lifted up their voices, and pro-
claimed aloud their determination to unfurl the stan-
dard and unsheathe the sword, in the maintenance of
Orange ascendancy in Ireland. There was no minc-
ing matters on the hustings at Hillsborough. Like
Di ggoy in the farce, the orators were all as bold as
lions. " When such scenes are passing round us,"
roared the illustrious CASTLEREAGH, 44 shall it be
said that the Protestants of the North look quietly on
the destruction of every thing they hold most dear ?
Shall the Protestant lion of the North slumber in his
lair ? or shall he not rather shake his shaggy mane,
and show that he is prepared to resist the invasion of
his foes I" Without dealing so deeply in metaphor,
Lord LONDONDERRY was equally energetic and to the
purpose : " No matter what may be my avocations in
another country," shouted the patriotic and constitu-
tion-loving nobleman ; "I have a love for my native
soil ; I have an affection for Irishmen, in the ardour
and sincerity of which I will yield to no man ; and
should a day ever come, which God forfend, when
there would be a necessity for such a sacrifice, I hope
to be found with my gallant friends ready to shed the
,last drop of my blood in defence of Protestantism in
Ireland I" There is no mistaking the purport of this
language, poured into the ears of an ignorant and ex-
cited peasantry. There is no miscalculating the effects
which it must produce ; nor can malice itself mistake the
intentions of those by whom it is uttered. The object
of the Down Conservatives is neither more nor less
than to prevent, as far as in them lies, all union

tween the factions that disturb that unhappy country—
to foment that religious rancour which has for the last
three centuries torn and distracted the kingdom from
north to south—and to obtain an ascendancy for them-
selves at the expense of the just and constitutional
claims of their Catholic fellow countrymen. As
usual, the word of God was bandied about, as if the
orators had assembled to play at shuttlecock with the
Bible ; and the sacred name of religion was used as a
sanction for the fostering of feelings which heathens
would blush to discover as actuating their conduct
towards their fellow citizens. In such an assembly it
will surprise no person that the Government came in for
a large share of abuse, or that many of the speakers
brought charges against the Ministry which they them-
selves well knew to be without foundation. But it
would be a waste of time to go through half the
raving absurdities that were spoken by men who, per-
haps, were too much excited at the time to be aware of
what they were saying. The few remarks we propose
making shall be confined to the contents of a paper
of grievances concocted by the Marquis of LONDON-
DERRY and his friends in private ; and which he read
or recited to the meeting, as a list of the *mugs, in-
juries, and complaints of the Orangemen of Ireland in
general, and of Down in particular, together with the
charges founded thereon which they preferred against
the present Government. We begin with complaint
the first in the words of the Noble Marquis :

" I shall now briefly recount for you what I conceive are the
peculiar grievances of which we have to complain.—( Hear.)
In my sincere opinion the most daring and wanton outrages
are perpetrated openly and in the face of day, on the persons
and property of the Protestants of Ireland, the laws openly
violated, and trampled under foot—numerous bodies of men
publicly assembled to resist by force the execution of those
laws—the executive force not only insulted in their endeavours
to preserve the peace, but murdered in the most savage man-
, nur, and the murderers allowed to escape with impunity—that
the Protestants, attacked in all quarters, feeling that neither
life nor property are secure, are obliged to fly from their
homes, leaving their dwellings.to the mercy of the enemy, and
abandoning, or disposing of for a trifle, the most valuable part
of their property, are only too happy to escape with their lives,
by emigrating to a foreign country.—( Hear, hear. )"
In asserting that there is not the slightest founda-
-60;2 for the above complaint—that the lives and pro-
perties of Protestants in Ireland are as secure as they
ever were, in that or any other country, considered
simply as Protesiauts—we are by no means guilty,
as might be supposed at first sight, of any discourtesy
towards the Noble Lord who uttered the above extra-
ordinary complaint. His Lordship does not say that
the lives or properties of Protestants are insecure in
Ireland—his statement is not a statement of fact, but
of opinion. "In my sincere opinion," begins the con-
scientious statesman ; which opinion, we can prove,
to be one of the most erroneous ever entertained by per-
sons more noted for erroneous opinions than even his
Lordship, which certainly bespeaks considerable cele-
brity. But does not this show at once the common
honesty of the meeting ? What would an assemblage
of Englishmen say, were a distinguished individual to
assure them that he thought twenty thousand, persons
were dying daily in the streets of London of wounds
inflicted by the Police ? Would they not say that the
nerson was mad, or a fool, who could utter an untruth,
of the 11:Illness of which every' one might be convinced
by opening. his ? But they manage these things
differently in Ireland—so iivc :hall to the second
complaint :
" 2. That those outrages are not only permitted by the
Government to pass with impunity, but the chief instigator by
whom they are excited is treated with the highest considera-
tion, courted, promoted, and elevated by the Government of
the day."
The outrages here referred to, are those which we