The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-09 00:00:00

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, CORK.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sir,—Perceiving by your talented and independent paper
that you have not been inattentive to, or unobservant of,
Lie fantastic tricks of those religio-political divines, la°
are now making a bold, but I hope unavailing, essay t°
gu 1 the English people, on that vexata-questio, the Irish
Church, I am emboldened to beg a small space of .oar
journal for a few remarks.
The reckless and unblushing assertion made in Liverl°l
by the Coryphceus of the Irish Conservatives, the Re'
Mr. Boyton, that there is and has been a conspiracy
in this country to destroy and annihilate the Protest-
ants," is so devoid of truth, so divested of the least,
particle of veracity, that I do hope the honest and rational
portion of your countrymen will reject it with scorn an° -
contempt ; but if, after they shall have read the following
extract from the speech of this same reverend agitator!
spoken at the great Protestant meeting on the 14th °I
August last, as it appears in the Evening Mail—it;
say, they give credence to his violent tirades against
the unfortunate Irish, they are not the maa'Y'
frank, and honourable people that I took them f°r'
Alluding to the disturbances in the rural districts, he says
" It is now a movement against property--tithe property He: •
most convenient, it is exposed, it has been made the subject
of a popular outcry ; but I ask is there no other property.
equally exposed ? is there no other property the subject 0,1;
unpopularity ? what think you of the property of absentees , •
—(Cheering)—are they popular ?—(Great cheering.) W.ll)'
my Lord there is no one contained within the circuit of atif
shores who does lay at the doors of these men the n'ho't
burden of the miseries of the country ; and here I will st°P
to say, I will put forward to this great meeting what I hasc
constantly inculcated, what I have continually put forwarai
what I will persist to reiterate, that in seeking the cause a
your own insecurity of what is shaking every property,
privilege, and law to its foundation, you are not to look to
Pcpery, not to look to disaffection, not to look to (frog?'
cracy : you must go deeper, and seek it in the destitution
and agony of the population, every search will fail that
comes short of this, and every remedial measure be baffle'
not applied to this foundation of every thing with tbte
habits and sentiments that always accompany the 100.,
stage of poverty, no hope of any thing better, no expectation
of any thing worse ;• every desire, every taste, that more °r
less accompanies the smallest advance 'in civilization, 8
which was the only thing to check the unlimited multiplica;
tion of poverty and wretchedness is absent from the great
body of the peasantry of Ireland ; this one finds in the
t
centre of a great city hard to conceive, yet see its filo',,
in the recurrence of its periodical famines ? Can anythinge
be surprising in a state of society such as this ? If such
the base of society upon which all else rests, can the sumla.l
be secure ? and who will every man in the country ckarr,
with the creation of this evil ? the Irish absentees."—(lica''
and cheers.)
Now, sir, I would wish to ask this Minister of l'ed

how he could have stated the very antithesis of ,his at the
other side of the Irish channel, and this is only a specirfle,n
of what Hibernian parsons are capable of doing—thesc
must be mad—Quod dens vult perdere pries dementat.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
- PHILO JUSTIV''

Dec. 4, 1834.