The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, 'FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1834.

of circumstances enter, which must be viewed both

combined and separately. Distress and idleness we
believe to be the parent of crime among the bulk of
mankind in every state, and particularly in our own
country. Even an educated and moral man may
through distress be driven to commit a criminal act,-
but we cannot help believing that an ignorant and
immoral. man will more easily yield to. the -commission
of it. - The subject is of great importance, and we shall
occasionally return to it.

At a public dinner lately given to Mr. O'CONNELL
at Cahirciveen, the hob. and learned gentleman, after
indulging. in his usual stormy ebullitions of patriotism,
observed, " revolution is now abroad, but it is the re-
volution 9f charity. This is the. new political creed,
of which lam an apostle." And no wonder ! A man
who makes upwards of fourteen thousand pounds per
annum by a " revolution" of this sort, is not likely to
be otherwise than apostolical in his zealous adherence
to it No, no,—so long as•the pounds, shillings and
pence turn in to his exchequer, the " revolution of
charity " will find its most enthusiastic advocate in
DANIEL O'CONNELL. He is not the man—
Mammon forbid !—to desert such a revolution I He
will stick by it to the last farthing. Indeed, his lan-
guage acknowledges as
.much, for he is speaking, be.
it remembered, in Ireland,-and to Irishmen, where this
most lucrative of revolutions is just now in full vigour.
It is surprising to us how a quick-witted* people like
the Irish, can allow themselves to be gulled by such
a shallow, vacillating mountebank as O'CONNELL,
compared with whom, the weather-cock that twists and
turns a dozen times .a day on the summit of St. Mar-
tin's steeple, is steadiness itself. Yet the man has the
impudence to talk of being unchanging in his advo-
cacy of the interests of his poor countrymen I Yes,
he who draws the last penny from the pockets of the
starving peasant, actually professes to weep tears of
blood for the very penury to which he has himself
helped to .reduce him I Oh rare philanthrophy I
Where among the patriotic records of past ages shall
we find disinterestedness equal to this ? In the same
speech to which we have just alluded, Mr. O'CONNELL
Says, ." Ireland's energies are capable of further and
still greater exertions;" that is to say, though she
contributed a handsome amount of Rent, last year,
she is capable of contributing a still greater amount
this year. The delicacy of this insinuation, to say
nothing of the seasonable period at which it is put
forth, are by no means its least recommendations.

We learn from the Brussels Papers of the 20th inst.
that the Queen of the FRENCH, with her august
daughter the Queen of the BELGIANS, and the
Princesses MARY and CLEMENTINE, paid a visit to
that city on the 19th. The period of their intended
stay is not reported.

The news contained in the Dutch and German
Papers is of nospolitical importance. The Allgemeine
Zeitung of the 17th of October states, that on the 7th
the King of BAVARIA visited Rome incognito, and
on the following morning waited on the POPE, by
whom he was received at the Quirinal Palace. We
have not learned the object of this visit.

We have received the French Papers of Tuesday,
the extracts from which contain the latest intelligence
from Madrid. During the sitting of the Procuradores
on the 9th, a petition was agreed to be presented to
the QUEEN,. praying' the reservation of several civil
and military employments for Such of the officers and
men belonging to the troops, as ha.ve distinguished, or
may distinguish themselves against the insurgents.
On the 11th Count TORNNO brought forward his
budget, which was read, and ordered to be printed.
The discussion on it has not yet commexced. Time
is no domestic intelligence of any importance ill the
French-journals. •