The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-07 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

TRANSFER OF SHARES.—The Lord unancell6-.. "nag hau
before him the case of Hawkins v. Maltby. It was an
appeal from the decree of Vice-Chancellor Wood, who had
dismissed the bill of the plaintiff, which he had presented
under the following circumstances. It is the custom on the
Stock Exchange for shares to be sold several times, passing
through several hands, before the transfer is registered. The
deed is then executed as from the original holders to the
last buyer. In this case the plaintiff was the original
holder of shares in the Imperial Credit Company, and
after the shares had changed hands several times they
came to the defendant on the 28th of March. In the
meantime—on the 26th—a call of £5 was made on the
shares, and on the 31st of May Another call was made.
Notices of each of these calls were given to the defen-
dant, but they were disregarded ; and when the com-
pany was wound up the plaintiff paid the calls.
The transfer had never been registered, and the plaintiff
prayed that the defendant might be compelled to register
it, to perform the agreement, to repay the plaintiff all
past calls, &c. The Vice-Chancellor decided for the
defendant, on the ground that when he bought he did not
know of the call. The Lord Chancellor now affirmed that
decree on another ground—that there was no proof of the
contract of which specific performance was asked.
SPORTING CASE.—The case of Southby v. Smith was
an action to recover £25 deposited with the defendant as
stakeholder for a certain foot-race. Plaintiff was to have
run a race with one Rice, but a dispute ensued, and each
party ran over the course. The jury now found that
no race had been run, and returned a verdict for
plaintiff ; damages, £25.

ROBBERY OF A DIAMOND CROSS.—At the Middlesex
Sessions, yesterday, a railway porter at the Victoria
Station of the London and Brighton Railway was charged
with stealing a valuable diamond cross. The prosecutor
had a portmanteau, which was given half an hour before
the train started to prisoner to label and put into the van.
The next day prosecutor's wife, on opening the portman•
teau, discovered that a diamond cross which she had put
there was missing. Eventually it was found to have been
pawned by a woman who it was alleged was prisoner's'
wife. This point, however, was not satisfactorily esta•
blished, and the jury acquitted the prisoner.
STRANGE ACTION AGAINST A BANK.—An action against
the City Bank, which occupied the Court of Queen's
Bench during two days, was brought by one Ruddy to
recover £3OO on a deposit receipt. The plaintiff made a
deposit four years ago which collectively amounted to £99,
as shewn on the credit slip, but a receipt was given to him
for £399, and he declared that. that was the amount he
deposited. The bank denied having received more than
3399, which they paid into court, and the suggestion was
that the plaintiff, having discovered that a mistake had
been made, resolved to turn it to his own advantage. The
jury found a verdict for the bank without leaving the box.

THE CHAMPIONSHIP. JOE Goss AND JOE
WORMALD.— The match between these men for the
champion's belt and £2OO a side has resulted in nothing as
regards the trophy, but they, however, have staked £lO a
side and drawn up articles to fight the first Tuesday in
March (March 3) for £lOO a side, at catch weight, in the
London district, and the next deposit of £5 a side falls due
on or before Friday next.—Bell's Life.

AN INTERNATIONAL WORKING MEN'S ASSOCIA-
noN.—At a meeting of the Birmingham Trades Council a
report was brought up which explained the working of
the International Working Men's Association. The
objects as therein defined were briefly as follows :—The
fraternal union of working men of different countries, to
defeat the object of unscrupulous capitalists, who threaten
to import the foreign workman when any attempt is made
to improve the condition of the English one ; the develop-
ment of co-operation in the education of the people ; a
reduction in the hours of labour, &c. The association is
to be governed by au annual congress, the first to be held
in London. To this congress the representatives of
different countries will be sent. The report recommended
the association to the Trade! C9Roil,lllld, after pme dis-
cussion, it, was adopted.

THE IRISH MONO,II,IA7A.

Last Saturday the Dublin Nation, Irishman, and

Weekly News, bordered with black, came out with
articles appealing to the passions of the Irish on the
execution of the patriots at Manchester. Of these
the most characteristic and forcible was the Nation's
" Gone with a Vengeance." In it, with consider-
able literary ability, free expression is given to a
hatred and malice carried to the verge of fanati-
The English Government is denounced as
'raining and executing laws in aid of a detestable
,yranny ; the people as hypocrites and liars ;
,he press as a disgrace to a Christian land, and
all, including Judge and Jury, described as
alike reeking and hissing with a fiery spirit of
revenge. The glaring contradiction given to its
diatribe by the impunity of its circulation will strike
others—though perhaps not the writer. The spirit
manifested, more concerns the English than such
insane denunciations, which those who have inquired
dispassionately know to be untrue. Recognising
the animus, the real subject is to ascertain the cause,
and, if possible, the remedy. If ever a strong in-
stance has been given, of the sins of the fathers
being visited on the children, it is supplied in this
case. CROMWELL and WILLIAM 111. were great
statesmen, yet they made the most fearful and
irreparable blunders ever committed by English
rulers. The injuries they were mainly instrumental
iu inflicting on Great Britain by the course taken
towards Ireland is the root of the present evil. That
they represented the policy of the period, to crush
out of existence the Celtic race, makes the nation
an accomplice in the crime, and is a reason why the
retribution should be borne patiently. In those
days of wholesale spoliation, when the appeal of the
Irish proprietor was answered by the brutal excla-
mation—" To h-11 or Connaught," the seeds of the
bitter fruit were sown. Contemplating that period
we are constrained to admit that great as is the
punishment it is not undeserved. The life of a
nation extends over centuries—of an individual over
decades, and both reap what they sow ; but it
is the misfortune of national crimes that the in-
heritance of woe descends to far-off generations.
When the bleak hill-sides and bare rocks of
mist-covered Connaught were thronged with the
dispossessed fugitives—when the exiles were crowded
n Cork, bidding an eternal farewell to their native

cism.

land—it is strange that no statesman foresaw the
fatal effects of a policy so cruel and injudicious.
In every nation of Europe, Irishmen rose to fame ;
and in every council where an Irishman sat, there
was a bitter enemy of England. The Jacobite
plots derived vitality from his undying animosity,
and beneath every standard borne against the
English the foremost soldier was a Celt. Great,
however, as has been the injury thus inflicted on
British intorests in the Old World, it is trifling com-
pared with that wrought in the New. The perse-
cuted and persecuting Puritan who founded the
New England Settlements has been s.v.camped by
the people who owe to their fierce animosity the
worst measures of legislation which have alienated
the race. In proportion to the growth of the United
States in population, the numbers of those increased
whose strongest sentiment was a hatred to every-
thing English, handed down as an heirploom from
father to son till it passed into the hearts of genera-
tions who knew Ireland but as a name, and its his-

tory but as the tale of a distant country. So it
came to pass that men enjoying an unequalled ma-
terial prosperity —with an unbounded liberty—have
cherished as an inheritance this passion, and sacri-
ficed much to gratify an animosity against those
of whom they know nothing except what books
and tradition have told them. And thus, too,
it happened that a party grew in the United
States resisting external influences, till they
became in the nation but not of it, having objects
and aspirations not American, but Irish. To them
the strength of the Great Republic was a matter of
hope and of anticipation, for they saw in it not the

elevation of their a lopted country, but the degrada-
tion of that they so detested. Ireland's miseries
inspired the muse of their poets,the pen of their
historians, the imagination of their novelists, till th
tale circulated over the world, an I shu idering genera-
tions had listened to the great crime which demanded
so great a retribution. Wherever England has stood
forth as the champion of nationality, as the protec-
tor of the oppressed, Ireland has been flung in her
teeth. Everywhere the Irishman has settled—
every where advanced, but, alike in prosperity or
adversity, he has cherished this hatred even as his
faith ; and there are those who allege that it has
furnished the chief reason for the tenacity with which
he has clung to his belief. A nation can no more
afford to have a deadly enemy than an individual ;
and it is England's greatest misfortune to have thus
imbued a foe who have more spread themselves over
the world than any family of the human race. Re-
cognising the danger, anxious to remedy the past
misgovernment, desirous earnestly to conciliate, what
course is England to pursue? Reforms are scouted,
forbearance misconstrued, appeals to reason met
by fierce invective and declamation. In vain Eng-
land points to equal laws and taxation, equ repre-
sentation, and a full and patient hearing for any
grievance. Every profession and branch of industry
she asserts is alike open to all ; and more than a fair
share of the places the country has to bestow, falls to
the Irish. The question is met by fiery and seditious
appeals to the prejudices of the populace. The
orator deals freely with the past or with the future
—with anything but the present. Reference is made
to the days when Ireland was the school of Europe,
and the people the most enlightened in the world.
This fable is used to point the contrast when the
hated Saxon appeared on the scene, and the ruin
began. In vain they are recalled to the practical
questions of the day, the present is vaulted over,
and in the mind's eye the sun of liberty is seen
dawning on the Emerald Isle, shining on an Irish
Parliamentlegislating for an Irish Republic on Irish
soil.

It is time that this injurious agitation should
cease—in the interest of the human race. England
once persecuted Ireland, and Ireland has retaliated
by a bitter persecution of England. Allowing that
the latter does not as yet equal the former, let
Ireland compound for the balance, and bring in a
bill of grievances. It is worth England's while by
any measures of concession short of the disruption
of the United Kingdom to attain this end. Instead
of shooting policemen, murdering informers, orga-
nising invasion, conspiring for rebellion, and keep-
ing the country in a perpetual turmoil, let both
parties take stock of the matters in dispute and square
accounts. If Fenians refuse when invited, openly
to come forward to discuss practical measures they
assume this position :—They say to the Saxon,
"Your forefathers have cruelly injured mine; the
only remedy we will accept is to work on you, their
descendants, the same ruin. If not benefiting our-
selves, we injure,you, and this is more agreeable.
Though unable to raise a successful revolt, we
can keep discontent alive until the accident happens
by which we hope to precipitate the United States
into a war with you. The world will be set in a
blaze, and both nations vitally injured, but we
will gain our object." In former days the Irish en-
deavoured to use France as they now desire to use
the United States. It may not be gratifying to the
great Republic to be regarded by a section of its own
citizens as a mere tool for Irish vengeance, but this
is the true issue of the agitation, and unless the
United States discountenances the insane movement,
the nation can scarcely refrain from b. corning in-
volved in war. The errors of a former age may
thus be repeated in this, and fresh crops of bitter-
ness be again s )wn broadcast to be reaped by coming
generations. The persecution to which Ireland is
subjecting England is producing a result which may
hereafter lea Ito great trouble and suffering. No
people can patiently endure for ever, their laws
violated, their motives misconstrued, their character
slandered, their territory invaded, and the vengeance
of another people threatened. The insane hatred
will generate in those against whom it is directed
as intense a dislike. If the war of races begins, the
weakest will most suffer ; and, even in Ireland, if
those born on the soil were left to fight out the
question of the English connection, it would
be found that the advocates of an Irish Re-
public had not even the strength to carry their
own island against their opposing countrymen,
without Englishmen moving hand or foot. If the
Irish agitators would but come down from their