The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-09 00:00:00

CLIFFE and those Peers who, acting with him, threw
out the excellent measure for settling the tithe question
in Ireland, and thereby exposed that country to insur-
rection and the Clergy to starvation, to be able,
by wiping off this debt, to undo some of the mis-
chief they have (lone. But their Lordships must
be content to forego this gratification at pre-
sent.

They ought to have looked to the con-
sequences of their act before they rejected a mea-
sure founded upon the only principle that ever
can, or ever will, or ever ought to. be, tolerated by the
people of Ireland, in the settlement of their English
Church. The Lords have obstinately refused to sanc-
tion this truly healing measure, as they refused to
sanction one of a similar nature last year; and there
is abundant evidence in the speeches of those here-
ditary tribunes of the people, Lords WHARNCLIFFE,
RODEN, and ELLENBOROUGH, that they intend to
persist in their present doggedness to the end of the
chapter. If we are not greatly mistaken, they will be
made to whistle another tune, by the time the Irish
Church Reform Bill comes before them a third tim^

-Mr. O'CONNELL'S letter to the 11:'
• •; --
Th
LINGTON, which will be found 7.1 another part ofe
uecisive, and straight-forward
Sun, is more energetic;
Lie has said or written for months past.
than any thinz
We hav-, perused this document with all the at-
te7,tion which its importance, under existing cir-
cumstances, deserves, and cannot find one single
remark to which the slightest rational objec-
tion can• be made. The writer commences by
alluding to the DUKE'S charge, that he had
been " convicted of a misdemeanour," which he
meets with the remark that it is wholly devoid of
foundation. " The Returns," he says, "of all the
proceedings against me, which were made by order of
the House of Lords, were in your Grace's own hands ;
they showed, indeed, that there were eleven indictments
against me ; but every one that charged me with any
moral offence was abandoned upon the record by the
ATTORNEY‘GENERAL ! There remained one 'in-
dictment. It was for disobeying a Proclamation. I
insisted that that was no offence, and relying on that
plain principle of law, I declined to plead to the in-
dictment, having first secured these terms—that no at-
tempt should be made to proceed to judgment without
giving me the full power to have the twelve
Judges in Ireland ; and, finally, the Must of
Lords, to decide whether or not it was an offence
to disobey a proclamation. Of course the matter pro-
ceeded no further, and thus I was not only not con•
victed, but I was not tried at all ; and you clearly should
have known your charge against me was entirely des-
titute of fact." Having thus disposed of his Grace's
random accusation, Mr. O'CONNELL prACtRaS to talk
of his own great political influence, which he describes as
having its source in the " grievances, oppressions, and
wrongs of Ireland." This is true to the very letter. Had
not centuries of misgovernment rendered Ireland desr-
rate, Mr. O'CONNELL would never have been the
man he now is. It is Tory obstinacy, and that
only, that has given him his present all-powerful
influence, which so far from diminishing, .will still
be daily on the increase—if, indeed, an increase
be possible—until, as he himself says, " full, com-
plete justice is done to Ireland." Let the Tories,
then, venture for once on this discreet course of pro-
ceeding, and they may depend on it that the giant,
who, thcogli of their own express manufacture, has so
long terrified them, will very soon be divested of
all his formidable qualities. Mr. O'CONNELL
'next alludes to what he calls " the late treasonable
conspiracy of some of the Orange underlings to alter
the succession, and supersede the PrincessYrcToniA,"
which, he pointedly adds, " has, in spite of the con-
cealment of the official menial, exploded, and the
Most Noble Grand himself borne his blushing
honours and grey whiskers to the meeting of crowned
despots at Kalisch." This is a hard hit at a
certain illustrious individual, and may • help to
moderate his extacies, when lie finds himself once
again " hail fellow, well met," with congenial spirits
in a Russian camp. Mr. O'CONNELL afterwards
goes on to sum up the merits of the most notorious
Tory oligarchs, in the course of which, alluding to the
Marquis of LONDONDERRY, he says, " then there
is LONDONDERRY, who has been described by an
uneducated Irishman as not having understand-
ing enough to herd geese on a common. I verily
believe, for my part, lie would not know how
many he ought to bring home in the evening, although
I answer for it, he would bring home one goose more
than could be eaten." .This is one of those sly,
apt bursts of sarcasm whose unexpectedness has
quite an electrifying effect upon the reader. It
is an unpremeditated felicity worthy even of
CORBETT. In the COll-Be of his letter, Mr.
O'CONNELL takes occasion to remark, " Justice from
England, and in legislative connexion with IreJand, I
am now ready to be satisfied with—that is, if it be
speeflily and effectually conceded. But if you and
Tour colleagues refuse justice to Ireland, then I fall
hack on the Repeal,' and conjure the Irish to
insist, and, if unanimous, they will not insist in
vain, on the restoration of her domestic Legisla-
ture." There •is nothing here to be objected to.
'Mr. O'CONNELL has a right to demand justice
for his countrymen ; and if the Tories still per-
severe in their determination to withhold justice, he has
an equal right—much as we may disapprove of his wild
project of Repeal—to use every constitutional effort in
his power to wrest it from them.

aKO Of WEL-

The Paris Evening Papers of Monday, received
this morning, contain the following account of the
action which took place between the Christinos and
the Carlists, on the Ist instant, in the vicinity of St.
Sebastian. This account, which first appeared in the
cateur, bears date the 2d instant :

" The sally made by Brigadier Genva.l
REGUY does bun the greatest honour; /4 -
continued about four hours "'
Barbe, between Erna
guinary.
on an
fo-".

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actiOti which
the fOot of Mount St.
.. and St. Sebastian, was sat]
‘jarlists who were posted in five houses
.ainence, were dislodged. Oti quitting those
cifications they advatiettl with fixed bayonets: The
Queen's troops :offered a loss of 600 men, .killed acid
wounded. The Carlists had 5,000 men in the field.
The Queen's troops were composed of d Battalion of
the 7tier_,_criment of Bt. Vernando, 600 men ; a Battalion
.of the Regiment of Africa, 600 ; a Battalion of the
Militia of Oviedo, 500 ; ditto, ditto, of Chapelgorris,
500; a Company of Urbanos of St. SeT)astio.ii, 06;
ditto, ditto, of Tolosa, 60 ; jet Regiment of English
Infantry, 600 ; 2d ditto, 600 ; 3d ditto, 600 ; 7th
ditto, (a detacbment of) 200 ; some Artillery with d
Howitv.: and Congreve Rockets, 20.--Total, 4,340.
At this moment we heard a brisk firing of mus-
ketry ; it is announced that JAUREGIJY baS made
another sally, and has attacked the enemy on the
road to Ernani.
" The cannon played the whole yesterday after-
-1
destroprl.
noon, on the tete die pont a, niciassoa. Forty-six
gsehrootnwe(rsemfiitric:)l ativ
which vsh:tuss4 -- tip,
afternoon, while the Q ' •
Queen s t
the cannon .in the b rooPs were pfacfil
called that of the For-
, ~, • • • batter t4ey Jima 8
a SpaniSn.txromdiei w • P'? _the -bridge
,‘ A as mortally wounded
qupti!.y of wood tiO'r the •
astiap Contidnes. to. b. suPP-Y of .st. Se.
e embarked here. Ti ctun.