The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-09 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The liberal portion of the people on this side the
Channel have never desired an exclusive privilege in the manu-
facture of bulls ; and as our trade in those articles is a thriving
one, we can well afford to acknowledge the excellence of an
indigenous English bull, dropped, full-grown, by the Standard
on the 31st of March. Here it is—horns, tail and all. The
Standard says, speaking of Irish legislation, "by restricting i
political power to Protestants, that power was, to a great ex-
tent, reserved to the property and intelligence of the country,.l
the surest pledge of peace and good order among any people."
—( Here we have the Protestant horns to gore the Catholics
withal)—" Alas ! in the case of Ireland too sure a pledge; for
being able to dispense with the support of the lower orders—
being enabled, by the power of England, almost to defy the
discontent of the poor—the legislators of Ireland learned to
neglect the wants of their humbler countrymen," (this repre-
sents the carcase of the beast—the tail follows) " the circum-
stances of England, at the commencement of the American
war, excited apprehensions that England could not support the
Irish landowners against that jacquerie already commenced in
Munster, and extending through the island."
" That jacquerie" (a universal war of the poor against the
rich) is naively represented by the ingenious writer, as the
direct consequence of a restriction which he recommends, as
"the surest pledge of peace and good order among any
people—alas ! in the case of Ireland too sure (vulgo-cocksure)
a pledge." We " barbarians" of the brogue, albeit so much
despised by this learned person, have too quick a perception
of the ridiculous, and a taste for humour too correct, to com-
ment on a confusion of ideas so delightfully ludicrous ; but
we may seriously ask the Standard, what he would be at,
when he says, " the fatal election was made, to give political
privilege instead of bread ?" Can he dream that the privileged
few would legislate for the good of the " barbarian" many ?
It was Protestant ascendancy that denied bread to the people.
The Irish landlords had exclusive power, and they starved the
unrepresented " barbarians." They would do so again; ex-
clusive power acts for its own exclusive advantage, in Ireland,
England, Russia, or Turkey—the principle is universal, and
the people have found it out—they would never have troubled
themselves about matters of legislation if they had not disco-
vered, by the experience of their stomachs and pockets, the
necessity of uniting in self-defence, to keep the old man of the
mountain from bestriding their necks.
The Standard, more in sorrow than in anger, gently up-
braids the Irish landowners for spoiling a good ing, by their
excessive cupidity, which drove the " barbarians" to demand
political privileges. He is one of those philosophers who are
not content to take men as they find them—to speculate on
human nature as it is. As men are and were, things could
not have been otherwise than they were, under the exclusive
system, the invasion of which he so pathetically deplores.
An enlightened despot will carefully sustain the people a
degree above the point of starvation or desperation, but the
power of a privileged caste cannot be so wisely exercised ;
each individual is a partner in the monopoly, with a particular
interest=:-the responsibility is general, and nowhere to be
found ; the " election" was therefore the working of necessity,
and "fatal" in that sense. The constitution of human na-
ture prevented the landlords from giving the one—they bad
not power to withhold the other. I shall not seek to trespass
further on your time by any remarks on the suavity of tone
that distinguishes the journal quoted from, or the good taste
it displays in resorting to French history for a term of con-
tumely, when occasion offers, to revile millions of men, each
of whom is
A CATHOLIC TITHE PAYER.
Killashee, April 4.

The Duchess of Northumberland's second assembly
on Tuesday night was attended by his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cumberland, the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers,
and several hundreds of the principal nobility and gentry.
Viscount and Viscountess Beresford's dinner party
yesterday was attended by General Alava, Lady Heytesbury,
Lord Burghersh, Hon. William Bathurst, &c. His Lordship
will entertain another grand party this day in Cavendish-square.