The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-05 00:00:00

because they had an established religion—because they I
were Saxons—and, finally, because they were Protes-
tants." This piece of stupidity and malevolence was
received with tumultuous applause. It is not the Pro-
testants, nor Dissenters, nor the people of England,
that are hated by the Roman Catholics of Ireland—
but it is an ascendancy of any kind that is odious, not
alone to the Papists of Ireland, but to the whole of the
rational and well-meaning portion of every community.
By yielding to the intelligence of the age, a Church
Establishment may be still maintained for some time ;
but if under the mask of religion, hypocrisy and self-
interest
unite in opposition to just reforms, reformation
will be superseded by demolition, and a juster system
be raised on the ruins of oppression and intolerance.—
Morning Advertiser.
There was a time when the Morning Herald stood
alone, or all but alone, among London Journals in
denouncing the policy of Russia as fraught with dan-
ger to the interests of Great Britain. That time is
past, and it is some satisfaction to us to observe the
very different tone which most of the newspapers of
the Metropolis now assume towards that- ambitious
Power. We recollect when the Whig papers used to
be eloquent in the praise of the honourable intentions
and good faith of our Russian ally, and exceedingly
wroth with us for endeavouring to forewarn the public
of the projects of aggrandisement, at the expense of
the interests of Great Britain, which the same " faith-
ful ally" was meditating to carry into execution at
every favourable opportunity. Nor have favourable
opportunities been wanting to Russian ambition of
late years, in consequence of the supineness and im-
becility of our Government in conducting the foreign
relations of the country. At the time when Poland
was most foully sacrifled to the profligate ambition
of Russia, we gave our opinion, without qualifica-
tion or reserve, as to the obligation of protecting
the national independence of Poland, which the
treaty of Vienna imposed upon Great Britain. It is
true that, independently of that .treaty, it was.the in-
terest of this country to maintain the nationality of
Poland as -a barrier against the ambition of Russia
towards the West of Europe ; but that was a question
of policy upon which perhaps there might be different
opinions. We put the question upon stronger grounds
—upon the solemn faith of a treaty, which ought to be
preserved inviolable as long as public morality has any
binding power upon the acts of nations. The Whig
Government, however, took a different view of the
question, and thought that as long as they could com-
mand a servile majority in the llOuse of Commons to
keep them in countenance, they were under no neces-
sity of vindicating the honour and faith of Great
Britain against the perfidy and violence of Russia.
Among that - servile majority whom the wrongs of
Poland and the insulted honour of England could not
excite to a manly assertion of the sentiments be-
coming British Representatives, anxious for the dia.
racter and interests of their country, were most of
those " Liberals" who raised a great outcry against
Russia when the struggle for Polish liberty
was past, arid the vulture had clutched its prey.
M. Cabet, in his speech at the recent Polish meet-
ing, seemed as anxious, at least, to save our Whig
Ministers from just reprobation for their disgraceful
conduct in regard to Poland, as to excite public sym-
pathy for the persecuted Poles. He repeated what
the servile Whig-Radical Journals have often stated,
that Ministers were too much occupied with the Re-
form Bill to pay any attention to the wrongs of Po-
land or the aggression of RuSsia. Does M. Cabet
know that our Foreign Minister, Lord Palmerston,
took no part in the'debates on the Reform Bill, and
that lie had time enough to write volumes of protocols
relative to the still unsettled "settlement" of the
tavo-Belgic qiustion ? Does M. Cabet know that
although the Whig Ministers had not time to insist
upon the faith of a treaty with Great Britain being
observed by Russia in favour of Poland, they had
time enough to propose, discuss, and carry the ques-
tion of the Russian-Dutch loan job, in which they
insisted that an alleged treaty with Russia should be
preserved inviolate as long as it operated against
Poland ? Does he forget that Russian steel was
assisted by English gold ?--Morning Herald.

The meeting for the relief of the suffering Irish
clergy, is calculated to bring forth good fruits in Ire-
land, as well as amongst ourselves. It must have been
obvious to every one who has watched the progress of
affairs in Ireland for three or four years past, that as
the injuries heaped upon the Protestant clergy have
been hourly accumulating, so the insolence of their
Popish persecutors has been puffed up and bloated in
the same proportion ; while the, defence of the afflicted
Church has first relaxed, then faltered—then drooped
—then all but ceased, from a seeming persuasion that
it was a forsaken cause, and that all chance of retriev-
ing it had been rendered desperate by the desertion
it had experienced from that power which had in the
worst of times during the last three centuries upheld
it—viz. the Protestant British nation. 'We believe
there is no example in modern Europe of an outrage
upon law and property so systematic, so daring and
successful—or of a surrender of both by the autho-
rities instituted for their protection, so utterly
mean, and vile, and unprincipled—as this case of the
spoliation of the Irish clergy in the open day, from
north to south, from east to west, of an entire king-
dom, has exhibited within the last three or four years.
It is a case the more singular, because the country has
not been otherwise labouring under insurrection or
convulsion. The Government has issued its orders—
the King's writs have run—justice, where juries were
composed of honest men, has been fully and fearlessly
administered—no class of men were visited by violence,
or robbed or laid prostrate, but the clergy—the only
part of the whole political machinery which suffered
was the link which bound Great Britain and Ireland
together I How came this, it will be asked ? The an-
swer is, because it was that link—because it was the
most essential object of those whose aim was the disso-
lution of the empire to destroy the bond- of connexion.
Nothing, we must say, has tended more fatally to en-
courage the barbarous assailants of our " Church in
Ireland," than the want of active demonstrations
among those of the people of England who were its
natural protectors, making manifest to the world their
resolution to vindicate and preserve it. During this
long and cruel siege of the Protestant fortress in the
sister country, the Protestantism of England- has
looked on with indifference, or hung back from any
energetic and effectual support. The display of num-
bers—of eloquence—of ardour—of munificence—of
profound sympathy, and manly devotion to the sacred
cause for which our Protestant brethren, the ministers
of the reformed Church in Ireland, have been trodden
down by their vindictive and savage enemies—the dis-
play of those sentiments, deeds, and powers, which
was made on Thursday last, has'changed beyond all
previous hopes or expectations the aspect of this en-
tire question. That affecting appeal, which was
made by the Bishop of London, founded on
authentic statements from the spot, and descrip-
tive of the hardships endured by clergymen in their
own persons, and in the dearest interests and con-
cerns of their families, told upon English hearts, as
such representations will ever impress themselves
upon the feelings, and influence the conduct, of gene-
rous and Christian men. The eloquent Prelate has
indeed been abused by the foul-mouthed hangers-on of
those official desperadoes, whose prosperity as a faction
is held by them to be contingent on their overthrow of
the Church of Ireland—his Lordship has, we say, been
maligned for mixing " politics" with his supplication
on behalf of the Irish clergy. Wherein lay the politi-
cal character of the Bishop of London's speech, we
should like to know, but in the simple truth of his al-
legation, that the object of the meeting was the succour
and recovery of Protestantism in Ireland from the
persecutions which assailed
.it ? And is not that
the truth ? What other description of the end for
which they were assembled must not have struck the
ears of even the least intelligent of the Right Rev.
Prelate's auditors, as being treason to religion and her
servants? The priest INV-Hale, who, contrary to that
Act of Parliament which admitted lay Catholics into
the State, signs himself "Archbishop of Tuam," is, we
fear, no charitable nor very guileless Christian. Yet
as, since our Saviour's departure, in the body, from
this earth, fiends have not been permitted to defile its
surface, we cannot bring ourselves to believe that when
Dr. M'Hale taunted the ministers of Christ's Church
in Ireland with their destitution, and their utter ina-