The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-04 00:00:00

did, particularly if we made the performance of
ow own duty dependent upon their consent !
This bright thought, in whatever quarter it find•
a tongue, is certainly worthy of having emanated
from the Secretary of the Foreign Department,
who made some allusion of the sort, though not
very distinctly, on Mr. Fergusson's motion. By
the hint thrown out as to the cooperation of
Austria and Prussia in obtaining redress for Po-
land, are we to be prepared for the doings of a
new London Conference, and the establishment
of a new manufactory of protocols and treaties,
wanting nothing but to be ratified and enforced,
and deeds of political settlement never to be set-
tled, and " final and irrevocable" decisions
invariably revoked ? No, no. The country
is heartily sick of the Holy Alliance and its
diplomatic jugglery. Lord Palmerston may have
the most amiable credulity in the promises of
the Russian autocrat, who speaks of peace
while he collects throughout all his vast domi•
nions—no doubt with the most pacific inten-
tions—all the elements of war. We do not, like
a Ministerial Morning Paper, attempt to account
for this confiding simplicity on his Lordship's
part by describing him as an "imbecile, or
something worse ;'' but we do say that the in-
terests and honour of England require that the
department of Foreign Affairs should be, at a
crisis like this, under the direction of a clearer
capacity, a more vigorous mind, and a more
English spirit, than Lord Palmerston has ever
displayed. What can be said of a Minister of
Great Britain who, after all the horrible atrocities
that Russia has committed, both in the kingdom
of Poland, and in those provinces which, from
similar provocation, took a part in the conflict
for independence, gravely tells the House of
Commons that the " policy of Russia is to
conciliate the feelings of the people of Poland."
To conciliate ! So, when we see him, after
annihilating the national existence of the people
of whom the perfidious C ►therine planned the
destruction ;—when we see him dragging Nobles
in chains, with hair shaved, and in the garb
of convict felons, to the mines of Siberia ;
when we see his myrmidons sparing neither age
nor sex—tearing the child from the mother's
breast to make the hero's offspring a slave of
the desert ; inflicting torture and degradation on
women ; endeavouring to trample out and ex-
tinguish the very language of the deliverers of
Austria and of Europe ; using an amnesty as a
snare to entrap the victims of perfidy to their
destruction, and endeavouring to efface every
vestige of what Poland was by pouring over it
the sweeping tide of social and moral desolation,
we must not express the natural horror which
such conduct excites in the breast of English-
men, but, looking at it, if we can, through the
Orloff spectacles of the Minister for Foreign Af-
fairs, exclaim, " All this is dope to conciliate
the feelings of the Polish people!" In the ad-
dress of the Polish refugees in France, presented
to the House of Com►nons by Lord Ebrington
the other night, and which a point of form caused
to he postponed—in that address, signed by
1622 Senators, Deputies, Generals, and other
public functionaries of Poland, we observe the
follmsing passage:—" When commencing a strug-
gle, which lasted during ten months, the Poles
were persuaded that policy and humanity would
induce the Powers of Europe to interfere in their
behalf. Nevertheless, those Powers remained
silent. The the three neighbouring Monarchs,
acting in concert, succeeded, either by open
war, or secret and hostile manceuvres and in-
trigues, in paralysing and defeating our efforts,
and nobody has since thought of paying the debt
contracted towards Poland. In vain did the
National Government endeavour to unravel,
through its diplomatic agents, the mysteries of
the Cabinets—a profound silence or deceitful
promises stifled the sympathies of the people—
the time went by, and we were overpowered."
Are we then to be told there is no redress, no
hope, for Poland, unless Prussia and Austria—
the open participators in the first outrageous
robbery of the rights of that country—the more
than secret abettors in the latest ravages of her
desolator—combine with our Government to
ask restitution of him who has only taken the
largest share of the unhallowed spoils? It would
be more honest to spurn the suppliant Poles
from the doors of Parliament, and tell them that
England, though bound by treaty, can neither
redress their wrongs nor her own insults. But
will the people of England allow of five millions
of their money being voted to Russia ? Will
they send back to Parliament, under the Reform
Bill, any representatives who will concur in re-
warding barbarian outrage and insolence with
British gold ?—Morning Herald.
It is by no means extraordinary that Ministers
should shrink from the discussion of the ques-
tions involved in the present deplorable state of
Ireland ; that they should use every exertion to
prevent investigation into those evils which are
but too plainly the result of their own mischiev-
ous and disgraceful policy. Concession after
concession has been made, with the effect only
of still increasing the demands of the Catholic
faction, while the Protestant or English interest
has been proportionably injured and depressed.
The great measure of Emancipation, as it was
called, was forced upon the fears of the late
Ministry by the incessant clamours of the party
now in power. This, they assured us, was to
effect permanent conciliatiun and peace through-
out Ireland ; yet what a commentary on their
former professions does their present conduct
supply! The first acts of the L►berals on as-
suming the Government are to abandon the
property of the Established Church to its
enemies, and, as far as in them lies, to exclude
the Protestant religion from the public schools
of Ireland. With every concession the condi-
tion of that unhappy country has sunk from bad
to worse, till at length the Catholic Priesthood,
emboldened by success, have organized a general
conspiracy, or rather rebellion, which bids fair
to sever the connexion between the two countries.
A fearful end must shortly come. There is no
disguising the fact that the object of the conspi-
rators is the separation of the two countries, the
utter extinction of the Established Church, and
the extermination of the Protestants. These ob-
jects are already avowed, not in words merely,
but in acts that are unequivocal, and ere long
there will he a bloody struggle effectually to ac-
complish thein.—Morning Post.

The Romans greatly valued the cuckoo as an
article of fool; ana the Fri,ncli and Italians eat it at this
dy. When fattened, it is said to be as delicate as the
andrail.

A SHOWER OF SMALL FISH.—On the
13 hof June, amid an tiou.o illy heavy shower of rain,
tiler.- fell, in the parish of New Kilpatrick, a quantity of
small fish, can.isting chiefly of herring-fry; the 1 argent
of them 2 c inche, in length, others the size of large min-
nows, about 200 altogether, on a space of a few yard'
square. The place where they fell is ahout three miles
from the Clyde, ;it R.n.ra-ferty (the nearest point), where
erring-fry are found in abundance. They must have
been caught up from the river by a whirlwind, and car-
ried through the air to the place where the fell.— Gills-
you, Herald.