The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-04 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
LETTER FROM DR. WHALE TO LORD PALMERSTON.

The Freeman's Joacrnal and Morning News pub-
lish a letter from Dr. MeHale to the Prime Minister.
It is full of the same vague generalities and the same
tedious prolixity which have characterised most of
his latter effusions, while the topics are equally
wanting in novelty. The newly constricted Board
of Education (which I may state here the News
asserts has now become an accomplished fact) is,
of course, the subject of severe animadversion. I
give an extract from this portion of the letter, as
it is seasoned with a little spice of threat :
" How consoling to the Presbyterian clergyman
who has been placed at the head of that establish-
ment, and who works it with zealous energy in
favour of Protestantism of every hue, to be sur-
rounded by sr me easy going Catholics, who know
but little and care less about the offensive working
of the system, provided they are permitted to exer-
cise a small patronage in getting an inspectorship
for some friend, for whose amiable conduct they
can vouch, and give an assurance that he will not
give any annoyance to the President of the Board,
or its patron, the Viceroy, by any overt acts, in
watching over the faith of Catholic scholars, and
shielding them from the dangers of perversion.
Should you persevere in this system of a penal
education, in opposition to the just rights of the
people, and in contempt of the solemnly declared
condemnation of the bishops, you are to calculate
on an open, earnest, vigorous, and persevering re-
sistance. There is no other course open to us,
unless we are content with the disgraceful imputa-
tion of subscribing to resolutions which we never
meant to carry out. The people of Ireland can
-bear much—they have already suffered much—
rather than risk the integrity of their faith or that
of their children. They will not now yield to cor-
ruption what they already refused to persecution,
although the corruption of the present is strength-
ened by the coercion of former times. . . As
long as the unchristian pretensions set up by the
National Board continue, we shall continue to
repeat and re-repeat our remonstrances against its
encroachments, until we have secured the full
prs.ctical exercise of our, divine right, which is now
attempted to be denied us, of directing the religious
education of the young children of our respective
flecks, wherever and by whatever agencies they
are taught, within the sphere of our natural juris-
diction."

MR. 63111'LT Tro. PARTRY EVICTIONS.

The following letter has been addressed by Mr.
Smith O'Brien to Dr. Al Bale, enclosing his sub-
scription in aid of the people recently ejected by
Lord Piunket

" Cahermoyle, Dec. 24, 1860.
"My dear Lord Archbishop—l shall feel obliged
to your Grace if you will hand the enclosed sub-
scription to Father Lavelle in aid of the poor people
who have been recently expelled from their hold-
ings by the Protestant Bishop of Tuam. I have
read a considerable portion of the statements
which have appeared in the newspapers respecting
the proceedings which have taken place at Partry,
and, founding my opinion not only upon the alle-
gations of his adversaries, but also on the explana-
tions set forth by authorised agents of the bishop,
I can arrive at no other conclusion than that the
treatment of these poor people was a case of most
unjustifiable oppression. I firmly believe that if
.the Catholic tenantry of the bishop and his family
had, even hypocritically, conformed to the views
of this family in regard of religious teaching, their
houses would not be in ruins, nor would they be
outcasts on the face of the earth. By their fidelity
to their religious convictions they have become;vic-
tims to a cruel persecution, and, as such, they
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to public sympathy on behalf of the Christian popu-
lation of Syria who have been driven from their
homes by the Druses, ought we not to ask ourselves
whether our own fellow-countrymen, who are now
suffering similar calamities on our own soil, are not,
at least, equally entitled to our sympathy and sup-
port ? For special reasons it is peculiarly painful
to me to say a word that can be unpalatable to the
Plunket family ; but I conceive it to be the impe-
rative duty of all those who feel an interest in the
welfare of the people of Ireland, and who desire to
check the perpetration of crime, to endeavour by
all means in their power to prevent the recurrence
of such outrages upon humanity and the rights of
conscience as have been committed on the estate of
Partry.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord Archbishop,
yours, very faithfully, WILLIAM S. 013RIEN.
" To his Grace the Archbishop of Taam."

SMITH O'BRIE.N AND COUNT

TELEKI.

Mr. Smith O'Brien has addressed the following
letter to the editor of the Freeman's Journal, whiela,
it will be perceived, was written before the news
of Count Teleki's release had been published :
" Cahermoyle, Newcastle West, New
Year's-day.

"My Dear Sir,—l have read with much pleasure I
in the Freeman's Journal of yesterday an article
respecting the eapture and extradition of Count
Ladislaus Teleki, worthy of that chivalry of spirit
which formerly belonged to Irishmen—a spirit
which is not, I trust, altogether extinct—though,
in these latter times, it has too often been dor-
mant. You justly characterise the conduct of the
Saxon Government in giving up Count Teleki to
Austria as base and contemptible. You justly de-
clare that if the Emperor of Austria be sincere in
his professed desire to conciliate his Hungarian
subjects he ought gladly to avail himself of this
opportunity of testifying such a disposition, as well
as of showing his personal magnanimity, by the
immediate liberation of Count Teleki, and by restor-
ing him and all Hungarians who are still in exile
to their homes under an unconditional amnesty.
" If these, your sentiments, are shared by your
fellow-citizens, ought they not to be expressed in
an authoritative form ? Would the present Lord
Mayor of Dublin hesitate to call a meeting upon a
requisition for the purpose, first, of protesting
against the conduct of the Saxon Government ;
secondly, of representing to the Emperor of Austria
that the liberation of Count Teleki would be an act
acceptable to the people of Ireland ? If you desire
to know why I feel a special interest in the case of
Count Teleki, I will tell you. As an Irish nation-
alist I consider the case of Hungary to be as nearly
as possible parallel to the case of Ireland; and
Count Teleki, in hazarding life and property for
the sake of Hungarian rights in 1848, was not more
culpable than I am for having hazarded life and
property in' defence of the national rights of Ire-
land. The recent proposal made by the Emperor
of Austria to. re-establish the Diet of Hungary
justifies his conduct, even as I trust that hereafter
the restoration of its Parliament to Ireland will
justify mine.
" Further, I enjoy the privilege of a personal
acquaint an ce with Count Teleki, which was formed
under very peculiar circumstances. In the year
1843, before I gave my adhesion to the Repeal As-
sociation, I made a short trip to Germany. On
that occasion I attended a meeting of the Hunga-
rian Diet at Presburg, and during the sitting at
which I was present, I was introduced to Count
Teleki, then one of the prosperous and honoured of
the magnates of Hungary. He was so kind as to re-
main with me during more than an hour, explaining
to me the topics which were under discussion in the
Diet, and many other subjects connected with
the condition end interests of his country. I was
greatly struck by his geutlemanly manners, his bright
intelligence, his liberal and benevolent spirit ; but
I saw him no more until my return to Europe from
Van Diemen's Land in the year 1854. We then
met at Brussels. Alas! how changed were the
circumstances of both of us ! The hopes which we
had cherished had been frustrated, seemingly be-
yond recovery. We had both undergone,
during
several years, sufferings which would have rendered
death a welcome visitor. Each was still an exile
from the land of his birth and of his affections.
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" Often, since my return to Ireland, have I
sympathised with my friend Teleki, reflecting *With