The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-26 00:00:00

Lord COTTENHANI OrprioSea the third tead.iht, ahat
in a optvch. of some k&tgitir, taid the 13111 would
pttpetuate those tirils *l4th Lord LYNDHURST had so
ably exposed ott the introduction of his Bat%
Lord BROUGHAM defended thy till, which, after
some discussion, w raa a third time.

The Hein* adjourned at Half-past Eleveli
The Commons met at twelve t'sshtlt, when Mr.
EWART gave notice that he should this day put a
question to Sir JAMES GRAHAM, relative to tit re-
ElliLiioll of the capital punishment tALMAS.
The report of the Pon:"-law Bill was brought up,
and several amendments were proposed, but they
were rejected by large majorities, TN further con-
sideration of the report was deferred till the evening
sitting.

The House met again at Fiv2. o'clock, arch 0.. r a
few petitions had been presentWl he House
went into Committee on the COntroverted Elections
Bill. The principal clanses were agreed to, and the
House resumed. deport to he received this day, at
twelve, -

- rile order of the day for the further Peotivieration
of the Poor-law Amendment ttiit Was read, when
some amendment* w'r odepted, and the Bill was or-
•lered to be real a third time this dvb
A number of 1301 s sere re h 111.11 a time and
passed, the other orders o* thit ilay were disposed e#
and the House adjourned at Half-past TwelVt.

Just as We anticipates a few days since. when
writing; on the Agiljtd, the speech of Sit ROBERT
,PIEL, in reply to Mr. WVrsa't Education motion oil
Friday night, in the rinse of Commons, has had the
effect of rousing the bigoted sensibl'aties of the Irish
Orange party, and filling them with the most sambre
speculations respeethig the future ti;urse of policy
that may be adopted by the Premier. The Dtttlin
Evening Mail, which is the accredited 'organ of that
meek and enlightened party, is quite furious on the
subject, and discovers that the axe is already laid to
the root of Protestantism, which must ere long fall in
ruins to the earth. "The Protestant people of Ire-
land," says our Contemporary, "may for a moment
doubt the evidence of their own senses, and hesitate
to believe in the reality of their danger. But that
moment's pause will seal their destruction. The
power of Government will be brought to bear against
their opposition; the timid will 'be frightened; the
bold and conscientious frowned upon ; the vacillating
cogently reasoned with; the corrupt purchased; and
finally the garrison; having been brought into public
contempt, the citadel of Protestantism will fall -MI
easy prey to its enemies." Here is a long catalogue
of horrors, not an item in whir}; tut is calculated to
set the hair bristling on e..e head of every Orange
bigot in the sister ci'antry ! But the Mail's griev-
ances are by n:0 means novel in their character, for
our Contemporary has raised precisely the same cla-
mriur, whenever any mem= of more than ordinary
justice and liberality has been suggested for the be-
nefit of Ireland. On all occasions of this sort—
which, "like angers visits," have invariably been
" few and far between "—he has never failed to get
up a cry of the "Church in Danger," and to assert
that the whole fabric of Irish Protestantism is me-
naced with irremediable destruction. Thus be
acted when Lord NORMANDY took the reins
of Government, and the same when Lord FORTESCUE
was installed as Viceroy ; but despite his triste and
noisy predictions, Protestantism has contrived to sur-
vive both administratiOns, and will continue to survive
ages after our Contemporary has ceased to write, and
his readers to peruse, his gloomy veicinations. If,
hon*er, for the term " Protestantism," the Mail will
allow us to substitute the term " bigotry," we will
grant that there is some ground for his apprehensions,
for it is scarcely possible to believe otherwise than
tithe a scheme of national education, such as Sir
ROBERT PEEL seems to have in his eye, will inflict a
" heavy blow and great discouragement" on the cause
of Trish intolerance. But surely it is high time
that this should be the case, and that an ulcer, which
for a long series of years has been preying on the
national vitals, should be torn up by the roots ;
and a chance at least be given to the sister country
of gaining something like a healthy constitution !
There are no means by which this desirable result
can so succesfully be arrived at as by education.
Afford facilities of instruction to the middle and
lower classes of Irishmen ; , let their instruction be
conducted on a liberal and enlarged system, without
reference to particular creedS and schisms ; and from
that auspicious moment, bigotry will cease
to 'be the chilly, withering blight it has
so long been to the energies of Ireland. Even as the
morning sun dispels the unwholesome vapours of the
night, so will the calm, steady, penetrating light of
intelligence disperse the darkness of bigotry, more
cheerless even than the gloom of the grave. That
the Orangemen anticipate such an inevitable result.]
from the system of education hinted at by Sir R.
PEEL, is evident from the clamour they are now get-
ting up on the subject—a clamour which will most
likely be chorussed by the high Protestant party in
Enland, who have many strong points in common
with their Irish brethren. But the Premier, we
trust, will not allow himself to be scared from the
path of obviou.; duty by the senseless ravings of
bigots, whether English or Irish, but press boldly
forward with his task, an I not desist till he has
brought it to a successful issue. He owes a heavy
debt to Ireland, whose welfare he has neglected, if
not treated with absolute indifference, for the two last-
sessions ; and the very least he can do is to
pay off an instalment of this debt by such a
scheme of practical education as shall have the best
interests of the people, not of a mere party, for its ob-
jeet. In the present case, we believe Sir ROBERT
PEEL to be really sincere in his desire to amelio-
rate the condition of the sister-country ; and sure are
we that, if his determination and perseverance be on
a par with his sincerity, he will triumphantly carry
his point, for he will have a majority Of the two
Houses of Parliament with him, and will be opposed
only by the incurably prejudiced and bigoted, who,
fortunately constitute a minority in both kingdoms.

The "Causes of Incendiarism," to which we have
lately adverted, in a few articles devoted to a retro-
spect of the melancholy outrages that have disgraced
some of our eastern counties—are well touched by a
" Correspondent," who dates from Norwich. It is
impossible to approach such a subject without pain
—difficult to discuss it without the hazard of doing
harm by such a discussion ; yet it is one as impracti-
cable for us, al public journalists, to pass by unno•
ticed, as it would be bnpoli!ic not to denounce such
crimes, were it practicable to be silent cn the . fact of
their existence. In this conviction we proceed, with-
out further hesitation, to remark tipon our Norwich
Correspondent's communication.
It is so recently that we took occasion to express
our concurrence in the manly views of the actual con-
dition of our agricultural-labour population, with
those avowed in the Hon. and Rev. Mr. GODOLPUIN
OSBORNE'S letter to the Duke of RicumoND; that we
shall not use any argument, or employ any statis-
tical authorities, to prove the allegation that our land-
owners and farmers arc too much addicted to pay
their out-door servants very inadequate wages. We
e confirmed in this belief by the still later declara-
tions of the Times on th's subject. They bear out
Mr. OSBORNE'S charge that your great farmers and
herders of stock have not a single animal to whose
lodging, training, and management, they do not devote