The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-10 00:00:00

FROM( THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
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GLOBE.—In another column will be found the
details of O'Connell's liberation from prison, and of
the mode in which his triumph over the Government
was exhibited and celebrated by the thousands of the
Irish people, whom the reversal of the judgment has
absolutely intoxicated with joy. From the accounts
given in the Irish journals, of every shade of politics,
there is no reason to believe that anything occurred from
which the slightest danger to the public peace was ap-
prehended by the authorities; nor does it appear that any
extraordinary precautions were taken to suppress dis-
order, or by a display of military force, to inspire the
assembled multitudes with awe. The Government
acted wisely in refraining from any extraordinary
parade of military force, whose appearance would
have indicated fear, and might have led to the result
they were anxious to prevent. We are disposed to
regard abstinence from calling out the military into
the streets of Dublin, on such an occasion, as a most
prudent course on the part of the authorities. They
trusted the masses, in this the moment of bewilder-
ing triumph over the Government ; and had
no cause for regret. No breach of the peace oc-
curred. Beyond the bursts of acclamation which
made the welkin ring, there was no indication of
party-political antipathies. The masses of the popu-
lation, assembled under circumstances peculiarly cal-
culated to excite the passions, really seem to have
been so full of delight, as to leave no room for anger,
much less for anyretaliatory demonstrations. The day
closed in quietness. This political triumph led to no in-
terruption of the public peace. No political oppo-
nent was injured either in person or property. The
fears which agitated some were dispelled, and the
predictions of more were falsified, by the event. We
hope that Governments are beginning to learn wis-
dom in such matters. Within the recollection of per-
sons yet young, a different mode of treating the po-
pulace, under circumstances likely to produce powerful
excitement, has been followed by the most calamitous
results. When Sir Francis Burdett was conveyed to
the Tower in 1810, the military were employed to in-
timidate the people; collisions took place between the
soldiers and the multitude, and several persons were
shot dead, and others were wounded. Again, when
a large multitude assembled in Manchester to obtain
Parliamentary Reform, the yeomanry were called
out to disperse the ascembly, and were directed to
charge upon the unarmed masses. The consequence
was, an indiscriminate slaughter of men, women, and
children. The " Manchester massacre" of 1819
will survive in the memories of the present gene-
ration, and will be transmitted to that which shall
occupy its place, as the disgrace of the govern-
ment under whose rule and sanction it occurred ;
of the magistrates who directed the attack ; and
of the Parliament which refused to punish the
perpetrators of the deed. At the funeral
procession of the unfortunate Queen Caroline, as it
passed through the metropolis, in 1821, the military
ware employed to preserve public order. As usual,
they provoked the evil they were present to prevent.
The Life Guards charged upon the multitude
upon some trifling manifestation of sympathy
with the unfortunate Queen, whose remains were
passing to their resting-place. Life was thus sacri-
ficed, and the limbs of many more were lacerated
by the swords of the soldiery. Had the military
lined the streets of Dublin on Saturday, according to
the good old Tory custom, under the pretext of pre-
serving the public peace, it is more than probable
that violence and bloodshed would have resulted from
their presence. This might have happened without
any premeditation on the part of either the military
or the snob ; and solely from the propensity which
seems to impel a mob to provoke asperity in the sol-
diery by refusing to conform to the regulations they
are compelled to enforce ; and often by resisting
their efforts to compel obedience to arbitrary regula-
tions.
STANDARD.—The abandonment by the lay Mem-
bers of the House of Lords of their indisputable right
to assist in the decision of the appeal (.1 Mr. O'Con-
nell and his fellow-conspirators to that tribunal, has
been received in Dublin in precisely the spirit
which might have been anticipated for so
uncalled-for and undeserved a concession. The
reversal of the judgment by the three Whig
law Lords, albeit opposed by two members of their
own rank, and eleven judges of the inferior
courts, is treated by Mr. O'Connell and
his friends as a triumph (to employ the
agitator's own language) " over an attempt to convict
eight honest men " of conduct of which they were
guiltlesss ; and he proposes as the Clontarf
meeting .vas not held in consequence of the inter-
ference of the Government, that it shall be a matter
for the future consideration of the Repeal Association
whether it shall not still be held ; " in order to carry
out a principle, and show that he and his fellow-
martyrs were right." He quotes the dictum of
Lord Denman in opposition to the opinion
of all his brother judges in and out of the
House of Lords, in support of his audacious
charge of corruption against the jury and all the
judges, save the Spartan three by whom he has been
released. His approbation of the conduct of Lords
Cottenham and Campbell, however, is measured,
whilst his gratitude to Lord Denman is unbounded.
The two former joined in decreeing a reversal of
the judgment pronounced upon him ; but the Lord
Chief Justice went a step further in his behalf,
professing to found his decision on a plea which all
his brother judges were agreed in rejecting. Lord
Denman is, therefore, the one great authority to
which he refers for proof of his innocence. Lords
Cottenham and Campbell are very worthy and
conscientious people ; they opposed a very large
majority of judges to the full as honest and well-
informed with themselves, but it was reserved for
Lord Denman to differ from them all, and thus per-
fect Mr. O'Connell's title to the martyrdom for which
he now claims credit. He only is altogether right,
because his judgment in their favour is encumbered
with no awkward qualification. His solitary dictum,
therefore, is made the excuse for charging the
large majority of English and Irish judges, who
were unfortunate enough to differ from him, with
a " foul and corrupt " administration of the
law. Such is his gratitude to his Lordship
for turning the odds, which were, he admits " a
million to one against him," in his favour. Nor is
the demonstration, it is said, to be limited to mere
denunciations of those judges who were of opinion
that the judgment ought to be affirmed. Subscriptions
are to be raised, and possibly statues erected, to com-
memorate a triumph which Mr. O'Connell's newspaper
supporters do not scruple to designate as "accidental."
We cannot wonder at the dismay with which
this decision has been received in Ireland by all
who are not identified with the repeal conspiracy;
calculated as it is to revive in its worst form the agi-
tation which has produced such baneful effects. We
have already referred to Mr. O'Connell's wary hint of
his intention, should the Repeal Association deem it
desirable, to persist in holding a monster meet-
ing at Clontarf, and a Dublin paper re-
ceived this morning announces that the sug-
gestion has not only been adopted, but that a
day has been fixed for the meeting, and that it
is to be followed by others larger than those of last
year. Meanwhile the repeal journals are, if possible,
more violent than ever. The Nation, for example,
publishes suggestions of the most treasonable charac-
ter, both in prose and verse, as to the course to be
adopted by Mr. O'Connell's followers in the event
of any attempt at the invasion of our shores by a
foreign enemy. As a foretaste of the honours
which are destined by the repeal press for Lord Den-
man, the editor ofthe Freeman s Journal has selected as
the motto for his newspaper a passage from his
Lordship's judgment, which is paraded in large
type, ,and has reference to the omission of certain
names from the jury panel, which has formed
the stalking horse of the traversers through-
out the proceedings ; and, which if other
than accidental, must have been the deliberate act of
parties connected with the traversers or their law ad-
visers ; committed for the express purpose of affording
the loop-hole for escape of which they have now
availed themselves. We have repeatedly reminded our
readers that the only parties who have not purged
themselves by affidavit from the imputation of
having wilfully suppressed the missing fragment are
those employes of the traversers who alone had
access to them. The "practices," therefore, re-
ferred to by Lord Denman, are their own, and after
his decision, they will not fail to be repeated when-

ever any opportunity of thus invalidating a verdict
on a charge of conspiracy or sedition may pre-
sent itself. We have copied elsewhere the de-
tails of Mr. O'Connell's reception in Dublin.
The first step in his new career of agitation
was a triumphal procession of 200,000 persons,
to be succeeded a few days hence by a monster
banquet, and, as we have said, monster meetings at
Clontarf and elsewhere; which, according to Arr.
O'Connell's interpretation of the law of Lords
Denman, Cottenham, and Campbell, will be perfectly
legal and unexceptionable. Can we wonder that the
abrogation by the House of Lords of its just and law-
ful prerogative which has afforded the pretext for this
triumph over law and justice, should have excited the
deepest dismay among her Majesty's loyal subjects
in Ireland ? The O'Connell organs speak of it "as
an overthrow, not merely of a Minister, but of
the English rule in Ireland ;" and, although they
may be egregiously disappointed in their anticipation
of impunity for their further outrages, there can be
no doubt that it will prove a source of much trouble
and perplexity, unless vigorous measures be adopted
for the vindication of so much of the law as the
noble triumvirate of the House of Lords have been
pleased to recognise.

Sergeant Davy had a very large brief, with a fee
of two guineas only on the back of it. His client asked
him if he had read his brief. He pointed with his finger
to the fee, and said, " As far as that I have read, and for
the life of me I can read no further."—Life of Lord Eldon.