The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-11 00:00:00

THE SUN,

whatever quarter they may be assailed.—(Renewed
cheering.) Let lee add, however, one thing
further. When perils much more grave—much more
imminent, impended over this country, a wise princess,
who at that time ruled her destinies, thought fit to call
to her aid all those, whatever might be their religious
persuasion, who were faithful to the Throne, and true
to the interests of the country. Such was he conduct
of Elizabeth in times of as great danger as ever oc-
curred to this country. Such conduct is worthy of imi-
tation, and I believe, with the religious liberty esta-
blished in this country, persons of all religious persua-
sions, while obeying the dictates of their conscience as to
the mode of worship they think right to adopt, will rally
round the institutions of the country, pay a grateful
homage to the Crown for the protection they receive,
and rejoice that they live in a land where freedom is
general, and where, I trust, it is permanently esta-
blished.—(Great applause.)"
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Highly gratifying, also, to every Protestant must
be the clear and explicit declaration of the Lord
Chancellor on this subject, more especially when we
consider the immense ecclesiastical patronage at his
Lordship's disposal. We hail his Lordship's speech on
Saturday as a pledge that that patronage will be
bestowed on none but those who rejoice in the name of
Protestant, and who are firmly attached to the principles
of the Reformation—a Reformation which, to use the
words of the Lord Chancellor, " at this time calls more
than ordinarily on every true-hearted Protestant to
maintain and defend it—(Cheers)—against the insi-
dious within—(Hear, hear)—and the enemies with-
out.—(Hear, hear.) There are some who have
thought it right to depart from that simplicity
of Christian worship which our divine SAVIOUR
adopted and left us an example of, and who have
sought to approximate as near as possible to Romish
forms, one would almost think to invite that very
invasion with which we have been recently visited.—
( Hear, hear.) You are called upon to watch the pro-
gress of that invasion. Protestant England is in-
formed that she has now come under a Roman Catholic
hierarchy. The hymn of triumph for the admission
to equality in civil liberty has given place to the note
of insult, triumph, and domination, announcing that
you have come under a Roman Catholic hierarchy.—
(Hear, hear.) Considering the language of the do-
cument to which I refer, and considering the truly
Romish construction which some attempt to put upon
the oath of supremacy, it would seem as if some were
acting in anticipation of the fulfilment of an ancient
prophecy, which presents a cardinal's cap as equal
to the Crown of the Queen of ENGLAND. If such
be anticipated, I answer them in the language of
GLOUCESTER :--

Under our feet we'll stamp thy Cardinal's hat,
In spite of Pope or dignities of church.' "
It would appear from the speech of Lord CAMPBELL
that it is by no means certain that Cardinal 'WISE-
MAN has not by his impudent usurpation rendered
himself amenable to criminal justice; for Lord
CAMPBELL, the greatest judge wbp has appeared during
this century, who unites to the learning of COKE the
uprightness of HALE and the patriotism of CAMDEN,
thus jocularly alluded to the possibility of the appear-
ance of Cardinal WISEMAN at the bar of his court :
" I have observed that there is only one topic in your
present excited state to which you are disposed to listen
—(Loud cheers)—and to that topic it does not belong
to me by any means to allude. I have the honour to
hold a distinguished office in her Majesty's Court
of Queen's Bench, and it might so happen that his
Eminence Cardinal Wiseman, and his Holiness Pope
Pius the Ninth, might be tried at that bar.—(A laugh.)
If his Eminence and his Holiness should appear in my
hall, then they may depend upon it that they will have
an impartial trial.—(Great laughter and cheers.) My
Lord Mayor, you say that justice is equally administered
to pencils of all conditions in our courts, and if the
Pope himself appeared in his triple crown before me he
would receive the same justice as if he were an humble
parish priest.—(Cheers.)"

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It is gratifying, most gratifying, to find "all sorts
and conditions of men" thus coming forward to de-
clare their attachment to the glorious principles of
the Reformation, showing that England still remains
true to herself, and is not to be induced by cajolery,
or intimidated by threats to abdicate her proud posi-
tion as the Protectress of Protestantism all over the
world.

We referred a few days since, through the columns
of this journal, to the satisfactory and very successful
experiments of Mr. OvvEN on the peat-bogs of Ire-
land. We hailed it as a great and important project
of public utility, calculated to effectuate much good,
by giving extensive employment to the labouring
poor, and bringing into cultivation wide tracts of
land now comparatively useless. Upwards of two
million acres of the area of that island is covered
with a surface of peat capable of conversion into pro-
ducts in every-day use, of great commercial impor-
tance, and yielding an immense profit to the specu-
lator, and we can entertain little doubt that British
capitalists will avail themselves of so profitable an in-
vestment for their money.

We shall to-day briefly refer to another source of
industrial employment, capable of yielding as re-
munerative a return, if not more, to the speculating
capitalist, and which has unfortunately been hitherto
allowed to lie as useless and unproductive as the
Irish bog lands, we mean the teeming fishing grounds
which encircle the coast of Ireland.

elt is unfortunately notorious that along the coa3t,
and in the maritime towns of that country, there ge-
nerally prevails an amount of misery and wretched-
ness almost unparalleled. In several of these dis-
tricts famine performs its hideous cycle, and makes
its periodical visitation with the certainty and regu-
larity of the seasons. The awful state of the people
for want of remunerative employment may be judged
by a case reported to have come before the magis-
trates at Yanturk petty sessions in the county of
Cork a few days since. From this it would appear
theta wretched-looking labouring man, named WALK],
summoned a farmer, named GREEN, for one shilling
and sixpence, as the hire for eighteen days' reaping
and saving the harvest. The plaintiff havipg proved
that he had worked eighteen days, and that the de-
fendant premised to pay him one penny per day, the
following dialogue took place in presence of the
Court :

" Defendant—Gentlemen, I deny it. Why should I
agree to pay HIM a penny a•d iy, when I could get the
best MEN IN THE COUNTRY FOR THAT NOW ? I have
a witness that I agreed with him for ONE HALF-PENNY
PER WEER, which I tendered to him, and he refesed it.
I now tender it to him again in the presence of your
Honours. (Defendant then produced 63., which he
offered to give Walsh, PROVIDED HE GOT 4id. CHANGE.)
" Plaintiff—Why should I take it ? lie owes me
Is. 6d., your Honours, AND WELL I EARNED IT. Whilst
I was with him I was obliged to be up in the morning
at four o'clock to let the cows out of the sleeping field,
and remain herding them till the other men came to
their work, and was then obliged to work with them all
day, and got nothing for my support but a little dry India❑
gruel. THEY USED TO GIVE THE NILE TO THE PIGS
♦ND CALVES BEFORE MY FACE, AND WOULD NOT GIVE
ME A DROP."

The defendant in the cruel and heartless spirit of
the Jew in the Merchant of Venice endeavoured to
convince the magistrates that " a bargain was a bar-
gain, and ought to be kept," and insisted on the
benefit of his bargain. The bench, however, we are
glad to say, concurred in the truth of the poor la-
bourer's averment, and decreed for him the paltry
sum he demanded, with EIGHT AID SIXPENCE COSTS.
Can the records of human misery, can the history
of human wretchedness through the wide earth, fur-
nish a picture like this of poverty and suffering on
the one hand, and hard-hearted unfeeling villany on
the other ? Here we have a miserable fellow- being
voluntarily contracting, in order to sustain a wretched
existence, to toil from four o'clock in the morning till
relieved by the darkness of night for one penny a
day ! And an inhuman wretch has the hardihood in
a Christian land, and in a country too characteristic
for emotions of good nature and generosity, to go
into a court of justice to resist this beggarly dole, for
it deserves not the name of the labourer's hire. SHY.
Loci( possessed the milk of human kindness compared
with this miscreant of Kanturk.

The Venetian Jew would sacrifice his love of gain
for vengeance, and insist on his " pound cf flesh," by
which his unfortunate victim's life and sufferings
should together end; but this Irish Sill/LOCK, far more
cruel, would consign his victim to a slow and lingering
death, while he extracted from him a sordid and un-
holy profit. We rejoice that the magistrates were in
sown degree enabled to " curb this cruel devil of his
will," by mulcting him in costs, and we sincerely
regret they were unable to grant this poor man a
quantum meruit —or at least more reasonable wages.
If there ever were a case in which the principle "To
do a great right do a little wrong," could be excus-
able, it certainly would be in a case like this.

We have dwelt somewhat longer on this distressing
case than we intended, and shall now return to the sub-
ject of the Irish Fisheries, the proper working of which,
we believe, would prove an infallible mode of prevent-
ing a recurrence of such horrors as we have just de-
tailed, and which would appear to us quite incredible