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

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C<I.TY
LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1850.

The more than Spanish pride, conjoined with more
than Hibernian impudence, of the recently nominated
Cardinal, has roused a feeling of resistance to Papal
usurpation throughout the length and breadth of this
laud, of which neither the POPE, the Cardinal, the
priests, nor the Puseyites had previously entertained
the. remotest idea. In every class of society we find
men vieing with each other in expressions of attach-
ment to the principles of the Reformation, and glory-
ing in the muse of Protestant, thus showing that those
" who repudiate the name of Protestant" are indeed
a miserable, almost infinitesimally small minority, and
that those journals who consider a Minister of the
Crown is acting unbecomingly in publicly and offi-
cially declaring that the country is attached to the
glorious principles of the Reformation must be con-
side red not as the organs of public opinion, but of the
opinions of a clique of parsons, who are furious not so
much at the Papal usurpation as at the feeling of op.
position to sacerdotal despotism which it has aroused
throughout the country, and which will effectually
prevent them from realising the scheme they have
long had at heart, of becoming every priest Pope in his
own parish. Speaking of the effect produced by the
Papal Bull on these gentry, a correspondent says,—
" I am pleased at the Pores impudence; be has
raised a perfect fever amongst the parsons. I don't
see that it concerns anybody else but them. A. great
many of them would like to have the same power and
control over their flocks that the priests have. They
have been trying it on for some time in the shape of
sham priests, but now the real thing is surrounding
them they are afraid of losing their fat livings. The
POPE'S Lull and the Ueiversity Commission will
make them loek about them.

" An old friend of mine used to say that when two
Bishops knocked their heads together it was sure to
elicit sparks amusing to the people."

The attachment to the principles of the Reforma-
tion, and the determination to oppose all attempts of
Rome or of Oxford to infringe on our civil and re-
ligious liberties, extends to all classes of the commu-
nity. Already had the Presbyterians spoken out by
Dr. Cummnio,the Dissenters by the Rev. T. BINNEY,
and the people by the numerous meetings which
have been held throughout the country ; and on Sa-
turday, at the LORD MAYOR'S dinner, we had the
Ministers of the Crow❑ and the grave judges of the
law declaring in unmistakeable terms their strong
attachment to the glorious principles of the Refor-
mation. Tire noble sentiments the Prime Minister
had already expressed in his letter were reiterated
by Lord JOHN .RLISSELL in the following eloquent
terms :

" The Lord Mayor, in speLking of any merit which
her Majesty's Ministers may have, has alluded to the
declaration which has recently been made on my part.—
(Loud cries of Hear, bean') I can only say, gentle-
men, that that attachment to the religious freedom of
this country which I have hitherto felt will always con-
tiuue to animate my breast, and that it will
be try duty to maintain to the utmost of my power
ths aap.ealacy of our Sofereign—(Loud cheering)
—and the rrligioua liberties of the people from

Under our feet we'll stamp thy Cardinal's bat,
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
CA MPBELL, the greatest judge who has appeared during
this century, who unites to the learning of COBB 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 :

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" 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 depnd upon it that they will have
an impartial trial.—(Great laughter and cheers.) My
Lord Mayor, you say that justice is equally administered
to persons 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.)"

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 prottd 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. OWEN 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 dncther 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.
It is unfortunately notorious that along the coast,
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 WaLsn,
summoned a farmer, named GREEN, for one shilling
and sixpence, as the hire for eighteen days' reaping
and saving the harvest. The plaintiff having proved
that he had worked eighteen days, and that the de-
fendant promised to pay him one penny per day, the
following dialogue took place in presence of the
Court :

" Defendant—Gentlemen, I deny it. Why should
agree to pay HIM a penny a-d ty, 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 WEEK, which I tendered to him, and he refased it.
I now tender it to him again in the presence of your
Honours. (Defendant then produced 6cl;, which he
offered to give Walsh, PROVIDED HE G T 4id. CHANGE.)
" Plaintiff—Why should I take it ? He 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 alittle dry Indian
gruel. THEY USED TO GIVE THE MILK TO THE PIGS
AND CALVES BEFORE MY FACE, AND WOULD NuT 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 EIGIIT AND SIXPENCE COSTS.
Can the records of human miselly, 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-
LOCK 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 of flesh," by
which his unfortunate victim's life and sufferings
should together end; but this Irish SEIYLOCIC, 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
some 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 ,

whatever quarter they may be assailed.—(Renewed
cheering.) Let IN e 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 ail those, whatever might be their religious
persuasion, who were faithful to the Throne, and true
to the interests of the country. Such was the 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.)"
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 patronago 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 en 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 SAvlouit
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 :