The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.;
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—Mr. O'Connell has returned to his first
love. If we may judge from the warm reception he
received at Limerick on 'Wednesday last, his " in-
fidelity" to " Simple Repeal" has been pardoned. His
philandering with federalism, and his coquetting
with rotatory Parliaments have ceased. Henceforth
repeal is to be the mistress of his undivided
a*etions, and to promote and further its attain-
ment, the one engrossing business of his life.
Whatever the great Agitator may have lost in cha-
racter among thinking men in this country by his re-
cent inexplicable tactics—which involve inconsistency,
and, for a time, evinced vacillation—he has lost little,
if any, of that mighty influence over the mass of his
countrymen by which he holds them captive, and
moves them, hither and thither, at his will. The
" great Munster meeting "—a procession and a ban-
quet on a grand scale, to celebrate his liberation,
and that of his companions, will recal the
scenes of Mullaghmast and Tara, and the other
" monster meetings" of last year. As an exhibition of
public feeling, the affair seems to have been impres-
sive. The experiment of getting up a public demon-
stration—somewhat hazardous, with O'Connell's
speeches in praise of federalism still ringing in the
ears of his followers— has succeeded. It will, doubt-
less, tend to recover whatever of public confidence
O'Connell might have lost, and to re-animate
the apparently abated fervour of the Irish people
in their pursuit of the repeal project, which he
now affirms is essential to the peace and prosperity
of the country—the one panacea for the evils welch
press upon the great mass of its inhabitants. Mr.
O'Connell's speech to the assembled multitudes was
signally bold—we had almost said, daring. The
passages from his speeches at the " monster meet-
ings," which were adduced on the recent trial, as
calculated to excite the passions of the assembled mul-
titudes, and thus endanger the public peace, were re-
produced, as though he courted the attention and
invoked the vengeance of the Government. We now
repeat, what we have said on former similar occa-
sions, that to set forth in the hearing of a pro-
miscuous multitude of partisans—and these of the
lowest class—the numbers that are ready to employ
physical force—to fight, to die, for a given object,
has a direct tendency to endanger the public peace.
Exhortations to refrain from violence—while the ex-
horter is sedulously impressing upon them their power
of achieving the object which is set before them as
franght with personal and patriotic advantages—may
succeed for a time ; but it will, sooner or later, be in-
effectual. We can hardly concede to the individual
who adopts such a mode of address the claim of
sincerity. 'We deprecate—deplore—denounce—the
employment of such appeals. To scatter com-
bustibles, which a spark may ignite, among
materials such as those by which O'Connell is
surrounded, is dangerous, and may be destruc-
tive. It is no excuse for Mr. O'Connell that he
can refer to forty-one occasions on which he used
similar language, and no breach of the peace ensued.
If any outrage result, on any occasion, after such
language has been addressed by him to the multi-
tude, it world be difficult for him to persuade an im-
partial jury that his speech was not an incentive to
the act. Nor would his exhortation to abstain from
using the invincible power they possessed, be consi-
dered as anything better than a subterfuge, to pro-
tect himself from the persoaal consequences of
preaching sedition, and exciting the multitude to
violence.
STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle has to-
day an article of some length upon what it is pleased
to call Sir Robert Peel's anti-Brazilian policy. Now
the policy in question is anti-Brazilian only in this,
that it gives first a preference to our own colonial
sugar, next in order a preference to sugar the
product of free labour, in whatever country grown.
A British and anti-slavery policy (be they always
united) it certainly is ; but in no respect is it anti-
Brazilian more than it is anti-Cuban, or anti anything
rise. It is the Morning Chronicle that compli-
ments the Brazils by representing those countries
as the embodied type of the accursed slave trade, the
Brazils being also the special clients of " the League."
The question of slavery apart, however, we have suf-
ficient proof that nothing less than the sacrifice of our
colonies will satisfy the rapacity of the Brazilian Go-
prnment. Baron Langsdorff, the Envoy of the
French Government, sent with a proposition for the
rdnewal of the expiring commercial treaty be-
tween France and the Brazils—without any sti-
Ftlation in favour of free labour produce—has
I. teed no better than Mr. Ellis. The Brazilian
Government will listen to nothing less than an
lisolute monopoly of the sugar trade ; and
this monopoly M. Guizot is as little dis-
pesed to grant, to the destruction of the French colo-
r :03 and to the ruin of the home manufacture from
1 eetroot, as Sir Robert Peel to concede the sacrifice
(if all our tropical dependencies. The Brazils, there-
f ,re bid fair for a condition of commercial " isolation."
Tisk seems foolish ox the part of the Government
f Ifio ; but, after all, that Government is, perhaps,
ii a so much to blame for the folly. The free-
traders of this country have been for years exag•
verating the importance of the Brazil trade
to our manufactures, and the power of
Brazilian Government to exclude our
r: duce to a degree to persuade the Brazi-
-1 ,ns that they may dictate what to -ms they p'ease to
England, and as, it plain from Baron Langsdorff's
loll:7e, to France also. The folly, howtver pre-
(laced, of Brazilian isolation, can he cured only by a
sharp lesson, and that lesson is in preparation. The
F. ht)ol.naster will he soon abroad in the unwel-
ene garb of a smuggler, unwelcome we mean to
Govermnent, but always too welcome to the
.ople, and he will not he long in teaching the utter
feipossibility of withholding from the people what
they want .or desire, along a frontler of 7,000 or 8,000
rules at the very least. The Brazilians have the
best imaginable means of knowing the impossi-
bility of guar4ing, by any expense of money, skill,
and zeal, a coast of half the extent of their frontier;
fer they pursue their murderous trade of man-smug-
gling along the whole coast of western Africa, almost
nemolested, notwithstanding all that England and
France can do to interrupt it. If, under the advice of
our "Leaguers,' they persist in their ridiculous
s. heme of isolation, they wi'l soon have their practices
retorted upon them, though in an infinitely bu-
zeanized form. In the article to which we refer,
the Mnrming Chronicle modestly claims for the
Vt'higa the credit of the success of the 13:itish arms 1
in China, and the acquisition of the China trade.
T ;is is somewhat more than commonly audacious.
What was the state of affairs in China when the
Whigs were dismissed ? They bad undoubtedly
created a quarrel with that country, in which, with
their usual ingenuity and good fortune, they managed
to place England in the wrong In the first instance,
a 4 having got the country into this quarrel, they,
after their fashion, secured a sufficient quantity of
I-, verses and disgrace. They were dismissed just
at the moment when China threatened to
repeat the tragedy of Affghanistan, and in
China as in Central Asia, the Conservative
Government just reversed their measures, and
ti.e condition of our affairs, substituting honour
and firmness for trickery and cowardice—vic-
t.eies fcrr retreats or defeats—peace and an
a- cured hope of its continuance, for disastrous
ar and black despair. It is too early 'for the
Chronicle to call upon the people to forget these
Clogs.

VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.
(From Sydney Papers of July 30.)
The Lady Grey, from Hobart Town the 25th inst.,
Ls brought our files of papers to the 19th, inclusive.
Intelligence had been received of the safe arrival of
Sir John Franklin and lady at St. Helena, on the
28th of last March.
His Excellency Sir Eardley Eardley-Wilmott
opened the Legislative Council on the 17th instant;
whiols, from a few remarks made by the Colonial
Secretary at the close of his Excellency's speech, was
expected would be again adjourned sine die in the
course of a fortnight.
The following is the opening speech :
" Gentlemen,—l have the pleasure of meeting you
eel lier in this year than in the last, owing to the late
period of the year in which I then arrived in this
colony ; and I hope it will not be necessary to detain
u long horn your domestic avocations.
" The interval since we last met has been one of
trial and of gloom ; but I believe a brighter day is
new breaking upon us.
'` The time for forming accurate conclusions, as to
ali the causes which have mainly contributed to pro-
duce the present state of the colony, has not yet ar-
rived. Much less are we in a position to pronounce
with confidence what their permanent results will
be. Still there may be an advantage of no trifling
amount in endeavouring to survey, even at the
present time, the condition at which we are arrived,
an:l the prospects which appear to be opening upon
; and the more particularly do I wish to do so,
be-:ause, distressing as these reverses have been, they
have always appeared to me to have been regarded
too gloomily; owing greatly, I believe, to the present
art° of the colony having been referred, by a false
standard of comparison, to a former period of prospe-
rity, created by fictitious causes, and to an unex-
pected con,urrence of events which are not again
likely to happen.
" The two great staple productions of this colony
are its wool and its wheat ; and in proportion as these
are encouraged, and bear a remunerating price, will
the bonds which have fettered
the enery and the in-
du try of the colony be loosened
wi the weight
ich has pressed down to insolvency m
amany deserving
per-ons be ultimately removed.
were nf-,.er •n
" The fleeces of Van Diemen's Land
greater repute than they are at this moment; and
ak,ugh they may not realise so high a price as they
did in former years, yet it is certain that the latest
accounts from England are most encouraging as re-
sipects this important branch of our trade.