The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-11 00:00:00

1)11tIT of the PUBLIC JOUTONALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTE R:DAT.
GLOBE.—Agitation against the Cathol' is Charities
3equests Act continues to disturb the publ is mind in
:Ireland. Unreasonable and hopeless as a ; :the oppo-
sition, the agitators seem determined th al; " small
blame" shall rest with them if there be not at popular
lemonstration against the measure. Thie Roman
I Jatholic Prelates, who have consented to 'Lend their
t issistance in carrying out its provisions, by accepting
I he office of Commissioners, are denou ni ;ed with
t pecial virulence, as though it were thou, Olt that
vithout their aid the Act would have been an iemorial
if the Government's inability to legislate for Ireland.
Che marked jealousy with which the bulk of the
Irish people view the measures of the prey ,ent Go-
• vernment, is one of the results of the is on rule
• which successive Tory Administrations wer•a wont to
exercise in that long-misgoverned countas a The
mantle of office has fallen upon Sir R. Peet, or was
rather seized by him. He must take nit. cone,
quences of having undertaken the respo
( if office under circumstances of great, iif not in-
s armountable " difficulty." The good d weds or
a is Government are regarded with st tspicicn.
1 'he evils perpetrated in Ireland by' former
ory Ministers live after them. Tho peorie
-whose memories vet retain a keen SeD.Se of tie-
se umerous injuries and insults they received from those
Gwernments, of which they regard the present Ad-
ministration as the lineal representative—wila not be
licve that anything really beneficial can ema mute from
such a source. They, therefore, readily list ma to and
adopt any representation which the wildest s leelaimer
makes of whatever measure the Government of Si'-
Robert Peel may introduce to Parliament, for the
purpose of changing or regulating anything relating
to their country. The Catholic Charities Act is, we thin
a measure calculated to effect much good. By garaid-
ing against an abuse of the influence of that testly
- office upon the minds of the laity in the paeaveet „f
death, by which property may be appre ;
/famed by
bequest to the Church which would °thei't~,isebe be-
queathed to their families, it throws pro'
section around
• them against an influence which mi
,ght be used to
• their immense injury. Under the, 'regulations pre-
aacribed by the Act, and the su'ectintendence of the
Commissioners nominated to s.a?erintend its operation,
•ac well-founded objectior
could be raised to its ob-
jects, or the way in wl-. eh those objects were to he
attained. The mos". venerable of the Reinan Ce-
tholic Prelates halve consented to act as Commis
sioners. Miss of itself, would, under ordinary cir-
cumstances, lae taken by the laity of any communion
as a pledge that no direct or covert design was en-
tertained by the framers of the measure tegainst the
interests of their Church. This confidence -would,
doubtless, have been cherished by the Irish people
with 'reference to this measure, had there not
previc usly existed a deep prejudice and inex-
tinguishable hate—which they, as by instinct,
e:helish—aagainst a Tory Government. Had this
Ac fa, which is denounced as a combinatit m of all
the elf ments of evil, been introduced and pa ssed by a
Govarnment in whose administration the Irish people
•!p0:1: iessed confidence, from an experience of the fair
aiad equitable disposition with which the functions of
'Government were exercised by it, there would have
been no opposition against its objects worthy of notice.
WI e shall not readily forget the remark of r,n Irish
Member of Parliament—who, while he avetwed its
xistence, deplored the prevalence of the ;belting, as a
h ,arrier to the accomplishment of the good whi ch Sir
',obert Peel might be disposed to effect among
tE em :—" If a Tory Government," said the gentleman
al hided to, " could coin the paving-stones of Dublin
irt 0 sovereigns ; and having done so we re to dis-
tribute them by handfulls among the people, they
w atild hurl them back in their faces asith disdain.
So' deep is their hatred of everything, however
go, xl, which bears the name, or camel forth from
th, s hands of Toayism." We find an exemplifica-
. tion of this wadying dislike to Sir Robert Peel's
Government generally, and the determination to
reject even F,ood at his hands, which the Irish people
-evince by t'neir opposition to the present measure in
the speoci of a Mr. T. W. Skelley, at a meeting
consisti erg of several thousand persons, held near
•Drogb e,da on Sunday last. The sins of the leading
inemb ers of Sir Robert Peel's Cabinet, and of their
suppc irters—their insulting expressions, and their
irritf sting and injurious acts, are set before the people,
and are appealed to as evidences, showing the utter
improbability of anything calculated to "pacify the
Irish. Church, or to protect the laity of its communion."
We adduce the passages we extract from this speech,
not for the purpose of expressing approval of the senti-
ments it enunciates, or the spirit which it breathes, but
of showing that the " difficulties" which the present
'Government will experience in carrying out, even
remedial measures are partly derived from the con-
duct of their Tory predecessors ; but are principally
caused by the dishonest and dangerous means which
they em ployed to create prejudice against the late
Ministry- on account of its Irish policy. In oppa,ition,
they so,wed to the wind—in office, they reap the
whirlarina
"W to aro the proposers of this Bill ? They are the
men who hold the reins of power—they are the men
to whom the Government of this country is trafortu-
Zately committed. And bow did they obtain that
power ? Was it not by creating and fostering an
anti-Irish and an anti-Catholic feeling u' England ?
'Was it not by pouring out the most foul, filthy,
and profligate abuse against the ministers of our
religion, and by making a mockery of its most sacred
ceremonies ?—(Cries of "Hear, hear,') Oh ! yes, the
adorable sacrifice of the mass w9.s then an 'ldola-
trous mummery,' and the men whom they have lately
been pleased to recognise under the titles of the ' Arch-
bishops," Bishops,' and Priests' of Ireland, were then
designated by our charitable rulers as surplieed ruf-
fians," a demon priestbood,' and other such complimen-
tary appellations—whilst the people were denominated
as filthy and felonious rabble,' and as aliens is blood,
in language, and in religion,' by him who occupies the
• highest official situation in the empire—the Lord Chan-
cellorship of England.—(Groans.)"
The speaker had touched a chord in the hearts of his
audience to which their memories responded. Their
cheers, and other audible demonstrations of sympathy,
showed how completely they entered into the argu-
ment and its proofs. lie proceeded :
" I ask you, do you think for a moment that the pre-
sent Government would introduce any measure having
for its object the purification of the Catholic Church and
the protection of its laity ? Do you consider that they
• ho have ever been the professed enemies of your creed
and country, care one jot for the welfare of your reli-
gion, or are at all anxious conceanina your charitable in •
AA 1
A believee ilia,- it
quirete -greaCtift Of •• pOliticidf46ight to see what
'their object really is. 'They wani •t i divide the priest
hood from the peop'.e ; and shall they succeed in doing
aft ?—(Cries of • ever.')"
The agitation against the Charitable Bequests Act
is but a neva demonstration of an old dislike to
.Teryism, however it may change and modify itself to
Meet the changed circumstances and milder spirit of
teem age. Repeal is the same spirit working under
:another form. We offer no suggestion as to the way
in which Sir Robert Peel can best deal with this
" difficulty." It exists. It is for him to surmount
it, or retire, acknowledging his inability to conquer
i• t, as he may be influenced by a love of office which
i 'nduces him to retain the government at all hazards ;
c r by an elevated patriotism, which sacrifices self to
p romote and secure the peace of one's country.

ADVANCE in the PRICE OF IRON.
JiIRMLNVHAM, THURSDAY EVENING.—To-day the
quarterly meeting of the iron-masters of this district was
held in the Town-hall, and was most numerously and
respectably attended, indeed the proprietors of all the
gre: Lt. 'houses, or their representatives, were present, and
agr, 3ed to en advance of 1/. per ton over the price of
last -quarter. After the last meeting, the leading mas-
ters 'in South Staffordshire reduced the price 1/. per ton,
con trary to the general expectation of the trade, and no
am all surprise was felt at so extraordinary a proceeding.
as the demand was then brisk, and no apparent necessity
for the reduction. Since then, however, the demand has
bees extremely brisk ; orders have come in all dime-
rims, and the prospect of trade was declared so good to-
day, as to fully justify a rise of 1Z per ton over the price
.of last quarter. I am exceedingly happy to say that this
steady improvement in the trade has been productive of
immediate advantage to the labouring classes. They are
now well employed, and, in many places, at a good ad
iron -
vance of wages. The demand for railroad is.very
considerable ; but the, generally improved state of the
trade is the main cause of this favourable state of our
staple manufacture. The pigs are at from 3/. to 4/.
Ear from rd. to 61. ss. per ton.

Tho Lord Bishop of Lichfield has appointed the
Yew. D. N. •Wstton, M.A., to the curacy of Perry Barr,
Ila• idsworth:'l- •

AN 41.1;DACIOUS ALSETIOOD.—A lie, which only
done paper in Dublin, the Monitor, could be found base
'enough to adopt and circulate, has been sent abroad in
-the hope of arresting, even for a moment, the general
and determined opposition to the Bequests Bill. A most
clumsy lie, indeed, it is, and does no credit to the inge-
nuity of the inventors. It is painful to have to add,
which we do on the authority of the Packet of last night,
that the Rev. Mr. Carroll, of Westland-row, assisted
in propagating it from the pulpit of that chapel on
bunday last 'Tis but a story got up for, or per-
haps by, the Castle. Three peasants of the county of
ariniegrary conspiring to murder Dr. Murray ! The tale
-rest% on this circumstance alone, as we learn from
the Post of yesterday evening :—A Mr. linaresbo-
rough, a magistrate residing near Mitchelstown, in the
county of Cork, :got an anonymous note, saying that a
plot was formed by some Tipperary peasants to assassi-
nate Dr. Murray. This note he forwarded to his Grace,
and, on the authority of this anonymous document, one
of Dr. Murray's priests ascends his pulpit on Sunday
fast, and publishes to his affrighted bearers that the life
of the Archbishop was conspired against. We cannot
believe he did this by permission of his Grace, and there-
fore we cannot suppress an opinion of his being sadly
wanting in discretion. The writer of the anonymous
note was evidently one of the Castle servants, either
Catholic or Protestant, and the object of it to create
mpathy for, as it were, a persecuted Prelate, and thus
direct public indignation from the channel in which it
pow runs. A poor ruse!—Dublin Pilot.