The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-10 00:00:00

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blishments ! ell—here is a colony, thanks to
us, one of the most lightly taxed countries in the
world. Here is a colony, which- we choose` to
make the sole channel of our American' corn
trade. Here is a colony which We say-
.
we more than keep our word) is- to --lair
placed exactly on the footing '.:Of-,anf. Eng
lish county. Truly a thankful and _cqrat&i*ln!
English county we have of it ! We4telf ou _zi
nisterial colony-fanciers, that all their exclusive
favours to Canada arc doing nothing but people a •
new region with commercia restrictionists. How
can it be otherwise? Are they not lisping our
own lessons after us ? Are we not setting up
amongst them precisely that machinery of jealous
regulation+ which, if they once acquire a taste
for, they will turn one day against ourselves!
STANDARD.—The Irish State trials natu-
rally enough occupy the attention of our Con-
temporaries; we have copied from the Times an
able article upon this subject, against one pas-
sage of which article we must respectfully offer
a protest. The passage to which we allude is-
•
the following ;—" Why, these Irish func- ,
tionaries cannot so much as get a jury--
together ; a simple process one might ima-
gine, under the guidance of a direct Act
of Parliament, without subjecting them-
selves to a challenge of the whole array."
Now, in justice to 4‘ Irish functionaries," it must
be said that neither can English functionaries -
so much as get a jury together, &c. &c. &c.,
" without subjecting themselves to a chal-
lenge of the whole array." The right of chal-
lenge to the array is the same in both coun-
tries, if men are so profligately impudent as to
make challenges which they cannot sustain ; the
only difference is that in England men will
not make such groundless challenges, merely
ad captanduin; in Ireland, they do make them.
Surely, our Contemporary must have seen in the
proceedings in this case up to the present time,
enough to satisfy the most scrupulous that soli-
citors of the repeal class will do things in Ire-
land, to which the least respectable members of
the profession in England would scorn to descend ;
or, to use our Contemporary's strong language,
such things as " the most foul-mouthed igno-
ramus of an English pettifogger would not
venture upon." And having seen those timings
our Contemporary ought to have hesitated to be-
lieve, that" the array" of the Dublin panel was
justly challengeable, merely because suchaperson
as Mr. Peirce Mahony threatened to challenge
it; but if the array is not justly challenge-
able what becomes of the censure of the
Irish functionaries 'I Whether Mr. Pierce
Mahony will proceed a step further in
fulfilment of his threat, we of course
cannot pretend to gUess. The, must we say it,
culpable facility of the Irish Court of Queen's
Bench in receiving frivolous objections, no doubt
holds out to him encouragement to employ every
artifice of delay, and we cannot help adding
that the facility of some of the English jour-
nals to adopt and to exaggerate every charge of
neglect or blundering made against " the Irish
functionaries," holds out still stronger encou-
ragement. In the matter of the special jury
panel, the Irish Attorney-General has nothing
to do; it would be, indeed, a grave crime on his
part to touch it up to the day of striking the
reduced list. The Clerk of the Crown has as
little to do with the panel as the Attorney-Ge-
neral, and we have the happiness to know that
a more able, upright, or high-minded public
servant does not live in her Majesty's domi-
nions than the gentleman who fills that
office in Ireland. Mr. Bourne, the Clerk
of the Crown, receives the list front the High
Sheriff, who is a very honourable man, and, we
believe, a Liberal in politics, and the High She-
riff receives it from the Recorder, the well-
known Mr. Shaw, a person whom nobody will
suspect ofcompromising imitnsel f in order to accom-
modate Sir Robert Peel's Government. Where,
then, has been the blundering or the dishonesty
which can afford grounds for challenging the
array ? We at least require something more
than the dictum of Mr. Pierce Mahony, however
positive, for admitting that the array is justly
challengeable. Capriciously, vexatiously, or
fraudulently, no doubt any array can be chal-
lenged, but this is an inconvenience that has
place in England as well as in Ireland ; an in-
convenience against which no care, or skill, or
vigilance on the part of functionaries can guard.

IRELAND.
TIIE STATE PROSECUTIONS.
Du aLIN, JAN. 7.—The Orange advisers of the Irish Go-
vernment have taken a fatal step in striking off the name of
every Roman Catholic from the special jury list. At first those
eleven Roman Catholics, and the single non-political Protes-
tant who was excluded along with them, were set down by the
Orange and Government press as " Radicals.'' But, even if
they were Radicals, they would not, necessarily, be disquali-
fied from serving on a jury. It was found necessary, there-
fore, to devise some more plausible -pretext for the. removal of
'every Roman" Catholic from the panel. Accordingly, the
Evening Packet of last niglA received instructions from the
Castle to describe them as " Repealers." There is no evidence
whatever of this, even if the fact could be relied upon as a jus-
tification of the conduct of the Crown. At the striking of
the jury, not a syllable on the subject was uttered either by
the Counsel of the Government (Mr. Brewster), or the Clerk
of the Crown (Mr. Kemmis). As each Roman Catholic name
was struck off, Mr. Cantwell, one of the agents of the tra-
versers, publicly declared that ho was so struck off as a Roman
Catholic. The fact was not denied. How could it be denied?
The truth is, that the objection about Repealers was an atter-
thought, when the functionaries at the Castle discovered the
fatal error into which their zeal had betrayed them.
But suppose that some, or even all of the Roman Cathplies,
were Repealers,_ what right would the Crown officer, acting on
behalf of the Government of the country, have to start su:h
an objection? How could he have had evidence of the fact,
even if there were law to disqualify a Repealer from serving on
a jury ? If a foreigner or an alien is to be tried on a criminal
charge, the British law gives him the right to place six fo-
reigners upon his jury.
Here Roman Catholics, seven laymen and one clergyman
(the second clergyman indicted has sunk into the grave), are
to be tried on a criminal charge, and every Roman Catholic
name drawn out of the ballot-box has been struck out of the
jury list by the officers of the Government !
Mark you, this was a special jury list of forty-eight names,
selected from seven hundred, all perfectly eligible, unless some
legal objection could be sus:ained against the adjudication of
the Recorder upon the revision. If political opinion as a Re-
pealer were a disqualification, it should have been urged before
the Recorder. It was not started then, nor was it urged at
the ballot. If the Crown officers were determined to strike off
Repealers—supposing them to have been such—they should
have kept them off the panel altogether. As it is, the defend-
ants have not had a fair chance of a jury list of forty-eight,
inasmuch as Repealers are declared to be disqualified from
serving on a jury.
It may be asked, did the Crown oounsel and solicitor, whilst
they held an inquisition respecting Repealers and Roman Ca-
tholics, take any steps to ascertain how many of those they left
on the jury list belong to the Orange Association?
But, as already observed, the objection about repeal was a
mere after-thought. The naked fact before the empire—before
Europe—is this, that every Roman Catholic, without cause as-
signed, was struck off the jury by the agents of the Govern-
ment. Sir Robert. Peel is very plausible; but this damning
fact, not all his sophistry can explain away.
The Dublin Evening Post, of last night, contains the fol-
lowing announcement

"AGGREGATE MEETING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICS OF
IRELAND.—Who would have imagined that it would become
necessary, fourteen years after the Catholic Relief Bill had be-
come the law of the land—that the Catholies of Ireland would
find themselves coerced into an aggregate meeting, for the pur-
pose of denouncing the grievous wrong and the gross insult
offered to them by the Crown, on the recent occasion of re-
ducing the special jury ? Thanks, however, to our wise Go•
vernmcnt—to those eminently practical' men who have the
mismanagement of oar affairs—this has happened. The re-
quisition will appear in the course of the next week ; but pre-
viously, we would call on every Roman Catholic gentleman in
Ireland, who can conveniently leave home, to hold himself in
readiness. We shall, on Tuesday, speak more at large on this
most important movement."
EJECTION OF TENANTRY.

The Limerick Chronicle says:—" Aictinesday last, William
Smith, Esq., sub-Sheriff. with the aid of police, and a party
of the 61st, from Hathkeale, dispossessed, under haberc, a
family of the name of Ahern, on the estate of Mr. Conyers, of
Castletown, and immediately after he had withdrawn his force
the country people rushed on the premises, broke the locks, and
re-took possession in view of the civil and military authorities."
Lord Cardigan► will resume the command of the 11th Hussars,
in Dublin, on the 15th inst , the day of Mr. O'Connell's trial.
General Lord Bloomfield only stopped two days at his seat,
Laughton, King's county. His Lordship has permitted his out.
offices to be appropriated for a detachment of cavalry to be
stationed there.

The remains of Lord Grey's grandson, who died a midship-
man on board the Fox frigate, were interred at Tarbert church
with naval honours,

The Earl of Clare left. Mountshannon on Friday for Ballytin,
the seat of Sir Charles Coote, M.P., thence to Carton, the re-
sidence of the Duke of Leinster, and afterwards to Dublin, ou
a visit to his Excellency Lord De Grey.
The Landlord and Tenant Commission is to resume its
labours to-morrow at Dublin Castle.

BRUTAL OUTRAGE BY THE MARINES UPON SOME
SAILORS. —These disgraceful and brutal outrages are still con•
tinued nightly by these ruffians, in military garb, who thereby
keep Woolwich in the greatest state of excitement possible.
On Sunday night the marines more infuriated, if possible,
rushed into the public-houses along High-street, declaring
they would murder all that opposed, and in one house, the Duke
on Horseback, a poor fellow of a sailor Lad to make a precipi-
tate retreat up a place called the " Gardens," foilowed by about
a dozen of his cowardly assailants, the civilians assembled not
liking to interfere, from the fear of receiving some injury from
their brutal and ruffianly conduct. So great was the riot that
a military officer with an orderly was seen opposite the door of
the Duke on Horseback, who, upon being seen by the soldiers,
they ran away, but not before threa'ening to strike Mr. Clifford,
the Inspector, and Mr. Watts, a parish-constable, which they
would have cirried into effect, had not police-constable Walker,
293 R, been there and seen their cowardly intention, and took
one of the fellows to the station-house, whom they dared not
rescue, knowing him to be a most powerful and determined man,
that would teach them better. Monday night a similar scene
was fully expected, but happily did not take place, an-I it is to
hoped will not again, as it not only causes a stagnation of tr:ade,
but prevents the inhabitants leaving their homes, for fear of
encountering such brutal and unmanly ruffians, and perhaps
being injured for life.
DRUNKENNESS.—Young men are generally intro-
duced to this vice by the company they keep • but do you care..
fully guard against ever submitting
_yeuernse:lf to be the com-
panion of low, vulgar, and dissipated m , and hold it as a
maxim, you had better be alone than in mean company. Let
your companions be such as
yourself, or superior ; for the
worth of a man will always be ratedby that of his company.
You do not find pigeons associate with hawks, or lambs with
bears; and it is unnatural for a moral man to be the com.
panioh of blackguards.

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