The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-14 00:00:00

, instead of rendering its provisions as extensive as the
evils it is designed to remove. The-Duke of Biiccleuch
made but a sorry excuse for the Home Secretary, by
whom and his subordinates the Bill was prepared, and
to whose conduct througli-the Commons it is entrusted.
STANDARD.—The convict's . dinner at Covent-gar,
den Theatre.yesterday was attended by just the class of
persons that every one anticipated. Mr. Gisberne ac-
coanted fer-Pie ,stbsence of respectable guests by saying
Writ fewiuch would attend a dinner presided over 'by a ,
Chartist, and given to a Repealer ; but this explanation
'iS-iiiiidequateifor there are some- honest -and. -decent
mailß among .both, Chartists and Repeaters., The
occasion of diagnst sweat tau' beyond a. dislike teCliart..
ism or Repeal. The dinner was presided ever by Mr.
Thomas Slingsby Duucombe, and given in honour of Mr..
Daniel O'Connell; and further, it was given in open and
insolent contempt of the law. :Poor 'Ler& Shrewsbury
-iiisii;prestiot•lo-prove the truth of Mr. O'Connell's
.oe-
r4riptipn: of „him.,— ‘.‘ A
_pious fool is . the most mis-
chievous of fias,," said` the Irish incendiary, speak--
ing. of tie ~,N,olitle-:T.iord; -and tfie unlucky Peer urged
by his red-hot J.ioiOnaf.4etit hurries
.to kiss the feet
of his iiiaiilrer; IA to 'prove ' that 'the insult was
rueriAek. Mid Tiinitcys; -f4O,:' vrliiSse casuistry upOn-
-ilie,i,;iojea 'of oaths , has ; intide' Min- ' ak% little
;4forious-iliese, with an Irish' Dird *Dunboytie—
,if ::,,t)wit.„Feally" '' is - :inch, a Lord --'-'represented -
~n the,obility_ of . the 'United, Kingdoin upon the
Occasion. The . nttend an—ee - Vt.' snub .a . man as Lord
Shrewsbury, :Lord .qam9yp.is a ,Lord of yesterday):
at such _a- celefiration,, is; a
,:nea,Tieholy, . but A not
uninstruetive fact:. : ".The jpibils-; fdliV--;.its..- the object
of "hikpresent .admiration: called, hirn4-- is a fair type of:-
too •inany...Of even-the best •elhss"..kif: Roman .Cat.holies.
'He must 'hold Mrs:O'Connell! in deep ~centenipt-r-ind-
eed, :he has said. as:-niuchbut'the,:priest -orders his
Lordship to swallow 'his contempt and,,hiS dislike, and,
for th-egood of the Church, to prostrate himself, the re-
presentativeof Sohn Talbot, before the feet of a peasant-
bore beggar and mountebank, who has Spurned, him: We
..ask.worildLord-ShrewahuryVvihO' has been foreed to this
abject submission by priest, be a fit juror to try Mr.
'-Darrid,O'COnnell- -upon a prosecution -for tk Pothanist
sedition' ?..' Does 'Lord' Shrewsbury now stand- indif-
ferent as he stands . unsworn. ? And if ticils;. at 'least: a
fair average specimen' of his sect; -dOes nut " itiand in,_
different lis he stands urisworn," what reason is there. to
suppose that other :.Roman Catholics would—how much
sueverthey might respect their oaths ?. As .for Lord
-CamOys.:- being - unable, _to agree .with , his - Lordship
upon the prover .manner- .of .coustruing , such solemn
• obligations, we. will *v- nothing-about him. There, were,
besides- .the • persons.-narnek perhaps half a doxen•Other
gentlemen • Roman' Catholics,. or the •husbands"Of Roman
Catholielviv4x, present' to . relieve the assemblage from.
the character of •an unmixed rabble:. of the ury lowest
' description:.:. It was just such an. assembly , as ought to.
I" be expected at A Convict's festival.