The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-10 00:00:00

European interest that Russia, which professed
an anxiety for liberating Greece, should not be
provided with a pretext for subjugating Turkey.
Had Mr. Canning lived, Greece would have been
long since freed, and he would not be afraid to
tell Russia—" March against Constantinople at
your peril." There is no reflecting roan, in or
out of England, who does not feel the woful
change that has befallen -the British empire
within the last twelve months, and who will not
exclaim against the monstrous indecency of 're-
proaching the lost statesman with the fruit of
other men's imbecility. The Holy Alliance,
which was shaken off by Mr. Canning, has made
good a second gripe on England, with the help of
'Lord Londonderry's pupil. The Paris rumour,
that the French troops are to leave the Morea
after Ibrahim Paella's embarkation, 'is, we have
reason to believe, totally unfounded.— Times.
Mr. O'Connell has' published an Address to
the people of the county of Tipperary, enjoining
them to discontinue their public meetings, and
to cultivate the esteem of a friendly Government,
and " that the Noble and Brave Marquis of
Anglesea may be able to save their country, to
put down faction and party of every description,
and to do his duty to the King by seeing Ire-
land tranquil, free, and happy." All men pos-
sessed of the least influence among the Catholics
are so sensible of the wisdom of course re-
commended by Mr. O'Connell, and the advan-
tage which a contrary course would give to their
opponents over them, that we entertain sanguine
hopes of the advice being followed. " Before
the next summer comes," says Mr. O'Connell,
" I trist that the accursed flag of Orange op-
pression will be laid in the dust for 'ever. I
trust that Irishmen of every class, and of every
sect and persuasion, will become friends and
brothers, and that our lovely native land, Green
Erin, of the rivers and streams, will be the abode
of peace, and happiness, and liberty." And
why not ? Why must Ireland be for ever divided
into a nation of serfs and a handful of oppres-
sors ? The country possesses abundant resources,
the population are strong in body, and as kindly
disposed as they are shrewd. The peasantry have
not been trained like ours from their infancy to
regular industry, and indeed the possession of in-
dustry in Ireland would little avail them at present;
but they are confessedly more moral than ours.
There is not a farmer in that county in England
which first set the example, of establishing
Brunswick Clubs who would not; withoift fear,
allow Irish labourers, in hay time and harvest,
to remain weeks on his ground unemployed,
when the hay and corn is not ready ; while,
if so many Englishmen were idle on his farm,
he would prepare himself, as a matter of course,
for all manner of devastation. What is there,
than, to prevent IriShmen of every. class, and
of every sect and persuasion, to become friends
and brothers? Nothing but the exasperation
consequent on a struggle ?—which we trust,
never will take place, and which we are
sure never will take place, if the Catholics are
not goaded into it—can ever inspire the natives
of Ireland with a wish to separate their interests
from those of this great empire. The two
countries, from proximity, from community of '
language, habits, and pursuits—from mutual de-
pendence on each other—will always, ;f violence
be not done to the natural order of things, be
intimately connected with each other. The
British empire, in its wide extent, is the natu-
ral field for the exercise of the energy and talent
of the young and the ambitious of the Sister
Island. The Irish of all classes are sensible of
this : the Catholics are so sensible of it that they
wish to be wholly and unconditionally one witl)
u's. Why, then, shall this consummation be
prevented ? The Irish are chiefly Catholics,
and the English are chiefly Protestants. No
rational man, who has ever devoted e moment
to the calm consideration of the subject, will say
that there is anything in the Catholic Religion
which ought to debar those who profess it from
the enjoyment of every civil right enjoyed by
the Protestants. There, is something so in-
sufferably arrogant iii the inhabitants of this
island pronouncing the people of the greatest'
part of civilized Europe unfit for the enjoyment
of the same rights which they claim themselves,
that they who entertain it must be far gone in-
deed in overweening conceit. But, as we have
main and again said, it is not religion which is
e cause of an exclusion for which religion
serves as the pretext. The most furious of the
speakers at the Orange Meetings allow that cir-
cumstances very different from religion created
the distinction between Protestants and Catho-
lics—that the distinction existed during the
identity of religion, when Catholics of English
descent oppressed Catholics 'of Irish descent—
and that religion is now merely the most conve-
nient mark for verifying the descendents of those
who were once the same in creed, though other-
wise distinguished. The Protestants of' the
North of Ireland—if any credit is due to their
champion, the Rev. Mr. Seymour—would be of
all men the most mortified, were the native Irish
to become Protestants, because it was not the
creed, but the n
w....ngness to pay higher rents
and' to live on Irish fare, that formed the
gravantot of his charge against them. Except
that there be something irreconcileable between
Protestantism and potatoes, and that the eon-
version of the
MO should instantlmyiparos
ceena-
change in their taste, the cabin w
croach on the farm-house, and high rent woiald
still be more acceptable than low rent. It is
really edifying, however, to hear the language
made use of,-in this country as well as in Ireland,
by those with' whom religion is a stalking-limse,
and who vainly hope that they will succeed in
imposing on the people. - Thus, at a public
breakfast given to Mr. Peel, at Bolton, Colonel
Fletcher, a name rather too well known, ex-
claimed, " If they did forsake those principles
which brought about the glorious Revolution
in 1688 ; f they deserted their God 71 OW,
who had then brought them through
that' tremendous time, then did they de-
serve to be themselves forsaken by him. He
trusted and felt confident that the Right lion.
Gentleman and his colleagues would take care
that no further encroachmnts were made on the
Constitution, and that the principle which placed
the present family on the throne of these realm-;.1
would still be maintained, an that their God
and religion would still govern the' !encl."—
Really this is too much. st
shall have nothing
among this crew for some time lint deserting a
God, till the very parrots in the carres, in the.
public-houses where their orgies are celebrated,
will be calling out do nal desert you,. God.—
This is really most nauseating prophanity. But
all this violence—all this attempt to frighten
Ministers, will, we trust, be unavailing, to deter ,
them from attempting to put an end to the divi-
sions of Ireland: As a contrast to the scenes
we now witness in Ireland, let our readers turn
to the account of a dinner given to the Duke of,
Boecieuch in Dumfries, which we baye taken
from the Dumfries Courier. Why should Ire-
land not 00)41 that union between Jana:oloml