The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The news from Ireland is of a distressing cha-
racter, though it will create no surprise in the
readers of this journal, in which the mischief
has been at once confidently predicted, and most.
anxiously deprecated. At Ballynamore, in the
county of Leitrim, an armed body of insur-
gents appeared last Saturday week, in order, in
the first instance, to prevent the execution of an
intention which had been already very prudently
relinquished,—namely, that of celebrating the
anniversary of the battle of the Boyne by the
Protestants—but undoubtedly murder and mis-
rule of every description would have followed.
Government was acquainted with the Wove-
ments of the disaffected, and prepared to sup-
press them. This was done) with what we
should call in any other ease but little trouble ;
but no term expressive or indifference should be
used when one is speaking of civil discord. The
rebels are described as amounting to .500 in
number, and certainly chose a good position,
for they had a bog in their rear, which might be
passed on foot, hut which would not sustain ca-
wiry. They in consequence looked at a .troop
of lancers which was brought against them with-
out dismay ; but on seeing these file off to make
way for a body of infantry and police, they fled
with rapidity. A Priest had offered before,
to use his endeavours to disperse the insur-
gents ; Out the condition very properly in-
sisted on by the Government party—that
the arms should be surrendered—rendered
the negotiation abortive. As a military affair,
this would be very trifling indeed ; but us
happening in a part of the United Kingdom, and
therefore having a smack of civil war, it is most.
fearful. Reports state that 40,000 insurgents
had been seen in arms. This is a foolish ex-
aggeration; but it is very painful that matter ca-
pable of such exaggeration should exist. How-
ever, the mischief being now begun, which may
end no one can tell when, we shall frankly state
our opinion on a subject so important, not only
to the well-being, but almost to the existence of
the State. Timely concession, and a due con-
sideration of the rights of mankind, ought to
have prevented this rising, and would haVe.paci-
tied Ireland ; but though we trust that the sun-
pression of the present commotion will. he
fcl—
lowed by acts of clemency, and a restitution of
the Irish people to the full enjoyment of the
Constitution, no concession of,any kind should
proceed frOm the Government till the rebellion
is totally put down, and those who have moved
in it be taught that they have nothing to expect
from war, but all from peace.—Times.
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury died
yesterday morning at Lambeth. The parti-
culars attending this event will be extracted from
the evening papers, so far as they are known by
them, and inserted in another part. Whilst we
write this, our ears are struck by the' gloomy
sound of the large bell in St. Paurs.Church,
which is near us, announcing the decease of

some person eminent in
,station ; for we believe
this bell is only sounded on the decease of one of'
the Royal Family, or that of the Bishop of the
Diocese, or of the Primate of all England. If
we were to say that his Grace had gone through
life with the character of a most accomplished
gentleman, we should wish it to be understood
that he was a Christian gentleman. such was
Nelson, the excellent author of the Fasts and
Festivals, in whom it was remarkable that the
most unsullied purity of morals, and the most
devout piety, from which his morals sprang, were
adorned by the most polished manners. The
late Archbishop, however, had not the learning
or talents of the eminent person whose. name we
have introduced ; but his Grace was deficient in
neither ; and to his natural powers of mind and
attainments by study, be added dignity of man-
ner and affability of address. The gracefulness
of his person was a gift of nature. His Grace
was of the Rutland fatuity, and his Lady, we
believe, of the same ; .endit was owing to this
double connection—there being no impediment
to be found in his personal caracter—that he
was consecrated Bishop of Norwich at an aye
which was then thought early : others, we be-
lieve, unpossf!ssed of those claims, have been ad-
vanced to the bench at an equally early period of
life. The canons, we believe, require that a
Bishop shall have completed his 32d year, when
he must have been eight years a priest. In the
expensive and but ill-paid Sec of Norwich, we
believe that the liberality of the diocesan's dispo-
sition, the claims of a numerous family, and per-
haps the habits of high life, involved hint in
some embarrassments : these must have been
painful to one who knew that it was the duty of a
Christian, and much more of a Christian Bi-
shop, "to owe no man any thing ;" and on his
subsequent promotion to Canterbury, he,with a be-
coming energy of character, as we have heard,
adopted a system which enabled him to discharge
all his incmnbrances. He succeeded Dr. Moore
in the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury, • and
for a considerable period of the time during
which his Grace was at the head of' the Church
of England, his brother was Chancellor of Ireland,
and his son Speaker of the
,House of Commons
of the United Kingdom. We can recollect no
instance in which such high dignities, have cen-
tred in so near relatives. Fortune, as well as
merit, it is said, is necessary to make a great
man. Birth wa:; the fortune or casualty which
brought about this coincidence : the merit was
of no peculiar or remarkable character in any of
the individuals ; but there was no deficiency, and
none of those eccentricities or irregularities by
which great genius is often debased or deformed.
—lbid.

It will be seen by the Court Ness, that the
Bishop of London, with the Duke of Welling-
ton, visited Mr. Peel
yesterday. ?tom this cir-
cumstance the future Primate, may, perhaps, be
divined. 'Vet what is the Bishop of London ?
An amiable and estimable man, We believe, but
of no great vigour of constitution or capacity
for exertion, if we may judge from his appear-
ance. His translation will only impose an addi-
tional weight Upon tottering limN ; and then
.will follow a succession of those removes so in-
jurious to the • English Church, in which a
Bishop never
remains long enough in one dio-
cese to become acquainted with his clergy, till
he has attained an age when the capacity for
knowing them is on the decline.—/bid,
'
In the annals of the world, examples are by
no means rare of individuals suffering from their
effbrts to enforce the knowledge of truths the
most valuable and. important t society ; but
in
•
never, surely, have any martyrs n the cause of
philosophy been the objects of heavier obloquy,
than those enlightened Statesmen to whom we
owe the recognition and adoption of the great
principles of free trade. Consoled they may
have been by that high and pure saitunent of
pleasure, which Bacon himself, the great father
of modern philosophy, describes as -created by
the standing upon the 'vantage ground of
truth, and Me seeing Me errors and wander-

yips, and mists and tempests in the 'vale belottel
The period approaches when the beneficial effects
of a liberal commercial policy beginning to dis-
play themselves, it might be expected that the
cavils, and objections, and discontents ,uttered
against that policy would be hushed, and the
merits of its authors acknowledged. In an Even-
ing Paper of Saturday last, however, we find
some comments upon the statement lately
made by Mr. Grant, as to the state of the silk
trade, with a greater hebetude of understand-
ing, or obstinacy of prejudicei than could
well have been imagined. Prom 'Mr. Grant's
statement, it appeared that the quantity of raw
silk imported in the year 1827, exceeds by no
less than 300,0001b5., the quantity imported in
the year 1824, when the change in the system
was first projected, and that the quantity of
thrown silk imported in the last year, falls little
short of the quantity imported before the change;
from which, the plain inference is, that the whole
quantity of silk, raw and thrown, wrought up
throughout the country, is greater than ever it
was. The imports of the current year, accord-
ing to the Returns commencing with January 1,
and ending with April, shew a yet more consi-
derable increase in the trade. But the great
matter for exultation is, that this increase has
arisen under a system so much more sound and
stable than the old one. The journal referred
to tells us to beware of rejoicing too rashly, be-
cause importation is not consumption ; from
which we ought, we conclude, to infer that
silk is not imported in order to be manufactured,
but from a pure love of speculation. It next
affirms, that Mr. Grant has chosen the years for
his comparison improperly. But the short an-
swer to that objection is, that the year 1824,
with which Mr. Grant compared the year 1827,
was the year of the greatest amount of importa-
tion ever known. As to the thrown silk, which
has fallen in price from Bs. and 10s. to 3s. and
ss. we are told that the reduction arises from a
fall in the wages of the workmen, and from no
improvement in the process of manufacture ; but
Mr. Grant noticed a single improvement in the
machinery of no less amount or importance than
that whereas formerly the swift performed but
fourteen revolutions in a given time—it now per-
forms twenty-one ; a pretty convincing proof this
of .what may be accomplished by. human inge-
nuity and application, under adequate excite-
ment. Thus weak are the pretences now re-
sorted to by those who hate the liberal portion
of our Statesmen and their works ; but the
'country will see through their flimsy artifices,
and accord to Mr. Grant and his distinguished
coadjutor and friend that full meed of honour
and gratitude which they have so richly earned.
—Morning chronicle.

The precious Bill which we owe to the igno-
rance of the present Vice-President of the Board
of Trade, namely, the Bill for postponing the
period at which the ad valorem Duty on Silk
commences, to the next Session of. Parliament,
was read a third time last night, and passed.—
Ibid.

We cannot help thinking that it would be a
great improvement in the practice of our princi-
pal Common, Law Courts, if some means were
devised of relieving the two Chief -Justices, or,
at all events, the Chief of the King's Bench,
from the trial of all the causes entered in their
Courts, and if persons undergoing so much fa-
tigne as Lord Tenterden does, were released
from the additional labour of going the Circuit.
Without any reference to the way in which that
Learned Judge's duties are performed—which,
we need not say, give almost unexampled satis-
faction to the whole community—it would not
be at all unreasonable that he were eased from
commencing a new labour, such as the Circuit,
in the midst of his present arduous ones—one
consequence of which is, that a large number of
renzands are necessarily left untried, to the great
injury and loss of the parties. It will, perhaps,
he said, that it would be of no use for the Lord
Chief Justice to remain after the Bar have left
town for the Circuit. On the contrary, we think
it would be of great use, in tending to break
down a monopoly ; for, great as the talents of
the leading Counsel at the King's Bench Bar
may he, there would be no difficulty in finding a
sufficient number of competent persons to con-
duct the London Sittings, were they prolonged,
as the sittings in Chancery are, during the whole
continuance of the Circuits. This suggestion,
though it may be sneered at for the present, will
we have no doubt, ultimately be forced upon the
Courts for adoption. A few practical improve-
ments like this would be of infinitely more value
than many of the mere technical, theoretical
ones, which we often hear of; and if it were to
combine, as it it would, the desirable object of
relieving such a character as Lord Tenterdcn
from labours which ought net to be imposed
upon him, we are sure that its adoption would
give general satisfaction to the country.—Morn-
Herald.
Mr. O'Connell has become an M.P.; that he
will sit is quite out of the question, except lie
takes the oath, which he will not. As to the
mere Emancipation of the Catholics, it might
easily be effected by altering the oath, so that
any Catholic could take it and his seat ; in which
case there would be no necessity for applying to
the Pope, or entertaining the question of securi-
ties. But the most material thing to be consi-
dered is, shall the Catholics be admitted to
power ? If they are so violent before power,
what would they be after power ? If, as they
tell us M Ireland, their eventual object would be
the restoration of the Irish Parliament, and the
touching of the Irish Church property—toge-
ther with Radical Reform, and Universal
Suffrage—by possibility, even a severance of
Ireland from England ;—if we are told these
things before Emancipation, what would be the
struggle after possibly 100 Catholics should be
in Parliament, more especially, were these 100
Catholic Members, instigated by the Catholic
Clergy, to, press for a participation of Irish
Church property, or a creation of property fbr
the Irish Church ? Should the Ministry, how-
ever, ever concede the Catholic Question, we
hope that it will not he done, either in conjunc-
tion with the Pope, the Catholic Clergy, or the
Dublin ASSOCiation. We would simply
alter
the oath,
if we thought it expedient to admit
Catholics into Parliament, and leave it-to Catho-
lics to conic in or not, under such oath.—
The Catholics say that the Catholic Church
formerly possessed the Irish Church pro_
perty, and thit they that were robbed- of
pro-
perty by the Protestant Irish Church. Their
argument is, " Return us that property, or, if
you do not choose to do that, do not take tithes
from us, who do not profess your religion."
Whenever, however, this question is settled, we
hope that we shall have nothing to do with the
payment of the Catholic Clergy ; for if we paid
the Catholic Clergy, it would not be long before
we were called upon to pay the Methodist
Clergy, and the Clergy of all other sects of
Christians. - We think that some time must

yet elapse before the great mass of the people of
England will be reconciled to Catholic Emanci-
pation ; and we are rather inclined to the opi-
nion that the late proceedings of the Catholics
in Ireland have materially increased the inward
dread that the Protestants have of conceding the
Catholic Question. As to the argument that
the Catholic Clergy have less influence over their
flocks than they had, we do not believe it ; for
the Catholic system itself has firm hold of a
man, his wife, children, and servants, in the fol-
lowing respects--marriage, giving a name to a
child, confession, and burial. A more consum-
mate system for getting hold of men was never
invented; and such system has been the growth
of ages ; and into its service have been pressed
architects, musicians, painters, Sculptors, makerserned
ofof
every boorye
writersks,dscrii
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manuscripts,ibi and the learned

The tranquillizing effects of conciliation in
Ireland begin to be developed. Already have
the savages began to muster in force ; ,already
has the pike glittered before the eyes of his Ma-
jesty's troops ; already have Catholic Priests, at
the head of their tumultuary bands of ruffians,
held parley in the field, and presumed to talk of
conditions with the Officers of the King. We
refer our readers to the accounts extracted from
the Irish Journals, of the dispersion of an as-
sembly of rebels, drawn up in martial array, and
headed by their priests, in the county of Leitnm,
and to the statements from other quarters, of the
general preparation 'of the Papists to take up
arms against the British Government, and for
the purpose, we sincerely believe, of extermi-
nating the Protestant population of Ireland.
These are the effects of conciliation, the effects
of a system which has fettered the loyal Pro-
testant subjects of the British Crown, and
granted boundless licence to the agents of disaf-
fection ;: which has encouraged the Catholic
Association, whilst it stigmatized every Pro-
testant Club ; which has tolerated aggregate
meetings of Papists, while it has strictly
prohibited the celebration of the Battle of
the Boyne—which has frowned down the ebul-
litions, and endeavoured, we hope and believe in
vain, to damp the ardour of loyalty, and pa-
triotism, NVlliiSt it has permitted treason to stalk
abroad unrebuked in the open light of day. This
system must have an end. The Protestants of
Ireland have a right to demand it ; they are the
portion of the Irish people who are really insult-
ed and oppressed ; it is for them that. Emancipa-
tion is required ; it is by them that the com-
plaint may be justly urged of the partial action
of Government, and the unequal operation of
the law. Can any thing be more monstrous
than that the enemies of British connec-
tion should be permitted to parade .Their
strength—to boast and exaggerate their num-
bers—to hold aggregate meetings—to get up
mock elections—to create mock churchwardens
and magistrates—to instal a mock Parliament—
to levy taxes—and to do all these things avow-
edly for the purposes of agitation, while the
Protestants of Ireland—the faithful and 'loyal
subjects of the British Crown—the devoted
friends of British connection—the body of men
who are the natural bonds of Ireland, who, if
left to their own unrepressed and unassisted
efforts, would, in spite of the boasted numbers
of their and our enemies, assert, and maintain
their ascendancy, by dint of their unques-
tioned superiority in intelligence, vigour, una-
nimity, and public spirit,—are required to
abstain front the display of a loyal emblem,
the harmless excitement of a convivial toast,
the commemoration even .of an event not
more glorious to Great Britain than it
has proved in its effects beneficial to Ire-
land ? We will not insult the understandings
of our readers, by asking if this is equal jus-
tice or equal law ? We ask rather, if it is ra-
tional policy ? And for answer we look to its
effects. What other effects, indeed, could such
policy be expeded to Produce ? If the expres-
sion of loyalty throughout Ireland is to be
silenced-,if the Protestant friends of English
connection are to he required to keep themselves
out of sight, as if they had cause to feel shame
on account of their politics and their religion,
for no other purpose apparently than to give an
unobstructed course to the triumphant lisplays
of Popery, who can be surprised that the Papists
should wax bold—that they ShOuld venture to
assume a menacing attitude—that their delusive
notions of their own strength and importance, and
the stimulants perpetually administered by their
artful and turbulent leaders, should impel them to
rebellion—and that, finally, they should prepare
fbr themselves an awful chastisement, and for their
country a terrible convulsion ? Perhaps we can-
not better close this article than by subjoining,
the following speciinen of the feelings and sen-
timents.of Zr. Daniel.o:C.onnell, at the pre-
sent juncture. It is contained in the concluding
Paragraph of a letter, addressed by t.lsat Honour-
able and Loyal Member of Parliament to the
Editor of the Dublin Evening Post, upon the
subject of his education and his buth, dated
Merrion-square, July 17. We give it without
a single word of comment :—" Be it kildmi to
all whoth it May Concern" (says the Hon. Mem-
ber for the county of Clare), " that I was born
on the 6th of August, 1775, the very year in
which the stupid obstinacy of British oppression
forced the reluctant people of America to seek
for security in arms, and to commence that
bloody struggle for national independence which;
has been in its results beneficial to England,
whilst it has shed Glory and conferred Liberty,
pure and sublime on America.!!"—Morn. Post.

Various robberies have been committed, within
the last week or ten days, in the neighbourhood of St. John's
Weed and Kilburn.

FALL Or FOYERS.—in consequence of the
present footpath, or entrance to the Fall of Foyers, being
both difficult and dangerous, and at certain times inacces-
sible, it was proposed by Lord COLCHESTER, who has of
late years interested himself very warmly in every thing
connected with the Highlands, that a new road should be
constructed by which these defects would be remedied, and
an easy,.eertain, and more commanding view of the Fall
secured. .A plan was accordingly drawn up by Mr. MIT-
cuzLL of this place, and the proprietor of Foyers not only
granted his permission to make the road, but subscribed
liberally towards the project. We are happy that several
additional subscriptions have been procured. It is pro-
posed that the new path shall wind down the hollow to
the south of the present road, by which the visitor will
reach the green point before lie can obtain the most partial
glimpse of the. Fall. We need scarcely say how much the
pleasure of witnessing such scenes is enhanced by their
bursting upon tahse
at
tpeßcitcaitiomr
Richmond Hill,
and in one un-
broken where the prospect is
intercepted by a dead wall, until the stranger arrives at the
point whence the whole vale of Thames is opened up in all
its richness and splendour. The " green point "•at
Foyers is a narrow insulated portion of the rock, covered
with turf, which projects like a promontory into the chasm,
and commands the best view of the Fall and its surround-
ing scenery. Sufficient money, we understand, has been
subscribed to form an excellent road down to this spot ;
but it would be desirable to continue the winding path to
the edge of the water, and by cutting a passage through the
rock enable visitors to view the Fall at nearly a hundred
feet lower than the green point, and directly under it.
Beheld from such a spot, the scene would indeed be mag•
nificent.—lnverness Courier.

SECOND EDITION.
SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF THIS EVENING.

Commissions in the King's Regiment of Cheshire Yeo-
manry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County Palatine of Chester.
lot Macclesfield Troop—Thomas Reade, Gont. to be
Cornet, vice Powell, promoted. Dated July 5, 1828.
2d Macclesfield Troop—Cornet Daniel Powell to be
Lieutenant, vice Ward, resigned. July 4.
Commissions in the Ayrshire Yeomanry Cavalry, signed
by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Ayr.
Captain John Hamilton, of the late 2d Regiment, to he
Captain. July 1.
Cornet George James Campbell to be Lieutenant.
July 1.
Cornet Sir James Boswell, Bart. to he ditto, vice Alex.
Hamilton, who retires. July 1.
Patrick Boyle, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Campbell, pro-
moted. July 1.
Archibald William Earl of Eglington to be ditto, vice
Sir James Boswell, promoted. July 1.

Whitehall, July 15, 1829.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed George Robinson,
of Alford, in the county of Lincoln, Gent. to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.

James Bacon, Commercial-road, Lambeth, carpenter.

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.

William Elliott, Goswell-road, wine-inerehant, frern
July 4 to Aug. 15, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners.

BANKRUPTS.

John. Flood, Leeds, surgeon, to surrender August 4, at
six, 5, at nine, and Sept. 2, at twelve, at the Court-house,
Leeds. I3attye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane ;
Allison, Huddersfield. _

John Wood, Manchester, oil-merchant, Aug. 4,5, and
Sept. 2, at two, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Hurd and
Johnson, Temple; Wood, Munchester.
Elisabeth Kershaw, Butterworth, flannel-manufacturer,
Aug. 15, at three, 16, at nine, and Sept. 2, at one, at
White's hotel, Manchester. Wheeler, Gray's-inn-place,
London; Hansa% Middleton.
Jacob Smith, Diorama, Regent's-Park, printer, July
25, August 1, and Sept. 2, at eleven, at the Court of
Commissioners. Ilyde, Ely-place, Holborn.
Benjamin Smith, Bristol, tailor, Aug. 2,4, and Sept 2,
at one, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol. Brittan, Bas-
inghall-street, London ; or, Bevan and Brittan, Bristol.

DI PE RIAL PA RLIAIII ENT

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Upon the SPEAKER'S taking the Chair he ex-
pressed his regret at being obliged to inconvenience
the House by his non-attendance yesterday, and he
begged to express his grateful sense of the kindness
shown to him on this as on all former occasions by
the House.