The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-15 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESD '.iir, JANUARY 15, 1845.

The Orangeme:,,,or Protestants, or Conservatives—
or whatever 'Jther alias they please to give themselves
—of Irf:2,atid are beginning to get up an active and
*clarnoieus demonstration against the Government
Education Scheme. We stated some time ago in The
San that this would be the case, for the symptoms of
,discontent among these impracticable partisans have
long been manifest, and nothing has prevented them
from breaking out into open mutiny against the PEEL
Adntinistration but the disagreeable conviction which
they entertain, that, by so doing, they will be weaken-
ing themselves; and playing the game of O'CONNELL
And the Whigs. But their discontent has now reached
such a height that they can no longer keep it under.
Speak out, they must and will, no matter at what
cost to the Conservative cause, which they pro-
fess to have so much at heart ; and accordingly a
numerous party, headed by the Lord Primate and not
less than thirteen of the Irish Protestant Bishops
have just issued a declaration on the subject of, what
they call, the " Education of the Poor in Ireland,"
the system of which, as pursued under the sanction
of Government, they denounce in no unequivocal
terms, objecting to it, inter alia, that it gives undue
prominence to secular, to the depreciation of religious,
instruction ; that it evinces a disregard of the position
and claims of the clergy of the Established Church;
and that its obvious tendency is to throw the direction
of national education into the hands of the priesthood
of the Church of Rome. For these and other reasons,
some of which they enter into at most wearisome
length, the Lord Primate and the thirteen episcopal
ioints of his ghostly Tail have come to the resolution
of offering every opposition in their power to the
Ministerial plan of Irish education ; and not only
this, but they call on their " brethren in the faith" in
England to make common cause with them—in other
words, to embark in an energetic crusade against
reason, toleration, and liberality. If the spirit of '
dull, idiotic—though no doubt conscientious—bigotry
is thus actively rouJed again.-it the education system ,
eta it is now carried on in Ireland, how much more

rabid will be the frenzy when Sir ROBERT PEEL ex-
plains his project for the better instruction of the
Irish youth, to which he briefly alluded towards the
close of the last session, and for which allusion,
informed as it was with a just and liberal spirit, he
received the approbation of all the more impartial and
enlightened Members of the House of Commons !
That which is now merely a brisk gale will then
become an outrageous hurricane. All the elements
of wrath will be let loose against the head of the
unhappy Premier, and he will be the mark at which
unrelenting bigotry will let loose her envenomed
shafts, as was the case when he decided on the bold
and equitable experiment of surrendering his own
party prejudices and conceding Catholic Emancipa-
tion. But Sir ROBERT PEEL has, no doubt, made up
his mind to bear the brunt of the battle, and will no
more be turned from his course—having, to all
appearance, -already made up his mind as to the
course he shall pursue—than the moon will be turned
from her path by the baying of the dogs. Indeed the
Premier has no alternative left but to persevere in the
liberal course of Irish policy to which he alluded last
session. To halt or to go back, is to involve himself
or his colleagues in ruin—aye, and not only this, but
it is to arm Mr. O'CONNELL with tenfold moral
influence over the minds of his easily-persuaded
countrymen, and give an imvetus to the Repeal ques-
tion greater—a thousand times greater—than any it
has yet received. Imagine, for an instant, Sir Ito-
BERT PEEL taking fright at the long wolfish howl of
the Irish Protestant bigots, backed by their English
brethren, and disappointing public expectation by
entering—in opposition to his pledge—on a retrograde
course of policy as regards Ireland ! What will—
nay, what must be, the inevitable consequences (f
such vacillating conduct? Why, just this—namely
that the liberal party in the sister-country, dis-
heartened and disgusted with the Minister's political
cowardice—not to call it treachery—will turn a most
willing ear to the oily blandishments of the Repeal
agitators than they yet have deemed it right or dis-
creet to do ; and where there is now but one Mr,
SMITE O'BRIEN, there will spring up at least a
hundred in half-frenzied Ireland ! The Repeal question
being grounded in delusion can only become really
dangerous when the English Government shrink
from their obvious duties, and condescend to play the
part of trimmers. They have the power of putting
an extinguisher upon it whenever they please—for
what, after all, is Repeal, but the loud voice of Ire-
land's despair ?—but when that despair is changed by
wise and salutary measures of legislation into hope
and confidence, the clamour gradually dies away into
insignificance, common sense resumes the ascendancy
so long usurped by passion, and the delusion of a
domestic Parliament is made manifest to all Irishmen
endowed with the slightest faculties of reflection.
With Sir ROBERT PEEL it rests to decide whether
the sister country shall be one with us, indissolubly
united to us in the bonds of affection and mutual in-
terest, or whether she shall still continue to be—
what she has been for so many ages—a thorn rankling
in our side—a living ulcer preying on our vitals.
We cannot doubt the course he will pursue—though
we have no very lively faith in his firmness—for he
has already pledged himself to a certain line of Irish
policy, and he cannot back out of such pledges, hut
to the utter ruin of his character as a British
statesman.

The equivocal, temporising, timid, and in all re-
spects unsatisfactory letter of the Archbishop of CAN.
TERBIJEY, fully bears out our worst suspicions of the
course that would be adopted at Lambeth Palace. II
the letter bears any stamp whatever, it is the stamp
of Puseyism. This, in fact, is the only intelligible
part of it. The Puseyite Bishops are praised for
their endeavours to enforce the rules of the rubric ;
and the people of Exeter, Berks, and Tottenham, are
upbraided fur not obeying these high dignitaries.
" To prevent the increase," says his Grace, " of an
evil which might terminate in actual schisms was con-
fesiedly most desirable; and the most effectual mode of
accomplishing the object, it has been thought, would be
found in general conformity to the rubric. Universal
concurrence in this easy and obvious regulation would
have combined the several advantages of securing
compliance with the law of the Church and the land,
of putting a stop to unauthorised innovations, and of
excluding party distinctions, in their character de-
cidedly unchristian, from the public worship of Gon ;
and I cannot but regret that measures which, with a
view to these good purposes, have been recommended
by high authorities, should not have been received
with unanimous acquiescence, as the means of restor-
ing order and peace, without any departure from the
principles of the Church, or offence to the most scru-
pulous conscience."

The rest of the letter contains nothing and settles
nothing. The venerable old man seems sadly puzzled
between the dangers to the Church on the one hand
from the resistance of the laity to Romish customs:
and the arguments of the Puseyite Bishops in favour
of the supreme authority of the Church on the other.
The people will now see that they must trust to them-
selves.

Madrid journals of the 7th have been received. On
that day the. Senate resumed the consideration of the
Bill for the suppression of the slave-trade, and ulti-
mately adopted it without any material alteration.
The Chamber of
sDeputies was engaged in discussing
the Clergy Dotation Bill.
The Three per Cents. closed at 31 for cash, and 31i
at GO days i the Five :per Cents, at 23a at 60 days;
the Floating Debt at 76 for cash ; and the titles pro-
ceeding from the conversion of the Foreign Debt, 2.2
at 6Q days.

The French Chamber of Peers commenced the dis-
cussion on the Address in reply to the King's Speech
on Monday. Count MOLE, eYklently anxious to ac-
quit himself of the clr..rges brought against him in
reference to the coc.:iition against the Government, com-
menced the debate, and denied, in the strongest terms,
that he had contributed in any way to intrigues for
a change of Ministers. While he made this declara-
tion, he Ist the same time asserted that he entirely
disaT,,proved of the general policy pursued by M.
Guizov, and more particularly of those parts of it
which involved negotiations on the affairs of Otaheite
and the right of search. On the latter subject the
Ministry had deceived the Chamber and the country,
which had been led to believe that active measures
were in progress for altering the system, while, for
ought they knew, nothing whatever had been done.
He would, at the same time, state that no modifica-
tion—no alteration of the treaties of 1831 and 1833
would satisfy the country. They must be totally
abr(gated, and a total change of system take place.
As regarded Otaheite, the Minister had shown the
same wavering and dilatory disposition, and on every
point had shown a readiness to yield to England.
These are very general phrases, and M. Guizoi
treated them as such, briefly announcing that, whet,
the proper time came, he would be able to show that
the statements made by the Noble Peer were without
foundation. The papers are chiefly occupied ii,
remarks on the documents just published respecting
the rude treatment and expulsion of Mr. PRITCHARD
from Otaheite. They have little or nothing tc,
say against the course adopted by M. GUIZOT,
for indeed he appears to have come off best in the
negotiations between England and France, but still
the Opposition journals must find blame somewhere,
and they accordingly fall foul of Count JARNAC for
his English prepossessions, and the timidity which
he displayed in his interviews withlLord A neer:tees:.
The Courrier Francais says he leant to the English
side because he had married an Englishwoman. The
following are the remarks of the National:----" It is
evident to any one who has read the dispatches pub-
lished in the Journal des Debats of Sunday, that we
have not in them any of the important details re-
lating to the negotiations between the French and
English Governments. All that is communicated to
the Chambers is confined to the correspondence be-
tween Count DE JARNAC and M. GUIZOT. But
what part does this M. DE JARNAC perform ?
Read his letters. They are not diplomatic
notes, they are police reports. He writes to
M. Guizo.r. M. Gu4o.r does not reply to him. The
tone of his correspondence is that of a man who speaks
only of strong apprehensions, the impatience of the
English Government, formidable extremities, B,:c. It
is impossible not to be cruelly affected by this lan-
guage of a trembler, who was anxious to conclude
the affair, and who dilates complacently on the pre-
tended grievances both of PRITCHARD and of the
English people, demonstrating himself to be an agent
more occupied with his own true or pretended alarm
than with the rights of his nation, or with the in. ,

terests or the dignity of his country. Endeavour to
find any sentiment of nationality. Fear prevails in
every one of his phrases ! M. GUIZOT has in Count
DE JARNAC an auxiliary worthy of him."

The Presse, in reference to the critical state
of affairs at one period last summer says—
"ln those documents are to be found the explicit
confirmation of two serious facts which the Presse
announced to its readers so far back as the end of
August last, on the authority of its private corre-
spondent at London, and which the Ministerial
journals denied with the utmost obstinacy. We an-
nounced that the intention of the British Cabinet had
been during some days to send back Mr. PRITCHARD
to Otaheite, where he was to have been re-established
by fair means, or by force of arms, and to recal Lord
CowLEY. The dispatches of Count JARNAC place
these two circumstances beyond all doubt. The
public, therefore, may perceive what little value there
is to be attached to Ministerial contradictions."

We find no additional information in the papers
respecting the probable fate of the Ministry. Every-
thing, it is now admitted, depends on the Court, and
as MONTALIVET has declared his opposition to the
Ministry, the Opposition naturraily believe that he
would not have ventured on such a step without
being properly backed,
The following are extracts from the continental
papers :

The Committee on the Address in the Chamber of
Deputies has terminated its deliberations. It will meet
on Tuesday to hear the rough draft read, and it is
thought that M. Hebert, who has been charged to draw
it up, will pr: sent ii to the Chamber in a public sitting
on Wednesday, or at least on Thursday.
The Phare of Bayonne of the 10th states, that several
Spaniards who had taken part in the revolt of the val-
leys of Anso and Mcho, and taken refuge in France,
have been, on their return to Spain with passports given
to them by the Spanish Vice-Consul at Oleron, in virtue
of the decree of amnesty published in their favour, thrown
into prison on their arrival in their own country.
The Algerie gives the following account of treatment,
by the Emperor of Morocco, of the Moors who betrayed
his cause after the defeat of Isly :—" The Emperor has
inflicted a degrading punishment on the chiefs who took
an active part in the pursuit of his army after the battle
of Isly, and in the plunder of Souirra, after the bom-
bardment of that city. Ile has ordered their beards to
be shaved off ; and, do not let us be imagined to speak
figuratively, this was done with the razor of the barber,
and not with the yatagan of the executioner."
We learn from Berne that, on the 9th instant, Count
de Pontois, the French Ambassador in Switzerland, left
Berne, on a temporary visit to Zurich, in order to make
diplomatic communications to the new Directory.
The New Zurich Gazette of the 10th inst. states, that
the Council of State of the Vorort (Zurich) assembled
on the 9th in consequence of dispatches received from
the canton of Lucerne. According to those dispatches
much excitement prevailed. Alarming accounts had
likewise been received from the canton of Argovia. The
Government of Lucerne was continuing to fortify Gutsch
at the point where it commands the city. Three batta-
lions of the militia had likewise been called to arms.

The Bade Gazette states, that in the canton of Argovia
a force of 14,000 men was collecting to make a new ex-
pedition into the canton of Lucerne.
At the sitting of the Grand Council of Lucerne, held
on the 7th, a decree was passed whereby all the ex-
penses of the Government in securing the arrest of the
authors of the late revolution, and in carrying into effect
the measures resolved upon for its suppression, are to be
paid out of the property of the delinquents. All persons
implicated in the revolt are declared incapable of dis-
posing of any part of their property.
THE BOURSE—MONDAY, JAN. 13.

Tint Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
FranchriveperCents...... 121 30 .. 121 15 .. 121 30 .. 121 45
Fours •••• •• •• •• 108 .. 108 .. 108 .. 108
Three per CentS••••• 85 10 85 10 .. 85 .. as 10
New Loan •••••••• 86 30 .. 86 30 .. 86 30 .. 85 30
Bank of France •• 3260 .•3260 3255 ••3260
Gouln Bank. I,ooof. Shares • • 1100 ..1100 104 75 ..1058 75
Belgian Fives, 1840
1849........ 106 .. 106!8 .. 106!{3 .. 106!.0
Four-and-a-Half .• • 103 h • . 1834 .. 103!4 .. 103!4
Two-and-a-Half- 61 90 .. 61 50 .. 61 90 61 90
ipanish Threes.. ••
Active .••• • • • • 374 .. 374 • • 374 • • 37
Passive ...."6 " 654 .. ..
Neapolitan•••• •••••••• 96 75 96 7596 76
Roan • •••••••••• 105 •• 105 .. 104 N .. 104 4

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. (-;rinain •... ....1015 —lOl5 —lOl5 ..1015
V asailles, R. 8...
:tout& •• •••• •••••• ....1032 60 . 1040 ..1032 50 —1049
ttouen to Havre— .• •• .• 812 50 .83 75 . 812 50 .. 813 75
ftleans .....,,•
Atrasburg to 8a1e....
kvignon to Marseilles..." 937 50 .. 945 . 937 50 .. 945
RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT. JAN 16.
4t. Germain ..........1010 ..1015 ..1010 ..1015
Versailles, R.B.
L. 8....• •.. .
Konen ...... 1032 50 ..1042 50 ..1030 —lO4O
Konen to Havre.
Orleans .. ..... • . —ll2O ..1130 "1114 75 ..1130
itrashurg to Bale 293 73 .. 296 25 .. 253 75 .. 296 25
Avignon to Marseilles• 937 50 .. 943 75 .. 937 50 .. 943 75