The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-03 00:00:00

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN PRICES OF TEA

WITHOUT THE DITTY.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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In the year 1823 the London importation of Tea was
24,000;000N. ; in 1826, 30,000,0001h5. ; and in the affected by it proceeds, the language of every
s,
orator at a public meetine becomes more violent
0 000Ibe. of Tea will be sold at
of October next 1,00 ,
suchB Teaan and-the feelings of the audience more embittered.
1828, 39,746,1471b5. On the Bth
year eroding Jan. 5,
Rotterdam, and an application has been made to: the
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happen to have some attributes in common with
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spondent with the present duty payable by the East India
them. If ' '
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Company.
24 of Geo. 11., on payment ofratagn
_....____..........--. ' not exercised with some show of equanimity ' ' and
SOUTII AMERICA. moderation; those even who might hope
it for their auxiliary, will sometimes , (unwisely
General Miller, who has so much distinguished himself
erhaps; 'but not altogether unnaturally) feel
in the South American struggle for independence, and who,
perhaps;
Humbled by •
its ostentatious claims to' their re-
from his exertions, ludds a commisien in the service of three
of the republics (Peru, Chili, and Buenos Ayres), has spect.be disastro
It will us, beyond all measure
lately published memoirs, replete with information about of preceding calamity, for Ireland—above all for
South America. To this interesting book we may after- the Protestant inhabitants, the scanty and feeble
wards advert. The following statistical account is ex.
traded from it :
ad-
minority fh population,—should o her those among
them who have 'hitherto avowed themtelves South America. , Population. Capital. Inhabitants.
vocates for Catholic relief now abandon; from
Republic of the United
Provinces of Rio de motives of personal and temporary soreness, a
la Plata OOO,OOO Buenos Ayres 100,000 cause involving the eternal interests of this
Republic of Chili* , 1,200,000 Santiago ....... 40,000
Republic of Peru
Republic of Bolivia .... 1,200,000 ChuqUisaca
Dictatorship .of Para- on Comprehensive principles of justice to their
guay
Republic of Columbia 2,711,296 Bogota 60,000
Republic of Mexico.... 8,000,000 Mexico ...... , 170,000 against foreign aggression. What terrifies us is,
Republic of Central
America
, that Protestant -gentlemen should lend even a
Empire of Brazil 4,000." Rio Janeiro ... stN),°°° ' pretext for the misconstruction of their views, by
* Arauco (the finest-part of Chili, occupied by unsubdued In- • -i• ... l-
acting or ea kin • S K.ng SO as to favour the sear ing.
dians) is not included in this calculation. ~ '
-- down of this high political question into a reli-
. - - - ---- - : -,- -
QUEENBOROUGIL . gious quarrel, by transfbrming the political advo-
cates into religious disputants ; and instead of
On Saturday Mr. Capel, one of. the Representa- separating the liberal Protestant from the mono-
tives in Parliament for Queenborough, accompanied polizing tyrant, drawing • •
the line with such fatal
by two friends, paid a visit to that unfortunate '
obliquity
as to lace none but Catholics on one
town, for the purpose of investigating its present .• t . ,
side—none mut rotestants on the other. This,
real condition. The party proceeded.,from house to
house to visit those fishermen and their families who we repeat, is the ttost disastrous course that the
last winter were perishing from want, or from sick- question ever could have taken. But though,
ness consequent upon want, and their exclusion from in the long run, full of evil to the Protestants,
the fisheries belonging in common to the burgesses. wilt it for die next twenty or thirty years be less
The committee appointed to manage . the subscriP- replete-with suffering to the Catholic population,
tion raised in London, in consequence of the condi- of Ireland Suppose . 7 that by some deplora,ble
tion of the inhabitants having been made known to -
mismanagement,. the Catholics should SO work
the public by the Times and other public journals of
• d
u on that esprit u corps—which, hoWever la-
the metropolis, had sent them blankets and clothing, P
and had, in a great measure, maintained them by tent or torpid under common circumstances, may,
supplies of bread, meat, and soup. The party we presume, be found inmost religious commii-
were gratified to find that much good had thus been nitiss, at various depths below the surface, and
accomplished, and many valuable men saved; but forced upwards into occasional 'effervescence=
the privations and misery, with which the poor suppose, we say, that ' the Protestants should,
people have contended with, a degree of ford- by some unhappy treatment, be convinced
tude that can scarcely have been exceeded in any that the Catholicßody wily 'll never fairly
times, yet pressed heavily upon them. The in- 1 with 1..
amalgamate' them but seek only a
tensor of the -houses, however, presented me- . •
a e- round from whence the more coin-
vant g g
lancholy specimens of the general condition of ,
the people. The party saw nothing. of the scenes of pletely to
. destroy them : in that extremity.
'
plenty and comfort which have been expatiated upon what will happen ? - 'The ;Protestants, from
as crowning the happiness of the labourer's or., cot._ north •to south -or 'lreland, . implore the
tager's Saturday night. They saw nothing but people •of _ England; as brethren ' of the
scanty and, wretched fare, and the wan faces of the same' faith.,.--io cross " the Channel, " and save
women and children bespoke extreme wretchedness. then from the fury' of the Papists !" In that
The party, and the worthy . member, in. particular, hour, we tell the- Association that for the next
gave all the
_consolation in,their power to the poor quarter or a, centu • - dies .
ry .are a race whose civil
people, and assured them that though redresa, had b,. .
been exceedingly slow, :it_ could not fail to be ulti-
• env is suspended. ,if they stand the shock,
mutely conceded to them, and that his Majesty's they are slaughtered by myriads, their country
Government would never sanction such an act of is One*widi waste, their habitations are burned;
spoliation as had been committed on their. property their families perish : the seven 'million's will'4je
and right to labour,—a right as clearly expressed and reduced, like the one million of the Morea, to
as well founded as that possessed by any individual less than half the amount with which . they be-
to any estate in the kingdom. They were then an the 'contest. The heart and soul of F ngs.
conducted to a large roam of one of the untenanted End will be,
in such an exterminating war,
houses, where the inhabitants, the majority of whom
against the assaults of Popery upon the " re-
are fishermen, had assembled, and provided a table •
formed religion., ' Not a leader, civil or was.
and lights for the purpose of holding a meeting.
Mr. CAPEL addressed the Meeting. He stated siastical, who now sways the passions of the
that, in consequence of the inquiries of Mends. aiid tinforeseeing multitude,. will exist for one year
'his own anxiety re.pecting the condition of the in• but as a prisoner or an exile. Is this a pros-
habitants, now that a second winter was approach- pect which, for -their own sakeis the Catholics
ing, and that their exclusion from their fisheries was can cherish ? On the ',other • hand, do we- de-
continued with increased rigour, he was determined scribe it as ' one which 'can
,
not to relax his efforts to abridge their duration. English • statesman or hOneit Irish Protestant
Mr. BREEZE said it would be a relief to. the poor
but. with agony? Gad forbid ! To face the
inhabitants to give Vent to their feelings, and their
first expression would be one of gratitude for this horrors of .. a Civil 'war—to- perpetrate its
visit to those benevolent individuals in the nietropo- crimes—to. endiire its consequences=--to deso-
lis, Rochester, Chatham, and* elsewhere, by whose late a beauteous land—to turn back the- cheering
seasonable aid so- many of these present and their progress of civilization, and be driven, on pain of
families bad been saved from perishing from want, or death, to hunt down, like wild beasts, an im-
from ruin and degradation, as paupers.—(Hear.) proving people—to create •a desert, that wt
Mr. 11. PENNALL moved a vote of thanks to the may be cursed with . its dominion—to wag,
subscribers for their relief, which was carried amidst
the treasure and the blood of England in „
loud acclamations.
quarrel which may be but the harbinger of other
EDWARD .SKEY, the fisherman (defendant in the . , .
ucn are - not encouragements to the
prosecution by the Mayor and select body, in which wars.;"s _ ~ . .
• cultivation of angry feelings against even the m-
a Jury found a verdict Confirmatory of the propne-
temperance, the coarseness, er insolence, of in-,
tart' rights of the inhabitants), then came forward;
but his feelings were so. excited he could not articu- dividuals among, time Catholic body. Mr. Sls•,,st
late for some time. He said, all we want is our adjures the Catholics, fervently and solemni-.7,,
to
birthright, to get an honest livel:hood by independent guard themselves against the peril of accepting
labour in our own fisheries, and we look upon one provocation from blood-thirsty enemies. With
penny earned by our own hands to be better than a equal fervour do we pray the P
rotestar, '
ts of Ire-
pound in charity.—(Loud cheers.)—We would land to shun thewickednessof A. '
wish to be the givers not the objects. We do not
don, which, in the ring provoca-
ask our oppressors to give us bread to-day, and let resent electrical state of
us starve to-morrow. We ask for the possession of parties, might be the signal
for
a burst of fero-
what we received from our fathers, and what a Jury cious vengeance on the 'weaker sect,—simulta-
declared to be our just inheritance. He concluded neous, uNiVetsai, and every where, but in the
by proposing a resolution, which was drawn up, to three tve:illern countries,
irresistible.L
et, then,
the effect, that in the midst of their privations they' l t.le V
Protestant tl gen emen strive to check and di-
looked forward with hope and confidence that the vent, insteadof *(1.
ai ing, the degeneracy of this
nation would not, in their case, be presented with •
freal imperial question, into a contest in which
an instance of the prosperity of a town destroyed,
of its sources of produce annihilated, of its funds anatics only ought to join anal suffer. It is for
misappropriated, of its loyal and industrious inhabi- usm the liberal Protestants, to recollect, that if
tants dispersed, for the sake of maintaining usurped the demagogues be Violent, the priests forward,
authority and unconstitutional interests. and the Association a power more absolute than
This resolution was carried with loud cheers. any that ever yet ruled the worldly by compel'.
A warm vote of thanks was carried with three •
mon, the grievance of exclusion from the free
times three deafening cheers to Mr. Capel, state of which they seek to be members has-been
Mr. CAPEL returned thanks.
The Meetin then broke u the single fountain of these portentous effects.
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Wave but the wand of Liberty Over Ireland, and
the demon': nor will
In a moment. we exorcise .
Our readers may remember that in p our Pa er otherwise of the
posterity be inclined to think ot
of the 21st of July was cnntained an account of ANDREA •
terrors which have encompassedDE NINO, the valet of Lieutenant-Colonel DOYLE, being this our spell_
phantoms
charged at Marylebone Office with an assault on a girl born age, than that they were the
named REIIECCA Bonn, when, on the statement of the girl diseased imagination, "of im of a
mmidnight born, ' and
alone, he was bound over to appear at the Sessions. The dispelled by the first glimmer of the wholesome
friends of both parties have since then inquired into the day—Times.
truth or falsehood of the charge, and the result of their • '
. will find in the
enquiries has been that there was no foundation for the Our readers . speech of the
charge, and Thomas BOND, the father of the 'girl, has Rev. Mr. Se our, in the
.Report of the Sligo
written the following letter to DE Ntsfo, in consequence of s--r
r otestant Meeting, some curious particulars illUs-
which proceedings have been stayed on both sides. . tiv,„ of the domestic histo y
TO BM ANDREA DE NINO, VALET TO LIEUTENANT-COLO-, -r--- s 'of -
r of Ireland; which
NEL DOYLE. ire 4CII deserving attention. It is,- indeed, a
Sra,—l write this to say that I ant sorry I troubled you
.valuable speech. Aftera preface on the purity of
or the Magistrates in the Cabe of my daughter, as I fln4 I the Established Church to which he
belongs,
and
acted under mistake. In order I. prevent your character which he desceibes as hat,.
mg " not lowered her-
'from suffering I have seen your master, and told him that
,ss self front her
I would withdrew the charge of assault made nuclei aln thou hts h • high elevation, her eyes and her
apprehenaion, and I hoped all proceedings would colle_.__m_ , . g having been fixed upon the starry fir-
this ease, and for which reason 1 further declare tu l'ave moment, and
,
my permission to make this hitter public..-:-I am, sir' little politicsworld"-a
Your obedient humble Servant, , of this description that Pr
THOMAS. BOND. course every one must see is peculiarly -apph-
London, Aug. 21, 1828.
Tiwaias nustiaaoox. cable to cur venerable Establishment, the only
Witnesses to the Signature. 1 holgs Hun. Ecclesiastical Establishment, indeed, in the world
A Meeting of the Dublin Catholic_ Asweia- in which all the Members, from the Metropolitan
tion was held on Saturday last, (W. B. Ga itomt,dEN•s to the Curate, are utterly indifferent to- the good
in the Chair,) at which Mr. Salta,
the. long an ani-
ressefl things of this world, and 'anxious' only for a
on meeting the neces-
mated speech, forcibly imp
thing
sits of refraining from. f_n_y_...
lie recommended them —the Rev. Mr. Seymour proceeds to 5ay....., j
slightest degree of violence.
to turn a deaf ear to the threats and. the stares of Orange.. have come here to meet the assembled Aristo-
men, observed that they stood in a more critical posi- ,and lay before them, with
and of this county,
tion than ever, and that the greatest firmness and unani- cracy
• i• 't and candour which becomes a man
indispensable. He remarked, "We have in the supp ici y .
mity were
.G,
my rofession, the true causes which
Ireland a Catholic overnment, a Catholic Lord Lirute- of - '
nant,a Catholic Secretary," and concluded, by observing, have led to the present melancholy pre-
that if the Catholics were tranquil they must be triumphant,' dominance -of- Popery in this kingdom,'
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In the year 1823 the London importation of Tea was
24,000,0001h5. ; in 1826, 30,000,000165. ; and in the
year ending Jan. 5, 1828, 39,746,1471b1. On the Bth
of October next 1,000,0001b*. of Tea will be sold at
Rotterdam, and an application has been made W - the
Treasury for a licence to import purchases of such Tel
into Great Britain and Ireland, agreeably to Acts 18 and
24 of Geo. 11., on payment of an equalised duty, corre-
spondent with the present duty payable by the East India
Company.

General Miller, who has so much distinguished himself
in the South American struggle for independence, and who,
from his exertions, holds a commision in the service of three
of the republics (Peru, Chili, and Buenos Ayres), has
lately published memoirs, replete with information about
South America. To this interesting book we may after-
wards advert. The following statistical account is ex-
tracted from it :

* Arauco (die finest-
dians) is not included ic

On Saturday Mr. Capel, one of. the Representa-
tives in Parliament for Queenborough, accompanied
by two friends, paid a visit to that unfortunate
town, for the purpose- of investigating its present
real condition. The party proceeded.,from house to
house to visit those fishermen and their families who
last winter were perishing from want, or from sick-
ness consequent upon want, and their exclusion from
the fisheries belonging in common to the burgesses.
The committee appointed to manage the subscrip-
tion raised in London, in consequence-of the condi-
tion of the inhabitants having been made known to
the public by the Times and other public journals of
the metropolis, had sent them blankets and clothing,
and had, in a great measure, maintained them by
supplies of bread, meat, and soup.. The party
were gratified to find that much good had thus been
accomplished, and many valuable men saved; but
the privations and misery, with which the poor
people have contended with, a degree of forti-
tude that can scarcely have been exceeded in any
times, yet pressed heavily upon them. The in-
terior of the -houses, however, presented me-
lancholy specimens of the general condition of
the people. The party saw nothing. of the scenes of
plenty and comfort which have been expatiated upon
as crowning the happiness of the labourer's or, cot-
tager's Saturday night. They saw nothing but
scanty and, wretched fare, and the wan faces of the
women and children bespoke extreme wretchedness.
The party, and the worthy . member, in. particular,
gave all the
_consolation in,their power to the poor
people, and assured. them that though redress, had
been exceedingly slow, :it could not fail to be ulti-
mutely conceded to them, and that , his Majesty's
Government would never sanction such an act of
spoliation as had been committed on their. property
and right to labour,—a right as clearly expressed and
as well founded as that possessed by any individual
to any estate in the kingdom. They were then
conducted to a large room of one of the untenanted
houses, where the inhabitants, the majority of whom
are fishermen, had assembled, and provided a table
and lights for the purpose of holding a meeting.
Mr. CAPEL addressed the Meeting. He stated
that, in consequence of the inquiries of Mends. and
'his own anxiety re.pectiug the condition of the in-
habitants, now that a second winter was approach-
ing, and that their exclusion from their fisheries was
continued with increased rigour, he was determined
not to relax his efforts to abridge their duration.
Mr. BREEZE said it would be a relief to. the poor
inhabitants to give 'vent to their feelings, and their
first expression would be one of gratitude for this
visit to those benevolent individuals in the Metropo-
lis, Rochester, Chatham, and elsewhere, by whose
seasonable aid so- many of these present and their
families bad been saved from perishing from want, or
from ruin and degradation, as paupers.—(Hear.)
Mr. H. PENNALL moved a vote of thanks to the
subscribers for their relief, which was carried amidst
loud acclamations.

He certainly does any thing but flatter the
Aristocracy in the picture which he draws of the
deeds of that body. We have always detested
Aristocracy, as the curse of every country in
which it takes root, the source of all manner of
abuses and evils. Whoever examines with any
attention the various countries of Europe, will
find the misery and demoralization always in the
exact ratio of the preponderance of Aristocracy.
In England a number of causes are constantly
at work to counteract the injurious operation of
Aristocracy ; which, though in itself uniformly
mischievous, thereby often receives credit for
the good which it cannot prevent or destroy.—
But in Ireland we , see it in all its hideousness ;
and, as the Spartan Legislator thought of se-
curing the sobriety of his freemen by the spec-
tacle of drunken Helots, we think the perusal
of the speech of Mr. Seymour may not he un-
seasonable, as a preservative against the infatua-
tion for Aristocracy. The Rev. Mr. Seymour
has Protestantism and Popery constantly in his
mouth, but Protestantism and Popery have
bout as much to do with the subject of his speech
as Mahominedanism and Paganism-. The settlers
in the North of Ireland, after the destruction of
Tyrone, were drawn from the Lowlands of Scot-
land, and from England, and happened to be Pro-
testants ; the aboriginal inhabitants happened to.
Cie Catholics. The notions with respect to living
which the settlers carried with them to Ireland were
necessarily higher than those of the natives, who
on the conquest were found utterly unacquainted
with any of the arts of life, being not only with-
out towns, but even without fixed habitations;
and thus the latter were willing to pay for the
use of land a higher rent than the colonists, with
their more expensive habits, were willing to pay.
" Me truth is (observes Mr. Seymour), that
the Protestants are not encouraged, not because
they cannot be found, but because they cannot
afford to pay so high a rent as the Papists—
(Loud cries of hear, hear)=there lies the rub.
The Protestant requires decent clothing, and
that costs something ; he requires reasonable
food, and that costs something ; he requires edu-
cation, and that costs something ; he requires
some ordinary decencies and comforts in his
house and living, and they cost something; and
above all, he will not covenant to pay what he
knows he cannot pay ; so that, altogether, his
expellees are such as to prevent him paying so
high a rent as thePapist—(Loud cheers)---who,
if he has any hovel, which cannot be called a
human dwelling, with a pig at one end, rend a
few potatoes at the other, and a wife in the
midst to assist in imereasing the seven millions
of the Priests' hereditary bondsmen,' requires
no more except an opportunity of promising more
than he can ever pay; and, therefore, being at
little or no expense, he is able to offer a higher
rent, and to outbid the Protestant
There is a Protestant and Popish price for land,
and he who will have valuable Protestants on
his estate must depart from his Popish price.
There, I fear, the matter will stick ; it will be
as hard to persuade a gentleman to fall from one
thousand pounds a-year to eight hundred, as it
was to prevail en the Lawyer in the Gospel to
sell all and save his soul." .If a Protestant from
tie North of Ireland were to enter Brabant or
Flanders, and to settle among the Popish inha-
bitants, carrying with him his Irish habits, would
it be fair in the Belgians to talk of Protestant
slovenliness And Protestant filth? The Austrian
and Moravian are Catholics'; and while there'
are numerous Calvinists in Hungary, the Hun-
garians are low in civilization, compared with
the Austrians and Moravians ; must wa, there-
fore talk of Calvinist barbarism ? In the North
of Ireland there are two .races, which to
other differences add difference of religion,; but
were both races of the same religion, the
British race would not be the less driven out by
the race of which the habits are compatible with
time offer of a higher rent. That self-interest
should lead the Irish landlord to prefer a high
rent to a low rent, and to prefer Papists, who
enabled him to stock his cellars with wine, and
to riot in luxury in London, Paris, and Naples,
to Protestants who had a taste for good things
themselves, is not very surprising. But why
was it that the Catholics were willing to•pay so
much more, and live on so much less ? - Because
the misery of the poor neglected Catholics threw
them on the land as the very condition of their
existence. And here it is that we see the mis-
chief of Aristocratic rule. No one measure was
Attempted for the benefit of the poor natives—
nothing was thought of but their masters. The
nativee were left in a worse condition than slaves,
because the subsistence of the slave is secured
to him. The people were nothing ; the rents
were every thing; and the Papists being the
most miserable, were preferred as tenants, on the
seine principle that worshippers of
.the Dalai
Lama would have been preferred, because they
offered the most. The Government of .dust: 1.
which is so shush abused, protects the peasantry;
the Russian Government endeavours to protect
the peasantry ;
.an Aristocracy is exclusively sel-
fah. The Rev. Mr. Seymour is, we should
„upposei a tolerably faithful, organ of the discon-
tent which rankles in the breasts of the Protestant
tenantry. He triumphs over their disaster.
ft Little," he saws, ,6 did our Aristocracy think
or diem, while removing the. Protestants from
their estate to cut up the farms for the Papists,
that they were making a scourge for themselves.
It was foretold by many, when the Enfranchise-
pent Bill was passed, that such would be the ,
result; but such prophecies like those of Cas.
sandra, were fated to be believed by none, or at
least neglected by all ; but the last general elec-
tion, and the late election for Clare, has brought
it home to the Aristocracy and gentry—(hear,
hear)—they have been making the rod to scourge
themselves—and many of °them, like truant
school-boys, have been compelled to kiss the
-very rod that scourged them.—(Latighter.)—
Yes, many of them have been compelled to stoop
and woo, and kiss and liege the feet of those
serfs Lip.on whom a few years since they would
trample in the utterness of their contempt. They
have been compelled to avow in public by their
vote measures which in private they eagerly op-
pose ; but as it v,:as their own selfish policy that
brought down this judgment of disgrace and de-
gradation on themselves, I must repeat, though
it be a homely phrase, never mind them. "
When the Catholic Question is settled, the busi-
ness
of healing the wounds of Ireland has yet
to commence, The first check on the landlords
ought to he the establishment of poor laws.—
Morning @h 7.0 nide.
No country, we believe, professing even the
semblance of a government, ever presented such
An extraordinary appearance as the United King-
dern now does. In addition to the dishonour
to which it is exposed abroad, it is torn with
dissension of the most formidable nature at home,
and if measures arc not speedily adopted for its
suppression, that dissension must soon burst
forth in open rebellion, and be only quenched in
itossera of I.;;P'enh The mere idea of a Govan-

anent •supposes both the will and the power to
preserie order in the community entrusted to its
care ; but in the present instance, whatever may
be the power, there is certainly either a want of
will, or a determination to let the contention
work itself out by natural means. But to which-
ever of these causes the extraordinary conduct
of the Government respecting Ireland
i is at-
tributable, the fact is indisputable that t either
has not the power of controlling the fiery
.
passions which are now raging within or
that -it has not the will. Upwards of six mil-
lions of the people of that wretched country
hold it at defiance—marshalled, disciplined, and
regimented by a body which forms no part of the
Government, which is acting contrary to its ex-
pressed wishes, and has set itself up in opposi-
tion to it—possessing, in fact, even more than
the perfection of military array--inflamed with a
determination to gain but one object, and ready
to obey the slightest intimation from the only
head which it acknowledges—there is nothing
which may not be dreaded from it, and nothing
if impelled to it by the Catholic Association,
which it would not dare. On the other hand,
the Protestants have become alarmed, and are
mustering and marshalling their forces with an
enern which bespeaks the depth of their hatred,
and their dread of an approaching conflict. Clubs
are forming throughout every part of the coun-
try ; the Orange leaders make no secret either
of their fears or their intentions ; and,' to
state all in one word, the whole country is
ripe for rebellion, one faction against another
faction, and both against the Government—.
the one because it does not concede to them
certain privileges—the other because it does not
interfere to exterminate its enemies. That such
a state of things either can exist for any length
of time, or ought to
.exist, no one can think, for
a moment It is disgraceful to the country which
has given it birth, and to the Government which
permits it to continue. The Catholic Association
must be put down—by reasonable concession, if
reasonable concession will effect the object, hut
if not, by main -force ! We say this deliberately
and with every wish that the cause of the Ca-
tholics should be maturely considered and jus-
tice done them to the utmost extent ; for it is
neither consistent with the honour of Govern-
ment, nor with the peace and interests of the
country, that an Association should exist which
has it in its power to boast that it could com-
mand six millions of men to be drunk or sober
—to be peaceful or rebellious—to oppose, or to
favour, the Government as it might see fit. Such
an imperium in inzperio is wholly inconsistent
with the very idea of Government ; and yet such
a body not only exists, but exists in spite of the
Government !

" At the town of Borisoleigh, which had been
the arena of savage faction," said Mr. Sheil on
Saturday last, " and where mea slew eacl► other
with scarcely a motive beyond the abstract love of
fight, which predominates in the character of the
people,a reconciliation has just taken place; the pea-
santry obeyed the orders of the Association enforced by
the power of Mr. O'Connell, and laid down their
ancient animosities. In Clar, they had been per-
suaded to abandon the maddening beverage for which
they are supposed to have an insurmountable predi-
lection ; this was doing much, and the sobriety of
the people was accounted formidable. But in
Tipperary even more has been effected; and the
omnipotence (for, such it is) of Me Association
has been evinced in the sentiment of brotherhood
which has been produced amongst contending fac-
t-inns, who had inherited hatred and carried
their detestationa in thin" blood. The mandate
of the Association has done more than the law,
with all its terrors, could accomplish. The manner
mid circumstances of this reconciliation were almost
as remarkable as the fact itself. They moved in a
vast proce;.:ion, which covered miles of the coun-
try, in perfect order, marshalled, disciplined, and re-
gimented; their leaders were attired in gaudy greets,
and although they offer to the imagination figures
sufficiently fotastical—for they had large handker-
chiefs with the picture of Mr. O'Connell spread
across their shoulders—yet the smile which their
strange attire might at first produce will speedily
give way to the serious reflections which such ac-
companiments ought to create. These incidents
afford ineontestible proof of the extent of the no-
Ilona organization, and cf the perfection of the po-
pular discipline. They have almost reached the
excellence of military array. It is unnecessary to
suggeg, that an im►nense population, thus united—
thus affiliated—thus controlled—in a state of com-
plete subordination, affords matter for the most so-
lemn
meditation,"

f‘ Solemn meditation !" No, but for imme-
diate actic,o If the Association possess the
power which is thtiFi 4scribed to it, it must be put
down—it ought no longer to exist_. It is incon-
sistent with the mere idea of a Government, and
if not speedily swept away from, what we should
willingly hope, the imaginary throne which it
occupies, must speedily sweep away the Govern-
ment itself. There is no middle course to be
pursued ; and the sooner that the direct and
manly one is adopted the better, not only for Ire-
:.Td but for this country also,—..Vorning_ Ad-
vertiser.

While we accuse the Roman Catholic religion
of being a form of worship composed, to a great
degree, of mummeries, it cannot be denied that
the Reformed Church itself has retained some
ceremonies which partake hut too closely of the
same character. As such we cannot help charac-
terising that which took place last week at the
enthronement, by proxy, of the new Archbishop,
in Canterbury Cathedral. The same authority,
-which, with peculiar minuteness, records this
strange, and, we had almost said, senseless pro-
reeding, says that it always takes placa by proxy;
because to go through the ceremony in person,
would cost the Primate 30,0001. How this
can be -we cannot imagine. At any rate, it' the
expenditure be a fit one, the avoiding it must
be an injustice, we should think, to those
among whom this vast expence would be di-
vided. What struck us as most extraordinary
-end out of the way in this proceeding was,
that the proxy takes the oaths for his princi-
pal. 'There surely must be something very un-*
common, if not very useless, in an oath which
one man can take for another. Oaths are ge-
nerally
ls
who
supposed to bind the consciences of the
pg deputy, we
take them ; but how any one can
rsoi
loss
but the e:ighiallitet.ism,a.rlhNemytimb)e,
gone
by
maraekaet is
when these kind of exhibitions can be received
with respect, while they outrage there do not say
that reason and
common sense of mankind. NN
or that the en-
that forms may not be necessary,a notes
be as re-
throning of an Archbishop
mon.; but who
quisite as the Coronation. - least
would dream ola King---a -British .100 g, at
—being crowned by proxy 7 Andstill less, Who
would dream of the Lord Chancellor
or the
Archbishop of Canterbury taking the Corona-
tion Oath for the h ing ? In the days of Thomas
a'Becket such proceedings might be tolerated,
people might submit in wonder and silence to
mummeries such as we now see practised ; but
the Protectant religion is a religion which adapt

itself to the common sense and understanding of
mankind, and should retain no forms of a con-
trary description.--Morning Herald.
It was the practice formerly for the Govern-
ment to publish, in the London Gazette, the
contents of such foreign despatches as it was es-
sential the public should be made acquainted
with. This practice has been (very improperly,
we think) laid aside, and was succeeded, during
1 Mr. Pitt's Administration,by the more convenient
land less responsible one, of the Government pa-
tronising particular Journals, and making them the
source of demi-official announcements. There was
another circumstance, too, which brought the news
of the Gazette into disrepute—that it became very
stale ; for such was the interest excited during the
war for early intelligence, and such the improved
skill and enterprise with which the Newspaper Press
was conducted, that it acquired sources of its own,
from whence it often outstripped the Government
in the knowledge of events which it was most es-
sential that it should he informed of. This, in
a great measure, still continues, and it is not un-
usual for a Minister, when questioned as to any
particular event, to say that he has never heard of
it but through the public journals. This, how-
ever, cannot always be the case, and we think it
is to be regretted that, in periods of striking in-
terest like the present, when the Government is
in possession of the facts which can put an end
to conflicting reports, it does not take the old
method of doing so, viz. of publishing them in
the Gazette. This has become the more ne-
cessary from the undoubted fact, we believe,
of the term " Government Papers" being at
an end ; for, whether it be from the bad-
ness of their services, or a consciousness that
his official career requires no such help, we
thi❑k it .is tolerably apparent that the "Duke of
Wellington extends his official patronage to no
one member of the broad sheet, and is satisfied
with the independent support he receives from
the majority of those who on this, as on other
subjects, but echo back the public feeling in the
tone which they prescribe to it. This is as it
should be ; but still, as the recent channels of
official news are thus cut off, it becomes the
more necessary that the old one:• should be re-
sorted to—more especially when it is considered
that in a certain quarter (the Stock Exchange)
hundreds are daily robbed of their property by
" the propagation of a lie," which the squeamish-
ness of the Government allows to remain uncon-
tradicted.—lbid.
The Irish Catholic faction demand uncon-
ditional emancipation—they declare themselves
the advocates of a sweeping reform—they espouse
a system of undefined levelling—they seek the
overthrow of the Corporations--they make the
ascendancy of the Popish Church a question of
numbers—they threaten the estates and the rights
of Protestants with an edict of confiscation
We do not here assume, even as a proposition,
whether the Duke of Wellington is or is not dis-
posed to listen to their proposals, because we
know that neither the Noble Duke nor any
other Minister of the Crown dare (we use the
word considerately) favour their pretensions.
The simple question is, whether O'Connell and
the Priests, or the King's Government are to
rule Ireland ? That the Government have tole-
rated these demagogues too long, and listened
to their overtures with too marked a defe-
rence, is now universally acknowledged. That
more prompt measures should have been re-
sorted to in order to suppress their meetings,
and stay their proceedings, is equally admitted..
But the question still recurs, what ought we to
do now what ought to be our policy under
present circumstances ? It is clear and hnpera-
tive. Put down, no matter by what means, the
Catholic Association. Confine the insolent
priests to their clerical duties. Prevent the altar
sad the solemn ordinance of mass, and the
sacred rites of religion, from being profaned
to political purposes. Expel the Jesuits
from Great Britain and Ireland. Give to
the Irish landlord, and the tenant of an
hundred acres, the right of voting, but
suppress the perjury of the forty shilling free-
holders. Relieve the poor man from the politi-
cal thraldom of the priests, and let property
alone speak the sentiments of Ireland. Intro-
duce a modified system of poor laws, and throw
the burden of its pauperism upon the estates
and the proprietors of Ireland. Let justice be
done to England, and emancipate her from the
consequences of the folly, the avarice, and the
ignorance of the Irish gentry. Make Ireland
support its own poor, and make the priest a con-
tributor to this effort of national independence.
Let the agitators be answerable to the Attorney-
General for the loyalty of the peasantry, and the
good behaviour of the leaders of the Associa-
tion. Then we would have peace—then pros-
perity—then something like independence, and
something like an approach to industry and na-
tional improvement.—New Times.