The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-29 00:00:00

.) flit''.. ' ment of the United Kingdom must be directed by
1 %"\: peopl ayhoyie merit it is, that they know nothing of
Zi Bud "Ostrenothing for Ireland. Admirable qualifica-
tions; o doubt, for judges I The Duke of Welling-
ton must yield to the invincible stupidity of the Oli-
garchy, in whose service he is : and if they say that
he must be guided by people who know nothing of,
and care nothing for, Ireland, well and good. But
surely things are not arrived at such a pass yet, that
he must yield to these political Sages a nong the
rabble who entertain the enlightened views above
alluded to. Ireland must he cared for, whether we
will or not. The wise Men of Kent may not he
able to see the connection between the distracted
state of Ireland and the heavy demands of the tax-
gatherer ; but there is not the less a firm connection
ta,tween them. And were the existing burden caused
by Irish misgovernment all, as we know the worst of
it, we might go on lending a deaf ear; but the Duke of
Wellington knows that Irishmen make as good sol-
diers as Englishmen—Catholics as good as Protest-
ante. Nay, lie knows that our army is at this mo-
ment more Catholic than Protestant. As to the re-
giments in the South of Ireland at this moment,
more men in them, in many cases, are seen entering
the Catholie Chapel than the adjoining Pr.testatit
Church on a Sunday. We were very mucl. amused
with an argument used by the Standard, to enhance
the importance of the supposed triumph in Kent.—
" To the vagabond order of the community—black.
legs, gamblers, bagmen, fiddlers, mountebank politi-
cians, and gentlemen of the press, it demonstrates
that however professionally liberal or latitudinarian
they may be, the possessors and occupiers of the
land still love their Constitution, their country, and
their religion ; in a word, that thought the surface of
i:ociety may be here and there deformed with the
dirt of the city, the manufacturing is of the high
road, the subsoil is free from pollution—that they
who constitute the military strength and furnish the
resources of the State—they who constitute tho na-
tion, are to a man English and Protestant." This is
the sort ef argument urged by Colonel Roche Fer-
moy, to ;,!..)ye that Catholic Ireland is stronger in a
military sense than England, as more than half of the
population of England are engaged in trade and ma-
nufactures, and he refuses to manufacturers military
efficiency. But we shall return to this.—Morning
Chronicle.

MR. SHEICS SPERCll.—Respecting Mr. Sheil's
speech, about which so much has been said, we un-
derstand that it first appeared in the Sun Eveniwg
Paper, and that it was printed at about half-past
eight o'clock ou the evening of the day of the Kent
Meeting. Now the distance from Maidstone is
nearly +0 miles : it would have to be written Gi.t
and composed, and yet it was printed at half-past
eight, and numbers Were sent off express, in order to
overtake the mail coaches en the various roads.
That Mr. Sheil must have given his speech written
out to the Sun there can be no doubt, and that they
despatched the Sun paper in the way mentioned
there is no doubt ; end that it was the speech in-
tended to have been spoken by Mr. Sheil we have no
doubt; but that it was not the speech he spoke there
is also no doubt. What the people in various parts of
England will think of this we know not ; or what
good effect it will have on the " Catholic Cause"
we cannot guess. We have heard that such was
the noise and clamour while Mr. Sheil was speaking,
and so weak his voice, that it was almost impos-
sible to hear him at all. The Catholie party could
not have done a more foolish act than to take a Ca-
tholic flag to wave over the head of Mr. Sheil.
What would he thought of one of our violent Anti-
Catholic speakers, if he had proceeded to Ireland
with a party of Anti-Catholics, and had appeared
at a meeting of Catholics, either in the north or the
mouth of Ireland, and such party bad carried with
them an Orange flag, and had waved it over the
head of an Anti-Cati,olie while he was speaking ?
is it not likely *.,at the tia would have been torn to
pieces, and the ipeal,or Ilerhaps killed ? The voice of
the people of t against Catholic Emancipa-
tion—nine pet pie -at of ten are against the granting
of Emancipation ; they are, necessarily, Anti-Ca-
tholics by educai ;on. The people of England are
taught, from their iufaney, to detest Catholicism—
to hold it in the utmost ..bhorrenee. lhev are taugh
to believe that it is a " damnable and idolatrous
religion." The mother instils such ideas into her
child—the nurse when she attends her charge. The
school-master instils into his yllolars hatred to Ca-
tholici,m. Hatred to it is preached from the pulpit.

At College, too, a hatred of it is taught. In fact, a
man must have lived to the age of half a century be-
fore he can at all get rid of the impressions against
Catholicism that he has imbibed from his youth.
Under such ciicunistances, therefore, of education,
how could Mr. Shell think of adventuring, at a
Brunswick Meeting too, a speech in favour of Ernati-
zipation, and especially with a flag new to the
people waving over his head—a flag of defiance, as it
were. A grewcr act of folly could not have been
committed. It would have been a curious thing if
the speech, as Mr. Shell spoke it, could have been
given, with an account interspersed of theyells and in-
terruptions of the multitude. We are no enemies to
Emancipation if it could be effected in such a man-
ner as that hereafter there could be no collision be-
tween the Catholic and the Protestant Church in
relpect of the tithes and such good things. At the
very root of Catholic Emancipation are a score of
')srristers, all hungry for places in the Government,
,t7d the setters on of the barristers are the Catholic
Clergy, all anxious to have secured to themselves
salaries that would be certain, instead of, as at pre-
sent, being paid by their flocks voluntarily. This
is the true state at present of the Catholic agita-
tion.
.Lord Plunket said, " a provision fop
14e Catholic Clergy." Lord Plunket is a lawyer,
and a favourite word with lawyers is the word pro-
Yision. There is not a word more used and abus...d
' than the wzrd " provision." England ,yeighed
down with provision, of a great variety of kinds.
She aught to have no more " provisions" added to
her load. To tax the People of England extra to
!
pay the Catholic Clergy Il—we often wonder how
Lord Piunket could think such a thing would pass.
.--Alforning Herald.

is amazingly
An Evening Paper of yesterday
anxious that the Meeting of the County of
which terminated so happily and satisfactorily for its
side of politics, should be followed up by similar
,Meetings of other counties. " We call upon the
country," says it, " to emulate the example which
the Men of Kent were induced to set, from the
sympathy we assured to them of their Protestant
fellow subjects ;" and then it goes on to inquire,
" Why should Somerset be silent ? If it cannot
boast aIC chbull, it may be proud of a Lethbridge.
Why should Devon be dumb ? If it can look for no
help from its representative, it can at least afford him
a hint. Why should Dorset be backward ? It has a
Bankes in its service. Why should Gloucester be
nnheard ? It has a Beaufort to speak in its name,
Why, should York, Lincoln, or Derby—Why should
Cambridge, Bedford, or Buckingham—Why should
any County from Cornwall to Northumberland, or from
Carnarvon to Norfolk, be deaf, timid, or indifferent ?
They have all at stake,and the power to secure it; and-
again we call upon them to redeem the pledge
which we have given in their behalf, that they ha!-2
too much spirit to permit the men of Kent to strug-
le for the Constitution unassisted or unrivalled."—
natchbull is certainly a great man, and though our
evening cotemporary makes a difference between him
and Sir Thomas Lethbridge, we are really of opi-
nion that the difference is withcolt a distinction, and
the distinction without a difference. Both are
mighty men in their way, " arcades ambo et cantare
Pares," as our cotemporary is fully aware. and• if
the one has shown himself to be " a burning and
sinning light" in Kent, there need be little doubt
that the other will shine with equal brilliancy, wken
opportunity offers, in the county of Somerset.
But we fear that Sir Thomas has -become some-
what imbued with the Ministerial doctrine, " that
something must be done for Ireland ;" and con-
sidering that Hunt would be present to face him
at any Brunswick Meeting which -he might ori-
ginate, we are strongly inclined to question the pos-
sibility of exciting his constitutional ardour even by