The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-30 00:00:00

voice of their faction, which. is the only one they
would permit to be heard, is the voice of the nation.
We entreat our Protestant friends not to be misled
by a puerile hope of applause for liberality, from
those whose praise is censure in disguise, into tem-
porising and timid notions, so hostile to the best
interests of the country. All institutions that have
been overthrown, have been so in consequence of the
erroneous supposed security, or apathy, or delicacy
of their supporters. The invader alternately lulls
by professions, intimidates by numbers, inflames
by appeals to the passions; and shall we be not
only inert, but silent? The Catholics have met,
spoken, and petitioned—let the Protestants con-
tinue] to meet, speak, and petition ; and the cause
of both be then before the tribunal of the
nation. We continue to receive the most gratifying
accounts of the progress of the Brunswick Clubs
throughout the United Kingdom. The reports in
our Paper of this day will be read with interest.—
The object of the Catholic Agitator is obviously
political power ascendancy in the State. It was
well and truly observed by one of the speakers,
" that the Association which now exists in Dublin,
under the name of the Roman Catholic Asso-
ciation, is a kind of Proteus that assumes various
forms, as it best suits its purposes. About seven-
teen years ago it was called a Meeting of Delegates,
and at one of its meetings a mall who is now no
more, Dr. Dromgoole, declared that the Roman
Catholics would never be satisfied until they had
a Catholic King and a Catholic Parliament.—
This was called at the time letting the cat out of
the bag ; and one of the demagogues has been em-
ployed from that day to the present trying to put the
cat into the bag again, but without effect. Do we
not find the same spirit that animated the Roman
Catholics of that day still regulating their conduct ?
-I—They have fulfilled a part of Dr. Dronzgoole's
predictions, for they have established a Roman Ca-
tholic Parliament in Dublin, from which it has been
found necessary to issue a fiat to the King's Procla-
mation before it would be obeyed by the King's
subjects." On the same occasion, when these ob-
servation/ received the unanimous approval of the
meeting, the Noble Chairman, the Earl of Rath-
, downe, further observed that this was the time
when every loyal Protestant was called upon to
come forward, fearlessly to declare his sentiments.
Let us, said his Lordship, unite and be true to our-
=elves, and the Protestant cause must prosper. We
are met here for the purpose of eatablishing a Bruns-
wick Constitutional Club, to be founded on the
principle of maintaining the integrity of the Consti-
tution in Church and State. The Brunswick Clubs
are formed upon the principle of self-defence; num-
bers of Cliths have already been formed in various
eparts of the country, and such is now the unanimous
teeling of the Protestants of the United Eroi:ire that
any attemp, on the part of our eneni,es to sithvei.t
the Constitution and the laws as at present esta-
blished, must be frustrated.—Aforning Post.
It is now confidently stated that two, if not three
new Judges are to be immediately added to the pre-
sent number, who, in addition to.other duties, are
to supply the place of fhe whole of the present
Welsh Judicature. If this latter report be correct,
another cannot be, but which has reached us at the
same time—viz. that Mr. Edward Goulburn, the
brother of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has
been appointed to the Welsh Judgeship, vacated
some months ago by the resignation of Mr. Ralguy ;
for if it be the intention of Ministers to do away with
Welsh Judges altogether, to appoint any one to a
vacancy in the interim would only tend to increase
the claims for compensation which the country will
not fail to hear of. But, besides additional new
Judges, some of the present number are, it is said,
on the eve of resigning, on account of their advanc-
ed age; which, together, will swell the tide of legal
promotion far beyond its usual bounds. The retire-
ment of persons from duties which they are no longer
competent to discharge is at all times desirable; and
is, from a principle of delicacy towards the indivi-
duals, often not acted upon with the decision which
is due to the public. Few people are themselves
persuaded, or easily conscious, of their own infir-
-1 •
mities; for the Poet has truly enough said---
" All men think all men mortal but themselves ;"

and tell all mem of that which they are at all times
unwilling to hear is an ungracious task at least, to
say nothing of the motives which are sometimes im-
puted to it. To relieve thiS awkwardness on the
one hand, and to save the country, on the other,
from the inconvenience attendant on men continuing
to hold office after they are unfit to discharge its
duties, it would he a good general regulation if what
is considered " the age of man" viz. 70, were the
limit beyond which no man were allowed to hold any
public situation of active trust and responsibility;
for, though " men be so strong that they come to
fourscore," yet it is impossible not to see that the fa-
culties begin to fail generally before the first of these
ages, and that it is due both to the individual and the
community that he. should be withdrawn from a
scene, which the more his manhood may have em-
bellished, the more his dotage is calculated to dis-
grace. But great part of the evil arises from men
being often appointed to office in this country
too late in life—long after the best ener-
gies, both of the mind and body, are gone
by. We :Jiould say, not only that no man
should be allowed to continue in office after
70, but that no one should he appointed to a per-
manent one after 50. Mr. Peel, the present Horne
Secretary—himself a young man—rnut see and
know the importance to the country, of its possess-
ing the best years of a man's life ; and would do
well, in the departments over which he presides, to
permit no man to enter upon office for the mere
chalice of qualifying himself for a retiring pension.
Judges and Magistrates, for instance, though they
should be men of experience, and of staid habits,
need not be on the verge of old-womanhood before
they commence their career. The man who is not
fit for any situation at 30, in all probability never
will be. The situation of a Judge may be an ex-
ception to this ; but we doubt whether, all circum-
stances considered, it is.—Morning Herald.

We have inserted in another part of our Paper a
letter from a Correspondent in Kent, relative to our
account of the great Meeting on Penenden Heath;
and far be it from us us ever to refuse a place to the
observations of any one who thinks that he has even
ground to find fault with our arrangements, while his
communication is clothed in language but one degree
removed from Billingsgate. We pledge ourselves to
nothing which we have not a rational expectation of
realizing ; and if we do occasionally fail (though we
are not aware of any particular instance), the failure
ought in justice to beattributed to circumstances whose
o
occurrence it was impossible to foresee, rather than to
imposew
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to
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free from blame, but, as our correspondent's letter
Martially testifies, have received commendations from
all quarters, which it would
scarcely be consistent
th decorum to publish
and ample account of the speech of Mr. Sheil, has
•
excited the ire of more
than one of those who would
rather that that speech had never been spoken.
The. latter testimony
is perhaps the best—at least
the most satisfactory to us, and we therefore freely
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diTense with making known
others
might
thers which
be considered of a more questionable character.
While While on this subject, however, we cannot nr7ni
the opportunity of mentioning, that not withstar ding
l i' s
all that has been said respecting Mr. She •
d to himofthose
in
none
who are oppose
principle have yet ventured to attack it either
on the score of eloquence, soundness of argument,
or correctness in point of facts. The ultra Tory
prints have, in fact, got up a trifling dispute re-
specting the speech having been spoken or not
Spoken, in order to avoid' the discussion of its
grounds; and to this moment it remains without an
answer from any one of • those who were formed),
so furious against the conclusions which he drew.
Some of them, in fact, appear to be anxious- that the
friends of civil and religious liberty should invite him
`to a dinner, in order that he might again overthrow
the enemy, and " thrice slay the slain." We cor-