The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-04 00:00:00

water, against whom the Magistracy are leagued
partisups,•and for whom 110 justice is to be expected
in the tribunals composed of their adversaries, the
language of compromise would be unnatural. Mr.
Sheil very happily ridiculed, " Let me ask you whe-
ther, with such wrongs, and while our hearts ate
bursting in our bosoms at their evidence, you ex-.
pect that we should speak in soft and mellifluous
phrases, and that instead of heaving upon the rack on
which she is stretched, Ireland should breathe her
complaints in gentre murmurings, and that her peti-
tions should be as soft as her national
Peter Pinder has a tale, which, as it very aptly
illustrates Mr. Sheil's distinction, we are tempted to
copy it :--
" At Paris, some time since, a murd'ring man,
A German, and a most unlucky chap—
Sad, stumbling at the thieshold of his plan,
Fell into Justice's strong Imp.
The bungler was condemned to grace the wheel,
On which the dullest fibres learn to feel—.

" Whenever Monsieur Ketch applied a stroke,
The culprit, like a bullock, made a roar—
A flippant petit maitre, skipping by,
Stepp'd up to him, and check'd him for his cry ;
Boh,' quoth 'the German, an't•l 'pun de wheel ?
D'ye tink my nerfa and bones can't furl ?'
" 4 Sir,' quail the beau, don't dort't he in a passion ;
We nought to say about your situation_.
But snaking such a hideous noise in France,
Fellow, is contrary to biensAnce.' "
It is this difference between the expression of the
sufferers themselves and that of their complaints,
conveyed in such a tone of bienseonce as may please
a certain assembly, which adds so much to the effect of
Mr.Sheil's speech. Mr. Shell did mit over-estimate the

numbers of the liberal and disinterested, who feel
correctly with regard to the treatment of Ireland.—
There are no doubt many dark spots in England,
and it is the interest of many persons that they
.should be kept dark. In such places corruption must al-
wayiprevail over honesty and independence, because
where the minds of thelmople are uninformed, and
they are decided merely by solicitation of superiors, to
say nothingolcorrupt motives, experience tells us that
those who are interested in carrying a particular object,
will always be more energetic than those who are
merely disinterested. The leading Bruuswickers,
for instance, made greater efforts than their •oppo-
Dents •of the same rank. in life, because they were
furthering their own interests, while the -Liberals
had no other interest in opposing them than what
was common- to them with the country at- large.
The .hOpes of the Liberals, therefore, depend on the
dissemination of knowledge ; while the Winchelseas
and Knatchbulls, and the rest of the baSe herd,
can only hope to succeed when the people are so
ignorant as to glory in their degradation. The Me-
tropolis has done its part to wipe off the stain the
national character received at Penenden Heath.—
Morning Chronicle. •

We present, in several columns of this day's
paper, a full and accurate account of the speeches
and proceedings at -the Dinner given yesterday to
Mr. Shell, at the London Tavern, by the friends of
Civil and Religious Liberty. Among other mat-
ters in our report will be found the speech of Mr.
Shell. We. do not say whether this speech was
sent to us in manuscript, by Mr. Shell, or whether
we received it in. print—whether it is given wont
for •word 'as Mr. Shell spoke it, and -our re-
porter rePorted it, or whether it was printed before
it was spoken and not reported. On none of these
points will we give the slightest satisfaCtion to
the miserable, obscure, and envious prints, whose
conductors attacked us last week '.with such
unprofessional virulence, and unprovoked calumny;
'but for the satisfaction of our readers, we state, that
the speech which we give is Mr. Shell's speech--
that he did speak it—and that it is given as nearly
as pOisible as he spoke it. Many cheers and cheer-
ing interruptions are omitted ; tint the numerous
and brilliant: points in the speech will suggest to our
readers when and where these occurred. Of the
Meeting itself we :Lull say little, for we have little
space, and the Meeting commends itself so strongly to
the attention of every intelligent reader, that little is
required to be said. The Meeting, like that on Friday
last, at Maidstone, was orderly and decorous. Mr.
W. Smith—than whom a more consistent friend of
constitutional freedom, or a more staunch supporter
of the Throne, does not exist—took the Chair; and
he was supported on the one hand by Alexander
Dawson, Esq. M.P., and on the other by the de-
lightful Author of the' Pleasures of Hope." Others
were 'there also who • might claim distinction,-either
.for their high rank, or the acknowledged celebrity of
their talenis. But this would be frail ground out
which to rest the merits of the Meeting, which, if
any Meeting -could do honour to the talents and
impartiality of Englishmen, certainly displayed these
virtues in an eminent degree. Mr. Shell was for
once heard; and cannot complain when he returns to
-the "sister isle " that Englishmen would not listen
to him. Of .the merits of the speeches and the
soundness:of thenagnments, different opinions will
be undoubtedly entertained. • Our readers will form
their own judgment of them, and not think the worse
of us that we take a day to consider them ; but it
would be ungrateful in us not to acknowledge the
honourable -tes;imony of the Meeting to the accurticy
of' our former report. We feel the compliment so
willingly borne to our impartiality ; and have to
express our regret that the numbers who were anxious
to attend the dinner yesterday, and the consequent
paucity of tickets, has prevented us froM giving the
latter part of it at the length we could have wished.
-.7.Morning Advertiser.

PUBLIC MEBTINGS.--.-NEWTOWNARDS AND
CoMBE:t FARMING SOCIETY.—The animal cattle show
of this Mociety took place at Newtownards, on Monday
last. The Marquis of Lorin ►rnoeaßy and a number of
his friends from England were present at the exhibition of
the cattle in the Maiketshouse Square, and seemed to take
great interest in the concerns of this useful Institution.,.
Dublin Freeman's Journal.

MAll,S.—Yesterday our London mail reach-
pd this city at 25 minutes before four o'clock P. M. The.
time thus gained is saved by bringing up the Manchester
mail to Carlisle, 50 minutes earlier,. and which time is
again saved by cutting of stoppages, and a little accelera-
tion. The Edinburgh mail is to arrive at five minutes
past four o'clock. The mail for '.Preenock.and Paisley is
to be despatched at half-past four; and, travelling at the
rate of tune miles per hour, will reach:Greentick at ten
minutes past Siveu P. m the arrangements nodewill
secure the utmost punctuality. The North- mail is to ar-
rive at 35 minutes past eight n. at. The Irish mail will
be despatched at five P. at. ; the. Edinburgh morning mail
at 24 minuted past 11 the T.: it-offiee shutting at a
quarter past ll o'cloilc, The delivery of the London and
other letters by the South mail in the afternoon is to
take place at 40 minutes past four.—Glusgow Herald.

INTERESTING DISCOVERY.-011 Saturday
the 18th ipst, as Mr. W. DRUMMOND, Westwood. Line,
Blair Drummond Moss, was oecapied in.elearing away the
moss from a part of his little farm, he was Mach surajised
at finding, fully. nine feet down in the solid mots, a wooden
wheel of curious and ancient construction. After digging
about nine yards.in a lateral direction he found another
wheel apparently the fellow of the first, but in a much
better state of preservation. The first wheel, on account
of its being mach dscayed, could not be raised .Whole, a
circumstance which induced Air, p4u}ptosi) to use every
precaution with the second, which he succeeded in rai4ing
entire, and had it • cart ied to his barn -yard, where it now
lies for the inspection of the curious. The wheels are
wholly of. wood, not even a nail or any thing of iron is to
be found about them. Thgy consist of three planks joiaed
togttlier by' two oval Occes of oak, }taming through
the like boltS,' and measure three- feet in dia-
meter, by 2i inches thick. The centre, or nave, is
5i4 inches 'thick, apparently turned out of one solid
Piece, and bushed with the red woof; of oak. The bush-
ing is composed of small stares set in, like cooper work,
" in the form of the Scotch bicker. The
outer torn of the t. lice; is indented with small stones as ii
the.machine, of which it formed a part, bad been work-
ing on sand or pave'.
borieonttl Both wheels were discovered' in a
position, and a layer of fir trees and bruslAvond
was imbedded in Toss about a foot above them ; which
evidently proves that in whatever manner the ivilteis got
there, they insist at least be of us ancient a date as the moss
sktirrtuj. ' • •