The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-03 00:00:00

Tit DAY,

(From the Leeds Mercury.)
The Brunswickers maintain that the result of the Kent
Meeting shows, that a vast majority of the people of Eng-
land are hostile to Emancipation. This, however, is more
easily asserted than proved. If it is so, how does it hap-
pen that the representatives of so many of our large towns,
where the greatest freedom of election exists, are friendly
to that measure? and that the candidates who came for-
ward tinder the banners of " No Popery" at the last elec-
tion, were so frequently defeated ? How does it happen
that the representatives of Westminster, Southwark, Not-
tingham, Preston, and Reading, where almost every resi-
dent inhabitant has the right of voting, are friendly to Eman-
cipation ? It cannot he said that the opinions of the inha-
bitants have not been tried. They were tried at the last
election, and the result was, that at the four last-men-
tioned places the Anti-Catholic candidates were entirely de-
feated, and the friends of religious liberty uniformly triumph-
ed. If the result of the Kent Meeting proves that the
thinly scattered and ignorant population of the agricultural
districts are in general hostile to Emancipation, the result
of the contests to which we have alluded, proves that the
inhabitants of the great towns of the kingdona—the focuses
of knowledge, wealth, and independence, are favourable to
that measure. The defects in our representative system
prevent indeed the opinions of almost all the great towns
of the kingdom, except those which we have mentioned,
from being collected in the same manner. The green
mounds of Gatton and Old Sarum are represented, but
the inhabitants of Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Bolton,
Blackburn, Huddersfield, Bradford, Halifax, and Wake-
field have no representatives to speak their sentiments in
Parliament ; they have to pay the taxes and obey the laws,
but have no share in imposing the one, or passing the other.
Their opinions therefore cannot, as we said, be collected
in the same manner. There is, however, a test by which
it is possible to form something like an estimate even of
their sentiments, and that ie, by considering what are the
principles of the Newspapers that are most generally read
by them, and most extensively circulated. It is scarcely
necessary for us to say, that men in general are guided in
their choice of a newspaper by their approbation of the
principles which it advocates. Now, with the exception
of the Courier, which is a demi official paper, there is
scarcely a newspaper possessing extensive circulation, which
does not support the Catholic Claims. The Times, the
Morning , Chronicle, the Globe, and the Sun in London,
circulate every day, thousands and tens of thousands
of copies, advocating the most unlimited freedoni of
conscience. Precisely the same state of things exists
in the country, and we attribute no small portion of
the support which we have received, to our firm and un-
wavering assertion of those principles. These facts can
only be accounted for on the supposition that a majority,
and a very large majority, of.tbe reading and thinking part
of the nation are favourable to the Catholic Claims. If
they were, nut, the liberal papers would be in as miserable
a state as the great body of the illiberal ones are at present ;
that is, dying from sheer want of support. We do not
deny that enemies of Popery, witchcraft, and other branches
of the black art, have a majority in the agricultural dis-
tricts in the south, but it is evident that they are in a mi-
serable minority in all the great towns of the kingdom, and
in those districts where wealth and knowledge have made
the greatest progress. While this is the case, we have little
fear of the contagion of Kentish bigotry spreading very
extensively.

(From the Dublin Morning Register of Friday.)
It comes out in the Morning Herald, that Mr. Shed, in
giving his speech on Penepden Heath, for publication,
yielded to the request of the various reporters attending
from the London Journals. An infamous paper; edited,
we are told, by one of the Beacon gang, who became so
notorious some time ago in Scotland, alleged that Mr.
Shell " took compensation for furnishing his speech."—
This was just such a lie as the assertion of the Mail
(as yet uncontradicted) that he received 350 guineas
for his services at the Clare election. The noise
that is made about this speech is truly laughable. The
question seems not to be, whether it was good or
bad, but how it got into the public journals, or whether
it was put upon paper before h was spoken. Supposing it
was prepared and got by heart a year ago, was it the
worse speech on that account ? Of all the wild and
foolish things said of it, of course that which we find in
the Courier is the most stupid and outlandish. The
Editor of that (now) ridiculous Journal swears, " that it
was consigned to manuscript before it could have been
spoken." If that was the case, it was very likely that it
was actually spoken, for in the entire there is not more
matter than could be recited in an hour, and even Cobbett
admits that Mr. Sheil was nearly that space of time upon
his legs. The courier, however, will be bound by its
corporal oath that it was not spoken at all. And
why is it so positive upon this point ? It says the
speech was inaudible. It says a mole could not have
beard a word of it connectedly—and hence it con-
cludes that it was not spoken I We have heard of a con-
troversy springing from the stealing of a horse, and turn-
ing, not upon the fact of the felony, or the identity of the
perpetrator thereof, but upon the shape of the field in which
the animal was grazing. It must be admitted that the dis-
pute amongst the sagacious Editors of the Cumberland
press, as to the reporting of Mr. Sheil's speech on Penen-
den Heath, beats this famous controversy all to nothing ! !
Why do not the besotted Editors leave the perfectly insig-
nificant question of the reporting to the little children and
slavering old women of their tribe, and try what they can
do i❑ the way, of replying to the facts and arguments of
this truly admirable effusion of learning and- intellect ?

HUMANE AND ELEGANT RECREATION:-
In the report of the Duke of St. ALBAN'3 falconry exhibi-
tion in the Lincoln Herald, there are the following pay_
sages The bird was followed and overtaken by the
hawk, who struck it down at the extremity of the railing
with violence, and killed it in the boldest style, having
struck off its head."—" A bird was loosed ; it flew east,
and the hawk slid into the same direction. The bird made
for the hedge at the near side of the course, when the
hawk suddenly descended on it, struck and seized it in its
talons at the same moment, bearing it shrieking to the
earth, within little more than 100 yards from the com-
pany. The bird was found quite dead, with the flesh cut
by the blow as with a knife up the thigh' and along the
side, with its head nearly off. This feat excited the most
unanimous plaudits, and was received with the eclat of a
superior theatrical performance."

A LEARNED TH B A N.--That slavering,
blear-eyed, slovenly fellow, that thou seest come out of his
study after midnight, dolt thou think that he has be
tumbling over his books to learn how to become a better
man, wiser, and more content? No such matter : lie will
there end his days ; but he will teach posterity the measure
of Pr. At T trs's verses and the orthography of a
Latin word.
--Berns Chronicle.

IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PARKS.--The
Commissioners of the late improvements in St. James's-
park are, we are gratified to see, resolved to make every
without taking
thing uniform and neat. The grand walks have, within
a few days, .been picked, and covered with new and beau-
tiful gravel. The dead trees, which have for so long a
time disgraced the appearance of the Park, are now most
of them taken away. The other night, however, a very
eedivnneeivaker
int through ti•eotfultigeiltt
likelihoodof it
accident had nearly taken place by the mismange_
went of some of the workmen. One of the largest trees
thein then
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any precaution,iinbgeo:onsa thinkingtsvb
its
falling. In the evening, however, as several persons were
passing by, it fell down with a tremendous crash, but hap-
pily, in such a position es not to canoe any danger. The
large tarpaulin which has been hung up before the donue
on the new palace still continues, and DO 'et obable r.ttson
for it Gas as 'et been foralc4l