The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-11 00:00:00

.141,1R1T OF TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

A correspondent asks us, with some indignation, whether
we can ever again support Catholic emancipatioe, after the
*burning of a Jew, or other " heretic," under the influence
of the Spanish priesthootb We; or tint inicestors, might
As well : have been asked, whether anv limiest man could
serve the church and state of England, as; by law established,
when so many poor old Winner! were, even so late as the
end of the 17th century, hanged for being' witches. Now,
we would suggest; to our correspondent, the poseihility of
such horrors oceurring at the present (laymn not so much
evidences ngaiest the spirit of the Catholic Church, as
against the gross ignorance and brutalized degradation of
the e(eurdr-- :y -
whatever it, may be, in which they happen to
be perpetrated. If it were a natural consequence of the
adniission of lay Catholics to power that the, roasting of
heretics should follow it, let us ask, why instances like that
of the poor Jew at Valencia are not multiplied in other
states of Europe, where the Government is exclusively
Catholics, where it is administered by lay :Catholics only, or
even exclusively by Catholic prima ? Further, es aMe
more decidedly analogous' to what. that of Englund would
he if emancipation were carried, why do not ,-similar atro-
cities betray themselves where there t a mixed Catholic and
Protestant administratiim ? Yet, do we_find that Jews or
heretics haVe been bitterly condemned to death under the
Austrian Governme»t, which is altogether and religiously
Catholic, or at Rome itself, where the priests are paramount
rulers of the country--L or in France, where Protestants beings
weak minority are admitted to a pqticip4tioit in the state,.
and are in just sufficient power to awaken the anger of the
predominent commiution. Can our anti-Catholic, corm-
spondent; again assume the possibility-that the Catholic
ChUrch, if ever so rigorously disposed, would be permitted
by the Protestant majority to indulge itselfin an au/0 da fc
against the heretics ? Was such a thing ever dreamed of
since the days of bloody, Mary—when Catholicism was
fresh bleeding under the wounds inflicted by her father, and
when the age itself was one in which both Protestant and
Catholic avenged himself on his enemy by fire ? But the
truth is, that this latedipanish murder bears evidence
against the intellectual hiobarisin of the, Spanish multitude,
as contrasted with the general civilisation of Europe. Pos.
litieal fears and selfish interests have inflamed to madness
the passions of that body who now have hold by ea slender
thread of the power and property of the kingdom.
No-
thing like it happened under the Cortes ; thereforo we say,
when the people have more power—more conscious re-;
sponsibility—more exercise for their common seine—they
will become less amenable to savage and brutal impulses,
We say in like, manner of the Irish—give them political
sympathies with English Protestants, and you will do more
to enlighten the Catholic mind .Of Ireland in a day, than
by consigning it to the leading-strings of the priests for the
remainder of the I.9th eentury.—Tinies. •

Lord Chancellor Eldon has sat through the dog days,
and continues to sit in his Court of Chancery, if not for the
despateh of business, or the relief of suitors, at least we
may presume, to the satisfaction of his Lordship's (inn
professional taste, his eenvenience.as a Cabinet Minister,
and the dissipation of ennui. There is something no
doubt highly edifying and imposing in the sight of a learned
Lord, with th'e paraphernalia of his formidable office about
him, (while the leading Counsel arc all enjoying their
short'and hatd-earned holyday in the country), mooting
points of practice with some half-dozen minor Members of
the bar, languishing through a few mere matters of form,
and affecting to redeem the arrear of laihstatitial business,
which bad been accumulating for twenty Years, by this
make-believe assiduity at a period of the season when pro-
fessional men and clients are' equally unable to attend him.
Now this sacrifice of a portion of the long vacation was
never one among the reforms recommended for our equity
system. Nor, we take leave to stegyeet, wool;l the innovation
ever have been thought of by a noble personage, had not
a political necessity or supposed necessity for his presence
near London, on grounds which had no sort of connexion
with his duty as a Judge, retained him within the jog-trot
distance of the Court of Chancery, and hit him. no alter-
, native but that of performing to empty benches there, or
dying of the blue deVils at llyde.park.:corner: At 'the
same time, there is perhaps no serious fear of either PM'
liament or the public being deceived on this point ; though
we shall not be surprised, if next cession, When the Chan-
cery report is twder discussion,: some: pompous allusions
are made by his supporters to this extraordinary zeal and
as d ; .

We did not make a, single comment upon the order
issned for leqing .duties on American vessels trading to
the
.West Indies. This order has been hailed by the ad-
yeeates of-reatrietioit ast. the harbinger of a change of sys-
tem. W,e do not think so; iid.we have reason to think
that more than one lesson will be read to these sticklers
for antiquity by the operation of that necessary measure.
We are not surprized to find that the Jamaica Colonists
do not. relish the proceeding, though their good sense must
soon show them the necessity. The only miracle was that
they submitted so long as they did to our restrictions.
We it to the planters of Jamaica to answer the
sneepi of the writer in Blackwood on that part of Mr. Ilus-
kisson's admirable .:lieech, in which he traced, from his-
torical facts, the separation of our North American .Colo-
nies in c. groat measure to the Vexatious system by which
their trade was regulated. We sincerely .wish that
the lesson .may not be carried too far. If it depended
upon writers like those to whom we. have 'alluded, we
should soon see Jamaica and our West India Colonies part
and parcel of the United States." The following letter
may give some idea of their feelings on the subject :
Extract of a letter from Jamaica, dated 10th July, 1826
We continue to have a good trade with America, uR you will
ste by the. Jamaica Papers.. lint this trade is likely to be inter-
rupted for snow time by a Treasury order to the Co' Hector to re.l
ceive all duties upon foreign produce. The Receiver-Generd' iS
bound to collect the same 'under the Island Acts; and we sore them!
fore at. this moment paying both. Voles*. this Treasury 'order be
countermanded, great vexation May arise to trade, if the eireinn.
Orme tines not cause some angry discussion when the Assembly
meet, and prevent the How from doing what otherwise they are
disposed to do."—British Press.

Great pains have been taken to show (what the result
has confirmed), (hat the apprehensions of the Landholden'4
f; a ruinous devil sine of prices, from the opening of the
Foraigil (*rain, were altogether groundless, rind
]awed by
intelligence of such opening- would at once be fol,
t bp a great rise of prices in the Ports of the Coutinant.
.01 what immense importance it is to be great ! We are
al of US accutikil:
• Landholdem v Their
flutirting
_the alarms of the mighty
IN taken much to heart by all of
its. Tears, we suppose,4
irutjva.neven been shed on reading
the
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phaatrhdesthiicpPnrtirlesn :33,tidantr ofCl;straehilimes,sfophati:d'ileildika4s', far
hack as the time of the CoutiUe,t, being no loner
pay interest to .few mortmees, eep up a d'Fnglial
k t. to
hospitality in the family mansion att.he 1
:being, therefore, oblige to hide thelei,ehrteortimel and
or two in foreign countries.
We rejoice at their pray-
perity, and sympathise with them in their depressions."-
but while ~„e are occupied so much with the possible
.sequences of a change in the Corn Laws to the Lords of
our soil, we do not seem to think it worth -while Co be-
stow a moment's consideration on the millions on the Con,
tinent who must be condemned to the greatest, 'privations;
by the operation of Our Corn Laws at this time, 'these
poor people are sacrificed without the least consideration
to the precious system devise(' for the protection of our
Landowners. We think it nothing to suspend all inter-
courae.with the corn-growing countries for a series of years,
irE comegnenceOf which the cultivators cease to think of
producing for our market, and when scarcity threatens the
public trattqutillity, suddenly to open our ports, thereby
ruing prices in the exporting countries to a- level with
the artificial pric(s• here. We think it nothing, whenever
it suits the conveniency of our Landholders, to !Auntie the
great body of the, people: in extensive kingdoms, in the
most overwhelming distress, by raising !bed suddenly to
what to them must be a famine price. The nations are thus
made the, sport of the caprice of the English Aristocracy.
We hail the present open ing- Odle ports, as likelt to

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,lead to the destruction or the Corn monopoly. We
hail it as likely not merely to ,arrest the rise of prices in
this country, and to create a commerce which will give new
life to our distressed manufacturing establishments, but to
• be attended with perma►►ent benefit to both this country
her continental neighbours. But if, after this severe
trial, to which we haVe placed the poor people, in many
countries of tl►e Continent, by throwing on them the con-
Xneetc of our famine, we were once more to shut our
in Order to 'perpetuate the artificial system of prices,
*certainly could not blame forsign Governments, were
tRy to determine against all intercourse with a. country,
ruled by a class so utterly 'regardless of the expense of
human suffering at which they fill their poeliets. But we
trust the system will not be perpetuated, and we shall no
longer be the scourge of other nations. A beneficial com-
merce, we trust, will spring up. The thinly peopled
countries on the Baltic will apply themselves to the only
industry for which they are fitted, receiving in return for
their food, the produce of those manufactures which our
dense population must be employed in. We shall be
gainers by the proverity ot' each other.—lllorning Clam-
nide.