The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-28 00:00:00

No presumption, however strong, to weigh in
any ease—nothing but corruption—actual cor-
ruption, will do.
But how? how satisfied, my Lord?
Would you, its supervisor, grossly gape on?
Behold her tupp'd?
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It were a tedious difficulty, I think,
To bring them to that prospect."
The quondam partner, the actual landlord of a
brewhouse, cellar, and premises of a brewer
owning eleven houses, is to be presumed quite
disinterested in refusing, in his capacity of Ma-
gistrate, to license two free houses. No matter
how materially the property of the landlord
might be affected by the success of the trade of
the tenant, the refusal must be presumed per-
fectly disinterested. "If corrupt motives (add
the Magistrates) had existed, it was open to
the appellants to have produced proof of them ;
but as that had not been done, they must dismiss
the appeal." To offer proof of corrupt motives !
And is proof of corruption so easy in our days!
Alack for the chance of protection which the
poor have from the Great Unpaid ! There are,
no doubt, many honourable men in the Com-
mission. We wish, for the sake of the people,
all the Magistrates were, which many of them
are, jobbing knaves. It is because honourable
men, like Mr. Western, are in the Commission,
that knaves have so much the greater power. An
honourable Magistrate would spurn at the idea
of jobbing in licenses ; but what he will not do,
others will always be found to do ; and his deli-
cacy will not allow him to suspect a brother Ma-
gistrate, or to interfere with his conduct. The
interested and corrupt exclaim, would you refuse
to give discretionary power to such guardians of
the public morals as Mr. Western, while the real
object for which the discretionary power is in-
vested, is, that brewers, landlords, brewers' re-
latives, brewers' tradesmen of all sorts, may avail
themselves of it to poison and pillage the poor.
As long as discretionary power is given in Eng-
land to anybody, thatpowerwillalwaysbe abused.
No man in a country of law ought to have any
discretionary power to interfere with the actions
of others. In this country where all job, from
the highest to the lowest ; where Ministers
'smuggle Bills through Parliament at two o'clock
in the morning, and Archbishops, on their
death-beds, are seen snatching at sinecures, in
the teeth of Resolutions of Parliamentary Com-
mittees ; who is there who ought to be entrusted
with an irresponsible power, by the abuse of
which money may be made ? Let every man of
irreproachable conduct who demands a license
obtain one, and only be deprived of it when he
has forfeited that privilege by misconduct.—
Morning Chronicle.
We have copied from the Cork Constitution
the report of the trial of four of the Doneraile
conspirators, on Friday last. They were found
guilty. A number of individuals yet remain to
be tried. The Solicitor-General, in his open-
ing speech of three hours, adverted often to the
state of society in the part of Ireland where the
proceedings the subject of the trial took place.
" Mr. Creagh (High Sheriff of Cork) he ob•
serves, " was found guilty for serving notices
on his own tenants—for exercising his right as a
landlord, and dealing with his own property as
he thought fit." His right as a landlord ! The
landlord has, no doubt, law on his side ; the
law says he may do with his property as he
thinks fit ; and the people deriving no benefit
from the law, which is injurious to them in pro-
portion as it is enforced, try and pass sentence
in turn on all who attempt to execute the law.
44 The agents in this conspiracy filled a district
of country, and various ferocious banditties
passed from different quarters to execute their
judgment on him who dared to act for himself
in his conduct towards his tenantry." Law in
Ireland is not a rule for the common benefit,
and in the observance of which all are conse-
quently interested. There is no Common Law.
There is a Landlords' Law and a Tenants'
Law. Things are pretty much, it would seem,
in the state so pithily described by Words-
worth, in his lines on Rob Roy's grave :-
-__— The simple plan,
'flint they should keep who have the power,
And they should catch who can,"
The Tenants seem to be as firmly persuaded,
according to the Solicitor-General, that they are
doing right in enforcing their bloody law against
the Landlords, as the Landlords are that they
are enforcing theirs against the Tenants. In the
struggle between the two laws, tho losses are
considered as chances of war, and the ea,ample
they hold out is an incitement to increased exer-
tion. At a Meeting in the house of one Duane,
on Shrove-Tuesday, the capture of one Magrath
was deplored. The party added (says the Soli-
citor-General), " that as the Aeeises were ap-
proaching, Low, (a Magistrate) wouldd. hang
him, unless something were done to cut him off,
and a rivalry took place to see who should
achieve it. Oise claimed the honour because he
had transported his brother ; another because he
was his near neighbour ; and a third, because he
bad missed him on a former occasion,. These,
gentlemen, are facts, which, if stated in another
country, would not be credited ; but, unhappily,
here you are too much familiarised with them
to make you incredulous. Who wonld believe
that the abbath was the day, the Bilide this bond,
and the death-scene of a mother the place select,-
vd to frame anew the plan of murder ? Yet it
was under such circumstances this band of con-
apirators withdrew to a neighbouring barn, to de-
plore the escape of one human being from death,
when about to follow the remains .of another to
the grave—to renew their oath of blood, and
show with boasting phrase and gesture a pistol
which did good work at Chuichtown—a name
ever memorable in insurrectionary 41)Pals. On
the 27th of Apsil, Duane had a tent at the fair
of Rathclare. I need not say to men conversant
with the habits of the kOWitry, that a conspiracy
being hatched at a tent in a fair has nothing start-
ling to create a doubt : these things are almost
openly talked of as it is never supposed that
one who, by his appearance, belongs to Ma
lower orders, would be proof against the ty-
ranny of these associations, pr bold enough to
betray or oppose them." The so4itor-Gene-
rai adds, 44 How awfully startling is the narra-
tive ! What ! in a time of peace and security,
without any cause of discontent, is a committee
to sit in secret, and coiieign to death whomso-
ever they choose to place under their ban ?" So
complete, it seems, is the separation of interests
between the landlords and the peasantry, that no
man who, from his appearance, belongs to the
latter, is ever supposed to be bold enough to
dare to oppose the execution of the law against
the landlords. The public opinien to which
the peasantry are amenable, acts with so tyranni-
cal a force, that the landlords' law is not feared,
but obedience to it is feared. This state of
things must not be allowed to continue. This
division into two nations, each having a public
opinion and a law of its own, must lie termi-
nated. The landlords have possession of the

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statute-book, and the tribunals and the gallows,
and analogy demands that their law should
triumph over the other. But to reconcile the
peasantry to their defeat, the Government must
step in and make the law not alone powerful to
oppress them, but also a source of protection.
Who does not know that the right to remove a
tenant in Ireland, is at present a right to destroy
him ; and ho,v can we suppose that human beings
will look tamely on, while themselves, their pa-
rents, wives r,nd children, are consigned to de-
struction ? The conspiracies are dictated by the
impulse which nature has implanted in every
being to preserve existence at all hazards.
Whenever men openly conspire against the laws,
the laws are at fault. There need not other proof
than the statements of the Solicitor-General,
that the British Government have much to au•

swer for in regard to Ireland. The murders and
crimes which disgrace that country disgrace this
country still more.—lbid.

We believe the Duke of Northumberland has
been very unfairly treated by both the Popish 1,
and Orange parties in Ireland. It is our opi-
nion, that the distracted and unhappy country
over which his Excellency presides as the re-
presentative of the Sovereign has not had, in
modern times, a Lord-Lieutenant more sincerely
anxious for its welfare than his Grace. Ireland
has long wanted, above all things, a firm and
impartial administration of justice—a just and
unbiassed application of the laws—equally free
from the influence of popular terror or aristo-
cratic dictation. The present Lord-Lieutenant
seems resolved so to conduct his government as
to remove the reproach of what, for want of a
better term, may be called party-justice, and to
make all classes feel and acknowledge the pre-
siding majesty of the laws. To a Nobleman of
the high rank and princely fortune of the Duke
of Northumberland, the government of Ireland
can be no object of ambition—neither in point
of political power nor official grandeur can it
hold out any very strong temptation to him
to exchange the peaceful magnificence of
Sion House for the vexatious splendours of the
Castle of Dublin. We are aware of no motive
that could induce him to take upon himself the
cares and anxieties of Irish administration if he
were not actuated by a patriotic desire to serve
his country. With the Marquis of Wellesley,
indeed, the case was very different—the salary
of Lord-Lieutenant was a matter of considerable
importance to him, and the extreme economy of
the Vice-regal State and Household, in his time,
looked as if he centered all hopes of the improve-
ment of Ireland in checking the national habit of
profusion, and putting down, by force of his ex-
ample, the "savage virtue of hospitality." It was
thought, however, that he carried the more calcu-
lating virtue which he chiefly practised to too nice
a degree of perfection, and the Press teemed with
complaints, setting forth that the want of the accus-
tomed festivities ofthe Castle threw gloom upon the
streets, and gave languor to the trade of the me-
tropolis. The present Lord-Lieutenant, though
by no means, in private life, of extravagant ha-
bits, is not chargeable with hoarding the income
of office for his private necessities, or obscuring
the splendours of his rank by the plebeian anxie-
ties of penurious calculation. He maintains
with becoming liberality the state and dignity of
Viceroy. In his Court superb, and in his
Household hospitable, he cultivates the elegan-
cies of polished life, without neglecting the use-
ful virtues, giving, as he does, the aid of his in-
fluence and example to the promotion of arts
and manufactures. It is his good fortune, also,

that the Vice-regal throne is graced by a lady of
the most estimable qualities—blameless in all the
relations of private life, and distinguished for
that active but unostentatious benevolence which
are the highest ornaments of exalted rank—yet
certain it is, with all these advantages, and with
other claims on public respect, the Duke of
Northumberland is by no means popular with
either of the extreme parties that divide opinion
in Ireland. He had scarcely been seated in the
Vice-regal chair, when Mr. O'Connell, with that
peculiar elegance and polish of sarcasm which
distinguish him, dilated into a broad grin the
intellectual features of au assembly of Cork poli-
ticians, by comparing his Grace to the sign of
the " Hog in Armour." On the other side, Mr.
Judkin Fitzgerald turned down his glass when
his health was proposed at the Civic Dinner.—
We believe Mr. O'Connell's splenetic asperity

to have been excited by the proper and dig-
nified exclusion of demagogues and agitators
from the Vice-regal Court—while the other ;
party could give him credit for no virtues be-
cause he accepted office under the Wellington
Administration. We have freely expressed our
opinion of the errors into which the present
Government have fallen ; but all their measures ;
are not unwise : there are some of which honest
and impartial men must approve, and one of these
is the appointment of such a man as the Duke of
Northumberland to the Lord-Lieutenancy of ,
Ireland. His Government seems to be actuated
by good motives, and, if deficient in any thing,
it is in the energy requisite for crushing the local
feuds, and following with speedy and vigorous
ezecntion the outrages which disturb the peace
and impede the civilization of Ireland. It is
this want of energy which allows the Terry-Alt
and Rockite banditti to insult the laws, and keep
large tracts of the country under a reign of terror.
To temporise with such ruffians is only to in•
crease their insolence and ferocity. They are
men of blood, and must be put down by the
gibbet or the sword. It will not do to allow
Priests and demagogues to usurp the functions
of the legitimate Government—to calm or excite
the ‘; wave of the multitude" at their pleasure—
and to affect to hold in their hands the scales of
the destinies of the country, We gave the Irish
Government the praise it deserved for suppo74-
ing with unshaken firmness the dignity of the
la-Ws dining the trials arising out of the disturb-
ances at liorrisolce9n—when the Liberal Press
of Dublin forgot all sense of decency as well as
of justice—endeavoured to intimidate Courts
and Juries—anticipated with savage joy the con-
' victien of innocent men, and raised the ferocious
cry for blood, We cannot equally approve of
the measures of Government which leave thede-
luded populace under the impression that the
priest or the agitator is stronger than the law, or
than these whom the law has appointed to rule
over them. Tho:;e who have influence to allay
the passions of the multitude hr,ye also power to
excite them. We have said that it is the object
of the Duke of Northumberland to make the
laws respected ; but there are turbulent spirits in
Ireland wham he will not be able to bring under
that salutary corns(); unless he shows that his
vigour is equal to his virtue.--Morning Herald.
The announcement of Mr. Huskisson being
about to join the Cabinet, and, along with him,
others who profess the same
.political creed, and
are attached to the same principles, has excited
a storm of indignation among some of our co?
temporaries, for which it is not a little difficult
to account. On Saturday the Morniv Herald

attacked our very innocent paragraph on the
subject, and denounced it as a feeler, though
for what purpose the feeler had been put forth,
or at whose instigation, our cotemporary did
not condescend to inform us. The Standard
followed in the evening on the same subject,
and the Morning Chronicle, the Morning
Journal, and others, have since found abundant
matter for discussion in the same topic. All,
however, with the exception of the Chronicle,
have given full credit to the fact which we an-
nounced, and simply confined themselves either
to a verbal criticism of a trifling expression in
our article, or to an attack on Mr. Huskisson,
anti the principles anti abettors of free trade ge-
nerally. Mr. Huskies on's shoulders are broad
enough, we presume, to sustain any attacks of
the kind, and we decline, therefore, to enter
into any discussion of the arguments which are
directed against his principles and their advo-
cates. But the article in the Chronicle* is of a
different character, and we are bound both to
lay it before our readers, and to show the in-
conclusive grounds on which its assertions rest.
'We need not observe that the information re-
specting the " splendid festivities" here men-
tioned, was in the first place derived from our
columns ; but what is most worthy of remark in
the matter is, that our cotemporary first describes
as a perfectly "fortuitous re-union," what after-
wards turns out, from his own account of the
circumstances, to have been indeed any thing
but " fortuitous." " When the Premier was
invited to Sudbourne," says our cotemporary,
" the Noble host thought it necessary, (probably
with a recollection of the occurrences which pre-
ceded the late Colonial Secretary's retirement),
to inform him Mat Mr. Huskisson was an ex-
pected guest ;" and yet, according to our co-
temporary, although both were invited at the
same time, and to the same mansion, and by the
same Noble person, and with a perfect know-
ledge on the part of, at least the Duke of Wel-
lington, that Mr. Huskisson would be present,
" the re-union was perfectly fortuitous."
Passing over, however, this doctrine of chances,
which is as novel as it is extraordinary,
we come next to the developement of
the grand " principle" to which the Duke
of Wellington has invariably " adhered,"
and on which our cotemporary appears to
rely, as incontrovertible proof, that " there
is not, and there never has been, a sha-
dow of foundation for the assertion," that nego-
ciations were pending for the return of Mr. Hus-
kisson to office ? and what is the principle ?
why that*" of drawing a line between political
and personal alienations !" Now if it were
not as notorious as the sun at noon-day that the
" alienation" between Mr. Huskisson and the
Duke of Wellington, veiled as it might be under
the endearing language of " My dear Duke,"
and " My dear Huskisson," was a personal,
and not a political, alienation, it might be ne-
cessary to give a history of the whole affair in
proof of the assertion ; but we shall trust so far
to the recollection of our readers for credit on
this point, and simply add that the alleged note
of the Marquis of Hertford to the Duke of
Wellington is itself a proof that the " alie-
nation" was "personal," and not "political."
Men of the most opposite parties, and of
the most opposite political sentiments, meet
daily in society, without any one thinking it
necessary to apprize either party of the ex-
pected presence of the other ; but there was a
" personal alienation" in this case, and the Mar-
quis of Hertford, in consequence, according to
our cotemporary's version of the affair, deemed
it absolutely necessary to apprise the Duke of
Wellington of the visit of Mr. Huskisson !
and yet, according to the same unerring autho-
rity, the " re-union was fortuitous," and the
alienation political not personal. In conclusion,
we re-assert the accuracy of our information with
the same conviction of its truth that our cotem-
porary entertains of its falsehood ; and beg to
inform him, in addition, by way of illustration,
of his doctrine of "fortuitous re-unions," that
the Marquis of Hertford has given some splen-
did festivities, at which, as he knows, both the
Duke of Wellington and Mr, Huskisson were
present—that he intends to give more almost
immediately, to which neither are invited, and
that if there had not been political matters to
discuss, the invitation might easily have been so
managed as to prevent the very extraordinary
"fortuitous re-union" in question.—Morning
Advertiser.

The article referred to appeared, under the usual
head, in THE SuN yesterday.

ST. SAVIOUR'S, SOUTHWARK.

A meeting of the parishioners of this parish was
yesterday held at the Vestry-room, to receive the
Report of the Auditors on the late Warden's ac-
counts. After those were passes, a motion was
made to take into consideration the present dilapi-
dated state of the north and south transepts of the
church, with other parochial matters.
The following propositions, brought forward by
Mr. SELLS, were unanimously carried, viz.—" That
there be laid before the next Vestry a general state-
ment of the fund borrowed on account of the repairs
done to the church, from what source obtained, to-
gether with the amount of the present rental, and
the amount of balance in hand."

Mr. SELLS next moved for the various drawings,
plans, sections, &c. made relating to the church.
The CHAIRMAN interposed, and read a letter from
Mr. Gwilt, the surveyor, to this effect : That on
finding a motion was about to be made for the pro-
duction of plans, &c., he had transmitted twenty-
six, which he had in his possession ; these, the
writer said, " were all that were or could be of any
use."

Mr. Sum, and other gentlemen, thought that
Mr. Gwilt ought not to judge whether what he had
sent would only be proper for the inspection of the
parishioners, and he persisted in his motion, which
was likewise carried.
After some remarks from Mr. Wild. sen., Mr.
Blackett, Mr. Ellis, and other inhabitants, the Ves-
try broke up.