The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-08 00:00:00

tempt and defiance of the law, so strikingly dis-
played ? When were the Agitators so bold ? When
bad they the Catholic multitudes so completely
under their controul ? When were the interests
of the whole empire, the peace of Ireland,
the respect due to the laws, the feelings, and
wishes of the King of England and his Ministers
and his people, so resolutely or audaciously set
at defiance ? The hatred of the British Go
vernment now displayed by the agitators and
demagogues of Ireland is more inveterate than
ever, and exhibits a feature of malignity and
danger which never until the present moment
could have been perceived in it. The demonstra-
tion of that which we all along believed and
proclaimed, is now perfect. Indulgence and
concession, which we always said would aggra-
vate their hatred to the Government of England,
have been tried to the utmost, and the dema-
gogues and agitators manifest a hatred of the
English Government more intense and enter-
prising than before. The effect of the measures
for the pacification of Ireland is to be found in
the actual state of that country. To adjudicate
to different parties their various proportions of
blame is nothing to the purpose, unless it be •
intended and understood as an indirect
confession that the evils have in fact been
aggravated which those measures were intended
to extinguish, and that their authors and advo-
cates had not duly examined the element upo❑
which they presumed to operate. What is it to
the King of England or to his loyal and affec-
tionate Protestant subjects to be told that the
Orangemen of Ireland must share with the

Roman Catholic demagogues and agitators the
blame of the terrible disorders and convulsion
which now prevail in that country ? They were
told that by measures which broke in upon the
Constitution of Great Britain, Ireland might be
pacified ; and what have they found to be the
effect of these boasted measures ? Can the facts
be denied that Ireland is at this moment more
disordered and convulsed than before ; or that
now, for the first time within many years, the
peaceable inhabitants of many parts of that

country are earnestly invoking the blessings of
martial law as a mild substitute for the lawless
and intolerable violence to which they feel them-
selves exposed ?—illorning Post.
It would appear from the following article,
which we copy from an original and well-

conducted northern paper, the Elgin Courier,
that the gang of common informers have made

their appearance within what may be denomi-
❑ated its peculiar province. The informer made
a narrow escape from some gentlemen who enter-
tained a due sense of his merits, and who, not-
withstanding their failure in convincing him of
it in the practical mode usually adopted in that
quarter towards any member of the fraternity,
will, we doubt not, ere long, cool his courage in
laying informations. The following is the article
to which we refer :
" We understand that informations were laid on
Friday last against from fourteen to sixteen of our
merchants, for selling patent medicines, stamped
articles, &c. without the licence, by which all of
them are subject to a penalty of twenty, some of
them thirty, and others of them to one of fifty
pounds. We have heard it stated, and have no
doubt of the truth of the report, that an individual
of the name of George M'Kain, was in every in.
stance the informer. It is said that he called at the
shops of those against whom he had laid informa-
tions, and bought Anderson's Pills, Aromatic Vine-
gar, Cephalic Snuff, Stamped Silver Plate, &c. &c.
He is said to have tried to have laid informations
against the great majority of our merchants ; but was
only successful with the number above mentioned.
The affair has excited much interest and conversa-

ion in the place; and on Monday evening last, be-

tweet) nine and ten o'clock, several hundreds of
young men and others attended at his house, for the
purpose, it is said, of furnishing him with an ex-
perimental proof of the opinion they entertain of
his conduct. The Sheriff, however, opportunely
interfered, and having admonished the persons so
congregated together of the consequences of laying
violent hands on McKain, they soon after quietly
dispersed."—Morning. Advertiser.