The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-28 00:00:00

JOURNALS

FROM THE DAILY PATERS
.07 YESTERDAY.

GLOI3E.—The Tory candidate for Dublin has
obtained a majority of 200 on the first day's poll.
The almost frantic exultation with which this in-
telligence has been received by the Tories, con-
firms the already-sufficiently-disclosed appre-
hensions of the party, that defeat, and consequent
destruction, awaited them. If the polling-lists
be examined, it will be seen that the triumph
of the Orangemen and their patron Govern-
ment is premature. Instead of ministering
.to
hope, and justifying anticipations of final vic-
tory, the lists disclose their weakness, and prove
only the desperate means their agents have
been driven to employ, in order to obtain the
temporary advantage to which they refer their
desponding adherents. The polling will con-
tinue five days. It is, therefore, evident that
the state of the poll at the close of the first day
Cannot possibly, in a constituency so large as
that of Dublin, decide anything beyond the fact,
that, with whichsoever of the parties the majority
is found, that majority was, in all probability, ob-
tained by the superior activity used in bringing
up the voters, aided by the superior facilities af-
forded to that party
in approaching the polling-
booths. This view of the case appears to be fully
justified by the circumstances attendant on the
first day's polling, by which Mr. Gregory ob-
tained his boasted, but fallacious majority. At
the last election the Liberals were in a majority
on the first day's poll, equal to that obtained by
the Tories on the first day's poll of the present
contest—and yet were defeated. This we men-
tion as a sufficient answer to the exultings of the
_ Tories over a merely nominal and generally de-
ceptive advantage. But when we look to the
lists, and see of what that majority is made up,
there is enough to cheer, and nothing to dis-
courage, the Liberal party. By polling their
freemen emphatically theirs, because they
made and pay them—in numbers greater than
they hare been in the habit of doing on the first
day, the Tories obtained an early 'superiority.
This will sufficiently appear, when it is stated
that more than two-thirds of the entire number
of votes recorded for Mr. Gregory were free-
men, and that a considerable number of these
were created by the late Lord Mayor, a few
hours before he and the old Corporation became
defunct—a termination being put to the doings
of that proverbially unscrupulous body by the
Irish Municipal Reform Act. As the law re-
quires a voter to be six months on the registry
before lie is qualified to exercise the franchise,
and as these last creations of corruption have
only been in existence two months, their votes
will, necessarily, be disallowed, should the merits
of the election become the subject of inquiry
before a Parliamentary Committee.
STANDARD.—The late Oxford controversy
has left a legacy of inconvenience in the uncer-
tainty.into which it has cast the meaning of eer-
ain important words—words rendered im-
ortant by the arguments which it has been
attempted to deduce from their etymology. The
terms Catholic and Protestant, though neither
is to be found in the Scriptures in the sense
in which they have been applied, are
treated as if they had, like the letter in the
Gematica of the Kavbalites, a specific and mys-
tic power, and the most violent deductions are
made from them. We need, however, scarcely
to remind our readers that " Catholic"
means simply universal; and that when it is ap-
plied to the Church it means neither more nor
less than the whole community of Christian wor-
shippers on the face of the earth. In this sense
—its only proper sense—it is not merely diffe-
rent from, it is contrasted to, the Church of any
particular country; there can be such thing as
a Catholic Church of England, or a Catholic
Church of Rome, though the Church of England
belongs to the Catholic Church. As to the so-
called Church of Rome, it is, according to our ar-
ticles no Church at all; therefore it is neither
the Catholic Church nor part of the Catholic
Church, although, questionless, millions of Ro-
manists are members of the universal Church,
and, as such, good Catholics. There is something
curious, and not uninstructive, in the assump-
tion of the title Catholic by the Romanist com-
munity. For about eight centuries, that is, while
the west of Christendom lay in ignorance, and
rested in communion with Rome, "the Church,"
as it is called, of " Rome " was contented with
that title, it called itself the Church of Rome, or
the Roman Church. It was not until the Reforma-
tion warned the Vatican that it was likely to lose
largo divisions of its votaries, that, among other
devices to retain its influence, the Papacy claimed
a monopoly of Christianity, by calling itself uni-
formly the Catholic, that is, the Universal
Church. This title, adopted for the very pur-
pose of excluding us from the name of Christians,
we have weakly submitted to • and now we have
this submission—the effect of good humour or
inadvertence—employed as an argument to wrest
from us the Christian liberty earned by our fa-
thers. We have more to say upon this subject,
though it is one to which we do not likoito advert,
but we shall try to discharge ourselves of it once
for all.
COURIER.—The Morning Chronicle is sore
and wrathful that, as a matter of taste, Earl de
Grey should seetn4o prefer Mr. Gregory as the
candidate for Dublin over Lord Morpeth, the
patronized puppet of Lord Mayor Daniel
O'Connell. This may seem odd to the Chronicle,
which has one rule for its own party and
another for its opponents; but it would be more
odd still if Earl de Grey might not be per-
mitted to indulge a taste of his own, as well as
Lords Normanby and Fortescue his predecessors.
So Ion?: as the Lord Lieutenant does not,
like Lord Normanby, openly canvass for the ob-
jects of his preference, or clandestinely connive
at the " death's head and bloody bones" system
for annihilating the freedom of election, and car-
rying the candidate of his private preference tri-
umphantly to the poll over the mangled car-
cases of hostile voters, by their violent abduc-
tion, or waylaying and assassination Iv hired
gangs of ruffians, or by any other of the uncon-
stitutional and atrocious practices which were the
rule and not the exception of Whig-Radical ad-
ministration, under the Noble Marquis at least,
we cannot understand why the present head of
the Irish Government may not entertain in peace
his individual predilections and opinions, when.
as a singular phase in Irish history during the
last ten years, they are not allowed to interfere
with the impartial exercise of his public duty.
A trumpery charge is indeed alleged against his
Lordship that such impartiality has not been ob-
served, and that the light of the Vice-Regal
countenance has beamed too fitvourably and
conspicuously upon the cause of Mr. Gregory,
and per contra withheld from Lord Mayo;
O ; for as to his candidate, the man is
not even in court or a consenting; party to
the suit carrying on in his name. The
primary proof, obstreperously vociferated
by the Radical press on both sides the water
against the impartial bearing of the Viceroy, is
based on the fact that Lord Jocelyn, one of the
state ofofficers of his Lordship's household, was ab-
solutely' seen (tell it not in Gath 0 arm in arm
traitorously promenading the streets, and mold-
ing criminal converse with Mr. Gregory, the
constitutional presentee of the city ,of Dublin
No other overt act of vice-regal treason was
made out, or could be discovered, from this mon-
strous twin conjunction of old friends or ac-
quaintance, but a deadly plot was scented at
once to be in agitation as surely as that Irish
swine snuff the wind a-corning though afar off.
We chance to recollect, and in the latter days
of the late Ministry too, when Whiggery was
not quite so fastidious, and when Lords of the
Bedchamber were unceremoniously discharged,
not for the high crime and misdemeanour of
voting against their liege Lords of the Govern-
ment faction, but absolutely for not voting at
all, and affecting neutrality, if not independence.
We can remember, moreover, when the queen
Consort of England, now our excellent Queen
Dowager, was not tolerated in the retention of
her own Chamberlain, because in the consistent
discharge of his duty, and in consonance with
the public principles of his whole life, he
presumed to a will and a vote of his own, not
in unison with the acts and the sentiments of
the powers that were. What would have been
the fate of any officer of the household of Lord
Normanby, who should have refused to be
dragged in the mire of the O'Conoell car, or
even have 'cut the honour of his personal' ac-
quaintance in the streets of Dublin, may be
readily conjectured from these significant ex-
amples.

SUBTERRANEAN PASSAGE 150 MILES
LoNG.—While travellingr
elstely in Central America,
Stephens visited the ruined
city of Ocosingo. When
there, he was told that there was a communication by a
subterranean passage from those
ruins with the city of
palenque, that was distant aboutone hundred and fifty
miles I This is a very decent addition to the wonders of
the New World.
DEATH OF THE DOWAGER. COUNTESS n
MILTOWN.—Her Ladyship died at her house,i
L,ppor
Merrien-street, Dublin, on Sunday evening, having
reached her 100th year.
Lately, two fine specimens of that handsome
bird, the common' bittern (botaus stellaris,: Steph.),
were shot in this county, the one at the top of pitch_
croft Ham, near this city, the other in the vicinity of
Tewkesbury—a noted place for many of our aquatic
tt2rds, from the marshy nature of the ground, wing to
influence of the Avon and the Severn.-•Rfforcester-
-*we Chronicle.

A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-
office yeSterday at half-past one o'clock. All the Minis-
ters in town were present.
NORTHAMPTON, JAN. 24.—Although North-
ampton has more than 20,000 inhabitants, and a beau-
tiful and' healthy barna, it has been left without
military for a considerable length of time,in consequence
of which an address, numerously signed, and headed by
the Mayor, has been presented to Sir James Graham,
the Home Secretary, soliciting him to allow the barrack
to be inhabited, which it is hoped he will accede to.
INTERESTING DISCOVERY.—; few days
since some workmen digging a hole for 14 brick-clamp,
about three wiles from March, Isle of Ely, discovered
the remains of a boat firmly imbedded in the soil,
about six or eight feet from the surface. Skeletons
of two men were also found, one apparently leaning
over the side of the boat, the other lying at the bot-
tom. Neither of them was perfect, and care not being
takeiLto preserve the remains, soon nothing but a few
odd fragments of bones were left to gratify the curiosity
of those who were tempted to visit the spot ! The
teeth alone were in an excellent state of pre.;erva-
don, but they were lost by the men who picked them
out. The boat was in a slanting position, but no correct
idea of the size could be obtained, save from the thick-
ness of the planks, which seemed to indicate considerable
strength. The wood, as well as the;nails, was in a state
of high decomposition, especially the latter, which crum-
bled to pieces with the slightest pressure of the fingers.
How these remains can have been deposited is a curious
subject for speculation. The most probable idea is, that
at some period when the fens were entirely covered with
water, deep enough to allow of the passage of boats, this
might have been upset and settled in the mud, and co-
vered over by the deposits of succeeding floods.—
Bury Post
THE WEATHER.--.The snow in this neigh-
bourhood is of great de -pith, it having fallen on Saturday
for several hours, in addition to a heavy fall a few days
previously. On Saturday night, Sunday, and Monday,
the frost was intense beyond anything which has been
experienced during the present storm. The navigation
is impeded, and every sheet of water in the neighbour-
hood laid fast.— York Courant.

SINGULAR DISCOVERY.—On Thursday morn-
ing last, as the workmen - employed in a field near
Washwood Heath were removing a quantity of
earth for the embankment of the Birmingham and
Derby Railway,:they discovered two skeletons environed
in chains. It appears that they are the remains of
two soldiers, named John Hammond, an American
by birth, and Thomas Pitmore, a native of Cheshire,
known in Birmingham and the neighbourhood as " Jack
and Tom," who were executed' on the 2d of April, 1781,
for the murder of Wilfred Barwick, a butcher, on the
night of the 22d of November, 1780, near the four-mile
stone on the Coleshill road, and afterwards hung in
chains near the spot where the bones were found. Wor-
cestershire Chronicle.

CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.—The courtiers deli-
berated how to get rid of Richelieu altogether. The
Mareschal de Marillac proposed to assassinate him, the
Duke de Guise would have him exiled, and the Mares-
ehal de Bassornpiere wished to confine him for life. It
is a curious fact, that each of these propositions fell back
upon their respective authors, so that each had the fate
intended for the object of their hatred.—Madame de
Verigne and
_fr Contemporaries.

Bishop Warburton had a strong itch for acting.
One day as Mr. Cradock was walking up the Strand,
he was overtaken by the Bishop in his carriage, who called
to him, and said—" Cradock, I am going to preach a ser-
mon before the Lord Mayor ; if you have nothing
better to do get in and go with me." My friend
joined the Bishop; and their conversation soon turned
upon Shakspeare. After they had entered the vestry,
the Bishop, in a fit of enthusiasm, began to personate
Falstaff; as he was just in the act of swelling out the
courageous Knight, the Mayor an Aldermen burst into
the vestry, and it was with difficulty that his Graci, the
Father in
God, could re-assume the gravity of the lawn
SlOO YVS.•••• gardinfeB music an fricnde.