The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-26 00:00:00

a large revenue by such very means. Could the
inmates of Bedlam, and of every. Lunatic Asy-
lum in this kingdom, be examined, for the pur-
pose of tracing the origin of their awful calamity,
none so general as this would be found. Pride,
disease, and mental affliction, are, we have no

doubt, laige producers of insanity ; but those,
and all oilier causes put together, would not,
we are convinced, furnish any thing like the pro-
portion in the fearful catalogue, which would be
found to have had their origin in this intellectual
incendiarism. Those who mark the signs of
the• times cannot be ignorant or indifferent to
the truth of this ; nor can we reconcile to any
of our ideas of consistency the recollection that
we have had a Government so straight-laced and
horror-struck at depravity as to abolish the state
lottery, but which can go on encouraging, rather
than taking any means to repress, this all-per-
verting contagion-. Whether the satire thus
passed by these wild Indians upon civilised en-
couragers of this maddening habit, will have any
effect in repressing its prevalence, we are not
sanguine enough to conjecture ; but if we were
asked, on the one hand, what it is that is more
than any thing else destroying the manly, open
character of the common people of these islands,
we should say it is the use of ardent spirits ; and
were we to prescribe, on the other; what it is
thal would bring them back to the habits and
the character of former times, we should say
that it would be by returning to the wholesome,
the refreshing, and invigorating beverage of their
hardy ancestors, ill-exchanged, indeed, for liquid
fire.—Morning Herald.
We extract from the Dublin Evening Post
a letter on the subject of the ejected Irish
tenantry.
" The struggles (says our Dublin cotemporary) to pos-
sess a patch of luud—the distraints, the ejectments, the
cantings of property, have led to the murders, burnings,
and the terrible outrages which have so long disgraced and
afflicted the South of Ireland." "There is not a single
proprietor in Ireland—provided no middleman stands be-
tween hins and the tenant, that digs' and, ditches in the
fields, who cannot, if he has no fear of the lighted brand
Which may be applied to his mansion, or the musket bullet
which may be lodged in his heart, in six mouths, clear his
estate of all the beggars on it." We know landlords—we
know one who is, perhaps, one of the greatest in Ireland,
on whose grounds the system has been adopted—a man
not influeneed by political animosity—a man, we verily .
believe, above the feeling—and one, besides, who was for
a long time a resident. Yet this personage, merely from
a perception of his own interest—from the mere considera-
tion of making more pounds, shillings, and pence of his
lands than he coukl do under the ancient plan, has adopted
the principle—and is acting vigorously upon it—of con-
verting his large possessions into large farms, and turning
the pauper population adrift. The plan, in fact, is adopt-
ing every where. In every place where it could be at all
put in practice the tenantry are ousting."
Our Dublin Cotemporary asks—" Is a whole
population to be made the sport of a cruel expe-
riment—is it to be excited to the brink of insur-
rection, nay, into actual rebellion, because, at the
eleventh hour, the Irish landlord has discovered

that spade husbandry is bad, and that his lands
would produce more .rents and be better paid
under a new and more improved system ?" We
answer yes. The Irish landlords may cover the
field of Ireland with the bones of their tenantry

if they please, and there is none to say them
nay. We have again and again said and repeated
that the Government of this country is exercised
by an aristocracy—that in England the aristo-
cracy is controuled indirectly by public opinion,
but that in Ireland there is no controul whatever

--that a pure aristocracy, call it Irish, or West
Indian, or what you please, is of all modes ol
Government the most cold-blooded and relent-
less. The English would not , suffer any of
themselves to be the victims of such inhumanity
as that to which we allude, but they will not
only look oh with indifference while the
Irish are offered up a sacrifice to the avarice
of their landlords, but furnish the landlords
with the means' by which they can give effect
to their purpose.- If Ireland had,not been'united
to England, the instinct or self-preservation, and
the interest of the tyranny, which is dear to them,
Would have taught the Irish landlord to prevent
the growth of an excessive
.population, just as a
similar interest teaches the Hungarian or Polish
Lord.to prevent 'his serfs from outgrowing his
means of controul. But the Irish landlord knew
that he could command English bayonets, and
he became, in consequence, the most reckless of
all tyrants.. He could follow every impulse with
impunity—,-encourage breeding when it suited
101; and disperse the wretches and fire their
cabins, with as little concern as a man disperses
the tenants of a Tookery, when his wants require
that he should cut down the timber. It is use-
less to talk of nations having a right to exist.
The Irish are not considered as a nation. The
property of a nation belongs to a nation, and in
countries occupied by nations, property is re-
spected, because it is for the interest of the pa,.
ton that it should be so. But in Ireland, the
people pot being a nation, are respected or not
respected, just as it is for the interest of the
holders of property that they shogld be so: It
has been said by Pope, after -Leibnitz, that all
partial evil is universal good. The question,
why evil exists, has always been one of the most
pcAing iii the whole field of religion and morals.
But a pious man, ia.4,§qed that evil ought to
exist, would say that Ireland is the scape-goat
for Europe,--that, for some inscrutable reason,
the people of that country are selected by Pro-
vidence for-an example to Europe, to warn the
nations against the horrid evils that follow in the
train of pure Aristocraey,—Mormng Clirpnzcle.
It will be seen by an extract in another co-
lumn from the Allgenzein.e 2eittcng, that the no-
tice contained in the Gazette de France pf Sun-
day, which we gave yesterday, was merely a sum-
mary of the more detailed and authentic state-
ment of the Austrian- Journal. This, in itself,
is a remarkable fact ; 'for the Gpzt'(fr de France
would not haveomitted the most important parts
of so remarkable an article, if it had not'consi-
dered the information which they conveyed as
more necessary.for the Government than for the
people, taking it as a guide for the one, whilst
it would only prow: A source of alarm to the
other. The public have been all along aware
that the Treaty of Alliance of the Gth of July
was not agreeable to Austria; but they did not,
perhaps, expect so
:decided, or, at least, so early,
an indication of her sentiments ; for, consider-
ing the state of the press in Austria, we cannot
look on a political article in any of the Journals
prii-4ed in that country as expressing any thing
but the will of its Government, Those who
had rumour from- what they fear," observe,
that by tier I4mgarian dominions Austria is
brought almost in contact with the Russian army
of the Sppth ; and in-the event of any advance
of the latter, to could form a junction with the
Turkish forces in a nry few days. They re-
mark also; that her troops in that quarter have been
silently receiving reinforcements for a consider-
able time, apparently in coptemplation of their
service' -104 called for in the struggle which,
from the concin...t theYorte, they shortly anti-
cipate. Nor do they he4tate. ):2"ute that
conduct principally to secret assurances that
Turkey will receive support in her determination