The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-31 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

TA,TTERSALL'S.-THIS EVENING

Six O'CLOCK,

CHESTER CUP.

10 to 1 agst Semiseria
11 to 1 agst Obscurity
11 to 1 agst Cataract
14 to 1 agst Era
20 to 1 agst Winesour
33 to 1 agst Celeste
33 to 1 agst Queen of the Tyne
33 to 1 agst Portrait
40 to 1 agst Ould Ireland
40 to 1 agst Ratan
66 to 1 agst Fmg-a-ballagh.

DLEDY.

10 to 1 agst Alarm
14 to 1 agst Idas—taken
IS to 1 agst hedger
18 to 1 agst Clear-the-Way
18 to 1 agst Pam
25 to 1 agst Newsmonger
33 to 1 agst Mentor
33 to 1 agst Weatherbit
35 to 1 agst Old England
40 to 1 agst Cabin Boy
50 to 1 agst Fuzbos

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROH THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAS.
GLOBE.—We have inserted elsewhere the views of
a correspondent favourable to the proposed Maynooth
grant ; and we have no intention of excluding from our
columns any considerations which can fairly be urged
in its favour. At the same time, we must still be of
•opinion that neither is the proposed mode of pro-
ceeding such as can be satisfactory to the
public opinion of this country, nor its extent satis-
factory to those it is intended to satisfy. As to
the proposed mode of proceeding, we should very
much wish to be informed whether there is any pre-
cedent for a large and permanent public endowment,
'without reserving to the public any power of inspecting
or superintending its application ? The Roman Ca-
tholic hierarchy may please to assert its independence
of- any such jurisdiction, while it receives no public
aid. But the preponderant sense of the nation is dis •
tinetly adverse to every iwperium in imperio—to every
pretension, on the part of any communion, to borrow
the secular arm, or aid, without admitting the secular
authority. This was recently proved by the failure
of the Scottish Non-Intrusionists in their appeal to
the general opinion—so far as regarded their attempt
to set themselves above the power of the civil courts.
We are now told that the Irish Roman Catholic
Churchmen distrust the civil authority so completely,
that they will not take any grant at its hands, unless
the application of that gaunt is to be wholly removed
from its cognisance. Now these ecclesiastics may dis-
trust the State on party or general grounds. If they
distrust Sir Robert Peel's party so thoroughly that his
beaux yeux cannot win them to any other request
than Jaquas'—" I do desire we may be better
strangers"--.'e can only say it is a pity the chief of
such a -party should undertake permanent endow-
ment.s, though compelled to concede them, without
th. 4 slightest security for their right employment. If,
again, they distrust Government simply as Government
—simply because they claim that hierarchical indepen-
dence no country in Europe admits any longer, and no
country in Europe has rejected more signally than our
own—then Sir Robert Peel is sacrificing to his new-
born ardour of conciliation the whole moral conquest of
the last three centuries—the a hole decisive distinction
between the dark ages and modern times. Will it be
said that the Maynooth system has proved, in all points,
so unexceptionable as to warrant enlarging and stereo-
typing it, without any security for improvement,
and requiting the most declared distrust with the
most unconditional confidence i Will this be said ?
We shall wait to hear it said from the present
official benches. We shall wait to hear it said by the
lUrtnr colleagues of the Eldona and Percevals. Our
objections to the project are founded on no bigotry
against Roman Catholics. We object to it be-
cause (as hitherto advised) it appears to us based on
a false principle. It proposes to place public property
beyond public control,—to bestow (p,° tanto) an inde-
pendent footing, at the public expense, on a body of
men who refuse recognition to the authority which en-
dows them—who reject that control (which indeed it is
not made worth their while to acknowledge, but) the
acknowledgment of which every other Power in Europe
exacts in return for patronage of any body of men en-
trusted with the discharge of any public function.
STANDARD.—We have copied from yesterday's
Examiner an excellent article upon the subject of the
trial, conviction, and punishment of the miscreant
Tawell. •We hope that the reasoning of this article will
not be without its just influence upon the minds of all
who may be called to act as judges or jurors upon the
trial of similar cases. The Examiner has at least
satisfied us that the murder of Sarah Hart was
suggested by the monstrous acquittal of a party prose-
cuted not very long ago upon a charge in all respects
similar. Let us, however, protest against the Examiner's
injustice to an amiable and able man, Mr. Fitzroy
Kelly. Mr. Kelly's speech was a weak speech, be.
cause his case would afford no better to an honest
man—though a dishonest advocate might• very easily
have made a stronger case, and a more efficient speech.
Thf re have been, we will not say that there are, men at
the bar who could have at least raised a doubt, by sug-
gesting hypotheses, which, however, one instructed
in the case must know to be false. It is, however,
strange, as it may seem not improbable, that Mr.
Kelly believed his client possibly innocent. The
most acute minds are often the mcst apt. to mislead
themselves, and in the belief that his client might be
innocent he would not resort to a line of defence
suited only to a desperate case—if indeed such a man
as Mr. Kelly could bring himself to the attempt to
shield a criminal in a clear case of guilt. An
honest lawyer avail himself of every point
of law in favour even of the worst offender ;
he will put forward even, in the case of such an offender,
all the truth that can seem to bear favourably on his
case ; but he will not pervert the truth, or suggest what
he knows to be false, even in the case of a mm whom he
believes to be innocent. An honest lawyer was, how-
ever, the advocate for Tawell, and, therefore, Mr.
Kelly's was a weak speech.

Sir Robert Peel arrived in town this morning, from a
visit to her Majesty at the Isle of Wight.
A Cabinet Council was held at half-past two o'clock
this afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street.
Most of the Ministers were present.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

_The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
Messengers from the Commissioners of Poor-laws, the
Board of Ordnance, the Commissioners of Bankruptcy,
the Bank of England, and other Boards and public
establishments, brought to the bar the usual returns.