The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-05 00:00:00

whom the sufferers IoA It to with particair
and habitual respect, we learned that they had
already made earnest application to General Tor-
rijos, to exert himself ffir their relief, expressing
the utmost confidence in his sympathy and com-
passion. We are sure, therefore, that any com•
mittee of that brave officer's choice, would be to
these unfortunates a guarantee for the judgment,
integrity, and discrimination, with which their re-
spective wants would be considered. If this state-
ment should meet the eye of the gallant Spa-
niard alluded to, we trust that he will not suffer
any over-scrupulous taste for retirement to inter-
fere with the promotion of an object which must
be precious in his eyes on grounds both of na-
tional and universal charity. Another benefit
which might result to the refugee soldiers from such
an interference of General Torrijos for their suc-
cour, would be the perfect recollection which,
no doubt, the Duke of Wellington possesses of
the eminent military services rendeted by him
under his Grace's own command—the conse-
quent esteem which the Duke must entertain for
his character, as well as sympathy for his per-
sonal sufferings, and respect for his recommen-
dations on behalf of poor distressed fellow-sol-
diers. In the mean time, no notice seems to
have been bestowed on our supplication relative
to nightly shelter ; or on that which we indi-
rectly addressed to official persons, that these
worn-out men might have leave to rest their
bones on the pavement of an empty and useless
barrack. They have now no place to (lie in but
ditches or streets.—lbid.

A correspondent informs us of a new insur-
gent chief having arisen in the county of Clare,
under the mime of Terry Alt. This formidable
personage is an Agrarian " Le,_cislator" upon
the Rockite principle—that is, the rapid and
energetic principle of nocturnal burning, murder,
and intimidation. What exploits he has yet
performed to make his name terrible we arc not
told, but it appears considerable alarm exists
about the peasantry enlisting under his banners
and becoming Terry Alt-men. There ought to
Sze no alarm of the sort, if half of what we were
told of the tranquillizing consequences of con-
ceding the measure of " Catholic Emancipa-
tion" had been true. We were told that mea-
sure would be equivalent to the " pacification of
Ireland ;" that the fuel on which the flames of
agitation were fed would be removed ; and the
expense of governing by an army saved to the
empire. Many persons stho had been originally
strenuous opposers of a measure which went to
allow Roman Catholics to legislate for the Church
of England, although they would not permit
any Protestant power to legislate for their own ;
many persons, we say, who would not at first
consent to this " one-sided reciprocity" of " free
trade" in religion were eventually induced to ac-
quiesce in the " breaking in upon the Constitu-
tion," in consequence of believing the state-
ments made both in Parliament and the Press
of the vast saving of expellee which was to ac-
crue to the nation from converting the declaimers
of the " Catholic Association" into the Legisla-
tors of the British people. One paper, which calls
itself the " leading Journal of Europe," if we
recollect rightly, fixed the amount of saving at
four millions annually. According to the same
oracular authority the army in Ireland was to be
immediately reduced ; and, indeed, the country
was forthwith to enter upon a sort of political
millenium. Any man who had the hardihood
to express a doubt of the infallibility of such
predictions was laughed to scorn—he was sneered
at by the Solomons of the Press, or coughed
down by the Solons of Parliament. The " con-
cessions" were granted to a fuller extent than
the most sanguine champions of the cause
could, a few months before, by any stretch of
political faith, have possibly anticipated. How
has Ireland been since governed ?—without an
army? or an army considerably reduced ? The
expense of a single soldier has not been saved
to the nation. The old factions still continue to
distract the country, and new ones spring up
under the circle of discord, and preserve the
reign of terror and barbarism. Where sleep the
energies of Government all this time ? The
Rockite banditti have extended their sanguinary
operations into parts of the country which were
previously undisgraced by their crimes. Why
are not those Ishmaelites of the mountains
crushed at once ? Our correspondent says that
Terry Alt's " usurpation promises to be long
and turbulent, unless Mr. O'Connell and some
influential agitators oppose his career at an
early period." So the hope of protection is
not in the Government, according to this
account, but in Mr. O'Connell and the " in-
fluential agitators." If this be true, the security
of the peaceable part of the community rests
upon as frail a foundation as before the " heal-
ing measure" was carried. We do not allude to
that measure now in any spirit of hostility—but
we have a right to remind its advocates of the
pledges that were given, and we have a right to
demand that those pledges !should be redeemed.
They repeatedly assured the people of England
that the refusal of " Emancipation" was the sole
cause of the disorders of Ireland, and that the
measure would be no sooner granted than peace
and prosperity would follow as its. inevitable
consequences. Instead of that golden prospect
opening on our view, the gloom of the past pro-
jects its shadow upon the future. Every where
that disturbance prevailed before it prevails still,
and in roost places in a more malignant degree.
We wish it were otherwise ; but we cannot close
our eyes to the truth. Notwithstanding the
boon of Emancipation, the mass of the Irish
peasantry, in many parts of Ireland, seem to be
anxious for a servile war and wanting only a
Spartacus to lead them on. its to Mr. O'Con-
nell, he promises a new subject of popular ex-
citement and agitation on the question of the
" repeal of the Union." Where then is the
prospect of governing Ireland without an army,
and saving four millions to the nation as the re-
sult of her established peace and improvement ?
—Morning Herald.
• We have much satisfaction in being enabled
to state from public and private accounts, that
the state of Ireland is considered to afford cer-
tain evidence of progressive improvement. The
Viceroy, in the same sensible and conciliatory
spirit which dictated the denial to a somewhat ill-
advised application for the blessings of the In-
surrection Act to a provincial district, has put a
veto upon a piece of antiquated intolerance,
which has usually hitherto signalized the inau-
guration of the Lord Mayor of Dublin. We
'allude to the ridiculous and. offensive toast of the
Glorious Memory. It is difficult to the mere
English reader to preserve his gravity, when he
hears a convivial foolery treated as a matter of
national importance ; but in Ireland it is quite
another matter—there the obnoxious toast has
long been considered as the Shibboleth of a
faction heretofore dominant, but now, fortunately
for the general welfare, and in the end not less
fortunately for the individuals of . whom. it was
composed, rapidly sinking into insignificance.--