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me a villain,' and most liberally calls the Irish catholics by
the gentle name of 'idolaters'—Oastler and his men we will
have nothing to do with. Nor shall we ever combine with
those who talk of arming, and of using physical force or
shedding human blood. For ever abhorred by us be such
men and such ideas.

"In the fifth place, there are many, very many of the most
useful and valuable of our Irish agitators who do not by any
means go the length of the English radicals. There are
many opposed to universal suffrage—there are also many,
amongst whom I am one, opposed to the payment of the
members. I am therefore decidedly against any present
union with them.

"In the sixth place, it is impossible for any one in Ireland
to know how soon the English radicals may involve them-
selves in illegal conduct. 1 never will consent that we should
ally the cause of Ireland with any men over whose conduct
we cannot watch to take care that it shall be consistent with
law, and not obnoxious to a just Prosecution."

These various long winded reasons mean nothing
more than this, that Mr. O'Connell fears the English
radicals, after having failed in his attempt to become
their leader.

Look where we will, in fact, the power of the im-
postor visibly totters. How easily might all that re-
mains of the fabric of his influence be destroyed by a
little well-directed energy, on the part of the conser-
vative body !

CRIME IN IRELAND, AND ITS REMEDY.
(F;om the Dublin Statesman.)
Ireland is the dark spot upon the fair fame of Eng-
land. It is a foul reproach to her. What signifies
English power and English greatness in the esteem of
foreign nations—what signifies England's vast domi-
nion both by sea and land, while Ireland stands up to
taunt her, and to tell her, that though she had con-
quered half the world beside, she had gained little—
while Ireland's barbarism and multitudinous wicked-
ness remain untouched. Not a day passes but has its
own copious record of frightful atrocity. Our paper
this day'bears painful testimony to this statement; we
have here details of barbarism and cruelty and wicked-
ness that make the blood run cold. Is it. wonderful
that we almost doubt the evidence of our senses, and
fancy for the moment at least that we are living in
some remote South-sea island where the name of Eng-
land was never heard of, and no ray of Christ's reli-
gion had ever penetrated! Why does England's so-
vereign or England's government permit this? Is not
England able to conquer Ireland ? Surely she is ; but
she has not done so, to her shame be it spoken. Ire-
land is to this day but a half-conquered country, and
the barbarian divides it with the civilian. Is not this
a great sin which England has to answer for—is it not
one for which the Lotd will judge and visit ? We
think so. But it may be said, England has done her
best, and if she has failed to subdue Ireland by civil-
ising her, it is not her fault. Such a plea is absurd on
the face of it. If England bad tried her best, she
could not have failed; she must have succeeded. She
has failed most egregiously, and she has to answer for
it, just because she could have succeeded and did not.
The law of God is the only law of morals. This Eng-
land cannot, does not, dispute. But has she not ne-
glected most awfully to make this law known, and
bring it home to the Irish people. This we charge as
the great sin of her rulers, and against her because
she has abided by, and still abides by, such rulers.
Now Popery stands precisely in the light of God's
laws and God's truth. Popery shuts up the book of
*God's revealed Word, and gives the people in its place
laws which are not His. And observe, it is Irish Pa-
pists who commit all the crimes, and cause all the
trouble, and all the disgrace, both of England and Ire.-
land. Such being the case, we come at once obviously
to the fountain-head of the evil, when we come to Po-
pery. Now it might be presumed, if England were
anxious to remedy the evils of Ireland, that she would
never cease to work against, and would, if possible,
utterly destroy, this foul source of all sin and mischief.
This would very naturally be supposed; hut, shocking
to relate, such is not the ease. English rulers have,
on the contrary, entered into a league with the ac-
cursed thing, and are content to rule Ireland through
it, and be governed by it. What is the consequence ?
Every evil irtlreland is aggravated—her disorder is
increased—her crimes are doubled. The government
is administered for a faction, and through one; and,
worst of all, that faction is a Papist one! Our rulers
cry peace, peace, where there is no peace, and a false
case of improved morality is attempted to be made out,
by concealing crimes, by forbearing to. prosecute of-
fenders, or by pardoning them when convicted. But
all won't do. Irish morality has become a bye-word
and a'jest : the people are drunkards, and a man's life
will be sold readily for a day's drink. Murder stalks
abroad at noon-dav, and no man can trust his neigh.
bour. Have we not a' plain and just right, then, to
call upon England to remedy this hateful and horrible
state of things? Have we not a subject's right to de-
mand and insist upon it? Obedience and loyalty are
the duty of the subject, and he has a right in return to
look for protection and security. How many millions
of money has England cheerrnlly paid for negro eman-
cipation? Well, let her not think it too dear to ba-
nish Popery from Ireland at any price. And it can be
done. Not a doubt of it. Let the Queen take up the
matter ; let her ministers, let parliament. Let the
land be deluged with Bibles, and invaded by a noble
army of preachers. Tottering Babylon will then be-
come a heap of ruins, and the day-star of Ireland's
happiness will shine in the heavens. `This is not
poetry, or prose run mad, or mere flash, for the sake ofe
passing off, perhaps, a dull article. No ; we assert, as
we believe it to he, downright, sober truth, and we
shall not cease to urge it till we see the very thing in
operation, yea, and it will be accomplished. It will
certainly be accomplished, and that before long.

RELIGION v. RADICALISM

. (From Fraser's Magazine for September.)

In winding up our observations on the religious periodical
press, we must snake a very important remark—a remark
that demands the serious notice of the Ministerialists and
Radicals of the country: it is this—religion is on the side of
conservatism. With the exception of one solitary Dissenting
paper, the Patriot—and, it may be, another hole-and-corner
print—the religious newspapers of the country are the open
and uncompromising advocates of Conservative principles.
This is a most striking and impressive consideration. It is
the habit generally of Conservative statesmen, to base their
views on the fundamental and glorious principles of the Eng-
lish constitution—to advocate certain measures, because they
are calculated to lead to certain valuable results—and to re-
sist the encroachments of the fierce democracy, on the strong
grounds of an enlightened philosophy and ripe experience;
and these are tribunals never to be lost sight of in the adjudi-
cation of political measures. But it certainly must strengthen
the hands of the powerful opposition that now covers the as-
saulted liberties and menaced institutions of their native land,
to be assured that signal 'piety, as well as great talent, is en-
listed on their side; that the faith of millions, as well as the
prescriptions of the Magna Chartai sustain and side them ;
that the prayers of Christian men, as well as the resources of
gifted minds, are lifted up in averting the catastrophes that
are knowingly courted, or in ignorance hurried on, by reck-
less and unprincipled statesmen. The Dissenter must not
dare to look for his politics in the heart of his creed—the two
cannot coalesce, unless, like ropes of sand, by the force of
external compression. The dissenter must leave his religion
in his closet, or his chapel, or in any other sate lock-up,
when he goes forth in quest of political tight, or to advocate
the return of members that coincide with his political views.
Its presence at such a moment torments his conscience, re-
strains his tongue, and checks too strongly his liberal partia-
lities. His faith condemns his politics. and his politics are
barely impudent enough to invite the co-operation of his faith.
His vote and his Bible must never be stored together in the
same pocket. Hence, when Dr. Pye Smith went forth, with
the chivalry of a knight-errant, to vote for the ejected goose,
be took care, we understand, to purge every leaven of religion
out of his mind, and every page of his theological prelections
from his doublet together; and after the dire agony he expe-
rienced that morning, in endeavouring to silence an obstre-
porous conscience, and hush the protestations of Peter and
Paul. he mustered nerve enough to do what, for the honour
of Britain, very few ministers of Christianity would feel com-
petent to; viz., to make a speech in favour of the claims and
character of (proh Hoxton ! pi oh Homerton !) Joseph Hume!
Another proof of this fact, viz., the intense antipathy that
subsists between Christianity and Radical politics, is the
circumstance that, go where he likes for his religion, (and
we hope he goes to the Bible,) the Dissenter must go to those
cloacus of the age—those turpid puddles—the Dispatch, Weekly
Chronicle, Sun, Morning Chronicle, Globe, &c., &c. He
must drink at such fonts, or politically die. He has scarce
the shadow of a journal that combines his political views with
his religious principles. A Tory, or Conservative religious
newspaper, is harmony in utterance, and exemplified in fact,
nearly every day in the week ; but a Radical religious jour-
nal!—it is admirably illustrated by the mongrel fiction of the
poet:—
" Humane capiti cervicem pictor equinam
Jun,gere si velit, et varies inducere plumas
Uadique collatis rnembris, ut turpiter atrum
Desinat in piscem muliter Formosa superne,
Spectaturn admissi risum teneatis, amici ?
Credite, DISSENTERS, isti tabuli & fore NEWSPAPER:
Persimilem, cujus, velut tegri somnia, value
Fingentur species : ut nec pes nec caput uni
Reddatur formai. Pictoribus atque poets
Quidlibk audendi semper fuit tequa potestas.
Scimus, et hanc veniam petimusque damusque vicissim:
Sed NON UT PLACID'S COEANT IMMITIA, NON UT
SERPENTES AVIBUS GEMINENTUR, TIGRIBUS AGNE."

In proportion, it evidently appears, as a newspaper becomes
religious, it ceases to be radical. If Joseph Hume, Grote,
Wakley, &c., became enlightened and sober•minded Christi-
ans, the first would cease to vote "black white," or goad a
province of his country to rebellion; the second would make
his ballot-box a depository for subscriptions to some work of
humanity; and the last-mentioned sgueezeable personage
would stick to his lancet, pestle, and pill-boxes. It is impos
sible that the trio just enumerated could foment the treason
of Papineau, the insurrection of the Canadians, and minister
divers other parliamentary and Anchor stimulants to throw
oil the " baleful dominion of England," if they read, or,
reading, believed the maxim of an ancient book, " Let.
every soul be subject to the higher powers; for there is no
power but of God. Whosoever resisteth the power, resisteth
the ordinances of God." Our conclusion is a decided one—
that a Radical Christian is a nonentity : the two epithets can-
not be combined—they- partain to antagonist categories ; the
one must, of necessity, be the grave of the other. A Radical
or Ministerial religious newspaper is an equally impossible
phenomenon; as the one chmacter progresses, the other re-
' trogades, until the abortive attempt to unite discordant ma-
ter►als issues either in a purely Christian and Conservative,
or a purely infidel and radical print. The old English in-
ference is the right one.
'The altar is the prop of the throne, the prescriptions of a
sound faith, the foundation of the pandects of Runnymede.
The two alternatives are dissent, democracy, destructives,
voluntaries, and other cages of unclean birds; or the Esta-
blished Church and the constitution, true religion. and Con•
servative views.

O:CONNELL IN TEA RS.—ln his second letter to the people
of Ireland, Mr. O'Connell says—" When Lord John Rus-
sell argued against the ballot, went to my bed in sadness
and sorrow, and during a sleepless night—l may be laughed
at for the avowal—shed many and bitter tears!" '

A HINT TO OUR CLERGY.—The truth is, Sam, if a mi-
nister wants to be popular he should remain single, for then
the galls all have a chance for him, but the moment he
marries he's up a tree; his flint is fixed. then—you may de-
pend its gone goose with him after that, that's fact. No,
Sam, they ate the pillars of the temple, the dear little
critters.—.Slick's Sayings and Doings.