The Sun. — 1838-06-18 (London, England)

LONDON: MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1838.  The Times of this morning is extremely anxious that the affairs of Ireland should be looked at as a whole. That is what we wish ; but our Contemporary, after breathing forth this desire, apparently only to pass sentence of condemnation on its own remarks, immediately turns to consider merely the influence of DANIEL O'CONNELL, and the use he makes of it. The important question why DANIEL O'CONNELL is able to get up agitation when he pleases— why EMMET, and TONE, and HoLT could organize a re bellion and collect armies—why GRATTAN and CHAItLEMONT in their day were as powerful nearly as O'CONNELL —and why Ireland has never been without its Captain ROCKS and its DANIEL O'CONNELLS, since Ireland was connected with England, is entirely and wilfully cast aside. That would be looking at Irish affairs and at Ireland as a whole ; and that neither the Tines nor any of the Tories ever dream of doing, because it condemns their arrogant and insulting conduct. It is supremely ridiculous in Statesmen and public writers to look only at O'CONNELL'S influence, and never inquire into its cause. His eloquence must be superhuman if he can sway unwilling hearts ; but the fact is, that his countrymen, always outraged, always insulted, and always trampled on, under one miserable pretext or another— for when did a tyrant fail to find a pretext for his tyranny ? —are always ripe for rebellion and ready to follow any leader who promises them redress or vengeance. IVe should like to see the man, however gifted, who was able to stir up the Bench of Bishops to rebellion, or capable of convincing them that they were a much mis-used and longsuffering race, patient in tribulation, to whom it was a dis grace and a dishonour to acquiesce in the insults and injuries heaped on them by the law. To move them from their well-assured ease, and well established power, a far mightier than O'CoNNELL might try in vain. It is not his eloquence then, but the injuries and insults which Protestant England has heaped and continues to heap on his countrymen, which is the source of his power. The soul of Irish agitation is English tyranny. Looked at as a whole, Ireland offers the spectacle of a nation continually misused by another, first from rapacity, or mere blind prejudice and anger, such as are common to all men in a half savage condition, and then on the wretched pretext that to misuse it was necessary for the social welfare of the whole. She offers us the spectacle of continually triumphing by one quiet civil victory after another over her oppressor, who still persists, in spite of experience and in spite of a succession of deep and mortifying. defeats, in fastening on her every badge and sign and fetter of his own unholy wrongs. The great and chief link still remaining is the Protestant—oh, how unworthy of the name !—Established Church ; and they  whom the Catholics defeated in 1829, persist in 1838 i❑ denying them municipal franchises, in order to rivet, if possible, a few years longer this insult on the Irish. Their conduct looked on as mere worldly prudence or policy, after so much experience of its mischief, is unspeakably contemptible ; looked at as a question of morality it is indescribably wicked. To take worldly wealth from the Catholics, and give it to the professors of their own religion, they keep in the ground the roots of sedition and rebellion, which through all the last century have continually produced a frightful crop of bloodshed, murder, and all imaginable horrors. But turning from this view as a whole, the Times and the Tories fix on Mr. O'CoNNELL'S inflnence as a -trange and inexplicable phenomenon, and with as much folly as those who in former times believed that comets shook.—  -From their horrid hair Pestilence and war. They ascribe all the e%ils of Ireland to