The Sun. — 1839-10-10 (London, England)

NANGLE—and having wound up the Lords, so that they were ready to believe anything of the unrelenting, persecuting Catholics, the Noble Earl concluded his harrowing statement by saying, that in the meantime, before Lord MORPETH had listened to the complaints of the Protestants, one of the witnesses whose evidence he had quoted, Mr. REYNOLDS, was murdered in Achill." There was a thrill of horror in the assembly, and a corresponding thrill of horror in the country, when the speech was read, and nobody had the smallest doubt that the witness REYNOLDS was murdered by the Catholics to get rid of his testimony. We had no doubt ; other persons had none ; and the Monthly Chronicle very naturally adopted the same opinion  " Before the conclusion, his Lordship made a long statement about the Achill mission; and intimated that Mr. Reynolds, a Protestant officer in the Coast-guard Blockade, had been murdered in consequence of the evidence which he had given before a Committee of the House of Lords."  But the Earl of RODEN, according to the report in HANSARD, said nothing about the death of REYNOLDS being the consequence of the evidence which he had given ; he most cunningly left it to be inferred, and created the impression on the minds of his hearers without saying it, just as Sir ROBERT PEEL, in the debate on the Irish Coercion Act, told a horrid tale of a murder committed in Ireland twenty years before, omitting the date, and induced his hearers to believe that it was perpretrated subsequent to the passing of the Reform Act. The Monthly Chronicle gives the following explanation of the case "In reference to this statement and the insinuation it contains, we refer the reader to the Monthly Chronicle for April last, in which the whole case and the result of the trial of Lavelle, the imputed murderer of Mr. Reynolds, is given ; by which it will be seen that Mr. Reynolds broke into Lavelle's house at night, attempted, without the slightest provocation, to take his life, and was killed in the scuffle' which ensued. The accused, therefore, was not only fully acquitted, but the friends of the deceased unanimously declared that the man was fully justified by the circumstances and the necessity of self-defence. So much for one of Lord Roden's special facts."  Such is an illustration, we believe, of nine-tenths of what is called evidence on the state of Ireland. One man, like the pious Lord RoDEN, creates an impression which he knows to be false. Another person, like the writer of the Monthly Chronicle, asserts, from the impression, that Lord RODEN said what he only implied. Contradiction is given and retorted, and truth is wholly obscured amidst a world of fine writing and thorough-bred oratory. Such exaggerations, and such contradictions, pervading the whole mass of the evidence given concerning Ireland has disgusted us, and, we believe, has disgusted the bulk of the English public, with the subject. We cannot conclude without observing that the Earl of RODEN is imperatively required to clear up this case. He either knew that Mr. REYNOLDS lost his life in the manner described by the Monthly Chronicle, and was not murdered, or he did not. If he did not, he was culpably remiss in alluding to the case in the manner he did, till he had ascertained the fact ; if he did, in asserting that Mr. REYNOLDS was murdered, he knowingly told a palpable untruth ; and told it for a base and wicked purpose. Such conduct, in our opinion, in a Nobleman and a legislator, is a greater crime than many of the crimes for which men suffer the penalties of the law. Lord RODEN, from, a regard to his own character, must prove that the case, as stated in the .illoirthly Chronicle, is entirely erroneous, or he must lie under the heaviest imputation that can be thrown on any gentleman. At present he is accused of having knowingly made a false assertion in the House of Peers in order to excite a sentiment of hatred against his Catholic countrymen. Can anything worse be said of a Noble Legislator ?  • The notice we have copied from the Manchesia'. Guardian, of the reception given by Lord