The Sun. — 1828-09-26 (London, England)

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.  We refer with pain, but no astonishment, to our Dublin correspondence of this day. The letter from Clonmel, if we had none but reasonable minds to deal with, might be left to work its own effect upon the public. It contains: a narrative of certain alarming proceedings in the chief town of the populous and powerful county of Tipperary. Many thousands of Catholics marched on Sunday last from various quarters of the county to the appointed rendezvous of Clonmel. The description of one brigade or corps of this multitude may serve for all of them. " The Cahir party arrived first, with band and colours, about 500 horse Men, all stout, able fellows, dressed in green uniform': they were followed by several thousands on foot, generally clothed in green jackets and pink .facings— white trousers with a green edge run up the thigh. They marched three deep, and kept time, like the soldiers, to the tune the band was plaNing. Then came the Ardfinnan men, &c. But the Clogheen men, it appears, were the most formidable. There were of them at least 2,000 horsemen, " for all the world like a cavalry regiment ;" and so the account goes on. Said we not truly some days ago, that the organization of the Catholics, though resorted to for a constitutional end, was convertible in a twinkling to purposes of direct warfare ? Why here was a strong corps d'armele regimented, clad in uniform, marching in column ; and one part of the account, which will be found in the body of the letter, states that there was a huge standard, bearing on one side the harp, on the other O'Connell and the King, who was graciously presenting:the demagogue with Emancipation. Thus was the single cause in which all this pomp and circumstance had originated kept religiously before the eyes of the people, as if all but one grand wrong, and one signal reparation, seas to be wiped from, the memory of Irishmen, lest the unity of the league —the main principle of its efficacy—should be disturbed in a moment of unstretched attention or of unstimulated feeling. What we mean to contend for is, that if the Government will not at once come forward with a candid declaration of their desire to appease the Catholics, the passions of the Irish people— Protestant as well as Catholic—will prove too violent to be withheld. Events will outstrip the lazy meditations of men who heed not the prelusive rocking of the volcano. Yet, even if their dreams be dissipated by the first explosion, and their power destroyed by it, what indemnity have we, the English nation, for the ruin of this noble empire, in the downfall Of its headstrong and stupid authors ? The irritability of the Catholic population of Dublin is proved by a circumstance which strikes us to have been quit: accidental. The Castle guard, on being relieved, marched, it seems, through Thomas-. street (the street, by the way, in which poor Lord Kilwarden was murdered during Emmet's brief rebellion, 1803), with their band playing the old Orange time of the Boyne Water. The fact is spoken of in the Dublin prints as being an outrage against the Catholics of the most unpardonable nature. We are perfectly persuaded that it was wholly fortuitous, although an accident which ought to have been averted by the commanding officer of the party, if he happened to have an ear capable of distinguishing one tune from another. The Catholics, however, were foolish, and worse than foolish, to take offence without ascertaining-that there was a deliberate intention to wound their feelings. - We venture to say, that no officer of the King's troops would he capable of affording them such au impolitic and malicious justification. ceoNsien,