The Sun. — 1852-08-31 (London, England)

THE SUN,  FRANCE. The Debats has the following article on Ireland : " If ever Ireland should become English, it will be when it call be occupied and colonised by the English; but so long as it shall be inhabited by the natives, it is probable that a fusion will be impossible. This antagonism between the two races is nowhere shown in such a striking manner as in the administration of justice. There is no country in which assassinations are so frequent as in Ireland; but in the eyes of the Irish to kill a landlord is not a crime, because in general he is either a Saxon or a Protestant. We lately read that in the space of twenty years nearly thirteen thousand persons had been brought to trial in Ireland, on charges of murder, and that oat of that number only 260 could be convicted. This was not owing to the facts not being clear to every one, but because juries could not be found to return a verdict of guilty. Either the jurymen, therefore, morally and tacitly absolve murder, and only regard it as an act of legitimate revenge, or they fear, by condemning the murderers, to expose themselves to reprisals from secret societies. It is, moreover, known that, according to the English laws, juries must deliver their verdicts unanimously, so that it is only necessary for the prisoner to have one friendly voice for the ends of justice to be defeated. Murder is, therefore, in the eyes of Irishmen deprived of its character of moral crime; it is no longer anything but a political act, which is to be judged in a political point of view. This feeling is so inherent in them that they carry it with them into every country in the world. We have an example of this in a trial which is now before the Supreme Court of the United States. An Irishman who had fired a pistol at a landlord es caped to America. The English Government, by virtue of treaties, has claimed his extradition, and it is probable that it will be granted. Bat what has up to the present time relayed it is that the guilty man is an Irishman, and there are several millions of his countrymen in America who make common cause with him. These Irishmen have been already naturalised, and consequently have a right of voting, and, as the presidential election is rear, the candidates seek for Irish votes at any price. There has been thus formed in the United States a party of sympathisers in favour of the murderer claimed by England. The fact of the crime is not disputed; only it is wished to be considered as a political act, or according to the expressions made use of; in America ' as as isolated act of a lee;r, drama which has its origin in the conquest of Ireland, and in the confiscation of its soil by the conquerors.' It is this unextinguishable hostility of races which in Ireland justifies all the acts of violence which are called agrarian crimes, and all the insurrections against the laws. During the last elections there was a disturbance in which the soldiers, being pelted with stones, were obliged to fire in self-defence. An inquest was held, and although it was clearly proved that the soldiers did not fire until driven to the last extremity and only in self-defence, a number of witnesses came forward and swore that they had fired without any provocation, and the justice of the peace and six or eight of the soldiers have just been committed by the Coroner_ to take their trials for voluntary homicide. The ee witnesses knew that if they had given any other evidence they would have subjected themselves to the d angetrhotf being shot. A curious example was lately givenoy a free-masonary which covers Ireland with an invisible. and invincible network. A murder was committed in the open da on a Sunde during the celebration of mass. The murderers being pursued by the police, took refuge in the church. The chief of the police thought himself sure of being able to recognise them as they were in their shirt sleeves, but when he entered the church, he soon found himself compelled to abandon his search, as ell the men had thrown off their coats; they were all in their shirt sleeves, and jeered at the police. Ordinary justice is impossible in such countries, and ander such conditions.'