The Sun. — 1852-08-30 (London, England)

FRAN CE.  The Debata has the following article on Ireland :-" If ever Ireland should become English, it will ;be when it shall be occupied and colonised by the English; but so long as it shall be inhabited by the natives, le is probable that a fusion will be impossible. This antagonism between the two races is nowhere shows in suc h a striking manner as in the administration of justice. There is no country in which assassinations are so fri equent as in Ireland; but in the eyes of tae Irish to ki 11 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 out of that number only 260 ceuld he 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 themselvele to reprisals from secret societies. It is. moreover, know n 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 (Heated. Murder is, therefore, in the ()yea of Irishmen deprived of its character of moral crime; it is no longer anything hut 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 the world. We have an example of this in a trial w'e is now before the Supreme Court of the Unit€d Stetes. An Irishman who had fired a pistol at a landlord escaped to America. The English Government, by virtue of treaties, has claimed his extradition, and it is probable that it will be granted. But what has up to the present time delayed it is that the guilty man is an Irishman, Those Irishmen there are several millions of his countrymen in America who make corea"lnactaeurseeliwseidth, hainind. Zah Iriehmen have been already qaently have a righr, 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 Unit ed S tates a party of sympathisers in favour of the ranuelerer claimed by England. The fact of the or lee is not disputed; only it is - • wished to be coesidered as a political act, the expressions made u.e of in or according to b4pmseirtisca3 .as. an . he icelated act of a long drseett which conquest of Ireland, and in the COUfiiefitiOrioorfl itsn soil by the conquerors.' It is this uneetireniahahle hostility of races witch in Ireland juritis; all 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 stoney, 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 cnly 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 witnesses knew that if they had given any other evidence they would have subjected themselves to the danger of being shot. A curious example was lately given of that free-masonary which covers Ireland with an invisible and invincible network. A murder was committed in 'the open day on a Sunday daring 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 all 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 under such conditions."