The Sun. — 1836-10-26 (London, England)

HEINE BROTHERS.  NEWSPAPER commenced this day The publication of .Tus Su. st Three o' Clock. at 10 minutes  ~~~ ~~~~ =;_ y~/  _ 4  rT) --Yral  LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 183t7. It was our painful duty to lay before our readers yesterday, a :lamentable account of another tithe massacre in Ireland. The inferior agents of the law in that country have tak;tri their cue from Lord LYNDHURST, and his Tory compeers. The fierce spirit of hatred to Ireland which manifested itself in the Hereditary Chamber, 'has been practically exemplified and followed up by the murderous ferocity Qf the tithe police at Dunkerri n, as naturally as the cause is followed by its effect. No one pauses to inquire why these murders have been committed—no one asks who is to blame for the perpetration of these barbarous atrocities. All with one voice exclaim— The Lords ! the Lords ! .On their devoted heads rests the guilt of all the blood ;Aid' has been poured out like water in this unhallowed v,-arfare, and against them shall the avenger of blood cry, till the last drop be atoned for. When the House of Lords rejected the _Bill sent up from the Commons, which, though far from a complete measure of justice to Ireland, would have been a peace offering to that much injured portion of the empire, they well knew the direful consequences that would result from such rejection. They had made up their lordly minds to witness that state of things which could not fail to be produced by the insane attempt to enforce a law against which the feelings of a whole nation revolts. We say a. whole nation, for the number, even of Protestants, vho voluntarily pay tithe in Ireland, is so small that it is not worth mentioning as an exception. Experience had amply convinced their Lordships that the Irish people would suffer any privation, any hardship, any degree of misery which an inhuman law, and the still more inhuman wretches who set the law in motion, could inflict upon them, rather than submit to th,- payment of an impost, in itself the most unjust and oppressive that it is possible for the mind of man to concei ye, and rendered still more hateful, still more execrable, by the wanton cruelty exercised, and the innocent blooz; shed in attempting to levy it. They have no re-ach: on--no hope even of re-action—to plead in this case. They may go back more than half a century, and still find il.rostestant combinations existing in Ireland against For more than fifty years has opposition to this detestable tax been spreading among the Irish people. Has it, durin7 all that time, ever relaxed ? Never : so far from this, every succeeding year has seen its further extension. It has grown with the growth, and strengthened with the strength of Ireland, until, as we have said before, it embraces the whole mass of the population, both Catholic and Protestant. Every new scheme for subduing this popular feeling has only served to render it more inveterate. Every successive massacre of the Catholics has rivetted more and more their conviction of the unholy nature of the exaction, and their determination to resist it even to the death. And what degradation to a Christian Ch arch—what disgrace to the Christian religion itself—have the vain endeaYeurs to enforce the sacrifice of conscience occasioned ! Who that has the welfare of Christianity at heart—who that cai2s himself a Christian—but must recoil with horror from the awful spectacle of Ministers of that religion which ;sreathes peace and charity to all men, with their own ha,:zds shedding the blood of their fellow-creatures, rather than relinquish an imaginary right, to wring from them a few pence as a tribute to the ecclesiastical Mammon whos.:, rites they abhor. Merciful Heaven ! What a view docs this give of human nature—what a testimony does it afford of the truth of the Protestant religion, in its power over the hearts of its votaries—aye, of its chosen Ministers 1  The Paris journals of Monday contain no political news of importance. On the evening of that day a melancholy accident, attended with loss of life, occurredit in the Place de la Concorde, during the trial of e machinery for the erection of the Luxor obelisk. v stoat utanliinest in the form of triangular ladders