The Sun. — 1823-04-28 (London, England)

PRESS.] We have repeatedly given our opinion that the present state of discontent in Ireland was permanent and deeply rooted. Every day's intelligence from that distracted country confirms the impression. One great cause alleged for the evils that inundate Ireland has been the absence of a resident gentry. It unfortunately happens that Doneralle and its neighbourhood, infife county of Cork, now and for• some time 'past the scone of the most flagrant outrages, is 'also Oat where absentees are least knows►, and wirers there is a must wealthy and respectable resident gentry. Mr. Creagh (whose house was lately set in flames, and Hickey, his gardener, executed for the atrocious crime), is, we understand, an independent country gentleman, and, in his politics, liberal and favourable to the fair claims of the peasantry. The whole of that neighbourhood, in fact, is thickly inhabited by a rich and resident gentry. The influence of the Catholic clergy has been the fruitful source of constant declamation both in and out of Parliament. But even that much-deprecated influence is now fast loosening its hold. On a late occasion the clergyman of the parish of Done rails, the Rev. Mr. O'Brien, premised to exert all his influence, and have the arms of the peasantry delivered up by a certain night. Lord I)oneraile, we are informed, to facilitate this desirable object, prevented any of the patrols going round on that night, but not a single musket• was given in. That every exertion was used by the highly respectable individual who promised his aid towards the voluntary disarm►ing of his parishioners, there can be no doubt, but his best efforts failed. The influence of the Catholic Priesthood has disappeared in those districts, marked by nightly burnings and atrocities ; their exhortations have no longer any effect. The fact is, the population of Ireland has outgrown the antiquated code of proscription now in force ; it is too strong for the exploded Statutes ,framed to restrain it. Thee peasantry think the laws made not for them, but against them—not for their safety and protection, but to proscribe and assess them. They are a bold and determined race of men, fierce, and patient of any thing but injury. The isolated war now raging in Ireland is most dangerous and destructive ; it is not general enough to be immediately alarming, but it is most ruinous both in principles and coUsequences. 'rite truth is, that all ties in that country are loosened between the landlord and his tenant ; the latter now regards the forwiduble Captain flock as his best friend ; through him the peasant hopes to see tithes annihilated, and rack rents reduced ; his existence is one of misery under the present system ; and the desperate effort to ameliorate it (should it fail) costs him bat little regret. The exclamation of the Irish peasant at the gallows invariably has been, that he was about to die, and that others might follow, but thousands would. survive, ' and they were sworn to make the opposition to tithes and rack-rent triumphant, or perish also. This is the system► now prevailing in that country ; this is the origin of the still existing civil war ; for this habitations are set in  flames, and families murdered in their beds. Is nothing to be done to avert these horrors? Is Government to look coldly on, and no alteration whatever to be made ? Are the Orange faction to be perpetual ? Will the Legislature of Great Britain adopt n4thing to disarm the. prejudices of the Irish People ? Or, after bloodshed and contention are' exhausted, is England content to reign, like the savage Turk, amid the silence of the tombs, sooner than cease .to govern amid iniquity and oppression?