The Sun. — 1844-03-27 (London, England)

ROBERT. PEEL to Protestant intolerance in Ireland. If it really be true, as the Mail so cOnfidentlyinsists, that the Prettier has come to the determination of promoting no more bigots in the Irish Church, he has taken by far the wisest stcipthat either he or any of, his Colleagues have tak9n, since their entrance upon office. To show favour to such of the clergy only as shall "consent to support the national system of education," is to reward the liberal and the meritorious, to place a check on the arro&nce and assumption of priestoraft, and, by so doing, to lay the foundation of a sound, tolerant, practical, educational system in Ireland. Protestant and Catholic have too long been instructed apart from each other ; they have too long been taught to regard each other, with feelings of distrust and jealousy just as if both were not members of the great Christian community ; and any attempt, on the part of Sir ROBERT PEEL, to do away with this line of demarcation, to repress this odious spirit of party, to introduce more charitable feelings, and set the warm springs of sympathy flowing in a fuller and stronger stream—any' such attempt as this, we say, deserves the approbatien and support of every honest and enlightened man in the kingdom. It is much to the credit of the late Government that they, were the first to project -this , improvement in the Irish system of education; and we do hope to - see it actively , and ener=. getically followed up by, the present 4inistry, for it is a reform that 'cannot fail to bring blessings in its train, and tend greatly—and this at no distant'period—to put a stop to those party strifes, those unworthy feelings of estrangement between Catholic and Protestant, that 'have so long been- the curse of the 'sistercountry. We are, however, by •no means so firmly persuaded as is the Dublin Evening Mail, that Sir ROBERT PEEL has come to the determination to promote no Irish clergymen hut such as 'Will support the national system of education.. We can only, hOpe that that is true, which our Contemporary broadly declares to be 'a fact that admits of not a shadow of doubt.  The accounts from. Madrid; which are of the 19th inst., are Of the same frightful character. The journals in one column describe the moVeraents of the Court at Aranjuez, and in another the Wholesale murders committed in the prOvinces. It appears that hot less than thirty-five persons haie been shot for the insurrection. against a despotic Government at Alicant, and sixtyfi ve'pore are doomed to the same fate, without the seta:lance of ,a trial: RO,NCALI remained inactive bef(;)re' Carthagena, for the want, it is said, of heavy artillery. But with that he can dispense. He has only to bribe some half a dozen of renegade Spaniards,. as at Alicant, who will betray their -nearest friend's, and make him master of the place. France and England, who could check such scenes of horror, and who have so often interfered for political purposes, incur a heiyy responsibility by their cold-blooded indifference towards the fate of the unhappy victims.  * The Paris Moniteur of Monday publishes the following telegraphic dispatch from Africa:— "