The Sun. — 1857-09-15 (London, England)

IRELAND.  DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING. THE IRISH SEPOYS.  The rabid outpourings of one or two Irish journals in the Sopoy interest have elicited a manly letter of repudiation from a Roman Catholic gentleman of position and influence in the county of Wexford. In a communication addressed to one of the local papers Captain Elmonde White, of Newlands, Ferns, thin writes :-"I read in your paper the extraote from the Nation and Demeercirrelative to the Indian mutiny. Thank goodness, unless as extracts, they were not likely to meet any one's eye in this part of the country ; and, thanks to Providence, the sentiments there attributed to the Irish people are known in this country to be utterly false. But may not such statements can e alight mistakes elsewhere, and shall we risk the chance that in any portion of the world even a few of our people should suffer under the false imputation of rejoicing in the horrors to which our countrymen and countrywomen in India have been subjected—or that the demonlike acts of the Sepoys meet the approval of even one individual in Ireland f We are in this country, in many occasions, extremely susceptible as t the fact of the deeds of our army and navy being mentioned as deeds of the English and not the British army and navy, and we take every opportunity of pointing out how freely II ish blood has been (and I trust ever will be) poured out for the nation's safety and glory—and-in this we are right. But are we only to-assert our claims in prosperous times f Would it not be fairer and wiser now to take our station by the stde.ot England, and do it in a public manner ? There is a'sutmcription on foot for the sufferers ; it is true we may all send our mites separately, and such might de very well under other circumstances ; but, as it is, would it not be possible and well to get up some public subscription, or at least arrange that subscriptions should be sent to some one person, and then alt together forwarded by the Lieutenant of the County, the very -smallest- sum being considered acceptable ? And, on the whole being forwarded, let it be accompanied by a public statement that the people of this country are prepared in every way to stand side by side with England in putting down and punishing these miscreants. If this could be done other counties would take it up, and we should then not only hare given the public lie to such statements as you extracted, but we should have the proud feeling that, as we were ready to perforce the duties demanded of us by both loyalty and humanity in the day of misfortune, we should have an undoubted right to assert our claims to the glory which as it ever has, assuredly follow the British array on ladian soil ; and never had that army a nobler cause, and never ( n defiance of Nation and Donlorat, I assert) had it more the universal prayer of Ireland for its success. With all her faults Ireland is a gallant nation, and where is there a man with a human heart but must look with horror on the murderers of women and chil dren, and wish ardently for their punishment lam going abroad with my child-Len for a few weeks; but, throwing out this hint (which I really do from downright indignation at the paragraphs you extracted), I feel confident there are people in this country more fitted than I am to carry it out, if it be coneidered right to do so."  After all, these el)ullitioris of disgust, however creditable to the writer, are but wasting of ammunition. There are not two doz persons in the island whose sympathies are with Nena Sahib or the other monsters of the Indian mutiny.