be, at all disinclined to accept of. Jus to conclude (if we believe you), The blows inflicted, were not in- that an insane person has been

tended for him. There was, in fact, no offence against him; and though the honest indignation of the Doctor ought to have been tempered with more caution, we cannot help hoping that the offended party, when he has had time to cool, and to take all the he circumstances into consideration, will consult his generosity, rather than his resentment, and, according to the old and good maxim, not take that ill which was not ill

meant.

bestowing benefices; selecting Ministers of the Church; ordaining Deacons and Priests; laying on of hands at Confirmations, and doing all those things, which are committed with such awful solemnity to the hands of a Prelate of the Church.

It has been said in the Morning Chronicle and other newspapers,, that the Bishop has left the country, notwithstanding the bail to the immense amount of a thousand pounds! It is said that two tradesTo return to our subject; to men are the sureties! These two drop John and return to the Bi-tradesmen will hardly lose the five shop and the Soldier; the Old hundred pounds a-piece! Oh! Times of to-day again is still si- this is a pretty thing altogether. lent upon the subject. The New And where is the Soldier? What Times of yesterday, conducted by is become of him? We were told WALTER's late associate, DOCTOR that no bail could be got for him, STODDART, ascribes the Bishop's and that he was committed to conduct to insanity! Well said, take his trial! To take his trial! Old Boy! Well said, Old Doc- To be sure, he is, and the mittitors' Commons! But it did not mus must state his offence, too, occur to you, we suppose, that the of which, doubtless, Mr. DYER, insanity must have very recently the Magistrate, has taken care. taken place or (mind the or, Doctor,) that the Bishop must have been insane when he was raised we shall see!

However, we shall see all about this. Nous verrons; that is to say,

from the See of Ferns to that of In the mean time, let us take

Clogher. Only think, Doctor, what a defender of the Church you are,

another look, at the CONDUCT OF THE PRESS. We are well informed, that on Monday night,

when you disguise the name of the Bishop, and when you compel Sir WM. DE CRESPIGNY, in the

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House of Commons spoke of this however, has in this case as in all horrible affair, and said, that the other cases, when not deluded, public was very much indebted to been just. It has decided, that. the Statesman Newspaper. Now the STATESMAN has done its duty, let that public look into all the and we desire nothing further than Morning Papers of Tuesday; let that commendation. We desire that injured public look into those no praise; we have not performed papers; and it will find this our duty with pleasure, but really matter wholly suppressed; not a with a great deal of pain. We single word of it mentioned in any cannot but know how deep the one of those papers, any more affliction must be amongst numethan if Sir WM. DE CRESPIGNY rous persons connected with the had never opened his lips! Is this party; and though those persons dealing fairly with the public; is are, in all respects, utter strangers it dealing fairly by Sir WM. DE to us, it is impossible not to feel CRESPIGNY; is it dealing fairly sorrow for their affliction. But, by the House of Commons; is it on the other hand, are we to have dealing fairly by the rest of the no regard for public justice; for Bishops; and is not this press a the administration of that, without combination of men to get from the just and impartial administhe public, or from individuals, tration of which civil society is a riches by the means of suppress-disgrace to mankind and a curse ing truth, or circulating falsehood, to all those who live in it are we as best suits their purpose? to have no regard to this; and Only mind, the spirit of una- when we hear of a thousand nimity here! They were all of pounds bail, in such a case, and a mind. Could this have been appertaining to such a party, are except they had all been acted we to block up our memories; upon in the same sort of way. are we to think nothing at all of 'Here were two motives. The the case of Mr. CARLILE; of his first precisely the same as that fines, his imprisonment, his surewhich had produced their pre- ties for life, are we to think novious silence; and the second, thing of his wife, sent to a dunthat of preventing the public from geon with a child in her arms, in seeing their own baseness by that dungeon delivered of another keeping if possible the STATES- child; are we to think nothing of MAN from its eyes. The public, the imprisonment, the fine, the

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to think nothing of these, all imposed without even the imputation of moral offence, and only for impugning (we will say erroneously) a system of religion, one of the persons at the head of which, was this very Bishop! To hold our tongues in such a case would be infamous indeed; and would make us merit to be ruled, not with rods, but with scorpions.

sureties upon the sister: are we public to witness its conduct. In another part of our paper will ́ be found (taken from the Morning Chronicle of to-day) a letter addressed to Mr. BUCHE, who, it appears, is now a Judge in Ire land. The letter has not a signature to it, but the Chronicle is undoubtedly well satisfied as to the facts contained in that letter. We beg our readers to peruse that letter with attention; to make, as every honest man will, the case of Mr. BYRNE their own; to consider of the sufferings of that man; to consider what is due to him and his family; and then to reflect, that if the press in Ireland had then done its duty, that which we have now had to record might never have existed.

Thursday.

THIS subject, in its most interesting point of view, that is to say, as it throws light on matters connected with the administration of law and justice; this subject, taken in this light, will be fully treated of in the Register of next. Saturday. For essays at great length we have not room in our diurnal publication; but we have, we trust, done our duty towards the public in this case, and particularly by dragging forth the most

But, how must the Morning.. Chronicle lament, then, that it did not hasten to do its duty on Monday morning! If this paper had acted the part which the Morning Chronicle acted, the name of the offender would not have been known unto this day; and, as we verily believe, never would have been known at all. The article which had appeared in the Observer of the Sunday named nobody. That article had appeared but in one paper. The Morning papers, that noticed the thing at all, had abridged, mutilated, and disguised

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that article. Two of them, that full and unanimous cry against brace of true brothers, the Old the profligacy of those writers Times and the New Timés, sunk who administer to the brutal pasthe thing wholly in silence. So sions of the "lower orders,” by that, during the Monday, opera- circulating hints and inuendos tions would have been carried on tending to bring into hatred and effectually to prevent all exposure contempt their natural protectors. of the principal criminal, and on and guardians of the higher orthe Tuesday morning we should ders; tending to lessen in their have seen, in every one of these esteem all those whom it is their Papers, articles asserting that bounden duty to venerate; tendsome gross error had been com- ing, in short, to gratify their fromitted with respect to a Right ward dispositions by inculcating Reverend Prelate, originating in disrespect in them towards all some casual misnomer, or in some their betters, their pastors and thing or other that would have ap-masters; and thereby to produce peared plausible. And, on the in them a disregard of the laws Wednesday, we should have heard of GOD as well as of a paternal the same papers lamenting, with Government; and to bring them great sincerity, that one of their at last into a state, in which their contemporaries, the proprietor of lives would be forfeited to the a Sunday paper, had been so un- outraged ordinances of their counadvised and rash as to give heed try, and their souls turned over to to loose reports, having not the the Devil. smallest foundation in fact, respecting certain supposed misconduct of a most learned, venerable, and Right Reverend Prelate of the Church! Bless them! On the Thursday, that is to say, to-day, we should have heard them all open in full cry, just as if the game was in view; their voices different in tone, indeed; their manner of opening different; and different the loudness of their yell; but off they would have gone in

This is what we should have had on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, if the STATESMAN had not done its duty on Monday. The Old Times, always the worst amongst the bad, kept quite silent during Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. It endured our thumping for these three days as quietly as a woolpack. It seems to have been wishing to rival, in this passive quality, a pair of shoulders not very distantly con

nected with it. At last; but not the bird has flown; which he before, it has announced that the might not have done if the Morn

criminal has fled from justice. But, let us hear the old thing, and then remark a little upon what it says for itself.

ing papers of Monday had done their duty. This Paper can now tell us that this is a mitred reprobate. It can tell us about the An exposure of monstrous deman that was punished on his acpravity has taken place within count in Ireland.. It knows, now, these few days, all allusion to which all about the matter, but it could we have hitherto suppressed Mingled

feelings of sorrow, humiliation, and say not a word about it until disgust, have been in part the Thursday morning, though the causes of our silence; and the re

spect we owe to public decency might principal facts were stated in the still have induced us to persevere Observer of Sunday: and though, in our reserve, if we could have

thereby checked the horrible tale in it is perfectly notorious to every its progress to notoriety amongst body in London that that paper is all ages and both sexes, which we

fear it has already attained to. The conducted in a manner not to leave person accused of being the chief the smallest doubt of the truth of criminal-P. Jocelyn, Bishop of

The old hack can now exclaim,

Clogher-has, it is affirmed, for- those facts.
feited his bail, and quitted for ever
the country which his presence had
polluted. Bail in such a case! What
sum could be named which the

wretch would not have sacrificed?

too: "bail in such a case!" Yes, and you knew it on Sunday morning last as well as we did. If pretended scrupulousness, about indecency prevented you from narrating the facts; it could

We know not whether to rejoice or
grieve that he has fled from justice. your
We know not whether the trial of

not prevent, for the public has now seen that the whole case can be

such a criminal for such a crime, might not have cost more in the way of corruption, than even his death by law could have paid in the way of satisfaction to good morals. It is dreadful to remember, that a poor and perhaps innocent communicated to it with perfect man was sentenced to transportation fidelity, and yet without a single from his country, on the oath of this

mitred reprobate, for only threaten-hint to give offence to the most ing to charge him with that of which fastidious delicacy; this could not he now stands (by his flight) confessedly convicted. It is more dreadful to think how the church of God has been scandalized and disgraced.

Thus, as the public will see, the Old Times can speak, when

have prevented you from giving a faithful account of the transaction, quite sufficient to answer all the purposes of justice and fair dealing; but if, after all, you found yourself so stupid, so wholly des