The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-19 00:00:00

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LONDO.V, MONDAY, JULY 19.
Tim Houses of Lords and Commons met on Satur-
day to carry some bills through their stages, the
ab.enee of a bishop in the former to read prayers occa-
sioning a delay in forming a house of two hours.

lv oar Irish fellow-subjects often cause us annoy-
ance, they also supply us with amusement. Thanks
to the leaders of the repeaters, the ridiculous shares
with the fearful in Iris% affairs. A ludicrous contro-
versy on the subject of begging plices from the much-
abused " Saxons " is at present raging between the
Old and Young Irelanders. The dispute was com-
menced by the latter. At the meeting of their
monthly club, which they have pompously called the
" lash Confederation," they proposed to enact a
species of "self-denying ordinance" for the future
representatives of the repeal party. They declared
that no candidate for parliamentary honours should
have their support who was not ready to pledge him-
self that he would neither ask for others,nor accept for
himself, a place from a ministry opposed to repeal.
This was putting the repeal principle to a terrible
test. The Old Icelanders, with Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL
at their head, denounced the resolutions, and con-
tended with no small zeal for the inalienable right of
Irish patriots to beg and accept places. They had no
idea of the loaves and fishes being withheld from
them.
By this controversy, the mingled weakness and
folly of the repeal party is most significantly exposed.
When a cause is radically hopeless and entirely im-
practicable, even men of sense and talent cannot give
it dignity or grandeur. We see in the case of the
repeaters what a vain and obetfnate party become
when men of feeble talents and few resources seek to
make wrong principles prevail. Both sections of the
repealers are by this controversy placed in a position
equally ridiculous.
First, supposing that the proposition of the Young
Irelanders was acted upon, what would be the result?
Simply that an additional share of power would be
possessed by the imperialists in Ireland. Nor is that
all. When we recollect that the repeal members (so
called) are most of them catholics, and represent
catholic constituencies, the effect of withdrawing all
patronage and influence from their hands would he to
give additional vigour to the social ascendancy of the
protestants. At present the protestants vastly pre-
junderate in all the departments, as well on the
dicial and magisterial benches as in all the offices
connected with the executive. Damming up the chan-
nel through which patronage and office might reach
the catholic population can only confirm that ine-
quality between the protestants and catholics which
the best friends of Ireland have desired to remove.
Secondly, the Old Irelanders have, in this
controversy, shown the hollow structure of their
party. In the excessive eagerness with which they
have vindicated the right of place-begging and place-
getting, they have unconsciously betrayed their
condition. What a spurious repeal party they
are ! They yell against England, bat they
roar for her pay. They denounce the Saxon,
but implore him to salary them. They vitupe-
rate the ministers, whom they solicit to confer
*ces on their brothers, and cousins, and needy
friends. Miss MARTINEAU, in her "Travels in
America," has eloquently recorded her indignation at
the political insincerity prevalent amongst a certain
class of American public men." She rebukes "those
sinners of the rostrum!' who, deriding the democracy
in private, exhibit the most abject subserviency in
public to its capricious decrees. We are afraid that
the. Yankee politicians alluded to are surpassed in
political double-dealing by many of the Irish re-
peaters.
The principle of this " repealer's self-denying or-
dinance " was sought to be carried out at the recent
election for the county of Cork. Mr. DENNY LANE,
a prominent member of the Young Ireland party, made
it a test for the repeal candidate. Several repealer*
(so called) implored Mr. LANE not to press his reso-
lution. They quaked at the loss of anticipated places
under " a vile Saxon government." Mr. Lore, how-
ever, persevered ; the candidate (Doctor Powell)
appeared to swallow the unpalatable pledge with a
wry face, and seemed likely to disgorge it on the
hustings. A correspondence, however, ensued be-
tween the parties, in which the candidate committed
himself to Mr. LANE'S ordinance. Meantime Mr.
JOHN O'CONNELL declared war against the anti-
place-begging resolutions. He claimed Dr. POWER
as an Old Irelander, and stated that " Dr. Fowles
distinctly intimated to him that he refused to take
the pledge "—a declaration which seems "passing
strange " after the published correspondence, in
which Mr. LANE very skilfully fastens the candi-
date to the offensive pledge. The new member for
the great county of Cork (the gentleman e
to fill O'CoNNELL'S place!) makes very awkward
deka in parliamentary life. He is a declared " Old
Wander "—seeundurn Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL ; but
he is also secundum Mr. DENNY LANE, pledged to
Young Ireland's " Repeal self-denying ordinance!"
But in spite of all the absurdity and mischievous
policy of the discordant repeaters we rejoice to find
that the electors are acting upon the principles we
urgently recommended to their notice. They are in
several places rejecting the candidates with extrava-
gant national pretensions, and preparing to support
honest men attached to the feasible principles of ra-
tional liberalism. We think that there is reason for