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London, England, 1849-02-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, FEIJ. 12.
IT is difilcult to soy whether the airtime of Ireland
have been most mimed by the Irish and popular
party, for whose good they were inOltated, or by the
several governing partite of the empire who Dave, by
turns, conceded, withheld, restricted, exaggmated,
and onaprombed those liberties, according as the
humour of the times or their own interests required.
Take all the eminent men of the three aristocratic
parties in tle.co state, and you will find that they have
all battled and stickled for Irish liberties at certain
periods of their career, merillesd and made light of
them at others. Irish liberty is a shuttlecock, at
which the big boys of St. Stephen's Chapel have
played time out of mind. blab liberty is the most
convenient plaything or weapon in the whol? armoury
d parliamentary pastime. When a inintstry is in
the height of arrogance and power, it is a good
spear so at them, or lay so that they may tumble
ever it. a ministry is weak, it has
a =smile= mace, wherewith to knoer :volat
their brains. Whig and tory have upset
each other with clamour, for abetting Irish treason,
or provoking Irish revolt, each party at the very time
laughing outright at the served and absurdity of
the very t which as its most powerful
weapon. °VII:: debates have we not had about
coercion bills, and Lichfield-house compacts ? What
dirt-flinging and vituperation between parties, which,
for all their wrath, had neither meaning in their
words, nor sincerity in their votes, and which by
their sephildry and hollowness, have rendered Irish
and English politico with regard to them, one
of the grows= systems of humbug that ever duped
two intelligent nations.
Nor have the Irish themselves been leas insincere,
lees ready to use their liberties for personal and party
aggrandisement, or to barter and suspend them as in-
trigue prompted at expediency dictated. O'Ccustnitt
indeed had, during the greater part of his career,
much higher aims; he understood agitation,
and what it was worth. He well knew the value of
Irish liberties, not for the peaceable development of
a =entry rieh in it
resources, but as the
means of wringing from English ascendancy bit by
bit of that full equality and freedom which English
prejudice will not part with, yet the refusal of which
maims English strength, and perpetuates Irish misery
and aversion. This sacred store of grievances, how-
ever, which O'Coicesu. would have hoarded and
turned to profit, Young Ireland has flung away.
Instead of coming, as in former years, to
parliament with the spectre of Irish dis-
affection and menaces behind them, to fright
the governing classes et England into conces-
sion, Irish violence in 1849 is a mockery—lrish tur-
bulence a farce. Ministers disdain even to think of a
concession to Ireland, artless the necessary measures for
preventing its electoral body from oxpinug of paucity
be considered a concession. The poor•law committee
is evidently a spar flung out to the sinking landlords.
But no real concession to Ireland is dreamt of this
year. The Irish party, indeed, have as little thought
of anything of the kind as the government. They
ask nothing, propose nothing. Their brains are as
empty as the ministerial portfolios. All they can
do is to perorate against the habeas corpus sus-
pension, without holding out an alternative or show-
ing the liberal English members how they can help
Imue4
For our part we think it of very little consequence
whether the Habeas Corpus be suspended or not in
Ireland for the next six months, except in so far as
that it is a very bad precedent. And indeed any
measure or ricirne, that would save Ireland from a
resuscitation of the tomfoolery of last year, must
be a gain even to Irish liberalism itself.
The House of Commons seemed, indeed, to feel this.
And the debate turned less upon Ireland, its liberties
or its wrongs, than upon the mutual recrimination of
the three aristocratic parties, each of which accused
the other two of having been as crooked, and incon-
stant, and inconsistent, and Ilishoneet, upon Irish poli-
tico as it was possible to be. It was a "'sachem and
Leckie scene, in which one Prime Minister accused
another of turning him out under false pretences ;
whilst the other excused the desertion of his princi-
ples by alleging that the Irish members had elan-
dolled theirs. We really can see no inference to be
drawn from these recriminatiene, except the casein-
mon, that no one is entitled to the ;wit credit when
speaking of Irish affairs. Ireland, in rut 4. and has
been, and will be • ""
= - parlinniVitsr,i.tlik.,i:dff
hon., our eeillieal-"sportsmen to wee um :
and bring don'' lbe.:ir game. As to the poor stalking
horse itself, it is evidently considered not worth even
its feed.
In the Peers, Lord SUNLIT made an important
speech. which may be read for edification, whilst those
in the Commons could only cater to amusement. His
lordship is for townland rating, which, bad as it is, if
no two Irishmen ean be got to set in oonoert, the
legislature may be driven to at last. Bat
we should greedy deprecate it. Lord STANLEY
has no objection to pay a rate on and from
his Irish estates to the =amities of the western
unions.. His lordship proposes an ingenious plan of
rescuing the estates of improvident landlords and put-
ting them to nurse. The poor-law guardians are to
be empowered to take them on lease, employ the
paupers upon them, then re-lease them when im-
proved, and restore them, when the original
lease is .ed, to the improvident landlord,
thus snpues for a time in his dam, but not in his
profits or.his rents. We have no idea why the state
and the poor should task their united resounes and
energies for the benefit of worth's= and idle indi-
viduals or families. If a leaded aristocracy is only to
be preserved at this price, it would be more just and
more cheap to do without it, or at least to provide
a bran new article.

Wa are mortified to find cieestleas foe the anproea
lies of hsmay sad plats of eadesiastical diampline
ehernied =Pe Nam el this leghistere. Foreigners
must Mei* that ite me mops= indeed when
one time ems M &meted to wash midst*. I nage
sad minufgdese ought set le be absilimil altogether,
6w gee& will deny the ffiep ought bs Dade as
Ample -sad erg es pesdhiel sad Se Musses of °ler-
vmen against immlW. when they are not such as
sadiron tribes& nstisse amid certainly not be
referred (rye anglehmee is to be set midi) to
y ecoledinfirel entbstity We have the sanction
ofa Tory ante obesever, a mhos churchman him-
self and a dignillei atavism he saying both that
"there are no guilds, issue Wiest to the frailty and
oorruptien of Mow Idol Iles an indifference
or insensibility le sat Uwe(' sufferings, and a
sudden forgetfulessa *els own humble state
when they rim in MN void," and that "these
iofseior
two dispositions exert thessignse nowhere so
as in the order of Wisp trlth regard to the
gem" lf those be sa eseeption to the role, it cer-
tainly 'is not the Bishop of Loon= that we should
expect to fa d& it—of all people, thaehredio Is the
last to whose we should be disposed to test the is-
depsnhase sod bsesinses of the paroshiml
Nee te the WU eddelline adage le, lad wide be his
=Dohs* the settee 'the Hines et Lad% st all
ee amp sesik at maim WI6 mood
to hang ant shift dissestimi meld sememoend
the *rale and halimmermla gam any-
body who screws, that If I dogma MM. tie
. widow °the AIIIIIPOSD it the aisp of
rreltam, ee the pd VOW, wen &id
before the Bishop of Locums et the Bishop at
Bursa, op a charge et herae7. est judgment would
be given in their fame 4 Is the any one who be-
lieves, or will venture to sweet, that the creed of
BANCROFT and MAINWARINO WY that of Belli= and
TILLOTton I' When Jam called the episcopal vest-

meat ",a fool's coat," and his eentWaptharf, WETr-
cam reduced some of the wisest. and most
virtuous ministers in England to beggary,
and flung others into prison for their esesithildbm
eereplen about the surp:ior, will any seat my that
these prelates agreed in their notion of heresy P Or ie
nay ass so destitute of reason as to Wee f If
!ii any of those esuselesely trawled law Z s which
Van are so dimpee, anTwteave
*lrmofa taken fromfon the a
mass-of their
%zoo
compelled separately to write lowa the inter.
of the Thirty-nine Aniline—the opinions
WWI islleenee guestisse as ahem" so pm"
Winn bee be Nisi le iseelmien every Asko
if Ns *it to earrniatica, and from
fidfitemmine Winkled hostility r
Who., wo Led a amok that line nom-
bird mew kir awl that he no very len
peeled el timilatielen the ant
1 radent—basHowrimorho ereedmeed bane be
weal weer ibis dsteeted anise, which be only
OSINININd to is 00 WWII dips 10 ImiDD, and from
Sown to flusanocz—when we slash a church—
=founded. , all &mites MISS be
es
right at Ads pepselrts Les agaiest
Way and arks to arm its Wilkey. with
pomp over their gap which could only be de-
et the i lilt those Wisp were unani-
ssosoe sappen awoke Est le hot Implicit to
possibility, miler !he gesiins to which
bilk is tryeeld I all membered not by scores bat
le, Immlesils. ithillNN
ills to divided mankind ever since
Vilikillaandell et Clnidianity—when we find, besides
Ile wares already laid for the oonsci.mces of the
duly, fresh appeals_ are made to the legislature to
separate evils already almost intolerable—it is high
Iris for any one who values the comfort, integrity,
tad pain net tho working clergy, to come forward
in tiara/ass. New demand. of power are boldly
tole, and may not improbably becomplied with. Let
no siergyman be prosecuted for heresy unless a third
d his Meant, parishioners institute a suit against
hlm i and let no bishop have it in his power to teens
• aidtling," in the words of Boats, on the pretext of
V. These would be the dictates of remora and
rinstian charity, and, if coupled with a measure
taking away from the bishops the appointmat of
judges, which, to the amassment of all wise men,
they are, in spite of reforming governments, and job
after job, still permitted to retain, would go far to re-
store tranquillity to the church.
These remarks have been extorted from us by the
perusal of a bill which the Bishop of LONDON
has jest laid on the table of the House of Lords.
=other enactments it establishes a court at
for clergymen charged with heresy in the fol-
lowfwg words:
IV. And be it enacted that in all cuss of pmeeedings
taken in England after the passing of this act, seine eng
dark in orders, far heresy, false doctrine, Magian& es
skies, an appeal shell lie from any decree having the Mess
at effect et a--6,L ,•Te sentence, to a court of appeal, to am.
apt of the of Canterbury end York, the Lord
Chancellor, or Lad or Pint Commissioner of the
Great teal; '
three of Its op of that part of the United
Kingdom celled iegkin4 the Master of the Rolls,
the senior Vise.Chimesusr, the three senior pulses
Judges of the Oserts at Quan's Borah, Common
Pima, and Esdraner reopeetively, the Dean of the
Arches Court elOnstabory, the Chancellor of the dioesss of
Louden, marl the Regius and Margaret Professors of Divinity
in the IMMO, et Oxford and Cambridge : provided
always, thud no peals shall be competentto dt as one etas
said
.1 eematesiziel who le act a member of the united
chunkred Weed.
V. And be waseed, that three biaseneet Iheje
in equity beim aimed, two et the
sercogint 1 'iliste
Courts of Omagh Ildieh, Comma
the Dees of the Amide Court of Onatelony or the Chemed=
kw tithe dimes of Lesolds. end tweet Ike pram. behr•
mead of the mdmildes el Wad sod Oembeidge. shall
cemelinte a guseen4 and be ellifiblit to bar nag aipeel
isvhdlY how* Wire them In pneamee of this mt.
Can anythimg be more eampletely ludicrous? Is
there anything in the " Isle Sounante" of Rabelais
more grotesque than this macedoine of lawyers and
parsons to decide questions of heresy ? In no country
of Europe, not in Spain we verily believe, could mask
a scheme have been brought forward, without covering
its author with ridicule everlasting. Perhaps Mr.
Imam Coumnor is at this moment deep la the
*km= Samarium," and writing little notes to
OLerwrona about the Council of Trent. Mr. Justioe
Meng, no doubt, is turning over his vast theological
library, with a view to the day when he will take his
place among the fathers of the church. Imagine, in
the 19th century, judges and ministers of state called
away from their usual duties to discuss heresy, to in-
quire into the apostolical succession, the supralapea-
nan tenets, and into the vain talk of P.
lagians, unable to find out their way through
the " palpable obscure ; " sitting on the " ben& ve•
tired," frightened at the lawn sleeves, sighing for
their old, easier, and far more rational employment of
interpreting wills drawn by retired grocers, and acts
of parliament stamped with the wisdom of quarter
sessions—having exchanged Chancery reports for the
Oxford tracts, BIJODEN on " Vendors and Pur-
chasers," for BULL on " The Nicene Creed," and
EDWARDS 011 " Predestination "—bills and 111111 WINI
for reasonings high
On Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,
Fixed fate, free will, free knowledge absolute.
_ __ . _

When most assuredly the next line would be ap-
plicable :
And found se end in wandering MIMI loot.
Such a menonw, which we fear is too likely to
see carriedoneald be worthy of our on
that and meet rem salfeeta There are, however,
ebjeetiene ef aWU !paw and morn formidable cha-
racter, 1114 *PI ire iS kW as ad: euncennitv
to consider.

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GERMANY•

PRUSSIA.—Thrie Gomm andidates were elected
at Posen for the ems& dimber, in opposition to
three Poles. The embed wen a well-fought one, the
majority in favour of the terms being only six.
The Kiinigsberg comespendent "f the Berlin
Deutsche Reform states that Capt. Richard Tucker,
of the schooner Whim ; Capt. R. Nothard, of the
brig Garnet; and three English sailors belonging to
the Whim, were drowned off Pillan on the 27th alt.,
*rough the capsizing of their bad whilst they were
desk-hunting.
Comagedal letters Brealau make mention of
eztousive whams ofrom f wool there for English and
l(flawit midmale houses.
The Pretties government have made over to the
astral sue In Frankfort the three Prussian steamers,
the Pnnekta Eagle, the Konigsberg, and the Eliza:
UAL The calm of those steamers will be set off
=
the money contingent of Prussia for the
Beet. According to the annually' published
list it the Mame. Wendt and Co., in Stettin, the
Pruden mercantile navy consisted in March, 1844
ot 911 vesesiscaltogether of 134,702 tons.
Du eit (the newly elected deputy for
Osilepe), lime Marx, the chief editor of the
I Nere Mirkisto Zeitung, and Herr Scha, who
le dee memaded with that journal, were kneght to
Irbil on the Sib inst. in the Court of Amines. on the
&arse of having incited to rebellion by publiebing
a alawalar urging the psolde not to pay tams in obe-
&me to the -orders loaned by the Ws andsnal
=VII in Berlin. A verdict of "Not G • wee
amidst the enthadastic applause of •
mar
Nossrasarits. This is another important vinrosa is
to
FRANIEFORT.—Letters and journals at the Bth
imk have cane to hand am this city. The
lintional Assembly had voted the lint and 22nd
modem it the bill of fundsimtel rights, ent-
..,every German to Wesel petidene to the
to the rmsMadves et , and to
111101 damen&ly ; old genhedeg tiepoople
on him also
lie stabi to bring nadene egoist pub& fanctionariee
Weld the provisee sonomt rifle swim
eta adding le roamed for
spell. armagemente. The View el the Empire
n'
Mo
AUSIVr—Our intelligence from Vienna reaches
to the Bth inst. The following
icon,
see
betraying moddemble ill-temper,has bon breed at
Path :
It Isms stets to the knowledge et his Highness, Phitl•Mar-
dell ?AIM Illsilidieritz, dot, ea the 26th sad TM alt.,
4.
Mhos Palli Mt woe essegisktellk a wash &Ms
sa
mit ,s wide yes sualhelel soirsmset • eerie. et
jig ' ihet they awed Iheillshes In the draft
boa kook ooldoi sr sad other Miles
if solgara ilt at iollemi gook atlented with
isillseers. to will Net se OM end hisit ruble: is
ardor; ee amid thle adios whit the eressessler se est-
vhle Illshoem Iwo Most that seise be
rya Ihrtobelease ens& Weak to the Wed that
Ina with sarvebythoeshell be,
dale ar yea Pollik=
tesolgutilramf—sn. Insomnia ta atm. mem. Is
I ease, siesseese Ibet as ass easy ,sad embed
1 that he is toasisat, the present prooleststko shell be
distsibobi In all the hams, and the omen or