The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-10 00:00:00

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THE 1111711 REPRFSEINTA;)rES.
(From the Times.)
It is not likely that the CC,Liiiillen of the Irish repre-
ienaitiuu will be much improved by the recent election.
We have never been great aJruifers of the collective
body of Irish Members, alibdugh we were at all times
ready to neuour in their persons the psi:wit/10 of tr,f4 es
aentative Government us applied to Ireland. Nor in
the few observations we ore about to mske would we
willingly drop one word which could hurt the fseiings or
wound the pride of the few upright and Honourable
Gentlemen who have from time to time represented
one or other of the Irish constituencies. We will net
men :on names ; let every Irish Member, past, preserit,
or to come, hold himself iticluded in the meagre
London--whether
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et 1
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ai
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censure:wi oohof
wer
is t
lr
inexception,eerpnrepietnsr ei
i:idtahlduly
the
, yi
ye
Gene end p i
ir then
applied
it
to
nlaskoh t e
trueghimselfre 1 'dtl i i t bodyiinf
arugnaedrnel,ebiuwt acts—ofjet sh tahnet evilhnea i natural r( 'h
yea let
bare
coastnos t large,
subserviencyegi beuetelcn.aa erueesi::
wolrweirnsehwllrloiurvdhl and the Irish demagogue of the mornent—of their undis-
guised venality—of the ferocious attacks they have
directed in public, and the shameless defamations 0:1
have uttered in private) against men who had no otherley
fault than a reluctance to comply with their outrageous
demands? Is it not also true that this enormous amount
of moral abomination has been unredeemed by any flash
yttionhtiftkeia,h.reyee Hhoeuesee r ofe_
of genuiee wit—by imy gush of natural elequenee such
as would have warmed our hearts to the speaker, how-
ever much we might have differed from Lis conclusions?
Had poor Tommy Moore been enrolled on the list to
cheer the House with one of his Irish melodies—had
Teddy the Tiler been returned for Cork to enliven us with
.his Irish jokes and oddities, we might riot, to be sure,
have thought much of them as statesmen—but we should
have taken them to our homes and our hearts, and have
cainodusGbraotrteanfos,r a tohde irc
usrarka erilie, ,
aTndo
talk
forgiven
other
ofi l l thensn it
r ail
nn'
luyusnaliferetirssohmen in such a ease as this, is
two
en foro nlya
simply out of the question. The late Daniel O'Connell
, e,erhear the e
be
and
i en a Richardn of
Shell,this
whoclass is
with alsowhich
long time favoured. With regard to the first of these
' two exceptions, great orator as he undoubtedly was, he
gone
we
;,vvas too completely the Evil Genius of Ireland—too
hopelessly identified with the degradation of his fellow-
representatives to redeem their character in English
eyes. As for the late Master of the Mint, he had for a
long time before his exit from Parliament fairly fallen
asleep amidst the fiesh-pots of Egypt. In addition to
those two men, whom have the Irish constituencies sent
us who could be placed on a level with anything higher
than a fifth-rate representative, from the other divisions
of the empire. A man is not bound to be a man of
genius. The gift of oratory is given but to few,
the higher capacities of the statesman to still
fewer men; but every one who holds the post
of a reprepresentive of the people is bound
to be an honest man, and to act from motives of public
, conviction, not from the beggerly impulses of personal
interest. Tried even by so low a test as this, the
Irish Members for the last twenty years will be hound
the bondsmen of a wretched demagogue or priest; and,
wanting. They have come to us as the serfs of a " Cry,"
like true serfs, they have never missed an occasion of
betraying fur their own personal advantage the parties
who had been weak enough to rely upon their venal al-
legiance.
Could O'Connell—and, since his time, could Dr.
Mlslele have procured have-a-dozen men of average
talent, and good character to do their work the result
might have been diffdrent. But dirty work has this
spokesmen e sTrieenn
peculiarity, that it must be done by dirty agents. The
wanhdomEnnthnetyhpiseenneds,
etovenPawrlhiaenmetnhte
address the House with the usual cuckoo-song about
the ueredressed wrongs of Ireland, are conscious of
considerations which must give yasristehetior
ham pause. Every
Member of the Assembly they C cares to know the facts, is ef are addressing, who
the impassioned orators of perfectly
ectlyaware that most of
broken-down black-legs, thate moment are nothing but
with the waiters of their clubs, and with ihahve run up scores
tunate tradesmen as they could find wail] as many anfor-
them credit. No one would willingly enough to give
them in private, or admit them to social associatei with
his own home. Others again not so openly nntrergeourse in
lost to every sense of honour and propriety arern"Y
to be dealers in patriotism, as hucksters deaf in rib'a2ncls
own.
Their livelihood depends upon the utterance of so much
trash in the course of the session. It is their cue, by
way of proving to their constituents how much in earnest
they are, not to lose a single opportunity of insulting all
that is noblest and purest in the assembly—to tax with
ignorance statesmen whose humblest clerks could form
sounder judgments upon the subjects under disous-
sion than the professional word-mongers who are in-
flicting their tediousness upon the House. With
others, again, it is matter of notoriety that their
only object is to cause so much trouble and confu-
sion, as may make it worth the while of a Minister to
buy them off upon the first occasion. We will venture
to say there is not one of our readers who is familiar with
the condition of the Irish representation, or with the
proceedings of Parliament, who would not be prepared
with a score of names in illustration of one or other of
these general divisions. It these men fail in producing
any effect upon the discussions of the House, or the con-
victions of the country, it is because everything about
them is known to be talse from first to last. The ani-
mation of their manner is false—the expression of their
sympathy is false—their arguments and their facts are
false—and have been answered and disproved a hundred
and a thousand times before. Whet wonder if falsehood
fail in producing an effect—when even truth is esta-
blished with so much difficulty? But the Irish patriot is
under sentence, like the Wandering Jew—he must go
onwards in the career which he has chosen. If he pause,
rejection awaits him at the next hustings, and then a
sponging-house or flight to a foreign land; and, if it be
possible, social degradation in a still worse form than
that of representative of an Irish borough.
" Persecution " is, of course, the great fulcrum on
which they rely for producing these effects. An Irish-
man of the class we ere describing is persecuted every
day of his life, as an Englishman is shaved. But then
there arc different kinds of persecution. An inquisitor
who binds me to the stake persecutes me—a fiend who
brings me or my affairs within roach of the Chart-
eery lawyers persecutes me—a fierce-looking fellow from
Parma, who grinds a monster organ outside my win-
dows persecutes me. But a tradesman-who applies for
payment of a debt which I have incurred does not per-
secute me—nor does a statesman persecute me who re-
fuses to grant me some great political advantage to
the detriment of the public interests, and at
the expense of my fellow-subjects. Even at the pre-
sent day the cry is not worn threadbare, as one
might have hoped. It any person will be at the
pains of turning to Mr. Dod's little summary of th opinions and principles of the Irish
Members who 6
held seats in the House d •the last
during Parliament,
he will find that, almost without exception, they have
the strongest objection to the " repayment
Upon this cry, the nation will jointh erat of advances."
very men who interfered between the lavish° ha
al: an. The
d of Im-
perial generosity, and the sharp necessities
creatures for whom the relief was intended, of the poor
are the first
to stand forth and plead the embezzlement
in satisfaction
of the loan. It is " persecution" to re
shape the millions which were so freelyquire back in any
advanced, at a
moment when all recollections of similar
acts of trickery
were merged in one overpoweringfeeling of compas-
sion. It is " persecution" if we d
quiesee in Dr. Menale's efforts to
meet not humbly
tache-
British Parliament with rescri
trifre the
omtthe
acts
of
Vatican.
It will be `` persecution" of thPe direst kind if we do
not tamely submit to have
the Irish voters kidnapped
and bludgeoned by the followers of the Irish priests,
whenever they may venture to exercise their suffrage
in a manner that may be displeasing to these worthy
creatures. such has been the conduct of Irish represen-
tatives Wives in former times, and we have no reason
Brigade
be-
lieve that the ensuing campaign of
the Irish
bf
tactics.
will be conducted on any different se:stens
deplore the loss of
On the contrary, Parliament has to Iho represented
several excellent and independendtureLnr
the last Perlis-
various constituencies of Ireland
from
their seats by the
Parlia-
ment, but who have been ousteds
never brought anything
nominees of a faction
which
has
and disgrace upon
but sorrow and confusion on.snle.
the walls of the British
.le're:l,
wanting ui
to prove the truth
If any consideration R'er©
to the satisfaction of our fel-
.4ertions
of these painful sta- tiler side of St. George's Channel,
low-subj
ects on the
t°he case of former factions in the Irish
it would be that in
,ir oar condemnation has preceded
representative Wee,' a short interval of time.
represe
bat u.,
their own al Young Irelandism are not more
O'Connellisraisa _
, red, or spoken of with greater contempt,
sternly rePuii,an in Ireland at the present day. Every
in England
a in Ireland who was free from the tram-
thinking' man disconnected with the interests of the
1 d disconnleaders
in°A,', and callus, held the same opinion of them through.
°f these
?did, but they had not the courage to speak
out as "'
'1 influence had departed from the land,
until the Qv
out been before so it will be
As it hasagain. The faction is a
condem-
nation of the priest mere question of ti
even Meanwhile me
in Tipperary and Connaught. -
,
must make up our minds to live with much the same
description of Irish M.P.'s as the electors of the sa
kingdom have favoured us with in days
gone sister
anything, with a somewhat worse batch. by, or, if
Much a conclusion is to be regretted for the sak
pire generally, and for the character of p 6 as End,
I.ament, it is
6f tll° em-
yetul more lamentable for the sake of I
'
Irish questions of great moment. Wco fish interests and
etr
men who may shed honour on th ' e want
Irish
states-
ntry. They send
us helots to reveal its shame, u

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PRACTISING FOR THE VOYAGE TO AUSTRALIA
The other day some gentlemen cruising on a part of the.—
Irish
coast, observing that about the same
hour every day a boat,
containing two men and a woman, landed its passengers on
the shore, and after a short time returned with them, iiiici
quired the reason for this daily excursion. "My man," said
he, " what makes you come here every day? Is it that yon
like it?" " 06, your honours, not at all at all," waseingtheolut
ply ; " but fail, your honours, the wife and me's going say-
soon to Australy, and so we're Just practisningwe
start."
sickness, that we may be used to it when
. Ah,sure,
" Well, and do you find yourselves improving?'
le were left to
on purtily, anyhow." So the worthy
your honours, the wife's sick every da
b practising the say.
qualify themselves for emigration Y
sickness.
Liverpool of the defici-
ency are made from Liverpool
port,
ships being detained
ency of emigration officers at tohitthe
present staff to meet the
owing to the utter inadequacyt
1 is admitted, at the same time,
day; but she's getting
exigencies of the period.
exert themselves to the utmost, and
that the parties on duty
could possibly be expected from their
limited number.
7...—The screw steamer Emerald,
PLymotrrvi, AlT•the Plymouth Great Western Docks
arrived
perform as much as
of Dublin, in
west coast of Africa. ihe was under
this morning, at
g (lied of dyeentery OA
twin, John nhaui":' '
he.rcfrco_hikef2ariteerid,JohhanviaJoshua Walpole, her cap-
hi4 Tclag "Q
the care or"