The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-20 00:00:00

order, which you are charged to
have a paper which has but a email
I am willing, if you can assist
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it a greater circulation, to endeavour to
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and which are favourable to the system

that you aro desirous of carryini out.
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the editor that support he would have
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means of rendering the public a sera
It may be that the editor was in -vet
unworthy of the confidence which my Noble Friend re-
posed in him. Sir, it is the misfortune of generous
minds frequently to fall into the error of trusting too
implicitly those who afterwards prove themselves un-
worthy of the confidence placed in them.—(Cheers.)
But, Sir, I must say, that for my part, I should not
think that I was doing myself credit or honour by taking
advantage of information given me by a man who had
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proved himself so undeserving of confidence; and it
must be recollected that those who endeavour to throw
dirt upon others may
sometimes soiLtheir own hands.—
(Cheers.) confess that part of the pain which the de-
Date of this evening has occasioned me arises from seeing
the Nuble Lord, for whom I entertain personally great
respect, become the instrument of so unworthy an at,-
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utterly fail—(Cheers)—and I am persuaded that the de-
bate which has taken place, and the sense and opinion
which this House will pronounce upon the motion of the
Noble Lord, will leave my Noble Friend standing in the
high position which he has hitherto maintained, as a
most distinguished servant of the public, and a man who
has rendered great services and performed great benefits
for his country.—(Loud cheers.)
Lord NAAS replied. He did not intend at that hour,
and after the lengthened debate Which had taken place,
to trespass for any time on the attention of the House,
bpt he stood there to repel with indignation the asser-
tion that this was a personal attack upon Lord Claren-
don.—(Cheers, and " Oh, ob!") He quite agreed with
the Noble Lord who had just sat down that, if he had
made a personal attack upon Lord Clarendon he should
be unworthy to hold a seat in that House; but he con-
tended that be was justified in bringing under the notice
of the House the public act of a public individual, par..
ticularly when that act was justified by himself upon
public grounds.—(Hear, bear.) It was not the act of
Lord Clarendon, bat the act of the Lord-Lieutenant and
the whole of the Executive Government of Ireland that
he impugned. He thought, then, that no one could for
a moment maintain that this was a personal attack. If
he had been so unfortunate as to give it that colour—
which, however, he did not believe—all he could say
was, that such a thing he had never intended.—
(Hear, hear.) He appealed to the fairness of the House
whether, in the speech of the Noble Lord the First
Minister of the Crown, able and eloquent as it was,
he had controverted one fact of the case. He (Lord
Naas) had maintained that the act of the Irish Go.
vernment in this case was reprehensible and dis
graceful. His resolution had been opposed by all the
but all
ability and talent of the other side of the House;
had failed in disproving any of his facts, or in vindicating
the act which they were about to sanction by their
vote. He left the issue calmly and with perfect fearless-
ness in the hands of the House; but he must remind
theta that the vote they were about to give was one
which might hereafter be turned against them.—(Sear,
bear.) They were going to establish this dangerous
precedent—that the House of Commons approved of the
abstraction of public money from the public purse for the
purpose of subsidizing a venal press.—(" Hear, hear,"
and No, no.") Turn it as they would, that was the
question they were about to vote upon; and he was cer-
tain that if they came to that decision they would soon
have occasion to repent it.—(Hear, hear.)
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the motion ... „ 137
Against it ... ••• ••• 229
Majority against the motion ... —ee
The announcement of the numbers was received with
loud cheers.

Various other motions on the paper were then de-
ferred. The second reading of the Improvement of
Towns (Ireland) Bill was postponed till Monday next.
The House adjourned at Half-past Ten o'clock.

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