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London, England, 1852-08-10 00:00:00

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(From the Times.)
THE IRI H REPRESENTATIVES.
It is not likely
sentation will be mucht tihmeereocvnehliloieynthee:: recent Inrtisehlercetpiore;
We hare never been
body of Irish Memboraga:l't'ahto a-htnitwri:erB woefret.haeiteaolllletcimtivees
ready to honour in their persons —c_____,_—_,-
, s•-•
therepre-
sentative
rew
observationsG over n Government t earp:lpognlitsed toe principle
weoflt' are about to r('
mikear' would" wiae
willingly drop one word which could hurt the feelings or
wound the pride of the few
time to time represented
one or other of the Irish -
plee, wills
ennot t
mention names ; let every Irish itufen,
or to come, hold himself
includ"nichieesr: ,
We,
ted in the meagre
category of excepti
W., and then ask himself if
the censure
of his fellow-representa,ive:
applied
to the greed body
is not duly
Is it not true that in
re-
garded with an evil eye—not ibe y,
they have been in
natural pri
London—whether is the la;
Commons,
hatae
tohre arena of the House of
vatesoetvi consequence of their own words
because they were Irish-
men,and acts—of their base sabser ency to the Irish howl
and the Irish demagogue of the moment—of their undis-
guised venality—of the ferocious attacksdet they have
directed in public, 0 and the shameless
have uttered in private against men who
omhations they
had no other
fault than a reluctance to comply with their outrageous
demands? Is it not also true that this enormousb amount
of moral abomination has been unredeemed
of genuine wit—by any gush of natural elejeannnye such
sash
as would have warmed our hearts to the speaker,
how-
ever much we might have differed from his conclusion
Had poor Tommy Moore been enrolled on the list to
cheer the Howe with one of his Irish melodies—had
Teddy the Tiler beenseterned for Cork to enliven us with
his Irish jokes and oddities, we might not, to be sure,
have thought much of them as statesmen—but we should
have taken them to oar homes and our hearts, and have
forgiven many a ferocious bore for their sakes. To
talk of the Plarkets, and Grattans, and Currans, and
other illustrious Irishmen in such a case as this, is
simply out of the question. The late Daniel O'Connell
and Richard Shell, who is also gone, were the two only
specimens -of this class with which we have been for a
long time favoured. With regard to the first of these
two exceptions, great orator as he undoubtedly was, he
was 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 frosn Parliament fairly fallen
asleep amidst the flesh-pots of Egypt. In addition to
those two men, whore have the Irieia 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 mass is not hound 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 reptcpresentive 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 found
wanting. They have come so us as the serfs of a " Cry,"
the bondslaten of a wretched demagogue or priest; and,
like true beds, they have never missed an occasion of
betraying for 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.
hirllale have procured have-a-dozen men of average
talent, and good character to do their work the result
might have been different. But dirty work has this
peculiarity, that it must be done by dirty agents. The
very men whom they send to Parliament as their
spokesmen and mouthpieces, even when they rise to
address the House with
the ' usual cuckoo-song about
the unredressed wrongs of keland, are conscious of
considerations .which must
Member of the Assembly they them
pause. Every
cares to know the facts, is perfectly
are addressing, who
the impassioned orators of the momentyaware that most of
broken-down black-legs, that they
are nothing but
with the waiters of their clubs, andywliltr: run up scores
tunate tradesmen as they could find silly. 40
many anfor-
them credit. No one would willingly assitoegih to
give
them in private, or admit them to social intercourse sweith
his own home. ' Others again not so openly or gagrra--n-tla
lost to every sense of honour and propriety are known'
to be dealers in patriotism, tei hucksters deal in ribunds.
Their livelihood depends upon the utteranee 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
1 they are, not to lose a single opportunity of insulting all
1 that is noblest and purest in the assembly—to tax with
1 ignorance statesmen whose humblest clerks could form
sounder judgments upon the subjects under discus-
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 iti to cause eo 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. If 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
a, ri 6.. a Won% -hat 'roma... if fal,Ahnnd
tau in tIF h. n
producing an ettect: 'C"--when even truth is esta-
blished within) 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.
4, Persecution " is, of course, the great fulcrum on
which they rely for producing these effects. An Irish-
man of the class we are describing is persecuted every
day of his life, as an Englishman is shaved.. But then
there are different kinds of persecution. An inquisitor
who binds me to the stake persecutes me—a fiend who
brings me or my affairs within reach of the Chan-
cery 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 note
recut° me—nor does a statesman 13-r-
-persecute me who re-
fuses to grant me some great political advantage to
the detriment of the public interests, and t
the vipenett of ray fellow-subjects. Even at th a
pre-
sent day the cry is not worn threadbare, e might have hoped.
I± T
t any
will as ono
person
lbo at the
pains of turning to Mr. Dud's
_elittre summary of the
opinions and principles oft
held seats in the House duringh Irish Members who
he trill find that, almost
withoutthe last Parliament,
exception, they have
"
the strongest objection to the repayment of advances."
Upon this cry, the nation will join them to a man. The
very men who interfered haween the lavish hand of Im- •
penal generosity, and the sharp
necessities
of the poor
creatures for whom the relief
was intended, are the first
to stand forth and plead the e.muezzlement in satisfaction
of the loan. It is " persecution" to require back in any
shape the millions which were so f - I advanced, at a
moment when all rec II -of similarrt-'37
0 ec,tions
were merged in one overpowering feeling of compas-
tsion. It is " persecution" if. we do not humbly ac-
quiesce in Dr. h:
ne'Eale's efforts to meet the acts of the
British Parliament with rescripts from the Vatican.
It will be " Persecution" of the direst kind if we do
not tamely submit to have the Irish voters kidnapped
Irtshspr;ues s,
and bludgeoned by the followers of the
whenever they may venture to theirexerciseto
these
in a manner that may be disea of Irish represen-
creatures. Such has been the conduct
no reason to bee
tatives in former times, and WO haveof the Igade
lieve that the ensuing c
a w Pgr ne
n systemrish Bri
of tactics.
will be conducted on any d. has to deplore the lots of
On the contrary, Parliahienetn _en
d t men who represented
O excellent and a
inf
Ireland during the last Parlia-
various constituenciebsL.
ousted from their seats by the
meat, but iN ho bar
a winch has never brought anything
nominees of a
fletiftritsion on Ireland, and disgrace upon
but sorrow and o
coltish Parliament.
the walls of the r
:A were wanting to prove the truth
If any cons.eeration
tiers to the satisfaction of our fel-
- nit lOW
of these pop .n the other side of St. George's Channel,
low esuttiectstggt in the case of former factions in the Irish
it would bf4re .body, our condemnation has preceded
represents'►but by a short interval of time.
their cl„,•n 0 and Young Irelaudism are not
more
O'Ceene" . repudiated, or spoken ofwith
greater contempt,
eland -
than, in Ireland at the present day.
, Every
an in Ireland who was free from
thinkieg In the tram_
mole, and disconnected with the interests of the leaders
of these factions, held the same opinion of them through..
out as we did, but they had not the courage to speak
out until the evil influence had departed from-
As it has been before so it will be again.
The coedem-
nation of the priest faction is a mere question of time
even in Tipperary and Connaught. Meanwhile, we
must make up our minds to live with
much
the same
description of Irish M.P.'s as the
electors of the sister
kingdom have favoured us with in days gone by, or, if
anything, with a somewhat worse batch.
a conclusion is to be regretted for the
sake of t Ilea
as
suchhe em-
pire generally, and fur the character of Parliament,
yet more lairsentarle for the
sake
of Irish it is
Irish questions of great moment. .v-v interests and
We want Irish states-
men who may shed honour on their
country. They send
us helots to reveal its eh ame.

The other day some gentlemen cruising
PRACTISING FOR THE VOYAGE TO AUSTRALIA,
d a boat,
coast, observing that about the same hour everysesii'gers on
containing two men and a woman, landed p.
its
with hem, in-
the shore, and after a short time returne.d_wy
man, said
quired the reason for this daily excursion. Ikl
d ? Is it that yon
he, " what makes you come here every
..17, tam, was the re-
like it?" " Oh, your honours, not si_eali,,, nie7, :
going out
ply ; " but fait, your honours, the ma; "
on a part of the Iris
practising the say-
soon to Australy, and so were
d jto it when we start."
sickness, that we may be used improving?" " Ah, sure,
" Well, and do you find yourselves
s'the worthy couple were left to
on purtiiy, anyhow."
So ; ration by practising the say-
your honours, the llife'syo • cke everyn day; but she's getting
sickness.
made from Liverpool of the defici-
encyComPLlnts ar-ofisoers at that port, sliips being
qualify themselves for emigration
detained
of emigration_ha.evacy
of the prozent staff to meet the
owing to the utter
eilod.
It is admitted, at the same time,
• encies of the p r
duty exert themselves to the utmost, and
exig • son
that the parties
as could possibly be expected from their
number.much
AUG. 7.—The screw steamer
arrived in the Plymouth Great Emerald,
Western
Docks
of Dublin,
limited performp iA ymil so u
r a
‘,„,ta from the west coastof Africa. She was under
the care
A of dysentery on
I • John a
B lcomb SaufiQld, having die,.
Lai, her chief officer, Jon Joshua Walpole, her cap-
f_ W 3 Vol - r'
1. this na,:::_:
uoule.