The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-22 00:00:00

LONDON:
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1839.

The Rodenires seem bitterly disappointed by the
division, and chagrined by the debate. For four years

have they laboured with a perseverance worthy of a

better cause to blacken the Government of Ireland.
We scarcely know a fault or a crime, short of absolutely
putting the Protestants to death, of which they have not
accused it. On this point, and this point only, the Times
and the Standard, the Post and Herald, with all the
weekly prints of the party, published in town and
country, have been united, and have been unscrupulous
in accusing the Irish Government, or in repeating the
accusations of the unscrupulons Irish Orange press.
It has been said, over and over again, that the Irish
Government had gold itself to I.llr. O'CONNELL, and at
his bidding was trampling all the Protestants under
foot. It has been accused of partiality—of exciting the
populace. against the landlords—of kindling agitation
aqpinst the Irish Church—of perverting the constabu•
Lary to party purposes—of turning the administration of
justice from its course—of neglecting to enforce the law
against criminals, and using it to oppress the poor Pro-
testant pastors—of suffering the country to be over-
run by bands of assassins, bound together by a secret
oath, and of even appointing Ribbonmen and traitors to
office—in short, for four years it has been unceasingly
calumniated. The division of Saturday morning proves
that the Rodeilite journals have not succeeded in
poisoning the public mind of England to the extent
they wished and expected, and their disappointment is
proportionate to the unjust zeal with which they have
laboured. The vote of the House of Commons is a
proof that the daily diatribes of these journals are justly
valued. They are not believed._
The debate, we think, gave them a complete contra,
diction.

If the charges they have made, over and over
again, were true, why were they not brought forward
and substantiated in Parliament ? Why even
that great gobemoitche Lord RODEN himself, did not
dare to propound one half of the calumnies put forth
by Lis journals. They were still more sparingly used
in the House of Commons, and the great leader of
the party, even Lord RODEN'S cad, never ventured
to countenance them by an allusion, or an expression
of belief. The debate, by the eloquent silence of Sir Ro-
BEIIT PEEL, Lord STANLEY, and Sir JAMES GRAHAM,
as to the atrocious acts committed by the Irish Govern-
ment, has at once put an end to the calumnies of our
Contemporaries. We are glad to purchase a release
from them at the expense of the five nights' wearying
debate, which certainly effected no other good at all
comparable to that of giving a total and flat contradic-
tion to the accusations of four years. The Rodenite
journals cannot be so shameless as to return to these
charges ; they must invent something new against Lord
EnarNo'roN, and the public will now be happily deli-
vered for ever from the repetition of the absurd accu-
sations.

It Wag asked (luring the debate what the Whigs
Would do after they had got their vote ? They will rest
contented with it so far as it goes. But what will the
Rodenites do ? Will they carry on their inquiries with
a partial Committee, the author of which named
the Aaranis of NORMANtY on: it, and asked him to
sit in jud'grnent on himself! The Noble Lord also
named thqsMar quis o£ .NoamA.Nev's colleagues on it.
HP took 'Ore, however, to have a majority of his own
part), oa tbd Committee, and must have intended, we
presume, to have subjected the Noble Marquis and his