The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-06 00:00:00

the dreaded collision with Lord Durham, and any manuesta-
tion of a proper spirit on the other might have embarrassed
the polite diplomacy of Lord Palmerston.—Morning Post.

IRELAND.

LAW A PPOISTMENTS,
Mr. Sergeant Curry, the Member for Armagh, has, with becoming
spirit, and with a feeling of what is due to his own station and to
the character of his profession, protested against 311. Richard Moore,
ex-Tory, being placed over his head.
The story new is, that Mr. Pigott will try Clonrnel on the O'Con-
nell interest, and that Mr. Moore will turn his attention towards
Carlow, the thing having been settled between Messrs. French,
O'Connell, and Healy. It would be rather an awkward move in
Mr. Moore to attempt Clonmel—for, if we be correctly informed,
there is extant from that gentleman an address, or the heads of art
address, to the electors of that borough, soliciting their suff'rages
upon Conservative principles. Mr. Moore has hereditary claims to
the representation of the town ; but of this hereafter.
Judge Moore does not retire until after the Circuits ; and Mr. Ball,
the Attorney-General, is certainly to be the Judge.—Dublin Even.
ing
The Pilot refusn to pin its faith to its adversary's statements,
which are believed to be premature, if not untrue. "Judge Moore,
we believe, hasnot resigned, and if he should, we suspect Mr. Moore
would not be Solicitor-General. Mr. Pigot, who could not fail of
obtaining a seat in Parliament through any independent Irish con-
stituency—whose legal acquirements are of the first class, and whose
principles are unquestioned—would, in our opinion, be looked to by
the government and the country."
FICTITIOUS FREEMEN.—We congratulate our readers upon the
security we now have that for the future the intentims of the Re-
form Bill cannot be defeated amongst us by the unrestrained poser
assumed by the Corporation to create Freemen. The Twelve Judges
have declared that the certificate of the Town Clerks is not conclusive
of the right of the claimant. He must enter upon his proofs to
show he has not been admitted to the Corporation roll by " grace
especial." In justice the law ought to have a retrospective opera-
tion, that the e'ec'oral body might be purged of all pretenders. This,
however, is a matter not to be looked for—unless indeed the decision
of the Judges were made the groundwork of a Parliamentary pro-
ceedini. Put be this as it may, the best thanks of the public are
due to Mr. Seton, through whose means an invasion of our rights is
guarded against for the future.—lbid.
THE AS,ASSINATION —The Mail unblushingly fabricates the fol-
lowing paragraph :—" Not only was it insinuated, but stated, in the
Liberal and Government papers, and by Mr. O'Connell, that this hor-
rible murder was committed by the son of the late Earl; and as the
false and most unfounded story upon which the villainous accusation
rests namely, that of the neat- fashioned boot,' first made its ap-
pearance in the co!umns of the Register, we should have expected a
more manly and straightforward course from its conductors."
O'CONNELL AND THE CORN LAWS.—On Saturday at the Precursor
Society Mr. O'Connell in the course of his speech said—" In the re-
port of the speech de'ivered by me at the Circus In Abbey-street, on
Wedr.e.dzy last, which appeared in the Freeman's Journal, I said
on that occasion, that I'd vote against the Corn-laws (and, by the
b 3 e, lam glad to inform you that my son, the Member for Meath,
is author cal by his constituents to do so likewise), and the sentence
to which I have alluded added that I would vote against " a fixed
dtry bnause it was a fixed injustice." What I said was, that I'd
vote against the Corn-laws, and that I would propose " a fixed duty
because it was fixed justice "
The Pilot puts forth the following extraordinary paragraph :
" All England rings with the Corn.laws. Our principles arc fixed
—we hope they are based on justiee to all. The interest of the debt
must be reduced, collateral with the reduction of the duties on
foreign wheat—otherwise the cheap takes in Inland will go by the
board. If we wrote twelve co'umns of-our Paper on the subject, to
this conclusion should we come—notional abatement nd equ table
adjustment must be the watchword of Ireland—Tile Dear I Tun
Deur!"