The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-30 00:00:00

I PROM THE MORNING PAPERS OP THIS DAT.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
Lord John Russell, we are happy to find, has
effected an important administrative reform in the de-
partment over which he presides, by the appointment of
a Colonial Land and Emigration Board, on the prin-
ciples recommended by the Select Committee of the
Commons en Colonial Lands. Those who have read
the report of that Committee, the speeches delivered
last Session by Mr. Ward and Sir W. Molesworth on the
subject of colonization, and, above all, Lord Durham's
report, will at once perceive the value of this reform.
Lord John Russell deserves the highest credit for
having, in the short period of foar months, during which
he has held the colonial seals, mastered the multitudi-
nous business of his new office, and for the promptitude
with which he has effected an arrangement more cal-
culated, perhaps, than any other single measure, to con-
fer extensive and lasting benefits, as well upon the
colonies as upon the mother country. Let Ministers
)continue to pursue the course of practical improvement
which Lord John Russell has thus so auspiciously com-
menced, and they cannot fail to secure the confidence
and support of the country at large.
(From the Times.)
The great boroughmonger of all—the wholesale no-
minator whom the Reform Bill set astride upon the
neck of Ireland—now no longer able to job the seats
of thirty followers, begins to tremble for his own.
He has betaken himself to Dublin for the purpose of
whipping up the registry, which on. his side, has been
going on so lazily, or, as they say in that country, has
been progressing so backwardly, that he finds it neces-
sary to bribe his constituents with a preparatory
breakfast, not doubting that a copious infusion of hot
water on tea-leaves will warm up their zeal to the neces-
saryl temperature. When he shall have done his ut-
most, all will have been in vain. He may, somehow or
other (perhaps by displacing his present nominee from
the close borough of Kilkenny) be " Member for all
)
Ireland," but its metropolis will never be misrepresented
again. Meanwhile, it is pleasing to observe, that even
when meditating a treat, still, like Mrs. John Gilpin, he
has a frugal mind." He does not extend the costly
hospitalities of the French bread and the native butter
to the whole constituency, but limits his invitation to
( those who have been provident enough to reserve their
1 vegistretion till it would yield them a meal. His ban-
quet is thus economically and tastefully announced :
" A Card.—Mr. O'Connell presents his compliments
to the electors of the city of Dublin for whom notices
. of registry have been served, and who have not as yet
been registered, and requests they will do him the
honour of breakfast;ng with him at nine o'clock on the
morning of to-morrow, Friday, the 27th inst., at the
Victoria Hotel, Bolton-street, in order afterwards to
proceed in a body to the Registration Court.—
Merrion-square, December 20, 1839." Of words,
however, which are a commodity much less expen- '
sive than rolls and bohea, the entertainer is pro-
portionally
liberal. He says the grace two days
before, in a speech which occupies almost five co-
lumns
of last Friday's :news. It seems a good deal of
space to have spared for such a purpose, but the scoun-
drel's speeches are sometimes too serviceable to the
cause they attack to be prudently curtailed. Even the
sacredness of domestic sorrow does not disarm his malice.
He assails Lord Brougham, in the first afilictiou for the
' loss of a beloved child, and vilifies him for having " pa-
raded as chief mourner at the funeral," inquiring, with
a savage air, " Who ever heard of a father attending
his child's funeral before ?" We would only ask what
I father, not disabled by illness, would leave to strangers
the duty of attending a daughter whom he loved
through the last journey in which he could ever
be her companion on earth ? But, says the viru-
lent accuser, "We find hitn on the day after that
' melaacholy ceremony presiding at the Privy Coma-
cil." The simple fact is, that for that day an ap•
peal was fixed, to which Lord Brougham had given
especial attention, and of which the decision required
I his personal attendance. If he had absented himself
j for the indulgence of his private feelings, he would
have abandoned a public ooligation, and inflicted an
unreasonable, and perhaps irreparable hardship, on
f the suitors hi the cause. In such circumstances, all
Idecent men will say, instantly anti iadigrnantly, that
-
1 his attendance at the Privy Council was not only a
blameless proceeding, hut a praiseworthy, as it was a
1 dhinterested, and must have been a painful sacrifice
I to the sense of duty. Let Mr. O'Connell's enemies
be who they may—let them be men of acrimony
even equal to his own—and still we will say, that
whatever may be their efforts to damage his character
• and influence, they will never be able to raise up such
a hatred and horror of him as this fiendish out-
break of his own- will breed in every honest human
heart. Ex qtfielo informations arc cut of fashion, and
very properly out of fashion ; but even within the
times of the Melbourne Administration, men have been
expelled from the Magistracy for language which the
Government was pleased to regard as seditious or in-
decent. Those, indeed, were cases in which the Go-
vernment had no Parliamentary interest. to lose by
making the example—an example which, of coursL!, Iva,
never meant to be drawn into a precedent for the
erasure of such a name as that of D. O'Connell. If thi,
were a consequence which a Melbourne Ministry could
possibly contemplate, that name must, before the lapse
of another week, be

--" Blotted cut and razed
By his rebellion."
For never, we believe, has a mass of grosser sedition
been vomited from a foul bosom than the passage in
which this man tells his Dublin mob—" The Lords
wish to bring about an oligarchy in England, and, in
fact, a revolution, for that end is actually in progress
at this moment in that country ; and, so help me God'
I am at this instant firmly convinced, that but for the
spirit of freedom that breathes in the breasts of the
people of Ireland, that revolution would have, ere this,
broken out, and that the oligarchy of England would
succeed in establishing an unlimited power over the
people of England. But, at all events, this must be
adtm.ted, that they are making the experiment. They
are now," he adds, " committing the crime of
bribery wherever it can be safely committed :
they intimidate, and they corrupt."—" There is a
liberal and enlightened Queen, with servants
ready to work out her (q. my ?) views : a House
of Lords, the enemies of every species of human
liberty—a House of Commons with a minority almost
equal to a majority, and subservient to the worst pas-
sions of the Lords." Now, the English people, so
often held up by this demagogue to the hatred of his
wild hearers—that people, the honesty of whose men he
has maligned, and the chastity of whose women he has
traduced, will he little surprised that he has also a bud-
get of calumnies to let loose at the aristocracy. But
who would have expected that his two specific accusa-
tions would be intimidation and corruption ?—that inti-
midation would be charged by the director of death's
heads and cross-bones ?—that corruption would be
complained of by the vendor of Carlow ?! The bitterest
invectives have lately been directed against Queen Ade-
laide, for retaining servants of whom she was said to have
known that they had spoken disrespectfully of Queen
Victoria ; and the accusers would certainly have had a
very strong case, but for the fact that Queen Adelaide
was necessarily unacquainted with the utterance of this
scandal by her household, inasmuch as none of her
household had ever uttered it at all. But if it Would be
culpable in the Royal Family to connive at a slur upon
the Sovereign, the Sovereign ought not to be left by her
responsible Ministers in the situation of even appearing
to countenance atrocious abuse of the Royal Family,
and especially of the next heir to the Crown. Yet
hear the language which this foul-mouthed fellow, one
of her Majesty's Counsel, a Magistrate in Ireland, and
the main manager of the Ministerial interests in that
country, did on Thursday last publicly address to
the assembled multitudes of the Trades' Union in
Dublin. After some comments on speeches deli-
vered by English gentlemen, whom he called " these
Tory rascals," he continued—" One of them gave as
a toast the other day the heir presumptive to the
Throne, the Duke of Cumberland ;' but I thank
God the time is fast approaching when there will be
another heir, who will shut out the Royal Miscreant
for ever !" Perhaps the Ministers of the Sovereign
Lady who is niece to the illustrious person thus desig•
"led, may not read the regular reports of their Irish
ally's scurrility, but they do read the leading articles of
the Times, and thus by the passages now extracted and
pointed out, we affect them with the complete notice,
and fix them with the full knowledge, of what has been
said within this very week of their mistress's uncle, by
the man whom they constituted, and have hitherty con-
tinued, as one of her counsel and one .of her Magis-
trates, their favourite candidate for the Chief Barony of
her Irish Exchequer ! When the rent was in the course
of collection the repeal of the Union was the leading decoy.
To that " great object" the life of the mendicant and
the gains of his mendicity (or mendacity) were to be
thenceforth devoted. He now pretends to suppose
that the Conservatives intend to rescind, or in some
way, as he calls it, to swindle Ireland out of the Catholic
Relief Bill, and this he assigns to his gullible hearers
as an excuse for dropping the repeal of the Union. e I
am blamed," says he, "for being a Repealer. lam a
Repealer, and my reason for not at once agitating repeal
is, that lam busy watching the Orangemen I" We are
quite sure that as soon as rent-time was past, as soon
as the begging-box had gone all round, the " great ob-
ject,". and everything else except the money put m,
would be thrown to the winds. Repeal would not be-
seem the expectant Chief Baron of the constitutional
Whigs. A very large portion of his desperate speech
is spent iu raving at this Journal, for the opinions which
it has expressed of him and his. Yet, with a clumsi-
ness which nothing but loss of temper can account
for in so. cunning a tactician, he suffers the truth to
slip out—that these opinions of ours are the opinions
of the great mass of the whole English nation ; for such
is the obvious infer. r,ce from the confession whined out
by him in the shape of a complaint, that the Times,
which he abuses for she mischief it has been doing to
Popery, "is a paper having the most extensive circula-
tion in England—a paper that circulates most widely
amongst the people of England of every class—a le ps a. r