The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-24 00:00:00

attempt was subsequently made by the Nob
Lord the Member for Tyrone to exclude Reim?d
from the operation of the bill. But it fell to tp°
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ground without a division—a very natural res.lll_'
when we consider that virtually the same question
had been decided a few minutes previously by
very decisive and overwhelming majority. Vie/(4
for our own part, we have always considered te;
Ireland should participate in every privilege%
bear her fair proportion of every burden
there should be no practical distinction bet!ees
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her children and those of the other portiono
the 'United Kingdom. We have witnessed hery
sufferings with much regret, and sympathised Wye
the inhabitants in their deep affliction. ty
have also always considered that the ealael/
under which she groaned was of an imperial e,.;
racter, and that it was equally unjust and
of
politic to levy an exclusive tax on any portion
the kingdom for the sums advanced for the Pre
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servation of the lives of so many of her MAJ'Eslir
subjects in the dark hour of distress and destit
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combined when her fields were depopulated from
combined influence of pestilence and fnell
But there was no assignable reason Ebyl l
it should not be subjected to a
and judiciously apportioned Property 710
which would fall, not on the poverty, but oust s
wealth, of the country. It was notorious thae.
man with 1001. in Ireland was even more min
pendent than one with a similar income
England, inasmuch as the purchasing Peviffsto
the pound sterling is far greater on the vr'd,
than on the eastern side of St. George's Cll3ll to
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Why, then, should he not contribute ecl9 ol
the Imperial Exchequer and to the maintenancee
the National Establishment of that which, sc
trust, will always remain the United Kingd°ll di,
There would be every possible reason for anl°bie
fication of the system to make parties responsiii y
only for the net annual profits for what te);t
actually receive rather than for what they eaotif
to receive, but there is none whatsoever for the
totrl exemption. In place, however, of wa'ilj
the real struggle on the point where they Ig', be
• have every reasonable prospect of success,
Irish Members expend their strength in in)1.81110
ticable contests, where they only receive rid'
and contempt for their pains.
On the next and most important questill
that affecting the duration of the tax, ;,/
greater indifference was displayed. After
brief sentences, in proposing that the tax she'
only be granted for two in place of seven Years,
and as brief an opposition—the amendment 0
rejected by a majority of 141, and the people ti.,'"
now saddled with the tax, for the prolonged tee''
with scarcely a hope of relief during the tern'
Another effort was subsequently made to have the ;0
tax under schedule A levied on " profits in
place of receipts, which was subsequently alte
to " net " receipts. The motion, however, rd
with a similar fate to those by which it had bed
preceded, the only circumstance that gave a te;
porary animation to the scene being the vocal offe4
of an Honourable Gentleman—a would-be rl
to Mr. PAUL BEDFORD—who (the Hon. Geeiv
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man, not Mr. PAUL BEDFORD) " vino cibor e 0 te
vetus," attempted to enliven the prevailing duln.
by chanting, with stentorian powers, the open
stanzas of the well-known popular bacchanal];
lyric " Jolly Nose ;" and this was the mode,bo
which the Commons House of Parliament--",,
popular branch of the Legislature —disposed o'
question, on the decision whereof the welfare all
happiness of the community in general, more
especially of the industrious middle classes, was s°
greatly dependent.