The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-29 00:00:00

particularised—Sir WILLIAM MOT WORTH, the
mute, and Mr. RALPH OSBORNE, the dumbfoun-
dered.

The exceptional case, to which we have made
allusion, is manifestly, of course, the Right Hon.
her MAJESTY'S Chief Secretary for the Rome
Department. He alone, among the whole of this
tethered cluster of statesmen, has preserved from
first to last his freedom of speech, his energy,
activity, promptitude, and independence. It was
quite impossible that Lord PALMERSTON could ever
be otherwise than conspicuous in any Cabinet, no
matter what the department to which he might be
nominated. But beyond all anticipation, the Noble
Viscount has rendered himself more notable as Home
Secretary than might have been anticipated by
even the most sanguine of his admirers. Through-
out the whole career of the Coalition he has been
the only one among its chief members who has
shown vigour of action and boldness of utterance.
Look at what has been done, listen to what has
been said, during the past session, and answer if,
in speaking thus, we are guilty of any extrava-
gance. Why, the only manly and energetic
speech delivered by one of her MAJESTY'S
Ministers in reference to the Eastern Ques-
tion was that noble speech derisive of the
paltry policy of Mr. COBDEN, condemnatory
of the arrogance of Russia, and declaratory
of the imperative need of maintaining at all
hazard the inalienable rights of Turkey, the speech
delivered the other evening by Lord PALMERSTON.
This, too, upon a subject referring in no manner
to the affairs of his own department. Again, at
the civic banquet, his was the only voice that
ventured to rise above the whisper of official com-
monplace and political mediocrity.- Nor has he
contented himself with talking, his energy as an
administrator having kept pace with his boldness
as a rhetorician. The fact is attested by the
closing of the London graveyards by a memorable
series of Orders in Council, as well as by the pas-
sing of the Act for the abatement:of the Smoke
Nuisance. Pre-eminent in ministerial merit
among his colleagues during the continuance of
the Parliamentary session, Lord PALMERSTON is
the first of the principal members of the Cabinet
to interrupt the silence consequent upon the
Prorogation. Elsewhere in our impression of this
evening will be found a report of the admirable
oration delivered by the Noble Viscount on the
occasion of his laying the foundation stone of the
new Athenaeum at Melbourne. The edifice
thereby commenced being intended to comprise,
within the limits of the same establishment, an
Infant's School, a Savings' Bank, and a Me-
chanics' Institution. The Home Secretary aptly
remarked that it was destined to be, as he might
say, "an epitome of the life of man, and an ex-
emplar of the civilisation and improvement of the
age." Nothing could possibly have been better
or more suitable than the observations
thereupon made by Lord PALMERSTON to
the inhabitants of Melbourne. One sugges-
tion only we would venture to thrust upon
the attention of the Noble Viscount in his
capacity as a Reformer—a suggestion that edi-
fices of this description might, through his instru-
mentality, become (what they are not now), in
deed as well as in name, Mechanics' Institutions.

Lord CAMPBELL'S address to his Moycullen
tenantry is both highly creditable to himself, as a
landlord, a senator, a Christian, and we may add
as a Legislator and a Judge, and is also worthy
of perusal by every Irish landlord and tenant,
exhibiting, as it does, their respective duties in
the most generous and manly style. Lord
CAMPBELL knows his own rights, but fully under-
stands the rights of his tenants. He determines
to be fair to them, and never to press the letter
of the law to their injury, even in carrying out
improvements confessed to be desirable ; but, he
expects in return, that no one will ever oblige
him to resort to law, which he yet would do
rather than tolerate examples of wilful abuse of
his moderation. His health was proposed by
Mr. KENNY, the parish priest, whose conduct we
shall notice presently, with the commendation it
deserves ; and his Lordship, in reply, went
through all the topics most important to an Irish
tenantry at the present time.
He adverted to the painful results of the
famine, to the impossibility of many then paying
rents at all, but especially to that annoying state
of things when, with the mortgagee, the Receiver
of the Court of Chancery, the collector for the
poor rates, for the labour rate, and for the county
cess, all demanding to be paid first, the poor
tenant really knew not whom to pay ; and often,
and naturally, concluded that it was best to pay
none of them. " Tenants were afraid to sow or
to plant, they were afraid to have stock, even a
pig in their possession, lest it should be seized for
a rate ; but, gentlemen," said Lord CAMPBELL,
" I trust that these bad times have passed away
for ever ; now you know who is your landlord, you
know to whom you are to pay, and what you are
to pay, and everything that remains after that is
your own." This, after all the long series of un-
certainties and unsettlements in Ireland, is the
first ingredient of the remedy. That, indeed,
which the Encumbered Estates Court is so largely
furnishing. A clear understanding, with a rea-
sonable landlord, giving full assurance to honest
industry, but leaving no evasion for shifty idle-
ness, is the first desideratum of all.
And Lord CAMPBELL will be a reasonable land-
lord. He is above resorting to clap-trap with his
tenants. He tells them plainly, that to have his
estate divided into larger holdings would be benefi-
cial both to him and to them. Voluntary emigra-
tion
will benefit both those who go and those
who remain ; the labourer remaining will cer-
tainly have a better demand for his labour, and
we begin to understand thoroughly now that
Canada to the poor Irish emigrant is a change
from starvation and almost compulsory idleness
to diet as luxurious as he can desire, and the in-
dependence and energy of fully-requited industry.
Lord CAMPBELL, however, will force none to
emigrate. He will be thankful if any are dis-
posed to enable him to join two or more tene-
ments till he can make a large farm out of them.
He believes that many would be much better off
working as labourers regularly for 2s. or 2s. 6d.
a day (what new wages for Galway !) than drag-
ging on a miserable existence, idle half the year,
on a small patch of land ; but he will sanction no
evictions ; he will not deprive men of their accus-
tomed means of support, and consign them to the
hedge-side or to the workhouse. Then as to their
rents, he wishes them to be " fair and moderate.
If any of them are too high let them be revised,
if any are insufficient they ought to be made fair ;"
The cordial cheering with which the double remark
was received testifies abundantly that Irish cottiers
a're as accessible to sentiments of fair play and
justice
as we who on this side the water imagine
Nivaeinieessni7 almost a monopoly of the virtue of

Were allladd were all ate
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la Lord CAMPBELLS (we may
abate our zeal flo Priests Mr. KENNYS), it would
English and Scotch, rle Ballot by almost one half.
the sincere regard
ought to adopt hisiaas well as Irish landlords,
to
the custom,"
hearts, if they really ng'aa ge from their inmost
`wish
it
hofforGalwraY the influence
elections, for
of their tenantry.
he observed, "on these estateaB4l
ur ex,erct,s' c of
of the proprietor in Parliamentary
both the town and county
iloa that I never will interfere with Y. Now I tell
the elective franchise. (Immense cheering,)
hope that you are all loyal, that you are I
asp arty politics go, good:
to the British Constitution ; that you will betached
subjects ; but, as far
your own choice, and vote for the man who in
your conscience and judgment is most fitting to
attend to and advance your interests."
Alluding to the improper influence of the priests
at elections, and having expressed his conviction
that Mr. KENNY would not interfere with the
electoral proceedings more than himself, he ir
Nsub-:
ject was adverted to afterwards by Mr. KENY,
on his health being proposed by his Lordship, in
language as worthy of universal adoption by all
Catholic Priests, and by all Ministers of Religion,
that of Lord CAMPBELL'S by Landlords. Po-
lemics
1 those
shall confine
and politics ho gladly left to others. " I
cnoenxifinoeusm jesecleisCfrosamidthhee2hea" hearts
wanededsionuglsotoitf
1 the people which
cause a greater havoc than those ;