The Sun.
London, England, 1825-02-25 00:00:00

If these objects had been previously neglected
by the Irish Government, and were for the first
time attained through the instrumentality of this
Association, a case might have been made out to
have induced us to have viewed it with no very
decided disapprobation. But the truth will come
forth ; his Majesty has an able and faithful Lieu-
tenant in Ireland. lie has proceeded right onward in
his course, turning off neither to one side nor to the
other. Justice is impartially meted out to all
the King's subjects. One evil only exists in the
land, which thwarts and hampers him in the be-
neficent career he is pursuing, and to suppress
that evil he has suggested the measure now be-
fore Parliament. The question is then simply
whether he who, it is admitted, has done for his
country " all the good in his power in every way
in which good can be done," shall have free
scope to go forward, or whether the new evil
that has sprung up by a fraudulent evasion of
the law, shall be allowed to mar all that has been
done, and carry the country back in despair, to
the point from which it started under the au-
spices that yet preside over it ?

rMORNING HERALD.]
Several Petitions were last night presented to
the House of Commons from Waterford, &c.,
against the Bill for putting down the Catholic
Association. Sir J. Newport, in presenting that
from Waterford, in the course of his address
had occasion several times to beg the attention
of the House, the noise being so great, that it
was evidently painful to him to have to repeat
his efforts to be heard. There appeared to he no
remarkable anxiety to renew, on the presentation
of petitions, the discussion on the Bill. In a sub-
sequent part of the evening, however, in the course
of conversation, Sir J. Newport contrived to
fix the attention of the House, and rather to
startle the Home Secretary, Mr. Peel, by open-
ly declaring according to information which he
had received from a Noble Member of another
place, that the Lord Lieutenant, the Marquis
‘Vellesley, had borne testimony, in his dis-
patches to Government) to the often-repeat-
ed statement " that the Catholic Association
had largely contributed to restore and pre-
serve the tranquillity of Ireland." The 'Mem-
bers of the Ministerial Bench were astounded,
and there were some demands on the Right lion.
Baronet to name his authority. He did so forth-
with. lie said that he had been so inform-
ed by the Marquis of Lansdown (who is the
Chairman of the Irish Inquiry Committee in the
other House), that various documents had been
laid before the Committee there, by Ministers ;
and that amongst such papers was the dispatch
in question. He added, that he would this day
move an Address to his Majesty for a copy of
such declaration of the Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land in favour of the Association ; and that in
the meantime he would obtain the particulars of
such document from the Marquis of Lausdown.
Mr. Peel rose, but it was evident that he had
been" taken by surprise ;" but he was understood
to state, that if there were any such document,
it would of course be submitted to the Com-
mittee of that House, now inquiring into the state
of Ireland. But that would not satisfy Sir
John ; he repeated that he would this day re-
quire it to be laid before the House and the coun-
try. With respect to the history of the docu-
ment, it ought to be borne in mind, that pre-
viously to bringing in the Bill, the Ministers in
both Houses, in answer to questions, declared
that they should submit " no papers" in justifica-
tion of the measure ; but it was afterwards
found by several Lords, that, according to
the precedents of 1819, regarding England,
and of subsequent measures respecting Ireland,
&c., it was not the practice, at least, of the
Upper House, to entertain such measures with-
out having some official documents to warrant
them. Such is the on did on the subject ; but
certain it is, that on Friday last, papers relative
to the state of Ireland were presented, by com-
mand of his Majesty, to the House of Lords, and
they were forthwith sent to their Lordships'"
Se-
lect," (not Secret) Committee on the State of
Ireland. Amongst these State Papers, the Un-
lucky document, according to Sir John New-
port, seems to have slipped in. Alderman
Thompson presented a petition from several
Charitable Foundations about London, against
the Legacy duty ; and several petitions were
presented against the constantly-evaded duty on
Receipts. Mr. Hume this day brings forward
his Resolutions touching the votes of Members
directly interested in Private Bills, and Lord
Palmerston moves the Army estimates, when he
will enter into details as
.to the increase of the
Army, which will be effected by an increase of
companies and not of regiments.

[THE PUT:LIG LEDGER.]
We have received the Paris Papers of Tuesday,
and the Male of Wednesday's
date ; but, with
the exception of local matter, their contents
possess very little interest. The Rentes exhiLit
an improvement, too slight, however, to be able
to found upon it any serious speculation in favour
of the continuance of
peace. Besides, they are
liable to be tampered with by the Minister ;
and what is not subject to the controul of this
Agent of the Holy Alliance, %vial the exception
of a very small host of uncompromising Libe-
rals, whose consistency, honourable at it may
be to themselves, only serves to exhibit, it;
more glaring colours,
the general subservien-
cy ? Perhaps we are too hard upon the nation,
itt attributing to its inertness the uncoutrouled
power weilded by
the Ministry ; for, if the
continuance of the existing system were put to
the vote, for one that should be in favour of it,
there would probably
be ninety-nine against it.
Rut the sword of the Holy Alliance is in the
former scale ; and this is the reason, no doubt,
of its turning the balance. As the Ministers
know well the real source of their ascendancy, as
well as the means of their retaining it, they will,
no doubt,
neglect no art and omit no concession,
by which they can hope, to secure the favour of
their benefactors. As the mere creatures of that
League, whose object is the extinction of human
liberty,
they are, by Weir tenure of office, hostile
to English principles, particularly to the prin-
ciple of our political relations n
•ith the new States