The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-23 00:00:00

rtINDAMENTAL RULES.

" I. The means of the Irish Alliance shall be the union
of all Irishmen, the concentration of public opinion, and
the exercise ell the moral, social, and political influ-
ences within their reach. . . .

"11. The affairs of the alliance shall be managed by,
a council, who shall have power to appoint deters, sub-
committees for special purposes, to call general meetings
of the body, and make bye•laws for the government of
the alliance not inconsistent with the fundamental rules.
That half of the council of the Irish Alliance do go out at
the end of each half-year, but that they be competent to
be re-elected.

" lIL The funds of the alliance shall be audited, and
the accounts published once a quarter; and all accounts,
before payment, shall be submitted to and approved of
by the committee of finance.
"IV. No resolution or other business shall be brought
before the alliance of which a week's notice in writing,
posted in the council-room, shall not hare been previously
given; and no resolution for altering any fundamental
rule shall be brought forward without having received
the sanction of the council.

" V. Neither the alliance, nor any member of it, shall
be considered to be bound by any opinion expressed by
any individual, at any meeting thereof.
" VI. Each member of the council shall subscribe a
pledge, binding him to refrain from accepting or solicit-
' ing place, pension, or patronage from any English
Government who will not make the object of the alliance
a Cabinet question; and binding him not to vote for or
support any candidate for Parliamentary representation
who will not take a similar pledge against the solicitation
of Government patronage; and that any member of the
council who shall be known to have violated this
engagement shall be removed therefrom, and from the
alliance.
" VIL All offensive allusions to any other political
association shall be strictly prohibited.
" VIII. Sectarian or religious subjects shall not be
introduced into the proceedings of the alliance, except
when it may be required for the defence of religious
liberty, or for protecting and vindicating the inalienable
rights and immunities of conscience.
" IX.. That any Irishman agreeing to the principles
and fundamental rules of the Irish Alliance, may be
admitted a member on being propotted and secondtd at
a public meeting, and on the payment of a subscription
of not less than one shilling.
"That a committee of twenty-one be appointed to
manage the affairs of the Irish Alliance for one month,
from November 20th, 1849, and to nominate the nucleus
of a council :—Arthur Barlow, T.C. ; Henry Gore
Carolan, M.D., T.C. ; James Plunkett, T.C. ; John
O'Neill, T.C. ; John Martin, T.C.; Ralph Walsh, P.
Johnston, Patrick Murphy, Charles Gavan Duffy, Rev.
Mr. Fay, George Washington Vance, John Magrath,
solicitor; Charlton Stuart Ralph, W. J. Battersby, Dr.
West, Edward Trouton, John Williams, Dr. White, Dr.
Grattan, J.P., Edward Murphy, Kingstown. Treasurer,
Martin Burke. Secretaries, John Lloyd Fitzgerald,
Andrew Russell Stritch, Maurice R. Leyne."

We should feel at some loss with regard to the
working of this new association, if Mr. DurrY, the
able, and we believe honest proprietor of tha Nation
newspaper, did not supply us with a sort of com-
mentary as to its objects and operations. He says,
" the first object of the Irish Alliance is the land,"
and we fully concur in the importance of this subject
and the propriety, nay, necessity, of bringing the
serious attention of every honest man in Ireland t♦ its
immediate consideration with a view to the settlement
of a question so vitally affecting the peace and happi-
ness of the country. On this subject he proposes
to form tenant-right associations through the
country.
Th;• next object of the Alliance is " the abolition
of Church temporalities," no doubt another crying
grievance, and is but a question of time ; for the
anomaly of the richest Church and the poorest
people cannot long resist the growing enlightenment
of the age. It must be cut down and shaped
to the religious requirements of the people. The
third object is the " franchise," the extension of
which Ireland has a right to expect, and we trust we
shall see an honest and liberal measure with this
view introduced by some member of the Government
in the next session of Parliament. The Irish fran-
chise, before too narrow and limited, has been fear-
fully reduced by famine and the infamous clearance
system. .

A few statistical facts mill demonstrate the
grievous injustice Lnder which Ireland labours in
the present system of representation. Taking tht
population cf the United Kingdom at twenty-seven
millions, the 658 Members constituting the House of
Commons would give one Member for about every
41,000 persons, but, instead of the representation
being fairly apportioned amongst the whole con‘