The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-02 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1849,

After all that has been done and suffered for Ire-
land, Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL must come down forsooth
to the House of Commons whining about his ill-
trestment, and about what he calls the ill-treatment
of the Irish representatives. It is not enough that
England is to support the pauperism of the sister
island. It is Lot enough that we are to give her
inhabitants ten mill ons in a lump, and supplemental
grants, and loans accompanied with very dubious
securities, and importations of Indian corn and
Indian meal, and supplemental employment on rail-
ways, and a general exemption from taxation. It is
not enough that Administration after Administration
should Lave its back broken, and its energies
exhausted, and its reputation damaged by
endeavouring to conquer the difficulties relat.
ing to the government of Ireland. It is not
enough that session after session should be monopo-
lized by debates on Irish Bills, by the presentation of
Irish petitions, and by the reception of Irish deputa-
tions. It is not enough that the English labourer
should be saddled with the burthen of supporting the
Irish peasant, year after year, harvest after harvest.
It is not enough that the attention of the public, the
time of the Parliament, the genius of the Cabinet,
the philosophy of our statesmen, the rhetoric of our
orators, the vigilance of our economists should be
squandered almost exclusively upon the one everlast-
ing theme—lreland—lreland—lreland. Ne : it is
not enough that all this should be done—
insomuch that the population is at last becoming
sick to very loathing of the monotony of that inter-
minable grievance. But Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL must
cams howling down to the Legislature about the
grievances of himself, of ,his I-lon. Colleagues, and of
Ireland in the mass, is that matchless tone of dema-
gogic mendicancy, in the employment of which he
has long proved himself such a proficient. After all,
we repeat, that has been done and suffered by us for
Ireland, we are accused by this very brazen-faced
and importunate person, the Member for Lime-
rick, with treating his country, and everything
relating to his country, with neglect. And
yet, at this very time, the public ear is
stunned with nothing but appeals about Ireland—
the public intellect is bewildered with its efforts to
alleviate the sufferings of Ireland—the public eye is
fixed almost exclusively upon Ireland and upon Irish
questions—the public heart is nearly broken, and is
quite nauseated with its ceaseless exertions to
confer happiness, and prosperity, and self-reliance
upon the people and upon the institutions of Ireland.
Mr. Joffe O'Co:sesee's complaint against us—a
complaint not at all mitigated in its bitterness by any
sentiments of gratitude to England—is briefly this :
That the daily journals of the metropolis, at the same
moment that they are infringing one of the rules of
the House of Commons by the publication of reports
of the proceedings in Parliament, refuse to give word
for word, and syllable for syllable, the speeches there
delivered by the Honourable and Learned Gentleman
the Member for Limerick. The complaint is
at
once particularly Irish and particularly modest.
To condemn in one and the same breath the
infringement of the sessional order and the compliance
with the injunction of that sessional order, is a course
worthy of a fellow-countryman of the immortal Sir
BOYLE ROCHE. It speaks admirably fur Mr. JOHN
O'CoNs.ELL's ingenuity ; and it certainly betrays, on
his part, a modesty for which even his opponents
would scarcely have given him credit. Mr. JOHN
OCONNELL is indignant because his sapient orations
have not been reported in extens• by the gentlemen who
occupy such an important post in the gallery of both
Houses of Parliament—gentlemen upon whom another
and a more illustrious Irishman, we mean the gifted
orator, the Right Hon. RICHARD LALOR SHELL, as
far back as 1846, passed one of his most eloquent
sz:WSP panegyrics. Against the reporters for the daily
journals of the capital, the Member for Limerick
appears to have acquired a very serious grudge,
arising from the fact of their submitting his remarks
to a very wholesome
and judicious abbreviation.