The Sun.
London, England, 1825-02-26 00:00:00

law, instead of attempting to do themselves 1
justice; and by thus placing law within the
reach of the people, and familiarizing themselves
with its benefits, they were, in our humble ap-
prension, rendering the most important services
in a country like Ireland, so often convulsed by
violence and disorder. Mr. Dogherty has again
and again been told that no one charged the
Courts of Law with partiality, but he still re-
turns to the defence of them. He reminds us
of a person who has lost his sense of hearing, and
who continues his remarks without the least regard
to the observations of those who address him.—
He seems to have a happy faculty of abstracting
himself from all surrounding noise ; for this is
the fourth or fifth time that the Senator has pro-
ceeded with the utmost gravity through his eu-
logy of the administration of justice, without
taking the slightest notice of the distinction be-
tween the Courts and the inferior Magistrates,
which has been made to him. It is a good
standing speech, but if it should he delivered for
the twelfth time, we shall take care to keep it
permanently in type.

[MORN] NG POST.]
The Bill to relieve Ireland and the Catholics
themselves from the impolitic, imprudent, and
ambitious Association which has done so much
injury to their cause, went through a third
reading, and was passed by the House of Corn.
mons last night. On a subject which had
been previously so fully discussed, it was im-
possible that any novelty of fact or argument
should be produced. Repetition, and that not
merely to a second, but to a third, a fourth, a
fifth, and sixth degree, formed the chief cha-
racteristic of all that was said on the question
in debate, and the only thing surprising was the
patience of the House in listening to echoes so
long. Had not, indeed, some extraneous matter
been introduced, some charges on individuals
which drew u defence from their friends, the ge-
neral sameness would have been scorcely tolera-
ble. Mr. Secretary Peel produced a striking in-
stance of the incorrectness of assertions made by
Mr. Brougham with so much confidence that he
himself had for a moment believed them. That
Hon. and Learned Gentleman had asserted that
Mr. Hamilton Rowan had been a Magistrate,
and declared it with so much boldness that the
Right Honourable Secretary supposed Mr.
Rowan had really been in the Commission of the
Peace. He had however caused inquiry to be
made, and had that very day received the follow-
ing letter from the Hanaper Office, Dublin :
" Upon search made in the records of the liana per
for twenty years past, I find Hamilton Rowan
has not been in the Commission of the Peace for
any county in Ireland for the last twenty years."
This information was received by the House with
loud cheers. Mr. Brougham, in explanation, said
that his informant had since told him that he had
seen, Mr. Rowan's name affixed to an address of
undersigned persons, being Magistrates and Grand
Jurors of a county. It thus became clear that
Mr. Rowan presented himself on that occasion,
not as a Magistrate, but as a Juryman. Mr.
Brougham, however, still condemned the term
" attainted traitor," as applied to Mr. Rowan ;
but Mr. Peel satisfactorily showed that he had
the authority of the Report of a Select Committee
for what he had said. An appeal was at last made
from arguments to votes, and the third reading
was carried by a triumphant majority of Mt to
90. The Bill will now be carried to the Lords,
where new efforts will probably be made to in-
terrupt its progress, but where it is impossible
any thing can be said to invest the exhausted sub-
ject with interest.