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scarcely sensible subdivision. Thu only ground of saying and unsaying as may best suit the purpose of
opposition between patties is some occasional. differ- progressive encroachment, and may best accommodate
ence upon the transient politics of the day. How is it in itself to the convenience of an Administration merely
Ireland ? There, the majority being Papists of low in the belief that it is an Administration which will
degree, and ruled despotically by their priests, are in repay this temporary accommodation, by permitting
permanent conspiracy against all sects and par- and encouraging, at a fit and convenient season, every
ties but such as - exist in subserviency to the imaginable encroachment upon the Church and .Con-
priesthood, and for its selfish and peculiar pur- stitution. Mr. O'Connell would not be a fit con-
pose—viz., the aggrandizement of the Popish federate of the present Ministers if he were not ready
Church. Therefore, the attribute of impartiality to make a traffic of his principles, Provided the bar-
with regard to sects, which belongs for the most gain offered to him be apparently an advantageous
part, if not in all cases, to English Corporations, one. Mr. Crawford is not yet initiated into the
is foreign to the unavoidable composition of Irish mysteries of this commerce, and is therefore not a fit
ones ; so that, unless the political genius of Popery confederate of the Ministry and Mr. O'Connell.—
could he abolished by Act of Parliament, it would be . Morning Post.
physically impossible to assimilate, far less identify, At the risk of seeming to care more about Mr.
the municipal oodies of both islands, or to produce O'Connell and his furious proclamation to the people
that " equality" which is so declaimed about by the of Ireland than we really do, we think it may be well,
agitator. The phrase, however, .of " insult to Ire- to state some further considerations to which the per-
land," serves for one of those fraudful texts on which usal of that absurd document has given rise. By his
the whole life of this incendiary has been a perennial clumsy and fulsome flattery of Ireland and Irishmen,
preachment. On the preient occasion it form's the Mr. O'Connell provokes remarks upon national cha-
opening to - a catalogue of false, foul, and-loathsome ratter, which, under ordinary circumstances, we should
blackguardisms, such as none but the writer himself not have thought of 'expressing. 'He challenges ex-
could have conceived, and
,by which any cause kit the posure of faults, . which, in the extravagance of his
atrocious one whose champion he is would long since folly, he insists the public should believe to be vira
have been irretrievably ruined. It is not seven years tues. He does worse than this, for, by the general vio-
since this half sycophant, half brute, was lauding the lence of his exaggerations, he throws a doubt upon those
Duke of Wellington to the skies, and subscribing, or good qualities which really do exist, and which, with
promising to subscribe, for equestrian statues to his a little talent for discrimination, he might have brought
honour, proclaiming that Catholic emancipation had into the foreground, without violating all candour and
put Papists on a perfect footing of equality with Pro- outraging , all common sense in the manner lie has
testants as to civil rights, and disbanding his old in- done. In short, Mr. O'Connell is such a coarse-
surrectionary association as a thing no longer needed. minded man, so abandoned to violence and swag-
. Then what reliance can be placed •on .such a knave ger, that we doubted very much whether he would be
as this, when of the Duke of Wellington, who capable of writing a decent panegyric on the land of
carried what no other man in England would then his birth. We never have read his ranting, tawdry
have dared to attempt—the Bill which has praise, without being reminded of Dr. Johnson's- re-
has made the same O'Connell a standing peg- ply to the man at 'Lichfield, who greatly praised a
tiler= in that House, which once was a House sermon which they had both just heard. - " Sir,"
of gentlemen—of the Duke of Wellington he now ex- said the Doctor, " the sermon may have been very
presses himself thus—" Insult, daring, foul insult, has good, but it is impossible that you should know it.
been superadded,insult from the ungenerous and But if Ireland be in all respects the finest country upon
heartless tyrant, Wellington !!" Yes, Daniel O'Con- the face of the earth, as Mr. O'Connell would have
lien, base, low-minded, uncrateful as he is, uses terms " the people of-Ireland believe," and if that people be
to his own and his country's benefactor, which mine worthy of anything like the eulogistic description which
. but the " ungenerous, heartless tyrant," who robs the Mr. O'Connell in writing to themselves thinks it need-
half-naked of their rags, the half-starving of their ful to treat them with, how happens it that so much
morsel, and by rebellious excitements betrays both to is still to be done for them ? How is it that the mass
the gallows or the sword, would have imagined even of the nation is very ignorant, very indigent, and very
against " a stunted corporal." So, Lord Fitzgerald prone to all the vices of savage life I " Bad govern-
and Vesci, who had more thaO once been checked in anent," Mr. O'Connell may reply, " has been the cause
his career of office for the sake of his consistent and of all this." Well,- if it be so, you admit the effect in
unvarying attachment to the principle of " Ernati- assigning the cause ; you grant the ignorance, the in-
cipation," this Nobleman, as well as the Knight of di ence, and the savageness, and how do you reconcile
Kerry, is now loaded with the grossest and bitterest these qualities with the extravagant praises which you
abuse ; and why ?—because, having, both of them, bestow upon the people to whom they belong ? The
sacrificed themselves repeatedly in the cause of the plain fact is that, if good government be necessary to
Irish Papists, while that cause was supported by the make a spirited, virtuous, honest people, which we
• semblance of justice, and combined with an extension have no doubt it iss, Mr. O'Connell's character of his
of constitutional right, they at length refuse to serve countrymen would prove that his frantic execration of
themseisSes by sacrificing the Protestant religion, and their government is altogether a blunder—a paroxysm
ts
the welfare of the British Monarchy, to the false pre- 'of error founded upon a false assumption. We are very
tence of civil liberty, when the object of the claimants sorry to say that Mr. O'Connell's representation • re-
is domineering and exclusive power. It has often been girding the great body of his countrymen is not
our duty to .ask, and never yet our good 'fortune to true. °The mass of the Roman Catholic population,
have the question answered, in what this much-be- though not wanting in natural shrewdness, nor in
dizened " Justice to Ireland" consists ? Mr. Whittle good feeling, in their unexcited moments, are in
Harvey threw some sharp light upon the subject, and their habits of life filthy and ferocious. They are, such
we think made it pretty clearly out that "justice to as we 3ee them here in London (where they have not
the people of Ireland " varies from week to week, 1 the excuse of " want of work," and " oppressive land-
still more from one year to another, according to what lords"), very mach given to dirt, and drink, and fight-
may, chance to he the object of Mr. Daniel O'Connel ing among themselves. This description will, we pe-
at the time. In 1825 to 1830, it was Catholic Eman- prebend, much more exactly square with the experience
cipation. From 1830 to 1833, it was an increase by of our readers than the high-flown flatteries of Mr.
Act of Parliament to the number of the tail. From O'Connell. We admit that this positive badness of
1833 to the present hour, it has been a Papist mono- social charaCter, in a people who are the reverse of
poly of the corporations, and a substitution of the naturally stupid, must be in a great measure attributed
Romish for the Protestant Church. What would he to bad government. Not, however, to the bad govern-
justice to Mr. Daniel O'Connell " is a question to ' meat of his Majesty the King, and his predecessors,
which every honest man in society will return the same for that de;is not reach to the social habits of the Irish,
answer.— Times. peasantry. Their real governors arc the' priests, and
- Honest and well-meaning en:n of all parties will some lay agitators in conjunction with them. Thu it
rejoice to learn that jealousy, discord, and strife are is who have encouraged the vices which so grossly de-
becoming daileemore -and more conspicuous among til•„!" form the character of the Irish common people. The
revolutionary band of which Mr—O'Connell, and, political Government has been indeed to blame for
under him, 'the present Ministers of the Crown, have omitting to notice these abettors of depravity, and to
hitherto been the. recognised and undisputed leadera. do all that could be done at the proper time to coon-
This is no more than it was natural and reasonable to teract. them. Now it is too late. The ascendancy
expect. It is fortunate for society that, in such cabals, has been obtained, and these determined workers
however they may seem to .prosper for a moment, the of mischief have a savage population at their
:seeds of disithion and weakness are always so thickly command, who, thanks to their training, are wholly
:scattered as to ensure their early dissolution. Hence inaccessible to the influence of good principles
they generally fail to complete the full measure of rils• and absolutely deaf -to the pleadings of good sense.
Grief with which, in the earlier stages of their exist- So much for Mr. O'Connell's - general eulogy
eke, they have threatened the cominunitv. The more which, if it were addressed to a sober, well-infornie
cautious and timid begin to draw off' from the main people, would to them seem as fulsomely disgusting P
body after a certain degree of success has hem achieved to us it seems extravagantly absurd. A ward or tv.
by united and simultaneous exertion. The leaders their now upon the first great grievance which Mr. O'Cm
falter in their career of destruction, and, in the vain nell puts forth. He says that the poor Irish, t!
hope of keeping their followers together, become des:- poorest people in the world, as lie calls them, thou::
rous of pursuing the objects of the conspiracy 1,,, he also avers that they are the shrewdest, and th:
slower, more circuitous, ' anti less open steps; bu't . they live in the finest of
_all fine countries, which,
• they seldom fail to discoVer 'that this chana-c of policy, the sight of all reasonable people, must make the.,
involves its own peculiar' dangers. The substitution poverty a very great reproach to themselves-the:-
of cunning for impetuosity does not suit the tempers, poor Irish have, he says, to support two Churchco.
or correspond with the interests or inclinations of " their own," and " the strange Church," whit!:
all men. It affords an opportunity for desertion to all latter, is his courteous mode of distinguishing the
those who originally entered the confederacy from Protestant Establishment. Here is a specimen o!
ser,ish motives, which have riot been realized ; who the real government of the Irish. They have been
have only been admitted to the second place in its trained up to - receive everything political which is
rae'es, when they thought themselves entitled to oe- uttered by Mr. O'Connell -with the same supersri-
copy the first ; vdle have taken any personal disouet tious acquiescence as they receive everything purport-
at the con:it:et of those to whom the guidance of ing to ,be religion which is uttered, by their priests,
the cabal has been entrusted ; or who fancy that and the advantage he takes of this state of circum-
they
can perceive slements in existence in society stance is to put forth the above untruth in order to
out of which they may organize a new conspiracy;, exasperate the people. The Irish Roman Catholics do
more determined and courageous than that which net support the Protestant Establishment. The reve-
they abandon and denomice, .of which new conspi- venues of the Church are not a charge upon the people
racy they may he the leathers..Sueh deserters become, but upon the land, and the Roman Catholics do not
hot only' by inclination, but by the very necessity of own the land. Even if they did, the charge of tithes
their new position, the most implacable enemies
and- being anterior to their possession of the land, they could
the sternest accusers of their former Commanders. The not be said to support the Church. If a man buy an
imputations of inconsistency, apoitacy, treachery to the estate with an annuity charged upon it, he does not
Common cause, are now dealt out with an unsparing think of complaining that he has to support the
hand, and with the greater effect that they are' not gene- annuitant. It cannot now be said that the tithe, being
rally unfounded. - When a Movement party becomes a portion of the produce, takes away. a part of the
slow timid, and cunning, while any of its avowed oh- labour and: capital of the' cultivator, and takes more
jects remain yet d• h it , e miaccomp is can no longer
I.than he may have calculated upon when he entered
maintain even a plausible show of respect for the into the occupancy of 'the land. As the law now
principles and doctrines by the profession •of which its stands, all the land in Ireland is, or may be, subjected
leaders d stimula e tand justified its earlier deeds. We to a composition in lieu of tithe—a fixed payment,
-
have thus glanced at the causes which give a decided which is a charge like rent, and neither greater nor less
advantage in argument to the more reckless or the from the circumstance of the industry and capital
bolder assailants of the institutions of
a country-, who I 1
a »lied to the cultivation of the land. Mr. O'Con-
will not consent to be restrained in theirrevolutionary'nell's
grand grievance a mere anti
career by the leaders of the confederacy to which they if lie were honest, he would confess that the grievance
have hitherto belonged. These causes give an un- is the Protestant Church, and not the support of it,
speakable advantage to Mr. D. W. Harvey over Lord with which the Roman Catholics have nothing to do.
J. Russell, and even to Mr. S. Crawford over Mr. The Church has a property of its own, and
supports
O'Connell. The deserters are, in fact, truer than itself.--Morning Herald.
their former leaders to the text and the principles of Our readers arc by this titre
e apprised that it is pro-
that compact which has hitherto united them. We posed to bring forward Mr. Sheriff Salomons for the
published on Saturday the letter of Mr. Harvey borough of Southwark, in the room of Mr. D. W.
to the electors of Southwark, and, entirely as Harvey, on whose resignation we commented in Sa-
we dissent from every principle embodied in that turday s Advertiser. Mr. Sheriff Salomons has already
production, we cannot but acknowledge that they expressed a determination, in case of a vacancy for
are . the principles which have procured for the Marylebone occurring,either through a dissolution,
or
Melbourne Ministry the chief support upon which through the resignation of • Mr. H. L. Bulwer, of
it has rested since its formation, that they are the prig- offering himself a candidate for that popular and po-
ciples to the influence of which it consented to owe pulous borough. But there being at present no like-
the possession of office. Thinking, as we do, that lihood in that quarter through the occurrence of the
Lord Melbourne and his colleagues' are more than above two contingencies, •wet)believe it is the intention
bold enough in their attacks upon the institutions of of the Sheriff, and of the friends
the country, we are of opinion .at the same time that put to immediate issue in Southwark the
great principle
Mr. D. W H in •
W. Harvey, virtue of the implied compact of civil and religious liberty, of which he is at present
which has hitherto enabled him and them generally to eminently the representative. If Mr. Sheriff Salomons
act together, is entitled to say of them as lie does say, should be elected for Southwark, the resistance of
that " their e •
ntire policy is temporising and timid-- the Lords to the Jewish Disabilities Bill would be of
disheartening to their friends, while it inspires th • no importance. If Mr. Sheriff
t their . Salomons be elected
political foes with audacious courage"—that " a rude there exists no real impediment to taking his seat in
and trembling hand is doing something
to every thing, the House. Mr. Sheriff Salomons may without any
and doing nothing well—that they hive not firm and difficulty take the oaths and sign the declaration, as
sturdy hearts, and that the course of Government he did when he became Sheriff of London and Mid-
which they have struck out has not for • its sole ob.: dlesex, by the aid of some slight change in them which
jects the safety, and happiness, and liberty of the the
House of Commons is competent to make by a ore-
people. Nor when we compare Mr. Sharman Craw- solution to that 'effect. There is precedent for such an
ford, whose letters to Mr. O'Connell and to the electors alteration meeting the existing difficulty of the case,,
of Dundalk, will be found in our paper of this day,
in the instance of Mr. Pease,° the Quaker, who now
with the leader under whom he has hitherto acted sits in the House in consequence of, being empowered
In-Parliament, is it possible to deny that although Mr. by an express resolution—namely—that his affirmation
O'Connellmay be the more cunning man, Mr. Craw. to the effect of the oaths,- should be taken in lieu of
fort}- the the more honest
and
consistent one ? Mr. them. We are happy to find that there is a probabi-
C raw% a
r says nothing more than his leader has taught lity that the pernicious • obstructiveness of the Lords
him to say ; but he is not capable, like his leader, of
will thus be shortly defeated. Morning Advertiser.