The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-24 00:00:00

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1836.

We have received the copy of a Prospectus for
raising a loan in favour of Don CAlirms, which, we
understand, has been widely circulated through the

City this morning. We cannot afford to waste our
columns with its further dissemination. We hope
that none of our City friends will be such fools as to
fall into this trap, which the speculators and jobbers
have set for them. The proposals are all very fine on
paper, but bonds payable by the man in the moon
would be just as good substitutes for hard cash as
a handful of this Carlist stock.

The petitions presented last night by Mr.WALLACE
are a very proper prelude to the motion the Hon.
Member so praise-worthily persists in making, so as to
let in the light on the deeds of the rack-renting
landlords and rack-rented tenantry of the county of
Carlow. Mr. 'WALLACE has taken care not to mix
himself up with the statements on either side, and has
shown the same firm and independent conduct, and
used tbe same kind of constitutional language, when
presenting the petitions in favour of Colonel BRUEN,
as when presenting those which were of an opposite
tendency. The Orangemen have endeavoured to show
that Mr. WALLACE has kept back his motion, and
Colonel Brut; EN appears to have added to this outcry—
the allegation being that the motion for enquiry was put
by Mr. WALLACE at the bottom of the list. We know
something of Parliamentary matters ; and we therefore
know well that every motion must be placed in its
order, and that it is beyond the power of any Member
to take precedence of another. If Colonel BRUEN
does not know this, his long Parliamentary life ought to
have taught it him. We repeat, Mr. WALLACE
must, like any other Member, wait for his turn ; and
we have yet to learn that he declined bringing on his
motion when called upon at any reasonable hour. The
motion was deferred yesterday on purpose to do justice
to both sides ; and now that the petitions are before
us and the public, we cannot too much praise the de-
sire of even-handed justice which induced the course
Mr. WALLACE has taken in postponing his motion.
It is quite clear, that the exaction of rents, long suf-
fered to remain due, and suspended in terrorem over
the heads of the tenantry, is the mode of intimidation
and coercion resorted to by the Carlow Orangemen,
and is made the pretext for exterminating the Catholic
peasantry. We can also easily see that the constant re-
currence, in argument, to the right of landlords to in-
sist for their rents, is only a pretext to mislead the
public from the question at issue—the indepen-
dent condition of the electors of the county of
Carlow. If they are not independent, let them be
disfranchised, or let them have the protection of the
Ballot. Will the Orangemen agree to these terms
We suspect not : and so it will be seen, when the
Member for Greenock brings on the question. The
inquiry will either be stifled, we suspect, or of such a
character as will lead to no practical relief to the un-
happy electors.

Whatever be the result, great praise is clue to Mr.
WALLACE for his repeated exertions on behalf of the
oppressed. The Irish nation cannot but feel grateful
for the lively interest which he has taken in the wel-
fare of her people, since his entrance into Parliament.
We believe, however, that the inquiry will be produc-
tive of great benefit. The HOB. Member for Greenock
is not a person to be easily deterred from the discharge
of what he conceives to be his duty as a Member of
the Legislature. One rebuff will not frighten him.
He may, on the present occasion, be overpowered by
the Orange faction ; but in the end he will triumph.
He has touched the mask of corruption, and he will
not rest till he has removed it, and exposed the hideous
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