The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-10 00:00:00

priation of all corporate property, for the perversion of all
charitable funds, and foe .a ,ystem of jobbing and venality
that cannot to-exist with the Municipal Act ; so that the
fete of that unhappy measure would be even more decided
than that of the Reform Act. The next point of attack
would perhaps be the magistracy—we mean the portion of
it that owes its appointment to a Liberal Government,
which has taken into view the necessity for an impartial
administration of justice and the propriety of appointing
persons to the Bench who will strictly guard the rights and
interests of all classes and parties. The " Improvers"
would soon find a way to dispose of these modern
interlopers, and to place power in the hands only of their
partisans and accomplices. The earliest step would
probably be to place in the commission of every county an
additional number of individuals, hitherto known by the
name of Tory parsons, most laudably devoted to the col-
lection of tithes and the consumption of viands ; and if a
sufficient number of these could not be found (though we
should apprehend no lack of them), the deficiency might
easily be supplied from the country gentlemen whom the
Times the other day, with such remarkable appropriate-
ness, termed " wild horses." All measures of toleration,
and which have for object the accommodation of conscien-
tious scruples, would be easily disposed of ; and as many
of the " Improvers" have contended that, instead of being
relieved from the burden of Church-rates, Dissenters
ought to pay double imposts as a sort of penalty for
their perverseness, it woidd not be difficult to contrive
that the whole weight of tie.: upholding and repair of
Churches, which they never frequent, should be. ~grown
upon them. This change would be ;teemed by the regular
Church-goers of the kietoem a vast
weele
Ireland a wide 'Leal inmeisveffient." In
atoieled for the exertions of
tl 'd improvers," rt here is, we believe, no act of his po-
litical life which Sir Robert Peel so deeply laments as the
past he took in the emancipation of the Itornan Catholics
in the year 1829. He regsetted the necessity of the
change at the time, sed ne leas since seen only additional
reasons for wishing that the equ vlity of rights and privileges
then communicated hat never been granted. While seven
millions of the inhabitants eeeludad tram civil rights,
Ireland could be
What
just as the Minister of the day
thought fit. What used to be called Toryism reigned
triumphant there for centuries : indeed, from the time
of Henry 11. to the pessieg of the Rotten Catholic Relief
Act, it may be said theta the principles of Toryism ac-
tuated, with fetn exceptions, every Lord-Deputy and
Lord-lieutenant sent by Li-eat Britain to Ireland, A
system which lasted so long, must he gbiid, accor
ing to the best " ime-ceerl' feasoning ; and since
it is indisputable that, everything has gone wrong
subsequent to 1829, noilling can be clearer than that
the Act then inconsiderate'y and timidly pasted, from
a singular repugnance of the twice et Wellington to the
horrors of civil war, elloat.l he repealed. This great bar-
rier to Toter " improvement" once removed, there would
be every chance that Ireland might be restored to the state
of submission and resignation which for centuries prevailed.
It is abundantly evident, etiording to the Times and
Standard, that Lord Normanby has done nothing but mis-
chief during his rule, and the " Impeosters" would lose no
time in sending Lord Hid liernen to supersede him, under
whose administration, no doubt, tranquillity, now entirely
banished, would be restored, the supremacy of the law
vvould be maintained, and agitetion effectually terminated.
We have thus toughed i.itfearily a very few of the advan-
tages likely trt tlfide to the empire from the re-introduction
of the 't Improvers" to the various offices of Government ;
and truly the contemplation of them, even while writing,
has produced such an effect upon our mind, that we could
almost be reconciled to such a change, when the Adminis-
tration or Lord Melbourne and his friends shall be no more
--but not till then.—Morning Chronicle.
The supporters of the present Government have long
been content to plead the merit of the Whig policy in
Ireland, as a sufficing atonement for all the blunders and
basenesses of Lord Melbourne and his associates in other
quarters. The " soothing system" resorted to by Lord
Normanby was gravely alleged to have banished crime and
violence from the Emerald Isle, as effectually as (according
to the popular faith) the patron Saint of that " gem of the
West" banished poisonous reptiles from its soil. The mas-
sacre in detail of Protestants which is now going on,
throughout the Popish districts of Ireland, has at length
compelled the Ministeri Journalists to pause in their
career of eulogy. They are Silent now on the subject of the
effects of Lord Normanby's " conciliatory" policy in Ire-
land ;—but they are silent also, on the subject of the
murders which Lord Normanby's Popish supporters com-
mit, day by day, with absolute impunity. Yet, although
the Whig Journalists remain mute, Lord Normanhy
himself is, occasionally, compelled to bear unwilling
testimony to the actual horrors which reign throughout
large districts of that country, which he has, in times past,
boasted of having effectually " tranquillised." In the re-
ply, for instance, which Lord Morpeth has furnished to
the recent memorial of the magistrates of the county of
Tipperary—a memorial declaring Protestant life and pro-
perty in that country to be absolutely insecure—will be
found a passage which supplies evidence of a kind not
likely to be met with in Whig Newspapers, or in Whig
Parliamentary speeches. In the passage to which we al-
lude, the Whig Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is compelled
to admit, not merely the existence of a system of " auda-
cious" murder, but the existence, also, of the much more
alarming fact, that even " the well-disposed body of the
population" does not render "active and adequate co-ope-
ration in the vindication (?ic the laws I" No—such co-ope-
ration is rendered impossible by Popish ascendancy—and
by the system of intimidation to which that ascendancy has
given rise ! To this complexion (Lord Normanby himself
being the witness) has the march of Whig policy reduced
the social condition of Ireland.—Morning Herald.
The subject of our Indian relations continues to engross
the largestlshare of public attention. And so it ought ;
for no question could possibly affect to a greater extent the
true interests of the British empire. If, by any chance,
we were to lose our Indian possessions—if either Russia or
any other Power should wrest our Eastern territories from
us, then, indeed, we should have to say, that the sun of
England's glory had set for ever. There can be no ques-
tion that the Muscovite meditates an invasion of our In-
dian possessions. We proved this with the clearness of
demonstration a few days since. Our opinions on this point
are backed by the intelligent author of a very interesting
pamphlet which has just appeared, under the title of
" India, Great Britain, and Russia." In this pamphlet
there is much matter which well deserves the most serious
consideration of Government and the Legislature. The
very preface contains some statements—facts would be
the more appropriate term—which ought to awaken
our rulers to the immin .nt peril in which our Indian
empire is placed from the grasping ambition of Russia.
In his preface the writer says, "'The unparalleled ag-
gressions of Russia in every direction must destroy all
confidence in her pacific professions, and ought to
satisfy every reasonable inquirer that the only limit of her
conquests will be found in the limit of her power." This is
well and truly said. There are persons in this country ,
who, arrogating to themselves the character of profound
philosophers, tell us, that Russia has already a more ex
tensive empire than she can well manage, and that the idea
of her having any views on our Eastern territories is purely
chimerical. Have these fire-side philosophers, men whose
whole existence is sp. nt in theorising on matters which
they do not understand--have they already forgotten, or
never had their eyes open to the fact, that within the last
ten or twelve years the Autocrat has made immense addi-
tions to his empire? flss he not seized on the whole of
Poland ? And is not Turkey at this moment virtually
within his grasp ? Dues he, then feel any difficulty in
managing these recent extensive additions to his territorial
possessions? Ask the poor Pules ; or put the question
to the prostrate Turks. Over the former he rules with a
rod of iron ; and the latter feel that they dare not oppose
his sovereign pleasure. And yet, before Russia had made
these conquests, were we not told with the utmost
confidence, by the class of philosophers referred to, that if
the Muscovite were to subjugate Poland and Turkey lie
would only render his empire too unwieldy to be managed ?
So far from finding himself incommoded by his recent vast
additions to his empire, the Czar is furnishing practical
proof that he conteinpletes still greater additions. For
what other purpose can he be sending his troops in thou-
sands in an eastward direction? Why else station sech a
number of ships in the Black Sea, that it cannot be navi-
gated by the ships of any other power without his special
permission ? Hear what the writer of the pamphlet says
on this point :—" In the East, Russia is systematically
pursuing the same course,"—the course, namely, of daring
aggression. " Circassia," he adds, "is to be crushed— I
Persia to be be made, first a partisan, then a dependent
province, finally, an integral part of the Russian empire.
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have been long aware. The 'stein and fantastical politicians
of the " liberal" school, having adopted their own absurd
theories in the place of facts, are now "surprised" to find
that they were nothing but absurd theories. One would
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have thought, however, that even they would not be quite
so idiotic as to express their surprise, and thus invite, as it
were, the public scornolf,);ll7
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