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selves in their true colours. They accept reform
at home, and try to turn it to their own pur-
poses when they cannot help themselves ; and they
accept revolution abroad when it can be made to
answer their views. They even hold up its hero as a
patriot and a wise king.

We have received several communications on the
Repeal of the Union, in most of which the writers
seem to us to mistake the problem to be solved. It
is not to ascertain whether or not Ireland be unjustly
treated (for that is generally admitted), but how
the injustice can best be remedied. Now, that in-
justice was not inflicted by the Union ; it existed
in an aggravated form before the Union : there is,
therefore, no prima facie reason to believe that
the repeal of the Union statute would remedy the
wrong. According to the Repealers, the Irish Par-
liament sold the country,--and what guarantee
would the Irish have, were the Parliament restored,
that they would not again sell Ireland, and sell it
to a worse foe than England.
Before the Union, the Protestant Church cx-

isted in all its unshorn wealth and bishoprics ; and
the representation, and Government, were wholly
Protestant. No Catholic was a Justice of tl%e
Peace, or a Judge. Then, as now, the representa-
tion was unequal, as compared to England, as well
as wholly Protestant. Then the municipal cor-
porations, the citadels of Protestantism, existed in
all their strength ; now their walls are thrown
down, and they are partly occupied by the Catho-
lics. We do not see a single one of the many in-

juries of which Mr. O'CONNELL justly complains,
that has been inflicted on Ireland by the Union,
and therefore we see no reason to believe that to
repeal it would redress her wrongs.
The Union may, indeed, have caused a few more
Nobles to reside abroad than before it took place,
but, without a great alteration in the right of pro-
perty, the Repeal of the Union would not make
Noblemen, who hate the bulk of the Irish and are
hated by them, reside in Ireland. It is a Tory
doctrine that a resident landed aristocracy is a na-

tional blessing, but we beg leave to think that they
and their game-laws, and" their encouragements
to silly vanity and arrogance, can most advanta-
geously be dispensed with.
Whether the Repeal of the Union be the best
remedy for Ireland's wrongs seems to us to resolve
itself into this question,—Whether are they likely
to be more speedily redressed by obtaining the aid
of the Liberal party in England or by provoking
the opposition and hostility of the bulk of the Eng-

lish ? We have never met with an Englishman or a
Scotchman who advocates the repeal, though an
immense number would aid Mr. O'CoNN ELL in
procuring justice for Ireland. To ask for repeal, is
to rouse against him erery man in Ireland who is
opposed to the Catholics, and to make enemies of
the English, who would join him in procuring
justice. To demand the total abolition of the
Irish Church, to begin with, would be opposed, like
the repeal, by all the opponents of the Catholics
in Ireland, but it would be seconded by
a powerful and numerous party in. Eng-
land. So with the system of representation. There
is a very numerous party in England, which de-
mands a complete equality of representation, all of
whom would support Mr. O'CoNNELL's demand
of justice to Ireland on this point, if made to the
Imperial Parliament. In the interest of Ireland,
then, in order to redress her wrongs more speedily
and more effectually, it appears to us that it is im-
politic to separate her cause from that of the bulk
of the English Reformers, instead of cordially
uniting with them to obtain justice for all.