The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-16 00:00:00

At the last weekly meeting of the Repeal Associa.

tion Mr. JOHN O'dosNELL,M.P., urged the neces-
sity of impressing the Irish constituencies wish the
duty of returning at the general election those candi-
dates only who were Old Ireland Repealers. As be-
tween the parties, divided under the respective titles
of Old Ireland and Young Ireland, looking to the
principle of physical force enunciated by the latter
when it was first embodied, and to the fact that it
has never since been renounced, and that the tenacity
with which they clung to it perpetuated the breach
which took place between themselves and the late
Mr. O'CoNNELr., we should certainly prefer that
Members for the new Parliament should be selected

from the Old Ireland Repealers. But as we have

ever thought from the first that the cry of Repeal
is a mere idle phantom, a political chimera,
that finds its only resting-place in morbid imagina-
tions, so do we feel still more strongly that, to
attempt at this moment to incite the electoral body
with the notion of dismembering the empire is as
wild a political freak as could be sanctioned by any
set of public men. Many who, some few years
back, indulged in the dream that a Parliament might
shortly be constituted in College-green, and be
found to be a panacea for most of the social ills
under which Ireland was suffering, have already re-
signed their idle fancies in favour of the dis-
passionate lessons of sober judgment. At length
they are, for the most part, becoming fast persuaded
of the truth that their past disorganization is attri-
butable much more to social than political griev-

ances, that, with respect to the latter, the Imperial

Legislature has gone far in the path of redress from
1829 downwards, and that, touching the former,
the Senate has shown every disposition to
mitigate, and finally to eradicate and abolish
them, so far as legislation can subserve
to the same. Men perceive likewise now-a-days that
many of the measures recently propounded by the
Government have not ,been welcomed by the Irish
landlords, and that, therefore, in so far as they are
calculated to compel the affluent to discharge the
duties incidental to property for the improvement of
the condition of the humblest classes, their chance of
acquiring these boons is infinitely greater than it
would have been had a domestic Legislature been in
existence to take them into deliberation. Others
there are, too, who hold in remembrance Mr.
O'CoNNELL's declaration, that if England and

Scotland united to labour in the Parliamen

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of Great Britain to elevate Ireland to the same poli-
tical and social level which they respectively enjoyed,
the standard of Repeal should be lowered. Surely,
then, it would be advisable for their own sakes, and
respect
as a
party desirous of maintaining a hold upon the
and sympathies of those who have supported
their
agitation, that the Repeal Association should
manifest
a little patience and watch the
l!,eress realised,
v.
fruits of the
new
passed with measures about to be
the express view, which we
sincerely hope
1 may
to
the
destitution which
other. Some-
their country from the misery an
cover it from one extremity
thing of gratitude, too,sded, of redeeming
might inducemde
England has
seeing the munificent manner in which
recently stepped forward with her contributions, public
1 and private, to lessen the sorrows of Ireland
occasioned by the late calamitous visitation.
If the Repeal Association shall choose to re-
main in force, let Its energies be devoted to