The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-27 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 184 P.

On the first day of the present month we directed,
the public attention to a very able pamphlet, which
had then recently appeared in Dublin, under the title
of " Ireland Imperialised." The views of the
talented author appeared to us to be eminently worthy
of mature and attentive consideration. He pointed
out forcibly and clearly that the regeneration of that
unhappy land can never be accomplished until the
partial union, which has existed for the last halt
century, be rendered complete and effectual, until
Ireland be constituted an integral portion of the
British Empire, and entitled to a full participation in
all the advantages of British power at home and
abroad. He declared his belief that, "if the merely
insular resources of Ireland were developed to the
highest point, the condition of her people would be
still provincial and paltry ;" that, "so long as the
thoughts of Irishmen are confined to Ireland alone,
their condition will be mediocre and restricted ;"
and that so long as " this system of provincial
ambition is continued, so long as the Ireland for the
Irish cry' is encouraged, so long will there be poverty,
and indolence, and intrigue, aye, and agitation, in
Ireland."
Among the means by which these great desiderata
might be achieved, by which Ireland might indeed be
rendered the right arm of Great Britain, a vast addi-
tion to her real strength and power, in place of being
the " great difficulty of her Government," and a fertile
cause of dissension and disagreement in the Legisla-
ture, two points were chiefly dwelt on as being abso-
lutely indispensable, without which the " vestiges of a
pseudo-nationality" could not be eradicated :—lst•
The transference of " the Government of Ireland from
Dublin Castle to the office of the Secretary of State
for the Home Department ;" and, 2,11 y. "An amalga-
mation of the Bars of England and Ireland, with a full
and fair participation of all Imperial advantages
in England, in India, in our colonial pos-
sessions, awarded to the intelligence of Ire-
land, whether it be professional, agricultural, or
commercial." Many cogent reasons were assigned
in support of these propositions that can scarcely fail
to convince a disinterested and unprejudiced inquirer,
which show that such arrangements would be
mutually beneficial for both countries, but that Ire-
land would unquestionably be the chief gainer by
their adoption.
There was so much truth and justice in these
opinions, so much calculated to promote the real wel-
fare and prosperity of a nation, in whose melancholy
and almost unparalleled sufferings we have ever
deeply sympathised sufferings which appeal not
merely to our compassion, but to our justice, and
which demand redress the more powerfully because
they have in a great degree been occasioned by Eng-
lish misgovernment in past ages, that we
unhesitatingly gave them admission to our
columns, and earnestly commended them to the
consideration of those competent to form a sound
judgment on the subject. The amalgamation of the
English and Irish Bars appeared peculiarly worthy of
notice, and to that part of the project more especially
we gave our strenuous and zealous support. It would
be alike beneficial to the profession and to the suitors,
to advocates and to clients. It would enable the
former to enter into the fair and honourable com-
petition which every man, conscious of his own
powers and possessed of that bold self-reliance which
is the most essential qualification for success, will
never desire to evade or shirk ; to the Irish barristers
it would offer new prizes, more brilliant than any
which their wildest and most sanguine imaginings
could venture to anticipate, and it would render to
the suitors the services of the best men in
either country, and remove one of the causes
that has hitherto prevented the influx of En-
glish capital into Ireland. That amalgama-
tion would not by any means render necessary
the removal of the Irish Law Courts to Westminster.
Although we have little doubt that after a brief ex-
perience of the beneficial results of the new system,
all classes, professional and non-professional, would
be desirous that it should be fully and fairly carried
out, and that, while an improved and more convenient
distribution of the local Courts were made for the
trial of minor cases, the superior tribunals shou'•d
alone sit in the metropolis of what would then really
be the metropolis of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland.

The opinions thus promulgated, although chiefly
for the benefit of " Ireland and the Irish," are, it ap-
pears, most unpalatable to some classes at the other
side of St. George's Channel. The jobbers and
hunters after patronage, the seekers for the crumbs