The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-02 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DcBLIN, SEPT., SO.

Owing to the dreadful gale of Monday night the
Liverpool mail due yesterday morning, did not reach
Kingstox n until seven o'clock last night. The mail
due this morning did not reach until two o'clock this
afternoon.

LORD LBRINGTON AND REPEAL.
This being the day appointed by charter for swearing
in the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs for the ensuing- year,
the corporation, agreeably to ancient practice, met at
the City Assembly House, William-street, and pro-
ceeded in procession to the Castle. At half-past 2
o'clock, his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, accom-
panied by the great officers of State, having entered the
throne-room, the Corporation were introduced into the
presence, when

The Right Hon. the RECORDER, on presenting Sir
John Kingston James, Bart., as Lord Mayor elect, to
his Excellency, delivered an Address. After which
the oaths were administered, and the Lord Mayor
elect having been invested with the insignia of his office,
Judge BURTON proceeded to address the new Lord
Mayor upon the duties he would have to fulfil, and
after passing a high eulogium upon his predecessor in
office, concluded by remarking upon the introduction of
a system of poor-laws into Ireland, with a recommen-
dation that his Lordship would use his influence as
much as possible in diffusing a tone of moderation and
forbearance among his fellow-citizens.
The LORD LIEUTENANT then spoke nearly to the
following effect :—He commenced by observing—The
Lord Mayor elect having already performed the duties of
the office in a most efficient manner, I have no doubt,

of his competency to discharge them again with equal
benefit to his fellow-citizens. The Learned Recorder,

his address, dwelt somewhat in detail upon the Le-

gislative changes which have taken place in the consti-
tution of the Municipal Corporations in this country,
and which will come into operation next April. As in
the course of the lengthy discussions which for many
Sessions of Parliament took place upon this question I
have had repeated opportunities of making known my
sentiments upon it, I do not feel it necessary to express
them upon the present occasion. Even if it were not
so, this is certainly not the opportunity I should take
to pass sentence of comdemnation upon that which has
been by law established. Neither is this the oppor-
tunity upon which I should think it fit to dwell upon
the satisfaction which, as a constant advocate for Aluni-

cipal Reform in England and Ireland, I may be allowed
to feel at having seen its accomplishment here. But
I cordially respond to the call made by the Learned
Recorder, in the expression of my approbation and
praise of the manner in which the civic chair has been
tilled by the two gentlemen who held the office during
the time I have been intrusted with the Government
of this country. The Learned Recorder has referred to
another topic, which, as he said it involved matter in
some measure personal to himself, he approached with
reluctance. I can assure him, that from the high re-
spect I entertain for him, if he experience feelings of
pain in approaching that subject, I experience them no
less. As, however, from the manner in which he intro-

duced them, I feel in some sort as if en appeal were made
to me for an expression of my op pion, I must say,
notwithstanding my great respect for him, that in my opi-
nion more frequent gaol deliveries would be more condu-
cive to the satisfactory administration of justice in this
city. I say this, as I have stated, with sonic unwilling-
ness and reluctance, from the great personal respect I
entertain for the Learned Recorder, as well as from my
experience of the able, impartial, and admirable manner
in which he has performed his judicial functions ever
since I had the opportunity of knowing anything of
them, more than by common report, and which cer-
tainly fully confirm what I have now said. But Ido
not feel I should have been fully justified in withhold-
ing this my opinion upon the subject, thinking it possible
that silence upon my part, after the appeal which had
been made to me, might have been construed into ac-
quiescence and concurrence with the views and argu-
ments of the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman.
There is another topic which has not been touched upon
either by the Learned Recorder or the Learned Judge,
but to which, under all Inc circumstances of the present
time, I feel it my duty to refer : I feel it my duty to ad-
vert to this question, fi em the importance which has
been attached to it both by its supporters and oppo-
nents—from the attention which has been called to it

both in this and other parts of the United King-
dom—from the support it has received from va-

rious parties in this city, and from the change
which, I know not .how truly, is reported to have
taken place in the opinions of the Corporation of Dub-
lin on this subject. You may guess that I allude to

the meetings which have taken place in reference to
a repeal of the Union. I feel it my duty to declare for
myself, and every Member of her Majesty's Govern-
ment, both in Ireland and Great Britain, that we hold
the maintenance of the union between the two coun-
tries, which has now existed for 40 years, to be indispen-
sable to the security and permanent stability of the
United Empire.—(Hear, hear.) I believe, and am con-
vinced, that a repeal of the Union by those legal and
conAitutional means which the advocates of that repeal
declare to be ties only ones they will ever resort to for
the attainment of that measure-1 believe that by such
means the attainment of the repeal of the Union is
utterly impracticable ; and if, which God forbid, an at-
tempt were made to force it upon the Legislature by
any other means, I am satisfied that that attempt
would recoil with discomfiture and disaster upon
this country. I believe further, that even if it
were., possible to attain it, its attainment would mise-
rably disappoint the expectations which have been formed
in some quarters of the benefits to be derived from it ;
and I believe that many of those who are the most
prominent of its advocates would be the first to feel
the effect of that disaster to which I have referred, and
that it would be necessarily followed by a separation
between the two countries ; whilst that separation would
be fraught with the deepest calamity to England, I be-
lieve it would be fraught with still greater calamities to
this country. Need I say, then, that, entertaining
those opinions, I feel it my duty to discountenance and
discourage, by all legal and constitutional means, the
agitation of this question. I shall withhold all the Go-
vernment favour and patronage which administrations
are considered entitled to confer on their supporters,
From those who take part in this agitation, who will
thereby lose the good will of the Government. If I
have not any stronger or more active means for
the suppression or prevention of the agitation of
this question, it is certainly from no sympathy
upon my part either with the object or the feelings
of those who are embarked in it, but it is from that
respect which I have always felt for the constitu-
tional right of the subject openly and fairly to discuss all
acts of the Legislature by which the people may consi-
der their interests or the interests of the country affected,
provided those discussions are carried on in a proper
manner in endeavouring to obtain, by legal and consti-
tutional means. the assent of the Legislature to the alte-
rations of such acts. Disapproving, as I do, of the ob-
ject of those meetings, disapproving still more of some
of the sentiments which have been expressed at them,
particularly those having reference to our foreign policy,
I at the same time, have not considered the danger likely
to arise out of those meetings, or the sentiments ex-
pressed at them, to have produced such an effect
upon the general tranquillity of the country as to
justify in my mind the interference of the Legisla-
ture for the forcible prevention of those meetings,
which interference, I conceive, if not justified by grounds
of paramount necessity, frequently tends to foment the
spirit which it is intended to allay. If, however, I should
feel that the manner in which these discussions are car-
ried on should be likely to create any interruption of
the public peace, or that they should afford just or rea-
sonable grounds for alarm to her Majesty's subjects, I
trust I shall be found as ready to exercise the powers
of the law with vigour and energy, as I have shown my-
self hitherto disposed to evince respect and forbear-
ance towards the constitutional rights of the subject. I
trust also that in that course I be supported by
an overwhelming majority of the people, by a great
majority of even the Repealers themselves, rho, what-
ever opinions they may entertain upon the subject, will,
I am sure, feel with me, that it is all alike the duty of
the Government and the people to uphold that obe-
dience to the law, without which there can be no se-
curity or perminence to any of the institutions of the
country, or indeed safety or comfort to the people them-

selves.
The Corporation then withdrew, and proceeded to
Green-street, where the High Sheriffs were sworn into
office before the Recorder.

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