The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-16 00:00:00

upon the Right Hon. Baronet is pronounced to be a
Papist! Not that he is less assiduous in his attend-
ance at church on Sundays, not that he evinces any
partiality for rosaries or relics : no, Sir ROBERT 15
solicitous that the students in a national college shall
no longer pig together three in a bed, that its gravel
walks shall be weeded, and its windows glazed other-
wise than (in the Milesian fashion) with rags and
copy-books ; and therefore Sir ROBERT PEEL is
scoffed at as a Papist ! Again we protest that abuse,
and slander, and scurrillity, and anything, and
everything but argument, are the habitual charac-
teristics of that High-Church, high-pressure, double-
action, break-neck class of politicians, who are mus-
tering their whole strength, both of lungs and lying,
for the ensuing elections.
Heartily are we rejoiced to see that, in several
constituencies, the Liberal electors are taking their
antagonists at their own weapons. Against the ex-
tremes of religious intolerance are being opposed the
extremes of religious tolerance. This is precisely as
it should be. We are told that none should be mem-
bers of the new Parliament but men who put such and
such a construction on the language of Revelation, and
who are disposed rather to applaud than otherwise
the principles of that inexorable loyalty to creed which
has at different periods endeavoured to boil men into
the true faith, or roast them out of the wrong one.
If we were selecting priests that might be rational;
but we are selecting legislators !
London is about to evince its freedom from, or its
subjection to, these odious laws of religious intolerance
by the conduct pursued by its electors towards one of
the four Liberal candidates, Baron L. ROTHSCHILD.
This election will not merely indicate the views of
the metropolitan constituency upon the question of
" Jewish disabilities," but it will go very far to in-
fluence the tone of the provincial elections generally.
However—shenld the " No Popery" candidates, by
some extraordinary fatality, form the majority in the
new Parliament, we shall certainly have the Bishops
" scrambling-over the tiles " again, as described by
Mr. MACAULAY.

We do not think that the House was on Wednee-`
day made fully acquainted with the reasons for the
adoption of the clause proposed by Mr. G. A. HA-
MILTON to be inserted in the Bankruptcy and Insol-
vency Bill. The effect of that clause was, that when-
ever the terms barrister or attorney were used in the
Bill, they should mean either English or Irish bar-
risters or attorneys. In the very short discussion
which took place thereon the principle involved in
this suggestion was treated as if it had been entirely
new, and never hitherto been recognised or sanctioned
by the Legislature. It seemed as if a desire was
entertained to confer new privileges on Irish legal
practitioners, and it was not made knows to the
House that by this very Bill offices to which Irish
barristers are now eligible are abolished, and their
duties transferred to other courts, perhaps the only
ones in the kingdom in which the members of the
Irish bar are excluded from holding office. The
ground of opposition stated by the Attorney-
General, was merely that the question deserved
more extended consideration and discussion than
could be given to it at the present time ; while Mr.
HENLEY said, that if the principle of the clause was
to be adopted, it should be done generally, and not
with regard to the present Bill alone. None of the
parties seemed aware of the fact, that by an Act
passed in the year 1841 (5 Vic., c. 5, s. 65,) it is
enacted, " that in the construction of this Act, and of
every other Act heretofore passed, relating to the
nomination or appointment to any office or employ-
ment, the expression barrister-at-law,' or barrister,'
shall mean a barrister-at-law called to the bar either
in England or Ireland, except where it is otherwise
expressly provided." Under this statute, therefore,
members of the Irish bar were duly qualified to
be appointed to any of the offices abolished by
the present Bill; and generally to any judicial office
existing previous to the passing thereof, unless some
special limitation existed to their exclusion. This
statute, however, only related to courts which were
in existence at the time of its enactment. It would
appear to have been forgotten, or at least was neither
noticed or attended to, at the time when the Bill for
the creation of the new County Courts was pending
before the Legislature. There was, therefore, no in..
terpretation clause to declare the meaning of the
term " barriaer-at-law," or how far it should be ex-
tended. Whether that omission is fatal to the claim
of the Irish bar, or whether a statute passed by a
united Legislature, using the term " barrister-at-law"
without any explanation or limitation whatever, can be
considered to apply to the barristers called to the bar
in one of the United Kingdoms only, and to the ex-
clusion of the other, we are not now prepared to
state. It would, at the first view, appear to us that such
could not be the case, and that Irish barristers must
be eligible to appointments under that Act also.
Whatever might be the ultimate decision on that
question, however, any doubt must operate as inju-
riously to the prospects of an Irish barrister as if he
were specially excluded : it would, therefore, be de-
sirable that some conclusion should be arrived at
that would set the question at rest, and declare the
true construction of the statute.

The argument used by Mr. J. STUART was so
narrow and illiberal in its character, so much
opposed to the best interests of both countries,
which will be greatly promoted by the abolition
of every unnecessary difference and distinction, and
so calculated to excite the anger of the Irish people,
and to revive the clamour for repeal which bas hap-
pily decreased, and we trust may ultimately be alto-
gether abandoned, owing to a just appreciation of our
conduct during the past year, that we cannot refrain
from visiting it with our most unqualified censure.
He said " that the County Courts were essentially
English courts, and, in order to be resorted to bene-
ficially by the public, the business should naturally
be conducted by English officers." This is practically
a statement that Irishmen cannot be entrusted to act
in England or for the English. It is wholly opposed
to that which has been adopted, as well by the late as
the present Premier, as; the policy henceforward to
be adopted towards the sister kingdom, viz., " that
Ireland is to be placed on terms of perfect
equality with England in every civil, political,
and municipal institution. It aims a deadly blow
at the first principle of the real union between the
countries, by declaring that the natives of one should
not be entrusted with any power with respect to the
other. Does Mr. STuawr forget that in her greatest
emergency England selected an Irishman to com-
mand her armies, and to conduct the gigantic opera-
tions on which the fate of the United Kingdoms were
dependent ? and the honours so deservedly bestowed
upon the Duke of WELLINGTON attest that that con-
fidence was not misplaced. How many Irishmen
have, been appointed to the highest and most im-
portant offices of state; and has there seen any,
well-founded reason to regret their elevation? Ag,
well might he say that an Irishman representing an
Irish constituency should not be appointed to a seat in.
the Cabinet or a place in the Ministry. We shall,
probably, on a future occasion, urge the reasons that
render it so desirable that there should be that inti-
mate connexion between the English and Irish bars
that was so much desired by that eminent legal re-
former, Lord CAMPBELL.

Letters from Bologna of the Bth inst. announce
that the PorE had issued two decrees, the one autho-
rising the formation of a national guard, on the French
principle, throughout his dominions, and the other
sanctioning the establishment of railroads. Those
in Rome
had produced the greatest enthusiasm
a
; the entire population had repaired to the
Quirinal to express its gratitude to the Holy Father,
I and at night the whole city was illuminated. The
dinner, to which the Austrian Ambassador had invited
l Cardinals Launßuse
preventeda by
a po-
, wasIIINI, VANICELLI, BERNETTI,
&c., on the 2d
monstration. The
people
4, Down
with
hembled beforepularde the ern-
bassy, crying,
LAMBRUSCIIINI, and to the enemies'All of stria
1 Death to
T the POPE !"
H r against
ee
"Viva Pius IX. alone !" The ran 3 tveri
ap-
pears, were excited in the highest eden°3' it
Cardinal LAMBRUSCINI, whom they threatened to
throw into the Tiber. The Cardinal, however
effrcted his escape, and had not been heard of
f,
some days. Cardinal Maccur was so terrified by the
cries of the people-on that night, that he sent off his
nephew to a neighbohring town with all his valuable
property. Father VENTURA and the popular leader,
CICERUACCIIIO, had fortunately interfered, and suc-
cecided in allaying the effervescence. Several AUs.
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