The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-07 00:00:00

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REPEAL OF THE UNION.

TO THE EARL OF FINGAL.
My Loren,—Aware that the late Earl of
bad ever been favourable to the Union, I take the
liberty of offering some suggestions on the subject
through your Lordship, which I deem deserving the
public attention. I am in favour of the Union being
permanent, because separate Parliaments, a very long
time tried, have been productive of strife between the two
countries, always to the disadvantage of the population of
Ireland, in almost every way, but to the aristocracy
they afforded a profitable market. Strife between two
parties, one of immense power, the other of compara-
tive feeble power, instances an inequality which it would
be a waste of words to argue as to its results. They
are self-evident. The English Minister bought and
wielded the men of influence in Ireland. An opposition
of able men worked on the passions of the commonalty ;
I must say, attributing justly their misery to Bri-
tish rivalship,: and the dreadful laws which had,
from time immemorial, unfitted them for em-
bracing future opportunities whenever the inter-
dict had been removed. The declaimers on both
sides were Protestants—a serious point, inas-
much as it showed dissatisfaction among the privi-
leged. Repeal of the Union, it is to be expected,
would renew the strife between the two Parliaments,
and with it the rich man's overwhelming weapon—
bribery. In a word, when we hold in view the prac-
tices heretofore of all former administrations, and con-
trast them with the present, we have reason to expect
a more pure, just, and impartial exercise of power,
than a state of national rivaiship would naturally admit
of. Ireland, being the weaker country, it is her policy
to be a partner with prosperous England, rather than
her rival ; and all her efforts should be directed towards
obtaining a fair proportion of the general profit, &c.
This is to be effected only by inventing and encourag-
ing measures calculated to countervail the absence of a
Court, and the attractions of wealthy residents, &c. :
also by multiplying companies for the purpose of extend-
ing husbandry, mines, canals, &c. It is impe-
riou4y demanded that speedy means be adopted
for ensuring mutual advantages to England
and Ireland, which may produce harmony, and lead
the way to a real consolidation of the Union. The
interests of both countries require that increased em-
ployment, intercourse between the population of both
countries, and' he circulation of money, be more widely
spread throughout Ireland. I beg to propose the fol-
lowing as likely to promote good feeling, and further
benefits :—Let a Member of the Royal Family reside
in Dublin, either male or female, as often as may be
agreeable to them—let all appeals from Chancery be
submitted to two English and two Irish Equity Judges,
to sit during the hearing in Dublin—let election peti-
tions, and every legal proceeding relative to Ire-
land, be heard in Dublin by Commission, so
that witnesses need not go to London—let law

students be no longer obliged to eat their meals a
few times in London, that they may thus acquire legal
ability instead ; let them be compelled to attend law
lectures, and to attend the Courts, where the profession
is in practical operation in Dublin. The influx of Irish
youths into the metropolis (just let loose from College
rAters) where they are unknown, is objectionable in
many w tys. After their habits had been settled, and
they become practical meo, the objection would be much
lessened. Whikt numerous compulsory measures of
sending every shilling out of Ireland into England, also
of harrassing the inhabitants are pursued, a vexatious
spirit will be constantly kindled, poverty extended, and a
handle furnished very naturally for the enemies of
peace to lay hold upon. To avert and neutralize this is
good sense, and genuine loyalty. These suggestions al-
together have no political bearing, and must gratify the
enlightened position of society, and, by diffusing employ-
ment and comfort at home, abate the causes of dissatis-
faction, and still farthar add to the consolidation of the
Union. The crude observation that Repeal means se-
paration has no foundation. O'Connell is too profound
to entertain the thought._ It does not flow c.r directo

from tho proposition. The clear deduction is that the
structure would be as it had been before 1801. The
Emancipation Act makes no difference. If the Irish
Parliament were all Catholics, it would be their interest
to be united with England ; otherwise war, with all the
advantages in favour of England, would banish happi-
ness. Indeed, its madness is too prominent to suppose
it. A. foreign foe, or such revolutionists as Hamilton

Rowan, Napper Tandy, Emmett, and all Protestants,
grounded their hope of a successful revolution on the
penal laws against the Catholics, naturally recruiting
them to join the ranks of the revolutionary Protestants.
These points are wholly unknown in England except to
statesmen. All who seek information to be relied on
may find it in the Report published by the Irish Par-
liament in 1800, which saddles the rebellion on the
tcstunts. The Imperial Parliament gives Irishmen a
voice in the concerns of the world at large, which a Lo-
cal Parliament never admitted of. It is worth remark-
ing that Arthur Young, more than half a century back,
advised all prohibitions to be taken off and the Govern-
ment to be conducted as it now is by the present Admi-
nistration. Also Dewar's History of Ireland recent-
mended the same thirty years ago.
I am your I.lrdship's obedient servant,
A FRIEND TO THE UNION.
Cheltenham, 1840.

THE MARCH OF INTOLERANCE.

(From the Somerset County Gazelle.)
The Popery in the Church is beginning to produce
its natural fruit ; from being merely a detestable theory,
it is becoming an alarming practice. It has hitherto been
content with talking, it is now showing itself in action.
Our columns of local news last week contained an ac.
count of the interruption of a dissenting congregation at
Dulvorton, in the midst of prayer, by a clergyman of
the Church, for which offence he was properly brought
before the Magistrates, and compelled to apologise, to
avoid a conviction.

Deeply as we regret this occurrence, we cannot say
that it surprises us, nor can we visit Mr. Anstey, with
the blame which others affix to him. The event is a
natural consequence of the promulgation of those ter-
rible dogmas which we have been unveiling to our readers
for many months past, and it is but the beginning of a
long series of persecutions, if those dogmas arc much
longer permitted to be taught at our Universities, and
preached from the Protestant pulpits of the State, by
persons paid by the State to maintain Protes-
tantism. Mr. Anstey is more to be pitied than blamed
for what he has done ; he is but a weak medium through
which a frightful spirit is manifesting itself ; he has but
carried into practice what the Church Papists preach
and teach, though they have not his courage to act ; he
has but brought to their legitimate results the principles
of Puseyism. A fortnight ago we published an extract
from a catechism written by one of the clergy of our
Protestant Church, who has embraced the Popery of
Oxford, in which it was broadly asserted, on the author-
ity of Scripture, that none 'put clergy, ordained by a
Bishop, and who through him had received the Divine
spirit by apostolical succession, bad a right to preach to
the people ; that for a Dissenting pastor to do so was a
crime ; and that to listen to him was to incur damna-
,;.., tho 61.urrer Rrvic-w, the leading organ of this
foul union of Toryism and Church Popery, scruples not
openly to declare that toleration is a crime, that. dissent
ought to be extirpated by fire and sword, if lesser
persecutions cannot prevail against it ; everywhere do
we find the Popery in the Church proclaiming that
Methodists pastors are " dissenting mountebanks, and
ministers of hell ;" that " the very name of Protestant-
ism ought to be abolished among us ;" that .. the
Church only can save souls ;" that " toleration is sin ;
that " only by the subjection of the human mind to the
religious and political dogmas of the Oxford Papist:
can the desired reign of Tory despotism be restored.
When such things as these, and many equally horrible,
which we have from time to time selected from the
sayings and doings of the advancing Popery in our
Church, are inculcated into the minds of the youth at
Oxford, that nursery of our clergy, and preached from
a thousand pulpits with the authority of the State, and
in the usurped name of the Church of England, it is not
wonderful that the seed so implanted should take root
and grow and bring forth its natural fruits, and that
some should be found sufficiently honest and straight-
them practically, and tointerrupt
forward to apply
those services which, they are told from such high
authority, are offensive to God, hostile to religion, de-
structive to souls, and therefore not to be tolerated.
The Oxford Papists have very nearly obtained pos-
session of the Protestant Church, but not quite, and
they very prudently reserve the practical enforcement
of their dogmas, till they are assured that they are
strong enough, with the aid of Toryism, to overthrow
the tame and time-serving Protestant Churchmen,
who permit them thus to proceed unmolested, and '
un-
complained of, in their intrusion upon the national altars.

KENSINGTON GARDENS.—The building on
any part of Kensington Gardens is regarded with dissatis-
faction by a great portion of the public as trenching on
their health and comfort. A Correspondent says-..." When
we find, day by day, the little outlets we have heretofore
enjoyed built upon, and our few green patches hemmed
in by the avarice of private individuals, it is to Govern-
ment alone we can look, to be left some little open vac°
where, after a hard-toiled week, we can with our familieiss
enjoy something approaching to fresh air. Hyde Park
nn
rtyo a;
already perfectly encircled with houses, and Kensui
Gardens is alone left that has any appearance
and if the Woods and Forests are permitted toof bccraori,taetrurtchse,
health and happiness of so many of their fell°
by carrying out their plan, nothing will be left us."