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London, England, 1840-09-14 00:00:00

formity with that article, and moreover, with the
fourth clause of the second protocol by which the

Powers agree that the preliminary measures men-
tioned in Article 11. of the said convention shall be
be put into execution at once, and without waiting
for the exchange of the ratcations. Neither will
the Pacha have any reason to complain of the
immediate execution of that part of the
treaty, or say with justice; that Commodore
NAPIER has taken him by surprise ; for the treaty,
with all its provisions, has been communicated to
him. It gives us, further, great satisfaction to
, know that this article is a complete answer to all
the tirades in which the Paris journals of Saturday
indulged against the gallant Commodore. That
article has been communicated to the French Go-

vernment with the other parts of the treaty, and
though the Paris journals may have been surprised,
M. THIERS and M. G InzoT must have been pre-
pared for the proceedings of Commodore NAPIER.
If they objected, they ought before now to have
protested against the treaty, and so have pre-
vented the Paris journals from commencing a fire
on our gallant Commodore on a completely un-
founded charge of undue precipitation.
The Herald publishes no secret article which
closes the Bosphorus against English men-of-war,
but still affirms a belief in the existence of such an
article. We think when it made tl.ta assertion it
could scarcely have read; the treaty. The third
article provides for a common concert to defend the
Straits of the Bosphoru§ and Dardanelles, and
expressly reserves an asseg, to British ships enter-
ing the Bosphorus, by 4claring that the force
employed for this common concert, shall at the
SULTAN'S request retirif simultaneously to the
Black Sea (the Russian's') and to the Medi-
terranean (the English),. The fourth article
makes this quite clear, fat it declares " that the
co-operation mentioned in the preceding article,
and destined to place temporarily the Straits of the
Dardanelles and of the Bosphorus, and the Otto-
man capital, under the safpuard of the high con-
tracting parties, against all aggression of iVIEHE
MET ALI, shall not be considered but as a mea-
sure exceptional, adopted at the express desire of
the SULTAN, and solely for his defence," the rule
being at all times to prohibit vessels of war from
entering the Straits of the Dardanelles and the
Bosphorus. By another protocol the SULTAN
expressly assumes that power to himself ; thus ex-
pressing, as clearly as words can, that he will allow
his allies to enter those Straits to protect the capital,
I but he retains the power to exclude them at other

Imes.

On the whole this treaty has given us great satis-
faction—so far as we can at any time approve of
interference with Foreign States—because we can-
not find in it any possible cause for France to
quarrel with us, and because it dissipates at once a
hundred rumours and stories, each of which, were

it true, might be a feasible cause of war, or might
show that our Ministers were regardless of the best
interests of the country, or that our officers thought
nothing of the interests of humanity provided they
could gain reputation. The treaty does justice
equally to Commodore NAPIER and the Ministers.

A recent number of the Cork Southern Reporter,
speaking, we apprehend, the opinion of a great
number of the Irish, said :
We tell the Ministers, and we tell the Tories too,
that if they are really sincere in their desire of putting a
stop to the mighty political movement now in progress,
they must repudiate for ever the unjust system that
keeps Ireland in a state of vassalage to Great Britain.
Justice—that is, equality—full and unequivocal equality,
in all and every department of the body politic—the
Irish nation will and must obtain. Too long have
we stood in the attitude of supplication ; too long have
we begged, in tones of humble diffidence, for a portion,--
for a small portion,-of the privileges to which reason; right-,
and nature entitle us, What has been the result ?
What return have we got for our forbearance? Yearly,
weekly, daily insult, coupled with a practical aggravation
of many of our worst grievances. And, as we have beers
denied even the instalments which we humbly asked for,
it is now time to see whether, by our own exertions—by
taking matters into our bands—we cannot obtain the
full redress of our wrongs. Yes, let English Whigs and
Tories, and Radicals—let all classes of men know—that
Ireland is no longer to be made the mere football of
their Parliamentary pastime—the scouted object of in- ,
solent contempt and rabid malignity.

That passage conveys in a few words the spirit of
the Repeal cry. Ireland has long been injured
and insulted by England. It is an eternal disgrace
to the latter, that, after she has had sway over the
former for five hundred years, little or no amalgama-
tion has taken place between them till this day.
Legislation has perpetually done what it could to
counteract the course of nature. But for unjust
laws, barbarous restrictions on trade, and still more
barbarous penalties on the religious belief of the
Irish, the two nations would have become as much
fused and united as the English, Welsh, and
Scotch.

To keep up the spirit of those abominable laws,
even after the force of circumstances has com-
pelled the Legislature to repeal their], is the great
policy of the Tories. They insist still on treating
the Irish Catholics as slaves, and their policy, acted
on in part by the Whigs, is driving the Irish to,
demand the Repeal of the Union.
Here then we are brought to a definite point. Our
statesmen will not do justice to the Irish, the Irish
declare they will have justice or repeal ; the Tories,
by the Standard, reply that the repeal will be
ruin, that the Romanists have already too much
power in their own country, and that they must be

resisted and crushed now, or Ireland must be re-

conquered. Here, too, is plain choice for 'che
people of the empire, they may have either Toryism
or peace, but they cannot have both. Toryism
implies coercion for behalf of the Church, and it
implies resistance and repeal on the part of the
Irish.

We are no friends to repeal, but we would take
away every pretext for seeking it, by doing justice
to the Irish ; and we would begin by declaring
that every Church preferment in Ireland, as it be-
came vacant, should be secularized, and the pro-
ceeds paid into the public treasury. We would
gradually abolish the Protestant Church of Ireland,
and so remove that greatest of all the evils and in-
sults that one nation ever inflicted on another.

A meeting of the shareholders of the Lancaster
and Preston Railway was held at Lancaster on
Thursday, ostensibly to discuss the question
whether the public should be allowed further ac-
commodation on that line on Sundays, but in real-
ity to decide whether there should be any Sunday
travelling at all. Are we then to be at the mercy
of railroad Foprictors Are we to be chained at
home, if a certain number of Pharisees get pos-
session of the Queen's highway, and judge it expe-
dient to stop it on a Sunday ? A shareholder of
the name of BLACKBURNE asserted this doctrine,
and distinctly avowed that he " would stop
passenger traffic altogether on Sunday." The
Chairman seemed to be somewhat of the same
opinion ; but, fortunately for the Company and
the public, good sense prevailed, and, by a great
majority, it was resolved, that further accommodation
should be provided for Sunday travellers. It is
useless to reason with these Sabbath worshippers,
and we must therefore leave them to enjoy their
delusions ; but we will take care that these delu-
sions shall not counteract the greatest improvement
of modern times, Amidst the nonsense that was
spoken at this meeting, by the Chairman and
two or three other shareholder, it is gratifying to
record the judicious and unanswerable argument of
Mr. JA,cKsori—m" I am surprised that those who