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London, England, 1824-06-16 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, June 16.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Report recently laid before Parliament,
on the nature and extent of the disturbances
in Ireland, justify us in auguring very fa-
vourably, as well from the very able and im-
partial manner in which the Committee have
conducted their inquiries, as from the practical
results to which the information thus obtained is
likely to lead. The Committee do not hesitate
to avow their objection to the Insurrection Act,
as considered apart from the imperative circum-
stances which led originally to its enactment,
and which, unhappily, call for its further conti-
nuance. There never was a period when it was
more important that the public, in this country,
should be fully acquainted with the real situa-
tion of the sister kingdom than at present; nor
was there ever a subject on which a greater va-
riety of erroneous conceptions have prevailed, or
on which a greater number of false and foolish
speculations have been let loose. That its
strength has been broken ; that the foundations
of its prosperity have for the present given way ;
and that its disorder is dangerous and deeply
seated—all this is true ; and is to be Ignented.
But there is, at the same time, no reason to doubt
its capacity of overcoming the causes which pro-
duce all this evil, and of regaining that state of
tranquillity and contentment which of late years
has received so material an interruption. The
equitable and protective, but, at the same time,
firm and vigorous policy of the Marquis Welles-
ley, has already done much, and if well support-
ed by our Government here, will yet do much
more towards changing the destiny of Ireland,
and allaying those frightful spirits of turbulence
and faction with which she is so perpetually
called to contend.

[TILE TIMES.]
The proceedings in the House of Commons
last night with respect to the recognition of the
independence of the South American States, was
less interesting than might have been expected.
In reply to Sir James Mackintosh's speech, Mr.
Canning indicated that no change had taken
place, and that our Government still rested on its
former declarations; but, after he had sat down,
as women are said to impart the most important
intelligence in the postscripts of their letters, he
rose again to say, that we had refused anew to
become a party in a Congress of the great
Powers, for the arrangement of the differences
between the South American States and old
Spain. Now, it may be very true that no im-
portant -change, no crisis has arisen in the
affairs of South America, calling for an im-
mediate and formal recognition ; but yet it may
be observed, in the words of Lord Bacon, that
time itself, by its silent lapse, is the greatest in-
novator.: it path- in this instance produced a
change, for if the revolted States have made no
approach to a re-union, they are for that very
cause the more dissevered, because they have
continued longer in a state of separation : and
sufficient time has now surely been allowed to the
mother country to obtain, if she pleased, the
grace and merit of the first recognition.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The most important service which Sir James
Mackintosh has rendered (a service acknow-
ledged by Mr. Canning), was the removing the
erroneous impressions very generally entertained
with regard to recognition. " There are two
kinds of recognition," perfectly distinct, though
they are so frequently confounded. We were a
good deal astonished to find Mr. Canning dwell-
ing upon the distinction, thanking his Honour-
able and Learned Friend for placing the subject
in its true point of view, agreeing with him that,
in the second sense, recognition was merely, on
the part of a State, a simple acknowledgment of
the fact, or rather its opinion of the fact—and yet
quibbling about the effect which the understand-
ing the term in another sense might have, as an
advantage to the State, recognized, as if we
ought to be deterred from the adoption of any
lawful measure, which would promote our own
interests, because a greater benefit than we in-
tended to give might be derived by others
from it. " Nothing," said the Right Ho-
nourable Gentleman, " is more plain and
easy than the act of acknowledging a fact (if
fact it be), that such a Government is indepen-
dent, yet I am quite certain he will agree with
me, that it may make a difference if that acknow-
ledgment be asked which implies an expectation
of consequences which do not necessarily belong
to it. lam sure he will feel, that great as the
boon of recognition in its simplest sense might be
to any new overnment, it would be greater, if
though given in one sense it were accepted in an-
other. It might be given as a mere acknowledg-
ment of a fact, and accepted as a sort of treaty
of alliance and co-operation." 'We really do
not see, if the [tight Honourable Gentleman had
not been obliged to say something to amuse the
House for a decent length of time, while he
could, in reality, communicate nothing but the
fact that the British Government would now
act on its own decision, without regard to any
other Government, and that it had a second
time refused to attend a Congress.—We
really
do
not see why we should distress our-
selves with a question with which we have no
concern. A shopkeeper might as well distress
himself with the thought, that the man to
whom he sold a night-cap might conceive he had
got a pair of breeches. We can feel for the dis-
tressing situation in which Mr. Canning is placed
respect to this ticklish question. Sir Fran-
c;s Burdett was, we suspect, not far from the
truth, when he attributed the hitch in the way
of recognition to the civil dissensions at home,
the existence of which has
been
proved by the
proceedin,qs in Chancery. eto whom the Ca-
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