The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-24 00:00:00

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LONDON:
THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1841.

The proclamation, dissolving the old, and sum-
moning a new Parliament, to meet on Thursday,
August 19th, was published, yesterday, in a sup-
plement to the Gazette. The people are now
unrepresented, the monopolist Parliament is
justly and properly extinguished, and the cha-
racter of the next assembly will depend on the
electors. If they be wise, virtuous, and intelli-
gent, so will be the next House of Commons; but
if they be ignorant, venal, and foolish, the new
Parliament will resemble the old one, and mono-
poly will be continued in spite of her MAJESTY.
What will be the results of the appeal no
man can tell. From the immense numbers of
placards, speeches, and addresses, which reach
us, it is plain that :agitation is rife in the land.
The soul of the nation is kindled, enthusiasm
has succeeded apathy, the high and steady re-
solve has taken the place of indifference, and
will set at naught, we believe, calculations of
utin e politicians.
As her MAJESTY has declared in favour of
die system which proposes to relieve the people
by enlarging trade and diminishing monopolies,
which it i 3 thought cannot be immediately abo-
lished, what will the clergy do in the great
struggle ? Will they range themselves against the
throne, and against justice ? Will they use their in-
fluence to force another Ministry on the QUEEN,
and maintain the law which at once plunders and
starves the people Will the so-called ministers
of righteousness, who depend alike on the throne
and on the multitude, war on the side of iniquity
and the aristocracy, against the QUEEN and the
people ? Let the clergy be closely watched, and
let the people forsake the ministry of every priest
who demonstrates that he is the servant of
Moloch, by exerting himself to uphold the ini-
quitous starvation laws. Let the priesthood,
too, be warned in time. The people are in too
serious a temper to be trifled with, and if the
priesthood use their power to oppose the QUEEN
and maintain the starvation laws, they will
forfeit the respect of the people, their churches
will be, as they ought to be, deserted, and they
will speedily expire from withering contempt.
Poverty, misery, and dearth men may submit to,
but they will not, even at the bidding a the Arch-
bishop of CANTERBURY, do violence to their own
nature, and worship the demon of destruction.
We see by a whole series of returns made
under the late census from the neighbourhood of
Manchester, that the increase of population has
there received a serious check.
The increase per cent., for example, was in the
decennial periods ending
1831. 1841.
In Cheetham
Crumpsall
Levenhulme
Oldham Township 5O
Out Township
Chapelry of Oldham 32
Heaton Norris
In most of these places there are many empty
houses, and there is no doubt that the check
had taken place during the last two or three
years. A glance at the table will satisfy every
man of the cause of the misery now felt in the
manufacturing, districts. The want of food,
which the law withholds from the people, is
starving them out of existence. Will the elec-
tors vote for the continuance of such an abomi-
nable and devilish law? Will they bring on the
land, by upholding such wickedness, the sure
curse of the Ruler of the World ?

By the Emancipation Act of 1829, Roman
Catholics are unjustly excluded from the
office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Of course,
therefore, that office, under the law, must
be filled by a Protestant. At present the bulk
of the Protestants of Ireland are Tories, leagued
with PEEL, friendly to the Orangemen, and op-
posed to the Catholics. Had the Ministers ap-
pointed one of them to be Lord Chancellor—
Mr. Sergeant BL ACKBURNE is mentioned by
a Liberal paper—they would have placed in the
highest judicial office in Ireland a determined
enemy of the Catholic population, by whom they
are supported, and most likely a bitter foe to
Mr. O'CONNELL, who is one of the best friends
of the Ministers and of the Liberal cause. For
not having thus insulted and outraged Mr. O'CoN-
NELL and the Catholic Irish, the Ministers are
unsparingly abused even by the Liberal and
O'CONNELL papers of Dublin.
Independently of the fact that the Chancel,
lor, if taken from the Irish bar, must have been
some enemy of the Liberal cause, and of the Irish
Catholics, party spirit runs so high in Ireland
that most of the eminent members of the Irish
bar are obnoxious to charges of party spirit, and
were they placed on the woolsack would be
liable to bring discredit on the administration
of justice. Let the reader remember the impu-
tations which have been thrown on Chief Jus-
tice O'DoHERTY and Mr. Baron RICHARDS. By
the appointment of an eminent English barris-
ter, which has generally been the practice—as
the cases of Lord MANNERS, Sir A. HART, and
Sir E. SUGDEN, in our own time prove, Lord
PLUNKETT being the exception—the Government
has taken a proper security for the due, impar-
tial, unsuspected administration of justice., A
more eminent lawyer, well acquainted as a Lord
Chancellor ought to be with both common law
and equity, than Baron CAMPBELL does not ex-
ist. If a vacancy occurred spontaneously in the
Chancellorship of Ireland a more suitable selec-
tion could not be made ; yet for making this ap-
pointment the Ministers are fbully and unjustly
censured by the Liberal Irish press.
It is a great object with all good men who wish
to see all parts of the empire united in brotherly
love, to wipe out as fast as possible the National
distinctions of Irish, and English, and Scotch.
Hence it has been proposed to call Ireland, West
Britain. Hence Lord LYNDHURST has been re-
probated, with just severity, for using language
tending to keep alive and exasperate these distinc-
tions. Hence the Liberal Press in England, and
in Ireland, have justly condemned the inflamma-
tory remarks of the Tory journals, against Irish
Catholic gentlemen being appointed to situa-
tions connected with the Government, or about
the Court. But now the Liberal journals of Ire-
land, and the whole Irish bar, tingetting these
principles the instant self-love and self-interest are
wounded, labour to revive and strengthen those
national feelings, because a gentleman who was
not born in Ireland, has been made Lord Chan-
cellor of Ireland. " Let a Tory," says the Dub-
lin Pilot, " be appointed; let it be BLACKBU RNE,
but, at least, let it be an Irishman."
Such remarks, from those who justly demand
equality of treatment, are puerile, not to say ab-
surd. We know of one Master of Chancery
who is an Irishman, Mr. LYNCH ; there may
be others ; but we have no recollection that the
London press and the London bar resisted his
appointment, or found fault with it, because he
was born across the Irish Channel. It would
have been excessively illiberal and unjust if they
had. If an Irishman were made Lord Chan-
cellor of England, the bar and the press would
not find fault with the place of his birth. On
the excellent principle of amalgamating all
the people, and sinking the distinctions of Irish,
Scotch, and English, the appointment ought
never to have been questioned. The censures
heaped on the Ministers because Baron CAMP-•
BELL was born in Scotland, are consequently
only a disgrace to those .who make them. We
expect them in the Dublin Evening Mail and
the London Standard, but in Liberal journals
they are completely out of place.
In truth, after tracing the leading causes, as
we have just done, why an Irish barrister can