The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-03 00:00:00

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

,121AsieltgaatiOt nthe
, may e regarded as
official vindication of the Government against the
charges of neglect and inattention that have been freely
poured forth from time to time against the Executive
They havelbeen accused of incapacity and helplessness
of a total inability to grapple with the present emer-
gency. Not only their talent has been impeached,
but their motives ; the integrity of their intentions
has been most severely commented on. Scarcely a
day passes that the most violent philippics are not in-
dulged in, and the most invidious comparisons drawn
between the conduct of the late and of the present
Ministry. Our present rulers are termed "poli-
tical jugglers ; " their policy is said to be
of the most cruel, procrastinating character,
The Premier himself is accused of truckling to his
constituents, the merchants of London, and of refusing
the adoption of the only steps that by a possibility
could avert destitution and starvation from unhappy
Ireland, in order that large profits and famine prices
should be wrung from the suffering and misery of the
people by fiat highly-favoured class; and this not-
withstanding the repeated assurances given by the
sagacious and intelligent patriot who has so justly
obtained their entire confidence and respect, of his
full appreciation of the conduct and motives of the
Liberal Cabinet, and his full trust in the benevolence
and purity of their intentions towards his beloved
country.
Had not the course of policy of the Whigs, for a
long series of years, been of the most enlightened and
liberal character—had they not evinced, at all times,
the most ardent solicitude for the removal of the
various grievances affecting our sister island—had
they not laboured to restore the Irish to a full and
perfect equality in every respect with ourselves, to
purify the statute-book from every vestige of the
atrocious and vexatious penal laws, to remodel eN ery
enactment of a persecuting or inequitable character
to permit every man to worship his CREATOR in the
manner which he conscientiously deemed right, Ind
to take care that, in so doing, he should not be si.b-
jected to either insult or injur3 —their conduct during
the past session, both before and since they assumed
the administration of the national affairs,
most undoubtedly deserved, and ought to
have secured the esteem, respect, and confidence
of the people, as it has of their veteran leader. Can
be forgotten that it is to their exertions, while s

out of office, that the rejection of the Coercion B

is fairly ascribable; that when they obtained place
and power, they abandoned the " Arms Act," which
had been so long in operation, and gave the people
the full benefit of their past good conduct; and in the
short interval that elapsed before the close of the
session, when opposed and burdened with the enor-
rnws weight of business cast upon them, their first
deliberations were directed towards the state of Ire-
land, and the means necessary to be taken to meet
the impending difficulties and exigences, they carried
through the Legislature the Labour-rate Act, by
which an enormous sum will be advanced for the
relief of Irish necessities, and the repayment of
which, at a moderate rate of interest, is
to be accepted by easy instalments spread
over a period of ten years ; and that when they
discovered the injury that might be sustained by
reason of a strict adherence to the letter of the statute,

with a courage and decision that has not often been
paralleled, they acquiesced in the determination of the
patriotic Nobleman whom they selected for the high
and, at the present crisis, arduous post of Viceroy of
Ireland, and gave their sanction to advances being
made for useful and profitable works of a reproduc-
tive character, although of a private nature? Our
space forbids a recapitulation of the other measures

relating to Ireland brought forward within the last

ew weeks of the session, nor indeed is it necessary
;o allude to them further at this time. The

measures and the conduct we have spoken
of should have silenced the railers against
the Government; and if anything was
necessary to be done, the suggestions should have
been offered in the most respectful terms, and the
language of reproach, and of coarse and virulent
abuse, should be entirely eschewed and most cautiously I
avoided.

We regret that this has not been the case, and yet,
had it not been so, we might not have obtained the
views of the Government, and the development of
the Whig policy brought forwari in the document to

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