The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-27 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1846.

As a testimony that the alleviation of the miseries
of Ireland is not incompatible with the legislative
Act of Union, we may direct attention to the Parlia-
mentary business with which the present memorable
session is drawing to a conclusion. The whole
vapacities of the Legislature appear to be concen-
trated upon the amelioration of the distresses with
-which the inhabitants of that island are threatened ;
:the whole zeal of the Administration seems to be
'evoked by the exigencies which are there apparent.
Various measures have been concocted and
wassed through the different ordeals necessary
AO enable them to come into operation.
7hose measures have generally been devised by
considerable ingenuity, and enlarged by no incon-
niderable foresight ; they are generally genial for
their benevolence, and satisfactory for their com-
prehensiveness. It would be superfluous to enume-
rate Bills already so familiar to the multitude : the
main enterprises undertaken by Lord JOHN RUSSELL
and his colleagues, whereby they have commemo-
rated their inauguration in office, and illustrated the
termination of the session of 1846, were, first, the
equalisation of the sugar duties, and, by that, the
extension of the principles of free trade ;
and, secondly, the assuaging of Irish suffering, and
the modification of the legislative enactments hitherto
enforced in Ireland. Those enterprises are now
almost completed.
Unless something of an unprecedented character
transpire in the interim, Parliament will be pro-
rogued on Friday. On the twenty-eighth of August,
one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, the most
remarkable, and, in all essential respects, the most
glorious session recorded in the history of the British
Parliament, will have been brought to a conclusion.
A more satisfactory session could not have been,
as far as its accomplishments are concerned. The
nation is grateful for the concessions there granted to
them ; the memory of the past seven months will
elicit the admiration of posterity. By their proceed-
ings during those seven months the most illustrious
statesmen of the age have acquired for themselves the
love of their contemporaries—some of them have
achieved for their names a beautiful immortality.
Future generations will recur to these times
as those of extraordinary transition and po-
litical beneficence. Remarkable; however as
the dawning of the present Parliamentary
session was, its close is not one whit the less remark-
able. It commenced with justice to the labouring
population of the United Kingdom—it terminates
with justice to the people of Ireland. Whatever
opportunities presented themselves for the considera-
rion of the wrongs of our sister country after the
great commercial changes had been realised, were de-
voted, and are baing devoted, to that most laudable en-
deavour on the part of our Legislature. Coercive
measures have happily been found unnecessary for the
maintenance of subordination among her populace.
There are no longer to be either an organized surveil-
lance or a tyrannical interdict with reference to those
weapons which have been particularised in the famous
Arms Bill ever since the revolution of eighty-eight.
The Cabinet Ministers have pledged themselves to
prepare propositions for the better government of
Ireland by the ensuing session ; and such a
cordial and unaffected anxiety has been evinced
by the new Administration to do justice to the peo-
ple of that country, that the Liberator himself (the
most unlikely ninu in the world to be deceived by