The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-07 00:00:00

GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE.

SEPT. s.—Although there is not as yet any officio,
i
notification of a vacancy in the department, it s stated
to-day that the office of Poor-law Commissioner, with a
salary of 2,5001. a year, has been conferred on Mr. Mor-
gan John O'Connell, M.P. The Nation, while fully ad-
mitting Mr. O'Connell's qualifications for the situation,
deeply regrets the fact of an O'Connell. becoming a " sti-
pendiary of England," as establishing a precedent which
the weak and venal will improve to their own interest.
The Nation farther remarks, and with perfect truth,
that
" When Mr. Meagher commented,on the place-hunt-
ing of Mr. Edward Clements, he saw where this system
tended, and determined to nip it in the bud. He was
clamoured down by men who knew p srfectly well that
Mr. Clements was at that moment beft,ging a place in
London (this is not surmise—we spec k from knowledge
of the fact); and we are now to suffev the results of let-
ting the first offender escape. If the people choose to
engage in a sham battle about physic: sl, force, and turn
their eyes away from the, questions of real importance to
our cause, wo to Ireland. This is on e, and the most
pressing of them all."
REPRESENTATION OF CL.ONMEL.
According to the Freeman's Journa 1, Mr. O'Connell
has nominated the Hon. Cecil Lawless to the Member-
ship of Clonmel, vice Mr. Pigott, appointed Chief
Baron. Mr. Lawless, it may be recollected, did not join
the repeal movement until after the o zmpletion of the
Dungarvan " arrangerhent," and until 'it was made mani-
fest that by so doing he was not to forfeit all hopes of
favour at the hands of a Whig Gov ernment. Really,
it now looks as if Mr. O'Connell's " seventy repealers,"
instead of being the formidable stun iblng-block which
they threatened to be, turned out to :be the strongest
bulwark of Lord John Russell's Ministry.

MEMBERSHIP OF THE REP'S;, AL ASSOCIA-

TION.
The Nation of this day brings to 14 ;ht the following
instructive correspondence which Fia.s passed between
two Roman Catholic clergymen and Mr. Secretary Ray.
The weekly organ also publishes a f orcible appeal to
the latter functionary from Mr. T. . Meagher, one of
the great expelled, but its length will probably preclude
the chance of insertion :

" Chapel Iro-,z;e, Templederry.
" Sir,—ln reply to your printed eh 'cuter, announcir4
the stoppage of the Nation newspaper , I beg to say
"That many of the contributors tto the repeal tent
were
which I sent last February to the. Associa:4o.:,,
mainly moved to contribute by thf ) wish,
to get the
Nation. If, therefore, you break ~dour Contract with
them, you are bound to remit their subsreiptions.
" That all the contributors of tha t sv,m are opposed to
the policy of your present extreme mtJasure, as you may
seo by our parish resolutions, put JB'shed in the Evening
'
Freeman about a week since, and =not convince them-
selves either of its justice or its it A necessity. They can,
therefore, be no parties to it.

" That you may stop any par ,er which we would now
select, in a month's time, just
the Nation. -
as fairly as you now stop

" I beg your committee, ti aerefore, to relieve them-
selves of solicitude, and us '
appointment, by senriing u:i4 om inconvenience and dis-
provide ourselves with a pap the money, that we may
er.
"If you do not choosy
, to do this, I fear I stall be
placed in the necessity Qf demanding. back the entire sub-
icription.