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London, England, 1833-02-11 00:00:00

would bear down the good sense and stanch
principle of the national representatives,—and
that the most violent or headlong proposal was
that which would be surest of commanding a
majority against Ministers. Not having been
ourselves amongst the alarmists, but having in-
variably, from the first, maintained, that when
the will of the community—the moral and in-
dependent community,—should be freed from
the vile shackles of the borough monopoly, the
effect would be a fair representation of the pro-
perty, intelligence, and independent spirit, or, in
other wards, the national mind of England, we
are far more gratified than surprised at the re-
ception which has been given to the King's
speech, defective though it may have been in
some particulars, and to that inflicted upon the

succeesive amendments of Messrs. O'Connell
.ind Tennyson. By the debates of the four
days, barren and utterly unprofitable as were
nine-tenths of the speeches which composed
them, three points of great importance may, we
believe, be reckoned on.
1. That the course of outrage, pillage, murder, and
incipient anarchy, which threatens to overpower all law
and government in Ireland, and to lay every innocent
man's house and person at the mercy of whatsoever ruffian
may think fit to assail them, will not be suffered by the
Reformed Parliament to continue.
2. That the Union between Great Britain and Ireland
will not he dissolved if the great majority of the United
Parliament can frustrate the conspiracy for that disastrous
object.
3. That an ample 'measure of remedy will be insisted
on by the same Parliament for all the public abuses and
grievances of which it can be established that the people
of Ireland have reasonable cause to complain, and this
last anticipation, from the occurrences of the week just
ended, is one which we would anxiously impress upon the
lords and gentlemen who are his Majesty's confidential
advisers.

Mr. O'Connell's amendment would have
pledged Parliament to a tolerance of the mur-
derous and lawless proceedings of the White-
feet and their kindred savages, leaving the
adoption of any remedies for the wretched state
of the country, political or otherwise, contingent
on a " Parliamentary inquiry,"—that is to say,
the continuance of the social disease was at all
hazards to be insured, while the application of
any and what remedy was to be left altogether
doubtful. But an " inquiry" was proposed.
Into what facts ? Did the Learned Gentleman
disbelieve the perpetration of the mass of mur-
ders of which the records were to be found in
the hands of every Coroner, although unhappily
few corresponding proofs of punishment could
he extracted from the registers of the Criminal
Courts of Ireland, so hermetically sealed have
been the lips of witnesses, so paralyzed the
nerves and consciences of Jurymen, by the fre-
quent examples of brutal vengeance inflicted
upon, or threatened against, all who might
on their oaths contribute to the detection
of murder ? The amendment of the Learned
Member for Dublin was rejected by a ma-
jority of more than 10 to 1, there being against
it 428, in its favour only 40, of whom 34appear
to have been Irish Members, constituting, out of
103, the whole force, we presume, on which
Mr. O'Connell can calculate as strictly amena-
ble to his orders. The English and Scotch
auxiliaries are said to have been Cobbett, Att-
wood, Hume, Faithful, Fie!den (the latter
being Cobbett'e colleague), and Kinloch, Mem-
ber Dundee,—just 6, in addition to the 34
Irishmen. We make no comment on their
names ; they are, with one or two exceptions,
known enough in this country to afford grounds
for a tolerably precise estimate of the weight and
influence which they have furnished to the " re-
peal of the Union" party. But take it that
some dozen or two of Repealers have hung back,
from sudden terror at the gulph before them,
from the madness of attempting an enterprise to
the success of which the crown of the United
Kingdom has declared that civil war would be a
preferable evil. What then ? More than half

the Members for Ireland would support the
Crown against the O'Connell faction-540 or
550 Members for Great Britain would maintain
the integrity of the empire. Then what a
miserably forlorn hope to storm such a fortress
is the band of 40 Repealers with their contin-
gent accessories ! The whole project is good
for this, and nothing more engages Irish
vanity and folly in the pursuit of an ignis
fatuus which ca❑ only lead its deluded followers
to destruction. It fixes the eye of the multitude
on a point which is falsely represented to them to
he attainable, but which, though it never can be
reached, may still serve as a topic of fanatical
and mischievous excitement, as a pretext for
turbulence, when all just national objects shall
have been fulfilled, and all reasonsble ground of
dissatisfaction extinguished. Demagogues may

Irive on such unwholesome aliment,✓but it is

that on which nations perish. Mr. Tennyson's
amendment, less directly noxious than that to
which it succeeded, was inadmissible for the
reason briefly stated by Lord Althorp. It left
the dismemberment of the empire an open ques-
tion, and Ireland, by consequence, exposed to a
chronic endurance of this agitation malady. We
have not yet seen a complete list of the unfor-
tunate minority of 60, but from the sample, it
would seem to have embraced the Doctrinnaires
and other (practical) imbeciles of the House of
Commons. Why Mr. Tennyson should set up
for the head of a party, it would be difficult to
imagine, were it not that Mr. Hume has done
so. The two Hon. Gentlemen, whether as
rival or associate chieftains, are likely to exercise
about an equal influence on the course of public
affairs. The repeal of the Union, then, we re-
gard as a lost battle for the agitators. Likewise
we do hope and trust, that the existing laws for
the protection of life and fortune will be no
longer violated with impunity. These men call
out for an " impartial administration of justice."
I-Tow, in the name of Heaven, can justice be
impartially administered, when neither can wit-
nesses depose to facts, nor jurors find upon
them, without an imminent and notorious risk
of being shot, or having their brains knocked
out, on leaving the assize town to return to
their several habitations ? The protection so
loudly insisted on is a protection for crime, and
the " equal justice" an unerring impunity for
wrongdoers, Without professing any general
agreement, but the contrary, with the political
sentiments of Mr. Shaw, Recorder of Dublin,
we were struck, as was the House of Commons,
with his forcible description of the actual state
of Ireland, and of the cruel and dreadful preva-
lence of unpunished atrocity throughout so many
counties. It is physically impossible for any king-
dom to exist under such visitations, if perpetuated.
To the speech of Mr. Macaulay we again entreat
attention, for a general outline of the argument as
to the inconsistency of a repeal of the Union, and
the creation of an independent legislature in Ire-
land, with a long unity of Sovereigns. To Sir
it. Peel's we turn with satisfaction for a detailed
exposure of the absurdity and iniquity of such
an experiment upon the wellbeing of millions of
men, as also for a clear demonstration of the
falsehood of those who allege that Irish local
interests have been designedly postponed to