The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-22 00:00:00

may indeed be inferred with all but moralcertainty,
that had the political pressure of the royal 'Anal Jaws
been continued twenty years longer not twenty indivi-
duals possessing 5001. a year in landed property would
have continued to profess the Romish superstition in
Ireland. Humanity would have been spied the
horrors which have since devastated that unhappy
country, and England the humiliation of feeling, that
the 'tenure by which she holds the (so called.) Sister
Island is neither more popular nor more secure under
William the Fourth than it was under Henry-the Se-
cond.' Ireland presents a singular and a sad anomaly
in the history of nations—she is at once the pride and'
the shame, the strength and the weakness, -of the
British Crown. During the centuries that beautiful
and distracted country has formed an appendage to
the Crown of England she has never enjoyed either
the quietude of subjection or the tranquillity of
peace for half a century at a time. Conspiracies
and insurrections have defaced the fairest portions of
her soil, and distracted while they degraded her
ardent and misguided 'sons. The wisdom. of that
policy which has made Ireland what she is may well
be (I4ubted ; but it seems evident that what she is she
canna long continue to be. A crisis has, arrived, or
is rapidly approaching, when the question must be
definitively, must be practically, decided:—ls the Pro-
testant population of Ireland, are those who have for
centuries upheld the laws, the religion, and the in-
terests of 'England in that land of darkness and of
strife, to be abandoned to the tender mercies of an
ambitious and unsparing priesthood, of an ignorant,
fanatical, and sanguinary peasantry, directed by a ve
nal and aspiring adventurer? Is Ireland to remain an
integral portion of the British empire, or is she, after
passing a few years in the convulsions of a civil and
social war, to become a republic under the temporal
protectorship of France, and the spiritnal guidance of
his 'loliness the Pope? "To this complexion. she
must come at last," or that dangerous, and 'des-.
picable system of treachery to friendS"' and con-
cession to enemies, which has alienated the one with
outs reclaiming the other, must be abandoned ; the
turbulent and treasonable dictatorship of, Mr. O'Con-
nell effectually abolished, the authority of the law-re-
established, the ascendancy of Protestantism and
loypity to the Crown vindicated, and, in one word, the'
sovereignty of England asserted in deed as Well' as
name. That these objects will be obtained-without a
struggle is perhaps more to be hoped than expected ;
but let us recollect that the end in view" is the preser.,
vation of the Protestant religion and of the integrity of
the empire ; for, should Mr. O'Connell and his con-
federates in this country succeed in rendering Popery
the established religion in Ireland, it requires not the'
spirit of divination to foretel that Ireland will cease to
belong to the Crown of Great Britain,. and Great
Nitain to be numbered among the great. Powers. of
Europe.—Morning Post.
It is not our intention in this article again 'to
point the attention of our readers to the admirable
speeches of the late Premier and of the Lord
Chancellor at the great northern " gathering" on.
Monday last, but simply to call it to those
,of ,Lord
Durham, of Mr. Ellice, and of Sir John Cam Hob-
house, from which the enemies of the Government,-
. and more particularly those of Lord Brougham, are
endeavouring to extract so many grains of anirnosity,
causes of division, and even of hope to themselves. The
speech of Lord Durham was animated,' straight-for-
ward, pointed, and energetic. It spoke the mind' of
its author, and the principles which he professes, and
the rules of policy by which he would wish to see the
crovernment of the country guided in all their entirety.
These principles have long had our support, as they,
have enjoyed our approbation,..and we need scareely,
add that there is no truly liberal independent,. and 'pa-
triotic mind which would not echo back' its sym-
pathy with the policy recommended by his Lordship-;
but it so happened that a portion of the,Noble Loid's
speech formed a sort of reply to a smalffractiou of that
of the Lord Chancellor, and hence the great joy .of the
Tories—hence the cheering of the enemies. of the-
Chancellor—hence the cry that thOre is d divi-
sion in the liberal camp I Vain hope L most
ridiculous and unreflecting joy I What if there
were a difference of opinion in the liberal camp
to=morrow, would that advantage either the ene-
mies of the Chancellor particularly, or the op-
ponents of the Government ? Would the Tories be p.
whit more near the possession of power ? Would they
be more in favour with the people or with' the Sove-
reign ? Would not, in fact, all the benefit which
would result to them from it be the malignant joy of
an empty and fruitless revenge ? Their days of office
and of power are gone bye without the possibility 'of
recall, though their hopes of it may not yet appear to
them to be in the sear and yellow leaf, which no breath
of spring can revive. Their bark lies stranded upon a
shore which no returning tide can bear back apron
its bosom into the ocean of popular favour—its hull
damaged, its rigging gone—its fastenings unloosened
—its deck broken up—its principal spars scattered
and torn to pieces beyond the possibility of 'being
collected and repaired. He would be.a.bold seaman
who would venture upon • any ocean,, however free
from current, from high tides and unfriendly `gales,
with such a frail vessel, equally incapable of being
piloted to any given harbour as of resistance to the
slightest obstacle ; but he would be a madman who
would launch it into waters which are up-heav-
ing from their foundation—into currents as powerful
as adverse—into latitudes where gales are blow-
ing with terrific fury—and hope .that it would
live for even one second in the midst.of them. Yet
such is but a faint picture of the situation and hopes
;of Toryism—of their unfitness for office in times
like the present, and of the dangers which would
prove fatal to their possession of it, however -brief.
But what if there were a difference of foF!iiiion be-
tween Lords Brougham and Durham ? Is it the first
time that two honest, independent, and enlightened
men have differed in opinion ; or can
,the difference, if
it exist, seeing that Lord Durham is not of the Cabinet,
have the smallest influence upon the'- stability of the
Government, or the future prospects of the country ?
We respect Lord Durham as much as he can possibly
be respected by any one—we agree mainly in all the
political principles professed by him, .and have always
admired the bold and uncompromising:manner inmrhich
he has invariably given expression tii• theit-Oiut in
the instance referred to, we are frank'tb 61-Ass, that
while we can see no real difference ofrn-pinion between
his Lordship and the Lord Chancellor, so also are we
inclined to think that he snatched at axauntlet which
had never been thrown down to him, :and fitted a cap
to his own head which was neither' made for nor
meant to fit it. What were the LOrd Chancellor's
words ?

" I entirely agree," said he, " in all those wise and states-
manlike principles which havwbeen so imffessively,,soelearly,
and so convincingly expounded to you by,:tny noble friend
(Lord Grey). Let the Government of the country, strong
in the support both of the Crown and the • people, proceed
steadily, firmly, unflinchingly, to discharge its duty, by pro-
moting the progress of liberal opinions ; but let them not be
hurried either out of their course to the right or to the left, or
onward in their course faster or farther than sound reflection,
calm deliberation, and statesmanlike prudence: enables them to
go. Some men, I know—nay, a great -number--4"have no
doubt honest, conscientious men—men, generally speaking, of
sound opinions, but somewhat unreflecting, and who think
that execution and action arc everything, and that all the time
that is spent in deliberation and in preparing is time thrown
away. * * * Gentleman, we shall go on,
heedless of the attacks of those hasty spirits., They are men
of great honesty, of much ability, but, unfortunately, of no re-.
flection at all. They would travel towards their object, but
they are in such a hurry to get there some'three monthi earlier,
than I should arrive, that they will not wait to Put the linch-
pins into the wheels. They would bear' firth on a great
voyage of discovery, into untried regions, but they cannot
think of waiting to look whether there is a compass on board ;'
and when they see the port in view, they will not wait five
minutes to go round it, but run the vessel right •a
-head, and
strike upon the breakers. They build a house, they constrult
an edifice—a large, a huge, a massive pile; but all they carefor
is the outside • they regard only the look and appearance of
the thing, and will not take the trouble of waiting to' see whe-
there are any partitions for rooms, to make it useful and
habitable ; nay, they will not even wage time to' use the
plummet and the line, and so the odds are that the walls
tumble about their ears. I sincerely respect their good inten-
tions ;" I acquit them of all blame on that- score ; but when
they ask me to proceed forward with them, I make them my
most respectful obeisance, and politely beg to decline. When
they are entering their carriage I do not think it convenient to
accompany them ; when they go aboard their vessel, I choose
rather to abide on shore ; and as to taking any share in their
building, I not only will not do so, but Pstand at a respectful
distance from it, for fear it should make an experiment which
I wish to see tried neither on their heads nor on my own—l