The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-16 00:00:00

troops, spite of all mismanagemenal victorious,
but the country was not :beaten. it
was much more ready to go on than. -to stop. It
would not. desert its great ally, otherwise it would
rather have fought alone than draww out its gun-
boats merely for a naval parade.
We freely acknowledge in this se33se that we
may feel proud of our resourc?s, through we have
hitherto, squandered them but sadly. Notwith-
standing that stupid and reckless waste, yet here
we stand unwilling to believe that peace is really
concluded. We want neither money, men, ships,
nor ammunition.' We have more ,olf all than at
the beginning of the War. We have put forth
our strength clumsily in the first instance, but
we meant to make every stroke tell next cam-
paign. England presents an imposing aspect
by the side of her ally. She gives in to
please him ; sha has gone to war in com-
pany with partner, and she 'will not press
it to the inconvenience of her partner. She re-
tires very reluctantly. She draws back, as it
were, ready for a spring. France retreats for
repose. France is weary ; England can scarcely
restrain her vigour. The Government, not the
country, has made the peace here. There, in all
probability, Imperial purposes and popular wishes
were coincident in their immediate object.

But the true end of the War has not been ob-
tained. That is the real reason why we so un-
willingly desist. We are a practical people, and
we see that the Peace is a sham. It has done
nothing for any of the Peoples of Europe ; it has
merely enabled despots to swing at their ease a
little longer. It is a Peace branded with the in-
famy of Austrian occupation of the Principalities,
and with Hungary and Italy ground beneath her
hated and savage rule. Worse than all, it has
left the arch-enemy with his fortresses in
the very bosom of civilised Europe.
We hold it to be the eternal disgrace
of the Paris Pleniptentiaries, that they did not
lay down as their first condition-=No peace till
Russia withdraws from all that desires to re-unite
under the name of Poland. We question, though
some will smile, whether Russia and the German
'despots dared have resisted ; certain we are that,
had France had half the courage of England,
and half :the , love of freedom, ALEXANDER 11.
must have disgorged what it WAS the infamy:
Europe to concede to ALEXANDER I. in 1815.
Another year of war would have been ruin to
Russia, awl Russia knew it. There was no need
:o wrong her, but to ri3htthe Poles was the evi-
dent and the only efficient security on which the
Western Powers could rely. Poland, however,
remains the slave of Muscovite barbarians, and
Warsaw. the continental Sebastopol. England is
ashamed of this. She curses, in her heart, the
COBURG- and RUSSELL policy with which the War
ban.

The success of Mr. SPOSNIR'S motion is not
one of those things in which au enlightened Eng-
lishman can find occasion for rejoicing. On the
contrary, we believe it will be viewed with-deep
and painful regret by all whose patriotism and
love of honesty and justice are not led astray by
th 9 blindest bigotry.

f-' TO the adVoCates of Voluntaryism in religion i
affords no triumph of principle—to the friends of
the Establishment it offers no grounds for cob
gratulation, but rather for apprehension ; while
' to theliberal-miuded politician it presents at best
but a -prospect of having undone. what, in the
-interests or humanity 'and of the empire, had
• been happily achieved. Had this ultra'Protestant
triumph been a successful veto to an endowment
proposedforthe first time in a country without
an establishment, or were there no special cir-
cumstances rendering the withdrawal of the
grant- to' Maynooth alike unjust and impoUc,
the case would have been different, and our sym-
pathies
.would have gone in another direction.
But alongside this grant to Maynooth, which Mr.
SPOONER. and his party have so far successfully
assailed, we have an Eitablishment which is en
dewed with the wealth of a national church, and
yet is the ehurch of:, only, a small section ~of. 'the
nation. . This fact alone removes the grant from
therigour of. abstract principle, ...and renders its
attempted withdrawal a matter of regret. But
this is not all ; the great majority of the nation
is poor, and supports the ministers of its own creed
with difficulty, while it regards the creed of the
minority with more. than ordinary dislike. Inaddi-
tion to these facts, thO state of Ireland at the pre-
sent time (~ffetB the strongest reasons why the grant
sliould not be dis;c.mtinued. After a long period of
persecution and thiaffectien, the people of Ireland
~ are now, under the reign of just laws,„becauiing.at-
taphed to the British Crown, and pregent an aspect of
loyalty and contentment not to be surpassed even
iu this. country. ' Under such . circumstances,
what could be expected from the withdraWal of
•the grant but the renewal of those internal heart-
hianiFigs which hive 'distracted Ireland- for cen-
turies,. and . the return of that state of things
.which we hail fiul y hopei was for e': er gone, by ?
And this danger is to be riPked,- f :rsooth, because
the Collegeof Maynooth is a Roman Catholic and
net a Protestant college. As if the Roman Catho-
lics of had not 13:4ea as ready to spill
their blood and Contribute their treasure in the
'defence of their country as the Protestant popula-
tion, or the Roman Catholic priesthood in Ireland
were 'arrayed in 'open hostility, instead of offering
their best allegiance to the Crovrn. Or;-- as if
at this time of day, when'yeligious toleration is
granted to all, Raina,n arhAics were to be ex-
cluded
from a privilege to which,. if the principle
of an endowment is admitted, .they have an uu-
Inestimable right. As Mr. DEASY in his really
admirable maiden speech, in which the policy and
justice of continuing the graUt were as ably as
boldly enforced, remarked, " they,"- the House,
‘.` sat
,there as the representatives of an empire
counic4ed of. Protestants, Catholics, Presbyterians,
and other sects, and they were not at liberty to
indulge their own opinions merely ; they were
there as the trustees of all classes and all creeds."
A' rebuke, we will add, as apropos as well-merited,
and which it would have been well had it had its
Proper effect. ..

The practicalcouseriuences of , a withdrawal o
the grant,f
should. Mr. SPOONER and his party sue-
`oted'in their ill-advised attempt, we will not now
.dfla.teana, trusting, as we do, that the House will
rmuasider its jtvic,,rneut ;
ictu
doubt it would lead not
merely
h etroe
a .carenv'isbioen 12:
the Irish Establishment, b a eut which we have
Ino concern,:but t ~ oet ler results, which our bigots
.ito not taki=l into consideration. T 4 I'l ' Ro '
tWe TlB.l. Mall
Ca, II ..lio c• I arch. would-not ir! il,_,priV.l P-Tc,luctted
iiiitiisier,, 1) r the peipie of spiri.!.u,4l con.;ol.ation
butthe fri;,ll p ri es th ood educated abroad. would bri n 0.
to their labours sympathies not. English,. antthe,
.peapieji- to a cAisileration. of Imperial interests,
those fe„liii.o.B of discontentsand,di§affectionl.which
perftcuti DTI :ii --sure to.-- engunder, -.And which :the
'bristho9dWili 'be offered', • )4iii.Y; bridollii4i6l4nt.
....
external circumstances car offer to promote. And-
this at a period when the signs of tlieticnet 40
:strongly indicate. the necessity. 4._as perfeci,, a
fusion of the.gtnpire into one homOgeneous mass-.
.'"ailddii possibly , attained. g3tskl„,o§, WgQO7.
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