The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-19 00:00:00

ployed in the year 1884 to express their dissent from
the 'drinciplo of
.the spoliation clause, by the Marquis
of Lansdowne, Lord Brougham, and others of the
C7.binet. lilt the legal inference as to a bargain be-
twoen O'Connell and the Ministers does not hang upon
any formal or detailed proof of positive facts. The
th,rendence. of Lord Melbourne upon O'Connell is
mot a matter demanding proof ; it is self-evident. If
CrCo-anell did not protect Lord Melbourne, and give
'him the benefit of his five or six-and-thirty votes, it is
notorious as noon-day that Lord Melbourne would be
kit in a minority of some twenty votes or so, in which
case he must resign. Very well ; if all this be mani-
fest, Lore', Melbourne must, in conclusion of law, be
O'Contrell's servant—that is, the servant of a man
who a-rows his hostility to the incorporation of Ire-
laud with Great Britain—to one branch of the Le-
gisl*re. as at present, and from time immamorial,
cotitfuted—and to the existence of the Protestant
Church. Is, then, such a persim as Lord Melbourr,,
polluted by such a partnership, trampled under t_%,-ie
hoof of sucli an ignominious tyrant—LS he, wo say, io
be trusted by the King of England with guardian-
ship of his Crown, or by the pcopL ly;:th that of their
religion and their liberties ? He by his position as
much O'Conneli's ercaturo ar the merest automaton
of the tail.—Times.

The speech of Mr, 'Vernon Smith, on the day of
the Northamptonsl'.,re nomination, contained some ex-
traordinary assertions, and these rendered the more so
considering l'oat they emanated from the lips of an
official mr,,,n, Mr. Vernon Smith being no other than
one of "the Joint Secretaries of the Board of Control,
as well as'Member for Northampton, and as such not
a mere picker-up of facts from unauthenticated sources.
The assertions we allude to were these :-1. That Lord
Grey, though not a Member of the Administration,
'had during the last session of Parliament given his
" utmost Support" • to Ministers, though it is well
known that the Noble Earl never so much as once
opened his lips on their behalf. 2. That the celebrated
appropriation clause " was not introduced by the Mi-
nistry, but by Lord Stanley," though every -other man
in the kingdom knows that it was on thls very ground
that Lord Stanley had withdrawn froin the Government.
a. With reference to the Dublin. Police Bill, that "he
knew nothing of Ireland, and %vas therefore unable to
say much of the matter," ftiough Iceland is evidently
that part of the empire 7ehich at this time attracts the
most general interest--; and is that, above all others, on
which no holder of, office or Member of the Legislature
should be, still- 'less profess to be, in ignorance. To
these we mirth add the terms of contempt in which
the Hon. 'Secretary speaks of his master's master—
Mr. O'Z;Ionnell. But, without enlarging upon these
topics., surely there is enough in the mere statement of
theta-) to excite the surprise of every one, that a person
holfling a responsible office under the Crown should so
commit -himself, and that on an occasion when he
voluntarily comes forward as the organ of the Govern-
ment to set a previous speaker (Sir George Robinson)
right upon subjects on
.which he himself thus errs so
egregiously.- It is generally expected of those who
attempt to correct others, that they should at least be
correct themselves. But here we have an official ap-
parently more unofficial as to his facts, than any Go-
vernment Officer we ever met with.—Morn. Herald.
The scena which was recently enacted at the meet-
ing in Brighton. is not less instructive, from its being
an indication of the actual state of public opinion re-
specting the IriF;Tn Church, than from the exposure
which the Re-i. Mortimer O'Sullivan made in his
speech, itself an illustration, of the shameless disregard
of truth, consistency, and decency, which marks the •
Tory rtusaderS in their political discussions. We say
politlcal, for the relief of the Clergy of Ireland is
merely the pretext of exciting the public mind against
the prosecution of those reforms which the Ministry,
in accordance with the imperative necessity of the
times, are preparing to introduce in the approach-
ing Session of Parliament. We leave our readers to
draw their own inference, not only as to the refuta-
tion which the Rev. Gentleman gives to the slanders
daily promulgated against the Roman Catholic popu-
lation of Irelmid, but also as to the glaring contradic-
tions and absurdities which occur in the speech itself,
eulogised by our High Ch.-arch contemporaries as a su-
perlative specimen of (I.oquence :
" If (said the Itinerant Churchman) there was, through
the whole extent of Ireland, one Roman Catholic who
could he justly said to pay tithe in support of the Protes-
tant religion, and that tithes could be fairly said to be a
payment from a Roman Catholic for Protestant purposes,
he,woaki freely consent to that man's tithes being re-
mitted, and would join in any petition which might be
framed to effect this end."
And then to escape the result which such a pledge
involved, he attempts to persuade his auditory that
the Roman Catholics of Ireland pay, or were willing
to pay, t,lteir tithe "freely !1" Here is the precious
moreeau
" Well; then, in obedience to this intimation, Capt. Collis
led forth the military ; and the consequence was that, cer-
tainly for one, and he believed, but was not certain, for two
flays, the tithe was freely brought in.—(' Freely ?') He
(Mr. O'Sullivan) said freely !"
Gil Blas gave charity freely to the wounded
soldier who presented a musket at him. How many
:unfortunate victims have been sacrificed to the law
which will not recognise robbery on the. highway as a
free gift. What a pity they had not the advocacy of
an O'Sullivan. Here is conclusive special pleading :
"An individual said No ;' but he would tell the person
who interrupted him, that there were men, Roman Catholics
in Ireland, who merited not these slanders ; men who,
knowing they had taken land on certain conditions, would
either throw up their land or comply with those conditions.
There were Roman Catholics in Ireland who would say, 'Will
my conscience allow me to pay tithes ? if not, what right
have Ito take land, to which the condition of such a pay-
ment is attached ?' lie had stated that for one day the
people freely paid their tithes ; and be would again say that
there were such things to be found as honest men ever,
among the Roman Catholics of Ireland. When they
re-
turned they received the thanks of the people for er%atain-,
them to pay ; and should he then be told than ti!..nc: were
compulsory in Ireland ?"
What will the Tory journals say to ';his ? But the
best is to Come—
" An individual asked what tl:,e military were for ; be
(Mr. O'Sullivan) would reply, 'to give the people an oppor-
tunity of discharging their e.,„msei,„„,:,
Discharging their consciences ! This " bangs Ba-
,A nagher. ' We shoald consider it to be the reporter's
mistake, and ". consciences" to have been written for
purses ; but the document bears too strong evidence of
authentic'ty to admit a doubt of its correctness: Dis-
charging consciences at the point of the bayonet—or
giving, it vent with a musket-ball—may appear strange
an England, but it is o':iite a common mode of letting
in a " new light" on the peasantry of Ireland. We
were not surprised after this to find the Reverend
Speaker defend the massacre of Rathcormac ; but we
have not pa'aence to continue the subject.—Morning
Advertiser.

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SCARBOROUGH.--It is generally understood that
of the 18 new councillors, only four will be old corporai.ors,
and of these two will be Liberals, so that the Liberal, will
have, according to appearances, a considerable mak- vity in
•
the new Town Council.—lltell Observer.