The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The multitudes assembled to receive Lord Mul-
grave on his entry into Dublin, exceeded in numbers,
enthusiasm, and display, any popular procession in
Ireland since the visit of George the Fourth. Let us
ask to what is this unusual demonstration of national
feeling to be attributed ? Simply to the hopes and
expectations which the Irish people found on the pro-
mises of the present Administration. How wretched
must be the condition of a country where mere promises

—promises similar to those by oilier Governments, re-
peatedly betrayed—can give rise to such general exul-
tation. When Lord Anglesey was received in triumph
after the passing of Catholic Emancipation, the Irish
people forgot in that act the boast he had made in the
House of Lords, to coerce them from seeking that relief
with thirty thousand troops. May they not soon have oc-
casion to repent of their confidence in Lord Mulgrave I
However,we find them still confiding, and ready to sink the
memory of their wrongs in a spirit of conciliation, and
the opportunity should not be lost. Let the promises
of the present Government be followed up by acts, and
we confidently predict that Ireland will become the
most loyal section of the British empire. If Ireland
has the vices, she has also the virtues, of nations defi-
cient in civilization. Her people have ever been more
ready to return a kindness than to revenge an injury.
A whole nation Cannot play the hypocrite, and who can
view such an outpouring as recently took place of joy and
gratitude for mere promises, and assert that the people of
Ireland are averse to British Government, if it be con-
ducted in a paternal—not in a persecuting—spirit ?
Humanity, gratitude, justice, and sound policy.—all—
all appeal to the Melbourne Ministry in behalf of Ire-
land. If eight millions of people, distracted with
suffering, be calmed at the prospect of relief, what
peace might we not expect if her wrongs were actually
redressed But let Government beware of breaking
faith—eight millions of people cannot with impunity
be driven to despair. Hitherto the connexion has not
been beneficial to either country ; a sound policy may
make it advantageous to both ; and the time is fast
approaching when reciprocal good must be the only
bond of nations ; and those whom arms cannot subdue,
will be incorporated by justice.—Morning Advertiser.
The rabble procession on Monday last from Kings-
town to Dublin, in which Mr. O'Connell, though ab-
sent, was the hero, and Lord Mulgrave enacted the
learned agitator's representative, was well fitted to -its
genuine purpose—namely, a demonstration of that
learned person's power, and a clear specification of the
class of people over whom that power is exercised. It
was, in fact; a muster of the Irish mob, and the signal
for assembling was the " drum-ecclesiastic," the priests
in the several chapels of Dublin having summoned the
anti-English forces to the field. Now this parade of
an army, which, under various forms, and during a num-
ber of years, has existed for no other conceivable object
. than that for which it was originally raised—viz., re-
sistance to the law—open and active when the law was
weak—occult, or at least passive, when the law had re-
covered its energy—this tumultuary but numerous army
pays feudal service, prompt and blind, to the sworn pro-
jector and abettor of a repeal of the Union—that is,
of a revolt on the part of Ireland against the Imperial
Crown. Was there ever, then, such a mockery of the
King upon his throne as this ? Was there ever such
a personal insult to his Majesty's Viceroy, as that a
multitude, so banded together, so thoroughly subser-
vient to a power which is not that of the King's
Government, but which has for years past carried on
hostilities against the Royal Government and the
united Parliament—hostilities suspended only at this
moment by a short experimental truce—was there
ever, we ask, such a mockery, or such an insult, as
that the organized battalions of O'Connell should pre-
tend to make themselves the escort of the King's
Lieutenant to the seat of his Viceroyalty, ostenta-
tiously proclaiming to the world that Lord Mulgrave
has accepted the administration of Ireland under the
guidance and the auspices of that party, the great
acknowledged object of whose entire policy is the sepa-
ration of Ireland from the British Crown ? In his

former office—the Government of Jamaica—Lord
Mulgrave showed himself a man of sense and spirit.
If his whole nature be not changed, how must the No-
ble Earl feel himself humiliated by the protection now
flung over him. If Lord Mulgrave have not already
consented to be tied neck and heels, blindfolded and
manacled, for mere factious uses, how must that No-
ble Earl writhe under the knowledge conveyed to him
by the public newspapers, that Mr. O'Loghlen, his
Majesty's Solicitor-General for Ireland, one of the
law advisers of Lord Mulgrave himself, sat quietly at
his own election dinner the other day, while the toast of
" O'Connell," and " Reveal ofthe Union" was given
—sat, we say, gravely in his chair, never budging,
never protesting—and still remains Solicitor-General for
Ireland—Lord Mulgrave being Lord-Lieutenant I This
one fact explains itself. It shows where the Solicitor-
General must have felt his allegiance to be substantially
due. It proves the Learned Gentleman to have had
a clear understanding as to who was his real patron and
master. The submission of the Learned Gentleman
to the avowal of such a sentiment in his presence,
coupled with the acquiescence of Lord Mulgrave, who
does not want for personal courage, whatever his mo-
ral courage may be, is a demonstration which the most
stupid man in England or Ireland cannot misunderstand,
of the ignominious principle on which the (nominally
King's) Government is henceforth to be conducted, so
long as the Whig-O'Connell Cabinet shall remain in
office. There is, indeed, something not constitutionally
worse, but more palpably illegal, in the circumstances
attending the Repeal procession into Dublin than any
that we have mentioned. Was there not a law
passed some years ago against political proces-
sions, where banners of any kind should be dis-
played ? Was not that law brought into Parliament
at the instance of the Popish party themselves, to
appease, if possible, their perpetual growling at the
1 toleration afforded to the Orange flags and emblems ?