The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-30 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

" Points obscure are of small use to learn ;
But common quiet is mankind's concern."
Express editions of The Sun Newspaper have been of late
looked for and received in this country with that intense
anxiety and gratification which must always attach to matters
of national interest. Since the accession of his present most
Gracious Majesty, however, no event has excited so much ex
pectation in Ireland, as the result of Lord J. Russel's motion
on Monday next, in which seems to be involved the future re-
pose or further distraction of this long agitated country. All
parties here agree, that on this question depends the common
quiet of the community, though each expects and promises that
consummation,;from means diametrically opposed, and inconsis-
tent with each other. The ascendancy faction contend, that
the defeat of the opposition is essential to our peace and tran-
quillity; while the Liberals and Whigs are beginning to think
that if the Ministers should have a majority on this question,
we must be prepared to submit to the entire catalogue of
misery and oppression inflicted on us for so ninny centuries
past. In this state of feeling, therefore, you may judge how
deeply concerned we arc in all the efforts you can make during
the ensuing week, to uphold the character of your Journal, for
the diffusion of early and useful knowledge. From the co-
lumns of The Sun, we expect to learn, not only of a contem-
plated change of Ministry, but of an important change in the
Constitution, as regards the Church Establishment in this
country. " The Constitution of England," says Paley, " like
that of most countries in Europe, bath groWn out of occasion
and emergenc:,, ; from the fluctuating policy of different ages ;
from the contentions, successes, interests, and opportunities of
different orders and parties of men in the Community."
Sir Robert Peel himself admits , impliedly, that if he
be left in the minority on this occasion, the settlement
of the tithe question in this country must be made
on the principle here laid down, which is that con
tended for by Lord John, and every other advocate of the
appropriation measure. And even if he should have a majority,
it cannot long sustain him in attempts to legislate differently
from the interests of these "orders and parties of men" who
call for the total abolition of tithes, contormally to the emer-
gency of the times. The Dissenters in Ireland are admitted
on all sides to be at least six times the number of the members
of the Established Church; and thus another proposition of
Paley forces itself on that common sense of justice which
every Statesmen should listen to in preference to the sugges-
tions of faction and monopoly. " If," says that eminent divine
and philosopher, " the dissenters from the Establishment be-
come a majority of the people, the Establishment itself ought
to be altered or qualified." And yet is it possible, that in the
teeth of such authority, Statesmen would uphold the mono-
poly of the temporalities of the Irish Church ? Surely no ties
of party feeling or esprit de Corps, can justify any rational
mall in opposing the tide of common sense, public opinion, and
the rights of the subjects of these realms as laid down by our
best Jurists, the more so when such opposition must entail dis
affection, distraction, and possibly disunion among his Ma-
jesty's subjects.
March 28, 1835.