The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-15 00:00:00

array a whole people in two opposite-and hostile
camps, each reg,rling the otl-er ss cositaiieng the
enemies of ,h--ir country. (Cited 'S. ) Iha e ever
heel.' an admirer of VI so p,re t Minis eis,
tvha -
ever a,,:e or con-it ry they hive ad irned, -who, tra-
dvced and vihfied tiough th y wt re in t heir city,
are now acgtiowledged o have ha 1 nr, o her end in
view than the gl .ry their country—are now (Its-
&over, d, when it ,s too hte, to have b -en distin-
guished by no bEotted adherence to ancient insti-
tutions on the one hand,• no love of revolutionary
principles on t,e other (Applaus..) Tf y f-til-d -n
their beneficent enJeavour,3 exi:inguish rty
spirir. an prt•m t- a cinible:tion tif geed men for
the service of the Stye ;" their noble !relit: were
wrung wi h the th •ught of the extinctien of t
hopes, enly lecause they were in advance of the age
in which they 1 ; liecause they 0C31.11,1' d the
heights w' ich th se around th-m w-re unahte to
aloe d (EleAr, hear.) They wood ha,e tej iv° I to
see tl'e-e d,ys, in whet) a wilder and. more hum sue
poiey prey .ils Fo, how light ar the shades, ho .v
fain the lines which now separate the two great
parties in the Sttte. (Cheers.) The inclis,inetnia4
of the boundary almost tera•es us t) exclaim,
Where shall wisdom he found ? (Aepl -use.) These
are the eiicueistanees which induce me to b "li-ve
that I shall be able to give siatisfac,icoi t my sup-
porters. Their generous and unsu pecting confi-
dence f irlicls me to dotil,t it. Once wore I hank
thee' ; dally the faller porti n that have
exerte I thetas Ives in my helialf and those who ate
how assembled within these walls; (Elear, hear.) A
word on !Mil whim we have lost. Onty some
weeks, some little weeks ago, he lainented in this
place that he was unable to take a part in the de-
bat,s of the House of Commons.

The applause of listening Senates to command,
And rem! their history in a nation's eyes,
is the lot of the highly favoured, highly gifted few
alone ; but a purer and more unriv,ht spirt than
his never awoke, with impassioned eloqu-tice, the
echoes or ,he of Commoes. (Applause. ) He
Iris glutted th, wormy scenes of po'i-ical life on
which I al.. now ab ut to enter. He is gone to hiY
ward. My we who are left behind him em.ilaie
his virtu. a and be r-speeted and beluvrd as lie
was ! (Long toniinued rinv.)
A vote of thanks was accord-d to the High
Sheriff, on the motion of Mr. Pu h, see. nded tsy
W. Powell for " his able., impartial, and hand-
some c induct in the chair."

The High Sileriff having acknwledged Vie com-
pliment, tae procetAings

THE RIVAL WHIPPEnS-IN.

(Front the Morning Herald )

A dinner w.rsgiven to Sir Wiliam Jo tiff Bart.,
M.P ,at he Carl C'ub, (3ei S.turd.y I=st, in re-
cognition of his grew s-,rvices to the 0 itiseiva ive
pasty, a, ash cn 19 ► gentl -men ( Irefly menibers of
the two houses of P-rliattient) were pr. sen , bong
the utmo-t nuoib.ir w.,icii tho on could
accommodate. Tire ch sir w.s se cupted by, the Eta
of Dolby; Tile entertainment tieing in its c.ar,ic-
ter a privat, one we do n,,t feel jut., 'tied in n
it in its det iii, hut the position of toe lion •uratile
member for Petersfield in reference to the Conserva-
tive pary, and the ettioiation in which he is h 11,
are such as t war ani some gene al remarks upon
this occasion. Th pu,,lic aro little a -are of
imp stance of the fuoctions blonging t
offices floe! at t•,e present time by M. IFtyter
and Sir Walla a Ji iffe. The arhie ry
of our great poli'rcal part at t ie present
juncture, we need t c c lti reiliar-, is co :,-
plicoel in no or I.nary deg/. e. M . Ha)ter and
Sir William J Ilitfe miy be considered as ire engi-
neers who work trieso. gr machines, and thir
goo 1 bat ,tepee is mainly upon t' e
ations of the eligin-eis. If ihs Gore nme,,t
is fur naive in ti,viag such a m4ll t:s Ela) ter,
th- Oppestion tio iess for tuna e Sir Wi, lam
Jolliff and eaen of these gentle unit posses es qua
iities ad pting hin sin ii;arly o chief an'ti o t'-e
party to wooin his services are to useful. We are
disposed to give ever) c e it to the qualificstions
of Mr. H.y er. Like ii;s f, he th Tong ily tin
dersiands the Hou eof Commons. Like him, he
his the a i vantage of ex raoidiiiary a lr. ritness'pn-
se••ce of mind, and good .einper If he is sortie
what unsciupul sus, s , is L rd Palmerston ; and
as Lord Patinerstin has kept Loge h r his patty
when no other eta esiian c 0,1,1 have done so, it
cannot defile 1 that M-. Hy er has say, d his
party on sev,-rai occasions by his.energy, proaipti
tud,i, and a .curacy of informat n.
Sir William J h u e, too, p )-1-e.ses many of the
ch itac eri ti Or his party and f his (thief. High-
minded, chival,oos, t•tr.iglit'orwird, and trwhful,
he eirn d the respect nd e-t:em of m n of :dl
opinions in the Houser f Comin If the ad o t-
n ,:is and experience. of M. Hay. er secure him
frim being practised upon in Ii s di•tieilt position,
and have ena'.led him to sive his party from
disaster, the honesty of purpose ar d s n.deu sA of
mind which charael erisi:3 Sir Witia,n J lliffe fu
n.sh him with ,n equivalen, protection, and
given hioi infioene, ;,as kept his party
toget.,er. We nave le:son to know hit the or-
ganisation of the Opp.:sition w s nev. r b •i ter thin
at the present time. We believe t ;ley will he f
united a,; one man in replling any attack upon
t is instituions of the country ; and we may v,-n-
-ture to regard this tri.,ute to Sir W.lliana Joltiffe
as an indi ation of the confidence and cordi lity
which 13‘ evail among the iii.mb-us of the great
Conse.rvalive party inl3,.th Houses of Pa.rli-.meat.

IRELAND.

BLIN, SATI7RAY MORNING.
MR. SMITH O'BRIEN ON IRISH POLITICS.

A pub. le dinner ar .Rattikeaie to *Archd,acau
Fitzg, ra!d, an extremely aged mend) -r 4)ts the Young
Ire.a,nl pa ty, has afforded an olipor may to Hr.
Smith O'Brien for laying before his eo,intrymen an
exp, •sition of his view., noon Iris:i affd 8 and p 41 ti-
cularly tenant-right. In a lett- r apolo izing f,,r his
absence at the .Rathkeale festivities Mr. O'B:itn
thus writes :
" Guy -reed by coniiderations that were founded upon
my past experience of Irish aglation, I formed a resolu-
;inn hefor” I return- d to Ireland that I would nc,t
any political as•ociations or attend any political meet-
ing., and that I wouti limit my interference in Li,:h
politics to the occasional expression of my own indi vides'
opinion. Acting up,in this det,rmina'ion, which I have
as yet found no reason to abrogate, I have declined at-
tendance at several poli;ical meetings to which I have
been invited. N ..• ,rf I were to depart from this rule
in the case of the It Lthkeale dinner I should find it diffi-
cult to refu.e similar invitations on future occasion--. • I
have no desire, however, to conceal my opinions on the
present state 01 nubile affairs, or to di-avow my -ymita-
thy with the objects of your meeting. I have alread;,
wince my return Iron exil taken oc,a ion t,,cleclar-
I am woe than ever convinced that Ireland requires
national L tore and a national Executive to give
this country full advantage of the resources which it po--
esses. Iu the absence .uch a domes ic G .vernment

t [weals to me that the national interests of Leland car,
be best protected by sending te the British Par iainent
a bidy of members who shad hold themselves entirely
independent of ad English parties, and avail therneelvee
of every opp iriunity that way present iteelf in the coi-
fl,ct of rival factions to secure for Ireland the enact-
ment of useful measnres aed the attainment of our
national rights. AMong the measures which are at
present considered most urgent by the publl/4: opinion
of this country is the bill for securing to tensr,ts, is
case of eviction, compensation, for proti•ahle improve-
ment., which was prepared man, years ago by Mr S
Crawford, and I quite c mcur in the prepriety of requir-
ing t rat this mea,uro shall be enacte l without further
delay. It is to be regretted, indeed, that the number of
toembere returned at the late election en the principle of
"Independent Oppo iti .n " was nut so great as might
have been expected, but we have at least the satistactiee
of knowing that many -of those members who have
Proved faithless to the pledges formerly made by them
in favour of tenant right have beet excluded from Par-
liftmen , and. also that nearly all the cand dates who hay,
been returned her popular c n-tititeecies have preini-ed
their advoca"y of the fir 4 ciaiiiis t.i the tenant..), of Ire-
land. If the declaraiona inad,ebiy„s Irish
a Largerishgen ntifj e:em ;itayt
the hngtrig-i be not lly w rthl-sP,
of the Irish members are output by the sacred obligati in,.
of public af)d private honour to apply therneelvee with
siticerlty and earnestness 10 the accompliehmen, of this
object. Two additional coneideratitine might lead tie
loom a well. gruulided hope that this question will be
epeed)ly adjusted if ail/ reliance could be placed upon
the nisposi ion of the Biitteb Parlialent to legislate for
Ireland neon wige,andju4 prioelples. The first ie tl-at
several of the clauses 01 firmer Bills which were con-
sidered 01 jectionable to landterds have h en withdrawn
The second is that Lord Prllmerston's Gevernment can
no linger plead inabl :y to give effect to a priecip.e
which, in profession at least, they afr-et to approve ; for
it is the boast of t'ie supporter-, of the present Govern-
ment that the recent elections have greatly iecreased the
Parliameetsry strength of the party by which Lord Pal
merstoe's Administration is upeel 1. F my own part.
I expect little good for le. land Irmo the of a
British Parliament ; bet toe "arrest amid r.evsring
matiffesnation of Irish opielen may have some itiffieece
upon British statesmen, and in.ibis point of view the de-
monstration which ie about to be wade at Raihkeaie
may be productive of advantage,"