The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-22 00:00:00

P.NID ON, -Tl4 TT-R SDAY E VENIINT4,- PEB.R ET AR 17 22, 1844.

combinatiOn of interested partiei, no selfish
views supported by the Minister of the day
and a packed Parliament, can withstand
the public voice. Even Mr. O'CONNELL, who has an
interest in supporting the Irish landlords, is com-
pelled by this public voice to join in the cry for a
repeal of the corn-laws. His presence last evening at
Covent-garden confirmed the fact. Would a man
with his discrimination have come forward, against
the deliberate sentiments of many Irish landlords,
if he had not been convinced that monopoly was
at an end ? He performed his part nobly, and he
WAS duly rewarded. Never was such enthusiasm dis-
played on the entrance of a performer as was displayed
lUt night. Every person in the house rose when he
spoke. The cheers and waving of handkerchiefs, and
umbrellas, and other demonstrations, surpassed every
exhibition of the kind we ever witnessed. The
" convicted conspirator " was welcomed as a brother ;
and, notwithstanding all the unjust attacks he-has
made on the Saxon race, the English forgot his de-
fects, and remembered only his merits. He must ad-
mit that this is a good feature in the Saxon character
and that there is still a generous spirit in this coun-
try which will avail him more than foreign aid or
repeal. He has done much for his country—no man
ever did more ; and we only wish, for the peace of
England and Ireland, that in place of advocating a
measure to which all England, Scotland, and a great
part of Ireland, are opposed, he would exert his great
abilities in the proper place, and not make his best
friends his enemies.

In the Cotumons, after some discussion, the County
Coroners' Bill 'was read a second time, and ordered
to be committed on the 6th of March.

On the Order of the Day for the House going into
Committee on the "Horse-racing Penalties' Bill," Mr.
HORSMAN asked Mr. J. S. WORTLEY if the Bill was of
such a pressing nature as to interpose before the Order
of the Day. Mr. J. S. WORTLEY said the Bill was of
such a pressini nature that he should move that the
House go into Committee. ,
Mr. BRIGHT moved, as an instruction to the Com-
mittee, to extend the provisions of the Bill to all pro-
ceedings of common informers under the authority
of any penal Act. Mr. CHRISTIE, having previously
spoken on the motion, was precluded from moving the
instruction, .. but he seconded it, and said he
wanted a broad, general, just, and impartial applica-
tion of a wholesome principle, and that legislation
should not be for individuals but for the whole
People. This led to a lengthened discussion, and
ultimately the House Went into Committee on the
Bill. The different clauses were then discussed, and
the House resumed.

The Irish Attorney-General resumed the adjourned
debate on the state of Ireland, and was the only
speaker. The debate was again adjourned.
The House sat till Ten minutes toTwelve o'Clock.

The protest of Lord NORMANBY and several other '
Liberal Peers on the subject of Ireland, is one that
does credit to them both as legislators and as
English gentlemen: The protest comprises not less
than seven distinct reasons, each of which, to our
thinking, is irresistible, and is expressed in the
simplest, tersest, and most straight-forward manner
possible. One of the reasons is as 'follows, and
there is not a single word in it that could be altered
for the better :—" Dissentient, because under the
system pursued during the first four years of her
MAJESTY'S reign, the value of property in Ireland
had increased, in consequence of the tranquillity
produced by confidence in the impartial administration
of the laws.. Since then, Ireland has become the
chief difficulty of, the Executive, and for this reason,
.that they who as legislators had previously impeded
the full extension of equal laws, have since, in the
conduct of the Government, neglected to secure to
that people the practical enjoyment of equal rights."
In these few significant words we have an explana-
tion of the whole cause of the present discontented
state of the sister country. The people there have lost
the confidence which four short years ago they
had in the favourable disposition of an English
Government. While the MELBOURNE Ministry were
in power, they felt that they had some rational
ground for hope ; they knew that efforts would be
made to befriend them, and that a small, arbitrary
faction, always inimical to their best interests, would
not be openly upheld and patronised to their manifest
disadvantage; but this ground for hope has now been
cut away from under their feet; the Tories are in
power—the Tories who never yet conferred on them
even the most trivial boon from good will, but al-
ways from the pressure of stern, gaunt necessity—
consequently the Irish people see clearly enough
that the course of policy that will be hence-
forth pursued_towards them will be one of no earthly
benefit to their interests, but will be founded on the
" as-little-as• needs-be" principle. As a matter of
course, Sir ROBERT PEEL and his congenial col-
leagues, who have already determined on their line
of action, will do little or nothing for Ireland ; some
alteration in the franchise they will make—whether
for better or worse cannot as yet be ascertained—
and some day or other they will come forth
with a bulky Report of the Landlord-and-
Tenant Commission ; and this is just about the
sum total of benefit which they propose to confer•
on the native country of their great idol, the Duke
of WELLINGTON ! But no, we do the Tories injustice.
They will allow the Irish question to be debated
for long nights together in the House of Commons;
aye, and they will even allow the whole six hundred
and fifty-eight Members of which that spotless and
patriotic House consists, to have their full swing of
talk on the occasion but why is this ? Because, in
the first place they cannot help themselves ; and
secondly, because they are pretty well assured of their
majority. When the present debate is brought to a
close, Ministers will consider that' the great ques-
tion of Ireland is fairly and fully settled
for the session, and will make a point of
doing all that in them lies to check any
further discussion on the subject. And while they
persist in a miserable, mischievous line of policy
like this, they expect the Irish people to be un-
feignedly grateful, and look about them with a fool-
ish stare of wonder when they find themselves dis-
appointed in their expectations ! Of one thing
Ministers may rest assured—so long as they main-
tain the principles of Toryism, they will never be
able to appease the discontents of Ireland,
or govern it with any credit to themselves,
or advantage to the country. . They may,
indeed, .manage to keep it, quiet —as NA-
POLEON by filling it with
horse,ee quieteddo Germany --ot, and artillery; but they will never
gain the confidence and affections of the people ; and
this is, or should be, the great aim,and end of all
legislation. And how long, pray, will England con-
sent to be saddled with an income-tax, in order that
GovernMent may be enabled to meet the heavy ex-
penses of the military occupation of Ireland ? This
is a question, the solution of which cannot now be
very long deferred, and on its successful solution or
otherwise, depends, in a great measure, the stability
of the Peel Administration.

Madrid journals of the 14th have been received,
but they bring no intelligence of the slightest in-
terest. The whole of the country is now under mi-
litary law, and the Constitution is at an end. The
people of. Catalonia may thank themselves for this
happy result. According to . the Government jour-
nals, for scarcely any others are now published, order
and peace universally prevail. The National Guards
of Leon, Salamanca, Cuenca, Talavera de la Reina,
Zamora, Badajoz, Orense,'and Corunna, had been
disarmed, and those towns declared in a state of siege.
The Three per Cents. were done at 28 13-16 for
cash, and 29} at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at
20} ; the. Debt without interest, at. 7i at 60 days.

The Paris Opposition journals still continue their
comments on the dethronement of Queen POMARE,
and the decision of the brave Admiral DUPETIT
TROUARS, in occupying Otaheite. These comments
generally are in the worst possible taste, and are
made evidently not from any importance attached to
the acquisition, but to raise a bad feeling against the
GUIZOT Cabinet, and to make unjust attacks on the
policy of England. • TRIERS' journal is equally vio-
lent and vain-glorious with the others ; and thus,
with much complacency, adverts to the prejudices
and antipathies of John Bull, and the admirable fa-
culty of assimilation which is peculiar to France
in her relation's with new nations, Algiers, of
course,, is a proof of this assertion. "We
have no doubt," says that journal, (‘ that