The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The proceedings of the weekly meeting
of the Repeal Association, held on Monday at the
Conciliation Hall, will be found detailed in another
column. Mr. O'Connell was present. The desire to
see him was as strong, and his entrance to the meet-
ing elicited acclamations from the assembled thou-
sands as enthusiastic, as on his first appearance
after his liberation from prison. The chair was
taken by the Honourable G. Hely Hutchinson,
whose rank confers importance on his junction
with the repealers, which the leaders appear to
appreciate, and will know how to employ. The
accession of such men will naturally influence those
of humbler station. The manifestly-powerful ad-
vantage to any popular movement which is con-
ferred by the presence and active aid of the aris-
tocracy, is obvious. The impolitic proceedings of
the Government has thus contributed to confer ad-
ditional eel& on repeal agitation. The Repeal As-
sociation has thus acquired an importance, and its
meetings are invested with an interest too ele-
vated and extensive, to admit of the
their being re-
garded with indifference. Every public journ'd, of
whatever political party, now reports the presceedings
of its meetings to an extent equal to we.at would be
appropriated to the proceedings of tlse Imperial Par-
liament, were it in session. The sayings and doings
of Mr. O'Connell and his subordinates in the move-
ment, at each successive meeting of the Association,
draw to it increased numbers, wealth, and influ-
ence. Even in this country, the meetings are now
regarded with new and more lively emotions ;
such as were never experienced by Englishmen
at any previous period in the history of repeal.
For this obvious advantage to the repeal project,
by the immense accession to its power which
the sympathies of England must necessarily impart
to everything that pertains to Ireland, O'Connell,
and those who take a prominent part in the agitation,
are indebted to the Government more than to them-
selves. The State prosecution, with its monstrous
perversions of right, employing the machinery
of law to deprive the prosecuted parties of the
substantialities of justice, roused the public mind
in this country against the Government ; and enlisted
the innate sense of right which is characteristic of
Englishmen in favour of the accused. Every unfair
advantage was manifestly taken to embarrass the de-
fendants while preparing to answer the charges pre-
ferred against them by the Crown lawyers, in the
" monster indictment" they were called upon to meet.
From the moment that issue was joined between the
Crown and the defendants, the verdict was as certain
as though it had been already recorded. This know-
ledge was derived---not from the facts of the case,
but from the pre-arrangements of the Crown lawyers,
and the disposition manifested by a majority of
thejudges to secure a conviction. This scandal-
ous departure from the ordinary administration of
law, as the m'nister of justice, deprived the trial of
all moral dignity. The verdict of the jury and the
sentence of the court derived- no sanction from public
opinion—it, therefore, exercised no salutary influence
upon the people, whom it designed to awe and contr.d,
nor upon the agitation it was intended to suppress.
The conviction of the repealers was a source of
embarrassment, rather than of triumph to the Govern-
ment. O'Connell was at once raised from an agitator
into a hero—from a hero into a martyr. his liberation
has invested him with a still higher character. The
reversal of the judgment pronounced upon him has
elevated him, in the view of the Irish population,
to the rank of a conqueror, who comes forth from a
prison—to which an unjust sentence, pronounced by a
partisan court, the result of a verdict delivered by a
partisan jury, had consigned him—to conduct them to
the cherished object of their excited hopes—a separa-
tion of their country from English connexion. They
have been taught to ascribe all the evils of their condi-
tion to the union. A sense of those bitter evils has
induced them to listen, with credulous avidity, to any
scheme, whatever be its name or form. However it
may be fraught with fraud or folly, if it promises to
remove or mitigate the miseries of their lot, it finds fa-
vour in their eyes. They join its ranks, subscribe to
swell its funds, and lift up their voices in praise of
the men who place themselves in the van of its pro-
cessions, and take a leading part in its aggregate meet-
ings. The enthusiasm which O'Connell's liberation from
prison has excited throughout Ireland, will require his
acknowledged tact and influence to keep it within
bounds. This is manifest from his recent speeches.
Interlarded as they are with personal vituperation,
still a tone of moderation pervades them. A disposi-
tion to parley, rather than to commit himself to the
extreme course which heads less cool would counsel,
and hearts more ardent would devise, is discoverable
throughout his Monday's address. The reversal of
the judgment has touched a chord of sensibility in
O'Connell's bosom. This would be responded to in
kindred strains by the bulk of the Irish people,
were any indication of a design to enter upon a more
conciliatory system of administrative policy to be
given by the Government. Hitherto the policy of
Sir Robert Peel's Government in Ireland has been
only provocative of the worst feelings in the people;
and has led to results equally embarrassing to the
executive, and mischievous to the country. A re-
trospective view of what has taken place in that
country will explain our meaning, and establish the
imputation which we deliberately cast upon the Ad-
ministration.
STANDARD.—The termination of the war in
Morocco has evidently taken most of our Contempo-
raries by surprise, but it is for the readers of the
Standard to say whether they have been early and
fully prepared ifor the event. The Whig-Radical
journals have moreover a twofold occasion for wonder
—they are astonished that the war has been so
promptly concluded, and also that it has been con-
cluded without any territorial aggrandisement to
France. From this perplexity the Morning
Chronicle tries to extricate itself by first
treating as a Ministerial journal the Times (which on
the alternate days it claims with better reason as an
ally in its war against Ministers), and asserting that
the non-fulfilment of all the violent threats of its
boisterous Contemporary is proof of a victory ob-
tained by France over the British Government ;
secondly, by assuming that France, having in-
flicted great injury upon Morocco, and shown the
power and disposition to repeat that injury when
again provoked, must henceforth exercise an
uncontrolled influence over the Moors. We are
at issue with our Contemporary upon both these
points. We deny that the British Government is in
a. ny respect responsible for the language of any journal,pub-
least of all for the language of a journal
like the Times, bitterly hostile to it, and certainly not
less bitterly hostile because that homage which the
Times always pays to the will of the majority for-
bids an open declaration of war. Surely the Go-
vernment is not responsible for the libellous letters of
the penny-a-liners on board the Warspite, Sir Ed-
ward owen's just censure upon whom our Contempo-
rary this morning resents by inserting a trumpery
paragraph from a weekly paper, though it (the Times)
admitted these libellous letters to be, as in good truth
they were, "indefensible." The Morning Chronicle,
indeed, goes the length of making her Majesty's Mi-
nisters responsible even for these contemptible
libels. The Morning Chronicle knows, we fear, the
utter falsehood of its assertion that the Times
developed Lord Aberdeen's conduct (a strange phrase,
by the way), and the equally gross falsehood that
the Times is " a Ministerial organ," yet, as we
fear, with a full knowledge of both these
falsehoods, and with an avowed knowledge
that these falsehoods give to ithe fabrications and
other follies of the Times all their power to irritate
the French people, the Morning Chronicle deliberately
publishes these falsehoods. Is not this to provoke
ill-will by the most unjustifiable means? Upon
the second point—the influence over Mirocco ob-
tained by France through her late operations
against that empire—we hold an opinion very differ-
ent from that professed by the Morning Chronicle.
The expedition against Morocco was really forced
Noon
.France, contrary to both her interests and
her wsshes; and we have no doubt that the wisest
French statesmen feel that, honourable as its results
have been, and conducive' as they are to present
peace, they are the reverse of promising as
regards the future Thewhich caseh of the. Russian
march to Adrianople.t e M. ornin,g Chro-
nicle cites in supportits views, is by no
means analogous. The of
fact proved by the
Russian invasion of the centraEluro dominions of th.e Porte,
contrary to the will of all
that
Russia possesses local
overwhelmingopportunitielisee'f%sas
the Ottoman pow.er, which would place Constantinople
at her mercy, despite of all Eutope. Neither a Britislifl t
nor a French army could by possib. ility arrive in time fleet
indeed the fleet would be always. insufficient to prevent
Balkan
the passage of 100,000 Russians over the Bp
and if Turkey was to be. saved, all the
of Europe must engage. in a doubtful struggle
with the Czar. Is this the case of Morocco ?
Is there anything in the late events to prove that
Morocco, aided by one first-rate European Power
of equal naval strength with France, could not
vindicate its independence in case of an attack ? We
will not pursue the question into details, because we
dislike the contemplation of such hypotheses; but the
matter comes to this—Has the Emperor of Morocco the
same reason to fear instant and irremediable mischief
from France that the Porte has to fear such mischief
from Russia. The truth is, that the operations against
Morocco were what from the first they professed to
be, purely defensive, and, their purpose being accom-
plished, they have been concluded with loyalty and
good faith. This it is which puzzles our Contem-
poraries, who saw more than a defensive purpose in
the expedition. As we have before said, the war
was a necessity; but a necessity drawing after it a
train of evil to those upon whom it was imposed, and
no imaginable benefit.

Braham and his sons are on the point of visiting Ire-
land and Scotland, and it is said they will, on their re-
turn, proceed to Holland and Germany.