The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-24 00:00:00

with much more complacency than Falstaff did his;
though we sincerely think Sir John had the advan-
tage in the materials of his regiment :
" Australia's road to greatness was paved by con-
victs. We are now more than puzzled as to the
disposal of our convicts. London and all our large
towns are swarming with men, women, and chil-
dren—honest or dishonest, industriously or idly
inclined—who don't know what they can do. Every
day we have soldiers, sailors, policemen, Irish con-
stabulary men, and others discharged on sorry pen-
sions, for whom the British pulic feels that it
is bound to provide further extraneously."
Then, after proposing that this colluries gen-
tium should be discharged upon the " millions of
acres," the bogs and mountains, the coasts and
fisheries of Ireland, he winds up as follows :
" There are many other opens' in Ireland for
a statesman who knew how to treat that country
as it ought to be dealt with, namely, as an ill-
reared, spoilt child—some rod, and a fair equiva-
lent in sugar stick."
All this, with the unquoted portions of the letter,
is about the coarsest and most ill-conditioned growl
of the bull-dog that we have ever listened to. We
are not prepared to say whether in sweeping
heartlessness it goes beyond the Times' own savage
exulting comments on the extensive emigration
resulting from Ireland's miseries; or beyond the
calmer statement of a noble lord in his place near
the " Wool-sack," that the Irish were " aliens in
race, aliens in language, aliens in religion." But
in these things manner goes almost as far as mat-
ter; and, reasoning from such specimens of the
sugar-stick of " Aliquis," we have no wish that
Ireland should have a taste of the other stick which
he hides out of sight for the spoilt child. Ireland
has no reason to accept him as a Tpu'ic' 6XX' dydOq

Koeporpdoos.
Some pages of Anglo-Irish history, illustrative
of " the old plantation days" for which this writer
sighs, plead with us to quote them. They cast
a singular light upon this otherwise stupid letter.
For the present we forbear, though we may return
to the subject again. But what if we endeavour
to represent as an enthymeme, with premiss and
conclusion, the acknowledged qualities and condi-
tion of Ireland, side by side with the treatment
which such theorists would deal out to her?
Thus it would run ; and the history of genera-
tions affords only too sad a practical comment on
this precious example of logic :
" I have a younger sister, of many noble quali-
ties; but sensitive, impressionable, tending to way-
wardness ; one of those characters whom a word
can excite and a deed of affection can soothe again.
She is grateful, romantic, self-sacrificing, to a
degree to which I make no pretence : accessible
to so much as a kind look, or an expression of
sympathy, but otherwise possessing no common
faculties of hatred, even of revenge. Family ar-
rangeMents in the past, family traditions extend-
ing into the present, have constituted real ill-
usage, and thus tended to sharpen and aggravate
the less favourable characteristics of my sister's
state. They have brought about, not unnaturally,
a chronic irritability, which needs delicate and
considerate treatment; and which has been proved
abundantly to reward it, whenever even partially
tried.
" Therefore, I take every pains, on every occa-
sion, to show my sister that I consider her vastly
my inferior ; that I more than doubt her possess-
ing any claim to share my blood or family name ;
that she does not, nor ever shall, have the least
part in my sympathies, or even an equitable share
in the family income. Having myself (notwith-
standing some alleged flaws in the title) inherited
the family place, I am always endeavouring to
make the house too hot to hold my sister. I take
away her cherished books and work, keep her on
short commons, treat her as a lunatic, surround
her with servants against whom every feeling in
her nature rises. I laugh at her complaints; I ignore
or denounce her appeals for family justice; I make
her home intolerable; I am always asking her why
she does not go, why she does not accept the warns
invitations of other and more distant branches of
the family. I wind up, at last, with more than a
broad hint that her room is wanted for another
inmate • and an intelligible threat that, if she does
not take herself off, she must look for worse treat-
ment, and even physical coercion."
Such may be the reasoning of " Aliquis," and Of
"Si quis alius." We do not stay to felicitate him on
his head and heart: on the generous impulses and
sympathies of the one, or the capacity evinced by
the other of understanding a crisis, and saying a
word in season. It suffices to record our con-
viction that the Times, in admitting such a letter
at such a moment, has been guilty of what Tal-
leyraud used to describe as " worse than a crime
—a blunder." We feel that neither the journal nor
its correspondent belong to the category of those
who (says Napoleon III.) " comprehend their
epoch." And we derive some comfort from the
conviction that neither " Aliquis " nor his editor
represent, in this heartless and brainless dealing
with the life-interest of millions, the sentiment or
the logic of the great mass of fair and thinking
Englishmen.— Westminster Gazette.

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