The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-14 00:00:00

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SPIRIT .of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.---The Standard, of last night, devotes
yet another column to the bootless task of attacking
the decision of the majority of the law Lords, by
which the judgment against O'Connell was reversed,
and to impugning the motives of the three Noble
and Leaned Lords who constituted the majority.
If the slightest advantage, even of a party descrip-
tion, could be gained by thus pertinaciously assailing
the decision—if the result, instead of being final
and irreversible, were open to review and recal,
whatever we might think of the reasonings of
our contemporary, we should, at least, have a clue
to the object sought to be attained. But, seeing
that things are as they are—the judgment re.
v.irsed—the order for O'Connell's discharge from
prison issued and acted upon—the prison-doors thrown
open—and the great agitator at large, and again at
the head of the movement, which he animates and
guides—what imaginable object does the Stairlarel,
and those who prompt its attacks, propose to them-
selves by keeping up an incessant waiiing against the
" three Whig law Lords" and their totes ? The
disappointment and chagrin which the failure of the
prosecution has inflicted on the Government, and on
the Ultras who counselled the ill-advised proceed-
ings, would excuse, for a time, the impotent rage of
a party whose favourite scheme was frustrated at the
very moment- they were anticipating triumph from
success. But to continue the howl o misery, " from
eve to morn, from morn to dewy eve," is rather too
bad. We admit the violence of the blow—we concede
that the effects are stunning—that the mischiefs it
produces to the policy and hopes of the party are
great, and are likely to be ruinous. But "it is not
in mortals to command success." The Government
and its employes did what they could to secure it.
No one can say that they allowed the trifling consi-
derations of justice, or even the semblance of justice,
to operate against the attainment of their preconcerted
designs. They made a bold push for a complete
triumph over a political opponent. If O'Connell be
not now a prisoner; if he be not now under the lock
and key of the gaoler, and held under the yet more
effectual and tremendously heavy recognizances to
keep—what the law designates, but does not define—
the peace ; recognizances which he might be unable
to find, and thus his imprisonment be continued for
years—if these desirable results be not secured—this
" consummation, so devoutly to be wished" by every
. Tory heart, be not realised ; the blame is neither with
the Government,. nor with those to whom it commit-
ted the conduct of the proceedings. The indictment
was of enormouslength ; a very monster—the jury was
discreetly selected; all" good men and true"—the wit-
nesses were well trained—the Attorney-General did all
that an unscrupulous advocate could do to " make the
worse appear the better reason"—the Chief Justice
charged the jury to the very top of the bent even of
those most anxious for a conviction—the motion for a
.new trial w.is refused—the motion in arrest of judg-
ment shared a similar fate. Everything was done
just as it ought to be. The protracted proceedings
at length terminated. The sentence was deter.
mined on. " The law allow; it ; and the Court
awards it." The impatient Tories, who had
panted for the fulfilment of their predictions as
to the amount of punishment on the " convicted
conspirators," and who had complained bitterly
of the delay in the proceedings—were at length
satisfied. The Court had, upon the whole, done
its duty. The rock of Carrickfergus was not,
,it was . true, selected by the judges as the
place of O'Connell's confinement—the term of im-
prisonment was not certainly quite so long as their
notions of justice inclined them to desire and to name
—nor was the fine quite so heavy as they conceived
ought to have been inflicted. But there was still
:much to be thankful for. They would, at least,
)have the positive delight derived from knowing
and feeling that O'Connell was safe in custody for
one year; and might be kept so for much longer—for
who-would venture to become bail for his good be-
haviour ? Repeal was, of course, crushed by the sen-
tence passed on its leader. There might be a struggle
for life; but it would be the convulsive throes which
precede dissolution. A coercive policy having been
commenced, who would undertake to say that it
would not be continued? The Catholic population
would be kept under the iron heel of despotic rule
their wretched condition unmitigated; - and their
complaints and remonstrances disregarded. If they
abstained from venting their griefs in the language
extorted by calamit, their silence would be con-
strued into the indulgence' of the gloomy revo-
lutions of implacable revenge, which watches fur
a favourable opportunity to gratify its propensities •
and must, therefore, be intimidated by the pre-
sence 'of military force. If dissatisfaction with
their condition were shown by overt acts; and
they proclaimed their injuries to the world--
they would then be seditious—insurgents—rebels—
traitors; against whom the military ought to be em-
ployed, and the sword should be commissioned to de-
vour. A new crisis has arrived. The unexpected
release of O'Connell, by the reversal of the judgment
against him, has placed the Government hi a new
position toward him and the Irish nation. We wish
that there existed grounds to hope that Ministers were
prepared to act in this new position with discretion, if
not with magnanimity, We had almost said, we wish
that the example set them by O'Connell were likely
to be imitated by them. We are not disposed to
scan with severity the expressions, strongly vitu-
perative against persons, as they doubtless
were, with which O'Connell's speech to the
,popu-
lace on the day of his liberation from prison, and
his address on Monday at the Conciliation Hall, were
disfigured. Something must be conceded to the class
of persons he addressed on both occasions ; and also
to the necessity, which he doubtless feels, of feeding
the excitement with suitable aliment, by which he,
and the agitation, are sustained. Still a tone of
moderation pervades his speeches. So far as the
future operations of the Repeal Association are
alluded to, thereis a marked abstinence from all im-
plied, much
more expressed, counsel to any extreme
and ,dangerous measures. If we understand the
course indicated b
ythe address Mr. O'Con-
nell. delivered on
Monday, tion to there is a dispos:-
check, ratheraithan to excite, the ardour of
hie followers; to
wt for, amd watch the policy
of the Government; not to anticipate
it ; to give Ministers no advantage by and embarrass
but to avail himself of any false movementlais indiscretionwhich
;
policy may afford to him over them. The f %their
bormt able
elevation to which the defeated prosecution
him—the increased confidence in his legel invulnera-
bility raised
which is felt by his followers—the immensely-
increased influence which he now wields over their
affections, enable hini to move the masses at his will.
Will the Government seize the critical moment? By a
mixture of prudential caution for the preservation of the
peace, which a momentary influence on the part of the
multitude may peril, combined with a broad and well-de-
fined system of conciliation of the popular feeling, and
amelioration of the present oppressed and wretched
condition of the peasantry, they may avert a national
calamity. If they are unable or unwilling to adopt
the only policy which can preserve Ireland from com-
motion, if not from the dissolution of its connexion
with this country,
.let them at least have the virtue
to resign their pouts, and leave to other hands the
work of counteracting the evils, and diminishing the
dangers, which they have increased and exaspe-
rated by the means they employed to diminish and
subdue them.
STANDARD.—Two of our pseudo-Conservative
Contemporarire, one following in the wake of the
other, like the parasitical fish that derives its sub-
sistence from picking the teeth of the shark and is to-
lerated for the :eke of the humble service it performs,