The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-31 00:00:00

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THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE to its Readers
and the Public, on the opening of Parliament, Febru-
ary 1, 1844.
On the eve of a Session of Parliament, which, if it do not
terminate the struggle, must, at least, be looked on as the
herald of the advent of Free Trade, in which the pacification
of Ireland must be placed in contrast with the possible alterna-
tive of civil war, and the threatened dismemberment of the
empire—in which the grand battle of Civil and Religious
Liberty will have once more to be fought, on the question of
Educating the People—and in which the Government must be
called on, amidst its exultations on the state of the Revenue, to
say not only from what oppressive sources, and by what inju-
rious expedients the income has been derived, but in what
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