The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-06 00:00:00

who undertake to establish plains of education
should, above all things, have truth for their motto
—and not say one thing, while they mean or Ito
another.—Morning Herald.
The claim of the Papists to an equal share of po-
litical power with Protestants, is in substance and
effect, although not in words, a claim to the supe-
riority over Protestants in political influence and
political privileges. The Papists, until they obtain
the ascendancy in the State, must ever remain a
distinct, united, and indivisible party, cemented to-
gether be the profession of en exclusive, intolerant,
and bigotted religion, and by the obedience to
which they are bound, as Papists, to one common
authority,--to an authority alien, and of necessity
hostile, to the British Government. They never
can blend indiscriminately with the existing politi-
cal parties in the country, but must perpetually keep
themselves aloof from all, unless, when they can
barter their support for the acquiescence of the
party upon which they bestow it, in some new en-
croachment of Papal power. This is the position
which Papists must (weepy, and this is the ob-
ject to which they must be aievoted in Parlia-
ment, if they should ever be found there.—
It is evident, then, that if the Administration of the
day should be an honest Administration, deter-
mined to preserve what still might remain of the
Constitution, all the Papists in Parliament would be
SO many certain, and constant voters on the side of
Opposition. If, on the other hand, the influential
Members of the Administration should either be
Papists ( whieh of er the claims now put forth are
conceded is by no means an improbable supposition),
or men so regardless of the Constitution as to be
willing to sacrifice it to any temporary conve-
nience, all the Papists in Parliament to a man will
be the steady and zealous ,supporters of Admi-
nistration. The Protestants in Parliament will,
on the other hand, remain as they now are, di-
vided into hostile and conflicting parties, all of
which will be under a perpetual temptation to hu-
mour the inclinations and further the objects of the
Papists, inasmuch as the balance of power will he
in the hands of the latter. We ask if it be pos-
sible, in such circumstances, that England should
ever have an Administration zealous and determined
in the maintenance of the Constitution ? The young
aspirant to political distinction, manifesting such a
disposition, betraying so indiscreet a forgetfulness
of the Constitution and temper of the House of
Commons, would be deemed a wild and sanguine
enthusiast; every party would be reluctant or
afraid to receive anti foster him; he would in-
evitably be blighted in the bud ; the House of
Commons would become a hot-bed of political
aspirants, each anxious to outrun the other in
conferring upon the Papists some new increase
of power. If by a miracle a staunch Con-
atittitional Protestant should at any time attain to
that degree of Parliamentary importance which is an
indispensible qualifcatien for a leading Minister of
the Crown, and should be appointed to office, how
small would be the chance of his maintaining him-
self in power At best, only a part of the Protes-
tants in Parliament would support him. A consi-
derable number of the Protestant Members, and all
the Popish Members, without an exception, would
unite to form an opposition phalanx, against which
no Minister could hope to contend. in all circum-
stances, and at all times, a Popish Minister, or
aspirant, would have an advantage over a Protestant
one. The former would find united in his support
many of the Protestants, and the whole body of
Papists, while he would be opposed only by Pone
division of the Protestants. • The latter would be
supported only by a portion of the Protestants, while
he would find united in opposition to hini many of
the Protestants, and all the Papists. Can any man
doubt that with these advantages constantly (spa-
rating in favour of Popery, the Legislature would
speedily acquire a decided bias towards the full
re-establishment of Popery as the religion to be
maintained in alliance with the State ? Can any
man doubt that civil war and revolution would en-
sue ? Something analogous to what would be the
state of parties in Parliament, after the admission of
Roman Catholics, exists at the present moment in
Ireland in respect to county elections. A Pro-
testant landlord and a Popish landlord, in an Irish
county, are the types of what a Protestant Minister
and a Popish Minister would be, if Papists were
adinitted to i.,ecome members of the Legislature.
The Protestant ,landlord loses all influence over that
portion of his tenantry which consists of Papists,
while the Popish landlord retains his influence over
the whole of his tenantry, whether consisting of
Papists or of Protestants, and adds to it an influence
over the Popish tenantry of his Protestant neigh-
bour. If a Protestant and Popish landlord are to
be found in the same neighbourhood, having each
the same number of tenants, half the tenants of each
being Protestants and the other half Papists, the
Popish landlord, in the event of a contested elec-
tion for the county, will be enabled to lead to the
poll th ee voters for every one that his Protestant
neighbour will have the power to command. This
is the actual state of Ireland. The state of Parlia-
ment, in the event of rivalry between a Protestant
and Popish Statesman, cannot fail, after the admis-
anon of Papists to the Legislature, to be the exact
counterpart to the present state of Ireland. Mr.
Shell, in one of his recent harangues, boasted of
what the Papists would do in Ireland at the next
general election. They will, he informs us, nomi-
nate the representative's of every Irish county.
For once a Popish demagogue spoke the lan-
guage of truth and common sense. _We have no
&tm that, if the elective franchise in Ireland
remains as it is, the prediction of Mr. Shell will be
realised. After the next general election, unquesti-
onably, unless the forty-shilling freeholders should
be previously disfranchised, the Popish Priests of
Ireland will have i stronger and more devoted body
of Representatives in the British Parliament than
any other single class of the King's subjects. Such
a body of Representatives, devoted to one sole pur-
pose—the advancement of Popery--may, by ex-
changing votes, and other similar intrigues, ac-
complish it. With such a body in Parliament nothing
could be safe; no interest of the community—no doc-
trine or practice of the Constitution, but would be sub-
ject to attack; every thing would in turn be the subject
of compromise and of speculation. To obviate mis-
chief se obvious, and danger so terrible, we shall be
told that nothing more is necessary than to eman-
cipate the Roman Catholics, (or rather to yield to
their demand of political power). We say that
this would but make the danger and mischief still
greater, and that the only way to avert them is so
to change the mode of election in Ireland as to
afford the Empire an effectual and permanent gua-
rantee that the Members sent from Ireland to the
House of Commons shall be the Representatives of
the property of Ireland.—Norttiv Pool.

A few days since the workmen employed in
deepening the Exeter canal discovered, embedded in the
mud, a gold watch, a silver tankard, and some silver spoons,
the latter bearing the crest of Lord Cour.TEriay. Thu
mechanism of the watch was entirely corroded and useless,
and the whole of the articles had evidently been buried in
the soil a great number of years.— Western Luminary.
THE NEW WELSH JUDGE.—We believe we
were incorrect in stating i❑ our last that the newly ap-
pointed Welsh Judge, Mr. Gouustrarr, was in the rootn
of Mr. Justice UEYWOOD, who died on the Carmarthen
circuit, instead of in the room of Mr. BALGUT, who has
resigned. Be this as i► may, it is certain be is very young
at the bar; and is, if we mistake not, the identical Mr.
Gotu.suatr, who was some years ago an officer in the
Blues, and received the judgment of the Court of King's
Bench as the author of a libellous satire, entitled " The
Blewiad." The mystery of this appointment will be de-
veloped, when it is known that Mr. GOULBURN is a
brother of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer
It has been alledged in palliation or justification of this ap-
pointment, that it has been stipulated that Mr. GOUL-
BURN is not to receive any remuneration if the Welsh
jurisdiction should speedily be abolished. This may be bo ;
but the excuse is only important with respect to the time
qf his appointment, and leaves untouched the question of
its propriety' at any time, and under any circumstances.
Chester Courant.