The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-05 00:00:00

Mr. WARBURTON opposed the motion, and thought
the Government would act wisely in maintaining the
present duty.
After a lengthened discussion, the motion for a
Select Committee was negatived by a majority of 36.

Mr. LYALL moved for a Select Committee to in-
quire into the state of our commercial marine. In
the course of the discussion to which this, gave rise,
Mr, GLADSTONE stated that the arrangements as to
the Stade duties would come into operation in Octo•
ber next. The motion was agreed to.

No other business of importance was transacted
and the House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock

Every day's experience tends more and more to
corroborate the " great fact" that the Tories—or
Conservatives as they now call themstives, though it
is their name only, not their nature that they have
changed—cannot govern Ireland. Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S " chief difficulty" becomes more embarrassing
and complicated with every twenty-four hours that
passes over his head. It is not yet quite a week since
sentence of imprisonment was passed on Mr. O'CON-
NELL; and 10, instead of the lethargy and gradual
dying out of the flame of Repeal, on which Ministers
seem to have so confidently calculated, the flame
burns fiercer than ever ; popular passions, compara-
tively dormant for some five or six months past,
are revived with more than their former virulence and
activity ; and the hatred of Tory rule, which in the
eyes of Irishmen is synonymous with Tory oppression,
is no longer confined to this or that district, but is
spreading like wild-fire throughout the sister country !
How stands the Repeal Rent, which is a pretty accu-
rate barometer of the feelings of the people ? For
the last week—that is to say, the week in which the
Liberator's imprisonment took place—the sum re-
ceived at the Conciliation Hall was not less than two
thousand five hundred and ninety-six pounds ! No
proof of the declining popularity of the Repeal cause
here. The amount of Mr. O'Corsasma:s fine is ac-
tually paid in hard cash within seven days,
cheerfully and without a murmur, by the public
subscriptions of the poorest country in Europe
Leaving this fact to have its due weight with the
reader, let us next consider the language held at the
last meeting of the Dublin Repealers. Here are the
sentiments of Mr. Samna O'BRlEN—one of the most
intelligent and influential Irishmen of his day, and
second only to the Liberatcr in popularity—coolly
and deliberately spoken in presence of hundreds,
perhaps we ought rather to say thousands, of his ex-
cited countrymen :—" What would be the effect of
the events of the past week ? For his ewn part,
when he heard the sentence pronounced which con-
signed Mr. O'CONNELL to a gaol, he felt that the
doom of the Union was in those words. Vestigia
nulla retrorsum, should be now their motto. The bridge
had been cut away behind them, and for the future no
man would dare to talk of any compromise. He conjured
the Roman Catholics of Ireland of all ranks to come
forward at the present juncture." There are no evi-
dences of shrinking here ! The language of the speaker
is not that of hesitation and despondency; and if we
may judge from the immense number of public meet
ings that are announced to take place immediately
throughout the country, the sentiments held by Mr.
O'BRIEN are cordially responded to by the vast ma-
jority of Irishmen. Such are the first fruits of the
PEEL policy as regards Ireland ! Such the result
of three years of Tory legislation ! Never yet was so
fine an opportunity of regaining the affections of an
excitable, but generous-minded people so utterly—so
wantonly thrown away, as if in sheer contempt, as
has been done by the present Cabinet. When they
entered upon office in 1840 the game was in their
own hands, and they had only to play it fairly to
p!ay it successfully. They had ample power, both
within and without the walls of Parliament, to enter
upon the great work of Irish pacification with
every prospect of a fortunate result. England
had not yet found cause to distrust them—
Ireland was willing to hope—and even the an-
tagonist Orange party had lust much of its old in-
fluence,aid concurrently with this, much also of its
old bigotry and inveteracy of purpose. But Ministers,
with that strange hallucination which ever clings to
Taryism—na matter how mild and modified be the
form which it assumes—neglected one by one all the
advantages of their pt;sition. With the words of promise
continually on their lips, they did little or nothing for
Ireland. Session after essktri carne and went, and
still found. the acknowledged grievances of the sister-
country unredressed.. In vain her claims were brought
forward in Parliament ; in vain Ministers were con-
jured by some of their own pai ty—arnong others by
the llon. and Gallant Member for Westminster—to
turn a considerate ear to the sunlications of Ireland
—entreaties, remonstrances, menaces, all were alike
ineffectual ; and the only boon which Go-
vernment would condescend to bestow on the
sister-country, was that very equivocal, or rather
deeply insulting measure—an Irish Arms Bill !
From the moment that this obnoxious measure be-
came law, Irishmen felt that the time for hope and
confidence was past, and that nothing was left for
them but to agitate a Repeal of the Union. How that
agitation progressed—how Government interfered—
and what were the results of that interference—
our readers know quite as well as ourselves ; we
may assure them, however, that the end is not yet;
the " snake is scotched, not killed ;" and the day is
not far distant when Sir ROBERT PEEL, and those
who act with him, will deeply regret that, when the
golden opportunity was afforded them, they did not
pursue a more generous, enlarged, mad conciliatory
system of policy towards Ireland. Meantime, we
may just notice, en passant, the notorious fact—so
humiliating to Toryism—that though her MAJESTY
can visit Scotland, and every other part of her
dominions, and make sure of a kindly re-
ception even in the rival kingdom of France,
she cannot visit Ireland ; because were she to
do so, she would be sure to learn, at every step of her
progress through that country, how generally Unpo-
pular were the men who have been her confidential
advisers for the last three years and upwards.

A handbill has been forwarded to us with the
beading " NicnoLAs of Russia in England ! ! !" and
announcing that a public meeting will be held on
Thursday, the 6th of June, in the National Hall,
High Holborn, for the purpose of ascertaining how
far the people of England are prepared to welcome to
their country the Russian EMPEROR. The rest of
the handbill is filled up with personal abuse of the
Emßsaon, and with a detailed list of all the cruelties
inflicted on the inhabitants of Poland. Against these
cruelties no journal has protested in stronger lan-
guage, or with more sincerity of purpose, than 77te
Sun—and that fact the Poles in this country grate-
fully acknowledge. May we ask them and their
friends to grant us one favour in return, and that is,
to avoid everything like insult to the AUTOCRAT while
he is in a manner the guest of this great nation.
England is ever hospitable, and her people would be
the last in the world to heap abuse on a Sovereign
who had come among them, trusting to their-gene-
rous and open dispositions, and anxious, perhaps, to
improve himself by witnessing their free institutions.
We, therefore, trust that no hostile demonstration
will be made on the- occasion, and that at all events
the friends of Poland will respect the feelings of our
gracious and beloved SOVEREIGN, who, under the pre-
sent peculiar circumstances, would be greatly dis-
tressed by any insult offered to her Royal Guest.

The Paris papers aro much occupied with the visit
of the Emperor of RUSSIA to this country, and con-
tain almost every possible conjecture as to its object.
One states that he has come for amusement, and to
show himself off before the English people. Two of
them regard his object as purely political; and a
fourth, the National, believes he has paid the compli-
ment to Queen VICTORIA solely to annoy Louis
PHILIPPE. "The CZAR," says the Siecle, can only
have gone to England to obtain personally a solution
of certain political questions, which it suits the Eng-
lish Cabinet to leave in a species of incertitude.
England wishes to preserve the power, when her in
terests make it desirable for her, to pass over to the
side of the absolute Governments against France;
but she has no notion at present of entering into a
perpetual engagement with Russia; for this would
compromise her freedom of action, and oblige her to
give up a portion
.of the benefits of the concessions
which she rends from our feeble Government. when
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England proclaims her love of peace, we
construe her declaration. England desires that
muEst thusuope
may be divided into two camps, placing herself on
the flanks of each, and offering victory to whichever
may consent to buy it, by making the most positive