The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-03 00:00:00

THE A'TTOINEY-GENERAL V. DESMOND.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that Mr. Robinson had
again consented to another verdict of 1001 on the second
count of this information.
The jury in the first case was sworn in the other two,
as their juries had not been summoned f)r to-day. We
have already reported the proceedings against Mr. John
Toplis, of Bermondsey street. It is out of those trans-
actions that these informations arose against the several
parties concerned in them.

Lord JocelZn and Mr. Cardwell have received in-
vitations for Sir Robert Peel's official dinner this day.
This is an intimation that the Noble Lord and Mr.
Cardwell are about to enter the public service. Lord
Jocelyn will be the new Lord of the Admiralty. Mr.
Mr. Cardwell's office is not yet known publicly, but it
will probably not be an office involving the interruption
and delay of a new writ and new election.—Evening
Paper.

SPIRIT •f the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
PION THE EYZNINQ PAPERS OP THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—As the Parliamentary session ap-
proaches, rumours of a more liberal policy in the
government of Ireland become rife. This and other
scarcely less important matters of national interest
have raised public curiosity—to ascertain the reality
of what now rests only on surmise—to a pitch higher
than has been recently manifested. The Royal Speech,
at the opening of Parliament to-morrow, is therefore
the point toward which the public anxiety is directed.
That official programme of the Government policy
will indicate, if it do not explain, the course which
Ministers mean to pursue with reference to some
of the great questions concerning which men have
been speculating and disputing in the dark during
the last six months. The few short sentences
comprised in the Speech from the Throne bill
shed light upon the darkness. In proportion as
that revelation of the future tends to raise
or depress the classes who have endeavoured to
force an illiberal and restrictive policy on the Go-
vernment, will be the predominance of satisfaction
or of discontent in the public mind. The Irish Tories
have recently exhibited increased anxiety and alarm.
The Anti-National Education party, which comprises
the High-Churchmen, both clerical and laical, have
deemed it necessary to assume a bold front, and
to protest in a decisive tone, and in most explicit
language, against the system of education which the
state sanctions and supports—because the- only
one of which _the Roman Catholic population can
avail itself. 'We alludel lstely to the manifesto of the
nine Bishops of the Irish Church, in which they
record their, decided hostility to the Government
plan of education, and appeal to the clergy and laity
for their support and aid in counteracting the
Anti-Protestant effects of that system. Such
an appeal could not be made in vain. The
Irish clergy in several districts have responded
to the call. Addresses have been drawn up and
signed by a considerable number of the Irish
clergy, and presented to the Archbishop of Armagh.
In these addresses the clergy deplore the necessity
which is laid upon them thus publicly to condemn
the conduct of the Government. But, seeing no
other alternative, they determine to make com-
mon cause with the Heads of their Church ; and
promise to employ their influence to counteract
the dangers with which the policy of the State
threatens the Protestant Church of Ireland. The
Church has induced the influential members of its
communion to unite with it in this movement against
the Government. The leaders of the Orange and
Tory party met on Thursday last in Dublin, • and
agreed upon an address to the Archbishop of Armagh.
In this document they pledge themselves to em-
ploy every means to induce her Majesty's Mi-
nisters to abandon the National System of Educa-
tion ; and to adopt, in its stead, one in consonance
with the views of the clergy of the Pro-
testant Established Church. This address is signed
by seventeen Peers of Parlia:nent, and by twenty-
eight of the Irish Tory Members of the House of
Commons. The Archbishop has replied in grateful
terms to the address ; from which he predicates suc-
cess in his efforts to attain the object so dear to his
heart, and to that of every true Protestant. What-
ever may be thought of the sentiments embodied
in these documents, there can be no question that
the combined movement whence they emanate must
'neatly embarrass Ministers in preparing and bring-
ing before Parliament any measures of liberal edu-
cational policy for the
_Roman Catholic population
of Ireland. If an assault so formidable is threa-
tened upon the existing National System of Educa-
tion in that country, the same hostile influences
will be brought to bear against any plans for pro-
pitiating the Roman Catholic population. If the
Irish Tories thus object to things that are, they will
yet more strongly oppose further proofs of liberality.
.If the Govermneut contemplate an increase of the
imam now possessed for educating the Catholic
clergy, or in any other way endeavour to raise their
personal character, and thus extend their social in-
fluence, they must prepare themselves for a deter-
mined and combined opposition from their own
friends. The present High-Church demonstration
mgainst the Government system of education is evi
idently prompted •by apprehensions—whether with or
without cause we have yet no means of knowing—that
Sir R. Peel has become impressed with the necessity
of conciliating the Irish people; and that he can only
do this by concessions on a comprehensive scale. The
tactics of the Tories are therefore distinguished
by bo!dness. Theyhave determined on a decla-
ration of war. Instead of waiting for further
provocations, they have chosen the Govern-,
ment system of education as a cases belli ; and
demand its unconditional surrender as the terms of
peace. It le obvious that if the Government yield to
this demand, it cannot propose any new scheme of Irish
policy, conceived in the same spirit, or having the same
tendency ; for it would be abandoned by those on whose
votes official existence is dependent. Even if the Go-
vernment determine to take its stand on the National
System of Education, and to defend it against those vi ho
Lave banded for its destruction, there will be an in-
disposition to provoke the Irish Protestant party by
further concessions to the Roman Catholics in that
country. Thus; the real purpose of the confederation
will be answered. It may fail of getting the education
of the Catholic people into the hands of the Church ;
but they will succeed in preventing further incursions
of a liberal policy into what they manifestly regard as
their established, rightful possessions.
STANDARD.—The Morning Herald gives an
account of the Ministerial arrangements—and we
have reason to believe that the account is not only
correct in its details, but complete, as regards the
arrangements at present determined on. The
appointments speak for themselves—as many
of them as have been guessed at, have met
with universal approbation, and the others are
certainly as free from all objection. In this, as
in most other respects, the Government appears
to satisfy the wishes of the reasonable men of all
parties. We do not indeed remember the eve of a
Parliamentary session so promising of a calm and
useful Parliamentary year as the present. The
Whig party has absolutely disappeared from the
scene, and even the Radicals have contracted their
force within a very minute circle, and seem
to be improving in good sense, as their numbers di-
minish. It is symptomatic of the public confidence
in the Government and the Parliament, that men
scarcely speak, or think, or write of anything con-
nected with the progress of legislation. On this day,
the last day of the recess, the Morning Chronicle, the
great Whig organ, entertains its readers with dis-
sertations on the state of the Conservative party in
France, and upon the proper boundaries tobe maintained
between the two great branches of the profession of
the law—counsel and attorneys. The. pendulous
Times discusses harbours of refuge an article
nearly aeon. wed,
.not
The to say pirated, from
. a
morning Contemporary Herald exposes misre-
presentations of the ise
official arrangements, and
the Post engages ;
.n a controversyw
Russell upon the taxation of
with Lord John
machinery arid the
?dal thusian theory. Then,
matters are all very
well, hut we believe that never before on the eve of
a session were the public journals occupied by sub-
jec's so miscellaneous and so little connected
with
the conflict of Parliamentary ' •
parties. These in-
dications of a quiet and useful session may be
however, fallacious ;there is no knowing wha
turn up ; another " Who is the traitor ?" ctams may
or another " Mr. Stockd ale's case" may turn c
up to
consume the public time—and experience shows
that the House of Commons always engages with
such cases the more earnestly, the more trum-
pery they are. Meanwhile, the enemies of the
Administration affect much apprehension of Sir
Robert Peel's unsupported position, as they affect
to consider the situation of the Premier since Lord
Stanley's removal to the House of Lords and
Mr. Gladstone's retirement.
i This tenderness to-
wards a political adversary s no doubt amiable
—but is it not a little too sensitive ? No one will
underrate the value of such allies in debate as Lord
Stanley and Mr. Gladstone, but is the session of 1835
forgotten—that session when,• altogether unaided
by Lord Stanley, and deriving little help from Mr.