Star.
London, England, 1830-10-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TITS JOURNALS.

CHatntro.E.—The repeal of the Union has, at the present moment,
it seems, many advocates in Ireland. The circumstance which has
more immediately brought the repeal into favour is the success of the
Belgians. But why should the resistance of the Belgians have pro-
duced this effect on the Irish mind ? The truth is, that Ireland is in a
most diseased state, and the people, like drowning men, catch at every
straw within their teach. We hear of removals by wholesale of the
peasantry under the Subletting Act, and of their squatting down by five
hundreds on commons, thence to be again ejected by force. The pro-
ceslings of the Corporation of Kells, who demolished and burned the
cabins of five hundred trespassers who were left without a shed to cover
them, or a morsel to cat, speak volumes as to the state of the country
where such scenes are enacted. Ireland, before the Union, was a Pro-
testant conquest, all power being in the hands of the Protestants, backed
by England. A repeal of the Union would leave Ireland in a very dif-
ferent state from that in which she was when that event took place. It
would give national independence to the Irish people. We have no
doubt that the improvement of the country would be eft: eted much more
rapidly under a separate Legislature than under an united Legislature.
The property and intelligence of the island would bear directly on the
Parliament; and on the responsibility of their own measures, without
the support of British gold or British bayonets, the landholders and
other influential persons would be taught prudence by circumstances.—
But there is no disguising the fact, that a separated legishtture would
put an end to the established church. Indeed we have no doubt that
the desire to be rid of this incumbrance is not one of the least powerful
motives for a repeal. The Catholics, almost to a man, must feel in-
dignant at seeing the ministers of the religion of one-seventh of the
people, if so much, made an established church. The Protestants can
have no wish to see the Catholic religion established; but they might
have no objection to a compromise—.each religion paying its own clergy.
The Protestant landholders of Ireland have very little Church property ;
and in the abolition of tithes, they would be great gainers. There are
few persons in Ireland who would not rejoice at seeing a different appro.
pristion of the enormous revenue of a sinecure church. Thus a number
of causes are at work to inspire the Irish with a desire of change.

Porr.—The Roman Catholic demagogues of Ireland, with O'Con-
nell at their bead, seem determined that their country shall not reap the
advantages which (they craftily pretended to anticipate, and which
some of the Protestants who sided with them were simple enough, we
believe, really to an •• te from the measure of Emancipation. The
repeal of the Union Is henceforth to be the subject of Irish agitation;
and there seems no reasonable ground to hope, that it will be found a
less efficacious instrument in the hands of the unrelenting and unscru-
pulous foes to their country's peace than that of the Catholic Claims,
which served the same purpose so long and SO well. The success of a for.
mer enterprise,carried on by means of agitatinn,affords a ground of hope to
the disarganizinf party, which, although we cannot say it is unnatural,
will yet, we believe, prove entirely fallacious, that their pprreesseennt project
may be equally successful. The relief of the Roman Catholics from sU
civil disabilities must operate, indeed, as an additional objection to a
legislative separation of Gnat Britain and Ireland, and one which it
will be more difficult to surmount than any, or than all, great and nu-
merous as tbey were, which existed prior to that measure in the mind of
every man who is not prepared to contemplate without repugnance or
alarm the establishment in the latter country of a Roman Catholic Go-
vernment and Hierarchy. However ardently this consummation may be
desired by the demagogues, by the ambitious Church which impels theM,
and by the ignorant sad infatuated multitude whom they inflame
and mislead, its 01111111zion with the measure they have immedi.
ately in view is too Ails, direct. and inseparable to admit of a doubt
that the latter will exprienes a much firmer and more determined re-
sistance onthe pasts[ his British Government, by whomsoever admi-
niswed and a masa mime united and vigorous opposition on the part
ef the BM& Inglimbere and people, than the measure of emancipa-
tion taste W W eacennter. The Rad. Bill was supported by many
nibbles Ea 113-judging ppeenrsoousa,, who believed, and by a still pester
inmebur Oregon' mows elssr.efghted bat less sincere, who only pre-
tended le believe that it would str then the Protestant Church and
the Piellant Throne in Irtiewl. In the present case such delusion
awl midi krefitig are alike impessihk, the Pored measure being
nariksdy ',Maim to an capeswerrender to pry of both Church
and Timms.

Trates.-41weadeehl melds was mode by the Catholic relied Ida
towanis sliming a poimant hafaiveasat in the social condition ot
band, Dlissass salsas gift between man and man then
amid ea be a Mai lbw& st Waft so all who entertained it, and

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the ev. ere.: me; •oes of the nation ma; (,or the first time) to have
started fair, with a calumet prize befere mem. By this we mean that
no unnatural and far-fetched ancumbratice.likt the punishment of man's
religious faith, was left hanging upon tee frame of the community.
Bad laws, affecting men in their ordinary relatiors, might indeed remain,
and must produce the fruits of all injudicious legislation ; but they would
he dealt witleand may stiU,we trust he dealt with. by remedies drawn from
the common stock of political prude ce, ten-ye:. and justice. They reed
not overwheen the state, or d..cxnr.se, it• did the penal laws,
the Irish nat'on, and separate its ciente a. if they had serer been
combined. The religious war being hapoily ended, it is nevertheles ex-
tremely possible !hat other sources of confusion may have been opened ;
and even by those vigorous hands, and torough an unsuccesful appli-
cation of that same upright spirit, to which Ireland is indebted for her
release from the Popery code. One cruel aeemeation of every distur.
bance to which Ireland has been exposed (have; the last half century,
wu the extreme poverty of the peep!: upon setom the art. of excite-
ment operated, and their enormous numberi. That the country at large
was overstocked with inhabitants, we by ti :ass affime The island
would have supported twice the number. had capital existed or been em-
ployed to call forth productive labour; but the want of commercial and
manufacturing industry left no means of livelihood fe- the grow-
ing population, except what was afforded by the cultivation of the
soil ; so that land became the most inarketuble commodity,
if :not the only one ; and by degrees the greater portion of the estates
throughout the kingdom were cut up into miserable patches, such as the
spade of a single peasant might search, fora scanty crop of half manured
potatoes. The 40s. freehold law made this multiplication of freehold
paupers an instrument in the hands of every 'squire for extending his
political influence ; so that the political spnet of the country was de-
Wed, and its surface overrun, by a destitute and pitiable, but useless
and dangerous, population. Under these circumstances, and with a
view to their amendment, the legislature, a snort time ago, passed a bill
to prevent the subletting of lands, a bill which the Irish landlords would
never have endured, so long as the 40s. freentdd law subsisted. We, with
many others, were favourable to the enactment of that nicalure, trusting
that it might effect a future good, and no• setficit rely adverting to the
risk that the benefit might be arrived at through great and intolerable
suffering. The conduct of a large proportion et Irish landlords wis
such as to warrant that apprehension. Without r::.rd to the wretched
creatures whom their own ambitious and sordid policy had for many
years been entrapping into a ruinous occupancy of their eatates, day
took all occasions since the passing of the law to expel abruptly the
small tenants wholesale on every lapse of term that occurred, and, fail.
ing that etensingentey, stx e+ifY a=aa: of tent. T.i, consequence has
been the' aniehment and destruction of thousands of miserable families,
ousted from their cabins with scarcely a garment to cover them, or the
means of satisfying the keenest pere,-;, of h;t:•ivf- Ticre a... unfit.
tunately, no poor laws in Ireland, so that th r,, • is specie le. tile
landlords was carried on with impunity to theme

THE KING'S COURT.

BRIGHTON, OCT. 17.

Friday, Sir HENRY BLACKWOOD, Barn. Wswc r.!4-
HEIM, the Prince and Princess CAROLUTII, and tha Count
and Countess MUNSTER, dined with their MAJ EsTi
Yesterday, the Duke of But; asw to:, the Earl of Anna-
DEIN, and Count MUNST Lit, had audiencrs of the Klan.

In the afternoon, the Q u ESN , accompauic by her Royal
Highness the Princess AtovsrA, Countess of Eanot.i.,
and Lady Bttowy Losr, rode oat in a carring,l to the Royal
Gardens, where Prince Grotto of Cambrisli n, and the
young Gentlemen of M. EV ER RD'S SCIV:01 We. e playing
a Cricket Match, to the great dtdight of the Royal Pdrty.
Her MAJESTY and a great number of Nobiiitv rtrtook of i
cold collation prepared for them in the Assenthly-rooai„ and
were in the gardens nearly three hours.
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE rode out on horseback ; and
Colonel G. FITZCLARENCE took his departure from the
Pavilion for London.

In the meantime the following calls were made on theil
MAJESTIES at the Pavilion :—Mr. WETLAND POWFLL, the
Prince and Princess CAROLUTU, Mr. and Miss Kum p,
Mr. and Mrs. BROUGHAM, Sir GORE and Lady Otis E
Captain Sir J. and Lady FRANKLIN, Captain and Ails.
FULLER, Itc.
In the evening, Lord A. BEA UCLERK, Colonel and Mr.:.
WHATLEY, Sir SANDFORD and Lady GRAHAM. Si: W.
HOPE, and the Countess of AvaLoe E, Mr. KEITH Dot:
cues, Count and Countess MUNSTER, Count D'Ott e
General DALRYMPLE, and Lord FALKLAND, Bind with
their MAJESTIES and the Royal Suite.
This day the Duke of CAMBRIDGE walked out; but their
MAJESTIES made no excursions.

Divine Service was performed at the Royal Cliapcl by
the Rev. MT. EVERARD and the Rev. Mr. M EitEw ETV
before their MAJESTtEs, the Princess A t,c; VirA, the Duke
Of CAMBRIDGE, Prince GEORGE, and the Royal Suite ; the
Chapel was filled with Nobility,
The e LANDORAVINZ continues to improve.

Mr. WeLima delivered his eighth lihilosophica; Lectu.v
to the QUEEN, Prince GEORGE, &c. yesterday.
Among the calls at the Pavilion this day were those of—
Lieut.-Col. HARRIS, Capt Woodley, the Prince and Prim e..s
de CAROLUTII, Mr. KEITH DOUGLAS, Lieut -Col. Ln4l
Mrs. NVIIATLEv, Sir S. and Lady GRAHAM, Lieut.-(en.
Sir J. and Lady Fuller, Mr. MACKINNON, Colonel GIBBS,
Lord JOAN Tow NSIIEND, General Sir JouN FRASER, and
Lady and Miss FRASER.