Star.
London, England, 1830-10-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TUE JOURNALS.

CIIROIIicLE.—AII sorts of rutnous arc again afloat with rcgatd to the
concurrence of England with the other posers, in an Interf►rence with
Belgium. We do not attach any weight to them. The ►u►tc of GO.
many will dispose the monarchs to caution, and the Duke of Welling.
ton will hardly, at this stage of the business, think of beginning to in.
tafere.

Cnaowicut.—Several Ideeting. for the Repeal of the Union have
already taken place in lrelaod, and more are announced. At Drogheda,
on Monday last, a Bleeting was held in front of the Linen Hall. attended
by above a thousand persons. A large concourse of
_people with flags
through the principal streets. At the town of Freshfonl. KU.
rirnandye,da Meeting took place on Sunday, the 17th, "attended by the
more wealthy portion of the inhabitants." At Carrick•on.Suir, 4' a
numerous and respectable Meeting" was held on the same day. In
Clare, a Requisition for -a County Meeting is in progress of sig.
nature, and has already received a number of the most independeat
names. It hat been said that if misgovernment be the cause of
the wretchedness in Ireland, it is the misgovernment of a former age.
I which cannot in Admen be charged to the ministers of the present day,
There is some truth in this. But it may at the Name time be observed
that no measures am be eapected from the Minister of the present day
t all adequate to the exigencies of Ireland. The great malady of la-

land Ls t:h. excelsa of people beyond the capital for givin.4 cmpluyincut
to them. We do not believe that m...i.;tera rtrry day measure
calculated to remedy this evil. 11w tf Ireland hati • ce••,^ he!isla-
ture. and her landholders were left to their own resouice.,, t:..• very in.
atinct of clf.pre.4ervatint would lead them to co-operate %;Ila the t ifs r
dames in an endeavour to restore lilt• had vtl- • le tieecn rsimiation and
employment.

Timne.—lt might he ar effectitel way of Composing the public epitit
of Ireland upon the above question, were we to put it to the rend•iur at
any half dozen dispassionate and well informed natives of the country,
to say what she could gain by a poleical separation from Great Bri-
tain. Loss of revenue,—loss of market for produetion,—losa rat rtt
ternal security,--diminution (if that it' possible) of domestic traiesp..l
lity,•-••an entire overthrow of the ittfluenrc ov poverty over turbtilesit
destitution,—the creation of a popish theocracy en the ruin:.
of a tolerant system of Protestantism,--1 Inca/ Perfieine
bullied by a junta of demagognes,—all settling fioilly it vo
an inevitable reconquest' by this counter, end a hie.v.p
piercing military government, imposed by I:nil:hind as the rote en. +—
Goo of her defence against a harharniii, viels.iit. teal Pekle ou..
Such might, perhaps, be a few of the advantages esotiempLited brainy
discriminating Irishman as likely to remit from a levee:erg op cf es
policy by which his country has Atte+, incorporand with owe. It
Is needless to add, that from speculators of that demn.;• i.t s,
there would be r.othing to fear for the puhlie peace, or for tit
final issue of the anti-union mania, it such individuals s'ioul
happily be invested with power to guide the fr.lingo of their coue-
trymen. But the controul of the most dangerous questitiaa is,
unfortunately, for the most part, committed to the least prudent .
It is not clear intelligence or enlightened patriotism titet will, 'it. h.-
cessity, have to decide the course of rrOevetilnirS. T 11: topie
has been raised by disappointed arroganze erti slGte,ed
The appeals of O'Connell and his crew have hem addresses! in en
wildest prejudices and most furious passions of the wretched tnsl i.
tude, who have nothing to fear from change, and hardly any wash •
to be endangered by national celamhe or cansissioo. It is thee.
fore by the dishonest instigators of disturbance, and by their icstor.
ant and reckless followers, that this great aohjeet of mikes
went must be settled, unirss the authorities of the suite, sm..
ported by the wisdom and energy of both nations, shall interfere for
the common safety. We rejoice that the first step of le terpositios.
has been seasonably taken; and regard it as 3 !oyster that, it' toque.
site, other and stronger means will follow. That men of ptopettv
throughout Ireland would lend themselves t, this mouittebank pro.
ject, it is quite impossible to concave. But we are not Sure that
it would become has worthy of prompt and e.;ourous countreee•
don, because none but wily lawyers taratir.l priests, and ha.
famished peasants, with a few hundred halt.
shopkerpers were engage
in it. The most terrible rebellion of medsra times was that
of 1798, and was excited by persons not very unlike Mr. °Tatted!,
bating their superior boldness and hiss practised art,—was In its :riser
stages encouraged by priests, and throughout able:loner! and denounced
by men of property. The Ministers of the ptesent day Pat e. but one
line of conduct to observe—they must put (lost: with a strong hand this
attack upon the national existence. All England is whit theta, and all
of Ireland but the selfishness of a handful of conspirators, seed the phy-
sical violence of an infatuated mob. We trite that the G ntenntent
will not be wanting to its obvious duty.

lizaania.—The great and influential parish of 51.tryleltaill (ore,: .t
village, but now comprising • population at once more num2rous ::nd
more opulent than any one town in the British Empire) meets this day
for the purpose of petitioning Parliament for a repeat of the house acid
window duties. It is much to be regretted that the public in general, in
their impatience (4, Ignorant impatience," Lord Londonderry called it)
of taxation. have not agreed as to which of the Cl3lls of public burdens
have been the most oppressive ; while the Government, still less en-
lightened, have evidently thrown away, as in the case t f the repeal of
the leather lax, much of their power of benefiting the community.
The great injustice of the house and window duties strikes us t.,
be this, that they quite as often tax a man's necessities as hat
ability ; to which latter point they have, in tact no reference.
The wealthiest man may live in a lodging, and never contribute one far .
thing to them, while the man with a large family, and very inadequ &-
means to bring them up, is compelled to live in a house larger and most,
eapensive in other respects than he can well afford, with this awful ad•
dition to his expenses. Nothing, probably, has done so 'much to drit e
people to reside in foreign countries as the 'dearness of living at
home.. As long as the necessities of the State are derived from indirect
means, it is apparently, at least, if not really, optional with most
men to what extent they will contribute. The drinker of taxed wine,
for instance, limits or extends his libations at pleasure ; but it is in no
man's option whether he shall live with a house over his head, or
whether, being in a house, he shall or shall not enjoy the light of
heaven. On these, therefore, and many other accounts, we agree with
those who have called the Marylebone Meeting, that these heads of the
amassed taxes comprise that portion of the public burdens which rail
most for reduction, and which, we have no doubt, will be reduced, t!
the people, in other places, unite with the parishioner. of 31aryleborc,
in looking steadily to this one object.

THE THEATRE'.