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TUESDAY

MORNING, JULY 7, 1846

This is the age of conversions—the age of as-
tounding repudiation of all past professions and re-
corded principles of action. The new candidate for
the representation of South Lancashire informs us,
in his address, that the League has " converted"
Wing statesmen to a conviction of the neces-
Deating the corn laws. Perhaps it has done
but a far more extended agency must he
t, to account for the vast changes which
ns to have brought about.
st we had certainly the note of pre-

e twelvemonth s

paration sufficiently sounded to enable us to expect,
from Sir Robert Peel, a great change in our com-
mercial policy. We looked, at his hands, for a mo-
.._
ation of the corn laws; certainly not for their
e repeal. We might have anticipated a slight
lg of the sugar duties, and other similar
we were unprepared for the total re-

versal of all the main aims of his past political life,
which is indicated in his closing speech as premier
of England. We saw the tendency of his mind with

s; but V i

e could not see how any
statesman could arrive at the convictions, by one

-
step, which he has now announced.
The mask, however, is drawn off. A glimpse, at
least, is now afforded us of the workbags of Si;
Robert Peel's mind—who can say that we, as yet,
iee all ? Ireland, he told us a few years ago, was
3is chief difficulty. He could not preserve, in his
nt of her, anything like accordance with the
hich he has professed, as guiding his
These principles are now thrown away,
in company with a host of other professed con-

er tells us that he is

epared to treat Ireland as if there was no inequa-
in her condition with that of England—to apply
I'gislation, the rule of three direct,—in
maantle the established Church of Ire-
-to make population, and not principle, the
3xponent of our legislation for that country.
Now what does this expression of opinion in-
-7e ? Between England and Ireland, Sir Robert
I says, there must be a " perfect equality." In
ers we say " certainly." But we must
We cannot say, for instance, that if
England, with sixteen millions of population, has
two millions of
_electors, Ireland, with half that po-

tort, to d

pulation, should have half the number of electors, or
return half the number of representatives to parlia-
ment. We cannot reduce the standard of electoral
capability to the Dish average. We cannot give the
two millions and odd paupers, which Ireland in-
cludes within her population, and the struggling
fcur millions of serfs which she has besides, the same
stake •in the constitution which responsible men,
with property to boast of, possess in Great Britain.
We cannot abrogate, in the case of Ireland, the laws
meum and Mum, as would be the case if we legis-
to meet the views of the great middleman,
O'Connell. How then are we to treat Ire-
legislation, as upon a footing of perfect
.ty with England ? There is, at present, no
condition. As a mass, the Irish people are
'on a footing of equality with the English peo-
1, they are not fitted for the exer-

nd, in our

ple ; and, as a mass,

cise of the same privileges.
-When we come, however, to the religious ques-
tion involved, the announcement of Sir Robert
Peel is infinitely more astounding than the idea,
which we draw from it, of his merely fiscal or
social policy. When Mr. Wm. Brown says to us,
" Treat Ireland as if no sea divided her from Great

_ ye might be tempted to acquiesce and to
rive to that country a participation in the blessings
ncome Tax, our system of Poor Laws,
But, when we are asked to
ajority of the people of
)oting of equality with that of the
to endow Popery—to dis-

Britain,

and our Excise

le rel

on of the m

Ireland upon a fc

f that religion which our So-