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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"
our leading statesmen to a conviction of the neces-
of repeating the corn laws. Perhaps it has done
but a far more extended agency must he
ut, to account for the vast changes which
le twelvemonth seems to have brought about.
bruary last we had certainly the note of pre-
on sufficiently sounded to enable us to expect,

its part

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from Sir Robert Peel, a great change in our com-
mercial policy. We looked, at his hands, for a mo-
dification of the corn laws ; certainly not for their
entire repeal. We might have anticipated a slight
tinkering of the sugar duties, and other similar
matters. But 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
tolerable clearness; but we could not see how any
statesman could arrive at the convictions, by one
step, which he has now announced
The mask, hove

er, is drawn off. A glimpse, at
east, is now afforded us of the workings of Sir
Robert Peel's mind--who can say that we, as yet,
see all ? Ireland, he told us a few years ago, was
his chief difficulty. He could not preserve, in his
treatment of her, anything like accordance with the
principles which he has professed, as guiding his
political life. These principles are now thrown away,
in company :with a host of other professed con-
victions. And the late premier, tells ns_thatiipis
irepared to treat Ireland as if there was no inequa-
tv in her condition with that of England—to apply
- in legislation, the rule of three direct,—in
!e the established Church of Ire-
., make population, and not principle, the
.tponent of our legislation for that country.
Now what does this expression of opinion in-
? Between England and Ireland, Sir Robert
'ays, there must be a " perfect equality." In
'itters we say " certainly." But we must
....e. We cannot say, for instance, that if
.gland, with sixteen millions of population, has
cvo millions of electors, Ireland, with half that po-
mlation, should have half the number of electors, or
eturn half the number of representatives to parlia-
-it. 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
four

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:emporal

nillions 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
of means and tuum, as would be the case if we legis-
lated to meet the views of the great middleman,
Daniel O'Connell. How then are we to treat Ire-
1, in our legislation, as upon a footing of perfect
ty with England ? There is, at present, no
As a mass, the Irish people are

condition

not upon a footing of equality with the English peo-
ple; and, as a mass, they are not fitted for the exer-

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
Britain," we might be tempted to acquiesce and to
.rticipation in the blessings
our system of Poor Laws,
But, when we are asked to
reat the religion of the majority of the people of
of equality with that of the
)w. Popery—to Bis-
on which our So-

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