The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-06-03
RE MORNING STAR SUNDAY JUNE

hosor Whho Akalu, was tue OBJECT he had In
view and be hoped Ireland would rest sat
isded that in no change of affairs would Eng
land ever retraot that faith which, in bis
opinion, ebe had pledged when she repealed
all legislative and judicial authority over Ire
| land. He then moved for leave to bring in o
Dill recognizing the exclusive rights of the
parliament and conrts of ireland in matters of
legislation and judicature; which motion as
| seconded by Mr.. Grenvile, Secretary to Lord
| Temple, who spoke for some time with great
eloquence on the near relations of Ireland with
| England, and on the mDtualty of their in
| teresta, and, having shown that the prosperity
! and adversity of each must necessarily be mu-
| tual, hoped the motion would meet with the
unanimous concurrence of the house.
ENGLAND SAYS THAT JUSTICE, NOT FEAR, MADE
| HER YIELD.
Mr. Eden said that the business of this day
showed, beyond q possible doubt, not merely
| the good faith, but the industrious anxiety of
England to crafty Ireland in the point of FREQ
| legislation, and then alluded to the ungene-
rous, the unmanly, apd ill-founded notion that
Ireland owed these repeated attentions to the
The insinuation was not only injurious and
untrue, bnt it was unwise; for. if the oonces-
sions were the forced fruits of England's en-
barrassments, what would be the natural
fruits of her returning prosperityf Ireland
ought, then, to found and rest her secu-
Iity where she safely might-on the basis of
national wisdom, national affections, aud
tional faith.
MH' roA SAA-Lo oN oODs
Z" Mr.. Fox referred to the act of last year
which repealed the 9th George the First, and
said, 'Wnoever would now come forward aud
arraign that wise, that salutary and impor-
tsnt measure, he would deliver it as his
opinion, that the objector did not understand
the business. Did not the WIZ o,e kingdom of
Ireland breathe the most heartfelt. gratitude
The Parliament, by the repeal, were virtually
invested with full powers to regulate every
domestic Inconvenience, according to their
own discretion, without the control of any
power on earth. He vowed to God he would
rather re]inq uish the dependence of Ireland on
the crown OF England altogether than see them
subjected to il by force of arms.
" Mr.. Eden wished for the time when the
two Kingdoms will have realized and secured
one constitution, one commerce, one king, one
friend, one enemy, and one fate; and when 1t
would be impossible for any one to wish the
prosperity of the one country more ardently or
more earnestly tnan the prosperity of the
other.
MR.. PITT MAKES TELLING SPEECH.
"Mr. William Pitt, who was at this time
tJanuary, 1882 Chanceller of the Exchequer,
rose in support OF the motion, and remarked
that objection had been made TO it of weight
and importance enough to deserve q serious
answer. The concession of the previous year
he did not think effeotusl enough, and sup
ported the pending motion as arising out of
the former act to repeal the act of 9Th George
the Fret, and even tending to complete It.
He was anxious for such unanimity in the
house as would give the motion, weight and
hoped they should go through the business
with manliness, and in q liberal and magnani-
NOUS manner, not only to the satisfaction of
Ireland, but also to the honor of the British
Parliament. Mr.. Pitt said, in the English Par
lament, about the same time, From the revo
luton TO period within the memory of every
man who heard him-indeed, until within
these very few years-the System had been
that of debarring Ireland from the enjoyment
and use of her own resources, to make the
kingdom completely subservient to the inter-
naf nd Rf nnn try nit fh4u
suffering her to share in the bountes of nature
in the industry of our oitizens, or enabling her
to contribute to the general interests and
strength of the empire-a system that counter
acted the kindness of Providence, and sus.
pended the industry and enterprise of men,
Ireland was put under such restraint that she
She was restrained from sending the produce of
her own soil to foreign markets, and all GORE
spondence with the colonies of Britain was
prohibited to her, so that she could not derive
their commodities but through the medium of
Britain. This was the system which had pre-
vailed, and this was the state of thraldom in
which that country had been kept ever since
the revolution
THE BILL OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE
"The motion was then carried unanimously,
and Mr.. Secretary Townshend. the mover, was
placed on a committee with William Pitt, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, to prepare . bill
declaring the exclusive rights of the parliament
and courts of Ireland in all M alters of legisla-
tiou and judicature, and the 2S5h George the |
Tnird chap. 25th, was accordingly reported, |
and unanimously passed, whereby the right |
claimed by the people Of Ireland, 10 be bound only
By lGDs enacted by His Majesty and the Parliament
Of Ireland in ali cases tUhateUer, shall be- and is
hereby declared to be, established and dscertained
forerer, and shall at no time hereafter be questioned
or qneStiona6le"
BURKE's WORDS AND FLOODS PROPHECIES
1T was in reference to these solemn trans
actions that Edmund Burke emphatcally |
declared that the true revolution to Ireland, |
which substantially resembed the English
revolution of 1858, the Irish revolution of
1882. Aud the patriot Flood, as if prophetic of
the apostasy of the then new Chancellor of the
Exchequer, William Pitt, added this striking
If England should Ienouuce her
legislative pretensIoD, aud afterwards resume
it, her own act of Parliament would be her
all ever Europe; every cabinet
would declaim against her baseness, aud think
themselves authorized to assist the oppressed
subjects, whom her own act would prove not
TO be rebels."
Referring to these extracts John Boyle
REILLY, Editor of the Pilot, writes as fol-
lows: