The Sun. — 1835-04-04 (London, England)

VIII., raked up old grievances and abuses, and affected the deepest sympathy for their fellow-countrymen. What were theze pretended governors of Ireland going to do? They were going to reject the real remedy for the people of Ireland, and substitute in its stead measures that would bring  them into power, and lay prostrate the law in Ireland:  The real evil connected with the Irish Church was the tithe system, and from the management, or rather mismanagement, of that, arose the grievances complained of. He believed, however, that the Tithe Bill introduced by the present Government would tend in a, great measure to do away with the abuses of the tithe system. ( Hear.) Why did Hon.- Members place obstacles in the way of this Bill? No doubt it was their extreme love for Ireland which induced them to perpetuate the evil against which they had so often inveighed, and to withhold the remedy for it, while . .  they adopted another course with the same show of sensibility for the Irish people as before. This reckless determination of some .Hon. Members to withhold the real remedy convinced him, if indeed he wanted 'grounds for such conviction; that the evils of L eland were the only wares with which they could trade. Ireland wonted education. Such language was preposterous, coming from a party which had invariably resisted the diffusion of moral and religious education. —(Loud cheers.) Ho was one who had for thirty years exerted himself to promote scriptural education throughout his own country. Hon. Members might deride him. He would only say let them exert themselves as strenuously and successfully as he had in the cause of education.  —( Cheers.) The good he had so effected was not by predatory incursions on the public purse—!: A laugh from the Opposition)—but by defraying the. expenses out of his own pocket. He was more than compensated by knowing .that hii exertions had in many cases been attended with the happiest results ; and he wished that others had adopted a similar course, instead of kec ping up that system of ignorance and and- error by which the demagogues agitators had obtained  in Ireland such dangerous influence. But now these Gentle. men stood forward and called for education, and such was thei.  love for their country that they could not wait for a surplus, but must anticipate it by at least seventy years. A system of education of which all sects and denomirc4tious were to partake the benefit was now proposed by men who had heretofOre resisted every attempt to enligke:l aid rescue the people from their pitiable state of ignorance. But it. was a mere pretence, a miserable subterfuge. A man must have been but a short  time in Ireland, and a still shorter time in the House of Commons, who could not see through this despicable gloss of assumed philanthropy and patriotism. It showed that Hon. Members, in order t•a attain their ends, had been compelled to throw off the incumbrances both of common truth and common  sense. Facts, figures, and indisputable calculations had all been thrown overboard, and the principle of appropriating the alleged million of Church property was put forth as the great influencing principle. Why was a million constantly stated as the amount of the Irish Church revenues, instead of the actual wn, 450,0001. ?—( Hear, hear.) It was to excite the cupidity, and produce that very clamour which some Hon. Members would have it believed they desired to suppress.— (Loud cheers.) With the love of order and peace on their lips Hon. Members put forward this proposition with the full knowledge that its effect would be to excite still greater clamour, still greater violence, and still greater disagreement than already prevailed in Ireland. With this knowledge, and for ti;jr own purposes, they bring up the Eatablished Church as a perma;;Qpt object of spoliation, and an endless source of profit. It was tr.; that some Hon. Members chose to speculate en the probable increase of the Protestant Establishment under this modern system of plunder; butt for himself he must admit that he thought it very unlikely that the protestant Establishment would be extended or even maintained while the line of demarkation was drawn in such fearful colours before the door of the Protestant voter, and while the most awful denunciations were levelled against any man who presumed to differ in the slightest degree from one who was the greatest despot in the British dominions, the Hon. and Learned Member for the city of Dublin-40h, oh, from the Opposition.) Ile would repeat the words—the greatest despot in the British dominions.--( Oh, oh; from the OpposttiQn.) If murder was not despotism, then he was ignorant of its nature.  Mr.