The Sun. — 1841-10-29 (London, England)

TIMES.—EarI de Grey seems to have alighted upon Ireland like a bird of calm upon a tempestuous sea. Too long, indeed, has she been distracted and convulsed by el ery evil which the virulence of political faction and religious intolerance on either side could engender ; but if we do not egregiously misinterpret the altered phenomena now discernible in Irish affairs, his Lordship's benign administration is already the harbinger and the immediate cause of a better order of things. Our neighbours across the Channel, no matter what be their poletical or religious creed, are now:ff'etting heartily sick of the unprofitable agitations which have so long divided and distracted them. Even among the-numerous tribe of ignorant and self-willed dupes who have heretofore followed O'Connell, the symptoms of a relexed fealty are, here and there, beginning to appear. The popular enthusiasm which formerly hailed him wherever he went, has of late grown wonderfnlly frigid. A large proportion, too, of the more judicious Clergy of the Romish Church, coinciding with the sensible views of the Rev. Mr. Bermingham, seem honestly determined, as befits their sacred calling, to withdraw from turbulent meetings. and henceforth to lead " quiet and peaceable liver." Moreover, your callow brood of Liberal barrister's, whose cravings for Whig appointments impelled them to court O'Connell's favour, have latterly shown a good deal of docility in selecting a more eligible path to promotion ; while, with reference to the immense majority of cultivated and independent Irishmen, professing various shades of political opinion, we have the happiness to know that there nory prevails among them an almost universal wish to extricate themselves from party broils, and to exert their concurrent efforts in restoring Ireland to a condition of prospeirty and repose. Nor need we wonder that such a disposition should at length have begun to be exemplified. Experience, though sometimes a slow teacher, is always an able and successful one. Immediately subsequent to the passing of the Emancipation Act, which gave every reasonable promise of restoring tranquillity in Ireland, the Government of that country passed into the hands of the But owing to they, Whigs, where, till very itnhfae7nkiletedeedlnptlayr,tiistahnashsipsinocreLroermdaioed. emancipation was fitted anti' Melbourne's Ministry, iinnflteunednecdes tow hdiciffhnCseathhoalviec been completely frustrated by a system o whereby the exclusive pampering er fonef partiality, lclass and the virulent proscription of another viaed their previous animosities, instead oafggraextinguishing or abating them. Accordingly, during the last six years, the social condition of the Irish people, as regards the friendly reciprocities of life, has been incomparably worse than at any former period of their history. The good agreement which previously subsisted between landlord and tenant has been superseded by jP ilousies, defiences, ejectments, mutilations, and murders. All the harmonious feeling between `the Protestant rector and the Catholic priest, which formerly wrought so beneficially fur the temporal comfort of the population, has been violently broken up. The inerchange of mutual benefits in matters of business has been supplanted by the odious system of exclusive deal. • tog In large towns, and even in peaceful villages, the . amicable intercourse long prevalent among many Protestants and Roman Catholics has given place to cell estrangements, and more frequently to the repulsive scowl. Now, that such a state of things, so utterly subversive of all the interests and enjoyments of human society, could not possibly continue, without sooner or to every relater bringing a re-action, must be evident of fleeting person. Social happiness, and the means of mankind. attaining it, constitute the universal pursuit • Political theories, as subservient to that end, isaay, for a length of time, be ardently struggled for ; nay, in the hope of eventually realizing it, temporary inconveniences may be cheerfully encountered and serious sacrifices may be made. But, after a long period of disappointed expectation, when it is found that all the disadvantages