25 FEBRUARY 1837, Page 14

TIIE IRISH "ALIENS" AND THE "STUNTED CORPORAL."

IT may be surmised that Lord LYNDHURST'S sensations are not of the most soothing or agreeable kind just at present. He has reunited and rallied the scattered divisions of the Tory party. Orangemen and Tories now move under his banner to battle—. perhaps to victory. Nobody denies that to him belongs the credit of the new tactics, which have hitherto proved successful. But

Doe, jest when the pair y is on the Ihreshold of the Treasury, , and quarter-day, in near expectancy, makes the bosom of Mr. • CHARLES R049 tingle with delight—when PEEL hopes once more

to resume that official existence which suits his " red-tape" .soul, and the mighty Duke is ready to clutch the dictatorship of a new Administration—what is the position of LYNDHURST? He finds that hr him there will be small chance of pelf or power. Gladly would Pinta, and probably even WELLINGTON, shake him off The " aliens," whom be denounced, have set the mark of political destruction upon him; and the people of England and Scotland 1,ae ihat it is well done. Painfully sensible of this rruth must I.Vsnin yaw have been on Wednesday night, when Mr. SHEIL, smid-t -uch cheers as were never heard before in the House of Com items, branded him as the calumniator and foe of the " seven The Minister who in future shall associate himself web Lid LYNDHURST, will proclaim hostility to the Irish nation. To admit him into the CALM, will be a declaration of war against Irela wl. The powerful effect of Mr. SHEIL'S attack on the Tory Ex- Chencellor, was in no degree broken by the stupid excuse which Sir Roem PEEL attempted for his friend and coadjutor—in Oppo- siG.n. PEEL pretended that LYNDHURST had merely used the nerd " alien" in the beat and irritation of debate—it was an un- gum dell expression. But he knew, and LYNDHURST who heard him Mt conscious, that this was false. LYNDHURST never speaks tweet,' dedly. He is never heated. He is cool, resolute, and cautious; knowing the full meaning of what he says, and calcu-

!Oleg its effect. He sometimes miscalculates, but not in conse- quence of beat or passion. He denounced the Irish as aliens in blood, Innguage, and religion, because his purpose was to excite the animosity of the allege Tory Peers, to stir up the Ascendancy fiction, and revive the hope that the day was approaching when they might again lord it over the Irish savages, as in the olden time. He sat in the House of Peers as a legislator and a judge. The Irish millions, one-thild in number of his Majesty's European subjects, demanded justice at his hands. Begone, he cried, I sputn ou ; you are aliens in language, aliens in religion, aliens in blond. He deliberately put beyond the pale of the British con- stitution—out of the protection of British law—seven millions of our Irish fellow countrymen; and the Tories have not disavowed him as their leader and counsellor.

Such is the case of the People against LYNDHURST—not only the people of Ireland, but of England and Scotland also; for they make common cause with the insulted Irish. And how was it met by Sir ROBERT PEEL? Why, said Sul face, Mr. O'CONNELL called the Duke of WELLINGTON a stunted anporal f—there, you have had your revenge, you wild Irishmen—now bequiet. And Sir Roliercr 1)s:el.:lance of Oxford now of Glasgow University, stupidly imagined that this was a retort !—that a term of abuse, merely absurd, and applied by one individual to another indivi- dual, was a set-off against the grave denunciation of a whole people by a Peer of Parliament ! On one side, we have the Tory candidate for the high -office of _Lord Chancellor, a Peer, and the chosen leader of the majority in the Upper House of Parliament, in a solemn speech on the policy of governing Ireland, branding the lush people as " aliens;" and on the other, we have Mr. 011oNNELL, who is famed for recklessness of tongue, throwing out at random, on some obscure Irish hustings, an ill-selected epithet against a political adversary. On the one hand, we see a whole nation inflamed and excited to a most dangerous de- gree; on the other—absolutely nothing—for we cannot suppose that even the Duke of WELLINGTON was personally annoyed at being called a " stunted corporal." But suppose he were, who cares ? what does it matter? No, Sir ROBERT PEEL—you have not helped your noble " friend;" you have not washed the blitekamour white; he is not " purged of his contempt" of the Irish nation. You committed a ludicrous blunder when you put the " stunted corporal " against the " alien " speech. You sub- mitted to the degradation of stating what all knew to! be untrue, when you said that the one expression was as trivial and as hasty as the other. If it had been a hasty expression, the case of the Ex-Chaneellor would have been still a bad one. A precious minister, a righteous judge must he be, who vents such hasty expressions as those which LYNDHURST will rue to the last day of his political existence ! Du what ou will with him—wheedle for him, bully for him, lie fur him—it matters not : there he is— your Chancellor, or your enemy. You dare not make him the first, and y.ou dread the very idea of the last. Yet it would be a pity to separate two statesmen of such congenial dispositions and °pinkies ! There is only this difference between you— LYND- HURST is the less dishonest of the two.