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London, England, 1852-03-23 00:00:00

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lever night Lord JoIIN IttisNKt.t. formally enquired
shot were the intentions of the tory ministry with
sigma to 'lineation in Ireland, and from the reply
`jsrn In Mr. Wai rota. we learn distinctly that the
F"'ut govvrnment du intend to interfere with the
rtw•atsys•ens of inetruction in that country.
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Lord latuna t 4 propo,al to appoint a committee to
bone' • into the working of the national system of
alarition in Wand, is a striking exhibition of the
sistyn'titutional position of the new gosernment.and
ike enormous evils which every day of its pro-
lontsd esistency may produce. Here is a great in-
'Mutton. established with much pain and difficulty,
and which. against much obloquy and bitter opposi-
tion. has hen steudily gaining ground and acquiring
iernused power of doing good- -here we aee it bud-
do.le arrisalk the confidence and assaults of its
armies revived: the emcees won by long and
rake: labour in danger of being lost nny, the very
ries::en rit Loll go on or not as completely
elas on the day of its tirst creation.
%lot his happened to the Irish educational in,
Minnie,' !WV (gull% total a score of others. The
principles and maclinn roof theCommitter of Council
ler Education, the op. ration of the poor laws, the
wee,ing of the evy'.,--;ostieni commirmoo, may in a
fen weeks receive blows which it may require years
to get over—which in many ruses may never be got
over at all. The progress of the nation may be
headed. .topptil, or di-erted in every department :
what vas becoming -:oble, may be set afloat ; what
was commanding at.pinacence, and even favour, may
he brought into esndliet ; uncertainty, confusion,
strife. may be excited rservwh, re.
Than, again. incohnlobie mischief may easily be
wrought in the quit and tone of the administration
rui.:ie affairs. Tory bishops
.and tory judges may
be appointed. who.e pemiciou, influence may be felt
for seam: obstructions may be introduced into the
public service which a subnequent liberal govern-
ment may lied it impossible to get rid of; the vast
patronage of the crown may be wielded to thwart the
astkual will, and the advance of the country re-
tarded for a long p. riod.
'haply as we should deplore a tory policy, and
otompronthing as would be our resistance to it, we
should nee, rtlicless hose little right to complain if all
this were done in conformity with the will and mind
of the country, as expressea by parliament. But it
i, in the highest degree unconstitutional and into-
krable that all this disastrous mischief should he
done against the will of parliament, and against the
dairy of the people. Lord DERBY nonionic§ that his
pint arc in a nutiority in the House of Commons,
smile avow a his resolution to appeal from that house
1,, the p. ople who eketed them. But Lord DERBY
choins to ignore the admission which be here makes,
that it is the duty of the present parliament to re-
quire that this appeal should be made with all prac-
ticable speed. Lord Deuity's administration of
pnlide affitirs rests on no right. Ile refuses to
a:cept the policy of the present house : on what
ground does he Justify his exercise of power ? Ile
inteLds to ask the country whether it will have him
for its Fehr. This he is entitled to do: no one in-
teeter. s with hi, appeal. But why should England
be subjected to a tore policy—why should tones be
faired to do tory work, to make tory appointments,
to injure a system of national education in Ireland,
to do irretrievable harm to the liberal cause, for a
tingle day longer than the time ired for ascer-
taining whether England wishes too governed by
twit*?
The true constitutional doctrine is, and it is not
denied by Lord 1):-.1:BY, that government must rest on
the authority of parliament; and if the present par-
liament does not authorise the tory government, it
has no foundation of right till it has received a sanc-
tion tram a new one. We will not anticipate the
verdict that will be pronounced by the elections. It
is not delisted that the majority of the new house may
be liberal. If so, car. anything be more preposter-
ously aloutil.more unjustifiably mischievous than that
the whole domestic and foreign administration of this
neat cumin. shouldhe controlled loran indefinite period
by one whose principles and opinions the nation may
very decidedly disapprove? NVould not every friend
of liberal principles who lamented the harm which
might have been inflicted, have good reason for re-
pro:aides; the present House of Commons for not
having insisted that if it was held nut to represent
the opinion of the people, that opinion should be
attuned without a single day's delay ?
But, Lays Lewd Deana, we will take our policy
from the people. This is dust intended to blind
pork's eyes. Does Lord Denim pretend that his
administration will be guided by no policy in the
interval? Will it be neutral, destitute of all political
tulour' In his veneration for the people's will, and
his anxiety to be impartial, will he nominate a tor):
bito-day, and a liberal one to morrow ? Will
he balance a conservative lord-lieutenant by a radi-
cal! the imposition attempted to be practised upon
as is glaring. Lord Leant could not be neutrsl if he
wished it. But he is far from wishing it. His object
is plainly to entrench himself in his new position ; to
onsolidite his power by the skilful employment
of the vast means at his command ; and to
employ the national resources to promote the
triumph of his party at the dissolution. On what
plea can he claim such a pris tier)? No man has a
right to he minister without the sanction of the
Ilutoe of Commons: no man can legitimately use the
?nears and authority of government without it.
Why should the present parliament, which thinks
his policy detrimental to the best interests of the
country, suffer him to convert what belongs to the
satin.) into an instrument fcr defeating the country's
welfare?

Lord Denny taunted Lord JottN Itt'SSZLL with
haying pronounced a dissolution to be inexpedient,
and then with driving him into it with the utmost
argent y. This again is pure clap-trap. The twoesses
art nut parallel. Lord Joum's principles arc liberal
and conformable to a great extent with thew of the
House of Commons. The question between him and
the house eess one of men. Lord JOHN assumed
that the present parliament correctly represented the
sentiments of the nation. Lard Mawr, on the con-
trary, distinctly avows that his government is not
sanctioned by the present home, and he seeks its
authorisation from a new one. A disaolution alone
ran gitc him the right to be minister. Lord JOHN
sq.u. resigned his power to the home which had
bestowed it : Lord Maus seeks his power from a
new one. lle is an usurper for every day that he
remains needlessly unauthorised.

There is a broader and greater question involved
in this matter than that of free-trade only. Lord
himself has raised this issue, and we accept
it. He has hoisted the tory banner: he has pro-
claimed resistance to reform : he summons bigotry
to uphold a monopoly of education : he announces
gioeniment in a new spirit and attired views. Let
the people he forthwith asked whether they wish
for such an administration. Why should they incur
its evils during an indefinite period, if they are averts
to such principle*? If they approve of the policy of
past years, why should they allow Lord Demur and
his colleagues, against their own wishes, to play all
manner of mischief with the public service ; to mar,
retard, and perhaps rain, many an institution—like
that fur national education in Ireland—now bearing
happy fruit, after perhaps years of angry and costly
controversy ?

THE NOITHA.IIIIONaIIIRE IRON Om—The newly
direovereil ironstone in this county is causing much remark
and eacitentent, especially among the landed proprieton.
It is •sid that it will enhance the valise of the load, when
Nis west abundant, to upwards of 1,000!. per sere. There
i• “ considerable difference in the quality of the ore, nag-
i^2' Irons 15 to WI p r cent. in the quantity it yields. The
lion. H. Arbuthnot has lately employed several men on his
"rate at Woodford to relied a quantity of the stone, which
has forwarded to the iron loumh ries as a specimen.
Nheuld the yield he found satisfactory, it i. probable that
the works will be immediately commenced, which will
albed considerable employment in this locality.—Leirestcr-
&tire .11,rcury.