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LONDON, THURSDAT, MAY 30.

non affecting to apprehend a violation of the
dignity of the House of Lord', the Tory party has
come to menace the House of Commons with a
real degradation. All the efforts of the Opposi-
tion are directed to induce the House to change
its resolutions on the Budget, in disregard of con-
siderations which have influenced its deliberate
judgment. And how is this to be effected t Not
by bringing new facts to light or in reimposing
old arguments. No reliance whatever is placed on
such means of influence. But a flagitious appeal
is made to a section of the House. The Irish
Members are invited to oppose the Government
under an implicit promise that in return they
shall be helped to " loot the Treasury." Anything
more insulting than the appeal which was made
yesterday to those hon. gentlemen by a Conser-
vative contemporary we cannot imagine.
Ireland has been vary ill used by men who have
been permitted to trade upon ber claims. The
Galway Mail-packet subsidy has been shamefully
mismanaged, as might have been expected of an
arrangement which, from the first, took its phice '
among political jobs ; titter and inexcusable failure
has compelled the Government, after forbearance
unexampled and scarcely venial, to cancel the con-
tract with the Royal Atlantic Company. No-
body disputes the justice and necessity of
the resolution. Yet the Tories, instead
of supporting the Government in maintaining an
honest control over the money of the taxpayers, are
stirring up the Irish members to resent the with-
drawal of the subsidy as a national injury. Lord
Pittisrestros has said in Parliament that the Go-
vernment is ready to listen to any reasons which
can be given for restoring the grant. But the
Irish members are audaciously told by the
principal organ of the Tory party that they
must not be satisfied with this reasonable as-
surance, but that public feeling is too strong in
Ireland for a single Irish member to record a
vote with safety in support of the present
Government, until, at least, " the subsidy has
" been unconditionally restored." No baser air'
peal was ever made to a set of public men. De-
grading
as it is to those to whom it is made, it is
infinitely more so to those who make it. We do
not envy the honourable members of the Conser-
vative party—the W LPOL Mt, H Inc LILY'S, and
IlesnicirrEs—ehose reputation is entangled in
these infamous tactics, which, for the honour of
Parliament, the Government is bound to find
means to defeat. We should be way W
see a piece of secondary administrative business
exalted into a critical question by the arts of fac•
tion, and we hope sincerely that the next general
election will take place on some issue of higher
importance than a mail-packet contract. But if
the Tories by a corrupt compact with any section
of the House compel Lord PArrsaerow to dissolve
Parliament, we shall look confidently for such a
vindication of public morality as will teach plotters
and oontrivers a wholesome lemon, and perhaps
shame the Tory managers into a little more
decency than they have of late thought it neces-
sary to put on.

Sts JOHN R•VPIDWI imitates Mr. HORNIIAN not
only in flinging virulent epithets at the men
who gale him office and brought him into note,
but likewise in the recklessness of his tone
in repudiating the principles of the party to
which he recently belonged. It is not enough
that he should vituperate the policy of the Govern-
ment as " petulant and mean," and stigmatize the
calculations of the ensson.um of the EXCHICQUIR
as worthy of no more reliance than the gambling
guesses of some nameless speculator on the Stock
Exchange. The foreign policy of the Liberal
. . . . . .

Administration is no doubt as hateful in
the sight of the resonant member for the
West Riding as that which they pursue in matters
of finance ; and the allies, whose confidence and
friendship it is of most importance to the people
of this country to preserve, ere made the especial
objects of Su• Raustunv's and Mr. Hoea-
rrAx's abuse. As France is the favourite aver-
sion of the sardonic mis-representative of Stroud,
so America and her institutions are selected as the
theme of the hon. baronet's affected scorn. He
cannot repress the exultation felt by many of the
clam to which ho is ambitions of being thought to
belong, at the unhappy differences which have
arisen between the Northern and Southern States.
A system of free government which for more
than seventy years has conferred the uninterrupted
blessings of peace and prosperity on one of the
greatest nations of the world, is looked
upon by the political coxcombs of what calls
how good society in this country as a huge
bubble, whose bursting may be taken for granted
at the first touch of internal discord, and whose
dispersion into elemental anarchy would be a fit
and seemly matter of rejoicing. Vehement cheers
from the :sltine., section of the House of Com-
mons greeted the unwise and unworthy fling of
the Huddersfield baronet at the people and insti-
tutions of America. With the ineptitude of inex-
pert sauciness, the Whig deserter, almost in the
same breath, professed to lament from personal
knowledge the commercial consequences already
perceptible from American troubles, and pretended
to find cause for aristocratic satisfaction in the
downfall of the Republican constitution of the
great commonwealth. It is no part of our duty,
ear has it ever been our wont, to extol American
institutions at the expense of our own. We are
equally averse to invidious comparisons made for
the purpose of copying what is inapplicable or of
depreciating in others what does not suit ourselves.
Political observations of this kind have always
seemed to us ineffably silly, narrow-minded, and
mischievous. To disparage our own laws because
they are not faahioned in the same mode as those