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THE GOVERNMENT AND THE ROUSE.

IT APPEARS only too easy to find in the ante
oodenta of all parties and all the chiefs of parties
in the present House of Commons, apologists for
a purely negative and expectant policy towards
Ireland. Without disrespect to his brilliant re-
sources as a parliamentary debater and his proved
capacities as a vigorous administrator, Mr. LOWE'S
political philosophy may be pronounced empirical,
neccsaarian, perhaps manichean. It is not that
lie believes altogether iu the existing state of
things, or that he admires it ; but he ac-
cepts it as a matter of fact and defends it
with all the arguments that belong to the
representative of a conquering and ruling race.
Nor, indeed, does he accept it wholly.
His consdence and comm'iu sense revolt at such
an anomaly as the Irish Church establishment, and
his enlightened antipathy to sectarian domination
rejects the timorous abandonment of a nation's
intellect to the darkening discipline of a clerical
monopoly. Obviously Mr. LOWE aad his
applauders are not destined to be the
regenerators of Ireland, any more than her
Maniarv's present advisers, who propose to
" sit, " in more than one sense, upon
the land question, to consecrate the principle
of sectarian instruction by a bribe to the POPE,
and to leave the Irish establishment intact until a
Commission shall have suggested that remedy
for the prevailing dissatisfaction which the actual
Leader of the Opposition, speaking in 1865, as
Cnaweatioa of the EXVHEQCER, confessed himself
unable to prescribe.
Unless Mr. GLADSTONE is prepared this evening
to announce that he has found the " remedy"
which he demanded in vain three years ago, the
conviction will certainly be borne in upon
the mind of the people on both sides of St.
George's Channel that out of this condemned
Parliament no Irish policy can come, unless it be
a policy to hang up every question, to dally with
every difficulty, and to fling pellets of " Han
" sard" from one side to the other, in order
to show to the world out of doors that the
leaders of the Opposition cease to have
an Irish policy when they suoceed to the respon-
sibilities of power, and that the House is divided
and subdivided against itself on the Land, the
Church, and the Education question. Mr. ()LAD-
S rONR, who was directly challenged by the Hosts
he 'RETARY last night, may reply as Sir
RNIERT PEEL did on a similar occasion, " Call
"me in before you ask me to prescribe."
But this a.' .11,11'1011M argument, perfectly justi-
fiable, no doubt, in a parliamentary sense,
would only strengthen the Fabian tactics of the
PREMIER. There is no majority, howsoever com-
posed, that can be led to victory against the
existing Government on the Irish question by men
without any distinct, definite, or decisive policy of
their own to propose, and to propose without
delay, as responsible advisers of the Crown.
Taking this for granted, then, and the dream of
a "Liberal—a truly Liberal " Irish policy at
the hands of our Tory Government having
gone the way of all such baseless fabrics, let us
look in some other direction for the course of
action which is to entitle the statesmen now in
office to the confidence of the constituencies. Of the
confidence of the House that now is, they are,
perhaps, not so solicitous as some impatient
candidates for promotion may suppose. The
Howe Ssearraar, in the very act of abutting
the door in the face of Irish Church Aboli-
tionists has opened a much wider one for the
inexorable political logicians of the future, by
assimilating the case of the Church Establishment
in Ireland to that of the Church Establishment in
England, and insisting on one rule of religious
equality for both countries. Nor yet is he too re-
luctant "to give up some of his predi-
" tedious in case of necessity." The history of
last year'sßeforin legislation might have saved him
the trouble of giving himself this conditionaltre-
lease from inconvenient pledges. There is a ques-
tion, however, of urgent importance, upon which
it is to be hoped that without sacrificing any fond
personal predilections Mr. HARDY may be disposed
to co-operate heartily with his Chief in the
" education" of his party. And this great question
is the education of the people. In his interview
with the Manchester Education Aid Society, the
other day, the PRIME MINISTER assured Mr. BRucg
and Mr. Young that he agreed with them sub.
stantially in all their general principles, and
that there was scarcely a point of difference
between them and himself. The bill to be pro-
duced within ten days by the government was
already complete, but Mr. Donlan.' certainly
encouraged the supposition that in preparing it the
views and propositions of the Manchester Educa-
tion Aid Society had been anxiously consi-
dered and consulted. According to :the inter-