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general improvement of that part of the United Kingdom."
The naivete of this concluding tribute to the practicel merits
of the Ministerial policy produced a good deal of Lau :eh-ter.
The Houseseemed to feel that the resolutioe, if not very se.
curate in matter-of-fact, had, at any rate, something vcry
sprightly in its turn of language ; and so, for the moment, the
subject passed elf. But it happens that the lath is aMonday ;
and on Mondays Orders of the Day have precedence of
Motions. Sir Robert Peel, therefore (after the interven-
tion of two or three matters of routine), requested Lord
John to inform the House whether it were intended to pro_
pose this resolution as a substantive motion, or es an amend-
ment cn the Orders of the Day--( a very material qt.:s-
tiers ; for, as the rules of proce-ding forbid an emeedrnent
upon an ernenement, it would have been iteptaetieeble,
hid the resolution been proposed as an amendment on
Order of the flay, to move anything ease as an anteineet
upon the resolution). Lord John replied, that on Friday
he should move the postponement of such Orders of thc•
Day as mig.et be standing for Monday, atel should re- -
quest those Members who had notices of motion for Mell-
ott), to postpone them, so as to eneble him to propose tl-e
announced resolution as a substantive motion. What bedy
or section of the House of Commons is it that this result.
tion is supposed to suit, beyond the cirele.of the regular
Aliaisterial partisans ? " Expedient to persevere ?"
Whose perseverance is It to be ? That of the present
Ministers, to be sure. The vote is asked for, specifically.
to keep them in office. But that is just the thins in the
whole world which an, -English Radice! will tell you he
ide-
precates the most. Applauding the principles intended to
be :A mod, he wholly condemns the -persons intended to
he benefited ; and he is bound, therefore, to resist a form
of words which goes to quarter those persons upon those
principles. Persevere in those principles which haVe
guided the Executive Government. 131... t for that word'
_Executive, ei en Mr. O'Connell must have voted- against,
the resolution. He has thundered out all the
themes of the Irish Vatican against the Ptediuntehiely
conduct of the Ministers—has built tins Prete:lee-
Society upon the verb' basis of their general to•
thiness ; but their Executive Government,
from its executing neitlntr business nor crime, hiss a
merit in his eyes, and he will vote fer the res,
" Which have tended to the effectual administrafi
law." When a sportsman hunts vermin, he all:,
chance of escape, whicLjs called giving, them law; cr d it
that is the sort of law you mean, tire Irish vermin has, e
certainly had a good e‘eal of it. But as to the law that
avenges crime—that fences the rights of property—that
protects the life of ft-An—such law our fellow-subjects in
Ireland have in vran desired, demanded, implored. Is it
not enough, then, that they have seen the priests, the a.sso-
ciators, and the Government, leagued in one great con-
spiracy- against the Church and the Protestant pecple
—the priesthood issuing its ban, the association its
bludgeonmen, and the Government its pardons—bet
that the Ministers must now embitter injury by aff, out,
and swagger upon the misprisions they hove committed ?
Is it possible that party spirit will carry men, nut
directly and inextricably committed with the Govern_.
ment, to assert such hardy, palpable untruths, as. those
which figure in this impudent resolution ? Ii it please tire
Radical to say, that Ire regards certain extreme principles
as the mast likely to strengthen the law and improve the
land, it is impossible for us, however we ma) dissent free',
that belief, to find fault with him for sinceiely exprescieg
it. But if, at the dictate of the Ministry.---a Ministry, toe,
whom he professes to despise—he consent to assert not only
that those principles may produce such effects in 'related,
but that such effects have already been produced there_
that the country has been generally improved, and, above
all, that the law has been effectually administered, we can
only say that the conscience of that man is as elastic as the
assurance of the Government is astounding; and that the
flume party have at length effectually succeeded in their
great desideratum of merging the ancient distinctien be-
tween black and white.— Times.

The House of Commons met yesterday; the Lords did
not meet, their adjournment being till Thursday: Lord
John Re,ssell put the House in possession of the resolution
which it is his intention to move on ,Monday, next, the 15th
(not the I lth, the day he originally named, his Lordship
haviag afterwards substituted the other). " With respect,
sir," said the Noble Lord, " to the notice which I have
giron for Monday next, I beg now to 4tate that on that day
it is my intention to bring forward the tollowitig reso-
le.tion:—' That it is the opinion of this House that it is
expedient to persevere in those principles which have
unided the Executive Government in Ireland of late
years, and which have produced the effectual adrni-
nistration of the laws, and the general improvement
of that part of the United Kingdom.'" In an.scr,er to a
question from Sir Robert Peel, wheiher he intended to
bring forward his resolution as a substantive motion or as
an amendment to an order of the day, his Lordship stat:'d
that on Friday next he should pbtpone all the Govern-
ment orders that stood for Monday, so that the resolution
of which he had given notice would stand first in the list
of motions. So much for the course which h to
adopted by Ministers. In the meet titne the peel-4(
Ireland are not idle. It 'will be seen from the
6f our correspondent that a great national ti
is to take place in Dublin on Thursday next., th
instant, at the Theatre Royal, HaAki
prepare an address to her Most G

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petition to Parliament exprerslve of heir ueolaated cooti-
dence in the present Administration, and their approval of
the general policy pursued by it towards Ireland: The re-
quisition is signed by a number of Peers, Dernty,Li
waits, and Justices of the Peace ; and we arc assured- by
these v.ito possess the requisite local knowledge, that Elie.
names of the most influential inbi.hitants'of Deblin Are to
be found attached to it. The truth is- that the crisis is
one of life or death to the people of L-eland. All Who a,e
in'iCrElStCd in the peace and tranquillity of that Zieutitry
e.re horror-struck at the hare idea of NH,
of an Orange fur a national system of Government.
The Tories could only govern Ireland by the aid of
men inflamed with the most raecorous hatred towa,ds
Lord Nov manby, merely because he evinced a determina-
tion to oxecute the powers intrusted to him with imeartia-
r 0.-
lily. 'The Tories would not have chosen Ireland as
Cie
ground en which to begin their warfare aoaiest
had they rot been determined to gratify thei
brethren with the abandonment to their tender niz'reicas',.reef
the great body of the people. The principle of an Orene,e
Government is ascendancy—that is to say, the enabling'
miserable faction to trample on the great body of tb,
people. The memory of Orange dorninAtion •is ton fresh
in Ireland to allow the people to remain passive at such a
crisis ; and the Irish are too acute not to understatO the
full force of an attempt to seize the reins of power by a
vote, which a determination to deliver them over, hound
hand and foot, to their enemies, could alone inspire.._
Morning Chronicle.
Her Majesty's Ministers have at last agreed, or seemml
to agree, upon the terms of the motion which they are to
submit to the House of Commons, with a view to keep
themselves in place, in defiance of a vote cf the FloUSe of
Lords, which they think fit to regard as a vote of censure
and distrust. It will at once be seen that, if the vote of
the House of Lords be one of censure and distrust, the
vote which Ministers intend to solicit of the House of
Commons is one of very qualified approbation and confi-
dence. The Hou eof Lords have determined to-inquire
into the state of Ireland, in respect to crime, under the
Mulgrave Government; and Ministers, naturally enough,
considering the general character of their Administration,
not in Ireland only, but in Great 131.oiin, regard the deter-
mination to inquire as stt ic:ly equivalent to a vote of eon-
damnation. What the House of Commons is to be called
upon to vote is—" That it is tie opinion cf this House,
that it is expedient to persevere in those principles which
have guided the Executive Govet:ment of Ireland of late
years, and which have produced the effectual administra-
tion of' the law, and the general improvement of that part
of the United Kingdom." The House of Lords and the
House of Commons being obviously, and indeed avowedly,
regarded by Ministers, the former in the light of enemies,
and the latter in that of friends, it might have been ex-
pected that, since the former had determined to investi-
gate a certain department of Ministerial conduct, the latter
would have been invited to institute a similar investiga-
time, as an effectual protection to Ministers from an incul-
patory and unjust decision. This course, howeter, has
not been thought expedient. To neutralise the in-
quiry of the Lords, the Commons are called upon to
pronounce an opinion of the effect of Ministerial policy
in Ireland without any inquiry. The Commons are to de•
Clare that the administration of the law in Ireland has been
eirwctual of late years, and there has been a general im-
provement of that part of the United Kingdom. And this
they arc to declare without inquiry, notwithstanding the
countless murders in Ireland which remain at this moment
unpunished. A vote of the Commons tnthis effect, if it
can be obtained, is to be taken by Ministers as an exprrrs
pression of the approbaton of that assembly of their Irish
policy. Who can be so stupid as not to.sleienitilsifetrsi
are La
be the severest censure ? The friends VI,
is
Otis? The
express approbation without inquiry', V
answer is prompt and clear. The tltends of Ministers must it ,nuld be im-
'n favour of Ministers at
possible even for them to pronounce
pronounce in their favour without inquito, o
to be tolerated
is too transparent and too audaciousAs
to redeeming the
all. We feel confident, however, the whole affair
by the House of Commons.
motion, if suc-
ks
ccelisasrfaucit,ecir.ooufl
could
Ministers, the tendencyitsheley
the H f
reverse.t lic
o use of Com-
to keeping
Ministers in place, if a majority o
mons, which we doubt, deem that a paramount object, thee
Russell'; mutton could contribute
era arc many other
success of Lord John
nothing towards it, inasmuch
questions now pending upon w•bich the House of Lords
whenever it thinks fit may eject Ministers from the places
they hold so dearly.
W thole,hat' e
bn, not to redeem ' is the object of' Lord
tho I
John Russell's 'notion, if it '
character or rescue the official existence of Minister
We believe that the object of Lordi Russell's.
House of eumi nuns to
motion is to commit as largo aau nl.'er possible
the Members of the present
future Adnainistration
determined hostility against Ireland
upon the
Kears
not governing, or misgoverning
Nornmoby principles. Lord
less. thanntheold trick of the
in a new form, and under
'"John Russell's int,tion
to
The party watchword then -wos,
aupspit.(o)ptltijeoiltllicelraur,erteivorived
robbery." The party watchword
new
%Syucccieressu circumstances. a necheus.rch
now, less loudly pronounced but equally intelligible, is,
urarr ,sacrilege, to murder, " Impunity and enco o and
' All who vote for t lege are the proclaimed and
rapine.'
determined enemies of any Government that can be formed
on the retirement of the present. Should a miijurity of
the House of Commons vote for them it would becotym a
hopeless attempt on the part of any Administration that
may succeed the present to conduct the Ltfairs of the Sate
without an appeal to the country, an appeal which must.
produce much inconveoience, aid of which the necessity,
but kr some such insane and disqualifying vote, would •.!o!
be appercnt. We scarcely think that Lord John Ruiiieit,
cunning little man as lie is, will be able to entrap a tra