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TifE IRISH

CHURCH QUESTION.

(From the .111oriany
.11 order the more thoroughly to expose the down-
rioli baseness which actuates thiS vile•-epostate, we
(rive Its leading article of yesterday, in juts-position
with extracts from its columns, when it advocated
" appropriation, " and deemed the retirement of the
Stanley section a subject of congratulation to the re-
maining Ministers.
• (Times, 'Dec. 23, 183 M , , • -
Reports come crowding on us that Lord Melbourne
begins to see that whiCh every one else in the commu-
nity beyond the misty verge of faction has for many
months been convinced. of—=namely, that with•his pre-
Sent associates, and under the cinharras4ments in which,
at their dictation, he has involved himself, it is impos-
sible for the Noble Viscount to go on,- as nominal head
of thosc.of his brofher.galley-slaves, ridiculously called
" the Government." Lord Melbourne,' as it has been
rumoured for this day or two, flatters himself that he
will recover Lord Stanley 'and•the..Duke of Richmond
to his Ministry ; and 'in hopes of being able to realize a
prospect so exhilirating, the Noble Viscount *has, ac-
cording to the pedantic phraseology of Office, put
himself in coy munication," more than once, with
the former of 'the above noblemen. He is now
on a visit to the latter. If there is in such
" communications" any thing more than a: mere
renewal of private intercourse—if Lord Mel-
bourne has been seeking an accession of strength
from such a wholesome quarter, irrefragable proof
will be at once afforded, that the base and pesti-
lential alliance with O'Connell is dissolved ; that Lord
Melbourne is at length recalled to a sense of what he
owes to the British monarchy—of the solemn debt, in
the nature of reparation which he owes to the reformed
church in which he was educated—of his repeated
pledges as a British Peer, and as the adviser of his
Sovereign, to maintain inviolate the union with Ire-
land, the civil rights and vested properties, and valua-
ble lives of his Protestant fellow-subjects in that coun-
try, attached as they are, heart and soul, to Great
Britain, and beset by millions of barbarous persecu-
tors of their religious creed, and their political and so-
cial existence. We certainly shall not withhold the
due praise from Lord Melbourne and his colleagues,
when it shall be proved to us that they really desire
a re-union with Lord Stanley and the Duke of Rich-
mond, on the only terms on which it would be any-
thing but immodest madness in the present Cabinet
to solicit such a junction, or .on which it would be
morally possible for Lord Stanley and the Noble
Duke to accede to it—viz., a total, peremptory, and
final breach with O'Connell and the Romish re-
volutionists of Ireland, including a frank and abso-
lute surrender of that disastrous clause in the Irish
Tithe Bill, or rather forcibly patched upon the measure,
which with its appendages have mainly caused the ra-
pid growth of Popish insolence and outrage in Ireland,
and such terrible bitternesses of feeling, bad blood,
and confusion here. We repeat it emphatically, that
an approximation of Lord Melbourne towards Lord
Stanley and his friends, is war with O'Connell, and
the scabbard flung away. It is a direct sacrifice of
the appropriation, or spoliation, policy, on the very
suggestion of which, in a far more mitigated form
under Lord Grey's Government, Lord Stanley, the
Duke of Richmond, Sir James Graham, &c., resigned.
As for the vile suspicion of any possibility exist-
ing that Lord Stanley and his friends, who gave
up office because of their disgust at the principles
of alienating church property, and their terror at the
prospect of seeing such a principle embodied in a bill,
' and forced upon the nation—that they would now suf-
fer themselVes to be bribed by a resumption of the
same office, to vote for the principle and measure which
they before repudiated, and to destroy those mighty
interests for which they then devoted themselves, and
made a burnt offering of power,—such an enormity is
not worth the shadow of a thought. No—if Lord
Stanley join the Ministers, he joins them like a man
of honour and a patriot—to save our institutions, not
to subvert them. But the rumour must be altogether
unfounded. The " communication to Lord Stanley
and the Duke of Richmond" is merely a " ruse," to
hive the hope of an accession of strength to the waver-
mg ranks of the Ministerialists, who, instructed by late
events, begin to look about for loopholes of escape.
Lord Melbourne dares not quarrel with O'Connell ;
still less does he dare to propose to Lord Stanley a
political junction, while the spoliation bill and the re-
solution which was its foundati3n are daily proclaime
as the rallying sign of his Cabinet and its principa
.supporters.

From the Times, May 26th, 1834. )
It is generally believed in the best informed circles,
..at the difference of opinion entertained in the Cabi-
et on the question of appropriation, must lead to some
.annediate change in the Ministry. We have not been
able to learn how the Cabinet are divided, but it seems
doubtful whether there are more than two who are
opposed to the appropriation. , One of them, unfor-
tunately, is the most distinguished orator of the Go-
vernment side, who, both in the cause of liberty at
home and in our colonies, has shown the greatest abi-,
lity. The other an useful adnzinistrateur. How
they could have come to these conclusions is extraor-
dinary. Rumours are afloat, which we cannot-cre-
dit, that the example of these seceders will be followed
by others, and the Government • will retire en masse.
This is not credible. The vacant places, if filled up,
must necessarily be occupied by men of principles at
least as liberal as those who remain. The present
Administration certainly has not been too liberal.
Any auxiliaries from the Tory camp would make
it less liberal, and entirely deprive it of the
confidence of the country. Coalition A dministra-
tions have always been unfortunate : they want the
unity of purpose indispensable to vigorous measures.
Even the talents of Fox and North availed nothing.
The King, we hare no doubt, notwithstanding the ru-
mours to the contrary, entertains the same salutary hor-
ror of those conspiracies of party by which not only
the dignity of the Crown, but the welfare of the peo-
ple are sacrificed to personal ambition and selfish in-
terests.

( Times, May 27, 1834. )
This world has seen with amazement, that in the
framing of the Irish Tithe Bill there are clauses
pledging the Legislature to perpetuate the vicious ap-
propriation of the Irish Church revenues, as it now
exists—au arrangement known to be condemned by the
majority of the Cabinet, and forming part and parcel
of the Bill, from no conceivable motive but a weak
and most reprehensible submission of the many, in-
cluding rank, age, and wisdom, to the few, of the most
conspicuous of whom no more can be said than that
he is a prompt, spirited, and successful debater—we
are bound to add, likewise, a man of unquestioned
honour. Now, on a Cabinet so composed—on a Ca-
binet numerically Liberal, but worldly and effectu-
ally, in relation to this vital question, Conservative of
a glaring abuse in the national policy, itvis not pas-
,sible that the people of the United Kingdom should
place the smallest reliance.

(Times, May 28, 1834. )
We arc happy to say that the result which we yes-
terday anticipated has actually occurred: We do not
mean that we rejoice that two estimable members of
the Cabinet have ceased to belong to it ; but we re-
joice that -the majority of the Cabinet have at last
assumed that firmness, the want of which has hitherto
disgraced them, and have, by a persevering adherence
to a just principle, brought a question of. transcendant
importance to an immediate issue. As soon as this
determination was peremptorily arranged, the two dis-
sentients, Mr. Stanley and Sir, James Graham, ex-
pressed their fixed determination. to resign their offices.
But there was still a possibility. of impeding this ap-
parently easy result. The King might have hesitated
to accept these resignations, and by that hesitation
might have embarrassed the proceedings of the remain-
....

PRICE 7v.

ing members of the Cabinet, and.have produced almost
inceraricahle difficulties, by exciting the. alarms of the
Liberal party,. or -the hopes of their enemies. The
King has, we have reason to believe, acted on this oc-
casion .as he, has on all the critical emergencies which
have occurred since his accession to the throne.
Straightforward.in manner and-patriotic in design, he
at once„without,vexatious circumlocution or inexpe-
dient delay, consented to adopt the course which his
conviction pointed out as most useful to the country.
He, however reludtant to part with two Ministers
whose. talents and- character have won the Royal re-
gard, consented to accept their resignations.
(Times, May 29, 1834.).
It is by no means -a ground for dissatisfaction that
two more resignations of Cabinet Ministers—namely,
the Duke of Richmond and -Lord RiponL—haVe fol-
lowed those of Mr. Stanley and'Sir': J. Graham, and
. have been accepted by his Majesty .; nor would it be
matter of surprise .or regret, if one, two, or three
others should be added to the list, although we are not
aware that, such an event is to be regarded as More
than a possibility. Doubts are said to be entertained
respecting the intentions of lords Melbourne and
Lansdowne, the former of which noblemen has, it is
everywhere allowed, gained reputation since "he came
into office. as -Home Secretary, while .the latter has
either surviVed:or exposed the fallacy of that which
was once ascribed to him.- If the above Lords and
gentlemen have been unable to comprehend the neces-
sity of that adjustment of Church revenues which., of
all others that have ever been proposed, must appear to
most.men of common sense the most desirable, and,
indeed, the most inevitable, ,of course the best step
they could take for the public was to descend from a
position where they had remained to no other purpose
than the obstruction of the national business, and the
embarrassment and punishment of their colleagues.