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LONDON, SATURaIY, 11dY 2, 1868.

The question now uppermost in all men's minds
is, " What will,the Ministry do ?" But there is an-
other equally important and perhaps more difficult
of solution, which is, " What will the Opposition
do ?" It is evident that Mr. GLADSTONE has made
up his mind to do something remarkable this ses-
sion, but what that may be ie as yet undetermined.
It is by no means so necessary for the Ministry to
resign, as some seem to consider it is, to suit their
own wishes, for they have every right to remain in
office until the sentiments of the country at large
have been ascertained through the medium of a gene-
ral election. There is nothing to prevent Mr.
DISRAELI from putting off the dissolution until
January next, provided the Opposition are willing
to behave in a constitutional manner. We should
hope that Mr. GLADSTONE will have too much re-
spect for his own reputation to comport himself in
the manner some have foreshadowed. He must kno
that in all probability he will have many chances
of coming into office hereafter, and need not settle
the point now or leave it as hopeless for ever. Sir C.
O'LOGHLIN, it is true, informed the house the other
evening, that it was the intention of some of the
Opposition to push the contest a routrance, and to
move a vote of want of confidence in tne Ministry, if
they should not resign on the question of the Irish
Church. This may be nothing but bounce, but
even if it meant more, it is to be hoped that Mr.
GLADSTONE'S own sense of the fitness of things,
and the advice and representations of his wiser
friends and followers, may induce him to put off
the evil determination referred to, and follow in a
truer, nobler, and more statesmanlike policy. It
surely requires little time and thought to show the
extreme impropriety of proceeding to the extremity
hinted at. In the first place, it would show most
effectively that the real object in view has been to
get the Liberals into office, and not to amend the
irregularities in the Irish Church. It would be an
exhibition of factious manaaavring, and of party
spirit triumphing over statesmanlike feelings and
public interests, alike sad and contemptible to wit-
ness. So much would it detract from the credit of
those who would resort to so paltry a device that
they would be in reality the losers in the game if
they succeeded to all intents and purposes.
If anything were needed to render the protest
against such a scheme more strong it would be the
question of the Reform Bill, and that alone is an
unanswerable argument against Mr. GLADSTONE'S
factious proposition and vexatious policy.
Why should he meddle in this uncalled-
for fashion, and dictate terms in this
arbitrary style, when so much remains to be
done in so short a time, arid when so little time is
left for it to be done in. He is acting in an unfair
spirit altogether,_and we wonder what Mr. BRIGIIT
and his school of politicians would say if the Con-
servatives had so far forgotten themselves as to bid