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our regret that he should have placed himself in '
such a false position with his countrymen, as to
find it absolutely necessary to his popularity to
keep up the delusion. As.respects his assertion
that the time has at length' arrived when there
must be some alteration in the mode of govern-
ing Ireland, " whether it be towards federal
institutions or unconditional repeal," we cordially
agree with him -that, Ministers must, without
loss of time,. devise some more effective plan for
tranquillising -late sister-country than they have
yet discovered, or else make way for those who
can. The limits ofendurance are passed, andshould
the next session be allowed to slip away without
some enlightened remedial measures being
brought forward, we shall begin to think that
there is more sense and justice in the fierce cla-
mour for Repeal, than we can at present admit to
be the case. Ireland has never been slow to fight
our constitutional battles with firmness and
alacrity; she was of infinite assistance to
us in our great struggle for Reform, and
in the minor Parliamentary conflicts that en-
sued; and it is base ingratitude, as well
as injurious policy, to exhibit indifference
to her welfare, the instant we imagine that we
have no further urgent need of her services. But
though we concur with Mr. O'CoNNELL that
some important changes must be made in the
present mode of administering the affairs of Ire-
land, we are by no means prepared to contend
that a" federal institution" must be one of these
changes. To our thinking, such an institution
would be nothing more than a Parliament de-
prived of its virility—a wretched, peddling,
chandler's-shop concern, which would be
constantly • at loggerheads with the Im-
perial Senate, teazing and wasting its
time with all sorts of petty applications and
annoyances—a Parliament without power, with-
out dignity, without moral or political influence
—a sort of Court of Common Council affair,
which would make a prodigious fuss about small
matters, and achieve nothing of moment ; —and
when this apology for a Legislature had been in
existence for some months, if it should endure
so long, so inefficient would it be found, that the
Irish themselves, with their quick appreciation
of the ridiculous, would be the first to laugh it to
scorn, and clamour for a Repeal of the Union
with more fierceness and determination of pur-
pose than ever. It is not, then, to " a federal
institution " that we look as one of the changes
necessary for the future welfare of Ireland, but
to a vigorous reform in the Protestant Church
system, and to such wholesome measures as may
rescue the poor helpless tenant from 'the state
of thraldom in which lie is too often kept by his
powerful and exacting landlord. We should not
omit to notice that at the Banquet to which we
have been alluding, the Chairman, in a sudden
transport of enthusiasm, excited by Mr. O'Com-
NELL'S energetic references to Repeal, warmly ex-
pressed his conviction that the " Liberator's mission
was from Heaven, and that he was an angel ex-
pressly sent down to regenerate his native land."
The Tories, we believe, together with not a few
of the Whigs, are of opinion that the " Liberator's
mission" is from another quarter; without, how-
ever, offering any opinion on this head, we may
perhaps be, permitted to observe that, to our
thinking, Mr. O'CONNELL has as little of an angelic
look about him, as any fat, middle-aged gentle-
man, in a wig, that ever lived. Even with the
utmost stretch of imagination, we cannot fancy
him doing duty as a Cherub with a pair of wings
at his shoulder-blades.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9,
Will be repeated a New Grand Opera, m I tree Acts, calledTHE
BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, sir. Boffin' ; Thaddeus,
Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Misa Itatnlorth; Queen of the Gipsies,
Miss Betts.
After which, will be rep,ated a New Grand Comic Christmas
Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING I'EPIN ; or_
VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum,
bine, Mis: Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr.
Blanchard.
Dress Boxes 74., Second Price 3s. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55.,
Second Price 35,; I'it , Second Price :28. ; Middle Gallery 211.,
ccond Price Is. ; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price (id.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.
PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING.
PART I.

Overture. Euryanthe—Wth 2r.
The Royal Irish Quadrille—Jullien.
Sonata for Violoncello and Double Bass, performed by Messrs. Han-
cock and Howell—Corelli.
Solo, Cornet-a-Piston, Herr Koenig (Air and Variations)—Kcenig.
Valle, La Value a Deux Tems—Jullien.
Surprise Symphony—Haydn.
Solo, Violin, Master Thirlwall.
The English QuadrilleJulUen.
PART 11.
or, with Solo for Cornet.a-Piston, by

Opera, Lucia di
Herr lc *nig— Donizettl.
Burletta cuadrille, entitled Dancing for the Million—Jullien.
Solo, Flute, Mr. Richardson—Richardson.
Valse, Elizabethan—Strauss.
The Real Scotch Quadrille—Aillien.
Doors Open at Half.past Seven, commence at Eight •'Clock
Promenade, is ? Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, ; Private
Boxes, U. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-dtfice of the
Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, uld Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New
'iond-street; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street ; and AL JUlliQll'S ()like
:;, Maddox-street, Bond-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKEL
ME. BENJAMIN WEBsT.Eit, LESSEE.
THIS EVENING, J ANUARY I,

Will be performed PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. Captain
Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews.
To oe followed by WHO'S YOUR FRIEND? or, The Queens-
berry Fcte. (ides Fairland, Mr. Charles Mathews; she Countess
of Rosedale, Madame Vestris.
After which, the Unparalleled Performances of Professor RISLEY
and his SON.
To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR
ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr.
1. Bland; Prince Gra,:eful, Miss P. Horton; Queen Lucidora,
lit!,s Julia Bennett.

It is not to be supposed, a priori, that a
Premier is. a conjuror ; and we have not yet
seen, in the powers or the administration of Sir
ROBERT PEEL, anything which should subject,
him, by implication or construction, to the
charge of having graduated in the black art.
But we stand aghast at the fond expectations
which both friends and foes profess to entertain
of the Right Hon. Baronet's " power magical."
He is, according to some, to come forward be-
fore the Easter recess with a scheme for cor-
recting the present dangerous and defective
condition of the currency. This class of political
puppets, not content with predicting the advent
of so incalculably beneficial a remedy, are so
extravagant in their credulity as to believe that
Sir ROBERT will have the candour to acknow-
ledge at the same time, that, after the late Mr.
HUSKLSSON, no man has done more than himself
to create or to aggravate that diseased state of
our monetary functions which now threatens the
speedy paralysis of our whole industrial and
commercial system. Then, we have among our
Contemporaries some journalists who look to the
same hands, within the next six months, for the
development of matured plans for the extension of
I our foreign commerce; the resuscitation and
permanent maintenance of our manufacturing
activity ; the effectual co unteraction of Russian
intrigues against our power in Europe, and in
North-Western and Central Asia, in Persia, and
in China;—the adjustment of the Oregon and
boundary questions, and of the seizures' com-
pensation claims by American citizens in the
United States; the pacification of Mexico ; the
settlement of the South American Republics ;
and various other questions of some little im-
portance, and not without their modicum of
difficulties. For our own part, we are so fearful
that, in the matters thus hastily recapitulated,
'Here will be found stuff enough for the fullest
occupation of the Premier's time, that we have
scarcely margin enough of conscience left us to
add our own wish—rather than expectation—
tnat the Minister would be good enough to ap-
prise the country, in the first week of the en-
suing session, when he means to withdraw his
destructive property and income-tax—that mon-
strous concomitant of the twenty-ninth year of
our uninterrupted peace with Europe ? We are
=,:msible, however—having repudiated the notion
of his being invested with magic influences—that
Sir ROBERT PEEL can no more manufacture time,
t:lan Mr. DENT, the great horologist, can multiply
it by any of the delicate and ingenious pro-
cesses which he applies to the manufacture of
his chronometers. And if this be so, it is not to
he imagined that the Premier, within the short
interval which has yet to elapse before the re-
;sembling of Parliament, can scrape together a
sufficient stock of this " time "—the most pre-
( ions, after all, of all currencies—to the elabora-
tion of one-tenth of all the purposes for which
people so kindly give him credit. Nay, it is
not, in reason, to be supposed that he will be
able to set apart, for any one department of the
public service, more of this commodity than the
portion which time course of official business has
At a great public banquet lately given to Mr. already assigned to it.
Nevertheless, although we may not look
O'CoNNEto. in Cluoniel, that gentleman, undis-
even to that Minister who understands so well
trifled by the tholy-lit of the approaching- State
"
prosecutions, spol:e calf on the hackneyed and tire-
the technique of the art
some question of -Repeal with just as much fresh- means to supply the of raising ways and
deficient annual product
ness and enthusiasm as if he were deliverityr his of our taxation, by further taxing the very
first speech on the subject, observing, " Let every capital which has hitherto paid it, or the income
man be a Repealer; let him wear a button or of that capital,—for a power to prolong the
souse t(ik(11 by which-our enemies may know us duration of the natural day by Act of Parlia-
and try to count us. Do these things, and I went or Order in Council; we would entreat him
promise you the Parliament in College-green, at this period,—before the fight of parties in
the abolition of the tithe•rent charge, or its ap- Parliament has begun,—to remember how much
propriation to purposes of education, the abo- of real business it is indispensable for him to
lition of the poor-rates, and the grand jury cess. crowd into the transactions of every twenty-four
1 vv ill also have -fixity of tenure for the te- hours which will elapse before an ad-
nants, and prevent the landlords from turning journment, by prorogation or dissolution, in
them out to starve in the ditches. We the ensuing summer. Let him carefully
will also have a ;;carchlu t corporate reform, and avoid the mischievous error of his predecessorsin
every man will have a vote.' it was well said office, who, by neglecting to calculate before-
by MV.s. GLAziSE, in that immortal cookery-book, hand the time—limits within which certain ob-
which is an oracle at Guildhall, and the wonder jests of periodical legislation and general ques-
and admiration of all *tstronontists, " first catch Lions of political or official detail, the discussion
your
bare, before you consider how it shall be of which can be certainly foreseen, may be pro-
ircs.sed." Parody itg.; the language of this cele- bably disposed of—and by omitting to arrange,
brated authoress, we may say to Mr. O'CONNELL, also, their priority and sequence, have found
it firct, ~et your re2val, befbre you consider the themselves compelled, with the approaching
measures that spirit. ;low from it."
It is all very termination of a session, to precipitate, or abso-
i( as,,lition of poor-rates," lately to cashier and burk, affairs of the most
well to talk about
but important relations, with a degree of injury to
" searching corporate reform," &e., &c.,
these
are
fii.ci,,,
~;,,.:.2._,,arily dependent on , the public service absolutely incalculable. We
, .
',vould. urgently recommend tel the Minister to
Repeal, and every .site' to-qirtcticatile anit;l . .
I.code ofolheial regulations
the first !,?.-kw.t Stt:3l) i ,;,:i;":Ce:,-,l:_lily accom- ' prepare an. d organise
plished. But this. -top Mr. O'Co.NNLLE knows, 1 ander which each branch of the civil service
1
or should klacetv, can never be accomplished; and shall be required to prepare all the returns, re-
we can only, therefore, repeat the exressikni oft ports, accounts; iStc., fur which it may have been

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
The Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9,
The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Effects, Powerful Cast,
and Novel Scenic Display, called
THE BOHEMIANS; or, Tke Rogues et Paris. Principal
Characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith_, Wright, Wieland, Maynard,
*Ss. Yates, MIA E. Stmiey, Mrs. F. Matthews.
After which, a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called MAR.
LEQUIN BLUE BEARD; or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent.
Produced with Enormous Splendour and Wonderful Effects!
Columbine, Miss Sullen ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable
Wieland; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews,
from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury-lane; Panta.
loon, Mr. Johnstone.
Boxes, 4a. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. ; Second price at Nine. Doors
open at Six, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock.

_
PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9,
Will be performed LUCREZIA BORGIA. Don Alphonso, Mr.
Burdini ; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; Maltio Orsini, Mrs. H. P. Grattan;
Uubetta, Mr. Walton ; Lucrezia Borgia, Madame Eugenia Garcia.
To which will be added the Vaudeville of the SWISS COT-
TAGE. Natz "neck, Mr. Keeley ; Lisette, Mrs. Keeley.
'l'n conclude with a New Musical Burlesque !spectacle, entitled
THE MAGIC MIRROR. Singsong, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Poo.
Poo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe.Leat, Miss R. Isaacs.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEAI /LE.
As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9,
Will be repeated THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported
by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Honner, Johnson, Smith, 'qrs.
H. Vining, and all the Me.uhers of the First Company in the World.
After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with
Splendid Scenery, Superb oresses, Inimitable Properties and 'Pricks,
every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN
GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Nlurray,and AEIO U. Harlequin, Mr.
W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Panta.
loon, Mr. Haweins ; Coluailanes (alternately) Miss M. R. Fair.
brother and Miss Sharpe.
Places and Private Boxes to be hail of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
office, trout Eleven to Four.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Under the nin,gernent of Mr. Batty. Proprietor.
Triumphant Success of the Splendid Christma, Holiday Fetes.—West-
minster-Bridge is now open—Juvenile Nights.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9,
Will be performed a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HA RLE-
RUIN TAM D'SH ANT Elt, and his STEED MEG; or, The
Witches of Alloway Kirk. Harlequin, Mr. Gibson ; Columbine,
Mdlle. Cushnie ; Clown. Mr. King ; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews.
New Scenes in the Circle, and unequalleu feats ot Horsemanship.
.......

To conclude with the slientlid French Spectacle at THE VIC—
TORIES OF MURAT, THE SOLDIER OF FRANCE; or, The
Pnnce, and King.
Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. B. Brottdfoot. Stalls. 55.;
Bo xis, 45.; Upper 80xei,:i,..; Fit, Is. ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery,
M. Box-office open daily from len till Four. Stags lloxes, One
Guinea; I-L.lf.prica to Ditto, Hall-a-Guinea. Private Boxes, Two
Guineas; Half-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half-price, Half-past
r

IiOYA CIORI A HEATRE.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9,

Will he performed an entirely New Domestic Drama, entitled
POVERTY ; or, Mary Craham. Leonard, Mr. Freer; Jessamy
Tacit, Mr. Nantz •l S4iire Graham, Mr. Dale; Patty Parrot, Miss
Arden ; Mary Graham, i',;iss Vincent.
After which a New Drama, entitled THE BROKEN PROMISE.
Joseph°, Miss Vincent; General Morin, Mr. James; Eloise, Miss
A rut en.

conclude with liAUI 3:QUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM.
is iti ; or, The Thr.e of Wadi vs ihow Dell. Harlequin
Mr. Chapin,. ; Clown, 3r. Se :brow; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli
Coiiimbii,e, Miss M. :it:hr.:l:it

EA T 1 I it.— SIJN OFFICE, J AN. 8.
itziomwrEn, I,mvust, 32 ; Highest, 51 ; Noon, 40
13Ano3J , N.

nioriber 32 on the Ther►uurneter denotes
lie freezing point, and 53 temperate. In Barometers
iit i 3 usually placed oppoAte 30, and rain at 29.

kil(4l WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning ... 7 minutes atter 4. I Evening ... '26 minutes after 4.

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LONDON:
TUESDAY 3101ZNING, JANUARY 9, 1844.