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ge on an occasion of such

A few bitter s

port. _ _pirits there are amongst the
Radical party; who complain that the course adopted
will cause a postponement of the legitimate busi-
ness of the session. The faction, which hungers
for place, are eager to engage in the work for ob-
structing the Government of Lord DERBY. They
are longing to discover the rnaterini

for an agita-

tion, which they hope will bear them back againrinto
office and pay ; and they grievously begrudge to the
Ministry
.the privilege of conducting a spectacle

the eyes of all Europe will be fixed
with sympathising interest. To a very considerable
repinings of this party are based upon a
misapprehension of the probable course of events.
It is assumed by them that Lord DERBY and his
colleagues will take advantage of the occasion to
withhold a declaration of their intended policy. We
are satisfied that the Ministry will do no such
There will he left ample time after the in-
terment of the Duke to lay before Parliament and
the country a comprehensive statement of the re-
modification of our fiscal system, which the CHAN-
CELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER is understood to be
preparing, and which is all that we have any just
right to expect in the approaching short session.
The production of a budget must be reserved for
the ordinary session of next year.
It must be gall and wormwood to the RUSSELL

upon whict

extent t

faction to observe the increasing popularity of Lord
DERBY and his cabinet, and the judicious way in
which' every emergency which presents itself is met.
" The family" cannot conceive the idea of a govern-
ment which neither cringes to the Throne, nor
distributes its favours exclusively amongst its own
connections and dependents. In the appointment
of a Commander-in-Chief, it was anticipated by
them that the Premier would commit a mistake.
It was suggested that he would not be able to
withstand a reported desire on the part of Royalty
that the vacant office should be conferred either
upon Prince ALBERT or the Duke of CAMBRIDGE.
His Lordship, in conferring it upon the gallant
Lord HARDINGE, has disappointed his enemies,
and gratified both the entire army and the majority
of the public. We are very much inclined to doubt
that her MAJESTY ever entertained seriously the
wish which is imputed to her, of seeing the com-
mand in chief bestowed either upon the PRINCE or
the DUKE. The spirit of the constitution is op-
posed to such an appointment being given to parties
so near to the Throne. If such a wish had been
entertained, it is honourable to the character of the
Earl of DERBY that he has had firmness enough to
withstand it.

How is Liverpool to render its tribute to the
memory of the dead ? We have already a WEL-
LINGTON Dock and a WATERLOO Dock. We
have statues of GEORGE THE THIRD, NELSON,
and HUSKISSON. What could be a more appro-
priate ornament for one of the leading approaches
to St. George's-hall than a statue of the Duke of
WELLINGTON ? Manchester is already engaged
in raising the funds necessary for a similar tribute,
and it will not be worthy of loyal Liverpool to be
behind the metropolis of Calico and Radicalism in
honouring the memory of him who saved his
country.

The visit of that busy democrat—JOHN BRIG HT
—to Ireland, for the purpose, apparently, of en-
rolling himself amongst the advocates of Tenant-
Right, with the additional object, no doubt, of
courting for his party the most sweet voices of the
Brigade, is significant of the policy which we may
anticipate, should the affairs of the country unfor-
tunately fall into the guidance of a "broad basis"
administration. Whether JOHN OF ROCHDALE
is disposed to fulfil to the letter the modest demand
of JOHN OF Tuam, anl to hand over the tempo-
ralities of the Church in Ireland to the Roman Ca-
tholics, we cannot say; but that any Administration,
of which he might form a member, would make
trenchant assaults upon what the hon. gentleman
is wont to designate a "bloated establishment," is
tolerably certain. It is marvellous that men
of his calibre cannot discern the true motives of
the Irish priesthood for the ferocity of their
abuse of the Protestant Church of Ireland. That
Church, at the present moment, is rapidly loosening
the clutch in which Popery has so long held a de-
luded people. It is introducing the Bible into the
cottages of its peasantry ; and, as the light breaks
in upon them, the profits of gatherings and stations,
the funds wrung from a semi-pauper population to
support demagag,ueism and prolong the reign of
Priestly tyranny, are in a wofully declining condition.
The aid of the " Brass Band," however, is wanted
by the Manchester Faction; and little care they
whether the price they have to pay for it be confis-
cation of the soil of the landowner, and the sur-
rendering again of the people of Ireland ;to the
,darkness, from which they are at present rapidly
emerging.

The question has been asked—What was the

particular financial business, on account of which
the reporters were so suddenly dismissed from the
Health Committee's meeting on Thursday last ? On
dits are in circulation that certain well paid officials
of the Corporation are doing rather less work for
their salaries than is desirable; that ;surveys and
plans, levelling and measuring, are of little value
when they lead to nothing practical ; that a head is
wanted somewhere, and the want is felt in the dis-
graceful state of some of our leading thoroughfares,
the pavements of which appear to be taken up with-
out any fixed plan or intention of their being laid
down again. Some say that another paid officers'
committee "looms :in the distance," and that its
labours may be beneficial to the public. The ap-
proach of the first of November often imparts to
our local rulers new ideas and increased vitality.

Without this new element, we were already in
anticipation of stirring scenes to take place in
our local Parliament. The election of the next
Mayor promised, and still promises well for the
production of a little extra steam. The subject of
the new appointment of magistrates has still to be
decided ; and, Mr. BIGHAM having returned from
California, a number of important subjects, which
have been cushioned during his absence, have to
be discussed. Whoever may be placed in the civic
chair will probably have something to do to main-
tain the decorous deportment which such a body
ought to present.

RENUNCIATION OF THE EMANCIPATION
ACT BY THE PAPISTS.

SCARCELY has the Earl of Derby had time to
read—if, indeed, his lordship has read—the amene
effusion of that modern Chrysostom, Dr. Cahill,
before he is honoured with a communication from
another no less famous Irish epistolographer, the
renowned Dr. WHale. Whether the document dated
" St. Jarlath's, Tuam, feast of the Seven Dolors of
the Blessed Virgin, 1852," has been forwarded to
the Noble Premier in manuscript, with the signature
"John, Archbishop of Tuam" in autograph, does
not appear. If it has, the Attorney-General for
Ireland will probably he instructed to acknowledge
its receipt ; if not, the publication of that signature
in print, as addressed to her Majesty's Prime Minis-
ter, will, we fear, prove but an additional instance
of those insolent but empty bravadoes, with which
the eye of Protestant England has become but too
familiar. and which accord so marvellously with the
spirit of the Papacy, the most consummate combi-
nation of the coward and the bully the world ever
produced. As, however, it is far from improbable
that Parliament will, in the course of the next ses-
sion, devise a remedy against the continuance of
this paltry system of protected defiance of the law,
it is, perhaps, hardly worth while to pay much
"1-4-ontion to the form of Dr. Nl`Hale's epistle. Our
ess, at all events, is not with its signa-
. - - not with the misde-
the treason which

sent b

ture, but wit

übstance,

meanor which it parades,

contains

Her Majesty the
oath, solemnly pled
inviolably the settles

is, by the (

~oronation

niain and preserve
United Church of

Eno-land and Ireland, as by law established," and
" preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of Eng-
nd and Ireland;and to the churches committed to
charge, all such rights and privileges as by law
appertain to them." Dr. M'fiale announces to the
Queen's Prime Minister, on behalf of "the Catho-
lic people of Ireland,"—whorn he and his fellow-
labourers in a pseudo-apOstolate are using their ut-
most endeavours to seduce from their allegiance to
their lawful Sovereign, and to bring into subjection
to the Papacy,—"their unconquerable resolve to
carry on a vigorous, and legitimate (!) and consti.