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trycientßouse of Commons a good working majority,
o_ to counterbalance the Whig influences at
a';i:ifrtahel'.rB clearlaenfodre,thepa)
I,ted constituencies of Ireland. It
in the power of Sir Robert Peel
and Party to take office (as we have seen already),
ant• a dis.solution to retain it, if these sanguine
c]Pations are well founded. Now Sir Robert Peel
Pr,oai u!
if he would, turn them out without any corn-
,nitilse of princiPle. There needs no Lichfield-house
elle°.c°lllPaet alliance—no bargaining with our bitter
ne:". They have offered him their support for the
to n, in the plainest language and on the fairest
ha;, s• Mr. Grote says, the radicals and the tories
iler: a battle to fight stand-up fight. What hin;
Why don't we strip, and. go to work at once .
des a, there is a third party iii - ,he field, hated and
grc,P,ll'lBe:l 1))' both, which occupies the intermediate
their,
and prevents a direct collision. Let us crush
„ag RaYs Mr. Grote, and then we shall have a clear
(piNpiaeg 4a no favour : we will then fight it out between
in good earnest. Sir Robert Peel might do
he would, and who would blame him ? Yet Sir
!Nil thinks it wiser and more dignified to holdhis
Xcnv
Itobe, if there be any conservatives who think Sir
old C eel too rich and the Duke of Wellington too
totie-rfactive and eneraetic political leaders, we are
their ?Lathese. We think none the worse of them for
wiliehill,'Pendence and their superiority to all the ties
Ive 1, 1)41 these miserable Whigs to place and pay.
of too that they are moderate, even to an excess
tl'ersciderati°ll ; and we candidly confess that occasions
itiq; rely and then arise on which we are disposed to
opt bets all onward movement in party tactics: But
fidener judgment always subsides into implicit con-
Nrie: ii Sir Robert. More than any man of " late
dill he knows the English people. He can tell,
'host h 4 unerring certainty, what is the wisest and
}'earslllloUrable course. The history of the last ten
and f..'4‘rB abundant witness to the extraordinary tact
otesight he has displayed,—
he ha' qui nobis cunctando restituit rem :"
oioions Pursued the Fabian policy with unerring pre-
-811 whenever
111 and the time shall arrive that the
certaiti °lad be struck heavily and surely, we are as
l'erta nks we are of our own existence that Sir Ro-
With t1',.441 will be bared; and his right arm he raised,e unerring aim of fate—

fi, " Si Pergama dextra
411(Ihh Possent, etiam hie defensa faissent”—
4te4eptether this opportunity shall arise during the
,/i'c'4ll),:eBnsion of Parliament, we willingly leave in the
'here l'ate and in the bosom of Sir Robert Peel.
(lelay a-te many reasons which seem to recommend
1N4,:,,11,(1' though time and space do not permit our
the
,1"1`° theta at present more fully, we may refer to
an :,,gllificalat readiness of the radicals to join us as
ofteglli :neat why it should not be wise at present for
At-'3,,-11 them. This the Ithacan desires, and the sons
take trine,l would purchase at a great price ! Let us
hpt .eIY Warning, and be drawn into no snare.
more t,lll such a posture of affairs could anything be
tlo,e 'tePusterous than for Lord Morpeth, following
l',lll
1)°11 the heels of Kilkenny Joseph, to exclaim,
tliaposel to
upon sufferance no longer !" One feels
t° eall to mind the well-known scene-
-44644tet5-Thus I go, all danger scorning,
bine& Some death I'll die before the morning !
not die : oh pray take warning—
for, 4
Oh do not die before the morning !
P°l4t tir. Leader reminded him, with great truth and
the NiirY have never had any existence at all, but by
have f erpliee of both classes of their opponents. INe
rspe_eit, and , expressed in our former articles, so much
411(ec't '6l. Lord Morpeth as his amiable character de-
ftS',, He is indeed a child in malice, but his best
admit that he is a child in understanding
!heti c'
e will exist no longer upon sufferance', , . !
your It xi) days are numbered.
41.115 t hare been really most ludicrous to sit by
geese Lord Morpeth under his peculiar circum
talkip (his Peculiar physiognomy would aid the joke,)
tileiri;a°out his too moderate opponents " stuffing
ex-tclatils with big words," and then spouting forth
414 al:r.a°rdinary braggadocio piece of impertinence
"We will exist no longer upon suffer: ,
,4!". Lea. The ~Whigs exist no longer upon sufferance
Le.4(ler Paid him well for his presumption ; and as
4PI
Pt
was about to record his vote, it was per-
caMer,, eaBarY for him to give a serious (though ear-
}'
i
%ta a..eo. For ourselves we are content with t as
\‘:L: ill the report—" Milord Morpeth pour rire !"
44 11,e al'e not nearly done with this subject. Time
l'bri4Bl3ect for the patience of our readers compel us
3- fg tiliB article to a close, and we shall-postpone to
td!ekltititre occasion many considerations which crowd
(111e11141401:1°11.11
US while we write. One word only in
pr w
e ha,,
called Grote and Leader as our
`Pcitti `4' Messrs.
witnesses, because their testimony, coming
ip the quarter hostile to ourselves, and not implicated
Itept•P`lll.Y tactics of the cabinet, seems liable to least
i•
Nititial°,ll in. the present instance. We do not mean to
heu tliat we prefer these gentlemen one whit to
setl'g associates. Far from it. In our minds for
41,era: qualities—viz., honesty and public spirit, your
VI are all alike. The first object with all of them
111 e acre of gain. As to the rest, the less liberal
7rott "angerous,—the more liberal the more pesti-
co,i)g We were once unfortunate enough at school,,
';liherBtittling Cicero, to render " yenerosi homines3
me
:at " Generous men, sir !" fell the excel-
-er'a voice upon our ear, in accents of thun-
the lib..4enerfts men, sir : Catiline and his party were
-cas
The

tlkte'ticiairiBll journals furnish us, from day to day, with
:494% a Commentary upon the recent debate in the
tr
Nt krti Commons. From the north, the south, the
1;ttl ,te west of that unfortunate country we hear
"NI tin s''e than brutal outrages upon the peaceable
N4fiderit frending Protestants. As if in derision of the
assertions and empty boasts of the ministerial
the
‘'''r°,
the Papers which we have just received from
14 re:t lare more than usually full of horrible de-
Atik,Pecting the " state of crime and outrages" in
fer Pais of the country. In one case we find that
111
I,:k hit attack was made on a respectable young
a ruffian armed with a formidable American
the
aalw fes'a species of weapon hitherto unknown in
4ni,„B of crime in Ireland. The brutal assassin
14 • `,l ps- .
L Nea
0U t'Un his victim no less than fifteen or sixteen
Punctured wounds in various parts of his
415 of no avail to assert that stabbing has
's a favourite mode of attack in England, and
41111744h/erPool itself has furnished an instance in which
Nve- attack has terminated fatally. It is a sufficient
.144? t° such a recriminatory charge to say that, in
15 4st Out
lsted 61 of ten, such cowardly assaults are perpe-
,
”-14 rt "'"nlea. An inspection of our criminal ca-
%r, Intuit satisfy any candid mind of the truth of
I • 'et
°n• In fact, if our gaols were emptied of
ti,
°ll/4,""e office of the judges presiding in our
Wurts at the assizes would be almost a sinecure.
usbicts of the country in which there is to be
Ala a urge Proportion of Irishmen always present
It), 41-'l' amount of crime. It will require no ordi-
t pagennity to explain away this notorious fact.
4.ing, We may notice one remarkable fact con-
Nl:lth the perpetration of the crime of murder in
eke contrasted with Ireland. When a murder
by tlP;Diace England especially when accompanied
}sk„.'s o. nistances of extraordinary atrocity, a great
41)(1:1°4 is created—the public journals are filled with
tohf the minutest details connected with it—it
the absorbing topic of conversation far and
rP.,„t .t Ireland,. on the contrary, a murder of the
'l°le character is passed over as an event of
't, %jell oecurr ence—the circumstances connected with
Acted ,11 England, would occupy two or three closely
lip a
61hunans of our broad-sheets, are briefly summed
9enerat
°rt Paragraph, which is inserted among
4car news of the day—and the public mind
tailiYoemenorkeilloedcc.upied with the matter, than if a
This is a melancholy proof of
• Ntre:llloif indifference produced by the frequent re-
tut l such atrocities.
14 et u, e
hoe (4
ernnetate a few more facts connected with the
esz, ni Ireland. We understand from the
f„,_ mon _
DW gent' -"mai that, on Monday evening week, as
eti to men were returning
turning from a public dinner
orace
th aver
of ~ioppEsq., of Roscommon, late
..-ational Bank of that town, while
lac re Pro
Aeabl
e 11141:Me eed: their way home in the most
wer waylaid y a party of
-'"lllfiar, IgthOeirin
are, Who, y
thOlite one. word,b commenced

beating them in the most cruel manner. Their savage
intent seemed to be principally aimed against Mr.
Tully, whom they continued to beat until his head was
covered with blood. They did not leave their victim
until they thought he was able to bear no more. This
attack took place within one hundred yards of the po-
lice barrack.

Again, at Richmond Villa, near Patrick's Well, Li-
merick, the lodge-man of William Wallace, Esq., was
brutally attacked by eight men with a loaded whip and
stones, and so severely beat that his skull was frac-
tured, and little hope was left of his recovery.
Again, the Kilkenny Moderator states that, on Friday
week, a young plantation in the glen of Owning, the
property of Lord Duncannon, was maliciously set on
fire, and about one acre of it consumed. This is only
one, out of hundreds of similar cases, in which the
properties of Protestant noblemen are wantonly da-
maged by incendiaries. It is singular that the Popish
landlords should not be subject to such losses. The
fact is pregnant with instruction.

In the county of Mayo the following outrage was
committed. On the night of Sunday week the house
of Mr. William Warren, at Doneen, near Ballina, was
visited by a party of Precursors, who endeavoured in
vain to effect an entrance. Having failed in that ob-
ject, they went to a stable, where they killed a heifer,
and attempted to strangle a horse with a rope. Mr.
Warren was most kind to his neighbours since he
came to reside among them, and there can be no cause
assigned for the attack—unless, indeed, his being a
Protestant may be looked upon as such by the midnight
legislators. In the same county five Ribbonmen have
been committed to gaol for forcibly administering ille-
gal and Ribbonite oaths—another proof of the exist-
ence of this secret conspiracy.

Again, in the county of Clare a savage attack was
made upon an old man, residing in the neighbourhood
of Kilrush. The victim in this case was 80 years of
age, and held a farm depending upon his own life.
His nephew, residing with him, anxious to have the
land in his possetsion on the death of his uncle, served
nottces to quit upon the tenants. In consequence of
this proceeding four men broke into the old man's
house, and beat him in so cruel a manner that he was
not expected to survive. _ _

We have thus briefly detailed a few of the more re-
cent illustrations of the sort of " tranquillity" enjoyed
in Ireland. We may as well add that this week's ca-

talogue is very imperfect. Many journals which we
have not yet seen will, no doubt, furnish us with parti-
culars of additional outrages. The official Gazette
contains two offers of rewards, of one hundred pounds
each, one for a murder, and the other for a murderous
assault.

With such details as the preceding staring them in
the face, the whig ministry have the audacity to assert
that Ireland is in a state of unprecedented "tranquil-
lity." The truth is that Ireland was never in a worse
condition than at present; and, while crime is openly
connived at by the executive government, and the in-
stigators to crime and outrage are selected as the fittest
recipients of official patronage, it is morally impossible
that it should present a different appearance.

" Stop the supplies" has ever been a favourite cry
with the unprincipled whig faction. When foiled in
argument, and covered with disgrace and discomfi-
ture—when every temporising expedient to prop up
their tottering power has failed—when they have been
driven to their last extremity, writhilig under the
agonies of despair—they have never hesitated to have
recourse to the base and cowardly alternative of
threatening to " stop the supplies." This is done, of
course, with a view to disconcert and to intimidate
their adversaries. " Stop the supplies" is a sort of
chevaux de frise behind which the ,baffled faction think
to entrench themselves, secure from the further assaults
of their opponents. Thus the Morning Chronicle, the
organ of the ultra-liberal section of the cabinet, holds
out the threat that the supplies shall be refused to the
House of Lords, to prevent the inquiry into the state
of Ireland, now in progress from being carried on.
The project is thus announced—" We hope some Irish
member will give notice without delay of proposing a
resolution to the House of Commons to withkold the
means of payment of the expensft of witnesses, or of
any other charge attendant upon the committee of inqui-
sition, appointed by the House of Lords, to criminate
Lord Normanby's administration in Ireland." Why
stop the supplies ? Is it because the ministers are
afraid of the pending investigation ? Does not this
menace proceed from a sense of conscious guilt ?
Could we have any stronger proof of the necessity for
the " inquisition appointed by the House of Lords"
than this audacious threat ? Does it not amply prove
that the whigs consider the character of Lord Nor-
manby to be of more value than the peace and pros-
perity of Ireland ?
But will the Whigs venture to countenance openly
such a miserable project as " stopping the supplies"
from this committee ? They dare not do so ! We
give them every credit for the wish, we give them none
for the courage, to propose such a measure to the
House of Commons. They are
" Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike."

They know full well that such a base attempt would
only recoil upon themselves. They know that there is
too much patriotism in the country to suffer such an
extingUisher to be put on the inquiry in the House of
Lords. " Stop the supplies" when you like, ye skulk-
ing, cowardly whigs, and all the people of England
will come forward spontaneously to furnish the House
of Lords with the means requisite to consummate your
confusion and disgrace.

Your brawlers for liberty are always the most heart-
less tyrants. No class or party of men have ever af-
forded more formidable proofs of the truth of this
maxim than the self-styled liberal faction of the pre-
sent day. Witness the brutal intimidation practised
throughout this country at every general election that
has taken place within the last ten years, and especially
the bloody scenes that occurred at the last election for
members of parliament in this very town. It appears
that the same horrid system of physical intimidation is
now threatened against the House of Lords, with a
view to deter them from exposing the misdeeds of the
Whigs. We find the following choice speciMen of the
bludgeon style in the Morning Chronicle. the leading
organ of the liberal party. "If the witnesses sum-
moned front Ireland—and we hear the chief officers of
the police force are already ordered to attend—should
demur to obey their lordship's summons, we should be
much amused to see the reception in Dublin of the
officers of the House of Lords sent to enforce their
orders. We should not envy them the triumphal pro-
cession in which they might be ushered into Dublin by the
good people of Ireland, who differ with their lordships
in their estimate of Lord Normanby's government."
This is equivalent to saying that the Chronicle would
be " amused" to see the " good people of Ireland"
assaulting and murdering those officers in the execu-
tion of their duty ! We trust that effectual means
will be taken to prevent the blood-thirsty plan from
being carried into execution.

A homely adage says that " when rogues fall out
there is a chance that honest men may come by their
own"—an adage which is exceedingly applicable to cer-
tain squabbles which have recently taken place among
the leading members of the Precursor's Society in
Dublin. It is not long since that the redoubtable Peter
Purcell called O'Connell himself to account for the
possession and appropriation of certain monies col-
lected towards the objects of this treasonable associa-
tion; and, this week, a Mr. Ignatius Callaghan has
brought forward charges seriously implicating the cha-
racter of certain persons who happen to have too promi-
nent a development of the hump of captativeness. We
dare say that Mr. Callaghan's accusations of dishonesty
are founded in truth ; and we dare say, also, that the
matter will be most judiciously and comfortably hushed
up, if possible. We should like to see these Precursory
quarrels assume a little more'earnestness. There would
then be a prospect of enlightening the people of Ire-
land on the subject of the division of the spoils between
these Popish leaders. It would then be seen that the
extorted contributions of the hardworking peasantry of
Ireland are spent in administering to the luxury of a
set of scoundrels, the most despicable that ever escaped
the gallows.

What a prodigy Van Amburgh must be !—at least
if we may form any estimate of his chararter from the
prominent notice bestowed upon him by one of our
contemporaries. In these times of political agitation