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vocate."

The speech of Sir Robert Peel, however, was,
lence," the speech of the evening, -whether as regards Man-
ner or matter. Sir Robert proved incontestibly that, upon
the authority even of the member fur Dublin himself, the

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argument put forward by ministers with respect to the con-
traction assumed to have taken place in the registries of Ire-
land was utterly untenable ; that at the present moment the
number of electors entitled to exercise the franchise in that
County exceeds considerably the number calculated upon, as
to be created by the Irish Reform Bill; and that the noble
lord, by the bill before the house, had not remedied one, even,
of the alleged evils complained of. Sir Robert then asked
with that lofty contempt which befitted him—" Why, what
confidence could we place in you as legislators fit to deal with
this subject ?" What, indeed !

The right honourable baronet then addressed himself more
Particularly to the details of the subject, and as distinctly se-
parated himself as Lord Stanley had previously done, from
both the amendment and the clause, intimating the same de-
termination to stand upon principle alone, and upon the un-
aided strength of his own party. " The question before the
house," urged Sir Robert in conclusion, " is this—whether
her Majesty's government have made a provision which en-
titles them to the public confidence of the house ; and I must
say that the course they have pursued on the Irish franchise

uPPears to me To DISRNTITLE THEM TO THE CONFIDENCE
OF THE HOUSE OR THE COUNTRY." An opinion which the
Perfect BURST OF CHEERING from the Conservative party
proved to be that which is generally entertained.
As a whole, the speech of the right hon. baronet was wor-
thy alike of the orator and the statesman. It is evident that
Sir Robert is at length roused to the noble effort of rousing
his fellow-countrymen from the thraldom of a despicable fac-
tion, and a thousand thousand hearts, throughout the land,
will beat with gratitude, and a thousand tongues will be raised
to honour him•
•• • "

But the great mendicant"—it will be asked—'
was be?" Alas, alas for Derrynane ! its occupant was pre-
sent ; but in body alone. The bulky form still encumbered
the ministerial benches ; but the braggart spirit of the
" bully" had evaporated—bad disappeared with the fifth rat-
ing clause. He had his little growl, however, still; but he
" roared gently as any sucking dove." He told us how
" peaceably and well organized" his country, was. He la-
mented how little the house knew of that country, " which
contained five millions (!!) of persons who never tasted the
liquor of intoxication, and ended, as all his harangues end,
with a slander and a threat commingled against the English
nation. Alas for the agitator ! his day, it is greatly to be
feared, is gone by, unless his performances be from hence-
forth upon a different platform. In sheer compassion, there-
fore. I will refrain from noticing more than, en passant, the
quotations of his past elegancies of diction, with which Sir
Robert Peel completed his discomfiture, and that of his
wretched slaves—the baffled and beaten ministry.
After a short cock-crowing and a little shaking of feathers
from " the smallest man in the House of Commons," the
house divided, and Lord John, much, no doubt, to his dis-
comfiture, found himself in a minority of TWENTY-ONE
In that comfortable position for the present I must leave him.

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