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porary is therefore unfortunate

Xs well might Roman Catholics say, we (
believe and reject the Bible as a divine revelation,
even as a good book, and therefore we must beg of
not to teach it to our children. Could the ''ducat
Committee, in that case, pay the least attention to ti
remonstrance ? Could they agree to cast such (
honour on the word of God ? Impossible. It wo

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only tend to confirm them in their resolution, if
had before any doubt on the subject, to unfur
standard of divine truth in all their establishm.
and maintain it against all gainsayers.

- Leinster, Ulster, Munster,
Captain Rock was still the boy to-
- make the fun stir.

Nor was this all ; political agitation never was more
rife—never so exacting. The agitators had only one
more demand to make, and they made it; they now
talked pretty freely of having the country all to them-
selves. Such was the state of Ireland under the
Whigs, whilst they were most complacently telling of
what great things they had effected. Facts, however,
are stubborn things; and not all the hardihood of
Whig assertion, nor all its powers of face, could get
They had one answer for all attacks—tln
same sponge to wipe out all reproaches—namely, tha
if there were some evils under their popular, liberal
fostering, and most parental regime, they were inevi
table; but if there were such under their administra
tion, what must be expected under the accession o
party so fearfully obnoxious as the Torie
to contemplate, they said, what might happen in the
eventuation of anything so calamitous. Such was the re

over these,

It was awfd

ply which was to silence all objections, whilst, to give it
the greater effect, the mighty " Daniel" played terma-
gant, and we may shortly, and yet emphatically say,
did his utmost to " keep out the Tories." Well, the
Tories came in in spite of all this; the argument ad
terrorem failed, and some little time has now elapsed
since the Tories have been in and the Whigs out; and
it is not altogether premature to " take stock," or to
refer to the books, and see in what way our Lalances
stand. With reference to crime, we find two murders,
but one certainly which we are obliged to connect with
the Ribbon or Rockite system, and from the commis-
sion of which we are bound to admit that that most
detestable conspiracy has not yet been broken up. The
Conservative ministry cannot by any means pretend to
have subdued this hydra; but in this respect, if they
have gained nothing, neither have they lost. The
Whigs did not subdue it during a long ten years of
office, with every opportunity of tracing his lair, and
destroying the monster in his den; nay, never was he
more rampant, or more the terror of an awe-struck
world, than just during the mild sway of Lord Nor-
manby, and the other favourites of her Majesty's chief
agitator in those parts. On the score of tranquillity
generally, however, it appears that Ireland is not less,
if she is not a great deal more at rest, under her new •
than she was under her late government. The healthy
tone of feeling which has been communicated to the
friends of good order since the new authorities entered
upon their functions, is pregnant evidence on this
head ; it is the strongest token of an improvement; it
is a great improvement in itself. But the grand tri-
umph of the Conservative minister consists in this.
that his official career, short as it is, furnishes a living
contradiction to all the empty boastings, threatenings,
prophecies, and lies, so long and so profusely poured
out by hiS opponents. The spell is broken—the charm
is dissolved—even the name of " Daniel O'Connell"

cannot now raise an insurrection. The masses endu:

the new authorities with the most surprising patience;
some of old Dan's " joints" have already begun to
play the courtier; there have been several remarkable
defections from his principles ; the spirit of the Vicar
of Bray has confessedly taken possession of a number
of his ecclesiastical corps, and foul scurrility has ceased
to flow even from his own tongue with its wonted ala-
crity. The Conservatives reign, and yet the threat-
ened storm does not rise.

Last week the new government obtained a signal
attestation to the truth of what We represent, at Earl
de Grey's first levee, which was, it is said, the most
numerously and respectably attended of any ever held
in Ireland before or subsequently to the 20th August,
1821, when his late Majesty George the Fourth held a
royal levee in Dublin. On this occasion the arch
demagogue seems to have been ridden by his evil
genius ; and the opportunity which he looked to as

that which should greatly gratify his own vanity, and
exalt biro in the eyes of his deluded followers, proved

to be the source of his most distressful mortification

He had to endure the painful spectacle of her Majes-
ty's Conservative representative being honoured in
the most signal manner by the homage of all the most
distinguished and esteemed persons in the country,
and to feel in his own person the ludicrous contrast
which he exhibited, notwithstanding his official robes,
when, as if it was manifest to all, he was making an
attempt to ascertain what figure he, as represeutative
of the disaffected, should make in comparison with the
viceroy himself. This failure afforded the utmost

merriment to all his foes. So unnerved was he by the

expression which he observed on every countenance,
that he completely forgot his part as courtier—attempt-
ed to enter the presence chamber with his hat on—
committed a positive breach of etiquette by having his
sword-bearer to precede him—and after meeting with
a frigid, nay, freezing reception, went off the stage
With awkward exit, amid the jeers and titters of all
beholders.

Alas for the great three-tailed bashaw, so long the
terror of all Whigs, and the hard task-master of their
obsequious cabinet ! Behold him dressed up in a Lord
Mayor's suit, only to make his downfall the more con-

spicuous ! Ay, wrap him up in a scarlet cloak, (his
church is partial to the colour,) and put a cocked hat
1 on his head; yea, put a gold chain round him, and
adorn him with pins, buckles, and other ornaments;
and then let him
" Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross,
To see the old woman
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,—"
And then—we may as well finish it—
" We'll have plenty of music wherever she goes."
Do all this, we say, yet you.cannot make a " silk purse
of a sow's ear ;" the interior, the essential rottenness

will remain; and it wants but a puff of air to strip the

The magnitude of the blessing which has been con-
ferred upon the kingdom by the late change which has
taken place in the administration, cannot be so easily
estimated by a constant residence in England, as by
one who sojourns in a part of the empire where the
complexion of everything that belongs to social hap-
piness is deeply and immediately reflected by the cha-
racter of the executive. It is an easy matter to govern
those who are themselves willing to be governed. In
ordinary times, what more easy than to conduct the
office of the Home Department with reference to the
mere preservation of peace and order within the con-
fines of Great Britain ? Englishmen are then their
own peace•preservers. They are satisfied with their
institutions; they have no desire to change them; and
the great hulk of the people would be little affected by
a change of ministers of any ordinary character. But
all this is different in a country or in a part of the
kingdom where the internal disposition to peaceable

government is wanting; where discontent prevails;
and where, so far from an approval of the existing or-
der of things, there is a constant and very general de-
sire for its subversion. Here everything depends on
the hand that rules; all ranks of the people are in-
stantly and most sensibly affected by the character of
the living authority; and their very pulse moves in
unison with his. It will be readily conceded that such
is unfortunately the case, in a very great degree, with
Ireland ; and hence we have been led to watch with so
much anxiety the effects, in that country, of the late
important transfer of power from Radical to Conserva-
tive keeping. The Whigs used to tell us, in their day,
of the norvellous influence of their government in
producing tranquillity; but their proofs were not by
any means satisfactory. The police returns showed a
positive and most serious augmentation of every species
of criminal offence; Tipperary was as fruitful as ever
in homicides; and through