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heartleSs colleague, or of sume subordinate member of
his administration.

This, we admit, is a very painful situation for any man

to be placed in. Even if the deceit practised upon him
were more harmless than it really is, still that it can be
practised upon him with impunity is a circumstance
which tends to•lower Lord. MELBOURNE in the estimation
of hiS Sovereign, and degrade him in his own eyes. The
noble lolcannot now pretend to be unconvinced that-the
whole government of Ireland is in the hands of O'CoN-
NELL. Tire evidence of his senses speak unanswerably
against his hopes. The deed is done, no matter by whom.
The compromise is made in bold defiance of his declara-
tion and conviction. His wcrcl is not questioned, but
his testimony is shaken, because his power is overruled,
and his protestations are accounted of no value by those
with whom he acts. If this be the power of a prime mi-
nister of England in the person of Lord MELBOURNE,
who would not rather envy the power of his lordship's
gamekeeper, or his lordship's groom ?
• Put it will, probably, be said on the other side, that
the determination of ministers to remove from their pre-
sent situations all the higher as well as subordinate of-
ficers Of the government in England, Scotland, and Ire-
land, is no proof.that any compact has been entered into
with the head of the Irish tail. This line of defence will
not bear examination. We see no removals made in
Ireland except in favour of the needy, obscure, and cha-
racterless partizans of the demagogue. If no compact
is made, how is it that none but the nominees of O'CoN-
NELL are preferred ? The English radicals are not re-
ceived into favour. Every change is made expressly-Tor
the creatures of O'CoNNEr.A... MY. WIATTLE HARVEY
gets nothing. Honest. JOSEPH HUME is.nOt consulted.
No spare corner is found for Mr. Agent ROEBUCK, of Ca-
nada. Mr. Surgeon WAKLEY is not provided for. !The
worthy Sir JOHN KEY has the door ~slapped in his face:
Mr. WARD, the originator of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S ap.
propriation clause, is forgotten like an old' alreanack.
Mr. EWART, of Liverpool, contrary LO the expectations
of his friends, has not yet been appointed Vice-President
of the-Beard of Trade. Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE, the
representative of the metropolitan dissenters, draws no
salary on quarter-diiy: As for the Scotch radicals, they
are as much overlooked as if, they could not safely be en-
trusted ivith a gauger's respOnsibiities or a kitchen-
.maid's perquisites.

All this, which to us, is the cause of deep anguish,
proves something more than the cold disparagement in
which these honourable radicals in this island are held.
It shows that O'CONNELL can command that which they
dare not aspire to;. that he has at his foot what is not al-
lowed to enter into their heads; in short that be. orders,
and that they submit. Nay, more; we have not a doubt
but that if O'CONNELL were to insist that one and all of
the English and Scotch radicals should be drummed out
of the country and deported to Botany Bay, Lord-MEL-
BOURNE would be pleased to forget that he had given any.
orders to facilitate their immediate expatiiation.
If we treat the subject with more levity than some of
our friends may think justified by the circumstances of
the case, we reply, that having perfect confidence in the:
spirit, the loyalty, and the protestant principles of the
people of England, we are rather pleased than otherwise
at this gross and unhallowed preference given to the
papists of Ireland. It will work if it has not already
worked its own cure. It will open if it has not already,
opened the eyes of the people of England. They will
never submit to be ruled and trampled upon by a popish
faction, the nominees of the popish prieats in Ireland—
by men whom all the honourable of the Roman'catholics-
of England repudiate and detest--=by a leader whom the.
Duke of NORFOLK and twenty-three other wliigs deem to
be unfit to pea member of BaooxEs's—who consider him
nothing' more than an impustor,--who fast bringing
their religion, their priesthood, and their connexion into
contempt. All this, we may rest assured, will work for
good;

On the ether hand, the sweeping of the public offices
of all old servants who do n;>t profess the opinions of
O'CONNELL and Lord Jolts RUSSELL is one of those re-
forms which we cannot Sufficiently admire. Turn
them-• all • out, gentlemen of the • movement ! You
aili (•,0 move yourselves. Lord Malllammea-,od-
ministration is . not worth a month's purchase. In
the name of liberality give, O'CoNNtm, all hErwants.
Fill. his maw to repletion ; pour into his cup until
it runs over; give to the honourable bandit and, hiS
crew full swing ; let. the mob of Dublin, with party
colours flying and rebA ensigns floating, with mottos of
liberty studded on them as thick as the stars upon an
American banner, follow in the wake of the new Lord
Lieutenant; let all this be done, and more if necessary,
but remember ova TURN COMES NEXT, and come it will
before many ,days.. • • •
It would not surprise us to hear of Lord MELBOURNE'S
resignation before this day week. That of Mr. .SPRING
RICE is already ttne,:lened. He knows, as well as we
do, from what took place in Cambridge within .the last
six days, that his supposed connexion. with O'CONNELL
will, if persisted in, ruin him in that borough for ever.
He_ is, therefore, in. this position—if he perseveres he
looses Cambridge—if he retires froM the atiministi:ation
he will redeem himself—if not he has no other-chance of
securing a .seat but by throwing himself into the arms of
pollution, and becoming a wretched dependant of the
tail, who must of course hate him because he is a' gen-
,
tieman.

But whatever compromise may be made, Lord MEL-
BOURNE'S cabinet is already prostrate in the mire before
O'CONNELL. The slime of the Irish serpent has passed
over it, and it is odious in the eyes of the British nation.
All its tyrannical oppressions—all its invidious removals
—all its marked insults heaped upon public men; who- in
the offices of state, and without respect to party, had ho-
nourably performed their duty—all these will Yedound
to our advantage. when the change comes. They have
set the example—they have made a clean sweep—
they have made' competence subordinate to patronage
—and have, for the sake of influence, dune unpardon-
able injury to deserving men: We shall have the re-
nown of reversing their decrees, expelling the paltry
creatures- they have patronised, and of giving new life
•and blood to all the public offices..• Lord MELBOURNE
never stood high as a public man—be never distinguished
himself in either house of parliament—he played a very
mediocre part .wider Lord • GREY—and, in Derbyshire,
after his distoissalhythe King, he played a paltry part in
a radical farce.'which did not raise him in, the estimation'
of gentlemen: teepacoadnct.we have treated
pothetica4.llismot for us to run the hazard of drawing
concluSions. They are obvious to all our readers. 'He
must retire. Lord ALBEMARLE, the reluctant keeper of
the King's stud, cannot save him. Lord WEiLEsLEr's
silence does him.. no good. Lord BROU GRAM, although
the correspondent of the King, is denied the power of
aiding him. The treatment the learned ex-chancellor
has received is calculated to induce that noble personage
to give the ministry •a passing kick when falling. He
.has favoured it with some pugnacious touches of this kind
already. Lord LANSDOWNE has felt them, so has Lord
DUNCANNON, and so has Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Lord
BROUGHAM knows his friends, and he treats them accord-
ingly. •

Since the above was written we have received the
Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday, which supplies the
following additional information. Mr. RICHARD SHELL,
II is said, is to be appointed Under Secretary in the room
of Sir WILLIAM GOSESTT, whom O'CONNELL refuses to
tolerate on any terms.
Mr. Nicholas Purcell O'Gorman has been appointed Chair-
man of the Coue•y of .Kilkenny. The. son of Lord Edward
Fitzgerald has been appointed Gentleman Usher in Lord Mul-
grave's Household, vice Sir Stewart Bruce.

Mr. O'Gorman was secretary to the late• Ca,tholic.Associa-
tion ; but, as he has subsequently conducted himself with more
mod4ratioo than his brother agitators, we. do not choose to
resuscitate the memory of that which led to his retiroizent from
our university in 1798. Lord Edward Fitzgerald at the'same
time earned for himself the attributions of a traitor and a rebel,
and exposed his children to the brand of attainder. Accident
saved him from a public atonement for his crime; and the cle-
mency of George the Fourth restored his family to their forfeited
•rights.

But in these facts we Fee no claim nn a legitir;ate govern-
ment for its patronage and favour. Bow many of thole men
and of their suns, who, at the petiod referred to, suffered both in