New-York daily tribune., 1855-08-28

" onment trsnsr rcrtation and even with death.
They carried, however, the Coercion bill only on
the express stipulation that they would bring IN
and cary an Irish Church bill, with clause stip-
uiatine that certain portion Of the revenues Of
the Established Church in ireland should be placed
at the disposal Of Parliament, with the view TO
employ 1t for the benefit Of Ireland. This clause
was important from acknowledging the principle
that Parliament had the power Of expropristiug
the Established Church, principle John Russell
ought TO be convinced Of, the whole immense prop
erty o. his family being formed Of church pluraer
Having engaged to stand or fall by that bill, they
fastened, on the ground of avoiding collision
with the Lords, to take out that very clause, the
only part in the bill of any value at all They
then voted against and defeated their Own meas.
ure. But when Peel came in, at the end Of 1894
their Irish syWpathizers were roused again as by
an electric shock John Russell was the principal
agent in bringing about, in 1885, the Lcnteld
Rouse compact, through which the Wings sur
rendered TO O'Connell the Irish patronags and
OiConneE secured TO them the Irish votes But
there was wanting pretext for ejecting the
Tories. John, with Characteristic impudence,
chose ts battlefield the Ecclesiastical Revenues OF
Irelsad He attacked and turned out Sir Robert
Peel because of his resistance TO that very clause,
now called the appropriation clause which the
Reform Ministry themselves had abandoned. The
Melbourne cabinet was formed, and Lord John
became leader in the House of Commons. He
now began to boast on the one hand of his menta
firmness, because although now in Office he still
adhered to his opinions on the appropriation clause
and on the other hand of his moral moderation in
not acting upon those same opinions. He never
acted upon them. In 1876, when Premier, he con-
tryed to get rid of the opinions too. He professed
that be could not conceive more fatal measure
than the dsestablisbment of the Church, and de-
cned to take any further notice of the project Of
1885.
In February, 1893, John Russell as a member
of the Reform Ministry denounced Irish Re-
peal, and stated that tbs real object Of the agita
tion was "to overturn at once the United Par
"liament, and 10 establish, in place of King,
"Ioros, and Commons of the United Kingdom,
"sone parliament Of which Mr.. O'COonell was
"to be the leader and the chief" Ia February,
1894, the Repeal agitation was again denounced
10 the Kings speech, and the Reform Ministry
proposed an address ''tO record in the most
Solemn manner the fixed determination Par
"liament TO maintain unimpared and undis-
"iuibed the legislative union" Immediately
on being shifted to the opposition benches, the
very same John Russell declared that, "with re-
aspect to the repeal of the uoion, the subject
"was open to amendment or question, like any
" "other act of the Iegislsture."
In March, 1916, Lord j Russell iu strange
alliance with the Tories, then burning with the
passion to punish Peel for the repeal of the Corn
Laws broke up Peel's administration by an un-
conditional opposition to their Irish arms bill.
He became Premier, and the first act of his gov
errmC mt was an attempt TO renew that same bill.
In 1914 he had denounced Peel for "hsvng filled
"Irelsnd with troops, ard with lot governing
"but militarily occupying that country" In
1S4S he occupied Ireland militarily, passed the
felony acts, proclaimed the suspension of the
habeas corpus, and gloried ia the vigorous meas
ures of the Clarendon reign.
Let us now look at his Free-trade pretenses
The Corn Laws had been enacted in 1915 BY the
concurrence of Tories and Wings. At the par
liamentsIy elections of 1885 and 1887, John Rus
sell stgmatZed Corn Law reform as "mis-
"cLievous, absurd, impracticable and unneces-
"sary." Since he came into Office he had re-
sisted all such demands, "at first contemptu-
"ously and then vebemently." He was more
thorough advocate for high Corn duties than Sir
Robert Peel During the prospect of dearsh
(e2e-39) he ana Melbourne did not contemplate
any alterations in the existing duties. The de-
felt, however, in the Whig exchequer rising 70
E7, 600, and PalmerstOns foreign policy
threatening to involve England in q war with
France, induced the House of Commons to pass,
on June 3, lS4l, upon the motion of Sir Robert
Peel, vote of Lo-confdence in the Melbourne
cabinet. The Wings, always as eager TO grasp
at places as unable-to fill and unwilling to leave
them, endeayoIed, although in vain, TO escape
their fate by dissolution of Parliament. Thea
in the deep soul of Lord John awoke the idea
Of Stultifying the Anti-COrn-Law agitation, as he
had hoped 10 stultify the Reform movement.
He declared himself all at once in favor of
moderate fixed duty-friend of moderate polit-
cal chastity and of moderate reforms as he is.
lie had even the edrontery to parade him,elf
IN ough the streets Of London in procession
of the Government candidates carrying banners
on which were exhibited in contrast two loayes,
aloaf Of stwO-penby size Inscribed the Peel Loaf
and loaf of Is. size Inscribed the Russell
Loaf The nGtiOp, however, knew from eIpe-
rience that tse Wings were wont to promise
bread aud to give stones, aud, Notwithstanding