A report was circulated in Dublin on Monday, that Earl
GREY bad been reappointed to the Premiership. The more ardent of the Irish Liberals were very naturally alarmed and angry at the prospect of his Lordship's return to office; and the Dublin Freeman's Journal, while
expressing disbelief of the rumour, thus vehemently denounces Earl
GREY- " The noble Earl's reaccession to power would be the signal for an universal outbreak in Ireland. Let the truth be spoken out at once—Lord Grey is bated in Ireland. His very name is abhorred by the coerced people of this country, whom he ruled with a roil of iron, and in forging new chains for whom he broke up his Cabinet. No, no—we have had enough of the tyrant in friend's garb ; and if oppression is still to be our lot, let us, in resistance—for in that case resist we will—have at least an open foe to encounter. What! submit again to Draco's rule?—Never. Rather let every man, woman, and child in Ireland perish. Why did Lord Grey resign? Was it not because he found that some of his colleagues, and the majority of the House of Commons, were determined to clip the iron fangs of his tiger proposition? Did lie not fling up office because he could not obtain the consent of the Representatives of the People to the hell-born clauses of his atrocious Coercion Act? Let Lord Grey come into office once more, and the union which now exists between the sever&
sections of the Liberal party will be dissolved, and to harmony will instantly succeed diseord dire."
By this time, our ardent Irish contemporary has probably been con- firmed in his opinion that there is small chance that Eurl GREY will assume the Premiership, or indeed any office, however insignificant. But even in the supposed case, the House of Commons might be relied upon to COMPEL him or any other Minister to govern Ireland on prin- ciples of justice. There is therefore not the slightest occasion for such violent outbreaks of patriotism as we have quoted from the Freeman'n Journal.
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