BlYSTIFICATIONS OF THE MINISTERIAL PRESS.

[From the Morning Chronicle, Oct. 8.] The article in the Spectator of yesterday, entitled " The Irish Policy," is curious, and the object of the writer is a bold one. Ile undertakes to show that Ireland labours under a great mistake in looking upon a Tory restof atien with alarm; and in support of this position he endeavours to prove that the Tories could not, if they would, pursue a high Orange policy in that couutry. In brief, the Spectator's project is to Tory. Radicalize the Irish people. The only similar attempt that has hitherto been made was, if our memory is correct, in an address of Sir William Alolesworth to the Reformers of Leeds, last November.

Our contemporary goes to work cautiotody. He tells us at the outset of his argument, that he is " assuredly not disposed to anticipa!e ben,fit to Ireland from the reestablished dominion of the Tories over it ! " The candour of this admission does the Spectator immense credit. The same caution pervades the whole article. A little further on we are gravely told, that in case the Tories should resume the Government, "it is PROBABLE that the soothing system would be adopted, and that there would be no 'fusillades' of the peasantry." latioaaear there would be no "fusillades" of the peasantry ! Excessively inviting ! We proceed to give the substance of the Spectator's reasonings in his own .words-- " It becomes a consideration of importance what mischiefs the Tories are likely to perpetrate in Ireland ; for we are assuredly not disisised to anticipate tolirji■ to that country from their reestablished dominion over it. 'Oh,' say the Wh14., Loom. nellites.• the Tories ss ill attempt to revive slavery : we shall hate the infernal Orange system again forced upon us.' Let it be granted that the Tories have the inclination Imputed to them -have they the means of indulgence? Are they so much mole pow. erful now than in 1825, or the Irish means or resistance so mu-ll impaired, that the Tories would venture to set a %hole people at defiance? Has Wellington grown a furious bigot and dotard, or Peel gained rashness with years, that either or holt would in 1833 provoke a contest which they shrunk from, when their opi mients were less numerous, in 1829? That the Tory leaders hare no such insiate schemes may be concluded from the whole tenor of their recent poliey."

The argument here, as we apprehend it, is briefly this : the inclination of the Tories to resist the popular demands would be as strong as ever, but they would nevertheless act again as they did in 1829, and yield to agitation what they had -denied to the voice of reason and justice. In the words of a reverend orator at the late antS.Cetholie meeting at Blanchester, the Conservative leaders would

again a betray" their party ; " the pilot who weathered the storm," meaning Sir Robert Peel, would once more " treacherously spen the floodgates," and let 10 some further ruin upon the Church and the — ■"--ustitution. Most firmly du we believe that this would be the event ; and that belief is the ground of one of the most insurmountable objections we see to the return of Tot y statesmen to otlice. It is nut because we think a Tory Ministry tvould " set the people uf Ireland at defiance " upon the Municipal Reform question, for example, that we regard such a 3litiletry with apprehension, but precisely. for the opposite season. We know that such a 3litostry would concede that measure in the eery broadest form in which the roar of Irish agitation could demand it, and we linoty all the vast and cureless mischief occasioned by the concessions of even the hest measures, by a Government opposed to them in spirit and in principle, and sullenly surrendering only bee .use resistance is be- yond its power. We do not desite to see the most uncoustitational, the most unprincilded, the most dangerous genie of 1829 played a second time. That game is not to be played twice with safety to the kingdotn—with safety to public cliacieter—tvitli safety to the foundations of civil government. For the sake of hmelauiul herself, we should most strongly deprecate the amplest redress of her grievances by men who never did, and never can, redress a public o-rong, without exalting the demagogue and degrading both the Parliament and the Crown. A heavier disaster couhi scarcely befall the lrish people than a second victory, like emancipation, over a malignant but infirm " The con • ceseions," StyS Mr. DUI lit., with the soundeet wisdom, " in which the govern. jog power of oar countty loses its dignity, are dearly bought ercu by those who obtain oljeet," The public will please to recollect that no later than last winter the TeMeg distinctly admitted that its new friends, the Tories, ore a patty " withoat any Pu ineiple ,t action bat obstinacy when strong, and .11i:,ht when feeble." The ineasuie of municipal reform is, probably, the very poorest concession which the united outcry of a 'emulation of eight millions, so well accustomed to agitate as the Irish, would be certain to extort from a party of such a character. The Tidies might perhaps make a stand against a lit-peal association ; but we firmly believe that repeal is the only question upon which any thing like a stand would be male by them. We trust, however, we shall ue%!er again see the rights of Irishmen established by the reluctant hands of their bitter and preset iplive enemies. The party 0055' in power is the only one which can concede just demands with honour, and resist unjust ones with effect. The Spectator goes on to say— e It is sufficient to refer to the conilitet of Sir lIolairt Peel and his confidential cusp. porters, on awl hince She dismissal of the first al elholime Mioistry, to understand that the coercion a 11,1 it ritution of Ireland eater rot into theta-plans. It is true that some Orangemen were put i WI I SUb01,1:11.0e offices by sir Hobert Peel. but not aith the goort,- will and entire approbation of the Tory Premier. li;s ion was manifested by his Ilist act towards ffirming an administration-the upplicatiwt to 1,01.3 Stanley (be- tween whom and the W Inv, now that the former has carried his point on the Church

cpwetion, there dieeernible difference in principle,) to join hi.n iti a mixed Cabinet.

Ile SOIL Lora Haddington, certainly tun 5 nublea.au th.• Bolen s,bool, to Dublin; Ore Mr. ShAu became meek and cum:et:us; and the alinistty patronized the new plat, of ea ,leation fie Ireland," The Irish readers of the Spectator will have cracked their Fides with laughter helm-e they reach the end of this passage. It is not to guard Irishmen against delusion that we notice the article before Us. Vpou them it will produce about as much effect as the arguments of the Genius of Suicide du upon Baron Griezzwig, in .217cholas Nichleby.

If Sir Rebel t l'eel must govern in Ireland with Orange instruments, it mate ters not a straw what his private wishes may be upon the subject. It may be very true that it was not with " the good-will and approbation" of so prudent a nem as Sir Robert that men like Colonel Perceval, with Orange ribbons in their hats and purphe sashes round their waists, were taken into the Adminis- tration of 1.834; but the flet that they were so taken into office is quite enough for the public ; and unless the Spectator can show that the same thing would not be done again, were a Tory Alinistry to be formed, it is utterly idle to talk of Sir Hubert Peel's inclinations. Indeed the circumstance, that, with all Sir Robert Peel's influence with his party, and notwithstanding his being, as is alleged, pelsonally opposed to the appointment of men of extt eine Tory politics, he was, nevertheless, compelled to take into office a man like Wood Ferceval, a Grand Master of an Orange lodge, proves in the strongest and clearest manner the weight of the Orange section of the Tot y party, nod the impuseibility of establi-hing a mitigated system of Toryism in Ireland. The Spectator produces the strangest proofs of the good dispositions towards Ireland, for which he wishes to obtain credit for the Tiny leader. The first act of his Administration in 1634 was to apply to Lord Statfley to join him ! CAU Old Spectator he ignorant that there does not exist a Tory upon the Oppo- sition benches so thoroughly detested in Ireland as Lord Stanley ? Can the Spectator be ignorant that Sir Robert Peel himself is popular in Ireland com- peted with Lord Stanley, to seek a parallel for whose character and estimation in that country we must go back to the days of Strafford, whom his Lordship resembled as closely in insolent assumption and despotic principles and mea- sures, as he fell immeasurably beneath him in intellectual grasp and stature? Yet the Spectator boasts that Sir Robert Peel, in 1830, solicited Lord Stanley to join him ; and this is the way he baits the book with which he expects to catch the Irish !

But our Tory-Itatlical angler has another fly upon hisline. " He sent Lord Haddington, certainly not a nobleman of the Roden school, to Dublin ! Kind Sir Robert Peel! good Sir Robert Peel ! If Sir Robert would only promise to send Lord Haddington back to Dublin, who knows but the Irish would cry—" Hurrah for a Tory Ministry ! " We know not what the Spectator means by the Roden sel.eal, but we be- lieve Lord Haddington is as stanch a Tory as Lord Roden, and we have not foreotten (although the Tories and Tury-Radicals may! that on the first night of Lord Haddington's arrival in Ireland the oriflanitne of Orangeism and stand:nal of civil discord waved over his vice-regal bead in the royal box of the Dublin theatre.

It may be very true that "the maintenance of the old Orange system is impoesible ;" but is this a reason why we ehoulil give the foe an °ppm tunity endeavour to revive it? We cannot see the halve of the Spectator's reasoning. Are we tint to guard against the attempt to reestablish Orangeistn, because it is unlikely that such an attempt would he successful ? Would the Spectator SW that we should open our doors to a gang of robbers, upon the calculation that we may possibly, or even probably, overpower them after their admission? The Spectator (lees not pretend that the Orange section of the Tory party has been in the least reformed or mitigated. All he asks us to believe is, that the Tory leaders dislike that section, and would keep it in conttol. We know, however, that they did not du so in 1834: this the Spectator himself acknowledges.

As to "fiery Mr. Shaw becoming meek and courteous," it is very little matter what fiery Mn. Shaw " becomes, or what becomes of "fiery Mr. Shaw."

But Sir Robert Peel's Ministry "patronized the new plan of education for Ireland." They did so most tt uly, and would patronize it, we vezy well know

• [What did the Chronicle say of this " mot unconstitutional," " most unprincipled:* "stunt dangerous game," at the lime it oas play ing ?3 l• [If Lord Stanley was so excessively 011i01111, why did the Whiys, as well as the Tory Premier, court his altiance its 1834 sod 1835? Until he had altogether repudiated Ilium, they fawningly clung to hint-protesting that be was their friend, Out l'eertil

again to-morrow, were they restored to office, notwithstanding that the Bible has been mutilated so atrociously, and notwithstanding that one of the Commissioners is a Popish Archbishop, and that the rest of the Board have been charged one thousand times by Tory orators, divines, and journalists, with the politics of Robespierre and the religion of Paine. At the saute time, it is utterly impos-

sible that a system of national education can be efficiently conducted under the auspices of a party of whose genuine hostility to it there can be no question ; and we therefore see in this last reason for opening the doors of office to the Tories only an additional argument for continuing to keep them out. The Spectator proceeds to ask " what have been the Tory tactics" since the commencement of the present reign? And he tells us, most unluckily for his argument, "that the death of William the Fourth brought a change, not of object, but of tone and manner ! " The Tories, he further says, "assumed a virtue ! " Admirable reasons for readmiting them to power ; we trust they will convince the Irish.

The following need only be quoted ; and with the quotation of it we shall conclude our remarks, and leave the matter to the merry consideration of our readet s-

Caution has been the order of the day. The fault of offending any large port ion of the people was to be avoided. Lord Lyndhurst, in 1938, would have let his tongue be blistered before it repeated the • alien' instal of 1836. The purpose of his virulence had been accomplished, and ht• changed his note. The plan was laid for a lengthened and comparatively tranquil possession of power ; which policy is totall!, at variance with aggression upon the Irish imputation. On the contrary, it is probable that the soothing system will be adopted-no fusel/tides of the peasantry, but multifarious bribes admiuis- tered to the leaders."