The following well-reasoned arid forcible article appears in the Dub-
lin Freeman's Journal ; a paper whose disposition is favourable to the 1Vhig Government, though its honesty will not allow it to apologize for the political tergiversation of Ministers.
" The Morning eh ronic'e has taken a world of trouble to prove what everybody knows-namely, Grit the measures ilill'0311C1,1 sand suppinted by Ministera during the present session were all 'strictly Conseivati,e.' ' Really and truly,' gnat!) our con- temporary, ' the Whigs, formerly ileatiance.1 as destrmaivcs, are, after all, nothing but
Cousin vat Svcs. and did out ;;ice their any of the °ppm tunities of attack a hich those enemies at the opening of the late campaign had arilemly hoped to major.' The Conservatism of the Whigs is indisputable ; but we would have thought that the Clara- nie!e --the organ and mouthpiece of the pat ty - would have considered it impolitic and inexpedient to a...w much less to boast of, the tergiversations of its employers. '• Why the abandonment of principle should he made a matter of boast, we cannot imagine, unless it he for the purpose oft mvitwing the Tory constituencies that the Whig Ministry hate forwarded the interests ith I ut jects of Toryism as effectually as a 'rimy one; and it a ould appear that sort an impression has actually Site made by the
• strictly Conservative' policy of Nlinkters, for the Clirtmiele informs us ' that not only has the Whig Government been genially gaining solidity slid firmness in the House of Commons, but it has ruartired thruttgliant the country the r. hietaiit confidence of many w ho. it year ago, lurked Nam it With distrnst nod C‘ell Willi tenor.' does not condescend to enlighten is as to the mesas whereby the Whigs hal.: mole ..:c1 rapid pni41 ess in the gaml opinion and a ff....Gotta of those to whom, twelve. months a:o. they gave C311SI! fur tearer lined distrust ; hut their ClIallge of policy ‘,11 HI Must ,'very gnrst fun Wills Which their existence was at one time supposed.
to be with:A- hoot the appropriathm of the surplus revenues ut the Irish Church SIOWIs 10 the mliinoktration of the levenucs or the Irish corporations-mammas very satisfalan.ly fur the rehietatit 1.01111■1011..l. Which we are told the Tories have leposed in the • stri,ily c.oisercaVe..e ' Administration of Lord Nfelhoit.iie. Thew is ',W•la..t. LoWCCrr, W Well the Chronicle has eithel OVellook1.11 or considered unworthy of mein!. namely, that if Ministers have *doe.' the madidenee of some few of their enemies, they have 1.4 the confideite, of many of their legends; and we strongly snspeet that in the next session of Parliament they will be kneed to admit that it was scarcely with whde to sacrifice so mud, to gain so little. The Tithe 11111, tun, .1 filch shied) Conservative measin es, is already regarded with positive ahhoiieirm in I telito I. Worthless as the Appropriation clati.e sets Rd- Illitt..11 10 be, it slIlivtittllell a principle for which the Irish have ever boldly stood up— the conversion of the ecclesiastical revenue to secular [imposes. The Appropriation
clause recognized the right tit Pailiament to deal with pr peaty as it saw fit; it held mat 3 11111, ...Oiler or late!, the mmustrotis fly of compelling seven millions .f Itomint t7atholies to s.pp irt the clergy of SO0,000 Protestatita would be abolished, :oaf that the property wiestisl from the Catholics by the arbitrary edicts of it ruthless tyrant, and his scarcely less ruthless miccessur, would be devoted to the
111111,..V3 311.1 for which it Was; originally intended, a dingy, the support of tho less and the *Tread of educatio,. The abaildoll!llellt of the Apprepriabota clause. dania_ted the 'tlinistry far more than they yet suspect in the estimation or the Irish people; hit their sulisequent cirichict in reference to the Church question-their studied awl Ose1l.devised pl.au fur re wlering the abominations of the tithe system msr- petual -their handing the people, bound hand and foot, ewer to the parsons -will lie remembered and execrated long alter the discordant elements of which their Cabinet
is composed have been scattered scattered they %ill he -by the breath of public: opinion, tittles, 'Ministers adopt a bolder and Iiiinester Hicy than a ' strictly Causer- vutive ' one."
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