of a common country, and appropriate to themselves a inquiry
and investigation, he would try. He regretted the burden
the insult which the Peers have cast upon the nation at large. imposed by the quarantine-duties, but could not undertake to re- From twenty to thirty thousatid persons attended the Dublin
meeting on Monday.. This was a formidable display of physical move it. As regarded the trade in grain, he professed to see great difficulty in abandoning the present system, though he was force ; and the language of the speeches and resolutions was aware of the impolicy of turning a governor into a speculator in of that bold and decisive character befitting men who,
corn. He seemed to imagine that there was danger a a famine conscious of injury, know that they also possess the means of in Malta unless the Government kept up its granaries. On all redress. Tlw claim of ,the Irish is to be placed on a perfec
equality, in every respect, with Englishmen and Scot per
The Union entitles them to take this high ground. They
never will as they never ought to rest, until the oppressive and the merchants. They informed Sir GEORGE GREY, that, in thearchives of his own office, would be found a report of Commis- insulting distinctions, set up by the Tories as a justification of their tyranny, are utterly abolished. One of the Dublin re- sinners appointed in 1830 to inquire into the affairs of Malta; and solutions calls upon " their brethren, the People of England that from this report he would learn the feasibility and propriety of and Scotland, to cooperate with them in obtaining for Ireland reducing salaries to an extent which would cover very nearly the the full benefits of those free institutions which the Irish deficit arising from the repeal of the customs-duties. They also People and the Irish Representatives in Parliament have been pointed out the folly of supposing that an island under British so mainly instrumental in securing for Great Britain." This protection, within a day's voyage of Sicily and the African coast, appeal must not be made in vain. The English arc slow to could ever want a supply of corn; though, when Malta was ruled move, in comparison with the more exciteable Irish ; but symp- by the Knights of St. John, and liable to sieges from the Turks toms of the desired cooperation are visible. Preparations are and other Mahometan powers, there was a necessity for securing making for a meeting in the Tower Hanfets; and we perceive a permanent stock of grain. from the provincial papers, that in Taunton,Exe:er, Bath, Ruches-. In reply to this letter, a promise of further consideration of the ter, Bury St. Edmund's, Carlisle, and other places, meetings have subject was given; but we believe that nothing has been done ; been or will be held immediately, for the purpose of petitioning and we feel convinced that nothing but mere palliatives and make- Parliament to reject the LYNDHURST Bill. The idea of a compro- shifts will be attempted until Ministers are badgered in the House raise has never been started out of the circles of Parliament. The of Commons on the subject of misgovernment in Malta. Mr. undisguised intention of the Peers to insult the House of Com- EWART'S motion, which was put off on the 17th instant, now mons and to bully the Irish People, is uppermost in every man's stands for Monday next. We question whether, in the press of mind : and any proposition which bears the taint of concession, Parliamentary business which is threatened for next week, he will not only be scouted and scorned " out of doors," but its author will be able to bring it on; but at all events, we trust that the will be deemed little better than a LYNDHURST without his subject of Malta, and the grievances to which not only the inbabi- " pluck." Such being the state of public feeling, we shall be tarts, but the English merchants trading in those parts are sub- curious to see u hat course the " Middle-men " will take in this ject, will not be allowed to pass through the scssiou unredressed. crisis. There is a certain set of unprincipled or cowardiy trim-
mers, who, pretending to be Reformers, always come between The new Spanish Ministry is the result of an intrigue at the inception and completion of a righteous measure, infusing Court ; and is established in defiance of the popular branch of th
Into the compound just so much of what seems good as shall the Legislature. It consists of ISTURITZ, as President of the suffice to bribe a too facile majority of our Representatives to gulp Cuncil and Minister of Foreign Affairs; General &orient, down an immense mass of mischief. We warn these gentlemen, Moinister of War ; AGUIRRE SOLARI'S, 110W Ambassador to that, just at present, their calling is a dangerous one. They are France, Minister of Finance; GALIANO, Minister of Marine ; the not suspected, but known, and watched : let them spare their Duke DE RIVAS, Minister of the Interior; while the Ministry of pains. The English constituencies—not so immediately affected, Justice remains to be filled up. and busied beyond precedent with money-making projects—may It is uncertain whether the new Government is Liberal or To- iet partake as largely as they ought to do of the Irish indigna- renist, notwithstanding two of its most prominent members, Inn- ton : but, by and by, even their selfishness will be roused—they RITZ and GALIANO, aye been Ultra-Liberal. A manifesto or will begin to count the cost of the revived agitation in Ireland; programme has been published in the official newspaper; but. and when once they get an inkling of its effects in their breeches- though it talks of putting an end to the civil war anCliev = ely pockets, wo unto those who would mete out a niggardly measure punishing offenders against the peace, it leaves us in file der of justice either to the Irish or themselves! to the politics of the Ministry. In the mean while, the- How do the Peers like the aspect of the political atmosphere? dores have shown clearly what is their opinion of it. On the ems, They have 'sown the wind, and now the whirlwind is coming. first day that the Ministers took their official seats, it was prcrpoiettes. Who can tell if the House of Lords will endure through the that the vote of confidence which was given to Mesteerstutt._ f storm ? should not be extended to the new Ministers ; and this motion,
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