The ..V;athern 'Whig of Belfast has published a statementwith respect
to tie. rejected Municipal Bill, which has excited considerable attention in Eugland as well as Ireland- " The Minidry bad made up their minds to accept the Irish Corporation Bill, es it was altered in the house of Lords ! Altis fact has net before Lep publi-hed ; but a fan we regret to feel convinced that it is. We heard of sometime ago, and wi re reluctant t3 suppose the statement correct ; hut we have since hitil it so fir authenticated, that we can no longer entertain a doitut upon the suhject. It appears that bind John Russell actually conveneti a neet- ing of a number of his supporters, including the Liberal Members for I, alamt, with the view of persuading them to accept the Lyedhurst Bill; that mmt CC them appeared disposed to follow their noble lead...r, with their usual pliancy ; and that it was owing chiefly, it not entitely, to tic ≤ mintd rono.:;Iran,.es and argnments '.Zr.of Cnrry, (to his hominr bi? it told,) the Member ler Armagh city, that the monstrous and ihgrading proposition was abandoned. Such, we repeat, we have reason to believe, is the history of this extraorultury affair. If we have been wrong informed, there are many who can set us and we shalt rejoice if it be in the power of those who can speak as authorities to prove that our information has Lain incorrect. But we auncipan no sorb correction."
The 21forning Chronicle declares poTitieely that this statement is untrue- " It is utterly :he tl.at the Ministers, or any of them, contemptit:d fir moment the am:pee-cc of the Irish Municipal sboln of every provisions, and with its very heart plucked out, as it cline from the ii•doneily bands of Lord Lyndlanst. The story is as absurd and as wicked a fah: ica:lon as that of the Riidain conspiracy, whirls the 4.;toni.'ord :issures his gobs in I he country !..t, hntli.:!.,- ;it tIni ca-uhe of Dahlia, and 13"`'' a' his I:: the ': Conmvn.. We n.,-1,dt the X,rth ern 117..1,, of the ; but sector r so easily ex:' use it for opening its columns wi•li fiaity to statements w it a journal like the a...4'177(111rd devours with so keen an appetite. Noiosily recollects the speech of Lord J chums Russell, when the mutilated and inurdeceil mea,mre emne down from the House of Mischief, would give an instant's cre- dence to the tale in question. ‘Vii repeat again, that the Itibilan piet, ci any given assertion of the most unsiu iyulous 11a1,051 mt S T.r iii :15:, is net m_ni destitute of found Him, or a shadeiv of a found .tion. A et :tem n;ori: growlak's, has not eppeared in the columns of the Stsfa 1,1;4 itsulf for the tOils e. mth ; stud xi w we have exhatvted our powers of expressing the degree of vati ince that snhsists between the story in the t',/ is iroly sam the real state of facts."
On a question of fact, the authority of the. Belfa-t piper is better than that of the .1.t.rniny Chronicle. And ii heat is there strange or ite- probahle in the stetement that Lord Joins !lessen was willing to p..ss a bill which bed AInlbouree carried threugh the II ieeee of feitie to its last staee, with enly a feeble opposition to Led Leralhurette eltera- tions? Besides, did not Lord John Russell lihroelf come width: a few shillings of the Lyndhurst proposition on the mein point of the franchise ?]
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