LORD ANGLESEY'S IRISH GOVERNMENT—A SIMILE.
TIMES—Ireland is on all sides petitioning and complaining. The presence of Lord Anglesey, as Lord Lieutenant, was, after the full disclosure of his feelings towards the Catholic cause, a pledge, and no weak one, so long as he might continue, that the Government of England approved a system of mild and equitable administration between Protestant and Catholic. The King's representative doing impartial justice, proved, by his retention of that honour- able post, that the King himself had enjoined the Viceroy to do justice. The people of Ireland were shrewd enough to see this ; and the consequence was peace and forbearance throughout the country, so far as the Catholics were concerned. The continuance of Lord Anglesey was a further assurance that a Lord Lieutenant might be popular without offence—that he might he be- loved in Dublin, without being thought in Downing-street a traitor. But the talisman is broken : indifferent justice was a bad example—condescension to- wards the people was disloyalty at Court. The " good old Protestants" were as much dismayed by the equal cordiality shown to Catholic gentlemen with themselves, as the " good old Courtiers" of Louis XVIII. were, at his Ma- jesty's kind reception of all other classes of his subjects at the reformation. The Gregorys and Saurins cried out that " it will never do." " There is no ascendancy"—" there is no exclusive entrée for loyal men." " The slim shines on all alike." " Our charter—our beloved impunity—is wrested from us." For time menials of monopoly, persecution had been the choicest perquisite. Think ye, then, that their last cheese-paring would be so quietly relinquished ? We apprehend that in Ireland, as well as here, a tough. and possibly a tedious, contest may still precede the breaking up of the political game-laws. Orangeism is the " Irish preserve;" as Toryism is that of Eng- land. When the Catholic poachers become too strong for the keepers on that side the Channel, and when on this the Liberals—but not till then— we shall, every man, shoot his own game, and enjoy in common right that which Providence designed for the comfort of all civilized and social beings.
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