It is the most absurd self-deception for men to suppose,
that the votes of a number of Members, acting upon the principle which we have stated (" keep them in at all risks,") can, at this time of day, se.. cure a Ministry in power. They may sustain a Government for a time, but they take from under it the only sure basis upon which it can per. manently rest, namely, the cordial approbation of the people ; and, to show the effect of the " keep.in " policy, it is only necessary to remark, that scarcely any man would be found, at this moment, to say, that, if Parliament were dissolved to-morrow, the Melbourne Ministry would have a majority in the New House of Commons. It is vain to blink the true state of the case. On the contrary, the fact should be pro- claimed aloud. People have worked at the damping policy, and the " keep-in " system, too long ; and, if they do not speedily abandon it, the " put-out " consequence will come upon us ; and Ireland will be placed, once more, under the iron heel of a Tory Government,—Bel. fast Northern Whig.
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