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With regard to Irish policy or no-policy, we have discussed

Lord Stanley's speech elsewhere. We must not, however, neglect to record his emphatic declaration on repeal or independence,—that " we will not allow the British Empire to be pulled to pieces in virtue of any fantastic theories Ireland and England are inseparable now and for ever." That is distinct, at all events, and to our minds satisfactory ; but, after all, there is no such thing as indissoluble union between true enemies ; and if Lord Stanley is to justify his own declaration, he must find a means of making the union happy, or it can never be indissoluble.

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