14 SEPTEMBER 1956, Page 26

Zbe Opettator

SEPTEMBER 17, 1831 . . We are most unwilling, at so critical a period, to embarrass the Government by any recommendation or reflection which could remotely involve its popularity, or indirectly endanger the success of the great vital question of reform in the House of Lords. But so many public and private remonstrances on the disposition of its patronage have reached us from all parts of the Kingdom, and the disgusting facts connected with the Dublin election are so recent and so notorious, that we reluctantly enter our protest.