The illness of Lord Derby has caused some anxiety and
some rather premature speculation on the probable consequences of his death. But he is not dead, and there is, happily, no cause for apprehending that he will die yet.
Mr. William Brown's magnificent gift to the town of Liver- pool, and the ceremonies consequent upon the opening of the _Library he has built at a cost of 40,0004, have deservedly at- tracted attention and excited unfeigned admiration. We know not which to esteem the more, that sense of civil duty whioh prompted the donation, or the modest dignity with which Mr. Brown bears the unbounded gratitude and eulogy his act has called forth. The young men of Liverpool will best show their appreciation of Mr. Brown's munificence by making a good use of the facilities he has afforded them for an entertaining and useful employment of their time.
Mr. Monckton Milnes has made a judicious speech to his con- stituents at Pontefract. Here is, at last, a Liberal Member who stands up, regrets the loss of the Reform Bill, and has the courage to speak out for small boroughs. Mr. Milnes made a very practical suggestion when he recommended the manufac- turing towns to send younger men to Parliament, so that their representatives may stand some chance in competing for office and distinction with the younger sons of the landed interest. Coventry bambeeneerying out for remission of the Raper,duty, or the imposition of at Custutas-duty on :the paper-used by fo- reigners in thepacking, of tiibbons ! Mr. Gla4istone,tef course, says " No." In likwmanner, Kent is 'calling loudly' for the postponement of the payment of the Hop-duty. Mr. Gladstone will have to say " No " again.
The vials of ecclesiastical wrath have been poured out in Dub- lin upon the devoted heads of Victor Emmanuel and Garibaldi. Dr. Paul Cullen has had the double gratification of immortal- izing the martyrs in the Irish Brigade who died in defence of the Pope and the sacred interests of the Papacy, and consigning the leaders of Italian liberty to " ignominy and disgrace." In- deed, Victor Emmanuel ought to pause, and smile at the frantic disappointment he has produced, by selfishly securing- " the best military positions ; " at least he ought to have given Lamo- rioiere the chance of victory, so that the brave Irish, fighting for celestial crowns, might have had a substantial earnest on earth. So says Paul Cullen. Canon Redmond, not to be out- done by his Archbishop, tells us that all our ideas of right and wrong are reversed, and that the world is-getting into confusion in consequence. The present is only a continuation of the great battle between good and evil, in which Rome has always been one of the belligerents. True ; but which ? It is not every- where so lustily assumed as it is in Dublin and the Vatican that the Pope is the good angel in the Canon's Manichtean ver- sion of contemporary politics. In Italy, at all events, they give him another character.
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