Lord John Manners has issued his address to the electors
of North Leicestershire. It is curiously like Lord John Manners. He quotes a whole series of administrative reforms, and then says, v" That to this list cannot be added the reform of the bankruptcy laws, the improvement of the laws relating to the tenure of land in Ireland, and the development to its legitimate extent of the present system of education in England is owing to Ito neglect on the part of the present Government, but to the interruption in the proper course of business during the last -session caused by the interpolation of a crude scheme for the disestablishment and disendownment of the Church in Ireland." The educational scheme was a bad one, BO bad that its main pro- -vision, the change of Minutes into Acts, was condemned without a bearing; and no Tory Ministry will ever or can ever produceadecent Tenure Bill. Lord John Manners' accusation therefore, supposing it true, comes to this,—that Mr. Gladstone thought the conciliation of Ireland more important than a bankruptcy bill. The majority .of Englishmen think so too.
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