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with his wishes without a moment's delay. He administered such spiritual 

 consolation to the poor man as the doctrines of his church permitted ; 

 and prescribed such medicines for his bodily indisposition as had the effect, 

 in a few weeks, of restoring him to perfect health. On his recovery, 

 he speedily abjured Protestantism, and threw himself into the arms of the 

 Catholic church. What a painful contrast, to the mind of every true 

 Protestant, does the conduct of this Church-of-England divine, ex- 

 hibit to that of the Roman Catholic priest ! The clergyman — the Pro- 

 testant doctor of divinity — balances the inconvenience of wet feet 

 against the probable salvation of an immortal soul ! Rather than incur 

 the risk of wetting his feet, he will allow a human being to writhe 

 under all the unutterable horrors of an awakened conscience, and run 

 the hazard of everlasting perdition. And this is probably one of the 

 " Irish clergy," on behalf of whom such pressing appeals are now 

 being made to the pockets of the British public ! How shocking to 

 think that one who regards the eternal salvation of a fellow-being 

 as a matter of much less importance than the keeping his own feet dry, 

 during the fifteen or twenty minutes the visit might have required of 

 his time, should, when entering on his pastoral office, have solemnly 

 declared that, in taking that office on him, he was moved by the Holy 

 Ghost ! Verily, with such a clergy, it is no wonder that Ireland should 

 remain Catholic : the marvel is that there are any Protestants in it at 

 all : we mean Protestants from principle — Protestants whose worldly 

 interest does not lie in their being so. If Ireland be not Protestantized 

 until it be effected by the agency of such men as the present clergy, we 

 fear there is little chance of our living to witness such a consummation, 

 should we attain the good old age of Methuselah. 



Division in the Tory Camp. — " When rogues fall out," says the 

 proverb, " honest folks get their own." The Tories, just now, are at 

 drawn daggers among themselves ; and the country is enjoying the 

 benefit of the disunion. Measure after measure of extensive and 

 salutary reform is being introduced into Parliament without even the 

 show of opposition by the leaders of the Tories ; and the speedy transit 

 of those measures, undamaged by Tory " amendments," through both 

 Houses, may, if the same glorious discord continue among the faction, 

 be confidently expected. The Duke of Wellington is rusticating at 

 Strathfieldsaye, as careless about politics as if there were no such class 

 of animals as Tories extant ; Lord Lyndhurst is in town, but he has neither 

 any relish, just now, for Tory stratagems nor Tory dinners ; he absents 

 himself, on system, both from the House of Lords and from the richly- 

 spread tables of his Conservative friends. He acts, in this case, on the 

 scriptural maxim, that if any man will not work neither should he 

 eat. He will not do the dirty work of the faction, and therefore he has 

 conscience enough not to eat their dinners. Sir Robert Peel goes 

 occasionally to the House, but he offers no resistance to liberal measures. 

 On the contrary, as in the case of the Irish Municipal Corporation 

 Reform Bill, he advises the House to let the bills be brought in without 

 opposition. If a demonstration in favour of the expiring cause of 

 Toryism be made in the House of Lords, the task devolves on tho;e 

 able and enlightened statesmen, the Marquis of Londonderry and the 



