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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 40, 9 May 1844, Page 4

Blessing of a Tory Government.—ln Ireland we see a ppople whom it is no longer safe todespisc,—a nation now capable of holding its own,— a population of eight millions apparently on the eve of an open declaration of independence,— at least in a state in which a single word from their leader pronounced in some moment of irritated impulse, or one farther rash step on the part of the government, would give up to all the horrors of civil war. In Wales, something like war in one of its many forms of disorganisation and anarchy has even corn* menced. Local admini stra tion abuses (that subject so important in the eyes of practical statesmen, so indiffereut to the present having produced their natural Iruits, —a bold defiance of the constituted authorities, Lynch law, and military collision. In England, decaying commerce, and deep-rooted, growing discontent. The muttering of a comming thunder storm, in which'every ele» ment of order aud coufusron may soon be commin* gled. A feeling of utter weariness of class Jeisglation prevailiuf] not only in towns, but also in the rural districts. Wealthy manufacturers abandon* ing industrial occupations, and giving up their whole time to political agitation ; 'armers declaring against the pretensions of landlords at meetings calk ed to uphold the co. n laws ; two millions of peti» ioners agaiust a factory bil rebuking the extravagant pretensions of the church,— Westminster Review