the Right Rev. Dr. Manning's Letter to Earl Grey. The writer of this
article strongly recommends his Grace to publish a new edition of his
Letter, omitting the last sixteen pages. We have been advised, also, to
issue a new edition of our HISTORY, to omit the Preface, and any remarks
or facts that might tend to show that the Irish tenant was not the
happiest and most contented being in God's creation.

The _Pall Mall Gazette_ argues--if, indeed, mere assertion can be called
argument--first, "that Dr. Manning has obviously never examined the
subject for himself, but takes his ideas and beliefs from the universal
statements of angry and ignorant sufferers whom he has met in England,
or from intemperate and utterly untrustworthy party speeches and
pamphlets, whose assertions he receives as gospel;" yet Dr. Manning has
given statements of facts, and the writer has not attempted to disprove
them. Second, he says: "Dr. Manning echoes the thoughtless complaints of
those who cry out against emigration as a great evil and a grievous
wrong, when he might have known, if he had thought or inquired at all
about the matter, not only that this emigration has been the greatest
conceivable blessing to the emigrants, but was an absolutely
indispensable step towards improving the condition of those who remained
at home;" and then the old calumnies are resuscitated about the Irish
being "obstinately idle and wilfully improvident," as if it had not been
proved again and again that the only ground on which such appellations
can be applied to them in Ireland is, that their obstinacy consists in
objecting to work without fair remuneration for their labour, and their
improvidence in declining to labour for the benefit of their masters. It
is the old story, "you are idle, you are idle,"--it is the old demand,
"make bricks without straw,"--and then, by way of climax, we are assured
that these "poor creatures" are assisted to emigrate with the tenderest
consideration, and that, in fact, emigration is a boon for which they