man who of all others, would have been their surest
guarantee against this danger, the old Chancellor,
Lord Eldon, had not resumed his place in the govern-
ment; Lord Lyndhurst had been appointed in his
stead. Great astonishment was felt at this: people
asked one another why Lord Eldon was not in the
ministry, and to this question, which was one day
put to himself, Lord Eldon replied with malicious
sincerity: 'I don't know why I am not a minister.'
Without as yet splitting up the victorious party, these
personal discontents, and those ill-concealed anxieties
kept it in a state of painful agitation.

Out of doors, a violent and ably-organized opposi-
tion raged. While Mr. Canning was prime minister,
the Irish Catholics had made no noise, for they hoped
in him, and were careful not to hamper the good
intentions of the Government by awakening popular
alarm; but as soon as they saw the Tories once more
at the head of affairs, they renewed the conflict with
passionate vehemence: the Catholic Association re-
commenced its public meetings, its harangues, its
addresses, its pamphlets, its subscriptions, all its
ardent and well-planned labours, in order to arouse
and to discipline the people in Ireland, -- and in Eng-
land, to intimidate its enemies, and to encourage and
recruit its partizans. Two men of very unequal
power, but both of them powerful by very different
means and on very different stages of action, O'Connell
and Moore, marched at the head of this crusade for
the emancipation of their creed and race; O'Connell,
a robust and audacious political athlete, an ingenious

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