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At length signal-guns of distresshave been fired from the Liberal fleet.Albeit stoutly denying the existenceof any extraordinary suffering in Ireland,Ministers have brought forwarda measure, based upon the admission ofa distress there much exceeding anythingwhich their opponents havealleged. Concealing or evading theloud cries of Colonial discontent, theyhave announced a policy implyinga total revolution in Colonial government,and which never could havebeen conceded but from the consciousnessof a vast amount of former maladministration.The Irish ReformBill and the New System of ColonialGovernment are, par excellence, themeasures