text:  Yet if thus far we were found in error would _not that_ argue a corresponding error in the Government? If we relying on the self-consistency of the executive and _because_ we relied on that self-consistency predicted a particular solution for the _nodus_ of Repeal which solution has now become impossible; presuming a perseverance in the original policy of ministers now that its natural fruits were rapidly ripening--whereas after all at the eleventh hour we find them adopting that course which with stronger temptation they had refused to adopt in the first hour--were this the true portrait of the case would it be ourselves that erred or Government?--ourselves in counting on steadiness or Government in acting with caprice? Meantime _is_ this the portrait of the case? _That_ we shall know when Parliament meets; and possibly not before