text:  But what has this much-abused minister done to conciliate Ireland since he came to office? He has nearly trebled the grant for national education and still continues the system adopted by the Whigs and patronised by the priests in opposition to a powerful and influential portion of his own supporters;--he found a board of charitable bequests composed altogether of Protestants and seeing as he stated "that two-thirds of the property they had to administer was Roman Catholic " he dissolved that board and constituted another in which the Roman Catholics have an equality and may under certain circumstances have a majority;[7]--he found the mortmain laws in existence and he repealed them; now any man who wishes may endow the Roman Catholic church to any extent he pleases