The whole of Earl Derby's second manifesto is pervaded by a mingled tone of moderation and resolution, eminently calculated to win the favour of those on whose _fiat_ all ministers must depend--the enlightened public. Some days have elapsed since we penned the preceding pages of this article; and during that interval, having carefully watched the current of events, we declare that all our previous conclusions, not hastily arrived at, are confirmed--that the Earl of Derby will surmount his difficulties, and baffle his desperate, and, we regret being forced to say it, unscrupulous parliamentary opponents. His spirit is thoroughly English. As a people, we love courage, hate injustice, and despise trickery; and every day, every hour's experience shows that it is a vile combination of trickery and injustice with which the noble Premier has to deal. With one topic more, we close our article. The tactics of the Opposition, as far as developed on the evening of Monday the 15th March--especially in the House of Commons, where Sir James Graham, was to be seen publicly and eagerly bidding for revolutionary support--to our eye clearly indicate that their trump card is--a premature dissolution, and on one particular question, selected by themselves--and framed so as to admit of their war-cry being, as of old, "bread-tax--cheap bread!" It is evident, however, that here is a little reckoning without the host; who has a few words of serious import to say upon the matter. Earl Derby was at that precise moment announcing elsewhere, in resolute and well-weighed terms, that he will "go to the country," in his own way--and bring out broadly, for the decision of the country, two distinct entire systems of general policy, domestic and foreign, and the conduct and pretensions of the two classes of men--himself and his opponents--concerned in working them out. We invite earnest attention to every word of the ensuing three paragraphs. As to the question concerning a _Duty on Foreign corn_, nothing can be more assuring to his friends, more decisive of waverers, and more embarrassing to enemies, than the following single sentence:-- "I shall leave it to the general concurrence of the country, without which I shall not bring forward that proposition (_loud and general cheering_); and I will not, by a bare majority, force on the country a measure against which a great proportion of the country shall have expressed an opinion." (_Here the cheering was renewed._) That declaration alone takes the wind out of the sails of the enemy. As to being goaded into an immediate dissolution:--