Our readers will have see...
Oar readers will have seen the end of Lord DkRNLZT'9 motion for an inquiry into the state of Irelandu; and by the''morte reasoning poriion of them, nio doubt, the argu- ments' of Lord LIVEBroOL, for refusing that motion, will be cousidered among the curiositiet of logic. " Give me," quoth he, " 3 specific grievance, and Ihave nd objeclion to "ezeamine it; but the purpose of the propc6ed inquiry is " so general, that it must do more harm than good." The noble Lord, it appears, is satisfied to practicer as a bbarber- surgeon he wilf probe a cut finger, or appl 4antstic to a scratch; but for the higher offices and more ard5uous du. ties of the profession, he is wanting either in nerve-.Or in- telligence.. He lets the unhappy patient" nmintster tunto Ihimself." "Specific evils !" Why,have ygunota t1cika&d of them ? Diseases from top to toe! Landlord-snd tenant- magistrate and mob-parson and parishioner-Cath;Aic andI Protestant-population and subsistence-Govenrment And people,-all these relations, and a myriad of otbers'.,are so mauy specific, definite, and indisputable inisehiefs, the least of them deserving the most earnest inveai0tiatioiand the most decisive remedy; but all together, ac<cording to Lord LiveRPoo}., affording such proofof a desper%te case, with which no human skill, or spirit, or-power can. strug- gle, that he tells the Parliament to shut its eyes, to c1rop its arms, and leave the snffierer to shift for himself ! Is tlbe the language of a statesman? or of one who is at once weak enough to fancy that the world w.ll detect no rotten- ness which is not recognized by the report of a committee, and uncandid enough to resolve on concealing it, lest, if published, the nation might extort from him the necessary cure ?