Mr. BROWNLOW has given no...
Mr. BiowNLOW has given notice of a motion for thi- night in the House of Commons, the aim of which is sup. posed to be the putting down of the Irish Catholic Asso. ciation. This association is a self-constituted body, if thai can be called a body which has no one principle of conti- nuity or coherence--assombling and dissolving on the same day. The component parts of this new invention are alto- gether undefined. Every man who pleases, as it seems from the Irish newspapers, may attend in a certain room any day in the week, and make a speech upon Catholic grievances, and see a report of his speech the next morning under the head of " Catholic Association." How Mr. BROWNLOW is to attack an abstract and nondescript essence of such a nature, we shall learn, probably, before we are [many hours older. It is obvious that the Convention Act (introduced, if we remember right, by the late Lord C LARE) has no sort of reference to any but delegated as- semnblies-each member of which professes to represent particular bodies of tlhe IKNG's subjects. lf Catbolics are to be prevented from meeting in a room and discussilg matters which concern their own well-being, it would be difficult to allow the privilege so forbidder to any other class of British subjects. Yet even by the Six Acts that right was held sacred, among many which were destroyed ! But the fact is, that the Catholic Association, however of- fensive it may appear to Mr. BROWNLoW, has proved a God-send to the Orange interest of Ireland. It is one of the thousand follies of the Catholics, supposing the class of Catholics who support it to be sincere in their desire for emnancipation. The noblemen and higher gentlemen of that body have ever discountenanced the moc Parliament set up by the agitators. Had the latter been hired by the Orange ascendancy to fight i-s battles, to serve the cause of bigoted intoleranc?, and multiply the Euglish enemies of emancipation, they couldnothavepursuedamore ju- dicious course than that whiich the proceedings ef their would-be legislators have exhibited. The acrimony of their language is enough to make adversaries, if they bad none. The vagrant spirit with which they abandon one grievance to fasten on another, leads quiet men to suspect that there exists among them no wish to have an individual wrong redressed, but that their purpose is to keep up the game of fermenitation, and to raise a storm in the hope of being suffered to rule it We pronounce not absolutely upon any man's motives, but if actions are allowed to be the most reasenable index by which to judge them, wc should say that the wild and turbulent part of the Catho- lics are afraid of being extinguished by the removal of their acknowledged grievances. Yet how Mr. BaowNLow is to put down the Association we know not; and as every thing Irish turns to gall, so, we fear, vill the debate upon his motion.