We cannot help suspecting...
We cannot help suspecthig that the people of Irviand will be tlisapp inted, if they expect any important results from the late visit of the Righ,t Honourable Secretary to their country. What call lie do indeed ? Pity then, ? Alas! who does not do that ? Bat whvat advantage do they derive from the feeling of compassioni ? If einancipation were now capable of pro(ducing any great benefit, Mr. CANNING had no need to go to Ireland to convhice him- self of the policy of the measure. He should rather have sent some of his colleagues tlhither-his friend the LORD CI{ANCELLOt, for exam.ple. As to the repeal of the Union, or the translation of the United Patliament from London to Dublin every third year, these projects are too ab- surd to need refutation. Neither are we convincetl that the aggranaizeinelit of the capital of a king- dom exclusively, is a very desirable object. We are aure that the increase of London becomes traly for- mi(lable, and would be much more so, were it not that the commercial -townis in every other part of tbe island increase along with it, and some of them even in a more rapiri proportion. So, also, if the rest of Ireland were thrifty, we shoul(d wish that the capital imight take its share. But if iMIr. CANNING was affected by the misery exl4ibited to him in the city of Dublin, what would have been his. feelings if lie could have traversed some of the counties? The variety of discordant conjectures respecting the pur- pose of the Right Honourable Secretary's visit, and its probable result, is at least a proof that lie has been pru- dent-that is, silent. He appears to have copied Lord Bur- klghl, in the Critic-to have seen much, to have thought much, to have shaken his head, and said nothling.