Mr. CANNING made a shrewd...
Mr. CANNING made a shrewd enough guess at the na- ture and properties of the Irish Catholic " Association,'" when he hinted hisopinion that it miglht be safely left to Iitelf, since? for bringing it to that state out of which it ought never to haye rlsen, its own members were means more convenient thitu any that the machinery of an act of Parliament couldihave providedl. The 1tight Honouirable Gentleman knew very well what mischief A set of coxcombs are apt to indict upoi4 any party to wbich they profess to attach themselves. 'he ~vain turbulence of the Milesian Magnates has accordingly taken its full effect, just at the moment when the close of the rival Parliatnent at West.. minster had left the O'CoNNsLs, O'GoRmAS,, saAd the rest of them, little more to be afrajd qf, Rut instead of canter- ing quietly over the course, these wiseacres began crossing and jostling 'with each other. Some flippancy of O'CoN- NELiS compelled the Secretary, their most efficient officer, to write thera a " dignified" letter, and to resign. Then there were sundry vile debts to be paid which had been incurred for the sake of the Catholics, and which one or two rigmarole fellows pretended were entitled to an appro- priation out of the " rent," or poll-tax, hourly gathering in from every hovel in Munster. But O'CONNEL did not rellsh this " working for a dead horse," as the proverb goes: he would have no " trumped up" debts. On which an unlucky editor of a newspaper, or some such insignifi7 cant personage, printed a letter of the Counsellor's own in- diting, and dated several years before, attesting the fairness of the very debts which were now sneered at as so many fabrications. This was rather sharp upon the orator, who, in revenge, declared his contempt for the public press, antd threatened to withdraw his pa- tronage from it; at the same time confessing that his cia- racter was left in such a dirty state, as to make its purgation resemble pretty closely a similar miracle performed of old, upon the Angean Stable. 33e that as it may, the Chiefs of the Popish Democracy are all by the ears; and long may they contiIue so, for it is the only chance which the cause of our respectable Catholic fellow-snbjects haa of prosper- ing before the end of the present genleration.