Mr. CANNING'S visit to Ir...
Mr. CMNNING'S Visit to Ireland would possibly not have taken place, had " noses been couutid" on it, as a Cabinet measure. Notwithstanding the pains that have been taken to tepresent this journey as having. no other than a private and friendly object, suspiciong have been exciied-4nd very poari ikiy in,nse9acneef o?thie e tade t.Ae theni.t hfat the'Right HonDurable Gentleman is actuated by mo- Lives somewhat diffeient fromi those which he chooses to ssi8n fosit. We think-That thoseu which h,e avows are Rdqieate.enoug' .tvosiiinpl'agnd easy an expedition- yet wa,(<-hatenktv oi lcw, that strange apprehensions and. b)lackd foiiotdinrg do tormient; or did three days ago, the ninds o'fcertain peroonages high in the State, withiregard to this very'niovemaiit of the Foreign Secretary. *How the LOItD CU lCELR,O!.n or tiis.Graee the Duke of WELLING- TON stanid affected towards it, there are public grbunds for guesSing; and private ones wlich tend tog corroborate the prim& jh3i'e' conljectui. As for Lord Li xju oot and M4r. PEEl., there are few- tings, perhaps, which. wonld mnore eontxibute to rem-ove their embarrassments arising out of the state of lreland, thaii the growth of suchl apower in the country,, as would oompletely overwhelm the anti-Catholic spirit of Par]iamentj and preseivc the unity of the empire without in aiy d6gre4coinpiomising the conisistency of these two Ministers. Mr. CANNING'S presence on the spot must furnisl hlim with opportunities, of which nointelligent and searching mind can fail to take advantage, for acquir- ing much useful knowvledge of Ireland and her politics, and for laying the groundwork of opinions, and possibly mea- sures more determinate in their character than any that ,the iRight Hon. Gentleman has yet ventured to countenance by his Vote. We are apt to believe that the labours andi reports of the Irish Committee will be of such a nature as to justify, andl very powerfully to support, the Parlia- mentary friends of a sound system of national policy for Ireland, in grappling directly with grievances now in course of development, which the tactics of former sessions led the least comprotnising statesmen, instead of entertaining them as fit matter for legislation, to deprecate, even as topics of discussion. If 3.r. CAN NINO'S visit to Dublin should do no more than fully impregnate his mind with suclh proofs and illusfrationsof the state of Ireland as theCommittee of Inquiry have got. hold of, it will have gained to the cause an able ehampion, and will have effectedl a lasting good.