by coerced minorities-I say minoritiesfor neutrality is the boldest evidence of disapproval it has consisted with the personal safety of some of the Irish electors to hazard. Mr. Spratt, of Bond Street, will give any gentleman lessons, for a consideration; but, seriously, the misfortune is, that the trade is conducted at the expense, not of constituencies only, but of the empire at large.

There were certain secret-service monies and favours freely and lavishly distributed by Mr. Pitt at the Union, not to the most deserving, but on the principle, or rather as the only means, of ridding the country of wholesale jobbery. If the obstructives would but retire for their country's good, their grateful fellow countrymen could well and would willingly afford them ample means of enjoying their otium cum dig.

But, after all, there is no serious apprehension that any clique of Irish representatives will stop the momentum now given

to national prosperity. The grievance-market being depressed, members will not be expected to be so very oppugnant, and the exigencies of the era not calling for a demagogue, as there are now substantial interests to be consolidated, they will not suffer any one to push his personal notoriety at their

expense.

CHAPER XIII.

MR. BRIGHT IN IRELAND. MODERN JUSTICE TO IRELAND.POLITICAL AGITATION DYING AWAY. -SUPPLY OF CLOTHING, GLASS, AND MONEY-WAGES RECOMMENDED.-LIST OF GRIEVANCES ABATED. RENT-PAYING ANIMALS.

HINTS FOR A GOVERNMENT SETTLEMENT.-RELATIONS BETWEEN LANDLORD

AND TENANT.

It has been said that in every fresh visitor Ireland makes a friend. Would that were the case! Gross as man's self-deception is, no one can suppose himself to have acted the part of a friend to Ireland, who, after seeking an ill-gotten cheer, by pressing on his audience an acknowledgment of their disaffection to the imperial government, and the want of a feeling of common interest with England, goes back to the last century, and the most painful part of it, and illustrates

his unworthy clap-trap by dilating on the Rebellion.*

As it happened, this ill-timed recourse to the hateful practice of raking into history to exasperate the politics of the day, and that day in the third quarter of a succeeding century, and the slurring over such subsequent acts for the good of Ireland as are too notable to be ignored altogether; does rather more than justice to the present government, as tending to prove the absence of any crying grievances. Poli

* Mr. John Bright at Belfast, Oct. 4th, 1852, Times, Oct. 7th. Is there at this moment, through the population of Ireland generally, a feeling of affection to the imperial government? (No, no ! ') Is there a common interest felt with England? Is there not, on the contrary, lurking in the minds of hundreds of thousands of your people such a feeling as ought never to exist, and I believe never would exist in any wellgoverned country? So far from our being united under its system there are many men in this room who recollect a most formidable rebellion, which, but for an accident, might have had very serious results; and all of us can recollect those insurrections and incitements to insurrections which are discreditable to a government even though it may not be formidable to its power."

tical stimulants are bad remedies for social evils in all times, and neither a concentration of praise on the Encumbered Estates Act nor the better taste shown in other parts of his address, can offer amends, or in any way excuse a public man for their irritating application. And to think that it was an Englishman who applied the blister? Surely he could not have been aware that he was retrograding, putting a cog in the wheel of progress, showing himself to be in the rearward of the age.

There is a very broad margin of improvement left to be covered, before political discontent need occupy vacant minds in Ireland. The native lovers of their country have more knowledge and less presumption than those who have failed before them.

What do we find the results of the inquiry of contemporary visitors to be, but that all political agitation is dying away. I beg attention to the date of the following,