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lisped in another column, will be an ample refu-
tation of that very prevalent and very erroneous
insinuation. It will be seen by that royal harangue,
that without in any manner committing the Crown
to this opinion or to that, to this measure or to that,
to this particular policy or to that particular policy,
the voice of the MONARCH may speak to the people
that language of encouragement, and consolation,
and promise, which such an emergency as the pre-
sent renders more than advisable. It will be seen by
the expressions which have just proceeded from the
lips of here MAJESTY, that the Sovereign may, with-
out exceeding the authority confided er-her Muir
trious keeping, utter those words of sympathy, of
assurance, and of earnest recommendation, which
are so welcome to a suffering and expectant
population.
Considering the destitution experienced in the
sister island, and the sterility of a soil which, with
proper management, would prove generous and pro-
lific, it was but reasonable that her MAJESTY should
advise the thorough investigation of the exigencies
of Ireland, and the revision or re-organization of her
agricultural system. It was but just that the patience
of the unfortunate peasantry under their extraordi-
nary privations should elicit the approbation of the
SOVEREIGN, and that, while scanning the position of
so many millions of her MAJESTY'S subjects, her
MAJESTY should demand from the Legislature a pro-
portionate assiduity and a proportionate calmness in
striving to diminish the lamentable effects of those
privations, and to render their recurrence impossible.
In regard to the recent occurrences upon Conti-
nental Europe, whereby the most solemn treaties
have been violated, the most sacred rights invaded,
and the peace of the whole world endangered, it was
alone to be expected that at least ene paragraph in
the Speech from the Throne would be devoted to
their consideration. It was but right that the mar-
riage of an Orleans Prince with a Spanish Princess,
and the incorporation of the Cracovian re-
public with the Imperial territories of Austria,
should command the observation of her MAJESTY as the

chief of this great and predominant nation. The

treaties of Utrecht and Vienna could not be violated
with such flagrant contumely without drawing

from one of the Governments most interested in their
preservation the most emphatic and decisive protest.
Still, the infusion of anything approximating to

acerbity in the address formally delivered , by her
MAJESTY to the Leghlative Houses of Great
Britain would, to say the least of it,
have been most injudicious. Under every
circumstance of a similar character, it becomes the
sacred duty of the SOVEREIGN to speak in those tones

of moderation which are most suitable for the main-

tenance of the royal dignity, and best calculated to
insure some rational and pacific settlementof affair
In this particular, the Speech from the Throne will
assuredly be found to have justified the anticipations
of all sticklers for the sanctity of treaties and of all
lovers of peace.
When the odious restrictions still remaining
upon . the iinp;ortation of food are remembered,
and when, Moreover, the imminence of the exislifig
dearth is taken into account, it Cannot be any matter
for astonishment that theguardians of the , national;
welfare should endeavour to sweep away such veii4

removable difficulties. Upon. this point her MAJEST-Y1

does not enter into details, it is true, hut her MA;
JESTY'S address gives, we doubt not, more than

an intimation of the salutary intentions of

her MAJESTY'S Ministers. That • the unnecessary
and extravagant consumption of barley in the pro-
cesses of brewing and distillation should be prevented

by tle substitution of molasses and sugar ; that the
navigation laws, which at present exclude from our
markets many cargoes of Moderately-priced and nu:
tritious provisions, should be temporarily modified to
meet the wants of the existing scarcity ; and, above
all, that the British ports shoUld be immediately
opened for the reception
.of grain from all qugters of
the globe—are the most ostensible means for the
amelioration of popular disOess andthe prevention of
national famine.' That there are perils 'of this de-
scription' impending' over Peland, the Government
itself has virtually asserted • by transmitting food and
money to her inhabitant.; by preposing enormous
loans to her landowners, by changing a large number
of war-steamers into' commissariat vessels for the
victualling of the whole island. There must be
some comPeniationfor these generous endeavours on
the part Of the Administrationthe ptople - must
be remunerated for these disbursements of the Ex-
chequer; and that there will be sonic isuch corn
-.
pensation as we have expressed, is certain from the
•
declarations
.of.her MAJESTY.
As .the official manifesto of the Russill Cabinet,
if not as a programme to the session, the Speech
from the Throne must be regarded as most satis-
factory ; for; beiides the • questions relating
to Ireland, to Cracow, to the Peninsula,
and to the full and perfect - emancipation
of commerce,. it is unquestionable: that Lord JOHN
and his colleagues are: now Pedrd beypd- alrre-