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LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1846,

Lord Jones tussE i.r. gave notice, on lir'.aay last, of a mes-
den on the 26th instant (next Thursoely week), on the state
of Ireland. The form of the motion is for tle House to re-
solve itself into a Committee to consider of an address to
her MAJESTY on the state of Ireland. 'file first idea which
occurs on hearing of this motion is, '.rat it is likely to em-
barrass the Governinee.'., swhich embarrassment of the Go-
vernment may yet have au injurious effect on the pro-
gress of the penil,;ng commercial measures. Such, we
have reason to believe, is the view t3ken of Lord Jous
Ruseer.L's weexpected; notice of motion by many in-
fluential Ye embers of Parliament who are his supporters.
But it would be unwarrantalf.y ignoring all the many
proofs, which Lord JOHN. RUSSELL has given of a
de'.ermination not to iveipede the progress of Sir I:oneee
P're.e.'s commercial Ines ores—it would be not only refusing
Lim the confideeice lie to a statesman of his experience and
eften-Provee't Caution, and forbearance, but supposing him
capable, ef the grossest inconsistency, to imagine that after
discouraging by every means in his power, and ultimately
`Ming against, Mr. VILLIERS'S amendment for imme-
iliate repeal, he was going himself to make a hostile motion,
framed to catch the votes of the protectionists, and so place
the Government in a minority on a leading political ques-
tion, while the fate of the Corn Bill is yet undecided in the
Lords. What was Lord JOHN RussELL's reason for voting
against Mr. VieLteete's amendment, after Sir R. PEEL had
declared that, should that amendment be carried against him
by a cornbinae;mn of the Protectionists with the Liberal party,
he would ae‘ept it? Why, that, though Sir ROBERT PEEL
would meske it his own, there might be many Peers who had
con. :etited to the compromise of three years' delay in the
'original measure, but would not agree to immediate repeal,
and that so by grasping at more, we might lose all in the
Upper
.House. Now, though Lord JOHN RUSSELL were to
defer his intended motion on Ireland till after the Cons Bill
had gone up from the Commons, and though his defeating
the Government on that motion would not lead Sir ROBERT
PEEL to resign till the Corn Bill had either become the law
of the land, or had been rejected by the Lords (and Sir ROBERT
PEEL said as much in the discussion about foreign
books as that he had made up his mind to disregard all
defeats and brave all difficulties till he carried his new Corn
Bill and Tariff, or at least as long as he saw any chance of
carrying them ),—still a defeat of the Government in the
C'einmone, by Lord J. RUSSELL, on Irish policy, could not
bist have its effect on wavering Peers, and might make all
the difference between a majority and a minority for the
Corn Bill. We take for granted, therefore, that Lord J.
Russets, intends no embarrassment of the Government, and
will avoid embarrassing them. his motion stands a t present
for the 26th, but that is probably a merely nominal day.
After all the Government may not oppose hie, mo-
tion ; the concord between Lord LINCOLN and Mr.
DENISON, on the Nottinghamshire hustings, may pre-
figure concord between the two leaders on the
great questions of Irish policy. Or if the Government
oppose, the protectionists may not support Lord JOHN. Lord
Josiet's views on the Irish Church will certainly not come
nearer to Sir ROBERT INGres's and Mr. COLQUEIOUN'S, than
will those of Sir ROBERT PEEL and Sir JAMES GRAHAM.
That we may say safely. Still the protectionists, as a party,
may side with Lord JOHN for going into Committee, to
enunciate, when there, their own views, in distinct opposi-
tion to those respectively of Lord Jolts RUSSELL and Sir
ROBERT PEEL; and the motion is so framed as to give
them an opportunity of helping to place the Government in a
minority, if they like. But we feel confident that if Lord
Jolts; RusesELL sees danger. in his motion, he will steer
clear of it; and we would venture to say respect-
fully to the zealous free-traders who have taken
harm at Lo rd JOHN'S notice, "you peristed in an amendment
for immediate repeal against the remonstrances of very many
of your friends,—some of these who remonstrated with you
nlet with severe rebukes at your hauds,—allow to °there a