If not the most exciting, the most interesting Irish news
of the week is the first triennial visitation of Queen's College, Bell fast. It 'passed in a quiet, businesslike manner. The institution is still of inconsiderable- extent and -limited means, but the friends of education cherish the holm that, it and.the sister Colleges may for good resemble the grain Of mustard-seed in the parable. Lord Eglinton appears to be visiting the National Schools sedulously; and expressing himself 'regarding them in a way to dispel some unT favourable-forebodings. On this and Other subjects of vital im- portance to -Ireland, some interesting remarks will be found in a letter' from a CionseriatiVe coriesPondent,'!. to whose judicious ob- servations We' lately invited attention: Our correspondent, how- ever, does not-appear• to be admitted to the secret Councils of "the Castle." .Writing from Dublin On the tith of this month, he does not explain an inoident of sinister aspect that- oceurred on the 3d; when one of the best newspaperd id Ireland, the Northern Whig, was plaeed"On. the iitAex expurgatorins of that ketablishment. The journal, no :doubt, is of an advanced shade of Liberalisni • but its opinions have always; -we believe, been decorously advocated, and as the organ of the preponderating political Sentiment Of Ulster, it is 'exactly-the • journal•that a judicious ruler -of Ireland would de- sire to see regularly. Its exelusicin•from "the Castle" may pair off with Ler& Clarendon's indisoreet • patronage 'of Mi. Birch and his World: . • • • "Whit Lord Dorbfs Government is without Protection," page 342.
