OFFICIAL IGNORANCE.
Trim part of the King's Speech which relates to Belgium may be safely pronounced as written by one of very imperfect information respecting that country. It implies a restoration of the union of Belgium and Holland—an event which can never take place, until one or other of the countries has been submitted to the Irish re- medy of lying six hours under water. It is a mockery to accuse the Belgians of not waiting the deliberations of the States. They denied, in the first instance, the competency of the States ; and, in the next, it was the King of the Netherlands himself who im- patiently anticipated the decision of that assembly, and sent his troops to Brussels, while the States were resolving them into sec- tions, and complying with the other tedious formalities of their High Mightinesses' Assembly. The terms of " enlightened views" and " good government," imply approbation of the administration of the late King. The government that produces a general revolt, ought to be praised with caution. The views of the Emperor Jo- SEPH were also called enlightened, but they have always been con- demned as unwise. Their result was the same as that of the en- lightened views of the Dutch King. We fear that some lingering attachment to the frontier fortresses is at the bottom of all this: the proverb of throwing good money after bad, might be applied with advantage.
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