Since the unlucky publication of the pamphlet on the "Domes-
tic Prospects of the Country," Ministers have not ventured to put forward anybody to " speak their sentiments" either in newspaper or brochure. We are within about a month of the assembling of the MELBOURNE Parliament, but have bad no intimation of the MELBOURNE policy, save in the aforesaid production ; which, though disavowed, was unquestionably authentic. .The tone of the Ministerial organs, when they touch upon general politics, is Con- servative. Not a hint is given that any popular measures will be attempted; all that is distinctly said amounts to this—Lord MELBOURNE will keep " in," if he can.
The double necessity of steering clear of discussions of the Ministerial policy which might compromise our straightforward rulers, and of providing matter for leading articles, has driven our consouporaries to the everlasting topic of Ireland. Daily we are treated with columns on columns of the dullest trash, "a long me- monindum of old stories" about Ireland, to be served up again by the weekly journalist, who looks around and sees every spot but Ire- land tabooed. This course will be followed, probably, till the meet- ing of Pailiument forces the honest journalists to come to close quarters—till the Ministerial policy, whatever it be, must be avowed and defended. In the mean while, we wonder whether anybody reads the Irish articles in the newspapers, or cares one straw about the fabrications of Dublin correspondents, whose vo- cation is to supply matter for exhausted journalists on this side the Channel ?
