No Lord-Lieutenant has as yet been named for Ireland, but
it is rumoured, with an appearance of authority, that Earl Cowper is to be sent there,—by no means a brilliant appoints meat. We still think that Lord Dufferin would have been Ws right man for the place. He alone has the gift for so seconding any policy he might approve as to present it to the Irish people in its pleasantest, and at the same time its true, light, as a policy conceived wholly for the benefit of Ireland, and derived from full deliberation with Irish statesmen. Moreover, Lord Dufferin oqld greatly assist Mr. Forster in sketching out such 0, policy, though it
was not for that reason, but for the delightful verve and chivalry of manner which he throws into his administrative offices, so as to glorify them from dull routine into delightful duties, that we coveted him for the Lord-Lieutenant of a beneficent Liberal rjrii,ne. He alone could prevent a great policy from being mis- understood in Ireland.
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