text:  Can we then be surprised at the state in which we find Ireland and the difficulty experienced in hitting off the measures requisite for the emergency--when we see "the most beloved and popular viceroy that ever administered the government " and the one "who was said beyond all others to be best acquainted with the wants and wishes of that country " so profoundly ignorant of its most simple statistics--simple it is true but still bearing most importantly on a great and momentous question? We fear that in his viceregal "progresses " the noble marquis was too much excited by the hearty cheers which greeted him and too much engaged by the brilliant eyes that beamed upon him to attend to the more ostensible and more serious duties of his office; and that he devoted the time which if properly employed might have enabled him to arrive at the truth in chucking the chins and patting the heads of the pretty frail ones to whom he addressed valedictory admonitions as he released them from those dungeons to which the over-strict laws of their country had (no doubt unjustly) consigned them