15 SEPTEMBER 1832, Page 2

O'CONNELL has declined to stand for Dublin. He cannot think

of deserting his friends in Kerry. The excuse is a feasible one, and may be true ; but the real reason assigned by the impartial part of his countrymen is, the certainty of defeat which must have awaited the attempt to force two of O'CornvELL's party on the Dublin constituency. He has advised his friends to form a junc- tion with a "Repealer" of the Corporation; and, strange as it may seem, the back-and-bone Tories of the Corporation are disposed to take him at his word, rather than run the risk of being thrown out by the Liberal candidates, w hich, in the event of their refusing to join the Liberator, it is supposed they as well as he must be. Saunders's News Letter, a matter of fact journal, gives the fol- lowing note of preparation—

[COMMUNICATED.]

" CITY or DUBLIN ELECTION.-It is expected that a candidate for this city will shortly address the electors on High Church principles, and a firm advocate for a repeal of the Union. A requisition to that effect is said to be in progress."

This is a laughable conjunction certainly, but it is nothing sin- gular: it is a common rule for extremes to meet. We must, however, do the Tories justice : they mean to make Mr. O'CoN- NELL and his friends the step by which they shall once more re- ascend to power ; that object effected, they will speedily kick down the ladder by which their elevation was gained. . The motives of O'CONNELL are not so intelligible. To suppose that he for a mo- ment contemplates the carrying of the Repeal through the me- dium of the Tories, would be to attribute to him an infinitely smaller share of sagacity than he possesses. We honestly be- lieve, though it may appear uncharitable, that he is chiefly guided in his conduct by motives of a private and personal nature—that disappointed ambition is the only true key to his vagaries. A man of public principle seeks for desirable ends through honourable means. A genuine lover of Ireland would scruple to defile him- self by combination with the chiefs of a party that had so long and successfully domineered over his country, even were he by such a combination to insure his utmost wishes for Ireland's welfare.