Ou these speeches and proceedings ef Mr. O'Connell, we find
the following spirited remarks in the new Irish paper, the Dublin Monitor ; which here gives an inkling of the "earnestness' that we called for in ou: last notice- Well, we had Mr. O'Connell at the dinner at Thurles, abosing the Appro. priation-clause. That the thing was never aught but a vain and -empty delu- sion, ivas from the beginning the opinion of every disinterested person of the least understanding, ; hot then, it served its turn, and the Appromiatiomelause should not now be kicked out of (fools like an old and u..ele..s svrValit who 1,3, become unable to perferm further labour. Was it not the Appropriation. (dense that tumid mit Sr Robert Peel's Administration—even when the pliant Baronet of Tamworth was willing to proceed further in the eradication of abuse, and upon the high road of Reform, than ever his official opponents have been able since to advance? Was it not to oppose the destruction of this very Ap- propriatien-clause that induced Mr. O'Connell and his followers to put them- selves wider the leadership of Lord John Russell, and vote with the very Whigs who bad hen, but a little before, base, bloody, and brutal?' Mr. O'Connell told his audience that the A ppropriation.clause was never of any solid edema- Cage, and only stipulated that some thousands should be spent upon education, after the lapse of a few years. We must correct the honourable gentleman-- the whole boon consisted in the chance of obtaining a sum of fifty thousand pounds, to be spent for the purposes of education at the expiration of seventy• two years I Mr. O'Connell laughs at the absurdity of regarding this as a very substantiol matter of quarrel ; and he is perfectly right in doing so ; but would he not hive called the man a traitor and an 4 linpracticable,' who would have dared to imit ite his example when the motley Melbourne Cabinet were endea- vouring to scramble back to offiee? The attempt to run down Lord Brougham, for no other reason thin that he now happens to be rather inconvenient to Ministers, is to say the least, in keeping with the bullying which now appears to be the oder if the day, not only in support of Ministers themselves, but also to sustain their filthiest tools. We really expert to be abused ourselves by Mr. O'Connell. upon his arrival in town, for meddling with the immaculate editor of the EreoingPost, who, not a hundred years ago, wrote him down • an unredeemed scoundrel and we have put our house in order to give battle, in a shape that will not be very pleasing to Mr. O'Connell's Ministers or tools. However, as if we bail not already beheld inconsistency enough, our astonished senses are to he greeted by another turning of backs up' a themselves' by our political guides, of so startling a complexioa, that one might well think it in- credible were any tergiversation surprising now.aelays. Who doth not remem- ber how manfully Mr. O'Connell denounced the Report of the Railroad Com- missioners on his arrival in Ireland, at the end of last Session? He designated it by all kinds if bad names, and observed that ' it contained a palpable puff upon the Provincial Bank :' yet we learn that Mr. O'Connell has recanted his errors, and is now about to become the champiun of the Railroad Coin. missioners !"
A correspondent of the Miwning Chronicle—who begins in the brogue of a bogtrotter, but rises to the signature of " Cato," with sentiment to matt:ha-is allowed to lecture O'Connell, warning him that in his abuse of Englishmen he is all on the wrong tack. Thus preacheth the .Ministerial Cato- - ft was all mighty well to begin the wars with that little handful of Trojans, no bigger than a corporal's guard. that used to warm themselves round Richard Coyne's parlour lire in Capel Street. Every thing twist have a beginning ; hat though you tens were soon turned into thonsanas, and the Corn Exchange was too small to hold the twenti,ah part of them, what mould all that signify, or where would you be now, if the English people had not risen up like honest mill trite mon to back you ? 1 tell you, Sir, ton would still be walking the hall of the Courts with the shill gown over your shontler., awl pleading to his lionour Sir Thomas Lefroy, in the Rol's, or cheeping demurrers boore Lord Chief Baton Litton. It is fair to give every one their due ; if the Irish Members carried the Reform Bill for England, we shotild not forget that it was England put t twin ill the way of cam ing that or auy other bill. " And, now, what victory In you expel to gain withoot England. that you come oat upon your Iced' campaign, setting up the shamrock in oar cap, snit flinging away the rose and the thistle ? Oh, Mr. O'c "linen. my good friend. you tried that before upon the Repe,t1 question, nod 1mw tii.1 it t in-n out ? \That honour or gloty did you reap then, that son talk or playing over the same game again ? A wiser man titan ever you'll be—and this is no taenee. for I veak of King Solomon—said well,. A threefold cord is not triiekly b:oken.' This the Tories found to their sorrow, while England. Ireland, and Scotland remained firmly knit together. Ilow the knaves most hug themselves and laugh to see you labouring to `spoil a good rope,' its tint is hung its two :tautest strands, nut itt its hug your whole weight upon a siogto thread, to hear you tilt. " But you will say—this is not ilia, else, for you only cast till the faithless and un- manageable Radicals of Oreat Britain, while to the tinehearted sons of Albion suit throw open your arias the same as ever. I hope cuts may he so; butt yonr tn.ls have a ii stir nit lii lig, and excite aur people to a jealousy and distrust of (Terri th■ng Enfii,h. What other construction can they put up m the unnecessary 111111:4011 Lii your letter to (I think) sir II. Motris, contrasting Irish i fidelity. awl honour with ' English perfide treochery.?' Wherefore evoke t hand cheering of your com- pany at the Vault.; dinner by vatintiug your ' pride,' beeause that meeting was
• presided over by one who does nut derive his rank from S irtei invisinn or Creppeelliaa
rellary." lu w hat purpose at Kauturk denounce the whole bolv of • Reformers as base is well as ungrateful?' Can you think that the clefs you seek ace to be instned hy such means, or that you will thus raise up friends throtilt.oit the United Kingdom to a CillISC which, well suit know, Ireland by hers.olf, distracted and enfeebled as s e is Its faction and division, never can render triumphant ? •• Be Assam!, Sir that in the plait of t our present agitation, as it has been I aid open at these two dimwrs, the sober.minded and purlieu uf Irish RetOrmers are far from conetirriog ; St1,1 if you look to them for support, t our will lid uerselr in a aunt nwrited minority."
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