At Conciliation Hall there has been a dramatic scene. Certain
members of the Repeal party who are called " Young Ireland,"— though, being young, they, like all youths, dislike and repudiate the epithet of juvenility,—approve the scheme to further educa- tion, for the very strong reason that they are themselves of an in- tellectual turn. Mr. O'Connell, whether for a change after ap- proving of the Maynooth grant, or whether from a genuine zea- lotry that outbishops the Bishops, is a hot denouncer of the scheme, "from beginning to end "; which he would have to be strictly sectarian. He and the Young Ireland party came to an open rupture on Monday. But both sides thought better of it. Mr. O'Connell perhaps reflected, that, if Young Ireland is not vastly important as a section of the Repeal body, it would be vastly important as a section of a native dissent from that popular political creed ; and he made conciliatory advances. Mr. Davis remembered his affection, public as well as private, for Mr. O'Con- nell, and he burst into public tears ; which Mr. O'Connell duly reciprocated ; and with that recitation of the scene between Brutus and Cassius, the quarrel was healed. The difference was put out of sight, but not before it had been seen ; attesting the strenuous and unceasing efforts which the Repealers make to seem unani- mous. O'Connell is right when he talks of bidding against him for his followers : every real concession to Ireland will make that seeming more difficult and less effective. Open the new Colleges, -and scholars and professors will enter—with or without Episcopal sanction—with or without the Repeal button.
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