Of course a Ministerial crisis could not pass without a
manifesto from Mr. O'Connell ; and accordingly the Member for Ireland has done his best to comply with the exigency. Nothing new was expected, and nothing new was produced ; but, as usual, he issues a long schedule of grievances to be redressed, first in voluminous minuteness, then in brief. There is evidently a growing fear lest the accession of the Whigs should be detrimental to the interests of the organized Repeal agitation, by decoying away adherents: to counteract that dreaded influence, Mr. Smith O'Brien and others are industriously engaged in talking down the suspected tempters ; whose support even of this last Coercion Bill is made a strong point against them. The Repeal leaders, exhausted in shows of patriotism, beginning to quarrel among themselves at the instigation of self-love, know that they can no longer afford to tamper with avowed Whig alliances. Ireland, we say, is likely to be Lord John Russell's difficulty."
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