6 JANUARY 1849, Page 6

"John O'Connell" again signed by living hand ! O'Connell minor,

it seems, is still extant, and not an exciseman, but pro- vided for—so it is said—in some "commercial situation." Mean- while, he varies the labours of penmanship with a letter to "the People of Ireland," of the regular old "hereditary bondsmen" twang ; proposing to renew the Repeal Association Mr. John dismisses the vanquished Confederation and the to-be-vanquished Viceroy—" the prating Clarendon "—with equal contempt ; heaps fulsome flattery on the great and good Irish; summons them "to the battle"; declares that they shall "assuredly and speedily ac- complish the reatoratiion of their Parliament," and promises to "die" if he do. not free them. The last promise of course he will keep—some day ; be it long distant!