There is a split between the leading men of the
popular party in Ireland. Dr. DOYLE a few days ago addressed a long, and in some points a conciliatory letter, to the "White feet" and "Black feet" of Carlow, calling on them to lay aside their mutual quarrels. Dr. Doyaa says in his letter, that "the Legislature has always been ready to hear their complaints ;" and he asks them to put confidence in Lord ANGLESEA, "who is their friend and bene- factor, and who feels for them as a father." These expressions have roused the anger of O'CONNELL ; and in a speech to the Irish National Union, on Tuesday, he denounced them with great bitterness. On the first remark he said- " I remember when I was Counsel for a young man in Cork, who brought his master before the Mayor, and sought to get rid of him for his cruel treatment. 'Why, you ungrateful wretch,' said the master, 'did I ever lock the cupboard on you ?'—' Oh, no ! you certainly did not,' re- plied the apprentice, • lock the cupboard against me—but what was in it?' Now, what did the Legislature ever give to us willingly ?—what did they bestow but with the same surliness and dislike that a bone would be flung to a dog? They not only threw the bone in our teeth, but they broke some of our teeth with it."
Of Lord ANGLESEY, Mr. O'Comemen observed, that "he had put arms into the hands of the butchers of Newtonbarry,"—a harsh. accusation, and as untrue as it is harsh. Mr. O'CONNELL has also quarrelled with Lord CLONCURRY, for his conciliatory deportment towards Government. In short, DANIEL seems determined to quarrel with every one, that, in all points and particulars, does not like as he likes, and hate as he hates. On the issue of his attack on Dr. DOYLE, we cannot pretend to pro- nounce. We rather think the Doctor is as powerful a man as the Liberator—a short time will try.
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