In Ireland, the great fact is the bankruptcy of the
Repeal As- sociation, with the closing of Conciliation Hall. The parting re- volutionisms of Mr. Mitchel, who advises his fellow rebels to "go on"—the moderated battle-cry of Mr. Smith O'Brien and the unimprisoned Confederates, who proclaim a real rebellion by and by—even the arrest of Mr. Meagher for marching Lout Dublin with his Club, two abreast—all that sort of thing is worn- out commonplace ; but the shutting of Conciliation Hall is new. It closes the career of the revolutionary body instituted by Da- niel O'Connell. The professed object is, to dissolve the Repeal Association, and to reorganize the Repealers of all parties in a new force under a different name ; as if the new name and the form of " fraternizing " would quite neutralize the elements of discord. It cannot be. The bloodless rebellion of the O'Con- nell policy is quite overridden and swallowed up by the not bloodless rebellion of the Mitchel school ; and no O'Connell inherits that paternal ingenuity which made the Repeal Associa- tion seem delightfully formidable in Milesian eyes, harmlessly amusing in English eyes. John O'Connell cannot keep up the Moral-force humbug ; he is not fitted for the Physical-force hum- bug—it would be quite against the paternal traditions and his filial piety, and he will not meddle with it. Mr. John ought to withdraw from the scene ; and surely he will not be forgotten by Whig gratitude ? He should get a place in the Excise, and retire from Repeal business.
