11 JANUARY 1957, Page 29

The Opettator

JANUARY 14, 1832 O'CoNistal's plan for assembling the Irish representatives—Peers and Commoners—in Dublin, to discuss the Reform Bill, the Poor- laws, and everything else, has signally failed. No Peer has attended at all; Lord LONDON- DERRY has given the inviter a scolding, and Lord CLONCURRY has shown up the originator of the scheme in a letter that he will find some difficulty in bearing or answering. Of the Commons, only seven have consented to attend, including the two O'CoNNtm s and Mr. GRAVTAN. The letters of excuse are 'many of them pointed, some of them indignant.