The chief Repealer of Ireland has been performing a curious
office this week—pruning his connexion of damaging auxiliaries. He has cast off the Whigs. True, he once learned to embrace the "base, brutal, and bloody Whigs," and he might again do so if their power were waxing. If the Whigs swim strongly on the stream of events, he will deign to hold by them ; but when they are sinking, it is merely proper self-consideration that makes him kick them off. Obviously, Re does not think the Whigs in a capable state at pre- sent. M. UDEN ROLLIN offered to visit the Father of Repm4 as the emissary of the French Democrats. The Father of Repeal is delighted at the letter; only he thinks the volunteered visit "at least premature," and would rather be the gentleman's host at a "more suitable opportunity." An American editor appeared, in propria persona, at the Dublin Corn Exchange, and procured Mr. -THoMAS STEELE to hand up his card : the Liberator looked at his guest ; spoke at him a short and bitter denunciation of his paper as an infamous journal, and wished him away : the American, who had mistaken his mission, decamped. O'CONNELL seems at pre- sent determined that Repeal shall bear no sins but its own.
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