O'ComrELL's plan for assembling the Irish representatives— Peers and Commoners—in
Dublin, to discuss the Reform Bill, the Poor-laws, and every thing else, has signally failed. No Peer has attended at all; Lord LONDONDERRY 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'CONNELLS and Mr. GRATTAN. The letters of excuse are many of them pointed, some of them indig- nant. To sum up DANIEL'S disgraces, Dr. DOYLE has addressed in him an epistle, in which he proves, with all the clearness of a logician and the calmness of a philosopher, that the great 0 is wholly incapable of leading sensible men, inasmuch as he has neither sense nor consistency—Et tu, Brute! The failure of O'CoNNELL's plan, and the consequent sinking of his reputation for rowing, have taken all interest away from the union of men and the union of members.
Previous page
