" Why should O'CONNELL attack BROUGHAM so ferociously just now?"
is a question many people are asking. " Whence conies the provocation ? Last stationer they were good friends, and O'Connell blarneyed the Lord at Exeter Hall. What has happened since, to stir up the Agitator's bile ? "—A correspondent, at greater length than we have room for this morning, suggests that O'CONNELL is stung by something that Lord BROUGHAM hats " written, or not written," in the recent collection of his Speeches, or in the Edinburgh Review ; and es- pecially by Bitouottam's passing him over, and giving to GRATTAN and Lord GRENVILLE the glory of really carrying Catholic Emancipation. The same correspondent remarks, that O'CONNELL is ill the habit of attacking the absent and the dead. " Thus, he assails with scornful virulence the memory of the four Georges and William the Fourth. Yet people have not forgotten the day when the worst of the five, Gcorge the Fourth, landed in Ireland, and Daniel O'Connell trudged knee. deep into the water to offer him a fulsome address. Neither was William the Fourth always the object of his abuse. And who knows whether Queen Victoria, the idol of his present adulation, would not be spattered with some not very complimentary epithets, were Ernest or his son on the throne as her successor ? "—Ay, indeed, who knows ? This, however, is not a new failing in Mr. O'CONNELL'S popular ora- tory; though our correspondent may be, as many others are, at present more observant and less tolerant than heretofore.
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