Mr. O'CorrNELL has promulgated his "next step" in the Repeal
agitation. It is a prospectus of the restored Irish Parliament ; and is in fact nothing but one more placard in the series of advertise- ments that are issued to keep up the interest in Repeal. The Conservative Standard amusingly resorts to the same kind of attack on O'CONNELL that the Whigs use against PEEL—it up- braids him with not acting up to his professions! The Standard volunteers to fight the battle of the deluded Repealers, just as the Morning Chronicle plays champion for the deluded Agriculturists. While the O'CONNELL allusions to civil war are again shadowed forth more distinctly, there is something inexplicable in the Minis- terial views about the Army. In the House of Lords one after- noon, the Duke of WELLINGTON scouted the idea of corrupting the non-commissioned officers. On that same afternoon, as the Morn- ing Post remarks, Adjutant MACKAY was shot by a soldier, in revenge for what the man thought tyrannical and vexatious drilling ; and at the inquest on the officer's body, several non-commissioned officers said that there was a general "grumbling" or "murmur" among the men at the "excessive drill." One colour-sergeant said that the drill was necessary to make certain new men work well with the old : but the necessity does not disprove the murmur- ing. An officer of rank has instituted an investigation ; and it is understood that he has reported the drill not to be excessive, and the regiment to be in a "high state of discipline "—with murmur- ing, and such overt acts as the shooting of an officer! Are these incongruous appearances all reconcilable ? or is the Government mistaken, falsely informed, or equivocating?
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