NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IN a week with little to break the dull monotony of November, the bad preeminence may still be assigned to Ireland. Mr. O'CONNELL seems determined to try experimentally how far the "simple Repealer." can be fooled. One fancies at each new trick that the multitude must find out the delusion at last and be
• enraged : but they awake not. They are at times sounded to see how they remain in their duty ; and as truly as a repeater chimes
• in answer to the pressure of the thumb, so does the crowd of "simple Repealers' respond to some old "hereditary bondsmen" signal with "loud cheers." O'CosisteLL has perfectly retrieved his position, by casting Federalism to the winds. He said a great deal about it at the last meeting of the Repeal Association ; and, as he generally is when he has some less patent purpose to effect, he was very vague and circumlocutory, mixing up that subject with at- tacks on Whigs, on Whig newspapers, on French newspapers, on the King of the French as an "usurper," and on Frenchmen generally. Amidst all this flowed a stream of defence against the imputations that he ever meant to concede anything ; and be wound up by tell- ing the simple Repealers, that "Federalism," snapping his fingers, " is not worth that." Nevertheless, Mr. O'CoNNELL, carrying on the same farce as he did lately, with ludicrous effrontery, appends to a formal motion for referring the subject of Mr. SHARMAN Casw- Foam's Federalism to a committee, the instruction that it be ; treated with respect ! He has thus read his recantation in full so -far as Federalism is concerned. Other things too he has aban- doned. The impeachment of the Judges &c., which was one of the important measures to be done after his issue from prison, is, he says' not quite approved of by the Bishop of DROMORE ; and the motion for a committee to arrange that project has dwindled to a comthittee-of inquiry-intO the State trials. Again—for Mr. O'Cosi- _wars was in that, frame of mind in which orderly folks sweep out their desks and burn waste papers—the project of assembling, a Preservative Society of Three Hundred is postponed ; greater diffi- .culties lying in the way of the measure than he had at first.sup- posed! It is therefore laid by, not to be used again until neces- sary. In fact, Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD has been a great help, by furnishing matter for a committee and a tremendous ." report ' ; and when Cuevirean's materials are exhausted, GREY PORTER will have sent in his for rough-handling; so that the Preservative 'Society and impeachment are not needed to make up-" business." The vacation is two-thirds over, and there will be no loss of sub- jects for the next two months. One scene at the Conciliation Hall cannot be forgotten. A Re- verend Mr. MORIARTY has come over from Amerida on a begging expedition, to raise ,money for rebuilding some Roman Catholic -churches destroyed in Philadelphia. during the riots. Mr. Mo- ELASTIC says, that those riots were not only directed to suppress • Catholicity, but also the nationality of Irishmen and the movement in favour of Irish Repeal ; and, with this appeal, he subscribes twenty Shillings to the Repeal fund. Mr. MORIARTY'S sovereign may be regarded as water thrown down the pump, or as " a sprat thrown out to catch a herring." So there is to be an American church-building fund exacted of the pauper Irish people, under the auspices of Mr. O'Cossierx and the patriot Association ! There is something very ugly in this merciless screwing of the wretched Irish, by forced appeals to their religion and their ." nationality." ;
• .as if they were bound to furnish subsidies for forcing the naturaliza- tion and employment of Irishmen, and the Repeal agitation, upon the alien citizens of a foreign country.
