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indifference to the Irish agitator by persons who have
always shown themselves to be the most submissive
and abject of his slaves ; hence the show of valiant
independence on the part of those whose whole con-
duct hitherto has attested their subserviency to the
man who can stir up insurrection at his pleasure, urge
or arrest the progress of assassination, command the
Roman Catholic pulpits of Ireland, and dictate thirty
votes in the Imperial Parliament. Fortunately, how-
ever, it happens that Mr. O'Connell 'does not under-
stand or will not indulge the squeamishness of his Bri-
tish‘adlicrents ; that the cultivation of his power in
Ireland—the true source of all the power lie exercises.
on this side of the British Channel—requires a bolder
policy than that of the truckling slaves in Great Bri-.
min, who are willing to crawl, but would yet be thought
to stand erect; that by his position he is sometimes
compelled to speak truths which put to shame their ha-
bitual and systematic falsehoods. It is in conse-
quence of the position of Mr. O'Connell in Ire-
land, and the disclosures which that position has
extorted from him, that we are now enabled to,
unite the interests of the O'Connell and Aber-
cromby factions, and to prove that, however the
latter may seek to cajole the people of Great
Britain by repudiating the former, the natural
and necessary end of their common labour is the same
—that of exalting Mr. O'Connell, of strengthening
his means, of promoting his purposes, of separating
the empire into distinct and hostile portions, or of
transferring the dominion of the whole
.empire from
the British nation to the most ignorant, degraded, and
brutal portion of the Irish people under the guidance
of the agitator. Mr. O'Connell is exerting himself to
promote the election of Mr. Abercromby. Why ?
Because lie thinks Mr. Abercromby will make as good
A Speaker as Sir harks Manners StittOh?-1110,*(ibes
not pietexidthis. Becatise. he sympathises with the
Whig party in' Great Britain'in-the policy %ditch -they
pursued in office, and wishes to perPetuate that policy?
Ner...such thing. 'He has -repeatedly declared' that.he
condemns, • rejects, and -despises • the policy of the
Whigs.; What, then, is it that gives Mr.' O'Connell
goi deep an interest in- the efeCtiont'of the. Whig. candi-
date as Speaker of the new House of Commons? He
has given to his adherents in Ireland, and fortunate it
is that lie has done so, the fullest explanation upon
this point. He joins the British opposition, and la-
bours to enhance his own value, and promote their
success upon the question of the Speakership, not
from any love he bears them, for lie pretends none, but
because he considers this as the first of a series of Par-
liamentary struggles which may, as he imagines, open
an arena in which the Whig party and his own will
have to struggle for the future Government of Great
Britain and Ireland, and in which he rightly judges
that the triumph of his party, when pitted against
such antagonists, would be secure. He has tried the
Whigs, and he knows that they can bend to him. He
has tried his own power over them, and he knows that
their flexibility knows no limits ; that they are merely
willows in his powerful hand. And he would now
with their assistance dispose of the mace of the House
of Commons, only because he believes that if he can
do this, he may as the next step in his career of wicked
ambition, snatch and wield the sceptre of Great
Britain. For this delineation of the policy of
Mr. O'Connell we do not draw upon our own
imagination. It is no more than a faithful and correct
epitome of his own recent speeches in Ireland. He has
declared his intention to suspend the agitation of the
Repeal question for the present, in order to assist
the Whigs and Radicals of Great Britain to dis-
place the present Ministry. And he has acknowledged
in terms equally explicit, that he expects the Whigs, if
they should return to power, to find room for him in
the. Cabinet, and that he is determined, whether room
in the Cabinet be,' in the first instance, found for him
or. not, to regard the return of the Whigs to power as
the signal for reviving the Repeal agitation. The
world is aware to what extent Mr. O'Connell governed
and controlled the Whigs during the existence of the
late Parliament, notwithstanding the numerical
strength of their own party in the House of Com-
mons, and notwithstanding that then they were in no
degree indebted to him or his Tail for the political
power which they had acquired. How boundless,
then, would be his dominion if the Whigs should
return to office through his assistance, now that
their own independent influence in Parliament is so
greatly diminished by-the late general election, and his
influence, in conjunction with that of his Radical
English and Scotch allies, so much increased. Mr.
O'Connell knows, and has declared to his Irish fol-
lowers, that in these circumstances he would be su-

preme ; that there is no office in the Ministry to which
he might not reasonably aspire, and no measure, how-
ever abhorent to the feelings and detrimental to the se-
curity and welfare of Great Britain, which he might
not boldly and successfully enforce. Mr. O'Connell
has left no pretence for doubt, no shadow of ambiguity
upon these subjects. He has intimated in terms the
most explicit and express, that in coming to England
to vote for the election of Mr. Ahercromby as Speaker
of the House of Commons, he and his Tail are wholly
indifferent to the merits or demerits of Mr. Abercrom-
by ; that they care nothing for the difference between
the late Ministers and the present ; and that every
thing they do will be done with no other view than
that of paving the way for Mr. O'Connell to an abso-
lute dictatorship in the affairs of the Empire, and of
securing at no distant day the separation of Ireland
from Great Britain. The question of Thursday next
is not, in reality, who shall be Speaker of the House
of Commons. It is whether Mr. O'Connell shall be-
come substantially the ruler of the British empire ; and
whether, for his gratification and triumph, that empire
shall be dismembered.—Morning Post.

,At a meeting of the Anti-Tory Association in Dub-
lin, Mr. O'Connell „exposed one of the Ministerial
falsehoods as follows :
" The Times newspaper, which lies as fast as a horse could
trot--(Laughter)--first says, that I dictated Mr. Abercromby
to Lord John Russell: whereas I expressed it as my opinion
that either of the other two gentlemen named to me would be a
better selection, though I am happier now that Mr. Abercromby
will be put forward. --(Hear, hear.) The last lie is that
Spring Rice was proposed. and that I put a negative upon
him, and said that the Irish Members would not vote for him.
There never, was a greater falsehood. If Spring Rice were
proposed I would readily vote for him. This may appear un-
interesting to the meeting, but there is a pleasure in denying
falsehoods."

It must be in the recollection of most persons, that

upon the dissolution of the Melbourne Ministry, Sir
Charles Manners Sutton was named by the
Tory organs as one of the pillars of the new
Administration ; and the announcement only cor-
roborated the natural inferences which were drawn
from the busy part which he was seen to act in the
councils of the provisional government. The men
disposed to think most favourably of Sir Charles Man-
ners Sutton, took it for granted that when he stepped
into the Tory Council Chamber, he abandoned all
pretensions to the chai; of the Reformed House ; and
that as he had openly given his aid to the party, he
would share its responsibilities and fortunes in some
high ministerial office. At the time there was hardly
any remark upon the impropriety of the Speaker's
meddling, because it was generally understood that a
man who so meddled must have determined to quit the
Chair, and that its proprieties had virtually ceased to
bind him. The Speakership, even before the dissolu-
tion, was considered as vacant ; and the dissolution,
counselled as it was by Sir Charles Manners Sutton,
certainly in the strongest way confirmed the im-
pression. Under the first prevalent conviction that
Sir Charles Manners Sutton could not have acted as he

did without the intention of taking office, the leading
Whig' Reformers saw in Mr. Abercromby the most
eligible candidate, and he was no sooner named than
accepted by public opinion. Thus, before the neces-
sity of turning out Sir Charles Manners Sutton had
appeared, and when, from the conduct incompatible
with the duties of his office, it was charitably supposed
that he intended to withdraw from the Chair, even so
early Mr. Abercromby was the person desired as a
candidate. We need not enter into the repetition of
other oircumstarieeq-; and Mr. O'Ctinnell has stated
!Nylat passed when Me. Abercromby was named to him
•as the most eligible in the ijudgmerit of 'the
ErigliSh RefoiirVers. lii these factS;;then, is the cOn-
futatiOn of:a yerY—favoinite 117,,,r3, falsehood : and,
as—Mr. O'Connell says, there is a -pleaspra in
denying: TalsehoodS; whether important or not.
Mir:.o',COnnell has in—a 6: some excellent re-

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