The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-15 00:00:00

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LONDON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1844.

Mr. O'CONNELL has sent forth another manifesto
from Darrynane, which was read on Monday last at
the Dublin Repeal Association. In this document
he proposes to apply to Parliament for an impeach-
ment of those who were chiefly concerned in getting
up the late State Prosecutions, and also to consider
the expediency of addressing the English people, in
order to obtain their assistance in compelling Parlia-
ment to institute such an impeachment. Another
object which the llon. and Learned Gentleman ap-
pears to have not less warmly at heart, is the forma-
tion of a Preservative Society of three hundred—
just the same number of patriots as fought and fell
with LEONIDAS at Thermopylae ; though in what
way this society is to work when formed,
or what are the main points to which it is to
direct its attention, Mr. O'CONNELL does not in-
form us, but leaves us as much in the dark on the
subject as the Federalists have done, as regards their
favourite, but undeveloped scheme for the regenera-
tion of. Ireland. In this state of ignorance we can
only form a guess at the nature of the public duties
which it is intended that the Preservative Society
should fulfil, and conclude that it is to act as a sort
of Irish House of Lords, to keep within due bounds
the patriotic fervour of the Association, which.
without some such controlling power, might
attended with injurious consequences to the, taum
of Repeal. If this conclusion be a, correct
one, then we have not the slightest hesitation
in saying that the Society in ques#A. on will be
a failure. It will never be able to 'maintain an in-
dependent position, notwithstandingits assumption
of aristocratic superiority, and be far more likely
to take its tone from the more popular and yigoro,js
Association, than to act as a. %wholesome check 0-41 its
enthusiasm. Its attemP44 at moderation %;rill be
mistaken by the vast mass of the people for luke-
warmness in the ca'ise of the Repeal, just as they
have now set their races against Feder4ism, because
it is of a more temperate, qualified charzcter than the
original schema for the restoration of the old domestic
Parliament:, and should it at any time venture on
the bold ;tep of coming into direct collision with the
Associr.ti.3n, from that moment it will degenerate
into a rdere nullity. tinder any circumstances, the
Preservative Society is never likely to be anything
more than the mere passive instrument of Mr. °Vox-
James will. The independence will be simply nomi-
mil. As he created it, so will he destroy it, the mo-
ment he finds that this political Frankenstein of his
4)" begetting has become his enemy instead of his
tool. Yet we must i cone
s'. not without ingenuity,essthat the scheme of this
Society
for it will
sludge Air. O'CoNlium. to
on the work
of agitation through the raediumcaorfroyftwo assemblies in
ristocratic,
stead-at one—first, as the leader styriecondly as the leader of the demotchreataitehseepetion of
the -Repeaters,- the former represented by
native Society, the latter by the Association. rl3eur. A:: decidedly the most important part of the Darrynanet
. • manifesto is that wherein the writer adknowledges
Op failure of the Federal experiment, and announces