The Express. — 1847-12-11 (London, England)

LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. ii.  THE death-knell of repeal has sounded. The question has been a long time drooping, and may fairly be said to have died at a late meeting of the association in Conciliation-hall. The proceedings - .  having been concluded, Mr. Daniel O'Connell then announced the week's rent to be 81. 3s. 6d.  A Voice.—Oh, murder! The amociation then aL:journed to Monday next. Who rang the bell? Twos I said little Dan— I wa, the little mar!.  Who in the hell.  The voice that so felicitously cried " Oh, murder! was an Irish echo to the 51. 38. 6d. It were to be wished there were no other murders in Ireland but those of mischievous chimeras that stab the public repose. The killing of repeal is clearly a case of " killing no murder." The letter of Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, read at the obseeinies of the repeal humbug, may be considered in the light of a funeral sermon ; and a dull one it was as was ever preached. But what was the meaning of the adjournment ? Was it the intention of the association to die again ? This reminds us of an Irish amateur actor, who formerly had some notoriety, and was particularly. great in the part of Richard the Third. Playing once on the Dublin stage, and having died in his most brilliant manner (so brilliantly, indeed, that the galleries not only cheered but eucored the, performance), he rose, at the request of the gods, and repeated the death scene. 'the Irish repealere have imitated the worthy precedent, and they have come forth to die again, not, indeed, in Conciliation-hall that would have been "damnable iteration"—but in St. Stephen's. Not content with the opportunities afforded by the Irish Crime and Outrage Bill, interludes and episodes have been got up and introduced expressly for the appearance of Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR, Mr. C. ANSTEY, and others. We have witnessed this political acting, in which both members for Nottingham joined; and we cannot but think that the term applied to one of those speakers (tomfoolery, or buffoonery, according to different versions) is the only apt epithet we can devise for this extinction of Irish championship. Seriously speaking, the events and symptoms of the last fortnight give nee to fears for Ireland, which for years no rational man has entertained. These fears are no longer that Irish demands may be troublesome, Irish exigencies such as to prove obstructive to Food and wholesome legislation; but that the real interests and liberties of Ireland being no longer. put forward and defended with unity, purpose, seriousness, by power of intellect, or common wisdom of conduct, will descend, from having had long an overdue weight upon the legislature and the public, to pastime or exercise neither influence nor weight of any significance. Look at this very bill, which, though in some degree necessary, is a very serious interruption and breach of thri constitution. How do we see it met? Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL doffs his cap to it the first night, and is surprised at its mildness! And it is only upon second thoughts, or far sent advice, that the young leader gets up his steam in opposition. But this is just too late. The landlord malcontents, such hot and vehement repealer' a fortnight since, turn round and salute the quasi-coercive bill ; and we have the repeal member for Meath firing into the repeal member for Limerick; and altogether such exuberance of discord, that nothing was left for Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN than to withdraw to his tent, under a fit of the influenza. Lord CLARENDON and Sir GEORGE GREY are clever people. They have blown up the " Irish party," and induced the chief repealera to come forth and " die" publicly on the political stages of both England and Ireland.  No wonder that the Home-office gathers courage and spirit at this discomfiture of its old foes, this utter syncope and disappearance of en Irish liberal party. On the first reading of the bill we were told that Ireland required but two hundred more police. Who could cavil at so humble a request? But now, since the political suicide of all the O'CONNELLS and Repealer., we are told that the indefinite extension of the Irish police is to be completely at the discretion of the Lard-Lieutenant ! His Excellency may inundate the country with that useful and constitutional force. Now, we declare, that we have no objection whatever to give this power to the Earl of