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cure it? And when that is completed^ if my country still requires 

 sacrifices and exertions, and if they are not made, stamp traitor upon 

 my grave. But I will not play the part of the paltry Hunt, and of the 

 Tories." 



But one part of his speech this fragment does not give. A fellow in 

 the mob called out, " Won't you repeal the Union, Dan?" Dan replied 

 directly, " IVIy friend, you put the cart before the horse. Let them 

 give me reform first, and then do you trust me, I will get you a repeal 

 of the Union." The mob perfectly understood the reasoning, and nothing 

 could be more popular. He told them, moreover, that it was to the 

 repeal of the laws against popery that the whole of the disturbances of 

 England and of Europe, at this moment were due ; that the French 

 mob were excited to the attempt of overthrowing their king by the 

 victory of popery obtained over the English parliament, and that the 

 parliament were now only beginning the ordeal through Avhich they 

 must pass, in consequence of the convulsions of France. We will not 

 trust ourselves with this man's deeper conclusions. But his speech is 

 full of meanings that must not be lost upon authority. 



The Irish papers, of course, triumph in all possible ways, and an- 

 nounce that all kinds of professional distinctions only wait his acceptance. 

 One of them tells us : — " Mr. O'Connell is to have a patent of pre- 

 cedency, giving him professional rank next to that of the law officers of 

 the crown and the Serjeants. The intimation has, we understand, been 

 made in the handsomest manner, it having been conveyed to Mr. 

 O'Connell that the Irish government have resolved to confer the intended 

 dignity, not as a favour, but an admitted and unquestionable right. We 

 believe IMr. O'Connell might have had a higher precedency, if he had 

 not expressly rejected it." 



Another: — " It is said that Mr. O'Connell has refused the Mastership 

 of the Rolls ; that the Irish Attorney-Generalship had been pressed 

 upon him, but that he was disposed to reject that also. It is rumoured 

 that Baron Smith resigns, and that the Right Hon. F. Blackbiu'n suc- 

 ceeds him." 



In other words, that the present attorney-general is to be put among 

 the puisne judges to make way for the demagogue, and this we are to 

 believe is but the beginning of his ti'ophies. 



In France every thing is impulse. Kings are overthrown, and sent 

 on their pilgrimage by impulse. Subjects are flung on the vacant throne 

 by impulse. Loyalty, republicanism, rehgion and revolution — a lounge 

 in the Palais Royal, or a game at the Salon — falling in love, or blowing out 

 one's brains for the sakt of JMademoiselle Estefanie, Angelique, premiere 

 danseuse of the Academic, are all equally by impulse. But we had not 

 dreamt of the abolition of the guillotine by impulse — the favourite 

 pastime of the nation abolished ! the daily delight of the ladies tri- 

 coteuses, who took their places from daybreak, with their knitting- 

 needles and chciuf pieds, and singing their chansons and discussing the 

 pohtics of the day, contrived to pass away the six hovirs, with national 

 gaiety, until the grand exhibition commenced, and in the midst of senti- 

 mental sighs and smiles the head of the victim poured out a torrent of 

 blood. 



Yet, if we are to believe common fame, the ladies of the Greve have 

 abolished the source of so much public satisfaction. — " Since the last 



