The matter I allude to is a menace held out for the intimidation (as it is supposed) of the Irish members who are given to understand that there is about to be a call of the House, and that it is intended that the Speaker's warrant shall issue to compel them to go over to London.

Now, sir, I think it right to apprise the Association and the country that, having considered this question attentively, I have made up my mind that the Speaker has no constitutional authority whatever to issue any such warrant." But what pained Mr.O'Brien the deepest was the apparent coldness, apathy or cowardice of the Irish people.

Among them, and them only, he calculated an enthusiastic sustainment.

But those who felt the deepest in his regard were constrained by the responsibility of coming to an open rupture with Mr.O'Connell, at a time when union in the ranks of the Association was indispensable to even partial success.

A vote was proposed to the committee, approving of Mr.O'Brien's act, and pledging the Association to an identification with the principle by which his conduct was governed.