The country regarded this as a confession of weakness by the House, and gloried in a new triumph achieved by the genius of Mr.O'Connell.

He himself thought he had found a great and solid basis for future action, and hinted at the prospect of being able to raise upon it a parliamentary structure, having imprescriptible and indefeasible authority, and only requiring the sanction of the crown.
A short time after the withdrawal of Mr.Hume's motion, the question was again raised in another form.

The chairman of the Committee of Selection for Railways addressed a circular, among others, to Messrs.

S.O'Brien and John O'Connell, requiring their attendance at the selection of special Railway Committees.

The correspondent of the _Freeman's Journal_, thus writes in forwarding their replies:-- _London, Monday, June 30._ "The authority of the British Senate over Irish representatives is now fairly placed at issue.