ell you it cannot succeed
without the Catholic bishops....

"There may have been harsh expressions in the public papers, but
depend upon it great anxiety exists in Ireland to have such a
measure."

The second proposition would be abundantly sustained by a single
sentence in Thomas Davis's commentary on the speech from which I
extract the above.

"On our part we had feared O'Connell conceded almost too far."

But the testimony of Mr. O'Connell himself will be considered more
conclusive.

Speaking in the Association on the 6th of July, he said:--

"I may remark for the present that on this subject a question of
difference has arisen among ourselves. Some of the members of
the Association are for what is called mixed education, and
others of us are against it, but that difference of opinion
ought not to create any division among us, for neither the one
nor the other of us is gratified by the bill as it stands."

Again, in the course of the same speech, he said:

"We (Mr. O'Brien and himself) did our best to avert such a
calamity. We called upon the Government not to persist in
working out this bill in all its details of blackness and
horror."

He concluded by lauding Lord John Russell for his valuable assistance in
the attempt to amend the bill, and finally said that, having failed in
this attempt, he "flung the bill to the ministry, to deal with it as
they pleased."

Mr. O'Brien continued in London, and proposed amendments to the bill in
every stage of its progress. It was during that time he was assailed by
Mr. Roebuck with all the little malevolence of his envenomed nature. He
failed in every attempt to remedy the defects of the bill, which passed
its last stage in the Commons on the 10th day of July. On the 17th of
the same month, Mr. O'Connell, speaking in the Association, said:

"In the resolution I am about submitting to the Association, we
have not inserted one word about mixed education. This is a
question upon which there exists some differences of opinion. I
have my opinions upon the subject, I am the decided enemy of
mixed education....

"I fully respect the contrary convictions entertained by others,
and I am the more ready to proclaim that respect because at
present all possibility of discussion on the matter is out of
the question."

It will be observed that Mr. O'Connell's opinions underwent a s