be.

M'Carthy, on finding that he had failed, in consequence of the
disappearance of Finnerty, in developing the system which nurtured such
cowardly and inhuman principles, now found it necessary, independent
of all threats uttered against him, to return to college in order to
prosecute his studies, and maintain the high position which he had
there obtained by honors already won, and the general brilliancy of his
answering. A kind of love-quarrel had taken place between himself and
Julia Purcel, which, as is frequently the case, prevented him on the one
side from giving, and her on the other, from receiving an explanation.
The consequence was that they separated, each laboring under that
yearning of the heart towards the other, which combines the most
delicious sensations connected with the passion--tenderness disguised
under an impression of offence, hope, uncertainty, and that awful anger
that is never to forgive or change, but which, in the meantime, is
furtively seeking for an opportunity to be reconciled, and vent its rage
in kisses and in tears.

In the meantime, the state of the country was fast becoming such as
had seldom, or perhaps never been recollected by living man. The
confederation, conspiracy, opposition, rebellion, or what you will, had
risen to a gigantic height. In point of fact, it ought rather to have
been termed an unarmed insurrection. Passive resistance was the
order and the practice of the day. The people were instructed by the
agitators, or rather by the great agitator himself, to oppose the
laws without violating them; a piece of advice which involved an
impossibility in the first place, but which was as false in itself,
as replete with dishonesty and imposture, as it was deceitful and
treacherous to the poor people who were foolish and credulous enough to
be influenced by it. We are not now assailing the Whigs for the
reforms which they effected in the Irish establishment, because we most
cordially approve of them. Nay, more, we are unquestionably of opinion
that that reform was not only the boldest, the most brilliant, but the
most just and necessary act of policy, which they ever offered as a boon
to this country. But what we do blame them for is, that they should have
suffered themselves to be kept in such gross ignorance of the state of
the Irish church, as to allow its shocking and monstrous corruptions to
remain uncorrected so long; that they should have allowed themselves to
be baf