Some  of  thOOT  who  agreed  with  Mr.  O'Connell  having  repeated  his  exhortations  to  end
these  unpleasant  and  irritating  discussions  by  some  steps  towards  that  union  of  sentiment,
the  want  of  which  would  paralyse  their  efforts  in  the  cause,

MR.  SUKIL  said  it  rested  with  Mr.  O'Connell  and  his  friends  to  procure  that  union.   Won!*

they  give  up  that  solitary  word,  "  unqualified,"  and  then  there  would  be  a  certainty  of  union  ?

MR.  O'COIOJKIJ, — "So,  then,  the  only  chance  the  gentlemen  would  give  us  for  obtaining

union  rests  upon  our  abandoning  a  word  which  has  been  used  at  every  Catholic  meeting

tn  Ireland.*

He  accordingly  entirely  refused  to  omit  the  word  so  obnoxious  to  Mr.  Sheil,  and,  soon
after,  the  meeting  came  to  a  division,  when  there  appeared  nine  for  Mr.  O'Connell's  vie.v
of  the  case— Messrs.  Segrave,  N.  Mahon,  M'Manus,  O'Brien,  O'Hara,  Blake,  and  Lyonfc,
with  himself,  and  three  against  it,  viz.,  Messrs.  Shiel,  R.  M'Donnell,  and  Lube.
Another  committee  was  then  named,  and  the  meeting  adjourned,
On  the  21st  of  January,  Mr.  O'Connell  reported  to  a  meeting  at  Fitzpatrick's  in  Capd-
street,  that  all  that  had  been  done  was  to  pass  a  resolution,  that  a  petition  should  be  pre-
seatnd,  leaving  it  open  to  discussion  what  that  petition  should  b<8,  and  also  the  point  a*  t»-
who  should  be  called  upon  to  present  it  to  parliament.
Considerable  discussion  ensued  upon  the  latter  point,  some  being  for  agm'n  entrusting  j-.
