text: --From the faint reluctant disavowal and discouragement of Mr O'Connell and his Repeal agitation by the leading ex-Ministers during the last session when emphatically challenged by Sir Robert Peel to join him in denouncing the attempted dismemberment of the empire irrespective and independent of all party consideration we are prepared to expect that in the ensuing session the Opposition will to a great extent make common cause with Mr O'Connell out of mingled fear and gratitude and hope towards their late friend and patron