text:  Is Mr O'Connell ignorant of all this? He knows it as certainly as he knows that Queen Victoria occupies the throne of these realms; and yet down to his very last appearance in public he has solemnly and perseveringly asseverated that the Repeal of the Union is an absolutely certain and inevitable event and one that will happen within a few months! _Is he in his senses?_ If so he is speaking from his knowledge of some vast and dreadful conspiracy which he has organized himself which has hitherto escaped detection