I refused to have any more to do with the petition, and it was dropped.

After the lapse of a fortnight, Mr.Maurice O'Connell proposed another, simply praying that the tenth clause, which vested the appointment of the professors of the college in the Government, should be rejected.
Upon the occasion of this petition being submitted to the Association (9th June, 1845), Mr.J.O'Connell delivered one of his usual invectives against the bill and its abettors.

Mr.O'Brien deprecated the ill-feeling and discord such language was calculated to provoke.

In the course of his observations he said:-- "In seconding the motion of my hon.

friend, the member for Kilkenny, for the adoption of this petition, it is not my intention to follow into any of the polemical questions which, in the course of his protracted speech, he has raised in this Association.