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      IREL _ AJKIP . J MB . O ^ OKNELL'S TISIT TO CHARLEVILLE- 1 The Limmtk Rfporter contains a very long aceemrt J of Mr . O'Connell ' B viais to Cbarleville , eounty of Cork , j The following is an abridgment : — Mr O'CtenneH slept at Nenagb on Wednesday night , and wired , accompanied by Mr . Steele and Mr . E . W . O'M&flonj , in l imerick , at ten oVock yesterday morn- j ing when he started for Charleville , * taking Bmff in , hisronte . At Brnff ha was joined by hundreds of the j peasantry on honefcatfe , and , when he halted to change j horses , -was reeeiTed by Dr . Swyny , bead repeal warden of Bruffand his excellent staff , with a teetotal baud .

      , which struck np " See the conquering here cornea . " After delaying for abcut ten minutes-, he proceeded on his jonrney , accompanied by Dr . STny and a numerous cavalsada . From Brnff to K . laaallock the whole country round poured forth its tens and hundreds of thousands of men , women , and children , whom the terrors of a coercion bill could not prevent from joining in the Tnatmtfl

      of trees in their hands , so as to present the appearance of a raoring forest , so dense was the crowd which filled the road . At Kilmallock the carriage was met by a deputation from the Congregated Trades of Lime-Tick , with their banners , and attired in the same way as they had been on the day when they met him a few miles from Limerick , on hi * ¦ way from Rathkeale , and by thousands of the CharleYflle people and the district Immediately surrounding it , headed by their respected pastor , the Rev . Mr . Croke , and his curate , the Rev . Mr . Dwyer , with two temperance bands , all carrying wands , and wearing blue and green Bashes . The Rev . Mr . Crcke sat with the Liberator on the dickey of his

      carriage . As it adTsnced the numbers increased tenfold , while the same cheering and waving of hats continaed to rsnd the air with acclamations . Same idea may be formed of thin splendid and magnificent demonstration of popular strength , when' we state tint from Bruff , which is a distance of ten miles , to CbarieviJle , the liberator ' s carriage was obliged to proceed at a walking pace , so great was the immense cavalcade which accompanied it- He arrived in Chaileville at a quarter to five o ' clock , accompanied , in procession , by at least two hundred thousand persons , who rent the air with their enthusiastic gratulations . The scene in the prin

      dpal street of Cnarleville was at this moment one of the most animating description . The house-tops were crowded by adventurous spirits , the windows by elegantly dressed ladies , who waved their handkerchiefs . A large platform was erected in the centre of the street opposite the market-house , in which was stationed a party of the 45 th Light Infantry and a stipendiary magistrate . After considerable difficulty , the carriage arrived opposite the platform , but it was so crowded , and the streets so blocked up , that Mr . O"Gonneil found it was impossible to make his way , and accordingly determined to address the multude from the dicktv .

      On the motion of Michael Ryan , Esq ., of Bruree , the Rev . Mr . Crcke was called to the chair . Mr . O'Connell addressed tha ' multitude at great length . It had , he observed , been said by a person who was represented the other day as one wfio had a great regard for every one ' s chzracter but his own—it was asserted by Lord Brougham that such meetings as the present were turbulent assemblies—( Groans ) Tbe newspapers stated so , and put Lord BrcughanTs rime at the head of the speech of the man who made the assertion . He ( Mr . O'Connell } believed that in the course of a long life that lord never asserted an ) thing ftalf so foul and so false ; for he bad himself seen . Within the last fortnight thousands upon thousands assemble in various parts of the country , and never did he witness anything so orderly , or with so much merriment and good humour—( load cheers . ) Bat Brougham degraded the last ministry by his being associated with them , and he was then Endeavouring to speculate for his own advantage , by —»»«»» $ the people of Ireland—( Groans . ; Tbe Duke of Wellington was quite diagvsted ¦ with him—and , as the Amerian newspaper said , that a If ew York man was so handsome that be was obliged to carry a stick to keep off the women , they should send there for that stick , and give It to tbe Dnke to keep off Brougham—icheers and laughter . ) Ttat was ids ( Mr . 0 "Connell " F ) answer to his charge of there being tumultuous assemblages in Ireland . But it would ill become them to meet at any period for tbe purpose of petitioning against the injustice and oppression itflxted on their country , if they insulted or injured any bo » y , or do more than endeavour to convince those in a peace- able tpbptw who bad not tfee good sense to join them— j ( cheers . ) Within the fortnight he had addressed him-4 self to upwards ot a million ot the people— loud ' cheers . ) In tbe course of next week he would meet aad address another , because h was most important that those public demonstrations should be made . ( Cheers . ) Be came there to ask them to petition for a Repeal of the Union . ( Cries of "We will , we will . ' *) His ofcject in coming amorsrt them was to eall on them to do so . They knew the treatment they met at the other aide o ! the ¦ water ; for when they asked for bread they gave them stones , and whea they asked for fish they gave them a serpent ( Hear , hear . ) Although his excellent colleague , Mr . Roche , remained away like himself from Parliament ; jet they were working for the cause of Ireland at hone . iCheers . ) They next threatened them with military violence ; and be was told that a party of soldiers was sent to that meeting for the purpose of preserving the peace . He regretted that for their sake , for they were the bravest men in the world ; and whenever the Qaeen ' s troops were sent among the people , they performed their duties faithfully , and conducted themselves with the strictest propriety . ! ( Hear , hear . ) Three cheers for the military ( a call which was heartily responded to > , Tbe Hon . and Learned gentleman thus concluded : — " Were they terrified at the threat uf the Bake of Wellington ? ( Indignant cries of " No , eo . ") Wtre they terrified at that of Peel ? iNo , na ) No , let them take his advice—' let them keep withi-. the law , and when they separated , let them go home without the least disturbance ur irregularity . { Cries of "We wilL "> Let them insult no one , but be lively and merry at tte prospects which were opening upon their country . ( Cheers . ) He -wanted liberty for old Ireland . He was travelling through the land , and would have tbe entire island with him before many months were over . ( Cheers . ) "Who would tell him after that a British statesman would refuse tteir just demands , and who would tell him he would not get a rtpeal uf the . legislative union ? ( Cheers . ) Prance knew tbit England was weak as long as Ireland was justly discontented-America knew it—Russia learned , and all Europe was aware of it ; and Heaven forbid she should be secure While Ireland was in chains . ( Cueera . ) The Hon . Gentleman then concluded amid the same deafening cheers , CFrom the Times . ) DvsiAS , Mat 22 . —Tb * Repeal Association met this day at twelve o ' clock , and notwithstanding the absence in Cork of Mr . O'Cenn&U . the room was crowded to suffocation . Mr . Town-Councillor shannon took the t f—Srv Mr . Rat announced at t * ie eommencsment of the proeeedings Use receipt of £ 4 i » 0 as the subscriptions sent np to Saturday evening . £ ? then proceeded to tead a volnminous mass cf corre ? pt > sdeBce , enclosing farther snms of money , in which agreeable occupation he was engaged np to tte post honr . It is stated that the amount of the rent for the we * k wili be equal to that acknowledged on the last day of meeting , namely , £ 594 , odd shillings .

      The Athlone paper contains a requisition , headed by Lard French . Bishop C&ntwell , u Heath , a ^ . i Bishop Biggins , of 3 Iuliingar speech notoriety , addressed to Mr . O'Connell , requesting him to name a day f ur a public meeting ard dinner , to be held in Athlone " for the purpose of forwarding the regentration of Ireland . " The terms proposed for the country ' s " regeneration " heing reasonable enough , Mr . O'Coii .. H has fixed Sunday , the 28 th of June , for the meeting and dinner . In addition to the names attached to the requ i sition , there figure no less lbzn twenty-three priests , .-nd that of one baronet , of Whig creation , Sir M . B . Brli-w The document itself breathes throughout a torn , et defiance and contempt of the resent Minieteri-U declarations : it

      says"Weare fully impressed with the convictien that sothisg ebort of the repeal of the union can be of any beneficial service to Ireland . This conviction is more firmly established by the threats said : o be m » 4 e use of by Wellington and Peel , and particularly by the declaration of the latter , who seems to entertain so thorough ft contempt for the Irish people , that he says he will not consent to listen to the unanimous voice of Ler entire representatives . Hi » threats of coercion we « Jesptfe , and as a proof of the little weight they have with us we beg to invite you , the father of Repeal , to come

      amongst us , that we may shew him , by the reception we will gire you , the measureless contempt we entertain both for him and his abettors . We segtoassnr-. yoa , sir , that tbere are many of us who have not before 3 omed tiie Repeal ranks , nor would we , perhaps , even now , but for the insult which those Parliamentary declaration , contain towards our country , and for the fooluh threats which have been made use of towards onrselves ; and we are now determined to pursue a ¦ toady , legal , aod continuous course of agitation until Ireland is once more a nation . "

      The Athlone paper also . publishes the report of a pepsratory meeting to make arrangements for the reception of the Agitator , at which tbe leading orator vat the Beverend Mr . KOroe , a Roman Catholic priest , who in Use course of his speech , in allusion to tbe tfcmU rf Sir R . Peel , and the Duke said- — "Before 1 m ( tbe Duks of Wellington ) threatened Irebod , he should remember Waterloo , where he screamed Hke a dunghill eock that had just got a ' taste of the steel '— ( LMghter . ) It is a fact , when he saw theFrench armtf ebargiag down npon his lines , and on the position where be stood , he screamed from very fear , till lie was jnmranded by the brave hearts and strong arms of Irishmen ; then indeed , when surrounded by hii euujuttjman , his fears vanished , his seli-possestion returned , and he was able to issue his orders with preflUoo and eBat / t— ( hear , hear . ; This , however , is the person wbo h * j $# Jtadacit ? to threaten the Irish

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      pe- pie . But we regard his threats , as O'Connell says , as » o many mou \ lis full of sawdust . He date not put them in execution ; and however willing he and the English aristorcracy may be to tyrannize over Ireland , they dare not , and we fling back the threat with all the contempt such fiendish expressions deserve —( hear , and cheers . ") ana caeers . ;

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      PROGRESS OF REPEAL . GREAT DEMONSTRATION AT MTJLL 1 KGAR . Mulling * -, Sunday Night , May 14 th , 1843 . The great Repeal demonstration for Westmeath took place here to-day , under circumstances of the highest national importance , and exceeding , in the display of public feeling which it exhibited , the most splencid of the many magnificient exhibitions of popular strength which have latterly occurred throughout the kingdom . The entire front of almost every house was hid with green bashes and wreathes of flowers , and the half dozen residences that formed exception to the general rule only served to heighten the effect , in shewing by their bare walls ( aa destitute of the enlivening hue of the national colonr as the hearts of

      their occupiers were of national feeling ) , how few the enemies of repeal really were . At short intervals , through all the streets—not only those through which O'Connell shonld pass , hat also the streets which were wholly out of his way—were erected beautiful triumphal arches , several of which were decorated with flags of red , green , and white ; and all bearing appropriate inscriptions , such as " Cead mule failte , " " Ireland for the Irish , and the Irish for Ireland , " " Ireland must be a nation , " " We seek equality , net ascendancy throagh the Repeal , "'" The man who commits a crime gftes strength to the enemy , " " We mu-t have Repeal , " ** A nation of eight millions is too powerful to be dragged at the tail of any other country , " " Repeal , and * no

      Surrender , '"" Repeal , Repeal , " * c &o .. Much of the entbusiasia described in ilie repeal newspapers as existing in favour of the national cause is considered by the anu-l * ish party as exaggeration , or , at least , is represented as sneb by the Tory press ; but , as facts are not s-o easily combated as assertions , we leave the impartial reader to nfleet -what the state of the public mind thounhout Ireland at the present period must be when large bodies of men travel on foot distances of from twenty to thirty Irish miles for the mere purpose of swelling by their numbers the immense assemblages that cougregate at the Repeal meetings , as from the extent of the crowds there must be always a very doublfnl chance of their being able to h ^ ar the speakers ; and . the expectation of being delighted by the eloquence of Mr . O'Connell

      and other popular orators can , therefore , be scarcely a SDfficient inducement to them to undergo so much fatigue . One reporter , speaking of this meeting , says , — " I have seen here to-day , upwards of twelve amateur bands , many of them from localities at a very considerable distance , and each accompanied by large masses of their fellow-townsmen . Among them were the bands from EUcock , 24 mile ? ; Kells , 22 miles ( drawn in an ornamental coach , with four horses ) ; Trim , ' 21 miles ; Philip ? town , 14 miles ; Kinnegad , 9 miles ; Kilbeggan , 12 miles ; BalHnagore , 10 miles ; Castlepollard , 11 miles ; Castleto wndelvin , 11 miles ; Old Castle , &c . " —A large platform was erected in the market-place , which the charge of Is . for admission to it did not prevent from being most inconveniently crowded . The assemblage was 120 . 000 or 130 . 000 .

      Oa the motion of the Bishop of Mkath , seconded by Mr . FrrzEB . Ai . D , Bebsard Maktix , Esq ., Mullingar , was called to the chair .. The Rev . Mr . Kearnbt , P . P ., Tnbberclare , moved j the first resolution expressive of the « vils of the Union , and of their determination to nse every j legal and constitutional means to obtain its repeal . 31 r . Terns seconded the resolution which was carried . j Mr . O'Cokkell then came forward , and was re- ' ceived with deafening shouts of applause , which ; continued for a considerable period . He said : Wellington and Peel have proved this—that they are ready enough to show their tteth , but they cannot bite—( hear , hear ) . That is the entire amouutof all their mighty schemes . But I will tell you why—for ; the same reason that the cur dog cannot bite your Band if you keep it wrapped in your coat—( cheers apd laughter ) . We do not give them anything to bite us on , and they cannot touch us . Now , there are two reasons why their declarations should prove atonive . First , our object is legitimate ; and secondly , our means are peaceable and lawful—( hear , bear ) . Our object is to repeal an Act of Parliament , arid ihate can be no crime in endeavouring to do that iy peaceable and legal means . The crime was in : u passing it , and it was by a multiplication of crimes that it was originally earned—( hear , hear ) j My first object is to get Ireland for the Irish—( loud cheers . ) 1 a . m content that the English should hare England , bn : they have had the dominion of this country too long , and it U time that the Irish thouldgei the management of their own country—the regulation , of their own country—the eDJojment of" their own country—tba ; the Irish should have Ireland—( great and Jong cheers ) . Nobody cau know how to govern us as well as we would know how to do it ourselves—nobody could know to relieve our wants as well as we would onrselves—nobody could have to deep an interest in our prosperity , or could be so well fitted for remedying our evils , and procuring happiness for us aa we would ourselves . ( Hear , hear . ) And if I am toid that the present system has been working for eeveu centuries , my answer is , the more Bpeediiy is i ; incumbent Hpon us to break onr fetters , and to obtain the liberty of our native land . ( Cheers . ) Old Ireland anu Lberty ! ( Loud cheers . ) That is what I am s ' . rugglint for . ( Hear , hear . ) If I was to tell the Scotch that they should not have Scotland—if 1 was to tell the English that they should not have England—if I was to tell the Spaniards that they should not have Spain—or tbe French that they should not have France , they would have a right to laugh at , to hate , to attack , or to assail me in whatever manner they choose . Bat I do not say any such thing . What I say is , that as all these people have their own countries the Irish ought to have Ireland . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) What numberless advantages would not the Irish enjoy if they possessed tbsir own conntry ? A domestic Parliament would encourage Irish manufacture ? . Tne linen trade , and the woollen trade would be spreading amongst you . An Irish Parliament would foster Irish commerce , and protect Irish agriculture . The labourer , the artizan , and tbe shopkeeper would be all benefited by the Repeal of the Union ; but if 1 were to describe all the blessings that it would confer 1 would detain you here crowding on each others back * until morning before I would be done—( laughter ) . In the first place , I ask did yon ever hear of the tithe rent charge—( groans ) . Are yon satisfied tmrbe paying parsons who do not pray for yon— ( no , no ) . It is time , therefore , that they should be put an end to—( hear , hear ) . The people of England do not pay for the church of the minority . A Voice—No , nor the people of Scotland either . You are quite right , though I think I heard the remark before —( laughter ) . But carry home my words with you , and tell them to your neighbours . I tell you the people of Ireland will not be much longer paving them —( hear , hear , and cleers ) . 1 next want to get rid of the poor-rates—( cheers ) . England does charily in the way a person will throw a

      bene to a dog by slashing it in between his teeth—( hear , hear ) . That is the poor law charity , the chanty of the commissioners , and assistant-com-: ' miss-oners , and all concerned under them , except the ' poor themselves , and when they do give relief , they ' look upon tbe poor as if they were criminals , or aa if ptm-rty was a crime to be punished by perpetual imprisonment —{ hear , hear , and loud cheers ) . But I would relieve the poor without the imposition of poor rates , and I would prevent you from paying ; any clergy but yonr own ( loud cheers ) . I stiould no ; have used the word prevent , because if any of you wished to pay both yon might do is if yoa pleased ( laughter ) . I often asked Protestants how would they like to pay for the support of tbe

      Catholic clergy by force , and they always said they would not like it at all , and why should the Catholics like it one bit the better ( hear ) . Cobbett had a phrase for it . He used to say , " what ' s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander . " ( Laughter . ) The next thing that the Repeal would abolith is the grand jury cess . ( Cheers . ) I believe it grinds some of you ? ( Cries of •* It does so . " ) There is not a moro iniquitous tax in the world , for it comes on the occupier instead of on the country at large . Give me the Repeal , and the national Treasury will pay for the making and repairing of all the roadB , bridges , and public buildings , and instead of the poor farmers

      and occupiers paying the money themselves , it will come from tha treasury , and 'would go in giving employment to those who have to pay it . I will tell you another thing I want to do , I want that every Lead of a family , every married man , and every h usebolder , should have a right to vote for members «• Parliament . They said that I would have au iL * erest in that , because I would then have more voles ; but my answer is , that if I would it is because the people now I am acting honestly by them , and everj body else who does the same will be equally supported . ( Load cheers . ) Tho landlords now persbcnte those who vote differently from their wishes , but I wonld institute tha ballot-box . The

      next advantage is one that does not much concern the majority of you . It is the giving tbe management of their own affairs to the inhabitants of the towns , instead of their having tbe miserable mnnieipal reform that they now possess ; bnt I will not tronble you farther with that . Yon know that the landlords have duties as well as rights , and I would establish the fixity of tenure ( loud cheers ) to remind them of those duties . I will tell you what my plan is , and yon can consider it amongst yourselves . My plan is that no landlord should recover rent unless he made a leate for twenty-one years to tbe tenant —no lease or no rent say 1 . ( Loud cheers . ) Unless be made & lease , be would have bo more business

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      looking for his rent than a dog would have barking at the moon . ( . Cheers and laughter . ) It may be said the landlords would , in that case , put too high a rent on their lands , but I have a remedy for that too in my plan . ( Laughter , and criea of ' * Moro power . ") At present , if a man goes to register his vote , he must prove on oath what a solvent tenant could pay to his . landlord for his holding , and in the same manner I would give tbe tenant an opportunity of proving what a solvent tenant ought to give for his land , in order to fix the amount of rent he would have to pay . ( Cheers . ) I would give the poor man the benefit of a trial by Jury in such case , bo that it would be impossible for a landlord to get more than the fair value of his land . It may be

      said the poor man would be turned out of his holding at the expiration of his lease , and his land given to another , but I have a cure for that also ( cheers ) . I would allow the tenant by law every year to register , as he can now register trees that he plants , ail the improvements that he makes on his holding , and if the landlord does not pay him tho full value of these improvements , he could not tuvn him out , but would be obliged to give him a new holding . Every tenant would then be building a better house for his pigs than he now inhabits himself , as ho would be Bure to get every farthing he laid out on his holding before he could be deprived of possebsion at the end of his lease ( cheers ) . Is it not worth while , I ask you , to look for a Repeal of tho Union

      for that alone ( cheers ) ? Would it not do more to produce happiness aud prosperity in the country , aud put an end to the horrible wholes-ilo murders of the landlords who now send their-tenants to die by twenties in the ditchet , and the fearful retaliations , by assassination , that so frequently take place on the other side . But this is not all . Every year since the Union nine millions of money has been sont out of Ireland , after being raised fr « m the produce of the soil—( criea of "oh , murder , murder ") . It is no wonder you shonld cry " murder , " for therein no country in the world where such a system would exist that must not be poor . The only countries except Ireland where anything hke it ucours are Sicily and Sardinia , and both of these , from having

      absentee landlords , are miserably poor . There is not , however , a country in the world so impoverished as I reland , where it has been found that , there are 2 , 200 , 000 persons in a state of destitution every year . Lord Eliot , the other day , gave a proof oi this , for ho had to admit that out of 83 , 000 poor rate payers , 44 , 000 Were rated under £ 5 . For the last ten years no less than ninety millions have been drawn out of Ireland , but if we get tho Union there will be ninety millions Bpent in Ireland that would otherwise be taken from her —( hear , hear , and cheers ) . That will leave an average of £ 7 aO , f . ftO a month , or £ 125 . 000 a-week of six days to be spent in wages , and in giving employment to the people—( loud cheers ) . I have all this within my grasp if the

      people join me . Now , what is there in all this that Wellington should stammer at in his old a&e , and that Peel should bluster , and get very angry about it . Even their enemies should admit tho progress they had made ; and let him have but three millions of Repealers , and then he would make his arrangements for obtaining the Repeal . He would have ihe Repealers send up 300 gentlemen , chosen from various parts of the country , each entrusted with £ 100 ; that would be £ 30 , 000 . They should meot in Dublin to consult upon the best means of obtaining legislative independence . They would not leave Dublin till they would agree to an act of Parliament to establish a domestic Legislature , household suffrage , vote by ballot , fixity of tenure , and a law against absentees

      having estates in the conntry . Many estates would then be sold in lots and purchased up by those who would tht n become Fmall proprietors ; and it ^ ras a fact well ascertained that in proportion as the owners in fee were numerous in any country , so in proportion were the people prosperous —( hear , hear . ) It was truly said by Mr . Martin , their chairman , that if they had their own parliament , taxation would be diminished to almost nothing ; for in five or six years they would be able to pay off their portion of the national debt—the duty upon every excisable article would be reduced—they would have a pound of tea for lhtle or more than was paid for two ounces and a pound of sugar at the price of a quarter of a pound ; the duty on tobacco would be

      reduced bo that there was not an old woman in the country who might not have her pipe lighted from morning till night if she pleased —( laughter . ) It was said that the Repeal was to be put . down by force , but he did not believe a word of it , for there would be nothing against which the force could be applied . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) They were bringing soldiers into the country to gallop against the wind , for they had nothing else to oppose them . ( Laughter . ) He would be delighted that they brought a much larger number , for they would cause the expenditure of a good deal of money , and they were besides the friends of the people . He recollected once being counsel for some unfortunate men at Limerick who were tried for the robbery of

      ammunition , and assaulting fourteen soldiers who were in charge of it , when the facts came out that as soon as tho people discovered they were soldiers , not police , they determined that a man of them should not be killed , but they closed in upon them , and disarmed them ; but in the struggle the sergeant , who fought desperate l y , and seven of the men , were wounded , and , as soon as they were completely in their power , they took them to the neighbouring houses , had their wounds dressed , and their wants attended to , declaring , at tho same time that , had it been police who were in it , not a man of them should be left alive—( hear , hear . ) The unfortunate men were found guilty , aud it being a capital offence for which they had forfeited their lives , Baron

      Pennefaher , in passing sentence on them , said , with tears in his eyes , that , when they had the lives of others in their power , they showed mercy , and he would take care to use his influence in the proper quarter to havo mercy extended to them . The people were always friendly to the military , and the feelipg was reciprocal . He would be glad , then , how many of them was sent among them , and he would promise them that they would have nothing to do but amuse ihemselves and spend their money , whioh would be very pleasant to those who Epent it , and those amongst whom it was spent . He again exhorted the poople to continue in habits of morality and order , violating no law and giving their enemies no advantage

      over them—he called upon the Repeal Wardens to do their duty , and if the people followed his advice , then there would be no doubt of their success ; a song of gladness would pervade the land , and he wou : d outshout them all from his native mountains with tho cry of liberty and prosperity to Ireland . They desired not to seek for Repeal by other agencies than those of peace , law , and order , and they would adhere to the constitution as loug as one inch of it was left to them to stand upon—( loud cheers . ) The Honourable and Learned Gentleman concluded by moving the presentation of an addreas to the peoflo of England and Ireland , on the present Btate of political atfjirs , and that it be referred to the committee to prepare such address .

      LOYAL NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION . T . ne usual weekly meeting of the Loyal National Repeal Association was held on Monday , at tho Corn-Exchange . The room was crowded almost to suffocation , and hundreds went away from the door , unablo to effect an entrance . After the handing in of funds , Mr . O'Conneli said , 1 have the honour to announce 'hat the Repeal rent for tho paet week amounts to SIX HUNDRED AND NINETY-SfX POUNDS TWELVE

      SHILLINGS AND FOURPENCE- ( tremendoua applause which lasted far several minutes without inteTmis ? . on ) . Mr . O'Connell observed that he was wrong iu announcing it aa the Repeal rent , he should have termed i > the Peel and Wellington contribution —( laughter and cheers ) . Dr . Gray w »? then called to tbe chair . Mr . O'Cohnkll moved ihe thanks of the meeting to Mr . Langtree , and expressed his satisfaction that the chair had that day been occuDied by three Protestant gentlemen successively—( cheers ) .

      ADJOURNED MEETING—TUESDAY . E . W . O'Mahony , Esq ., was called to the chair , and after some other business , Mr . O'Co . ynell said that he rose to call the attention of the association to the present state of public affairs , to the course which th ? y threaten to take , and the mode in which Ireland ought to resist farther despotism . In considering the steps tha ; should be taken by the British Government , and by tho British people , it was moat material to ascertain what the present state of the tacts ure . He rook up the declarations of Sir Rob * rt Peel and the Duke of Wellington , in both Houses of Parliament , and he fouad in them as they appear in the newspaper reports , a most important and significant omis . ; ion .

      In those declarations they recited the resolutions ot 1834 , as they were menacious aud threatening , but they suppress those resolutions as far as they wcro conciliatory and promising . It was in fact a piece of dexterity , he would call it unequalled in its folly as well as in its turpitude —( hear , hear , and cheers ) . They attempted to delude tho people of England , and they thought they could delude the people of Ireland by threats . It was unjust to the people of both countries . They should have recollected that the promise followed tbe threat ia 1834 . The promise cannot be denied , and neither can it be denied that that promise was fallacious , and not carried out . It would be monstrous to allege otherwise , for no human being could be fonnd degraded enough

      to make e « ch an assertion . Wishing to take advantage for his country by any means , or in any way that could offer , he did not hesitate to suspend tbe agitation for the Repeal in order to give England time to perform a promise so solemnly entered into ; but let nobody suppose that he was at the time deluded into a beliet that the promise would have been fulfilled— - ( hear ) . He merely wished to put England in the wrong . He said to them— " Recolleot that the people of Ireland have given up the agitation fer Repeal , and that they now look to you for justice , and the redress of their grievances . " But has any one of those grievances bean redressed—( hear , hear ) ! On the contrary , they have been increased considerably , as he meant to show them

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      before he sat down , for h <* meani ; to address them at gome length ; and therefore tboso who had oilier business to occupy them had better bo going home at onco—( cheers and laughter ) . He asked had any thing been done since ' 34 . Had England assisted in doing anything for Ireland \ He did not expect that she Would act otherwise than as she had done ; but still , if they had kept up the Repeal cry after that promise ' , how triumphantly would Sir Robert Peel be now able to shout out " England made promises —the high word of England , that was never broken " —he would say it was never kept—( laughter)— " was pledged—the plighted faith , the unstained honour of England were bound up in the pledge , and it would have been fulfilled . " Ho ( Mr . O'Connell ) would not

      say one word about Limerick , to be sure , while Peel would be so boasting —( hear , hear , )—but boast he assuredly would , and exult ho would . He would say , lv there can be no doubt the grievances of Ireland would be redressed , but they wanted separation . They wanted not justice , but . hey had a vexatious and rebellious cry for separation between the two oountries . " If , under such circumstances , the people ef Ireland continued to agitate , they would do so only through tbe timidity that must naturally arise within them from the . recollection of the broken faith of England in former times ; but ms » ny of tho 3 e who join us now would be far from joining us then . ( Hear , hear . ) It was also to be recollected that the reform parliament had then been only just instituted ,

      anti its working had not yet been known ; and Sir Robert Pijel would also have relied on that fact . They would thus be placed in as unpleasant a position as ever public men were placed in ; but on the other hand , see how triumphantly they were placed . ( Cheers ) By their actions—though mt by thoir belief—they gave to England the opportunity of doing them . There wero two grounds of apathy and indifference towards the Repeal agitation : one of these was caused by the agitation having been abandoned for a time , and many honest men feared that it had not been seriously revived—( hear , hear ) —and the other was tho policy adopted by the Whigs in the notorious declaration of Lord Ebriugton , now Earl Fortesoue , against the

      Repealersthe paltry attempt at corrupting theyouth of Ireland by bribery—the effort made to corrupt the waters of social life , ao that those who drank of what ought to be the pure spring of patriotism imbibed only baseness and turpitude , and the personal expectations of po'itioal benefits—( hear , hear ) . Where were tho bar that used to surround them at former times ? Lord Fortescue can tell . They are still afraid that the Whigs may come into power again , and that they would bo excluded from promotion . Shame on tbe Irish bar for having at longth deserted their country—( cries of shame , shame ) . But the Repealers could do without them . They had a sufficient number of the honest portion of the bar to do the public business ; and with that

      portion , and the popular strength that was collected around them , and the aid of that Providence that he hoped was watching over the destinies of the country , they would go on—( loud cheers ) . Ho had been aware that that public apathy could not continue much longer . He knew how anxious the pcoplo really were fur their country , and that the moment he was able to cry out ' * Ireland for the Irish , " ho would have a talisman that would bo irresistible in rousing the patriotism of tho country . But as Boon as he saw a predisposing sentiment of a higher order nf agitation , his hopes brightened . When he called 1843 tho Repeal ye » r . many persons laughed and sneered at him . Who laughed and sneered now ! In point of history how tiien

      were they circumstanced ! Peel and Wellington threatened them ; they came out with their declaration of a threat . They are , forsooth , to apply to Parliament for more power , that they may put down the exercise of a constitutional power . But will they do it —( hear , hear ) . He would not discuss the prudence of their doing so for a while , but this he would say , for the present , that the threat had come forth ; the brututn fulmen had been announced . The thunderbolt had been heard to hiss bnt not to roar through the upper air , buc the Irish people despised it . What was the first response I The great meeting of Westmeath —( loud cheers ) . He was not exaggerating when he said that tens of thousands , and he believed he did not exaggerate when he said more than 100 , 000 persons were assembled there . But whatever the numbers were the assemblage was majestic , and it was also well conducted . The people were civil towards each other ,

      and their mutual politeness prevented the pressure of the crowd from injuring any person . They were sober , good humoured , and steady , while they exhibited tho most marked hatred of their enemies and the strongest love of their friend :-:. They met to hear tho advantage of the Repeal talked of , but there was a pre-gone conviction in their own minds that required no instruction to them . Let Wellington and Peel know that that was their reply to their menaces . When they said "the resolution of 1834 , " he would say" the meeting in Weatmeath "—( cheera . ) And was it no answer to them that they had £ 696 12 s . 4 d ., and he would not forgive Peel one penny of it—( loud che ° rd . ) But ou # ht not the people of England , and tho statesmen or * England consider what 6 teps they ought now to take . They should recollect that the Irish people violate no law , infringe no statute , are guilty of uo violence . There shall be no rebellion while ho lived .

      The name of it should » ot be heard . The Irish people would attack no one , but he would not say that , if attacked , they would not defend themselves—( 3 nth ; , eiastic cheering for several minutes . ) The Repeal would be carried by legal means , or , at least , by means that wore constitutional—( hear , hear . ) Buc the English , it seemed , did not like the cry for Repeal . If they did not , why did not theyjuin them in insisting that justice should be done to Ireland—( hear , hear . ) Ttle Tory party never attempted to apply the proper remedy for the ills of Ireland . Ho s ated at Mullingar that they acted hke the

      Frenchman who attempted to fatten his horse . He tried one day a purgative , another day » pill , another day a drench , and then ho tried more medicine , he supposed Morison ' s pills—( laughter . ) At length he tried tobacco water , but the horse would not fatten by all the trials , and at length somebody asked him " did you ever try oats" —( hear and laughter . ) In the same manner England tried every means of tranquilliaing Ireland except the oats—the doing her justice —( hear , hear . ) She tried coercion bills , transportation bills , peace preservation bills . A Toice—Tho arms bill .

      Mr . O'Connell—That had not passed yet , but he would como to it by and bye . But would it not become the people of England really to see whether the Irish people had not grievances to complain of ? —could the English minister hold so high a tone towards the King of France now , as if he could say that England , Scotland , and Ireland would man thoir armies and navy ; but was it so ? Could he tell the Emperor of Russia or the King of France to fear him—could he tell the Americans not to dare infringe on the British boundary ? They would reply to him in the short and emphatic word , " Ireland "—( hear and cheers ;) and it would be a reasonable answer for them to give him , for heaven forbid that England should be strong as long as she is

      unjust towards Ireland —( cheers . ) No , they well knew that the Irish people , attached as they are by allegiance to the throne , have still one love higher than that or any other passion , and that is love of their native laud , and that they will not miss any opportunity of compelling England by the force of circumstances to do Ireland that justice which she is so reluctant to afford —( hear and cheers . ) Was it not proper and befitting that the English people affected as they appeared to be towards this question , should seriously consider how to put an end to the Repeal agitation ? This seemed to be the desire of Wellington ; for this object Sir Robert Peel prop osed to be iu an especial degree desirous . Surely it was not possible for him ( Mr . O'Cocnell ) to

      pursue a more generous or more disinterested course than that which be adopted when he proceeded to show his opponents how to take the Repealers from him—how to disperse the forces which had congregated aroiind his peaceful standard—how to reduce him from the giant which he had now become , according to the representation of the Times to his natural and befitting condition of a political dwarf—( laughter , and cries of " hear , hear ") . For his own part he declared most emphatically that he would never abandon tho Repeal—no boon would induce him to do so—no threat would coerce him , for he considered that no temporary advantages could compensate to a country for the loss which she sustained in character , dignity , and prosperity , by the absence

      of that prolection which it was in the power of a domestic legislature alone to confer . But while he made this declaartion for himself , it surely could not but be admitted that he acted a generous and magnanimous part in explaining to his opponents the course they ought to adopt if they desired to lessen his forcea and weaken the effLet of the Repeal agi tation . Sufficient had already occurred , even since the launching forth of the brutum fulmen * to convince the Tories that the course which they were at present pursuing was not calculated to diminish the numbers of the Repealers . It had as effect exactly opposite ; it hod served to increase their numbers a hundred-fold and had but added further fuel to the flame they were desirous to extinguish . Yes , the declarations of Peel and Wellington had had a most marvellous effect throughout the country . Men , who were silent before spoke—men who had been torpid

      were now awake to fresh energy , and those who were heretofore neutral had now come forward to take a decisive part . It was clear , therefore , that their present policy had failed in a lamentable degree , and it was right ( hat they should bethink them of some more efflcacioaa expedient whereby to pot down the Repeal agitation . There were eight or nine propositions , he would enumerate them seriatim , to which they ought to direot their attention with a view to attain the object , to them so desirable , of diminishing the Repealers . The first subject to which tbey should direot their most serious consideration , and which was indeed well worthy of their attention , was the financial iajuftioe inflicted on Ireland by the act of union . This was a grievance which it behoved them to remedy effectually and expediently if they would carry out their project . In the year 1799 , or he would say for round

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      numbers 1800 , the national debt of Ireland amounted to twenty millions , that , of England to 446 millions , and if the aot of union had been framed upon honourable and equitable terms , it would have been enacted that for the fature the respective debts of both countries should continue to bear the same proportion one to the other as they bore before the Irish Parliament was abolished—( cries of hear ) . The EagliBh Tories were cock-a-hoop in their dignity , and talked very loudly and bombastically about putting down the Irish people ; but , he asked his friends 6 a the Stock Exchange if a battla were fought to-morrow on the Corragh of Kildare between the English soldiery and the Irish peasantryno matter what might be the result to the

      latterwhat would be tho value of the three-and-a-half per cents , on the morning whan the tidings would reach London f The resistance offered bn the part of the people to aggression was characterized by various titles , generally depending upon the result of the struggle . When it failed it was called a rebellion , when it succeeded it-was called revolution , and he would , therefore , give it no name , but this he could tell them , that if it were announced upon the Stock Exchange that Ministers were mad enough to have recourse to physical violence against a loyal and true-hearted people , who were looking for their liberties by means purely constitutional , the tidings would excite a panic of no ordinary description in the Money-Market , aud it mattered not what gazette full of victories might follow , the

      three-anda-half per cents , might be purchased for fifteen shillings the morning after the battle—( hear , and cheers . ) Let it not bo supposed that he ( Mr . O'Connell ) was the on y person who had denounced the financial injustice done to Ireland by the Union , for the man wan scarcely cold in his grave—who when Chancellor of the Exchequer had admitted in his place in the House of Commons that the Union exacted vastly more from the Irish people than they ought to been called upon to pay . " You contracted with her , " 3 aid he , " for an expenditure fhe could not meet . " Vcsey Fitzgerald had made that declaration , and it was one well worthy the attention of the Torres , who instead of blustering about putting down Ireland , ought to appoint an honest committee for the purpose of inquiring with accuracy into the state of tbe national debt as between the two

      countries , with a view to relieve Ireland from her unjust proportion—( hear , hear , and oheers ) . ' If the English Tories would consent to this proposition he would make over to them that section of the Ropealers who were induced to join the Repeal standard by the'financial injustice ii . ilicted on Ireland by the Union ; but it they refused , he had still that wing of Repealers at his side . He called npoa the Tories to take another section of Repealers from his standard by giving to Ireland a fair and equitable proportion ot ' parliamentary voters—( bear , hear . ) Tho latest returns estimated the rural constituency of Cork at 4 , 000 ; but of that number not more than i , 500 voters could now bo mustered together in the agricultural districts of the county , bo lamentable was the falling

      off ; for the franchise was perishing day by day in Ireland . Twenty-five per cent , of tho population of England enjoyed the franchise , whereas it was only oae man out of 400 thac possessed a vote in Ireland . There was fully a huudred to one in favour of England , and against Ireland ; and that was what they called justice to Ireland ! Was that a union between the countries—( hear , hear , hear )! It waa madness—it was infatuation to say eo . He called upon the English Tories , if they desired to rob him of his Repealers , to come forward with the sword—not of vengeance , but of justice J and to give to Ireland a franchise which will bestow the right of voting upon twenty-five per cent , of her population—( cries of hear , hear , and cheers . ) It was too limited

      a franchise , he confessed it , for any country , but it was the oue which prevailed in England , and if we cannot obtain a full measure of justice , let us , at all events , be placed on terms of equality with our fellow-subjects at tho other side of the Channel . The next project to which the English Tories should direct their attention , if they wished to alienate his ( Mr . O'ConoeIl ' 8 ) followers from him , was the granting to tho Irish people of an additional number of representatives . We ought , at all events , to have the means of protecting ourselves in their alien parliament . They gave us 105 members , but at the very lowest calculation we ought to have as many as 150 . Wales , with its revenue of £ 343 , 090 had twentynine members , while in Ireland he found that cloven

      hundred thousand Irishmen were represented by four members . Others might endure that , but he would not endure it , and he would not surrender one single Repealer to the Tories , unless that grievance was put an end to . The next matter of justice to which Peel and his party ought to direct their attention was tbe extentien to Ireland , of the same description of municipal reform bill , which was conceded to the people of England . The Irish bill was a mockery . It 'took from the people the appointment of magistrates and sheriffs , and rendered it necessary , in order to the enjoyment of the municipal franchise ,

      that a citizen should be valued to the poor rate at £ 10 , whereas in England every man who was rated at air to poor rate , it mattered not in how insignificant an amount , was prrmitted to-exercise the borough franchise , iie would not surrender one solitary Repealer till this , monstrous grievance waa remedied . The fourth subject which should engage the attention of the English Tories , it' they would estratigi the Repealers from him , was the removal from this country of that mos * . crying of all evilsabsenteeism . The three poorest countries in Europe , were the three in which absenteeism most prevailed—Sardinia , Sicily , and Ireland—( hear ) .

      Absenteeism was an evil not to be cured by any other means than that recommended by Dr . Lust as a cure for the toothache—total extraction—and he told Peel that without extirpating this fruitful source of mi ^ ry , it was vaia for him to hope fora cessation of the Repeal cry . Indeed it was infatuation for him to indulge in such an anticipation at all , for never would there be a cessation of that cry until they heard the echo of the shout which would proclaim that the Speaker had taken the chair in tho Iri « h House of Commons —( loud cheers ) . What next did he demand ?— Ho demanded an immediate

      and salutary chauj . e in the relations between landlord and tenant in Ireland —( hear , hear , { hear ) . He defied Peel to take a Repealer from him as long as the relation between landlord and tenant remained unaltered . The seventh topic for England to turn her attention to was the state of the bench and the magistracy —( hear , hear , and cheers ) . The Honourable and Learned Gentleman then proceeded to refer at some length to the judicial and magisterial appointments made by the present Government , and having dwelt for some time on this topic , observed , that the magistrates ought to be elective officers as in the olden times , aud he would never relax his efforts until he saw the power granted to pvery barony of electing its own magistrates—( hear ,

      hear . ) The eighth point which he begged leave to submit to the most attentive notice of those , who made it their study to think how they could lessen the number of his adherents , was tho consideration of the purposes to which tho ecclesiastics , ! resources of the country ought to be applied . Iu Ireland , the ecclesiastical temporalities went to the church of the minority . They had another remedy for them—the Arms' Bill—a more horrible measure wa , 8 never yet introduced—( hear , htar ) . He owned it—he was not of those who wished to sec tha people armed—( loud cries of " hear , hear . ") He would be glad that all Ireland , from the Giaut ' s Causeway to Cape Clear was unarmed , but he would not leave any portion of them armed , and if the

      government disarmed them all , they should have his assistance , for ho wanted to work alone by moral means . But they left the magistrates the power to take away arms from those they pleased , and to leave them with those they pleased ( hear , hear ) . Did they forget the gun clubs that existed in the north , or that lords , and baronets , and magis rate 3 were members of those club ? ? The Orangemen paid a shilling each ; every twenty five persons had a rifle , and the person who threw the highest number got a musket and bayonet . Now , to be sure , they would not require to have gun clubs any longer , for those lords , and baronetB , and magistrates could let them have the arms , and supply them with arms , without any lottery ( hear , hear ) . That was the bill

      the government were bringing in to satisfy the Repealers that they were the friends of Ireland ( hear ) . Thero was a clause in it making it peftil , and subject to transportation for seven years , to have any concealed arms , or anything that could be used as a pike or weapon , and it gave liberty to search your home at any hour of the four-and-twenty . The poor Irishman had no longer his castle . His door could be broken open , if it was not opened , in a reasonable time . Those were the words of the statute . What would a young policeman standing ' at thd door , perhaps in the rain , think a reasonable time , and there was no person to decide it , but the person who wanted the door to be opened 'hear ) . And then he could go in and find the families in

      their beds—Oh , it was a diabolical act—( hear , hoar . ) Let them go to England , and read the horrific accounts of immorality there—and then come to Ireland , and dare to enter the bedchambers of the pure and virtuous women of this country—( hear , hear . ) That was tbe way they wanted to conciliate them ; and what then followed , if in any man ' s house , out offices or grounds , there was found a concealed weapon , he was liable to be transported for seven years . He ha ? this defence—i . t is not necessary to prove that he knew it to be there , but he is entitled to prove that he did not know it to be there—{ hear , hear . ) Now he wanted to know , if in English bloody blundering , there , was ever suoh a blander as

      that ! Why he could prove what' he knew , bnt bow could he prove in metaphysics what he did not know—( hear , hear . ) Yet this was the way they were going to conciliate them —( hear . There was a worthy farmer , named Baker , in Tipperary , who married a respectable widow , who became the mother of seven children ; one of these was at her breast when her husband was obliged to go to England , and during his absence some miscreant contrived to drop a bayonet into a tub of her milk where it was found in a few moments after by the polioe . The poo ** woman was taken to Clonmel , where she was brought before the magistrates , aad without judge or jury sent ; off oat of the

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      country ia half an hour with one of her seven at dren in her arms- ( expressions of horror ) iVdA " English Government intend a repetition of ; £ scenes by way of conciliating the people of lLh ? or were the English people so absurd as to ' miS ? that Irishmen would consent to be separated rvr * hear )] But what was the consequence ! * ' man who took an active part in having the Jl woman convioted , was afterwards shot dead bVr * men in the presen . ee of at least a dozen otherW sons , none of whom made any effort to arrest tb " It was a horrid crime , but so wag the treatm ent the poor woman . But he would not be drawing ., * comparison between them . It might be asked iSdid he not go to tbe Imperial Parliament to ' rf ^ these things . What business had he there —( cwft There waa not an idle whipster in the Honse , belong

      to any ot tne neus or gaming-houses in London » 2 wonld not be willfnj ? to leave his sport and t 0 ta » away his dice-box in order to come and vote ae « rl him . He once before had occasion to call their AmL ing ' beastly bellowings , " and the Speaker admitSl that he waa so far right , that no other term eonld w ! applied to the noises that had been made . Poot Lv den now called them " inhuman voices , " thoa » h £ might as well have repeated his name for th » ( Laughter ) He would not go under the chan ce rf being exposed to their beastly bellowinga ng ^ j , * would remain at home , where be would coatinna « * expose such Acts of Parliament where he wonw j * attended to . Bat who brought in that bill ? tbe mil ? lady-like Lord Eliot ( Hear , hear . ) He wond er « l dS his Lordship want to have more Irish tuotherj tru ? ported , or would he devise any means to prevent man ' s enemy from concealing a bayonet or a pjfce Oa \* premises . If the bill passed , and ha hoped it \ ro « u

      not—he a * ked was not the intention in vrtiieh ft ¦» framed clear ' y to decftniate and destroy the Irish won ] ( Hear , hear . ) Such was the manner ia -whi ^ ln \ ih was treated . They gave her a stamp tax , a wy l 2 tax . They were preparing to destroy every pJS principle * in the poor law , and they were finally gfo ?! her au infernal arms bill . Waa he wrong in ealliu ^ u infernal ? ' ( Cries of no , no . ) Yes , he was wro J j there was any more reprobatory word in the EmiI * language that he could use . Bat tbe people of England imagine that because the . Dnke of Wellington In * .

      dies over tbe half of an old resolution , and be « n » Sir Robert Pael set at defiance the Irish people , tb » wore tranquilly to submit to a union pregnant * to such mischiefs . If they had a Parliament in ColW green , would snch a poor law exist , would so miA taxes be levied , or would the members dare to look them in the face after passing snch an arms bill ? ( Hear , hear . ) No—but he would allow no law to be violated , and no force or violence to be used . Ha wy going on Thursday to Charleville , on Sunday the ? ¦ w ould have the magnificent trades ptocessura in CoA-i

      on Monday the great meeting in Cork would be heli On Tuesday he would attend the meeting In Oishel . anfl on Thursday he would be at Nenagb , and wm thete any ene having tbe slightest apprehension that an . thing like violence or a breach of the peace would Utj place st any of those meetings ? But he would remind the people of the law . He would have placards posted through every county telling the people that if they committed the slightest violation of the law they would continue the infliction of the Union , they would impose an injury on themselves , and they wonld gratify their enemies . ( Hear , hear . ) If any magistrate or person ia authority commanded them to disperse the ; should do bo at once . The Irish Riot Act only allowed this

      minutes to the people to disperse , - after which tin troops could fire on the people ; bat he would earnestly recommend the people to disperse at 01 % Mr . O'Connell then proceeded to refer to a pssap from the Standard newspaper , which contained a p » sage from a speech made by Sir Walter Siatt agjiuj emancipation , ia which he said that be could produce a million of Protestants from Antrim and Pown to psi dawn tbe Repealers . He considered Sir Walter Scott no authority on such a matter , as he bad presided att meeting against emancipation a fortnight before he cam to Ireland , in order to ensure his popularity in tik country , and he rejoiced that his brother John , vtt then kept the only stagbounds at KDlarney . toot

      especial care not to invite him to a stag hunt , thouji he made the offer to Miss Edge worth , who accompanied him . He did not know why the Protestants aad Pr » byterians of the North abeuld not be as interested li getting the fixity of tenure , and in having the eotutrj prosperous as any other p « rHuasion— ( hear , hear ) . Bet fast , it was true , had a great deal of trade , but woiH she not have much more under the protection of 1 native parliament ? By the late treaty with France tht duty on Irish yarn was raised , -while the duty on Eug . lish cutlery was lowered ; but would not an Irish Fit liament at once raise the duty on French wines ud silks , if such an attempt was made to raiae the dutj on Irish yarns under them —( bear ,. near ) . Bat whi

      were the facts ? Instead of the two eounties-of Antrii and Djwn having a million of Protestants in them , tt » entire population of both counties was not more tha half a million— ( loud cries of hear , hear ) . In Antrii there were 223 . 142 Protestants , and 87 , 351 Catholia ; and in Down 267 , 717 Protestants , and 109 , 416 Citfo . lies , leaviDg the majority of Protestants in bota oofy 234 , 062 Protestants , and one-half of tnese were , i ceurse , women—and half the remainder ajed and coif dren—the entire surplus fighting population of tbe two counties would , therefore , be not more than 50 , 000-( hear , bear ) . But this would not be very comferUbil if opposed even to the Catholics of Ulster a ! on«—to in the archdiocese of Armagh there was a surplus Gt tholic populati n over all sects of Protestant ! i

      783 , 503 . In the archdiocese of Taam the surploi ( V tholic population was 1 , 142 800 ; in Cashel , 2 , 105 , 117 ; and in Dublin , 879 , 072 . —making in all Ireland amplus Catholic population of 4 , 910 , 492—( hear ) . TbfJ saw , therefore , that ifc was very absurd to pay anyattation to Sir Walter Scott as an antboritv upon ma a question as the pie&ent He was glad to find tbattte trne nature and character of the Repeal question m * doily becoming better understood . The Tirm ten had admitted tint the Repeal movement wa » not M » susrcptible of a sectarian complesion—no , it wa » » rational movement inten . ted and designed for the beuafit of all classes of Irishmen irresp « cti » ely of religioai or political discrepancies , and this was eloqnenty evidenced by the fact that every day saw a fresh kc * ¦ ion of Protestant gentlemen to their standard .

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      SIR J . GRAHAM'S FACTORY BILL . Manchester , Monday Evexijtc-Ob ^ f ^ evening laat , and again by adjournment to-daj , » numerous meeting of delegates from a / I the marafactoring districts within thirty miles of this town * was held in their place of meeting . London-road , lor the purpose of considering the Factory BUI m » before Parliament . The meeting was very dob * ously attended , there being between thirty and tonj delegates present . ., lnlM i From the statements made it was the alntW unanimous opinion that ten hours a day 1 S tM ™* I est period to which factory labour ought to Deo

      6 Before the resolutions were put , the < k- « ? £ one of the districts retired , alleging that , a * »/ were instructed to advocate eleven hours , tney ™ not take further part in the proceedings . The following resolutions were afterwards nnw imously adopted : — ,. „ . vajj "That in tbe opinion of this meeting no mow ought to be allowed to work in any mill or faflBWi until it has completed its tenth year . A "That this meeting strongly objects twg lative enactment which would create or encouw the working of relays of young hands m miu"H factories against adult labour . . . J " That , a petition , founded upon theforegoiDR ^ drawn up , signed by the chairman , and t «« "" 3 to Lord Ashley tor presentation to tbe nw *~ Commons . "

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      WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET . May 26 . —There has been a steady ; business pjj in Wheat to-day at last week ' s prices . i »« ^ minal . Oats ere again rather dearer , ana 0 ^ sells more freely . Beans fully support tneir

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 27, 1843, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct970/page/8/