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I i CONTRACTS FOR RUM, RAISINS, PEAS, OATMEAL, SUGAR, AND COCOA. VICTUALLING OFFICE, April 13, 1830. THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING his MAJESTY'S NAVY, le. do hereby give Notice, That on THUISDAY, the 22d inst. they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the following Arti cles, to be delivered into his Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, A STULL ?IMOD OF DELIVIZT. One half thereof between the 100,000 Gallons of Rum 15th of May and the 15th of June next. and the remainder by the 30th day of June. 40 Tons of Raisins ; 500 Quarters of Peas' The whole between the Ist and 50 Tons of New Oatmeal' 31st day of May neat. 100 Tons of Sugar; and SO Tons of Cocoa. -4 - . - * k 04) - - - , c0 5y:1.23; 140 Jr. 0P x9 211 13'41, was igoTXDr• zits., _. _ . n°• 13,449. THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1830. PRICE 7D. PRUSSIC ACID. SOCIETY OF THE FRIENDS OF IRELAND. Samples of the Raisins, Peas, Oatmeal, and Cocoa, must be produced by the party tendering. A sample of the Sugar, and the Conditions of the Contracts, may be seen at this Office. Each Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be delivered before One o'Clock on the Day appointed; and the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, must attend to answer when called foe. M. WALLER CLIFTOII. (From No. XXX. of Medical Botany.) Saturday, there was a meeting of this Society, at the Parliamentary Office, Stephen-street, Dublin. Looms CASIEILY, Esq. was called to the Chair. MT. O'CONNELL proposed that Christopher Antigen, Esq. • gentleman of the bar, should be admitted a member of the Society. He never felt greater pleasure in his life than in proposing th.:t C. Antisell, the head of the home bar, should be admitted a member of the Society. (Hear, and cheers.) Mr. Laws.stss seconded the motion. THEATRICALS.—TO COUNTRY MANAGERS. WANTED TO PURCHASE, a respectable WARDROBE, sufficient to dress the general round of the Drama. Apply (if by letter, post-paid) to Mr. Baaroan, City Pantheon, Milton-street, Cripplegate. The Motion was put from the Chair, and carried unanimously. NETTING AND BUNTING FOR FRUIT TREES. FOR the STACK YARD, GARDEN, and CO LONIAL SETTLEMENTS, WATER PROOF RICK CLOTHS, completely fitted up. Marquees, and Tents of various sorts, improved dressed Cloths, Tilts, Sacks, Ropes, &c. with other articles of similar utility. The Foreign Settler, as well as the re sident Agriculturist, may be supplied with the above desirable articles on moderate terms, by BENJAMIN EDOINOTON, N 0.5, Tooley-street. Address, Itenjamin F.dgington. ••• A few Second-hand Cloths which have been used only a few days, to be had at reduced prices. .1 New Edition (the Fifteenth) with Additions and Emenda tions, together with a copious Commentary on the mischief of the Cutting System, just attempted to be revived,after receiving the unqualified and unanimous condemnation of all the eminent Men in the Profession for the last Forty years. PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONSouSTRICTURES of the URETHRA and RECTUM, recommending an im proved System for their Treatment and Cure, illustrating its Effi cacy by numerous remarkable and highly important Cases, in some of which Strictures of from Ten to Twenty Years duration have been totally removed in a few week+, and its superiority thereby fully established over every other method hitherto practised. By C. B. COURTENAY. M.D. To which are added, Observations and Practical Comments on Gieets, Seminal Weakness, and the Miseries occasioned by Self abuse, for the Cure of which a mode .of treatment, the result of long and successful practice, and at once safe, speedy, and rain tual, is adopted by the Author. Printed for the Author, Robert-street, Adelphi • and published and sold by Sherwood and Co. Paternoster-row ; Onwhyn, 4, Ca therine-street, Strand ; Chappell, Royal Exchange ; : Hars h, 137, Oxford -street; Walker, 90, High Holborn ; Chapple, 94, Pall Nall ; Sutherland, 90, Carlton -street, Edinburgh ; and may be bad of all Booksellers. " We earnestly recommend the cases related by Dr. Courtenay to the perusal of such of our Readers as are afflicted with the com plaints which the Author ha► made the subject of these Observa tions. Several Instances are adduced of the recovery of perfect health from states which were considered hopeless by practitioners of eminent talents, and very extensive experience. We entertain the highest opinion of Dr. Courtenay's professional skill, and con gratulate him en his successful and judicious application to these severe and often destructive diseases."—European Magazine. GERMAN PAPERS. Frankfort Papers to the Bth inst arrived yesterday. In the absence of political news they contain some romantic accounts relative to the Nuremberg Youth, whose mysterious !listing has for some time past excited great interest throughout Germany, where it promises to form the subject of at least twenty melodramas : From the Maine, March 31. The journal Hesperus says, that a clue has been discovered to the family of Caspar Hauser (the orphan of Nuremberg.) His mother is said to be a Hungarian Countess, St. M—, at Pesth, who as widow enjoys the very considerable property which, if there were a child, would belong to him. The first discovery is said to hare been made by an ecclesiastic, who, being at an inn, heard per sons in the adjoining room speak of the affair. A waiting-maid, now in the service of Count P. is stated to have implored him, on the reports of an impending investigation, to afford her his protec tion, because this affair might bring her to the scaffold ;" that he promised it to her, but that, notwithstanding, she had lost her senses through fear. On the other hand a Munich Journal, the Razor, contains, in a pnvate letter front Vienna, the following passages on the subject:— '• Already six months ago I had the only possible and true political ennjectuTe respecting the birth of Caspar Hauser, and it is now folly con...natl. A few days ago a governess in the house of Prince in Hungary, who at a former period was long in company of the great French General, was recently :nested by legal authority ; accused of being cognizant of the birth of Caspar Hauser, and also of the attempt to assassinate him, perhaps even a 4 a relation, she pretended to be out of her mind. A physician discovered her trick by another stratagem." The writer of the letter here enters into farther details, which, however, must not yet be made public. "It appears that in respect to Caspar Hauser there has been no want of liberality in the purchase of daggers. The disclosure of the truth must there fore be attended with danger to my own life if brought to light—a fact that might perhaps, be felt like an electric shock throughout Europe." NURENIBERG, APIUL 3. One of our Journals contains the following article :—" Young Caspar Hauser met this morning with an accident which has even incrwistrd the interest that his melancholy fate has excited. While busy in arranging his books on a shelf near which a loaded pistol a•as hanging, which he had placed there for his defence, he lost his balance ; and in attempting to save himself from falling, invo luntarily touched the trigger of the pistol, which went off; and .11 , , ball grazed his head, but happily did not damage any bone. I•he fuoily , hastening to the spot on bearing the report, found him lying on the floor insensible and bathed in his blood ; but a few moments afterwards he recovered his senses and speech, and surgical auisianee being immediately applied, there is reason to hope tha t the wound which is not at all dangerous, will soon be healed."— Prank/int Paws, April 7. VIENNA, APRIL 2. The Austrian Olacrrer says, under the head of accounts from Sn ythu, that die French brigs of war, the Volage and Surprise, Which had just arrived in Greece from France, had brought, the 11 ni if 1 :50,000 francs, and the latter 3511,0110 francs, for the Greek VIENNA, APRIL 1.-111etalliques, 1041; Four per Cents. 991; U ank 1,302 2-b.—Austrian Obserrer, April 2. A ram 2. Aletalliques, 1041 ; Four per Cents. 981; Bank 'harts, 1,377 1,381.--.4llgancine Zeilung, April 7. T its- DANGER OE NV LT FEET.—There is no evil to which mankind is exposed, of equal magnitude to Wet Fret. It 11 a fact universally acknowledged by the Faculty, that more Dratirs ensue from this one cause than from any other. The rick of encountering this evil may be avoided by using Hunt's Patent Water/Roof Compocition, which will render Boots and Shoes :in pervious to all moisture, even that of snow water.—Sold in Bottle. 3t ls . each, by Oilmen, Druggists, Grocers, &c. &c. " Prussic acid, at the ordinary temperature, is liquid, nansparent, and colourless ; its taste, at first of an agreeable freshness, soon be comes acrid and irritating ; it slightly reddens the tincture of turn sal. Its odour is powerful and noxious; being insupportable when not mixed with a large proportion of air—lt then resembles the smell of hitter almonds. Prussic acid Is extremely volatile ; in fact, it boils at 26.5 deg. under a pressure of 0.76 deg. and at 10 deg. sustains a column of mercury at 0.38 deg. Its congelation is, however, easily effected, and takes place at 15 deg. ef Fahr. so that when a few drops of this acid are poured upon paper, the portion which evaporates instantly produces a degree of cold sufficient to crystallite the other: it is the only liquid which "stk., seises this property. It is but slightly soluble in water, on which account, when agitated with ten or twelve times its bulk of this fluid, it collects on the surface in the manner of oil or ether. It is readily soluble in alcohol. Left to itself in well.stopped vessels, it sometimes decomposes in less than an hour ; according to M. Ma jendie, it can rarely be preserved longer than a fortnight. Bless's. Waugh, in Regent-street, are said, however, to prepare it after the formula of Dr. Nimmo, and warrant it to keep, without deterio ration, for ids months. " Prussic add exerts the same deadly powers that the distilled laurel-water does, but in a more eminent degree. One drop, in a pure state, introduced to the tongue of s dog or cat, induces a few hurried inspirations, and death immediately ensues. Dropped into the eye, it produces effects equally sudden. One drop diluted with several drops of alcohol, injected is the jugular vein, will kill the animal as suddenly as if it were struck with lightning ; and in ani. mals poisoned in this manner, scarcely any traces of muscular irri tability can be detected a few moments after death. " Cases ate continually occurring in this country In which prussic acid has been taken with the express intention of producing death ; and in the Annaks de Mode for 1814, the following one is re corded :—A professor of chymistry left a flask contairing alcohol saturated with prussic acid ; the servant-maid, seduced by the agree able smell of the liquor, swallowed a glass of it. At the expiration of two minute& she fell dead, as if she had been struck with apo plexy. The body was not opened. " Orfila also mentions that Professor Scharinger, of Vienna, pre pared some pure and concentrated prussic acid, a certain quantity of which he diffused on his naked arm, and died a short time after. " Hufeland relates the following case D. la a robust and healthy man, tetat. 36, on being seised as a thief by the police snatch ed a small aled phial from his pocket, broke off the neck, and swallowed the greater part of its contents. A strong smell of bitter almonds soon spread arouna, which almost stupified all present. — The culprit staggered a few minutes, then, without a groan, fell on his knee, and sunk lifeless on the ground. Medial assistance being called in, riot the slightest trace of pulse or breathing could be found. A few minutes afterwards, a single and violent aspiration occurred, which was again repeated in about two minutes. Tne extremities were perfectly cold, the breast and abdomen still I warm, tke eyes half open and shining, clear, lively, full, almost pro. jetting, and as brilliant as those of the most ardent youth under violent emotion. The face was neither distorted nor convulsed, but bore the image of quiet sleep. The corpse exhaled a strong odour of bitter almonds. And the remaining liquid in the phial being analysed, was found to be a concentrated solution of prussic acid in alcohol. "Even its vapours should be carefully avoided ; for if respired, it causes considerable pain in the chest, and a feeling of oppression which does not go off for several hours. It also has a very dele terious effect on germination, exerting an influence on living vege tables, almost as powerful as on animals, speedily destroying their vitality." " MEDICAL PROPERTIED AND Users.—Dr. Elliotson justly observes, in his valuable work, the hydrocyanic add can scarcely be ana a new medicine, as the leaves of the laniacerasas, bitter almonds, and other substances containing it, and horn which they derive their virtues, were long ago employed as remedies. Dr. Brown Langrish tells us that the powder of the dry leaves of the lauracerasus was frequently employed In his neighbourhood as a certain cure fur ague, by giving as much as will lie on a shilling, in a glass of white wine, two hours before the fi t, and re. pitting it three times. It is held in great esteem among the poorer sort of people, and is said to have good success. By referring also to the account of Amygdalis common* in our work, it will be seen that Bergius successfully treated it with bitter almonds. Nurses occasionally put a leutof the lauracerasus in pap, to relieve flatu lence ; while Linneus says, Lour° eerasi per neitatis. sista pro infuso in marble depaseentibus. Ira e yt em es us boasts of its virtues in hectic, and speaks of it as efficacious in attenuating the blood : that it was given during the last century as a remedy for consumption, is evident from a reference to it by Cullen, who says, that it has been of no use in cases of pkthisisprelotonaiis, or in resolving obstructions of the liver, seems to be concluded upon too few experiments.' " Not only every class of agents produces peculiar effects upon the living body, but every individua l, besides the general properties of its class, is characterised by peculiar effects. The hydrocyanic acid is a narcotic, but it has not the property of lessening pain in newel, nor of procuring sleep in a direct manner like opium ; neither has it the power of controlling the pulse like Digitalis. In a large dose, short of fatal effects, it, we have already hinted, occasions in sensibility and extreme feebleness of the heart's action r in a smaller, vertigo, faintness and perhaps rapidity of pulse, sickness, and a sense of constriction at the procordia : in a still smaller nausea only, with perhaps momentary vertigo, and even pain of the stomach. Although, in too large a dose, it irritates the stomach, it has a remarkable power, when properly exhibited, of soothing this organ when in a state of morbid irritability. In Dr. Elliotson's extensive practice, at St. Thomas's Hospital, it has been satisfac torily proved, we understand, to be the best remedy in gastrodynis and in pyrosis ; but its powers are most conspicuous in vomiting unconnected with inflammation of this organ. Frequently, as in pregnant women, it is observed to arrest, at the first few doses, perhaps at the very first, vomiting which had existed for several weeks, merely from morbid irritability, and Ilia cough also has frequently yielded to it. Yet, what is singular, it will not mitigate pain in the Intestines, or entendynia. It cannot therefore be expected to relieve, nor does it even lessen the pain ge nerally, in other parts ; and as a consequence cannot be employed as a general anodine. " The attacks of pain which occur in angina pectoris. and so closely resemble gastrodynia in situation and course, as probably to be mistaken, are said to be more relieved by it than by any other means. " It is employed with advantage to the hooping, and what is called spasmodic cough ; i. e. when there is no inflammation or organic disease; or where these exist, the cough is disproportionably violent. After proper antiphlogistic measures in inflammations of the chest, it has been useful ; and occasionally in consumption, in palliating symptoms ; but as it possesses no power over organic dis ease, it is not a cure for consumption, as some have too fondly wished ; and a physician asserting in the 10th century, what time has proved to be incorrect, that it has cured several hundred eases, either proves a disregard of truth, or an Ignorance of the symptoms and pathology of this fatal disease, for which he is alike culpable. " Nervous patients it sometimes soothe considerably. 13ut, ex cepting in affections of the stomach, we may doubt whether it pos sesses any advantages over opium, properly administered; and in procuring sleep, relieving pain in general, or as a remedy for diabetes, it will be found a poor substitute. " When palpitation depends upon dyspepsia, it, in common with other symptoms, is greatly mitigated by this acid. " The external application of the prussic acid, greatly diluted, has been recommended to tooth irritation of the skin. But it more frequently causes smarting sensations, and a degree of dryness, even when extremely diluted, that renders it worse than useless. Ex ternally, thougn occasionally beneficial, it is infinitely inferior in its effects to the cidoruret of soda, which, as a disenfecting agent, and as a cleanser of sloughing ulcers, we pat ticularly recommend. " Dose—The largest dose of the acid generally borne, by Vauquelitr's method, vailcs front one to live drops. We pire a s Z e ki begin with one drop, and increase the dose one drop daily, or every other day, till the symptoms yield, or signs of its disagreeing ap pear, Ruch aV SeVelfe vomiting, vertigo, or a sense of debility. The dose should be that tuduc,d to what is borne with comfort. It may be continued any length of time without fear of accumulation of effect, or constitutimal operation. It sho u ld not be given on an empty stomack; and when severul doses are combiseed, the mixture should be well shaken previously to its administration." Mr. O'Caxxxx.r. rose and said the next person he would propose to be admitted was his excellent friend Tom Cluney. Ile (Mr. O'Connell) was not ashamed to avow that Mr. Cluney was in his day a rebel General. When the Union was about to be carried, the Orange Gentry of the county of Wexford refused to join unless Tom Cluney was sent back to gaol. This was done to gratify them, and he was suffered to linger in the prison-house for two years. Owing to Lord Clifden he was permitted to return to Ire land, from whence he was exiled, and he now lives amongst us, in happiness and comfort. Mr. Cluney was about to publish (Mr. O'Connell said) his notes during the period of that unhappy insur rection. It would be one of the most interesting works yet pub lished on the subject. He (Mr. O'Connell) would now move, " that the worthy and humane Thomas Cluney be admitted a member of the Society." Mr. REDMOND seconded the motion, and offered his sentiments as to Mr. Cluney's high character. One of the first impressions made on his mind was by the exploits of Thomas Cluney. Mr. O'Conwer.r. next rose and said Our object in this Society is to be practically useful. Our first object is to conciliate all sects and parties in Ireland—that, I think, can be best done through the means of an Address to the people at large, whom we should call upon in the name of Christianity to abandon their feuds, and put as end to their cnimosities. I hope to be able by the next day of meet. ing to present the draft of an Address upon this subject—(hear !) With reference to this topic, it gives me infinite pleasure to be able to state that all sects and parties are beginning to unite with each other; a real and substantial change has taken place in Ireland (hear, hear!). I have lately received, from different parts of the country, various communications, in which the writers state, that they should soon have a country, because they began to hope to have one. It is a good presage, and has been repeated to me more than once. Ireland has hitherto been divided; she has gained no advantage by that division. Let Ireland combine her nine millions of inhabitants, and they would be too strong for oppression ; the country could not be trampled upon; I will not say with impunity, but there would not be a peed bility of the pressure continuing from the moment that the people would determine to have an honest and a just government in the country. (Hear.) 1 have been extremely amused with symptoms of a different description, which have been manifested by those who are getting angry in proportion as they find that men of all parties are becoming good tempered. The time has now come when religion is an affair between man and his (ion, and not between man and man, and there is now no reason why one Christian should hate another on account of his religion. There is nothing now but prac tical measures for the good of Ireland to occupy our attention.— I have thought it my first duty this day to lay before you the draft of a petition upon the assimilating of duties. This has been one of the consequences of this society, that practical men, who never before took part in Petitions, are now coming forward to give the most valuable assistance in the details of every measure. I disliked the union act so much that I never read it over till this morning, and I find that the present attempt at assimilating the duties is in direct contravention of the eighth article of the Union. (Hear.) In 1817 there was no objection made to the assi milation of duties ; and when I come to read this Petition, I believe there is not a man in Ireland who will not rise up in ext. cration against the men who carried that measure, and still more strongly against those who did not oppose it. I mean to propose that this Petition be referred to the Committee. I rejoice to say that Irelalid was neva so well off, with respect to the Press, u it is at present. We have in Dublin four Journals. We have The Morning Register—we have The Morning Post—we have The Freeman's Journal; indeed we have not of late had much countenance front The Evening Post, but I should imagine it will be with us before long, as there will not be a penny given in Proclamations to the newspapers. The Evening Post has made property, and accumu lated wealth in the service of the people, whom interests it for many years honestly advocated. I tell The Evening Post that the Beres fords and 3lehonies never can compensate it for the loss of the peo. pie I throw this out as advice to this paper, which for many years was the only one we had in this country, which now swarms with honest and independent newspapers. 111 r. O'Connell then read the Petition. Mr. O'Cown ELL continued—l have to move that this petition be referred to the committee for revision, and when the blanks are filled up, that it should be engrossed. I beg to call the distinct at tention of every man in Ireland to this fact, that when three mil. boos of taxes are about to be taken from the English people, taxa. tion to the amount of 300,000 L is to be put upon the people of Ireland, who are in an infinitely more distressed situation than those in England. Front England there have been taken thirty millions in taxes since the war ; and from Ireland but six hundred thou. sand, half of which is now to be again placed upon this coon. try.—(hcar, hear). In Ireland the November rents have been paid out of capital, and the March and May rents will not be paid at all, unless some contrive to pay them out of their capital. This fact has not appeared in any of the Government newspapers—the canal boats bringing provisions to Dublin are obliged to be guarded by the mili tary.—(henr). The people are stet ving, and it is matter of astonish. went they do not she in thousands.—(hear). Something must be done for the poor of Ireland, or the burdens of society will become too heavy for them.— (hear). I have resisted, though I admire the principleof, the Poor Laws; but I rather do anything—that the man who had but two coats should be obliged to give away one of thean—l would prefer this to happen, rather than 1 should see the people perishing as they are in Ireland (hear !). If the Union be not re pealed, we must have poor laws. The rents must be spent in the employment of the people, or they must be maintained in idleness out of the rents. The people wish for employment—they do not desire to be dependent upon charity—they want workshops, and not hospitals; and if the rents be not spent amongst them, they must be given away to them (hear ! and cheers). It has been said that a Repeal of the Union would be a Catholic measure. I declare solemnly, that if I thought it were likely to confer any sectarian advantage I would oppose it (hear, hear, heat !) I am anxious that this should go abroad. We owe the concord that now exists between Protestants and Catholics to the good feel ings of individuals—we do not owe E to the Government; they have done nothing to carry it into etfect—(bear.) Not only have Catholics not received any , bene fi t from emancipation, but the liberal protestant* are as much discountenanced by them now as they were when the government entertained different views on the Catholic question—(hear.) Mr. O'Connell concluded by proposing that the petition should be referred to the committee. Mr. ANTI/ELL said, he felt it necessary to assign some reasons why he bad become a member of this society—being the only society or public meeting he had ever attended. He found by their Reso. lutlons that this was a Society of the Friends of Ireland— that no pledge was to be given, nor was even a coincidence of opinion re quired (hear !). He, therefore, became a member of the society, i because as an honest man, he loved his country, and be loved the people, and the more any man knew of it and them, the more he must love them (hear ! and cheers). He had been Counsel fur the people in the memorable period of 1798, and had, in con. sequence, become a marked man (hear I) At the present day lie assured them that a system of delution was attempted to be persevered in by a week and impolitic Ministry. They could not have failed to observe that the Ministry was attempting to please two kinds of people —there were men who voted for Catholic Emancipation, but who in their hearts did not wish to see it carried—those Dien were not the teal friend. of Ireland, but wished to put themselves into situation where they might be taken notice of. (Hear, bear.) Oa the other hand, the men who voted against them from principle were the men whom the Catho lics ought to like most. The man who was actuated by prindple was open to conviction—he would be their staunch friend, and could not be corrupted, and all, he trusted, would soon be found wiled in the one cause—that of improving the country. One object of the society should be to pht down White boy outrages. It was in their power completely to suppress them in the course of two or three months. The Influence of the Catholic clergy should be used to induce the people to give up their arms. He begged new to state, that he di from his learned friend on one grand point the repeal of the union. An Irish House of Corn none would be tilled with needy adventurer,, end the junior classes of the nobility, who would be, at the time of the Union, easily bribed. If they had a reformed parliament in England, he thought that their affairs would be better managed than in one which would be open, like its predecessors, to the corruption of the Castle. lie should conclude by expressing his hope that the society would be the means of establishing peace in the country, and that her gentry would re. turn to Ireland. Let them put down Whiteboy outrages; every friend to Ireland would bless them for it ; and every man who wished well to the country would unite with them. (hear.) Mr. O'Costweee said the Roman Catholic Bhthor of the North bad written a circular letter to the Clergy, directing them not to ad minister the Sacraments to any man bound by the oath of Ribbon. ism, or any other illegal oath. Mlute did the Ribbonmen do ? They gave up the oaths, and thus the influence of the Catholic Clergy could not be exercised. The moment the Enniskillen trials were over, he would have an address to the people of the North, in which he would be assisted, he hoped, by his excellent friend who was as anxious es himself for the peace, happiness ' and tranquillity of the country. (Hear, hear.) In the South he had been able to put down Ribhonism, though they had been su ff ering from bad landlords, and the effects of the Subletting Act. (Hear.)-- His friend, Ur. Antisell, differed from him, as he had a right to do, upon the question of the Union; but he (Mr. O'Connell) did not want to restore the Irish Parliament as it was. It would be ins possible to 4e so, for government WA bought 110 rotten boroughs from the proprietors. And where these bouts existed before, by in the barony, which was like the leelab hundred. they would have real representatives for the peeps. If the Union was repealed, it would not be necessary to look ter a reform in Parlia ment, for the repeal would be parliamentary Bakens haelL Mr. Leweess—Tbe loused gestlemes had spoken against a repeal of the Union. and yet blamed the peasantry for rising up revenge against the oppression and distress that measure bad brought on them. For his part, he almo‘t thought they were right; for in. stance, on the Courteuay estate, and is Tipperary, he could not con demn thent for the retaliation of the unfeeling cruelties they suffered. They were justified by their miserits, in having recourse to the pro tection of arms. Mr. O'Cosrs ELL spoke to order. Ile should condemn them when he told Mr. Lawless that those misguided and unfortunate men Lad put to death the unoffending son of a man who was an agent—a young man of excellent character, who had never taken any part in the measures fur ahieh he so unjustly suffered. 31r. Lawless's peat influence with the country should pn vent his using such language as would give the slightest approval of their conduct, and he was convinced that he did not mean to convey any sanction of the shocking and unpardonable crime of blood. Mr. LAWLESS requested to be heard. lie said that Mr. O'Con nell knew, and he hoped Mr. Annuli would believe, flat no man would go further to prevent the shedding of one drop of human blood than he would, or exert himself more to avert the suffering of injury by any fellow being. Few bad done more during the last three years to restrain the: excesses alluded to than he did, but what could the unhappy wretches do in the circumstances they were placed in? They obeyed a law of nature in revenging what they could not redress; but though he pitied, he did not think them right. (Hear, hear.) He merely meant to say, that they were much provoked in many cues, and could scarcely be blamed under such unhappy excitement. He called for an Irish Legislature, and denied that it could be so corrupt as a British.— He could almost hope that no modification of their list of griev ances would take place, until repeated refusal exasperated the peo ple into unity, and procured for them the only means of becoming great and happy—a native Legislature. Mr. LAWLESS gave notice of a motion for calling on every Coun- U, City,Town, and Perish in Ireland, to petition for a repeal of the Union. The question of adjournment till Wednesday next was then CU. tied, and the meeting separated.—Dublin Paper. TO THE CONDUCTORS OF THE LONDON WEEKLY PRESS. Orturr.smErt r —The papers over which you preside are gene. rally intended for the middle and working classes, and I am in. formed they are extensively read by them ; it is, therefore, practi cable to make each of your publications a vehicle of great national utility. For the present condition of this country, and the general state of the civilised world, make it important that the industrious classes should be all informed relative to their own interest, and to the general interests of society. A great change in the condition of all classes in this and in other countries is irresistibly forced forward by the rapid progress of physical knowledge and intellectual ac. quirements, adding daily Improvement upon improvement, for the abridgement of human labour, with a speed and a power continually accelerating. The change which these new circumstances are preparing in every country make it now desirable, for the Governments and the higher classes generally, that no part of the population should be allowed to remain longer in ignorance of the real state of public affairs. No one who observes the course of events u they are advancing, day by day, can longer doubt that the people of all states will have a great influence in the future proceedings of Government. It is important, therefore, that the people should now acquire a correct knowledge of those principles and practices which can alone secure the general peace and prosperity of any population. Being deeply impressed with the importance of these views, and wishing, if possible, now to put a stop to party feeling, and to direct the attention of all wbo re. Bat to the investigation of subjects which involve the highest in terest of every human being, I have, after mature deliberation, de termined to make the attempt to give an entire new direction to the public mind, that it may be trained to investigate the powers of society, to ascertain whether all the elements requisite to found and build up an entire new and greatly improved condition of human existence, are not now at the control of the people of every civilised state. Foe this purpose I have made arrangements to come into direct communication with the public in a manner the most likely to es. tablish truth, and to have error refuted. On Monday next I bold a public meeting, at which I will endeavour to give a full outline of the great change in human affairs, for which, as it appears to be ad visable, all should prepare to lend their aid and to co.operate. And I will subsequently, by lectures in various parts of the Metropolis, enter into a more general explanation of the principles and practices by which this momentous revolution, moral, political, agricultural, and commercial, is to be effected, without disturbing the well-or. derintof society during the progress of the change fVom a confused, inconsistent, and wretched mode of conducting human affairs, to the estealishment of a system of union and order which shall secure the well-being, prosperity, and happiness of all descriptions of men. It has ever been an object of deep interest with me to prepare the public readily to admit the commencement 'ot this new state of ex. istence wiliout disorder or evil to any, and to watch the times and seasons when it may be introduced to Government and people. If I am not much deceived, this eventful period has arrived ; all men now expect some great change in public affairs. The lately aug mented improvements for the abridgement of human labour, and the general progress of scientific knowledge, demand it. The pressure of mechanical power against the means of existence, under the pre sent confiteting arrangements will, through wisdom or violence, force it upon the world, and thus it becomes the interest of all that it should not be longer delayed. You, Gentlemen, may assist to promote this change of deep in. terest to the human race, a change which no mortal power can now prevent, or, perhaps, even retard. Let your columns be applied to the investigation of these sub. jects, which affect the very existence of a large portion of the indus. trious classes, and the permanent welfare of all classes. Tieperform my task in such a manner as to effect any real benefit for mankind, I must, for a time at lea contend against all the errors of past ages, u they have come down to the present day, and subject myself to all the consequences which follow front opposing the now deep rooted prejudices and long established popular feelings. To these consequences, whatever they may be, I shall eubmit without murmur or complaint, feeling, as I do, the everlasting pod which a steady adherence to facts and to truth may now obtain and secure for all future generations. Strong, however, as my convictions are upon these subjects, after all the pains I have taken to let no error respecting them remain upon my mind, I may be deceived ; I may have mistaken some of the fundamental principles by which the whole change is to be at. fectcd, or reasoned falsely font the premises which they establish. If either of these results be true, all have an interest in making the OM public, without delay. If any one of the fundamental princi. plea which I advocate shall be proved to be opposed to one fact, and, consequently not a principle which will be to accordence with all facts, or, if my deductions from these principles can be proved to be incorrect, I will immediately use every mans in my power to correct the evil which anal must ever produce upon the public mind. But, at present, I cannot di.covtr aught but consistency in the principles with all known facts, and unlimited benefit in the practices to which they lead. I have, therefore, only to request your suript.rt, or opposition, as the measures I propose may appear to I.U, after heir investigation, to be founded in truth or in error, and •ti be advantageous or injuri. ous in practice. t.OBT. OWEN. 49, Bford-square, April 10.