The Sun. — London, England, 1837-03-31 00:00:00

MONUMENT TO MUIR, &c. A Public Meeting was held on Monday in tile. Waterloo Itooms, Edinburgh, Baillie Millar in the Chair, to take rneoures for erecting a monument to Messrs. Muir, Pal /near, Gerrald, Skirving, &c. Among the gentlemen present At the meeting we observed—Bailie Millar, Bailie Taylor, of Leith, Couucillors Howden, Russell, Stodart, Falkner, Meudell, and Deuchar, Adam Black, Esq., William Tait, Esq., John Johnstone, Esq., J. H. Burton, Esq., Dr. Browne, Ralph Richard son , Esq,, William Moffat, Esq., William Muir, Esq., Leith, Th omas Muir Moffat, DI-, Rob er t Phillip, Esq., Leith, Peter Campbell, Esq., James Anderson, Esq., Alex. Watson, Esq., T. Hay, E , ;(1. , &c. - The CHAIRMAN rose and returned thanks to the Meet 4g. for the honour S'aey had done him in callin g him to pre side. H e was grati.fied to find that the citizens had at length • met en an occasion of so much importance, and he only re gretted that had a century had been suffered to elapse be fore the coSentry came forward to state their feelings with regard to ie ; , When they looked back upon the years 1793 and 17P .et, and recollected that Muir, Palmer, Marg aro t, `i c .rr.ald, and Skirving, had been made political sacrifices, a n d for doing nothing but what all present felt proud and 41 aPpy to have done, in struggling for the re-generation of the country for a number of years past.—(Cheers.) When they recollected all this, they could not but be happy t h at the band of reformers in the sister kingdom had at length been roused from their lethargic sleep, and had resolved to bring before the notice of the whole kingdom the idea of a Monument to perpetuate the memories of those great men who had suffered and died in the service of their country. lie was happy to think that they could meet in an open 'manner, and express their sentiments fearlessly, without the risk of being carried from their families and firesides in the middle of the night, to gratify the caprice and tyranny of the party who then ruled with a rod of iron the destinies of this country. We lived now in other days, and were proud of a public prosecutor, who looked with mercy on cases seven of crime, and who would never attempt to make crime 'where there was none.—(Grect cheering.) We had now on the Bench a number of excellent Judges, one of whom had pled the cause of the unfortunate, though he was sorry ?to say unsuccessfully. These days were now passed, and he hoped the time would never again come when the so phistry or misdirection of the Judge would ever perplex the Jury. He concluded by saying, that he hoped this Meet ing would only be one of many held in Scotland, to hand down to posterity the memories of the patriotic heroes of 1793 and 94.—(Loud cheers.) Dr. BROWNE was received with loud cheers. He said that having been delegated to submit to the meeting the basis on which they ought to judge of the reticulated syatem of judicial iniquity, of which these men were the victims, in justice to the memory of the illustrious dead, as well as in justice to the cause in which they were all engaged, he felt it necessary to trespass on their patience at more than usual length. This cause had nothing but its merits to recommend it. It was one from which the timid shrunk with apprehension, and the time-serving shunned as they would a viper —it was one which those whose conduct was regulated by the safe maxim of worldly Predystice, rather than by the principles of justice, or the gen'erous impulses of humanity, would forget to attend te , countenance ; and like the Priest and the Levite, they 'would pass by on the other side.—(Cheers.) These re !spouses told him that the hearts of those present were cast In another mould—that they were not congealed by the frosty spirit of worldly prudence to stand aloof from the cause of truth and justice, because the names of the aristocracy were not here to grace their assembly. They Were engaged in the sacred, and he might almost call it the holy duty of rescuing from the infamy of a judi c i a l sentence, the memories o men who had the forlorn hope in the cause of liberty.—(Cheers.) One of those martyrs exclaimed, after that sentence which doomed him to an exile from which he was never to return—" My Lords, the proceedings of these last two days will be re-judged ; that Is all my comfort and my hope." Now, to these patriots the meeting stood in the relation of posterity ; and it was the high prerogative and attribute of posterity to act as a court of review, calmly to re-judge those offences and crimes which had been committed in past times under the influence of temporary frenzy or temporary wickedness. They held a portion of that appellate jurisdiction to which Judges as well as Kings, and every.other human being were respon sible.; and now that the passion of the times had ceased, and the temporary frenzy had passed away, it was for them to say whether or not these men were—as he trusted he should be able to prove they were, ju dicially sacrificed.—(Loud cheering.) He wished to call their attention to the real question at issue, stripped of every consideration of the hardships attending the sentence, and of every other circumstance except this, what was the crime of which these men were guilty, or were they guilty of say crime at all ? Did they pursue a legal object by legal means, or was their object legal, but pursued by illegal breams, or were neither their object nor the means taken to reach that object legal ? Now, he would undertake to show that the objects they pursued were legal, and that the means by which they attempted to carry that object lirt re also legal—that was, that there existed at the time 0 0 law declaring them illegal—that the law by which they were sacrificed was a judge-made law—made for the occasion ; that the Jury by which they were tried and convicted was a packed Jury, if ever a packed Jury existed in Scotland ;—(Loud cheers)—and that their Punishment was as direct and flagrant a violation of law as ever was recorded in the annals of tyranny in this or any other country. Before entering into this, the Learned boctor referred, in terms of condemnation, to the position '!aid down by Paley, that it were better to punish ten innocent persons, than to let one gu ilt y person escape . In returning to the subject, he said, that it was said by s ome that these men meant well, but that they acted with c'ut prudence—that they asked for what was unattainable ; and it was added, that they even contended for annual Parlia ments and universal suffrage. Now, he was not there to ad l'ocate any political opiiiions,but he must say that he could not c onceive of gre a t er enorm i t i es t h an t h ese ; an d lie thought he could see s i gns i n h eaven an d eart h w hi ch seemed to in dicate that the time was not far distant when the means wh ich had lately been used to swamp the constituencies h w ould render indispensable an extension of the franchise.— areat cheeri ng .) But thi s was not t h e quest i on. If t h ey ;t committeira crime in this, who w ere th e i r assoc i ates ? bY, the D u k e o f Ri c h mon d was one , an d a certa i n per ;on called William Pitt was the other. In a pamphlet pub ithed by a Society of which these personages were members, ,„ w as assert e d th a t th e r i g ht o f a nn ua l e l ec ti on , an d o f un i- PTsIII suffr age , were so c l ear th a t no so phi s t ry cou ld hid e im- But a c h ange came o ' er th e s pi r it of thei r d ream ; at was a Ref ormer b e f ore he w as a Minister, and like be did w h o sa id , w h en h e swore h e wou ld di e a b ac h e l or , did not think he would live till he was married ; so he, "en he was a R e f ormer , did no t t hi n k h e w ould live t o b e A linister—(L aug h ter )—be became the persecutor of, and ass ociates over to the tender mercies of Lord B rax fi e ld , the the o f hi s ottr l y career. Mr. M u i r was a man o f i nt ' Purest and de e p es t sen ti men t s o f p i e ty, o f the most un ahreuehable integrity, and who attempted to carry, by peace ttr4 means, that very Reform which has now become part 1 ;. Parcel of the law of the land—he was charged with alreulating seditious books, and with making seditious et t e , ee ,l'es—he supposed he was making a very seditious had just now.—( Laughter.) One charge was, that he th 4, circulated Paine's Rights of Man. Now he was not ere thin defend that book—( Hear, hear) —there were many 0t143 in it of which he highly disapproved, but there were but by ili ngs which, if they h a d been said not by Paine, itself.--tbel) 'll . mself, were nevertheless as true as truth n eo n d e keheering and l aug ht er .) After some remarks aaill2natory of his infidel sentiments, which, however, he th e , were put down rather by Watson's Apology than by th e . ' l ','efilcios of th e E ng li s h A ttorney -G enera l, he ridiculed uea Thant i of a man b e i ng held respons ib le for every senti n the ease any book w hi c h h e m i g h t recommen d, an d instanced of . ititof Gibbon's Decline and Fall, which few persons nex, el li gance had not read, and fewer still asse nted to. The I ,. pe : Point against Muir was, that he had made seditious tioe ehes. It was put to any man what constituted a sedi awe: speech, h e suspected he would be much puzzled to an- In seth ' f beY might t a k e t h e d e fi n i t i on as g i ven b y t h e Rhada volei,,oB of the b enc h at that time—that it was a speech in -.g sedition? But then came the question, what aectsisteiodnitifn ? Ti ll these men were brought to ' trial, n „ Pr nos . always understood, in this country, to mean Th:9se:iceeding accompanied by an attempt to excite and commotion —(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") i dea . d res , o of calling seditious any political argument ad tse the understandings of the people, was an enor niu! h was reserved for the fertile and inventive ge -3 13t- those judges who had resolved to pervert the law in order to d rew at stop the course of Parliamentary Reform. He then judge ten icon to a contradiction in the addresses of the ca se he n tbe cases of Muir and Skirving, where in the one in SootlsaPn?lk o a f n s d e , dition as being the same in England and 6eotl d in the other, he spoke of sedition in svh, t a it n ar as being a very different crime in Scotland from as in England. The reason was plain—in Eng ils4nedatil:Y had no such crime as sedition in the abstract. sedition referred to the chapter of Baron Hume's work on . 44 , and which he characterised as nothing more than oiaoorate defence of the disgraceful proceedings of this Period. condo Then with respect to the other victims, they were de' e r n eed for being members of a convention which was eaeeZid to be illegal. Now if there was any part of the th aoKer than another, it was this. So satisfied were e C oned G oivernment that their precedents were not sane arid 'Y existing laws, that, between that period ie. " 99 the a e such Y passed no fewer than three acts, mak- Ini ney of assemblies illegal. Such was the predo 4colored the Reign of Terror at time, that Mr. Skirting " well l'at a respectable agent stated to him, he might surrender utter t o a_, .at once all interest in his profession as take up his case. Even Mr. Gillics and Malcolm Laing, though second to few men in political courage, durst not come forward to defend them till they had the autho rity of the Court for doing so. Nay, more, the judge him self, as was offered to be proved to his teeth, had prejudged their case at the table of Mr. Rochead of Inverleith, stat ing that they would get fourteen years transportation, and a public whipping, when a lady, God bless her for her in terposition—it is one proof that, when charity is chased from the iron heart of man, it still finds a resting place in the kind and generous breast of woman—a lady said, you dare not do it, Sir, the very stones in the street would rise up against 3 ou.—(Loud cheers.) But this wvs not all ; the very man at whose house this conversation took place, was one of the petty jurymen appointed to try them ; and, as if that still was not enough, the meeting might know that there was an association in Goldsmith's-hall, consti tuted, as they said, for the defence of the Constitution, and who were familiarly known by the name of the life and for tuae men. Mr. Muir and his friends, who wished to im p.-ove the Constitution, but certainly not to destroy it, went and subscribed their names on the roll of the Association. But the other members, by a public and solemn act, expunged their names, thus prejudging their opinions ani pointing them out as the enemies of the Constitution ; and vet these were the very men selected as jurymen to try them. The judicial immolation was thus consummated, but did these brave men despair ? Did Muir, the favoured son of wealthy parents—the member of a liberal profession —a man of cultivated mind—of pure and upright heart— did lie sink under that terrible sentence, which to him had a form more appalling than death itself? The guillotine would have been mercy itself, compared with the sentence he was forced to undergo, to a man of cultivated taste like Muir, or to Gerrald, whose eloquence appalled even a pro fligate judge, who attempted, by a cruel refinement of ini quity, to turn even that against him by declaring, that that man had eloquence enough to make the people rise in arms—did they despair when they were fettered in the hulks along with the vilest of criminals—with that mass of pollution which society must cast off for its own preserva tion—did they despair then ? No ; firmly and fearlessly they predicted that the time of deliverance would come.— (Loud cheers.) At the conclusion of his trial, Muir said, my mind tells me that I have acted agreeably to my con science, and that I have engaged in a good, and a just, and a glorious cause, which soon or late will prevail, and by a timely reform, save this country from destruction. Gerrald held the same language. From the great, and pious, and intelligent Skirving said, his hope and comfort was, that the circumstances of his case would be rejudged, and the purity of his motives recognised. Now the question came again, were these men rightly connected or were they not ? There was evidence enough, he thought, in the face of these records, to prove that even in this country, the history of which had been too often darkened and dishonoured by the prostitution of law to the purposes of tyranny, there was no blacker or fouler spot than the conviction of these men.— (Loud cheers.) Such being the feelings of the meeting, as they were his, the next question was, what was their duty ? They would surely join with the London Committee in raising a testimonial to show that the memory of these brave men had been peaceably avenged. Edinburgh had been called the city of palaces ; but it was also the city of. monu ments—of Tory monuments ;—look along George-street and what did they sec—vice marching between tyranny and oppression —George IV., between Henry Dundas and the immaculate William Pitt. 'Was it not fitting and right, that a monument to these men should be erected on that glorious hill, where there was already one monument to a man of science, another to a philosopher, and another to our own immortal Burns, himself a political martyr—was it not right and fitting that to the patriot, the philosopher, and the poet, the cenotaph should rise, and on that hill salute the glorious morn together.—(Loud cheers.) After some farther observations, the Learned Doctor concluded by moving the two first resolutions, which were seconded by Mr. Philip of Leith. The third resolution was moved by Mr. Burton, advo cate, and seconded by Mr. Smith. Councillor HOWDEN, in moving the fourth resolution, said, he had been summoned to the trial of Skirving, but was rejected by the judge, who selected the jury on that occasion ; and he always looked back on that period with more complacency than he was able to express, that in those days of darkness he was held unworthy, incompetent or incapable, to do the work of such a worthless crew. Mr. BLACK seconded the motion. Mr. THOMAS Musa MOFFAT, in moving the fifth reso lution, stated- that although he expected a greater number of the Edinburgh Whigs would have turned out, yet he rejoiced to see so respectable a meeting assembled to do justice to the memories of the illustrious martyrs of 1793. He certainly did not expect the attendance of those " Jim Crows" who " wheeled about and turned about and did jis so." These gentry would have mustered and blown their trumpets loud enough had there been any loaves and fishes, or commissionerships, or sheriff-ships, or any sort of ships to distribute ; they could then have sailed in the same boat. But what was the cause they had met for? It was not the cause of faction or of party, or of any indi vidual. It was the cause of every Reformer—of him who thought that we should move at the speed of the Man chester Railway, or that of the " Long Coach" of the days of old. The question for the meeting to consider and to sanction was whether these martyrs were justly or unjustly condemned. On this point he perilled his position in a dispassionate and calm review of these unprecedented and atrocious proceedings, which had no parallel except in the time of Charles 11. in Scotland, and in the days of the Star Chamber in England.—(Cheers.) He agreed with his friend Mr. Burton, that the present Judges of the Court of Session were upright and venerable, and to be implicitly -relied on in all questions involving civil rights. He was, however, jealous of all Judges or servants of the Crown in political offences, especially of Tory Judges ; for the meet ing could not but recollect of having witnessed the un seemly spectacle of the President of the one Court re viewing a judgment in the morning, and troops in the even ing; and the President of the other, leaving the Bench, and posting with breathless haste to vote at political elections ; to say nothing at all of other Tory Judges being con cerned in the manufActure of votes with the view of swamping the bona Ale constituency of the Reform Bill. —(Hear, hear, and applause.) He therefore counselled all those who were amenable to serve as Jurors, to look into their rights and privileges as such, and to stand unflinchingly by them ; not to complain by letter in the newspapers, but to stand up and remonstrate in the Jury box, when they conceived their verdict to be impro perly reflected on. The monument to the political martyrs would be the only monument to liberty in Scotland that he knew of. He hoped that all present would live to see it erected on the Calton Hill, there to remain as a perpetual beacon to, and a warning-to Judges and Juries to avoid the iniquitous course adopted in 1793 and 1794.—(Cheers.) Mr. TAIT, in moving the sixth resolution, stated that the only one of the martyrs who returned from exile was Margarot. He had been told within these few days by a magistrate of Glasgow, that on his return home, three gen tlemen of Glasgow, either sympathising in his sufferings, or anxious to hear about Botany Bay, invited him to dinner. No sooner was this known, than warrants were issued by the authorities for their apprehension, and one of the three gentlemen was actually apprehended and imprisoned two hours, till it was discovered that to invite a man to din ner who had suffered the punishment of the law was no crime.---( Hear, hear.) Councillor FALKNER scconded'the motion. After the resolutions prepared by the Committee were all proposed and carried, Mr. PETER, CAMPBELL, S.S.C., rose and moved the following additional resolution, which being seconded by DAVID REDPATH, Esq., was carried unanimously : " That the thanks of this meeting are especially due to the few original survivors of those individuals who first took a conspicuous part in associating and avowing their senti ments in favour of Parliamentary Reform in 179'2-3 ; par ticularly to Mr. William Moffat, of Edinburgh, who acted as one of the secretaries to the first Association at Edin burgh for Parliamentary Reform, during that period, and afterwards as the friend and agent of Messrs. Muir and Palmer, on their trials, in 1793 ; and was soon thereafter compelled to expatriate himself and family for several years from Scotland, to avoid the fate of the other political mar tyrs, and who otherwise suffered for his zealous and con sistent attachment to the cause of Reform." Thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meeting broke up. There is now, we believe, little doubt but that Mr. Peter Greenall, of St. Helen's, will become a candidate for the representation of the borough of Wigan, on the Conservative interest.—Preston Chronicle. 1837.—The following is the House List of Gover nors and Directors of the Bank of England for the year en suing, viz. : FOR GOVERNORS. Timothy Abraham Curtis, Sir John Rae Reid, Bart., I Esq., Govern or . Deputy Governor. FOR DIRECTORS. Robt. Barclay, Esq. James Morris, Esq. John Bowden, Esq. Sheffield Neave, Esq. Wm Cotton, Esq. John Horsley Palmer, Esq. Bonamy Dobree, Esq. James Pattison, Esq. Chas. Pascoe Greenfell, Esq. Christopher Pcarse, Esq. Abel Lewes Gower, Esq. John Henry Pelley, Esq. John Oliver Hanson, Esq. Henry James Prescott, Esq. John Benjamin Heath, Esq. Charles Pole, Esq. James Maleolmson, Esq. Henry Porcher, Esq. Wm. Mellish, Esq. Wm. R. Robinson, Esq. Humphrey St. John Mildmay, Wm. Thompson, Esq., and Esq. Alderman. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Thomas Warre, Esq. The election for Governor and Deputy Governor will be held at the Bank on Tuesday, the 4th, and for Directors on Wed nesday, the sth, of April next, from ten o'clock in the fore noon till four in the afternoon. Tllli SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1837. civil and religious liberty, that it required no argument from him to induce them to accede to his proposition. It needed only to be suggested in order that very numerously signed petitions should pour in from all parts of the country on the subject. Mr. REDMOND seconded the resolution, and it was car ried by acclamation. THE PRINCESS VICTORIA, AND TNF. IRISH PEOPLE. Mr. O'CoNNELL said, I will now move another Reso lution of which I had given notice relating to the Heiress to the Crown.—(Tremendous cheering, which lastod far several minutes.) I make this motion as well in respect to her as a tribute to her illustrious mother.—(Cheers.) It is well known that the Princess will attain the legal age for governing in a very s h ort per i o d ; so t h at if any accidnt should happen to the reigning Monarch, she would immediately become Queen of these realms, free from the controul of a regent or protector. This, then, is the period when we, as a people, attached to the monarchy as a protection against anarchy, should pay some marked compliment to the successor to it. Many had attempted to prejudice her young mind against the people of this country, and many will continue to do so. I am not afraid of their attempts. Her father was a steady friend to Ireland, and to several individual Irishmen. They obtained his confidence, and they en joyed his friendship. He was also over the past friend and steady supporter of the principles of civil and religious li berty.—(Cheers.) His daughter has been exceedingly well educated under the directions of his illustrious spouse, and her mind has already been proof against all Tory false hood or artifice.—(L ou d c h eers .) M uc h p ra i se i s y due to the Duchess of Kent for the style in which she has had the Princess educated. Notwithstanding that vile report, that had its origin with an obscure country print in England, was endeavoured to be used to the discredit of the Duchess by the Tory journals ; yet it may be safely asserted that she has escaped all censure, and that the use made of this re port merely shews how anxious that party is to have an op portunity to blame her even upon the slightest ground.-- (Cheers.) The Princess Victoria will be of age, I believe, in May ; and it would be becoming of them, as Irishmen, to draw up an Address declaratory of their allegiance and fidelity to her and her family, and five or ten persons se. lceted from each part of the country, should be appointed to present it to her Royal Highness. This Address should be most numerously signed. -If I should have the honour of being appointed one of the persons to present the Address, I would wish it to be one that the five or ten. delegates would not be able to carry.--(Loud cheers.) It was denied by the Orangemen that they had any intention of affecting the suctession to the throne. I know that many of them had no such intention, and that many of them could not be induced to join in a plot for such a purpose ; but I also know, and I here openly declare it, that a very considerable number of them had in view the preventing the rightful heiress from getting the throne, and placing a Don Carlos in her stead.—( Hear, hear.) I had possession of the papers, and I know that from them such an intention was obvious. There was also a great deal of private information given, and this went far beyond the printed documents. From every circumstance that has come to my knOwledge I have not the slightest he sitation to declare, that there does not rest on my mind the slightest doubt that the intention of the majority of the Orangemen was to place the Duke of Cumberland on the throne.—( Hear, hear.) I move, Sir, that an address from the people of Ireland to the Princess Victoria, on the occa sion of her coming of age, be prepared, and that a deputa tion be appointed for the purpose of presenting it to her. Mr. FINN, M.P.----There is one thing with regard to the Princess Victoria and the Orange Society, which seems to me to have escaped public attention. I had the curiosity to examine the papers of the different Orange Lodges, and I found that in the list of toasts, the health of the Princess Victoria was studiously omitted, while that of the Duke of Cumberland was invartably placed at the head of them.— ( Hear, hear.) Was there nothing in the introduction of Orange Lodges into the army, a fact of which the Grand Masters, the Grand Secretaries, and the Grand Duke— ( Laughter)—seemed so perfectly ignorant ? It is a singu lar fact that when the Duke of Cumberland heard for the first time that there were such things in the army, he was perfectly horrified, and called for the names of the regiments, in order that the warrants might be withdrawn. I ask whether they were in good faith withdrawn ? I know many good and honourable men who were glad of the pretext for withdrawing themselves from the Society ; but this was far from being generally acted upon. I can give the names of regiments in which lodges are still held ; and I can prove the existence of lodges even in Dublin.—(Hear, hear.) A time will, however, come for that.—(Cheers.) In the North of Ireland the existence of lodges is openly -a& mitted, and I myself have seen receipts belonging to them, dated in the February of the present year.—( Hear, hear.) I have the honour, Sir, of seconding the resolution. The question was then put from the Chair, and carried amid the enthusiastic acclamations of the meeting. The meeting then adjourned. Mr. O'Connell is to attend a meeting of the Trades' Union to-morrow, when he is expected to address them on very important topics. DUBLIN, MARCH 29. GENERAL ASSOCIATION.—This body held its usual weekly meeting yesterday. After some correspondence had been read, and several new members admitted, Mr. Barret addressed himself to the correction of an erroneous impres sion entertained by Dr. Wade. The former gentleman explained, that in using the phrase " rascally Radicals," he did not mean to designate the great body of the Radicals, but that his expression applied only to specific individuals for a specific mischief. Mr. Barret drew a distinction be tween the practical Radicals and that section of Radicals who seem so enamoured of their abstract principle, that they advocate it as if only with the view that it should not be carried into effect. Mr. O'CONNELL here rose and remarking on Dr. Wade's complaint, that the Rev. Gentleman was entirely in error, said, " My friend, Dr. Wade, and I am proud to call him my friend, has ever proved himself the uncompromising friend of every measure connected with national freedom.— (Cheers.) That gentleman has been frequently attacked by the base and corrupt press of England for his exertions in the cause of liberalty. That fact was, perhaps, the best test of the excellence of his principles, and the boldness with which he undeviatingly performed his duty in the great cause of the people. In order the more effectually to disabuse the mind of this excellent gentleman, as to the mistake he has so causelessly fallen into, of any disrespect having been ever intended towards him or any of the honest Radicals of his country, I mean to move that his letter be inserted in the Minutes of the Association, and that a letter on the subject be written to him. My friend, Dr. Wade, takes it into his head to suppose that he and the rest of the honest Radicals of England have been insulted in this Association ; but by the proceedings of this day he would be informed that when Mr. Barrett used the terms " rascally Radicals" he did not speak of the English Radicals generally ; he did not mean the Radicals of the South ; he did not allude to the Radi cals of York, of Bath, of Sheffield, of Birmingham. No ; he merely applied the term to those who called themselves Radicals in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. And here I would put it to Dr. Wade to inform us as to what service was per formed to the cause of freedom by these Radicals of New castle ?" The Learned Gentleman's motion was seconded by Mr. Barret, and being put from the Chair, was carried unani mously. PACIFICATORS.-After some further proceedings Mr. 'O'Connell again spoke, saying—l rise, Sir, to bring for ward my motion with respect to the Pacificators of Ireland, the nature of which is that monthly reports should be got from every pacificator in Ireland.—(Hear.) Although in the instructions first given the pacificators by the eleventh resolution in these instructions, that they should report every fact to the Association, yet no definitive period was fixed for so doing, and in order to remedy this defect I bring forward my present motion. The resolution to which I allude is as follows. Mr. O'Connell then read the follow ing:—" That it will be the sacred and most indispensable duty of such pacificators to discountenance, detect, and denounce all secret or exclusive societies, clubs, lodges, meetings, combinations, or associations whatsoever, and to expose to the people the folly and the guilt of all such so cieties, and to report to this Association every fact that can be collected respecting any such society, in order that they may be totally extinguished and put an end to." The Hon. and Learned Gentleman dwelt at considera ble length on this and some kindred topics. He then pro posed " An Address to the Princess Victoria." I rise now, Sir," said Mr. O'Connell, " to move a resolution that relates to the illustrious heiress of the British throne.— (Loud cheers.) With respect to her illustrious mother, she was entitled to the everlasting gratitude and affection of the people of Ireland.—(Cheers.) It is well known that in the present year the Princess Victoria will attain the legal age for governing ; and that if any accident happen to the reigning- Sovereign, she will ascend to the British throne, and govern these great realms,. without the aid o f a regency.—(L ou d c h eers .) It is, therefore, a period that the people of Ireland attached as they are to Monarchy, as the only safeguard to rational liberty, ought to approach the throne with sentiments of respect and affection to the illustrious heiress.---(Cheers.) Sir, I am not afraid, not. withstanding the pains which have been taken to prejudice her young mind against the people of Ireland, that she will act up to the advice or insinuations thus thrown out.—(Clieers.) Her father was the steady friend of li berty and Ireland, and many Irishmen had the honour of possessing his confidence and esteem.--(Cheers.) For the rights of this country, as well as liberty of conscience generally, he was always a decided advocate, and so I augur will his illustrious daughter prove herself to be, more parti cularly when set so good an example by the conduct of the Duchess of Kent. An attack was lately made in an obscure English provincial journal, against this illustrious Princess and her daughter. That, though it effected no other ob ject, showed the malevolence which actuated the faction in 'traducing the intentions of. this distinguished lady, and the heiress apparent to the throne. The Princess will attain her majority on the 18th of. May next, and I think it is absolutely necessary that an address should be pre sented from the people of Ireland, expressive of their alle giance and attachment on this occasion. I would also propose that a number of gentlemen, say five, six, eight, or ten, should present it. I expect that the address on this occasion will be numerously signed, so much so that hope who may be honoured with its presentation may not be able to carry it into her presence'.—(Cheers and laughter.) I know well there arc those who would wish to place another illustrious individual on the throne—a most amiable' and accomplished prince—(laughter)—in fine, a second Don Carlos. There can be no doubt whatever apon this subject, for the documents which were elicited In the examination before the Committee on Orange Lodges proved it beyond the possibility of a doubt. Sir, we izave been the means of defeating that •conspiracy, and I must: say there is now no real danger. Mr. ZtrlN spoke with great force on the subject of the motion, which was put, and unanimously carried in the affirmative. ‘- CHINA . The meeting s:iortly afterwards adjourned. SPAIN. The Spanish Consul at Bayonne has sent to the Spanish Minister at London the following official communication, dated 25th March, at nine o'clock in the morning -- " I have received letters from Pampeluna and the fron tiers. of Navarre, informing me that General Iribarren kept the loiitions of Larrainear, and was occupying that vil lage, as well as these of Lans, Lizazo, and Olague, where he intended remai n in g 'until the weather would allow him to continue his operations, in combination with General Evans. He had beaten the Carlists on the 21st and 22d, and obtained several advantages. I have prepared 90,000 rations of all sorts fur the forces of General Iribarren, and forage, &c., for his 400 horses, at St. Jean Pied de Port awlat Avroa, that he may want nothing should his opera tions bring him to the Bastan. I have likewise every thing ready to convey rapidly those provisions. I have communications from General Evans, who sends me his general order, dated the 21st, which I enclose ; he assures me that the discipline of his army was totally re established, and that as soon as the weather became better, he was determined to commence his operations. " Communications from Bilboa of th e 21 s t, in th e af- ternoon, which I have just received, state that that very morning 200 Carlist prisoners had arrived in that town. They belonged to the garrisons of the fort Vrigoitia, in the place called- Cobacion de Bedra. Fifteen hundred men who were at Bilboa, in the hospitals, had entirely reco vered, and had left in the morning of the same day for the army. It is, therefore, absolutely false, the report spread by the Carlists here, that they had obtained a victory at Durango on the 21st. " At two o'clock this morning I received, by express, de spatches from the government of her Majesty at Madrid, dated 22d, in the morning, with a remittance of 750,000 francs for the use of the army. This is the third remit tance I have received in the short space of a month for the same object, amounting together to 2,250,000 francs. I have great satisfaction in stating the fact to your Excel lency, and not less that the provisioning of the three divi sions of the army is completely provided for to the end of April ; and I know likewise that they are fully equipped and shod. It is therefore to be expected that their military conduct will repay the maternal cares with which her Ma jesty provides for their wants in the midst of all the sorrows of her government. In the application of the funds thtis sent to me, I take a particular care that a preferable share should fall to the use of:the British and French legion. The Ministers tell me that the untoward occurrence of the 16th had not produced in the capital effects of the least consequence. " May God preserve your Lordship many years. " A. FERNANDEZ DI GAMBOA. To his Excellency the Spanish Minister Plenipotentiary in London. ' 6' Bayonne, March 25, 1837." ST. SEBASTIAN, MARCH 23.—1 f the. intelligence brought in here this morning be true to its fullest extent, then must all idea of a combined plan of . operations vanish, and any further attempt at a forward movement from this with a practicable or useful view be given up. The intelligence brought by the Rhadamantbus steamer from Portugalette, which she left last night, is that Espartcro had returned with his large army of '23,000 men to Bilboa, thus aban doning Durango, a strong and important position, which he might have rendered tenable, and compromising the in habitant; of those towns and villages in Biscay who had come forward to offer him-rations and money, and who no doubt will be speedily visited with the wrath of Don Carlos. Though this intelligence has come here in an official shape, yet some of the principal Spaniards affect to disbelieve it in its fullest extent, probably from motives of shame at such an instance of dereliction on the part of their countrymen, and assert that he has returned to Bilboa only with a portion of his army, and but for a short time, the main body being still in possession of Du rango. A very short interval will soon decide which of these two versions is the true one. Another misfortune, but only resting on the authority of the master of a Spanish launch, which came in this morning. The master of this launch, which came in this morning from Santander, states that just as he was about leaving that town a powder ma gazine blew up and destroyed the houses of nearly two streets, besides occasioning a considerable loss of life ; he adds, that as he came away the conflagration was still pro ceeding. This morning the Court-martial, before which Colonel Harley, of the 4th Regiment, was on trial on charges of peculation and dealing in military stores,. brought against him by Major and Paymaster Peyton, of the same regi ment, re-assembled to proceed with the trial, which had been commenced some weeks back, but had been inter rupted, first by the illness of the accused, and afterwards by the recent operations in the field. On the sitting of the Court Colonel Harley was called, but did not appear. The following copies of a communication made by the Court on the instant to General Evans, and of the General Order issued immediately by hini in answer, will best explain the " St. Sebastian, March '23. " Sir—The court-martial, of which Brigadier-General Fitzgerald is President, having assembled , pursuant to ge neral orders, for the trial of Lieutenant - -ColOnel Harley, and the prisoner not having appeared before the Court, I am directed to acquaint you, that on inquiry at his lodgings for him, the answer given is, that he has left St. Sebastian. Under these peculiar circumstances, the Court awaits the decision of the Lieutenant-General as to the course they are to pursue. W. A. CLARKE, Judge Advocate-General. " To Lieutenant-Colonel Hireman." " GENERAL ORDER. " Head-quarters, St. Sebastian, March 23. " A court-martial having been convened to try Lieute nant-Colonel Harley, of the 4th Regiment, on certain charges preferred by Major and Paymaster Peyton, of the same corps, and Lieutenant-Colonel Harley having ab sented himself without leave, he is in consequence dismissed the service, and his case - will be submitted to the special consideration of the Spanish Government. " By command, B. T. HIREMAN." Poor Colonel de Lancey is no more ; he, breathed his last yesterday evening at six o'clock, after lingering the last 24 hours in a nearly insensible state from the 15th instant, the day on which he received his death wound. A more intelligent and deserving officer, or more amiable and gene rally esteemed man, the Legion did not possess. He has but too soon followed in the same foreign grave as his first cousin, the brave Colonel Tupper, who fell on the sth of May, 1836. The day before yesterday was also sadly marked by two other officers of the Legion, Captain Fielding, of the Rifles, and Captain Mostvn, of the 4th Regiment. The number of noncommissioned officers and men who have died in hospital of wounds received in the recent engagement amounts, up to this date, to 80. _ _ To show that the soldiers of the Legion have not been urged, even by an almost excusable spirit of vengeance, to follow the barbarous conduct of the Carlists in massacreing their prisoners, it is only necessary to state, that a party of the Gth Scotch Regiment, five of which Regiment had been but a few days before tortured and murdered at Hernani, found on th e 16th in khouse which they took 13 wounded Carlists, and left them there without offering either injury or insult. Colonel Monteagudo, of the Carlist Lancers, who was taken on the 16th by Cap tains Burke and Jennings, and three or four men of -the Ist Lancers of the Legion, and who is now a prisoner in the castle, is, it is said, about to be sent up to Madrid in custody, there to have his fate decided, he being one of the 27 Carlists taken on the coast near Santander about 18 months back, and who afterwards escaped from Porto Rico, to which place they had been banished. When taken, on the I6th inst , he had 72 ounces of gold or doubloons (about 2501.) in a belt round his waist, and which he is still in possession of, the men not having been permitted to strip him when taken. In his first alarm at the attempts of the Chapelgoris to. bayonet him between the lances of his captors, he offered 1,000 dollars to save his life, and at every succeeding thrust of a bayonet he cried out " quenta vies," " fifty dollars more." Mr. Gaily Knight gave an elegant dinner yester day at his house in Lower Grosvenor-street. The most correct particulars of the Northampton Steeple Chase, with the Pytchley Hunt, will be given in " Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle" of Sunday, ttpril 2. The price " Bell's Life" is five pence. Office, 170, Strand: By the Mediterranean' mail, with di arrived yesterday, We have received India papers to a .- very late date, of which the following are extracts : The Singnpore Chronicle of Nov ember 26, says—" The Co wasjee Family arrived here Jim . n Chian on Tinit..stlay morning, and by her we have rece: ved our Canton tilt s to the B,h instant, from which we have taken an extract. Our advices to the sth November, info.= i us that the recont terruptions in the tea and opium f;Nade had not been rc-• moved, and that much inconvenienex - t'and vexztt:onliad been experienced by foreigners, from the ti the e iffieultix, the el . trhari,::: onotin way of th e s hip ment o f s ilk s . vri the finer descriptions of cotton, the artier= was difficult of sale, and totally impracticable for cash. " The black-tea-men were still stucli:vrn, and were not disposed.to_ lower the rates demanded for their eongos ; and as the Hong merchants had contracted with the foreigners at some five or six taels lower than they could obtain the article from the tea-men, great perplexity had con sequently arisen, as the prices in England would scarcely war:rant the contract price in China, much less any increase, al,d it is stated no fewer than fifty ships were now lying idle, and were likely to be so for an indefinite period. Much uncer tainty still prevailed as to the intentions of the Chinese Government ; whether they would legalize the importation of opium, or, what -seemed equally probable to many upon the spot, attempt the force of authority in entirely prevent ing its being smuggled into the .country. In the apprehen sion of-this latter measure being tried, every Chinese dealer in the article had fled from Canton, and the trade was in a state of entire stagnation. " Silk was very abundant, unusually soy and not less Than 12,000 bales had arrived at Canton ; but the vexatious re gulation of the Chinese Government, which prevents the shipment of any quantity beycnd MO bales in one ship, ex cept on payment of a ruinous duty, opeeates as an effectual check upon shipments, and the more p trticularly so as the usual channel of transmission through Macao is not permit ted, nor were thesie impediments likely to be removed at any early date, as it is stated a recent petition from the foreigners on the subject has been refused, and that no probable pros pect of any amelioration existed. " The above state of affairs had also rendered the ad vances to be made by the Company upon tens and silks to the extent of 2,000,000 dollars entirely =available, as the dollars arc conditioned to be payable on the production of the hills of lading, and this, with tha puesent state of the opium trade bad caused a most unprecadented sci:rcity of cash. The Company treasury was open £or Bills on Bengal thirty days' sight, at 220 Company's rupee;. Exchange on London unsettled, but was expected to approximate ss. Articles of all descriptions imported were s . old with great difficulty, as returns were only attainable in tt e barter." THE BRIG FAIRY.—We have been favoured with the following details by Captain lladley, who has just returned from the east coast in the Aurelia. They may set ve to throw some light on the fate of the Fairy, about which so many ieports have lately been afloat : " On the 23d of last month the Aurelia touched at Dans borg Bay, and spoke three China boats, from which Captain Hadley learnt that five 'lascars had landed in a broken boat from a vessel wrecked between that and Amoy, and that they were begging their way to the southward. It was supposed they had conic to Tong-sham A man from Amoy told Captain Hadley that he had been informed by the people of a junk, that a vessel ran on a rock off Hoo too-shan, and was broken into three pieces. The junk passed the spot on the next day, and saw fishing boats all round the place. Captain Hadley- gave his informa tion to Captain Rees of the Colonel Young, who forthwith proceeded to Dansborg Bay to obtain more circumstantial information, and Captain Hadley, touching there on his re turn; was informed by Captain Rees that a mandarin had :old him that there were at that time twelve men, all .lasears, in Shapoo, a town about a day's journey from Tong shan, in consequence of which one of Captain Rees's men bad been dispatched with a wei-yuen to see these men ; but before their return Captain Hadley was.obliged to set sail. " It is but too likely that this ship wrecked is the Taira; but since part of the sailors have been able to save them selves, it. may be inferred that the officers and other Eu ropeans on board have done the same, and perhaps re mained near the wreck to see what might be saved. We wait with anxiety for further particulars."—Canton Piess, Oct. 8. Captain Rees of the Colonel Young has since arriv e d, and, as far as we have learned, his information is to the foll Owing effect, viz., that a mutiny occurred on board of the Fairy, in which Captain M'Kay and another Eu ropean officer lost their lives. The men who came on shore were mostly badly wounded, having taken the part of the Captain. They .are said to be twelve Lascars and one European or white man. The Fairy, it appears, was not wrecked ; but that the mutineers (Manilla and Macao Seacunnics) set sail after they had killed Captain M'Kay and his officer, and succeeded in expelling those friendly to him from on board the ship. Much remains to be ex plained of this most murderous affair, and any doubts on the subject will probably be cleared up on the men, who are said to be now at Fuli-chow-foe, reaching Canton.— Ibid. EXPULSION OF MERCHANTS FROM CANTON A most extraordinary edict, dated Taoukwang-, Novem ber 23, 1836, appears in the papers brought by the Hellas, which has arrived at Dublin, ordering the barbarian mer chants, Jardine and others, to quit Canton within half s month. We have not room for the document, which is addressed to the Hong merchants ; the following extracts will show the cause of offence, and the order for departure : The said barbarian merchants, Jardine and others, have many years resided at Canton—and can it be for no purpose? It is mate clear (by your statement) that there arc receiving -ships in the outer seas ; that there is a clan destine trade carried on, and treasure is oozing out of the country ; that many native vessels go out to sea (to the receiving-ships) ; and that there arc also smugglers em ployed in the trade. Now if the evils are without (the boundaries of the empire), how is it that formerly there have been so many cases detected in this city ? You affirm that there are instances of seizure of opium ; but that many are without, and few within, our jurisdiction. " The orders are the most peremptory ; when they reach you, instantly transmit them to the barbarian mer 'chants, Jardine, Innes, Dent, and Turner, and to those come more recently, Framjee, Merwamjee, Dadabhoy, Gordon, and Whiteman, that they may all obey. If their business be very important, half a month will be allowed them to pack up and move out of the provincial city, and embark in one of their own, or some other ships going to sea, and return home. They are not to be permitted to loiter and linger. If they have any business that cannot be completed witkin the half month, they at the expiration of that period must go to Macao for a little time, and their accounts be loft in your hands, and as soon as all their affairs are settled, they must return to their country. They must not be permitted to stay at Macao as long as they please in opposition to the existing laws ; if they presume to be insolent, and act haughtily, and will not listen to our kind words, and obstinately refuse to go the path we mark out, the Celestial dynasty will not heed the consequences. The laws will be maintained ; asd there is reason to fear the said barbarians will find it hard to get back to their country. The houses in the Creek factory and in several other bongs will be taken and sealed up. There must he no failure." THE EDGEIVARE-ROAD MURDER. Within the last few clays the police have been engaged in endeavouring to discover what has become of an in fant, the offspring of Greenacrc and the woman Gale, which it is strongly suspected has been murdered. From the inquiries already made on the subject, it has been as certained that the woman Gale was delivered of a child at Greenacrc's house in _Carpenter's-buildings, in the month of December or January 1835. Greenaere himself offi ciated as accoucheur on the occasion, and no profesbional man was called in until after the birth of the child. Mr: Hairby, the surgeon of Walworth, was the gentleman who then attended, at the request of Grcenacre, and he subsequently heard the report that the child was miss ing. A man named Bamoo, a carpenter, lodged in Greenacre's house •at the time the woman Gale was in the habit of going there, and he remembered that when he saw that woman was in the family way, having spoken to Greenacre on the subject, and remonstrated with him on the impropriety of his conduct in encourag ing the visits of a woman in 'that condition, and hiss (Greenacre's) reply when asked what be intended to do with the child was, that he intended either to make away with. it, or else to leave it on .the step of some gentle man's door. Soon after the birth of the infant, which took place in Greenacre's house, the neighbours, on miss ing it, inquired of the woman Gale where it was, and her reply was, that it was at a cousin of her's in the Kent road, and that she was advised by the doctor not to' suckle it herself, as she was so weak. Subsequently to this Green acre himself gave a different account as to where the child was sent, and the contradictions given by the parties led to the supposition that the infant had been made away with, and hence the report circulated in the neighbourhood that it had been murdered. To a Mrs. Brown, Greenacre said that the people in the neighbourhood accused him of mur dering his child ; he &Med that such was the fact, and added, that it was doing well at a relation's house in trit Edgeware-road. There is no clue, however, as yet, to dis cover what has become of the, child, and it is the intention to have the garden of Greenacre's house searched, and also the privy, with a view of ascertaining whether there are any grounds for the alleged rumour of its having been mur dered. Lord Canterbury left the Clarendon Hotel on Wed nesday, for Paris. THE GENERAL ASSOCIATION. DUBLIN, MARCH 98. A meeeng of this Association was held to-day, JOHN DILLON, Esq., in the Chair. Amongst the numerous communications read wls one from Dr. Wade. Mr. BARRET did not court the compliment paid to his talents, by comparing him to Lord Lyndhurst, he would not wish to have that Nobleman's talents coupled with his morality ; he would compare Dr. Wade, on the other hand, to Emmerson Tennent, and Jackson, as drawing conclu sions from premises and taking them as correct, which after wards turn out totally unfounded. He did not mean in his censure upon the English Radicals to include all the Radi cals of England ; he only referred to the forty-eight Radi cals of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who refused to vote for a Whig (Captain Blackett), because he would not go as far in Reform as they desired, while they thus added to the numbers of the Tory supporters Mr. Hodgson Hinde, who was entirely opposed them. The only thin.. he (Mr. Bar rett) would retract was the wor d " Radical's," because, in truth, they were Tories.—( Hear.) Mr. O'CONNELL said—lt is a most interesting matter to every friend of liberty here, that we should not be misinterpreted by the friends of liberty in England—there is no danger of the Scotch Radicals, they are too shrewd a generation. No men make so few mistakes as the Scotch, their good sense gives them a power of discrimi nating between what is said, and what is not said ; and as we do not say any thing that ought to hurt the feelings of an honest Radical, we are in no danger with the Scotch, though we are certainly in some danger with the English ; they are a people easy of faith. Now my friend Dr. Wade is as sincere a friend to liberty as can possibly be ; no:tnan can be a bolder enemy of tyranny in every shape. Dr. Wade has two things to be informed of—first, that on is arrival, his letter was read in this Association, and appeared in the Irish newspapers, at the time. It is not our fault if Dr. Wade is not within reach of reading Irish newspapers.—(Hear.) Ireland is too provincial to have her affairs noticed in the great London papers, the Morning Chronicle, and, above all, the Morning, Advertiser, which deserves all praise for its atten tion to Irish interests, excepted, therefore as to our having acted un-Irish and uncivil, there was certainly no incivility. I won't say his letter is un-English, because credulity is a characteristic of the English, than which' there is not a more priest-ridden people in the world. Mr. Barrett did not call the English Radicals rascally Radi cals. He did not use the term generally ;it did not apply to the southern Radicals, to London, to Bath, Bristol, to Manchester, or the northern counties—no ;he applied it to a certain portion of a single town, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Dr. Wade says the English Radicals have done a great deal for Ireland. I beg to contradict that. Even the honest Radicals as yet have done nothing for us ; they have not yet got up a single petition ; we have got some ap plause, to be sure, but nothing else. All their duty is to come on yet ; they have latterly turned their attention to Universal Suffrage—l give them credit for their good sense in taking it up. The Reform Bill did not go far enough—it dethroned the aristocracy—hut it opened a door for another aristocracy—the aristocracy of money ; and accordingly, at the next election coming on in England, there will be more bribery than ever was used at any former period. They are right in looking for Universal Suffrage— it is the corrupt influence of money in England that now pre vents Reform ; but no man, however respected—and none more so than my friend Mr. Barrett—would denounce the honest, thorough-going English Radical. We shall give this letter insertion out of respect for Dr. Wade, and I now move that it be inserted on the minutes, and referred to the Committee to be answered.—(Hear.) Mr. O'Corsrstm.—l rise to move my resolution with re spect to the Pacificatory of Ireland. And now, Sir, lam proud to say - that there is some consolation in the future prospects of Ireland. We have an Executive Government whom it is impossible to praise too much. It is the first which for six centuries can really be said to have shown a disposition, a true firmness, an honest energy, able to carry into effect the administration of the country, with a view to impartial justice.—(Loud cheers.) Equitable selections have been made in the appointment to offices, without any reasons whatever beyond the merits of the parties. For these acts the present Government in Ireland deserve the hearts of all Irishmen. For these acts we all unite in heartfelt gratitude to the Earl of Mulgrave.—(Loud cheering.) That feature of our situation never shotild be lost sight of. Next we have a British Parliament in our favour, the present Ministry are disposed to do justice. If they could overcome the opposition of the Lords, there are few measures which would not soon pass from the form of propositions into the grandeur and solemnity of laws.—(Loud cheering.) Yes, there are three things which give us hope, which hold out good prospects to the people of Ireland—an executive all we could wish—an Administration desirous of doing justice—an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons.—(Cheers.) A ma jority of eighty, at least, upon the Municipal Reform Bill. It was not so ;great upon the Irish Tithe Bill ; but it is cheering—it is more—it is an omen of success, to have had so triumphant a majority upon one Irish measure of capital importance.—( Hear and cheers.) My advice to the people is what I often and always gave them— " Hereditary bondsmen know ye not, Who would be free themselves must strike the blow." —(Cheers.) From England I turn to Ireland—from the House of Commons to this Association—from the Mini stry to the Agitators—from Parliament to the Pacificators on duty—(Loud cheers)—the duty of the Pacificators is to carry our plans into execution. It is agitation —unceas ing agitation, we require. It is the perpetual striking of our thoughts and measures upon the public mind.—( Hear, hear.) It is the dropping of the water, which at length penetrates to the stone, and triumphs over opposition. Lord Anglesey, who was a vary foolish man, taught us one good lesson. He said, " Agitate, agitate, agitate!" I say, like wise, we must agitate unceasingly.—( Hear, hear.) You have all your materiel complete. You have this Association for the discussion of all matters of practical utility. You have your clubs for county registration.—( Hear.) You have your registry inspectors. In everything your organi zation is perfect. Your civil regiments are marshalled.— (Cheers.) You want only to make it a working reality. We shall have a report from each parish on the points which I have read—namely, as to the state of the prish with re spect to riot ; then as to factious fights, than which nothing can be more disgraceful.—(Hear.) The Pacificators shall next in their report inform ibis Association of the number of persons registered, and how many of those are interested in the support of the popular cause ; how many landlords there are who have it in their power to make leases, on which their tenants could vote ; what evidence can be ad duced in support of the claimant to vote ; and, above all, and before all, to report on the subject of secret and illegal societies.—(Hear, hear.) Oh ! I cannot sufficiently im press on the minds of the people of Ireland the necessity of abandoning and of avoiding such societies.—(Hear, hear.) It was only the other day I heard a miscreant boast that Catholic Emancipation owed much to such societies. There never was a greater falsehood uttered than that.—(Cheers.) We should, I really believe, have carried Emancipation ten years sooner than we did if it were not for them.—(Hear.) They never did anything but mischief.—(Hear.) There cannot by any possibility be any good derived from them ; and if there was I would not accept it from a source so polluted.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Now the Pacificators can, by acting efficaciously, put an end •to them -altogether, wherever , they might happen) to exist. We shall send to each parish two newspapers, giving a report of the proceedings of the Association, by way of instruction for the two Paci ficators, who shall each have one of those newspapers. If for so long a period as two. months we are, without a report from any particular parish, then the newspapers shall be stopped, and the pacificators there shall thus learn that they have not done their duty, and I am sure they will much rather send their report than incur that disgrace which must await them from their neighbours it' they neglect their duty. The resolution I propose is twofold ; the first part calls for a monthly return from the Pacificators of each parish i the second part declares that where, for the space of two months, no report shall have been received, then the newspapers sent to that parish must be stopped.—(Hear.) Let not my voice be lost. When I return to England, let each act as if the duty devolved solely upon himself. I should like to see more business done ; to be sure the subjects we speak about are worthy of debate, but I lik e t o see so mething done.—(Hear.) Let not any person b e sa yi ng , w hit can an individual do ? Why, look at me, and see w h a t one indi vidual may do.—(Repeated cheers.) An i n di v id ua l ungifted in talent, not dignified by any exaltation of station—and yet how is it that I have done so much ? I will tell you why—simply by always doing.—(Cont;nued cheers.) Then do you be always doing—doing, instead of merely de bating. Why should not something every week be done ? ( Hear, hear.) You can increase the number of Pacificators week after week—that would be doing something useful—. to be sure, they are in many parishes at present ; but why not in all ? and then each shall vibrate with the electric shock that springs from this room. —(Loud cheers.) We are to remember that we are now in progress of an ex periment which is to decide whether we can be well go verned under any but a national Parliament, and should the experiment fail, I will then have it in my power proudly to boast that it had failed after everything had been done not alone in England, but in Ireland, to secure it success. Mr. REDMOND seconded the resolutions, and they were carried unanimously. . THE DISSENTERS OF ENGLAND.-CHURCH-RATES. Mr. O'CONNEI:L-4 will only detain you now for three minutes. I gave notice of a motion, calling upon the people of Ireland to adopt petitions, as numerously signed as pos sible, cisijing for abolitio❑ of Church-rates in favour of the English Dissenters—a class, who are so highly Estimable, and who are so much the firm and well-known friends of