The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-22 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE.

The long-expected aggregate meeting of Irishmen,
comprising what has been styled the "National Conference,"
took place last night (Tuesday) in the Music Hall. Amongst
those on and about the platform were : John Martin, T.C.,
Arthur Barlow, T.C., John Hagan Burke, solicitor, Rev.
Mr. Fay, C.C.. Be,. T. O'Malley, Dr. Carollan, T.C., James
Nugent, P.L.G., A. R. Stench, barrister, Rev. J. F. Ennis,
Feargus O'Connor, M.P., C. Taaffe, hurieter. M. R. Leyne,
John Lloyd Fitzgerald, be titter, Richard 0 attan, M.D..
J.P., T. Fitzgerald Strange, solicitor (Waterford), Charles
Gum Duffy, John Cashel Hoey, John Magrath, solicitor,
George Washington Vane', E. Butler. M. T 'bye, T.C.,
M. Burke. C. S. Ralph, James Doyle, E. Evans, P. O'Hig-
gins, &c. &c.
Tog chair was taken at 7 o'clock, by Dr. GRATrAN, J.P.
Mr. STRITCH, one of the secretaries, read the requisi-
tion convening the meeting, and stated that it bad received
the signatures of 80 dignitaries of the Roman Catholic
Church, of 110 Roman Catholic Curates, of 22 of the
regular clergy of the same church, of 120 magistrates,
larded proprietors. corporatists, and poor law purlieu, of
200 members of the learned profession', of 700 land holders
and farmers, and of 903 merchants, traders, and arti-
sans. (Cheers.)
Mr. MAORATB moved the first resolution to the follow-
ing effect :
" Resolved—That legislative independence is the clear,
eternal, and inalienable right of this country, and that no
settlement of the affairs of Inland can be permanent until
that right is r. cognised and established."
/11X1.71210ELEYNS,One of the sate prisoners of
last year, seconded the motion.
The resolution was then put from the chair, and adopted
by acclamation.
Mr. Fl TZGERALD STRANGE moved the next rose'
lotion, which was as follows:
Resolved—That an association, to be called ' The Irish
Antares,' at all be now formed, to take the moat prompt
and effective measure, for the protection of the lives and
interest, of the Irish people and the attainment of their
national rights, and that mese be the fundamental cults."

FUNDAMENTAL RULES.

I.—The means of the Irish Alliance shall be the union of
all Irishmen, the concentration of public opinion, and the
exercise of all the moral, social, and political influences within
their reach.
ll.—The affairs of the Alliance shall be mar aged by •
council, who shall have power to appoint officers, rub-cum-
slimes fur special purpose., to call general meetings of
the body, and make bye-laws for the government of the
Alliance not inconsistent with the fundamental rules. That
hell' of the council of the Irish Alliance do go out at the
end of each half year, but that they be competent to be re-
elected.
Ill.—The funds of the Alliance shall be audited, and the
accounts published once a quarter ; and all accounts, before
payment, shall be submitted to, and approved ot, by the
committee of finance.
I V.—No emulation or ether business shall be brought be-
fore the Alliance of which a week's notice in writing, rated
in the council room, shall not have been orevi nuly given;
and no rendution for altering any fundamt ntal rule shall be
brought knead without having received the sanction of the
council.
V.—Neither the Alliance, nor any member of it, shall be
considered to be bound by any opinion expressed by any in-
dividual, at any meeting thereof.
W.—Each member of the council shall subscribe • pledge
binding him to refrain from accepting or soliciting place,
pension, or patronage, from any Euglish cement who
will not make the obj ct of the Alliance a cabinet question;
and binding him not to vote for or support any candidate
for parliamentary representation who will not take a similar
pledge aga.nst the solici'a'ion of government patronage ; and
that any member of the council who shall be known to have
violated this engagement shall be removed therefrom, and
from " the Alliance."
VII. All offensive allusion to any other political assoela-
don shall be strictly prohibited.
VIII. Sectarian or religious subjects shall not be intro-
duced into the proceedings of the Alliance, except when it
may be required for the defence of religious liberty, or for
protecting and vindicating the inalienable rights and imam-
aides of conscience.
IX. That any Irishman agreeing is the principles and
(sedimental ruks of the Irish Alliance, may be admitted a
member, on being proposed and sec aided at a public meet-
lag, and on the payment of a subscription of not loss than
tee shilling.
Mr. C. 0. DUFFY then came forward to second the
sou at, and was very warmly received. Ile said that when
he stood in the criminal dock in Green.street, twelve months
since, lacing the whole power of the English government,
the responsibility of his position did not weigh half so hea-
vily upon his mind as the feeling at that moment that he was
an humble member of the National Conference—(hear)--
What were they doing Were that night i They were either
laying the foundation of a movement, the like of which wee
never seen in Ireland before, or else they ware scattering to
the four winds the hope, trust, and prosperity of a whole
veneration of men. (" Hoar" and cheer..) When he laat
stood upso that platform he saw around him the men whom,
of a 0a,,7, auto, he most deeply loved, the most fitted to
guide and adorn their noble cense ; and when he beheld that
night the ri mast of that gallant band assembled upon the
same platform, hi Mild he help recalling memories of a
gleamy and saddening character'? Some of their old and
tiled friends had emigrated to a new world, and some of
diem were pining day by day, hour by hour, in the penal
colonies of England. (.. Hear, hoer," and groans.) He wee
aware that he stood there amongst men, some of whom did
not sympathise with his friends, or even with his own vises
(Rear, bear.) He did not presume to speak of them ; bloit
speaking wholly for himself he would observe that no object
was so dear or so near to Ills heart as to bring back his
exiled friends to the rams of their countrymen, and to the
service of a free Ireland. (Cheats.) God speed that day!
(Cheers.) It was in their own power to speed it if they
wished to do so, by doing their duty to their country ; and
Whim their absent friends returned home, he hoped, it God
realhis life so loos, to meet them on the shore and mum
est no: for a single hour during their absence lied he
neglected the goal upon which their aspiratioas had been
fixed—that in Lot one solitary paint had he lowered the
claims, the dignity, or the aims of their country. (Cheers.)
Be knew he stood 'statist men that night, some
of whom would be se thhed as soon as they had
entenesed the practical necessities of the hour, while
WWI were tailing to oo.operato with all men, no
man what their principles might be, for the benefit of
disk common country— bear, hear) ;—bat spesleng for
Idmealf, he wished it to be understood that he could never
=it of the attainment of the national independence of
(Cheers.) Yr. Deify than referred at length to
the riles of the new Irish Alliance, the advantages of whisk
he pointed out to the meeting, sad concluded by seconding
the resolution.
Resolution searrisd.
Yr. JOHN MARTIN, T.C., moved the '':flowing reeds.
don :
" Resolved—That the poverty and miseries of Ireland
are mainly attributable to abuses in her land system—
that the ' Irish Alliance' shall therefore devote itself to
lay ben these abuses—to point out their enormity—to de-
vise suitable reniedise—andl to adopt all advisable mea-
sures to have such :needle, carried promptly into legisla-
tive operation."
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for the purpose of being present at the meeting, then came
forward amid applause to address the assembly. He said he
found it difficult to find words to ewer • the Jo, and er
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