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AGO:GATE lILEKTING OF THE CATHOLICS
OF IRELAND.

on Th,.eaday there was an Aggregate Meeting of the I.'atiodies
eg Ireland, in Townsend.s.reet Chapel. Sir Tit oat*, 11..3111011DR,
sat. in the Chair.
counsellor Vireal stow opened the preeeedings by proposing a
?tee of thanks n. their Seactary (Mr. (Ptiortnan); which motion
wig bean seenoticd, posited unanininuitly.
mr, (Moll/4AX returned thanks, and eleoregaulated the meet.
.i.e en the Durres] Of that salutary, healing. and mast blessed
the Catholic Rent, which originated with that wonder-work.
7, swat of a man. (tireat laughter l'ea, mid Mr. O'lioe-
tlit I derail bim .‘ wonder-stoking ma.) n. The fret subscription
ma was in February lest—it wait from Mr. O'Connell'. family,
treat Lace night its amount for t,ns week appeared to be
~7 Id. In the beginning time were mostly 12t) members
fire, to the Catholic Asmciation ; it row eunauted or 3.000.
yr. (loon ClTotot on then addrmed the meeting at great
kerb on the irabihtiin wafer which site Catholic+ lahnured. lle
tneelstled by movirg, 'fist in laying a petition before Parliament,
be mold remind 'Le Peers, that a similar one twice passed the
Lamer Ilowae of Parliametit. Ile would ask the PitAdea to du as
off would be Jew by, and would triwilal therm that their prede-
ows world have been excluded from the Ikmeh where they now
'rt, hal it nut been for the Catholic Lords. Ile would heseeth
LiTifpol. of shoot be enteraintd a high opinion, to with-
," his opm si•ion. llr would inanLe the Lord ( 'haneellor to da-
ted all I.:. prejudices. From the eminent atatinn to which he was
he had great rower to do go.wl or evil. Ile should mom.
bet, that even like of us litre, he too stunt), At tot en two worlds,
tod mutt get approach an 4%7,1.4,0,01i regret to give an account of
1,4 geminlahip. Ile would therefore rain Werke him to give, as
fir la with hint lies, freedom to s.ven tuibiona of men, who would
gratefully receive it. (Unitercal cheering.)
sercal Resolution, trete then propesed, which passed ward.
total/.
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orm amid the loud applause's( the Meeting to second
$ readmits: moved by 31r. Bellew. It remitided him of an ann.
whim he should unothin to the Meeting. Some pease ago
sow 'mac on board of whitth were a nuniberref soldiers. were
Oen by the vitdems oaf the storm on the coast of n'aierford.
Say of the persnis on shore asastabied, as is too often the cam,
lithe purposes of deprivation of assistance. There wee.
went, one honourable exception in the person of an individual,
nee intrepidity was exerted in saving the lives of his fellow.
natures. With noniron* huinanity be plunged into the sea. and
mist with one hand he sei/ed a drowning soldier, with the endear
!b made his way back to shore. Ile was not comers vl with ibis
44(xertion of W. 1144141,, hut returned for another, until hi. inter.
May had saved the liver of six of the drowning poldien. lie (Mr.
Anal had this fact from a gentleman, whose hears and mind was
motile of appreciating it; he mrsot the late Mr. 31•Dougal.
grtlenws went to the Castle to eolicit remuneration lor the
Lou fellow who-had acted an noble a part. It was during the ad.
e,„terstion of a man whom name has been aubwepiently connected
with the police of this country. 31r. Peel was surrounded by of.
Lid t he heard the application with the mom perfect ems.
rActiuter• and retreated into she wsweitont saner. t ron of leis
13 s shot time he rempliestresi, and requested to know of Mr.
)1•11ougal to what class of ',notes the men belonged. Mr.
Mikaigal saki that hr was a poor fisherman, who, by his iinfustry,
tipeortol a wife and nine children. " Olt ! you misapprehend
sc." pod the man in office. " I mean. is he a Protestant ? ' You
iart, Gentlemen (mid Mr. Shell), but that was the question. The
one queetion extends throueltout the country in every station of
warty. It reaches from the fisherman to the rem It is the „i.e.
ton asked in the Your Courts, on the Quarter Deck, and in the
mention. "Is he one of us !" "Is hr," to toe the language
if Mr. t-surin, "of the right sort ?" What was the question in
spits? "Is he a ?" What was the question in G.e.
men? "Is he a Nobleman !" %;hat was the question in South
damn? "Is he a Spaniard?" la utiforttotate Ireland the
lomat is—" Is he a Protestant?" The motive is still he same;
ir still domination of power; religion hoe nothina to do with it.
Ails Smith ban said, that of all Atistoerseies the worst was the
smastacy of Ireland, for it was the Aristocracy of the Church.
He (Mr. S.) could respect the Aristocracy of the Noblemen, but he
tra'S net respect the Aristocracy of the Cheerer-school. (Applause.)
A Led could be endured, but the pnidigious ascenilaney of an Al.
haunt paunch could not. Bigotry has been driven from France,
an Germany, from Hungary, and groin Holland, and has fnural
ad:, in Great Minn*. it has, for its worshippers, ten thousand
Noss, who share in the incense offered to it, and who, with di-
lated um:Ms, inhale the fat and plenteous viarole that are mared
colas whole nation'. wealth. And this to glut • Church that lie
wen term the castle of indolence. Ile would ask whether it was
Mar to hare a parson fat, or a people free? ( Laughter and ap.
) Let them enetnot the oteduct of the CaMolic Clergy
that of the Clergy of the Established Church. Where wee
de Prterstant Clergyman mostly to be found ? At the Levee, or
;ittltsps at the toilet, whispering his soapiest ion. in the soft lab,.
r. latly's car. Where was the Catholic Priest to be found ?
mete Wag mountain, amid the storm, er on the desolate nicer;
ate roofless hovel, by the bed of straw, adinir.istering consolation
vexation de.g spirit of sone dying fenny-creature, and inhabits,
alio pious offise, perhaps, pestilence aetil death.
And, as a !Ord each fond redenroient tries
To tempt her rew.fledol orspring to the skin,
He tiled each reproved 'echelon darer.
Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way."
Intould apologise for having trespasser so lung on the time of
uneming. (No, no.) %Cords were, however, no lomter mans-
es; on were required. Ile meant pacific and constitutional
mi. 'they had great cumbers with them—they were begirding
ottatran gist wealth—they were now, dank Elod ! united, end
IT Ova's! ...dude with duo orison of patriotism—that the tint,
eirht not: ants when they should be again divided. (Great ap.
Nast/
The rep:trial was then put and carried unanimously.
The test resolution was moved by Mr, Ocoee.
It IA lawn Jed by 31r. RtIMONID, and paws/ unanimously.
Tat nrzt molution was moved by Mr. (PFAU LEL.
nr.O'Cuxeenn ratT, amid the aorlantation of the Meeting,
rt. 114 the reselution. " I have news for you," said Air.
Olamell. (Laughter.) We are to be emancipated at last.
Itiost applause) the gift of Sennish word sight. I see
"Am: err anCiPation is inevitable. I see it In the Irish Noble_
rho /I Our frond, and who is at the head of the Government
N utuntiy-1 see it in the union of sentiment with us, felt by
oelhuestant mobility, aed by Protestants of wealth and worth.
Item in this nawded 31eetine, and I see it in the alarm excited
Ayr enenltes. I hear the fanning voice of liberty in the ravings
the miscreant afaii, and the ruillan Star; in the falsehoods of
Steamier, and the beastly calumnies of the AllureNg Puel. I
ett3ret having sent a caricature of a flight of whet were supposed
rTVIti, over a held of own, hut on their approaching nearer
!nomad to be a flight of parsons in the ate. while the poor
•JUSti ounimed most fervently. " Oh ! I hope they'll not alight
'7" sup field." Tbe falsettos% of the /Pardee, the Mail, and
1/0.0, load flown over to the other side of' the Channel. 'I he
ye;iwnethe Mull was :bought too bad even for shit paper. he
tatemeine transferred to the Mae. They were routent to pay
latittelte of twenty.f our hone; aye. for she lie of halt an hour,
ern Me tithe of a lie. The English were here only 602 years;
to :ere Cie fine simmer morning, because the people acre M.
'Ad smog themselves. They had reluaiiied here ever since, and
451 matkol their cortinuanee here by keeping alive disunion
nno; the people. The people are as nothing. the faction every
0,1 t; but the policy is as weak as it is marked that reeks to rends
*iixii*l. They now demand to know a liether goalsense will
tdt.eet Parliament to have the people or the faction with theta;
,
tete their ehnice, hut they must decide. Should they
,;!(.Itiolcsi regard such a herd as the Dublin Corpotatien's
sea its orators Wire they such pentane as Alderman
and Masta Ellis? the (Mr. 0 ('onnell) nvollected having
" spponunity once of replying to 31aster Ed., at a politic
• tOti Cfllll/),ly. he Mu( • muituity of laughing at him.
w. nu he should mah for such another orportuoity. The fac-
t" tall NI movably minting that they eerie tumble to have a
't en a their own fur their own ores", and renegade Papists
g" to 'mite for the ;Varier, the Nod, and the Mut-.
passitile that in the nineteenth ct-nrury mum millions
ispie were still to he left under the dominion of that inner-
: tosbus, that tautly., untalented, I.:mated, virulent foc-
i.; °hos own ranks (mold not produce it a *logic ads-it-cote ?
:oari kink to Pm Nonli, where the faction is mmHg; they
.I"iit'e see it ausped and stained in celd•blodril inunkr. Jut
et k to the biood.stained mountains of Fermanagh; they
sy".ne beheld • sister weeping over lice murdered brother.
tl,the_tioverninent of the country continue to protect that
Here were seven millions of people, unstained with
▪ *hose Mince was that they were faithful to the relit don
stovers of the Enelish petiole a. well as their own.
Ltlefl.reil to the Government, nut the alliance of any despot..
:41tr ilnly Alliance of the people of Ireland. It' hat treaty
tvehrn peace of Ireland violated ? 31r. O'Conneil continued
length. He defended the Catholic Association. MI the
!Is'''_4,,"( the pelt-re legality of its proreettings. He alluded to
'itel.e Merit, which Im termed a sacred tremor?. aid which,
's 0 1.150u1d be (speeded as if it scent the wealth of the all if.
f:".1;;43C410.1 141011111 1 e as pure as dm assume from which it
▪ !','d it shoo:a line for the ttenp)e that greatest of ail Ida".
il. The Parliament could not rtstraio them. 11 the
eatim
es put morn, they would hold aggregate meetings
e.,.,,;'•"'eltt to petition. The mind or the people had been
f...:.te throughout the country to a tense of their► hijuries ti.e
'"stinlrti to enthosnion, in I their emenrieotion rm. no
abTha"er Ptbisibterbl/..11 Ct I-tunny. The Catholic Bent. ter
e;tss.• not weeks, a remind to tt:Of. per wen. t a threatl.
e _
,"4
.iongainst it Vtas ht 1,1 out.aiiil the week alley Mat tweet, site
I ti,het enameled to upwards of EttleM. England timed force
t4"1"711.. .. faith of the
litupid p
omle of this country. and tonr
t nith Itf she victims, it rasa joutlrl amid br
r"'!
„.'"; that the Penal Coda ought to be written in setters ~f
e wag no: a l'atholie Stare in Europe that had such a
; etc of such cold calculating peratoution. Urbird with
I,tl tontimation. When that ode fai'ed„ what would
the Ca:holies ? They (the I aiholirs) were too mt.
! _.** nto cut their throats. Oh! hut they had an rend.
they sushi send aster the Honourable Mr. Not! and
1" 'told Cable meetings, and cornett them.—
. / They would 5.1.55 grt Admiral (Hien en pr ach
( ~liet,seeen the Admiral and the Caplan,. they
rs; Ly SCR end land.
d is They were 55. hc attack.
he annals of English
Er•••• 01 S'" rati. in t • INadine
• *no never struck to an enemy unit she
• rag :he env.. An }MOM vesstl mittlit hare gone
; .5* never until then struck her flag holor' a" "rem?'
9 ee.„ ir!at !lever sung a psalin in his life. and
-in''..171.1 11341, whom ha was mtacksd by two Yowls,

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sunk one, and took the other Rime then, a single American res.
eel has taken an English ship over and over spin, psalm-singers
and LW Formerly a British seaman, no board his ship, which
rides msjeetie amid the storm, would entree to he torn limb front
limb, before the stare of America should rise trim-net:ant over the
British flag ; but the I Inver, and the .waddlers have, since then,
over and over again, struck to the enetnv. Admiral Oliver talked
of the Catholics einancipating themselves! Thank God, they
would not accept his emarcipation. There was also the Scotch
Mr. Gordon, who praised everything in Scotland, and abused every-
thing in Ireland. There was, likewise, the lady-like Mr. Noel,
who was a very neat man fur a small tea-party. Ile had, however,
failed in all his speculations, and got leave to leave mime houses in
the south rather precipitately. Let the divine• rmeregate. sr,' they
would ask only laymen to answer them. Until it eV..s called forth,
who could have supposed that such a mats of talent lay slumbering
in the country, as was evinced by the l'atholic Priest hoed y Many
of them were possessed of genius ettited to a Demosthenes, united
with the power of reasoning which a Locke might admire, but
could not imitate. find had not fersaken Ireland. The late con-
tmversy bad shown to astonished England what the Catholic('leggy
really M. Oh! if they could but send a ntiesinti among them, he
would select for it, first, an Augustinian Friar,. Bishop—the Right
Rev. Dv. thtyle.—t(reat applause) Ile knew that he had struck •
enroll ahich would vibrate on their hearts. Ile would next take a
Priest of the Secular Order, and he would .clot Iltr.
(Lout! applause.) Ile would nest take two Jesuits to ainordsli
them, and he wouhl name the Rev. Mr. Kenny (great applailec)e
and that most peilished gentlemen (his relationship to the 'hairman
forbade him saying innteu, the Rev. 1/r.Eamodite.—(Conthtutel ap-
plause.) Let them have the Noels cud diet/livers, and the Gov-
dons ; they might also Wee tits lawyers attorneys, and even
the Lord Chat.e,llitr ; but they could Lot 'bake their mills. which
war imperishaute as the rock of truth. Mr. t O'Connell concluded
as he 11Kgaa, ly s'ating. that their emaneipation was near.
The leaututi- a was then rut, and carried unanitnitusly.
The re-uvirititg resolutions were then successively put from the
Chair, end adopted unanitronely.
Cesar Deese, Esq. was then called to the Chair, when the
thanks of the meeting were voted to Sit Thomas lismontle. he his
proper and dignified emsduet is ike Chair ; after which the meeting
separated mask them cheese.