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rby name, told them that the Court had now the
painful duty of apportioning the punishment which
was due for their misconduct, and in doing so, it was
desirous of paying all possible respect to the sug-
gestion of the Jury. The Court considered also,
that they (the prisoners) had been held in confine-
ment since their return from the Cape, and wishing
further to see them return to their livelihood at as
early a period as possible, the Court felt anxious
that the meed of punishment should be us light as
the circumstances of the case would allow. The
sentence of the Court was, that they be respectively
imprisoned in his Majesty's gaol of Newgate for
the space of two calendar months, and that at the
expiration of that period they each be directed to
pay a fine of Is. to the king, and that their im-
prisonment be continued until the fine be paid.
One of the prisoners, on being removed, said he
hoped the Court would consider that they were
entitled to their wages.
Sir C. ROBINSON—This court can give no
opinion upon that point.
The Court was then adjourned to Thursday the
4th of November.

ASSOCIATION OF IRISH VOLUNTEERS
FOR TIIE REPEAL OF THE UNION.

On Saturday a meeting was held at the Parlia-
mentary Intelligence Office, St. Stephen's-street,
for the purpose of forming an " Association of Irish
Volunteers for the Repeal of the Union."
THOMAS STEELE, Lsq was called to the Chair.
Mr. O'CONNELL moved that the Society be
called an " Association of Irish Volunteers for the
Repeal of the Union," and that the subscription for
members be 1/. each.

Th s was agreed to, and books being opened for
the purpose, several gentlemen gave their names
and paid their subscriptions. The members ad-
mitted during the day amounted altogether to
about 100.

Mr. O'CONNELL next " moved that the object of
this Association be for the purpose of obtaining the
repeal of the Union by legal, constitutional, and
peaceable means." There should be, he said, peti-
tions for a repeal of the Union from every city,
town, county, village, parish, and hamlet in Ire-
land, signed by every man who can write, and by
those who can only affix their mark. This manly
expression of the universal feeling that is abroad
here will soon convince the Government of the im-
possibility of keeping things as they are in Ireland—
in fact, of withholding a repeal of the Legislative
Union.—(Cheers.)—Let us direct the feelings of
the people in the proper channel; let the rich, and
the high in rank, and the educated, join us in keep-
ing the popular passions and feelings within due
bounds. The drub; of absenteeism is the original
sin of the Union. It has blighted and blasted the
entire country. The starvation of Ireland is on the
increase. Some persons talk of poor laws as a re-
medy. lam satisfied such a measure would only
complete the measure of our Union. It would give
the people one meal, and then bring about a convul-
sion.—(Hear.)—lt would destroy the strength and
wealth of every man, and convert all Ireland into a
vast mendicity.—(Hear, hear.)—ln 1822 the poor
people lay down and died the lingering death of
want. Would they do so now ? I apprehend they
would not. They then were not aware that popular
strength, excited by rage growing out of misery and
famine, was superior to military force. The pro-
blem was riot then solved, how an undisciplined
multitude, without order or arrangement, could
beat down disciplined organised soldiers. France
and Belgium have taught a terrible lesson. If the
landlords, with their Sub-letting Act, will turn
the people out upon the highways, what guarantee
have they that the poor starving creatures will not
seize upon the best and fattest lands, and endeavour
to retain a forcible possession ? Can they vouch
for it that the people will prefer dying by inches,
by famine, to a speedy termination of their life arid
cares in dreadful conflict ? Let landlords beware of
the Sub-letting Act.—(Hear.)—lf Lord Fitz-
william will turn out at November 800 families,
where will they go to ?—what will become of them ?
Every creek and cranny has been filled up by the dis-
possessed tenantry, whom Trench, an Archdeacon of
the Establishment, the brother of the Archbishop of
Tuam, and a land-agent of Lord Monck, turned out
under the Sub-letting Act, and for religion's sake !
of their holdings. 'Where, then, will the sufferers
whom Lord Fitzwilliam is about throwing upon the
world, go ? The people, driven to madness by such
cruelty, may make some desperate resistance. I
therefore call upon all men of every rank, and creed,
and party, to come forward and take the lead of the
people. I will readily give the lend to any man.—
(Cheers.)—l would much rather see u Protestant
leading to myself.—(Cheere.)—l have no fancy in
the world for the leadership in this cause. I'll be
the pioneer—let any other become the General.—
(Cheers and laughter.)—But no matter who is
leader, the excitement cannot, ought not, will not,
be put back.—(Hear.)—Every friend to Ireland,
every lover of liberty and justice, every'udvocate for
national prosperity, should at once join the new
Irish Volunteers.—(Cheers.)—See how affairs are
going on in another country. The King of the
Netherlands, only a few weeks ago, refused to listen
to the entreaties of his Belgian subjects. Now, see
this tyrant, insolent Prince, of the bad house of
Nassau, on his knees, imploring the mercy of the
insulted, injured Brabanters ; and in vain, too, as
the case ought to be.—(Hee.r.)—And why is this ?
Because his Dutch counsellors—his phlegmatic law-
yerlings—advised him to turn a deaf ear to the de-
mands of the brave Belgians.—(Hear, hear.)—One
thing is essentially necessary in the present state of
Ireland. We should, above all things, avoid secta-
rian animosity, or religious strife.—(Hear, hear.)—
I therefore mean to move, that any member of the
" Association of Irish Volunteers for the repealing
of the Union," as the new society is to be called—
(Tremendous cheering)—who attempts to revive
religious discord, or at all to allude to the disastrous
time that is gone by, and to the battle that has been
bloodlessly fought, shall, ipso facto, be expelled.—
(Cheers.)—The Hon. Gentleman then moved the
two fundamental resolutions, and sat down amid
long-continued applause.
The first was seconded by Mr. MOEGAN, and the
second by Mr. MURPHY, and passed unanimously.
Mr. COSTELLO (Barrister) gave, by anticipation,
a sketch of the several speeches that he intends de-
livering in the North of Ireland, if he shall succeed
in finding an audience there.

Mr. J. REYNOLDS addressed the meeting, and
said that they had been told by Mr. O'Connell that
illegal societies were on the increase, and emissaries
were abroad for the worst of purposes. Under these
circumstances, he was about to suggest to Mr.
O'Connell that he should, before his departure, ad-
dress a letter to the people, cautioning them of the
dangerous precipices over which they were about
to plunge themselves. He (Mr. O'Connell) could
do as he liked with the people. No matter what he
recommended, whether peace or war—and thank
God it was for peace—they were willing to oh,.y.
It should be trumpeted throughout Europe, and
made known to the world through the public press,
that in this country there are 7,000,000 or 8,000,000
ready to take his advice.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. O'CoNtstELL—My particular friend, Mr.
Reynolds, is under a mistake in thinking that the
people always take my advice; they never do so but
when that advice is in unison with their own. It
was also because he was not to be found in the pur-
lieus of the Castle, the neighbourhood of St.
James's, or basking in the smiles of a Court, that
they hearkened to his advice. He commenced the
Catholic Association with seven members; to-day
they commenced the Association of Irish Volunteers
by 80, paid. At the meeting on the next day, a
plan should be submitted from him for the collection
of a fund which would be necessary to carry on their
proceedings; they should call it by its proper name
--the
giveAn notice, that ti-u Union
, Re
atnt. —(Great cheering.) Ile
would the meeting of that day
week, his son would bring forward a motion and
plan of arrangement for Committees in each coutuy;