The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-21 00:00:00

IRELAND.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT )
DUBLIN, JAN. 19.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DUBLIN AND
LONDON.

This day ore of the most respectable meetings I have ever
seen. in. Dublin W7IS held at the Commercial Buildings, to pe-
:tition Parliament to take the most prompt means of establish-
ing a communication between Dublin and London, as eligible
and eiperiitious as possible. The Lord Mayor was in the
chair, and deputations were present from Shrewsbury, Ches-
ter, and Carnarvonshire to represent the interests of Holy-
head, Ormshcad, end Port Dynlaen. The meeting was ad-
dressed by Mr. O'Connell the Hon. Frederick Shaw, M. I'.,
the Hon. Robert Clive, Sir Love Perry, M. P., and by several
of our eminent merchants and bankers. None of the deputa-
tions were permitted to set forth the advantages of their se-
veral plans, but the meeting passed resolutions and adopted a
petition calling upon Parliament to select the best harb?ur and
the best railway to secure a speedy communication. The
meeting was attended by gentlemen of all politics, all of whom
took the strongest interest in the proceedings.

O'CONNELL DINNERS.
Mr. O'Connell is about to be entertained at another series
of public dinners. On Tuesday he will attend a grand ban-
quet given by his constituents, for which the Royal Circus has
been fitted up, in a manner to entertain 800 persons. The
Chair will be taken by Ignatius Callaghan, Esq., an eminent
merchant of Dublin. Mr. Peter Purcell was to have pre-
sided, but for his recent attack on Mr. O'Connell. On Thurs-
day he will be entertained by the inhabitants of Drogheda, in
a magnificent manner; and Newry is making rapid prepara-
tions for doing him similar honour, but no day has yet been
fixed for the entertainment. On Thursday week Mr. O'Con-
nell's friend, Mr. Reddington, M. P. for Dundalk, will re-
ceive a public dinner from his constituents, at which it is said
Mr. O'Connell will attend, but Ido not believe lie will. On
the 2d of February Mr. O'Connell will sail for Holyhead ; he
has repeated his determination of returning to Ireland at least
once a fortnight to get up the Precursor agitation, by which
he thinks be can do more service than by anything that he
could effect in Parliament, with the present strong Tory mino-
-
rity opposeCommons,lraland in the Commons, and the overwhelm-
ing majority in the Lords.
Mr Purcell has written another letter on the investment of
the funds of the Precursor Society, but he has stated no new fact,
or put no old ene in a fresh light. At the meting of the
Precursor Society yesterday, little was done, except bringing
forward another of the Registry Reports upon which the Com-
mittee have been lately engaged. Mr. O'Connell, in bring-
ing it forward, stated that if a Bill for the Reform of the
London Corporation were brought in, he would move its ex-
tension to Dublin, but if it were delayed, he would bring in
the Irish Bill without postponement. He also, in the course
of the proceedings, made an attack upon the Northern Whig
newspaper, and stated that if a really Liberal Journal were
established in 13elfast, in opposition to it, it could not fail to
be successful. The meeting adjourned to Wednesday, on
account of the O'Connell dinner being about to take place on
Tuesday.
The Clonmel Special Commission is still proceeding- The
prisoners, Cornelius Hickey and William Walsh, were found
guilty of the murder of Messrs. Cooper and Weyland. It is
remarkable that nine of tha Jury were Roman Catholics.
There have been several other convictions for offences of less
importance. The persons in custody for the recent murder of
Mr. O'Keefe will not be tried at this Commission, as sufficient
evidence has not been procured. The sitting is not expected
to terminate for another week.
There will be a Levee at the Castle—the second for the
season—on the 30th instant, and a Drawing Room on the fol-
lowing day.

The proposed mail from Manchester to Leeds, by
way of Huddersfield, has been contracted for, and will speedily
be put upon the road. It is to run ten miles an hour, and will
leave Manchester immediately after the arrival of the railway
mail from London ; so that the Huddersfield bags will reach
the town about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and there will
be about three hours for the returu posts.
Salmon fishing commences in Scotland on Friday
next, which promises to be productive, from the great at-
tention bestowed on the salmon fisheries last year, to prevent
poaching and the killing of the fish not in season. The Act
passed last Session for the protection of the fisheries bas been
highly beneficial.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Great Western Steam-ship Office, Jan. 1,1839.
SIR,-My attention having been drawn to an article in the
Times paper of the 28th December, upon the gale of the 28th
and '9th of October, during the continuance of which the
Liverpool arrived at Cove, and the Great Western is repre-
sented as having just departed, and in which it is made to ap-
pear that while the Liverpool experienced violent and westerly
winds, the Great Western experienced fair breezes from the
eastward, I think it right to state that nothing could be much
worse than the weather the Western met with,- and that
curing the height of the gale from the northward and west-
fs__,- _
~. ', the two steamers passed within twenty miles of each
wr • the one contending against the westerly gale, the
otner-0..
sie, •
~.h i
'ing before it. I have before me the Great Wes-
other sa ich furnishes the accompanying answers to the
tern's log, iv), `.h in part, and in part only, corroborates
remarks, anti ich, '
them :
REMARKS ly " .1---
" When the Liverp.lols‘ ^IMES' OF 28th DECEMBER.
am ship was forced back to Cork
by foul winds, the Great Tres•tern had just departed ; but if
same which
storms be rotatary, the same 'Zak: might, of course, blow foul
for one, but fair for the other. Zit.: appears really to have
steam..
been the case with regard to these tore . ships; and the
15 As is no;
wee of the
G
storm they both met appears to have b4l/4^n the
raged with much violence here in Londou 0..1 Sunday night,
the 28th of October, and on Monday morr;g.' i
unrferear
Westernent beforoen
the
astoformre,n it was
of
was
tchaelm2Batth.theAt
1,,,
on the
wind rose in sudden gusts; but, instead of being a storm from
the West, as the Liverpool had it, these gusts came first from
the Southward, and veered violently, though gradually, to the
East, and then to the North East. y Next morning the weallet
moderated, with the wind at W.N. W."