The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-30 00:00:00

talent and ebatatier, capable of locating with effect the
dreadful exigencies of the tunes.

Lied CARI3ERY read the flillowing report, published
in an Irish Paper, of a speech lately made by fir. Maurice
O'Connell, at a public meetirtg in Dublin :-..--"Mr..4Tan
riee O'Connell waa,loodly,,c.illeff OTC'frogn all parts of the
room" He rote,..to address the meeting amid :the most
enthusiastic applause. He felt, he said, the itiost sincere
satisfaction 'et beholding so retique, !tabe •a meeting as was
then Mimed-around him, and at that particular juncture
of public afrairt. Since they i nil last met, the iron statue
with ;eel of clay had been prostrated to the earth---n golden
'idol was about lying erected in its stead. to Which, like
its predecessor, , they might expect to tee all the servile in
spirit in the house and out of tfu. nonce how down in
lowly adoration. 11 was at r;; ii ajiniOtWee et the patentthat he fore.' lest the_penPle slie`Ald be led away by the
word of pr:nnlee fe- the ear,' but which had been ever
broken h' the fact..-.that, in the hope of a tri'fial good
they should have been deluded from th'eTiritserittion of that
measure, which could elet'i%onfeir on them peace, hap.
pines, and preoralty.—the Repeal of the Mien. The
present ginistry, however, assured him, that -his fears
,tire vain, and that the people could net be d'ehided
by any party of men. The troth that 'the per-
sons at, present rominat Into viewer had, while out of
place, deelereel thclOSelves te..ainst the wishei of the
people tuft that they were in power, they were not very
likely to be more favourable to them. They he'd often seen
that the man who, when (o •af giver, was an advocate
-for the people, the. trenefent he obtained it underwent ii
magical trantfiteMation.--and the trappings of ()(Tice were
frequently found to change his principles, The Irish,
tub,' had seldom felt themselves in abetter eiteatittn under
those. 'who called themselves their Menai', than under
those who avowed thettiAVes their enemies. The time
of delusion had teetti pasted, atut for ever; the assembly
-there era day proved that the people would persevere :in
seeking for a repeal of the Union, and that they would
not he diverted from that fo,n!eiti's objet by half mea•
cures--by Poor Lertl;:;-liy.grants of public money—and
by thehett iti.Ve4tion to benefit Ireland, by the permission
to teat people to transport themselves to America at their
own expense.' The spirit of patriotism was eereadittg
like the old signal flame on their hilts-3,-the spirit that
was lighted in one parish We' thStantly transmitted to
another—the flame extended from county to county...—
and ell teelarel would soon feel the genial grow of the
meted fire which should for ever thorn bit the altar of
a free country. They saw the , same spirit animating
the venerable Mr. Arllitir; and the young gentleman
who had tett addressed them.--youth,- sensibility, and
M4dilie age, were animated with but one feeling and desire!.
and that Was-the deterniin *don to obtaill a repeal of the
Union— After some othet- eloquent observations, Mr.
O'Connell c died opOit everyman, every ,part of the
eountrYs to Ilse' his influence, .however limited that might
Irie to have petitions forwarded for a repeal of the Union.
If every man did this, it was not at all iinprohable that
before the end of the Sesedot4 the hon. House would be
settling the cotulitions and terms of that impracticable
tetaturethe repeal of the Union between Great Britain
end Ireland. By every man exerting himself to the ut-
most of his payee, in his own spherte'tl4 might soon expect
to see the Union flag fall from the tower of the Castle, and
the green flag of Ireland raised in its pliatie" His Lord-
ship proceeded to observe, that if it were a crime to cell
on the people of Ireland to rebel, that crime the speaker
of this speech had committed ; and lie expressed a convie-
' tion, that unless such proceedings-trete put a stop to, all
Ireland would be in tt Mate of insurrection in less than a
month. The 11/416b1e Luta also read a letter signed " James
Doyle," in answer to a vote of thanks from a public meet-
ing in Ireland; but we were unable to collect Its import.
Lord WYNFORD wished to give a notice, and' lie
would give it for a distant day, in the hope that the sub-
ject might be taken up by seine one more competent to
treat it than himacif. He was persuaded that if something
were not done to remove the 'discontent of the great body
of the yeomanry of ihe country, the most serious conse-
quences would ensue. He therefore gave notice, that on
the fld of January lie would move for an inquiry into the
distressed state of the agriculture, commerce, and Manu-
factures of the country, and into the means of mitigating
that 'distress.

ADMINISTBATION OF THE POOR LAWS.
The Martini's 'of SALISBURY rose. to move for the
appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the ad-
ministration of the Poor Laws. He had always been of
opinion that the population of the country, although it
might at some period exceed the immediate means of snit,-
port; was generally by nn mans too great. The expe-
rienee of last year had convinced biro. that 6* population
engaged in agriculture was not-too great. With respect
to wages also, it would be found on inquiry that wages at
present were not only equal to those of former days, brit
superior: Comparleg the present price of labour, with
reference to the price of provisions, with the price of
Mom. from the beginning of the seventeenth, to the be-
ginning of the eighteenth century, it appeared that it was
a third higher now than formerly. During the late war
the reduction of the price of corn had been considerably less
than the reduction of wager, except in cases in which the
paver.° system had been adopted of paying the wages
out of the poors' rate). Lotdaing at all the circumstances,
digressed as the agricultural labourer war, his wages were
higher Own at former periods. One great evil which the
labourer at present endured was the extravagant rate of
house rent. Another was the absence, in consequence of
the improvements which had taken place in manufactures,
of all sedentary smploymtnt for his tinnily. The great ob«
feet to he accompLshed was, in his opinion, to procure
r gular anti steady and sufficient supply of labourers, and
at the 'tante time to take care that the supply slid not Ve.
Come greater than the demand, and the condition of Be la,
bourer reduced beyond that of comfort and competent sub-
sistence. The course pursued in this country in effect-
ing improvements in agriculture, had, he was sorry to
say, tended much to deteriorate the condition of the pea-
sentry. In former times it was the custom to give the
peasants employed in the culture of the estates of the
landed proprietor or the farmer, a cottage to live hi, and a
gat den and a piece of ground to cultivate; but every con-
siderable proprietor of late years bail directed his atten-
tion to what is called clearing his estates, so that the
peasantry were driven together to occupy hamlets in herds,
and their allowance awl means of eubsiiitence reduced to
the lowest sum on which it was possible to eke out their
existence. The great object to which he wished to direct
the attention of their Lordships, was to devise sonic
means for procuring and supporting a body of mien, who
would prove .sound, good, laborious, and virtuous assist-
ants in the, labours of the farmer, and who would at the
same time he enabled to live comfortably on the produce,
of their labour. At the present moment he feared much
that the proceed of daring the Arms had produced a state
of things among the peasantry of this country somewhat
similar to that which was represented elsewhere to have
taken place in the neighbouring kingdom of Ireland, but
represented in terms which he hoped, for the honour of
humanity, mirth] be found Co he very notch exaggerated.
In the inquiry which he secant to propose to their Lord.
ships, lie hoped that the Law of Settlement would be
taken into full consideration, and he felt very sanguine in
the expectation that some measures might be devised,
through an alteration of that law, which would raise the
labourers from that deplorable state in which they are at
present placed. and give hope to timers who had now almost
abandoned themselves to despair. Ile also thought that
the Government might now het induced to direct its atten-
tion to the Colonies, And that regtiletione might be Made
with respect to the present expensivelnilitary corps, which.
avow-tend oniterially tt forward the objet be bad in view.
The great end, however, which he proposed% through the.
labours of that Committer, the appointment of'which he
red oired from their Lordships,, was to remedy the evils of,
the Poor Law systastn, awl crarrtet the errors which &wed
from the mal-edminietretion of that admirehle`aud !veal-
cent Act of tho fotty-daird of :Elisabeth, because he con-
ceived dust the greater portion of the offences perpetrated
in the disturbed districts had arisen from the low rate of
wages as which the peasant wag compelled to work through
the operation of the Poor Laws. lia felt dist he bad al-
ready trespassed too much on the time of the noose in ex •
planting the objects of a motion bar a Committee, which
1w understood was 1111 t to he resisted; but he could not
help expressing a hope, that through the labour* of that
Committee, in a zealous end anxinue examination of the
present system of administering the NM` Laws, they
might ultimately emceed in bettering the condition as well
as raising the morel character of time peasantry; and be
trusted that, in the event of its Wing found necessary, the
pecuniary assistance of the Government would not be
winning to carry the recemmendetione of the Committee

into elft•et. There was only one other topic to which lie
would at that moment advert, and that was the state of
the Bastardy Laws. He conceived the laws on that sub-
ject to be extremely defect; ye. According to the present
system, no person in the humbler stations of life could
recipe imprisonment, as the Conarquence of not making
provision for his offspring, unleis he rotitiented to inar6
the mother, and thus -improvident connections, and all
their consequences on the parents, 04 the amply ot
labourers, were ailtuilly made a subject Of, legislative pro-
vision. 'Aftet observing that it was his intention to bring
lo,forre the HoOse 411 the evident% which could 6 collectol
teltitive to the state of the country, sritl the condition of the
tabOtiring classes, the Noble Variptia concluded by moving
fire aliio,,,et Committee to take into their caiiiiidorAtion the

present state of the Administration of the Poor Laws, anti
to report thereon to the House.

Earl GREY said it was not his intention to make any
objection, or to offer any opeosition to the ffititidia of the
Noble Marquis, And he tire!'e.,;re should not, at that .mo-
ment, trnrible tiie !rouge with any obSeivations on the
questiOns is hid) that motion, involved, further than to say,
that there could not in his opinion be any more important,
subject brought before the attention of a Committee of that
House, than an examination of the method of Administeritte
the Poor Laws, with a view to the of he 'Coil:.
ditiol'nf the btboVitipt hopmal, therefo:4., that
their Lordships would acquiesce in the mots ii of the Not,k.
Marquis withobt entering into any detailed examination 4
the subjects which it embraced. For bii pa'et, h s could
only sty, that all the topics connected ckh the question
would, in his na:m'ini'6o, be discussed with much more pro.
priety, anti much greater advantage, when they came to
consider the recommendations contained in the Rep' its of
the Committee ; and he thought, tan, that minder the pre-
sent peculiar c!rcumstanrea of the country, it tilts et.
tremely desirable to avoid the danger of increasing the
existing eleititaient, oe of fostering the expectations whial
it Would not be in theirpoiver realise.(lle.mr.) For
that reason, among others, lie trusted that at the present
moment the ComMisttee would be granted without any fur-
ther it scussini3 ; but he hoped that the Noble Marquis
would prosecute - his inquiries with a view to the result
which he proposed. He (Earl Grey) wished only to state
then, without holding out any expectation on the subject,
that if any measure should occur to the Government, which
they might think it necessary to propose, in the intertal
bittaVetn die appointment of the Noble Marquis's Commit:
tee and the communication of the result of its inquiries- 6
Parliament, the Government weld(' fad itself at perfect
liberty to make such tt proposition ; but at the same time
he shook) tkii feel jUstified in neglecting to avail himself of
anyawidence which the Noble Marquis might have collected
in the interim, but which he might not have had an op.
portunity to lay before the House.—(Hear.)
The motion was then agreed to, and the Noble Marquis,
on proceeding to name his Committee, expressed a hope
that the President of the Council (Lord Lansdowne) would
permit his name to be inserted amusing its Members.
.The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, as we understood, ex-
pressed a desire to be excused.
The Marquis of SALISBURY then read the names of
the Committee, but in so quick and so low a tone, that se-
veral names were not caught below the bar.
The following is time most,correct list we could obtain :
—The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Richmond; the
Marquis of Bute, the Marquis Camden, the Earl of Shef-
field, the Earl of Winchilsea, the Earl of Eldon, the Earl
Stanhope, the Earl of Rawslyn, the Earl of Caernarvon,
the Earl Darnley, Lord Suffield, Lord King, Lord Ban-
don, Lord Stourton.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

MONEY MARKET.

(From the Times. )

Since the settlement of the account, the demand fur
money-stock has considerably lessened, but there is not a
supply of it in the market sufficient to meet large purchases,
and when they occur, they produce an effect which, under
other circumstances, would not result from them. The
price of Consols, which opened this morning .(Monday)-at
Sgi, was raised to tffii, by a purchase to the amount of
about fifty thousand pounds, made by one of the leading
brokers ; but a depression was caused almost im►rtediately
afterwards by large salrs for the Account, and after some
fluctuations of no importance, it finally closed at S 2 to
for January. Exchequer Bills left off at 14s. to 17s.
prernmm.

Some anxiety is felt in the City as to the course likely
to be pursued at this petitd by the Bank of England, in
giving the accommodation to the monied interest, usual at
this periodi in' loans at three per cent. on securities of
various kinds, until the payment of the dividends. The
practice has now been in existence for more than twelve
months, and has been resorted to at the close of each quar-
ter. No notice has, however, y, ,t been issued, though the
shutting of Consols for the dividend takes place in the
course of the present week.

Two mercantile failures of some consequencd have taken
plate in the city; one, the firm of Plummer and Wilson,
a West India house ; the other, that of Hunter and Co.,
in the East India trade. The latter has been brought on
more immediately by the failure of a commercial house in
Calcutta. with which it was closely connected.

The letters from Paris mention the failure of two houses
there, vit,—those of Bone and nuttier, and Guerin de
Foncin; also that of Demiaunet, of Rouen. Two re-
eeiversleneral have also stopped payment, M. Brieogne,
collector' for Marseilles ; and M. Froidefond du Chatinet,
for Strasburg. • These failures have increased the distrust
which before prevailed in Paris, and have contributed to
depress the Funds there more, perhaps, than the ratite of
politics, though gloomy anticipations on that head also
are extremely prevalent.

MOT EXTRAORDINARY MEETING.

(From the Dublin Morning Register.)

COMBINATION OF ORANGEMEN AND CATHO-
LICS IN THE NORTH.

Printed notices ball been potted up fir several days, in
the neighbourhood of • Port down and Lurgan, calling on
the people to assemble on Saturday last, at Shanrshill,
which is about three miles from each of the above two
places. The object of the meeting, as stat,d in the no.
ticen, was to procure a reduction of rents and tithes, and
an increase' of wages for the working classes. For two nr
three days' previous to the day of meeting . a flag, striped
with orange and green alternately, Wm hoisted on the hill.
On Friday morning Colonel Blacker went to the bill; and
took down the flag, which was, however, soon afterwards
replaced. On Saturday morning there was heating of
drums, from an early hour, in different directions through.
out the country; but there was not any firing of guns, as
has been stated in shine accounts of this affair, nor were
any guns seen or fired at the meeting• Several thousands
of people, consisting of the general population of the
country, assembled on Shaneshill at twelve o'clock. An
officer of pollee, with a party of his men, attended, and
inquired the object of the meeting, advising them at the
same time to disperse. They explained to him their in.
tendons ; but said, that they would proceed quietly to
transact the business fur which they bad met. But, as
the day was exceedingly tempestuous, it was agreed to
adjourn until the following Saturday, when they are again
to assemble. • The Orangemen and CatholitS who were
present, agreed to a mutual abandonment of their former
disputes, and a co-operation for the purpose of etTecting
Objects which they both had in view:—.Nortintrn

ADDITIONAL icricutA RS.

(Fnol ♦ ERIVATE CORRESPONDENT.)

The meeting:was composed almost exclusively of Orsuge-
men, or at least Protestants, and they alone took the three.
tion of the proceedings. Nothing could be more deairous
than their conduct, and this demonstration of their collec-
tive feelings on the great causes of discontent and distress
of the country is entitled to the greatest attention, as it
proceeds from a neighbourliold which has hitherto been
remarkably peaceable, and only
,accustomed to take a put
in public questions when their opinions AO a party werein-
volved. They exhibited the most anxious desire to remove
and suppress effectually all those distinctions of political
and religious creeds which have so long separated them
from the Catholics, who, it may be observed, are neither
numerous nor influential in this part of the country. The
Orengemen bore white flags bittern' of their usual insignia,
and declared. they would henceforth t,urn those trappings,
which only:served to revive a hateful memory of their
farmer strife and discord .with their fellow subjects. Many
here rejoice at this miraculous change of sentiment, but
there are some who still look on the recent circumstances
in which they stood with better feelings. Alarm has been
felt for the consequence of this successful popular display
by others, but I confess I do nut anticipate any Tossible.
consequences. dlke instauce alone of .dsngerous-spirit
hes reached us I—A Air. Hamilton, of Tullylish, I believe
a MoSititrAtO of the county, and u revt,t,hkgeritteman,
who is agent for ileum properties in the peighbourbood of
Gilfottl and Lurgan, has received a threateniog notice to
leave the country on pain of losing his lire. I have heard
that a posse' of police are stationed constantly at his house
lest it might he attacked.

•
The petition to the O,tIW,:N froto the holies of
Derby, praying her Majesty to exiwt her influent:t to, pro-
curs the oholition of ilavOlY 41 our colonirs, has reeeiveil
about 1206 signatures. Thu petittlimort
oti
fiu:Y
liberatedt written,
red enclosed, between two richly-enihosteil
team
, tignra
r(e),n,e,i,sfif iitt."rn"l::P" hit!, khiY exquisitely executed by
young lady of this town ; on the other side is the billow-
i fig ir,fiCi.iptifM-.4. To the ()LiEllteeli trtgt,k exiAlsto
jesty." 'These boards are lined with wli,ite
and tastefully secured by white ribstt,l, The whole is got
up with gre4ptste, anti we have no hesitation
,irt saying
the signatures do very }treat credit to thv nißthoohnn.tcr 1,,
they arc ibwitte4ty the hest written pfany ,ignotu—'re4
We
evr'r "w oftio 10
xilnY petition. It km
—64 m ftwwectlool
tiE'nw4no S4O VITA sB,l!# e. th e b4114001:,61e1"44",
Who luiti kindly undertaken, /9 4144 .the. necessary srrange-
nienti for its presentation. —Derbir Repqrtcr.. „