The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-27 00:00:00

RELAND.

MR. O'CONNELL'S LETTER —The following important
f ita
letter, of which we ffaVe 'tih atstr yesterday, was read
by Me. french, the Secretary at the Meeting of the Ge-
neral Association last Tuesday :
Darrynanc Abbey,, 19th Petlaber,
,1,37,
My Dear French—l eAnnot be iii fliibliii itifill the zliiitli in-
stant. t propose to submit two motions on the 31st to the
General Association. I beg of you to give notice of them on
Tuesday next in my name. • , ~ 1, •,
My first motion will .bb .ti eilpOliti a A._elebt Committee to
ipteStitatt alle. ascertain all receipts and expenditures of the
Association, and to state and settle all its accounts.
My second motion will be to dissolve the Association itself.
This last measure I adopt with some hesitation; but I think
4 4 ;
we are arrived at a peritql Whtli We snouiu give this proof of
our tatisraZtion at the improved state of the administration of
government in Ireland, and of our confidence in the good in-
tentions of our gracious Sovereign, and in those of her Ma-
jesty's Ministers,
For the present I content myself' with this intimation. I
will, please God, give my reasons in full to the meeting. I
will listen with respectful deference to the opinions of other
members, and abide without a murmur the decision of the
majority.
In the meantime I beg of' the gentlemen who compose the
Association to reflect upon these unquestionable facts.
First—That until the present Administration there never
was a Government in Ireland honestly and firmly determined
to do equal and impartial justice to all parties.
Secondly—That until the accession of her present Majesty
there never was a Sovereign on the British throne sincerely
friendly to the people of Ireland.
It is quite true that Ireland has never heretofore confided
but she has been betrayed ; yet I am not weary of confiding.
That confidence will prove the sincerity as well as the genero-
sity of our disposition to a conciliation. Even if we be dis-
appointed in our hopes, we will have the consciousness of hav-
ing deserved a better fate ; and also will have an additional
stimulant to rely thereafter on our own exertions. If, indeed,
our present reliance on the Queen and her Ministers shall
prove fallacious, it will not afterwards be possible to expect
" Justice for Ireland" from anything but our own constitutional
and legal, but continuous efforts.

I aril for making this one experiment more on the cordiality
of those who call themselves our friends. If we shall be de-
ceived, we can easily fall back on our own resources.
Let mo not be supposed to anticipate disappointment. I
do no such thing. On the contrary, my hopes are high, and
my expectation strong and deliberate. Of this, however, I
am quite sure, that our readiness to leave the cause of the
Irish people in the hands of a favourable Government cannot
but tend to give to any future necessary agitation the character
or not being sought for by us, but forced upon us by the futi-
lity of reliance upon others, however plausible and probable
their pretensions to our confidence may be.
Believe me to be, your faithful friend,
DANIEL O'CONNELL.

Arthur French, Esq., &c.
GENERAL ASSOCIATION.—A meeting of the Association
took place on Friday last at the Corn Exchange-rooms, pur-
suant to adjournment.
The Secretary having read the minutes of the last day's
meeting several communications were read. They had been
sent to Mr. French from various parts of the country by the
pacificator'.

Mr. COSTELLO then moved that Mr. O'Connell's letter be
inserted on the minutes. Mr. OtaUntoh secouded the mo-

tion, which was passed unanimously.
Mr. Faoicit rote and spoke to the following effect :—I
now give notice, In Mr. O'Connell'S name, for the next day
of theotintg, of a motion to appoint a soled committee to in-
vest;gate the reteiptt and disbursements of the Association, and
to audit and settle all its accounts. I have the plettititt also to
give notice of a motion that the Association on the next day
''of meeting be dissolved l and I do that from the firm con-
viction that our gracious Queen has every inclination to do
justice to Ireland.—( Hear.) also believe that her Ministers
have every wish to carry the intentions of her Majesty into ef-
fect, as expressed in the following paragraph from Lord John
Russell's letter to Lord Mulgrave :—" The Queen willingly
recognises in her Irish subjects a spirit of loyalty and
devotion towards her person and government. Her Ma-
jesty Is desirous to see them in the full enjoyment
of that civil and political equality to which, by recent sta-
tutes, they are full entitled ; and her Majesty is per-
suaded that when invidious distinctions arc altogether obli-
treated, her throne will be still more secure and her people
more truly united." I also take the liberty, on my own be-
half to give notice of a motion. It is this : That the books
connected with this Association, and also the books of the late
Catholic Association, shall, on the dissolution of this body, be
placed in the hands of three trustees, to be appointed by the
Association. Their contents will yet be a matter of history,
and therefore it would not be right to have them placed in the
hands of any one individual, to be purloined by him or turned
to his own use as if they were his own property.
Mr. Costello—You should say as many of the books of the
late Catholic Association as you have in your possession.
Mr. French—l mean that. We cannot give up what we
have not.

Mr. O'Meara moved that the meeting should be adjourned
until next Tuesday.
The motion was seconded and`passed.
Mr. T. O'Meara was called to the chair, and the thanks of
the meeting were given to Mr. Purcell.
Amour • of Justice Rent announced by the Secretary, ninety-
three pounds nine shillings and fourpence.
The meeting then adjourned until Tuesday, the 31st.inst._

LORD CLoricunay.--:Mr. O'Connell has addressed the fol-
lots ing letter in reply to his Lordship's communication :
" Darrynane Abbey, 21st Oct., 1837.
" My Lord—l, for one, cheerfully accept your invitation to
be in Dublin from the Ist to the Bth of November, ready to
confer on the state of affairs interesting to Ireland. I cannot
doubt that you will find many others equally ready to meet you.
Thus the meeting will certainly take place. Every thing
else may until then be safely committed to the deep interest
which all the friends of Ireland must take in this approaching
Session. That Session may then terminate our present
struggle; but that struggle can only terminate in our cona-

plete success.
" You have done well and wisely to introduce the sugges-
tion of other topics besides those 1 mentioned—because it is
thus manifest that that no nobleman or gentleman will come to
the meeting pledged to any particular measure. They will
come to deliberate and then decide, and not merely to carry
into effect any pre-conceived determination.
" I hare the honour to be, my Lord,

" Your faithful Servant,
" DANIEL O'CONNELL."

SLIGO.—We find by a letter from a Newry Correspondent
of the Dublin Evening Post, that Colonel Perceval, not being
able to screw his courage to the sticking place, has resolved
to strike his colours. After soliciting an investigation into
the conduct of Mr. Blake, the excellent Stipendiary Magis-
trate, he new slinks away from the charge brought against
that gentleman. We do not blame the Gallant Colonel for
deeming, as he evidently does deem, that discretion is the
best part of valour; but we are told that he, with the Orange_
men, continues a course of conduct most odious and repre-
hensible—absolutely " making Sligo a hell upon earth." If
this be true, the personification, politically, of the combined
qualities, cowardice, meanness, and malignity, will no longer
be apochryphal.
LORDS CLONCURRY AND POWERSCOURT.—The last named
personage has just addressed Lord Cloncurry, in reply to some
observations which that nobleman made in his late letter to
O'Connell, relative to the holding of a petty sessions at Bray.
The Pilot observes upon the Po werscourt epistle—" His
Lordship has written in the tone of a man not pleased. He
says there is a petty sessions held at Bray. Lord Cloncurry,
it seems, thought there was not, and stated so. There was
nothing to put his Lordship into a passion in this : it was evi-
dently a mere mistake, arising out of misinformation ; and that
Lord Cloncurry had a right to notice it under the impression
is proved by the fact of a sessions being held there ; because
it is a proof it is a necessary thing, and that its omission
would have been an error."

The Mail is of course in extasies at having even this rery
small matter to nibble at. Tho venerable and patriotic
Nobleman has received, and does deserve to receive, according to

the merciful dispensations of the delighted Mail, a severe casti-
gation for having committed the horrible crime of writing the
following atrocious words :—" Why can a set of party magis-
trates refuse a petty sessions to a large town (Bray, for in-
stance), and eFtablish it at privacy in a gate lodge ?"
That Lord Cloncurry, up to the time of the Powerscourt

publication, had actually not known that there was a petty
ession-house in the village of Euniskerry, used as a court-
house for holding the aforesaid session, is evidently a
crime of the sleepest dye, and deserving not merely a grave
rebuke but condign punishment!
TIPPERARY.—At the Quarter Sessions here two Magistrates
were proceeded against for improper conduct. In the first
case there was a verdict for the defendant—as there ought to
be—in the next for the plaintiff.
TRANQUILLITY OF THE COUNTRY.—In addition to the nu-
merous proofs of the tranquil state of the country, afforded
by the charges of the Assistant Barristers, we give the follow-
ing from an Orange journal, the Ballyshannon Herald :
On Monday last the Sessions commenced in Donegal before
Jonathan Henn, Esq., assistant-barrister. The Civil Bill
business commenced immediately after. There were only
268 entries, and one ejectment. The Crown business was un-
usually light, and was finished in two or three hours. It is
very creditable to observe, that only one case of assault was
tried—it related to Dunglow ; the prisoner was acquitted.
DELANY IN DURANCE.—The Rev. Gentleman has been
found guilty on an indictment charging him with assault on
the 2d of September last. Thus the law has at last laid hold
of this peripatetic apostle of the new Reformation.
DREADFUL FlRE.—Shortly before ten o'clock on Tuesday
night, a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. Murphy and
Walsh, turpentine and varnish manufacturers, Sir John Ro-
gerson's Quay. As in every case of ire that has occurred in
Dublin for a long time, there was considerable difficulty in
obtaining a supply of water. The tide was rather low, and a
supply could not be easily had from the Liffey. However,
whilst the street was being torn up to get at the fire pipe, the
engines, with a large number of firemen and others, set to
work and succeeded in getting a supply from the river, and
directed the hose round the front of the premises into a lane
at the rear, and played' upon the fire so as to prevent it com-
municating with the houses on the quay. When a supply of
water was obtained in the street the engines played most effec-
tually premises, and upon a large
d, it would be impossible to
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througharwhin theif frontn nn e
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extinguish.
From the very combustible nature of the goods it may be
supposed that the fire raged with great violence—it was, in
fact, terrific; but the situation of the premises prevented
it spreading with that rapidity which it otherwise would.