The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-15 00:00:00

embrace of Britain, the emerald gem, the proudest jewel in
the diadem, was by Charlemont preserved, and remains set
in, oh ! thank God, no longer the Crown of a stranger.
( Enthusiastic applause.) My Lord, I hail your presence at
this meeting as an happy omen. It is not the first time you
have graced that Chair, when Irishmen •of every creed, sect,
and opinion have met in union. Alter thirty years of strife
and contention, when first they met together under the bard of
El :n's magic name.—( Tremendous cheers.) You cannot, my
Lord, forget the occasion ; I do not forget it ; Ireland does
not forget it.—(Cheers.) [Lord Charlemont—l have not
forgotten, I cannot forget, and I never shall forget it.—Re-
peated cheers.) I give you " Lord Charlemont and Old
Ireland."—( Continued cheers, and one cheer more.)

Air—" guld lang Sync."
Lord CHARLkNtopiT rose-4t was some moments before he
could proceed, so great was the applause. He said--Gentle.
ttien, I never forgot Ireland—l never will forget Ireland.—
( Cheat+ ) I have never shrunk when I could be of service--
I dare not I.P a traitor to Ireland.—( Tremendous cheers.) I
said so then—l repeat It now. My endeavours In behalf of
Ireland began early, feeble i‘nd inadequate ay !bey were, I
was born an agitator.—( Loud cheers.) The first wot-Li my
imperfect accents lisped was " Ireland."--(Great cheers.)
first sentence my faltering tongue learned to pronounce was
" make ready—present--fire."—( Loud cheers, and laughter.)
And why ? Because I was born a Yolunteer.—(Tremendous
cheering.) Tho first dress I wore was Volunteer uniform.
Everything around ma was Volunteer. I heard of nothing but
the Volunteers and the cause of Ireland. My excellent parents
conversed to me of these things ; nay, the very servants of the
house spoke of nothing else. Even while I received the hourly
food from my nurse—for I had always a great appetite—( Loud
laughter)—l heard the admonition, " 3ou must ever devote
yourself to your country." So lam willing to do—l always
shall be willing. When past and gone from this life, I could
only wish it to be said of Ine. " He served his country."—
( Loud cheers.)
Lord CiteuLEAIONT again rose, and gave Lord Melbourne
and her Majesty's Ministers."—(Loud cheers.)
Other toasts were then given, after which the comilTny
broke up.

IRELAND.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN, SATURDAY.

In the Court of Chancery on Thursday nineteen gentlemen
were called to the bar. Every term sees a score or two of
young men called to the profession of the law, while one may
see any day, by a walk into the Four Courts, a hundred or
two who have acquired nothing by that same call but permis-
sion to wear a powdered wig and stuff gown. There is no
profession more overstocked, and none which still has snore
candidates for admission. This is ene of the few evil conse-
quences which have unavoidably arisen from the travels of "the
schoolmaster," and the march of intellect.

Dr. Nolan, Roman Catholic Bishop of a southern diocese,
had forbidden the practice of " wakes" is his district, as they
led to much inebriety and immorality. It will be for the ad-
vantage of the morals of the rising generation if this excel-
lent example found imitators in the clergy of all denomina-
tions through the country.
Thefac simile of a threatening letter sent to Mr. Thomas
O'Brien, of William street, has been posted throughout the
city, in hope that the writing may be recognised and the author
brought to justice.
Ton REGISTRIRS.—The registries are proceeding favour-
ably for the Reformers in most parts of the country. In Lime-
rick city the Liberals hare registered 27, and the Tories only
16 ; in Limerick county the Liberals registered 8, and the
Tories but 3. In Dundalk, the Liberals have registered 13,
and the Tories but 6; in Thomastown the Reformers have re-
gistered 7, and the Tories only 3. From the Coanty Louth,
however, the news is not so cheering, for the Liberals have
registered but 6, while the Tories succeeded in having 11 ad-
mitted to the franchise. However, upon the whole, the suc-
cess has bee' with us, and the expected returns will, I have
good reason to hope, be more favourable. In Dublin County
the Liberals have been less active than they should, but they
feel that, and a strong effort will be made at the next registry
to retrieve a little ground which has been lost. It is a conso-
lation, however, that in Dublin we can spare a few votes to the
enemy, seeing we are hundreds a-head of them.
COMBINATION.—Mr. O'Connell, yesterday, visited the
Chamber of Commerce, and obtained the signatures of seve-
ral merchants and employers to a requisition calling a public
meeting, to take into consideration the disclosures made by
Mr. Connery, that there was a sum of 3s. 3d. a week paid
by several of the trades as a " slating rent," to hire ruffians
to assault those artisans who broke their regulations, or the
employers who took " coults" into their workshops.
CORPORATE REFORM, AND VOTB BT BALLOTT.—A meeting
of the inhabitants of St. Peter's Parish, in this city, took
place yesterday, in the Shelbourne Hotel. Sir James Murray
in the Chair. Mr. O'Connell, M. P., and Mr. Henry Grat-
tan, M.P. were present.
The CHAIRMAN briefly explained the ()beds of themeeting.
Mr. ROWLANDS moved the adoption o three petitions, on
the subject of Corporate Reform, Vote by Ballot, and the
total Abolition of Tithes and Ministers' Money, which
were read to the meeting by the Secretary.

Mr. O'CONNELL then said he rose to second this motion,
and to address the meeting upon all the subjects regularly
before it. First, Corporate Reform ; second, the Vote by
Ballot ; third, the total abolition of Tithes and Ministers'
money ; and fourth, the rating clauses of the Poor-law bill.
Ile would also, as he' would be obliged to leave them before
their proceedings had terminated, anticipate their resolution
with reference to combination, as his late exertions to make
labour free, and to put an end to the murderous assaults and
outrages to which the system had given rise.—( Hear, hear.)
That, however, was not the proper place to enter at length upon
the subject of combination, since all the gentlemen present,
he had reason to believe, agreed with him in the course he
had pursued with the trades.--( Hear, hear.) They knew he
had, or could have, but one object—the benefit of his constie
tucnts in general. The frightful disclosure of Mr. Con-
nery gave hint fresh cause to pursue the course he had un-
dertaken. He learned from him with horror that there was
in our city an Assassination Club, where men may be hired to
commit any enormity. Three recent murders proved that it
still existed.—( Hear, hear.) The assasination of Ganley
alone, if there had been no other, was sufficient to fill all
good men with horror and indignation. He (Mr. O'Con-
nell) would, he fully expected, been a few days in a state to
prove that it was committed by individuals hired for the pur-
pose ; and this cruel murder arose out of his having violated
some regulation of the egg market.—( Hear, hear.) It was
mixing what was ludicrous in the extreme with all that
was moat horrible and revolting. —( Hear, hear, and cheers.)
The carpenters with whom he was chiefly engaged on the
subject of combination, be had learned with pleasure, were
led to adopt this course against him, which they had chiefly
because they were his political enemies.—( Hear, hear.) Some
good men among them, it was true, might be duped into a
belief that they were defending their interests and that of
their trade ; but at the bottom of all was an Orange couspi-
racy. The O'Briens, he believed, were not themselves men
of bad character; but all he knew of them personally was the
ferocious attack made upon him by one of thera.—( Hear.)
The carpenters were principally belonging to the Orange
faction. The Hanbridge conspiracy against the Marquis of
Wellesley, originated among the carpenters—( heer and
cheers),—and the trade formed a lodge or society of St. Paul's
from which Catholics were carefully excluded ; for they were,
in fact, the Orange institution under another name. This
body has great interest in getting employment, and by giving
work to the Catholics in the trade they contrived to make them
their dupes and adherents—( Hear and cheers.) He said this
to show there was some apology for the misled portion of
them. The men who had assailed him were put forward by
that faction. The disclosure made by Mr. Connors' came
over him with a frightful effect; hut he had since learned
that it was even worse than he anticipated. Many persors
had told him that the slating system was adopted by a great
number of the trades, and that those members of them who
refused to subscribe to the " slating rent" had the horrid al-
ternative offered to them of becoming slaters themselves, and
if they consented they were regularly ballotted for, and when
any deed of horror was to be committed, those upon whom the lot
fell were sent forth to murder their unoffending neighbours.
—( Hear, hear.) A gentleman who had witnessed the murder
of Hanlon, told him that though the first blow killed, some
young men, clean and well-dre.ssed fellows, who were of the
party, were forced to strike the dead body with their sticks
that they might be participators in the crime.—( Hear, hear.)
Did people believe that blood thus shed would sink in the
earth and be forgotten, or that God's arm was grown too
short for vengeance. In vain might they hope, even upon
this earth, the murderers would suffer the penalty of their
transgressions. lie (Mr. O'Connell) could not cease his ex-
ertions while there was ally hope of rooting out this foul sprit,
and if he did not succeed he would never again consent to
represent Dublin ; for he could not exist in connection with a
city where men might be murdered for hire.—( Cheers. ) The
next subject on which he had to address the meeting was that
of Corporation Reform. If the city had had a good Corpora-
tion, the crimes he had detailed could never have happened.
But the police were the Creatures of the Corporation, and
two-thirds of their Magistrates chosen from them—there being
one Sheriff's Peer and one Alderman in each office. Nothing
connected with the Corporation was respected—the people
even thought it a meritorious act to resist their authority, and
it was scarcely extraordinary, fur a more base, beggarly,
and bigoted body never existed—they were even worse
than the Billy Welters themselves.--( Hear, and laughter.)
Not only did they exclude Catholics from their society but
liberal Protestants. His friend beside him (Mr. Henry
Grattan, M. P.) has as little chance of being admitted among
them from the time he commenced his course of hereditary
patriotism as had he ( Mr. O'Connell) himself. Nay, lie
believed they would have preferred electing him ( Mr. O'Con-
nell).--( Cheers and laughter.) But the people would soon
have an opportunity of putting better men in their paces. It
would not have been necessary to have paid the taxes to vote
for Corporate officers. Every one who had a house worth
101. would be qualified, and we then would have a Common
Council, of whom, at least, one-third would be Protestants.—
( Cheers.) With respect to Vote by Ballot, to which he had
next to call their attention, they all knew lie was a warm a-I-
mirer of it. The right of voting was in many cases a curse
without the protection of the Ballot. He had, previous to
the last election, canvassed some tailors in Dawson-street who
were actually afield to vote fur him, though if the ballet had
been in operation he would not have thought it necessary to
canvas them at all, they would voluntarily have come to vote
for him.—( Hear, hear.) But, Sir, we must have the Bal.
lot—(Cheere)—and we must have Corporate Reform.—(Con-
tinued cheering.) But above all we must have a total aboli-
tion of tithes and ministers' money.—( Cheers.) Now, Sir, I
am come to the subject of poor-laws. I am not going to op-
pose the principle, though I believe poor-laws never served
any country in the world. They had a cheering sound, parti-
cularly when such misery was around us; but that misery was