The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-22 00:00:00

IRELAND•

THE NEW AGITATION.—From the following paragraph,
prefatory to a report of Mr. O'Connell's speech at Galway
(given in the Dublin Evening Post of Tuesday), we find
that the " Liberator" was greeted in that place by more
than 60,000 men :—" Shortly after four o'clock on Satur-
day evening Mr. O'Connell arrived at Galway from KA-
cornari, the seat of T. N. Redington. Esq., M.P., at which
place he arrive,.' yesterday, on his way here from Limerick,
and where he was met dinner by a great number of the
nobility and gentry of the surrou7ding
district. The Hon.
and Learned Gentleman left the seat of his hospitable en-
tertainer, after hearing early mass in the neight;-.7nring cha--
pel, and proceeded to Oranmore, on his way to this tjwn'
About two miles from the former place he was met by a
procession of the parishioners of Oranmore and Ballina-
courty, with their venerable and respected pastor, the Rev.
Mr. Gill, at their head. By the time the Hon, and Learned
Gentleman reached this place, I do not exaggerate when I
say that he was accompanied by sixty thousand men, be-
sides the nobility and gentry of a great part of the county,
who accompanied him in carriages. Owing to the impos-
sibility of making way through the dense crowds that
blocked up the road between this and Oranmore, it was
found so difficult for Mr. O'Connell and his friends, who
accompanied him in carriages, to proceed, that some of
the clergymen had to call upon the people to make way,
and allow him to pass, as he would be too late in Galway
to address the people, at the rate at which he was travel-
ling. The distance from Oranmore to this town is only
four miles and a half ; and yet it took Mr. O'Connell up-
wards of two hours to travel it. It was, as I have above
stated, after four o'clock, and consequently nearly dark,
when the Hon. and Learned Gentleman arrived here. He
then proceeded, as fast as the crowd would admit, to Kil-
roy's Hotel, from the windows of which he, addressed the
congregated thousands."
THE NATIONAL ANNUITY.—We see that active pre-
parations are already set on foot for rendering the collection
for the O'Connell Fund on the 9th December as successful
as possible.
Tug REGISTRY—FREEMEN.—Mr. Dobbs has give• his
decision. It is adverse to the Corporation and their sys-
tem of manufacturing freemen, and may lead to important
consequences.
RAILWAYS—MEETING IN ARMAGH.—Resolutions were
adopted in Armagh on Saturday, at one of the most re-
spectable meetings ever held in that city. The Dublin
Evening Post remarks that on this occasion there was a
total absence of anything in the shape of party feeling—
every one being anxious to further the great object in view,
for the benefit of the country.
ORANGEISM.—Moore has truly called the Orangemen
‘ the hereditary scourges of Ireland." That they were so
is an incontrovertible fact—for never did a tribe of Mohi-
cans perpetrate more fearful brutalities than those corn-
tiut.tFd by the Irish Orangemen in the days when a corrupt
BrMinister and his party purchased their alliance by
conniving at their lawless and inhuman conduct. But
they have long become as an association powerless and dis-
reputable ; indeed, except some frenzied zealots, there is
scarcely a respectable professional or mercantile man, and
hardly one of the gentry or clergy, who would not consider
it an insult to be identified with them.—Dublin Monitor.