The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1856.

Hutton, John Lawless, .1. Shoe Lalor, Cornelius Lyne, John
-- Wisdom, W. Sterne Ilartc, Green 2, Mi-
chael Wahhe, John O'Neill, Michael Staunton, Richard Bar-
rett, George Blood, John Redmond, -- Cur wen, J. Scott
Molloy, Esqrs., &c. &c.
We seldom—indeed we are sure we might say never—were
present at a more delightful scene, or one more rich in promise
for the welfare of Ireland. When we looked round upon the
men who composed the Meeting—when we saw the old and
the young—the Repealer and the Whig laying down their
differences at the foot of their country's altar—when we wit-
nessed hands clasped and clapped in Intim', too lung unfortu-
nately estranged, we felt, indeed, as Mr. O'Connell remarked,
that the wall of separation between Irishmen was broken down,
and our hearts beat response to the moral oath then sworn
upon the altar of our common country, that minor points of
political speculation sltould never again divide the honest
hearts of Ireland.
On the cloth being removed, the usual loyal toasts were
drunk, after which,
The CHAIRNIAN, in proposing the next toast, said—This is
the first time I ever presided .at a public assembly ; and I
I must therefore beg that indulgence which is usually extended
under such circumstances. I really have, besides, for some
time past been, and at this moment am, labouring under se-
vere disposition. However, gentlemen, for the moment I feel
my task to be an easy one, having but to pronounce a name
which must cause a responsive burst of applause in every bosom
to which liberty is dear or tyranny hateful.—( Continued cheer-
ing.) I speak of a man whose love of country is only to be
equalled by the gigantic efforts he has made, the power of
mind lie has displayed, the almost magic influence with which
he has wielded that power, and, in a word, the enormous ta-
lents lie has so incessantly exercised in endeavouring to pro-
cure for that country her welfare, happiness, and peace.—
( Renewed cheering.) I have only to pronounce without note
or comment the name of—O'Connell. (It would be needless
to attempt to describe the enthusiastic manner in which this
toast was received and done honour to.) Air—" Sprig of
Shillelagh."
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman, Mr. O'CONNELL, on
rising to speak, was prevented for some time from proceeding
by the repeated cheering of the assembly, which terminated
with " one cheer more," and " again." Of his first sentence
We were unable to catch the precise words. We understood
him to commence by saying that he rose to make a speech—
that he never prepared one in his iife—but that he was deter-
mined on coming into the room to make a speech that evening.
I hail in this assembly—l hail in your Lordship's admirable
but over-flattering mode of announcing your opinions, the
omen of better days for that country for which I have long
struggled, which I have ever loved, and for which I will con-
tinue to labour as long as she may need my humble services.
—(Loud cheers.) Your presence here proves this. It
proves your sanction if not to the past at least to the present.
(Hear, hear.) It proves your hearty concurrence in the efforts
we are making, in the pursuits we are now following, and in
the ardent hope and certain expectations of the future.—
( Hear, and cheers.) You are not rallying round me—you
are rallying for Ireland.—( Cheers.) We have many shades
of reformers. Some of us were, perhaps, over-violent, while
others were a little too tame and squeamish ; and, between
both, Ireland was not remembered as she ought to have been,
and therefore was not made what she ought to he. A new
era, however, has opened. The time has come, and this day
proves, it, when Irishmen of every class—when reformers of
every class can feel that they have one common maxim
under which they should rally for the good of Ireland—for the
support of the King's Government, as a means of obtaining
that end, arid when they can join with the honest Reformers
of England and Scotland for the common cause of consti-
tutional liberty.—( Cheers.) Oh ! I look upon the present
day as a new era in Irish history. We have come together
to swear upon the common altar of our common country that
dissensions shall never disunite us again—(Loud cheers)—
that the aristocracy of the land shall take the foremost and
most dignified station—that the gentry will rally beneath the
flag of the Irish aristocracy, and that the universal people
shall shout " Ireland for ever !"—( Hear, hear, and long-con-
tinued cheers.) Yes, my Lord, I own that one of the fondest
dreams of my earliest youth was the nationality of Ireland.—
( Hear, hear.) I never gave up the fondling of that hope
for a moment ; but, at the same time, have determined that
there should be a full experiment of a general and central
Government, and that it should be proved to demonstration
that that Government would not confer all the advantages
to which Ireland is entitled before we should seek to be go-
verned by ourselves._( Cheers.) While making that expe-
riment I often thought, and often said, that it would be a
futile experiment, and that the elements of success were not
in us ; but I confess I am changed in that opinion to-day
—( Loud cheers)—for at this moment, combining with me
those whom I have around me, my opinion must be changed.
I.now declare that I do conceive the elements of success to
be within us—that we are able to succeed in this experi-
ment, and that we must obtain or extort justice.—( Hear.)
I repeat, my Lord, ye have it within your own power. You
have only to say it, and the universal Irish nation will rise, not
like a giant refreshed with wine, but like a youthful giant in
all the gaiety of health; in all the mildness of infancy, and
with that gentleness which becomes the fairest and softest part
of the creation, but at the same time with all the firmness
that becomes the most manly heart and determined man that
ever fought in the field of battle.—( Loud and enthusiastic
cheering.) What is it we require? Why we require to have
that-great foundation of discontent, the tithe system, settled.
—( Hear.) That must be settled': and satisfactorily settled,
for until a nation of seven millions be exempt from the payment
of parsons for the benefit of others, as they arc from doctors or
lawyers, her people cannot be content or happy. There is not,
a man amongst us, however strong may be his own opinions,
whether Protestant or Presbyterian, or Catholic, that would
not, ,I am sure, be-ready to concede to the principle laid down
by the present Ministry, that the spiritual wants of' the peo-
ple should be supplied.—( Hear.) What we require then
is merely this, that the surplus, after these wants are sup-
plied, shall be appropriated for purposes of national edu-
cation and the general improvement of the country.
The settlement of the question to which I have just alluded is
imperatively necessary for the tranquilization of Ireland; and
when I see the party that are now rallying round the Irish
Government—when I see that excellent Nobleman, the Re-
presentative of our Sovereign, administering justice with im-
partiality and firmness—(.Cheers)—when I see that scion of
the house of Howard, who does honour to the name, and even
to the noble blood that flows in his veins—when I behold the
people rallying round the king's Government, with no other
view than to procure the pacification of the country, I do not
despair of the settlement of that question during the next
Session, or of justice to Ireland generally.—(Loud cheers.)
It may be six or twelve months distant, but certainly at the
end of one year it is impossible for the question not to be
settled.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) Well, what do we require
next ? 'We want a full and Corporate Reform.—( Cheers.)
Without that we arc not only an aggrieved and afflicted, but
an insulted people. I put it to every man whether any
country could be so_insulted as Ireland would be if we did not
get a full measure of Reform ?—( Hear, hear.) Scotland
and her close Corporations—they are gone.- The people
have been let into the management of their own affairs • in
deed, one would think that the good sense of the people of
Scotland would lead to that conclusion. It did so, and now they
have the management of their own cities and towns.—( Hear. )
England also fought, and against odds, for there was a great
and most foul attempt made in the House of Lords to render
the English Reform Bill as useless as possible. But the in-
gredients of good government, in spite of this hostility, was
thrown into it, and the people of England shewed the sense
they entertained of the value of such government, and their
own independence, in insisting on a better one, the result of
which is, that the English Corporation Bill has worked well
in favour of liberty.—( Hear, hear.) The Kamschatkans, in
their roving and savage state of life, have no more connection
with the rest of the world than the corporators of Dublin have
with Ireland.—( Hear, hear.) You may have your sheriffs
here to pack juries, so long as our corporations remain close.
I have been too long in legal practice not to know how often
a client has come to his legal adviser, and told him that he had
been defeated ; and he has been asked in return, " How is that
possible ? your case has been well got up, and you have had a
watchful attorney, which in such matters, be it remembered, is
always of the most essential service. You may not have had a
complying judge, hut he has been neither a ' Brother Bother-

. . _
ington'—(Laughter)—nor a Norbury.'"—" Oh," he says in
reply, "the sheriff has managed the panel, and has taken care
to pack it with corporators."—( Hear, hear, and laughter.)
Why you may laugh ; but is there a man who hears me that
does not know it?—( Hear.) Had we not an instance the other
day when a man was found guilty of keeping the peace.—
( Hear, hear, and laughter.) To be sure he recived a mit-
gated sentence ; and at the end of nine months he would have
come out of Newgate, I suppose, a full, fattened alderman.
The nine months' imprisonment would have sufficed to pro-
duce that miraculous transformation.—( Renewed laughter.)
But, luckily, we had a Chief Governor in the country, who
has won the hearts of the Irish people.—( Hear, hear.) That
act (the Hon. Gentleman alluded to the case of Mr. Rey-
nolds) presented a characteristic feature of the family to which
Earl Mulgrave belongs. It showed that there was a friend of
benevolence and sound judgment there combined with un-
shrinking firmness.—( Hear, hear.) It would be hard, indeed,
if the efforts of such a man in the difficult task which he sus-
tains of Koverning this long-distracted island, did not secure
him a return of lasting gratitude from the Irish people.—
(Renewed cheering.) Here, then, we have established for
us, by the short-sighted bigotry of our adversaries, a per-
fect case of Corporate Reform.—( Hear, hear.) It is to
seek this, with other national benefits, that I now pro.
cbcd to England, strengthened by my elevation on the
broad basis of popular support ; and this powerful assembly,
which I see before me, warrants me in saying that I go with
the Corinthian capital, composed of the. elite of society,
topping this fabric, which is constituted of humbler, but, at
least, equally solid materials, and forming altogether one
great and unshaken pillar, which is destined to support the
liberties of Ireland.—Loud cheers.) Igo to plant my foot-
steps, first, in that town which has been dignified by the bene-
ficent working of the Municipal' Reform Bill—(Hear)---1 go
to meet one thousand men, who, in Liverpool, have gained the
triumph over the accumulated corporate abuses of centuries.
From Liverpool I will proceed to Birmingham, and there I
will be entertained at no less than two public dinners not in
one day, for that would be a piece of Irish extravagance—
(Laughter)—but two dinners on separate dayq—a dinner from
the constituency on the first 44y, and from the unrepresented
portion of the pommunity on the second. I'll tell all how com-
bined we are ; how determined we are, by a vigorous and con-
stitutional union, to support his Majesty's Ministers in their
opposition to that party whose every effort is directed to the
prostration of the liberties of the people of these countries,
and to demand that justice shall be dgrta to ireiand.—( Hear
and Pil9ell9 rollieto whichl7(e have to .;ilve is one of 1
tho utmost simp icit , collt44Pi PO sha4ow Of. difficulty ;
it has nothing about it which requires to be disembarrassed.

It is then—justice to Ireland !—( Hear and cheers.) Is Ire-
land to become a species of Botany Bay ? Are we to be
worse than convicts ?—( Hear.) I have the utmost unanimity
of opinion expressed by the several classes of my countrymen
in the neg-ative. I need not impress upon this assembly the
claims which his Majesty's present Ministers possess upon your
support. Your very coming here proves that you are sup-
porters of their measures.—( Hear.) I cannot for a moment
hesitate in expressing my conviction, that you all concur with
me to the fullest extent in the propriety of giving our decided
and most ardent support to the present Administration.—( Hear
and cheers.) But this has been called a base and unprincipled
coalition. What ! a British Government for the first time
does justice to Ireland, and the Irish Members are not to
support that Government ! What vagabonds these Tories
arc ! Of what materials is the faction composed ? It is
baseness with them to do justice to Ireland. To maintain the
liberty of the subject, and to give security to life and property
is baseness. But what else could be expected from the mem-
bers of a party who for centuries have perpetuated the reign
of injustice and misgovernment in Ireland.—( Hear, hear.)
Not content with a systematic contamination of the grand
jury box, they have corrupted the very Bench itself. In for-
mer times, we had at least good judges. It is, alas no ra-
rity now to see these exalted functionaries proclaiming them-
selves the partisans of the Tory faction.—( hear, hear.) On
the one hand, then, I contend that there is nothing base in a
British Ministry exerting itself for the amelioration of Ire-
land ; and on the other hand, it is equally ludicrous to assert
that there is any thing base in our yielding to such a Mi-
nistry our cordial and unflinching support.—( Hear and cheers. )
Bitter and unrepenting sorrow is the secret of all the gross
fabrications which arc, day after day, accumulated by the fac-
tion.—( Hear.) Our hearty concurrence in the projects of men
who have the good of Ireland at heart they term a coalition!
We have not coalesced with the Ministers up to this period. I
deny it ; but we are going to England now for the purpose of
coalescing with them. We proclaim our intention, let them
prate of treason as they will.—( Cheers.) lam anxious in the
extreme for the coalition, and they shall have my most stre-
nuous support so long as they act in accordance with their
present principles.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) And that, I
believe, will be so long as they continue in power.—(Enthusi-
astic cheering.) The reform of the Corporation of Dublin is
a measure which has the sanction of all whom I have the ho-
nour of addressing.—( Hear.) Some of us may he desirous to
go further than others might wish ; but we are all journeying
on the same road, and the object, which we all share in com-
mon, is to arrive in safety at the temple of liberty.—( Hear,
hear, and cheers.) The work has been already commenced
so auspiciously that I cannot form too favourable :an augury of
its future progress.—( Hear, hear.) May I not be permitted
to consider this as the first day of a new era for Ireland ; of
that era which shall be characterised by all succeeding ages
as having presented a firm combination of the three king-
doms of England, Ireland, and Scotland, rendering the
throne of this empire the most secure in the world. Yes,
for it is based in the hearts of twenty-four millions of freemen.
That combination will make the monster of the North crouch
beneath it.—(Hear.) He talks of his fortress at Warsaw;
he dares to threaten the extermination of the Pelish people.
Oh ! let but the present prudent and able Ministry continue
at the head of affairs in the British empire, and though a
hundred thousand warriors were necessary for the extrication
of Poland from her thraldom we will produce them.—
(Cheers.) Ireland is united to his Majesty's Ministers by the
bonds of affection and by the love which Irishmen haie long
maintained for an impartial administration of justice. God
forbid that she should ever be bound to England by any other
links than these.—( Hear.) Let this constitutional combina-
tion be rendered perfect; let its full expansion be given to
rational human liberty ; place the sacred and legitimate ex-
pression of the democratic principle on the broad basis which
is composed of twenty-four millions of freemen, with Scotland
in the van, England in the centre, and Ireland in the right
wing; though their position should be changed, still, under
the fostering hand of a ' reforming Legislature, they will be
found to be the same in reality; the throne is secured beyond
the possibility of danger, ';and liberty becomes eventually
triumphant.
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman sat down amid the most
enthusiastic cheering. He again rose in a few seconds, and
said—l am sorry that my prescribed duty imposes upon me
the necessity of proposing a toast which I would rather give
from the spontaneous effusion of my own gratitude. I will
give you the health of our Noble Chairman.—( Loud cheer-
ing.) It affords me the highest delight to see him here, se-
parating himself in some degree from his order to mingle and
combine with the people. We have another sprig besides—a
youthful flower, appertaining to the same class. (The Hon.
and Learned Gentleman alluded to the Hon. Mr. Lawless,
Lord Cloncurry's son, who was seated beside the Noble Chair-
man.) It is with heartfelt delight that I hail this his almost
first public appearance in the cause of his country. lam not
a very skilful physiognomist; but I think I can read in his
countenance that, if another '9B should come, another Lawless
will be found who would in such an event prove himself equally
firm in defence of the liberties of the Irish people, and equally
detested. by her tyrants.---( Hear, and cheers.) Mr.i O'Connell
concluded by saying that the Noble Chair Man, 'and the Hon.
young gentleman who was seated beside him, would have the
gratitude of seven millions of Irishmen for this public demon-
stration of sincere patriotism.
The health of the Noble Chairman was then drunk with
nine times nine.
The ,Noble ,Chairman returned thanks. .
CHAlRMAN—.Gentlemen, the next toast on the list ,suggests
an old saying, that " there never was a people to Whom jus-
tice was more dear than the IriSh nation." To this source
alone can be attributed the great popularity to which his Ma-
jesty's Ministers have attained in this cotintry.;—( Hear, hear. )
I defy their greatest enemy to point out one single benefit
which has been conferred by them exclusively upon one portion
of his Majesty's dominions, without a -desire expressed upon
their part to extend it to the rest.—( Hear.) I give you, with
all my heart—
" Lord Melbourne and his Majesty's Ministers." Air—
" Auld Lang Syne."
The toast was received with rapturous applause.
Messrs. Woulfe and Sheil were successively called, but nei-
ther Hon. Gentlemen rose..
The CHAIRMAN said—You have received my last toast with
enthusiasm. I have no doubt of the manner in which you
would receive this toast, even though it were not connected
with prosperity to Ireland, a prosperity with which his Lord-
ship is intimately identified.
" The Lord Lieutenant, and Prosperity to Ireland."
This toast was received with tremendous cheering.
Mr. J. D. MULLEN having announced that Mr. Sheil, M.P.
would return thanks—
Mr. SHELL rose and spoke as follows :—My Lord Miltown
and Gentlemen—l feel personally grateful to the Government
for the valuable services that they have conferred upon the
country, and for the still more valuable intentions they are
known to entertain, and which will, I trust, be soon realised
in the concession of further benefits.—( Hear.)
The next toast from the Chair was—
" The Duke of Leinster and the resident Peers of Ireland."
Air—" The harp that once through Tara's Halls."
The CHAIRMAN—I give you, gentlemen,
" The friends of Ireland in the House of Commons." Air
" Nora Creina."
There was a loud call for Mr. Sergeant Woulfe and Mr.
Sheil, but the Learned Sergeant having left the room, Mr.
Simi, rose to speak to the toast. He said—lt is alleged that
there is a majority of English members upon the side of the
Conservatives, and that Government is supported merely by
the Scotch and Irish members. This suggestion is not founded
in truth, for in 1831 the question of reform was pressed with
as much force, though with somewhat of less acrimony than at
present. I would entreat the attention of the public to these
facts, and I am satisfied that it will be secured through the me-
dium of this great assembly ; if it be said that the Melbourne
Administration is sustained solely by the Irish and Scotch
members, I should be glad to learn by whom was the Grey
administration supported, and the great measure of parliamen-
tary reform carried in 1831 ? In 1831 a dinner was given to
Lord John Russell, at which I had the honour of being pre-
sent. On that occasion the present Lord Stanley, the then
Secretary for Ireland—but I thank my God no longer so—
declared, and I shall be happy to avail myself of an opportu-
nity of recording it to his memory, that there was a debt of
gratitude due to the English members, but that a permanent
debt of' obligation was due to the Irish members, for by. them
was the great measure of reform achieved.—( Loud cheers.)
Away then with the idle assertion, that the Melbourne
administration exclusively has been supported by the Irish
and Scotch members.-_( Hear.) In 1931, the Irish members
saved the Government of Lord Grey. In 1832 they carried
the great measure of Reform, and in 1835 they helped to
carry the Reform of the English Municipal Corporations.
Should not some return be made. by the English people for
the vast and incalculable obligations under which they have
been placed by the Irish Members ? What do wo ask from
them ? That we should be put upon a constitutional footing
with them ; that if there is to be a union, it shall be one of
equal rights and privileges. Good God ! shall it be said that
the Irish Members, who have accomplished these goat objects
for others can effect nothing for themselves. It is impossible
but that we shall prevail ; and even if the Conservatives should
succeed by the machinations which they have so profoundly
and skilfully laid, the period of their success will be brief.
The Irish Members are sixty-three in number, arrayed in one
firm phalanx, having but one object in view, led OH in Par.
liament by a can of surpassing eloquence, who realizes in his
person the panegyric of Milton, being one of those " who
wields the will of the fierce democracy." It is by that demo-
cracy—potent in its numbers, rendered fierce by wrong, but
docile when kindly treated—it is by that powerful engine,
wielded by a gigantic arm, that the wrongs of Ireland must
be redressed. For Ireland there is much to hope for the
future, and in the past much that is glorious to recall.
When out of Parliament we burst through the portals that were
closed against us, and broke down every obstacle that was op-
posed to our rights as citizens and as freemen. If we then
overcame the almost insurmountable difficulties that lay in our
path, if' we have surmounted the Alps, shall we now, with
plains before us, abandon the glorious object of our desires ?
—(Cheers.) Where is the man to be found who will be
proved guilty of such treacitPry to his country ? We are
united, determined, cigd 'powerful in our combined strength.
The Cooseryatives feel that they cannot stand before us ;
the know it in their hearts, they ;re filled with the conscious-
ness of it.—( Cheers.) Ise' 'kW, however, while wo are pane..
gprising ourselves, flot forget to render complete the weans
necessayy to attain success. The Reform Society is a happy
commencement of that union between all classes of Reformers,
who have at heart the real, interests of the country and ftom
the meeting of this n
-7 7igUt. X anticipate the most salutary and
precious results. We have a skifful pilot on board; we have
an engine
9f sPygn power—(cheers)—and we have
belOlY (..kgk those who can throw in the elements for wexing
it. Having undertaken to return thanks on f,he, part of. the
Irish members, I will only say, in conclusion that pdiinq by
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the past and the present, of a you may form anticipations -
splendid future. We have been true to you, we are true t;
you, and we will remain true to you for ever. —(Tremend°ll
cheering.)
'1 ha CAAIRAIAN would give, without further preface,
" 1,o: d Cloncurrv, and the resident landholders of Ireland'"
The Hon. E. LaLAWLESS returned thanks.
The next toast was— -

" The Reform Municipalities of Great Britain, and an -
mediate and thorough Reform in the Municipal Corporation
of Ireland."

The CHAIRMAN said, that although it was not the privilege
of that unfortunate animal, an Irish Peer, to interfere in elec
tions to the Commons House of Parliament, it was natural that
lie should have feelings upon the subject. He would give them'" The Reform Registry Association, and may it effect;
objects, the union of Reformers and the extension and inue'
pendent exercise of the elective franchise."
The CHAIRMAN next gave—
" The City and County Representatives." Air 4, Sprig °I
Shillelagh." o

Mr. F. S. RUTHVEN, M. P., returned thanks.
It
Mr. FITZSIM M ON, . P., next rose, and was received W h
-
loud cheers. He said—My Lord Miltown, 'tis a happy an
glorious day when the people and the aristocracy are united'
and what do the people now require?._( Hear, hear.) Thel
tell me, in the first place, to endeavour to heal past difference*
to demand liberty for my country, and to procure a total ab
lition of the base impost which has deluged the fields of this
country with blood. These things, as the servant of the people,
I will strive to do. —( Cheers.)
Mr. GEORGE EVANS, M. P., rose amid general applause and
said—My Lord Miltown and Gentlemen, we are of all classes
Protestants, Catholics, and Dissenters, Repealers and AT,I-
Repealers, joining in an universal hostility to the party whie
has endeavoured to effect the degradation of our conialAe,
,
country.—(Loud cheers.) We are threatened with a sPee"
advance of these Tories to power—with a disputed successitl
a civil war ; but I trust that these calamities will be altogether
averted by such meetings as these.—(Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of " Richard LSI°
Sheil."
This toast was received with the utmost delight, and equally
responded to.
Mr. Slim returned thanks.
The next toast was " A Free Press."
The noble Chairman's health was again toasted, having been
proposed by Mr. O'Connell. Great acclamations followed'
The Noble Lord, at twelve o'clock, retired from the chair, fe'.
lowed by Mr. O'Connell and many others.
Mr. RUTHVEN was then called on to preside, and the convi-
viality of one of the most remarkable meetings ever held 1°
Ireland was kept up to an advanced hour of the morning.

ACTION AGAINST THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE KINGS
0
BENCH.— The present action was brought by the applicant Oil
his own behalf for a libel reflecting upon his character as,.
barrister, of the uttering of which the Chief Justice of the
King's Bench had been guilty, in his capacity of a Bencheri
The damages were laid at 100,0001. The Judges were ell
unanimous that the application of Mr. Rowe to have a deslr
ration such as that which he brought forward received, show'
be refused.
TITHE BILL.—The Archbishop of Dublin's intended *fin.
Tithe Bill is given up, a counter recommendation havists
been got up by the Dean of St. Patrick's and the Archdeacon
of Derry. So, we have here exhibited a very pretty split.
MURDER AND VIOLATION._On Saturday last Mr. Thorn°
Gamble, Coroner, commenced holding an inquest upon the
body of Mary Mullowney, the countrywoman who was fit%
dead at Drumcannon on Friday morning. The followig
the result of the inquest :—" We find that the deceased Alt
Mullowney came by her death on the night of Thursday, t,.",Y",
21st of January, 1836, by bodily violence inflicted on her K
Thomas Flanagan, of Ballycarron, in the parish of Kiltirl
cleague, and that Timothy M'Carty and John Tobin assists'
in removing the body, and concealing her death."—Water.
ford Chronicle.
NEW HIGH SHERIFFS.—John O'Brien, Esq., is to be HIBh
Sheriff of the county Clare this year, the three names return''d
on the Judges' list having been passed over. He is, howeret4
a gentleman of high character and independent fortune. 1W;
O'Brien was Chairman of the public dinner to Lord Mulgravj
at the Commercial Buildings in this city last year.—Limeric
Chronicle.
Charles Dawson, Esq., is appointed High Sheriff of ltfl
naghan, though his name was not on the list of three selecte
and Anthony Stoughton, Esq., is appointed High Sheriff u`
Kerry.
CLONMEL ELECTION.—We believe we may announce wilt
certainty, that there will be no contest for Clonmel, and that
Mr. Stephen Rice, eldest 'son of the Chancellor of the iExche-
quer, will be returned without opposition, We may add,
of
this most desirable result has been secured by the starting "
Mr. Rice, who will have the entire popular support ; and sell
ral influential members of the Society of Friends, althongst
friends to Mr. Bagnell, would be unwilling to vote agailt
Mr. Rice.—Dublin Post.
KING'S COUNTY.—The outrageous and grossly indece.o
conduct of the Oiange squirearchy of the King's county,la
regard to the new Chairman, Mr. Gibson, has necessarily ,
to the decided proceeding on the part of the Government de-
scribed in Lord Morpeth's letter.
THE TITHE CAMPAIGN.—WC learn with the deepest scorn°
that the bloodhounds are again on the scent, and that the tor'
rents of blood which have been poured forth by the Irish people
as yet to cease l,"
in opposition to this accursed impost, are not
flow.— Waterford Chronicle.

TIIE CASE OF STARVATION.--On the me- e
choly case to which we called attention, a corresponaenca
has taken place between the Poor Law Commissioners ani.e
the Deputy Coroner. Mr. Chadwick, Secretary to the
Commissioners has been directed to state, " That by tm
law the overseers of• the poor are still responsible, as bere,e,
tofore, for giving relief to persons in a state of destitunat
By the 54th section of the Poor Law Amendment fet;
the overseer is required in cases of urgent necessity 0
give such temporary relief as each case shall require,be%
articles of absolute necessity, but not in money, and
they the applicant for relief be settled in the parish W"-
all
he shall apply for relief or not.' Necessary relief was
cs,
that could legally be given to the pauper before the
ing of the Act, and to necessary relief under the Act
still remai entitled. The responsibilities for neglect duty on the ns
parts of the officers entrusted with the
nistration of relief are increased by the Act, and the rev'
lations of the Commissioners provide additional facilitire
for the relief of those who are proper objects." We a
informed that the Commissioners have directed inquiries to
be made into the circumstances of the case.

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The Journal de la Meuse announces that five per'
sons were frozen to death on the roads in different Coor
instant,
of that department, in the nights of 15th and 16,11
in consequence of a severe frost after a heavy raw
Their clothes were saturated with water, and then COlr
gealed, so as to inclose them in a case of ice.

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(ADVERTISEMENT.?—T. COX SAVORY, ~oLus•----
Miltilf
&c., 47, Cornhill, Lon( on, informs the Public, that he bale
considerable variety of SECOND-HAND GOLD WATCHES'
any of which he offers at EIGHT GUINEAS each. They 111°.:
all been carefully overlooked, and are warranted.—Watches P°.
chased in exchange.

111 TIl S.
On the 22d inst., in Brunswick-square, Brighton, the l_A„aw of
Lieut.-Colonel Grey, of a son.
On the 27th inst., at Croydon, the lady of William E. Ferrel'
Esq., of a son.
On the 25th inst., at Brook-green, Hammersmith, the za••,Jr Of
the Rev. E. Wickham of a son.
Lea
On the 25th inst., at Norwood-hill, Surrey, the wife of
Wilson, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 26th inst., the lady of W. C. Macdougal, Esq., of $ I°Pf
still-born.
On the 26th inst., in Upper Stamford-street, Mrs. Lawreore Engstrom of a daughter.
On the 24th inst., at St. Stephen's vicarage, the lady of Use r° T. B. Edwards, of a son.
On the 24th inst., at Brookfield Lodge, Mitcham, Mrs. E. Wr°°d of a daughter.
On the 26th inst., at Worthing, the lady of R. E. Cumberlaad,
Esq., of twins, a son and daughter.
On the 27th inst., the lady of H. Browning, Esq., of a son. rt.
On the 26th inst., in Bernard-street, Russell-square, Mr, • -
W. Powyss, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 26th inst., the Rev. John Usborne eldest son of Usborne, Esq.' of Woodlands, Surrey, to Emil'yJane, eldest daugl"
ter of the late Rev. J. Bond, Treston Rectory, Suffolk.
On the 25th inst., the Rev. John Bishop, tutor of
ton College, Upper Holloway, to Frances, widow of the late Richard
Arnold, Esq.
On the 27th inst., at St. Paul's, I3all's-pond. Mr. J. S. Nrnrl'
of Canonbury-square, to Emtna, second daughter of Mr. Willis""
Collins, of Higlibury-park.
On the 19th inst., at, St. Marylebone Church, W. K. W"st'er,
of
Esq., of the Madras Artillery., to Sarah Eliza, eldest daughter W. Y. Ottley, Esq., of Devonshire-street, Portland-place.

DIED.
On the 22d inst., at Lambeth, Mrs. J. T. Judge, of a (laugh°
,r
which survived but a few hours.
On the 27th inst., John Ferrier, Esq., Admiral of the Blue, in
his 77th year.
On the 24th inst., at Bath, Mary Anne, wife of Major-Genet°
Davy, of Tracy Park, Gloucestershire.
On the 25th inst., in Burton-crescent, Margaret Hannah, 0 nit
daughter of A. Amos, Esq., Barrister-at-law, aged 4 years and
3 months.
On Tuesday last, Mr. Joshua Evans, many years in the
WOO'
of Messrs. Gibbon and Roe, of Walbrook.
On the 27th inst., at Hillingdon, aged 86, Mr. Thomas Grattan'
late of Shoreditch.
On the 19th inst., at Cranford-lodge, Middlesex, Richard Fur' cell, Esq.
On the 20th inst., at Oxford, aged 23, John Claxton Savage,
8.A., of Oriel College.
On the 24th inst., at Milford Hants, aged 24, Anne Smith, the
wife of J. D. Wilson, Esq. -
On the 22c1 inst., at Chigwell.row, Eumenes Moore, Esq''
his 81st year. in
On the 22d inst., Mr. Robert Jordan, of Christy's Cottage' New-cross, aged 64.
On the 99th of August, at Barraekpore, aged 36, Capt. Br°"1113
Wood, of the 10th Native Infantry.
On the 23d inst., aged 19, Thomas James Wheeler, eldest 90° of
Mr. T. Wheeler, Regent-quadrant.
relict or. T. Jackson, aged 85.
dau
On the 2:l'oi. inst., at Brighton, aged 28, Mary Travers, eldest
gLjer of the late T. Solly, Esq., Blackheath.

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