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IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 19.—8 y the following letters from Mr.
O'Connell, published in the Pilot this day, it will be seen
that the brutal calumnies with which the apostate Times
day after day assails the private as well as public character
of the patriotic Member for Kilkenny has at length drawn
from that distinguished and powerful individual an expres-
sion of defiance—he "hurls at the foul miscreants the
most contemptuous and emphatic defiance "—and declares
his determination, if Lord Lyndhurst do not disclaim his
connection with a certain infamous paragraph, to inquire
into the private life of the Tory leader—and further, in or-
der to render his retaliation complete, Mr. O'Connell con-
tingently promises to give the private histories of those
persons who are connected with the Times—not omitting
"the Last Rose of Summer," whom, with the other worthies,
we may see dragged through the mud and mire of their own
flinging. The first letter is addressed to the editor of the
Pilot :

Darrynane Abbey, Sept. 15, 1836.
Sir,—l request you will print the enclosed letter to the
working editors of the London Times newspaper in the next
number of the Pilot, and send to each of them a paper. Di-
rect to Printing-house-square, London. It may be thought
by some that I should treat the attacks of the vile Times with
silent contempt. I agree as far as the contempt, but I totally
differ as to the silence. The vile wretches who conduct that
infamous print may imagine that their assassin threats could
terrify me. They arc mistaken. I defy them in private as I
do in public, and I feel a pleasure in their attacks because I
easily draw two conclusions from them. The first is—that
they prove by the falsehoods they charge against me that the
truth would not serve their purpose ; and secondly—they
cause just and reasonable men to inquire into the facts of my
domestic life, and if the result of such inquiry were unfa-
vourable, I should deserve and submit to reprobation. But
as I have no fears on that score, I court inquiry, not shrink
from it.
The paragraph which menaces me on account of Lord
Lyndhurst can, I believe, be easily traced to a "familiar
friend" of his Lordship, who is worthy to be an occasional
writer in the Times. " Nous verrons."
Send a paper to such of the London journals as do not—if
any such there be—receive the Pilot.
I have the honour to be your faithful servant,
DANIEL O'CONNELL.

TO BARNES AND BACON, EDITORS OF THE
TIMES NEWSPAPER.
Darrynane Abbey, 15th September, 1836.
The following paragraph appears in several newspapers,
as copied from the journal of which you are the principal
writers. It is an exquisite specimen of the favourite style of
that party to whose base passions you are the mercenary pan-
derers :
" What an unredeemed and unredeemable scoundrel is this
O'Connell, to make such a threat, and at such a time too
If he has not lied more foully than it could have entered into
the imagination of the Devil himself to lie, he makes the
threat with his own wife dying under his very eyes ! Oh
how long shall such a wretch as this be tolerated among civilized
men ! But let him mark us well—as surely as ho dares to
invade the privacy of the life of Lord Lyndhurst, or of any
other man, woman, or child, that may happen, by themselves
or their relatives, to be opposed to him in politics, so surely
will we carry the war into his domiciles at Darrynane and
Dublin, and show up the whole brood of O'Connells, young
and old."
Of course it is not my purpose to bandy vituperative wads
with creatures so naturally contemptible as you—Barnes and
Bacon—are. Your rascality is purely venal, and has no more
of individual malignity in it than inevitably belongs to beings
who sell their souls to literary assassination—and who from
their nature would be actual assassins if they lived at the period
of history when the wages of villains of that description bore a
reasonable proportion to the hire you receive for a different,
only because a bloodless, atrocity.
My object is simply to announce to you three things :
Fiesr—That in my own name, and in the names of those
who inhabit "the domiciles of Darrynane and Dublin" and
also "of the whole brood of 0' Connells, young and old"—I
hurl at you—foul miscreants as you are I—the most con-
temptuous and emphatic defiance. As far as lam personally
concerned, you shall lie with the most perfect impunity. I
will not resort to any means, legal or otherwise, to prevent or
punish you as regards myself ; neither will I condescend to
contradict a single falsehood you publish. As to my family,
you are equally defied to state one single fact derogatory to
their private honour or personal integrity. You have the
truth of their private lives flung indignantly on your foul
throats. They are, blessed be God, unstained as they are
cherished. Defiance, loud and indignant, is hurled at you,
vile instruments !—and at your more vile employers.
SECONDLY—I am at present under no promise or pledge
to enter upon the private life of Lord Lyndhurst—not the
least ; but a will pledge myself to this—that if there be not
a disclaimer of any connexion between him and the above
paragraph, I \vita. inquire into his private life. The fury of
}our partizanship—the rabid rage with which you assail me
on his behalf, would naturally excite a suspicion that there
was " something rotten" in the history of the present leader
of the Tory faction. If it be so in fact and truth, and that
such rottenness be of a nature to render him unfit to take a
prominent part in politics, it will be my duty—and I pledge
myself to perform it—to carry his own threat, through you,
into retaliatory effect, and to do that firmly and fully which
you pretended to anticipate.
THIRDLY—I will not have my retaliation incomplete ;
Barnes and Bacon, insignificant as you naturally are, I will
give your own histories. I will also me t ynur employers foot
to foot. I can easily make a case, at an inconsiderable expence,
to discover, by the aid of a bill in equity, all the proprietors
of your paper—all those who live on the wages of your lite-
rary prostitution. I will feel justified, not in beginning the
attack, which I have not done, but in retaliating fully on you
and all your employers. " The Last Rose of Summer" shall
not be left " blooming alone ;" you shall cause his " unlovely
companions" to be dragged as soon as you please through the
mud and mire of your own flinging.
I do not condescend one remark on the turpitude of the
party to which the Times is now attached—and whose pa-
tronage it earns by a political and personal meanness hitherto
unknown in the history of British literature. You have made
literary vileness a bye word. It is really discreditable to Bri-
tain that it should be known that so much atrocity—so de-
praved—so unprincipled a vileness as the Timci has exhibited
should have found any countenance or support. As to me,
the only sentiments I entertain are those of contempt and
utter defiance.

DANIEL O'CONNELL.

CARLOW, MONDAY,

(From our own Correspondent.)—Agitation has com-
menced in this and the adjoining counties with extraordi-
nary vigour. It is impossible to conceive to what a pitch
of excitement public feeling has arisen, and what exertions
are making for the coming struggle (for struggle it is looked
upon to be) at the October Sessions. The county is
entirely organised according to the plan recommended by
the National Association. Committees have been formed
in each parish to make the necessary preparations for the
Registry, and so complete are the arrangements made, that
we calculate our majority, which is already about forty in
the county, will be increased to at least one hundred and
fifty. The borough of Carlow is also secure ; and, indeed,
a great many of our politicians here are of opinion that the
Conservatives will hardly contest the county or borough
either at the next general election. Bruen is heartily sick
of them ; his losses during the last four years are enormous,
being obliged to fight the battle single-handed. The
death of Kavanagh's eldest son is a great blow to the
Conservatives—he indeed was their only hope, as it is
well known the present Member would never suffer him-
self to be put in nomination, were it not for the wish
long cherished, of having his son represent the county. I
can assure you positively he will not stand at the next
election ; he has declared his firm determination of not
doing so. This has put the Conservatives out of coun-
tenance they do not know who to put in nomination—
indeed, the only man of wealth amongst them is Colonel
Rochefort's son, but he is rather too liberal to confide in
him. Taking all things into consideration, I do not think
we shall have a contest ; at all events, I am certain, if we
do, the Conservatives will be beaten. You cannot imagine
what a feeling prevails in the Queen's County, in conse-
quence of the parsons issuing an immense number of sub-
poenas during the last few days for tithes. Archdeacon
Stopford last week, accompanied by a great number of
military and police, posted a notice on the chapel of Kil-
labin, within seven miles of this town, and in several other
parts of the district, commanding the parish priest, and
about thirty of his parishioners, to appear in his Majesty's
Court of Exchequer on the 31st day of October next.
Killabin is in the Queen's County, and contiguous to the
parish where resistance to tithes first commenced in Ireland.
ufbolricthmeeesttrinugggwlea,sahtewldhiethhere afew
there
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osti n
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bpereen-
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less than 50,000 persons present. I never saw so much
enthusiasm manifested as was on the occasion, nor
a more firm determination evinced by the people to
resist, by every legal means, the payment of this
unjust impost. Subscriptions were immediately entered
into to defray the necessary expenses, and parochial com-
mittees were also appointed for the district to extend the
Registry. A meeting was held yesterday at Mountrath,
in the same county, for the same purpose, at which Mr.
Kelly, one of the inspectors of Registry from the General
Association, attended ,and made one of the most eloquent
speeches I ever heard. There is no doubt whatever but
two liberal Members will be returned from the Queen's
County at the next election. The present High Sheriff for
that county, a nephew of the Ladies Fitzpatrick of Os-
sory, will be one of the candidates, and I believe Peter
Gale of Ashfield Hall, an exceedingly clever man, and an
excellent landlord, the other.
Our prospects here are brightening as far as the certainty
of sending " good men and true" to Parliament, but the
tithe campaign, which has already commenced, will, I fear,
produce the most disastrous consequences. It is too well
known how easily excited the Irish peasantry are, but in
the Queen's county particularly—l dare not write what
my own fears are upon the subject—a dreary winter is ap-
proaching. God send it may pass over without having more
victims sacrificed to uphold a gorgeous Church establish-
ment, but from the knowledge I have of this part of the

country, I entertain apprehensions of no pleasing descrip-
tion. That more blood will be shed I cannot doubt, unless
the greatest precautions are taken to soften down the feel-
ings which exist. The Catholic clergymen are exerting
themselves to allay the excitement, indeed, on their exer-
tions, coupled with those of the Association, I rest my hopes.

IRISH RENEGADES--ENEAS M‘DoNNELL.--It has been
often said, "put an Irishman on the spit, and you will get
another to roast him." Experience has sadly and too often
exemplified the justice of the remark ; still we cannot im-
pute it to any vice inherent in Irishmen particularly ; but
that the circumstances in which they have been placed—an
impoverished and long-enslaved people tampered with by a
rich and powerful one—such strong hopes and fears operat-
ing to induce treachery—so many premiums on treason and
penalties on fidelity—have beset Irishmen with the tempta-
tions to the vice more than most other people in the world.
However this may be, whenever Toryism—which, until
now, no matter what presided nominally over England, al-
ways really dominated here—had a market for Irish trea-
chery—it never failed to find the commodity to its hand.
It followed that, when Toryism was in a hobble, it bid a
higher price for treason ; and you might actually know its
straitened condition by the multitude of renegades it was
driven to employ. Hence the present predicament of To-
ryism may be read in the batch of renegades—in the
Crottys, Swaynes, Delanys, and Eneas M'Donnclls it has
enlisted in its mercenary train. Among all of these despised
renegades, the most despicable is the " pious Eneas." . .
This M‘Donnell had the profession of a gentleman—one
by which an industrious man, if he had even but a little
talent, might be supposed to cubsist, and who need not re-
sort to the wages of prostitution. Yet his life has been a
history of treachery to his creed and country, sometimes in
the mask of extravagant zeal, and latterly in open hostility
and barefaced renegadism. These observations have been
called into being, by the last letter, among a series, he pub-
lished in that congenial apostate the Times, and intended,
like the rest, to do the sordid, dirty work of Toryism.—
Pilot.

MR. CRAWFORD'S LETTER.—Amongst other strictures
on this gentleman's last letter, under the title of the
" Coercion Act of 1835," the following are found in the
Pilot:—" We are as indisposed to place a stringent power
in the hands of the executive as Mr. Crawford can be ; and
fully agreeing with him, that it is dangerous to recognise a
bad principle upon the ground that it will be safely applied—
seeing that we know not the moment when the evil of
which it is capable will be superinduced—we shall be well
pleased when the unnecessary law shall be removed from
the statute book. But we do not think that if his object
in his present letter were to obtain simply the aid and
sanction of the people, there was any need of endeavouring
to show that Mr. O'Connell has been guilty of inconsistency
in reference thereto ; and at the same time we cannot say
that his attempt has been very successful. The bill which
Mr. O'Connell formerly denounced, and that which he sub-
sequently sanctioned, are admitted by Mr. Crawford him-
self to have been essentially different."
HEARTLESSNESS OF THE TORY JOURNALS.—Under this

title, the Freeman's Journal of Monday last contains some
comments, as indignant as they are just and well-merited,
on the following base and brutal fabrication, published in an
Orange Paper. Our readers are well aware that the wife
of the most practical patriot Ireland ever had is at tbis mo-
ment on the brink of eternity—her illustrious husband ad-
dressed a letter to the Rev. Mr. Fogarty, pleading his do-
mestic calamities as an excuse for not attending the dinner
which the men of Waterford intend to give to Mr. Villiers
Stuart ; the infamous print to which we allude moeks reli-
gion—insults grief, and scorns humanity :
" Dear and Riverind Sir—l'm sorry to say I can't dine with
Villiers Stuart, for if I could we'd make Dungarvan shake.
The reasons I can't are these :—First, the wife of my bosom's
shut up every day with her chaplain—second, she's got the last
rites, and I must be present at the anointing.
You'll be sorry to hear this, but the beagles are all well.

To you personally, Father Fogarty, I return thanks, and as-
sure you that I'd feed with you gratefully only for my bosom's
wife.—A-lass ! a-lass ! a-lass I
Most thrnly yours,
DANIEL O'CONNELL.

The Essex Herald reports two cases which occurred
last week in that county where a young woman was stopped
on the highway at Braintree, and a man who was also stopped
and robbed of a watch, a hat, and other articles, near Hang-
ford- cross.
Earl Grey has presented to the parochial church of
Howick,? a new and valuable organ, which was used for the
first time on Sunday week.—Sunderland Herald.
Sir Andrew A gnewism has manifested itself in East
Suffolk, and a Society for the better (?) observance of the
Sabbath has been established by some weak well-intentioned
people, acting under the influence of pharasaical suggestions.
CIIURCII RATES.—The Birnzingham Journal
gives a long report of some recent proceedings which took
place in that town in consequence of a seizure made on the
goods of some individuals who offered a determined resistance
to the payment of church-rates. The popular energies being
aroused, no sale of the seized property could be effected. The
anti-Church-rate Association met on Thursday.
A species of shark commonly called a white sharp-
nosed shark, got entangled in the fishermen's nets at Culler-
coats sands on Friday last, and was taken alive. It measured
from the snout to the tail six feet eight inches, and its girth at
the broadest part, four feet six inches.—Shields Observer.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A lady, who re-
sides in Monkwcarmouth, and who is personally known to us,
had, when a child about four years of age, two small pebbles
put into her cars by an elder sister in play, which being pressed
too far, penetrated the cavity of the car, and could not be ex-
tracted. The circumstance was attended with slight pain and
swelling of the glands, and one of the stones about seven years
afterwards was voided through the same aperture. Within
the last few days the lady experienced a slight pain in the ear,
accompanied with a swelling in the glands and difficulty in
swallowing ; and to her astonishment, on Tuesday last, the
other stone appeared within the cavity of the ear, and was with
case extracted, after having remained in the head upwards of
44 years.—Sunderland Herald.
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An appropriate monument is anout to be erected at
Vienna to the memory of the Abbe Stadler, the celebrated
German organist and composer, and the intimate friend of Mo-
zart and Haydn, who died in the Austrian capital the year be-
fore last. The Abbe wrote a variety of works, more particu-
larly masses, and a " Requiem," which is considered equal to
the works of Haydn and Mozart. At the age of 60 he wrote
his grand oratorio of "Jerusalem Delivered," which is frequently
performed in Vienna, as well as at the grand musical festivals
in Switzerland and Germany ; it is principally this work which
has established Stadler's fame as a musician.

Tunbridge Wells continues full of fashionable com-
pany. Among the many recent arrivals are Lord and Lady
Braybrooke, Dowager Lady Brownlow, and Mrs. W. Cust,
Lord and Lady Langdale, Sir Henry and Lady Richardson,
Lady Hutton Cooper, the Hon. Mrs. Murray, &c.
Last night, about eight o'clock, an Inquest was
held at the Constitution, White-street, near St. George's
Church, Southwark, before Mr. Payne, on the body of Mrs.
Ann Giles, aged 26, a widow. Edward Muscott, smith, of
White-street, deposed that the deceased was his sister, and re-
sided with the family at the above address. She lost her hus-
band about three years back, since which period she had been
in service. About half-past vino o'clock on Monday night, on
witness's return home, he was shocked at discovering his un-
fortunate sister hanging by a rope from a beam in the kitchen.
He instantly cut her down. Life appeared quite gone. The
mother of the deceased, who was deeply affected, said she had
been in a very unhappy state of mind since the death of her
(deceased's) husband. Of late she had been more desponding
than usual.—Verdict—" Temporary Derangement."
Braham opens the St. James's Theatre on Thurs-
day, the 29th inst. We have authority for stating that :he
terms of his license would not permit him to open on Monday
the 26th. Three new pieces are the novelties for the first night :
our old friend " Boz" is the auther of the first. It is in part
founded, we are informed, on one of his popular " Sketches,"
and entitled The Strange Gentleman. As it introduces Harley
to his new audience, he is The Strange Gentleman, of course.
Our intelligence this week respecting the progress
of the opposition to church rates, will be read with great in-
terest. The feeling extends and deepens; of this we are as-
sured by letters, on which we can depend, from different parts
of the country , and by the tone assumed by the best of the pro-
vincial journals. At Ipswich a certain lawyer, deep in the
mystery of the bribery at the last election for that borough,
has been appointed churchwarden. It may be the object of
the Tory Churchmen, through his agency, to harass the Ips-
wich Dissenters who oppose church rates, but we know that
there are unflinching men among them. A letter from one of
them says, " I do not intend to pay any more church-rates, al-
though I know I shall have to make a considerable sacrifice on
the score of business, because most of my customers are
church-goers, and may possibly take umbrage at my opposition.
Nevertheless, I mean to wave all consequences, and let matters
take their course ; personal considerations being wholly laid
aside." The determination thus expressed, is that of one of
the best men in the country. Will Lord John Russell, and
the Ministry, jeopardize the business of such men ? Will Mi-
nisters suffer the means of coercing such men to remain in the
hands of Churchmen, who desecrate the remembrance of a
dying Redeemer by celebrating their communion with the ele-
ments bought and paid for with the produce of the chairs and
tables of Dissenters, distrained, and sold by auction, for that
purpose ? Should there be a general election before church-
rates are abolished, the Dissenters will deal too plainly to be
misunderstoood either by the candidates or by Ministers.—
Patriot.
A fine young tiger was last week presented to the
proprietor of the Liverpool Zoological Gardens, by Captain
Kellock, the Commander of the East India ship the Cestrian.
The animal was a present from the Nizam of Hydrabad to Sig
Robert Grant, the Governor of Bombay ; and, according to
the rules of the Presidency of Bombay, which enforce that all
presents should be disposed of on account of the Government,
it was put up by auction, and purchased by Captain Kellock.
The voracious animal devoured no less than sixteen sheep for
its sustenance during its voyage from Bombay to this port.
The name of the Nizam who honoured the Governor by the
presentation we may as well immortalise—it is Naweb Asif
Jah Mozuffier Al Moomalik Nizam al Mook Meer Furkondeb
Ali Khan Behadour Fotteb Jung.—Liverpool Mail.