The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-28 00:00:00

MR. O'CONNELL-MR. WALLACE.

The following is the reply of Mr. O'Connell to
the letter of Mr. Wallace, which appeared in the
Register of Thursday morning :
" Alerrion-square, Jan. 19.

" Ml' DEAR WALLACE,-Permit me at least this once to
address you in terms which I exceedingly regret have ever
been unusual between us. It shall not be my fault if they
shall ever again be altered.

" I accept with pride and pleasure your manly and
generous offer. lam deeply grateful for it.
" I ant proud to have the support of a man, who,
during a long professional career, and in times of great
subserviency, ever maintained the manly independence of
his own character, and won his way to the highest
station in forensic business, without any other means than
those which liberality sanctioned, and professional and
personal humour justified and dictated—and won that high
station by the single exertion of professional talent and in..
tegrity.
" I am proud of having the support of a man, whose
reputation for learning in the criminal law stands second
to no other in the profession.

" Believe me to le, with heartfelt gratitude, respectfully
and affectionately, your faithful servant,
" DANIEL O'CONNELL.

" Thomas Wallace, Egq."

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" Your letter is too vatuaLle not to give it publicity.
A friend of mine has it in his hand for that purpose. It
will appear to-morrow, without even permission; but on
my sole responsibility."
Shortly after the receipt of the above letter the
following note was forwarded to Mr. O'Connell ;
but before it was written the Pilot had announced
the manly and disinterested offer of Mr. Wallace.—
The subjoined reply of Mr. O'Connell to the second
communication of Mr. Wallace exhibits the work-
ings of a sensitive mind, influenced by strong feel-
ings of esteem and gratitude:—
" Stephen's-green, Jan. 19.

" MY DEAR SIR,—On consideration, I think it better
not to publish my letter to you : not that I have any ob..
jection to avow my sentiments, but I deem it better on the
whole that they should appear only on the trial, bhould
the prosecutor be so unwise as to proceed. I beg of you,
therefore, not to publish my letter.—Faithfully your'e,
" THOMAS WALLACE.

" To Daniel O'Connell, El."
" Merrion-Nuare, Jan. 19.

"MY DEAR SIR,—I do not know whether I was ever
more afflicted than I was at the receipt of your second
letter. I left a copy of the first with my friend, who
awaited my son's return from your house, and as the con-
versation with you implied no prohibition, but left me to
act on my own sole responsibility, without, of course, in-
volving you, he, in my absence, committed it this evening
to the press. I was absent at a meeting in Grange
Gorman-lane, and the moment I returned, and found your
second letter before me, I sent off to stop the press, but
was a full hour too late.

" Dictate to me what I shall do now. I will, in the
newspapers, take on myself the publication of the letter
without your knowledge or consent. I will exonerate
you in the fullest and most satisfactory manner from any
participation whatsoever in the publication. In short,
point out any thing you wish, and I will do it ; and I im-
plore you not to impute to me this as a fault, which I
solemnly aver was, under the circumstances, a pure accident.
" Entreating your forgiveness, offering you all and every
atonement in my power, believe me always and for ever
your devotedly grateful and most sincere servant,
" DANIEL O'CONNELL.
" Thos. Wallace, Esq."

It is calculated that the county rate for Hamp-
shire will this year be more than quadrupled by the late
unfortunate occurrences.

FIRE AT CHOWLEY, NEAR BARNHILL.-
On Monday evening, about six o'clock, a stack of straw
belonging to Mr. AIGORCROFT, in Chov,iey, near Barnhill,
and about eleven miles from this city, was discovered to be
on fire. By considerable exertkns the flames were pre-
vented from spreading to other stacks and a building con-
tiguous.
We have heard that a strange man was seen
about the premises immediately before the fire was dis-
covered.— Chester Courant. '

THE RUSSIAN CHOLERA MORBOS.-It ap-
pears, by the following extract of a letter, dated St.
petersburgh, January 6, that the disorder which is now
devastating some of the fairest provinces of the Russian
Autocrat, turns out to be, as originally predicted, the
plague :—" There is now not the least doubt but that the
dreadful visitation with which it has pleased Providence to
afflict us is the confirmed plague. It has just carried off
our worthy friend Colonel PAxSWITZ, with his two sons,
and his wife is hourly expected to tall a victim to its de-
structive influence. Abscesses were formed under the
arm-pits, and in various other parts of their bodies,
which, together with other symptoms, leave no doubt as
to the fatal nature of the disease. Dr. FRANCISCO Hoyt-
MANN NIEBER, private physician to the EMPEIWit, has at
length arrived at the conclusion that what we have
hitherto imagined to be the " cholera morbus of India" is
the Turkish plague, in its most destructive form. Thus
we are now reaping the cursed effects of the invasion of
the Empire of the GRAND SEIONOR, to satisfy the un-
bounded ambition of the CZAR,"