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IRELAND.
DUBLIN, JAN. 14.—The meeting of Irish peers and gentry,
held this day at the Rotunda, was in all peers and gentry,
held this day at the Rotunda, vas in all res
place in
respects most
imposing and important assemblage that has t
Ireland for many a day. To give anything like a correct
report of the proceedings would be impible, the Com-
mittee, for some undivulged reason, havinc, thou IT hwtasprdoopneer
to exclude the press. Enough, however, f h
and said has transpired to justify the conclusion, that if the
future proceedings of " the movement party " be charac-
terised by the same unanimity which distinguishedthe meet-
of this day, the result must be beneficial_ Irish society to Ireland.
It is certainly a new feature in In
to see men of all ranks, politics, and creeds,
endeavouring to forget former feuds,
n
profess-
ing their anxiety to elevate their country and
and
t.eir
fellow man in the social scale. Heretofore Ireland has been
the battle ground of faction ; for once her children appear to
have abandoned their foolish disputes about the colour of a
ribbon, or the complexion of a creed. They have learned
wisdom in the records of the past, and entered into a covenant
with one another to be prudent for the future.
For the following abstract of the proceedings we are in-
debted to the editor of the Evening Freeman.
Among those present were the Marquis of Ormond, the
Marquis of Sligo, the Marquis of Drogheda, the Earl of Erne,
the Earl of Miltown, the Earl of Clonmel, Viscount Massarene,
Lord Lord Farnham, Lord Cloncurry, Lord Wallscourt,
Lo
1 nnell,
Dun-
candle, Lord Clarina, Lord Castlemaine ; D"iel CVTilliam
M.P. •, the Right Hon. Frederick Shaw,
Smith O'Brien, M.P. ; George Alexander Hi‘ain2j)ll;tonivMillem. ;
John O'Connell, M.P.; Anthony LefroY, Morganr
Collett, M.X. ; Alex. M‘Carthy, M.P. • Hugh
M.P. ; William B. M'Clintock Bunoury,
2 ughM.p.;B enTjaumitie,n
M Robert Chapman, M.P. M.P. ; Cornelius O'Brien,
bold, M.P, ; Henry Grattan, M.P. ;" Edwardii.r
M.P. Major
Fitzstephen French, M.P. ; Ralph Osborne, ,
P Lieutenant-
Grogan, M.P. ;
Macnarama, M.P. ; Viscount Bernard .
M'elf; M.P. ;
Colonel Taylor, M.P. ; Richard Smithwi
Bellew, M.P. ; M. E. Coy belly, M.P.., • Janles Power,
t Milton, M.P.
R.M.
Lieutenant-Colonel Acton, IMP.; Viscounoyr,
seconded by
On the motion of the Earl of CHARLEId
Lord FARNHAM, the Marquis of Ormond° was called to the
chair
Mr .
BERNAL OsBORNE, addressing ;the chair, suggested
.
that the reporters of the publicpress be
t at sonie leth
permitted fully to
record and publish the proceedings. 0_
on the necessity
.of having the pdwel a
il r
oceedingfully laced before
sof meeting so
influential, in point of rank and numbers, p
the public. Secretaries, observed that
The Hon. Mr. Mom:, one of the
an understanding was come to at the committee not to have
the meeting partake of the character of a public meeting, but
Irish
rather of a conference of thegentry ; that, however,
all accommodated with
the gentlemen of the press w!rsiss
tickets of admission, with e
: P trarnriacter,ien to give the public a
and proceedings of the
general view of the object, c I
meeting. We are not yet
aware whether the reporters will
transcribe
their notes ; and as they
were admitted on the f
be permitted fully to
ithof
submitting to the rules of
a of faith to fully pub-
the meeting, it would be
the express assent of the Com-
lish the proceedings wit houtbreach that
mittee. endeavour to convey to our readers
We shall, however,
of the tone and temper of this most
an accurate impression highly pregnant with hope for the
important meeting—
°lereadas will see by the list of those
future of Ireland. Our
numbers of the aristocracy of every poli-
tical attendance that
nd that the list of gentryexhibits
a
tical sect were present, a
a combination d sects, and parties such
o
f creeds, anas never
.
before existed in Ireland inc u i were read l
• l d" f apo ogy , ng letters
Several letters o ,agham, Lord Glengall, Lord K. 11
from the Marquis of Cen3
Shaw, Sir E. Hayes, Sir Frederick yes, Gerald
maine, the Hon.
n, Theophilus ugent, en.
Con
Aylmer Grogan Morgan
A. O' C Yng-
ham, lames Hamilto ii. Connor, onway Dobbs, J.
wally, R. Smyth, &c &c &c.,
Hyde (Castle Hyde)
the
of proposed union of Irishmen"" "
, and of
highly approving
of the meeting.
the general objects
lAN
Sir MoNTAGII CHAO addressed the meeting in an
and dwelt upon
elo-
quent and useful speech, .
thisthe dire character
which country Was fii. .
of the visitation with wa ictea, and
on the total inadequacy'
of the
f the present measures of the Go-
vernment to meet the exigencies of the case. He dwelt
of forcing the Government to • t
upon the necessity import
food to permit their -
food for the people, an
f the false theories of
trade to sacrifice the lives of the people of Ireland. He
entered at some length into . project of an Irish party,
and strongly urged the necessity of its prompt formation
and united action. Having recounted the labours of the re-
productive committee, he moved that C. Stanley Monk, Sir
C. Loghlen, Wm. Monsell, and Richard Bourke, Esqs act as
secretaries to the meeting. •,
Mr. GROGAN, M.P. for Dublin, seconded the resolution,
and in a short speech gave his full adhesion to the proposed
Irish party, to its object, and the laws of its formation.
At this stage of the proceedings, Mr. O'Connell entereders the
room, and was received with loud and enthusiastic'ch be y
the whole meeting.
Mr. GEORGE ALEXANDER HA3IILTON, M.P., proposed the
first resolution, which is as follows :—" That we deem it our
duty most earnestly to impress upon our representatives, our
solemn conviction of the necessity of their now co-
operating cordially in Parliament for the advancement
of the interests of Ireland ; and of their uniting to advo-
cate such measures as may appear calculated to raise
the social, material, and moral condition of the people,
to save society from the ruin bY 'which all classes in the
land are now threatened, and to preserve the property
of the country irom confiscation." The Honourable and
Learned Gentleman proceeded at great length to develop the
necessity that existed for union amongst Irishmen—declared
that an Irish party was not any project, but was already a
thing effected, as the proud array of names published in the
public journals of the day proclaimod.—(Loud cheering fol-
lowed this declaration.) He proceeded to say, that hebound
himself to the principles of that union, and would devote all
his energy and time to the working oat its object, and seek-
ing the advancement of Ireland, totally heedless of all party