The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Duman, MAY 12. —An adjourned meeting of the Repeal As-
sociation was held this day, for the purpose f receivin; Mr.
O'Connell's address to the people of Ireland. We subjoin the
more important pm:yages of this document :
TO THE PEOPLE Of IRELAND.

"London, 10th May, 1841.
" Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not
Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow ?'
" Agitate, agitate, agitate! Thcfe never was a period at
which it was so necessary in Ireland to stir up peaceable agita-
tion—agitation within the limits of the law; but to the extent
that law and order permit. There is a crisis at hand ; it is in-
minent, it is immediate. He who does not p-reeire its instant
aoprosch either has no faculties, or is culpably indifferent to
the pea^e, the liberty, and the prosperity of his native land
" The contest will take place immediately; within so short a
space that there is si.areely time to prepare for it; everybody
must be up and stirring—that is, everybody who entertains any
litive of fatherland--any regard for liberty, or any wish to pro-
tect life and property from Orange domination.
"As to the Repealeri—my brother Repealers, noble-hearted,
high-minded Repealers—who love Ireland above all earthly
object and pursuits—l tell them that the approaching crisis
should not have for them any terrors. Shall we succeed in the
approaching contest ? Why, then, human liberty will have
gained-an impulse from popular agitation and a generous move-
ment for all extension of human rights will be cheered and en-
couraged in its glorious career.
" Shall we fail in the approaching contest, and shall Orange
Toryism obtain the ascendancy ? Shall we see tie Magiste-
rial Bench polluted at'ain by every angry partisan, and crowded
by the multitude of Tory curates and rectors ? Shall we see
every office filled, and every official person promoted in propor-
tion to the rancorous zeal wherewith he has hated the religion
and the people of Ireland? Shall we once more see the party
Sheriff arranging his partisan Jury, not for trial, but for con-
viction—oh ! not always for conviction, because the Orange
plunderer or murderer may occasionally go through the solemn
mockery of being arraigned before? Shall the time come
when the superior Courts of Justice shall be filled with men
whose title to judicial office will be their active participation in
the exterminating system of clearing lands by driving the occu-
pants into the arms of famine. disease, and death ? Men who
have all their lives proclaimed their hostility to anything even
approaching to the semblance of free education for the Catholic
children of Ireland !—men who proclaimed their conviction that
the Irish Catholics are ”sternatic perjurers, and their religion
a noisome idolatry !—men who are the fiery rartisans of those
who familiarly call the Catholic clergy of Ireland surpliced
ruffians,' and the people of Ireland ' a filthy and felonious
rabble !'
" Sacred heaven ! what times may be approaching ! The
Tory faction in this country boast that they are strong enough
to trample on the rights of the people and the prerogatives
of the Crown. They boast that they have conquered the
Queen. whom, may the great God bless and preserve ! They
boast that they have compelled her to yield to their ruthless
domination, and to abandon to their sanguinary sway, her
faithful, her moral, her brave, her ever generous, and loyal
people of Ireland !
Brother Repealers ! all these evils may be at hand ; but
should they be realised, then—even then—we will be able to
pluck out of these unhallowed circumstances—loathsome and
venomous as they may be in themselves—the jewel' REPEAL.'

" HUKRAH, THEN, FOR THE REPEAL!

"Let us now, people of Ireland—let every one of its rowe
himself into action—let every county—every city—every town
every parish meet. Let them meet on or about Sundmy, the
23d instant—let them address and petition her most revered
lrajesty the Queen—let them implore of her never to give
power to any Administration hostile to Ireland, especially to
any Administration which would leave the lives and properties
of her faithful Catholic people of Ireland subject to the malig-
nant caprice of party Sheriffs of partisan Juries, and of Judges
who sh• uld be rendered partial by their prejudices and corrupt
by their bigotry.
" The Tories are string in their numbers, in their combi-
nation, and even in the vicious malignity of their prineiples.
They count amongst their ran'..s all that is selfish, all that is
exclusive, all that is malignant ; all the worst vices of human
na'ure are combined to give strength to the Tory faction in
England.
" Ist. They have with them (and it is no small portion of
their strength) t,e vulgar, unrelenting antipathy and hatred to
the Irish name and nation.

" 2d. They have VG ith them (and it is a large portion rf their
strength) the calumnious and bigoted detestation of the religion
of the Irish people.

. .
" 3d. They are now reinforced by many classes Navin. sel-,
fish and sinister interests, who would not otherwise support them.
" 4th. The Tories are now joined by those who have a mo-
nopoly in the market for the sale of sugar. The Ministry wish
to make sugar cheap, so that it may come within the reach of
the poorer c'asses. The monopolists of that article, who desire
to enrich themselves by rendering sugar dear, now join the
Tories. and many of them join the enemies ot Ireland under the
hypocritical pretext of being enemies to slavery.
" sth. The Ministry desire to make not only sugar, but
coffee, cheap—articles of such extreme necessity to confirm
the sacred temp-ranee movement in Ireland ; and thereupon
the Tories are joined by all the monopo!i4s in coffee, who
have ani nterest in making that article dear to the poorer classse'.
" 6th. The Ministers desire to make the price of corr. and
bread as cheap as possible for the working and manufac-
turing classes, whil.t they would at the same time make
the price as steady and as little fluctuating as possible, and
thereby prevent the rapacious and grinding landlords exacting
from the farmers rents which are calculated not on steady
prices, but only on the highest prices which are produced in
the dearest and scarcest years.
" The total abolition of the Corn-laws would be most useful
to the Irish artisans and operatives. To me, whose whole
political life is devoted to discover means to enhance the wages
and increase the reward of labour to the artisans and opera-
tives of Ireland, the total abolition of the Corn-laws appears to
be that which would be useful to attain my great object. It
would open the markets of the world for the produce of the
Irish- artisan. We have abundant labour, abundant agricul-
tural produce, superabundant water power—all we want is
fair pl.y and increased markets for. Irish manufacture. The
total repeal of the Corn-laws would give our manufacturers
all they can want f. om Government for their protection.
" I am also convinced that the abolition of the Corn-laws
would be edually useful to the farmers and farm labourers, prin-
cipally because it would p'ace a barrier against the grinding
and unrelenting exactions of tyrannical and bigoted landlords.
" At all events, a fixed duty would be of unquestionable
utility to the farmers, and consequently to the labourers whom
they employ. It would make rents steady, but not exorbitant.
It would, above all things, be of the utmost value in working
out that favourite and most useful plan of combining the safety
of the lan:lords' just rights with the protected continuance of
the tenants' possessions. It would much facilitate the earning
into operation the wise suggestions f Mr. Sharman Crawford,
to prevent the tenant from being spoliated by the avarice and
the opposition of the landlord.

" hilt, above all other things, and before all other thing:, is
the iniquity of the tithe-rent Charge. There can be no peace
for Ireland until the tithe rent-charge is abolished bylaw. Let
every man. therefore, who feels the iniquitous oppression of
supporting the Church of the minorirv, rouse at once for the
coming contest. We apply to every village, to every parish, to
every townland. Let them all prepare for the ensuing
election. I.ct the shout of " JUSTICE FOR IRELAND "
sound along our plains, fill our valleys, and re-echo through
our mountains.

" Let our motto be, Conciliation amongst Reformers of
every class and of, every shade of op nion. Let the Repeal ban-
ner be held aloft, immediately to be brought into the thickest
of 'he Constitutional struggle, the moment the less enthusiastic
Reformers give way, or are defeated.

" Rouse,- men of Ireland, in your peaceful might—clergy
and laity. Reformers and Repeaters ! Remember that, within
one fortnight, universal Ireland ought to speak in ihe majestic
soice of her peaceful and loyal miriads.
" Attached to the Throne—affeetiona'ely and most respect-
fully attached to the reigning Sovereign—sincerely anxious to
rreserve the connection—hound by the golden link of the
Crown e ith the British nation, but determined, one and all,
that justice shall, will, and must be done to her moral and
loyal people—rouse, one and all ! and let there not be one sin
ale skulker or ralterer amongst us. He who is not in this
struggle with the friends of Ireland, has no neutral ground to
stand on. If, amongst your multitudinous laity, there can be
found such a one, let the hoot of scorn, and the hiss of con-
tempt, meet him in every walk and at every turn.
" Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not,
Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow ?'
" Your faithful servant,. " DANIEL O'CONNELL,
Chairman of the Committee.',

LOSS OF THE SHIP WIWAm
BROWN.

HAVRE, MAY 12.
The 311-engrosaing conversation is the horrid massacre com-
mitted by the boat's crew of the William Brown of the sixteen
poor creatures they threw overboard. The Crescent, which
is bound fir this port, with the mate and the passengers saved,
is most anxiously looked for every hour. The plea of neces-
sity, which the crew advance, must be made out most strongly
to justify so dreadful an alternative. No lots were drawn,- but
t is understo id the mate gave the order to the men to begin
the work of destruction. The loilowirig fri„ilitful statement,
made by the mate, has been forwarded to the American Con-
sul by the Captain of the Crescent, per the Vile de Lyon.
(Copy.)
At Sea on board the ship Crescent, April 28, 1841.
Account of the loss of the shin William Brown, of Phila-
delphia, Captain George L. Harris, which left Liverpool the
13th of March, having seventeer of the ship's crew, and sixty-
five steerage passengers, freighted f..r Philadelphia.
" The passage was very rough, accompanied by squalls
and loss of sails. On the night of the 19th of April, in lat.
43 30 N., and 49 39 W. long., making al sail in open sea,
and running ten knots an hour, the larboard side of the
upon
at h
an icneibiertg,wwehiscthrus:koveupher
ainno.
the Art. ten
vesselininu trtessnk paste nine
then proposed to the Captain, to take in- osanil as quickly
two feet of water in the hold. On goingA belowas possible, which we did; and sounding the pump, found
the Captain,lfOd that
the vessel was rapidly making water.
to disenerage the boats, and at eleven o'clock hands set to work
along-
side. I descended into the longboat, wi were they eight of the
crew and thirty-three of the passengers;
Lieu-
tenant, a lady, and five sailors embarked inthe,jisliyboati;iaenud-
e remained along-
we fastened the boats together. At midnight.
anidnsa'dvCiseadptamine
the vessel unit,
carrying with her thirty-three persons. N
side each other until five o'clock in the mom'
making Harris thenh Seatin foorfm
Lised uwsayo ft
to
is intention
Newfoundland,
to do the same.
" My boat being full and heavy I could not
it ; to pursue that route was impossible : I thereforenani ::
rected my course south. In the afternoon we fell inwith
i ‘v
a large quantity of ice. Throughout the night thewind
blew with violence from the north in squalls, with rain and
hail, and a very heavy sea. Finding that the boat was liter-
aily surrounded by small and large masses of ice, that the
water was gaining open her, I thought it improbable she could
hold out unless relieved of some of her weight. I then con
suited the sailors, and we were all of opinion that it lea. ne-
cessary to throw overboard those who were nearly dead,
until we had room enough to work the boat and take to our
oars. The weather becoming worse, it was almost impos•ible
to keep the boat afloat and disengage it from the ice. At
daybreak we were still surrounded by icebergs. On count-
ing the passengers sixteen were missing, and the rest
were in a desperate state and almost stiff from cold. At
six o'clock in the morning we perceived to the westward a
an easterly course. We exerted every effort to ap_
The Captain being aloft in order to steer his ship
our boat, and notwithstanding the danger
through the ice, saw.
his own ship ma le sill for us. On Thursday morning at
to ins own
psaroilisetheeTti.ng . _ .
we were al,ftnesi.ie of her, and before she had re-
ceivedseven o'clock,
useying her. Banks and
al on board, 'sas struck by. the ice, which stove in the
were in sight as far as the eye could reach. 1 then
boat.
islands of ice
was the Cresent of Portsmouth (New
We, however, succeeded in s
ascertained that it
board, and a-sist-
Havre. We met the kindest on .
Hampshire), Captain G. F. Ball,
reception bound for New York to
an cTeh ien
atbhoev we a
isy
ao
cf.clothing were lavished upon us.
the loss of the William
Brown, which I have been able to learn from the mate and
andtate m e
n tof
pass( ngers. oforroedcts
(Signed) S. J. BALL, Captain of the Cresent.
. The Havre Journal atlas, that the most serious rumours
are afloat as to the rause and nature of this horrib'e catas-
trophe, which, however, cannot be cleared up until the Cres-
cent, which is (tally expected, arrives with the surviving pas-
sengers. The American Consul at Havre bee interrogated the
sailors of the
had
William Brown, brought by the Ville de Lyon, i
laid has them committed to prison.