The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-17 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1848.

IRELAND.
THE " DENIONSTRATION."

DUBLIN, MARCH 15.—There is now scarcely the
shadow of a chance of there being any disturbance on
Friday next. A proclamation addressed to the people
Dublin by J. O'Connell was extensively posted
:hroughout the city this morning. The following is
a copy:—
" TO THE PEOPLE OF DUBLIN.
•' March 14, 1848.
"Fellow-citizens,—The wards of Dublin will hold
meetings upon St. Patrick's day to petition for the
immediate repeal of the disastrous and ruinous Legis-
lative Union, and the restoration of our native Parlia-
ment.

"We ask of you to give your assistance, each in his
own ward, to this constitutional movement; and we
earnestly exhort you to abstain from all processions, in
order that there shall be no chance of the occurrence of
anything to prevent the good and peaceful issue of those
meetings.
"Thus you will assuredly baffb the fell hopes of your
secret enen,ies, earn the gratitude of your real friends,
and bring a blessing on our cause.

" Moriflay's proceedings at the Repeal Association
will prove to you that you are certain—if you but con-
tinue in your admirable course of strictly peaceful agita-
tion—of having the accession to the cause of Ireland of
Irishmen of rank, station, and high and deserved influ-
ence in the land.
"Peace then—Good Order—No Processions—No
Flags—No Banners, nor Emblems of any kind !
" No chance to be given to the Enemies of the People
of Ireland ! and thus

" Hurrah for the Repeal I
" JOHN O'CONNELL, Chairman of Committee.
" Corn Exchange."
The confederated trades assembled in full force last
night, and came to a resolution to have an open-air de-
monstration on Monday next at Newmarket, a large
-quaro in the Earl of Meath's Liberty. At the trades'
meeting referred to, the following resolutions were
Ad opted on the motion of Mr. John Dillon, a bar-
rister ;

" That none but the Sovereign, Lords, and Commons
of Ireland are qualified to legislate for Ireland. That
the time has arrived for putting into operation the pro
ject of the illustrious Liberator, of a council of 300 of the
citizens, to devise proper means of achieving national
rights. That they bail and acknowledge with grati-
tude the recognition by the French nation of the rights
of labour."

In reference to the abandonment of the boasted de-
mons.ration, the Evening Mail remarks,—
" The great national Irish demonstration in favour of
Republicanism is, in a word, altogether forgotten—clean
-Iriven out of the heads of the score of mischievous
demagogues who devised it, by tho roar of execration
and contempt which has greeted them from the lips of
every humane and honourable man of every rank, class,
creed, or party. Sympathy with glorious France' has
died, and made no sign, save in the following advertise-
ment, which this morniag occupies a position of solitary
grandeur in the columns of the Freeman's Journal:—

"SYMPATHY WITH GLORIOUS TRANCE.

" The Deputies of the several Trades' Bodies are re-
quested to meet in the Committee-rooms, 28, Westmore-
land street, on this (Wednesday) evening, at eight
o'clock, to arrange the order and route of procession to
the place of meeting, and for other business.
" By order of the Special Committee, Monday next,
the 20th inst., is fixed for the day of meeting, that the
local meetings fixed for the 17th inst may not be inter-
ered with.'

" It is possible this ' Special Committee' may include
some earnest dupes. If so, we ask them in kindliness
and good feeling, do they not see the frailty of the reed
upon which they have been leaning ? De they not
perceive that they have been urged onward by designing
knaves upon a course which has been left to their sole
occupation the moment it was found that it might lead
to the gallows, or to a bloody grave ? Will they make
themselves the 'nape goats, as well as the dupes, of
such men as Mr. John O'Connell, and his fellows of the
oeggitig box ?"
MILITARY PREPARATIONS.—Under this head the
Evening Mail has the annexed paragraph :
" We have every reason to believe that the disposable
force at present in Dublin, including cavalry, infantry,
artillery, and police, considerably exceeds 10,000 men
During this day large quantities of ammunition have
been dispatched from the magazine to the several points
which are to be occupied on Friday by the military.
The only ostensible preparations made by the disaffected
consists in a quantity of stone-shot, placed at their dis-
posal by the Paving Board. There is scarcely a street
in Dublin that has not been covered within the last few
days with shingle."