The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-12 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Nov. 9.—The usual weekly meeting of the
Repeal Association took place this day, at Conciliation
Hall. At one o'clock Mr. O'Connell, attended by
several members of the committee, entered the hall, and
moved that the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor do take
the chair.

His LORDUTIP upon taking his seat addressed the
meeting, and reiterated his approval of the policy of the
Association under O'Connell. Mr. O'Connell, he said,
had gained Catholic Emancipation; and if men imagined
that he did not then possess the same powers to obtain
repeal—as clear and full powers as he possessed 20 years
past—they were very much mistaken ?—(Hear.) What
had he lately done for Ireland, and what had the Young
Irelanders done ?—(Groans.) Since he had returned
from Parliament, although in his 72d year, and requiring
ease and retirement, his whole time, day and night, was
employed in endeavouring to ameliorate the condition of
his fellow-countrymen—(Hear)—and where were the
seceders ?—(Groans.) Nowhere !—(Awful groaning.)
The real question, therefore, was, were they Catholics ?
were they Roman emancipated Catholics ?—(Cheers.)
What would they be but for O'Connell ?—(Hear.) 'l he
famous Henry Grattan once said he would know a
Catholic by his stooping, crouching posture ; but was
that the case then ? No—a Catholic then stood up as
erect as any other man.—(Cheers.) The Young Ice-
landers wanted to turn leaders, and set aside the man
who did all this ; but the seven millions of Irish people,
the Catholic hierarchy and clergy, would never submit
to have any leader but the one—O'Connell.—(Cheers.)
He (the Lord Mayor) was born in the enmity Tipperary
—although he had lived almost all his life in Dublin—
yet he could state from his own knowledge that there
was but one Young Irelander in the whole county.
A VOICE—A groan for him.—(Groaning.)
The LORD MAYOR went on to say, he was proud of
his native county, and said that he believed the seceders
would take any place that might be offered to them,
notwithstanding all their professions of indifference.—
(Hear.) Why, he (the Lord Mayor) would ask, should
not a repealer take a good place if he could get it? As
far as he was coo corned, he was an Old Ireland repealer,
and one who had never looked for a place—yet he would
take a good one, if it was offered to him.—(Cheers.)
They should do all in their power to get repeaters and
the friends of Ireland into office; and he would tell them
the reason why.—(Fear.) Could, he would ask, Mr.
O'Connell have waited on the Lord-Lieutenant, if he was
n: t a friend to the people, to ask him to provide them
with food and employment ?—(llear.) That was his
reason for wishing to see good appointments made—such
appointments as that of the Lord Chancellor and Lord
Chief Baron.—(Cheers.)
The minutes of the last meeting having been read by
the Secretary,
Mr. STEELE said, as a Protestant, he considered he
was liberated by O'Connell, and believed that he felt
with Mr. Latouche. who once stated in the old Catholic
Association, that O'Connell was the emancipator of Pro-
testants as well as the Catholics. The Learned Gentle-
man concluded by reading an address from the Old Ire-
lenders. repeaters of Stillorgan, Booterstown, &e., to
Mr. O'Connell, and moved its adoption.
The motion having been seconded and passed,
Mr. O'CoeseELL returned thanks to the gentlemen who
had signed it, and then handed in several subscriptions;
after which
Mr. THOMAS ARKINg (sword- beater to the Corpora-
, time) begged permission to introduce to the Lord Mayor
a Mr. Heyburne, a barber, and a friend of his, who felt
annoyed at its being supposed that he had attended the
meeting of the Young Ireland party on the preceding
Wednesday evenirg. Tho fact was his brother had
attended the meeting, and was also a barber.
Mr. lIEYBURNE then came forward, and professed his
adhesion t. the moral force doctrines of the Association.
He said that, unfortunately, his brother, with whom he
was not on terms, was a Young Irelander, and was
spouting at their meetings, when it would be better for
him to stop at home and mind his barber's shop.—
(Cheers.) If he did this, he would do a great deal more
than he was doing for his country. He (Mr. Heyburae)
would not intrude any longer on the meeting-, having
made this explanation, for he supposed that the Asso-
ciation had more important business before it than
to listen to an " Old Ireland barber" make a speech.
Mr. O'CoNNELL—I think that barber is a keen shaver.
—(Laughter.)
Some subscriptions having been handed in,
Mr. O'CONNELL said he wished to announce that he
had been honoured that morning by a visit from the
Right Rev. Dr. Keatins,as, Bishop of Ferns, who had
handed him 271. 10s. from the clergy of his diocese; and
he had also to acknowledge 131. 18s. from the county
Wexford, by the Rev. Dr. Sinnott, in a letter, from
which we make the following extracts :
" Faithful Wexford thus evinces its sincrrity in de-
testing the legislative union, and in persevering peaceful
exertions for repeal and Old Ireland.
" What evil has Old Ireland done that Wexford
hould heed false advisers to cast her off ? What cilia-
/sillies have fal!en upon us. from peaceful and legal ex-
ertions, that we should fly to counsels of crime, and
danger, and destruction ?
" Wexford men remember that long centuries of battle
deeds and sanguinary struggles left behind, one after
another, estates confiscated, the bodies of hundreds and
thousands of brave Irishmen strewed over the bloody
plains, and Ireland itself a desolate land, for the stranger
to plunder and tyrannise, and the native to pine in dis-
tress and slavery.
" Wexford men also remember, that the quarter of one
single century's peaceful agitation has done more victo-
rious deeds for liberty and Old Ireland than all the wars
and battles put together from the days of Henry the
Second to the recent projected massacre of Clontarf,
which was followed by the triumph of Conciliation Hall
over the delusion, mockery, and snare of miscalled
justice.
" Wexford men, remember all thi.,, and therefore they
have no other motto—they slept no other than the one
long dear to their hearts—
" '0 Connell, Old Ireland, and Repeal!"'
Now he (Mr. O'Connell) felt proud of the compliments
?aid him in this letter, and would join with the writer
an asking what had Old Ireland done?—(Cheers.)
Mr. O'NEILL DAUNT having addressed the meeting at
some length, said that the very men who had seceded
from the Association and charged them with supporting
An anti-repeal Government, were the same clique who
supported the Tories on the Bequest Act and the Irish
Colleges Act.—(Hear, hear.) Sueh in fact was the
conduct of those men, that their policy was approved of
by the Mail and other such papers, and that was say-
ing enough for them.—(Cheers.)
Mr. JOHN AUGUSTUS O'NEILL next came forward,
and made a long speech in reference to the resolutions
upon which the differences arose between the Associa-
tion and the Young Ireland party. He said that he
believed that the Association would yet receive them as
its prodigal children; and expressed a hope that they
would come forward and abandon a policy which
amounted to a caution to the Government never to grant
repeal.—(Hear, hear.) They, the Young Irelanders,
were pledged to "moral force " muter the' Rotunda
pledge of the 30th of May, 1845, until the obtaining of
repeal; and the Government consequently had their re-
coguizences until it was granted, and of course would
not grant a measure which would give any body of men
an opportunity of drawing the sword. - -
Some more money having been handed in and acknow-
ledged,
Mr. O'CONNELL rose to make the speech of the day.
He said, an accident would prevt nt his entering into the
present prospects of repeal—the state of the country—
and replying to the Cork reFealers. The accident he
alluded to was the illness of his clerk. However, he
hoped at the next meeting to enter fully into those sub-
jects.—(Hear, hear.) He regretted the postponement
with regard to the people of Cork, because he had heard
that the results of division in that city was likely to let
in the enemies of Ireland to office—to let in a Tory Lord
Mayor.—(Cries of " Shame, shame.") Such was the
handiwork of Young Ireland. Now, the Nation of
Saturday had stated that he (Mr. O'Connell) had called
that party a phalanx, but he begged pardon of the
Nation, and wished to say that it had originated the
name itself, and he had only adopted it, and Mr. O'Brien
had confirmed it. He did not care what the young gen-
tlemen called themselves, whether a young phalanx, or
an old phalanx, or a " noble phalanx;'' they might adopt
the latter name if they pleased; and they were still
satisfied with being called Old Irelanders.—(Loud
cheers.) There was then a noble phalanx on the one
side, and the Repeal Association on the other.—
(Loud cheers.) Mr. O'Brien—the head of this noble
phalanx—said he (Mr. O'Connell) was ugly, but, un-
fortunately, he could not help it, and he thought
it was rather harsh to abuse him for what he
could not help; however, he was satisfied with the
reflection, that some of the Young Irelanders were no
great beauties themselves—(Hear, hear, and laughter)
—and he wondered would any of them ever live to stand
before an Irish audience to ask if they had struggled for
their country for half a century ?—(Hear.) This noble
" physical force phalanx" was employed in doing nothing
for Ireland.—(Hear.) Why, he would ask, did they not
form an association for themselves ? He would tell the
reason why. It was because they were afraid with all
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and their pencils is bayonets ; such was the Young Ire-
lender's oourage.—(Cheers.) The Learned Gentleman '
having again referred to the state of the country, and
the destitution in different parts of it, concluded by
stating that he was to attend a meeting of the Royal
Agriculiural Society, on Wednesday, and said he hoped
that body would adopt a liberal policy with reference to
their condition.

The rent was then announced at 881.
Mr. J. A. O'Neill was called to the chair, and the
meeting separated shortly after three o'clock.

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
The accounts received this morning from the pro-
vinces are, on the whole, satisfactory ; outrages are
on the decline, employment rapidly on the increase,
and in most of the suffering districts the supply of food
is becoming more abundant, while the price is declining.
The Board of Works are exerting themselves most
creditably.

HONEST-Ir.—The Liverpool agent of the Royal
Victoria Steam Company has this week sent the fol-
lowing ancuncement to the Company here:—" A woman
called here to-day and said she came deck passenger by
the Royal Victoria some years ago, when the fare was
55., and that Captain Hudson missed collecting her fare.
She has never until now been able to repay it, and has
requested rae to transmit the amount, which is annexed
imp?stage stamps.—J. D. THOMPSON." To this corn•
muuteatton Mr. Thompson adds this significant post-
cript—" N.B. A very rare occurrence."—Carlisle
Journal.