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JULY 16, 1846.

should deter the Repealers of Dungarvon from returning
a Repealer.— (Cheers and hisses.) It would have con-
vinced the opponents of repeal that they were really in
earnest, and would have rescued that association frcin
the aspersions of its enemies, and have taught them a
lesson of the value of their reasoning, and have per-.
suaded them that the return of a repeal member at the
next election would be certain.—(Cheering, groans, and
hisses.) They wanted repeal, and nothing else.—(llenr,
hear.) Now, he was afraid that the return of Mr. Shell
would cause a stain to rest on the records of the associa-
tion.—Cheers ; and cries of " No" and " Yes.") This
was his (Mr. Maher's) opinion, for he thought that
adopting a more decided policy would be better ; for
they should not have excepted Dungarvon after putting
out Dr. Stock and Sergeant Murphy from Cashel and
Cork.--(Hear, hear.)
Captain BRODRICK—I deny it.—(Cheers, and cries
of " Hear, hear.")
The LORD MAYOR—AIIow Mr. Maher to proceed.--
(Tremer,dous confusion.)
Mr. O'CONNELL.—Leave him to me, and I will an-
swer him ; Serjeant Stock was a man of ability, and one
to whom no- objection. could be made ; and Serjeant
Murphy was equally unexceptionable.—(Cheers.)
Mr. MEAGHER.—I want Repealm and no apostates.
(Awful uproar, mid cries of " Name, name.")
Mr: O'CONNELL.—I will 'name. •
Mr. MEAGHER.—ShaII I name, my Lord ?—(Cheers,
and cries of " Name.")
The LORD MAYOR.—I think not.—(Tremendous con-
fusion, and cries of " Name.")
Mr. MEAGHER. I have no objection to name if
called on.

Air. O'C9NNELL—I call on this gentleman to name.
If ho means to refer to me, I repudiate it with the most
resolute contempt.—(Cheers, and dreadful noise.)
Mr. MEAGHER—I allude to the rumour of the appoint-
ment of Mr. Clements to a Government situation by the
Whig:.—(Cheeis.)
Mr. O'CoNNELL—You charge a man in his absence.
Shame

Mr. J. O'CONNELL—I 1 ise to order. After that spe-
cimen of la;r play,'.l think there are no terms to be kept
with these gentlemen.—(Cheers.)
Mr. O'CONNELL—Three gentlemen have come from
the Nation office to attack us.—(Cheers, and cries of
" Put them out.")
Mr. J. O'CONNELL.—After what has occurred,' call on
those gentlemen to subscribe to the principlesof the
association= peace, and no . physical force ; and if they
do not do so they are not members.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Mnvina.L—Mr. O'Connell is not speaking to
order.—(Hear.)
Mr. J. O'CONNELL—I NM, and call for this declara-
tion before anything further is done. The association is
at stake.—(Loud cries of "Put him out.")
Mr. O'Gonstabr—l think the question before the chair
should be disposed of first.—(Hear, and cries of "No.")
Mr. MEAGHEA—I hear that it is not true that Coun-
sellor Clements has got an appointment, and I beg to
apologise.—(Hisses and cheers.)
Mr. STEELE—Sir, you must apologise to him for your
audacious attack.—(Cheers.) •

Mr. MEAGHER—Ido apologise.
Captain BRODRICK—NOW go on with your list.
Mr. MEACHER—I had no one to name but the one.
A VOICE.—You spoke iu the plural.—Cheers; and
cries of " Put him out.")
Mr. MEM:ARR.—I think no Repealer should take a
situation from the Whigs.—(Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR.—The O'Conor Don is a Repealer.
—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. MEAGRER.—But not a member of the Associa-
tion.

Mr. O'CONNELL—Is such a man as the O'Conor
Don to be called an apostate by this young gentleman ?
—(Cries of " No, no," and " Put him out.")
Mr. MEAGHER—I am now done. As to physical
force, I am an advocate for the principles of this Asso-
ciation until it declare those principle futile.—(Cheers.)
Mr. O'CONNELL, having denied the appointment of
Mr. Clements, and stated that he saw no reason why a
repealer should not take a situation from the Whigs, for
they had abused Lord Ebrington for excluding them
from promotion—(Cheers)—the Learned Gentleman
argued for the great principle of peace, and proposed
the adoption of the following report just at post hour:—
" REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE LOYAL NATIONAL

REPEAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND.
"The committee deem it right that the Association should,
by adopting this report, assert once more its entire indepen-
dence of any -newspaper circulating in any part of Great
Britain or Ireland. The Association should disclaim, and
does disclaim in the most emphatic manner, any conformity
upon the part of the Association with, or any species of a-e-
-sponsibility for the lucubrations or opinions set forth by any
newspaper whatsoever.
" Time Association does not only not participate in, but
neither demands or exercises any control. over the senti-
ments expressed by any of the journals, whether those senti-
ments be the result be folly or of wisdom, of caprice or of
patriotism. The blame in each case, if any be deserved, or
the praise, if any be merited, belongs exclusively to the
writers for those papers, and does not attach, in any degree,
to. the Association.
_._"The committee next deem it iialportant that Associa,
having that principle distinctly underatood' in every part of
the British islands. It is the principle of seeking the ame-
lioration of political institutions by peaceable and legal
means alone, disclaiming and abhorring all attempts to im-
prove and augment constitutional liberty by means of force,
violence, or bloodshed.
"There are already upon record the following declarations
and resolutions of the Repeal Association :
"' 1. 'l'ha basis of the Repeal Association was laid on the
15th of April, IS4O. The following were the first three pro-
positions constituting- such basis :
" 1. Most dutiful and ever inviolate loyalty to our most
gracious and ever-beloved Sovereign Queen Victoria, and
her heirs and sec :essors for ever.
" ' 2. The total disclaimer of, and the total absence front
all physical force, violence, or breach of the law ; or, in
short, any violation of the laws of man, or the ordinances of
the-eternal God, whose holy name be ever blessed.
" 3. The only means to be used are those of peaceful, legal,
and constitutional combination of all classes, sects, and per-
suasions of her Majesty's loyal subjects; and, the power of
public opinion, concentrated upon most salutary, and always
legal, means and objects.'
"The rules of the association were adopted at the same
meeting, and amongst them were the following rules :
" lith. The sole and exclusive means of the objects we
desire to attain are by argument, reasoning, the concentra-
tion of public opinion, the peaceable and constitutional com-
bination of the Irish people, and by petitions to the Legisla-
ture, and finally by legislation.
18th. That any person who shall violate the law in any
particular, in doing or purporting to do the business of the
association, is hereby declared to be no longer a member, and
that he shall be expelled so soon as the fact is discovered.'
"An address was on 21st April, 1840, voted to the people of
Ireland on the subject of the repeal rent. That address was
circulated throughout the Irish nation, and in it are to be
found the following paragraphs :
" The only modes of action which we would advise or as-
sist in, must be, in their nature, legal and constitutional, and
in their operation always tranquil, peaceable, and totally de-
void of violence or outrage of any kind whatsoever.
"We resort only to moral force—to the power of public
opinion—to the concentration of legal and peaceable combi-
nation—to the presentation of petitions signed by millions—
and the influence of such petitions to obtain the legislative
enactment we desire.'
" Another address was voted by the Repeal Association, on
October 2,1840, and circulated throughout the entire island.
"This latter address was adopted and published in reply
to a speech made by Lord Ebrington to the late Corporation.
It contains the following passages amongst others :--
"'Ms Excellency, Lord Ebrington, openly and firmly de-
clares his total disbelief of the possibility of the repeal being
carried by legal and constitutional means, at the same time
acknowleciging that the advocates of that measure are not
seeking it by means of any other description.
" He openly and firmly declares his conviction of evil
consequences to Ireland, were the repeal of the- Union
effected.
lie openly and firmly declares his determination to put
down, by the strong arm of the law, all endeavours to carry
the repeal by other than the most perfectly legal and consti-
tutional means.
And he expresses finally his strong assurance that a
great majority of the Repealers themselves would join with,
and support him in measures of coercion, should these be ren-
dered necessary by any breach of the law in the agitation for
repeal.'
olyincotihwehrieepeedalofotfhetigicootclintiloiant
would result to both co,
" We are as firmly
as Lord Ebriton can be of the contrary, and we are of
practical:flay of its being
atnindtrasiesfufrl
course perfectlyng convinced of the

carried.
" 'We are as firmly determined to use no other than legal
and constitutional means to effect that repeal, as he can
to prevent the adoption of means of a violent and illegal
character.
"'His Excellency may be most fully confident that he will
find us Repealers foremost in supporting and vindicating the
cause of 'peace, law, and order,' for this plain reason, fellow
countrymen, if for no other—
" That we are convinced that nothiog but the breaking of
the law by the advocates of repeal, can ever prevent the glo-
rious accomplishment of that glorious measure.'
"An address to the people of England was passed at a meet-
ing of the Loyal National Repeal Association, held on Mon-
day, the 16th November, 1840. This address, after stating
our objects, went on in the following words
We seek those ends by peaceable and legal means alone
meetings constitutionally, legally, and peacefully as-
sembled and conducted, by petitions to Parliament respect-
fully though firmly worded—above all, by labouring to re-
turn proper representatives.
The Chartists advocate the use of the torch and the
dagger, physical force instead of moral, and, in too many
a case, left their stormy and seditious meetings only to sell
themselves at the hustings to the highest bidder. It was tilt
refusal of the Irish people to join with such as these that has
chiefly contributed to procure for that people the hostility of
the bulk of your radical papers.'
" On the subject of the Chartist movement, certain reso-
lutions were unanimously adopted at a meeting of the Repeal
Association, held on Monday, the 13th September, 1841. The
last resolution passed on that ocea6ion was in the following

terms :--
~' Lastly. The It6psalers will as little risk the danger as
endurf: the contamination of Chartist violence. Leading
Chartists have proclaimed the torch end dagger as
adjuncts to their agitation—leading Chartists have ap-
peared in open battle array against the Quesif
troops; and now that the leaders of that insurrec-
tion have been, upon the merits, convicted of high treason,
although deprived of the benefit of a point of law, yet though
the conviction was upon the merits, these leaders are cried
up as martyrs by the Chartists. Their names are invoked
with applause at their public meetings, and thus Chartism
becomes united with high treason.
" ' The peaceful, temperate, moral, and loyal Bcpealers of
Ireland can have no connexion with practical Chartism'
"Another address to the people of Ireland was voted

Recollect also that the principle of my political life,
and that in which I haveinstructed the pe(iple of Ireland is,
that all the ameliorations and improvements in political in-
stitutions can be obtained by persevering in a perfectly
peaceable and legal course, and cannot be obtained by forcible
means; or if they could be got by forcible• means, such
means create more evils than they cure, and leave the
country worse than they found IL'
" The instructions to.the repeal wardens were passed by
the unanimous vote of the Association, on .Monday, Sep-
tember 16,1814. They contain the following instructions to
the repeal wardens :
__

"`The Llyal National Repeal Association disclaims all
force and violence. It proclaims that the cause is to succeed
by peace and perseverance, and that the.man that violates
the law gives strength to the enemies of Ireland.'
"The Association commenced the present year by the fol-
lowing resolution, unanimously adopted on the 6th of Janu-
ary, ISfti. It is in the following words :
" "That, humbly submissive to the dispensations of an
ever-adorable Providence, but confiding in his merciful pro-
tection, we solemnly pledge ourselves, in the name of the
brave, moral, virtuous, and religious people of Ireland, anl
in the presence of the British nation, and of all the people of
Europe and America, that we will consent to no surrender,
no compromise, no postponement of our undoubted rights,
but that we will unremittingly persevere in all legal, consti-
tutional, and, above all, all peaceable means, and no other,
until we attain the restoration of the legislative independence
of Ireland, and re-establish our nationality, subject in dutiful
and inviolable allegiance to the Monarch of Great Britain
and Ireland, but protected by a resident Irish Parliament.'
" Ifaving thus detailed the .. reiteration of the principle of
action adopted by the Association, and being in itself the
very basis of the Association—namely, the principle that the
amelioration of political institutions ought not to be sought
for by any other Means- than those which are perfectly peace-
able, legal, and constitutional.

"That, to promote political amelioration, peaceable means
alone should be used, to the exclusion of all others save those
that are peaceable, legs!. and constitutional.
" It has been said, very unwisely, that this principle pro-
hibits the necessary defence against aggression on the part of
a domestic Govet nment or a foreign enemy. It does no such
thing. It leaves the tight of self-defence perfectly free -to
the use of any force sufficient to resist and defeat unjust
aggression.

We emphatically announce our coaviction that all poli-
tical amelioration—and the first anithighest of all, the repeal
of the union ought to be sought for, and can be sought for
inecessfidly only by peaceable, legal, and constitutional
means, to the utter exclusion of any other. •in short, that
the repeal of the union can and ought to be obtained by the
same peaceable means by which Catholic Emancipation was
achieved, and by the same exclusively peaceful system of
action by which the Anti-Corn-law League so gloriously
triumphed over every resistance, and obtained the repeal of
the corn-laws, by which means alone we can, we ought, and,
with the blessing of Almighty Provdence, we will obtain the
repeal of the union."

The rent is supposed to amount to 1301.
Mr. O'Connell sails for London on Wedue.sday.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Poa•rsMorrn, TCESDAY.—The Fairy was undocked ye
terday, and removed from the basin. This morning she left
for Cowes to attend upon her Majesty. Her Majesty and the
Prince Consort embarked this morning at Osborne, and pro-
ceeded to the estate of the Earl of Hardwicke, on the South-
ampton water.
_Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence went from 04 port
to Osborne, in the state barge of the royal yacht Victoria
and Albert, to attend upon her Majesty, and to take the
command of the Fairy, on board of which the royal standard
was hoisted.

The Trincomalee, 26, razee corvette, received her masts
to-day, and is now ready for the pendant, which, it is ex-7
pected, she will hoist in a day or two, together with the
Alfred, - 50.
The Con fiance steam-vessel left to• day for Devonport. She
brought -some additional machinery for the Avenger.
The Avenger steam-frigate, Captain W. J. Williams, is
being fitted with all dispatch for the reception of his High-
ness Ibrahim Paella and suite. She is being painted through-
out, and fitted up superbly. Workmen are employed upon
her day and night.. The weather being fine facilitates the
work considerably. Two carriages for his Highness, from
the establishment of Messrs. Pearce and Countze,. of,Long-
acre, were put on board this morning. The Pacha is ex-
pected to arrive at Gosport by the South-Western Railway
to-morrow evening, and to put up at the Railway Hotel, on
account of its contiguity to the terminus and the Royal
Clarence Yard ; and his Highness will embark the first thing
on Thursday morning on board the Avenger, and leave for
Alexandria. These are the arrangements reported as correct
up to half-past five this evening.
The Griffon, i, brigantine, Lieutenant Commander Wil-
mot, arrived at Madeira, from Chatham and Plymouth,
on the 19th ult., and sailed on the 25th for Rio de Janeiro.
The Thunderbolt, steam-sloop, Commander Broke, left .
Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, for Algoa Bay, with rein-
forcements, on the .12th of May.
The Calliope, 26, Captain Stanley; the Castor, 26, Captain
Graham ; and the Driver steam-sloop, Commander Hayes,
Arrived at Wellington, New Zealand, from Auckland, on the
11 t It of February.

INTERESTING STATISTICS FOR

WHEAT- GROWERS AND MILLERS.
The following from the Buffalo Commercial Advertiscr
of June 11, possesses some interesting facts for the atten-
tion of the wheat-growers and millers :
The decline in prices of flour and wheat this spring
has been the source of disappointment to a great many
who operated last winter at very high rates, calculating
upon large profits to be now realised, and as it appears
that those views are entirely frustrated, a calm
view into the causes, at this particular juncture, may
not perhaps come amiss. After last harvest, the crop
VtfewilfYlfievee meecteine4,to be a very large one, and
create an extra foreign demand. Shortly afterwards we
began to receive accounts from England of the probable
failure of the crops there, which immediately gave a
spur to prices, and purchases were made for shipment
to that quarter—advices continuing to be received con-
firmatory in that respect, speculation started, until
prices ran up in New York to 7 clots. per bbl. for flour.
It appears that rate could not be continued (although
many anticipated 8 dols to 10 dols.) and why ?—a few
figures will show.
The annual average crops of wheat in Great Britain
for the past few years, has been equal to 20 millions of
quarters of 8 imperial bushels of 70 lbs. According to
all well-informed sources, the crop of wheat there last
year was ascertained, shortly after harvest, to be about
19 millions of quarters, requiring one million of qrs. to
be received from other countries to make up said defi-
ciency. The crops on the continent being rather short
of previous years, this country was naturally looked to
for what supplies Great Britain stood in need. of ; hence
the continued shipments to that quarter even up to the
present time. Now what is the state of matters there?
By last advices received from that quarter, per " Hiber-
nia," the quantity'Of vnieat and flour under lock or in
baud, in the United Kingdom, made up to the sth of
April, is thus shoWn:
Wheat 1,227,374 quarters.
Flour 940,871 cwt.—reduced
to wheat will equal 330,000 quarters—making total of
wheat upwards of 1,500,000 quarters-50 per cent. more
than their actual deficiency. The above stock in bond
has been accumulating since, and it would not be sur-
prising if the quantity increased to near two millions of
quarters, before any would be released, which is alto-
gether awaiting the action of Parliament on the New
Corn Bill.
Our crop of wheat last season no doubt was the largest
ever gathered in this country. The Commissioner of
Patents, who has for a number of years collected statis-
tical information of such things, puts it down to about
106 millions of bushels, but that is evidently below the
quantity; 120 millions would be nearer the mark. With
our population of 20 millions of inhabitants, the
Consumption would be equal to • 90,000,000 bush.
Add for seed 10,000,000 "
Would leave for export 20,000,000 "
The quantity left over of the previous crop is not
taken in the estimate, as such may average about the
same from one crop to another. The number of bushels
put down for export, it will be perceived, is about double
(say-ten millions of
swhehlastof96r
oe
iabt Britain
or
ordinaryruir export demand seldom
ofbu
coming tip to ten millions of bushels; or 2,000,000 bbls.
flour. Present indications show that the above esti-
mate of the crop in this country is not far, if at all, out
of the way.
The whole error,"therefore, has been, that parties did
not look far enough to see what Great Britain actually
wanted, (as that was the only source we could expect to
carry off our extra surplus), but went blindly into it, an-
ticipating that they would never be able to send enough
there—and because she required a small quantity, a
larger amount must necessarily follow. Some would -
probably say that the failure of the.potato crop in Ire-
land would require au extra consumption of flour. The
difficulty in that respect, with the poor peasantry of that
country was their deficiency of means to purchase such
an article of food—and if any one would take the pains
to examine the English papers, they would find
evidence of this in the continual arrival of wheat, &c. at
the different ports in England, from the very famished
districts in Ireland. No, they went on the coarser
articles, such as peas, beans, oatmeal, &c., of which there
is an abundance. Again, since the spring has opened,
arrivals have taken place in England, from the -Baltic
and other parts on the Continent, of wheat, notwith-
standing the talk of the great scarcity there also.
Prices will now entirely depend on our next crop (for
it is apprehended shipments to England are pretty much
at an end for the time being) which, to all appearance
will be large—if not larger than the last—for the high
prices last fall no doubt stimulated farmers to put in
greater breadth of ground, in conjunction with which
nothing has as yet appeared materially to affect its yield;
hence low prices must necessarily ensue, unless we have
another famishing country to supply perspectively, and-
-7 get up speculation with its unhappy results, such as
a are now experienced.
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