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altered. It had been asserted that Jittbou d, tinder no dr•
cumstances, resort ro,.physicalfouse
the liberties of the _meansas.a of restoring
countrY.- fkg*titiad entirely from
any such assumptiodi- Itticierit and mddern history showed
that the liberties of nations had been achieved by a re-
sort to arms. It was the adoption of physical force that
preserved the crown for Queen Victoria. It was the force
of arms that placed it on the head of Louis Philippe.
It was physical power that made Belgium a nation, and
restored liberty to Greece. He would not refer to the
United States, holland, and other nations, whose cases had
the, sanction of the international law of Europe. And was
Ireland to be excluded from any such facility for righting
herself by such means? It was not for him to say when a
resort to physical force would be justifiable. - But, after
all, it was a mere speculative question, and he trusted that
circumstances should never arise which would justify them
in resorting to such an alternative. There was, he was
happy to say, no immediate prospect of any. What he
denied was, that the association had no right to put any
such test to the different members of the confederacy. The
administration of such a test was unwise, and, under pre-
sent circumstances, wholly unnecessary; and if persevered
in, would have the effect of detaching from the movement
some of the most attached aid sincere friends to a repeal Of
the unism.—(Cheers.) The Honourable Gentleman read
portions of the resolutions l.ttely adopted by the assscciation,
and then continued—Feeling that he had been some cause
of these unhappy dissensions, in maintaining a position
that the association did not sustain, he was the more bound to
say that he would not allow the people who had done him
the honour of supporting him to be sacrificed, without record-
his protest against it.—(Cheers.) He was bound to say
frankly, that it any attempt were made to putdown:the Nation.
or exclude certain gentlemen from the committees or the
association—until they were restored it would be impossible
for him to co-operate with them.—(Cheers.) But why
were they driven to that alternative ? It was with the
utmost pain that he felt himself bound to differ from a man
who was justly recognised as their leader; but he was per-
suaded that the policy of the association—composed of one
million persons— admitted a reasonable difference on every
subject. That was the spirit which should influence them as
freemen. If any one denounced in that letter were excluded,
it would have a most suicidal effect. With the Nation news-
paper were connected men of the highest cultivation of mind;
and he was not afraid to say that of Mr. Meagher—his
friend Mr. Meagher—(Loud cheers)—that it would have
been the greatest advantage to the country, after of course
the members of Mr. O'Connell's family and his own parti-
cular friends, to have elected him as a representative of the
Irish people. Those were his opinions, and he did not feel
at liberty any longer to conceal them. He trusted the
breach was not irreparable, and that the past would be
forgotten in generous oblivion. Another question was
whether they should form an alliance with the Whigs.
When last he had addressed them he bad advised them ,0
that the Repeal party should not be identified with the
Whigs. It was their policy that there should be a distinct
national party in that country, who would not lend them-
selves to be tools to any British Parliament.—(Cheers.) If
the Whigs even were inclined to do justice to Ireland, yet
they were opposed to the repeal of the union, and, as such,
were not entitled to their support.—(Loud cheers.) Mr.
O'Brien then proceeded to advert to the promises held out
by the present Government relative to the restoration of the
jepeal magistrates and the extension of the franchise. With
reference to their promises he saw nothing done as yet.
Then they had promised something for the Irish church,
establishment, and Lord Grey had expressed favourable opi-
nions on that question, but with which Lord John Russell
had stated he did not identify himself. There was no decla-
ration to give the tenant compensation. On the whole
he would repeat that the policy of the association was to
support every good measure from every party, but to
identify themselves with none.—(Cheers.) Hcowas going
at great inconvenience to endeavour to obtain cheap sugar
for the Irish people. He now said, and probably it was for
the last time, that in order to carry out their policy it was
necessary for Repealers to abstain from all solicitation of
Government patronage. If repeal were an open question
the case would be different, but there was no indication it
was so. If it were an open question, the natural course
would be to give Mr. O'Connell a seat in the Cabinet, with
the understanding that he was at liberty on the next day
to advocate the cause of repeal in that Hall. It was not an
open question when they gave any place to any Repealer
in order to shut his mouth afterwards.—(Cheers.) In 1833
they had several able men amongst them who in 1835 took
office under the Whigs, and what was the result ?—(Cheers.)
He would not say that the office converted them, but it
silenced them.—(Cheers.) They knew the individuals he
alluded to, and he need not name them.—(Criers
of " Name.") He would begin with Mr. Bluets-.
(Groans and hisses.) If then the acceptance of place
entailed an abandonment of the principle of repeal, he for
one did not wish to co-operate with them. How had that
principle been carried out at the Dungarvan election?
Mr. O'Brien then went on to state that he totally dissented
from the principle of not contesting that and every other
borough in order to return a repealer, and said that he had
never, even during the state trials, felt such a despondency
in the cause of Repeal as since the last month. Having
thus repeated what he had said as to his co-operation in the
cause, he thanked the meeting for their attention, and con-
cluded by " expressing a hope that the gallant vessel of Irish
freedom would be wafted safely on the reflux of the tida,
into the haven of national freedom." The Hon. Gentlenaan
resumed his seat amidst tremendous cheering.
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, M.l'., regretted deeply to .be
obliged to differ with the speech just delivered by Mr.
O'Brien. He denied that there were any grounds for im-
puting selfish motives to Mr. O'Connell for supporting
the Whigs.—(Mr. O'Brien dissented.) The expressions of
Mr. O'Brien were not, perhaps, quite so explicit, but they
certainly might be so construed. Was Mr. O'Connell to be
censured for returning his son for Dundalk? He conceived
he was not. It was not for the purpose of forwarding the
election of his brother that he came from London, but to
assist in furthering the cause, and he was perfectly ready to
withdraw Mr. D. O'Connell from Bundalk if a more sin-
cere Repealer could be found. He might say the same
with regard to Tralee and Kilkenny city. It was wrong to
say that Mr. O'Connell sas determined to support the Whigs
on every question. Why the fact was that Mr. O'Connell
and the Ministry were at variance on the sugar question.
lle believed that the admission of slave-grown sugar would
necessarily lend a stimulus to the slave trade, and believing
that such a consequence would ensue, he was opposed to
the. policy of the Government on that question, which
was really a vital question. And yet Mr. O'Brien was
going over to London to support the Ministry on the sugar
question. It was unfair to charge Mr. O'Connell with
supporting the Whigs. From them the country had every
reason to expect a series of beneficial measures, which, when
passed, should enable them to assume a higher position
than they (the people) at present occupied. They should
not condemn the Whigs unheard. The Hon. Gentleman
then proceeded to justify the general policy of the Go-
vernment and the appointments which they have made,
and argued that the most beneficial results to Ire.
land would arise from their administration. He justified
the policy of Mr. O'Connell with regard to the Dungarvon
and Dundalk elections, and showed that with regard to the
former it would have been highly perilous to have contested
it, and that his brother (Mr. D. O'Connell) was selected
by the electors of Dundalk, and was not, as had been as-
serted, forced upon them. He defended the resolutions
adopted on this day fortnight, and showed that any gentle-
man who joined the association, believing that the adoption
of physical force was not inconsistent with its principles, de-
ceived himself most egregiously. The honourable gentleman
had not concluded his address at post hour.
Amount of remit up to three o'clock (post hour) is said
to he 801.

MYSTERIOUS CASE OF SELF-

DESTRUCTION.

A coroner's inquisition was held at eight o'clock on Satur-
day night, the 25th instant, at the house known as the Beef-
steak House, at Shorne, by the deputy-coroner, Mr. John
Clabon, on the body of Mr. Thomas Swatland, who was
found hanging to a tree in a wood abutting the turnpike-
road leading from Rochester to Gravesend. The body was
first discovered by Mr. Luke Richard Sykes, a gentleman
connected with the London and Westminster Bank, who was
walking from Gravesend to Rochester, on Thursday afternoon,
the 28th instant, and on his rising Shorne-hill, shortly after
three o'clock, he turned from the turnpike-road into a cop-
pice, and having walked a few paces, he saw a man standing,
and apparently looking up a tree, with his hat on, and as his
position was somewhat strange, he stepped up, and found him
suspended with a rote round his neck to the limb of the tree.
He immediately cut him down, and on the rope becoming
loose, a noise proceeded from the throat, which was the
escape of the confined air from the body. lie immediately
went to the nearest house for assistance. The body
was stiff and cold, and was not touched until the arrival
of a parish officer, when on searching him 191. 10s.
in gold, a 5/. Bank of England note, and 1/. 19s. 6d. in silver,
was in his pockets, also several letters and papers, and a short
pipe. His walking-stick was standing against the tree. In
the hat was his address, which led to his discovery. When
first found the toes of deceased touched the ground._ The
branch of the tree was about seven feet from the ground.
Mr. William Banston, partner with deceased, to a ques-
tionconduct o
fromf tthhee jwuir7e,;
Ashie. A letter produced is in the hand-writing of the
tsahei'd'decheeasneedvegrenkenraewllyofcaallnedy ihmisprwePerife
deceased.
The ConosEn then read it :
~ My dear Ashie,—You and I have disagreed, and it has
broken my heart and spirits; that I cannot any more come
home to see you, and I bid you farewell, and hope you will
find a better partner than I have been. You have done well
by me ; disagreements have done all this, so farewell from
your loving husband, " THOS. SWATLAND."
After some desultory conversation between the Coroner
and jury, a verdict was returned " That the deceased de-
stroyed himself by hanging, while in a state of temporary
1 insanity." The deceased was forty-four years of age.

CHARING. cnoss HosprrAL.—On Tuesday the twenty-
fifth annual meeting of the governors and friends of this insti-
tution, founded in 1818, was held at the hospital, Charing-
cross. The Rev. George Hall Bowers, 8.D., rector of St.
Paul's, Covent-garden, presided. The report stated that the
ameliorating influence of the charity had been greatly ex-
tended during the past year, in the course of which 9,129 in-
digent sick persons were admitted on the books for relief, at •
cost of 2,465/. 17s. 10d. ; of these, 1,128 were in-patients,and
8,001 were out-patients, many of whom were visited at their
own homes, and the greater part were restored to the bless-
ings of health and to their occupation for the support of
their families. The cases of accident amounted to upwards
of 1,100, 303 of which were so dangerous as to require to be
immediately admitted as patients. The receipts amounted
to 2,8231. 19s. ; the expenditure, less by 3M/. The report,
which spoke Very highly of the medical school, was then
adopted, and the chairman acknowledged the piece of plate
which had been presented to him. A vote of thanks to the
chair terminated the proceedings.
PRICE OF GOLD.—The premium on gold at Paris is
15% per mine, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s.
101,4 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25
54 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25
721,x, it follows that gold is 0.72 per cent. dearer in London
than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold
is 435 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 81. 17e.
101/2d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of
13 10; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being 13 11, it follows that gold is 0.46 per cent. dearer in
London than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at New
York on London is 108 per cent., and the par of exchange
between England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it
follows that the exchange is 1.58 per cent. against England.
But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60
days' sight, the interest must be deducted from the above
differerce.

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