The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-05 00:00:00

219 MAY 5, 1848.

convention or representatiVe assembly, elected, summoned,
or held for any other purpose or pretence than that of
petit-
tinning for, or in any other manner procuring such alteration
SS in the said Act mentioned, is prohibited or rendered
unlawful by the same, and no convention or represen-
alive body has been elected or summoned by or with the
authority of the Irish Confederation for any such or the
ke purpose or pretence; but a national convention, or
Council of 300. has been advised to be summoned and elected,
without as yet defining the exact limits to the operations of
the same, and such an arrangement of those operations may
be made, and is intendel to be made, as shall in no way
subject the same to the prohibition of the said Act of Par-
liament:
NOW, therefore, we, the Council of the Irish Confederation,
do hereby declare every such National Convention or Coun-
cil as last aforesaid, and every like Convention or Council,
not being fur such purposes or under such pretences as. by
the said Act of Parliament so prohibited, and hereinbefore
defined and set forth, and all elections of members or delegates
Viereto, and also every such requisition or declaration as
aforesaid, not being a pledge to drill or train, or to be drilled
or trained to the use of arms, and so forth, and not being any
such association for drilling or training as in the said advertise-
ment or proclamation Mentioned, to be entirely lawful, and
within the legal rights of the subjects of this realm, under
the existing laws of the same; and we do earnestly invite and
recotnmepd all her Majesty's well-disposed subjects in this
kingdom of Ireland to support and take part in the same by
every means in their
,power.
And We warn all sheriffs, magistrates, constables, and
other her Majesty's subjects, who may be seduced or per-
suaded by the said unlawful and unconstitutional proclama-
tion of the said Earl of Clarendon and his associates, that
they are not by law authorised or empowered to prevent or
repress any
such convention, election, er requisition, or de-
claration, as last aforesaid, the same being perfectly legal,
and in nowise opposed in spirit or letter to the said Acts of
Parliament in the said advertisement or proclamation re-
ferred to; and that, if they or any of them, shall illegally
interfere to prevent or repress :the same, such illegal inter-
ference will be at their proper peril.
By order of the Council,
WM. S. O'BRIEN, Chairman.
Dated at the Council Rooms of the Irish Confederation,
9, D'Olier-street, Dublin, this -3d day of My, 1848.
Mr. Meagher then proceeded to address the meeting. 1351
said he had read the prtlieltimatiou'whichlul_bevailigned
by Mr. Smith O'Brien, by order of the Council of the
Conferation. That proclamation would be posted on the
following day on every wall in Dublin, and throughout
the length and breadth of the land.—(Loud cheers.) .The
Government, through their officials had treated the de-
clarations of the people, distributeded torn them through the
down,hecoun etriy,
with insult and outraiee—tb ey had
order, indeed, to check the coi
amaudni
fromcat i
the of opinion
capital. from the capital to the
back again to the provinces,
wa The
notpeopleheinsulted.—(Cheers.)
te s ed._
should( seebre
ethstiot
the present proclamation
No agent of the Governmethaclaortigtbhet
ptoeolpalye. an
Fur in-
sulting hand on the proclamations
his (Mr. Meagher'a) part he would say to the
itis
;people,but
"Let the Government proclamation stand as
for every one of their wereproclamationsthattbea
ctsotrlen
down, let them tear down one of
proclamations."—(Loud cheers.) With regard to the
instructions contained in the proclamation he held in his
hand, and the advice which it gave, he had not the
slightest doubt but the one would be obeyed, and the
otheeaccepted.—(Hear, hear.) For his part he believed
there was at present a spirit in the country which dis-
criminated between that which England and her Minis-
ters called law, and that which the Irish people
recognised, and which God himself had inspired as true
law.--(Hear, hear.) There was a difference between the
justice which nations meted out and established and that
which England proclaimed and enforced.—(Cheers.)
Therefore it was that he believed that the proclamation
of the Confederation would be the only proclamation
which would be obeyed in this country.—(Cheers.) So
far as he (Mr. Meagher) was concerned, he would obey
it id its spirit, and to the very letter.—(Cheers.) Next
week he intended to put forward an address to the
citizens of Waterford, calling on
as their representative in the them to elect him
National Assembly.—
(Loud cheers.) On Sunday next he should have
the' pleasure of making his request in person.
So rattail for the proclamation of Lord Clarendon ;
now, as to the enrolment of the National Guard. The
declaration in fiyoue of the formation of a National
Guard, and which had been proscribed in the Castle
manifesto, was already in course of signature, and the
first three names to that declaration were those of the
three men now under prosecution by the Government.—
(Loud cheers.) He would avoid any allusion to the
proceedings at Limerick, of which they had heard such
a distressing description. He would pass from that
scene without allowing himself a moment's indulgence
in any recrimination, because he felt that whatever in-
jury one Irish citizen might receive from another, the
present was a time for mutual forgiveness—(Cheers)—
and he would repeat what be said to the citizens of Cork
in Monday, that lie was ready at that moment to forgive
the hand that was clenched to strike him, if that hand
(pointing to heaven) gave him an assurance that it
would struggle i
to crush the common foe. It was n
that spirit he regarded the proceedings at Limerick.
out in Cork there was an cut husiaa.tais Which undoubt-
Aly manifested that there existed in the provinces a
-power and the will to co-operate with the tot tropolis.
On Monday he had the pleasure of meeting 2.5,000 won,
who seemed animated by a spirit which, a‘i, it had out-
lived the insulting fanatic, would also ourlive the Go-
verntnent who were responsible for the lives of the
people, but allowed them to perish.—(Cheers.) The
hird resolution proposed at the meeting to which he re-
ferred was a declaration calling on the people of Cork
and the surrounding districts to do that which they
sad heretofore so long neglected—that was, to aria
Cheers.) In speaking to that resolution, he (Mr.
I,leagher) called on the assembly to argil ; and twenty-
live thousand voices answered, " We shall arm"—(Tre-
,nendous cheers) " We shall arm," they said,
not to sack a house ; not to confiscate a demesne ;
eot, indeed, to rob a jeweller's shop, or to act as robbers,
out as free men. ‘Ve are not ambitious to act the part
of banditti; but, animated by the examples furnished by
the chief cities of Europe, we desire to look for liberty
as men should do who were not ashamed of the records
of their deeds."—(Cheers.) It was (continued Mr.
Meagher) that their voices might not he weak, or their
petitions scouted, and when they hurled defiance they
might not be laughed at, that he recommended the
people to arm. Thus it was that " moral force" might
at last acquire its true strength in this country, by being
the representative of an armed faculty.—(,Hear, hear.)
Animated by these sentiments, he called on the people
to arm; and, echoing these sentiments, they responded
to that call.—(Cheers.) It was scarcely necessary for
him to say that the organization of the people inCork
was perfect—they acted as if they felt with one heart;
they thought with one mind, and if it were necessary
they would strike with one arm.—(Loud cheers.) There
was no bitter animosity springing from local prejudices
—there was no little enmity there dividing the national
strength, and thereby giving hope and consolation to the
common foe; and if the Government had reason to re-
joice at the occurrences which took place at Limerick—
if those who reported for them--if their detectives there
—if those constables that reported for them but told them
the truth, they would have reason to change their joy
into grief, and to feel, if there be one black spot in Ire-
land, that black spot was encircled with a flame in which
their power would be extinguished. After some ob-
servations in reference to the " Gagging Bill," he pro-
ceeded. He had learned to value life only for the dignity
which surronnded it—he had learned to value life only
tbr the honour which it brought on him and those
with whom he was connected, and on the country which
gave him birth—he had learned to value liberty of speech
only that his words might be heard, and liberty of ac-
tion that his actions might be serviceable to his country.
It was for giving expression to those sentiments that he
had been prosecuted, and he recollected the precise words
for which he had been indicted; he would repeat
them that night, but the pith and substance of them
was, if the last appeal which they were about to make
to the Queen did not result in a concession of their
demands, then he would reiterate, " Up with the barri-
cades, and invoke the God of battles."—(Tremendous
cheers.) He did not know whether the utterance of
such words should reduce himto the vulgar position of
a felon; but he cared not, for he believed it
to be the duty of every Irish citizen to speak that
word which struck the Irish heart more forcibly—a
word which it had long desired to hear—a word which
was muttered in secret to the winds, where there were
no detectives or Castle proclamations warning them to
be route—it was the duty, he said, of Irish citizens to
speak that word, in order that there might spring up
from the soil, as if touched by a miraculous hand, a
harvest of glory, which should not be borne away from
this island.—(Loud cheers.) In the speech for which he
had been prosecuted he had alluded to the formation of
an " Irish Republic." He repeated that expression.
Ii the people were driven to an outbreak,
as they would be if the Government per-
sisted in their present course, and that they were suc •
cessful in that alternative, he believed that republic
would be proclaimed in the council chamber of Dublin
Castle. To speak honestly, he would only adopt the re-
publican form of government as an alternative; he
would not adopt it as the first choice, but he would
insist upon it as the last—he would insist
on it as the price of the people's blood, in order to create
a form of government that would be in eternal hostility
to the power which drove them to such an extremity.--
(Cheers.) To the old constitution of the country—the
constitution of 1712—he would cling with veneration
but he would mould it in conformity with the spirit of
the age, and would establish it on h tomb which should
consign to oblivion the animosities which had disgraced
the country. On concluding a protracted and highly
spirit-stirring speech, Mr. Meagher submitted to the
meeting the following resolution
" Whereas the Council of Three Hundred, proposed
by the late Mr. O'Connell in 1843, and now revived by
the general wish of the Irish people, would derive its
the
the value from being a fair representation of
the people of Ireland of all classes and associations.
till
its Resolved—That the Irish Confederation P°l the con-
vocation
its next meeting putting forth any formal plan fo
vocation of the Council, as we perceive by the publicforward ledro-
t that the Repeal Association are about to bring forward
we pge
position for that purpose—a proposition which journals
i such will meet the
ourselves to adopt and act unecessities of the time and thp
eo
n
w
isheshe adoption of the re-
:l4r. D'ARCY MAGEE seconded
length
just as if the "Act
if
it
is
the country."
re-
solution and suoke at some Crown and Goiernment of
for the better security
these countries" never entered into the contempla-
tion of her Majeshtyad'snA;fil:he

[PRICE SD.

On the conclusion of this speech the meeting oepa-
rated.

MONEY allti ki1.1,11,,1 raICULAL NEW ;t:.
CITY, QUARTER TO T111:1:A.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday the sales
were 4,000 bales. American realised 3id. to .51d. per
lb. The marke.: closed firmly, though somewhat tamer
than yesterday. V ailivay shares were very active, and
generally prices advanced again.
' 'The Royal Mail steamer Forth is telegraphed as hav-
ing arrived off Southainpton. The bullion freight is
335.694 dollars.
The Hamburgh mail furnishes no commercial news
of importance. The Sound continued open to vessels of
all nations except those of the German Confe-
deration, but we may shortly expect an en
tire • cessation of the blockade, as the interven-
tion of Lord Palmerston is accepted, and may
lead to a favourable result. It will be seen that one or
two firms at Glasgow and Aberdeen are in difficulties,
and the latter, we believe, almost wholly in consequence
of the derangemement of commerce in the North of
Europe. A speedy solution of at least one portion
of the difficulty, that affecting Denmark, would be
hailed with the highest satisfaction, though it
is much to be feared that Germany will some
time be greatly agitated by its own internal political
difficulties. The exchange at Hamburgh on London
was 13.5 being steady. Gold was 434 g. The funds
. were firm, and money was easy.
tAhtleey7m:wp
'The port of Messina having been declared " free,"
e
it is expected that it will attract a considerable trade.
Accounts front St. Petersburgh state that the Govern-
ment of the autocrat has expressed a determination to
leave toesurtniiiiitell—to'llgth'ere
act wholly on the defensive. Thus should volunteer and
in the whole co
charac-
terised by
other revolutionary corps penetrate across the frontier,
as perceptibly felt
e state r.
such di
esta-
blished against the State whither they issue.
country,. that it
commercial
tbeer.sinatserwesitillnegvetro nmoatkeetheir
in Canada '
The. position of our colonies is likely to be so far
In the alteredth
iitrislet.b.r.eomrecpualnsaedda, bautattneotheaatsis bclli will be
changed by ;the free-trade policy adopted in the mother
coo-fngtaitiestbuleonintsprogress.
following report
ercial world, and which have been
of their proceedings during the past year, a year oharac-
it memorable
theercdialopfoTlircady Trade beg
tle
as in all other parts of
4 4 /
mother country,
lonial Legislatures or privilege was granted to the Co-
rential duties
,heretofore aling an, or any, of the diffe-
Provincial Parliament leviedlast
in the colonies, and our
posing a new tariff of duties, passed an Act im
consider to be objectionable inaes'• which your Council
in detail, and are of opinion that, In
and inconsistent
will be found injurious to the true' 'ln many respects, it
since. interests of the pro-
" Pending the discussion upon this Bil
lative Assembly, your Council deemed I in the Legis-
sead a deputation of three of its member: to advisable to
Government,
and instructions to remonstrate with the ktoutrea
and if possible obtain a modification of
the
proposedscale of duties; and although the deputatioodid
not
succeed to the extent to be desired—they obtained a
rduction of the duties on some articles, and amongst oth:r-
al terations, the admission of certain articles used for
ship building purposes, at a duty of one per cent. only.
" During the last season much discussion has taken
place between the Imperial Government and that of the
United States, on the subject of the postal arrangements,
which your Council are happy to say has resulted
in our Government using the main road of the pro-
vinces between Halifax and Montreal, instead of paying
a most exorbitant sum to the United States for
the transit of the mails through their territory; and the
experience of the last four months clearly proves that
nothing has warranted the carriage of the mails through
the states, letters having reached Montreal with scarcely
an exceptions, as soon, and in some instances sooner, by
the Halifax mail route than if conveyed through the
United States. In summer, the cost of steamboats from
Pictou (should such be established) would materially
add to the expense; but while these, if navigated at
cheap rates of passage and freight, would prove
an advantage to the lower provinces, your Council
feel certain that, winter and summer united, the
cost would fall infinitely short of the sum paid to
a foreign Power, while the sum expended would be ex-
pended in the colonies, and would be of essential benefit
'to them.

" To the shortness of the session, and the consequent
limited period in which objections could be stated, are
to be attributed many defects in the emigrant law just
passed, which it is believed will unnecessarily cause
great loss and delay to the shipping interests, by com-
pelling ships to land their passengers at Quebec, instead
of permitting thcm as heretofore to embark those whose
destination was to be t.► the upper country in steamers
bound to Montreal; and this clause will aLo entail un-
neecessary expense and hardship upon the poor emi-
grants the msei res."

The Corn. Market is very dull, and Foreign Wheat is
Is. bier quarter lower.

The.Eoglish Stock Market' ius been flatter to-day.
Consols 82-i -to B.4l:.>r_uuuuty, -atuL.4l:24; to 831 for ac-
count. Exchequer-bills are 384. to 425. premium ;
Hank Stock is worth 18:4 to 191 ; and India Stock
229. The New Throe-and a Q'iarter per Cents. have
been 82a to a. • The Bears are prognosticating that the
account will 13e against the Bulls, us they have a good
deal to sell, ere they can close.
In the Foreign Atari:et the transactions are not so
numerous. Spanish Five per Cents. bring 1:4 to 13;
and the Three per Cents. 23. Portuguese Four per
Cents. have been 17 to 18. Mexican Bonds have been
16 to 16i. and Grenada 144. Chilian have been 80 to
81. Dutch Tho-and•a-Lticif per Cents. have been 43
to 434.

_Railway Shares aro rather flatter, but a good business
is doing.

ONE cIAJINO
RIC)..s 01 UIIITISIL FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Rank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns ..... 81%% li 74 81%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities... 82% 83% 83 83N1Ai 83%
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 BOIA 801i3
New 3% per Cent. Anns 8212V,/,%34 8244
..ong Anne. to expre Jan. 1860 Bt,2 7-16 8 7-16
Ditto, Oct. 10, 1659 B% 8%
Ditto 30 year*, Jan. 5, 1860 8 11-16 8 11-16
India Stock
India Bonds, 1,0001. .
Ditto under 1,0001... ...... . 23 p 23
Consols for Account ..... ......
Exchequer Bills. 3d.
1,0001
500!. ...... .................
Small 3B 42 p

ONk
O'CLOCK.

39 p
41 p

42 ia
CLOSIN.•
PRICES.

Cll ;Es OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, Small —
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent....
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent.
14%
Ditto, Deferred 2,7A
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 —
Ditto, Account l6 16%
Peruvian Bowls, 6 per Cents —
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto, Account lB 17 173/4
Russian Bonds —
-
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
%
Ditto, Account l2 13
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent — •
Ditto. Account ..... ... ......
Dividends on the above payble in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 43% 43 421,4
Ditto, Account 423/4 423j4
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 63 631/3 623/4 63 64
Ditto, Bonds 63 63
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DOSE CLOSING
AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
50 ....•• ...... ..•.....• -- '
AberdeenßA i ,iv.tY SHARES.
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 314.••••• ....
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2%....., ...........
Belfast & County Down 14%
"""'•• •••••
_
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction .... ... 20
—.
Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley 10 ..... 14
Birming.,Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley ...... 12L 4s ...
Birkenhead, Lancashire, •••
and Cheshire Jung..., 73/ •••• • ••••-***
Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5 4..
3%'•'
Bristol and Exeter...... 85 Ditto, Thirds ... ...... 25 -
Buckinghamshire... 12/. 4s.
Caledonian .. ............ 50 ... ..3014% 31 3l
Ditto, Half Shares
.. 614...... -
Ditto,Clydesdale June 50
Chester and Holyhead... 42% 24% 23%
Ditto, Preference l5 ...... •
Clarence
_ _ _

2%
15
27y
.....
161/
6

173/4
17%
86

13
3!4

-
31,4

-
234

Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct, 10"
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Direct London & Ports-
mout h
Dublin and Belfast Junc. 25 — ...............
Dundalk & Enniskillen 174 ...... .....
East Anglia, 251., L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25 64% .....
Do., 181., E. & H.... 18 ........ .....
Do., 3/.los.
Eastern Couxties... ..... 20 ...... 14172

Ditto,Extension,s
6/ per
138. 4
Cent., No. 1....... 1... par
Ditto ditto, No. 2...6/. 13s. 4d...
Do., North. & Eastern 50 ...... 50
Do., Quarters ..•.••...
Do., New ............... 23
'•
Eastern Uni0n............ 50 .....,
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121% —
Ditto, Tnirds .......135.4d..
1)o. (guar.6 percent.) 10
Ditto, ditto
••• .......
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
...... ..............
Ditto, New Quarters 6;4 — ............
East Linco'.nshire
_ ............
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto, Half Shares ... 15. ''''"" ' • •••
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ..
• ............ •••
Edinburgh and Northern 25 -
Ditto, New.. •••••• •
-33 , ...............
Ditto, Newport l2 A ......
Ditto, ditto, New •2u:. ... —.
•••
Exeter,Teovil, & Dorch. 28.* •••
4 ...... ...., ~..• .41

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