The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-01 00:00:00

the Tory press was lauded as having acted more
fairly and openly with the Chartists thilb the
other ; organs, and the Morning Post
alluded to as giving the fullest and fairest reports.
The .111,,rthei 71 Star came in for a share of abuse, a dole
gate 4,bserving that its proprietor bad very materially
injured the cause, and that Mr. O'Connor was un-
worthy of their support. Ultimately the original mo-
tion was withdrawn, and one passed appointing a
committee to inquire into the best means of obtaining a
fair and lull report. and requesting them to report the
result of their inquiries to the Assembly.
A certificate was read by the Chairman, in accord-
ance with the resolution passed in the morning, appoint-
ing Mr. M'Carthy a delegate for Finsbury and the city
of London.
A lengthy discussion also ensued upon this subject,
upon a motion of Mr. T. Clarke being made, that Mr.
M'Carthy's credentials be returned, and the eltction be
considered null and void.
Mr. ADAMS stated that the meeting which elected Mr.
WCarthy consisted of only 200 persona, and was held in
a small room; neither had proper notice been given of
the meeting. _ _

Mr. INJARTHY contended that he had been properly
elected, and attributed the opposition against his taking
his seat to one or two delegates who entertained some
personal hostility towards him because he held extreme
opinions. lie bad no wi,h to remain in the Assembly,
however, if they thought he was not entitled to a seat
as a delegate.

The discussion terminated by a motion that the cer-
tificate was not satisfactory, the meeting not having been
held in accordance with the resolutions laid down for
the conducting of elections, which was carried by a
majority of three upon being put to the Assembly.
Mr. M'Carthy resigned his seat and left the hall be•
fore the resolution was passed, apparently much an-
no)•ed.
The Assembly shortly afterwards separated.

IRELAND.
Duners, APRIL 29.—A large majority of the
' magistrates of the county and city of Dublin has de-
clared in favour of coercion. Nothing less than the
proclamation of both will satisfy " the great unpaid"
of the county of Dublin, for it is a remarkable fact,
that of the city magistrates present when this sage
determination was arrived at, nine-tenths were un-
favourable to the proposition, and, what is still more
remarkable, very many of these gentlemen heretofore
professing high Conservative politics. The meeting
was convened by Lord Brabazon, the county Sheriff,
and was called on requisition to him, in his capacity
of Vice-Lieutenant. •
llis Lordship having taken the chair,
The lion. Mr. PRESTON, a county magistrate, pro-
posed the following address to the Lord Lieutenant :
"We, the undersigned magistrates and Deputy-
Lieutenants of the county and city of Dublin, having
witnessed with' horror and disgust the traitorous
advice lately given at certain public meetings by evili
designing men, with intent to excite the ignorant and
mors necessitous of the poorer classes to acts ofin-
subordination and rebellion, are anxious to approach
your Excellency with the strongest expression of our
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within our power to assist your Excellency in the
maintenance of order.
" We deeply deplore that an insignificant and tur-
bulent party should have been able, by their seditious
exhortations and the sanguinary violence that has
characterised their harangues, to create so much alarm
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merce, and consequently to entail such calamitous
results on the industrious classes; and though we are
aware that your Excellency has succeeded, by the
judicious and vigorous exercise of the powers en-
trusted to you, to suppress all insane attempts at out-
break, we conceive it to be of the utmost importance
that the luyal and well-disposed portion of the people
should stand forward to assist your Excellency in
maintaining peace and restoring confidence.
" We therefore feel it incumbent, under the cir-
cumstances, to give assurance to your Excellency of
cur affection and loyalty to the Crown, and of our
firm determination to exert our influence, and, if
necessary, to piece our personal service at your dis •
posal for the preservation of peace, the support of the
throne, and the maintenance in its integrity of the
constitution of the United Kingdom.
•
" We would respectfully but earnestly submit to
her Majesty's Government the absolute necessity of
taking the most prompt and vigorous measures to
prohibit the organization of clubs, and put down all
seditious proceedings, whether by meetings, speeches,
or publications, and to restore confidence to the well-
disposed by enforcing obedience to the laws—by
preventing the manufacture, sale, and indiscriminate
possession of arms, and by repressing, with a strong
hand, those traitorous and seditioua efforts which are
now being openly made to excite a people, suffering
under severe privations, to sanguinary rebellion, and
to subvert all law, order, and government in this
portion of the United Kingdom."
Colonel CONNOLLY seconded the motion, to which
the following amendment.was moved by C.
Firzsi-
MOv, Esq.:—
" That while we are prepared to essist her Majes-
ty's Executive in maintaining peace and order, we
feel we should he wanting in our duty to the Crown,
it we did not inform Government of our conviction
that distress and discontent pervade society in Ireland ;
that large and generous measures are necessary to
restore this country to permanent tranquillity."
Mr. REYNOLDS, M.l'., seconded the amendment,
which was supported by Lord Cloncurry, the Hon.
Mr. Southwell, Mr. George Roe, Mr. Wallace, Mr.
T. Hutton, Alderman O'Brien, M.P., Cantain
Lindsay, Mr. George Pirri, Sir John Power, Bart.,
Alderman Keshan, &c., &c., all of whom testified to
the good disposition of their respective localities, and
protested against the injustice of subjecting a well-
disposed city like Dublin to the operation of an arbi-
trary and unconstitutional law.
On a division, the amendment was negatived by
a majority of twenty-six, twenty-two being in favour
of it, and forty-eight, against it. On the division
being taken,
Sir JOHN POWER said Before your Lordship
eaves the chair, I beg to protest against the whole
proceedings of this meeting.
On the motion of Mr. HAMILTON, it was then re-
solved that the address should be presented to his
Excellency by their chairman, the Vice-Lieutenant
of the county.
Mr. REYNOLDS entered his solemn protest against
the county magistrates recording their votes upon
any subject affecting the city.
Alderman KEsnAN, on the part of the city magis-
Itrates, also protested against, the proceedings. He
was one of the humblest magistrates present.—(Cries
of " Question," and interruption.) He had not
troubled the meeting before, but he would not he
deterred iry clamour from giving expression to his
opinions.
Sir ROBERT SHAW—Order, order. There is no
question before the chair.
Alderman KESHAN—The Lord-Lieutenant has been
humbugged by designing persons, who were concoct-
ing reports. detrimental to the character of the people.
There was no more danger of an outbreak in the city
of Dublin than there was of one amongst the magis-
trates themselves. As a proof that he for one enter-
tained no apprehensions on the subject, he might
mention, that the preceding day he offered twenty-
Eve years' purchase for a limited estate.
Sir ROBERT SHAW (interrupting)—There is no
question before the chair.—(Order, order.)
Alderman KESHAN—No matter; you shall not
libel the people of. Dublin with impunity. I deny
emphatically that the people are on the eve of rebel-
lion ; and I am sure there is not a Roman Catholic in
Dublin who is not ready, if necessary, to shed his
life's blood in defence of the throne. I, for one, am
prepared to do so.—(Cheers.) I regret to say that I
perceive a disposition on the part of the magistrates
to coerce the city and keep the county free.--(No.)
Mr. FITZSIMON then moved that the Lord Mayor
should take the second chair ; but his Lordship de-
clined to do so, as he would thereby commit the City
of Dublin to an approval of the addresses which
had been adopted, and from which he totally dis-
sented.

The lion. Mr. Preston was then called to the chair,
and a vote of thanks having been passed to Lord Bra.
bazon, the meeting separated.
Whether Lord Clarendon will adopt the sugges-
tions of the rural Dogberries, and proclaim the
City, remains to be seen. It is more than pro-
bable, however, that his Excellency, after such an
unequivocal expreaion of opinion on the part of
the city magistracy, will hesitate long before he
resorts to such a measure, and the more especially
when he must be convinced that the great majority
of the citizens have no sympathy with the ravings of
the few hot-headed and reckless individuals who
have found prating and printing sedition such profit-
able employment during the last few months.
Mr. Hodges, the Government reporter, left for Lime-
rick by the mail of last night.
Messrs. O'Brien and Meagher are to appear in the
Queen's Bench on Monday morning, at ten o'clock,
to be charged with the information at the suit of the
Queen, the Attorney-General having entered a nolle
prosequi on the indictments, and tiled ex officios
instead.

. , .
THE PROSECUTED PATRIOTS.
Large placards of variously gorgeous colours are
posted through the city .of Cork, calling on the
people to assemble on _Monday, at Sydney-place, the
trades to march from their rooms in procession, in
order to sympathise with•the "prosecuted patriots."
The placards conclude with "God save the People."
We have heard that preparations on an extensive
' scale are being made to render the demonstration:
sufficiently effective. It is rumoured that some of
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open air meeting, and will prohibit the assemblage in

Sidney-place.
The magistrates met yesterday, but, they did not
consider it necessary to come to any resolution to put