The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-14 00:00:00

S OCTOBER 14,

REPRODUCTIVE WORKS.
The Board of Works have issued the following in-
structions relative to reproductive works, which may be
undertaken by landed proprietors, as authorised by Mr.
Labouchere's letter of the sth of October, 1846 :--
" Landed proprietors, in the terms of the Act sth and
6th Victoria, cap. 89, applying for permission to expend
the amount, or a portion of the amount, to be levied on
any electoral district, in draining or subsoiling, con-
nected with drainage, must state the precise nature of
the work proposed to be executed; and it is to be ob-
served that no works can be admitted which are not
directly connected with the permanent improvement of
the soil.
" The lands having been viewed and reported on by
the officer of the Board of Works, and subsequently
sanctioned by the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury, the works may be commenced under the su-
perintendence of an overseer either appointed or ap-
proved of by the Board of Works.
" The labourers employed will be paid at the end of
each week by the pay-clerk of the Board of Works, in
proportion to the extent of the work executed, the price
for each item of expenditure having been previously de.
termined on and approved of by the Board.
" No contracts can be entered into by the Board of
Works with proprietors or others for the execution of
works of any kind; the whole must be done by task at
fixed prices, it being expressly understood that the la-
bourers to be employed shall not be limited to those
who reside within the particular electoral district in
which the work may be situated, but may be selected
from among the destitute poor residing within the limits
of the district allotted to the local relief committee ;
the particular labourers to be employed being furnished
with tickets by the inspecting officer of the Board of
Works.
" When a small stream or drain forms a boundary be-
tween two electoral districts, which stream or drain is
the natural outlet for the waters of both, the expenditure
required for sinking or embanking (as the case may he)
such stream or drain shall be borne by the proprietors
of both electoral divisions, in proportion to the benefit
conferred, and the works shall be effected under the
same arrangements as those prescribed for ordinary
drains, &c.
" When the sum to be expended on reproductive
works is equal to the entire amount to be levied off the
electoral district, such district will not be liable to pay
any additional portion of the general assessment for the
barony in which it is situated. But when only a portion
—say one moiety of the sum presented on the electoral
district, shall be expended on drainage &c., the entire of
such electoral district shall be assessable for the remain-
ing moiety which may be expended on ordinary roads,
or other useful public work within the electoral district
or barony, as the case may be, within the meaning of the
enactments of the 10th Victoria, cap. 107.—8 y order,
WALKER, S
RUMOURED EPISCOPAL CHANGES.ecretary."
The subjoined rather improbable announcement ap-
pears in the Derry Sentinel:—
" Rumours have been afloat in this neighbourhood for
some days respecting certain episcopal changes conse-
quent on the demise of his Grace the Archbishop of
York. It is said that in case this melancholy event
should take place the present Archbishop of Dublin is to
be translated to the Archiepiscopal see of York, the
Hon. and Right Rev. Dr. Ponsonby is to be promoted to
Dublin, and either the Bishop of Killaloe or of Ossory is
to be translated to the see of Derry. We cannot trace
these reports with any certainty to their source, but
Lord John Russell could scarcely make an appointment
more gratifying to the members of the Established
Church in this part of the country than promoting
either Dr. O'Brien or the Hon. and Right Rev. Ludlow
Tonson to the united diocese of Derry and Raphoe."
MORAL v. PHYSICAL FORCE.
The Freeman of this morning publishes a hostile cor-
respondence which has passed between Mr. John Shea
Lawlor and Mr. John O'Connell, M.P., the originating
cause of which may be thus briefly stated :—ln conse-
quence of the recent resolutions adopted by the Repeal
Association in reference to the seceding members from
that body, Mr. Lawlor, as one of the parties put under
ban, and whose letter of resignation was declared by the
committee to be " couched in terms of most unbecom-
ing discourtesy," that gentleman wrote to Mr. John
O'Connell, as the proposer of the obnoxious resolution,
tto say,
to
the
requiringseries amr. L
satisfactoryar,lersayes
" With the decision of the committee, so far as x—planation. In letter No. 1 of
re-
gards its having retained or rejected my original commu-
nication,
contemplationmm
neitherni at io n
could, I I
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have naovtehinegntwerheadteivnetro thisat
myen
have sought to attach any personal responsibility to any
one connected with that proceeding. But the case alto-
gether differs when one gentleman undertakes to adju-
cate upon the propriety or impropriety of the deport-
ment of another, and to pronounce that deportment as
being indecorous or unbecoming.' Society would be-
come intolerable, and the intercourse between gentlemen,
even on public questions, unsafe and embarrassing, if
individuals were allowed to suppose that, when discharg-
ing what may appear to them public duties, they were
authorised in laying aside those just and proper restraints
imposed by the ordinary rules of society, and to arro-
gate to themselves functions unsuited to their position
or powers."
Mr. John O'Connell, in reply to the foregoing, retorts
upon Mr. Lawlor the charge of addressing disrespectful
language in his letter to the committee of the Repeal
Association :
" In page 4," says Mr. O'Connell, " you accuse us of
being guilty of personal insult and unmitigated politi-
cal persecution r
"In page 9 you ask is our conduct fair, honest,
or honourable'—and you express your own opinion to the
contrary.
" I have omitted to say that in page 4 also you say:—
" Had the offence (viz.. that of the Young Ireland
party) been denounced, instead of the offenders, our
Association would have been more advantaged—although,
perhaps, individually some of its members may have
been less so.'
" Page 10, you insinuate that those at present work-
ing in the cause are neither honest' nor disin-
terested.'
"If I am to understand your letter as seeking to fix a
personal quarrel upon me for the discharge of a public
duty towards the Association, assailed as it was in a
letter intended to be public, and written in a public
capacity, I must altogether deny your right so to do,
and I would submit it to your good judgment whether
it may not wear the appearance to the public eye of
an attempt at personal intimidation to retrieve a political
defeat?

"At the same time I have no hesitation in saying to
you, that if you will withdraw the offensive expressions
I hare alluded to in your letter of the 20th of September,
I will at once, and most•cheerfully, solicit the committee
to allow the terms you complain of to be cancelled in
their record of the resolution moved by me on receipt of
your letter of the 24th of the same month."
This explanation was not deemed satisfactory to Mr.
Lawlor, and he implores of Mr. O'Connell to reconsider
the matter, so as to preclude the probability of the
dernier ressort :
" I would entreat of you to place this case before some
experienced and dispassionate adviser, whose judgment
may be unembarrassed by any personal or political feel-
ing. Should you feel disposed to adopt this suggestion,
and that you will inform me of your having determined
to do so, I shall most readily remain quiescent and inac-
tive to any period of time you may think it proper to ap-
point, as allowing a sufficient interval for that pupose.
" Nothing necessarily tending to lead to any unto.
ward result has as yet taken place ; but, come what may,
I shall now, in any event or contingency which may
happen, have the satisfaction of feeling that, although
I could not induce myself to have allowed a personal
disrespect to pass unredressed, and your communication
of this day distinctly admits that even more than that
was designed and intended towards me—yet, that when
seeking that redress, I have omitted no means of having
secured it in a manner the least embarrassing or dis-
tressing to the principal and leading perpetrator of it.
" I am, dear Sir, your obedient servant,
"JOHN SHEA LAWLOR.
" Pray do not misunderstand my motive in suggesting
to you the propriety of taking every precaution—a thing
easily done—for preventing this matter reaching the
ears of our public authorities. Such an accident would
be injurious and discreditable, and would place the party
who might be considered responsible for it in a very
disagreeable position. On my side two gentlemen only
are acquainted with the circumstance, and upon their
circumspection and caution I feel that I may implicitly
rely."
This very intelligible communication drew forth the
following response from the Honourable Member for
Kilkenny :

"Loyal National Repeal Association,
Corn Exchange Rooms, Dublin,
Oct. 11, 1846, 3 P.M.
" Sir,—As from the tenour of your second letter to
me, which I have just received, I am confirmed in the
impression that you are seeking to fix a personal quarrel
upon me for the discharge of a public duty, I proceed
at once to the nearest police-office, to put the authorities
in possession of your intentions.
" The right of free comment upon the public acts of
persons assuming a public capacity I have, even when
exercised as it has been so frequently against myself,
always recognised in the fullest degree. I will not al-
low that freedom to be now violated; nor a precedent to
be set for the intimidation of men discharging a dis-
agreeable, but an imperative public duty.
" Your offensive, or, to use your own words; 4objec.,
tionable' expressions, were applied to the Association
collectively, and to individuals in it, as is plain from the
extracts I quoted in my letter of yesterday. You offered
these insults in your public capacity, as a member of
the Association,' (I quote your own words again)—l, in
my similar public capacity, was the mouthpiece of the
committee in resenting your conduct.
" Your letter of last night's date I shall submit to that
body at their next meeting, as I did at their meeting of
yesterday, with that which you sent me in the morning.
interposition
of Ido not delegate any one to call for the
of the authorities between you and me—but, as I have
said, I proceed in person to make the application.—l am,
Sir, your faithful servant,

" JOHN O'CONNELL.

" John Shea Lawlor, Esq., &0.,
Imperial Hotel."
_

After this it is almost unnecessary to mention that all
idea of a hostile collision was at an end. Mr. Thomas

Steele and• Mr. Ray lodged the necessaryinformations
against Mr. Lawlor before the magistrates of Henry-
street Police-office yesterday, and in the course of the
evening the advocate of physkal fOrce was arrested at
his lodgings in the Imperial Hotel, where, however, he
was permitted to remain for the night, under the sur-
veillance of the police.
At the morning sitting of the magistrates of Henry-
street office this day, Mr. O'Connell, accompanied by
Messrs. James O'Hea, Edward Clements, Thomas Steele,
T. M. Ray, and Richard Barrett, came before Dr. Kelly
to prefer his charge against Mr. Lawlor. Mr. Lawlor,
shortly after, accompanied by Mr. Pierce Mahony and
Mr. F. B. Healey, entered the office. The following is
the information. sworn by Mr. O'Connell before I)r.
ar-
rest
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Kingstown,
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,is. Kelly on Sunday, and on which the warrant for the
day,sq., ofthe
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Ohiell'ober inst., received a letter, herewith annexed, and
to which he has affixed his initials, and which letter is
dated Imperial Hotel, Saturday night, Oct. 10, 1846,'
and signed John Shea Lawlor,' which letter this in-
formant believes to be in the handwriting of the said
John Shea Lawlor ; that the said letter is addressed by
the said John Shea Lawlor to this informant ; and from
the words and expressions used in the said letter, and
all, as informant believes to be, in the handwriting of
the said John Shea Lawlor, this informant has no doubt
whatever that the said letter was so addressed to him
for the purpose and with the intent, on the part of the
said John Shea Lawlor, of provoking this informant to
commit a breach of the peace, and of threatening to
send this informant a hostile message, whereby the lives
of this informant and of the said John Shea Lawlor
would be placed in peril."
Mr. O'Connell was sworn, and asked by Dr. KELLY if
Mr. Lawlor was the gentleman against whom he had
lodged the information ? Mr. O'Connell—Yes, that is
the gentleman.
Dr. KELLY—From the expreSsions used in the letter
alluded to in the information, are you apprehensive of a
breach of the peace ? Mr. O'Connell—l am.
Dr. KELLY--Are you still under that impression ?
Mr. O'Connell—l am.
Dr. KELLY—Mr. Lawlor, you are now free to answer
the charge made against you, and I am ready to hear
anything you may wish to offer in explanation or justi•
fication, if you have anything to offer ; and, if not,
it will be tor me to take the best course I can.
Mr. Lawlor—l shall not offer any observation; I shall
leave the case entirely with you. You I conceive to be
the best judge of the whole case. Were I aware that
the case would get such exteusive notoriety as it unfor-
tunately has, I should have come here prepared with a
professional gentleman, not for the purpose of saying
anything to any person, but of leaving the office without
saying one word on the subject.
Dr. KELLY—You don't deny having written this letter
to Mr. O'Connell ? Mr. La.wlor—l neither deny nor
admit anything ; I am quite silent on the whole affair.
I)r. KELLY—Then I have only one course to pursue,
and that is to bind you to keep the peace. I shall re-
quire you to give me two sureties in the sum of 2001.
each, and you yourself in 4001., to keep the peace. If
you think the sum too high, I am ready to hear any ob-
servation you think fit to make on that point.
Mr. Lawlor—l shall not offer a single observation on
any part of the case.
Dr. KELLY—Then you have no objection to the
amount of bail which I have named? Perhaps you might
have something to say in that respect, as this is net
your native city.
Mr. Lawlor—l am most anxious not to say a word
at all ; but, as to the amount of bail, it cannot make
any difference as to the security in any city where I
may be.
Dr. KELLY—Then I must have two sureties in 2001.,
and yourself in 4001., to keep the peace.
Mr. Lawlor—For what? In binding a person to keen
the peace, there are two material items, which I think
you have omitted altogether. The first is, as to the per-
son to whom I am to keep the peace; the second, as to
the period of time for which I am to be bound.
Dr. KELLY-As to whom you are to keep the peace,
the complainant in this case is, in the first instance, the
person to whom you are to be bound, and then gene-
rally to all her Majesty's subjects, for the term of five
years.
Mr. Lawlor—Do you think, from all the circum-
stances, and looking at the whole of the case, that I
ought to be bound to keep the peace to any person ex-
cept the party who brought me here?
Dr. KELLY—I think your remarks are right.
Mr. Lawlor—l am very sorry to speak at all in this
matter. I intended to have walked into the office and
out again, without offering a single observation.
Mr. O'Connell said he did not come there to seek
protection for himself personally, but there was what
he considered a great public principle involved in it—
and he wished to have all those who considered it a
duty in that respect to be protected. It was on public
grounds alone that he brought the case forward.
Dr. KELLY then directed Mr. Lawlor to enter into
securities to keep the peace towards Mr. O'Connell;
and Mr. Peirce Mahony and Mr. F. B. Healy having
entered into the necessary bond, Mr. Lawlor was dis-
charged.
Mr. O'Connell, on retiring from the office, thanked
Dr. Kelly for the manner in which he had acted.
Dr. KELLY said, I have only done my duty, and I am
very glad to find you have done yours.
TThhee E ,
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terminated.
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THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN.
" The Archbishop of Dublin protests against the form
of prayer prepared by the Archbishop of Canterbury,
and agreed upon by her Majesty in Council, as well as
to that settled by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland,
humbly imploring the Almighty God to avert from these
countries the impending calamity of famine. The ob-
jections are of a twofold nature—legal and spiritual.
Dr. Whateley denies the constitutional right to issue
such a command; and, as he considers the visitation a
direct judgment from God, he looks upon any attempt
at propitiating the Divine wrath in the nature of a
blasphemy. His Grace preached a sermon upon this
subject yesterday in the Episcopal Chapel of St. Ste-
phen, in which he expounded his views, political and
religious. Copies of the form of public prayer, as it ap-
was not read—orders, as it was said, to that effect having
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been issued by the Archbishop."

FORTIFICATION OF THE COASTS
OF ENGLAND.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUE'.
Sift,--It was with no ordinary pleasure I read the able
article under the above title, in your valuable paper of
the 7th inst., and the public owe great obligations to
you in making known the sentiments of M. C. Dupin,
on this highly important and vital subject, which, let
us trust, will receive the earnest and immediate attention
of the English Government.
You have often and so strenuously advocated the con-
struction of "Harbours of Refttge," as necessary for the
protection of the lives and property of her Majesty's
subjects in the English Channel, that I need not apolo-
gise for soliciting your indulgence on the present occa-
sion. In the event of a sudden outbreak of war with
our French neighbours (which every right-minded
person would lament), what protection, I will ask, will
the town of Brighton, with its 50,000 souls, have, if sud-
denly attacked by a fleet of war? Might not the
" Queen of Watering Places" be reduced to ruins in a
few short hours?

Frequently have you urged the great necessity for the
intermediate harbour, or breakwater, proposed by the
Admiralty Commissioners to be erected in Seaford Bay,
being midway between Portsmouth and Dover, and which
is in every way eligible, from its fine anchorage and great
depth of water at all tides, and, being near to the inner
harbour of Newhaven, would be of immense value in the
Channel for sheltering merchants' and steam vessels,
and also prove of vast importance to the British Govern-
ment; as, on the completion of the branch line of railroad
to the port of Newhaven from Lewes and Keymer, the
shortest route will be offered to France from the metro-
polis, and the greatest facility will thbn be afforded for
the transmission of troops and ammunition to the coast.
It is a notorious and lamentable fact, that there is no
good shelter for vessels between Dover and Portsmouth;
the consequence is, a great number of shipwrecks, and
loss of life annually, which would be generally avoided
bythe construction of the proposed breakwater in Seaford
Bay.
If the Property-tax is to continue, surely a few thou-
sand pounds might be voted by Parliament every session
for such a national undertaking, and when many millions
sterling is so easily raised for railway speculations I ! !
You have more than once stated energetically, that the
situation of Seaford is paramount, and ought first to be
commenced. We have now another Government since
your last appeal, pray urge speedily upon them to com-
mence this work of art, without further delay, in the
days of peace, and before the finances may be unfortu-
nately required for the purposes of warfare.
I are, Mr. Editor, your most obedient servant,
Bth October, 1846. A CONSTANT READER.

REMARKABLE ESCAPE.---it has seldom happened
that we have bad to set such a remarkable instance of
escape from death as the following before our readers:—
On Wednesday afternoon, while a woman named Christie
was hanging out clothes from a window at Laurie's-
close, Giles-street, she lost her balance and fell to the
ground. The height of the window from which she fell
is four stories. In her descent she came in contact with
and broke the poles that had been extended from all the
other windows below for drying clothes. Strange
enough she was so little hurt as to be able to walk up
the stairs again to her own house. The poles and ropes
she had displaced successively in her descent must have
broken the force of her fall.—Edinburgh Post.
PRICE or GOLD.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 16 per mill, , which, at the English Mint price of
31. 17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an
exchange of 25 55 ; and the exchange at Paris on
London at short being 25 77k, it follows that gold
is 0.87 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 31.175. 10Id.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 10 ;
and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being 13 9i, it follows that gold 1S 9.23 per cent. dearer
in liatuburgh than in London.