The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-30 00:00:00

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 28.—1 t is confidently announced to-
day that Parliament will not meet in November, as was
almost universally supposed it would, at the close of last
week, and, indeed, up to this afternoon. The following
statement upon the subject appears in the /I/ad of this
evening:—
" Lord John Russell agreed with Lord Besboreugh as
to the necessity of assembling Parliament forthwith, but
the majority of the Cabinet overruled his Lordship's
decision. Lord Grey and his party voted with the ma-
jority. Mr. Redington, Under-Secretary for Ireland,
has left town for London. Mr. Redingtou's visit, no
doubt, is connected with the state of this country. He
can, of course, give Lord John Russell and his colleagues
more general and useful information by being on the
spot than he could possibly afford by means of epistolary
communications, trammelled, as they naturally must
be, by official forms and absurb punctilio. This is not
a time for indulging in the quirks of lawyers or the
humbug of diplomacy."
INCREASE OF STIPENDIARY MAGISTRACY.
The Irish Government have determined upon ap-
pointing six additional stipendiary magistrates, whose
services will, no doubt, be fully required the
ensuing season. The names of the fortunate gentle-
men are, Mr. Miller (son of Lieutenant-Colonel Miller,
one of the Inspectors-General of the Constabulary),
Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Arabin, Mr. Ffrencb, Mr. Plunket (of
the Constabulary), and Mr. Birmingham.
MR. O'CONNELL ON TUE FAMINE.

At the usual weekly meeting of the repealers to-day,
the following letter from Mr. O'Connell was read :
" Derrynane Abbey, Cahirciveen, Sept. 25.
" My Dear Ray,—The state of the country is fright-
ful ; famine hourly approaching, and the enormity of
the evil so great as to require fur its alleviation sums of
money so apparently extravagant in amount as to fill the
minds of men of the most hopeful temrerament with
dismay and affright.
" You have ieen in the newspafers a report of the
proceedings of our presentment sessions at Cahirciveen,
for the barony of Iveragh. The report includes only
part of what occurred on the first day of meeting. There
are, necessarily, many inaccuracies in that report ; but it
shows that we had at once agreed to charge the barony
with public works to the extent of two-thirds of the
poor•law valuation, namely, 14,000/. ; but, when we
came to discuss the particulars, it struck me forcibly that
14,0001. would not be sufficient, and we therefore in-
creased the presentments to the amount of 21,0001., being
the entire amount of one year's poor•law valuation of
the entire barony. It will therefore not be our fault if
there be not work and wages for the people during a
considerable portion of the ensuing winter and spring,
especially as the Knight of Kerry has applied for a large
sum (I don't know the exact amount) under the Drainage
Act, and I myself am preparing an application, in con-
junction, I hope, with the Marquis of Lansdowne, if not,
upon my own account, for the drainage of a tract, upon
which above 4,0001. can be expended in the wages of
labour. I only mention these things to instigate others
to do more than we have dune, and above all to pre-
vent the people from starving, or being driven into
madness.
" That amiable and excellent gentleman, Mr. Monsen,
of Tervoe, in his very able letter of The 18th of Septem-
ber, to Mr. Labouchere, speaking of the Labour-rate
Act, has these words-r--' I wish distinctly to state, that
be the existing law good or bad, wise or unwise, as it is
at present the only way by which the poor can be re-
lieved, it is our manifest duty to make use of it?
"He continues, It is our clear duty in the eyes of
God and man.' _

" Hcsw melancholy it is to think that Lord Glengall
and a number of other noblemen and gentlemen as-
sembled at Cashel appear (if we are to credit the news-
pater reports) to have totally neglected this, their duty
to .Gccl and man!
" In aiy last letter I threw out a suggestion respect-
ing the necessity of a combined effort of the Irish gentry.
I beg again to repeat that suggestion.
" It is, that there should be some combined meeting
in Dublin of a number of the landed proprietors of Ire-
land, of every district in the island, to make arrange-
ments, in conjunction with the Government, for mitigat-
ing as much as possible the terrible emergency that
awaits us.
" Let it be remembered that there is great reason to
fear—and not only to fear, but to believe—that the evils
that now press upon us will not have spent their force in
a single year, or between this and next harvest. What
will be the condition of the country, if there shall be
another year of blighted crop, without adequate prepara-
tions being made to meet the calamity? and what suffi-
cient preparations should and can be made, it is not
likely that individual sagacity could foretel.
"If ever there was a case requiring consultation, con-
sideration; and deliberate and dispassionate discussion,
it is that now in hand. It requires the concentrated in-
telligence of the entire country to afford a chance of
devising plans suited to the magnitude of the peril, and
the enormous calamities that menace us.
"My suggestion, I repeat, is, that the landed pro-
prietors, instead of continuing their scattered and
isolated attempts to meet the coming mischief, should
immediately form a national committee to meet in
Dublin, and assist at this disastrous moment in the
management of such Irish affairs as relate to the ap-
proaching famine. This committee might be composed
of as many of the high sheriffs as may choose to attend;
also, as many deputy-lieutenants and justices of the peace
as should choose to assist, together with such other
landed proprietors as may be requested by their own
lecal districts to give their aid and attendance.
"Such a body as this, even upon a smaller scale than
may be naturally expected, would command the atten-
tion of the Government, both in Ireland and in Eng-
land; thoroughly acquainted as they would be with all
the details of Irish affairs, they would instruct as well
as direct the counsels of the Executive. They would be
listened to by Parliament as well as by the English
people; and, having the combined advantages of perfect
information, of pressing personal intei est, and a high
sense of duty, they would form the instrument best cal-
culated to rescue Ireland from otherwise inevitable
destruction.
" In ordinary times these suggestions of mine would
be laughed at by many who may, perhaps, at the present
moment deem them worthy of consideration. At all
events, I hope I do my duty in endeavouring 'to rouse
the universal Irish people to a.sense of their danger and
their moral responsibility.
" In the meantime let the Repeal Association do all
they_ can to extricate Ireland from the perplexed state
of misery in which she is at present involved. There is
no fact more distinctly recognized than that the greater
part of the Irish population are every year on the verge
of starvation. It has pleased Providence in the present
year to engulf them in misery. We do not confound the
adventitious misfortune of the present year with the
steady progression of the accumulating distress and
misery which has marked the domestic history of Ireland
since the date of the union. Parliamentary documents
have placed beyond doubt that the wretchedness of the
Irish peasantry has been, and is, annually increasing.
The effects of the union have left the country unable to
endure the loss of a single crop. How sacred, then, is
the duty of those who appreciate these facts to use all
lawful and peaceable means to procure the restoration of
the Irish Legislature!
"Perhaps there never was anything in the history of
nations so fantastically atrocious as the conduct of the
English press at such an awful moment as the present.
Let any one only listen to the description given by the
Times of the peasantry of Connaught. Oh! how false
—bow insulting—how almost maddening ! Again—bat
this is endurable—they attribute all the misfortunes of
Ireland to the Irish national character. England, by a
combination of the vilest fraud, with a force casually
irresistible, deprived us of our nationality—and then,
because we suffer the evils necessarily rcaulting from
that loss, their writers taunt us with the naturtsi and
necessary consequences of that deprivation, and accuse
us of being the authors of our own misery, choosing to
forget that we have had no control over our own affairs,
and have been nothing more than the dad saris of an un-
grateful mistress.
"For our parts, we have one solemn duty, however it
may be forgotten by the enemics of the Repeal Associa-
tion; it is, never to relax our eirorts, never to sink our
hopes or diminish our expectation foie the restoration of
our domestic Parliament.
"Come what will, happen what may, we at least ace
devoted to Irish nationality—that is, to the repeal of the
union...--Believe me to be very faithfully yours.
"DANIEL O°COI-DigLia

" T. M. Ray, Esq."
The amount of the rent for the week was 981.35. N.