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

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

The usual weekly meeting of the members of this
Association was held to-day in the Conciliation-hall.

There was a tolerably large attendance in the body of
the building, but the members' seats, and the seats tip-

propriated -to ladies, were almost deserted. At one
o'clock, Mr. O'Connell, M.P., Mr. Nicholas Maher,
M.P., Alderman O'Brien, M.P., Captain Broderick, and
Messrs. Clements, Steele, Fitzpatrick, O'Dowd, and

other members of the committee, entered the sleeting,

and met with their customary reception. Upon the
motion -of Mr. O'Connell, the chair was taken by Mr.

Charles O'Connell.

The CLIAIRDIAN addressed the meeting at some length

to show that in his county, the county Clare, there were
no " Young Ireland" men, and that all repealers there
were supporters of the moral force doctrines of the Libe-
rator, his illustrious namesake.—(Hear, hear.) The
Learned Ger tleman also stated that the Roman Catholic

bishops and clergy were the warm advocates of peace-
able agitation in that county-, and expressed it as his
opinion that the speeches delivered by the seceders from
the Association had, before they left, given expression to

sentiments which he' believed not only to be bloody, but
treasonable.—(Cheers.) -
Mr. STEELE gave his testimony to the extraordinary
patriotism of the " county Clare boys," and said it was
all owing to the exertions of -their respected chair-

man.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. O'CoNNELL said that a word had fallen from Mr.
Charles O'Connell which he wished to have corrected,
for he was sure it was unintentional inaccuracy.—(Hear,

hear.) He had stated that treat,onable language had

been used in that hall by some of the:" Young "
party. Now he (Mr. O'Connell) never heard treason-
able language used in that hall.
The CHAIRMAN (interrupting)—l said used by them
" out " of the hall.—(Hear.)
Mr. O'CONNELL—Then you ate perfectly right-1
misunderstood you.—(Cheers.) The Learned Gentle-
man then handed Captain Broderick an address from the
corporation of Waterford, presented to him a few days
since, approving of his moral force doctrines, and asked
leave to read it. He said he did not ask to have it read

frdm any feeling of private vanity, but in order to let
the world know what were really the feelings of the
people of Ireland as regarded the policy he. was pur-
suing.—(Hear, hear.)
Captain Broderick having read the address,
Mr. O'CONNELL moved its insertion on the minutes,
and said he was proud of a document of sueh a nature
coming from so respectable a body as the corporation of
Waterford.—(Cheers.)
Mr. MAHER seconded the motion as a " peaceable

man."—(Laughter.)
The resolution having passed,
Mr. O'CoNNELL stated, that the Bishop of Waterford
and the clergy under him, he was happy to say, agreed
with the laity; and he read the following resolutions

adopted by them on the subject.
"Resolved—That we are unshaken in our long-

maintained conviction of the necessity of a domestic
Legislature for the peace and prosperity of the Irish
nation, and that we are determined to adopt every legal
means consistent with religion, and with our sacred pro-
fession, for obtaining it, no matter what party possess
the government of the country, or what other measures
they propose, or promises they hold forth.
" Resolved—That we believe the principal means to so
desirable an end is union in mind and effort with
O'Connell, whom alone we acknowledge as our guide
and leader in all the political concerns of Ireland, and in
whose fervent attachment to our holy religion, wisdom,
integrity, and disinterested love of country, we have a
most thorough and unreserved confidence.

" Resolved—That certain opinions
,put forth in the
avowed organ of a party, denominated the Young Ire-
land' party, have a tendency to infuse into the repeal
agitation a spirit with which we cannot sympathise; that
we are sincere and uncompromising professors of the
doctrine of moral force, and have joined the Associa-
tion on the faith of this doctrine being its foundation,
and shall remain members of it so long only as it con-

tinues to be so.
"Resolved—That we tender our gratitude and praise
to Mr. John O'Connell, for the prudence and energy
which he displayed in the meetings of the Association
on the 27th and 28th of July, and on the many other
occasions that he has shown himself worthy of his emu.
try and of the name he bears.
"Resolved—That our warm thanks are due to our
venerated bishop, for convening and presiding over this
meeting, and that he is requested to transmit the fore•
going resolutions to the Liberator."
These resolutions were also entered on the minutes,
after which

Captain BRODERICK, at Mr. O'Connell's request, read
the following document from the Bishop of Clogher, ap-
proving of the course pursued by the Association in
opposition to Mr. William S. O'Brien and his party:—
" Clogher, Sept. 5.

"My dear Mr. O'Connell,—lt affords ate the greatest
pleasure to have to forward to you the accompanying
resolutions, which, within the last few days, have been
unanimously adopted by the clergy in their conferences.
over which I have had the honour of presiding. On the
subjects to which they have reference, I have good rea-
son to know that these resolutions not only speak my
own opinions, and the opinions of the clergy, but also
the opinions and feelings of the whole body of our people
in this part of Ireland, who, having always placed them-
selves under your peaceful guidance, see now more than
ever the necessity of adhering with unshaken fidelity to
the principles of peace and order in which you have so
long and so successfully laboured to promote the true
interests and happiness of all classes of the community.
I constantly pray that the Almighty God may long pre-
serve you to promote these important objects, and bestow
his choicest blessings upon you in this life and in the
life to come.—l have the honour to be, my dear Mr.
O'Connell, your most faithful and most obliged humble
servant, " t C. MACNALLY."

"DIOCESE OF CLOGRER.
"On the 27th and 31st ult., and on the Ist and 2d
of this present month of September, the following re-
solutions were unanimously adopted in the Clogher, En-
niskillen, Clones, and Monaghan districts, by the clergy
assembled in conference; the bishop presiding:—
" 1. Resolved unanimously—That we deem it cur
duty, at this particular juncture, to express our warmest
approbation of the principles on which the righful claims
of Ireland are advocated by our beloved Liberator, Mr.
Daniel O'Connell, who possesses now, as he has always
possessed, our fullest and entire confidence; and that we
are determined to co-operate with our people in supporting
him in his exertions to obtain for Ireland a restoration
of all her rights, and more especially of domestic
.1( gis-
lation, by purely peaceable and constitutional means—
the only means which he ever contemplated or vie could
sanction.

" Resolved unanimously—That we likewise deem
our duty, at this time, not merely to offer to Mr.-John
O'Connell, the worthy son of the Liberator, the warmest
expression of our gratitude and thanks for the zeal
and ability, and uniform integrity of purpose, with
which, since his first appearance in public life, he has
on all occasions advocated the true interests of Ireland;
but also to express the joy with which we behold him
sustaining the peaceable and constitutional views of b!,
illustrious father, and walking in every respect in hi,
footsteps, creating thereby a well-founded hope that
the name of O'Connell will long be a bond of union and
strength to all Rho desire the peace and happiness of the
people.
" 3. Resolved unanimously—That we have seen with
pain and disappointment the late session of the Imperial
Parliament come to a close without the repeal, or even
a change or modification, of the odious Bequests Act
and Irreligious Colleges Bill, measures which were
adopted, and which have been partly carried into opera-
tion, in utter disregard of the feelings and opinions of
the great body of the Catholic bishops, clergy, and
people of Ireland; and that we, therefore, most earnestly
entreat the liberal constituencies of Ireland, at the next
general election, to instruct their representatives to
prevent, so far as they can, all improper legislative in-
terferencein the concerns of our holy religion, and,
above all things, to guard us against the mockery of
having offered to us as boons measures which involve the
compromise of the dearest interests of religion, end fill
the minds of the Catholic people of Ireland with disgust
and abhorrence.
" 4. Resolved unanimously—That, notwithstanding
our anxiety for the diffusion of knowledge, we can never
give our co-operation and support to any system of educa-
tion intended for our people, in which the authority of
their pastors will not be fully recognised, and that no
system of education can or ought to give confidence and
satisfaction to the Catholic people of Ireland, which will
not be based on Catholic principles, and placed under
Catholic control.

" C. M'NALLY,
" FRANCIS MAGUIRE, Sec.

" Besides the subjects comprised in our resolutions,
some matters of the utmost importance regarding the
national system of education, engaged our most serious
attention at our meetings ; and, although in obedience
to the instructions of the Sacred Congregation, we ab-
stain from publishing any resolution or discussion
thereon, it may be right to state, that it is the unanimous
Ipryer of the clergy that the archbishops and bishops of
reland would, at their next general meeting, take the
whole subject into their consideration, with the view of
enforcing the conditions and recommendations on which
the national system of education has been tolerated by
the Holy See."

Mr. O'CoNNELL moved this document's insertion on the
minutes, and alluded to the separation with the "Young
Ireland" party. He said that the first difference with
them arose on die question of education; and he differed
with them on the bubject of the infidel Colleges Bill,
because the heads of the Holy Church, of which be was
an unworthy member, disapproved of it, and he ni ver
attempted to disagree with them, for ho knew that they
could not be wrong—and the propriety of the protest
against that measure was fully borne out by the news
they had lately received from Rome.— (Hear, hear.)
Mr. CLEmENTs;seconded the motion, which waspassed.