The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-26 00:00:00

IRELAND.
R 1 PE stL ASSOCIATION.

DUBLIN, Nov. 23.—The regular meeting of the mem-
bore of this body was held to-day in the Conciliation
There was a large attendance in all parts of the
Upan the motien of Mr. O'Connell, =ccornitd
by Mr. Edward Costello, the chair was taken by Mr.
Michael Dunne, justice of the peace.
Mr. RAY, the secretary, having read the minutes of
the previous meeting,
Mr. O'CONNELL stated that he wished to say a few
words of himself in allusion to the attack made upon him
by the Times, for it was one of the most curious inci-
dents in his life.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear," and
cheering.) The Times had attacked him with reference
to a paragraph which appeared in the Cork Examiner,
and which it had copied, with the addition of heading it
I" Mr. O'Connell's tenantry."—(Hear, hear.) Nov he
(Mr. O'Connell) had felt it necessary, at the previous
meeting, to accuse the Times of publishing what was
untrue, and sending it over the world that the troop of
people alluded to by the Examiner were his tenantry
and it had the audacity to publish an article since, deny-
ing that he had denied that those unfortunate people
were his tenants.—(ilea-, hear.) What was the fact ?
He had denied it in the fulle.-t passible manner la terms,
and had further stated that they were the ten:lilts of an
absentee laudlord ; and he went' ask, was it not to:, bad
that such a paper as the Times should endeavour io
mislead the people of England as to his conduct as a
landlord ? The _Learned Gentleman then read the
port of his speech from the Freeman's Journal of Tues-
day last, and also referred to the notes of the Govern-
ment reporter to show that he made this denial.
Mr. THOMAS STEELE then proceede I to attack the
same paper, for refusing to publish Mr. O'Connell's reply
to the Tunes' Commissioner, even for payment.
Mr. O'CoNNELL handed in 201 from Waterford, and
read the following letter from Dr. Blake, the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Dromore, enclosing his subscription
of 31.: " Violet hill, Newry, Nov. 22.
" My dear and venerated Friend,—You will please
give my annual subscription to the Association for 1847,
being 31., with but this observation, that I remain sted-
fastly attached to the cause of repeal—more so. indeed,
now than ever, and am anxious for its attainment by
peaceable, legal, and constitutional means, and by none
other. I have no doubt that you will endeavour, by
your advice, and by your influence, as far as you can
consistently with just principle, to heal those dissensions
which distract, and afflict, and strike with dismay the
public mind, and I hope that all sincere repeaters—and
there are still very many even among the seceders—
will, for the sake o; Ireland's welfare, and for the love
and reverence which I am sure they bear to you, meet
your efforts for reconciliation as acts of condescension
on your part ; and when re-entered into Conciliation-
hall, will not only adhere inviolably to your peaceable
course of arriving at the object of the national desire—
domestic legislation—but will also strenuously, and with
redoubled energy, second your glorious efforts.
" With the deepest sentiments of respect and grati-
tude, I have the honour to be, my dear and venerated
friend, your obliged and faithful humble
M. serßvant,
" LAKE.
_ _ _

" Mr. Daniel O'Connel, M.P." •
This letter having been entered on the minutes,
Mr. O'CoNNELL said he was prepared to bring up his
report upon the disunion existing amongst repealers, and
in doing so wished to say that no man was more anxious
than he was that the friends of Ireland should be joined
hand in hand to restore to her her Parliament ; but he
believed it was impossible, for it would be seen by the
report he was about to read that the question between
the Old and Young Ireland parties was, in point of fact,
should the Association adopt the doctrine of " physical
force" or not?—(Cheers.) The Learned Gentleman
then prcceeded to read the report, which was of great
length, and set forth the various points at issue between
the Old and Young Irelana parties. Of the latter, the

report says—
" On the other band, there now stands forward, as
the prominent head of a party, such as it is, a body to be
called, or at least to be known by the denomination of
'The Literary Phalanx'—men who, with various degrees
of talent, choose to write in the attitude in which the
late Sir Judkin Fitzgerald declared that he wrote—that
is, with a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other ;
giving rather a ludicrous image of a Literary Associa-
tion,' with three hands and no heart.
" The Phalanx' has now organised itself, or is about
to do so, and it cannot be expected from its members
that they will totally abandon the use of the sword.
They are too much in the wrong not to intrude that
sword upon our peaceable proceedings. They know that
all we want is the total and unconditional disclaimer of
the use of the sword as an instrument for procuring con-
stitutional rights and improvements, whilst we avow the
right to use that sword in the defence against attack of
an illegal and unconstitutional nature by domestic op-
pressors or foreign invaders."
The report then proceeds to give a detailed history of
Mr. O'Connell's own exertions previous to the passing of
the Emancipation Act, the organization of the Catholic
Association, &c., and again reverting to the superiority
of the moral force principles as opposed to the theories
of the "Phalanx," thus concludes:—
" And am I to quit a policy thus lauded, thus sane-
tiow d, even by those who demand a change?
" I ask this question, referrii lg to another and a higher
consideration—am I to change this policy, this lauded
policy, to quit the paths of safety and prudence, and to
involve myself and all the members of the Repeal Asso-
ciation in legal crime and punishment ?
"It should not be forgotten that the slightest admix-
ture of the avowed principle of physical force—the
slightest shrinking from the exclusive use of the peace-
able principle, would convert the Repeal Ass viation,
from being a legal and most meritcrious body, into an
unlawful assembly, verging on, if not engulphed in, a
,traitorous, or at least a s3,l;tious assembly-.
" There are men who say that the law is unjust and
oppressive, and that much ought to be risked in order
to defeat its provisions. I totally reject every assertion
of that kind. I will never consent to violate the law
upon a chance of escaping punishment. Besides, I ab-
jure, in everything, the physical force policy in seeking
for the repeal of any law.
"It has been said and repeated, and will be said and
repeated, notwithstanding refutation, that the Repeal
Association ought to have allowed the principle the
use of physical force to be debated, and that we have im-
properly precluded discussion by totally preventing any
such debate. Those who say so should already know,
or, if they do not know it, they should be informed of
the absolute necessity of our' continuing our organized
plan of obtaining the restoration of our national Parlia-
ment.
" Let me conclude by again referring to the state of
the controversy between us and the seceders. The ques-
tion between us and them is one of principle on our part.
It is a principle without which the Association must
cease to exist—the principle of seeking for the repeal by
peaceable and legal means alone. Founded on this prin-
ciple—adhering to this principle—refusing to allow it to
be broken in upon, diminished, or even tarnished by the
seceders, we devote ourselves to the cause of the Irish
people. We will never relax ; we will never compro-
mise ; we will never postpone the assertion of our right
to an Irish legislature. We will never cease our efforts,
till we re-establish the nationality of Ireland, and make
her what she ought to be,
Great, glorious, and free,
First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea.'
" DANIEL O'CONNELL,
" Chairman of Committee."
The report having been ordered to be inserted on the
minutes by acclamation, and directed to be printed at the
expense of the Association,
At half-past three o'clock the rent was announced as
541. 18s. 9d.
The report read by Mr. O'Connell was substituted for
the usual " speech of the day." During the reading of
it his voice frequently faltered, and occasionally sunk so
low as to be wholly inaudible, except to those immedi-
ately around him.

GERMANY.—Mendelssohn's Paul has been given in
Vienna by 1,000 exectdants' Staudigl being the principal
singer. Liszt has gone to Constantinople, and Ernst is
about to visit Russia. Conradin Kreutzer has been no-
minated successor to Nicolai, at the Court Opera, the
latter going to Berlin.
THE ALLEGED ACCIDENT TO LORD CLIFDEN.—We
are happy in being able to explain that the serious acci-
dent which we announced in Tuesday's impression as
having happened to Lord Clifden, in having been pre-
cipitated over a railway bridge, turns out to be incorrect,
although a very serious, and perhaps unprecedented,
accident occurred between one and two o'clock on Mon-
day to his Lordship's cousin, the Hon. Mr. Lascelles.
It seems that Mr. Lascelles and a younger brother were
on their way from Lady Dover's residence at Roehamp-
ton to Camden Park, on two of Lord Clifden's horses,
attended by one of his Lordship's grooms, and when
near the bottom of Putney Park-lane, from some cause
not understood, the horse on which the elder young
gentleman was riding became unmanageable, and darted
off at full speed. On passing over the high railway
bridge on Barnes-common be came with all his force
against the parapet, very much injuring himself, and
lacerating the leg and ankle of the rider, who was, by
the concussion, thrown over, falling on the metal rail
below. He was here taken up by the railway policeman
and two or three persons who saw the accident, perfectly
senseless, with wounds on several parts of his body, in.
dependently of the great injury done to his leg. In this
state he was immediately removed in a cart to the resi-
dence of Mr. Shillito, surgeon, at Putney, where he
remained full three hours before it was considered saf,
for Lady Dover (who had hastened to him on hearing of
the accident) to remove him to her Ladyship's residence
in the neighbourhood. We are happy to find that, con-
sidering the complication and serious nature of the
injuries he has received, he is going on favourably.
ANOTHER COLLIERY EXPLOSION. LIVERPOOL,
Nov. 24.—0 n Tuesday morning a dreadful explosion of
fire-damp took place at Harvey's Coppell Colliery, near
Standish, Lancashire, by which several lives have been

lost. It seems that the man whose business it was to
renew the fires below omitted to do so, at three o'clock
in the morning, and in consequence of their going out,
fire-damp accumulated. When he went down at six
o'clock, for the purpose of relighting them, an explosion
took place. Three men were killed, several were
seriously hurt, and it is apprehended that six others, in
a different part of the mine, have also been killed. This
report was brought to Liverpool yesterday morning, but
no other particulars were known.
On Saturday night last, while a gentleman, who
had just returned to Glasgow with the train from Edin-
burgh, was passing along London-street on his way
home, a young fellow, dressed in moleskin clothes,
suddenly rushed out of the through-going passage leading
down St. Andrew's-lane, and darting his ban 1 into his
vest pocket carried off his gold watch, gold guard- chain,
ring, and key, along with a button of the vest to which
the guard was attached, making his escape by the same
entrance from which he emerged. The whole was the
work of an instant, and the villain was off before the
gentleman had discovered his loss.—Glasgow Herald.