The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-15 00:00:00

THE O'CONNELL TRIBUTE.

From all accounts that have appeared upon
" authority," or that we have been able from our
own sources to collect, the amount of the Charity
Fund for this year will be considerable—exceeding,
in all probability, 12,0001. I This is a pretty sum
to levy in one day, off of an impoverished and com-
plaining " people." But even this sum, immense
as it is in amount, is not sufficient to satisfy the
ravening love of pelf with which the arch-humbug-
ger and big beggerman in endued. We find, from
a manifesto issued by the inventor of this notable
scheme of pickpocketting, and who writes himself
" Patrick Vincent Fitzpatrick, Secretary to the
O'Connell Annuity," that neither the functionary
nor the principal are content with the products of
last Sunday's exertions; hut, apprehensive that all
the available pence may not have been gathered in
—fearing lest a single angle of their harvest field
may have escaped the hand of the gleaner—they
have appointed a second Sunday for the final ac-
complishment of the holy work.—Dublin Evening
Mail.

THE " O'CONNELL TRIBUTE" IN CORK.—After
all the preparations and all the exhortations, the
harvest of the Liberator does not promise to be a
golden one. In this our own redoubtable city,
maugre the incitements of the pulpit and the press,
and the measures taken for the exclusion from the
chapels of every poor sinner who had not paid for
permission to enter, the sum total of the gatherings
of the Liberator amount to but 563/. ! Even this in-
cludes a sum of 16/. from Blackrock, and one of
1001. scraped together in other ways, for the sums
collected in the various chapels amounted to but
447/. The following is given as the return :
North Chapel £123 Cal ey's Lane £62
North Friary 59 Broad Lane 37
South Chapel
South Friary 47 Blackrock
Sundry subscriptions in addition to the above, forming
a total of 563/.

Verily if matters proceed in this way, the old
gentleman will have to turn his hand to something
else. Mendicancy is a bad business just now.
There are too many in the field, and even if the
learned liberator does not look to it, he will be out-
rivalled even in this the best of all his " sciences."
The " finest peasantry" are beginning to eye him.
with suspicion, and seem to keep at a very civil
distance from the begging-box. The concern is a
very shabby one, and its abettors are somewhat
ashamed of it, for they speak of a supplemental col-
lection in order to save, if possible, themselves from
disgrace, and their idol from the last refuge of
patriotism—a pension or a place. At Middleton a
sum of WV. was collected. What the contributions

in other parts of the country were, has not yet been
c ommunicated.—Cork Constitution.
BELFAST CONTRIBUTION TO THE " TRIBUTE:'—
It will be seen, from a paragraph which we have
taken from the Northern Whig of yesterday, that
on Sunday last no less a sum than 751. was raised
in the two Roman Catholic chapels of this town in
aid of the " National Debt" to Daniel O'Connell.
Now, we have no objection that our neighbours
should dispose of their money as they please; but
when we find them so exceedingly liberal in a poli-
tical cause, it is surely not unfair to ask what is the
extent of their liberality in the cause of public
charity? There is the Poor House, the Fever
Hospital and Dispensary, and the House of In-
dustry, and when collections were to be made in
aid of these valuable institutions, we ask, was Or
one half of 751. made up at one time by the Roman
Catholic population of Belfast 2 We have not at
hand documents to enable us to enter into details on
this subject, but we well recollect that when appli-
cations were made on some former occasions for con-
gregational collections in the chapels, the excuse
was—poverty! We may perhaps be able, on a fu-
ture occasion, to lay our hands on documents which
will enable us to tell, with some degree of exact-
ness, the sum contributed by Roman Catholics to our
charitable institutions, and to compare this sum with
the donation to Mr. O'Connell, which has been so
pompously trumpeted forth in the newspapers. It
is an important circumstance, that a very large pro-
portion of those persons who derive immediate be-
nefit from the institutions in question sre Roman Ca-
tholics, and, therefore, the fact to which we have al-
luded is the more extraordinary.--Belfast News-
Letter.