The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-04 00:00:00

MR. O'CONNELL.

(From a Second Edition of the Cork Chronicle of Wednesday.)
We stop the press to give publication to a letter received by
William Fagan, Esq., (the appointed chairman of the dinner,)
from Mr. O'Connell, announcing his intention of being here
on the 4th, and two or three hours before dinner time. The
letter will be read with interest, inasmuch as it puts an end to
the rumours of Mr. O'Connell being about to take office under
the present Ministry.

Darrynane Abbey, Oct. 26, 1833.

Div Damn Sue,—l should have replied to your letter, but
that I had answered it by anticipation. I beg leave now to
inform you, that it is not my intention to be in Cork before
Monday, the 4th, but I will take care to be in town a courle
of hours before dinner time—say about three o'clock. I
have had my two months' play-days, and I am as ready and
as willing as ever to agitate for Old Ireland. We must get
every parish to petition for abolition of tithes, total and
unequivocal; and, above all, and before all, for Re-
peal. The experience of the last session proves to me two
things,—First, that Irishmen lose much of their value
when transported out of their own country; and, secondly,
that there is an anti-Irish feeling so predominant amongst the
English Members, as to render them totally unfit to legislate
for Ireland. I cannot describe the insolence of this anti-Irish
sentiment. They would treat us, truly, with kindness and
compassion, if we would only consent to be mere slaves;
but, if we attempt to dispute their right to be our masters,
why then coercion, courts-martial, and gagging are to be re.
sorted to. I never was a bitter Repealer until I was made so
by the conduct of the " Reformed Ministry, and Reformed
Parliament." Before the Coercion Bill, I looked upon the
" Repeal" as a means, and not as the end to be sought. I now
know that there are no means of serving Ireland, or of giving
Irishmen the security of self-protection, save a domestic legis-
lature. Before the Coercion Bill I did believe a compromise
possible. To be sure I thought, although possible, yet
so highly improbable, that its possibility existed principally
in metaphysical contemplation. But the Coercion Bill con-
vinced me that nothing solid, substantial, or paramount could,
in the nature of things, be done for Ireland, without an Irish
Parliament. Indeed, I take the Coercion Bill to be the test to try
men's souls. He who forgets or forgives the Coercion Bill is,
in my mind, a miscreant Irishman, upon whom harsh words
are thrown away. He should never be trusted. That Bill was
I the grossest insult ever offered by proud domination to a power.
less, because an unorganized, divided, and unprotected people.
I know nothing more daring in principle, as a violation of na-

tional rights, perpetrated upon Poland by Russia, than the per-
petration of the coercion law by the British Ministry and their
minions in Ireland.

Yet how comparatively harmless is the Act, as passed, com-
pared with the Bill as brought into the House of Lords, by
that noble patron of his family, Lord Grey, and by his
equally consistent compeer, Lord Brougham ; and yet the
newspapers in both countries amused their readers by
gr avely stating that I was about to take office under these
men. Give me an Administration that will impeach Stanley
and Lord Anglesea, and then, indeed, possibly I may think
of accepting office, if I see that by so doing I can serve Ireland
more than by standing out to watch the proceedings even of
that Administration.

This is my first act of renewed agitation—l raise the peace-
ful, the consitutional, the ever unstained and bloodless standard
of REPEAL—I nail the colours to the mast. Repeal, nothing
short of Repeal—Repeal, undisfigured and undisguised by
any one partizan or sectarian feeling. Repeal, not for sectarian
or party ascendancy, but for all the people, of every class, grade,
sect, and persuasion. Repeal—to secure the possessions of
the rich, and to reward the industry of the poor. Repeal—to
establish the equality of the civil rights of all Christians, and
to promote the genuine spirit of Christian charity amongst
them—a spirit which cannot exist in genuine purity wherever
one sect is placed in superiority over another. Repeal—to
enable us, as a nation, to express our scorn and detestation
of the coercionists, and to render it impossible again to deprive
us by Act of Parliament of the protection of a civil consti.

Our means to procure " the Repeal" daily accumulate—the
Protestants are joining the Catholics—the Dissenters are com-
bining with the rest of the Irish nation ; Sharman Crawford
gives us strength in the north, where we were weak.
Yes, we will repeal the Union. Yes we will re-establish the

Irish parliament by the peaceable, legal, and constitutional
combination of Irishmen, to which legislators yield, in order
to obey a sentiment not to be resisted, because universal Ire.
land will set another example to the natioils of the world of the
mode in which great political changes ought to be brought
about—that is, without a crime or an offence—without sacrifice
of property ; and, above all, without one drop of blood.
I have the honour to be, my dear Sir, your faithful and
obliged servant, DANIEL O'CONNELL.
Wm. Fagan, Esq.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR.—We understand
that at a recent meeting of the Directors of the Mecha-
nics' Institution, a letter from Lord Brougham to th,
President, Benjamin Heywood, Esq., was read, in which
his Lordship expressed the gratification it will afford to
him to be present at a meeting of the subscribers to the
Institution, on his return to the north at Christmas. We
believe that the meeting has been fixed to take place on
the 234 of December, when the usual prizes will be dis-
tributed.—Manchester Chronicle.,

DON CARLos.—(From a second edition of
the Wakefield JournaI.)—WAKEFIELD, TIL LT USDA V
NIGHT.—Much doubt has prevailed of Lite respecting the
" whereabout" of Don Carlos, and the whole host of cor-
respondents of the London papers have been at fault on
subject. We ha,e just been favoured, however, with
the sight of a letter to a highly respectable gentleman re-
siding in the neighbourhood of Wakefield, a magistrate of
the West Riding of the county, from a Lieutenant on
board the Castor frigate, who states that that vessel
takes out Don Carlos from the Tagus to Rome.
_

The Judges at Boulogne have decided that
Mr. Long Wellesley is liable for the debts Mrs. Wellesley
has contracted in Calais, as well as for those which she
may hereafter contract.
We hear from good authority that the stay of
the Court at Brighton will not exceed the 20th of Fe-
bruary. The King rises every morning regularly at
eight o'clock. His Majesty passes his mornings in busi
ness connected with the affairs of the State, and in tlte
afternoon he takes an airing for two or three hours. The
King retires for the night generally at eleven.
DUBLIN, OCT. 31.—Colonel Blacker, ex-
Deputy Irish Treasurer, has been dismissed from the Com-
mission of the Peace for the county of Armagb. Dean
Carter had been previously superseded.
The men who accompanied Captain Ross in
his late expedition, although at first privately engaged, are,
we understand, to receive an allowance, amounting to
double pay, from the Government. This gift, calculating
the time of service, will give each man about 2001.
EXTRAORDINARY HIGH TIDE IN THE
RlVER.—Saturday morning, about a quarter past four
o'clock, in consequence of the extraordinary and unusual
height to which the title rose in the river, the lower parts
of the houses on the bank of the river at the following
places, eiz., Bankside, Holland-street, the lower part of the
Strand, Abingdon-street, Stangate, Lambeth, and Vaux-
hall, were completely inundated to the depth of, in man)
instances, several feet. The inmates of the houses were
thrown into a state of indescribable confusion and alarm,
and were awoke out of their sleep by hearing a trecnen.
dons noise below stairs, and, o❑ getting up to ascertain
the cause, they discovered the water rushing in in all direc-
tions, and chairs, tables, &c., floating about in their
kitchens. It appears that the water flowed up the
sewers with such violence that many of the drains were
burst open, and the flood then poured into the houses in
such torrents that even doors whirls were securely
fastened were burst open, and considerable damage was
occasioned. In some of the houses where the kitchens
were occupied as sleeping apartments many narrow
escapes of the loss of human life occurred, some of the
inmates being awoke by finding themselves immersed in
water, which then reached above their bedsteads. We,
however, believe that no serious catastrophe transpired.
The premises of 11Ir. Long, of Northumberland-street,
Strand, baker, were completely flooded, and the water
rushed so suddenly into the bakehouse that one of the
journeymen got into the dough-trough for safety. Mr.
Peters, the butcher, at Charing-cross, bad a sheep
drowned, and it was extremely fortunate that that was the
only one left in the slaughter-house. At Lambeth Palace
the cellars were filled to the depth of between eight and
nine feet ; and along the Bishop's-wail:, where lately has
been erected a vet), strong iron railing, nearly three
inches in diameter, let into some solid masonry, based
upon brick-work, the tide poured in with such over-
whelming force and rapidity that the iron•work wa-
snapped in many places, and the massive stone and brick-
work, together with a great portion of the bank, to the•
extent of between ten and twelve yards, swept away into
the river. Luckily no persons were passing at the time,
or their destruction must have been inevitaWe. The
oldest waterman on the river does not recollect the tide
reaching ever• so high before, or indeed any thing near to
it. It is described as one of the spring tides which are
occasional in the river, but has appeared touch earlier
than usual, which is said to prognosticate a winter of
unusual severity.
The General Steam Navigation Company's
packet, the Mountaineer, sailed on Wednesday from Shore-'
ham harbour, and returned on Tuesday evening. The
chain pier having received such repairs as to enable pas-
sengers to land and embark with perfect safety, and with-
out the least inconvenience, the packet will come alongside
of it as before, instead of going from Shoreham harbour as
has been done since the late accident. Among the pas-
sengers who arrived were Air. Hope, M.P. for Gloucester ;
Mr. Austen, Mr. and Mrs. H. King, Dr. Urs, ace,—
Brighton Herald.