The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING SEPTEMBE, 11, 1844.

RAILWAYS.
(From last night's Gazette.)
Railway Department, Board of Trade,
Whitehall, Sept. 9, 1844.
Referring to the notice in the Gazette of the 23d of
August, announcing the intention of the Railway Board
to examine into certain schemes therein enumerated. with
a view to the presentation to Parliament of minutes or
reports therein, in the event of their becoming the sub
jects of application to Parliament, the Board hereby give
notice that it is further their intention to examine, with a
similar view, into the following schemes, viz :
I. The scheme proposed for extending railway com-
munication through South Wales to l'embroke and Fish-
guard.
11. The Trent Valley scheme, from Stafford to Rugby.
111. The Churnet Valley scheme, from Macclesfield to
Derby and Tamworth.
IV. The proposed branches of the Grand Junction
Railway Company, to connect Shrewsbury, I)udlvy, and
the Potteries with their line, and to shorten the distance
to Liverpool by means of a new line across the Mersey,
leaving the Grand Junction line near Preston Brook.
V. The L( eds and Thirsk scheme, and, in connexion
with it, other schemes proposed for connecting Harrow-
gate and Knaresborough, with the Great North of Eng-
land or York and North Midland Railways.
VI. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Junction scheme,
from Blackburn, by Burnley, Skipton, and Keighley, to
Leeds and Bradford, and, in connexion with it, the
Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, Leeds and Brad-
ford extension, and other schemes for accommodating
portions of the same district.
VII. The Scottish central and other schemes, for ex-
tending railway communication north of the Forth to
Stirling, Perth, Dundee, and Aberdeen.
V 111. The Lynn and Ely scheme.
IX The Belfast and Ballymena scheme.
X. The Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston scheme.
The principal points into which inquiry will be made,
in connexion with the above schemes, are as follows:

Ist. The ability and bona fide intention of the pro-
moters to prosecute their application to Parliament next
session for Bills to authorise the several undertaking.
2d. The advantages to be obtained, in a national po►nt
of view, in completing or extending important lines of
railway communication.
3d. The amount of local advantage afforded to the
towns and districts more immediately affected.
4th. The engineering circumstances of the line, so far
as may be necessary to form a general judgment of the
character of the undertaking.
sth. The estimates of cost of construction, and of
traffic and working expenses, so far as may be necessary
to judge of the probability of the line being completely
and efficiently worked, in the event of its being sanc-
tioned by Parliament, and with a view to drawing a
comparison between the merit of competing lines of
railway.
The inquiry, in conformity with the recommendation
of the fifth report of the Select Committee on Railways,
will not embrace questions of private property or in-
terest, which will be reserved altogether for the consi-
deration of the Legislature.
(Signed) DALHOUSIE.
C. W. PASLEY.
O'BR IE N. S. LAING.

COLLISION IN THE IRISH CHIN-

NEL, AND LAMENTABLE LOSS OF LIFE.
LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.—We deeply regret to state
that this morning, shortly after two o'clock, the Dublin
mail iron steam-ship Iron Duke (600 tons burden) came
into collision with the brig Parana (200 tons), outward-
bound from this port for Montreal, about three leagues
to the eastward of Point Lynas Light, by which the
the latter vessel was nearly cut in two, and so sudden
was the accident, that six of her crew, including her
commander) (out of eleven on board in all), were
thrown into the water, and perished. The brig, it ap-
pears, had a light on her poop, and her mate also ele-
vated the binnacle-light in his hand, and shouted to-
wards the steamer when he saw her coming rapidly into
dangerous proximity; but, as he conjectures, he was not
heard, owing, probably, to the noise of the engines, and
the steamer, before the brig could effectually alter her
course, ran into her abreast of the fore hatch. The
night was thick, or what seamen term " dirty," and it
were improper to attribute blame to either party, from
the information we have yet received, though it is de-
rived from both parties.
The following is a copy of a report from Lieutenant
Parsons, R.N., with which we have been kindly
favoured :—" At 2 15 A.M. on the 10th September, struck
the Parana, a brig of about 250 tons, with general cargo,
from Liverpool to Montreal, out one day. Her captain
and five of her people went down, three jumped on
board the Iron Duke; and two were saved by the boats,
which were launched for that purpose. Captain Wilson,
who perished, is stated to be the principal owner, and
has left a wife and family. Lynas Light bearing W.
three leagues when the collision took place.
"GEORGE PARSONS."

From the mate, an exceedingly intelligent seaman,
and three of the crew, we learn the following particu-
lars :—The brig Parana, Captain Wilson, a vessel of
200 tons burthen, sailed from Liverpool yesterday, with
a general cargo, for Montreal. About two o'clock this
morning, when about six miles to the eastward of Point
Lynas Light, made a vessel, that proved to be
the Dublin mail steam ship the Iron Duke. Saw her
bearing down upon them, but was no way alarmed.
The brig had no light forward, but a poop or high quar-
ter deck, and no bulwarks on the quarter (merely a rail).
and a towering skylight about three feet above the deck,
in which a light was fixed. As the steamer neared the
mate hailed her (but the noise of the engines was so
great that he conjectures he was not heard), and imme-
diately took the light from the binnacle and held it up,
but without effect. The brig was on the starboard tack,
steering about S.W. half W. when she was struck by the
steamer a little abaft the fore rigging, between that and
the fore rigging and the foretopmast backstays, and
went through the starboard coomings of the fore hatch,
and reach the larboard ones, thus nearly cutting her in
two. In th's i four of the crew managed to
get on aboard the Iron Duke by the bowsprit, and the
mate, who ran aft to call the captain, who was lying
on the lockers, got entangled with some of the
wreck, and was severely though not dangerously hurt.
He was eventually saved by the -boats of the steamer,
but how he has not the least recollection. The mate, as
well as all the seamen we have seen, positively state that
the engines were not stopped until after the collision took
place— but that the night was exceedingly " nasty."
The names of those saved from the brig were—William
Hichell, mate (badly hurt) ; William Cover and John
Martin, seamen; John Craig, cook and steward. An-
other man, whose name we could not learn, was also
saved.
Those drowned were—Wilson, the captain; Alexander
Stewart, second mate; George Coates, seaman; also the
carpenter and an ordinary seaman. The captain was, it
is stated, a married man, and has left his wife and five
children in this town to deplore his loss.
A subscription was immediately entered into on board
the steamer, on behalf of the survivors, and, we learn,
very soon amounted to 40/.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN ARTISTS.—It is surprising
how partial every nation, except the English, is to their
own artists ; a Dutchman will prefer the high finish of
his Mieris and Gerard Dow, his Ostade and Berghem ;
the Fleming will celebrate his Rubens and Vandyke,
Tcniers, and Rembrandt ; the Frenchman will boast of
his Le Brun, Le Sueur, Bourdon, and dispute the merit
of his Pouissin even with Raphael ; while the Italian
looks on them all with contempt. And even in Italy,
every province contends for the precedence of its own
school against that of all the others ;.whilst the English-
man is pleased with everything that is not the production
of England.—Northeote's Life of Titian.
SRA. SICKNESS A REMEDY FOR JAUNDICE.—MT.
Percy narrates a case of jaundice which had existed for
three or four months, and was cured by a violent attack
of sea sickness, followed up by brisk aperients. Within
twenty .four hours, several small gall stones and a quan-
tity of inspissated bile were discharged, and the patient
soon recovered.—Medical Times.

POLICE VIGILANCE.—On Friday night, Sergeant
John Gunn observed a female hurriedly leaving a noto-
rious house in West Register-street, and suspecting all
was not right, followed at a distance, until he got the
assistance of one of his men, and apprehended her in St.
Andrew's-square. He found in her hand notes and
sovereigns to the amount of 40/., and on being ques•
tioned as to how she got possession of it, she said she
" didna ken" where she got it. After lodging her in the
police-office, he proceeded to the house in ques-
tion, and apprehended other three women on suspicion,
but could get no trace of the person who had lost the
money. However, about nine o'clock on Saturday morn-
ing, M‘Levie, the officer, was sent for by a gentleman,
who stated that he had been robbed of a considerable
sum of money the night previous in West Register-
street, and described the money. The officer invited him
to the police-office, where, to his astonishment, Lieute-
nant M•Lellan produced the cash, which was imme-
diately identified. The whole of the prisoners were re-
mitted to a higher court.—Caledonian Mercury.
FIFE RAILWAT.—We have received the last issued
prospectus of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Company. The proposal now made is, that the crossing
of the Tay be made immediately above Newburgh, by a
swing bridge from the north shore to the island of Mug-
drum, where the navigable channel is only about 400
yards wide at high-water, and 150 at low-water of spring
tides. By this bridge the trains will be carried
over without the least interruption to the navigation
of the river. "'The remaining part of the channel of the
river (says the prospectus) between Mugdrum and the
north shore, being dry at low-water, will be passed by a
causeway or road formed on piles placed so far apart as
not to interfere with the salmon fishings." By the pro-
posed changes a rcduction of 300,0004 is calculated on
the cost of the railway. We certainly would have wished
that the line had been carried from Cupar to Dundee ;
but on the completion of the scheme as now agreed to
by the Provisional Committee, we think there can hardly
be a doubt that a branch from Cupar to Craig head will
be immediately contemplated and carried into effect.—
Ftfeshire Journal.
DISTRESSING DEPRIVATION.—A daughter of Mr.
Stephen Stephens, smith, of Llandilo-fawr town, named
Anne, aged ten years, died after a few hours' illness on
Sunday, the Ist instant, at ten o'clock, also Thomas, a
son, aged three years, at three o'clock of the same day ;
and on Tuesday, the 3d inst., David, another son, aged
six years. On Wednesday the three were buried in the
same grave in Llandilo Churchyard. Thus, suddenly
Mr. Stephens was deprived of all his children, who, a few
hours previous were pictures of innocence and health.—
Cambrian.

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, SEPT. 9.—The crops here
are good ; the price of wheat is falling. Potatoes are
plentiful, and selling in the market by the farmers at
2id. to 3d. per stone of 141 b. Herrings, at Shields, are
selling at ten to twenty for a penny. In this town they
are six. for a penny. All this abundance is, doubtless,
the result of the patriotic exertions of the Anti-corn-
law League.

LITERATURE.

WESTMINSTER REVIEW. IVO. LXXXII.
Clarke, London, 1844.

The most remarkable article in the present Num-
ber, is the one which is very properly placed first; it
is on the subject of " Railway Administration and
Improvement," and is full of most sanguine specula-
tions as to the immense advantages that will accrue
to humanity from the spread of these wonderful
improvements. The Reviewer justly remarks that
the railway serves to unite both mind and matter,
and to draw the ends of the earth together, and that
it is its office to perfect the civilization which the
Press has commenced. " Coningsby" is a notice of
Mr. D'lsraeli's most popular work of fiction ; it is
written in a highly eulogistic strain, though, as
might be expected, there are many points in which the
Reviewer differs widely from the Reviewed. On one
point, however, their opinions are marvellously in ac-
cordance with each other. Both acknowledge that
the machinery of the Reform Bill has utterly failed ;
and the former, more especially—who, we need not
say, is a Radical—expresses his decided opinion that
the kind of Government which this Bill has secured,
is neither that of the majority nor of the intelligent
minority, but that it has placed power in the hands
of the venal. There is some truth in this observa-
tion, but it certainly is not true to the extent
which the Reviewer would fain have his readers be-
lieve it is. The Reform Bill has done a world of
good, if in nothing more than in having overthrown
the corrupt influence of the boroughmongers, and
brought the House of Commons more in harmony
with the character of the Constitution ; but it un-
questionably is not a final measure, and—notwith-
standing the perverse notion of one of the Whig
chiefs—could never have been seriously intended as
such. The " Prize Comedy" is a caustic notice of
Mrs. Gore's unfortunate play of Quid Pro Quo,
which the author denounces as a trashy abortion, and
observes that it is far more remarkable for flippant
vulgarity than for sterling wit or humour. As we
have neither seen nor read the comedy, we cannot of
course presume to pronounce an opinion on its merits,
but if we may judge from the extracts quoted by the
Reviewer, we should be tempted to say, that it was at best
but a so-so production. "Charles James, Bishop of
London," professes to be a temperate and impartial esti-
mate of the character of this bustling Prelate. The
article is clearly the production of one who has at-
tentively studied the peculiarities of the character
which he pourtrays, and his judgment, therefore,
however unfavourable, cannot but be received with
respect. The Bishop, he says, " gives us the impres-
sion of being a man of small mind, of feeble powers
of thought, contracted sympathies, mean aims, and a
most slippery public morality. He has talent with-
out a doubt—talent to become Bishop of London—
talent to get new churches built, and cathedral sine-
cures cut up into benefices for episcopal patronage ;
but of any of the higher mental qualities, we see not
a trace at any period of his life." We quote the
following eloquent and emphatic passage from the
article on railways :
" God made the country, and man made the town.'
And now that man bath practically annihilated both
time and space. by the spirit within him that hath
taught his right hand the cunning whereby he may
achieve his escape from darkness into light, let the
country once more be devoted to God's uses for the many,
instead of being confined to the few. ' Man shall not
live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God. The words of God's mouth
are written on mountain and moor, on heath and hill,
on wood and forest, brook and river, ocean and sea.
They who would blot out the face of nature and make
the whole land artificial, would destroy one of man's
noblest faculties, the power of appreciating nature. They
would destroy God's handwriting, and substitute for it
artificial signs. We hope, we trust, we believe, that
this shall not come to pass. We trust that the wild
lands of England, the Mount Horebs of the soil, the
spots that nature bath made difficult of cultivation, as
though she had said, " these are reserved" the wild
gardens of the poor man, in which the purple heath and
the yellow gorse flourish self- planted—the old forest
patches, the Charts and the Commons, the Combes and
the Hursts, the wildernesses of the land—we trust that
the rich man's plough shall never pass over these, the
poor man's inheritance. Up and be doing, ministers of
religion ! Plant your cross in such places, and shadow
them with your protection. Not as the head of the
Church—he of Canterbury—hath done—enclosing a
poor man's common for a private park, but shutting out
for ever the spoilers of Naboth's vineyard. Proclaim
that the high places and wild places are set apart for the
worship of nature's God, and build ye your temples at
their entrances, for the seasons when the rains of heaven
shall fall, and a wintry sky require artificial warmth.
" The great work is nearly wrought, the problem
solved, whereby the natural man and the cultivated man
may become one, whereby the city may be rescued from
its squalor, and field and forest from their ignorance.
The yearning for this has always existed in men's minds.
People confined to towns by their daily avocations
placed their children at school in country air—when
they possessed pecuniary means—excepting the strange
anomalies of Westminster school, and similar establish-
ments. The poor were fain to be content with the day
school, or the parish school—free air was too great a
luxury for them. The church, the chapel, the lecture-
room, the concert-room, the theatre, were all reared in
impure places, and their uses confined to the inhabitants
of towns. All this is within remedy, as the uses of the
railway become developed. The poor man can have his
accessible country dwelling. Churches and chapels may
be reared in beautiful spot. 3 at the confluence of lines of
railway—temples worthy of man's nature, where man
may meet man in Christian equality, where all benign
influences may be at work, attracting but not com-
pelling, where architecture, music, and painting—the
beautiful in art, may combine with the beautiful in na-
ture. When the promoters of religion shall work by
the aid of nature, instead of striving to counteract her,
when they shall enable the working-classes to pluck
wild flowers, as well as " ears of corn on the Sabbath
day," when they shall make for them a healthy and
pleasant path to the temple ; then will the temple be
thronged with voluntary worshippers, and hypocrites
shall cease in the land."

PARSONS AND WIDOWS. 3 Vols.
Colburn, London, 1844.
These volumes are from the pen of the author of
"Peter Priggins"—a tale which was very favourably
received by the reading portion of the public, when it
made its appearance from time to time in the pages of
the New Monthly Magazine. Like that amusing
story, the work before us abounds in touches of
genuine humour, occasionally exaggerated, but pro-
ducing laughter even in its broadest extravagance.
The author belongs to the school of the late Theodore
Hook, and eschewing anything like maudlin senti-
mentality, trusts for effects to the promptings of
healthy, cordial nature. His clergymen are pour-
trayed with considerable vigour and truth of de-
lineation, and though he is less successful in his
female sketches, yet one or two of his widows will
amuse by the skilful and graphic manner in which
their peculiarities are hit off. We have been pleased
with the naivete of the subjoined remark, which
occurs in one of the introductory chapters :
" Parsons are proverbially great populators of their
country. The preventive check has not yet found its
way into the parsonages of Great Britain ; and in
spite of all the political economists that ever lived, I
trust the day may be very far distant that shall see
such an unnatural engine introduced into the prolific
walls of our manses."

DOVER, SEPT. 9.—During the period of the awful
storm last night the police-officers were sent for to quell
a serious disturbance which had occurred, and murder
cried, in a noted house in Paper-alley, Charlton, Dover.
Upon the officers' arrival they found the neighbourhood
in the utmost alarm, expecting for hours previously that
murder would ensue. The house was occupied by sweeps
and prize-fighters. The police were requested to go
in
to preserve the peace ; on their entrance they were im-
mediately attacked by the whole gang. The police were
only two in number, Samuel Couchman and Smith ;
the latter was soon knocked down, and upon Couch-
man coming to his assistance he was immediately
surrounded, struck, kicked, and stamped upon.
At length one of the ruffians, named Thomas
Clarke, a prize-fighter, from Canterbury, took up the
handle of a broom, to which a piece of iron was attached
at the end, and struck poor Crouchinan with the greatest
fury across the bridge of the nose, which lacerated it
and the cheeks in the most frightful manner. He never
spoke afterwards, and having breathed a short time, fell
dead. He had been some months in the police, and
served upwards of twenty-six years in the loyal Ma-
ines, on board her Majesty's ship Thetis and other men-
of-war ; had obtained the silver medal for twenty-two
years' good conduct, and a medal for his services at St.
Jean d'Acre. He has left a widow and two children.
Four of the gang concerned in the murderous attack
have been taken, but the leader, Thomas Clarke, and a
man named Smith, fled, and were seen on the road be-
tween Canterbury and Dover.
IMPORTATION Of SPIRITS IN BOTTLES.—A direr-
sity of practice having prevailed in the mode of ascer-
taining the quantity of spirits in bottles, the same being
computed at certain of the outports at the rate of six
reputed quart bottles to the gallon, and in London by
actual measurement of one bottle out of each case ; the
Commissioners of Customs have deemed it expedient to
extend to the outports the regulations of their minute of
August, 1839, which directs with respect to spirits which
are chargeable with duty according to the strength
thereof, that the bottles in each case be counted, and
that one bottle of each size from every case be sent to
the room appropriated to the trial of the strength of
spirits for measurement ; but as regards other spirits
and cordials, when the bottles are of the same size, the
glass, and description of glass, that one bottle in every
three cases be measured, excepting Maraschino, and
with respect to that article, that one bottle only in every
five cases is to be measured. Copies of this order have
been furnished to the officers at the several departments
n London, and to the collectors and controllers at all
the outports of the kingdom, for their information and
government.
We understand that the visit of the King of the
French to her Majesty is now definitively fixed for the
early part of next month. It is arranged that his
Majesty will embark at Treport on the 3d of October,
and proceed at once from Portsmouth to Windsor. The
Queen of the French will not accompany his Majesty ;
but it is expected that. King Louis Philippe will be
attended by two of his Ministers, and by his youngest
*9n, the Duke de Iteutpensier.

years will drain the greater part of the silver out of the
country, and raise what remains to a factitious value.
Even now, in Canton, the sales are in many instances
made in exchange for inferior teas ; the price of the
article sold being merely nominal, as it is impossible to
calculate upon what these teas may realise in the Eng-
lish market :

" Hove-HONG, 20TH MAY, 1844.--The dispatch of
the Audax to Calcutta enables us to continue our gene-
ral mercantile advices to this date. In Canton and this
neighbourhood business generally is dull, owing in a
great degree to the unwillingness of foreign merchants
to take teas on barter for their goods, and the equal
reluctance of the Chinese dealers to forego the advan-
tages of the old system. At Shanghae, where the trade
is confined chiefly to British manufactures, little is doing:
some parties, in order to effect sales, have been compelled
to receive tea in barter at higher prices than those pre-
vailing at Canton. At Ningpo there is scarcely any
market. At Foo-choo-foo no consul has yet been ap-
pointed, and no business consequently been done there.
At Amoy, though trade is on a trifling scale compared
to Canton, matters seem in a more healthy state than at
and• other of the new ports, and the place is gradually
rising in importance.
" BRITISH MANUFACTURES.—CamIets.—Amoy, dirs.
25 to 28 ; Canton, 23 to 25 ; Shanghae, 25 per piece ;
very dull, owing to the large stock. Chintz.—Amoy,
dlrs. 2to 5 ; Canton, 3.50. The supply of these goods
is large everywhere, and the demand slack. Cotton
Yarn.—Amoy, dlrs. 25 to 26 ; Canton, 22 to 25 per
picul ; the little demand which exists is entirely fur low
numbers, but there is actually hardly anything doing.
Long Cloths.—Amoy, whites, dlrs 4 ; grey 3 ; Canton
white, 3.50.; grey, 2.80 to 3 ; Shanghae, &c., white,
3.80 ; grey, 3.50 per piece ; these goods are in fair re-
quest in all the ports named, the supplies of each being
moderate. Greys are oftener inquired for than whites.
Long Ells.—Assorted Amoy, dirs. 7'50 to 8 ; Canton,
7.75 to 8.50 ; Shanghae, 8 to 9. In Canton we hear of
one or two transactions, but elsewhere little is doing.
Spanish Stripes.—Amoy, dlrs. 1.25 to 1.30 ; Canton,
1.20 to 1.30 ; Shanghae, Lc., 115 to 1'35 per yard ; the
demand for Woollens generally is falling off, and Spa-
nish Stripes are suffering in consequence.
" EXCHANGE.—On London at 4s 33 per dollar.• Ben-
gal rs. 224 for 100 ditto. Bombay, 222 for 100 ditto,
Madras, 224 for 100 ditto. Sycee Silver. 3 and 4 per
cent. premium. Mexican dollars, 4 and 5 per cent,
" FREIGHT.—To London and Liverpool, 31. per ton."
(From the Overland Price Current, July 19.)
THE MARKET—OBSERVATIONS.—Boxner,

JULY 19.
As usual at this season, the market is closed for all
imports, and there is little of interest to report with res-
pect to transactions since the departure of the last over-
land mail. The rains fairly set in about the 18th June
—a plentiful supply has since fallen, and the prospects of
the agriculturists are cheering.
METALS.—There have been but few transactions in
metals durinc, the past month. Some sales of copper
have been made at our last quotations ; holders, how-
ever, look for an advance ; and for the copper 40ir
(which is a rise of 2ir) has been offered and refused, and
54r for braziers. Iron is rather dearer, and a disposi-
tion is shown to speculate in it. Spelter has been sold
at 14-13 r; but 15r since then been refused for it. There
is no change worthy of notice in other articles under
this head.

COTTON MANUFACTURES.—Transactions in these are
reported all but suspended, and the few sales we have to
report are such only as are required for local consump-
tion. In prices there is no change to notice.
YARN!.—The imports have been large in the last
mnnth, but no sales have been made, and prices are
nominal at our last quotations.
WOOLLENS.—No sales have been reported fur the
past month, and our former quotations are continued.
MARINE STORKS.—There is no change to notice in
any of the articles classed under this head. Still Can-
vass continues very dull of sale, and at unremunerating

prices.
COCHINEAL—Of this article a large quantity has
been imported of late, but there is no alteration to notice
in the price.
SerruoN.—There has also been a pretty large im-
portation of Saffron, and the price has fallen about 3r
per lb.
Corks and Bottles are dull of sale, and rather lower.

BEER.—Allsop's and Bass's maintain their former
price, 60r to 65r. Of Rees's a sale of 50 hhds at 42r,
and Saunders's a sale of 100 hhds at 52r to 55r bare
been reported.
SPIRITS.—Brandy still maintains our former quota-
tions, and is in good demand.

IRELAND.

TIIE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 9.—The Conciliation Hall this morn-
ing presented, within and without, such an appearance as
it never yet exhibited since the day upon which it was
first opened immediately after the suppression of the
Clontarf meeting last year. Between eight and nine
o'clock, large crowds of persons, of whom the great
majority were decently-dressed women, assembled
around the doors, which after a while were thrown open
to the accumulating masses, and instantly that portion of
the galleries set apart for the humbler members of the
Association, as well as the body of the Hall, was thronged
by the densest assemblage which we over witnessed
within any building. The attendance of ladies was not
less numerous, and the great pressure which their ardour
urged them to inflict upon each other caused some dis-
tressing scenes around the doors. The whole of the
large circular gallery presented nothing to the view but
a straggling array of caps, bonnets, ribands, and
feathers, whilst a pin could not have been let fall to the
ground in any part of the hall, so great was the crowd
of the associates. The number of persons of both sexes
seeking admission (in effecting which they sometimes
did not seem to overlook the utility of physioal force)
increased as the day advanced to such a degree, that the
whole of the quay, fur a considerable distance, at both
sides of the building, was completely blocked up, the
doors having been closed against all applicants so early
as eleven o'clock, and placards to that effect placed
against them. The unfortunate gentlemen of the press
were obliged to fight their way up to the
.barriers, and
then submit to be torn through, or carried over the
heads of the multitude into the hall, some two hours
before the time fixed for the meeting. There was much
dissatisfaction evinced that the Conciliation Hall was not
twice as big, and great grumbling was heard from in-
dignant gentlemen and ladies who had brought monev
from the country, or who shouted declarations through
the keyholes to that effect, to soften the rigid janitors,
who heard all such statements unmovedly.
About one o'clock the smaller leaders of the Associa-
tion began to arrive, and to force their way up to the
platform. Then came the dii majores. First Mr. Steele
made his appearance, and was greeted with all kinds of
applaudatory noises. Then Mr. Barrett, of the Pilot,
made his bow amid a similar demonstration. Dr. Gray's
advent was acknowledged in the same way, and at
length, preceded by Messrs. Butler, M.P., Grattan, M.P.,
and accompanied by Mr. J: O'Connell, M.P., the Hon.
Member for Cork advanced to the front of the platform,
and took up his usual place, amid such a display of feel-
ing, and with such rapturous welcome, as may rarely be
seen again. One storm of cheers, blessings, yelling,
and cries in Irish rose around from every part of the '
hall, and was echoed by the crowd outside. Al! the
women in the gallery waved their white handkerchiefs
(which they seemed to be especially provided with),
bonnets, and shawls, with astonishing vigour and perse-
verance ; whilst the men were equally energetic with
their hats, hands, and feet. For nearly ten minutes
cheering and applause, which was not surpassed in in-
tensity either at Tara or Mullaghmast, continued to peal
through the hall. Mr. O'Connell acknowledged it by
repeatedly bowing around him, kissing his hands to the
ladies in the gallery, and placing the crown of his hat on
his heart.. As he was thus engaged, Mr. Smith O'Brien
rushed to the front of the platform, causing if possible an
increase in the clamour, and seizing Mr. O'Connell's
hand, shook it vigorously for some moments. Mr.
O'Connell then caught Mr. S. O'Brien's hand, and placed
it on his heart, whereat the very building trembled and
quaked beneath the redoubled cheering and stamping.
At last Mr. O'Connell seemed to get tired. He opened
his lips again and again to speak, but his words were
inaudible, until a number of uplifted hands and voices
from the platform stilled the storm.
Mr. O'CONNELL was at length heard to say that he
claimed it as a privilege to be allowed to move that
the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin do take the
chair.

The LORD MAYOR (who was loudly cheered in doing
so) assured the meeting that it was the proudest hour of
his life to be called on to preside over them upon the
present important and auspicious occasion, and that the
distinction was one which he never expected to have ar-
rived at. He congratulated them and the country on the
restoration to liberty of tho man to whom they were all
indebted, and to whom he (the 'Lord Mayor) felt espe-
cially indebted for the high position he held as first ma-
gistrate of the city, and for the high honour he that day
enjoyed of presiding over such a meeting. No man had
ever contributed so much to the liberty of the human
race as Mr. O'Connell.—(Hear, hear.) Even his enemies
admitted that he had given liberty to his own country,
and undeserving of it indeed would they be if they did
not evince their gratitude for such a benefit. And they
did so. The scene which had just taken place—the
scene which had taken place on Saturday, when 500,000
of his fellow-countrymen exhibited as much anxiety to
look at him as if they had never seen him her:ore—proved
that they were grateful ; while he was sure they were
esteemed by Mr. O'Connell as in some degree a compen-
sation for the imprisonment which he had suffered. On
one result springing from the State prosecution he could
not avoid congratulating the people of Ireland, for he
had no doubt that by that prosecution the system of
packing juries in Ireland had got its death-blow.—
(Cheers.) Within the memory of man there never had
been such a triumph over faction and injustice.—(Cheers.)
Mr. T. M. RAY having then presented himself amidst
renewed cheering, proceeded to address the meeting,
holding in his hand the minute-book of the Association.
He assured them it was with the most thrilling delight
that he resumed the honourable office of Secretary for
Ireland.—(Cheers.) They had had a glorious triumph
of justice over iniquity—a miraculous triumph. After
the father of his country had been dragged by a species of
legal brute force to a felon's dungeon—after the country
had been subjected to the turmoil and danger through
which sho had passed in consequence, there they were
again (meaning the ex-traversers) to pursue the same
object with increased energy and determination. Often
in his prison had Mr. O'Connell exulted in the faithful
conduct of the people of Ireland. It was gratifying to
him to find that his spirit was abroad amongst them, and
that they had shown implicit obedience to his will. He
had heard that amiable gentleman, the Attorney-Gene-
ral, ridicule the Liberator's boast of being able to drive
a coach and six through any Act of Parliament that im-
peded his progress. The Liberator had at all events
proved himself equal to the Attorney-General ; for he
had driven the triumphant car of repeal through the
legal meshes which that functionary had flung around
him.—(Cheers.) He had told the people of Ireland that
he would not lead them astray, that he would keep them
free from the meshes of the law, and he had kept his
word ; for he had come out of prison with his fame
as a lawyer unsullied. Let them continue to pursue
his advice, and to follow his directions, and their final
triumph was secure.—(Cheers.) Mr. Hay having then
read the minutes of the last day's proceedings,
Mr. O'CONNELL moved the admission as a member
of the Association of Mr. Somerset Butler, M.P. for
Kilkenny, whose family, he observed, was illustrious
for its antiquity, its valour, and its love of old Ireland,
having bled for her in the field and upon the scaffold.
His Hon. Friend was just as ready to live for her—aye,
and to die for her too.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. S. O'BRIEN said he had to propose the admission
of a member of the Protestant aristocracy of this country
—(Cheers)—and lie did so with not the less pleasure
because many of his connexions were strong Conserva-
tives. The name he had to introduce was the Hon.
George Hely Hutchinson, brother of Lord llonough-
more.—(Prolonged cheering.) As a Protestant he thanked
those Protestant gentlemen who were now enlisting
themselves in this great Protestant as well as Catholic,
because national, cause. He hoped that the introduc-
tion into that hall of a number of the aristocracy, was
only the commencement of a new era in the history
of the country. He knew that there were many men
entertaining the loftiest sentiments of devotion towards
Ireland, who, from one cause or other, had been pre-
vented from enlisting in their ranks ; hut those impedi-
ments no longer existed, and he doubted not that the
example of Mr. Hutchinson would soon be followed to
a great extent. He felt it right to say that there had
been no conversion in Mr. Hutchinson 's case, for that
gentleman had always been an enemy to the union.
Mr. O'CONNELL haying seconded the motion, it was
agreed to.
Mr. 11. GRATTAN congratulated the meeting on the
accession of such men to that Association, and moved the
admission of Captain Mockler, of the county of Meath,
an Orangeman, who had been induced by the recent
persecution, for such the State trials had been, to come
forward and join the ranks of the repealcrs.—(Cheers.)
It was not enough that Peel should vindicate the
course he had taken in having instituted those trials—
he must atone for the injustice he had done by them.—
(Cheers.) They would make no appeal to England or
to Englishmen. The liberties of Ireland were at stake,
and, thank God, there was a sufficiency of Irish arms
and Irish hearts to defend them.—(Cheers.)
Mr. O'CONNELL also seconded this motion, which was
agreed to.
Mr. S. Butler, M.P., Mr. Hely Hutchinson, and Capt.
Mockler, severally returned thanks. The last-named
gentleman in doing so said that he had been dismissed
from the commission of the peace, which he had held
for thirty years in the county of Meath, because
ha d lie had
anded
declared himself against the union.
an investigation into his conduct as a magistrate during
that period ; the demand was ref usecland on a future
day he would read the correspondence which took place
in reference to it.
Mr. O'CONNELL, having risen.to hand in some money,
Proceeded to say—As lam upon my legs, I believe I may
as well proceed at once to address you.—(Loud cheers,
which continued for some minutes.) It would be
utterly impossible for me to find language adequate to
describe the sensations of delight with which I once
again address this assembly.—(Renewed cheers.) I had
imagined that my voice was to have been suspended at least
till the month of May next, but the " merry month of
May" has come upon us eight months too soon, and we
as May birds.—(Cheers and
can now rejoice as merry
laughter.) But, seriously speaking, we have the most
important reasons for rejoicing. A victory was never
yet more worthily won—a triumph was never yet more
honestly earned.—(Hear.) 'We have had a triumph
over combination and fcul conspiracy—we hare had a
triumph over the crime of packing of juries—we have
had a triumph of the constitution, and we are therefore
entitled to enjoy the pleasure and satisfaction of that
triumph. The words of the hymn readily suggest them,
selves to our minds in our present position, " Sit
ties plow, sit sonora, sit juoinda, sit decora, mentis
jubilatio." Yes, it is a moment in which the
jubilation of the mind should, with proper decorum,
but with entire fervour, rejoice in the flood of