The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-19 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, APRIL 17.—The usual weekly meeting of the
Association took place this day.
On the motion of Mr. O'Cormitut., R. D. Browne, Esq.,
M.P., was called to the chair, amid loud cheers.
Mr. O'CoNNELL, after the usual preliminary business had
been gone through, read the following letter from Germany :
" Man of Liberty and of the People,—The acts of a great
man are for the benefit of mankind, and it is the duty of
mankind to thank him for them, and endeavour to imitate
him in his glorious career. We deeply feel this gratitude,
and waft it to you across the sea, from a land where, alas !
as yet, but little enthusiasm is evinced for the nobler attri-
butes of man. You will not reject this tribute of our respect,
although we are undistinguished by any achievements in the
great cause of liberty. When at length our day shall break,
then shall we, or those whom we leave a. 9 successors in the
struggle for the dearest rights of man, combat bravely, fear-
lessly, and perseveringly. 'We shall be excited by your ex-
ample ; and by your deeds shall our resolution be confirmed.
Until then we can only indulge in feelings, of which some
are sad and discouraging, yet many are spirit-stirring and
glorious—but the purest of these emotions animates our
hearts, at the moment of thus expressing our deep venera-
tion and respect towards you.
" DR. HEINRICH LUDWIG BOLTZF
EBRENREICH EICHHOLZ,
JULIUS BERENDS,
FRANZ MARGGRAST,
WILHELM PZTERKE,
HEINRICH RUNGE,
WILHELM SCHEELE.
" Berlin, March 23, 1844.
The affixing of signatures was indirectly prevented in
Prussia on political pretexts.
.‘ In Wurtemburg strong measures were taken, the Go-
vernment being one of the most intolerant of the Protestant
States in Germany.

proclamation, containing a positive order against affix-
ing signatures to petitions, was issued by the King of Ba-
varia, who is believed to be a practical Catholic ; so that the
political resistance to opinions in favour of democratic liberty
appears to combine persons of various religious persuasions.
" On the other hand, signatures are publicly attached to
the address in many important localities, in particular, at
Colo e, at Bohn, at Coblentz, at Nismes, at Oberwessell,
at rOchard on the Rhine, at Aluveiler, at Mayence, at

Cochen on the Moselle, at Carisruhe. and even in some-cities
on the Danube. What is still more significant of public opi-
nion, they continue to collect signatures at and about Wurtz-
burg, in Bavaria, the royal order to the contrary notwith-
standing." _ _ _

Mr. O'CONNELL then read a long letter addressed to him
by Ferdinand Waller, Professor of Civil and Canon Law at
the University of Bohn, Knight of the Prussian Order of the
Red Eagle and of the Papal Order of St. Gregory. We can
find room for only the following extract :
" Your exertions and labours for bringing about the ame-
lioration of Ireland's social condition, have long attracted the
attention of all civilised nations. But in your public rela
tions a crisis has occurred, where a mere silent interest will
no longer suffice. Hence, from various parts of Germany,
men appear before you, Sir, personally to record in this
letter, the expression of the feelings that animate them in
your regard.
" You have, Sir, achieved many and great things in behalf
of your country. You have put an end to the rude dissen-
sions and bloody contests, which once disfigured your beau-
tiful land, and degraded her in the eyes of Europe. You
have re-awakened in your nation the sense of human dignity
11 and confidence, that ages of misfortune had depressed ; you
have made it. clearly apprehend the value of these two
greatest blessings that man can possess—religious and civil
liberty. But while you have inspired your countrymen with
the boldest hopes, you have ever set before them, with the
utmost earnestness and energy, the severe moral conditions,
.whe:•eby the fulfilment of such hopes can alone be deserved.
You have become in a manner, whereof histot y furnishes no
similar example, the leader of the masses ; but you have be-
come so, by breathing into them the same nobility of soul
.that animates your own bosom.
"All this, Sir, though a mere private individual, you have
accomplished by the power of words, which, artless and un-
adorned, like your last speech to the jury, you have
addressed to your true-hearted countrymen. For the diffu-
sion of your sentiments you have had recourse to those
forms that constitute part and parcel of those ancient liber-
ties whereof every Englishman is proud—and you have
thereby accomplished extraordinary, prodigious things. We,
who are habituated to another state of society, have often,
not without a certain degree of apprehension, followed the
course pursued by you. But we were tranquillized by your
solemn assurance that you would strictly keep within the
limit of pacific and legal measures, we were tranquillised by
the possession of that moral power you possess, and which
has ever inspired you with the certain assurance of being
able to restrain the multitude also within the bounds pre-
scribed."

The Association, said Mr. O'CONNELL, had those docu-
ments before them, and they could judge what were the
feelings of entire Europe on this course of conduct. Yes, the
people of Germany approved of that conduct, and it now only
remained for them to continue to deserve that approbation.
—(Hear.) Their German friends were right. They would
continue to preserve the peace, no matter what would happen.
They owed it to themselves, to their country, and their God,
to remain perfectly tranquil. And as for him (Mr. O'Con-
nell) whatever terms of concession he might have been in-
duced to listen to from the enemy while at large, from the
moment he entered prison he would indignantly reject them.
He called on the people of Ireland to be rejoiced at this ex-
pression of, feeling. In France there was a great anxiety to
see justice done to Ireland, they had refused to join the Jaco-
binical party there, but that did not lessen their zeal to see
the wrongs of the Irish redressed. America was with them—
and had they any doubt that Germany was with them also?
Mr. O'Connell handed in 100/. from Virginia.
Mr. S. O'BRIEN said he had to hand in 351. from the men
of Carric-on-Suir.

Mr. O'CONNELL handed in 100/. from New York ; it was
collected at a meeting of the Repeal Association, held there
on the 27th instant; he moved that it be referred to the
Sub-Committee to express their gratitude to their American
friends for their unbounded generosity.
Mr. RAY read a letter from Mount-Savage, Allegheny,
inclosing 201. to the funds of the Association.
Mr. O'CONNELL handed in 140/. from the Toronto Repeal
Association ; also 201. from the Seven Years' Operative
Bakers. Mr. O'Connell wished that the Repeal wardens
would take measures to procure signatures to the petition,
which it was the intention of the Association to lay before
the House of Commons at the earliest period.
We subjoin a copy of the petition :
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND HONOURABLE THE
COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.

The Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of the parish
of , in the county of , Ireland,
" Humbly Sheweth,—That a Bill has been lately Intro-
duced into your Honourable House, entitled ' A Bill to alter
and amend the Laws which regulate the Registration, Qua-
lification, and Polling of Parliamentary Electors in Ireland,'
which, while it purports to increase the Parliamentary fran-
chise of Ireland, must, if passed into a law, inevitably ope-
rate to diminish those franchises, where bonci fide existing,
and to cause the creation of a large number of fictitious and
servile votes.

" That the said Bill contains a clause enacting a 301. fran
chise in counties, based on the poor-law rating, which your
petitioners submit would introduce a qualification altogether
too high.
" That, if a valuable franchise, based on a poor-law rating,
could be instituted, it must be on a rate at the lowest sum
at which the liability to be rated is fixed by the Act for the
relief of the poor.
" That• there are but.a very limited number in Ireland who
can register under the second new franchise to be created by
this Bill, viz., that of 51. holders in fee, or on perpetuity
leases; but that this franchise will facilitate the creation of
a very large number of fictitious votes, in addition to those
already put on the register by landed proprietors in Ireland,
by means of the rent -charge franchise.
" That the taking away from the 101. freeholders the ne-
cessity of occupation to qualify for voting, will be another
means for the multiplication of fraudulent and fictitious votes.

" That the givingof votes to tenants-at-will, at the amount
of rating proposed in this Bill, cannot fail to operate, as it
has done in England (where it was introduced by what is
generally styled the • Chandos clause,' in the English Reform
Bill), viz., to create voters totally dependent on the will of
their landlords.

" That the adoption of the solvent-tenant test exclusively,
and the abolition of the beneficial test, in dealing with the
101. franchise in counties, will, according to the statement of
the mover of this Bill, diminish the number of electors by
two-thirds.

That the framers of this Bill, affecting, as they do, to
grant an extension of franchise, had it in their power to effect
such extension, by adopting the beneficial interest test ex-
clusively, instead of that called the solvent-tenant test : yet
they reject the enlarging, and adopt the restricting test ;
and, at the same time, have the boldness to assert, that they
wish to extend the franchise.

" That there are very many objections to this Bill—objec-
tions both of principle and detail ; but your petitioners con-
sider that they have said enough to show its character :
and feeling.that it is an attempt to strip Ireland of all legi-
timate right of voting, and to transfer that right to the op-
ponents of popular rights, solemnly protest against this con-
duct on the part of her Majesty's Ministers, and call respect-
fully, but firmly, on your Honourable House, to reject this
Bill, and prevent so insulting and injurious a measure from
passing into law.
" And your petitioners will ever pray."
Mr. O'CONNELL then read the following address to the
people of Ireland :
" TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND.

" Conciliation Hall, Corn-Exchange, April 16.

" Fellow Countrymen,—l shOuld wrong you exceedingly
if I entertained the slightest doubt of your obeying my re-
peated and distinct advice that you should not allow any-
thing to lead you into any violence or breach of the peace
whatsoever, no matter what the provocation may be.
" In the next week the sentence will be passed upon us,
who are called convicted conspirators,' but who are guilty
of no crime.

"But you would be guilty of a great crime if you were to
commit any act of violence, riot, or tumult. You would be
a criminal against your friends—you would harrow up my
heart with sorrow and affliction ; you would strengthen your
enemies—you would disgrace and injure your friends, and
you would ruin the sacred cause of repeal.
" Under these circumstances, I do not entertain the least
apprehension of any outbreak. I know the people of Ireland
are too wise and too good to commit any crime, or to be
guilty of any breach of the peace. You must know, for I
assure them solemnly of the fact, that the way to carry the
repeal, is by perfect observance of the peace and of the law ;
nay, I have not the least hesitation in pledging myself, that
by the people following the peaceable course, which I strongly
advise—in fact I may say command—the repeal of the union
is not far distant. The last resources of our enemies are
being exhausted, and the restoration of the Irish Parliament
cannot be remote. 'Peace and perseverance' constitute our
motto and our duty. Perfect peace, through perseverance,
and, believe me, the repeal is certain.—l am, fellow country-
men, your ever devoted and faithful servant,
" DANIEL O'CONNELL, Chairman of the Committee."
Mr. O'NEIL gave notice, that on the next day of meeting,
he would move that lest the Repeal Association Should sud-
denly be dissolved, the Secretary should be directed to take
down the name of the mover and the seconder of such a
motion, and that it should be read on the next day of meet-
ing, after such resolution has been moved.—(Hear.)
➢lr. O'CoxriEu, was glad of the notice of motion ; it could
do no harm, and it might do good. No person could pos-
sibly anticipate a sudden dissolution of that Association.—
(Cheers.) However, they could discuss the motion more at
length on the next day of meeting.

DR. PUSEY.—Edward Bouverie Pusey is the second
son of the late Hon. Philip Pusey, and grandson of the
Earl of Radnor. His father assumed the name of
Pusey on becoming the possessor of Pusey, in the
county of Berks, an estate held by that family from
a period considerably anterior to the Norman con-
quest, and held under a grant from Canute by
cornage, or the service of a horn. The Pusey horn
is well known to antiquaries. Dr. Pusey was born in
1800, and entered the University of Oxford in 1818,
as a gentlemen commoner of Christ Church. His name
co
appears in the first class in 1822. Shortly afterlvagined
8
became a Fellow of Oriel College ; 18242 h
the prize for the Latin essay, and in 1828 he obtained
the became
Regius Professor of Hebrew and Canon of Christ
rist Church.lnlB,s
In this year he married a lady since deceased.
.Daeadt
D.D.)he usual
periodshe had
etuabkeeenq
etehnet
lyd etgnreeke
those of Af and.B,
Lr. Pusey is therefore in his forty-fourth year.—Spirit
of the Age.
FREDERICK THE GREAT ; HIS COURT AND TIMES.
—We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn has this
day published a new and cheaper edition, comprised in
two vols. small 8 vo., price 215., bound, of "Frederick
the Great ; his Court and Times: edited, with an His-
storical Introduction and Notes, by Thomas Campbell,
which
can author of " The Pleasures of Hope," &c.,
can now be had of all booksellers.booksellers."No book (observes
the Britannia) ever passed more rapidly into a standard
work." "We recollect but few biographies which have
more highly and constantly kept oitr attention."—Black-
wood's Magazine.
lonigl°treArnaßn°t°leDssliandusdEre• —a r Ty h
a Palace
for
hoef
aisit ofleyw k
r o owde,e s os
been in a sense restored to, its former grandeur, by the
presence and occupancy of her Grace the Duchess of
Hamilton, the Marquis of Douglas and his amiable
bride, the Princess of Baden, the lovely Countess of
Lincoln, and their respective attendants; but we are
sorry to say it is soon likely to become as lonely and deso-
late as it has too long been. Her Grace the Duchess,
and the Countesses of Douglas and Lincoln, having
left it yesterday afternoon, the former for Hamilton
Palace, and the two latter on a visit to the Earl of
Wemyss. We understand that the Marquis of Douglas
and the Princess, after a short stay at Granton, intend
to proceed to the ancient residence of the Duke. of
Hamilton in the island of Arran, where, it is said,
the Marquis intends to raise an elegant mansioa.
The Marquis of Breadalbane and the Marchioness
still, however, occupy their apartments at Holyrood ;
but it is supposed they likewise will soon leave us. It
affords us much pleasure to add, that both these illus-
trious families, during. their brief but welcome visit,
have been boundless in their charities, and that their
absence will be severely felt by all around t4ell4
Sveknian.

__-..----- -

THE WELSH CHURCH.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
"Not that he cared for the poor, but because he
was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put
therein."

O Judas, Judas! how numerous are thy disciples,
how flourishing thy. school ! Thou wast but one in
twelve, but thou didst soon outstrip thy fellows. Thy
professed principles, how exalted, pure, and disinte-
, rested ! might not this be given to the poor Y 0 ye
poor, ye poor ! How often are your wretched heads
made the stepping-stones for the feet of avarice
and pride to pass over to the objects of
their cupidity and ambition. How many benefac-
tions have been dedicated to you, inheritances be-
queathed you, commons inclosed for you, laws en-
acted for your advantage, and yet have all left your
miserable heads only enough above water for some
other canting philanthropist to step over towards the
real object of his pursuit! Yea, even churches have
been built in your name, and for your sole accom-
modation; and you have been thrust into their damp
and mildewed corners, to kneel out your devotions on
the cold granite pavement, and strain your ears to
catch an occasional word from the far distant minis-
ter, whilst others • possess the inner retreats of the
sanctuary, chambered and curtained, and pillowe 1
and footstooled, in all the luxury of the drawing-room
and boudoir !
. But if we would wish to view this ecclesiastical
mockery of the poor in all the offensiveness of its
most contemptuous scorn, we have nothing to do
but to cross the Severn into the principality of Wales,
and there our curiosity will soon be gratified, and
that not merely in an occasional instance, but in a
regular and systematic course of proceedings. For
here we shall see the poor not only driven to the
corner, but actually spurned from the Lord's table !!
The first portion of the principality we light on is the
diocese of Landaff. Here, throughout extensive dis-
tricts, the Welsh is the language of the common .
people, and consequently that of the working-
classes and of the poor ; but it happens
that from the attractions of the country or
from commercial speculation, in many of the parishes
some English families have taken up their residence,
and in these parishes the Welsh service has invariably
been more or less dropped and the English substi-
tuted in its stead, solely for the accommodation of a.
few individuals, whilst the bulk of the people are de-
prived of the privilege of hearing the word of God in
their native tongue.
But this is not all. In most of these parishes the
Welsh service is partly continued, as it would be too
barefaced even for the present race of clergy to dis •
continue it altogether ;_ but in a vast proportion of
them the Communion Service is never performed in
the Welsh language, but invariably in English; and
on these occasions the Welsh portion of the communi-
cants are obliged to content themselves with having
merely the few short sentences accompanying the de•
livery of the bread and wine repeated in their native
language, whilst the whole of the rest of this great
and important service is performed in English, for the
accommodation of those whose gayer apparel pro-
claims their having come from some more fashionable
part of the kingdom. Is not this the homage to the
"gold ring" mentioned by the Apostle ? The very
fact of delivering the consecrated elements to some of
the congregation with the sentences in Welsh is a
proof of that being the only language they understand,
and yet they are to be deprived of all the rest of the
service, the Confession, the Prayer, and the Blessing..
And all this is done in scores of instances under the
very eyes of the Bishop; the people peated like serfs,
spurned from the Lord's table, likelbeings of an in-
ferior order, to make room for "the 711471 with the gold
ring." Is it a wonder that., under such treatment, the
people hate our Bishops, that they curse our
hierarchy, and revile our Church ; call her Babylon,
and cry " Down with her r' Surely Rome herself,
if she be the spiritual Babylon, was never guilty of
such an abomination as this.

But though small consolation, it is yet a certain
fact, that if evil does not work out its own cure, it
brings with it the punishment of its authors, for find-
ing themselves thus treated in their parish churches,
the people, naturally sensitive and discriminating,
and also deeply imbued with religious feelings,
have left those scenes of slight to themselves,
and of insult to their religion, and have sought other
communions, where they can hear the Word of GNI
in their own language; where, if they find less or-
thodoxy, they find more charity; where, if the mysteri-
ous symbols of the great atonement are not distributed
under the sanction of the mitre and the cassock, they
are at least received in the confident assurance oC a
charitable spirit, and of the existence of sympathy,
Christian communion, and brotherly kindness. TlK•se
are spiritual comforts which the Church of England,,
or rather, as before intimated, that rotten branch of
the Church of IVales, often withholds from the greet
hulk of the people, and the people are their own aveql-
gers. In the diocese of Llandaff, there are parisi- es
containing twenty thousand Dissenters, with not dire
hundred Churchmen!

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals—Mona, Milligan, from Van Diem.enms Land,
off Falmouth, sailed from .aunceston 26th. December :
George Buekharn, Simpson, Singapore, la Liverpool,
sailed sth December, St. Helena 27th February ;
Robertson, Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed 26th November ;
Janet Wilson, Wilson, from Bengal, in the Downs,
sailed 18th December, St. Helena Bth February.
Arrivals at Launceston, Van Diemen's Laud—Here,
ford, Reabant, December 1, from Sydney, and to load
for London ; Aden, Waddell, 23d, from London, bound
to Sydney.
Arrivals at Hobart Town—Davidsons, Cairncross.,
2d December, from Portland Bay ; Marian Watson, 7114
from Portland Bay ; Amelia May, Ann and Louisa,
13th, from Sydney ; Grecian, 12th, from whaling ;
Janet Iza t, 17th, Jane Francis, 17th, and Auriga, 21st,
all from London ; Maria Orr, from whaling.
Departures from Hobart Town—Henrietta, Longford,
Dec. 4' • Orator, Tayt, 4th to Sydney ; Regulus, Hun-
ter, 12th to Port Philip. The Psyche to sail Dec. 22.,
and Duke of Roxburgh, 31st, both to London.

Arrivals at Adelaide--East London, Lewis, Nor.
from Hobart Town, to load for London ; Imaum of
Muscat, 9th from London, and sailed 18th to Port
Philip; Corsair, Greig, 16th, from London ; Frances
Spaight, Winn, 24th from London.
Arrivals at Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope—Dream,
Eager, Feb. 14, from Mauritius ; Arrow, Walker, 15th
from London to Bombay.
Arrivals in Table Bay—Thomas Coutts, Feb.2l, from.
Bombay ; Bengalee, from Batavia.
Arrivals at St. Helena—lngleborough, from Chita%
and sailed Feb. 26 to London ; Midas, from Bombay,
and sailed Feb. 27 to Liverpool.
Departures from St. Helena—Coquette, Feb. 25, to
London ; Antelope, 26th to Gottenburgh ; The Mayoon
to London ; Leland, to Boston.

Arrivals at Moulmein—Nestor, Dec. 12 ; Thetis,l4th,.
M. C. Von. Weber, and Prince Albert, 17th, all frow
Mauritius.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Potasmouni.—The Vernon, 50, Captain Walpole, recentlY
from the Mediterranean, is gone to Cork with a strou de-
tachment of Royal Marines, for the disposal of the Naval
Commander-in-Chief, whose flag is flying in the Volage, 26,
Captain Sir W. Dickson, Bart. It is understood that the,
Vernon will remain at Cork pro tempore ; but she will pro-
' coed shortly to Sheerness to be paid off.
erected;
The steamer Fearless, Commander Sherringliatnz is, gone,
fr
to Southampton, for the purpose of making a e, h ,urrey ot
that
ftitNe-elrv,itanhdtilianyniensgv cploiewr,nonrdewerebduot)o's
bfreornforCthawisihot
th Castle,
in a I
opposite to the Queen's new marine residence at East Cow,"
near Norris Castle.
The Crocodile, 26, and Cygnet brigantine, will be commis-
the former to be employed us a
troop-ship.
That at Sheerness,
That noble ship Collingwood! 80, has been masted, and
awaits orders for the pendant being hoisted. We understand
that she will not be conunissioned until Ist May. Several
thear e
latter
ri n i
sa ftoorwgaordasstatfleagfo-rshtilipe pendant '
fine able-bodied men are waiting to enter for her; and he'
stores are all ready for embarkation. The Rodney, 92, mull
72,Iflieniadv:ihestleivn,ecgetlr,e;eititeev
lerti
sh,e26, cap Illustrious,tain 7b2ia.
ndy,
24th February (having obtained the necessary*
proceed to the Cape of Good Hope, where supplies) to
she will transfer
supernumeraries to the Winchester fi
dis—
patches for Rear-Admiral the Hon.ag-galp, and land Joceline Percy.
By the arrival of the brig pantaloon, ercy.
from the coast of Africa, 10, Lieut. Lapid4p,
we learn that the Madagascar,..44,
Captain Foote, was cruising inthe *
vicinity of the Cape de
Verde, and that she was to •
remain out until August, to com-
plete her three•
years period of service. Two of her Lieu-
tenants have come home respecting some differences with
Captain Foote and the slave-dealers on the coast.
It is determined, for the more speedy and effectual sup-
pression of the slave traffic, to increase the steam navy on
the coast of Africa, and also to add to the number of sailing
vessels, for which purpose the Albatross, Wasp, and Rip :
dove have been detached from the West India station. '''
' leftMtPod. lit:: onlllrivAel Went.
There is no truth in the report of another change *an ilia
naval uniform being ordered ; but the naval world is ./ooking
to the 24th May (Queen's birth-day) for the pro,Aniption
of the promotions.
The Malabar, 72, Captain Sir George Sartori.as, arrived at
Lisbon, from Gibraltar, on the 3d inst., havi,fly; Left at the
latter place the Scout corvette and oci
was to remain the Tagus a short time,4 'and then proceed
to Devonport to be paid off. '..st steamer. She
in
The New Naval Regulations estiiblisb ed by the Admiralty
were officially made known on, the PA inst., and comprise
important alterations in the pay, dr,nomination, and rank
of the officers, and the rt!.llnK of Wills with their respective
complements.
At Spithead—No vet el of war.
In Harbour—St. -Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Black.
Eagle, Echo, and Victoria and Albert.—Brighton Gazette.

The inquiries in Portman-square respecting the
state of Mr. Hanbury Hall, son of Sir B. Hail, continue.
daily, as although there certainly has been amendments
in the last twelve days (and decided improvement sinewe mentioned his being brought from Sandhurst' iu a
dying state near a month ago), yet we understand that
it is impossible for him, as yet, to be pronounced con-
valescent, and that at best his recovery must be very
tedious, though strong hopes are now entertained of the,
preservation of his life.
A brigadier of the Horse Municipal Guards on
Saturday blew out his brains with a pistol at the barracks at
the Celestins. He was much respected in the corps, and was
high on the. list for promotion. Disappointment in love is
assioed'as the cause of this act of madness.