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London, England, 1844-11-22 00:00:00

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AiOVI?,.UPN
DuityArrz, goV. 120:---.Thsf.ateirrent of t 4 Dublin
IVttptler, respecting. the atitt-Peel,ttlovemenft;amongst
the divinity students, haS ..prcianceil some e)s.,i:,-?!irlent
in the University, and.l4 to ikiplrOed entiFsevf action
on the part of the bet:it-Pot Skeier:fellows.,'-,
The Siatantah, QrangrjoUtrial, contains the
following on this subject • -•

' tie still sinnt-:•.beetiase harriste rs who expect promo-
Zountenance, or place, still remember the warning
of Lord Ebrington, and say nothing—because- the army
and police dare not read the journals of .he Liberal
press or join in the crk for r,encal-r-and hemp?, pnri:dti.l,
in everx 4eptlrtnitnt 01 the few public offices in Ireland
haVe received notice to quit or be mute, . Thi:, J~ti viii
permit me to say, 13 at bat but a very negative power,
and while you stop the mouth of the Yolcarioi you do
not quench, but concentrate the fitt; and ilotwithetind-
log that thtte ate still many waiters upon Providence—
many who are still content to take the crumbs which fall
from the rich man's table—the truth is every day becom-
ing more and more evident that the ranks of the res.
pealera are increasing--,--that nine-tenths of the Roman
Catholics are practical patriots, and that a large body of
the Orangemen, too, wish the cause to succeed, but
their esprit de corps prevents them as yet from say-
ing so ; for my part, I felt I would be doing violence
(tohummyblenatthuorueg,
hdiisthomnao: be) from
my religion, and. injus-
tice to my country, in withholding my co-operation
fI foreknew the consequencesroomf
nithyeac4 NATIONbu AL ca
use.
I could
no
longer stifle the expression of my conviction, when the
master-spirit of our age—he whom Providence has raised
up the emancipating pillar of the Irish, nation—who,
heaven directed, leads, while he cheers his chosen people
from their long captivity—was sought by legal mystifica-
tion to be hidden from our view, whilst O'Connell was
himself a captive, when an ominously sullen gloom over-
hung this land—when the last ray of hope was.abont to
carry our faint prospects of justice to a foreign shore, to
be afterwards so gloriously and unexpectedly revived
there, by the voice of the immortal Denman, of whom it
may be said in the language of the poet;
Semper hones, nomenque tuumn, laudesque manebunt.'
When there was no longer in Ireland any chance of
Justice to Ireland,' I came forward, but at the eleventh
hour. I did not, on that account, expect an exception
in my favour for so long a time, even to prove a rule, and
though I could have anticipated thin mark of his Lord-
oNsslani plmi'
nsygdliyspalceca accept
constitutionalpu tr displeasure myirnigt ehvoluntaryact
ri:,
sra : gbt
to
.na resignation, i on,
done,l did
ntoto:,
wish to commit so pu6illanitnous a suicide, but, relying
of his Lordship, and I shall rest Zoo-tea iiiithlee!'lln4znedstss
consciu sibi recti' to take my nand at.thda/0..A1..am no
longer considered worthy of a sea6m:Alfthich
cannot now be held by any one, b4Vgolifigkacri-
fice of self-esteem and public indepeffilitiW,Mlceap to
be a magistrate of this county, Only fio'beColjail a more
determined national repealer,—l to re-
main your very obedient humble serotit:,;':k,-;?1,._.
" LUKE JOSEPH SHEA, eii4X,,i'iipit-TWOloter-
at-Law.::-L'.
MR. O'CONNELL IN-E, 1:11/0,,,E41f,
(From the Kerry Eiiiinitieri):
From an early hour yesterday4,ol44o.:loe popu-
lation for twenty miles round theslo*Wn,*l7ocall in
rhotion-7-all proceeding to the gratul4jeci4.-akirac-
tiok'fralee, from whence the proCiseiptp.*:cOmpli-
merit:the illustrious Liberator waaii) • 'start at timlve
o'Clock. At twelve o'clock, the hoirrappninted,there
vY4$ '4, general move towards MitAigrave-bridgf, the
:044,apPoitited for the rendezvousr.sie.q,,oo various
trades proceeded, with their beautira'new silk -ban-
`ners;nwlffeb had been prepared for4he occasion, to
'take,,, up ;.iteir several positions. The:. Castle-street
bairtifclorstiiner;,t`olaeft:lro,odgrtehsseedstirneettheiink siVeildvideimsoilrittaroyf
chariot; 'being no other than the celebrated boat, be•
longing to Dr. Blennerhassett, which had the honour
of visiting the metropolis, with her galla4t Crew,
when Tory injustice consigned the Liberator to
Richmond Penitentiary. This boat, the famous
Colleen Dlias, placed as it was on the body of a car-
riage,rmfolry
Lordsboun bound,
eannhd ba
m acr iontg
the t o
inscriptions,
which
Hu
tR'
ot tend n ham, ,
ua nndi Campbell,oo;, ra rsDa
Rememberhanie l Ot'
hCeo n n 3 eoltlh, a
onfd Repealra
I awakened in the bosoms of the spectators the warmest
respect for the worthy owner. Notwithstanding
the distance the quay of Blennerville is from the
town, the seamen in the harbour seemed to participate
in the universal ardour—the captains of the dif-
ferent vessels having ordered, at six o'clock in the
morning, to hoist all the flags on board to respect
Ireland's vindicator. The appointed hour having
arrived, the procession proceeded along the Mall,
with banners inscribed with the appropriate mottoes
of each trade. Immediately in front of the proces-
ilon were Dr. Blennerhassett, the Rev. Bartholomew
o'conners P.P., Milltown ; Rev. Jeremiah Connell,
T;P4)..'144-Winore ; Rev. T. L. M'Donnell, R.C.C„
haytintnere; Rev. O'Callaghan P.P., Bally-M'Elli-
gotf; E. U'Flaherty, Tralee ; Daniel
and -Justin. Supple, Esqs., Dr. King;,4be Messrs.
Donevan, Mulchinock, Fitzgibbon, &o.
The procession having passed the 'barrack, the
gates of which, by-the-way, were closed, and the
loop-holes stuffed with straw, proceeded along the
picturesque and romantic glens of the new line of
road to Miltown. Along this line the scene was
majestically grand. The eye of man, perhaps, seldom
witnessed a sight more imposing than what was
there presented. As the dense mass of human beings
wound along this meandering road, the mountain
presented the appearance of some mighty encamp-
ment, as the banners moved in front of its heath-clad
sides, while the national airs, re-echoing from every
hollow ravine, spoke as if with a thousand tongues
to the Irish heart.

"An article quoted iii Other column from the
Warder, with reference to.. Ntryiie- and Peel's proposed
University tamperine micntiona that the Regius Pro-
fessor of Divinity had:spoken, io:his, opening prelection,
this term, of the possibility that this might be his last
occasion of addressineihetu.tia -an, officer of a iirotes-
-
tent university. •
" We understand that yesteillay'.(Monday) the Rev.
Mr. M'Neice, Arclibishop.4inie*Lecturer in Divinity,
warned the students of thejuntOr e.tass, that any attend-
, once upon a political meeting; of
.the sort referred to
would be a direct breach of-,acadefnic discipline, and
would be so treated by the boaa, %Ye understand, also,
that this day Dr. Elrxrigtor); Regius Professor of Divi-
nity, advised the senior class not to take any part in such
movements ; and also...**plainedthat he did not speak of
likelihood, but merelY. of thOlatigers threatened by the
enemies of the Protettant,ostise,iand of the University
and Church of Ireland.;
" Of course, in conseqtrence. of these admonitions, no
public step of a political hue Will be taken by university
students in that capacity. 1;;i; • • '
" Since writing th% abo'rerwe learn that fa special
meeting of the board was held this day, and that it was
resolved to publish oti tho' gatg of `Trinity College the
old rule of the board, which prohibits' all students f, am
taking part in political *gsemblies. rule, which is
now upon the gate, o,riglhate'd 'in 1798, or thOreabouts,
we believe, and was reVived:in ; but lye do not
know that it was ever:before:published, or that in any
mode whatever a student could be reasonably 'presumed
to be informed of it. ;We .sek it, indeed, printed in the
recent new edition of the statues, lilt these will be in
very few hands. Of Course the rule `will be at once and
heartily obeyed to the letter but equally, of ;course, it
will be found a step tokwitkioilt deep
, and ulterior conse-
quences to tamper with. ark,y -moi* bulwark of Pro-
testantism."

THE CORPORATrON AND THE TREASURY.
At the 'fleeting of;thezOrpOiattun of Dublin, 'es-
terday, the Town-clelicieii4eliglowing letter from
the Lords of the Tee)reply to a counnunica-
tion from the Council, dated--Sep;..lo
" TreasnriChamOrs, Nov. 16, 1844.
" My Lord,—Thet Lord%.Commyisioners of her Ma-
jesty's Treasury having haetiiefore them the letter from
the Town-clerk of tlie city of Akibliii;dated Septets •
ber last, in reply to the letter. tifihiii.hoard of )he Alst
August last, upon the' subjeitit'o th arrangenients pro,.
posed by the corporation. of,..Pablin, -for charging the'
estates with a sufficient sunsUpayi..pff certain,Fity bon4
and pipe water debetiturea„;4ith =''-view to an annual,.
saving, by a reduction of qkqtititetest now Payabla oil
those ,bonds and deb!:;.naltei;'ll-ampOnimanded by theii
Lordships 4,,0 acquaint you -Ofat, under the peculiar
cuT..?an.ces in which` the corporation are placed, thtiF.
Loydships are disposed to OconOder•Ahe financial scheme-.
Proposed by the council, with -a view to ascaitain when
ther the interest ou the colorate debt can be reduced an
• a-manner more in accordance with the usual ,practice of
.this board than that briginally proposed. 'I,
My Lords desire me to—state that they continue to
-entertain objections to the plan of parcelling eat so large
,a.anni as that required by the corporation ani-ong credi-
tors of 1001. each. •

"Their Lordships are, however, informed by the
Town-clerk's letter, of the 10th of September last, that
the Hibernian Bank would agree to consolidate the
bonds and debentures into somewhat larger amounts,
such as sums of 500/., 3001., 2001., and 1001., instead of
the present 1001. debentures.
" Such consolidation, if carried to such an extent as to
divide the debt among a large proportion of creditors of
5001. and 300/., leaving comparatively few of smaller
sums, would lessen the objections entertained by this
board to the proposed scheme. My Lords, therefore,
before they proceed to the reconsideration of the whole
question, would wish to be informed of the utmost ex-
tent to which the Hibernian Bank will consent to such a
consolidation of the 100/. debentures into larger sums.—
I am, my Lord, your most obedient humble servant,
" C. E. TREVjLYAN.
" To the Lord Mayor of Dublin."
The corporation had given notice that they would
reduce the rate of interest on their debentures on the
29th September last, that being-the gale-day, and.t.e
enable them to make' such .reduction in the manner
then proposed, the sanction of the Lords of the Trea-
sury was required. Accordingly, a correspondence
on the subject ensued ; and now, to a letter dated the
10th September, on a subject to be concluded on the
29th of that month, an answer is forwarded by the
Lords of the Treasury of the 16th November ! The
matter so treated by the Lords of the Treasury related
to a saving to the citizens of Dublin of not less than

1,3001. a year. The corporation not having received
a final answer in preper time from the Treasury,
might have been involved in great difficulty but for
the intervention of the Hibernian Bank, which en-
abled them to keep faith with their creditors and carry
out the reduction of interest for which they had given
notice.

This conduct of the Treasury was the cause of
much severe animadversion at the meeting of the
town council, and the repeaters availed themselves of
so good a topic.
RESISTANCE TO THE POOR-RATE.
The Majo Constitution says :—" A. p*(llice force,
under the command of Sub-inspector Walshe, and
Mr. Kelly, R.M., accompanied the collector of poor-
rate to that part of the parish of Islandeaay which is
in the Castlebar union, on Saturday last. At first
the collector met with fierce opposition; and stones
were flung at him ; but owing to the conciliatory
course adopted towards the people, a good deal of the
rate was paid, and the remainder promised. It is
but just to Mr. Kelly to say that, in several cases
where he saw that persons were not able to pay, he
Paid the rate for them himself. This creditable act
ought to be stated."
ANOTHER DISMISSAL FROM THE MA-
GISTRACY.

Having gained the summit, the whole body, which
could not have amounted to less than fifty or sixty
thousand persons, halted to await the arrival of their
illustrious Liberator. The delay was but short,
when the cheers of thousands who accompanied the
Liberator on his route proclaimed his near approach.
Nothing could equal the enthusiasm of the multitude
on his arrival. As he slowly passed along, the lines
were drawn up to meet him. Hating again formed,
they moved down the mountains, and on reaching
the barrack, outside the town, the several bands, on
passing by, struck up the royal anthem—" God save
the Queen,"—amidst loud cheers for her gracious
Majesty. The procession at length arrived in town,
and conducted the Liberator to Miss Connor's house,
Denny-street, where ho alighted amidst general accla-
mation.

Mr. O'CONNELL then presented himself at the
window, and was received with the most deafening
cheers, which continued for several minutes. After
silence was restored, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman
said—Fellow-countrymen,—l am anxious that the
bands may now stop playing, as I am unwilling
that the men who have done me the honour
of accompanying me to town may be exposed to
the rain. In the fullest tone of satisfaction and
delight, I must express my warmest thanks for the
very kind reception my friends have given me this
day, in my native county.—(Loud cheers.) It has
been observed that no man is considered a prophet in
his own country; however, I have received marks of
your affectionate regard beyond anything I could
anticipate. It is impossible for me to And words to
describe how I feel. I again thank you for your
kindness. My gratitude towards you is not founded
on the consideration that the compliment is personal.
No, my gratitude to roe is for Ireland—(Cheers)—
and Sour dekotitth In the eatise of Old Ireland—
(Loud cheers)—for which every man of you is ready
to die if necessary. And are you not ready to live
for it ?—(Loud cheers) Yes, you are, and your
attachment to it to °day proves it Yon are deter-
mined to stand in support of fatherland—(Cheers),
—for liberty and Ireland—(lmmense cheering),—fur
repeal of the union and Ireland.—(Tremendous
cheering.) For this I hare laboured a 2 during the
struggle of Emancipation ; but I had always an ulte-
rior object—not, however, to place the Catholic or
the Protestant in the ascendancy} but to make both
the possessors of property in the land of their birth.
—(Loud cheers.) For this have I struggled—to
have Ireland for the Irish—Scotland for the Scotch—
Wales for the Weleh--and with all my heart, England
for the English.—(Cheers.) But I insist that Ire-
land must be for the Irish.—(Cheering for several
minutes.) For my attachment to this principle they
sent me to the felons' gaol—to a prison for one hun-
dred days—(Loud groans)—but here I dm as merry
as ever.e—(Long continued cheers.) They had no more
right to send me there than I would have to send
the ,judges whn tried me thrre. How much they
would deserve it you all can judge. I need not i'-
mind you of the law having been violated, the packed
jury and the jury lists.—(Groans.) I committed no
crime; my only crime real my love for Ireland—
(Cheers)—but if it is a crime to love Ireland, let them
punish me again; for I love Ireland as much as ever.
--(Great cheering.) I hake now come Prom iffy na-
tive mountains, still determined to struggle against
the enemies of Ireland, looking for the great and
mighty object of all our aspirations, liberty. And
oh I what can expand the human heart in its greatest
amplitude more tnan the obtainment of liberty and
the amelioration of the condition of the people ? If
the people of this country had employment, how happy
would they feel ; if the absentee rents were spent in
works of public utility, now ditl'erent would be the
state of the labouring class. If we had the 6,000,0001.
a year expended among the people, to how many
would it afford employment ? It would put in circu-
lation 500,000/. a month, 125,000/. a week, or about
18,0001. a day, including Sunday.—(Loud cheers.)
What employment this would afford. What a cheerful
country would this be. You would have the farmers
• comfortable—you would have the labourer able to
obtain from the farmer remuneration for his labour.
—(Loud cheers.) I don't mean to detain you at this
late hour by other topics on the repeal question, but
I hate been informed by gentlemen in other parts of
the county that the people are alive to the subject—
I perceive by this day's display that Kerry is alive.
—(Loud cheering.) I have sufficient proof of that
fact by your conduct to-day.—(Loud cheers.) Your
peaceful, orderly conduct in the national cause must
be crowned with success.—(Cheers.) Let us have no
anger or irritation, no hatred to any man. I am now
contending for the interests of Protestants as well ae
Catholics. My heart beats only for the goal of Ire-
land. I begin now, and will nut cease until we have
the rarlianiont House again in College-green.—(lm-
) manse peals of cheering, during which the Liberator
' retired.)
Mr. O'Connell shortly after appeared at the win-
dow, and advised the immense assemblage to disperse
to their homes, on which all quickly separated. The

The Cork Reporter contains the following corre-
spondence, commencing with a letter to the editor of
that journal :
" The Rennies, Carrigaline, Noy. 18, 1844.
" Sir—Having had the honour of being admitted a
member of the Loyal National Repeal Association on the
Ist of July, I have been now visited with the usual
laconic notice of Mr. Henry Sugden, which gave rise to
the following correspondence.-1 am your obedient ser-
vant, "LUKE JOSEPH SHEA."

" Seeretary's-office, Four Courts,
Dublin, Nov. 8, 1844.
"' Sir—lt having been reported to the Lord Chan-
cellor that you are a member of the Repeal Association,
I am directed to ask you, as a magistrate, whether the
report is correct.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your
most obedient servant., " HENRY SUGDEN.
" Luke John Shea, Esq., &c.' "
" Ringmahon Castle, Cork, Nov. 12, 1844.
" Sir,—Yonr letter of the Bth inst. did not reach me
until this day, owing to my absence froth " The Ren-
nies," and being on a visit here with my father-in-law,
Mr. James Murphy, which will account for your not
having heard from me in duo course.
"' By your communication I am informed of a report
having been made to the Lord Chancellor ' that I am a
membr of the Repeal Association,' and you ask me, as
a magistrate, whether the report is correct ?
" ' In reply, I have the honour to state, for the in-
formation of his Lordship, that on or about the Ist of
July last I sent a letter to Smith O'Brien, Esq., accom-
panied by a subscription to the repeal fund, and I am
informed that I have been admitted a member of the
Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland, and I
have further to add, I subscribed myself then, as I have
still, the privilege (at the pleasure of his Lordship) to
do, a magistrate of the county of Cork, and, am goer very
obedient servant, &c.,

" LITRE JOSEPH SHEA, J.P.
" Henry Sugden, Esq., Secretary's Office,
Four Courts, Dublin.
" ' N.B. Your letter directod to ' Luke John Shea,
Esq., I presume was intended for me.'
" Secretary's Office, Four Courts, Dublin, Nov. 15.
" Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of the 12th inst, and I sim directed by the
Lord Chancellor to inform you that he regrets he has
felt it his duty to supersede you in the commission of the
peace.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient
servant, _ " HENRY SUGDENp

" Luke Joseph Shen., Esq.'
" The nennies, Carrigaline, County Cork,
Nov. 18. 1844.
" Sir—l have received an intimation you, bear-
ing date the 15th that the Lord Chancellor has
thought fit to deprive me of the commission of the peace
for sloe county of Cork. I therefore beg leave in reply
to say, that intelligence has come upon me without au:-
prise, as I have already seen to thility instances of the
practice, but in no Case have I heard it alleged that in
any amongst the magistrates who joined and who have
been visited with the intended penalty of a supersedeas,
for so joining the peaceable association of their country-
men for a legal object to be obtained by strictly legal
means—have been guilty of the slightest violation of the
laws which they were sworn to enforce, or in any manner
infringed upon the principles of the Constitution, which
they learned at all times to respect, and under any cir‘
eumstances sacredly to upheld as the ;safeguard of the
butte ; in a word, I have yet to know how or when we
ceased to be loyal subjects, or impartial magistrates?—
You will, then, allow me to say, that in my humbie opi-
nion, you do his Lordship the Chancellor, in his minis-
terial capacity, a great injustice when you make him
thus pronounce my doom 'sic rob, sic jubeo, sttt pro
ratione voluNtas.'
"I respectfully bow to. the decision of his Lordship,
but it makes the fact to me the -.more clear, that nothing
can serve Ireland but repeal.- Promises have been made
and as soon broken. This-kingdom has been the play-
thing of party in every age. A Government (exhibiting
some profession of good perhaps) chanced to have had a
short existence one day, lint again the picture is re-
versed, and our faint hopes are blackened, We have
seen alternate. courses of conciliation and coercion, tan-
talized by English friends,- and oppressed by English
foes—lrishmen are MADE to feel that no consistency can
be relied upon except in the security of self-government.
This, I .ay, is the conviction on the minds of many, and
it is wine, though .Government may think themselves
strong because they have apparently succeeded in
stifling, not the opinion, but the expression of it in some
—because magistrates who have ;got aristocratic friends