The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-16 00:00:00

IRELAND.

VISIT OF MR. O'CONNELL TO DERRY-
NANE.
DUBLIN, SEPT. I 4.—Mr. O'Connell intends to make
his annual visit to Derrynane Abbey, and is to leave
Dublin on next Tuesday week fbr his celebrated
mountain home. Several invitations to provincial
dinners have been received by Mr. O'Connell, but
most of them are to be delayed until the return of
the Hon. Gentleman from Kerry.
POPULAR REJOICINGS.
In the most remote districts the liberation of Mr.
O'Connell was celebrated by public rejoicings. A
letter from Killaloe gives an account of illuminations
in all the towns and villages in the county of Clare.
The entire country has been one scene of rejoicing
for the triumph of O'Connell over the Tory Govern-
ment.
MEETING OF THE CORPORATION.—AD-
DRESS TO MR. O'CONNELL.
A special meeting of the Corporation was held this
day in the City Assembly House, for the purpose of
transacting a variety of business, and also for the
disposal of several motions, the only one interesting
being an address of congratulation to Mr. O'Connell
on his liberation from his " unjust captivity." The
Lord Mayor presided.
After the disposal of the routine business, Mr. J.
REILLY, T.C., rose in pursuance of notice to move the
adoption of an address of congratulation to Mr.
O'Connell. He read the following address:—
" TO DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ., M.P.
" Address of the Honourable the Lord Mayor, Alder-
men, and Burgesses of Dublin.
" Revered Sir,—We, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
and Burgesses of Dublin, remind you that when, for
your great virtue and indomitable perseverance in the
cause of liberty all over the world, and your parti-
cular devotedness to that cause in relation to your
native land, you became an object of persecution and
injustice, we approached your prison-house to offer
you our condolence, and prove that those for whose
good your entire life was one of toil, were not un-
grateful in the days of your trial and suffering.
" We pledged ourselves that when the day of your
captivity should have passed away you should find us
at your prison gates, once more to place you at the
head of the people, to lead them on in your peaceable
and moral strugle for the redemption of your country.
An all-ruling Providence, in his Divine dispensations,
has been pleased to shorten the term of your impri- .
sonment, and, in your person, has given a triumph to
justice, and restored you, unconquered, to freedom, so
that you may, by moral means, teach the people how to
deserve liberty and achieve it.
" We, therefore, beg to approach you on this auspi-
cious occasion, and congratulate you on the victory
you have obtained—of victory, which, while it has
given you once more to us, must inspire the people
with a reverence for the law, and prove to them that,
by following your often-repeated injunction, violate
no law,' they can annihilate the power to persecute,
and enable you to lead them into the temple of the
ancient but reformed constitution of Ireland.

" In the hour of your captivity we condoled with
you—in the hour of your victorious liberation we re-
joice, and we indulge the firm belief, and fond hope,
that the day is not far distant when we shall again
address you on the consummation of your labours—
the restoration to Ireland of her Parliament."
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Mr. REILLY then said, he was sure the Corporation
would adopt with a sincere and heartfelt satisfaction
the address he had the honour of submitting to the
assembly. When all Ireland was coming forward to
express their delight at the victory which had been
obtained over fraud and injustice, it would ill become
the reformed Corporation of Dublin to remain quies-
cent.—(llear, hear.)
Town Councillor M'LOIJGIILIN seconded the mo-
tion, and then proceeded to pass a high eulogium on
the continuous exertions of Mr. O'Connell in endea-
vouring to achieve the amelioration of his country.
Town Councillor KIRWAN supported the adoption
of the address.

Town Councillor LOUGHMAN, in tendering his con-
currence with the subject before the assembly, dwelt
on the injustice which had been perpetrated on Mr.
O'Connell, and declared his opinion that in his person
the purity of trial by jury was vindicated.
Town Councillor STAUNTON concurred in all that
had been said by the previous speakers, both with re-
gard to the vindication of trial by jury and the
doubtful state of the criminal law, and declared his
conviction that it was of the utmost importance that
the " monster meetings" should have been legalised.
Mr. REILLY begged leave to move, before the ques-
tion was put, that the address be engrossed, and an
early day be appointed for its presentation. It was
arranged that Wednesday next should be fixed upon.
The LORD MAYOR then put the question, which
passed unanimously.
The meeting then separated.