The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-29 00:00:00

1) INNER TO MR. O'CONNELL.

The dinner list already presents a noble spectacle—not
so much for the vast number of names it comprises, as
for the many counties and remote districts which those
names represent. The counties of Kerry, Limerick,
Clare, Waterford, and Tipperary, are each represented.
So are the following separate cities and towns :—Lime-
rick, Waterford. Tralee, Clonmel, Newcastle, Cherie-
vale Mallow, Mitch elston n. Liamore, Yough al, Kinsale,
Fethard (county Tipperary), Bantry, Clonakilty, Ne-
nagh, Millstreet, Castlelyons, Newmarket, Tipperary,
Macroom, Cove, Passage, Midleton, Fermoy, Bandon,
Castlemartyr ; besides an immense variety of districts
not immediately belonging to town, but yet comprising
exclusive populations. A letter has been received, an-
nouncing that the Corporation of Waterford—the m,,st
repeal city in all Ireland—are to attend the dinner in
their robes of office. This single circumstance tells well
for the popular feeling, and affords strong evidence of
the influence of the " Convicted Conspirator."
Mr. O'Connell has prudently declined the intended
honour of a public entry, for many reasons ; but his
prudent determination can scarcely heal the disappoint-
ment of the people of the province, who had resolved,
from the first intimation received through the public
press, to brave every risk and inconvenience in order to
hail the man who had dared the vengeance of a Govern-
ment in their cause—the cause of mercy and of freedom.
Never had Cork, since its first foundation, contained so
vast a multitude, as it would have contained next Easter
Monday, were the original intention carried out.
We shall not attempt to speculate on the probable
numbers that would have hailed the Liberator with a
" monster welcome ;" but we leave our readers to form
an opinion for themselves. when we first premise the
irresistible motive that would have led the people of the
Province to Cork, as to a holy city—a Mecca of the
West—and next inform them that a vast body of the
people were to have marched into Cork from the most
northern bounds of the extensive county of Tipperary !
These facts are of mighty indication.

A word or two as to the progressing preparations.
The carpenters commence their operations, this day, to
render the dining place as commodious and com-
fortable as possible. When all shall be completed, the
room will be capable of accommodating about 1,000
persons, not more. It will be floored with timber for
the occasion ; and every precaution taken to exclude
the danger and annoyance of draughts of air, so
destructive to all comfort, and so perilous to
human life. A long table will run parallel with the
length of the room, and will, of course, be placed near
the side wall. The chair will be stationed at the centre
of this immense table ; and 12 short tables are to be
ranged down from the top table. This arrangement has
been resolved on to enable all present to hear the
speakers, which they could not do were the speakers to
speak from one end of the vast room. A light gallery
will be erected all round, or rather at each side ; and
this will afford accommodation but to 300 ladies. The
whole will be splendidly decorated.—Cork Examiner.