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NATIONAL BANQU ET
TO MR. O'CONNELL AND THE
OTHER TRAVERSERS.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 19.—This evening the dinner to
Mr. O'Connell, and his companions in prison, takes
place at the Music-hall, Lower Abbey-street. So
early as three o'clock the doors were surrounded by a
large crowd of persons, and all the places had been
engaged for some time. There were seats laid out
for 800 persons, and these being taken at an carly
hour to-day, great numbers have been disappointed,
who had not applied in time.

Even without the company for whose accommoda-

tion the Music-hall was appropriated, it presented a
very pretty appearance. The hall is laid out as a
theatre, diviled into boxes, and the pit, or floor,
being level, had seven very long ranges of tables for
the guests. Upon the dais, where the performers
usually appear, there was a long table laid out for Mr.
O'Connell, his associates in the trial and the sentence,
and Members of Parliament, with the Prelates of the
Catholic Church who have notified their intention of

being present.
Beneath the boxes, appropriated exclusively for
ladies (who are required to appear in full dress),
there are tables also laid out.

The hour appointed for dimieTlTSix o'clock. The
chair is to be taken by the President of the evening,
W. Smith O'Brien, Esq., M.P.
Amongst those who have notified their intention to
be present are—N. Maher, Esq., M.P., T. Kelly,
Esq., M.P., Caleb Powell, Esq., M.P., H. Grattan,
Esq., M.P., E. B. Roche, Esq., M.P., and Mayors,
with members of the Corporations, of Dublin,
Limerick, Cork, Kilkenny, Clontnel, Sligo, Water-
ford, &c.
Of the letters that have been received, some may
be considered worthy of perusal.

" Dungannon, Sept. 16, 1844.

" Gentlemen,—ln reply to your much-esteemed letter,
inviting me to the national banquet to O'Connell and his
late fellow-martyrs, I have the honour to acquaint you,
for the information of the managing committee on that
auspicious occasion, that I am at present on my visita-
tion, and that my arrangements with my clergy for the
discharge of my spiritual duties will not allow me
leisure to avail myself of your very kind invitation to
the public dinner in Dublin on Thursday next.
" I have the honour to remain, with the highest res-
pect, gentlemen, your much obliged, humble servant,
6' W. CROLLY.
" John L. Arabin and James O'Hea, E.sqs."

" Mountjoy-square, Sept. 12, 1844.
" Gentlemen,—l have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 11th instant, inviting me, on
the part of the managing committee appointed to super-
intend the national banquet to O'Connell and his fellow-
martyrs, to attend as a guest on that auspicious occasion ;
and I pray you to convey to tho committee the expres-
sion of my sincere thanks for this mark of their kind at-
tention, together with the assurance of my regret that,
participating as Ido most largely in the general delight
occasioned by the splendid triumph of law over injustice
which they are about to celebrate, it will not be in my
power to avail myself of their valued invitation.
" I have the honour to remain, gentlemen, your most
obedient, humble servant,

" ':1 D. MURRAY.
" John Arabin and James O'llea, Esqs."
" Tuam, Sept, 16, 1844.
" Gentlemen,—l have had seldom to exercise a greater
act of self-denial than that of foregoing, on account of
imperative duties which could not be postponed, the
gratification of being a guest at one of the most joyous
festivals that ever gladdened the hearts of Irishmen.
Tke glorious event which it commemorates is one which,
while it awakens the liveliest extacies of the human
heart, is calculated to draw forth the most solemn
emotions of reverence to the Great Disposer of human
destinies.
" The suddenness and surprise with which the intel-
ligence quickened or struck down the hopes of all who
heard it, prove that it was an event far beyond the beaten
track of political calculations. It came upon the mind
of the nation like a vision of the night. Not like a
vision, however, will it pass away ; for its effect will be
an enduring reality.—lreland's legislative freedom. For
such a consummation we are indebted to the artificers
of the late prosecutions ; and in the political fate of the
Liberator and his fellow-prisoners well may be exem-
plified the words of the inspired writings He that
diggeth a pit shall fall into it, and he that aetteth a stone
for his neighbour shall stumble upon it, and he that
layeth a snare for another shall perish in it. A mis-
chievous counsel shall be rolled back upon the author,
and he shall not know whence it cometh.'
_

" Hoping that Irishmen, without distinction of sect or
creed, will avail themselves of the benefits of a providen-
tial interference, obtained through the pious prayers
of the people, which were offered up in the churches
for humanity and justice, and the liberation of the
captive, I have the honour to be your very respectful
and obliged servant,
" k JOHN, Archbishop of Tuam.
" John L. Arabin and James O'Hea, Esqs."
" Loughrea, Sept. 13, 1844.
" Gentlemen,—Your much esteemed favour came to
hand, conveying to me an invitation to attend as a guest
the national banquet to be given to Daniel O'Connell,
Esq., and his fellow-martyrs, on the 19th instant, in the
metropolis of Ireland. I feel much honoured, indeed, by
the very high compliment thus conferred on me by your
managing committee, to whom I request you to present
my most grateful acknowledgments, and assurance that
nothing could afford me more heartfelt satisfaction than
to be present, on this truly important and auspicious oc
casion, did the present state of my health authorise me
to undertake such a journey, and mingle with such a vast
assembly, where, no doubt, myriads of the patriotic sons
of Erin will meet in social festivity to send forth in the
most enchanting strains of eloquence the outpourings of
their very souls, as feeble proofs of their respect, their
veneration, and their unbounded confidence in the great
man who was lately immured within the walls of a
prison, as if guilty of conspiracy ; but at present, thanks
be to an all-wise Providence, his sentence is reversed by
the highest judicial authority in England, and he is de-
clared to be free from any other charge, except that he
endeavoured by legal and constitutional means to assert
the independence of the land of his birth, and restore to
his countrymen those rights and privileges of which they

were so unjustly deprived.
" I shall now conclude by a fervent prayer that all
those who have erred in by-gone days may profit by
passing events, and adopt such policy in future as may
tend to promote the peace and prosperity of the British
empire, and unite all her ;Majesty's subjects in the closest
bonds of Christian charity and brotherly love. With
sentiments of the highest respect, I have the honour to
remain, gentlemen, your very grateful and obedient
servant, " TnomAs COEN, Bishop of Clonfert.
" To John L. Arabin and James O'llea, Esqs.,
Secretaries, &c. &c."
" Kilkenny, Sept. 13, 1344.
" Gentlemen,—l have been honoured with your letter,
containing an invitation to the O'Connell banquet, only
on this day, having been absent in the country by the
orders of my physicians.
" I feel much obliged by the invitation which you have
forwarded, and regret most sincerely that I cannot have
the honour of accepting it, as lam not yet fully re-
covered from a severe attack of illness.
" I know of nothing that could give me more pleasure
than to have an opportunity of paying a tribute of re-
spect and gratitude to Mr. O'Connell. As the principal
instrument, in the ands of Divine Providence, of deli-
vering the Catholics from an oppressive yoke, he de-
serves our respect, and as the most unceasing and moat
powerful labourer in the cause of our country's rights,
he deserves the warmest gratitude and most strenuous
support of every one that loves Ireland.
"At this moment, particularly, he has a peculiar
claire on every mark of our respect and gratitude, when
he has—l fearlessly say it—providentially saved us from
an illegal and unjust persecution. The world has seldom
seen such a combination of unfairness and injustice as
was exhibited in his trial ; and from the intimate know-
ledge of the Irish character which my station affords I
was filled with apprehensions lest the Irish people would
lose all confidence in the administration of justice, and
thus, notwithstanding all our exertions, be led to think
of illegal means to relieve themselves from their most in-
tolerable sufferings. That a man who has always, by
word or example, preached peace and obedience to the
law—one who has for so mauy years restrained a sensi-
tive people when driven by dire necessity to the very
verge of violence—one who has been the most strenuous
and the most successful supporter of the law in Ireland,
should be prosecuted as a disturber—should be declared
guilty by a packed jury, and be doomed to a dungeon
by a truly unmerciful sentence—is not only monstrous
in itself, but was fraught with the most lamentable con-
sequences. Frow these his acquittal has delivered this
country, and sorry I am I am unable to join in the
public expression of our heartfelt joy.
" I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your very obe
client servant,

" WIVE KINSELLA, Bishop of Ossory.
" John L. Arabin and James O'Hea, Esqs."
" Violet Hill, Newry.
" Genticmen—l find myself so beset with difficulties
at the present time, on account of the expected death of
the venerable vicar-general, who always, in my absence,
faithfully supplied my place, that although I have fer-
vently prayed from the first moment of the incarceration
of our beloved and illustrious Liberator for his glorious
and happy deliverance, and although no event can afford

me more satisfaction and heartful joy than to see him in
good health, again restored to society, and again engaged
in restoring happiness to his country ; yet the circum-
stances in which I am placed oblige me to deprive my-
self of the great gratification of witnessing, on Thursday
evening, at the festive board, the splendid display of
public feeling by which that event is to be celebrated.
" I beg, gentlemen, that you will please to convey to
the managing committee my most respectful and most
grateful thanks for the high honour conferred on me in
inviting me to that banquet.
" With most grateful sentiments, also, for the very kind
terms in which the invitation was communicated by you,
I hare the hoour to be, gentlemen, your much ob-
liged humble servant,
" k MICRA.EL BLAKE, Bishop of Dromare."
" Waterford, September 14, 1843.
" Dear Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge your
letter of the 11th instant, inviting me as a guest to at-
tend the national banquet to O'Connell and his fellow-
martyrs,' on the 19th instant. I very much regret that
duties of a pressing nature, and which I cannot post-
pone, will deprive me of the pleasure of attending on
that auspicious occasion. With best thanks to the ma-
naging committee for their kind invitation, I have the
honour to be, dear sirs, your faithful, obedient servant,
"k N. Foitest, R.C.8., Waterford and Lismore.
" To J. L. Arabia and James O'Hea, Esqs."
"Roscommcn, Sept. 14, 1844.
" Gentlemen—Allow me to express to you and the
committee for the national banquet to O'Connell and his
fallow-martyrs, trey unfeigned thanks fur the very distin-
guished and flattering compliment you and they hare been
pleased to pay me, in inviting me as a guest upon this glo_
riousoccasion. Unfortunately a previous engagement upon
a solemn official duty will preclude the possibility of my
attendance. lam with you in heart and soul. I am
devoted to our illustrious Liberator, and to every mea-
sure that he proposes for the good of old Ireland. When
I reflect upon the great and victorious triumph that he
and his fellow-martyrs have obtained over his iniquitous
persecutors, the enemies of truth, justice, and of Ire-
land, my heart exults with joy. Again apologising for
my unavoidable absence, I hare the honour to be, gen-
tlemen, yours very faithfully, &c.,
" k GEO. J. O'BEIRNE, Bishop of Elphin."
"John-street, Chapel House, 16th Sept., 1844.
" Gentlemen, —I have been exceedingly honoured by
the invitation to attend.as a guest at the national banquet
to O'Connell and his late fellow-martyrs, and would be
delighted to mingle in the enthusiastic feeling which will,
if possible, be more than ever called forth on that auspi-
cious occasion; but having on my return to Ireland pro-
posed to myself not to attend public meetings of any de-
scription during my sojourn, I pray you to accept that
resolution, which I offer most respectfully; as my apo-
logy for not being present; at the same time assuring
you, that I will be with you in mind and heart—that I
will always retain your letter of invitation as a document
ever dear to me—and that you may always count upon
every effort in my power to promote the welfare of
Ireland, and the views of our beloved Liberator for that
end. I have hesitated these few days past to offer this
my apology; but when I remembered that I have al-
ready early put on record my sentiments on the measure
f Repeal as one of common sense, common justice, and
sound policy, and, in reality, the only remedy for the evils
of Ireland, I could not fear that my absence would be
misunderstood; and, therefore, relying with confidence
that the apology will be accepted, in the true sense and
spirit in which it is made,
" I hare the honour to be, gentlemen, with the pro-
foundest respect, your exceedingly obliged, truly grate-
ful, and devoted servant,
" k DANIEL O'CoNNoR, Bishop of Saldes."
" To L. Arabia and James O'Hea, Esqs. '
" Riverslade, Ballina, Sept. 16, 1844.

" Gentlemen—The invitation of the managing com-
mittee appointed to superintend the national banquet to
O'Connell and his late fellow-martyrs, conveyed to me
through the medium of such distinguished patriots as
you, and proferring to me the high honour of attending
as a guest at the banquet, reached me in due course. I
highly esteem the compliment paid to me by the com-
mitteee. I will not say that I want language adequate
to express my gratitude for their kindness, but I will say
that I cannot give sufficient expression to my feeling of
regret that a combination of circumstances, over which I
have no control, will deprive me of the great gratification
which I should otherwise derive from being present at
the banquet, for the purpose of offering in person my
heartfelt congratulations to the illustrious father of his
country, and his late fellow-martyrs, on the occasion of
their release from an unjust captivity, and of contri-
buting to swell, by my humble person, the crowd of
patriots who will meet to honour O'Connell, and cele-
brate the triumph of Ireland over the iniquitous attempts
to crush her struggles for nationality by fraudulent jury
lists, packed juries, and one-sided judges.
" I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your most
obedient, humble servant,
" TITONAM FEENY.
" John L. Arabin and James O'Hea, Esqs."
"Dr. Healy presents his moat respectful compliments
to Messrs,. Arabin and O'Hea, and begs to assure them
how decly grateful he feels for the invitation conveyed
in their note of the 11th to the national banquet to Mr.
O'Connell on the 19th instant. Dr. Healy regrets ex-
ceedingly that, being for some time under engagements
for every day during the present month—engagements
which he could not get rid of without much inconve-
nience to large numbers of people—he feels obliged to
deny himself the honour and pleasure of being present
at the great manifestation of national feeling to take
place on Thursday next.
Tullow, Sept, 17,
1844."
" Enniscorthy, Sept.
15, 1844.
"My dear Sirs,--There is no compliment that could
be more acceptable to me than your invitation to the
national banqaet, to be given on Thursday next, to the
illustrious Liberator and his distinguished fellow-captives,
who, after long suffering, have been restored to liberty
by the highest tribunal in the empire.
" Never was there a triumph more signal than that of
the beloved father of his country, and his triumph is joy-
fully participated in by the people of Ireland, who were
wantonly deprived of their illustrious leader, and who
felt themselves as if incarcerated in his person.
" His political opponents vainly imagined that they
had crushed him and Irish independence for ever ; but
Divine Providence otherwise ordained it—for instead of
crushing him they have elevated him to a pinnacle of
glory such as no man ever occupied before, and have
given a powerful impulse to the very agitation that they
attempted to suppress.
"Numerous duties that cannot be postponed will de-
prive me of the honour and gratification of being present
at the banquet, and of personally thanking you and the
managing committee for the distinguished favour you
have done me ; but, though absent, I will participate in
your joy, and cordially unite with you in congratulating
O'Connell, the moral regenerator of Ireland, and the
benefactor of the human race.—l have the honour to lee
my dear Sir, your very faithful servant,
"k JAMES KEATING.
" John L. Arabin, Esq., and James O'Hea, Esq.,
"Lord Stourton reg‘r‘eAtsilest°n P
that
Secretaries."
thaerks,taSteepto.flsh,islBh4e4a.lth
will not permit his accepting the flattering invitation he
has this morning received from the committee of ma-
nagers of the national banquet to be given on the 19th
instant, and thus to express his hearty unison with the
national feelings in their commemoration of the triumph
of liberty and justice.—l have the honour to remain,
Gentlemen, your obliged and obedient servant,
" To John L. Arabin, Esq., and James O'Hea, Esq."
" Stonis, Henley-on-Thames, Sept. 15, 1844.
" Gentlemen-1 have this morning been honoured with
your invitation to attend the national banquet to O'Con-
nell and his late fellow-martyrs. Nothing but the short-
ness of the time, that will not allow me to break through
more important engagements, prevents me the great
gratification of accepting it. If a real and heartfelt satis-
faction at the late triumph of justice over injustice, of
good feeling over bad, of honesty over fraud, of freedom
over oppression, would entitle any person to a seat at
that national
a feeling
I may well claim a right to re-
ceive
Iyour
gratitude to Mr. O'Connell, of respect
f
his virtues, and of affection for his
ohistalents
aof
f invitation.
nd
person, be the ground that dictates your summonses to
attend, there is no one, even in Ireland, better gratified
than I am to be present at your demonstration in honour
of his success. Entertaining these feelings, it is mor-
tification to me not to be with you on the 19th, to unite
with you in celebrating the occurrence of this unlooked-
for but just blessing to your country and your distin-
guished countryman.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your obedient
servant, " CAMOYS.
"Messrs. John L. Arabin and James O'Hea."
" Lady Bellew presents her compliments to the gen-
tlemen of the committee, and begs to inform them that
Sir Michael Bellew is at present on the Continent. Lady
Bellew is sure Sir Michael will regret exceedingly his
absence on the present occasion, and that were he in
Ireland, nothing could give him greater pleasure than to
have the honour of being present at the banquet to be
given to O'Connell and his fellow-martyrs, on Thursday,
the 19th instant.
" Marino, Galway, Sept. 16, 1844."
"Kingstown, Sept. 12, 1844.
" Gentlemen—l beg to return you and the committee
of the national banquet to O'Connell and the :other
gentlemen, victims of a prosecution as unwise as it was
unjust, my best thanks for the honour you have done me,
and to express the regret I feel that it will not be in my
power to be present at that festival, and join in your
honest exultation, and personally to express the delight
I feel that justice has at length been vindicated, and trial
by jury is not yet doomed to bo a delusion, a mockery,
and a snare.'—l have the honour to be your obedient
servant, " MILLTowN."
" Grange, Youghal, Sept. 13.
" Gentlemen,--I have had the honour of receiving,
your letter of the 10th. I am extremely sorry that pri-
vate affairs of an urgent nature will prevent my being in
Dublin on the 19th. It is my wish to pay every mark of
respect to Mr. O'Connell and his fellow-martyrs, They

are entitled to the gratitude of every Irishman who
wishes to free his country from the deep degradation of
submission to British domination.—l have the honour
to be, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
" R. llusGuavE."
" Dromana, Sept. 13, 1844.
" Gentlemen,—ln reply to your communication trans-
mitting to me a copy of a resolution adopted at a numer-
ous meeting of the friends of the repeal of the union, that
a public banquet should be given to Mr. O'Connell and
his fellow-martyrs on Thursday, the 19th of September,
to commemorate their liberation from their most unjust
imprisonment, and requesting me to inform you as to
whether the managing committee may calculate on my
co-operation and attendance, I beg to say, that though I
think that the very just decision of the House of Lords
upon the writ of error is well worthy of being celebrated,
yet that it will be out of my power to be present at the
banquet proposed to be given with that view.
" I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, your obe-
dient servant, "WILLIAM VILLIERS STUART."
" Gresham's Hotel, Sept. 17, 1844.
" Gentlemen,—l had not the honour of receiving until
eight o'clock last night your circular of the 10th instant,
announcing the intention of entertaining Daniel O'Con-
nell and his fellow-martyrs at a public banquet in Dublin
on Thursday, the 19th of September instant, and re-
questing to know whether you may calculate on my co-
operation and attendance, and whether I have any objec-
tion to the publication of my name as a member of the
Committee. If not too late, I shall feel honoured by
your inserting my name among the members of the Com-
mittee ; and if my health allows me, I shall feel
happy in attending the dinner, but I am at present suf-
fering from acute neuralgia. I should have answered
your circular sooner, but it was directed to Cloonalis,
whence it was forwarded to England, and thence it fol-
lowed me here, where I arrived yesterday. I have the
honour to be, Gentlemen, your very obedient servant,
" OVONOR DoN.
" John L. Arabin, Esq., James O'Hea, Esq."
" London, Sept. 14.
" My dear Sir—The invitation transmitted to me
through yourself and fellow secretary, from the manag-
ing committee for the national banquet to Mr. O'Con-
nell and the companions of his triumph, was handed to
me just as I was starting with my family for England
and the continent. You will therefore see, my dear sir,
the impossibility of my availing myself of so flattering
an attention; but I request you will do me the favour to
convey to the gentlemen composing the committee the
high sense I entertain of the distinguished honour they
have done me in sendinc, me a special invitation on so
very important and joyful an occasion.
" I have the honour to be, my dear sir, your very
obedient servant, " JOHN SEARLE, Jun."

" The Albany, Sept. 16, 1844.
" My dear Sir—On my way through town this day I
had the honour to receive your kind letter of invitation
of the 11th instant.

" I can assure you that it is with extreme regret that
engagements previously made preclude the possibility of
my being present at Dublin on Thursday next, other-
wise nothing would have afforded me greater pleasure
than to have joined my Irish fellow-subjects in their na-
tional congratulation to Mr. O'Connell and his late
fellow-martyrs on the recent triumph which constitu-
tional law and justice has obtained over Ministerial base-
ness and party revenge.
" With best wishes, I have the honour to remain, dear
sir, your obedient and faithful servant,
" THOMAS S. DIINOOMBE.
" John L. Arabin and James O'Hea, Esqs."
" Wellington House, Templeogue, Sept. 13, 1844.
" Gentlemen—l have the honour to acknowledge your
letter, and in reply have to express my deep regret that
urgent and unavoidable private business renders it im-
perative upon me to absent myself from the approaching
public banquet in honour of Mr. O'Connell and his
fellow-martyrs.
" I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your faithful
and obedient humble servant,

" VALENTINE BLAKE."

" Crawfordsburn, Sept. 16, 1844:c

" Gentlemen,—l regret that it is not in my power to
be present at the banquet on the 19th instant, to which
you did me the honour of inviting me ; but permit me at
the same time to assure you of my desire to join my
fellow-countrymen in every constitutional mode of ex-
pressing our reprobation of the proceedings by means of
which Mr. O'Connell and his late fellow-prisoners were
subjected to confinement, inflicted under the forms of
law, whilst the essentials both of law and justice were
scandalously violated—trial by jury, the palladium of
British freedom, rendered a mockery--and the consti-
tutional rights of the people invaded—l feel I may truly
say, that if these proceedings had been affirmed by the
highest court of appeal, the liberties, not only of Irish-
men, but of Englishmen, would have ceased to exist.
" When I see this attack made upon the rights of
Irishmen, by means such as no officer of the Crown
would have dared to apply against Englishmen, even in
the present imperfect state of British representation, I
am confirmed in the opinion, which I have long enter-
tained, that these steps towards despotism arise from the
circumstances of our representative condition. We have
what is called a constitution, but what is really only the
fragment of a constitution. We have an Irish executive
with all its offices and appendages for the purposes of
the state and law, preserved in its integrity, whilst the
legislative branch—the Parliament—has been annihi-
lated, and, consequently, the executive governs with all
the arrogance of irresponsible power. I feel the neces-
sity of applying a remedy to this evil, and I wish, whilst
I would secure the rights of Ireland by local representa •
tion, to confirm the connection between the two coun-
tries by imperial representation. The joint action of
these two principles would, in my judgment, secure the
happiness, the prosperity, and integrity, of the whole
empire.
" I regret that I, in common with many true friends
of Ireland, have the misfortune to differ from the distin-
guished leaders of the repeal agitation in the propriety
of admitting the federal principle in any reconstruction
of the Act of Union, but I anxiously hope that some
means may be devised of removing the obstacles to
united action among all those who agree on the common
principle—that Ireland ought to have a representative
body, with powers competent to give her the manage-
ment of her own resources, and to protect her rights—
and that all those whose hearts are warmed with the
love of country, whether Catholic or Protestant, who
desire to draw forth the long-neglected industrial re-
sources of Ireland, to recal her absentees, and to estab-
lish the rights of her people on a just and stable founc?ii-
tion, and thus create that national prosperity of which
the elements, exist in such abundance, may yet—before a
long time elapses—be found working together, shoulder
to shoulder, in a common struggle for national regene-
ration.
" I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient
servant, WM. SIIARMAN CRAWFORD.
"To John L. Arabin and James O'Hea, Esqs."
"Bristol, 15th September, 1844.
" My dear Sir,—My constitution has been for some
time seriously undermined by a neglected cold, and I am
now, by the advice of Sir P. Crampton and Dr. Stokes,
travelling in search of the lost blessing of health—this,
and this alone, prevents my being present at the banquet
to be given to Mr. O'Connell and to those gentlemen
who have had the honour of suffering with him for the
cause of Ireland, and who have now the happiness of
knowing that their temporary loss of liberty has ensured
the permanent welfare of their country, and placed
beyond doubt the restitution of her rights. My only
consolation in not being a witness of their triumph is,
that I participated is seine of their risks. The first
chairman of the Conciliation Hall—the first chairman
on the day after Mr. O'Connell was arrested—the first
chairman on the day after tke verdict was pronounced—
. in the two latter cases a volunteer, must feel most keenly
the solitude of a sick chamber on a night like that on
which you will confer a favour on me by reading this to
my countrymen, whom I cordially congratulate on a
• most rapid advance towards the consummation of their
wishes. Iremain, my dear sirs, very sincerely yours,
" Jon); A. O'NEILL."
" Kilcornan, Sept. 13, 1844.

" Gentlemen—lt would afford me the sincerest gra,

fication to join you in commemorating the liberatiOn of
our dibtinguished countryman from his unjust captivity,
were it in my power to be in Dublin on the day fixed
for the national banquet.
" I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient
servant, -"-T. N. REDINGTON.
" J. L. Arabia and James O'Hea, Esqs."
" Killakee, Sept. 13.
" Dear Arabin—As I am not yet convinced of the ne-
cessity of the repeal measure, I must decline co-ope-
rating with its friends on the occasion of the dinner to
be given on the 19th, to the martyrs in commemoration
of their liberation, "Believe me truly yours,
" SAMUEL WHITE."
" My dear O'H‘e‘ atr eynoa
u, Killarney,r circular Sept.
oof the
et.
110th, liBn4s
t 4.
a n t
relative to the dinner on Thursday next, only reached
me on last night. I regret to say that engagements
here will not leave it in my power to attend at this great
national manifestation of sympathy with those who have
suffered in the cause of their country under au unjust
as well as an illegal sentence. I need not assure you,
that though absent in person my heart will be with
you on this glorious occasion, and if you think my name
as a member of the committee can be of any use you
are welcome to publish it.
" I remain, my dear O'Hea, yours very sincerely

" James O'llea,Esq."

M. J. OVCONNELL.

" Gentlemen—Pray excuse th'eSedpetleamyboefrmly4,leltBteir4. to
yqur circular, which I have only just received. Fully
participating in this glorious triumph, I would attend
on the 19th, but for a very recent domestic affliction, by
which I am obliged to decline the honour of serving on
the committee (as my name appearing on it would, on
the present occasion, appear unseemly). Permit me to
assure you that my best efforts are directed in aid of our
common cause.
" I have the honour to be your very obedient servant,
" JOHN BARTON.
" John L. Arabia and James Esqs."

" Wimbledon Park, Sept. 15, 1844.
" Gentlemen—l am exceedingly obliged by the honour
of your invitation, and regret extremely that my engage-
ments in this country preclude the possibility of my
availing myself of it.
" I have the honour to remain, gentlemen, your most
obedient servant, " SHREWSBURY."

" Nynehead Court, Wellington, Sept. 16, 1844.
" Gentlemen,—l have had the honour to receive your
letter of the 12th September. I regret that it will not be
in m~• power to have the honour of accepting your in-
vitation on the 19th instant.

I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient
humble servant,

"J. L. Arabin and J. O'llea, Esp." " KILDARE.
" Scarborough, Sept. 16, 1844.
" Gentlemen —Your letter of the 10th inst. only reached
me yesterday after post hour.
" Though unable to join my fellow-countrymen at the
public banquet to commemorate the liberation from their
recent unjust imprisonment, of Mr. O'Connell and his
fellow-martyrs,' I do not the less rejoice with them at the
successful termination of the proceedings of the last few
months, and the glorious triumph of the cause of justice
and of right.
" I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient
servant, " W. M. SOMERVILLE.
- _ .

" J. L. Arabin and J. O'Hea, Esqs., Secretaries."
" Drumconora, Ennis, Sept. 16, 1844.
" Gentlemen—l regret very much that it will not be
in my power to attend at the national banquet, on Thurs-
day next, to join with my fellow-countrymen in doing
honour to the men whose recent imprisonment in the
cause of our father-land have rendered them deserving
of the very highest honour.
" Long and peacefully did they struggle to regain for
us the rights of which we were foully despoiled, and,
with indomitable perseverance did they expose the
wrongs which for centuries we had endured, and de-
monstrate the justice of our cause.
" Unable to cope with them in argument, our oppo-
nents resorted to a prosecution. The odious doctrine of
political conspiracy was revived in its most odious form
—jury-lists were tampered with, and a conviction was
obtained by means worthy of the worst of times.
" Undismayed, our great leader and his fellow con-
spirators' shrunk not from those principles. They
boldly re-asserted the doctrines they had ever contended
for ; with indignant language they denounced the mean.*
by which their conviction had been obtained, and ap-
pealed for redress to the highest tribunal of the land,
where at length—but with difficulty—right and justice
triumphed.
"To the men who thus in their own person suffered
for our liberties, the deepest gratitude is due, and I
should have been most happy, were I enabled to do so,
to attend at any festival in their honour. The victory
they have achieved is the greatest constitutional one
that has ever been obtained, and can only be equalled
by that which will restore to us our nationhood, and
place us once more among free states in the rank we de-
serve to hold.

" I have the honour to be your obedient servant,
" COLMAN M. O'LOGHLEN."

" Lodge Park, Freshford, Sept. 18, 1844.
" Gentlemen,—l regret extremely that some family
arrangements will prevent my being present in Dublin
to co-operate with you in doing honour to O'Connell and
his fellow-martyrs to-morrow evening. I always main-
tained that those gentlemen were tried by a sectarian
jury, selected from a vitiated jury list. I listened for
nine long nights to what was called the Irish debate last
session, and those two damning facts stared every man
of plain understanding in the face.
" You are at perfect liberty to use my name on the
occasion in any way that may tend, henceforward, to
prevent trial by jury in this country from becoming a
mockery and a snare.—l am, gentlemen, must faithfully
yours,
" P. SOMERSET BUTLER, M.P. for Kilkenny.
" John L. Arabin and James O'llea, Esqs."
" Carnelly, Sept. 18, 1844, Clare Castle.
" Gentlemen,—l have this day received your letter of
the 10th, directed to me to London. I regret very truly
it is not in my power to attend in Dublin to-morrow, at
the dinner to be given to Mr. O'Connell and the other
patriotic and distinguished gentlemen, as it would afford
me the highest pleasure to join in each and every mani-
festation of national feeling at our late unexpected and
constitutional triumph.
" I, however, the less regret my inability to attend on
this occasion, as the approaching provincial dinner in
Limerick will afford the friends of national liberty in this
quarter a fitting opportunity to testify their feelings and
opinions at the present important crisis.
" I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your very obe-
dient servant, 6` JOHN O'BRIEN.
" To Messrs. Arabia and O'llea, Secretaries."
" 17, Wilton-place, Beigrave-square, Sept. 15, 1844.
" Sirs—l have just had the honour of receiving your
communication transmitted to me from Waterford, to
which place it had been addressed, informing me that a
public banquet is proposed to be given to 'Mr. O'Con-
nell and his fellow-martyrs in Dublin on Thursday the
19th inst., to commemorate their liberation from their
recent unjust imprisonment,' and requesting to be in-
formed whether the managing committee might calcu-
late on my co-operation and attendance, and whether I
have any objection to the publication of my name as a
member of the committee.'
" In accordance with the opinions I have repeatedly
and strongly expressed, both in and out of Parliament,
on the late trial and imprisonment, but especially on the
construction of the jury lists, regarding such acts, not
only as a flagrant wrong inflicted on Mr. O'Connell and
his fellow-sufferers, but as going to establish a prece-
dent most evil in its principle, and dangerous in its
consequences to the liberties of all, and abhorring the
slightest tampering in whatever way, or en whatever
plea, with the sacred right of trial by jury, I rejoice to
learn that it is sought by the appropriate mode of a
public dinner to Mr. O'Conaell.to express in the most
emphatic manner the indignation prevalent throughout
the country at these highly unconstitutional proceedings.
I shall be happy to co-operate with the Committee
(and can, therefore, have no objection to the publica-
tion of my name as a member thereof), in the manage-
ment of any dinner confined to this object, and open as
such a demonstration ought to be to all sections of
Liberals ; and if such be the case, and my business here
does not prevent me, I shall be happy to attend.
" I have the honour to be, Sirs, your obedient humble
servant, " THOMAS WYSE.

" To J. L. Arabin and James °llea, Esqs."
" Birmingham, 9th Month, 16th, 1544.
" I am favoured with your obliging letter of the 11th,
and beg to return my acknowledgments to the commit-
tee for the invitation to the banquet on the 19th instant.
" As I shall be prevented from attending, I trust my
absence will not be attributed ,to any want of sympathy
with my Irish brethren ; for there is no public celebra-
tion in which I could have participated with more un-
alloyed satisfaction than in their present peaceful triumph.
" I earnestly hope that your generous countrymen will
not in any manner identify tke acts of the Government
with the sentiments of the people of England, compara-
tively few of whom have any voice in making the laws
they are bound to obey, and who, I am persuaded, not-
withstanding their own unredressed grievances, rejoice
at the defeat of the attempts to crush your liberties, and
the success of your efforts to obtain justice.—Very re-
spectfully, " JOSEPH STURGE.
" To the Secretaries of the Managing Com-
mittee appointed to superintend the ' Na-
tional Banquet to Daniel O'Connell' and
his Fellow-Martyrs."
" Lismoro, on the Blackwater, Sept. 18.
"My dear Sirs,—l perceive you have fixed to-morrow
for the banquet to O'Connell and his friends, and I has-
ten to request that you will make my apology for not
being present.
" Immediately after our liberation I came down into
Munster with some friends, to recruit my health in the
soft air and glorious scenery of the south, and as that
object is, unhappily, far from being accomplished, I am
sure I will be excused for prolonging the excursion. If
this be not a sufficient reason for being absent from my
post, my late fellow-prisoners will take their full propor-
tion of the blame, as it was chiefly by their advice I de-
termined to spend a month, without interruption, in the
country. But I have not been altogether idle. No man,
indeed, who did not shut his eyes and ears, could pass
through Munster without gathering new evidences of
the necessity for domestic legislation. The teeming
abundance of the country, the intelligence of the people,
and their necessities, all tend to that end.
" Believe me, my dear Sirs, ever faithfully
yours,
" CHARLES GAS AN DUFFY."

DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING•
The Hall was almost without decoration. The
mottoes were, in the compartment of the gallery over

the chair—

" Remember the 30th May, 1844 ;"
and on the opposite extremity of the Hall—
" The Repeal of the Union."
The centre compartment, to the right of the chair,
Lure the words—
" Peace and Perseverance:;"
and the opposite—
" Lords Denman, Cottenham, and Campbell."
Mr. O'Connell sat on the right of the chairman,
W. S. O'Brien ; and to his right sat the Bishop of
Ardagh, Right Rev. Dr. Higgins. On the left of the
chair sat the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, next him
Lord Ffrench and the Bishop of Meath, Right Rev.
Dr. Cantwell. In the immediate vicinity of the
chairman we also observed Mr. John O'Connell, Mr.
Steele, Mr. Barrett, Mr. Ray, Dr. Gray, the Right
Rev. Dr. McNally, Hon. J. H. Hutchinson, Sir S.
Bradsteret, Bart., Archdeacon Laffan, Rev. Mr.
Tyrrell (Protestant clergyman), Rev. Mr. Tierney,
Mr. D. O'Connell jun., Rev. Mr. Kennedy (Protes-
L taut clergyman), J. P. Somers, James (YHea,