The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-13 00:00:00

COUNTY OF TIPPERARY ELECTION.

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Mr. Nicholas Maher was • returned yesterday without a
contest. He is to attend the meeting of the Repeal Associa-

Lion to-morrow.
ADDRESS FROM MR. O'CONNELL TO TIIE ROMAN
CATHOLIC PRELATES.

The following address has been forwarded to the Roman
Catholic Bishops by Mr. O'Connell, invoking their assistance
to preserve the peace at this juncture :

"TO TILE CATIIOLIC PRELATES OF IRELAND,

" Most Reverend and Venerated Lords,—lt is with some

difficulty, and after much consideration,.thai
li-
berty of addresssing you, with a respectful confidence that,
although you may not approve of my so doing, you will
kindly appreciate the motives which prompt.me to trespass
on your attention. . .

a You may deem my anxiety excessive, but you will rea-
dily forgive that excess, which arises from my extreme de-
sire to prevent the slightest violence or breach of the peace
in any part of the coantry.

" fluive not the presmiwton to think that anything ema-
nating from me would be needed to stitnulate the active zeal
of your Lordships, and the revered clergy of the Irish people',
for the preservation of the most perfect public order and peace.
Those who have the advantage of knowing you are familiar
with the fact, that the tranquillity of this country is in a para-
mount sense attributable to your unbought, successful, and
most pious endeavours to cause all the population of most dis-i
tricts, and as many of the people as possible in every district
tobe obedient to the law, and dutifully submissive to temporal
authority.
" What I respectfully submit to your Lordships is merely
this—that perhaps it may be useful, at this crisis, to take
measures for ensuring, on the part of the people, with regard
to the result of the Crown prosecutions, now ascertained, a
continuance of the same loyal, quiet, and peaceable demeanour
which has characterised them up to this period, and in a
marked manner since the trials commenced.
" You agree with me, my Lords, on the momentous im
portance of this object, and you feel, as I do, that popular
violence or outbreak of any kind would be alike criminal
and calamitous. I know that every exertion for maintain-
ing the public peace will have
your Lordships' (gt nction and
powerful assistance. But that assistance is probably the
more necessary now, inasmuch as the State prosecutions,
have had a sectarian colour given to them by the conduct of
the prosecutors, in striking all the Catholics from the balloted
jury list, in addition to the fact of the dropping out from the
jury panel at large no less than thirty-five Catholics. It is
to prevent' any irritation springing from this violation of
the religious feelings of the people of Ireland, that I, with
profound humility, intimate to your Lordships the propriety
of suggesting to the clergy of every parish—and your
suggestions will of course be acted upon zealously and uni-.
versally—to take care that neither vindictive nor angry feel-:
ing shall be exhibited by their flocks as a consequence of this
wrong—to stifle every
in the recollection that- prudence as well as duty, personal
safety as well as religion, imperatively demand -that every:
district in Ireland should persevere in maintaining the most
perfect order and imperturbable tranquillity.
it is concealed
expression; of sorrow and resentment.
" If there be presumption in this address,
from my own view; and if that character should be supposed
to attach to it, my regret would be sincere indeed. My pur-
pose is to employ the most influential and efficient medium for
enforcing on the public mind, that if this crisis should pass
over, as I feel conhdent that it will, without riot, violence,.
tumult, or outrage of any kind, the success of the efforts for.
repeal will be rendered -certain, and the attainment of a do-,
mestic Legislature, secured.
" I have the honour to be, most Reverend and Venerated
Lords, your most faithful, obedient, humble servant,
" DANIEL O'CONNELL.
" Merrion-square,•Dublin, Feb. 11, 1844."