The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-22 00:00:00

REPEAL ARBITRATION COURTS.

After the usual preliminary business had been gone through,
Mr. CLEMENTS (barrister) stated that he had been en-
trusted with a resolution respecting the arbitration courts,
unanimously adopted by the Committee, and which would,
he was sure, receive the concurrence of the Association. The
existence of these courts was charged in the indictment as an
attempt to bring the administration of justice into contempt;
and although the people had a perfect right to choose arbi-
trators to decide their disputes whenever they thought proper
to do so, yet the Committee thought that the constituted
authorities ought to be obeyed, even though they acted under
the semblance of the law.—(Hear.) The very last injunction
left by Mr. O'Connell before he left the country was, that the
arbitration courts should be dissevered from the Association,
and to carry out that recommendation the following resolu-
tion was framed, which he would propose for the adoption of
the meeting :
" That all connection between the Loyal National Repeal
Association, and all or any courts of arbitration do hence-
forward cease, and that the arbitration committee be dis-
solved; but that such determination is come to in order to
avoid misconstruction, and does not at all intimate any idea
that arbitrations are in themselves wrong or illegal ; and
that we leave it to the Irish people to settle amongst them-
selves their disputes and differences by arbitrators to be in
each case chosen by the parties themselves, without any refer-
ence whatsoever to the Repeal Association."
Mr. S. O'BETEN secoided the motion. He wished it to be
perfectly understood that they did not concur in the con-
struction given of the law with respect to the arbitration
courts, but they surrendered nothing by dissolving the con-
nection between the Association and these courts. They
did not recommend the people not to appoint arbitrators
themselves ; and, as far as lie was concerned, he was ready
at any time when called on to act in his own neighbourhood
as an arbitrator—not as a member of the Repeal Association,
but a subject of the British empire.
The resolution was then carried.
The amount of the rent was 5621. The Association ad-
, journed.

STATE OF IRELAND.
GREAT PUBLIC MEETING AT GLASGOW.

(From a Third Edition of the Glasgow Argus.)
On Monday, at one o'clock, a public meeting of the inha•
bitants of this city was held in the Trades' Hall, for the pur
pose of considering the present alarming condition of Ireland,
and addressing the Crown and both Houses of Parliament to
redress the grievances under which that country has so long
laboured. The attendance on this occasion afforded a strik-
ing proof of the interest taken by the most respectable portion
of the citizens of Glasgow in the present position of the sister
country, and the conviction which they entertain of the ne-
cessity of a speedy and effective removal of her grievances. The
Hall was crowded in every part by a most influential assem-
bly ; and the most perfect spirit of unanimityas to the objects of
the meeting pervaded all present. The cheering with which
the resolutions were received which bore upon the monster
evil, the Established Church of Ireland, most significantly
demonstrated the state of public feeling in this city on that
part of the question. It was made evident that nothing
short of the overthrow of the Irish Establishment can be satis-
factory to the people of Glasgow ; while it was with equal
clearness shown, that the stoutest resistance will be given to
any measure for endowing the Catholic priesthood of that
country. On these points the feeling of the meeting was ex-
pressed with peculiar warmth and vehemence.
On the platform we observed the Lord Provost, James
Oswald, Esq., M.P. ; Dr. William Thomson, Professor of
Medicine in the University of Glasgow ; Rev. Dr. King ;
Bellies Hamilton, Anderson, and Whitehead ; Bailie Bunten,
ofeoGrogrebaAnls ;deCrsoolunclilvloorssoCn, 3rosppßhryallso,
An,nTdrurewneor,rßr, ro Brodie, Allan,
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&c. ; W. Buchanan, Esq. ; A. Graham, Esq. ; Jehn Tennantd
Esq. ; C. J. Tennant, Esq. ; George Crawfurd, Esq. ; R. Bar-
tholomew, Esq. ; S. Higginbotham, Esq. ; A. Bannatyne,
Esq. ; John Fleming, Esq. ; William Gray, Esq.,; Charles
Gray, Esq; D. Chapman, Esq. ; J, . A. Fullerton, Esq. ; John
Loudon, sq. ; William Watson. Esq.; James M‘Clelhuid,
Esq. ; C. R. Baird, Esq., &c.
On the motion of JAmE..s OsWALD, Esq., M.P., the Lord
as,uwianuglidalroaudthcelieperirlimalcalrledesolttoitiohnes, chwhichair were
unanimously adopted :
"1. That the present social condition of Ireland, the re-
sult of a long course of oppression and misrule, is calculated
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to excite the utmost alarm, exhibiting a non-resident gentry
—uneducated and discontented pauper population—invete-
rate religions animosity—.-h?security both of person and pro-
perty—contempt for existing laws end institutions—and a
growing hatred of all connection with Great Britain.
" 2. That these symptoms of a state of society on the very
verge of anarchy and civil war, impose on the people of this
country the duty of decidedly informing the Legislature and
the Government that the causes which have produced such
unhappy consequences in the sister kingdom must be at once
removed, and that the social as well as legislative union of
the empire must be rendered complete.
"3. That this meeting observe with regret, that in the
thoseprese present
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recent Speech from the Throne the allusion to the remedies
contemplated does not indicate, on the part of her Majesty's
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the
system of administration, which the present emergency im-
peratively requires.
" 4. That a perfect uniformity of political and. municipal
rights—a like enjoyment of religious, as well 11.$ civil liberty
•—&11 equal participation in all the benefits of a just, impar-