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IRELAND.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
DERLDT, FEB. 26.—The usual weekly meeting of the Re-
peal Association was held thirday at the Conciliation Hall.
JOHN O'CoNNELL, Esq., ~ took the Chair. The Hon.
Gentleman, on taking the Chair, observed that deep as were
his feelings of thankfulness to the meeting for the reception
which they had given him that day, there was a feeling still
stronger, still more engrossing, in his breast—a feeling of
gratitude, deep and unfeigned gratitude, to the English
people for the generous sympathy extended to him and the
other Irish Members on their appearance in the House of
Commons.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He acknowledged
he was unprepared for such a reception, and hN
father was also. unprepared for such a manifestation of
genuine English feeling. Until he entered the House‘of
Commons, he was totally tinware of the extent of indigna-
tion which the proceedings of the, Government had,
generated • in the hearts of the English keeple. The
organs of the Tory party had endeavoured, by raking
up ancient prejudice, to create and dissension
anngdlisthhe effort signally failed. The
people, were strikingly.
between the two countries; but the national generosity:
and love of fair play, which were among the noblest
displayedcharacteristics
o n th
e occasion;
cth
ieo
Hon. Gentleman then gaye a feeling account of the enthu-
siastic reception given to his father at the meeting of the
Anti-corn-law League, and assured the meeting lie had then
the honour of addressing, that it delighted him chiefly be-
cause he regarded it as a foretaste of the affectionate Byrn..
pathy which had subsisted between the two countries—when
justice had been done to Ireland, when Ireland should have
her Parliament again, and be in a position to prove her sin-
cere attachment to the best interests of the empire.—(Cheers.)
The Hon. Gentleman then took a rapid review of the late
debate, in the course of which he observed that the only per-
son who had reason to complain of the course it took was the
Chief Justice, whose name was entirely omitted by those
whom the Government supporters praised for liberality, in-
tegrity, and fairness. What was meant by the omission was
not for him to say, nor would it, perhaps, be quite
safe for him to say what he thought. From the result of
the debate he could hold out no hope to the people of Ire-
land. Indeed, it had only confirmed him in his belief that
they had no hope of obtaining justice at the hands of
the Imperial Parliament, and that on themselves and
their own exertions the people of Ireland must rely.
The Hon. Gentleman proceeded at considerable length to de-
monstrate the necessity of local Government, and concluded
ereillaeclettihilegmfoirnutes of last day's proceed-
the ylaligea again
Secretary thankingth
et the
they had given him. the enthusiastic reception
ings and correspondence of the week, among which was the
following letter from Mr. O'Connell :
" London, Feb. 24, 1844.
My dear Ray,—l am not a little proud at being able to
congratulate the Association on one circumstance of no 3n141

magnitude—l mean the generous sympathy exhibited by the
English people towards the friends, and for the sufferings of
the Irish. I have constant manifestations of this kindly and
generous spirit, but the meeting at'Covent-garden, on Wed-
-nesday, produced a scene :never Licceeded, and I do believe
never equalled in any Country. ; This is a spirit to be che-
rished, as well as admired for its noble generosity. lam sure
the ASSociation will -reciprocate these most- 'addable and
honourable feelings, and that the Irish Nation will show that
Irish gratittqle will at least equal English. generosity. We.
must cultivate these kindly scntiinents at, both 'sides.
." The melancholy reflection, however, follows, • that it is
quite useless ; for the wise and the good in Great Britain
desire, as they do, . cordially and sincerely, that justice
should be done to Ireland. Alas, power has passed from the
-wise and the good, -and is vested . in ; the selfish and the
bigoted. The monopolists and the bigots have - got. pos-
session of Parliamentary power—class legislation provails.
-The spirit-of-reform is extinct, or lives in. little more than
isolated individuals. The unhappygenius of Chartism is
•still sufliciently strong to delude some of tlie- operative
classes—of those to whom increased reform would give in-
treaseifpowerlo alleviate their hard condition, and improve
the social state. _ _ _

. . .
" Under these circumstances, every reasonable and just
Irislintan must see that there it -nothing for Ireland save in
and by the restoration of our own Parliament: There is not
the least reason for any kind of despondency ; on the con-
trary,
it appears to me to be as clear at the noon-day sun,
that the repeal must succeed, if the Irish people observe two
essential conditions of success.

" The first is, the strict observance. of the 'peace—the total
absence of riot; tumult,: outbreak; or force. In short, to con-
tinue peaceable under every circumstance, and in every event.
"Secondly,—To continue perseveringly and unremittingly
the Repeal. agitation; to'continuu that agitation in strictly
legal channels, 'and in no other. :To abandon and avoid any
r-course- that; may be .declared-r-however.wirgfUlly—illegal,.
and to continue to modeleverY public body into such a shape
as shall set every proiecution at defiance. -In short, to con-
tinue constitutional and legal agitation, so,long as one shred
of the Constitution remains. . _

• " Peace and perseverance is our motto. • Perseverance and
peace are the Shibboleth to our success. Before peace and
perseverance present difficulties will vanish, and by them
Ireland will be restored to national dignity and prosperity.
"Ever yours faithfully,

" M. Ray, Esq."

. ,
ffbANIEL VCONNELL."

Several sums of money were then handed in, among which
was 2001. from New Brunswick ' • 13/. from Waterbury;
America ; 22/. from Watertown, America ; and 71. from
Ariel, America. •
Mr. O'Down then moved, that the letters enclosing the
American remittances should be inserted on the American
book, after which;
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEs, M.P., rose, and addressed the meet-
ing at considerable length. He commenced by observing
that the 'collective wisdom of the empire had solemnly de-
Cided, by a large majority, against taking the-grievances of
Ireland into consideration. , It was clearly shown that the
Imperial Parliament required, not information as to the state
of Ireland, Nit the spirit to right the wrongs of the country.
Should they therefore despair?—(Cries of " No, no.") No!
they had learned the secret by which the regeneration of
Ireland could be accomplished, and that was by relying on
themselves, and on themselves alone.—(Hear, and cheers.)
,Mr.- STEELE . next addressed the meeting, and contended
that it was the duty of the Irish people to reciprocate the
kindly feeling- manifested towards them by, the people of
England, and concluded by giving notice of his intention to
bring theiubject Of the Protestant oath before the Associa-
tion at the next day of meeting.
Mr. Pigot, Mr. Shell, and several other Irish Members, ar-
rived at Kingstown this morning, from London.

NATIONAL tOMPLETE SUF-
FRAGE UNION.

The Council of the National -Complete 'Suffrage Union held
the quarterly meeting in the Public-office, Birmingham, on
Monday last. The Court-room was crowded by a most at-
tentive and respectable audience. Joseph Sturge, Esq., Pre-
sident, in the chair. .
• As it was arranged that the deputation appointed to wait
on the Members for- the borough in London, and present
them with memorials from the electors and non-electors of
Birmingham, requesting them to support Mr. Crawford's
proposal and the petition to Parliament on the seine subject,
should be present,
Mr. STURGE read a letter from Mr. Scholefield on that
subject. Mr. Scholefield stated that he had presented the
petition and read the principal part of it to the House, and
that they would not be surprised to hear that "it was re-
ceived with the indifference usually manifested on such occa-
sions ;" with regard to the Supply movement,:Mr. Schole-
field said, " I shall never shrink from recording my vote at
every fitting opportunity against the granting supplies whilst
our heavy national grievances remain unredressed."—(Ap-
plause.) Mr. Sturge then said—Perhaps the best way in
which he could show the advantage of the Supply movement
as a means of forcing discussion within tie House of Com-
mons, would be to contrast the difficulties with which
Wm. Sharman Crawford had to contend in his endeavours to
introduce the subject of complete suffrage last year, with the
ease and freedom with which he had been enabled to intro-
duce it already during the present session.—(Hear.) Last
year, after labouring three or four months to bring on two
substantive motions, and, after all, getting but a very tame
discussion on them, this year two amendments on the supply
principle of action had been discussed, and on both occasions
interesting and important speeches had been made.—(Hear,
hear.) They had, every reason to be encouraged by the re-
ception which had been given to the amendments affirming
the principle that the redress of grievances should preeede the
voting of supplies. 31 Members of the House voted for the
first, and 24 for the second amendment, and the earnestness
and sincerity which evidently characterised the debate were
very remarkable. The numbers who voted for the principle
were small, but when he told them that Mr. Sharman Craw-
ford, on the morning' of the day when Parliament was open-
ed, did not know of one man who was prepared at all risks
to support his proposed amendment on the address, they
would be surprised to find that so many had voted with him
that night.— (Great applause.) A few were prepared
to go with him on the first motion of supply, but even
those few had doubts as to the policy on moving at once on
the address in answer to the Speech from the Throne. By.
the firmness and decision of the friends of the movement who
had met in London to encourage Mr. Crawford and his friends
to persevere, the course was taken which led to the impor-
tant results he had just stated, and if the people continued
to support the movement with the same spirit in which it
had been begun, he did not doubt but it would be found in-
strumental in the accomplishhig of their political freedom.--
(Applause.) They had now three things to consider in re-
gard to this movement. First, was the principle just ?
Second, was the present the time to apply it ? Third, had
they the power to do so ? With regard to the first, he held
that nothing could be more just than that if a man was to be
taxed, his grievances should be redressed before his money
was taken.—(Applause.) To shew that this was the proper
time to apply it, he would just give a statement of the
amount of money that had been paid to one man—the Duke
of Wellington.. Mr. Sturge then read a statement showing
that upwards of two millions sterling had been given to the
Duke of Wellington. The statement was received with strong
marks of disapprobation.
. Mr.' WILSON, the Secretary of the Union, read the
quarterly Report, which gave a very encouraging account
of the progress of the Supply movement.—lt was unanimously
adopted,
A. coloured Man made a very interesting speech in broken
English. He did not understand Parliamentary affairs, he
said, but he knew that Britain had much to account for in
calling herself a Christian nation, while the Parliament, in
the name of Christianity, robbed the people, and when the
people complained of being robbed, put Christian men like
Mr. O'Neil in gaol.—(Hear, hear, and applause.) He was
glad to see that Mr. Sturge had other views of Christianity,
and as he had been the friend of the black man, so was he
the friend of the white man, and this was all right, for God
had said all, men were brothers.—(Cheers.)
Mr. WI sox addressed the meeting on the general ques-
. atm. He said,. we believe that the House of Commons does
not represent the people ; that its actions are oppressive and
despotic ; that it is voting away the people's money for any-
thing and everything but the people's benefit ; that it is
ruling by physical instead of moral force ; that by each suc-
ceeding act it plunges the country into difficulties and debt.
We not only believe all this to be true, but we prove it—we
place the facts in evidence before the world, and challenge
contradiction.—(Hear.) We show, too, that to our petitions,
remonstrances, and complaints, Parliament has turned a deaf
ear ;:that by its tactics and manoeuvres it has rendered nugatory
all our efforts even to obtain an inquiry into the grievances
of which the people have complained. We offer to prove all
this and more, and in the strength of our case we rest the
necessity of resorting to the proposal we now recommend to
your adoption, that the grievances of the people should be in-
vestigated and redressed before the supplies are voted.
Councillor PERRY gave an account of the interview which
the deputalen, entrusted with the memorials and petition,
had with Mr. Muntz. He said Mr, Monts seemed to throw
ridicule on the proposal. With•regard to the present meet-
ing, he could not help stating with what feeling of indigna-
tion hated heard the statement that the Duke of Wellington
had received about two Millions and a quarter of the public
money, for what?.-(Bear, hear.) It was really awful to
think of it, that thousands and .tens of thousands had been
called out to shed•their brother's blood, and were themselves
now lying low in the dust of the. ground.—(Hear, hear.)
A vote of thanks was passed-to Mr. Scholefield, with an ex-
Pression. of regret: that Mr, Mintz did not support Mr. Craw-
ford on, the 6th instant.

It was announced, amidst much applause, that Mr. O'Con-
nell was to be in Birmingham on. Friday, when a public
breakfast will be given to him, and a town's meeting held in
the evening, on the subject of Irish Weirs, at which he would
be present. The 'meeting'then separated.'

PORTSMOUTH, FEB.. 26.,—SEVERE GALES.— On
Friday night this port was visited with a most severe gale of
wind from the north-west, which continued
,blowing with
terrific violence until the morning, accompanied with heavy
rain. Much damage has been .done to the shipping (small
craft),• and great havoc created among newly-sown crops and
young:plantations in the neighbourhood of Cumberland Fort.
['he violence of the gale somewhat abated towards night on
Saturday, but on Sunday the
:atmosphere presented a most
gloomy aspect, and the storm increased on the turn of the
tide, and continued with most alarming vehemence until
high water, when the sure washed over the ramparts of
the town with fearful rapidity. Several ships put into the
harbour with their canvass torn to ribands, and apparently
in great distress. Several were stranded on different parts of
the island, and one unfortunate schooner, the Ratcliffe,
William Collins master, laden with cart and wine, from
Ferrol (Galicia, Spain), was run into by a strange brig, and
soon after rendered a complete wrck. -The crew, eight in
number, including the master, were fortunately rescued from
imminent danger by a Dutch galliot, and brought safely into
port about 6 o'clock on Sunday evening, much exhausted.
THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE, SOUTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.—An inquest was held on Tuesday before Mr. Payne,
deputy coroner for London, upon the body of John wcll,
who died in St. Thomas's Hospital, frain injuries received
by being knocked dawn by a railway train at Wimbledon
on the 18th instant. The evidence adduced disclosed no
facts with which the public has not already been made ac-
quainted, and the jury returned as theirverdict—" That the
deceased was accidentally killed," at the same time expres-
sing a hope that more care would in future be .taken to pre-
vent the recurrence of a similar accident.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE DALLY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

ADVERTISER,-.-We are surprised to find that some of
our-Liberal Contemporaries imagine'they can discoverground
of hope for Ireland, in the speech'of Sir Robert Peel. They
must be persons of-quicker discernment than ourselves. We
can_ discover nothing in that spbech, lengthened and varied
asit. liras, which afford' 'the - slightest —foundation for
any such hope. It bears on its face the impress
of canning, and deceit. Its- conciliatory expressions are
only intended to 'mislead. No distinct avowal is made
of any intention to abandon that oppressive and
insulting policy which has has driven Ireland to the
verge of rebellion. Now, can. any one who knows the cha-
racter of the Premier, 'suppose- for a moment 'that had he
contemPlated the adoption of a conciliatory policy, lie would
not have taken care to make an explicit avowal of his inten-
tions 7 ,On all previous occasions—his tariff, for example—
when he intended to introduce measures of concession, he has
not only proclaimed his purposes in terms which could admit
of no misconception, but. with a pompousness of manner pe-
culiar to himself,•and which was almost as significant as the
language...he employed. . If, tSir Robert Peel had intended to
alter the course of his procedure in Ireland, he would not have
.studiotisly 'abstained froth all reference to ' Mr. O'Connell's
thrice-repeated question" Ha/ are.you to govern Ireland'?"
Its his silence as to his future policy we clearly discern an in-
tention to pursue the perilous path which he is how treading.
Instead of intimating his purpose to relax the severity of the
law, he avows his resolution to uphold it. No one can mis-
take the meaning ,of this. In the Premier's vocabulary it
signifies.that, while he is in power, Ireland' will continue to
be governed by -military force. But we' are not.left to mere
inferential deductions respecting the future Irish policy of
Sir Robert Peel. We have sure grounds. for our conviction.
One 'Unguarded expression escaped Sir Robert iii his late
speech,--which indicates, in a manhbr not to be mistaken, that
r a policy of coercion, not of concession, is that which Ministers
have determined to pursue towards Ireland. Sir Robert
avowed his intention to uphold the Protestant Establish-
ment as it now exists in- that country. On this point he
was more explicit than we ever remember to have heard
him. He did not qualify 'his language in any way. The
determination was proclaimed without any conditions.
He left no loop-hole, no back-door, through which, in case
an emergency should arise, he could 'escape from his
pledge. , No measure which cart in the slightest degree in-
terfere-with the Irish Church, can ever be proposed by him.
Nor, if any such measure be proposed by others, can it re-
ceive his sanction. With that Church he has inseparably
identified himself: with her he is prepared to stand or fall.
Rather than touch her most trivial privilege, or suffer another
to do it, he would see his Administration perish before his
eyes. Now, if, as is admitted on all hands, the Protestant
Church in Ireland be, in her established capacity, the monster
evil of that country, and if the Premier has declared his deter-
mination .to uphold that Church at all hazards—must not
they besredulous persons indeed who expect any measures
of a conciliatory- nature from him ? His speech, as before
remarked, does not 'afford the ` shadow of a ground
on which to rest any such expectation. But even if it
did, even if he had given an explicit pledge of his inten-
tion to do justice to Ireland, we would have reposed no
faith in his word, after hearing him proclaim his reso-
lution to maintain, under all circumstances, existing
and contingent, the Protestant Establishment of Ire-
land. So long as the Irish Church is suffered to exist,
Ireland cannot know what peace or prosperity means. She
is not only the crowning evil, but the parent of nearly all
the other evils which are felt in that country. It is not
merely that, being the religion only of a few hundred thou-
sands of her people, she constitutes a standing insult to the
millions who are of a different creed, but these millions,
while maintaining their own ministers, are ground to the
earth by the heavy imposts laid upon them for the support
of this Church. It were bad enough that they should be
obliged to support this Church, even did they conceive her
doctrines, her discipline, and her conduct to be harmless ; but
it is a double act of injustice and oppression, when they con-
sider her creed to consist of most perilous errors, and her con-
duct to be dangerous, if not destructive, to the souls of men.
Nor, insuperable as are these objections in the eyes of the
Catholics to the Protestant Establishment of Ireland, are
they the only ground of their hostility towards that Esta-
blishment. Their aversion to the Church is deepened by the
fact, that through her door all must pass who are am-
bitious of sharing in the honours, and partaking of the
advantages, which the State holds out to distinguished
talent and meritorious conduct. The avenue to civil dis-
tinction and civil emoluments is shut against the Roman
Catholic. His talents may be of the highest order, and
his conduct invulnerable to the shafts of calumny, and
yet, because he is a Catholic, he is ineligible to any civil, ju-
dicial, or political office of any importance. Let us not be
told that the Relief Bill of 1829 established civil equality
between Catholics and Protestants. It did no such thing.
In appearance, or in theory, indeed, it may be said to have
done so ; in reality, it has not. What is the existing state of
matters in Ireland? What has been the state of matters in
that country since the aceession of the Tories to power? Are
not the Catholics a proscribed class ? Are they not studiously
excluded from all offices of emolument and trust? Is not the
brand of degredation prominently and permanently impressed
on their brow? Are they not insulted in every conceivable
way—grossly and gratuitously insulted by the ministers and
members of that Established Church, to the maintenance of
which they are compelled to contribute ? And yet, though Sir
Robert Peel avows his determination to uphold a Church
which is thus proved to be the monster evil of Ireland—an
evil which converts a country, which would else be a paradise,
into a political and social pandemonium—there are persons—
persons in the ranks of the Liberals, too—who are credulous
to believe that he contemplates a conciliatory policy towards
Ireland. We are of no such easy faith. We will not believe
that any man can entertain the intention of doing justice to
Ireland, who does not commence the work of conciliation by
abolishing the Protestant Establishment in that country.
CHRONICLE.—So, it appears that M. Guizot flings all
the blame of the non-ratification of the treaty with Pomare,
Queen of Tahiti, not upon her Majesty's repugnance, but
upon the Admiral Dupetit Thouars ; and the Moniteurorders
the Queen's restoration. It is evident that Lord Aberdeen,
though he admits the French protectorate in Tahiti, refuses
to recognise the sovereignty, which, for a pacific Minister, is
strange enough ; for it means neither more nor less than this
—he adjourns the question of sovereignty to a future war.
He denies the right of the French to levy duties, prohibit
ships touching, and to exercise rights of sovereignty. Yet
the real influence, the practical exercise of sovereignty, he
admits. We have no hesitation in saying, that such a state
of things is as unsatisfactory as can-be well imagined ; for
one more likely to produce collisions, and differences, and
jealousies, could not have been established. The protectorate
ought to have been opposed and prevented in the first in-
stance. For now, the whole current of rancorous opposition,
greedy of a subject that stirs national pride, will clamour for
the full sovereignty of these petty islands, denounce every
Minister, like Guizot, as a poltroon that shrinks from offend-
ing England in the enforcement of rights upon them, and
end by making it a sine qud non with any new Minister, that
he annex the Friendly Islands in name, as well as in reality,
to the French Crown.

GLOBE.—The Custom House frauds, which have
already excited so much attention and surprise, were on
Monday again the subject of inquiry in the Court of
Queen's Bench. The form of the proceedings were in this
instance different; but the facts adduced in evidence were
nearly similar to those elicited on former trials. The
mode of procedure was by indictment; the charge was
conspiracy to defraud the Crown of certain duties upon
goods imported by the fabrication of false entries, and
the insertion of the leaves on which these false entries
were made into the Blue Books, in which the " sight
entries" were made by the landing-waiters, and on
which the duties were charged. By the connivance and
aid of Homersham and Burnby, two of these. officers
(the former since dead, the latter the principal witness
against the defendants on this trial), Messrs. Mottram
and Williams, who carried on business in Wood-street,
Cheapside, as silk-merchants, and their clerk, Horsley,
indicted with them, had carried on a course of fraud
on the revenue for a considerable time, and to a large
extent. The present indictment was, necessarily, limited
to one transaction—the fraudulent entry upon two cases
of goods imported by the ship Belfast, from France; and
by which the Customs branch of the revenue was de-
frauded of the difference between 417 Z 15s. and upwards
of 1,100(, Williams pleaded guilty .; Horsley had ab-
sconded. The other defendant (Mottram) was convicted.
The facts elicited by the examination of the witnesses
exemplified most forcibly the oft-repeated observation,
that the public business of the country is worse con-
ducted, and that protection against frauds upon its
revenues is far less effective, than those of private
commercial establishments. The Attorney-General
in his opening explaiued the course pursued at the
Custom.house ; and, certainly, had the Honourable
Commissioners desired to afford facilities for fraud, they
could not have invented a practice better adapted for, the
purpose. The importer who contemplated fraud,
had only to come to an understanding with one or
two lan 'ng-waiters, and, by purchasing their aid with
a share of the proceeds, he was secure. The Cus-
tom House authorities, by .their mode of transacting
business, had done the rest ! " Landing-waiters,"
said Burnby, in his evidence, "were stationed at cer-
tain quays ; and the importer might land goods where
he pleased." The officers of the Government, employed
and paid by the public to prevent fraud, perverted into
the hired agents of the fraudulent traders, were sure to
be in their places. No interchange with officers on Other
stations; no checks upon the old jog-trot mode of doing
business ; no special examination of the " Blue
Books," in which the 'entries were made, to
ascertain their genuiness—nothing of this kind
was ever thought of. Had not Mottram and
Williams become bankrupts, and certain entries of a
suspicious appearance in their books excited the suspi•
eion of the accountant employed to prepare their balance-
sheet, led to inquiry, the system, which had been so
productive of fraud, would have probably continued to
diminish the receipts of the Exchequer, and to swell the
gains of the fraudulent importer. The fair trader would
have still found himself undersold in the market ;
would have witnessed his gradual decline of business,
until insolvency and ruin overtook him ; while his dis-
honest neighbour would have risen, from one step to
another, in the scale of what the world calls " respecta-
bility," until he retired with an immense fortune, to
chuckle over the clumsiness of the Custom House,
which had ministered to his dishonesty and success.
The witness Burnby stated, as a fact, what will CM..
cite general suspicion, "He made certain disclo-
sures to the Ctutimissioners"—not, however, until some
inctUiriv4 were being made in consequence of the mys..
tern:lT§ entries in Uottrain and Williams' books. " His
disclosures wore not caused by remorse. If the Com-
missioners have represented that the disclosures ema-
nated from remorse, they were ip error." And—
deeply steeped in villany as In was—this avowal may
be safely credited. tie was absolutely frightened at
the extent of hYsiransactions—terrified at the amount
Pf his ElU;icess. Business increased upon his bawds to