The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-18 00:00:00

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tended. Mr. O'Connell arrived at one o'clock and was
received with loud and enthusiastic cheering. Mr.
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cholas Markey, of Walshestown, was called to the chair.
Ir The SECRETARY read a communication free) /dr
steak, the head pacificator, who had gone to Leitrim;
and Care n for the purpose of putting down the system
lately established in those counties under
Maguires." It was accompanied by
of Ribbonism,
the name '`roily
an address froo Mr. Steele which he had promulgated
among the inireb,:tants of the disaffected districts.
Mr. O'Coseet.r. moved the most marked thanks of the
association to his esteemed friend and companion in
every struggle for the liberties of Ireland, Tom Steele,
and also the insertion ()ibis letter on the minutes. There
was nothing more injurious to the best interests of Ire-
land, nothing more criminal, tint,t2ing more dangerous to
those engaged in them, and nothing more useless than
those secret, societies. After some ft:ether remarks on
the criminal and ruinous nature of these societies, Mr.
O'Connell read an address, drawn up t 5; Mr. mith
O'Brien, to the inhabitants of Leitrim and Omen, calling
upon them to withdraw from all ribbon societi"s, and
pointing out to them the dangerous and foolish nattWl of
t Item. He (Mr. O'Connel.) had no hesitation in saying
that that was the very best written document he had ever
perused, and it would have additional weight as not
csoaing alone from the able and patriotic writer, but from
that
.tisociation. He begged to move the adoption of the
the association, and that measures be imme-
dadiadfreei?by
taken for its extensive circulation through the
disturbed dis,;_eiets.—Resolution carried unanimously.
Mr. NEST
said he wished to offer a few observa-
tions.l.„ on a subject :1-ler personal to himself. On some
see: obliged to notice attacks made
late occasions he had
upon him by the Exanit'wf, ,eiewspaper. The number of
the Examiner which he had reeetivd that day repeated
those attacks, and gave the terU26 which he had re-
pudiated them ; but it did not puf his reservation,_
that he would not have used those terms it. the English
language afforded him any more abusive epithets to
make use of. What he had to complain of most, )13 the
last number of the Examiner, was, an anonymous attteck
upon him, which, from the circumstance of its being ano-
nymous, should be considered as having been adopted
by the editor. It commenced in terms that certainly did
not appear to have been borrowed from the Court Guide
—(Laughter)—and proceeded as follows :—" Perhaps
Mr. O'Connell is entitled to some indulgence, inasmuch
as dribbling is more innocent than mendacity, and a man
can hardly be said to violate truth by whom the mean-
ing of the word is mistaken.' It then proceeded to
quote some sentences front a speech of his delivered on ss
recent occasion in St. parish against the Cha-
ritable Bequeets Act, in which the writer misinterpreted
his observatione and accused him of giving implicit obe-
dience to any decision that the Bishops of his Church
might conic to, He dist:leery stated at the time that
his obedience to the deeteen of the Catholic Bishops in
council assembled applies? only to spiritual matters. He
submitted to the Bisi,ops it. religious matters, but never
in temporal concerns, and be he distinctly stated in the
speech alluded to.
Some contributions having been handed in,
Mr. O'CONNELL iVin rose, and said he had to apolo-
gise for not being pie pared with the report from the
Committee on the ten propositions that he had referred
to on the last day of meeting. Ho would, on the present
occasion refer to but one of those propositions. The
Honourable and Learned Gentleman then repeated the
statement he had frequently made concerning the injus-
tice done to Ireland in respect to the National Debt.
These fects, he contended, had sunk deep in the Irish
mind, though the; were totally unattended to in Nig-
land. They had produced the monster meetings in 1843,
the perseverance of 1844, and they would have their effect
on the next great repeal year of 1845. The approaching
year ought to be one of high advantage to Ireland. The
Hon. and Learned Gentleman then referred to the pro-
gress repeal had made in the course of the past year.
Ireland, he said, was the country in the world where
hundreds of thousands—aye, where millions of people
could assemble without even an accident taking place
among them. There could not be a better proof of the
superiority of Irishmen. Professor Forbes, the Scotch
philosopher, and Professor Quintelet, in Belgitnn, had,
by a series of experiments conducted for twelve years,
proved that the Irishman was the first among the
nations of Europe for every physical capacity. Professor
Kane, an Irishman, made similar experiments in London.
and he: proved that when the power of raising bur-
dens in an Irishman was 27, the highest number among
any other people was but 25.—(Cheers.) He knew that
the forthcoming report of the Landlord and Tenant Com-
mission would refer to the greater leniency of the land-
lords in the north of Ireland to their tenants. At the
expiration of a lease in Ulster, the landlord came to an
amicable arrangement with the existing tenant, instead
of, as in other parts of the country, going about to try if
they could get any other person to offer them more rent.
That was the reason that no agragrian crimes were heard
of in the north, and he would remind those who attri-
buted the tranquillity there to the prevalence of the Pro-
testant persuasion, that there was a majority of 500,000
Catholics in Ulster over the other sects, and that they, as
well as the Protestants and Presbyterians, remained free
from those crimes.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. and
Learned Gentleman proceeded to ray that they would
hold but two meetings more of the Association in that
year, but they should commence:lB4s as if they were then
only really beginning to agitate for repeal, and as if all they
had hitherto done were as nothing. 1843 was the repeal
year for monster meetings, 1844 for patience and for
, legal triumph, but 1845 should be marked by the weekly
collection of the repeal rent. If it were to be but ls. or'
ld. its any locality, still it should be collected weekly.
They solicited from no man more than ls. a year, or one
farthing a week, with four weeks for nothing ; but if
every man subscribed that sum they would have 50,0001.,
and he would expect even 100,0001. at the end of the
year. Mr. O'Connell concluded by moving that the
repealers throughout Ireland be called upon to demon-
strate their perseverence in the repeal cause by sending
in weekly contributions on and after the let of January,
1845. The motion was carried unanimously.
After the disposal of some routine business, Mr.
O'Connell announced the rent for the week to be
1791. 12s. 2d.

THE LATE DREADFUL OCCUR-
RENCE AT CHATHAM.
INQUEST ON THE BODIES.
CHATHAM, MONDAY NIGHT.—On Monday an inquest
was held before Mr. J. Hinde, coroner, at the Waggon
public-house, a short distance from the scene of the
melancholy event (the particulars of which appeared in
The Sun of yesterday), when the following evidence was
adduced :
John Chaplyn, bailiff to Mr. J. Oakley, of Darland.
stated that the deceased Thomas Webb, was in the em-
ploy of Mr. Oakley, acting asjwaggoner's third boy. John
Stedman was also in Mr. Oakley 's employ, and there was
also another man who usually slept there, but was not
there that night. The men had spoken several times to
witness about the room being damp. On Saturday night
' Stedman left the house about eight o'clock, and the
other two at nine, to go to bed. On the following morn-
' ing, about seven o'clock, being told that they had not
come into the yard, he went to the bedroom-door and
lifted up the latch and called " George" several times.
Not receiving any answer, he opened the door, and
putting his hand behind it felt one of them lying there.
He called again and shook him, and then procured a light
and got a waggoner to go into the room with him, where
he found them all three dead. He did not observe any
particular smell in the room. lie had been in Mr. Oak-
ley's employ 15 years. When the fire was lit in the room
he stood ever it for some minutes. He did not think
there was any danger is using the charcoal. Did not
feel any inconvenience in breathing whilst standing
over it.

Amelia Chaplyn, wife of the last witness, corroborated
her husband's evidence, and said she went into the roots
about half an hour after she had lit the fire, which was
composed of wood, ashes, and charcoal, and it was burn-
ing up brightly. She remained in the room a short time,
and did not shut the door. She had never heard before
that charcoal would have any bad effects—had never seen
any used before.
The CORONER expressed a hope that it would be
lesson to her not to use charcoal again, and observed that
it was her duty to have mentioned it to Mr. Oakley
before she lit the fire, as the unfortunate circumstance
would not then have happened.
Thomas Bosely said that he and the three deceased had
often asked the bailiff and his wifo to light a fire in the
room.

Mr. Benjamin Tribe, surgeon, of Chatham, stated that
he was called up between seven and eight o'clock on
Sunday morning to attend at Mr. Oakley s. On arriving
there he was shown into the bedroom, where he found
the bodies of the three men ; they were quite dead and
their limbs stiff. Ile examined the bodies; there were no
marks of violence on them. lle inquired, and found char-
coal had been burnt previous to theirlgoing to bed ; their
deaths were caused by inhaling carbonic acid gas, arising
from the burning of charcoal and causing suffocation.
The jury having heard the whole of the evidence, and
the opinion of the Coroner that Chaplyn and his wife
were entirely ignorant of the deleterious effects of char-
coal, returned a verdict of " Accidentally suffocated by
charcoal being burnt in their bedroom.

THE LATE DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT DRURY-LANE
TIIEATRE.—The assistant scene shifter, M'Carthy, who
endeavoured to extinguish the flames of the dress of the
late Miss Webster on Saturday night, is proceeding very
rapidly towards recovery, although suffering greatly
from his injuries. It has been stated that he was able to
follow his employment, but such is not the case ; he is
obliged to be dressed and undressed by his wife.
TIIE LATE ACCIDENT IN ALDGATE.—Upon inquiry
at the London Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, it was
stated that the poor fellow Goodman, the police-con-
stable, who was, in common with seven or eight other.
persons, knocked down at the corner of the Minories,
opposite Aldgate Church, by a horse which ran away
with a gig, recovered his senses in the early part of the
eight; and, although seriously injured, he is now in a
fair nay of recovery. Mr. Winckworth, who was taken
to the hospital at the same time, still lies in a deplorable
state, his left eye being nearly cut out, and the whole of
his system being much shattered by the violence of the
shock. There were altogether eight persons more or less
injured; six were taken to the hospital, and two to the
surgeries of gentlemen in the neighbourhood.
COMMISSION or LUNACY.—Yesterday a commis-
sion of lunaey. was opened at the Swan Tavern, Battersea,
before Mr. Winslow. The subject of the inquiry was
Mr. John Smith, ago I G. a licensed victualler, for many
years the proprietor ,0 the Grapes Tavern, King-street,
Golden-square, but now residing in Calverstoke-place,
Battersea. Evidt.nee I,,tving, been heard, the jury found
that Mr. John Smith was of unsound mind, and had been
so since January, 1840.