The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-18 00:00:00

IRELAND.

O'CONNELL'S REPLY TO ARCHBISHOP
CROLLY.
DUBLIN, JAN. 16.—The Dublin Evening Post con-
tains the following letter :
"TO HIS GRACE THE MOST REV. DR. CROLLY, LORD
ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH.
" llarrynane Abbey,
Octave of the Epiphany, 1845.
"Revered Lord—Allow me, most respectfully to offer
my humble, but most hearty, thanks to your Grace, for
the very kind and flattering manner in which, after re-
buking the mistake I had fallen into, you have condes-
cended to speak of me in your letter, published in the
Dublin Evening Post of Saturday last.
" I avail myself of the same medium to retract at
at once, and unequivocally, any assertion of mine that
may apply or seem to apply, to the document published
by your Grace, as being uncanonical.
" I freely avow that the document given by your Grace
to the public is perfectly canonical ; and even it' my
private opinion had been otherwise, I would at once yield
it t.) the authority with which that document is now
clothed. I, however, never did intend to express the
idea that such a document as that really in question could
be uncanonical.
" If you permit me to refer to my letter, you will find
that I acted from misinformation ; which made me con-
ceive that the document treated of matters of a tem-
poral nature ; or matters relating to the political rights
and liberties of the Irish people.' Such a document
would plainly be uncanonical, and directly repugnant to
our oaths abjuring all power and authority in the See of
Rome in matters purely temporal.
" Before the appearance of your Grace's letter, there
was, naturally, great excitement in the public mind.
The distinct avowal in the Morning Chronicle that the
Whigs, when in office, had a politico-religious agent in
Rome—the shout of triumph which emanated from the
Tory press, on the completion of the Commission under
the Bequests Act, containing a similar avowal of an
agent from the present Government in Rome—these,
combined with many sinister reports—confirmed, as
they appeared to be, by a letter published in the Globe,
and extracted from that paper in the Evening Post of
Thursday, the 9th of January—filled the public mind
with just alarm. The Globe letter affected to quiet our
fears. It admitted however that a Mr. Aubin resided
at Rome, though according to the Globe letter, he
had nothing to do there. What is sufficiently curious
is, that the Globe proceeds to state that Aubin had been
preceded by Mr. Seymour, the actual ambassador at
Florence. Aubin supplied the place of Seymour, and
the Globe tells us that, on the death of Aubin, Petre was
appointed to the situation. This is called an anoma

ICeis position ;' but Petre, besides being in an anomalous
position at Rome, is still attache to the English Ministry
at Florence. It is stated that his salary is very trivial,
not exceeding that of his paid attache. lie has, then,
a salary, and is at Rome—doing what ? It is not
said—and it would be laughed at if it wore said—that
the affairs of the English Catholics require any such
agency at Rome. It is plain his agency can relate only
to Ireland.
" Now, these, your Grace perceives, are all admissions
of an underhand agency by the Court of England at
Rome.
" At such a period, and with these facts staring us in
the face, it is natural that much alarm should exist; and
I, with profound deference, and without any species of
flattery, respectfully state that your Grace has shown
great wisdom in producing to the public the actual, and,
as I understand, tine only document received from Rome,
and in taking the trouble of repeating the pledge which
the Irish prelacy have given, to use every influence in
their power to prevent any such insidious scheme as the
Concordat, which (I use your Grace's words) would
be destructive of the purity and independence of our
holy religion.
"I have only to add that, of course, I concur, with
true humility and in perfect sincerity, in the wisdom of
the resolution proposed by the Lord Bishop of Elphin,
and seconded by the Lord Bishop of Clogher. Indeed,
it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to procure
me to differ with these more estimable prelates—the first
of them, my beloved: friend of many years standing, the
sweet dove of his church ;' the second, esteemed not
only by me, but revemred by every one who knows him
for his splendid talents, his profound erudition, and his
ardent attachment to the poor of the Lord. Besides
being most distinguished members of the episcopal order,
they are both most ;sincerely devoted Irisiimci., full of
zeal for the restoration of that political state of things in
Ireland which would make the confinement of the poor-
houses unnecessary --leave the prison door unclosed and
open—feed the hu a,gry—clothe the naked—and admi-
nister every comfort; to those afflicted with destitution or
disease.

" Such motives as: these, worked oat in the spirit of
universal charity, and meek and unpretending firmness,
are dear to the Holy See, consolatory to the heart of his
Holiness, and ren ier the Catholic religion, which we
profess, not only ilituatrious, but perfectly sanctified.
" Again offering: my meet humble but fervent grati-
tude to your Grace., for your personal kindness to me,
of which I shall ever be proud—also for the dignified
and truly Catholic declaration you have voluntarily made
on the subject of the Concordat, and for the publication
of the real, and, therefore, truly canonical document
from Rome.'

" I have the honour to be, with the most sincere vene-
ration and profound resp. ct, my Lord Archbishop, of
your Grace the most humble, faithful, and devoted ser-
vant, DANIEL O'CONNELL.
" P.S. I think I am bound to inform your Grace, that
if there were a properly chosen judge, a properly se-
lected jury, I much fear, that such is the state of the
law, that an indictment would lie against your Grace for
your most useful and most candid publication."
Referring to this letter, the Erening Post says :
" We publish it with great pleasure, inasmuch as its ten-
dency is to remove such misunderstanding between par-
ties so eminent as may have arisen out of recent trans-
actions. On all hands, therefore, the rescript is acknow-
ledged—as we anticipated it would be—as canonical."
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
CRIMINAL INFORMATIONS.—Tnom.ts T. CHAMBER-
LAINE V. THE PROPRIETORS OF THE " FREEMAN'S JOUR-
NAL."—Mr. Tomb moved, on behalf of the plaintiff; for a
conditional order for a criminal information against the
proprietors of the Dublin Weekly Freeman's Journal, for
the publication of a libel in that paper of the 16th No-
vember last. The alleged libel was contained in a letter
of the Rev. N. M'Evoy, P.P. of Kells, and in the edi-
tor's comments thereon ; and also in the editor's com-
ments upon a charge of Mr. Sergeant Howley, the as-
sistant-barrister for the county Tipperary.—The Court
(after some hesitation) granted the conditional order.
SAME V. THE PROPRIETOR OF THE PILOT NEWSPAPER.
—Mr. Tomb moved for and obtained a similar order
against the Pilot newspaper.

I TEMPERANCE—CHARGE OF DISLOYALTY.
In consequence of a statement which appeared in the
Limerick Chronicle, attributing disloyalty to teetotallers,
Father Mathew has addressed a letter to that journal,
dated Cork, Jan. 13. The Rev. Gentleman says :
" The conclusion of the article afflicted ma deeply—
the charge against the Tipperary band, of profaning, by
music, the Lord's day, I can bear with equanimity. I
claim the enjoyment of Gospel liberty. The celebra-
tion of Divine worship was not in any way inter-
rupted, and I do not hold that, in itself, a tune from
a temperance band on that sacred day is sinful. The
fall of a drunkard, for which these sweet sounds are
substituted, would, on any day, wound the sanctity
of a jealous God. But the charge of having on a
little flag a harp, with crown reversed, and turned
down, I read with horror. It was a cruel charge, and
from the Limerick Chronicle, too, my earliest and
unswerving advocate in the hour of my distress and
humiliation. The little flag borne before the Tipperary
band, did not belong to the Temperance Society of that
town. It was intended for the bsnd alone, and had on
it in largo letters the word Tipperary,' and under it
the symbols of music, poetry, and harnimy, instead of
the word band.' In all the music shops these symbols
are attached to the different pieces for sale, and in the
newspapers they aae generally over what is termed the
' Poets' Corner.' I inclose one cut this moment out of
a provincial journal. There is no portion of our beloved
Queen's subjects more attached to the throne and royal
person, than the teetotallers of Ireland and their presi-
dent. They would shed their heart's blood in defence of
both. May her reign be long and glorious, and may un-
allayed domestic felicity bless all her days.—l am, with
high respect, dear Air. Editor, yours, most sincerely, "
THEOBALD MATHEW.
THE CHARITABLE BEQUESTS ACT.
DUNDALK.—A most numerous and respectable meet-
ing of the inhabitants
last.
of Dundalk tr witnessedookplac
einmtohre Old
Chapel, on Sunday
en-
thusiasm in any popular assemblage. A few minutes
after two o'clock, the Very Rev. Dr. Coyne, accompanied
by his curates, entered the chapel, and was shortly after
followed by a great number of the leading requisitionists.
With scarce an exception, every respectable Roman Ca-
tholic in the parish was at his post, to protest against
this atrocious law.
The chair was taken by the Very Reverend Dr.
Coyne, V.G., who addressed the meeting at some length.
He said—This Bequests Act is a most woful measure—
I may say it is the bane of Ireland.—(Cheers.) I have
irnedetededO'Cgiovnennetl'hles
Bleititletrh,
eancd I
oupmdacygrearaye.f_ai
grace.—(Loud
et
hheeerhsa3
There is no necessity, with that most important docu-
ment before our minds, to delay the meeting with any
lengthened resolutions—one universal condemnation of
the Act is what we will express—(Great cheering)—a
tendency as
condemnation of a measure as pernicious in its
as any that ever afflicted an oppressed country.
—(Prolonged applause).
Several resolutions were passed, amongst which was
the following :
" That whilst, as Catholics, we are determined to re-
spect with scrupulous fidelity of submissien the legiti-
mate authority of the Holy See in all spiritual matters,
we are equally resolved, as loyal subjects and Irishmen,
to repudiate and resist any and every attempt of the
Pope, or any foreign potentate whatever, to intermeddle