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OYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
AL-ni OFFICE, No. 21, Lombard-street, Nov. 22, 1844.

The COURT of DIRECTORS of the ROYAL EXCHANGE
ASSURANCE do hereby give notice, that their TRANSFER
BOOKS will be SHUT from Tuesday, the 3d of December next,
to Tuesday, the 7th of January, 1845 ; that the Annual General
Court appointed by their Charter, will be holden at their Office,
No. 21, Lombard-street, on Wednesday, the 18th of December
next, at Twelve o'clock in the Forenoon, and that a Dividend will
be considered of at the said Court.

ALEX. GREEN, Secretary.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The steady success and increasing prosperity of the Society has
enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation declare a
second Bonus, avera;;ing 60 per rent. on the amounts my on each
Policy effected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

.• 7.1 ..zo 055
0 •
premin_. Bonus Bonus in z 0.1 t:••
9' 0 4 added. Cash. F.. El' =4 Z., ,=,"
• •
•
• 0,-- • -T1 a
z. 8. d. Xs. (.1.1 Xs. d. s. d. Xs. ds
1837 170 9 3 77 5 1 !12 3 3•;6 2 3
GO.lOOO, 74 3 4 1838 144 2 2 64 5 6 9 16 1 296 13 4
1 I 1839 116 16 0 51 511 711 9 247 4 h

The division of profits is annual, and the, nes:

t.e wade ,n De-

ember of ".he present year.
This institution offers many important and guosuntial advan-
tages with respect both tor Life Assurances and Deferre,l Anuult_ies.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrnr, without ea-
7.ente ur 14,Veiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium. paid,
(see table); also the option of selecting benefits...44Q the ?onversio3i,
-f his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity: Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.

F. FERGUSON C2l '&1 ROUX, St6h,

ARGUS LTFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
99. THROOMORTON-STREET, BANK
EMPOWERED by SPECIAL ACT of PARLIAMENT,
5 and 6 Will. IV., c. 76.
THOMAS FARNCOMB, Esq., Alderman, Chairman.
WILLIAM LEAF, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Richard E. Arden, Esq. James i'lift. Esq.
William Banbury, Esq. Rupi,rt Ingleby, Esq.
Edward Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq.. Ald.
Thomas Camplin, Esq. Jeremiah Pitcher, Esq.
John Humphery, Esq., Alderman, Lewis Pocock, Esq.
M.P.
PRYSICIAN—Dr. Jeaffhson, 2, Finsbury-square. p
Suanstors—W. Coulson, Esq , ti, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
Certsurrma ACTUARY—Professor Hall, of King's College.
LOW RATES OF PREMIUM.
In addition to the subscribed Capital of £300,000, the Assured
have the security of the Company's inco”re of neprly £fo,ol'o per
annum, yearly incrcaqing, and an accumulating Assurance Fund in-
vested in G•ivernrnent and other available securitie., of considerably
lager amount than the estimated liabilities of the Company.
The rates of premium are reduced to thr lowest scale compatible
with the security of the Assured, and the stability of the Company,
thereby, in effect, Riving to every Policy Holder an immediate and
certain Bonus without risk, In lieu of the deferred and frequently
delusive prospect of a periodical division of Profits.
ANNUAL PREMIUM TO ASSURE £lOO.

Age. i For One T,ar. ;For Seven Years. Whole Term.
- --- --
20 £0 17 8 £0 19 1 X 1 11 10
301181 2 7 2 0 7
40 1 5 0 1 6 9 214 10
50 1 14 1 1 19 10 4 0 11
60 3 2 4 3 17 0 6 0 10

One-third of " Whole Term" Premium may remain unpaid at
5 per cent. compound interest, as a debt upon the policy for life, or
may be paid off at any time without notice.
In Asurances for Advances of Money, as security for 'debts or as
a provision for a family, when the least present outlay is desirable,
the varied and comprehensive tables of the Argus Office will be
found to be particularly favourable to the Assured.
The Medical Officers attend daily at a quarter before Twe o'Closk
EDWARD B A TES, Resident Director.
A liberal Commission to Solicitors and Agents

UNPRECEDENTED LIST OF PRICES.
8. d.
Counterpanes; nearly 3 yards long, each
Heavy Blankets, 2 yards long, the pair 4 6
(Larger in proportion.)
Good Calico, ell-wide, 24 yards for 3 9
Horrock's Long-cloths (usually 6d.) 40 yards for...
Linen Sheeting, double width, the pair 9
Superb Linen Sheetings, 3 yards wide, the pair lO 0
Linen Table-cloths, li yards square, each
Two yards square, superb Damask, each
Three yards long, splendid double Damask, each 8 6
Five yards long, a cloth suitable for the table of the nobility,
each
Damask Fish Napkins, the dozen ... .. 3 6

Damask Dinner Napkins, yard square, the doze❑ 6 6
Yard.wide Welsh Flannels, for Charities, per yard ... 0 6

Large Duffel Cloaks for ditto, each
Linen Dusters, twilled with bordel's, the dozen..

.... 3 6
.... 4 0

Russia Round Towelling, 12 yards for

Knife-cloths and Kitchen cloths, the dozen

Fine Nursery Diapers, 14 squares for

2 6

Damask Table Covers, yard and half square, each 1 3

(Larger in proportion.)

0 0
o
9

Pinafore Diaper., tine per yard ... .........
Yard-wide Brown holiands, per yard
Linen Crumb Cloths, 3 yards long, each .
Furniture Dimities, a superior article, per yard 0 4
Toilet Covers, with fringe all round, each
Bordered lkluslins, superior quality, 12 yards for
Sheeting Calicoes, extra stout, full 2 yards wide, per yard 0 6
Huckaback Towellings, 12 yards for

TEA. 'FRAYS, Tea Urns, Knives and Forks,
Dish Covers, &c., at C. WATSON'S, 41 and 42, BARBICAN.
and 16, Ni tItTON-EOLGATE. Establ;slied half a century.-1 set
of 3 raper Tea-trays, including the largest size made, 355. ; very
richly ornamented all over, 545. a iiiet of Three, and up to 141. ; Ja-
pen Tea-trays, Is. Gd. a Set, and Upwards ; a Five Quart I.osdon
made Bronze Tea-urn 355., with the newest patterns up to live gui-
neas ; a Set of Six patent ralsol London made Dish Covers, 18s. 6d. ;
best imperiair ai ed, . Bet of Six. Elegant silver shape, 525. Gd.
Siet of Six.
Ivory Tab.e-kmves, Is. per dozen, Dessert, 9s. ; Carvers, 3s. Gd.
per
TABLE. DESSEET. CARVERS.
doz. doz. pair.
ti-in. handsome balance handle ..• • It+s. Od. 141. Qd. 6s. 6d.
l-in balance handle, largest and best
made. ••••••• • • • • • • • ...
Ditto with Watson's Albata Plate
handles, equal to silver.. •• • • 225. 6d. 188. Od. Si. 6d.
Forks half the above price.

C. watsca. handsomely Illustrated Catalogue and Price Current
Is just published, and families who regard economy and elegance,
should possess themselves of Oda useful book, which may be bad
gratis, and post free, from the above address.
Sole inventor of the celebrated Albata Plate, which Is so rapidly
superseding Silver.
PATEN- r PARAGON CAMPIIINE LAMPS.—The perfection of
these Lamps over the Vosta has been happily attained by the inven-
tion of two parallel flat ring►—a, larger and a smaller forming a cone
round the margin of the wick, whirls cause a rapid reverberation of
air against the Mune—thus consuming every particle of volatilized
vapour, it is tee than smoke or smell, having perfect combustion,
and in full action, emits a light equal to 16 wax candles.
C. Watson's Warehouses, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Norton Vol-
gate, will contain, throughout the season, all the most elegant re-
cherche, and new patterns, comprising Ormolu, China, Glass, and
Opal. Old Oil Lamps fitted with the Paragon Head for 215.; and the
Paragon apparatus applied to the Vesta for Gs. The spirit analysed
and recommended by Or. Ure, is delivered in screw cans by C. Wat-
son's carts, at 4s. per gallon.
41 and 42. BARBICAN, and 14, NORTON FOLGATE.

T"
PARENTS AND GUARDIANS
At a season like this, when the juvenile folks
Are beginning to count on their holiday jokes;
V. hen numberless glad preparations appear
To welcome the ea son of Christmas with cheer,
F. MOSES an SON feel inclined to impress
The importance of Pitying their •' juvenile slres,."
If parels.s and guardians wish to be suited
With. parrnents whose value was never disputed ;
If they wish for their youths to be glad in a Way
Which makes them look comet), engaging, and gay,
Let them purchase at once of E. MOSES 11,4 SON
Those suits which such marks of approval have won.
The "juvenile dresses" of MOSES are made
In the newest of fashion, with leautiful braid ;
The dresses are formed just to suit tender age,
And therolore your children are sure to engage.
You'll not find them made in an old-tashion'd style,
hich often makes persons with ridicule smile;
Their taste and their elegant neatness have won,
Ten thousand approvals for MOSES and SON.
These garments are made in a manlier to firm,
That really wehe quite at a loss for a term.
Your children may join in the juvenile sport,
taut they'll not hurt their garments, so firmly they're wrought.
Then hasten this season, as thousands have done,
For the juvenile clothing of MOFES and SON.
A new work, entitled "THE COMMERCIAL PHENO.
MEND •-," with full directions for Self-Measurement, on applica
tion, will be forwarded post free.
IMAM' MADE.

X s. d.

_... .
litoaver l'aglionts __
.....
from 0 8 6
Ditto the terflelds ..
Ditto Codringtons ~.. ............ . ................
Ditto Peml.r k‘,..-s, A ti,ols, ........., and every clescriptitm of
~.; Winter COat, handsomely trimmed
Bo s' Wir'_'ier Coati, in every s.yle
Warm 'Xinter Trousers, lined ...
Dittse Doeskin
i ,re..is Coats, edged,&cl is 0
Frock ditto ditto,.... ....... ................. ..... -.....- ....... .....
Rolling Collar V e5t.......... ...........
Doubl ,-br:astcd Ditto ..
Boys' Huisar Suits 0 17 6
Ditto Tusic, neatly braided
MADE Te MEAEVRE.
Saxe Gotha Coats, velvet cellar and culls from 1 18 0
Winter Coats, in every style and Shape, handsomely trimmed I 5 0
Milled Tweed Wrappers ....... ........................ .... ..... -.......... 0 17 8
i..itto, ditto, Trousers 0 S 6
Buckskin Ditto
Doeskin Ditto, any pattern ...... ........... ................
Best, or Dress Trousers ............ .............. ....-.......
Cashmere Vest 0 7 0
Winter Ditto, in end!esa pattern ......«...•
Dress Coat
Ditto, ditto, best manufactured
Frock Coat
Ditto, the best manufxtured
Boys' Hussar Su.t 1 7 0
Ditto Tunic ... 1 8 0
Mourning to any extent can be had at five minutes' notice, at the
following prices t
Men's Suits, dress coat, vest and trousers. from 1 16 6
ditto, jacket, vest, and trousers ........ ....... ..... ....from 0 18 0
ImPowrater.— Any article purchased or ordered, if not approved
of, exchanged, or the money returned.
Observe—E. MOSES and SON, Tailors Wholesale and Retail
Woolen Drapers, Outfitters, and General Warehousemen, 154. Mi.
glories. and WT. Aldgate, City, opposite the Church.
Cstrrion.—E. Moses and Son are obliged to guard the public
against imposition, having learned that the untradesmenlike
alsehood or being connected with them, or it's the same cencern,
nag been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons.
They have no connexion whatever with any other establishment,
and those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should (to prevent
disappointment, Ekc.) call or send to, 154, Slinories, or 88, Aldgate,
opposite the Church.
N.B. No business transacted at t s Establishment from sunset on
Friday till en rvet on Saturday. when business is resusncel,tlll twelve
o'clock.

DEBTS RECOVERED, FREE OF COSTS.
A Solicitor, of upwards of 20 years' experience, undertakes
the RECOVERY of 1)EIITS, free of cost to Creditor, save a com-
mission of 10 per cent. on the :Amount of debt recovered.
Conveyances prepared on the following lex terms, Tiz.:—Least-i
and Counterpart, 2/. 10s. ; Assignments, 21. 21.; Bills of Sale, 30e. ;
Wills, Bonds, and Deeds to general, on equally moderate terms.
Apply at the t Unces, 1, 13ot:redo-street, Fleet-street.
Arrangements mad, with Creditors on behalf of insolvents, and ad-
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PERKIN-; ox lIABEIWASIIERY, SEVENTH EDITION.
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THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE PASSIONS.
What passions hurt the body, what improve ;
Truths as refined as Athens even heard."
The Fiftieth Thousand. Forty Engravings, price Is., by pont, Is. Cd.
ON CHASTITY—its Abuses and Diseases—On
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Unproductive Unions—Curloslties of Medical Experience—Law •
Divorce, &c.

THE NINTH EDITION.
Just Published, in a Reeled envelope, price I.s. ed.' and tent free, on
receipt of a Post-office Order, for 3s. fel.,
ATANLY IIEA LT E-1 : a Popular Inquiry into the
Concealed Cause of its Premature Decline, with In'true.
tions for its Complete Restoration. Addressed to those suffering
from the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence, termi-
nating in mental and nervous debility, local or constitutional weak-
ness, indigestion, and consumption. Including a corn rehens,ve Dls
sertation on MARRIAGE. Illustrateci with Cayes, &c. By
C. J. LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, London.
May he had of the Authors, No. 60, Newman-street; Oxford.
street; and sold by llrittain, 11, Paternoster-row; Hannay and Co,
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LANIER"' ON DEBILITY NERVOUSNESS, A Nit ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, Ac.
" He who in pleaseare's downy arms
Ne'or lost his health or youthfli lchums,
A hers lives, and justly can
Exclaim, in me behold a man'."
Just published (in a scaled envelope), Tenth Edition, price 25. 6d.,
or sent by post, free, to any address, Ss. 6d.,
ELF-PRESERVATION : a Popular Efsay on
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and terminating In Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional
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afflict the Weak. tilt Sedentary, and the Delicate. With Prattlial
Obacryationi en Marriage, and on the Anatomy, PhVsiology, and
Diseases of the Reproductive Orsesos. w!tli plain Dilations for
their pet feet Restoration. _

- .
By SAMUELAMTLRT, Consulting Surgeon
9, BEDFORD.STRNI:L R D
T, BEDFO-SQUARE, LONDON,
Matriculated Idesttber of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
" The various positions of Lover,
Member of the London Hospital Medical Stietety, Licentiate of
Apothecary's Hall, London &c.
Husband, and Parent, the ipi..
herent privileges of mankind, are frequently marred and prevented
throne! the follies and frailties of early indiscretions. To such,
among others, this Essay addresses itself; and by its perusal many
questiot.s may be satisfactorily adjusted that admit of no appeal even
to the most confidential friend "—Stafford Gazette.
" Long experience in the treatment of a class of diseases hitherto
neglect, d and most imperfectly understood by the great loulic of the
medical profession, has enabled the water to prove that there are
cenceale , causes of Nervous Debility In etti tense, where the mere
routine practition r would never dream of finding them ; trace....le
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Trines of domcstie misery, and premature mortality."—Wakefield
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A Nk•W AND IMPORTANT EDITION OF THE SILENT
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Just published, price 2s. (Id., and free by post (in a sealed envelope),
Price ;is. 6d.,
THE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work on
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baneful effects of excessive indulgence and infection, illustrated
by engravings, with observations on Marriage, and directions for
the removal of certain disqualifications.
By R. and L. PERRY and CO.
Published by the Authors, and sold at their Residence, 19, Berner&.
street, Oxford-street ; also by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row; Purkis,
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We regard the work before us, "` The Silent Friend,' as a
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a favourable impression on our minds, that we not only recommend,
but cordially wish every one who is the victim of past folly, or guar_
ing from indiscretion, to profit by the advice oentained in Its pages."
—Age and Argus.
" The Authors of The Silent Friend,' seem to be thoroughly
conversant with the treatment of a class of complaints which are, we
fear, too prevalent in the present day. The perspicuous style in
which this book is written, and the valuable hints it conveys to
those who are apprehensive of entering the marriage state, cannot
fail to recommend it to a careful perusal."—Era.
The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is exclusively directed
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Consultation fee, if by letter, I/. A minute detail of casts is ne-
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DIRECT NORTHERN RAILWAY from
LONDON to YORK, by LINCOLN.
The Provisional Committee have the satisfaction to acquaint
the Shareholders that, in conformity with the standing orders of
Parliament, the Plans and Sections and the Books of Reference of
this Line have been duly lodged with the Clerks of the Peace and
at the Beard of Trade.

The Committee have the pleasure to inform the Proprietors that
the Main Trunk Line of the Direct Northern Railway from Lon-
don to York, by Lincoln, has been reduced to less than 178 miles.
By order, WILLIAM AMSINCK; Secretary.
64, Moorgate-street, Dec. 1,•1844.

BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL.
NOTICE TO EXHIBITORS.
All PICTURES and other WORKS of ART Intended for
_ _

EXHIBITION and SALE, which have not been already publicly
exhibited, must be sent in for the inspection of the Committee on
MONDAY, the 13th, and TUESDAY, the 14th January next, between
the hours of Ten in the Morning and Five in the Evening ; after
which time no Picture or other Work of Art- Will be received.
Portraits,
.Drawings in Water Colours, and Architectural Draw-
ings, are inadmissible.

N.B. No Picture will be received for Sale that is not bona tide
the property cf the Artist,

WILLIAM BARNARD. Keeper.

GOLD AND SILVER W ATCHES. —Mess".
HORTON and CO., Watchmakers and Jewellers, 36,
Ludgate.street (opposite Messrs. Everington and Co.), offer to
their Friends and the Public their celebrated Watches, of work.
manshlp the highest class of excellence, at the following prices :
The Vertical Movement in Gold Cases... £5 5 0 to£ 0 10 0
Do. Do. Do. in Silver Do.— 2 A 0 to 4 0 0
The Horizontal Do. in Flat Gold Do. 7 7 0 to 10 10 0
Do. Do. Do. in'ilat Silver Do. 3 3 0 to 4 0 0
Ladies' Lever Watches, Gold Cases and
Gold.' Dials

official assignee, Eketer ; Smith, Devonport ; Keddle,
Baker, and Grant, Lime-street, London; Stogdon, Exeter.
Thomas Williams, sen., ironfounder, Cardiff, Gla •
morganshire, Dec. 17, and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Bris-
tol District Court. Kynaston, official assignee, Bristol ;
Dalton, Cardiff; Perkins, Bristol.
Jacob Wallington, painter, Bristol, Dec. 18 and Jan.
14, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman,
official assignee, Bristol ; Gillard and Co., Bristol.
Isaac Ketchum, merchant, Liverpool, Dec.l9, at twelve,
and Jan. 17, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Sharpe, Field, and
Jackson, Bedford-row, London ; Miller and Peel!,
Liverpool.

IRELAND.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
DUBLIN, DEC. 2.—The usual weekly meeting of the
Repeal Association was held at the Conciliation-hall to-
day. The attendance was, as on all occasions when Mr.
O'Conrell is in town, extremely numerous, every part of
the building being crowded to inconvenience.
On the motion of Mr. O'CONNELL, Mr. Patrick J.
Somers, M.P. for Sligo, was called to the chair.
Some preliminary business having been disposed of,
Mr. O'CONNELL read a letter which he had received
from Mr. O'Neill, of Bunowen Castle, ex-J. P., in reply
to Mr. O'Connell's attack on the French nation. The

Hon. and Learned Gentleman expressed a hope that the
Association would allow the letter to appear on their

minutes, though it was addressed to hitii;elf. He had
never stated, and he did not believe he was reported to
have stated, that all France was immoral and irreligious;
but he could not go as far as his friend Mr. O'Neill in

thinking that France, at the present day, was religious
and moral. There was a very powerful party in that
country who, not content with being irreligious them-
selves, were violently opposed to all who were religiously
disposed. The Government of France was irreligious, and

the principle upon which that Government acted was
irreligious. They were now introducing laws pre-
venting the religious education of the people—the
only education that was worth having—the education
that cultivated the moral judgment of the minds of
youth, and taught them their proper duty towards man,
and the necessity of worshipping God with fidelity, and
in a true spirit. There were in France both Catholics
and Protestants of high religious principles, and he did
pot of course mean to apply his remarks to them. For
instance, there was the Count de Montalembert, whom

he was proud to call his personal friend, and who was as
sincere and zealous a Catholic as was in existence. That

inottkinummobelmasadfs:iiw • gee- at' fsaoin of the
French bishops, and he was proud to add, that all the
bishops of the country were standing firmly together in
favour of religious education. lle knew the many fine
qualities that were to be found among Frenchmen as
prominently as among any people on the face of the
earth, and be should be basely ungrateful if he did not
recollect the generous hospitality that they had extended
towards Irishmen in the ages of persecution. At the
beginning of the French Revolution he had himself no
less than fifty-two cousins, all within the third degree of
relationship to him, holding commissions in the French
army, at a time when they could hold no commission in
the British service. Three of these afterwards rose to

the rank of generals, and one of them, who was his own
uncle, held the rank of Inspector-General of the
French infantry. He had the honour of getting
from the King the command of a German regiment
called Salem Salem ; and though they were but an un-
disciplined mob when they came under him, they were
afterwards one of the finest regiments in the service. He

had the singular good fortune io receive at the same time
full pay as a French general, and as a colonel in the
British serrice.—(Cheers.) He was, then, grateful to
the French people. He admired the Christian zeal of
the religious portion of them. He admired the many
virtues which they possessed in so eminent a degree. At
the same time he hated French infidelity, and he deeply

regretted the extent to which it existed in that countr3•.
The Constitutionnel had hired Eugene Sue to write all
sorts of calumnies against the French clergy, and the
National was following in the same track.
The motion for the insertion of the letter on the mi-
nutes was carried unanimously.
After some further proceedings,
Mr. O'CONNELL rose to proceed with the principal
business of the day, and was received with loud cheers.
—lle said he would commence by a preliminary re-
mark, that the repeal dictionary which was in the
course of publication in the newspapers, and from
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which he would be obliged to quote largely during his

address, was, he was authorised to state, the work of

his son John, the Member for Kilkenny.—(Cheers.)
It was the second work that he had latterly given to
the cause of Ireland, and would be shortly published

in a collected form. He would then proceed with
his speech, and he begged to premise that he would be
under the necessity of trespassing upon their time to
a much greater extent than many of them could wish,
or than he would himself desire. He rose to say many
words, and the first of them would refer to the principle

of their future action. They were beginning to work
again for the repeal pith renewed force. He had made
a pause, waiting to see if he would get additional force,
but it had gone for nothing, and he would now proceed
without it, with an agitation which would never termi-
nate until they had a Parliament on College-green.—
(Cheers.) It was, therefore, necessary that they should
understand the principle of their action, and that prin-
ciple was the doctrine which, throughout his entire po-
litical career, he had ever preached and practised,
namely, that no amelioration of any human institutions
—no improvement in the law, even to the repeal of the
union itself, with all its concomitant blessings, could or
ought to be acquired by forcs or crime, and that no po-
litical blessing was worth one single drop of human blood.
He was the apostle of that moral combination, and
his principle was that that moral combination when free
from crime and stain, was abundantly sufficient to
procure all human ameliorations. That was the prin-
ciple on which the repealers acted—no crime against the
laws of man, no injury to any human being, and above
all, no sin against the laws of God.—(Hear, and cheers.)
He had no occasion to refer to this profession of faith,
with which they were all familiar, but the repetition
would remind them again of it, and would inform their
enemies of what they were still ignorant.—(Hear, hear.)
He had, then, made a pause 'to try if the federalists
would join, them, but he had been totally disap-
pointed. _ They had, he might add, without allud-
ing to any person in particular, betrayed them,
and he was bound to say that he now expected nothing
from them. The federalists were Irishmen, but they
had a preference for somebody else; they did not think
that Irishmen ought to govern for themselves. They
were good-natured people, but the love of fatherland did
not burn brightly in their bosoms, and he could not en-
dure any Irishman who did not prefer Ireland to every
country in the world. He had no national antipathies,
but he had a national preference, and that was in favour
of Ireland and the Irish. Some of those federalists would
from time to time fall in to the Association, but they
were at present kept away by Whig predilections. The
federalists should not deceive themselves, and if they
hereafter make any motion, he could tell them—unless
they came forward at once—that they would speak too
late. An old woman in Kerry had a grandson who was
a luaatic. He bad a passion for sucking eggs, and his
old grandmother was always obliged to watch her clutches
from him. One day that she went out he got to a nest
where a hen was hatching and commenced swallowing
the eggs. A chicken in one of them screamed as it was
going down his throat, when he cried out, " Ah I you
spoke too late." In the same manner, if the federalist
chickens speak hereafter they would tell them that
they spoke too late, that their day was gone by, and
that the people would not swallow them at all.—(Hear,
hear, and cheers.) As for Mr. Sharman Crawford's
plan of federalism, all he would say of it was that
he respected the boldness and manliness with which
its author had come forward, but that it did not contain
a single sentence or proposition that he could adopt.—
(Hear, hear.) It was a sober, dull piece of plodding,
having neither right nor left, neither beginning nor end,
hnd they would leave it, like an unlicked cub, never to
be formed into any shape whatever. They had then
done with federalism ; and he washed in the next place
to take notice of a portion of the British press that he
thought was anxious to speak the truth. He alluded to
the Patriot, the organ of the English Dissenters. The
editor of that paper stated in a law numbei that ho sees
looking for repeal, not with the hope or intention of get-
ting it, but to coerce England to do justice to Ireland.
That was an honest man, but he had formed a most mis-
taken opinion of him (Mr. O'Connell). He wished him
to understand that there was nothing equivocal in his
conduct in looking for the repeal, and that England
could offer him nothing short of repeal that he would
accept of.—(Loud cheers.) Four years ago, when he
formed the Precursor Association, he stated his willing-
ness never to look for repeal if England did full justice
to Ireland, as she was pledged to do ; but perhaps he
would not have been very ready to make that
offer if he expected it would have been accepted. If
England had then adopted his proposition, neither he
nor the Irish people would have gone back from their
agreement, but that time was passed, and nothing
but the repeal of the union would satisfy him or the
Irish people.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He next
came to another London newspaper, the Examiner,
in the last number of which there was an article, of
course, abusing him, and headed with the words
" Richard is himself spin." That was a kind of walk-
ing falsehood of the .Examiner, for it distinctly admitted
that he made no proposition for federalism that was not
looking for repeal, and something more than simple re-
peal.—(Hear, hear.) (He then read the extract from
the Examiner, in which his allusion at the Limerick
dinner to his political revenge being " dear as the honey
cup of life" was stigmatised as an infernal sentiment.)
Ile denied that it was either unchristian or infernal. He
hid distinctly stated that he had no personal or indivi-
dual animosity, but that he hated injustice and oppres-
sion ; but as it was English injustice, the Examiner
thought they had a right to leave it. There was a
Whig writer for them.—(Hear, bear.) Some persons
were surprised that they should draw the Whigs into
the category of their contempt, but those people but
little knew how totally the Whigs had halt the confidence
of the Irish people through the scurrility of their
writers. The Examiner man also quarrelled with his
cap. He was obliged, when spouting. in theoi-
hl:ehnea air
head,
and in large assemblies, to wear a covering on ,
and if his cap happened to be a beautifully ornamented
one he might thank a dear little daughter of his then
present, who thought fit to make it so, and this
he could add, that if the cap did not fit him
he would not wear it.---(Laughter and cheers.) (Mr.
O'Connell then read the subsequent passages from the
article in the Examiner, in which it was stated that if
an untruth would have served his (Mr. O'Conuell's)