The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-17 00:00:00

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

The Association held its usual weekly meeting in
the Conciliation Hall this day.
The chair was taken at two o'clock by Martin
Henan, Esq., of Limerick.

The hall was thronged in every part, and the gal-
leries were filed with fashionably dressed females.
In the course of the transaction of the ordinary
routine business, Mr. O'Connell entered the hall, and
was greeted by the most enthusiastic and prolonged
cheers.

Several subscriptions having been handed in, the
thanks of the meeting, on the motion of Mr. O'Con.
nell, were voted to the inhabitants of Placentia, New-
foundland, for a subscription of 16/. transmitted by
them to the Association.

While several subscriptions were being handed in,
Mr. O'CoNNELL observed that the expenses of the
trials would be enormous. He would say no more
for Ireland. He would be ashamed to say more.

The Hon. Gentleman then handed in 541. 2s. 6d.
from the grocer's assistants of Dublin; an address
from whom to the Liberator was also read.

The following sums from America were. handed in
by Mr. O'Connell :—St. John's, Newfoundland,
51. 10s. Bd. ; Pittsfield, 101; Richmond County, 10/. ;
Norfolk, GOT.; Baltimore, 1201.

These sums were announced amidst the most rap-
turous applause.
Mr. O'CONNELL observed that as the hour at which
the Association had met that day was rather late, he
would reserve the reading of the correspondence that
accompanied those remittances, for Monday next,
when he would ask leave of the Attorney-General to
come down from the Courts.—(Laughter.)
On the motion of Mr. O'CONNELL, the thanks of
the Association were passed to the parties whose
names were connected with those subscriptions.

In the course of one of the various short addresses
which Mr. O'Connell made to the assembly, he ob-
served that he did not care one pinch of snuff for the
result of the trials. lle inculcated the neces-
sity of peaceable conduct on the present occasion
throughout Ireland, and in Dublin particularly,
where he trusted, the people who assembled in the
streets to witness hia progress to
_the Court, would

not hoot or groan at any individuals. He also guarded
them against the spread of ribbonism.
Among the subscriptions handed in was 11. sent
from the Queen's Bench by Dr. Gray, the proprietor
of the Freeman's Journal and one of the traversers.
The whole amount for the week was 9041. 19s. sd.
The announcement of that sum was received with
loud and enthusiastic applause.

MURDER AND ROBBERY.
In addition to the excitement caused in Dublin by the
State trials, a general feeling of horror was created by
the report that a barbarous murder had been com-
mitted during the prievous evening, in the priest's house
attached to the Catholic chapel at Rathmines: The
Rev. Mr. Roche, the curate, and other clergymen, reside
in the house. At seven o'clock last evening (Sunday)
the house was broken open, awl money stolen to the
amount of 401., and the maid-servant barbarously mur-
dered. She was found with her throat cut. It is not
known whether there is any clue to the discovery of the
perpetrators of this horrid outrage.

NEAPOLITAN TRADE with INDIA.
East India-house, Jan. 11.
Sir,----In reply to your note of the 9th inst., inquiring
If Neapolitan merchant vessels under the Neapolitan
flag can take cargoes in the port of Singapore fur the
kingdom of the Two Sicities, ' I am commanded by the
Court of Directors of the East India Company to trans-
mit to you a copy of " a regulation relating to the trade
of foreign ships with India," which was promulgated by
the Government of India on the 2d December, 1839.
I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
JAMES MELVILL.
To Mr. W. Dobson, Secretary at Lloyd's.
Extract from the Calcutta Gazette, Dec. 11, 1839.
"Legislative Department, Dec. 2, 1839.
" The following regulation made and passed by the
lion. Court of Directors of the. East India Company,
under the authority given to them by the Act of the
37th George 111., cap. 117, is published for general in.
formation by order of the Hon. the President of the
Council of India in Council

" A REGULATION RELATING TO THE TRADE OF FOREIGN

SHIPS WITH INDIA.

" Preamble.—Whereas a regulation was made and
passed by the Court of Directors of the East India
Company, and transmitted to India by a dispatch dated
the 28th day of July, 1837, and promulgated by the Su-
preme Government on the 29th day of December, 1837,
for rescinding and re enacting, with modification, cer-
tain provisions contained in a regulation made and passed
by the said Court of Directors on the 12th of August,
1829, for regulating the trade of foreign nations with
the ports and settlements of the British nation in the
East Indies ; and whereas doubts have arisen as to the
true intent and meaning of certain parts of such regula-
tions, and it is expedient that such doubts should be re-
moved, the Court of Directors of the said Company, by
virtue of the powers granted to them by the Act passed
in the 37th year of the reign of his late Majesty King
George 111., entitled An Act for regulating the trade
to be carried on with the British possessions in India by
the ships of nations in amity with his Majesty," have
rescinded the whole of the said regulations, and in lieu
thereof have framed the following regulations :
" ' Foreign ships belonging to any State or country in
Europe, or in America, so long as such States or coun-
tries respectively remain in amity with her Majesty, may
freely enter the British sea-ports and harbours in the
East Indies, whether they come directly from their own
country, or from any other places, and shall be there
hospitably received, and shall have liberty to trade there
in imports and exports, conformably to the regulations
established, or to be established, in such sea-ports ; pro-
vided that it shall not be lawful for the said ships to re-
ceive goods on board at one British port of India, to be
conveyed to another British port of India, on freight or
otherwise, but nevertheless the inward cargoes of such
ships may be discharged at different British ports, and
the outward cargoes of such ships may be laden at dif-
ferent British ports for their foreign destinations; and pro-
vided further, that it shall not be lawful for the said ships
in time of war between the British Government and any
State or Power whatsoever, to export from the said
British territories, without the special permission of the
British Government, any military or naval stores, salt-
petre, or grain.
" J. P. GRANT, Officiating
Secretary of the Government of India.' "