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OPENING OP NOVEMBER TERM.
DUBLIN, Nov. 2.—Very different was the scene
presented in the Queen's 'Bench this day from that
which had been witnessed at the opening of the last
November term. Then the monster prosecution was
impending, the Crown lawyers were preparing to
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with the "awful conspiracy," and the Crown agents
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Moore, of Monasterevan, in-the county of Kildare, clerk.
*Andrew Russell Stritch, Esq., only son of Thomas
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Glare, E.scf., deeeaied.
John William Rdden. Esq., only son of William
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*Francis Cahill, Esq., only son of Francis Cahill,
late of Lower Bridge-street, in the city of Dublin, Esq.
Jonathan Darby, Esq., eldest son of the Rev. Chris-
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Kilkenny-, clerk.
William Neilson Hancock, Esq., second son of Wil-

liam John Hancock, of:Balhriggdn, Esq., in the county
of Dublin.
Edward Ledwith, F 9., eldest son of Edward Led-
with, of Ledwithstown,.Esq., in the county of Longford,
*John Pigot, Esq., eldest son of the Right Hon. D.
Pigot, of Merrion•square, in the city of Dublin, Q.C.
Magrath Cahill, Esq , youngest son of Cornelius
Cahill, late of Rathlesty, in the county of Tipperary,
Est, deceased.
tienry Thomas Cusack, Esq., eldest son of James
William Cusack, of Kildare-street, in the city of Dublin,
Esq., M.D.
Frederick Bowles, Esq., eldest son of Charles Pruby
Bowles, of Clontarf, in the county of Dublin, late cap-
tain in her Majesty's 26th regiment of foot.
Thomas Henry Barton, Etq., third son of Dunbar
Barton, of Fitzwilliam-square, in the city of Dublin, Esq.
• f*, .

Those marked thui(*) are Rornini Catholics.

NEW QUEEN'S COUNSEL.—The following gentlemen
were called to the inner bar :
Isaac Butt, Esq. ; A. Edward Gayer, Esq. ; Henry
George Hughes, Esq. ; Boyle Keller, Esq. ; John
George, Esq. ; George Batterslay, Esq., LL.D. ; Mathew
Baker, Esq. ; Joseph Radcliffe, Esq., Judge of tho Con-
sistorial Court.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
Mr. Justice Perrin took his seat on the bench about
half-past twelve o'clock. and the gentlemen about to be
called to the bar took the usual oaths before him.
His LORDSHIP intimated to one of the' gentlemen
whose name appeared in the list (Mr. Long, of Pem-
broke-street), that although he was then sworn, he was
not to be called until Wednesday next, and added that
on that day the benchers would consider a memorial
sent in by him.
Christopher Nelson Duffe, Esq., was sworn into the
office of Clerk of the Rules, in the room of Patrick Cos-
tello, Esq., retired on full salary, pursuant to the late Act
7 and 8 Vic.

Wm. Chr. Knox, Esq., was sworn in Assistant-Clerk
of the Rules, under the same Act.
Mr. Justice PERRIN congratulated both gentlemen, in
highly complimentary terms, on their appointment.
FEDERALISM—MR. O'CONNELL.
The following letter has been addressed to the
Kerry Examiner, by Mr. O'Connell :
" Darrynane Abbey, Oct. 30, 1844.
" Sir,--I have read your article in yesterday's
Examiner, headed Federalism,' and I feel very much
obliged to you for the civil and kind things which you
have said of me in that article. To be sure I have been
working for upwards of forty years in the popular cause;
and though I have often opposed the popular sentiment
for a time, one way or other the people have ultimately
come round to my opinion, and such temporary dis-
ngTeement has only tended to augment the public confi-
dence.

" If there be any difference of opinion between me and
the people at large on the present occasion, which I am
not disposed to believe, yet the time is not come when
any explanations can be given or received, for this sim-
ple reason—that up to the present moment there is no
plan of federalism before the public. The federalists
have been invited to declare themselves in precise and
specific terms—they have not as yet done so; when they
shall have declared themselves it will be the duty of
every public man, whether at the press or as connected
with the Association, to declare fully and freely his sen-
timents upon that plan.
"At present those who assail federalism assail the
creature of their own imagination, without, however, in
general going so far as you facetiously have done, by
converting a federal Lord-Lieutenant or speaker into
an auction bellman a transformation that may easily
account for your hostility to federalism in the abstract.
" My object, at present, is to set you right as to some
matters of pre-existing fact. In order that you may
;
understand me, I subjoin the following passage from your
article. I take up the paragraph with the following
words:—' We have been robbed of our nationality, and
we, repealers, demand its restoration in all its pre-
existing amplitude.'
" Tnen, to show your notion of the pre-existing
amplitude' of our former Parliament, you may add these
words:—
" A Parliament sitting in Ireland, to govern only the
would be converting Ireland into one
affairs of Ireland, and not daring to think of matters of
imperial policy, ould
great borough, and constituting our Parliament a muni-
cipal corporation on a large scale—that is not the sort of
Parliament secured to us in 1782?
"Now, see how you mistake—how totally you mistake
the fact—that was precisely the Parliament secured to
us in 1782.

"It was, in your words, a Parliament sitting in Ire-
land to govern only the affairs of Ireland.' As to its
not daring to think on matters of imperial policy,
thought is free; but it certainly could not, and, there-
fore, did not dare to act on matters of imperial policy.
It had no kind of power or control over, or interference
with the colonies, or with the treaties between Great
Brita4n and foreign powers, or with the appointment of
the British Ministry, that is, in point of fact, with the
nomination of the Executive power in the country.
" Do not imagine, that in describing the powers of the
Irish Parliament as they really were (and as you say they
were not) that I deny its efficiency or its ability to pro-
tect the interests and promote the prosperity of Ireland.
I say directly the reverse. From the moment at which
it shook off the trammels of the British Legislature it
showed its efficacy, and demonstrated its utility in the
commerce,
no
manufactures.allf
Irisli interests—of Irish agriculture,
and

"Having thus set you right upon an important fact,
you will, I am sure, not think I do so in any spirit of
hostility—my sentiments towards you are quite differ-
ent. I know that you have toiled for and suffered—se-
verely suffered—in the public came, and Ido not hesi-
tate to say that the popular party in Kerry have no
treated you with sufficient gratitude.
" I, however, think it would be well if you, as well as
others, postponed the discussion of federalism until it
had assumed 'form, shape, and pressure '—it might then
be attacked or defended for what it really is—at present
every anti-federalist makes his own giant before he kills
him.

" Federalism may be much worse than simple repeal—
that is, than the restoration of the Parliament of 1782
in a reformed state
and if it be, if it shall affect to take
away anyopowers which the Irish Parliament refoefd thest ate p
for-
merly had, it is not in that case at all likely to make
way among the Irish people.
" But federalism may also be much better than the
mere restoration of the Irish Parliament—it may restore
the Irish Parliament with all its former powers, and it
may superinduce a right to Ireland, and a mode of as-
serting that right, to interfere directly in imperial con-
cerns, in foreign treaties, and in colonial affairs. The
modes of that interference would require much conside-
ration, but it would have the advantage of making the
connexion with the British Crown more strict, perma-
nent, and inviolable. _

" The federal plan will, in all probability, appear very
shortly before the public. Whatever it shall prove to be,
there is one thing certain, that its supporters should be
treated with the utmost courtesy and deference ; that
their plans should be canvassed in a manner the most
respectful, argumentative, and conciliatory ; and that
every mode of inducing rational and patriotic men to
join the present Association should be resorted to.
There is nothing derogatory in the most strenuous and
most supplicatory efforts to combine the Irish gentry of
every persuasion with the Irish people in the cause of
their common country.
" Whatever shall be the result, you may easily ven-
ture to believe that I, for one, will never consent to re-
ceive less for Ireland than she had before. lam ready
to accent as much more for her as I can possibly get.
" I !Ave the honour to be, your obedient servant,
"DANIEL O'CONNELL."

SEVERE STORMS-WRECKS AT KINGS-

TOWN.
There was a furious gale from the south-east,

hich commenced yesterday evening, and continued,
with undiminished violence, all night, rain falling at
intervals. The weather yesterday wa; boisterous,
hut towards evening the wind increased almost to a
hurricane.
There was some slight abatement of the storm this
morning; but up to the moment of writing (three
o'clock), the gale continues with considerable force.
In Kingstown harbour there are three vessels on
the West Pier. One, a barque, the Kingstown, be-
longing to Horsetail and Co., of Liverpool ; brig
from Archangel to Gloucester, totally dismasted and
waterlogged ; and a schooner ashore in the old har-
bour, the sea breaking completely over her.
There is also a large vessel dismasted, and at anchor,
near the Grey Stones, beyond Bray Head, and a brig
in a dangerous state in the same direction.
The river Liffey was in. a very disturbed state all
day. Little or no work can be carried on, either in
the loading or discharging of the vessels. The
" stavedores" and coal•porters engaged in working on
the river, last evening, were obliged to leave oft;
owing to sea sickness, produeed by the rocking of the
vessels.

Trade has been almost at a stand-still durinc, the
last three days. All the vessels of the City of Dublin'
Company are lying in the river with their cargoes.
The Iron Duke mail-packet left the pier at Kings-
town last night, with thirty passengers on board. She
had some difficulty in getting out, but, once the piers
were passed, this noble vessel pressed on, and, at the
rate at which she steamed, it is calculated she made
her journey to Liverpool in fifteen or sixteen hours.
The Uirxentmcktt flid not. leave the harbour this
m-OriiiniTwith the inland mails for Liverpool, and at
an advanced hour of the day she still lay at the jetty,
waiting for an abatement of the gale, to start for her
destination.

The Holyhead mail-packet, which should have left
Kingstown at half-past nine this morning, still re-
mains.

The secretary of the City of Dublin Company states
that, unless the gale becomes stronger than it is at
present (three o'clock P.m.), the Princess mail-packet
will attempt the voyage to Liverpool at the usual hour
of sailing, half-past six o'clock this evening. Several
passengers are booked, and satisfied to try the voyage
in the Princess.

the scene in the old harbour, with the storm ragin g
was really an awful one. Up to two:o'clock this day
the fire had not been completely extinguished. Alto.
gether there have been five wrecks in Kingstown.
Lieut. Clarke, of the Stromboli, met with a severe
accident three or four days since, by falling into the
engine-room. Owing to the rolling and pitching of
the vessel, it was deemed necessary to remove him to
lodgings in Kingstown this day.
Two of the English mail-packets sailed between
three and four o'clock this morning from Kingstown,
having been detained since yesterday by the violence
of the storm.

The Liverpool mails have arrived almost in due
course, the wind being favourable.
IRISH PROVINCIAL COLLEGES.
The following letter from Mr. O'Connell, in reply
to an invitation to attend the meeting to be held in
Cork on the 13th inst., appears in the Cork Reporter
of yesterday :

"Darrynane Abbey, Oct. 30, 1844.
"My dear Sir,—l beg leave to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your letter of the 23d inst., and to express my
extreme regret that it is utterly out of my power to
attend t'!e meeting in Cork the 13th of November. Had
the meeting been held a week later, I should have been
able to disengage myself, and to attend it ; but it is now
utterly out of my power to do so, which, I again say, I
much regret.
" You are quite right in saying that no one can be
more conscious of the importance of the purpose of the
Provincial College Committee than I am ; but, indeed,
you are much mistaken in thinking that I can essen-
tially contribute to its success. I wish it were ses—be-
ciusellini perfectly ready to do all in iny power to for-
ward that object, and you have only to point out in what
way you think I can assist in the establishment of a
Provincial College, and you may be quite stare of
my adopting that course. I am, however, not so san-
guine as you seem to be of the importance of the Minis-
terial declaration of last session. Good words are cheap ;
but there is a wide difference between verbal goodness,
and goodness in action, and I believe that distinction
will be religiously observed by the present Ministry. I
know of no Ministry likely to be one whit more sincere
or more active in doing .good to Ireland ; and, without
introducing politics, I may be permitted to say, that the
time is perhaps not distant when we shall be able to look
to our own affairs without any reference to Ministerial
plausibilities.—l have the honour to be, my dear Sir,
your faithful servant,

" DANIEL O'CONNELL.
" James Roche, Esq., Chairman of the
Provincial College Committee."
The subjoined communications have been received
by the Chairman of the Committee at Cork :

" Mount Trenchard, 29th Oct.. 1844.
"My dear Sir,—l this post received your circular—if
I possibly can I shall attend your meetings, as I consider
the object to be one of the mostinteresting and important
questions to which the attention of the public and of the
Government can be called, and from the very satisfactory
and liberal statements made by Sir Robert Peel on the
subject, during the last session, I feel that we may en-
tertain the most sanguine expectations of success.—Be-
lieve me, my dear Sir, with sincere esteem, faithfully
yours, " MONTEAGLE.

"James Roche, Esq."
" Castle Martyr, Oct. 30, 1844.
" Sir,—ln reply to your letter, requesting me to attend
the meeting on the 13th, I fear that I shall be prevented
by other engagements ; but I beg to express, at the same
time, my full approbation of the objects of the meeting.
—I have the honour to be, Sir, &c.,
"James Roche, Esq." " SHANNON.
THE TRACY PEERAGE.--The Leinster Express of
yesterday contains the following :—" On Monday
last an inquiry was held at Castlebrack Churchyard,
before Captains Tibeaudo and Warburton, George
Newcombe, J. W. Tarleton, and Samuel Sheane,
Esqs., Magistrates, relative to the genuineness of
the tombstone, by which James Tracy, Esq., proves
his title to this long-disputed Peerage ; and which
the House of Lords decided in his favour, subject to
their proving of this stone. A great number of re-
spectable people attended to give evidence, as well as
to hear such a novel inquiry. Mr. John Rafter, a
stone-cutter and builder, proved that the four pieces
of stone produced must have originally been in one—
they all corresponding with the grain, breaks, and
letters, when laid together closely to form one stone
—and it was his opinion that the said stone was the
original one belonging to the family, placed there as
a tombstone ; in which other witnesses also con-
curred, and signed declarations to that effect."
IRISH PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE.—The Irish Gene-
ral Assembly, at their late meeting at Belfast, came
to a resolution to disconnect themselves from the
Belfast Academical Association.
PRIVY COUNCILS AT DUBLIN CASTLE.
A Privy Council was held at Dublin Castle on •
Wednesdny last. His Excellency the Lord Lieute-
nant presided. The Lord Chancellor, the Lord Bishop
of Meath, Lord Eliot, the Attorney-General, and the
Judge of the Prerogative Court, were present. A
proclamation was issued to the effect :—" That all
insane male persons in confinement in the gaol of
Newgate, who were committed thereunto under the
provisions of the Ist and 2d George IV., cap. 33, or
under the provisions of the Ist and 2d Victoria, cap.
27, shall be removed to and received in Richmond
Bridewell ; and that all insane female persons in
confinement in the gaol of Newgate shall be removed
to and received in the Richmond Penitentiary,
Grangegorman-lane ; that henceforth and hereafter
all male and female persons, who shall be found insane
by a jury or juries, shall be confined, if they be
males, in Richmond Bridewell ; and if they be females,
in Richmond Female Penitentiary."
A second Privy Council was held on Friday, when
a proclamation was issued, under the new Grand Jury
Act, ordering the grand jury of the Michaelmas
Term to divide the county of Dublin into three road
districts, and also to fix the salaries of the surveyors of
each district at 1301. per year ; the consideration of
the salary to be afterwards payable, and the scale of
augmentation to be reserved.