The Sun.
London, England, 1828-06-30 00:00:00

THURSDAy.

The rumour this moming is, that Mr. Fitzgerald means
to poll but a few of 'nis freeholders, and then resign the
contest, trusting to a petition to restore him to his seat.
Supposing t}',.is to be the case, and we have strong reasons
to belies'', it, such a step is a signal triumph to the inde-
peuder,rs. Mr. O'Connell will, of course, be returned by
the Sheriff, and, besides the privilege of franking, he will
be, de facto, the representative of the county of Clare, and
entered on the Journals of the House as such, while Mr.
Fitzgerald will have to come before the Commons as a pe-
titioner against the man, and against the principles he so
often professed to support.

SIX ecLocx.

The exertions making through the county by
Close who have embarked in the Independent strug-
gle, are meeting with a success commensurate with
those extraordinary and almost incredible exertions.„--
Facts can best illustrate what is ee'.eomplishing. On Wed-
nesday night, between ten and eleven o'clock, O'Gorman
Mahon, who had left Dublin that morning, arrived in
Killaloe. The instant his arrival was known, the entire
town was :,ruminated. The chapel was also lighted up,
and the •,,eople, headed by their Rev. Pastor, assembled
ther', where they were appealed to in favour of O'Connell
a's4 the national hopes. The enthusiasm of the meeting,
evinced by the cheering of hundreds, at thut dead hour of
night, in the temple of their God, and those numbers
actin,.'' from the highest feelings, and with the most ele-
vatedobject that can fix the minds of men, gave a marked
appearance to the scene. When the
.proceedings were over,
Mr. O'Gorman Mahon was drawn in the carriage by the peo-
ple, up the mountain to Ogonnelloc, where he reached about
half-past one o'clock, and-found already assembled by an
avant-courier, the Clergyman with his parishioners in the
chapel. A similar appeal, and with the same unlimited
success, was made there, after which, Mr. Mahon proceeded
to Seariff, which lie reached between three and four, but
did not for a few hours assemble the town's people. When
the meeting was held, if it were possible, he met with in-
zreased success.

VIUDAY, ELEVEN O'CLOCK.

This moment, Mr. Maurice O'Connell, who arrived last
evening, Mr. Richard Scott, and Mr. Cullinane, have stt
off from Limerick for Ennis ; their carriage was sur-
rounded and hailed by the multitude through the city.
Never did we see a mere simultaneous expression of public
feeling, than is echoed back to Clare from every quarter of
the kingdom. Mr. O'Connell himself reaches Limerick,
on Sunday, accompanied by 3,000 Nenogh gentlemen on
horseback.— anre Sentinel.

CATHOLIC MEETING.

(From the Dublin Morning Post of Ftidayl)

Yesterday there was an adjourned Separate Meeting ;
the Rev. F. L'ESTBANGE, in the Chair.
INIT. O'CONNELL said, he could -now elate, with confi-
Alenee, that the same spirit of enthusiastic patriotism ani-
mated at this moment the freeholders of Clare, as that
which had so gloriott.ly distinguished the freeholders of
Leath, Waterford, Monaghan, and Westmeath. The Trea-
surers tiusling that they could not obey the order for the
advance of a sum out of the old funds to defray the ex-
pences of the election, without the sanction of an Aggre-
gate Meeting, and unwilling to delay on this account, the
sum of 1,0001. had been at once advanced on individual
resannaibility; and they were ready to advance the re-
main ler to the 5,000 L, or such further sum as might be
required.—(Cheers.)—He had also to state further gra-
tifyin; facts: on the collector, on this day, applying ,
for his subscription to Mr. John Power, that gentleman
immediately handed out a bank note for 100/. ; Mr.
Cornelius iNPLoghlin gave also a cliequa,on the bank for
a like sum; the next was Mr. Ennis, who gave a note
for 1001.—thus, three Catholic merchants, in almost 'a
moment, subscribed 8001. He had to communicate to the
meeting the pleasing intelligence that Mr. Shell starts to-
morrow for the county Clare, whither he will be accom-
panied by Father Tom Maguire—(immense cheering)—
and CounsellQr Ronayne. These gentlemen will, on Sun-
day, take separate parishes each, and they will at once
occui:ay the enemy's strong holds ; and be thinks it will be
impossible to get the freeholders of Clare to declare against,
their country, when 'addressed by three such men as these.
Tie will be at Ennis on Sunday himself, and on the hust-
ings opposite his Right Hon. opponent on Monday, and,
he would pledge himself, in perfect good burnout.. His
Right Hon. Friend havinglieen. longer in' the Imperial
Parliament than himself—(laughter)—he would be en-
titled to precedence on this occasion, and he (Mr. O'C.)
woula let him go on first, and then reply to him. There was
another curious piece of information he had for them : he
found that on looking over the ancient Statutes and Acts
of Parliament, that there could not only not be any
possible objection to his standing as a Catholic candi-
date, but not the slightest could be formed against his re-
turn. He found also that he could even sit In the House
*About being sworn ; but they he was liable to a fine of
5001. for every night that he sat Without taking the oaths.
To be sure he could not sit 'many nights under these cir-
cinustioices ; but then lie could, at any rate, carry in the
Catholic petition, and vote and speak on it, so that he
thinks he would get good value for 500/. He cared little
who paid it ; but he was confident, that on his return, lie
could get the amount collected in halfpence. He would
riot take the subscription of any one for more than one
penny, so that they could thus send back his 500/. to the
Speaker of the House of Commons, in good hard brass.
but he finds that this very plan he now mentions to them,
ryas precisely that recommended to the Catholics twenty-
five years ago--:and by whom ?--by- no less a person
than Charles James •Fox,—as the best possible way to
try their question. He said their enly course was for
a Catholic Member to go and sit for a few nights in the
House, when if they did not cover him with the annual in-
demnity, they would cover themaelvem with shame and dis-
grace. He (Mr. O'Connell) would bring them into a
dilemma. He would go before them and say that he could
Lot take the Test Oath ; that as a Catholic he could not
swear that the sacrifice of the Mass was impious and ido •
latrous.—He would then put it t—now, 'if Ibe willing to
Commit perjury by swearing- that which I know tube false,
you will admit me amongst you; but if I refuse to perjure
myself, you then shut the door in my face.--(Cheers.) It
was an experiment worth trying, and he would make the
experiment. lie concluded by moving an niational Com
mittee of 21 to that appointed the praFediog day, to collect
rbseriptions.
Several subscriptions collected that day were then
handed in, and Mr. Hirt read a letter front Lord Clon,
curry, transmitting ten pounds.
Mr. O'Comint,r; proposed a vote of gratitude to Lord
Cloncurry : and the motion being seconded, was carried
unanimously. •
Mr. Coremext felt great pleasure in communicating A
circumstance to the Meeting which he had this day heard.
&friend of his had a conversation with a near relative of
the Protestant Archbishop of Tuam, who had considerable
property in Clare. His friend asked hint would he go
down there; be answered in the affirmative—that be had
been written to by Mr. Fitzgerald's agent, but his reply
was, that he feared lee would not be able to influence his
tenantry to give him a single vote.—(Cheers.)
'thanks having been returned to the Chairman, the Meet-
ing adjourned.
Mr. O'Cosmera, announced, that the subscriptions col-
let ted this day amounted to upwards of 500/.

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'll a hay harvest has now become quite general
in this neighbourhood, and the crops, particularly of the
sown grasses, are very heavy. The weather during the
week has been remarkably warm, which has done an im-
mensity of good to the crops of every description; and
there is now every prospect of an early and abundant har-
vest-00.411e Journal.

LONDON.
MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1828.

The. ,St. Petersburgh Journal of the 14th
inst. has been received this , Morning,: and
contains some additional particulars of the
progress .:of the -siege of Brailow, • down to
the 2d of June. It appears that the Turks
made'a sortie with. about 800 men, but they were
beat back with great loss. It was this affair
which was blazoned into a matter of vast im-
portance in an article from Seinlin, where
it was stated that the Turks had reinforced
the garrison to eight thousand men; who
made a sortie and defeated the Russians with
immense slaughter, taking 500 prisoners, whose
heads were cut off and sent to Constantinople.
There is no allusion whatever to the reinforce-
merit in the Russian accounts, nor do we believe
it.' A bomb fell into the fortress and blew up
one of the powder magazines :
NEWS FROM THE ARMY IN TURKEY.

BOL: RAD, JUNE 2.

Yesterday his'Majesty, the Emperor, reviewed the 3d
corps of the army in a fine plain, between the town and
the camp. The Emperor was accompanied by his staff, by the
Duke of Montemart, Ambassador of France, Lieut.-Gen.
Dornberg. Envoy of Hanover, and M. de Thou, Major in
the service of the Kio of Prussia; the 7th, 3th, and 10th
divisions of Infantry, With their artillery, and that of the
9th, with the 3d division of Hulans, and its Worse artil-
lery, defiled before his Imperial Majesty, who was ex-
tremely satisfied with the appearance and health of
the men, anal the good condition of the horses.—
The camp along Lake Yalponk, on the summit of a gentle
eminence, has a most picturesque appearance,and the order
and neatness which prevails in it deserve the greatest
praise.
In the morning his Majesty, after receiving the most satis-
factory account of the progress of the siege of Brailow, which
is vigorously carried on under the direction of the Grand
Duke Michael went to the place where preparations are
making for crossing the Danube, which, thigh delayed
by the extraordinary inundation of the river, will soon
be completed, in spite of the difficulties which our work-
men have encountered in erecting a tia:n several werstt
in length at the bottom of the deep. overflowing. of the
Danube.
SIEGE OF BRAILOW FROM THE *hit MAY TO

THE 2v JUNE.

In this interval the works on the land aide have been
pushed with great success, and preparations made to com-
mence the third parallel. On the Ist, in the morning,
the tire of all the batteries on our right flank was increased,
and at seven in the evening a bomb blew up a considerable
powder magazine in the fortress behind the centre gate.
On our left several detachments of the enemy's infantry
began to sally from the place at seven in the morning, and
after they had assembled to the number of eight hundred
men, they advanced in an irregular body towards
one of the batteries on our left flank. Some tirailleurs
of two companies of the 38th regiment of chasseurs, which
defended the battery, were sent to meet them, and soon
stopped their progress. A brisk firing of musketry then
commenced, and all the reserves of cavalry, with their
horse artillery, advanced to take the enemy in flank.
Major Guuseff, who commanded the two companies of