The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, AUG. 11.
The usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Association
was held this day at the Conciliation Hall ; Michael
Drury, Esq., of Deptford, England, in the Chair.
The SECRETARY having read the minutes of last day's
proceedings, directed the attention of the meeting to the
following important communication from \ r.O'Connell
Darrynane Abbey, Aug. 8, 1845.
"My dear Rat',--I again, under your lIIMP, address
the Association on it subject I deem of the greatest im-
portance, namely, the plan of augtneroing the Repeal
Registry in every locality, so as to be able to return to
Parliament, at least, from 6') to 70 of the members of
the Repeal Ass 'ciatiun. This plan, as you know, origi-
nated with Mr. Smith O'Brien, amongst his other useful
suggestions. But I have adopted it with more zeal tnan
even if it were my own, because I am thoroughly con-
vinced it is perfectly practical, and in its nature contain-
ing an irresistible tendency towards its final success.
" To effectuate this purpose, it is of the utmost im-
portance (if not quite indispensable), that there should
be at least two Repeal wardens in every parish in Ireland
having the sanction of the parochial clergy, or at least of
such of the clergy of all denominations as are Repealer&
" The first thing, therefore, to be looked to, is the
universal spread of the Repeal Warder) System. I re-
peat my often-expressed sentiment, that it is through
the agency and exertions of the Repeal Wardens, that
the Repeal can be secured. The Repeal Wardens ate
the promoters of peace, harmony, and co-operati .n.
They take care to prevent the violation of any law,
whilst they collect the resources, and enumerate the se-
veral capabilities of augmenting the political power of
the Repealers.
" I do, therefore, implore of the Association to look at
once and with energy to the appointment of Repeal
Wardens in every parish. What we want is active Re
peal Wardens. Wherever Repeal Wardens have been
already appointed, but ceased to be active, they should
be removed, and persons who will perseveringly do the
duty appointed in their stead.
"In the next place, take en counties seii4t.m. My
last letter related particularly to the county et' Wex
• aord. Let me now direct the 'attention of the Associa-
tion to the county of Galway. We should have four
active Repeaters between town and county.
"As to the town, it is safe enough. No person but a
Repealer has the least chance of being returned. Sir
Valentine Blake has done his duty both in the Concilia-
:ion Hall and in Parliament. Should lie stand at tie,
next election, his return, I think, will be certain. Should
lie think fit to retire, there can be no difficulty in re-
turning another Out-and- out Repealer in his place. As
to the second Member, Mr. M. J. Blake, he is certainly
a good mannrid true, and has distinctly avowed repeal
principles. There cannot be a better man in every
respect, except that he has not become a member of the
Repeal Association. It makes one melancholy to think
that such a man should hold back. But he is an
unpersuadable person—it •is his own fault. Should it
not strike his own mind voluntarily that he ought to
join the Association, it would be utterly useless for his
constituents to attempt to persuade him to do so. It is
exceedingly unpleasant to have to add that Galway
must be ready with a thorough repealer in his stead.
He has, however, his fr• e choice—to be either a mem-
ber of the Association, or to be opposed by the repealers
of Galway. I much fear he will embrace the latter alter-
native.
" With respect to the county of Galway, Mr. Bodkin
is, as I recollect, a member of the Association. If not.
I entertain no doubt that he will become one so soon as
he returns to the country—for-he is, I know, a sincere
and honest repealer. As to Mr. Martin, the second
Member, we have no chance of him in Conciliation Hall.
We must therefore look out for a second candidate.
" But to secure the success of the two Repeal candi-
dates, active exertions are necessary. It is a great con-
solation to know that if the exertions be equal to the
magnitude of the object—they will assuredly be success
-ful. I have ascertained that Galway county has ample
materials for securing the return of two Association Re-
peelers.
" But for this purpose every parish must be quietly
agitated. The Repeal Wardens must ascertain how
many persons in each parish are capable of being regis-
tered. Notices for the registry must be filed and served
for all persons entitled to be voters, and who are in the
Repeal interest. The Catholic clergy in the district
will certainly give every countenance and every infor-
mation in their power.
" The people are universally repealers, and it is only
necessary to have proper steps taken to give the public
voice an opportunity of displaying itself, in order to
make the repeal cause quite triumphant. I confidently
reckon on the four Members for the town and county of
Galway being also members of the Association.
" I submit that there ought immediately to be a Sub-
Committee of the Association appointed, to whom should
'be committed the superintendence of all the measares
necessary for the return to Parliament of repealers for
Galway town and county.
" What a pity it is that young Redingten, of Kil-
cornan, should have been educated at Cambridge into
an English Whig ! What an excellent Member he
would make for Galway county if he were but a
repealer.
" I reserve for a future letter the following up of my
views with respect to each particular county. As -to
the boroughs, it -will be essentially necessary to send
down a person from the Association to assist in making
the requisite arrangements to return as many Rep,‘alers
as possible. We cannot have it too distinctly under-
stood that in the selection of candidates upon our new
plan, no preference whatsoever will be given to a Whig
or Liberal over a Tory or Conservative. The single
question_will be, • Repealer or not ?' and no evidence of
being a Repealer will be received short of being a mem-
ber of the Association. •
• "If Grogan and Gregory think fit to give that evi-
dence of being Repealers, I will myself be the first to
vote for them at the ensuing election; and I think I may
venture to promise that, in that' case, they will be re-
turned as pledged Repealers, without its costing them
one shilling. if we shall find it necessary, as I be-
lieve we shall, to oppose. those gentlemen in Dublin, we
shall do so on the ground of not being Repeaters, and
for no other reason whatsoever.
"I repeat this sentiment more distinctly and emphati-
cally, to prevent any Whig-Liberals from deluding
themselves with the hope of being returned fer any
popular Irish constituency, unless they think fit to be-
come Repealers, and to enrol themselves in the Repeal
Association. _
"I cannot conclude this letter without congratulating
the Repealers upon the perfect tranquillity of the great
Repeal counties._ I assert their tranquillity on the un-
questionable testimony of the going Judges of Assize.
Wexford, that has demonstrated the universal attach.
ment of its people to the Repeal—Wexford ! that had
its glorious monster meeting in 1843, and its' more nu-
merous and equally glorious monster meeting the other
day, is proclaimed by the Judges to be in a state cf per-
fect peace, quiet, and good order.
" Kilkenny, that exhibited its strength and its deter-
mination to obtain repeal in its monster meetings of
1843—Kilkenny, that held the first monster meeting for
the present year, 1845, and that set an example to the
rest of Ireland, in renewing its unanimous declaration
for repeal, is also officially declared to be in a state of
the most profound peace. The people, loyal as they are
determined—peacable as they are resolute, are pro-
claimed by the Judges to be in a state of the most tran-
quil submission to the law, and obedience to the consti-
tuted authorities. The county gaol literally empty.
There is repeal Kilkenny. Such are the blessed effects
of the repeal agitation.
" Again, take Galway, which displayed its strength
and its determination in its monster meeting of 1843,
and again in the last month exhibited a much more
numerous and infinitely more magnificent sp-ctacle of a
peaceable and constitutional resolve to obtain by legal
means the restoration of Irish nationality. Galway is
also declared by the judges to be in an almost un-
paralleled state of peace and good order. Crime almost
unknown, and violence and riot unheard of. Yet the
agitation for the Repeal in Galway is greatly on the in-
crease. But with that agitation was spread around the
blessednes of harmony and mutual kindness of conduct.
"I could multiply these instances through the other
great repeal counties of Ireland ; but I should only re-
peat that which is familiarly known to every person
conversant with the affairs of Ireland.

"I cannot, however, omit Tipperary, the people of
which county have been so much calumniated and
traduced—Tipperary, where so much landlord tyranny
has been heartlessly displayed, and where so much
hideous tenant retaliation has horrified the land.
Tipperary, thus calumniated and, alas ! fre-
quently criminal has, however, righted itself.
.It has had its two monster meetings of sufficient physi-
cal force to protect an empire against the rest of the
"world. It has also had its missionary of peace going
round from chapel to chapel, and troth parish to parish.
It has had its incessant repeal agitation, and, hi! peace
and,order, and the absence of crime are proclaimed from
the judicial bench.
" What a triumph fur my friend, Steele ! What a tie-
light to his pure spirit, to behold tl.e success of his mis-
sion- thus proclaimed to the world by the highest autho-
rity—by the repv-sentative of Majesty
"If bteele have felt -some disappinttnent in other
quarters, Tipperary will console him. His sacs. ss was
there complete. Elsewhere the repeal agitation had not
taken sufficient-root, and was but sparingly sprinkled
over the disturbed districts. But when the repeal spirit
is diffused inure extensively in thoze districts, we will
send our missionary again, an] Cavan and Longford
will become as tranquil as Tipperary.
" It is delightful to think, that by. inerea.ing the
agitation for the Repeal, we augment the resources of
peace and good order. It is refreshing to beheld
crime vanish in the-presence of the spirit of Repeal •
and it is transcendently cheering thus practically to
be informed that we have only to extend the voice
of nationality all over the island, in order to
banish - crime - and disturbance, and to sprsad
tranquil litirmOny and loyal submission to the law
throughout the entire of the lovely and of our birth--
oar fatherland.
_Hurrah, then, for the Repeal !
" Believe me to he yours, very truly,

"To M. Ray, Esq. "DANIEL O'CONNELL."
Before the close of the proceedings Daniel Callaghan,
M.P. for Cork, was proposed and admitted a member.
The rent for the weak was announced to be 3774

SPORT INC_i IN .4' :I:LLP:iLNC_L.
TATTERSALUS.—YESTERDAY.
EBOR HANDICAP.
l to 1 agst Sir C. l'‘lonk'a Ca,taway filly—taken
8 to 1 agst Mr. Worthington's Lady Sarah—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Spetd's Everton—taken
THE GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES.
The death of a Mr. Reed, mentioned, we believe, in a
country print, has raised a doubt about Miss Elis's qualfica-
tion, and has checked any disposition to speculate on this
race. We are inclined to think that the nominator is still
" extant."

ST. LEgER.
3 to 1 agst John Day's lot—taken
9 to 2 agst Forth's lot—taken
6 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit—taken
6 to 1 agat Mr. St. Paul's Mentor
9to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Merry Monarch-10 to 1 t
12 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England—taken_freely
16 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Annandale
17 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Waitts's,The Baron—taken and aft offered
22 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Ould Ireland—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Painter's The P,2cha
30 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Worthless—taken
30 to 1 agat Mr. Irwin's Connaught Ranger
30 to 1 agst Mr. Hessletine's Fitz-Allen—taken
30 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Wood Pigeon—taken and
afterwards offered
1000 to 25 agst Colonel Anson's Kedger—taken
1000 to 20 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas—taken
1000 to 20 agat Lord Miltuwn's Duc-an Durras—taken
1000 to 40 agst Mentor and Weatherbit—takea
1000 to 60 each agstAnnandals and•Pantasa' in one bet—t
500 to 40► on Merry Monarch against Old England—t
300 even between did Lothian and Kedger.
Mentor was not by any means in sueh favour as on Mon-
day ; 6 to 1 taken fir two or three ponies, having been cur-
rently offered to the close. It was less easy to fix Weather-
bit's price. 6to 1, and.l3 to 2 were laid in one quarter, al-
most at the same moment that 1,400 to 200 was offered in
another ; ultimately 6 to 1 was taken by an experienced
commissioner, and he left off decidedly first favourite. The
Merry Monarch was backed freely at 10 to 1, and all the
25's to 1 that could be obtained were taken separately, about
Ould Ireland and the Baron. Old England, Pantasa, and
Annandale, were not much fancied, nor notwithstanding the
Jereed filly made so brilliant an appearance at Wolverhamp-
ton, did we perceive any serious disposition to back the
Dacha. Red Robin is out of the betting. 500 to 100, and 9
to 1 to nearly 3001. was laid against Furth's lot.