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Term of Liic.

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30 1 1 9 2 3 6
35 1 411 2 910
40 1 9 2 2 18 4
45 1 14 10 3 9 8
50 2 9 6 4 5 0
55 2 12 9 5 5 6
60 3 6 8 9 13 4

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IRELAND.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

IMPORTANT LETTER FROM MR. O'CONNELL.

DUBLIN, OCT. 14.—The usual weekly meeting of the
Association was held this day in the Conciliation Hall.
On the motion of Mr. MAURICE O'CONNELL the chair
was taken by J. P. Somers, Esq., M.P.
The CHAIRMAN briefly addres::ed the meeting.
Mr. MAURICE O'CONNELL handed in a few sums of
money, and then proceeded to read the following very
important letter from Mr. O'Connell
TO THE ACTING SECRETARY OF THE LOYAL NATIONAL

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

" Darrynane Abbey, Cahereiveen, 2d Oct., 1844.
" Sir—l am extremely anxious to bring the emphatic
attention of the Association to that which I deem the
most important of all the duties which they have to per-
form' at the p resent most auspicious period. We have
obtained the most valuable victory that ever was
achieved, by purely moral means. The victory of Wa-
terloo was•the mere triumph of physical force, combined
with military organization ; it was a brutal and a bloody
scene, and much of what are called its glories depended
upon chance and accident.
" Ours, on the contrary, was the triumph of the first
principles of civil liberty, and of the judicial merits of
our glorious cause. That which triumphed was the
great. constitutional principle which sanctions the right
of free discussion to the inhabitants of these realms. It
was that principle which battled with, and triumphed
over, the well-arranged conspiracy to extinguish popular
sentiment, and to limit and restrain the efficacy of peace-
able popular exertions.
" The object we had in view was perfectly legal and
perfectly constitutional—the repeal of an Act of Parlia-
ment ; and the efficacy of our struggle ought, in consti-
tutional reasoning, to depend on the numbers of those who
were convinced of the necessity of such repeal. The
effort of Ministerial despotism was, by the prosecution,
to prevent the exhibition of that multitudinous public
sentiment which could alone require or obtain success.
It was a struggle on the part of our governors to make
the exhibition of the extreme pressure of a grievance sti-
mulating multitudes to call for redress, a conspiracy and
a crime. It was the manifest design of the Irish Govern-
ment to introduce a now doctrine into our law—the doc-
trine that numbers constituted crime ; so that when the
oppression of a tyrannic law affected the great majority
of the nation, that very majority should be treated as
essentially criminal, and be used as a legal instrument to
prevent the redress of the grievance. The more univer-
sal the cry for relief, the more impossible would a suc-
cessful prosecution have made it to obtain redress.
" Our triumph on the jury question was, if possible,
still more vitally important. If it were once established
that the jury list might, with safety, be fraudulently
spoliated or arranged, on the ground that the fraud was
not committed by the Sheriff himself, then, indeed, the
trial by jury would become a delusion, a mockery, and
a snare !'
"We have, in truth, gained a great victory. Yet
there has been nothing of the insolence of triumph in
our demeanour. We have borne our success with meek-
ness, and in the fullest spirit of conciliation.
" But we should be guilty of a criminal neglect of
duty if we did not avail ourselves of that success in order
to achieve the great object of our desires—the restora-
tion of an Irish Parliament.
" Our business is not to irritate or provoke any por-
tion of our follow-subjects. Our duty—our sacred duty
—is to conciliate all classes and persuasions; and, if pos-
sible, to procure the entire Irish people to join in the
struggle to obtain the right of Irishmen to legislate for
themselves.
Upon the subject of the repeal near nine-tenths of
the Irish people are perfectly agreed. They are con-
vinced of its necessity. They have no doubt of its
practicability. The monster meetings have placed be-
yond a shadow of doubt the determination of the over-
whelming majority of the Irish to obtain the restoration
of their own Parliament. If that fact had not been demon •
strated by the meetings of last year, we should continue
to hold similar meetings, now that the legality of the
largest possible peaceful assemblages is fully established
by the unanimous opinion of all the English judges. It
was in the 6th and 7th counts that the holding of those
monster meetings was alleged to be a crime; and all the
English judges were unanimous that those counts were
essentially and radically bad. We could, therefore,
hold more monster meetings, if it were at all necessary;
but there is no such necessity. The opinion of the Irish
people was emphatically pronounced in the forty-one
monster meetings we held last year: aati as it is not ne-
cessary to hold any more such meetings, it Would appear
to be insulting braggadocio to revive them. We .ill re.
vive them only in the case, that it should with any plau-
sibility be hereafter asserted that the mass of the people
had changed their minds on the subject of repeal, and
were no longer in favour of the Irish making laws for
Ireland.
" /laving thus in favour of repeal the overwhelming
majority of the Catholic population—clergy and laity,
and having also been joined by many, very many Pro-
testants—by a large body of Presbyterians, and by some
other enlightened Protestant Dissenters, it only remains
for us to conciliate and combine the 'residue of the Pro-
testants of every class and description. This, I repeat,
is our task, oar duty—oar pleasing duty.
" What is it which prevents the remaiuder of the Pro-
testants of all descriptions from joining for the repeal ?
Not any disinclination to have Ireland legislated for by
an Irish Parliament--upon that subject Mr. Porter's
letter is a demonstration that all the Irish, of every
class, are agreed. But the combination of all is pre-
vented by idle jealousies and unfounded fears.
"It is our business to remove these jealousies and
absurd fears. We should entreat, implore, conjure our
Protestant fellow-countrymen to listen to us. We should
solemnly assure them that the Catholics desire no civil
nor ecclesiastical ascendency ; all they desire is perfect
equality—that perfect equality which the repeal of the
union alone can produce.
"We can most confidently assert that the Irish Pro-
testants ought to place unlimited confidence in their
Catholic fellow•countryinen ; and, above all, that they
ought not to retain any jealousy or apprehension. - This
is our solemn, unequivocal, and most conscientious con-
viction and assertion, and we are entitled to be believed.
But we will not place the cause of conciliation upon
mere assertion ; we appeal to facts to prove' that confis
dence should be reposed in the Catholic repealers by
Protestants of all classes.
"The FIRST proof is adduced from Protestant histo;
torians. It is the historic fact, that the -Irish Catisolic
were, since the Reformation, three times in possession of
political power—in fact of the government of the coun-
try—yet they never passed one single penal law, nor
persecuted one single Protestant. I have one thousand
times challenged the libellers of the Irish Catholics to
give me the name of any one Protestant who was perse-
cuted by the Catholics While in power—no such Pro-
testant has ever been named, simply because none such
ever existed.

" The SECOND proof arises from the language of the
Catholics during the many years of our struggle for
emancipation. We had tens of thousands of meetings,
in all of which our claims were placed upon the prin-
ciple that conscience should be free. Free for others
as well as for us. And in not one of these meetings,
although guilty of many an indiscretion, yet not one
single word ot a bigoted or exclusive nature was
uttered, save upon one occasion, when a phrase, consi-
dered to bel of a bigoted nature having been used, that
phrase was emphatically condemned by the all but una-
nimous vote of two public meetings ; there was, indeed,
but the single negt tive of the utterer of the phrase him-
self—HE STOOD ALONE.
"The THIRD proof arises from the conduct—that ic,
the acts of the Catholic people, during the agitation for
emancipation. We had our tens and our twenties of
thousands of meetings. We had our Catholic boards,
and Catholic committees, and, finally our great Catholic
Association. But there was no riot, no violence, no tumult.
No Protestant was injured in person or property by the
Catholics in their struggle for emancipation. No Catholic
associator was ever accused of any crime, committed in
the struggle for relief, with the exception of myself ; and
then the charge of sedition was so frivolous, that the bill
of indictment against me was ignored by a grand jury—
the foreman and two-thirds of whom were Protestants,
and several of them Orangemen. There was not one
single assault committed in the agitation for emancipa-
tion. I, one of the most prominent among the agitators,
and, probably—may I venture to say it—one of the most
popular, repeatedly declared, that I would abandon the
pursuit of emancipation if it were stained with one single
drop of human blood. And, blessed be Heaven ! no such
stain taints that cause.
" The FOURTH proof is derived from this, that my
principle has been throughout, and is, that ' every change
of political institutions should be effected by exclusively
moral and peaceable means;' and that no amelioration,
however in its nature valuable, in the laws or government,
should be purchased by any one crime or sin of ever so small
a degree—and, above all, is not worth the purchase ill the
loss of one single life.'
" This doctrine I have preached and' practised. By the
assertion and practice of it the Irish people carried the
emancipation ; and I, who am the original apostle of this
doctrine of peace, possess, it is manifest, the unlimited
confidence of the Irish people. Oh, how idle must be the
jealousies and fears of any of our Protestant fellow-coun-
trymen 1
" My FIFTH proof is to be found in the conduct
of the Catholics after emancipation. There was no
insolence of triumph—no insult to our former oppo-
nents. The usual demonstrations of public joy
were forborne. There were no bonfires—no illu-
minations—no exhibitions of pubic delight, lest they
should be deemed insulting to the defeated Orange
party. The active Catholic courted the good-will of the
Orangemen—we entwined the Orange round our Green
ribbon—We did all we could to conciliate. We combined

both colours, and we did all we could to combine bet%
populations. I, myself, fur mere than six years, courted
the Orangemen in every way in my power. I was
laughed at for my pains. Though no man likes to be
the object of ridicule, yet I bore it, and persevered in my
efforts to conciliate the Orangemen. They refused to be
conciliated, and yet they were suppressed by an Act of
Parliament, brought in by their own friends, the Tories
—an Act which we, the Catholics, did not call for, and
which many of us oppose 1.
" My SIXTFI proof is also derived from the conduct of
the Catholics since emancipation with respect to the
parliamentary and municipal elections. In no instance,
at any parliamentary election, was a Catholic preferred
to a Liberal Protestant. In every instance of parliamen-
tary elections a Liberal Protestant has been preferred to
a Catholic. The same principle and practice have pre-
vailed in our municipal elections. In every instance the
Liberal Protestants have been preferred to Catholics.
The office of Lord Mayor of Dublin has been filled by
three gentlemen since the Municipal Reform Bill. The
first was a Catholic—the second a Protestant. The third
is a Catholic ; but his successor, the Lord Mayor Elect,
is a Protestant. This evidence of a total absence of a
bigoted feeling among the Catholics is the stronger in
Dublin, where the Catholics had been, for near forty
'years before emancipation, and for several years after,
capable, in point of law, of being freemen of the Cor
poration ; yet not one single Catholic was allowed to
attain even that small benefit. It is not, therefore, from
the conduct of the Catholics that these idle jealousies and
fears arise ; but, unhappily, from some self-condemna-
tion on the part of several Protestants. It is in human
nature that some of them should be unable to believe,
even from the most distinct proofs, that others are more
liberal thietethey are themselves.
" The SEVENTH proof, that unlimited confidence may
be reposed in the Catholic people of Ireland, I draw natue
rally and forcibly from the conduct of the people at the
monster meetings last year—meetings at which not only
no violence was committed, but not even one single acci-
dent occurred. At the lowest calculation, one million
of Irish assembled at Tara ; yet, not one single person
was pressed upon, or trodden upon, or hurt, or injured—
aye, even by accident ! Are not these a people fit to
share in the government of their native land ? Oh
how idly are jealousies and fears entertained of such a
people.
" The EIGHTH proof is derived from the mighty tem-
perance movement. More than five millions, principally
Catholics, have taken the pledge. A very small per
centage, indeed, have violated it—a per centage so
minute as to be almost incapable of enumeration. Tem-
perance carries in its train to the house of the poor man
many and many a social virtue. Vice of every kind flies
before temperance. Amongst the temperance men the
religious feeling is easily predominant. The public-
houses
are deserted ; the altar-rails are thronged. Oh,
blessed be God ! the Irish people are fit to be -a nation.
Who so fit as they ?
"The NINTH proof, that the jealousies and fears of
Catholic ascendancy are unfounded and preposterous, is
grounded on the number and strength of the Protestants
themselves. If any attempt were made to establish a
Catholic ascendancy, all the Protestants would naturally
and necessarily rally against such iniquitous proceeding.
They would be joined by all the liberal and enlightened
Catholics, and by all the just, generous, and humane
Catholics. They would be backed and supported by
Protestant England. Their enemies would have all the
weakness belonging to injustice. The Protestants would
have on their side the powerful moral force of being in
the right and suffering unjustly wrong. Ido firmly re-
peat it, that nothing in nature can be so absurd as for
the Protestants of Ireland to apprehend a Catholic as-
cendancy.
" My TENTH proof of the idleness of any such fear is
the fact, that from the state of property in Ireland, a
very great number of the Members of the House of Com-
mons must be, and probably a majority would be Pro-
testants. In the Irish douse of Lords the Catholic Peers
are about five per cent. of the entire. How is it possible
to apprehend that any ascendancy law could pass such a
Parliament ?—and it is still more impossible that such
a law should receive the assent of the Protestant Mo-
narch of Great Britain and Ireland.

" My next proof is deduced from the conduct of the
Repeal Association and its agitators on the triumphant
event of the reversal of the judgment against leading
members of the Association. There never was a prose-
cution more vexatiously conducted. The usual courtesy
—a slight one in itself—of allowing us to appear by at-
torney, was refused. We were compelled to be in readi-
ness to appear iu Court every passing hour. I will not
dwell upon the one-sidedness of the charge of the Chief
Justice, whose nephew has got an excellent place in the
Castle, and whose sou-in-law has got that excellent
thing, an Irish bishopric, from the prosecuting Govern-
ment ; neither shall I dwell on the now•for-ever-admitted
on the face of the record fraudulent management of the

jury list—nor shall I dilate upon the unjust imprison
'Tient which we have sustained for no less than three
months ; an imprisonment for which, as the record now
demonstrate', there is no kind of justification
.or
; an imprisonment which the Court itself offered to
suspend if the Attorney-General, that is, the Irish Go-
vernment, would comeut. I pass over, also, without com-
ment, what Lord Cloneurry has called the projected mas-
sacre at Clontarf.' I pass these by for the present as mate-
rials, I trust, for Parliamentary inquiry and impeachment.
But I avail myself of them for the single purpose of
showing that never were men so provoked, so un-
justly stimulated to irritation and revenge, so exi-
cited to break out into an exuberance of revengeful joy ;
never was there a set of men more entitled to all the vio-
lence of triumph at the ultimate reversal of the judgment;
yet, Protestant non-repealers, we appeal to you whether
passion was not suppressed, irritation and excitement
mitigated and soothed, every species of insult avoided ;
agitation, instead of being inflamed, cooled down into
something that has been reproached by our enemies as
timidity ; yes, we have preferred the appearance of what
we could not feel, timidity, by the excess of our meek-
ness, to anything that could prevent a single non-re-
pealer from joining the ranks of his country.
Non-repealers, reflect deeply upon these different
topics; you have everything to gain—you can have
nothing to lose—by the repeal. The repeal will restore
to Ireland a circulation, in employment, wages, and
business, of not less than six millions per annum ; but I
am-not at present arguing the question ; every man in
Ireland intuitively knows that the Irish ought to make
laws for Ireland, and that no country was ever governed

for the benefit of its people by another country.—
" I shall simply confine myself to a quotation of the
most perfect truth from the late Lord Chief Justice
Bushe. His words are—' Iforget for a momeut the un
principled means by which the union has been promoted,
and I look on it simply as England reclaim •
ing, in a moment of our weakness, that dominion
which we extorted from her in a moment of our virtue
—a dominion which she uniformly abused—which
invariably oppressed and impoverished us, and from the ex-
tortion of which we date all our prosperity." He added—
The union is a measure which goes to degrade the country
by saying it is unworthy to govern itself. It is the revival
of the odious and absurd title of conquest—it is a revival of
the abominable distinction between mother country and colony
which lost America IT IS THE DENIAL OF THE
RIGHTS OF NATURE TO A GREAT NATION FROM AN
INTOLERANCE OF ITS PROSPERITY.' •

"Now, I take it that no proposition was ever so per-
fectly clear as this ;* that Ireland cannot, and will not,
submit.to that denial of the rights of nature which be-
longed to her as a great nation and a virtuous people. It
is perfectly clear that things cannot remain as they are,
there must necessarily be a change. This is asserted as
distinctly and emphatically by the Conservative member
of the Corporation of Dublin, the talented Dr. Mannsell,
as it is by me. The Irish people have more of the
virtue of perseverance than the people of any other
country on the face of the earth—they have been spo-
Hated of property, it is true, but they have retained,
tenaciously retained, their opinions, their sentiments,
their affections, and, above all, they have clung to their
religion with desperate fidelity. They, are, I repeat, the
most persevering people on the face of the earth—they
never will, they never can, abandon the cause of repeal ;
and they will ultimately carry that measure, as assuredly
as that to-morrow's sun will rise. Whilst we, leading
agitators, and particularly whilst I happen to live, they
will never seek to carry the repeal by forcible or violent
means ; but the man is worse than man who does not
perceive in the conduct of the Irish people that determi•
nation to establish self-government which, when the pre-
sent leaders, and I amongst them, are removed, may well
proluce separation, but can sever tolerate the continu-
ancg of the union.
" This, indeed, is just the time to carry repeal peace-
ably, quietly, legally, constitutionally. We are arrived
at a time when if the Protestant and Catholic non-
repealers abandon their apathy or opposition, and join
in the agitation for repeal, the union can be repealed
without danger, difficulty, tumult, or force; and without,
in any way, disturbing the rights of property, or the
enjoyments of social life. A bloodless political change,
such as that of 1829, can now be achieved without diffi-
culty—a bloodless political change, such as that of 1782,
can now be achieved without the least difficulty. Lord
Althorp himself, when opposing the repeal, because
called for by only a section, however large, of the Irish
people, declared, that if the entire of the Irish nation
required that repeal, they were entitled to it. This
proposition was full of plain good sense. In fact, if
the Irish nation were combined in a peaceable and legal
struggle, resistance would be vain or impossible.
" This is just the period when the union could be re-
pealed in the manner most satisfactory to those
Pro-
testants who have hitherto been neutral or adverse, by
reason of their fears of violent or tumultuary proceed-
ings. The Repeal Association is ready, I am ready,
.for
one humble individual, to join in the modes of atefsinga
most satisfactory to the timid or reluctant.to
e to the I
period in which the lead would be given at
aristocracy of wealth, and to the persons most exten-
sively interested in the prosperity of the country. The'
Repeal Association does not require any O'Cf
Leinster,onnellite
party. We are all ready to give to the house o
if, oh heaven! that family would once again join for Ire-
land; we- are ready to give the" illustrious Charlemont

family--a family bearing a name to conjure with ;, we
are ready to give to any other of the Irish aristocracy ;
we are ready to give to Mr. Grey Porter, or Mr. Shar-
man Crawford, or to any other gentleman of talent and
fortune—Protestant or Catholic—the lead in the great
movement. Especially we are ready to give, and we are
giving heartily and cordially, to Mr. Smith O'Brien, to
the Hon )urahle Mr. Hutchinson, and to our other Pro-
testant associates, the lead in the great struggle to rein-
state Ireland amongst the nations.
"ludeecl, the unlimited confidence which Mr. Smith
O'Brien has acquired, and which the Hon. Mr. Hutchin-
son is daily acquiring, -should demonstrate to all right-
thinking Protestant non- repealers, with what facility
they would obtain their proper weight, and importance,
and consideration in the contest for the repeal, and for
the reconstruction of the Irish Parliament.

" This is emphatically the time fir Catholic and Pro-
testant non-repealers to join in the agitation.
"If they wish, as they naturally must, to share in
the government of their own country--if they desire to
secure their estates from future convulsion, and if they
wish to increase tenfold the value of their property, they
will join with us in procuring the re-establishment of the
Irish Parliament, without which there can be no lasting
tranquillity in Ireland.
" This emphatically is a period when good humour,
good temper, thedisposition toconciliate, and the anxiety
to combine all classes, prevails among the Irish people.
There is nothing revolutionary in the dispositions of the
repealers ; quite the contrary, an anxiety to prevent
any forcible change, and to maintain the social state un-
impaired and improved.
"Never was there a period of more good temper and
hilarity. This is the time for peaceful combination of
all sects and persuasions ; the very fact of there being a
large military force in Ireland at present ought to give
additional security against the.prevalence . of_ any vio-
lent or revolutionary disposition ; and that army, which
has been sent here to prevent repeal, would necessarily
be protective of the peaceful settlement of the great
question.
" Everything favours a combination at the present
moment ; even the prevalence of the hitherto scattered
elements of federalism now facilitates our great object.
" It is true that federalism has not yet displayed
itself in the strength which I believe really belongs to
it. I know there are numbers of individuals who have
not joined the Repeal Association, and yet are opposed
to the continuation of the union upon its present basis,
and desire a federal connexion in its stead. •

" In inviting those persons to join the contest for re-
peal, it is incumbent upon the Association distinctly to
trace out how far simple repealers' and federalists
can go together ; as also to point out how far the road
is common to both ; and to show distinctly where a dif-
ference, if any, arises between them. It is our duty to
canvass the particulars of that difference, and to yield
to whatever appears most practical and most useful in
Ireland.
" For my own part, there never lived a being who
would less than myself claim any species of infallibi-
lity. I would yield, for the sake of co-operation, every-
thing but principle. I would follow in the track of any
man who seeks fir the restoration to Ireland of the power

of legislation.
"Let me, then, state the principles upon which the
simple repeaters' desire to act ; and let me show how
far the federalists concur in those principles.
" The FIRST principle is founded on the determina-
tion, at all hazards, to preserve the connexion between
Great Britain and Ireland, through the means of the
power of a sole executive, and the golden link of the

Crown.
'• In this principle both simple repealers' and fede-
ralists' completely agree.
" The SECOND principle results from the necessity of
the repeal of the union statute, 50th George 111.,
chap. 47.
" The statute must be put out of the way legally and
constitutionally.
"In this principle simple repealers' and fede-
ralists' equally agree. Both, in fact, being repealers of
the union, because federalism can commence only after
the repeal of that statute.
" The THIRD principle arises from the necessity of a
reconstruction of the Irish Parliament.
" This principle belongs, in common, to both classes
of repealers, ' simple repealer' and federalists be-
cause, the mere repeal of the union statute would not
answer the purposes of either party. The mere repeal
of the union statute would revive the Irish Parliament',
without the benefit of any reform schedules—it would
give two members to the ruined abbey of Tulsk— two
members to the round tower of Kilcullen—two members
to the SANDS of Bannow—and two members to the
churchyard walls of Clonmines. This would never do.
Federalists' and simple repealers' agree that this
would never do.
" There must, therefore, be a reconstruction of the
Irish House of Commons. .

"The Forran principle consists in the restoration of
the Irish House of Lords, in all its integrity.
" Thus far, all parties, federalists' and simple re'
peelers,' are agreed.
" There is one distinction which should be clearly un-
derstood, and all confusion avoided on the subject—that
is, a distinction between the moon of reconstruction of
the Irish Parliament, and the POWERS which shall be
vested in that Parliament when reconstructed—
" First, reconstruct your Parliament; and, secondly,
decide what powers that Parliament shall have when re
constructed.
" Upon the mode of reconstruction of the Home or
Commons, the federalists' and simple repealer;
might and ought to agree. It is true that the lode's
ralists' have not as yet any official organ, and, therefor
there is es) statement of their views as to that reconstrues
tion. It is also true that Mr. Grey Porter has, on thiS
subject, thrown out objections to popular plans for re-
constructing the Irish House of Commons ; and these
objection,;, coming from him, deserve the greatest weigh;
and merit the fullest and most deliberate considerations
He himself appears to be of that temper of mind, that he
will patiently consider the arguments that may be used
to solve his objections ; and whatever the result may be,
the discussion of these objections shall be conducted in
the most amicable way and in the best tamper.
" The simple repealers, on the other hand, have long
since laid their project before the public. They propose
that the number of members should continue the same
as the former number in the Irish House of Commons 4
namely, 300.
" They propose that the representation should b
based upon the numbers of the population—that being
the basis adopted for the English counties by the Eng
lish Reform Bill. Let this be kept in mind ; popular
tion, exclusively, was the basis of the augmentation of
the representatives of the English counties by the Engl
lish Reform Bill.
" Takiug up this English basis, the simple re 4
pealers' submit that there ought to be in Ireland 173
county members—of these Antrim would have 6, Ari
magh 5, Fermanagh 5, Londonderry 5, Tyrone 6;
Down 7, Monaghan 5, Cavan 5, Donegal 6—Total for
Ulster, 50. I mention these particulars regarding Illstei
to show, that in our proposal complete justice is done to
the Protestant province of Ulster, upon the same scale
precisely with the other provinces.
" There being thus 173 members alloted to the coun-
ties, there remains for the towns and cities 127—0 f
which, for example, four are allotted to Belfast, four to
Limerick, and two to the Dublin University.
" The schedule to the report presented to the Repeal
Association, on the 4th of May, 1840, will give full
details to anybody who takes the trouble of examining
our suggestions fur the reconstruction of the Irish House
of Commons.
" The Repeal Association has also suggested, that the
franchise should be based on household suffrage, and
that the mode of voting should be by ballot. But these
are particulars perfectly open to discussion between the
' simple repealers' and the federalists.'
" As to the vote by ballot, however, I, for the pre-
sent, shall offer but one observation, and that is, that
whatever objections may be started to this mode of
voting, it is in its nature a peaceable mode of giving
the vote, and one that excludes the possibility of violence
or rioting.
" It is now for the federalists' to suggest their plan
of reconstruction of the Irish House of Commons. It is
not unlikely that the 'federalists' and 'simple re-
pealers' might agree amicably upon the mode of recon-
struction ; at all events, the discussion upon these points
can be, and I doubt not will be, conducted in a fair, im-
partial, and amicable manner, and its the absence of heat
or violence ; discussion, instead of being shunned by the
simple repealers,' is anxiously invited by them ; they do
not desire to dictate to anybody.
" The Irish House of Commons being legally con-
structed, a question of great importance arises, the real
question between the 'federalists' and the simple re-
pealers.' That question is—What shall be the extent of
the powers of the Irish Parliament ?
" Both parties are agreed, that these powers should bo
sufficiently extensive to enable the Irish Parliament to
protect the lives, liberties, and properties of the Irish
people. That it should have power to enact all laws to
be of force in Ireland—in short, that it should be a.n
efficient Parliament for all legislative, financial, and j
cial purposes within her Majesty's realm of Ireland.
me
-
"The simple repealers are of opinion thatthe
structed Irish Parliament should have precisishelvy
power and authority which the former Ir arliameomnt
had.
pale" appear
at oi e
rms
edoto
require more for Ireland than the •' The 'federalists,' on the contrary,
rit the federalists require that
and perfect local autho y,
for besides the local Parliament in simple
having full
there should be for questions of imperial concern, cold-
; vial, military, naval, and of foreign alliance and policy, a
congressional or federative parliament, in which Ireland
should have her fair share and proportion of representa-
tion and power.
" I is re-
spect thebuftedriegrhat and
list just
swouldtgo dniveulferess that
Ireland
utdmt ino threwis e-
eigrht
and importance in imperial concerns than she could ac-
puire by means of the plan of the simple repealers.
" If there were such a congressional
,• parliament as the
federalists propose,
-one-third, or thereabouts, of the

-
m embers ought to be given to the Irish ; giving to Great
Britain the other tw•o-thirds. _ _

" But as yet the federalists have not spoken out; Air.
Grey Porter has proinised his project, but the time within
which he was to produce it has not arrived. It is to
be wished that simile authentic statement should be
made on behalf of the federalists. This, at least, is cer-
tain, that any such plan will be received with deferential
respect, and canvassed by every honest repealer, with
perfect candour and earnest solicitude to arrive at a just
and beneficial conclusion.

" For my own part, I will own, that since I have come
to contemplate the specific differences such as they are
between • simple repeal' and federalism,' Ido at pre-
sent feel a preference for the federative plan, as tending
11131-0 to the utility of Ireland, and to the maintenance of
the connexion with England than the mode of simple
repeal. But I must either deliberately propose or deli-
berately adopt from some other person a plan of a fede-
rative union, before I bind myself to the opinion v. hich
now entertain. _ _

- ..„..
"I have laid my thoughts upon this subject Lefore the
Association at greater length than I intended ; but the
importance of the topics I have discussed justifies the
length of my commentary.
" finvite my countrymen of every class and persuasion
to join us. I invite, in particular, all those who lean to
federalism to
_propound their plans, and to discuss with
us amicably and canditUy the respective merits of a
federative' or simple repeal ' connexion with Great
Britain.
. " The federalists cannot but perceive that there has
in en, upon my part, a pause in the agitation for the re-
peal "since the period of our liberation from unjust itnpr:-
sonment ; they must perseive that, on the part of the re-
pealers, every passion has been hushed, and ail the
energy of complaint suppressed, in the expectation of a
federal movement. This calm has been made in compi-
ment to the friends of Ireland who have not as yet joined
the repeal standard. We anxiously await their patriotic
co-operation.
" But, should they allow the preFent favourable occa-
sion to escape, they may hereafter regret not having ob-
tained that influence in the repeal cause which every
body is now ready to give them ; but which they may
hereafter find it exceedingly difficult, if not impossible,
to obtain.

"This, therefore, is the propitious moment, especially
for the wealthiest classes, to join in the struggle for frith
independence. They can now take their natural stadia
at the head of the movement. They can now model and
regulate proceedings in which they may not, hereafter,
find an opportunity to take the part which they would
wish and be naturally entitled to.
" There are two propositions perfectly clear—
" FIRST—That matters cannot remain as they are in

Ireland, but that the repeal movement must accumulate
in power and force, in spite of every obstacle:
SMONDLY—That the 14ritisla 'pon, .
duet the affairs of Ireland upon a Pr' -
principle. '
" Violent anti-Poperyism, or violent Protestantism,
can no longer be the road to emolument and promotion.
" The Government can no longer connect itself with a
sturdy or active No-Popery man. On the contrary, the
Government must necessarily be driven to prefer rene-
gade or courtly Catholics to over-active and over-zealous
political Protestants.
In short, the hypocrisy of impartiality towards all
will necessarily exclude all the violent amongst the re-
making Orange party from Government favour.
" The Government, by or for a mere Protestant party,
is at an end ; there must be what may be called a
practical pretence' of liberality, which will necessarily
exclude from patronage the over-zealous or over-active
amongst the late ascendancy party.
" In the meantime, everything bids iVr for the pros-
pect; of the Repeal Association. The people of Ireland
perceive that the game is nearly won, and that success,
though it may be postponed, it cannot be prevented.
The Irish people also perceive that if ALL the non-
repeaters do not join us, many are daily acceding to our
ranks, and by our combining conciliation with firmness,
sincere kindliness, with unremitting determination and
activity, the repeal must be carried, and Ireland become
a nation again.
" Let us then be active, energetic, conciliatory. Let
us, if possible, combine all classes ; but let us not forget
that we have already more than moral force enough to
render a long resistance to a peaceable and legal repeal
of the union impossible. It is a mere question of time—
the repeal itself is certain. Hurrah, then, for the repeal.
'- I have the honour to be, your faithful servant,
" DANIEL O'CONNELL."
He (Mr. M. O'Connell) would refrain from offering any
observations on the letter he had just read, as he consi-
dered any comments on his part would be unnecessary.
The meeting was addressed by Mr. M. O'Connell,
Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Henry Grattan, &c.
After tome further business had been disposed of, Mr.
O'Connell announced the rent for the week as 40,31.
17s. 41—The meeting then adjourned.
IRISH FAIRS—DECLINE IN PRICES.

The fall in the price of horned caltle, at the recent
fair of Ballinasloe, has had a serious effect upon prices
at the western fairs since held. At Dunmore, county
of Galway, on Thursday, there was no demand for any
description of stock, and the few sales effected were
made at a more reduced price than at Ballinailoo. At
Ballindine, county of Mayo, on Friday last, there was
an extremely dull fair, and the farmers considered their
prospects very gloomy.
•

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.

TIDIES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 11 per male,
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 141. per
ounce for standard gold, giveS an exchange of 25
42A ; and the exchange at Paris on London at shor
being 25 52-1, it follows that gold is 0.39 per cent.
dearer in London than in Paris.

By advices from llamburgh the price of gold is 435
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 1011.
pc:ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 10 ;
and the exchange at Ilamburgh on London at short
being 13 92, it follows that gold is 0.11 per cent. dearer
in Ilamburgh than in London.
The funds have been exceedingly flat to day, at a
decline of nearly three eighths per cant., and rumours
have been in circulation that the departure of the King
of the French is connected with matters of grave import
in his own country. This may have had some slight
effect upon prices, but the real cause of the fan appi ars
to have arisen from the sale of large parcels of stock on
privet': account, and the supply has thus been hien ased
to an amount greater than the jobbers desire ; hence
there are no purchasers except at lower prices. The
Government broker paid 100 k for the savings-bank in-
vestment, and the quotations gradually gave way.
So great would be the advantages of shortening the
transit from Cairo to Suez, and thus facilitating our
overland c-mmunication with India, that every project
to that end brought forward with any degree of
Ilausi-
bility may be noticed with advantage. The plasma
transit occupies abaft 24 hours—the whole distance of
84 miles is an open desert, and every article of food, in-
cluding water, has to be brought from Cairo. Of the
whole journey to India this passage across the desert is
considered the worst part, and were it only for the com-
fort of the numerous British subjects who are forced to
perform the journey, any attempt at improvement would
be unworthy attention. But the advantage of shorten-
ing the transit does not stop with travellers to India, but
concerns the whole mercantile community, as tunny op-
portunities of answering letters have been lost precisely
on account of the time occupied in the journey from
Suez. The mail from India, via Marseilles, arrived last
year on eight occasions too late to admit of the letters
being answered, and this loss of time, the advocates of a
railway contend, might have been avoided had this mode
of conveyance been adopted.
The chief notion of a railway was entertained by the
Pacha of Egypt as far back as 1834, and the late Gallo-
way Bey was instructed to make the necessary surveys.
Since then the project has been in abeyance ; but Mr. J.
A. Galloway, brother of the Bey, and resident in Alex-
andria, has recently published a pamphlet in which he sets
forth the advantages of the railway, and ascribes the
obstacles thrown in the way of its completion to foreign
intrigue. Some of this pamphlet is taken up with the
examination of two rival schemes for effecting the
passage by canal communication. One of these places is
a ship canal from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, and
the other (the Boulac Canal) ono from the Nile to Suez.
Both of them are considered by Mr. Galloway as under-
takings too gigantic for the present state of Egypt ; and
he comes to the result that the railroad alone will he
practicable, and that the British Government should at
once urge its completion, taking advantage of the known
predilection of Mehemet Ali for the scheme, and the fact
that ;he is already at an advanced age. It is suggested
that the most effectual mode of carrying the pointkwould
be to make the acceleration of the mails and passengers
a condition for increased remuneration in the Post-office
convention.

This recommendation of the railway scheme is from a
source confessedly partial; but, nevertheless, the subject
is so important that it is to be hoped that it will to
weighed on its own merits, and that the influence uf
foreign Powers may not, as has been hinted, prevent it
from receiving due consideration.
SUN.—Consols close better, 99i to loci; but the
Bears, profiting by rumours of important dispatches re-ceived by Louis Philippe from Spain have made a bit of
a stir in the market to-day. New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. were 1021 to 102. Bank Stock was 205 to #.
Spanish was at about previous rates, 231 i, and 34 i•
Colombian were at 14+. Russian obtained 1191. Dutch
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were marked 621 e•
were 14i ; Great
Lancaster and Car
Western, OA ; Ditto, 11a1f,1338,t0 i
been these :—Bristol and Gloucester_
So;uth Western, 361 to
rile, 3i ; Birminglia. in,
anl
Northern and Eastern,Manchester and Birmingham, 11 ;
Quarter Shares, 4i to 4i ; Ports-
Central I Croydon. 2.t, g I M
of
_F, ranee, 2 ; Boulogne
'
Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux,
i • Paris and Orleans, 19f ; Paris and Rouen, 19a ;
21 to ,
' and Strasburgh, i premium. Caledonian have
and
datAh
n3Dii:ne:t2l to ii;
and Paris
been i to li, and Brighton 23: discount.
The foreign exchanges were steady this afternoon on
the principal continental cities. Trieste was barely so
good, but Paris and Antwerp were firmer.
The following is the official return of the exports of
bullion from the port of London for the week einlinf,
Thursday last:— tt,
Silver Coin to Rotterdam
80,000 02.
Silver Bars to Ilamburgh
58,000 „
The accounts from America are more satisfactory.
Good remittances have been made, with fresh orders for
the spring trade.

DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUlClDE.—UpperGower-
str et, was thrown into a state of great
excitement yesterday, it being discovered that a person,
who has been for years employed as a charwoman in
the establishment of W. Northage, Esq., No. 10 in the
above street, having, in a fit of supposed insanity, stabbed
herself under the left breast with a large carving knife.
A surgeon being immediately sent for, dressed the
wound, and she was removed to the North London HOS-
pital, with but slight hopes of her recovery.