The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-15 00:00:00

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" Darrynane Abbey, Jan. 10, 1845.
" My dear Ray,—You have inclosed 1/. 4s. repeal rent
from Bishop's Castle, and also 1/. for another littlo
cherub of a grand-daughter of mine, Betsie O'Connell
(Charles), whom I forgot in my last list.
" I intend, with God's blessing, to be in town on the
18th or 19th inst. You may therefore announce The
Liberator will attend!'

" How ludicrous is the state of ignorance of the public
writers in England respecting the tone and temper of
the Irish mind. They will now hare it that the fervent
anxiety of the Irish for repeal has cooled down, and been
succeeded by some indifference. What folly ! There
never were so persevering a people as the Irish ; and
the English scoffers may rest assured that there will be
no:relaxation of every means provided by the Constitution
for agitating for the repeal until our Parliament is in
College-green. A nation wills it ! A moral, a faithful,
a persevering nation, wills it ! That nation has every
stimulant_ that a people can have to seek a great political
change. There is no escape from insult and injustice—
there is no escape from increasing poverty and accumu-
lating destitution, but in the restoration of our National
Parliament. The people of Ireland abide their time.
They will keep within the law. The repealers will
commit no crime. But, I repeat, they abide their time.
" The wealthier classes in England are in great pros-
perity ; but it is admitted that the population is endttr-
ing great privations and accumulated sufferings. How
often do the Irish repeat the proverb, Man's infirmity
is God's opportunity,' and descending to the smaller con-
cerns of this life, the first hour of England's infirmity,
from domestic or foreign causes, will assuredly be the
last hour of Ireland's servitude. Ireland will then, as
she did in 'B2, pay the price of her liberty to England by
rendering the British Crown secure and triumphant, and
giving additional strength and prosperity to the British
people. Until then there will be no relalattion in the
spirit and determination for repeal, and the frith, univer-
sal cry will continue to be, Hurrah for the
" I send you 241. received from Poughkeepsie. Let
honourable mention be made of it at the Association.
" Yours ever faithfully,
" DANIEL O'CONNELL.

" T. M. Hay, Esq."
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN moved the insertion of the letter
on the minutes, and congratulated the Association on
the certainty of having Mr. O'Connell with them on th e
succeeding Monday.
The SECRETARY read a communication from Mr.
Steele, dated Carrick-on. Shannon, announcing that
having succeeded in tranquillising the county Leitrim he
would now direct his efforts to the county of Tipperary.
The writer concluded by saying, "I venerate his Holi-
ness the Pope, as the spiritual head—the Sanctissimus
Pontiff of the religion of my Catholic Christian brethren
over the globe of the earth ; but I say to his Holiness,
in his character of a temporal prince of a State in Italy,
that no power on earth except the Queen, the`,Lords,
and the Commons, has a right to make laws for Ireland
—temporal laws for the direction of Ireland, or for any
portion of her people.' "
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN then rose and brought under the
consideration of the meeting the subject of repeal read-
ing rooms. Having read the rules by which these read-
ing rooms were to be conducted, and entered into some
details respecting them, he proceeded to say, that the
establishment of these reading rooms met with the con-
sent and hearty concurrence of the Irish people. Since
his first acquaintance with his countrymen he had disco-
vered among them an ardent thirst for knowledge. Ire-
land had been in former ages the centre of learning and
civilisation ;to it numbers crowded from parts for
education, and its missionaries were to be found in all
quarters of the world. Misrule and foreign dothinatiou
had tended to interrupt that happy state of things ;
but, he was happy to say, that the same spirit
which actuated their ancestors was still alive. He
was sure he had their sympathy with him when he spoke
on the subject of literature. They should be anxious,
and he was confident they were, to look into the history
of nations, and see how the people of those countries
conducted themselves when they were-oppressed, and
learn to profit by the mistakes they made wfien -.assert-
ing their liberties. It has been said that agitation frus-
trated industry, and that the people lost their time in
attending meetings and listening to speeches, in place of
attending to their business. Now he would say that their
most active repeal wardens were examples of industrial
exertion ; and one of the first inquiries made by the,
committe when any individual applied for the ofhce of
repeal warden was, whether he attended properly to his
own private avocations. Their great object in forming
these reading rooms was for the political eduCation of
the people. Under other circumstances it might be de-
sirable to exclude party politics from them, but at
present that would be impossible, as they should be ren-
dered effective in carrying out the policy of the Asso-
ciation, and be made the means of extorting the real
of the union—perfect harmony and concord shouldpe be
their characteristic of action. After some further ob-
servations, the Hon. Gentleman concluded by submit-
ting his motion for adoption.
The motion was seconded by Mr. CANGLEY, barrister,
and passed.

111 r. M'lNTEviti briefly addressed the meeting, confinißg
his observations to the late communication trom Rome
to Dr. Crolly, the Catholic primate, which he censured
in the most marked and emphatic manner. He denied
that the Court of Rome, or any foreign potentate, bad
the right to exercise any authority over the temporal
affairs of the people of Ireland. It was rumoured that
English gold was at work, but he was convinced that
every effort would fail in stifling the demand for repeal.
Was it, he would ask, the voice of Peel, diluted through
th• lungs of a Petre, that was governing the councils of
the Vatican ?

Mr. O'NEILL DAUNT addressed the meeting at some
length, on the same subject as the last speaker. Ho
denied the power of the Pope to interfere in the tempo-
ral affairs of the people of Ireland, and said he would
treat any rescript having such a tendency as he would
an emanation from the bureau of the Grand Turk. They
would accept as much Roman theology as they wished to
send them, but they would receive no Roman politics.
Mr. H. GRATTAN likewise addressed the meeting, and
expressed his hearty concurrence in all the observations
which had fallen from the speakers who preceded him,
and expressed his solemn conviction that the letter from
the Propaganda did not represent the opinions of his
Holiness, but that it was extorted from him.

Mr. S. O'BRIEN congratulated the meeting on the noble
spirit displayed to-day, which clearly proved that there
was not in this country a divided allegiance, and he
trusted that the admonition given would be effectual in
the right quarter. The lion. Gentleman then announced
the rent fur the week to be 2631. 18s. Id.

The meeting then adjourned.
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

In Meath, as well as in Tipperary, the Roman Catholic
clergy and the farmers are exerting themselves with
most commendable zeal to repress crime.
Last week a very numerous meeting was held at Car-
lanstown, county of Meath, at which Henry Meredyth,
Esq., a magistrate of that county, and an extensive
landed proprietor, presided. Mr. Meredyth addressed
the meeting, and, says the Drogheda Argus, " implored
of all who heard him to regard his solemn warnings, and
to use all their influence, each within his ott7klocality, to
watch vigilantly over the peace of the country and their
own safety involved therein. He reminded them, as
men who loved their country and revered Mr. O'Connell,
to regard the advice of that great and influential man,
who had done so much for the people of Ireland. He
conjured them to follow that advice, not merely in ab-
staining themselves from all connection with those so-
cieties—for that he was sure all who heard him would
do—but they must also go farther ; they must use all
their best endeavours to prevent others from joining in
those illegal confederacies. Let them follow the advice
of the Liberator in keeping the peace—in preventing the
introduction of illegal societies—and there was no doubt
he would lead them to greater moral victories than he
had yet achieved." The chairman concluded his elo•
quent appeal by calling again on each person to act in
his own neighbourhood as a guardian of the public
peace, and he highly commended the determination of
the repeal wardens to inquire into any suspicious cir-
cumstance which might come to their knowledge; and re-
commended that they" should denounce and hand over to
the proper authorities any person whom they had reason
to believe to be connected or engaged in introducing
these infamous societies, or otherwise concerned in dis 7
turbing the public peace."
THE BEQUESTS .Ik3CIETN—TP.OPUL_

The Drogheda Argus, in noticing the agitation con-
nected with the Charitable Bequests Act., and the ru-
mours of a concordat, makes the following remarks:—
"We disapprove of all personal attacks upon the
bishops who are commissioners—we are and have been
opposed to the imputation of any corrupt motive to any
one of those prelates ; nor do we now offer any argu-
ment upon the Act alluded to. We care not what opi-
nion may be formed of the Act as regards the object of
our present address; what we now deplore is the results
which
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sential to their efficient teaching and preaching ,of the
Gospel. Feelings of the most deplorable character have
been evoked on all sides. The vast majority of the Ca-
tholic people of Ireland entirely differ with those vene-
rable bishops—too many have given expression to their
feelings in a manner the most painful to those who
like ourselves, are imbued with a deep veneration for-.
the priestly order ; and still more admit those feelings
to harbour within their breasts. The name of the Pri-
mate of all Ireland has been treated with disrespect,
votes of thanks have been published to his assailants,
resolutions refusing to place confidence in any one of
the three prelates have been in very many places
adopted. On the other side, foul calumnies have been
rashly taken up and thoughtlessly circulated of a plot
to take the life of the venerable Archbishop of Dublin.
Another calumny was whispered that the venerable and
the Learned Bishop, Dr. Kennedy, resigned through
fear that be might be murdered. Near this town, in one
of the Primate's own parishes, the people were prevented
—we are sure without his authority or approval—from '
holding a meeting to petition, as they were permitted to
do by the constitution of the realm, for a repeal of this
Act ; forged letters, purporting to be from the Holy
Father of the Christian Church were circulated, as if be
forbade the Catholic people to petition against the ma.
sure ; priest hai been set against priest, and bishop
against bishop. These are facts which cannot be de.
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REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
The weekly meeting. of the Association was held this
day in the Conciliation hall. Thomas Davis, Esq., in
the chair.
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks, on the part-of-till
members of the committee of the Association, for the
vote of thanks which had been passed to them on the
last day of meeting, for the rt ports which they had fur-
nished. It was not for the purpose of courting popular
applause that they worked, but because they had arrived
at the fixed and unalterable conclusion that there was
no hope for Ireland but in a resident Legislature.
The SECRETARY then read the following letter from
Mr. O'Connell :

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