The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-30 00:00:00

THE POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY.

The closing meeting of the year took place on Monday
at the Royal Institution, and was well attended. Edward
Woods, Esq., the President during the past year, pro-
nounced, as is usual, a concluding address ; and its force
and propriety throughout leave us to regret that we can-
not find room for it entire, though we supply the most in-
teresting portions as they were delivered. He said :
" Gentlemen ,—The rules of our society require that the
president shalt address you at the close of, the session,
and, in obedience to these rules, I hare now to bespeak
your indulgence whilst I offer a few remarks before we
separate. On such an occasion as this, I believe it is
usual to refer briefly to the labours of the session, to the
efforts used, to the ends accomplished, to estimate how
far the ends may have been proportioned to the means,
and the means worthy of the character and standing of
I cannot conceal from myself the impression
re failed in attaining the ends

our society

.equired at our hands durir

I their

the nature of the society. It was important to possess
themselves of all the knowledge they could obtain on a
given subject up to the latest period. For want of this
knowledge many of them might waste a portion of their
time and means in investigations of matters which bad
already been fully and satisfactorily explained; and in
devising modifications and adaptations of machinery to
accomplish
.an object already attained by others. He

oils, which ha

Many of

then alluded to the railway sPecula,
cellar absorbed so much of the public mind.
these projects would no doubt be nipped, and properly
too, in the bud ; whilst others might result in the advan-
tages that follow the judicious and well-considered appli-
cation of capital. What the general effect on the country
might be, it was the province rather of the political eco
of that society to inquire ; but the '• mach;

I nomist t

ways fell

eery" of r
this involved t
motive traction
eluded by cordial!

had already done

at energie

A vote of than
sid

mate s

heric versus loco-

mcluded

questions of atmos
road and narrow gauges, &

He co

rking the members for their

f the so

uch, hut it puss(

ent address

,hould not fail

clamation t
d the busini

O'CONNELL'S FABRICATIONS ABOUT
TENANTRY.

A few weeks ago we gave the particulars of a challeng
from the Tones " commissioner". to Mr. Daniel O'Coi

nell, to submit the question as to the correctness of the
" commissioner's description of the condition of the
O'Connell tenantry to the arbitra'ion of twelve disin-
terested gentlemen, six to be chosen by each. "To this
challenge, as all the world anticipated, the arch agitator
and hypocritical professor of ultra kindness towards his
debased and suffering fellow countrymen demurred. His
son Maurice, however, to whom the chief management of
the Dcrrynane property is confided, after a three weeks'
silence, came out at length with a laboured letter ad-
dressed to the Editor of the Tinsel, in which the "com-
missioner's" statements were contradicted throughout ;
represented as wanton falsehoods, and which he concluded
by calling upon the proprietors of the Times to dismiss
their author as unworthy of a situation upon their esta-
blishment.

To justify himself from this impeachment, and to pro-
tect his character from the scurrilities of Daniel himself,
and his coadjutors of Conciliation Hall, the " Commis-
sioner" has taken the only manly course left open to him,
by requesting of the proprietors of the Times that another
gentleman from the establishment should be deputed to
go over the property in question, and, by an independent
report, to confirm or to contradict the statements im-
pugned by the O'Connells. In his journey through the
property. which occupied three days, the Reporter and
the " Commissioner" were accompanied during a part of
the time by Mr. Maurice O'Connell himself, and during
the whole of the time by some banger-on or agent of the

palliate all that was repulsive upon the property. In
every case where the parties visited spoke Irish only, the
questions were put and the answers returned through an

interpreter of their own; yet, in spite of all these efforts
to blink the truth, the report just published not only cork
firms most fully the statements of the Commissioner, but
proves even a blacker case against the middleman of
Derrynane, and the now acknowledged "worst landlord

We shall not attempt to harrow up the feelings of our
readers by describing the atrocious scenes witnessed by
We

,Il property

this second enquirer upon the OtConne
must, however, bring before them the astounding fact
that, Mr. Maurice 0 Connell, the resident steward of his
father, had not been up to the time of his visit with the
Time 'nrter, aware of even the existence of some of
Take one specimen : —" Next came J.

is tenantry

3 ue's- cabin

Engli;ll pigstye. 1-1
a heap of straw. M
existence of kimsel

It was scarcely clean enough f

n sly pt on

T 1 surprised at the
7e, and asked his wife

where she came frox

w•n village of Ard-

how long she had been
a. We Esked her how