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turbed the court, and you must each pay a fine of 10s.,
and if you do not pay it forthwith, you must be taken
into custody."

THE WEATHER.—For the last twelve or fourteen days
(with the exception of the last three) the weather in this
neighbourhood has been rather more unsettled, cold, and
stormy, with heavy downfalls, than is usually experienced
at this period of the year—portending, indeed, tha rapid
advent of a rigorous winter. The wind has generally
blown fresh from the north, and north-north-west, with
a lowness of temperature exceedingly trying to weak con.
stitutionst particularly when so immediately succeeding a
prolongation•of what might be termed summer heat. We
had, towards the dose of last week, successive and heavy
showers of rain intermixed with hail and sleet, and on

Friday night, in the town and vicinity, an electric
in which the lightning was extremely vivid, followed by
loud explosions of thunder. No accident has, however,
come to our knowledge. In the interior of the county,
too, and northward, the weather has been wet and incle-

a considerable fall of snow and bail, particu-
larly on the hills. Yesterday was comparatively fine, but
still chilly for the season, the wind being yet northerly.
We have heard of no damage to the crops yet in the earth,
though it is feared the potatoes in low grounds-may nave
suffered from the accumulation of water. Yesterday
morning the whole country, from the effect of a hoar
frost, appeared to be invested in a thin mantle of snow,
and a slight coating of ice was observed on ponds, &c., in
exposed situations. We hope, however, we[shall yet have
a few weeks of mild dry weather to enable the farmers to
gather in their potatoes.

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(FROM OUR orvAr CORRESPON DENT.)

Manaty, 13th Oct. 1843.
Two o'clock, p.m.

Mr. O'CONNELL

Returned to town this morning from Glencullun, about
nine miles from Dublin, the seat of his son-in-law, C.
Fitzsimon, Esq., wnether he proceeded on Saturday even-
ing to enjoy the mountain breezes yesterday.
This morning's Freeman's Journal announces the
usual weekly meeting of the National Repeal Association,
to be held at the Corn Exchanze, at one o'clock, and
that the Liberator will attend. It set forth the nature of
the informations which have been sworn, and which are
so voluminous that they have not yet been furnished to
Mr. O'Connell, though copies have been ordered to be
given to him with the utmost despatch.
Among other charges set forth in the informations
against the Liberator, and upon which special counts
will, it is presumed, be framed, are the following:—Levy-
ing money off the Queen's subjects—levying money off
persons the subjects of foreign governments, for the pur-
poses of intimidation, and for the better advancement of
seditious intents—assumption of prerogative in instituting
courts of law. Also for seditiously and malignantly con-
spiring to and with each other to endeavour to seduce her
Majesty's subjects in the Army and Navy from their
allegiance to the throne, with conspiring to establish
courts in order to supercede the courts of justice as esta-
blished by law, and with an attempt to overturn
the constitution as established, under the pretext of
seeking for a repeal of the legislative union.
A host of other allegations were made, and sundry so-
called seditious speeches set forth, but the only precise
information we have as yet been able to obtain regarding
this extrordinary and interesting document, is contained
in the above.

It is presumed that the informations against the other
gentlemen are nearly similar to those against Mr. O'Con-
nell—the speeches alone excepted.
The several parties have engaged the most eminent
counsel at the bar for their defence, a list of whom I sub-
join :—The Right Hon. Dr. Pigot, Q.C.; Richard Moore,
Esq., Q.C.; John Hatchell, E-q., ' C.; Sir Coleman
O'Loghl,n, T. O'Hagan, Esq , and James Close, Esq.,
for Mr. O'Connell.—Solicitor, Mr. William Ford.

For Mr. John O'Connell—Jonatha❑ Henn, Esq., Q C.;
Gerald Fitzihhon, Esq , Q.C.; James Whiteside, Esq.,
Q. C. ; and Francis Rl•Dunagh, Esq., Q. C.; Solicitor.
2.1 r. Pierce Mahony.
However, it is indispensable that a license from the
Crown should be obtained by the Queen's Counsel, in
all cases in which the crown is a party, which has hitherto
been always granted in such cases, whether the Govern-
ment may exercise their right in the present instance I
cannot say.

The meeting of the wards I alluded to in my letter of
last night passed several resolutions expressive of their un-
bounded confidence in the Liberator—condemnatory of
the government proceedings, and urging the necessity
of all who had already contributed to the Repeal, contri-
buting a fresh subsidy under the head of Proclamation
money, but none of the proceedings were of such impor-
tance as to be worth transmitting in detail.
To-day, Dr. Gray, Messrs. C. G. Duffy, Thos. M.
Ray, Thos. Steele, Rev. James Tyrrell, Rev. Thos. Tier-
ney, and M r. Richard Barrett, attended at Judge Burton's,
and entered into hail, themselves in £5OO, and two sure-
ties in £250 each. The following are the names of the
sureties for Dr. Gray—Alderman Gardiner, and Robert
M'Clelland, T. C. ; for C. G. Duffy. Esq.—Alderman
Richard Grace, and Patrick O'Brien, T.C. ; for the Rev.
Mr. Tyrrell—Thomas Carrall and Simon R chard Fraser ;
for Thos. M. Ray (Secretary to the Association)—
Patrick O'Brien, T.C. and John Kelch ; for Ri-
cha►d Barrett (who is the editor of the Pilot)
T. O'Brien, Lord Mayor elect, and James Rooney;
for Thomas Steel—James Rooney and Alderman M`Ken-
na'; for the Rev. T. Tierney—Alderman M'Kenna and
Wm. M`Gennis.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

This Day, Four o'clock.

Mr. O'Connell is on his legs at the Corn Exchange,
(John O'Neill, Esq., of Bunowen Castle, ex-justice of
the peace, in the chair,) all the avenues to which are
densely crowded. Several members of the Association
and gentlemen of the press have had to leave the door,
being unable to procure admission. The rent, the amount
of which his not yet been announced, will , it is confidently
asserted, exceed Twelve Hundred Pounds. One hundred
has been received from Limerick. Tne Chairman intro-
duced his son to the Association, handing in £5 as his
subscription to the Proclamation Fund.

Half-past Four o'clock.
Mr. O'Connell's speech is tending in favour of a

FEDERIt, UNION,
and a consequent abandonment of Repeal, and is much
subdued in tone.

NEW LAW AiTt)INTMENTS.

There is little doubt that the Rizht Honourable Francis
Blackburne, Master of the Rolls, will succeed the present
Justice of the Queen's Bench, and be succeeded in the
Rolls by Mr. Sergeant Warren.

Literature.

POETRY.

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

(From the Dublin Statesman and Revord.)

God help thee. Church of England,
In this thy time of need ;
God he n this thy trial hour
A present help indeed :
For foes are pressing round thee,
The wary a d the strong,
But they who hear the name of friends
Do work the deepest wrong.

Thou'st been a champion for the truth,
And wielded well the sword.
Nor halt thy arm lost his strength
To battle for the Lord.
No, there are hearts within thee
As true and firm as steel.
Hearts that care not to drain their blood
The truth they love to seal.

Thy Ridleys, Cranmers, Latimers,
In spirit live again;
Yea, hosts of living saints hast thou
Li' e to those martyred men.
But there are traitors in thy walls
Who give thee secret thrust,
Who neath the robe of holy truth
Betray their sacred trust.

God help thee, Church of England,
Thou art in danerons straits,
And foemen they are pressing hard
'Gainst thy beleatuered gates ;
But 0! may strength he given thee
Amid the battle's din.
To stand upon thy watch and guard
'Gainst treachery within.

Furbish thy armour, make it bright,
Fit on the helm and shield,
And fear not now the two-edged sword
OD right and left to wield.
Just to thyself and to thy God,
Fight manfully and true,
And He. tho' earth and hell combine,
Shall bring thee victor through.

The prayer of faith is on thy side,
Unshaken trust in heaven,
And hearts that spurn the Romish chains
By their forefathers riven :
Thou standest on the word of truth,
The sure foundation stone,
Thy faith—'tis to lie justified
By Christ and Christ alone.

Fear not, old Church of England,
Thou shalt securely stand,
When God has swept thy enemies
Like locusts from the land.
The hoary walls cemented strong
With blood of martyrs slain,
Shall lift their hallowed towers to heaven
While England shall remain.

SELECTIONS.

DESCRIPTION OF CAlRO.—After the desert—the sce-
nery of which may be described as a dreary flat, only di-
versified by sand-hills, stones, rat-holes, camel skeletons,
and two trees—the view of Cairo, the " City of the
Tombs," is extremely pleasing. The Nile meandering
through fields of corn or rich pasture land—the white sails
of the boats gliding on the river's bosom—the foliage of
the gardens in the suburbs of the town—the mosques and
minarets, the palaces, and the distant, though apparently
proximate, pyramids—form a picture grateful to the eye.
and agreeable from historical association. We dismounted
at the " Great Eastern Hotel," the head-quarters of
the Egyptian Transit Company, who own the vans, horses,
and boats which transport passengers to and from Suez
and Alexandria. Two-thirds of the passengers remained
at this hotel, the remainder betaking themselves to Co-
lombe's Hotel de l'Europe. The latter is on every ac-
count to he preferred by future travellers. The rooms
are cleaner and more spacious—the table is more sump-
tuously provided—the attendance infinitely better. The
charges are, in the aggregate, the same at both hotels.
Fifteen piastres (the piastre is per diem, include
breakfast, luncheon, dinner, tea, and bed, with cafe noir
in the mornieg. Candles are charged ten piastres, and
five piastres (a shilling) are included in the bill for por-
terage. The wipes are good in their kind, and not very
expensive. Marsala, the best and most commonly drank,
costs fifteen piastres per bottle, claret thirty piastres,
champagne fifty piastres; bottled ale (Bass's and llodg-
son's) is drank at ten piastres the bottle.—Overland Trips,
in the Asiatic Aar:tat.

THE MCNAGEICIE Ar Itettolt.snituNs:. NEAR VIENNA.
—0 a! cu.. in:pris.med antn,ls none rrntke 6t)
an impresion as the eagles and vultures. T:e
high soming, lords -f the air ought at Last ro
have had their pris.,n-17nuse arranged in some n•easure
according to their natural propen,ities. A wooden cage.
with iron crating. is a fitter den for a lion or tiger than
for the rock-throned eagle's nest. In this narrow dungeon
they cannot even stretch their pinions, and yet tlys mo-
tion is no doubt es much a neces,ity to them as it is to
man to stretch his arms and lees after long coutinuanc,. in
a sitting or lying posture ; indeed it is evident, from the
custom all imprisoned birds have of spreading their wings
slowly and yawningly from time to time, The eagle and
vulture sit upon their perches as motioni• ss as if they
were mere stones. One whom I war n cv:,ina held his
head on one side and his eves immoveat-dy fixed on the
• skins; another uttered a melancholy St'll7,ii s intervals,
and lifted his useless wing. Some of them are extremely
old. I was told that one had been fifty years a prisoner.
In fifty years, if we assume that, one way or another, an
eagle can fly thirty miles a day, he might have traversed
590,000 miles; that is, he might have encompassed the
earth a hundred times. Good heaven ! what a fearful
destiny to feel this power within, and Utt condemned for
ever to one narrow, dirty, stinking hole I As the eagles
are neither cheerful here, nor display their natural pecu-
larities in any way, they can yield neither pleasure to the
lover of nature, nor profit to the inquirer into her
mysteries; and people would do much better, I am al-
most inclined to think, to free them at once from the
burden of life, and place them stuffed in a museum.—
Kohl's Austria.

LABOURERS' ALLOTMENTS.—At a great agricultural
meeting, at Lichfield, on Tuesday week, Sir Robert Peel
thus expressed himself on this subject :—" The question
was agitated last Session, with reference to the policy of
allotments to farm labourers, and much important evi-
dence was taken ripen the subject, before a Committee of
the House of Collations. I have read that evidence, and
the impression on my mind, whether in a political or
moral point of view, is in favour of allotting to the re-
spectable labourer on a farm such a small portion of land
as would afford occupation to the vacant hours of himself
and family, and give him an interest in the sail in com-
mon with the great proprietor."—On the Question of
whether it was not an essential policy in landowners to
secure better farming in their tenantry, by granting more
extended terms, the Right Hon. Baronet said, that, on
his own property all tenancies were from year to year
only, according to the custom of that part of the country;
but he gave notice, that he would be prepared to meet any
tenants of his who might consider that they should feel
it would conduce to their greater self-respect and satis-
faction to hold longer leases, and who was not at all pre-
pared to say he would withold such leases after so conferring
with the parties. " Gentlemen," said the right Hon.
Baronet, " I know nothing in English Society that pre-
sents a prospect more gratifying than a rural district well
cultivated, in which subsist relations of mutual confi-
dence between the landed proprietor and the occupying
tenant; arid, let me add, the farm-labourer. Politics,
gentlemen, that is to say, politics that in anyway partake
of a party character, are wisely excluded from our pro-
ceedings ; but it would be absurd to exclude that great
and comprehensive policy which must see in the success
of British agriculture one of the great foundations of na-
tional strength and national prosperity."
LIFE IN THE HAREM.—The Eastern woman seems
as happy in her lot as her European sister, notwithstand-
ing the plurality of wives in which her lord indulges or
ventures upon. In her " public opinion's law" there is
no more disparagement in occupying the second place as
a wife, than there is in Europe as a daughter. The man-
ners of the patriarchal ages remain in Egypt as unchanged
as its monuments ; and the people of Cairo no more think
of objecting to a man's marrying a second wife, than those
of Memphis thought of questioning the legitimacy of
Joseph. The Koran, following the example of the Jewish
doctor., only allows four wives to each Musselman, and
they seldom avail themselves even of this limited allow-
ance to its fullest extent. Some hareems contain two
hundred females, including wives, mother in-law, concu-
bines, and the various slaves belonging to each. These
feminine barracks, however, seem very different from what
such establishments would be in Europe. In the hareem
there is as much order and decorum as in an English qua-
ker's home. It is guarded as the tiger guards his young;
but its inmates consider this as a compliment, and fancy
themselves neglected if not closely watched. This cause
for complaint seld mu occurs, for the Egyptian has no
blind confidence in the strength of woman's character or
woman's love : he considers it safer, if not more glorious,
to keep her out of the reach of temptation, than to run
the chance of her overcoming it. Born and brought up
in the hareem, women never seem to pine at its imprison-
ment : like caee•born birds, they sing among their bars,
and discover in their aviaries a thousand little pleasures
invisible to eyes that have a wider range. There are no
literary ladies : knowing riot the thoughts of others, they
associ to the more with their own ; and who can tell what
wild and beautiful regions of imagination their minds may
wander through, unimprisoned, if undirected by educa-
tion. To them, in their calm seclusion, the strifes of the
battling world come softened and almost hushed ; they
only hear the far-off murmur of life's stormy sea, and if
their human lot dooms them to their cares, they are as
transient as those of childhood.—Dublin University Ma-
gazine.
ENGLISH AND COSSACK HORSES.—A wager was laid
by Mr. Gibson, the English Consul, that two English
horses would beat any two Cossack horses which could
be selected, at a race of 50 versts, or upwards of 33 Eng-
lish miles. This took place long after the Cossack horses
had been improved by the admixture of English and Ara-
bian blood, and Mr Gibson had no particular horses in
his view. He commissioned a friend to send two hunters
for the purpose. Two tolerably well bred, but at that date
naturally not thorough-bred, hunters were sent out to
him, whilst the Russians selected out of some 50,000 of
the best horses in the Cossack country. The race took
place in the presence of the Emperor Alexander; regi-
ments of Cossacks were dispersed along the line to keep
it clear, thousands of pounds were betted on the issue of
the match, and an immense concourse of people assem-
bled to witness it. It commenced under these disadvan-
tages for the Englishmen—firstly, that they had grown
men to ride, whilst the Cossack horses were ridden at
feather weight; and, secondly, that one of the two Eng-
lish horses fell dead lame at starting. The other, at the
half-way station, arrived whilst the two Cossacks were
far out of sight, and being full of contempt for his anta-
gonists, he dismounted, both to refresh himself and his
steed ; meanwhile the Cossacks came up and passed on-
wards. Now, it, happened that one of the Counts Orloff,
commander of the Cossack horsemen stationed to keep
the line, was deeply interested in the issue of the race,
and, by a very ingenious if not a very creditable piece of
jockeyship, he had contrived to be made acquainted at
every instaat with its progress. For this purpose the '
Cossacks had private orders, whenever the Russians were
ahead to hold their lance perpendicular, when the English
were foremost to drop them horizontally. As the horse-
men were in sight of each other, this signal was in a few
minutes telegraphed from one to the other, up to the
Count. At about the middle of the race, where the Eng-
lish horse had stopped, the lances, after being constantly
down, were suddenly raised up, and Orloff, imagining that
now the bottom of the Cossacks was beginning to tell,
made sure of victory, and betted another 100,000 rubles
on the event ; but, alas! he was caught in his own trap,
the lances went up again, the English horse came in at
last, in miserable plight it is true, but the Cossack horses
never came in at all, either dying or being obliged to be
killed where they had fallen.—New Mont hlp Magazine.
MR. GRATTAN'S CHARACTER OF DANIEL O'CON-
NELL IN 1815.—" Examine their leader, Mr. O'Connell
—he assumes a right to direct the Catholics of Ireland—
be advises—he harangues—and he excites •, he does not
attempt to allay the passions of a warm and jealous peo-
ple. Full of inflammatory matter, his declamations
breathed everything but harmony, venting against Great
Britain the most disgusting calumny, falsehoods, and
treachery, equalled only by his impudene; describing
Great Britian as the moat stupid, the most dishonest, and
the most besotted nation that ever existed ; that Ireland
could not confide in the promises of England, &c. With-
out discrimination he pronounced all Protestants ` bigots.'
When he advocated the grievances of the Catholic body,
he omitted the greatest greviance—himself! A man that
could make the speeches he has made, utter the senti-
ments he has uttered, abuse the characters he has abused,
praise the characters that he has praised, violate the pro-
mises that he has violated, propose such votes and such
censures as he has proposed—can have little regard for
private honour or for public character; he cannot com-
prehend the spirit of liberty, and he is not fitted to re-
ceive it. He betrays such a scattered understanding and
barbarous mind, that if he got liberty he would immedi-
ately lose it. Almost unsuited for the British constitu-
tion, and almost ignorant of the bonds of civil society,
of such a mould, and such a disposition, as to be incapa-
ble of accomplishing any rational object, his declamations
to the lower orders are full of extravagance, wildness and
ambiguity, and set afloat the had passions of the people,
make them restless in disposition, and impatient in action.
He leaves a vacuum in the meaning of his harangue, to be
filled up by the elevated imagination of a warm-hearted
and sensible people. It is the part of a bad man to make
use of grievances as instruments of power, and render
them the means of discontent without a single honest
attempt at redress. He knows, or at least he ought to
know, that this conduct is of such a nature as must al-
ways tend to confusion in bad m nisters, and strengthen
their authority ; it seduces people into mischief not inten-
ded, and, after exciting them to Lolly, it abandons them
through fear. It may lead them to rise against an ex-
ciseman or titheman, to burn a hayrick, or murder a
farmer, but will never teach them to redress greivances,
or to bring the offending minister to the scaffold. This
leader in spirit is poor, his courage is of a hesitating
quality, his political confidence is prodigious also; in de-
bate he is more than a hero; in every sentence there is a
challenge; in the field he is a diplomatic. He was insult-
ed, and did not fight ; again insulted, he was goaded to
the ground, where his antagonist Rodergo fell. He then
offered an insult, was noticed by the condescending spirit
of an imprudent minister, was challenged, travelled 400
miles incognito, was arrested through an unforeseen acci-
dent ; did not go to the ground, being prevented by an
unavoidable necessity. His speaking is extravagnt dic-
tion—a vulgar boast, a swaggering sentence, affected
bombast, and ludicrous composition. His liberty is not
liberal, his politics are not reason, his reading is not learn-
ing, his learning is not knowledge; his rhetoric is a gaudy
hyperbole, garnished with faded flowers, such as a drab-
bled girl would pick up in Covent. garden, stuck in with
the taste of a kitchertmaid. He makes politics a trade to
serve his desperate and interested purpose. This man
can bring about nothing good ; in abortion he is the roost
fertile ; the womb of his mind is of such sinful mould
that it can never produce anything that is not deformed.
He never succeeded in any project except the loss of your
question. He harks arid harks, and, even when the filthy
slaverer has exhausted its poison, and returns to its ken-
, nel, it there still hark• and ln,wls within un.een. No ad-
ministration hut sxould inj,ire their reputation by advan-
* csig such a character."

rffilllD EDITION.

Btandat 11 office, Eleven o'clo

STILL LATER FROM OUR
DUBLIN CORRESPONDENT.

MOST IMPORTANT.
ABANDONMENT OF REPEAL FOR
FEDERALISM.

Half-past Seven o'clock.
I send you a full report of the proceedings this
day at the
LOYAL NATIONAL REPEAL
ASSOCIATION.

The avenues leading to the Corn Exchange were
densely crowded long before one o'clock. The Clair
was taken by John Augustus O'Neill, Esq., of Bun-
owen Castle, county Galway, formerly M.P. for Hull,
and a captain of dragoons; and subsequently a deputy-
lieutenant and magistrate, both of which offices he re-
signed.

The CH AIRMAN said, that when he heard of the arrest
of O'Connell and his son, he was determined that O'Neill
should not be backward in sharing the post of honour and
of peril. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear," and cheers.)
He proceeded to explain the grounds of his conviction
that repeal was necessary for Ireland, and was discussing
the subject of federal legislation when, at one o'clock
Precisely, the Liberator entered the meeting, accompanied
by his sons, the Member for Kilkenny, and Daniel
O'Connell, jun., upon which the entire assembly rose,
and the cheering was kept up for several minutes. He
(Mr. O'N.) deprecated the use of the word Saxon as a term
of reproach, and said that all that was good and favour-
able to liberty in the British constitution was handed
down from the Saxon—the evil was introduced by the
Normans (hear, bear). He would go from that chair to
the dungeon, and from the dungeon to the scaffold rather
than admit that he was deterred from seeking right and
justice by the insulting presence of troops and artillery
(great cheering). The soldier in Russia was a mere
machine—a fire-lock upon legs (laughter). The French
soldiers were armed and disciplined citizens. No men
knew better where the duty of the soldier ended, and that
of the citizen commenced (hear, bear). He trusted our own
soldiery would never forget the distinction (loud cheers).
We observed seated at the end of the reporter's table,
Inspector Maher, who took a note in a book when any
one of " the conspirators" rose to speak.

. .
After subscriptions bad been banded in from various
places,

Mr. O'CONNELL said—He would, at the conclusion of
his remarks, move that their present chairman be re-
quested to act as chairman on Monday, at the meeting
which would be held in the Conciliation Hall. which
would then be ready for that purpose. (Hear, hear.)
He also promised that for the future he (Mr. O'Connell)
and he trusted the association also, would give up the
word "Sa on," as it was calculated to give offence.—
(Hear, hear.) When they first used the term (and it
should be recollected that the only phrase in Irish to ex-
press the word Englishman, was " Sassenach")—Lord
Stanley was very angry, and they used it ten times more
on that account at the time. The use of it was sub-
sequently revived when they were branded as aliens in
language, in blood, and religion, by Lord Lyndhurst,
and it had been pretty freely applied ever since ; but be
now promised that for the future the word should not pass
his lips, or if it inadvertently fell from him at any time,
he would immediately retract it. ( Hear, hear.) Having
denied that the people were obnoxious to the charge of
disloyalty, but, on the contrary, entitled to the greatest
praise for their strict obedience to the laws, Mr. O'Con•
nell came to the topic of a federal parliament. In the
corporation debate on repeal, he had declared his willing-
ness to accept a federal parliament, and instanced Canada,
where such a parliament had done much good. Since then
many persons had joined that association, who went no fur-
ther than a federal union, and he had lately received a letter
from a gentleman of high distinction in England on the
subject, in which his (Mr. O'Connell's) attention was
directed to two points, concerning which the writer be.
lieved it to be of the greatest importance that the people
of England should have correct information before they
would join generally or extensively with that association—
(hear.) The first point was, that it should be shown to
the people of England that Irishmen, in seeking for the
restoration of a parliament to their country, strove only to
procure for themselves the management of their own local
and internal affairs, leaving matters of national importance
to both countries to be legislated upon by representatives
from both countries in the imperial legislature. The
next point was that Englishmen should be satisfied that
as they co-operated with Irishmen, so Irishmen should
assist Englishmen in their struggle to obtain a full,
fair, and free representation—(hear, hear, hear.) He
(Mr. O'Connell) would meet such propositions in the
enirit in which they were put forward, and he told
that gentleman that, if a sufficient number of the Eng-
li-h p-ople came forward, there would be no difficulty in
arranging repeal on the definite mentioned by him—
(hear, hear ) Let him not be taunted with shrink-
ing when he accepted these terms, for by doing so, they
not only took away all argument from their enemies, but
merely followed a course to which the association was
already pledged by the admission of the Catholic Bishop
of Killaloe, and other gentlemen, on the same terms.
(Hear, hear, hear.) The change of which they were on
the eve, must be bloodless and sinless. He had ascer-
tained, by a series of monster meetings, that the people
were peaceable and determined to obey the law. Acting
on the advice of Grattan, who declared that repeal was
impossible—the national voice was clearly ascertained to
be in favour of it. He had ascertained that voice so far
in peace and quietness, and if the proclamation had not
been issued he should have gone on as quietly to the end.
He had been told the day before that he should be pre-
vented from addressing that meeting to-day, but he re-
plied that that could not he, because he was the auxiliary
of the government in preaching peace. If the government
were to interfere with him in that room, would it not be
said that, having failed to irritate the people by the Clon-
tarf proclamation, they wanted to do so by arresting the
man who preached peace ? Therefore he was there to
preach peace.
The Repeal rent was then announced to be £1,232, and
the meeting was adj wrned to Monday next, *hen the
Conciliation Hall will be ready for use.

THE POOR AND THE NEW POOR LAW.

(From the Times.)

The condition of the poor is a subject which, altogether
irrespectively of the Poor L, w and its collateral questions,
must ever excite the at-tendon of thinking men. Above
all, it should he in London, where the condition of the
poor is most strikingly appalling.
It appears from the report of the proceedings at Marl-
borough-street Police-office, in our columns of yesterday,
that there is an average number of 50 human beings, of
all ages, who huddle together in the parks every night,
having no other shelter than what is supplied by the trees
and hollows of the embankment. Of these the maj rity
are young girls, who have been seduced from the country
by the soldiers, and turned loose on the world in all the
destitution of friendless penury, and all the recklessness
of early vice.

This is truly horrible. Poor there must be everywhere.
Indigence will find its way and set up its hideous state in
the heart of a great and luxurious city. Amid the thou-
sand narrow lanes and by-streets of a populous metro-
polis there must always, we fear, be much suffering--
much that offends the eye—much that lurks unseen.
But that within the precincts of wealth, gaiety, and
fashion, nigh the regal grandeur of St. James's, close on
the palatial splendour of Bayswater, on the confines of
the old and the new aristocratic quarters, in a district
where the cautious refinement of modern design has ah•
stained from erecting one single tenement for poverty;
which seems, as it were, dedicated to the exclusive en-
joyments of wealth,—that there want, famine, and dis-
ease, and vice should stalk in all their kindred horrors,
consuming body by body, and soul by soul !
It is, indeed, a monstrous state of things. Enjoyment
the most absolute, that bodily ease, intellectual excite-
men, or the more innocent pleasures of sense can supply
to man's craving, brought in close contact with the most
unmitigated misery! Wealth from its bright saloons
laughing—an insolently heedless laugh, at the unknown
wounds of want! Pleasure, cruelly but unconsciously
mocking the the pain that moans below i All contrary
things jostling one another—all contrary, save the vice
which tempts and the vice which is tempted !
It is a sickening theme. It brings home to the heart
the utter weakness—the utter hardness of our nature.
There is wealth, there is skill, there is art, there is
science, there is theory,—all these enough, and more than
enough, in England. Most abundant are they in the
heart of England. Yet does the life blood rush in a more
healthy stream ? Does the pulse of the nation beat with
a more generous rapture? Whom bath its wealth made
happier ? Whom has its skill taught to shun the moral
pestilence that consumes its tens of thousands? Whom
has its theory taught the high and paramount duty which
:nan owes to the infirmities of his brother man ?
There are men of many theories abroad. Some would
huild in the human race within parallelograms, and bid
them go and practise virtue intuitiveiy. Others would
unputate tariffs and navigation laws, crying to all, the
halt, and the blind, and the penniless, '• Go trade, and be
rich." Some there are who, believing that society is
' hollow, false, and tottering, would restore long-forgotten
rules, and bring the vague and casual charity of men under
-fie cognizance and direction of the church. But these
.nen are laughed at by the age. For is not the age utili-
tarian, and therefore wise?
But let all men, whether of theory or of practice, re-
member this—that within the cAost courtly precincts of
• he richest city on Gods earth there may he found, night
.fter night, winter alter winter, women—young in years
—old in sin and suffering—outcasts from society—uor-
riNG FROM FAMINE, FILTH AND DISEASE. Let then.
emeniber Oil:, arid learn not to theorize, but to act. God
knows, there L., n-luch ruin for •Icti,,,rl now-p-days. •

THE lAVMWOOL STANDARD.