The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-17 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-lice, Ten o'clock.

[BY EXPRESS.]

IRELAND.

MEETING °tithe REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

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The usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Association
-took place yesterday in the Conciliation Hall, which was
crowd: d' to excess in every part. Shortly before one
o'clock, Mr. O'Connell entered the Hall, and was received
with long-continued cheering and waving of handkerchiefs.
He was accompanied by W. S. O'Brien, M.P., Henry
Grattan, M.P., Nicholas Maher, M.P., John O'Connell,
M.P., &c. When the noise subsided, Mr. O'Connell
moved the Hon. Mr. Hutchinson in the chair.

- After Mr. Hetchinson's address, the handing in of sub-
scriptions was proceeded with, and the rent for the week
• was £7OO. Mr. O'Connell handed in £25 from Liver-
pool.
Mr. W. S. O'Brien annonnced that the committee
proposed to award the following sums as prizes for the
best essays written in support of a repeal of the union :
For the best essay, £lOO ; for the second best, £75
third best, £5O.
Mr, O'CONNELL, M.P., rose, and said that the con-
• `terns of Ireland were now in their hands ; they had ar-
rived at that period in which, if they acted with discre-
tion, prudence, and propriety, the Repeal of the Union
was not only certain, but near at band. He doubted
• whether they were able to spoil the cause, it was in so
prominent and powerful a position; but he knew that an
awful weight of responsibility huhg over him. They had
arrived at the time when they could be free, if they de-
served it, and conducted themselves accordingly. Tbey
ware samething more sober than on the last day. Tney
were then warmed with the triumph the had obtained.
Look at the transactions of the last twelve months, and
see springing up at every side, the disposition amongst
Irishmen to combine one with the other. Take his own
individual case, when the verdict was obtained in a man-
ner which he need not describe, there was uc insulting
triumph upon the part of those who held different.
There were no Orange processions—no Orange lodges
lamented—no Orange processions marched out in corn-
memoration of triumph—no drunken orgias—`to hell with
the Pope and O'Connell." Nothing of that kind took
place. Three years ago a very different state of things
would have existed. Little more than three years ago he
risked his life while going along the Queen's highway from
Dublin to Belfast. Three years ago the north was in a
blaze; but upon this occasion there was no triumph over his
conviction, or his sentence to imprisonment. That was an
excellent symptom : that neutrality was one which they
should hail as the harbinger of better days for Ireland. He
rejoiced at that neutrality. He was grateful. He thanked
• the Orangemen for their forbearance ; he expressed his
strongest gratitude to them fcr that proof that they were
becoming more Irish than they were, and for holding out
that prospect of still better days. But what had occurred
since he was liberated. Had the popular triumph been
marked by any discontent upon the parts of the persons
who were hitherto opposed to them ? Were there any
meetings expressing resentment at the mode on which the
ultimate success was obtained, or disparaging the conduct
of those through whom that success was announced; no
such thing; quite the contrary. He was proud to say
that be had received congratulations from multitudes of
persons who were formerly opposed to him, and whose
politics were not identified with his. His first object was
to consider whether it ought not to be referred to the com-
mittee to consider the propriety of holding the Clontarf
. meeting. He told them frankly his own opinion was that
it would not be necessary to hold the meeting. The
only necessity for calling a meeting would be this--that
being public men, and bound to preserve the principles of
the constitution, (the meeting being legal and constitu-
tional,) they should hold it for the purpose of showing
that its suppression was an outrage, and ought not to be
acquiesced in. He (Mr. O'Connell) saw a great deal in
that argument, but he thought that it would not be neces-
sary to carry out their principles further. When they had
-the five counts of the indictment which referred to those
. meetings struck out of the writ of error by the consent
of the crown counsel—including the Attorney-General—
they had the principle established, and there was no
occasion for going to the unplesantness of entering
into a controversy with the government, or anybody
else. Then, taking this suggestion as their line of con-
duct, he would remind his Protestant friends of the pro-
gress which those meetings had made. Forty-one of them
had been held with perfect tranquillity—without accident
or disorder. He was told that he repeated this too often,
but he denied the fact, for he wanted to announce to the
world that the people of Ireland were unanimous in their
conviction that the country was misgoverned, and that
the unjust act of union ought to be repealed. This was
his opinion as to the Clontarf meeting ; however, he
would, as a matter of form, move that it be referred to the
committee to consider the matter. And now for the second
question for consideration. The next matter he wished to
refer to was the " Preservation Society" of three hundred
gentlemen, to be selected from all parts of Ireland.
Upon the last day of meeting, he suggested that this
society should have control over the Association. How-
- ever he had since changed his opinion, and had come to
the conclusion that the authority of the Association
should not be lessened. The learned gentleman upon the
third point stated that instead of moving the impeach-
ment of the judges, they. would petition the Queen for
their dismissal, and continued at great length to refer to
the proceedings at the trial.

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