The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

REPEAL ASSOCIATION

signed.

Four o'clock.
Mr. O'Connell is on hiFi legs at the Corn Exchange,
(John ('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 hsve had to leave the door,
being unable to procure admission. The rent, the amount
of which has not yet been announced. will, it is confidently
asserted, exceed Twelve Hundred Pounds.. One hundred

has been received from Limerick.. The 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

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

NEW LAW APPOINTMENTS.

There is little doubt that the Right 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.

We received the following, also from our own corre-
spondent, by the mail-packet, and published it in our
Third Edition at Eleven o'clock :

MOST IMPORTANT

ABANDONMENT OF REPEAL FOR FEDE-

RALISM

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 chair
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-

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 Liberatorentered the meeting, accompanied
by his sons, the Member for Kilkenny, and Daniel
O'Conr.ell, 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, hear). 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, hear). 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 had been handed 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 " Saxon," 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 he
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, lie 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 hieh 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.) lie
(Mr. O'Connell) would meet such propositions in the
spirit in which they were put forward, and he told
that gentleman that, if a sufficient nnmber of the Eng-
lish people came forward, there would be no difficulty in
arranging repeal on the definite terms 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
11 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 be, 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 adjrnrned to Monday next (yesterday),
when the Conciliation Hall will be ready for use.

THE REPEAL CRISIS : FRESH PROSECUTIONS.

We learn that informations have been sworn against
Mr. O'Connell and others, on account of the proceedings
at Clifden, in the county of Galway, at the " monster
meeting" held there on Sunday, the 17th of September,
Lord Ffrench in the chair. The information sworn by
James Ireland, sub-inspector of constabulary, sets forth
that the meeting was attended by Daniel O'Connell,
Thomas Steele, Dr. Gray. and Thomas Dillon Browne,
with many others,—that the last-named gentleman, ad.
dressing the meeting, said, "This is a glorious demon-
stration that would strike terror into Peel and Welling•
ton." Speaking of Mr. D'Arcy, a magistrate of the
county, and proprietor of the soil, Mr. Browne applied
the terms, " Paltry miscreant and contemptible wretch."

...• .
The meeting was composed of about ten thousand per-
sons, one thousand of whom were on horseback, arranged
in military order, and moved according to orders.
Mr. O'Connell, addressing the meeting, said, " He
could not hut admire the regularity with which the cavalry
defiled in the rear. Little business the English cavalry
would have in following them over the mountain. dad
they not ready arms to assist him, if necessary ? lie
would make Ireland a nation."

Informations are also lodged against the Pilot, the
Nation, and the Freeman's Journal newspapers.
The articles of the Pilot accounted seditious are as fol-
low :—That published on the 28th of August, entitled
"The Duty of a Soldier ;" that of the 6th of September,
styled " Irish in the English Army ;" that of the 15th of
September, purporting to be Mr. O'Connell's addres
"To the Inhabitants of the Counties subject to the British
Crown ;" another article of the 22d of September, pur-
porting to be a letter signed "'Richard Power, P.P. ;" an
article of the 25th of September, entitled "The Army,
the People, and the Government t" and an article, same
date, " Rumoured death of General Jackson : Battle of
New Orleans." _ _

The last of the Pilot articles was published on the 6th
of October, entitled " The Battle of Clontarf."
Then comes the Nation, of the 26th of August. The
articles of that date are styled " The crisis is upon us."
The next is the address of Mr. O'Connell, before men-
tioned, published in the Nation of the 16th of September;
'.,n(l the third article of the same paper, purports to he a
letter signed " A del Cassian." The article of the Free-
man is the aforesaid address of Mr. O'Connell. Here
we end fcr the presext.—Dublin Evening Packet.

REPRESENTATION OF KILKENNY.—Mr. Pierce So-
merset 'Butler, son of the present representative, has of-
fered himself as a candidate for the county Kilkenny.
VALUE OF FARMING PROPERTY IN IRELAND.—By
the voluminous compilation of the census commissioners
it appears that the estimated valse of the rural stock of
the whole island is C 20,671,068, and is thus distributed in
provinces 7-I,Pitister, £5,787,665 ; Munster, £6,243,438;
Ulster, £5,321,752 ; Connaught, £3,318,213: total,
.C 20,671,068.

RIJN ON THE BANK OF IRELAND.—BALIANASLOE,
OCTOBER 13.—1 t may be important for you to know that
the run on the bank for gold still continues. To-day the
hank-office was crowded by country people, and to-
morrow being market-day it is expected that a tremendous
run will be made. A beggarman eAI exchanged his rags
for gold yesterday. A rumour is abroad now that all
exeiscable ,rticles will be prohibited from use. The self_
denial practised already witbie
comrdtoplwiahnicse.ke_yptii
arguest
orongly in favour of the people's
Warder.

•- -
1-It,RVING OF THE MARQUXS OF WATERFORD'S
STABLES.—A large portion of the Marquis of Water-
ford's stable,, at Lakefield, was. on Friday week, de-
stroyed by fire. The greatest anxiety has been evinced
to learn the origin of the disaster. The Tipperary Con-
ga/it/ion states that :the noble marquis is very much an-
noyed at the circumstance; and, having recently received
some threatening notices, be attributes it to malice, and
has, ander that impression, ordered his establishment to
be immediately removed from Lakefield.

TIM LIVERPOOL STANDARD.