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REPEAL IN IRELAND.


! The limitations on the part Of the British Min.
'stry thatforce would be employed to put down
| tho 'repeal" agitation in Ireland, have caused
| great excitement among the Irish people. Ii
would seem thata conflict is at hand. O'CoNNELI
and his friends have gone too far to recede. They
maintain, however. that they occupy constitution
al ground; that their measures to promote repeal
have violated no law; that they have right, IN
short, to carry on peaceful agitation in which no
weapons but petitions and circumstances are used
But the anger aud alarm of the British Government
at the growing discomfort and Gsaflec,ion in Ire
land are arousing the Ministry to put forth the iron
arm of power by which all questions of right are
to be summary disposed Of
| We give an extract from one Of Mr.. O'CoN.
NeLL's late speeches at the Dublin Corn En-
change:
! When the Duke of Wellington and Sir Rober,
Peel read on Tuesday night the addresses of the
Lords and Commons to William w., pledpinu
themselves to maintain the Union inviola,e, they
! studiously avoided the passages wherein they
pledged themselves to remedy all the Just causes
OF complaint of the Irish people. They well
knew that their grievances not redresscd,
and that the solemn pledges of King, Lords and
! Commons, had been broken. But did Wellington
and Peel renew that promise Not they. They
promised nothing, and they were the bows to keen
this declaration. Ii they did the Irish people
would treat 1t like chaf. They were told tina,
| some mighty movement was about to take place
-ietit. They might annihilate the constitution,
nut ne would tell them they would have some
trouble IN doing so-they might trample on him
they might set him at defiancc-but unless thew
gagged him he would speak his sentiments to m.
people, and hear theirs in return. (Hear hear.
and loud cheers.) Again he set them at defiance,
and let them begin their despoiic measures as
Soon as they pleased, they would find how the
Irish people could respond. (Reiterated cheers
Coercion, indeed. was talked of-aye, talked Of
| but let II once be begun, and what response
would come from every part of Ireland. (Cheers)
lhey Should eXtinguish in the blood of the Irish
| people the last remnant of their liberty IRE
mendous cheering and waving of hats) Peel
told them-and he read the announcement wit,
| horror-that he was authorised to make this foul
declaration by the Queen.-it was "A lie-a minis
tcrlal lie they were the words OF the minister.
not OF the Queen. (Cheers. )-They had coerced
her 'ogive them power; but she was coming to
Ireland, God bless her. She was welcome: and
from the moment she landed, every day, petitions
bearing from 100000 to 400, 900 signatures would
be presented to her, asking her to consider The
question OF a repeal of the Union. Cheers.)
On every wall she should see, in large letters
Shepeai; Whenever and wherever she appears,
ton, demand for repeal. (Hear. hear, and loud
cheers) They may talk of The ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF inc empire as they please, bnt the truth shal,
be told to The Queen. She should hear the shout
OF repeal on all sides. Not day should pass
over That petitions bearing hundreds of thousands
OF signatures praying for repeal, should not be pu,
Int" her hands. Let her once consent 10 il. and
III twenty-five minutes the Union would be re-
pea'ed. England never conquered us she OBJ
tiheu the surrender ut the arms of $4,000 discp-
lined troops on the faith of IA solemn treaty. for
securing CUR liberties, but tina, treaty. was inCa
mousy broken. She took the value, and swim
died us out OF our right. tell Sir Il. Peel, (con-
'inued Mr.. O'ConnelI,) that belong to a nation
OK eight millions-that there are a million of
lrishmen in England-and tell him that he dare
ho' commence the strife against Ireland. (Cheers
uJ"Such movements as the following are much
to be deprecated, as calculated TO involve us in
war with Great Britain, and ought to be discopn.
tenanced
The IHIsH REPEAL ExcIrRMEwr.-Meetinqs
were held in the city of New York nearly every
evening during the last week, the object of which
seems TO have been TO collec. contributions in aid
OF Mr.. OConneTs projec. for the repeal of the le
gisiaiive union between England and Ireland-i
The speeches teemed with violent reprobaton off
British injustice, und with abuse of the Duke of
wellington and Sir Robert Peel. Threats of lu-
dlcrous impotence hurled against the British
Government were responded 70 with the widest
enthusiasm. At the meeting on Tuesday evening
MIR. EUGENE A. CAssERLY is said to have read
The following announcement:
"ln the event Of Sir Robert Peel's rufIlino his
threat OF sending troops into Ireland to put down
the repeal movement at the point of the bayonet.
on demand promise to pay one thousand dollars
10 aid In organizing an army of twenty thousand
men TO invade the Canadas.
JOHN MULLEN.
"NGw York, June G. 1872
Wherenpon the whole assembly sprang to its
ieet and for full ten minutes INDUCED tselfin ex-
'ravagant demonstrations of applause, the intern
perance of which, according to the Freemans Jour
nal, was fearful to witness. Mr.. CAssERLY then
ADDED that there were in the room one hundred !
other gentlemen pledged to deposite each SINH |
lar sum of one thousand dollars, in the event of
any bloodshed in Ireland.
The Freeman's Journal Catholic Recis,er) re- |
ports the proceedings at length of four of these |
meetings, at which the sum of 81 1856 and up |
wards was contributed in furherance Of repeal |
journal Of Commerce.
memoir has been started in Boston, adj |
dressed TO the President Of the United States ask
ing him to demonstrate with the British Govern
ment against the late act Of Lord Paule,, in taking
possession OF the Sandwich Islands.