The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-11-08
London.
London.
European Correspondence of the Horald.l
LONDON, 18th October I8l

A'A'"sH'o' HeosHTso against hepedi-or, the Begin
| ming Of the End.
The first ftep is taken. The Government has
spoken out; it has done more than that; il has
struck the first blow, and OConnel is already show
ing the white feather, and preparing TO beat a
retreat. In America, where there are so many
sound and true hearts of oak and of iron, this will
scarcely be believed, and it will be said by thou.
sands OF honest men this is impossible. Yet it is
true. Hear the history
O'Connell had convoked another monster meet
ing a, Oiontarl-to be held on Sunday, the 9th
instant II was 10 be military in its character, and
| marliai IN ifs appearance. The horsemen were to
be arfayed In order Of battle and the word "impes
ing wen expresses the aspect which it was destined
| 10 pear. something even more than met the eve
| was also intended, and the Government of Ireland
was TO be overawed 1t is quite impossible to read
the programme OF the intended meeting, without
arriving at mat conclusion Whar was TO be done?
" that meeting were permitted, others of even a
more reso'ute character would follow, and the Irish
Government would exist only in name. This was
the reasoning of Sir Robert Peel and urged as he
was by his own party, by the Irish Privy Council.
by the English press, and BY his coadutors in Office.
ne Drought his courage to the sticking point" and
directed the Lord Lieutenant to prepare for the con-
met. On Friday, the 9th, only two days prior to
the proposed monster assembly, the Lord Lieuten-
ant and suite arrived quite unexpe ctedly at Dublin.
and at one o'clock Prvy Council was held. at
which the Lord Chancellor Sugden, Lords Do
| anu EllOt. ana MeHSrS. BIaCKDIrne.
Blakeney, Frederick Shaw, and T. g. Smith
were present. Nothing whatever TRANSFERRED in pub
lie as TO the motive OF this sudden meeting, though
1t is said that OConnel ascertained in the evening
| OF that day that the Council were to meet the next
morning, and that summary and severe measures
were about to be taken to suppress repeal agitation
O'Cennell pretends that he was in Dublin by acct
gent Out this statements believed to be erroneous.
He was permitted to know what was about to take
| place because the Government had learnt TINT he
OConmeH, tsh himself to BE- placed in most difficult
ana, indeed, ane1tricdbe POSITION his yepeas
,osre DESTROYS OF gong msch further and faster than
he toas disposed to go In fact, the Government
knew that he, O'Conncll, had no idea he should
have been understood, and taken so literally, as he
nag been oy MS tens OF thousands OF followers, and
years before him for the accomplishment of his vast
| but perilous design. Now, that was the pre- else
moment at which Sir Robert Peel decided on act.
Ing. and l have no hesitation in affirming that
OConne is most exceedingly grateful for the mea-
sures which the Government has adopted But to
proceed with the events, in their order of dates
On Saturday. the IN of October, at ten in the
morning, the Privy Council again met, and pro-
clamatlon was agreed on, and subsequently publish
ed. Mr. O'Connel obtained a copy about noon,
and was by no means surprised by its contents.
Those who are acquainted with the Irish charac-
ter and with the nature Of the Dublin populati on will
readily understand that this denunciaton produced
degee OF excitement really impossible to describe.
But the first question which was of all parties ask
| Ell, was this, " what will O'Conne do Z" He had
talked, promised, vowed, speechifed, AMI prophe-
cied enough in six months for twenty years but
now came the question of what will he "do ~
the soldiery-he will fight at once the battle he had
so often sighed for-and will at length 'let slip the
dogs OF war" Others, VINO knew him better, said,
He will do no such thing. He will endorse the
proclamation OF the government. He will urge his
repealers not to assemble. He will implore them
not to assume even the semblance of war. He will
urge tor pacific agitation, the end Of which will be
simply to increase the rent, and provide abundance
| n q Cnpr,n Ia xusl
balts-create new tubs to throw out TO the whale"
and viii! proceed in his accustomed course of
slill tncklng, but never thriving"
state OF suspense. He feared aggression, violence,
hostile acts against the government, in the conse-
quences OF which he would have been implicated,
ed" to be at Dublin, he called special meeting at
| the Corn Exchange of his Repeal Association,
and there had the assurance to declare that, $50
far from being displeased by this ministerial ma
relaxation. This was really the last meeting that
was to have taken place" He then produced his
proclamation" ia reply to that of the government,
and stronger document never was laid before any
| assembly.
This countermand of the meeting by O'Connell
| himself occasloned some merriment TO his oppo.
nents, and they recounted with bursts Of laughter,
| some Of his 'sclemn" declarations, made in the
course OF the summer and autumn to assembled
thousands, that If the SaXons should dare to oppose
| by force his invincibe battaions. he would show
them that he had greater army at his disposal, and
one more ready, willing and able to fight, than ever
| the Duke of Wellington, :" the stuned CORPORAL"
had commanded at Waterloo. His friends on the
| other hand, were divided into two parties. One
party said, "he will break down at last; and should
he do so, repeal will be adjourned acknowledgement
haps forever" The other party said, he has ia
ken the right cOurse-he is not in a condition to
slst force BY. force, The repeal must be gained by
moral agitation. Large meetings must be abandon
ed, and small parish meetings must be resored to;
the object will be even better promoted by stimuli
taneousness OF district assemblies. Thousands OF
petitions will produce more effect than few enor
nous meetings, and tens of thousands of indivldu-
| als will join the ranks OF the Repeaers when their
movements shall be OF more legal and ordinary
| character"
The whole of the evening and night was occupi
ed by the members Of the Repeal Association in ma.
king It generally known that the threatened meet.
ing would not be held, and as Clonarf Is only sua-
ted two miles from Dublin, and the proposed place
of asse mbly Conquer HilD half mile further, it
was BY no means a difficult matter to aprrise the
people likely to attend that they would do well TO
abstain from appearing. Notwithstanding, howe.
yer, all the precautionary measures adopted, both
by the government and by the repealers vast num-
bers OF individuals FASTENED early towards Conquer
Hill, but beheld it occupied by Fuscrs. pieces of
| artillery, and by Pnnce Albert's llth Light Ora
goons. the chiefs OF the Repealers were no where
| to be seen. The leaders at the Corn Exchange
eting had abs,ondet. The people stared. joked,
laughed, sneered at the sodiery, and tainted them
with gbes land jeers, land at in the afternoon
wearied of yawnng and disappointment, retired TO
| their Dublin homes.
On Monday the usual weekly meeting of the
Repeal Association was held not at the Corn Ex-
change, but in Calvert's Theatre, Royal Abbey
| street; and great deal of money was received al
the door Tor admlsslon charges varying from three
pence TO two shllllngs. About three thousand per.
| sons were present, aud the Reverend Mr.. TyrreIl
moved resolutions OF APPRECIATION OF the declaration
OF Leinser, of devoted loyalty to Queen Victoria,
OF determination to use every constitutional action
to free Ireland from the tyranny OF being egisaled
| for by Others than her own Inhabitants. and OF
| unbounded conf .ence in O'Connel
The speech of O'Connel was tame, mournful,
| and depressing. He evidently felt that he was
beaten, and that he had not dared as the pre- vous
day, to carry his Oft repeated vow into operation
| put down The monster meetings, he would meet
force by force, and would die at the head Of his
followers II was very true that he, OConnell, had
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