The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-06-30

Freeman's Hall, Columbia street. the South Ferry
the occasion, believing your opinions the subject
ba In unison with those of committee. The object
yGS r WIN A. on
appear In the Herald Of to morrow.
THOS. LESLIE,
JOHNF HENNESY, Sec
Z. D. CoNNEnr, Esq
No. los HAMMERsLv STU
June 20, 1S46.
In reply to your letter. inviting to attend
Of the Irish people in their struggle for national inde
pendence and freedom from the yoke of British tyran
ny and despotsm allow me to assure you that no man
sympathises more with my oppressed prosecuted IA
mine-stricken countrymen than do; but gentlemen,
until there is unanimity and differentiation exist
Irish affairs in this city and taken Of the
peoples money, shall keep aoof from any conuexion
with the present movement i would seem that to be
from sefinterested while those whose objects
personal aggrandsement and a "share of the losves
and ehes Of life and who have the tact of imposing
upon too credulous and confding people, cousd-
cred sterling patriots and receive the unanimous cheers
of their hearers. must also state that were willing
to assist, a. hope always SHALL In the of Ire-
land yet the present state Of health precudes the
possibility Of my addressing any public body. With
under the guidance Of q republican government,
remain. gentlemen,
Yours very respectfully,
EDWARD DOwNES CONNERY
To tho South Brooklyn Republican Committee.
The position taken here, in connection with
these movements of sympathy, and with the man.
ner in which they have been conducted, is the
only correct one. No one can doubt the friend
ship of the American people for the Irish cause;
but, as these meetings are now managed, the best
Of friendship is turned into improper channels,
These meetings are degenerating every day from
their original purposes into mere cabas of money
col md p1ou oil Cor bo,r
benefit
The cause of Ireland must depend on the Irish.
No country can be much benefited by isolated
meetings held in this land of general freedom IF
the Irish, English, or Scotch, or any other people,
mean to secure their rights and privileges, they
must rise up spontaneously, and claim them IN the
same way as the Americans did in their revolu-
ton, and as the French, in their late revolution,
have obtained theirs.
The great evil in Ireland, as we'll as in Great
Britain is the monopoly of lands and property of
all KINDS, by the nicicasi-.-~---,, .-scrdIng
few thousand in number; while the population
is nearer thirty millions. Reform bills, bills for
the repeal Of the union, the charter and all other
measures of change which may include mo-
narchy and aristocracy, are mere decisions
There can be no general happiness, no general
comfort in England Ireland or Scotland until they
form federal repubic like the United States, and
have each established form of government simi-
lar to our own, for which they have ample intel
gence and sufficient discretion to manage.
ENGLAND AND SPAIN.-In the manner in which
England has treated the indignity perpetrated to-
wards her by Spain, the world has profound and
conclusive proof, that the long famed mistress of
the seas has fallen from her high estate, and can
be spit upon and kicked and cuffed by any nation
no matter how small or contemplate, which will
take the trouble to do it. What well-merted re-
tribution. The civilized world can have no SYM
pathy for herr and yet it is unfair that the people,
the twenty-five or thirty millions of people, should
suffer for the doings of their government 1t is
that government which brought them into such a
disgraceful position; and as long as they submit to
their masters, when they have the power, if they
only had the WILL to shake off their yoke of degra-
dalton, they deserve to suffer
Can it be possible that that great nation, which
ruled the seas, which regulated the commerce and
politics of a world, on whose possessions the sun
never ceases to shine, has reached so low an
abyss of degradation and weakness? One can
hardly believe it, but yet such is the case Her
Madrid in twenty-four hours-which he did in less
tlme-and the British arms are rudely torn from
the embassy. And this too by Spain, third, or
fourth, or fifth rate power And this insult-ths
| degrading indignity-s cody pocketed, and no
proper notice taken of 1t. Why, we would ask,
has she not resented What has become of her
great military force! Are the Nelson's, the Wei
lngtons, the Jarvises all Dead and did their spirit
die with them or is England 80 weak and power
less after her struggle to crush John Mitchell that
she cannot make an effort to wipe out one of the
worst indignities that was ever offered to nation?
| BY pursuing this inquiry we can reach solution
very easily
| England-proud and naughty in the hour of hel
prosperity and power, submissive and conciliatory
in the time of adverslty-can no longer avenge an
insult. She suffers under Just retrbution, visited
upon her for course of crime more heinous than
| that which sunk Sodom and Gomorrah. Piteous
spectacle-yet the justice of Heaven is apparent in
it!
| And yet this is the nation which, few shor
years since, threatened to launch its thunderbolts
against this great republic-which menaced des
truction to cities and towns, and slaughter to
our inhabitants. Alas for its rawlings
| Quem vuh Deus pcrdcre prius dementat.
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BorrEsINI AND ARDrrr play at Castle Garden
tonight. All the lovers of fine music should be
there. II they do not please, the cool brcezcs vii
make up the difference.
Law intelligence.
COMMON Pleas, June 20 Before Judge Ulshocffer -
Woodruff u.s. Cieagetand This was given to tho
jury to-day His honor the Judge charged that IL the
delay In finishing the building from the neglect
Of the plaintiff and that from the evidence the Jury
to that conclusion, they should such da-
images they thought proper for the defendant and
he would be entitled to recover them against PLAINTIFF
claim; II, on the other hand, they believed the delay
from the defendants own neglect they shouIC
find verdict for plaintiff. The jury found for the
paintf$142 81 There will be issues of fact tried
until Monday next
VAN buren, AND THE UTICA CoNvENrIeN.-The
Utica convention nominated Mr.. Van Buren, as
candidate for the Presidency contrary 10 hi.