New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-28

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THE MEETING IN THE CITY AssEmsLY HOUSE
On Tuesday, the 9th August, 1850, this Assem-
blsge OF those who profess TO represent ne io'e'
esu and opinions Of the rensnt Farmers oil Ire
lsnd, commenced their sittipgs IN the Ol'y nv
senbly House, william street. which the CorPora
ton allowed them 70 use for the OCCASION W
McKnieh. Of Belfast, Editor OF The Banner o.
Hitter. was appointed Chairman, and three gentle
mon . Roman Catholic, an Episcopaisn Prote'
slant and q Presbyt terrain were chosen score
tsries. Il commenced by brief address from M
Reutoul 81 Gervsgh, an Ulster Presbyterian Oier'
oman saving that be had come there to shake
hands with Roman Catholic Clergymen OF the
South and West and unite ia trying to devise
measures for raising their PROSTATE couatrymen OF
all Ireland. To ths Mr. Redmond, q priest OF Ark
low responded that he had come to meet the
honest men Of the North, to join in saving their
common country. And so the business commenced.
Itwm agreed, that while they are In conference,
the Prers sha be excluded but the Secretaries
are 20 furnish an abstract OF their proceedings 70
the papers daily. They consider themselyes ss Ia
Committee, discuss all matters freely and mere
might be danger OF the uDguerded statements Oh
individuals going forth as the sentiments OF tue
Conference. The frat thing IL TO discuss the Pfo
yisiorsi Basis OF Tenant League, which had
been framed at Provisional Meeting held for ar
RANGING for this Conference, and published ior the
Confederation OF the country The Conference
goes over this document article by article; the re-
suit will be a Tenant Charter. Teen, Tenant
League for carrying this by Act OF Parliament Tor
tie right adjustment OF the agricultural condition
of Ireland. When the League is for ned, Public
Meeting will be held for the public adoption of the
Charter: and measures will be taken TO establish
Branch Associations all over the country In order
TO bring public opinion 10 bear upon the Legis-
lature.
The proceedings Of this body, that bids fair to
operate nightly In recnfying the most palpable
and crying of the wrongs OF Ireland, will not have
been completed in time for me to give summary
Of them 10 this letter: nor 10 form an opinion how
fer they are likely 70 meet response throughout
the country what proportion Of the landlords Is
likely to acquiesce, at least In moderate tenant
demands and what the chances are that Parlia
ment ibsn do, in this respect, justice TO Ireland
Expect an early letter Oh these topics At present.
the opinion prevailing in the Conference is, that
there are three things without which no legisla-
ton can be adequate to the exigencies or salts
factory TO the mind OF the country. First q vau.
alton as the basis of q fair rent Secondly, fxity
Of tenure by the occupant, as long as the rent is
paid Ard thirdly, the right to sell 80 az 10 obtain
the price Of the Improvements the tenant may have
made.
CONDITION AND PROSPECTS or IRELAND.
Within the last few days the state Of the potato
crop has been much more alarming A private
letter gives the following account Of three Southern
Counties / have during the last week travelled a
good deal through the Counties Of Limerick, Clare,
and Tipperary, and am thoroughly convinced that
there ia lot q field Of sound potatoes in all the
three Counties. The blight is as general and ap.
fiu ytr 10 In
tie climax Of Irith misery, and will add another
hundred thousand names to the black record Of
famine mortality" Another, a traveller says :
From Glensarf to Killarney, AZ miles, there is
rot sound field" In the North as well az L ein.
ster, things are not quite bad but the faint, ia
asrester or less degree, is universal
Tue ceny Of Parliament to sett 10 the Land ques
ton and the conduct oil the landlords having forced
that Tenant movement have noticed before, there
10 great danger of severance OF the upper classsi
from the people-ciass against class, instead o
pulling together And now thereis some reason 4
fear increasing religious asperity The K Established
Clergy resolved 70 take away the reproach ofbsins
supported by the whole people for the benefit OF q
fragment have very generally commercially
themselves, or scripture readers and missionaries
enliehteping their Roman Catholic parishoners
upon their errors; and, as may be supposed, the
Homan Catholic Clergy are not Indifferent la the
West Dr. MacHale is extending very wdsl the
coUnteract the Church Of England Mssionsrg Cd
erstions. And, as the districts where destltutiol
most prevailed are the chief scenes Of prosey It's
the Priests and the Roman Catholic Press sccus
the Protestant Clergy and their agents Of prop.
eating their religion by bribery. And not u1fre
queLtly are there on the one side and the othe
acts OF violence that call for the intervention of tn
civil authorities
Then, again, 1t 10 stated, on authority, that A
the approaching Roman Catholic Synod TO be he'll
at Thures, by DR.. Cullen a. Legate, the very frs
step will be to condemn the Queens Colleges, 40,
withdraw from them ",he Deans of Residence" a
unsafe seminsries for Roman Catholic Youth
order TO found Roman Catholic University Ifso
The hsllowing Influence Of united collegiate educa
ton upon the rising youth OF the country will oe AZ
far lost. Ard If another famine Winter come the
misery viii be sadly augmented by religious dis
cord Happily the Land Question has swallowed
up oil political aninos.ies; but ID seems We are
Lot yet to become united people, liviag as breth.
rep while each oonscientiously follows the dictate
OF his conscience as TO the worship of God
The Mayo election which has iost terminated in
the return OF Mr. Ousely Higgius-of whom. as
politician, nobody before knew snything-in op.
position 10 DR. Bun, one of the most eminent bar.
nsters In Irelandfs med not only Ia the courts the
advocate Of Duffy, o rieD, &c but celebrated in
bis plesdiDgs before the House OF Lords-is an.
other proof OF the increased severance of the feel
Ing between the landlords and people In that
county, with former population OF 400, 900, by
death, determination, emigration, the population
had become 90 thinned that not mere than 200
electors polled and as the lower classes had suf
fered, and the higher classes were supposed TO be
with the landlords, and the landlords were all
united-Whig and Tory, Roman Catholic and
Protestart-for Bait as Protectioniss, bis return
was supposed to be sure. Bet he was beaten
The voice OF seventeen villages leveled on the
property Of the Earl Of Lucan, his chief supporter
carried over the waste whence the people hsd
been driven to the poor-hoase, or the grave, like
the Ossa Of Homer, or the voice Of Pan Of old
reused priests and peasantry; and they sriumphed.
And So in anticipation OF the battle for the harvest
-for the people have sot the idea that they are
entited 70 fhts crop AZ the remuneration for the
excessive rack rents Of former years-she Coercion
bill 10 renewed; and the Lords have passed bin
to facilitate the prevention of cutting and removing
growing crops.
The Tenant Conference last night oonoluded