The Sun. — 1839-01-21 (London, England)

CONNELL DINNERS. Mr. O'Connell is about to be entertained at another series of public dinners. On Tuesday he will attend a grand banquet given by his constituents, for which the Royal Circus has been fitted up, in a manner to entertain 800 persons. The Chair will be taken by Ignatius Callaghan, Esq., an eminent merchant of Dublin. Mr. Peter Purcell was to have presided, but for his recent attack on Mr. O'Connell. On Thursday he will be entertained by the inhabitants of Drogheda, in a magnificent manner; and Newry is making rapid preparations for doing him similar honour, but no day has yet been fixed for the entertainment. On Thursday week Mr. O'Connell's friend, Mr. Reddington, M. P. for Dundalk, will receive a public dinner from his constituents, at which it is said Mr. O'Connell will attend, but Ido not believe lie will. On the 2d of February Mr. O'Connell will sail for Holyhead ; he has repeated his determination of returning to Ireland at least once a fortnight to get up the Precursor agitation, by which he thinks be can do more service than by anything that he could effect in Parliament, with the present strong Tory minority opposeCommons,lraland in the Commons, and the overwhelming majority in the Lords. Mr Purcell has written another letter on the investment of the funds of the Precursor Society, but he has stated no new fact, or put no old ene in a fresh light. At the meting of the Precursor Society yesterday, little was done, except bringing forward another of the Registry Reports upon which the Committee have been lately engaged. Mr. O'Connell, in bringing it forward, stated that if a Bill for the Reform of the London Corporation were brought in, he would move its extension to Dublin, but if it were delayed, he would bring in the Irish Bill without postponement. He also, in the course of the proceedings, made an attack upon the Northern Whig newspaper, and stated that if a really Liberal Journal were established in 13elfast, in opposition to it, it could not fail to be successful. The meeting adjourned to Wednesday, on account of the O'Connell dinner being about to take place on Tuesday. The Clonmel Special Commission is still proceeding- The prisoners, Cornelius Hickey and William Walsh, were found guilty of the murder of Messrs. Cooper and Weyland. It is remarkable that nine of tha Jury were Roman Catholics. There have been several other convictions for offences of less importance. The persons in custody for the recent murder of Mr. O'Keefe will not be tried at this Commission, as sufficient evidence has not been procured. The sitting is not expected to terminate for another week. There will be a Levee at the Castle—the second for the season—on the 30th instant, and a Drawing Room on the following day.  The proposed mail from Manchester to Leeds, by way of Huddersfield, has been contracted for, and will speedily be put upon the road. It is to run ten miles an hour, and will leave Manchester immediately after the arrival of the railway mail from London ; so that the Huddersfield bags will reach the town about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and there will be about three hours for the returu posts. Salmon fishing commences in Scotland on Friday next, which promises to be productive, from the great attention bestowed on the salmon fisheries last year, to prevent poaching and the killing of the fish not in season. The Act passed last Session for the protection of the fisheries bas been highly beneficial.  TO