IRELAND.

An adjourned meeting of noblemen and gentlemen was held in Dania on Monday, over which the Earl of Roden presided. It was resolved to revive the" Relief Association" of 1831, under the title of" the Managing Committee of the Relief Association for the Destitute Peasantry of Ireland." The management was arranged as follows-

Trustees—The Earl of Roden Lord Farnham, Lord George Hill, W. D. La Touche, Esq., and George A. Hamilton, Esq..

Committee—Lord Farnham, Major Adams, Richard Annit, Esq., Alexander Boyle, Esq., Henry Bewley, Esq., William Edington, Esq., James Ferrier, Fat+, Reverend William Fausset, Reverend John Gregg, Robert R. Guinness, lisq, R. S. Guinness, Esq., George A. Hamilton, Esq., Sir J. R. James, Bart., W. D. La Touche, Esq., David La Touche, Esq., P. J. Marjoribanks, Esq., Reverend E.

Wangle, Thomas Parnell, Esq., Reverend H. Versclusyle, Lieutenant-Colonel S. White, M.P., J. Wilson, Esq.

Secretaries—Lord George Hill, Reverend C. Einchin, and H. G. Porter, Esq. . A further resolution was adopted, to the effect that an appeal should be made" to the English public and to the community at large, and especially to absentee Irish proprietors for the purpose of obtaining funds to enable the Committee to carry forw;rd. the &pets of the Association."

On the whole, the accounts from the disturbed districts are less threat- ening. Although destitution is extending, there has been altogether less turbulence in the popular demonstrations. In some parts, public works have commenced, and employment will henceforward become general.

In the neighbourhood of Sligo, about five hundred labourers were em- ployed on public works last week. Public works have also been com- menced in the barony of Corran; and the people were expected to be ac- tively employed in the other baronies during the present week. Accord- ing to the Sentinel, the Resident Engineer at Athlone Mr. John Long, had received instructions immediately to commence the public works in that district.

On the 7th instant, a disturbance was expected at Bandon, in conse- quence of an inflammatory notice, headed "Distress and Hunger," calling on the people to assemble. The town, however, remained undisturbed. The non-assembling of the people was by some attributed to the inclemency of the weather; but it was more generally believed to have been occasioned by the commencement on the previous Monday, of some of the public Works which had been" presented."

At Skibbereen, on the 5th instant, the day on which the General Relief Committee met, an attack was apprehended. From eight hundred to a thousand of the labouring population of Caheragh were seen marching ten abreast, and armed with spades, towards the town. The shops were closed in great consternation, and the military called out; but, luckily, through the exertions of Mr. Michael Gallwey, the Reverend Mr. Fitzpatrick, Dr. Donovan, Mr. Downing, and several influential gentlemen, the people were inriuced to halt outside. To an inquiry from Mr. Downing, the answer maile by the spokesman of the people was—" We have come be- cause we are famishing; because we have no food of any kind. We could suffer death from hunger ourselves; but can we look upon our children and our wives dying of hunger, and we ready and anxious to work for bread, if we can only get as much as will give us one good meal a day? But it is not 8d. a day will give our families a meal, and Indian meal is. 10d. a stone." " The truth and force of this distressing appeal," says a local writer, "could not be resisted; but Mr. Downing, Mr. Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Donovan assured them, that it was to the Government they should attribute the price of food; and upon whom the maledictions of the hungry multitude were poured in anmeasured terms. During this conversation, Mr. Gallwey egain and again called upon the people to disperse, and at length proceeded to read the Riot Act. But an universal shout was raised, We might as well be *hot as starved; we have not eaten a morsel for more than twenty-four hours.' Mr. Downing then besought of the people to fel- low him out as far as the workhouse, and ` that he would procure them bread as far as the town could afford it: which after much solicitation they did, and regularly encamped on the rising ground outside the workhouse; where they remained until Mr. Downing returned with 50s. worth of bis- cuit, which he and the Reverend Mr. Webb, assisted by the Messrs. Levis, distributed in the workhouse-yard; and about four o'clock the multitude moved on for their dreary homes, yet sullen, discontented, and unhappy, saying, That while a stack of corn remained in the country, they would not allow their children to starve,' and denouncing in the strongest man- ner the Government. The military were then withdrawn."

The Galway Vindicator gives the particulars of an opposition to the re- moval of provisions from Galway to Tuam. Ultimately, by the strenuous exertions of the Reverend Mr. Roche, Mr. John Connor, and about thirty other gentlemen, forty cart-loads of meal and flour were conveyed out of the town. Shortly afterwards, however, a lamentable accident occurred at lkherbeg, one of the outlets of Galway-

" It appears that the men of this street having proceeded to the cross-road at Bohermore to arrest the carts which the Reverend Mr. Roche and the other parties forming the escort induced them to permit to pass in safety, the women determined upon stopping any which in the mean time might come that way; and accordingly, when four or five other carts laden with flour and meal were proceed- ing through Boherbeg, the women, frantic with hunger and the cries of their famishing children, rushed upon the provisions and endeavoured to plunder some of them. In doing so, we regret that one of the starving creatures, whom we have been credibly given to understand had nothing but one meal a day and a half previous, met a violent and untimely death. She laid hold of the head of one of the horses, exclaiming she would have some of the meal or lose her life. The driver at the same moment struck the horse with his whip; the result of which was, that the unfortunate woman fell, when the wheel of the cart passed over her throat, killing her on the spot."

In the county of Kerry, voluntary relief meetings have been held. The most notable is that which met at Rathmore on the 5th instant, over which Mr. Daniel Cronin junior presided. Mr. Cronin and his brother each con- tributed 1001., and the Reverend E. Fitzgerald, Roman Catholic priest, 501. In addition to their subscriptions, says the Tralee Chronicle, the Messieurs Cronin have fitted up the mill at Shenagh to grind the corn of the district for their tenantry gratis.

A similar meeting was held at Tralee on the 9th. A subscription-list was opened; which exhibited at the close a sum of 2001., for a commence- ment.

The example set by the county of Kerry in organizing associations for affording voluntary relief, has been followed up in Clare. Committees have been formed in Eunis, Dromoliff, and other parts of the county. , The Clare Journal mentions, that "Colonel Wyndham has ordered large shipments of meal to be sold out to his tenantry at a reduced price; and not only so, but he has also been pleased to extend his liberality to this town, by allowing the inhabitants of Ennis, as well as all the parish of Dromcliff, to purchase meal at his d6pot on the same terms."

• Lord Blayney has issued a notice to his tenantry, through his agent, offering them facilities for draining their farms. It is announced that "6d. an Irish 'perch will be paid foi parallel, and 8d. for sub-main drains; one- half of the above sum to be a free gift, the remainder to bear interest at the rate of five per cent, the interest to be Paid with the November rent, And to continue to be charged until the fall of the lease, if the farm be so held, or if at will, until a new survey and valuation takes place. Thus, a

tenant draining to the extent of 4L will have to pay 2s. a year at-interest for the above period."

Mr. Poulett Scrope again addresses Lord John Russell on the state of Ireland and the needful remedies. Measures hitherto adopted do not go far enough. Many of the landlords seem "to be calling loudly on the Government to import and supply the people with Indian corn on low terms, while they desire that the Irish corn, of which, as Lord Milltown and Sir Randolph Routh both say, there is an abundant supply throughout the country, be reserved to pay their rents in fall when sold at famine prices." It would have been more natural, Mr. Swope says, to feed the starving peasantry of Ireland with the abundant grain crops of Ireland; out-door relief, in return for labour, ought to have been enacted for those who are in danger of perishing through want; and perhaps even the use of grain in distilleries ought to have been prohibited. The Labour-rate Act is imperfect. It makes those who do employ the poor pay for employing the poor of those who do not— "1 suspect it will be found, after much farther injurious delay, that you cannot stop short of the adoption of the simple compulsory principle that every land- owner be required to employ and feed the people living on his property, either through the means of private or public works; every facility being given by the advance of public money on fitting conditions. A Townland Poor Employment Act or order would alone effect this; and the Lord-Lieutenant, having broken the ice of statutory restraint, might without risk go this further length, the justice of which all persons would acknowledge."

Employment, especially on public works, only provides for the able:- bodied and their families-

" I ask again, who is to feed the infirm poor—the aged, the sick, the cripples, the widows, and the orphans? The number of these is immense. Their suffer- ings must be intense. Their usual resource is the charity of the small farmers and cottiers—of those very classes who are themselves now reduced to destitution. Is there to be no legislation no order in Council issued, to secure this most piti- able of all classes from starvation and pestilence? * * I observe that the Poor-law Commissioners have forbidden out-door relief, even in the shape of a bowl of stirabout given within the workhouse walls. Surely this order must be rescinded, and out-door relief not only permitted, but enjoined; and not only with- in the workhouse-yard, to which few of the infirm poor will be able to resort, but at their homes, or at some place easy of access, as is the case in England even in ordinary times, when there is no dread of famine stalking through the land; and, as in England, the relief thus afforded should be made a charge on the property of the country. "I repeat, the principle to keep in view should be that of making each separate estate employ and maintain the destitute poor residing on it, so far as may be practicable; to which a townland assessment seems the best approximation; the works executed by loan of public money being determined on and superintended by the Board of Works; the infirm poor being relieved, as well out of thereelek: house as within its walls, by the Relief Committees or the Union Guardians, or a Board composed by a due amalgamation of both."

At the usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, Mr. John O'Connell read a communication from his father— After praising the Lord-Lieutenant for " wisely-9 and "bravely" taking the responsibility of departing from the letter of the Labour-rate Act, Mr. O'Connell declares his belief that Lord Besborough will not stop short in his good work; but that prompt and efficacious measures are to be looked for, to supply, first, food, and next, wages to bay food. One and all must cooperate with the Lord- Lieutenant.

"I shall be asked whether I still think that a 'national committee ' should meet in Dublin. My answer is ready—I decidedly think so. I do think that a national committee in Dublin would be most useful in enabling the Lord-Littate- nant to carry out his views; and I am happy to see that the formation of ,Itlek committee has become the object of avowed consideration by men of rank and large fortune, who are not connected with me by any influences or by any com- munity of political opinions." If there were a prospect of only a few months of difficulty, matters in' ht left to take their course; "but one year must, and many years may elapse, . belToro a position of ordinary security can be attained. It seems therefore the height of absurdity not to make arrangements for the coming together of the landed pro- prietors." Mr. Bernal Osborne then comes in for a word on "his unclassic, because hack- neyed quotation"— " fas eat ab hosts doceri ". "I am no enemy," says Mr. O'Connell, "to the landed proprietors of Ireland." "As to hostility, Mr. Osborne himself is a greater adept in that quality than I am; as witness his snappish at- tacks upon the Whigs—attacks which evince more of piety (?) than sound policy. He may be quite sure that, with all his good qualities—and he has many —he will not obtain any respect from the Irish people by indulging in any under- current of animosity. Much better, indeed, would it be for him to join with those who recollect that neither Whigs nor Tones can ever permanently cum the heart- sore of Ireland, so long as the Irish people are precluded from legislating for their own country. From domestic legislation alone is a prominent and perfect cure from the evils of Ireland to be expected. There is one thing certain, that no Par- liament can possibly render the people of Ireland more miserable and wretched, or lesS able to struggle against the pressure of even a casual calamity. Let us, then, never lose sight of the persevering struggle for the restoration of the Irish Parliament by the repeal of the Union. In the mean time, and during those pressing moments of horror, let us, one and all, combine to assist the Lord-Lien- tenapt in working out his plans of relief. Let us combine heartily, readily, and. perseveringly." It is wrong to assert that the Labour-rate Act sanctions only unprofitable works. It is true in particular baronies, such as that with which Mr. Monsen, of Tervoe, is connected, where there are plenty of reads and bridges; but they are exceptions. "For example, in those Western baronies in the county of Kerry, the good roads are scant, and bridges few. Here the roads and bridges, as pre- sented at the Special Sessions, are all productive works—that is, productive of the greatest advantage to the occupiers and rate-payers. I repeat, they are emphati- cally productive works."

1 he letter has the usual trig: with moral force principles and practice, every virtuous and wise man may join in the shout "Hurrah for the Repeal!"

The Secretary read a report from the Committee on the Drainage Act; recommending improvements in it, particularly that its machinery should be simplified, and that the prescribed delay of three months in its appli- cation should be got rid of.

Mr. John Augustus O'Neill moved certain resolutions of which. he had given notice; and in the course of his speech dwelt pm the necessity for the Association to he prepared, on the eve of a general election, with tried can- didates. He vaunted his own adherence to O'Connell at the time of the State trials. He expressed his intention to stand for Dublin as a Repealer— He trusted, that he, an old and tried friend of the people, one who had -con- stantly operated in that ball, would not be set aside for a man of yesterday, one who had secured his seat by the .payment of a five-pound note—(Cheers).--or per- haps had chalked "Repeal" on his arm the night previous to-the election. (Con- tinued cheering.) . Mr. John O'Connell did not rise to oppose the resolutions, but to take exception to an insinuation having no reference to them—

He thanked Mr. O'Neill for an expression of confidence in his father; but there was an adherence in times of peace which was as valuable as that which was ex- hibited in times of danger; which recognized the sincerity of friendship, and ab- stained from listening for one moment to the miserable paltry attacks of miserable party bigots.

Mr. O'Neill here exclaimed, with great solemnity and emphasis, stretch- ing out his arms— Pray, O'Connell, for one moment—(Cries of "No, no!" "Sig down!") I pledge you my honour, in the most emphatic, in the most unequivocal and un- reserved- manner as a gentleman—I pledge you my word as a Christian man—

that not one syllable did I utter this day with the intent to express anything but honour, and credit, and unbounded confidence, in O'Connell; and if any word fell from me to misrepresent my feelings, it did not convey that confiding respect I felt for him. I defy any man to show an instance in which I thwarted O'Connell!'

Mr. John O'Connell said, that he was bound to accept Mr. O'Neill's declaration-

" Of course the Honourable Cecil Lawless was meant by the allusion to the five- pound note. He was not there to defend himself. He had sent 51., no great crime surely; and he had joined the Association as soon as the Repeaters avow- edly repudiated violence. There had been men among them who entertained the secret intention of resorting to violence. The Association had found them out, and bad got rid of them. Mr. Lawless was satisfied, and joined the agitation. Should they refuse to receive a convert, even at the eleventh hour? Mr. O'Neill would make a most respectable representative, and would no doubt hold a high place in the electoral body of Ireland: but had he been thrown aside because Mr. Lawless came forward? (" Hear, hear!" "Yes." "No.") Dungarvan had been offered to him; Dundalk had been offered to him. He had declined both. His name had been sent down first on the list to 91onmel. His father said to the constituency, "Choose your own man," and they chose Mr. Lawless. If Mr. O'Neill found fault with the confidence extended to Mr. Lawless, would he not remember bow he had been treated when be had joined them in the excitement and " hurrah " of 1843? (Cheers.) Mr. O'Neill said that, now the sun of Whig- gery in the ascendant, Repeal was relaxed. (Cheers and confusion.) Why did he say so? Where was it evident? (Mr. O'Neill—" No, no! ") [Much con- fusion in the hall, occasioned by the expulsion of some offending associate; Mr. John O'Connell repeatedly calling for order.] Mr. O'Neill was not asked to give way to any Whig at the next election. He should guard against his words' being mistaken. for there was a petty malignant whisper abroad, which might gather strength from such words as these.

Mr. O'Neill admitted the allusion to Mr. Lawless- " If any person but the son of O'Connell would have dared to assert that he (Mr. O'Neill) had directly or indirectly insinuated anything tending to disparage the integrity of their illustrious leader, he would treat the matter in a very dif- ferent manner. It certainly appeared strange that an allusion could not be made to the Whigs, but it was construed by some person or another present into a personal offence."

After some further. explanation Mr. O'Neill went over to Mr. John O'Connell, and warmly shook hands with him, saying he should not be satisfied till that reconciliation was effected in public.

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A correspondence of -a hostile character has taken place between Mr. Shea Lalor and Mr. John O'Connell. Mr. Lalor had taken exception to the wording of a resolution moved by Mr. O'Connell at one of the late Repeal meetings, wherein a letter of resignation addressed to the Association by Mr. Lalor was described as "couched in terms of most unbecoming dis- courtesy." Mr. John O'Connell justified the expression, but refused to be made personally responsible for discharging a public duty. Ultimately, he wrote to Mr. Lalor—" I shall proceed at once to the nearest police-office, to put the authorities in possession of your intentions." The necessary in- formation was lodged, and the parties appeared before Dr. Kelly, at the Henry Street Police-office, on Monday. Mr. O'Connell having preferred his charge, Mr. Lalor was bound over to keep the peace, himself in the sum of 400/., with two sureties for 2001. each.

The great fair at Ballinasloe terminated on the 9th instant. There was a gradual rise in prices towards the close. The fair is described as altoge- ther a good one.