IRELAND.
At the meeting of the Repeal Association on Monday, answers re- ceived to the addresses forwarded by the Association to the Queen and to Prince Albert, congratulating them on the birth of the Princess Royal, were read. The answer to the first was most cautiously worded : it was signed by Mr. Fox Maule, and addressed to Mr. Ray, as fol- lows—
.• Whitehall. 22d Jauncry.
" Sir—I am directed by the Marquis of Norrnanhy to inform you, that he has not failed to lay before the Queen the address on the occasion of the birth of the Princess Royal, signed by Mr. Reynolds and yourself, and which ac- companied your letter of the 4th instant.
" I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,
" T. M. Ray, Esq. " F. Marta." The answer from Mr. Anson on behalf of the Prince contained a fall acknowledgment of the patsies from whom the address emanated- - Buckingham Palace. 20th January 1841. " Sir—I have this day had the honour to lay before Prince Albert the con- gratulatory address from the Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland upon her Majesty's safe delivery of a Princess ; and I am commanded by the Prince to convey to you, and all who concurred in this address, the expression of his Royal Highness's sincere thanks for the gratifying sentiments it con- tained.
" I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,
" T. M. Ray, Esq. " G. E. Arisen." The answers were greeted with loud cheers by the members of the Association.
As a set-off against the " great aggregate meeting of Irish Reformers " held lately in Dublin to oppose Lord Stanley's Registration Bill, and to neutralize the effect of Mr. O'Connell's " triumph " in the North, a "great Conservative demonstration" took place on Thursday week, in the Circus Royal, Belfast, to "express an opinion in favour of" that bill, and counteract " the attempt now for the first time undisguisedly made in Ulster to effect the repeal of the Union." According to the Tory journals, the meeting was looked forward to with a degree of interest surpassing that which had ever been excited by any similar event in that part of the country. A formidable list of names of Peers, Baronets, Members of Parliament, High Sheriffs of Counties, Lords-Lieutenant, Deputy-Lieutenants, Magistrates, and Clergy, appeared on the requisi- tion calling the meeting ; and, from the statement of the numbers re- ported to have attended it, it would seem that no serious disappointment could have been felt as to the "turn-out." The building is capable of containing about 3,000. The Times correspondent says, that, "on the platform, where the chair was placed, and in the boxes, there were at least 2,000 of the nobility and gentry of the province, together with a great number of ladies" : of course the muster of the other classes in the province could not have been considerable. On the other hand, the Whig journals represent the meeting as having proved "a decided failure." The chair was taken by the Marquis of Downshire ; and, amongst the speakers were Mr. G. R. Dawson, Lord A. Chichester, Colonel Werner, Mr. Armstrong (High Sheriff of Fermanagh), Lords Hillsborough and Newry, Messrs. Macartney and E. Tennent, the Reverend Dr. Cooke, and Reverend H. S. Claming, Vicar of Bally- mena. The speeches generally contained nothing very remarkable : as is usual on occasions of the kind, they were abundantly interspersed with fierce invectives against Mr. O'Connell and the Catholic religion, and with warm laudations of our civil and ecclesiastical institutions.
In tl e Rolls Court, Dublin, on Monday, a decision was given in the case of John Fawcett versus the Agricultural and Commercial Bank of Ireland in favour of the plaintifE The Master of the Rolls has thus decided, that the 33d Geo. IL, commonly called the Bankers Act, ap- plies to all joint stock copartnerships of bankers formed under the 6th Geo. IV., c. 42; and that the stoppage of the bank in question, in June last, created a trust affecting the partnership and all its members and their property, at the time of the stoppage, in favour of the creditors.. He also held that this trust can be administered in a suit constituted like the present against the public officer, who fully represented all the partners, and whom it was not necessary to make partner. This is a decision of vast importance, and will be no less beneficial to the cre- ditors than to the shareholders, who will be protected from execution at law.
Father Mathew administered the Temperance pledge to one hundred thousand persons during three days last week, at Kells. They came to him in batches of about a thousand, to the Catholic Chapel ; and to each batch he delivered a short address.
An old lady residing in Charlemont Street, Dublin, was suffocated on Tuesday, by the window-sash having fallen upon her neck while she was looking out of the window.
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