same way-so then, in he went, accompanied by the foremen tioned gentlemen.

When they had got through the crowd in the entry, and secured places within a convenient distance of the speakers' platform, he (Mr. O'Connell) listened for some time to the Scotch captain praising Scotland and abusing England; and the young English gentleman from the fashionable coteries of London, speaking too of Ireland and their religion as a matter of which he was quite conversant. When they had done, he (Mr. O'C.) said, ladies and gentlemen, I am on the other side, if you please; and after making them laugh for an hour at the Englishman, he said, now if you please, we will laugh a little at the Scotchman.

He would next call their attention to the business at Loughrea. Here there were both Protestants and Catholics who could bear witness to the falsity of the reports which had been circulated.

The fact was, the Protestant Archbishop of Tuam, Dr. Trench, managed this matter very well-he had his plans arranged—he had his friends inside-he had the police surrounding the place, and the doors guarded by hussars. It was asserted, indeed, that the introduction of the soldiery was accidental-quite unexpected! No one confessed to having called for them-the magistrate knew nothing about it; but notwithstanding all these very credible denials, he (Mr. O'Connell) rather believed it was not very difficult to make a guess at how the soldiers came there, and by whose express interference and request they were introduced. The Catholics were invited there to hear their religion abused, while they were placed between their traducers and the military.

It was utterly false that any violence had been offered to the archbishop, when he proposed the first of their long list of resolutions. Nothing of the kind occurred either then or at any period of the meeting. All that happened was this:-A Catholic clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Daly, rose to address the chair. This the archbishop said could not be permitted, as none but members were allowed to speak there a novel piece of intelligence for the Catholics after their having been specially invited to attend. It was then moved that his grace should leave the chair, and thereby enable the meeting to be made more general. The archbishop, however, refused to receive the amendment, and declared he would remain there a month, rather than leave the chair without putting the motion. He said he was not aware that the Catholics were more accustomed to fasting than he was, Mr. M'Nevin said they were determined to outdo him,

and would be quite content to remain two months in the place, rather than submit to be over-rode in the manner they saw attempted. As to fasting, high in his church as the archbishop was, still he rather believed that the Catholics were a little more practised in fasting, and could stand it longer than his grace. They kept their word by remaining, but the archbishop broke his, for he vacated the chair.

This, Sir, was the outrageous conduct, as it has been falsely styled. In fact there was no outrageous conduct; every thing occurred in the presence of Catholics and Protestants, who can testify to the fact; nothing of offence was spoken.

When, at length, the archbishop had left the chair, Mr. Guthrie, a Protestant barrister, was called to it; certain resolutions were passed; these resolutions they have taken care not to publish; now he would be content to forfeit all claims to emancipation if every thing he had stated could not be judicially proved. Let the business be put in a judicial shape; this would bring everything to light. Had they not a right to applaud? Had they not a right to appeal? Had they not a right to require an investigation into this business.

He begged pardon for detaining them at this late hour. He would deem it necessary to refute the calumnies of the base press; he cared not what lies it told of him, provided his Catholic fellow-countrymen were not traduced.

At this meeting Mr. O'Connell announced that a treaty had been entered into with the Corn Exchange company, for a lease of their large room, and of the hotel adjoining (the present committee rooms, &c., of the Association), at a rent of £150 a year.

The matter was referred to the finance committee to be finally arranged, and this was done by their closing with the terms of the Corn Exchange company, for the great room and the entire of the premises composing the hotel.

The first meeting of the Association took place in the great room, on Saturday, November 18, and was marked by rent-remittances from three of the Catholic hierarchy, with the clergy of their dioceses, headed by the late Primate of all Ireland, the Right Rev. Dr. Curtis. The latter most estimable prelate wrote a long and important letter on the occasion.

An important communication was also read from the Earl of Kenmare, and special votes of thanks moved to the prelates, and to his lordship.

On Wednesday, November 17, the week's rent was £545. 4s. 7 d., and upon that day week, November 24, it amounted to £547 11s. O§d., which had been, for some time, a steady

amount.

Several thor and pounds had already been invested in the public funds, and altogether the Associatior was in a most flourishing condition.

The Cork meeting to which Mr. O'Connell alluded in the last speech we have given, took place upon Thursday, the 9th of September, in that city.

It was styled aing of the Cork Hibernian School Society, and lasted two days, during which the "missionaries," the Hon. Baptist Noel and Captain Gordon, M.P., with some Irish assistants, harangued against Popery, especially Irish Popery, and Mr. Sheil, Mr. Donnell, and Mr. Bric replied to them.

The reports which we have been able to lay our hands on, of Mr. O'Connell's speech of the first day, are so very meagre, and confessedly defective, that they are not worth insertion. The papers say :

"Mr. O'Connell replied to Mr. Noel in a powerful speech in which argument, ridicule, and eloquence were blended together. Mr. O'Connell entered into the argument upon the distribution of Bibles, and referred to Scripture and to the authority of the fathers with great felicity, to establish his tenets."

Upon the recond day tl. following scene occurred :—

SECOND DAY-FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10.

The Rev. HENRY IRWIN spoke as follows:-I rise with feelings of deep humimility. These meetings, whose privacy has been intruded on, are now open meetings. The individuals who have intruded here who have disturbed the prevailing harmony and unanimity of this assembly, had no more right to do so than they could have to force their way into the privacy of domestic life, Mr. O'Connell thought proper to name his lady—that gentleman deemed it right to make his wife the subject of his public observations, to introduce his conjugal happiness as one of the topics of a popular oration, making his family felicities assist him in a public harangue. If I had spoken of Mrs. O'Connell as he(Cries of "Order, order.")

MR. FREEMAN (Chairman)-If this conduct be continued 1 can no longer preside over the meeting. If there be not an immediate end to the disturbance, I must quit the court.

[The disorder having somewhat diminished, Mr. Irwin was about to resume, when it was intimated that Mr. O'Connell was outside, and could not obtain admittance, owing to the crowded state of the passages.]

Mr. IRWIN resumed-In speaking of the unfounded accusations brought against the women of England by Mr. O'Connell, and his incidental introduction of his own family concerns, I trust it is unnecessary to assure the meeting that I meant the learned gentleman no offence. If I had spoken of his wife in such terms as he had spoken of the Bible-if I said that she was a very good woman, but that I would not allow her to visit my family

MR BRIC-Such language is highly improper when uttered of any gentlewoman, but ought not to be applied to a lady of Mrs. O'Connell's rank.

MR. FREEMAN (Chairman)-If the rev. gentleman had applied such langua♥ to my wife, I certainly should not esteem it an offence.

MR. BRIC-At all events, it is bad taste.

[Some commotion was then observable at one of the entrances, and the shout of "make way for Mr. O'Connell" immediately succeeding, he entered the meeting amid deafening applause. A good-humoured and amicable explanation having taken place about Mrs. O'Connell, Mr. Irwin resumed, assuring the learned gentleman that he meant the lady nothing but respect.]

MR. O'CONNELL-If you believe me, she deserves nothing less. (A laugh.) MR. IRWIN-But it would not have been respectful to have spoken of her as Mr. O'Connell has spoken of the Bible, and that was all that I contended for. To pass, however, from this comparatively unimportant part of the discussion, I turn to a topic broached by Mr. Sheil in his speech of yesterday, when he said,

that of the lunatics in our asylum, so large a proportion had gone mad from Bible reading.

The Rev. Gentleman continued at considerable length to reply to Mr..Sheil, and was followed by Captain Gordon, who, as the newspapers reported, "proceeded to eulogize his own countrymen (the Scotch) in a long speech."

MR. O'CONNELL said, he did not know whether he should be pardoned for addressing the meeting at this late hour, and in this exhausted state, if it was not that he felt himself imperatively called upon by what he considered his duty.

He had heard the liberal gentleman who was speaking when he first entered (Mr. Irwin) with great pleasure; he presumed that that gentleman was all he had described himself, and more than his modesty permitted him to make known. He was also delighted to hear Mr. Gordon; he liked even the raciness of his Scotch accent. That gentleman began by abusing the ignorant and degraded Irish, and by so doing unintentionally nit at the church which received two millions per annum for educating this abused and corrupted people. He had glanced at our late disturbances, and praised the Scotch, and small blame to him, above all the other people on the face of the earth. They were a Bible-reading people, it seemed; but some of the readers had turned radical reformers, and there had been disturbances amongst them too. But then there was a Captain Rock there, in the shape of five-and-twenty thousand Irishmen, and no doubt they had been the leaders in every disturbance.

This reminded him of an announcement he once read in a Scotch newspaper-it ran thus: "We are authorised to state that the Archibald M'Even, who was hanged at the Canongate last Wednesday, was not a Scotchman, but that he was an Irishman."

But, good God, did the Scotch gentleman read history? he bore a name honourable in his own country, and was he acquainted with the history of that country? Did he remember the days of the covenant, when an attempt was made to force upon the people a religion which they disliked-when Scotland was the weak point through which the throne of England was threa tened to be assailed? Did he recollect the days of the Came rons and the Claverhouses-when the clergymen preached in he battle-field? Could he be ignorant of circumstances which were made familiar even to females by the beautiful creation of that great Scotch genius whose works delighted all classes? otland, at the period referred to, was more turbulent than Irelan had ever been; her then population did not probably exceed

two millions; her proportion of fighting men was very inconsiderable. Oh! had she then, like Ireland at the present day, a population of seven millions, she would have rolled back the tide of war until the Tower of London would have yielded to its mighty torrent. (Applause.)

Nor were her disturbances healed until the project of enforc ing her to embrace thirty-nine articles of the Established Church was abandoned. No, let England, instead of sending schoolboys and captains to convert the un-Christian Irish, conciliate them by taking off the degradation that oppresses them, and extend to them as she extended to Scotland, liberty of conscience. (Cheers.)

The elegance of England had been commented upon, and this of course was all ascribed to Bible reading. But was not Greece elegant although she was not Christian, and had not Rome the glory of conquering the world, before she knew of any other religion than Paganism? He would now proceed to read from the reports of the Bible Society, the state of various parts of England, from which it would appear that numbers of the English were sunk in the most horrid state of barbarism.

Here Mr. O'Connell read an immense number of extracts from various reports of religious societies in England, all describing in terrific terms, the lamentable depravity of the people of that country, and the absence amongst them of religion.

These were the English-this was the land of Goshen. He defied any one to prove that a considerable number of the Irish were in this state of religious darkness; they received as much of the benefits of education, as the limited means of their pastors would admit.

But the English, who sent missionaries over here, to convert the Irish, what a state they were in in accordance to their own reports? To those missionaries, and to the Scotch gentleman, who boasted of the elegance and glory of England, he would say, take the beam out of your own eye, before you attempt to pick at the mote in ours.

He would tell him that the Irish considered their own priests, as little as they were thought of, enough for them. He confessed himself incapable of doing justice to their merits, and it might be that even his eulogy would offend them; their virtues were of that retiring and unobtrusive nature, as to seek not the reward of panegyric—their deeds of usefulness tended to an object far removed above the praise of human eloquence, no matter of how high an order. They were worthy to be succes