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Mr. O’Connell first compliments the Political Unionists for their net services. He then exhorts them to avoid3 all acts of positive or ac- tive resistence, and to combine together in a

aceahle, legal, and constitutional manner, sn order that they may obtain what he holds out to thei; admiring expectations——good laws, cheap institutions, freedom from unjust im- ppests, and, above all, a domestic and paternal

gislature, with the Repeal of the Union, as the forerunner ofthese good things for Ireland. He next proceeds to state the mode in which the people of Great Britain and Ireland can be procured to combine in aid of the impeachment of Anglesea, Stanley. and Blackburne.

As so the people ofGreat Britain, many of the Political Unions have already taken up this subject. They have the good ssnse to perceive that if the shabby Whigs are enabled to put down the right of petition in Ireland, they will proceed upon that precedent, and, encou raged

y that success, to annihilate the same right wherever its exercise offends them in Great Britain- The real reformers of En land and Scotland have tact and talent enoug to com. prehend distinctly, that if they allow the people of Ireland to be trodden under foot, they them- selves will be liable to a similar fate. The Bri- tish reformers remember the massacre at Man- chester, and that it was justified by a leading member ofthe Irish Government.

Besides addressing the British reformers by letter, and from our political meetings, I intend to make a tour through the places in England and Scotland. where honest and independant principles most prevail—and these places are numerous—and i will, in those places, lay be- fore the reformers the grievances of Ireland. Iwill detail the acts of violence resorted to, and the plans laid and carried into effect to disperse, or prevent peaceable meetings from exercising the sacred right of petition. I will ex se the conduct of Lord Anglesea, Stanley, an Blackburne, and if I don’t fail from the want of talents, lwill, I think, succeed in pro- Curinga multitude of petitions—aye, and in- structions to many representatives, to support the impeachment of Anglesea, Stanley, and Blackburne.

So far for Great Britain— now for Ireland. I respectfully solicit the Political Union to con- sider deliberately the plan of proceeding which I propose, and ifthey approve ofit, then I ask your co-operation to carry it into full effect.

My plan is this :— _

The Secretary to the National Union should immediately Open a book, containing a list of the parishes in Ireland, and insert the days and times on which each parish may have held its puhlic meeting. The Secretary could write to urge any parish which was torpid or tepid in the public cause, tojoin the rest of Ireland, in order to get rid of unjust impositions and to ob- tain cheap and free institutions.

The first object being to obtain these aro- chial meetings—the next is to suggest the Ensi- ness to be transacted at each meeting. I sug- gest the following ;—

First. To prepare an address to the throne to dismiss gar, as the honest and patriotic men of the Tra es’ Union have better expressed it) to discard Anglesea, Stanley, and Blackburne. Such an address should be the first business of each meeting.

Second. To prepare a short and emphatic petition to Parliament for the total abolition and entire extinction of tithes, so as not to leave a trace behind.

THE BRITISH AMERICAN.

Third. To petition the House of Commons to exhibit articles of impeachment against Anglesea, Stanley, and Blackburne, for their misgovernment of Ireland; their proclamation pranks and ludicrous prosecutions; their re- arming of the yeomanry ; their revival of Orange bigotry ; their share in the several matters which have caused more human blood to have been shed in Ireland since the accession of Earl Grey’s Ministry, than in five times the number of years of any former ministry ; not omitting other topics, particularly those con- nected with some parts of the administration ofjustice in Ireland ; in an especml manner for their venturing to disperse peaceabte meet- ings, met for constitutional purposes, and daring to tread under foot the sacred and most important right of petitioning the Legislature.

Fourth. To appoint a permanent committee of nine persons in each parish, for the pur- poses whichl shall detail presently.

The extensive duties of the parochial com- mittees would be these ;—

First. To procure signatures to the address and to the petitions. Every male in each parish, from the age ofnineteen to sixty, should be asked to sign ; older persons ought to sign in a separate column, but these signatures would be ver desirable,

Second. 0 procure the address to be pre' sealed to the King in the most respectful man- ner, so as to be handed to our gracious Monarch in person.

Third. To procure the petitions to be ready for representation, and to be actually presen- ted to the Legislature on the first day of the first session of a reformed Parliament. lfl should be returned to such a Parliament 1 will readily take charge of many petitions and of theimpcachment.

Fourth. The next great duty of the commit- tee should be to receive donations, but in par- ticular to Collect subscriptions of a farthing a week, and not more from each individual, to defray the legal and necessary expesses of ob- taining our great objects, and in particular to indemnify persons who may be unjustly prose- cuted, or in any respect persecuted, for patri- otic exertions in favour of Irish liberty.

Let it be always rcollected that if only one million of persons contribute a farthing a week, that is, if one-eighth of the Irish popula- tion contribute one farthing a week, we shall have a fund exceeding fifty thousand pounds within ayear, a fund amply sufficient to defray all expenses, and to indemnify every man un- justly orille ally suffering. Let it also be re- collected, that whoever gives a donation of ll. Os. 10d. that is twenty shillings and ten pence, pays for one thousand persons for a year, at a farthing a week. A parish with four thousand inhabitants need only to contribtc 4t. 39. 4d. and yet this will give in a year 50, 0001. If only one parish out of every eight contributes, it will amount to that sum. Ifone out of every four parishes so contributes it will raise the money to one hundred thousand pounds.

I have thus specified four ofthe duties ofeach parochial committee. There remains another, and the most important ofall. It is this ;—

Fifth. To ascertain how many persons there are in each parish capable ofvoting under the Reform Bill—to procure and deliver the notices for registry of those persons—to attend by an agent at sessions, and get each voter registered- and to preserve the certificate of registry, and to make arran ements so as to convey each voter to the po I, without expense to the popu- lar and repealing candidate.

I conclude with this declaration of my own pe rsodsl intentions :~

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"runs on. vnsrnr crass. dividual resolutions; let every other man ac as he pleases. l have made up my mind i this course. lwill not oppose the law, let it take its course: but ldecline paying to, or buying from, tithe-proctors-

I have the honour to be, respected friends,

Your most faithful servant. DANIEL O’Couanu.

PENSIONS.

High rank and great wealth have a tender cy to unfit a man for appreciating the [echo of the great mass of the community in whic he lives. Lord Althorp, on Monday, made . elaborate defence of Pensions; in which, we have no doubt, he felt, or imagined he fei’ that he was advocating the cause of reason and humanity; and yet, we believe there ii hardly one man in the Kingdom, with an in. come ofless than 5001- a-year, that will no deem the defence an utter outrage upon both. It is true, that 75,0001. ayear, would do little to alleviate the pressure upon the community from whose earnings that sum is drawn. But does Lord Althorpe consider the removal 0 that heart-rankling with which the people re. ‘ gard the Pension List as at no importance' and that the only view on which such a saving is to be regarded by an enlightened statesman is that gross, and vulgar, and palpable one the quantity of animal comforts which it woul purchase for the people in whose behalf it w ‘ remited? He says the pensions, though for. mally ceasing with the demise of the crow were meant and understood to be granted to Be it so ; but were they not granted at time when the nation could afford them? w are they not purely eleemosynary grants ? w is it not just and proper, now, when the natio can with the utmost difficulty pay its deb that it should cut ofl'its charities? Our expe diture during the last two years has exceeds our income by halfa million, Lord Altho . tells us he will endeavour to make such fu ther reductions as will prevent the recurrenc of such a state of things; butif the revenu continued to fall, what will he do ?——why, the he will ask for more taxes. Ask for more tax es to carry on the business of Governmen while 750001. of taxes are levied for the purpo ofsupplying its generosity!

We may be and are told, that many ofthe pensioners are very poor and very aged, (an it might have been added, very useless, whe ther old or young ;) and that to take their pe sions from them would be cruel. Do we eve hear of that fine compass ion towards the hard working many, that pay the pensions, which' so liberally extended to the idle few, that ceive them ? Let it, however, be admitt that tl e tax payer ought to at the pensioner: how will that to those whom the abolition of the pension ma, deprive of aluxury or a superfluity. but wh have the means of commanding both the ncce saries and eomforts of life in their own resoui ces ?

Before the widow of an Ensign, who ha purchased his commission and been shot in th nation’s defence, can receive her pittance ‘ 40L a- ear, she must answer the interrogat ries 0 Sir John Hobhouse touching her print fortune ; and, dearly as the annuity has b ~ purchased, if her fortune amount to such an as will enable her to command the comforts life, she will not be allowed the annuity—A