Lord and Lady Abilgrave passed through Drogheda, on their way
to Lord Caledon's, on Tuesday last. Lord and Lady Abilgrave passed through Drogheda, on their way to Lord Caledon's, on Tuesday last.
Mr. O'Connell left town for Limerick on Sunday : from Limerick he will proceed to Derrynane Abbey ; and is not expected to return to Dublin till utter Christmas.
On Monday, three hundred of the Limerick Reformers dined with the Liberator ; Mr. 'William Roche, M.P., in the t h air. Mr. O'Con- nell addressed the company with his usual mastery; pledging himself to support Ministers as long as they persevered in their present policy— if they altered, he would again become a Repealer. He enforced the necessity of a Reform of the Lords-
" The Lords are still an impediment to every useful measure of reform. They are determined to oppose every measure of amelioration. And what are we to do?—Simply to cause a reform among themselves. But I'll be told by -some that their Lordships may be in better temper, and wait a little longer— even till next year—till we see what is to happen. Even some of the English newspapers, and among them a Mr. Baines of the Leeds Mercury, desires us to ' wait a while.' He, good soul, tells us, that there are young Lords grow- ing tap—and the old ones must soon die,—no great loss to the nation, if they .persevere in their opposition to reform; but we will die ourselves in the mean tune, and are we to do without reform to the end of our lives ?—(Loud laughter)—or till the Lords get into good temper, which may be much about the same time? ( Continutd laughter.) Truly, this reminds one of the Frenchman's promise to his horse when starving at sea, that if he lived on till they got ashore, he would get plenty of provender."
The 15th of November is named for the Tribute-day ; and the fol- lowing circular address has been issued by the Trustees and Secretary of the fund.
"ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE IRISH PEOPLE.
"Fellow Countrymen—Sunday, the 15th November, has been fixed upon as the -O'Connell tribute day for the present year, 1835. In making this announcement, we are enabled to state, that it is the expressed determination, as well as it is the impera- tire duty of the friends of Ireland, to contribute to this truly patriotic measure now with more spirit and liberality than at any former time. The unparalleled and com- manding station occupied by O'Connell iu political life, exposes him to the conceit- 4rated hostility of the enemies of reform and of popular liberty. In the malevolent expectation of crushing him by accumulated expenses, they have recently invoiced him In multiplied election cont este, and assailed him w ith petitions almost equally numerous, impeaching his own return to Parliament, and those of the ' members of his family.' Each case brought to issue has, as usual, added to his political victories; but while some of the proceedings are still followed up by his adversaries with vindictive though hopeless pertinacity, the aggregate costs of these contests and defences, with other enormous charges inseparable from his position, have not only exhausted the funds derived from the public, but have laid the Liberator anew under the necessity of making large advances from his private purse for the public cause. Justice. gratitude, your own interests. and those of the nation, require that you shall indemnify your great ad- vocate for those advances, and provide amply for future contingencies. "Every county, city, town, parish, and person, favourable to O'Connell and Reform, is therefore emphatically called upon to cooperate in seeming the success of the ap- proaching effort. The intetval affords sufficient time for organizing the requisite paro- chial committees, and proper local arrangements being efficiently made ; and an aug- mented produce, proportioned to the incteased strengthof the claim upon the country, will uuquestionately tie realized in each district in Ireland.
"Jwits PoWER.
CORNELIUS MACLOGSMIN, Trustees.
DAVID LYNYIL
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