The Anti-Tithe meeting at Navan, on the :24th of October,

was at- tended by many of the principal landowners and tenantry of Meath county. The High Sheriff, Mr. Corbally, was in the chair. Ile urged the people to persevere until they had obtained the entire aboli. tion of tithes. Of the Whig- O'Connell measure of last session he said- " It has done nothing to relieve the people from this oppression ; but it will, on the contrary, cause dissension and ill-feeling between the landlord and the poor man. Is it to be borne much longer, that the hard earnings of the poor man must go towards the maintenance of a set of men who continually act in avowed and bitter hostility to him and the religion he professes? No; it is

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inconsistent with human reason to expect such forbearance; and I a satisfied that until the Voluntary system is brought into play, we will not have peace in this injured country.

The Marquis of Headfort, not deterred from personal attendance at the meeting by the late animadversions on his conduct, spoke much in the same strain-

" I should consider myself guilty of a gross dereliction of my duty, and an abandonment of all those principles which I have adopted from my earliest youth, if I did not come forward and avow and maintain those opinions at this meeting. I have always considered the Tithe question as intimately connected with the civil and religious liberty of Ireland; and the settlement of it should have formed a portion of the Catholic Relief Bill in 1829. The consequences of not doing so have been felt in every part of the land. I might not, as a Protestant, object to the payment of tithes • but I think it is monstrously absurd, as well as peeal in the extreme, that tithes; Catholics should be obliged to support an exclusive Church Establishment, the tenets and observances of which they du not follow. As long as such a system lasts, civil and religious liberty do not exist in Ireland. It has been admitted by the Legislature, that the Tithe system is a source of great oppression to the great majority of the Irish people. Why, then, do they trifle with the people h—why longer dully i with t?—why not an once grapple with it, and do away with the system totally? I do maintain, that such a course would be for the benefit of the Pro. testant clergy and the Protestant religion' of which I am- proud to avow my- self a member. I am for upholding the Protestant Church in this country ; but I entertain too much respect for my Catholic countrymen, and I conceive it an insult to their common sense to call on them to support a Church whose doctrines they do not profess. The country is suffering severely ; and in fol- lowing the course which I have taken up, I feel I am doing that which con- duces to the interest and happiness of my native land. One word upon the subject of Corporation Reform. It is impossible that during the next session of Parliament England can refuse to place Ireland on the same equality with herself; and I am sure th it a bill for the reform of the Corporations of a satisfactory kind will be passed."

The Marquis moved the first resolution- " That the great and fundamental cause of all the evils of Ireland is the effort tu maintain the ascendancy of a Church of a small minority of the people, to the moral and political degradation of the nation; and that Ireland can never enjoy tianquillity as long as that system be continued." Mr. Sharman Crawford moved the second resolution- " That the late Tithe Bill, instead of diminishing, has tended to aggravate the evils of the original system, by creating dissension on religious grounds be- tween landlord and tenant, and thus entailing additional misery and destitution on the country."

Mr. Crawford recommended, that a new appropriation of tithes, for the general good of the people, should be the aim of the present agi- tation.

The following resolutions were moved and, supported by Sir Wil- liam Somerville, Mr. Tuaffe, and other gentlemen-

" That the people of Ireland should reject with contempt every measure for the settlement of the Tithe question, tecoplizing the ascendancy of auy church or section over the remainder of the nation."

" That the claims of Ireland could only be rectified by the passing of a law totally extinguishim,r, in mine and substance, the tithe impost, or changing It to an appropriation for the public and general purposes of the nation."

Sic William Somerville was under the necessity of explaining his vote in favour of the measure he now stood forward to denounce-

" I told them [the House of Commonsl it would bring the tenant in co!- lotion with his landlord. I told them that it left the Tithe system in all ita odimsness. I repreg-nted to them the hardship of exacting from au impover- ished people, large sums for the support of a clergy in whose tenets they did not feel any interest. I stated then, that if the people of Ireland did not re- ceive this bill, (and I was Pei fectly satisfied they would not.) that I would be ready to join them heart and hand until they got rid of every remaining portion of this irreligious and oppressive system altogether. • • • I sup- ported the bill from motives of pure humanity. It was with the utmost reluci. tanee I suppoited it ; but I slieuhl regret to the last moment of my life, if, by recoi ding may vote in favour of the third reading, I should have been in any way, instrumental, even for a silig!e day, in par aIm ziiig the arms of Irishinen in their constitutional agitation against the Tithe system, or curtailing their opposition to that odious syst-iii, as injudius as it is complicated."

The resolutions were carried by acclamation. A vote of thanks was proposed to Mr. O'Connell. Mr. Sharman Crawford hi jelly, and in emiricous phrase, expressed his dissent from

that resolution ; und the illt etillg listened to him attentively. The resolution, however, was carrled amidst loud cheering : and, doubtless, if O'Connell were openly to oppose, as he probably will oppose by his private influence, any attempt to annoy Ministers on this question, his headlong followers would still throw up their hats for him.

Another Anti- Tithe meeting, at which Lori Ffrench presided, was held on the :list, at Killyan, Galway county. Sir Michael Dillon Bellew, the newly-made Whig Baronet, figured at this meeting.

In consequence of the state of Tipperary, the Earl of Donoughmore, as Lord- Lieutenant of the county, has convene:I a meeting of Magis- trates, to be held at Thurles oil next Wednesday. The place of meet- ing is the scene of the Lute murder of Mr. O'Keefe.