The Boyne Club, another name for an Orange Association, gave
a dinner in Dublin on Thursday week to Messrs. West and Hamilton. The Boyne Club, another name for an Orange Association, gave a dinner in Dublin on Thursday week to Messrs. West and Hamilton.
Mr. West has lately been an object of incessant attack to the notorious Johnny M'Crea of Ebenezer Chapel, who patronizes "that noble fed-. low Randall Plunket ;" and he took occasion at the Boyne Club dinner to defend himself from M•Crea's vituperation. In the course of his speech, according to the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, West let out some ugly facts respecting the election proceedings of his party. Ile stated that M'Crea, who started as a candidate at the last election, asked 160/. to give up his claims ; but dropped his demand to 80/., and finally took 30/. Subsequently, two subscriptions were set on foot, one for West and another for M'Crea. Mr. Randall Plunket
subscribed 10/. for M'Crea and 100/. towards the sum raised for West, which he rather unaccountably and very unwisely commissioned M'Crea to pay into the fund ; but M'Crea kept the whole 110/. for himself. This is not the only trick played by M'Crea in reference to this election. Mr. West said-
" A man named William Duffey, who resides in Chambers Street, brought to me the other day # so bills for, I think, 40/. each, which are two of those honourable engagements I am considered by some gentlemen strictly bound to
pay. I had never seen or heard of poor Duffey before; but I examined those 1..s, one of which bore the acceptance of John M'Crea.' Ile told me he ivally gave the money, 401., for the bill, as be was told it was wanted for t'ie election ; that he afterwards gave the bill to the clerk of his brewer, Mr.
Watkins, who, upon looking at it, observed that the bill ought to contain the words Value received,' which had been omitted, amid which Duffey, taking up a pen, wrote in the instant; that when the bill was presented. Mr. M'Crea, the acceptor, refused to pay it, alleging that a forgery had been committed on the bill, and he subsequently told Duffey that ' he would prosecute or transport him for a felony, if he did not destroy the " A pretty set these Dublin Tories seem to be. Mr. West was very anxious to prove that he dealt exclusively with Conservative trades- men, in reply to the accusation of M'Crea that he patronized Papists- " Gentlenun, it is equally untrue that I do not employ Protestant trades- men. Every tradesman I employ in Dublin is, as I believe him to be, a Con- servative elector. After the election of 1832, I felt myself bound to show a preference for those who had given their support to me. I did the same in every instance after the last election, and even gave up some good Conservatives who had not then registered, for others who had!"
At this Boyne Club dinner, the health of the Princess Victoria was omitted, and that of the Duke of Cumberland given next to their Ma- jesties'. What better could be expected from a gang of Orange plot- ters against the succession of the Princess Victoria to the throne? 7 M'Crea convened a meeting in Ebenezer Chapel, for the purpose of vindicating himself from the charges made against him by Hr.West. lie entered into a long defence, in which he said he was 2001. out of pocket for election expenses ; and with respect to the bill which he had accepted, he had accepted it as an accomruodatit n to Captain Childers, who promised that it should be paid when due ; and when he accepted the bill, he considered it as so much waste paper, as the words " Value received" were not on it, and the subsequent addition of those words was a forgery. With respect to the 1001. which he was charged with pocketing, he said that Mr. Randall Flunket had offered that sum to him, on the event of his becoming a candidate for the representation of Dublin, and that he had therefore a right to it. The Honourable Randall Plunket, M. p., has subscribed 500/. to the funds of the Irish Metropolitan Conservative Society ; and, in ad- dition to this munificent contribution, has guaranteed the rent and taxes of the Society's house for three years.
The funeral of Mrs. O'Connell took place on Wednesday week. The coffin containing the remains was brought into the chapel of Dar- rynane Abbey long before day, and the solemn mass for the dead com- menced. As the clergy front many a neighbouring and distant parish attended iii great numbers, the OILLSSCS were continued without inter- ruption until noon. At one, the procession moved from the mansion. house to the ruins of the abbey of the canons regular of St. Austin, at the end of the demesne, overhanging the Atlantic. The attendance of gentry from all parts of Kerry was very numerous. The tenantry of Mr. O'Connell wore hatbands, and the female domestics the long cloaks usual on such occasions. The coffin was borne by her kindred, and the long train of stolid priests recited the burial.service in the low Gregorian chant. The sublime Misercre and the solemn De Prtfundis were responded to by the murmurs of the waves as they rolled along the beach of Darrynane. The scene was peculiarly solemn and impressive. On arriving at the family. vault, the funeral service was read by the Reverend Mr. Griffiths, chaplain to Mr. O'Connell, in a voice distin- guished for its musical cadences; and the responses were given by twenty priests.—Freenem's Journal.
Mr. O'Connell arrived in Dublin on Saturday evening. The Association adjourned for several days, in token of respect to the me- mory of Mrs. O'Connell.
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