It is directed that all Navy bills not due or
not presented before the 30th November, shall be paid after that day at the office of his Majesty's Paymaster-General at Whitehall. This is the first notification to the public that the long-contemplated improvement, which has been or- ganized by Sir Henry Parnell, of consolidating the Pay-offices of the Army and Navy into one, is completed, and is henceforth to be acted on.
The O'Connell subscription has been closed ; and the net sum re- ceived transmitted to Mr. O'Connell, in the following letter from Mr. 11 ume.
" Bryanstone Square, 29th November. "My Pear Sir—It is with unfeigned pleasure I send you a copy of the resolutions agreed to at a public meeting held at the Crown and Anchor on the 1st of J une last.
'The Committee appointed to carry into effect these re,wlutions have terminated their business, and I now transmit you the sum of 84891 15s. 2d, which is the balance of the subscriptions in their hands, after defraying all incidental expenses. " The Reformer. of Great Britain Imre, by their liberal contributions towards the object proposed, shown their entire approbation of the intentions of the meeting; and the Committee rejoice in thinking that the pecuniary pressure which the Dublin Elect ion Petition caused you to sustain will, by this means, be materially alleviated. " The torrent or obloquy a ith which you have been so long and so furiously assailed. by the leaders as well as by the menials of the Tory and Orange faction, has only tended to raise you in the general estimation; and to secure to you the cordial support of the friends ofliberty, and of the advocates of Reform in the whole United Kingdom. " The malignity of your enemies has but stimulated the sympathy or your friends; your enemies had devoted you to a martyrdom of calumny and abuse; but the people of the Three Kingdoms hailed you as the champion of Ireland's violated rights, and the able advocate of civil and religions liberty throughout the empire. " When the lung catalogue of Ireland's wrongs and sufferings shall have become matters of history, the great achievements of Irish regeneration will be inseparably connected with your name. Contemporaries may be elisions or ungrateful; posterity is ill be more just. " i cannot conclude without expressing my sincere condolence upon the heavy do- mestic affliction with winch you have been lately visited ; and permit me to remind you that, embarked in the cause of a nation, you must not yield to the distressing in- fluence of private grief, but nobly struggling against those natural feelings, pursue your patriotic course until its object is attained. " Believe me, yours sincerely, JOSEPH Hums."
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