At the usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, on
Monday, letters were read from the gentlemen who are making tours of agitation in the several provinces. The progress does not appear to be very great. Mr. John O'Connell writes from Tuam, on Saturday " I have no large popular meeting to report this week ; but I am sure the Association will be gratified to learn that I have had two most interesting and likely to be most useful meetings with the clergy of this archdiocese. This honour was procured for me by his Grace the Archbishop, who was himself present on both occasions ; the one being after the Conference of the Deanery of Dunmore, the other after a similar occurrence in the Deanery of Tuarn. I need scarcely say, that the estimable gentlemen whom I thus met appeared devoted to Ireland. This is the general rule with the Catholic clergy, and a general rule to which the exceptions are few indeed."
Mr. O'Neil Daunt announces from Athlone, that "the work goes bravely on." Mr. Ray was at Limerick, and he had two grand demonstrations of which to boast—at Limerick and Cork ; the Mayor of the town presiding at each. He says— 'A deputation went out yesterday, and in less than an hour obtained between twenty and thirty 1/. subscriptions, given in every case with the utmost cheerfulness. The Trades are in progress of collection; and from this city and Cork you may count on large contributions immediately, and regular remittances of the detailed collections hereafter."
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