than selling it for a barrack, and was immediately contradicted, as if I had said the impossible thing. A visit to Dublin would prove such contradiction to be un deserved. "Why does the Admiralty charge fifteen shillings for a passage to Holyhead, sixty miles, and twelve to Liverpool, one hundred and twenty? "Why does my Irish paper cost postage, and my English come free, one hundred times the distance? Why are the letters of the poor charged with double postage, until the half be given back, let its importance be what it may? Why can a set of party magistrates refuse a petty sessions to a large town (Bray, for instance,) and establish it at privacy in a gate lodge?" For ourselves we believe the ob ject of assembling this little parliament in Dublin to be plain. If the custom of a few years should have lent to its meetings even the shadow of the sanction of prescriptive right, it will exist as a body useful for the purposes of treason, when treason may find it expedient to make open war. The meeting of Irish members will virtually assume the powers of an Irish parliament, and be ready at any time to declare the union violated and dissolved, and themselves the national convention of Ireland. We may read the meaning of the proposal by the light of the following sentence in Mr. O'Connell's letter: "Already the signs of the times' cheer me on. One of the most decided adversaries to repeal,' Lord Ebrington, has himself avowed that there were indica tions of such atrociously criminal hostility to Ireland amongst the English Tories as, if successfully persevered in, would justify and even require the Irish people to insist on the repeal. It was an honest and a manly declaration, and, coming from a man of his lordship's sterling integrity, shows that the very best men in the empire will recognise our right to a domestic legislature if the British parliament and people refuse us the justice of a perfect equalization of civil rights." THE BEGGING-BOX. October 20th.-In the Pilot of this date the following notice appears :— "The friends of Ireland and of reform, in those parishes in which the collection for the O'Connell Compensation Fund was judiciously postponed until the ensuing month, will be gratified to learn that Sunday, the 12th of November, has been fixed upon for the completion of this imperative measure in all the outstanding districts of the kingdom. "The claim is in the present instance swelled into a double debt,' as it was not brought forward in the past year (1836) lest it should interfere with the arrangements then adopted for the extension of the liberal power, through the registries, or with the organization set on foot by the National Association, called into existence by O'Connell to meet the circumstances of the times. "Thus the approaching collection is to constitute the National Compensation Fund' for two years (viz., 1836 and 1837); and this consideration will have its due effect in producing a corresponding augmentation of the individual and local subscriptions. "The vindictive energy which the Tories exhibit in accumulating money in all parts of the empire to continue the war of the purse' against O'Connell, will be usefully recollected by his supporters. They will feel that as there is nothing which their enemies desire more strenu- "Every county, town, parish, and person favorable to O'Conuell and reform is now emphatically called upon to cooperate in securing the success of the collection. The season is signally propitious, and the interval affords sufficient time for organising the requisite parochial committees; and proper local arrangements being efficiently made, an augmented produce proportioned to the increased strength of the claim upon the country will unquestionably be realised in each district in Ireland. 66 P. V. FITZPATRICK, Sec. "Office, 44, Dame-street, Dublin," It is a novel, perhaps a significant feature in this comical production, that Mr. O'Connell's popularity is propped by the "influence and authority" of Richard Shiel. DEATH OF DR. WILLIAM WEST. With deep and painful feelings of regret we take up our pen to record on this page the premature death of our esteemed and amiable fellow-citizen, Dr. William West. He died on Sunday the 8th of October, in the 34th year of his age. A fever, caught while attending the meeting of the British Association, has deprived society of one of its most estimable members, and the literature of Ireland of one of its ornaments and supports. As a student of modern languages, Dr. West's success was, in Ireland at least, unrivalled. His accurate and familiar acquaintance with the most intricate and least studied dialects of Northern Europe, had earned for him a reputation as a linguist, which was not confined to the circle of his native shores. By many learned men on the continent, his opinions were sought after with anxiety, and attended to with respect. We have a melancholy satisfaction in acknowledging the obligations under which he frequently placed this journal, by contributions, the place of which it is impossible to supply. Every day was adding alike to his knowledge and his reputation, when his distinguished career was brought to a close in an early grave. In the University, Dr. West had borne the highest honours of the undergraduate course. At a later period of his life, the Royal Irish Academy conferred on him the high distinction of electing him a member of their council. In private life, universally respected and esteemed, few men had more or warmer friends-none, perhaps, ever made fewer enemies. The daily press, of all parties, has borne honourable and abundant testimony to the general regret which was occasioned by his premature decease. From the many tributes to his memory which the melancholy event called forth, we select the following, from the columns of the Dublin Evening Mail :— "We do not know when a more painful duty has devolved upon us, than that of recording the death of our amiable and distinguished fellow-citizen, Dr. William West, son of Alderman Jacob West, of this city. When we consider the estimation in which this individual was held as a sound and erudite scholar by the most learned men of the day-the ardent zeal with which he prosecuted science, and the premature age (only 34) at which he was cut off, it is not too much to say that his loss was a public one, and one that must be deeply deplored by the world of letters. The promises held out by his collegiate success were more than realised in the distinctions his labours in medicine, philology, geography, and botany, subsequently acquired for him. Of these subjects the science of languages occupied his especial attention, and so accurate and profound was his knowledge in this branch of literature, that in matters of abstruse research his assistance was urgently sought after by the most eminent philologists both at home and abroad. His capabilities in this respect were practically and disinterestedly applied to rendering the most recent discoveries in medicine throughout Europe available to his professional brethren at home. The purity of mind, singleness of purpose, and almost childish simplicity of thought, in the ordinary affairs of the world, so often the characteristic accompaniments of true genius, were leading features in Dr. West's character. He may be said to have fallen a sacrifice to his too ardent pursuit of science, as the fatal fever, which terminated his short but distinguished career, was caused by close application, whilst in a delicate state of health, in preparing for the British Association an elaborate critical illustration, through its primitive dialects, of the Ancient Geography and History of Gaul and the British Isles." THE ORPHANS OF DUNASKER-CHAPTERS V. VI. VII.-By the Author of ANTHOLOGIA GERMANICA.-No. XI.-MISCELLANEOUS POEMS FARDOROUGHA THE MISER; OR, THE CONVICTS OF LISNAMONA.— PART V-BY WILLIAM CARLETON, Author of "Traits and Stories of the Irish LORD MULGRAVE'S GOVERNMENT, AND THE EDINBURGH REVIEW BY WAYS OF IRISH HISTORY.-CHAP. IX.-THE WHITEBOY SYSTEM-CHA- THE NORTHS-DUDLEY IN ENGLAND.-MEMORABLE ELECTION OF SHERIFFS OF LONDON IN 1682-LEVANT TRADING COMPANY-" TUMULTUATE! TUMULTUATE! MEMORANDA FROM OUR TABLETS OF THE MONTH.-FAILURE OF JUSTICE IN DUBLIN.-ATTACKS ON PROTESTANT PLACES OF WORSHIP.-COMBINATION ASSAULTS IN THE CITY OF DUBLIN.-A HINT FOR MR. SHEIL-TIPPERARY TRAN- QUILLITY. MORE PUFFS OF LORD MULGRAVE.-GOVERNMENT LIBELS.-O'CON- NELL'S PLAN for Settling TITHE-EXCLUSIVE DEALING OF THE GOVERNMENT.— THE SLIGO ELECTION-MAJOR BROWNE.-DISSOLUTION OF THE GENERAL ASSOCIA- TION. THE CASTLE CHAPEL AND THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.-COMBINATION IN DUBLIN. CURIOUS FEATURES IN IRISH CONSPIRACIES.-ORANGEISM.-ROMISH PRELATES.-MURDERS.-FAILURE of the Proposed Dublin PARLIAMENT WILLIAM CURRY, JUN. AND COMPANY. SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. By the Author of "Hyacinth O'Gara," "Confessions of Honor Delany," CHAP. V. MISS TAMMY GOULDING'S account of the several individuals mentioned in the preceding chapter, was, in the main, correct. She did not exaggerate much more than people naturally do, who feel a particular interest in their neighbours' concerns, and allow full scope to a lively imagination, while descanting upon them. She did not, however, do full justice to the Massinger family, or Mrs. Smallcraft. She only mentioned their very apparent defects, without giving them credit for the many good qualities which they possessed. The latter lady was certainly penurious and dictatorial; but she was good natured, and, in a certain degree, well principled. If she had been the wife of a poor man, she would have managed his pittance with respectable economy, and made her husband rich; as it was, having married a gentleman of respectable fortune, she was outrageously shabby; and although his substance was increased, she contrived to make him contemptible. Her dress was not merely plain-it was poor; the materials of the cheapest kind, and worn till they took their legitimate station in the rag-bag. Her table was not merely simply and unsavourily provided; but there was also a want of neatness and regularity about the whole concern, together with so highminded a determination not to encourage a pampered appetite in her family or guests-few and far between -that nothing short of the want of a dinner, could induce a person accustomed to the little respectabilities of VOL. X. civilized life to partake of her everyday hospitality. Mrs. Smallcraft's besetting sin was the love of money, or money's worth. Phrenologists would account, we believe, for this propensity, by the, probably, large development of the organ of acquisitiveness; and, very likely, such was the case. But there was a counteracting principle at work, which saved her from being a downright miser-she could give away, She was active in works of philanthropy, and took pains to ameliorate the condition of the poor. This might also be accounted for by the combination of benevolence, conscientiousness, and veneration, which, when brought to bear upon her acquisitiveness, would, in a great measure, hinder its activity. It may be so; but we choose another solution of the difficulty, if it be a difficulty; and we give credit to the power of true religion to have counteracted, in a great degree, the prevailing tendency of her natural disposition. We can imagine some one of our readers laying down the book after reading the last sentence, with an indignant exclamation against our laxity of Christian morals, in hinting at the possibility of true religion existing in a character such as we have been describing. But, dear reader-and we ask the question, we hope, without giving offence, as we know so very little about you-have you, yourself, no besetting sin, which may be as inconsistent with religion, as poor Mrs. 2 U |