ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IV, Issue 168, 25 March 1854, Page 10

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

(Continued from the 7th page.)

A public meeting was held on the 28th November, at Freemason's Hal], London, for the purpose of memorialising Government to take measures to prevent the persecution of British subjects in Roman Catholic countries. The chair was taken by the Eail of Shaflesbury, and the attendance was numerous and influential. On the same day, the anniversary meeting in commemoration of the Polish Revolution was celebrated. The attendance of Poles, Hungarians, and foreigners generally was very numerous. The meeting was addressed by speakers in several languages. M. Ledru Rollin delivered a speech on the occasion to the effect that whether the Turks were victorious or conquered, an advantage to the liberties of Europe would be the result of the war. Mr. Ernest Jones, who is styled the successor of Fergus O'Connor, has been endeavouring to organize the operatives engaged in the strikes into a combined national "movement for exacting better terms from the employers. The Times says:—" If any faith is to be placed in the returns, the present appearances of the Cholera are scarcely less formidable than when it carried off its thousands a week. It appears to be regularly acclimated. It is no longer a mere epidemic—no longer a foreign plague that invades and destroys—but a household pest, content with its daily allowance of victims. That allowance is something under a hundred a week." . - . : . In Ireland several cases of agrarian disturbance had occurred. In Meath "Mr. Magan, one of the representatives of the county, entered into a conflict with one of his tenants, both being backed, by their friends or retainers, and a loss of life was the result. A Galway paper states that instructions from the Government have been received by the authorities of that town, setting forth that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have decided on raising a force often- thousand men for the defence of the coasts of the United Kingdom. Lord Charles Pelham Clinton, brother of the Duke of Newcastle, has purchased extensive property in Cork, part of the estates of the Earl of Bantry. Electionering excitement was rife in Clonmel Mr. John O'Connell, son of "the Liberator," being a candidate, .was threatened to be opposed on behalf of the tenant League if he did not agree to its principles, and pledge himself to mdependance of all English parliamentary parties After considerable evasion he notified a qualified acceptance of Mr. Duffy's and Mr Lucas's terms, and was likely to be elected. In reply to the claim of his father's memory put forward by him at the commencement! the Ration makes the following remarks :—" We must deal with the present as it is; and mere antecedents will avail Mr. John O'Connell as little as they did Mr. Henry Grattan, in the absence of acts. Mr. John O'Connell is the son of his father. He is also the brother of his brothers—the brother-in-law of his bvuthers-in-iaw. Ihe people of Ireland have counted three of them who abandoned Parliament for placeand n» false delicacy shall forbid us from telling him ilmt the most devoted followers of his lather^ were shocked and shamed when they recently saw^iim stand sponsor on the hustings oi lru.ee for his brother, who commenced another p.ace-seeking campaign in the House by yon,;* t( ,r a coercion Bill and against tenantright. Mr Darnel O'Connell on that oce,.sion ]l' OT' c! nlncil' leS Of llis father, and Mr. J In OConnell guaranteed his fidelity to them. priitple^" 11 W6re 11Ot Daniel o%C™dl'»