THE DECLARATION IN SUPPORT OF LAW AND ORDER.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 229, 9 August 1848, Page 3

THE DECLARATION IN SUPPORT OF LAW AND ORDER.

The following highly important statement appears in the Dublin Evening Post:— Wo have seen lists of thousands of names, received this day by the gentlemen who have undertaken the duties of Secretaries to the declaration namely, Messrs. Thomas Hutton, Alexander Boyle, Valentine O'Brien O'Connor, James Perry, and Pierce Mahony. Anything in shape of classification or selection from this immense mass of names, from every part of Ireland, is of course out of the question at this time. The names include the Protestant nnd Catholic Primates (Lord John G. Beresford, and the Most Rev. Dr. Crolly)— the Catholic Archbisbop of Dublin (MohI: Rev, Dr. Murray) — the Catholic Bishop of Waterford (Right Rev. Dr. Foran) — peers, lieutenants of counties, deputy-lieutenants, magistrates— numbers of the clergy Protestant, Catholic, and Presbyterian — barristers merchants, the professional classes— and, which we consider quite as important, immense numbers of farmers and shopkeepers from the four province, who, free from the poison of sedition, have volunteered their earnest support of the government of Lord Clarendon, against the designs of those wicked men who seek to involve the country in anarchy and hopeless misery. It is due to the country and to the signers of the declaration, who have come forward with such alacity, and so unhesitatingly, to sustain the cause of law and order and good government, that their names should be placed on record. A few of the localities only we shall allude to. Lord Stuart de Decies heads the list in Waterford County. ln Kilkenny County Lord Ashbrook und a host of gentry, and farmers, &c, with Catholic clergymen in the district of Durrow, have forwarded their signatures. In Meath the Earl of Fingall heads the list — in Ltitrim Lord Clements — in the district of jMlown, County of Kilkenny, the EarI of Bessborough heads an array of all classes, including a great number of farmers - tho Rev. Pierce Marum, Parish Priest, is included in this list. In Galway, Lords Clonearly and Clonhbock, head the list—in Westmeath, Hugh Morgan Taite, DL. of Sonna— and here, such is the honorable zeal by which this movement is distinguished, that Alicia O'Connor Malone, the representative of a large property in that county, has affixed her signature to the declaration. The Earl of Longford heads the list in that county— Lord Lorton in Roscommon— and Lord Farnham in Cavan. In the town of Cavan we understand only two declined to put their names to the declaration — and what is curious is, that one is a Protestant, and the other a Roman Catholic. These are the solitary exceptions to the general simultaneous movement of the country in support of the Lord -Lieutenant.

Dublin, March 28.— There was a meeting of the Committee of the Repeal Association held yesterday when an address or appeal to the Queen was adopted. The general topic of conversation to-day is the approach of Mr. John O'Connell yesterday to deposition. He barely saved himself by having the address to the Queen referred back to the committee. This body met to-day to consider his address and the amendment of Mr. Galway. The latter was adopted. Mr. John O'Connell on hearing it withdrew his address. Mr. Galway's address, it is said, refers to the great national capabilities of Ireland— to her prosperity before and her poverty since the union — and as the latter is traceable to that measure, it culls for the exercise ol the prerogative in convening an Irish Parliament. Mr. John O'Connor's more elaborate paper will be added for her Majesty's information.

Will of Sir G. Gipp's.— Sir George Gipps, late Governor of New Soulh Wales, died possessed of funded and personal properly, within the province of. Canterbury, amounting to £25,000. He made his will whilst at the Government House, Sydney, on the 6th July, 1846. The will was entirely in his own hand writing, and after giving the following legacies to his appointed executors, H. W. Parker, Esq. of Parramatta ; and G. M. Taswell, Esq., of the City of Canterbury, his brother-in-law, each £100; also £10 to his nephew, George Bather, Esq., of New South Wales and a like sum to his faithful servant, Jane Newport, who was with him at Sydney, and came over with him to England — he leaves to his wife Lady Gipps, for her absolute use and without any reserve, everything else over which by a testamentary instrument he had a power of disposal, whether in England, France, the United States, New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, or elsewhere Lady Gipps alone proved the will in the Prerogative Court in London, a power being reserved to the other executors.— Sydney Herald