that it became necessary to issue a further supply of tickets in the forenoon of that day, notwithstanding which a considerable number were sold at the entrance door.  Every phase of Irish politics was represented at the meeting.  Amongst the peers were the Marquis of Ormond, the Earl of Erne, Lord Cloncurry, and Lord Farnham; the M.P.’s reckoned, amongst others, O’Connell, Frederick Shaw, William Smith O’Brien, Anthony Lefroy, John O’Connell, and Edward Grogan.  The Marquis of Ormond was chairman.  The resolutions prepared by the Reproductive Works Committee were proposed and unanimously adopted.  They had, the chairman said, been considered by a committee composed of gentlemen of all shades of parties.  Great differences occurred upon almost every word of every resolution.  However, personal opinions had been sacrificed with a view of having perfect unanimity at the present meeting—­a meeting, as he truly said, of peculiar construction—­perhaps the only one of the kind ever assembled in the Rotunda before.  The resolutions adopted by this very remarkable assembly were: 

1.  That we deem it our duty most earnestly to impress upon our representatives, our solemn conviction of the necessity of their now co-operating cordially together in Parliament, for the advancement of the interests of Ireland, and of their uniting to advocate such measures as may appear calculated to raise the social, material, and moral condition of the people; to save society from the ruin by which all classes in the land are now threatened; and to preserve the country from confiscation.

2.  That, before and beyond all other considerations, is the salvation of the lives of the people; and we therefore deem it our solemn duty—­the present system having signally failed—­to call upon the Government, in the most imperative terms, to take such measures as will secure local supplies of food sufficient to keep the people alive, and to sacrifice any quantity of money that may be necessary to attain the object, declaring, as we do, that any neglect or delay in that matter will render the Government responsible for the safety of the people of Ireland, who must perish in multitudes unless supplied with food.

3.  That, as the people of this country are suffering from a most extraordinary and incalculably extensive deficiency in the stock of food, we further call upon the Government to remove all artificial impediments to the supply of that deficiency, by the temporary suspension of the navigation laws, and the duties on the importation of corn, and also to give increased facilities to that importation, by permitting such vessels of her Majesty’s navy as can be spared to be employed in the transport of provisions.

4.  That we consider it would be most desirable, that the unrestricted use of sugar and molasses in our breweries and distilleries should be permitted, under existing circumstances; in order to save for more useful purposes a portion of the grain now used in those establishments.