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810 carried after the crushing majority of the House of C.nnmons that voted against them. He believed, under the circumstances, the best thing they could do was to take what the Chancellor of the Exchequer promised them—a fair and honest bill. They should do what Daniel O'Connell advised, take an instalment of what they wanted if they could not get all they wanted. These were his sentiments ; and if they choose to pass a resolution embodying different opinions he would not act according to it, because he knew the state of the House of Commons better than most men, and the rottenness of Irish representation. He was not among the number of those who turned Lord Palmerston out of office ; but now that lie was out, he (Mr. Maguire) thought the best thing he °mild eo for the interests of his country and the maintenance of justice Was to give an independent support. He would conclude by telling them that he believed a bill such as that which they had last ap p .oved was utterly unattainable in the House of C immons, and therefore he asked them seriously to a scept such a bill as it was possible to pass, and not t 3 wait for what they could never obtain. Mr. BLAKE, M.P., then addressed the meeting b idly, and sail that he felt to continue the agitation far the retrospective clause would be utterly useless, and that sooner than lend himself to the continuance of any sham he would, if his constituents desired it, ratire from their representation. Mr. G. H. MoORE commenced by stating that he did not concur in the opinion entertained by many persons present, and by most of those who had sipped away from the meeting, that the cause of the tenant was less flourishing in its aspect now than it hid been. Hs begged, moreover, to remind them that he had formerly been less sanguine iu his ex• pectations than many of those who were now most despondent. He always believed that if this agitation were, like all other great movements, to succeed, it should be by the patient exercise ofeff.,rt and resolu. Lion. The question of emancipation looked half won when O'Connell took it up, but it required a long series of years and of patiens; and determined effort to carry that reform ; and should they give up the cause of Irish homes and Irish (:earths because it had not been carried by a few meetings in William street and Beresford-place ? He believed that from the very disorganization of the Lberal party there was hope. Like a clock that had for a long time gone badly, there was hope that when it stopped it would be taken to pieces, and cleaned and oiled; and it would then, he hoped, go a little faster than before. Mr. Moore maintained that the independent members in Parliament should not seek t , establish claiira upon a Government such as the present. By their conduct or by their forbearance in opposition to them they might acquire their respect and good will, but the principles of the present Administration were such as could not be regarded with anything short of constant abhorrence and hostility, and that of course would render all sympathy and confidence hopeless and an impossibility. Their sympathies were now, as they had ever been, with the great Li'oeral party in the State, whenever and wherever it might be f lund—the party of progress and reform ; aid the reason why they bad lately refused all sympathy, all support, and all forbearance to the party as Burning that title and position was because they regarded that title as an imposture, that position as an usurpation—because that party had betrayed its trust and deserted its pi inciples—because it had fallen into the hands of an arrogant camarilla and a covetous cabal. What hail been the history of this cabal since it had acquired possession of the Government of Ireland? In the name of liberty they had refused the rights of men even in arms, which rights the Conservatives had honourably conceded in the name of progress and civil and religious liberty. English fanaticism was hounded back to bygone centuries to seek for causes to put them down ; and in the name of Reform they had b !en obliged to sit under the shadow of the grossest abuses. What were the independent Opposition that they should endure such things? It was to their devotion to liberty and reform that was owing the overthrow of that faction which stopped ithe way they pretended to lead. A charge was made against the representatives of the independent party that they were the supporters of the Tory Govern ment. If by that were meant that they were the friends of Tory rule or Conservative dominion, lie believed a more false assertion was never made. There was, however, an opinion, not confined to the Irish members, i but widely spr e ad and rapidly in creasing, that f this country must be governed up )n Conservative principles it should be governed by Conservatives ; and the result as we ll as th e purport of that opinion was to expel, to exorcise, from the Whig party the demon of Conservatism that bad so long possessed it. It was a devil which was inexorable, and could only be reduced by Listings. Mr. Moore proceeded at considerable length to urge upon the independent members that tliey should unite with the advanced Liberals in forming such a party as the traditions of the Whigs themselves should lead them to belong to. If ever liiii. THE PRESS, AUGUST 21, 1858. there was a time honourable men desirous of serving their country had an opportunity of doing so, it was the present; and he would also say to the par tizans of the Whigs, if ever there was a time for self-seeking Reformers to play their own gamy and at the same time to subserve these great national interests, which, to do them justice, they regarded as second only to their personal interests, now was the time, in the words of Judge Keogh, "to ad• vance themselves and their country together." He believed that the Whig Catholic party in this country still loved their country and their religion, and if they could only see that their private interests re qiiired their return to national duty, they would cheerfully respond to the patriotic call. Could these persons fail to see that the present state oh things might lead to results highly disastrous? If the Catholic constituencies of Ireland came to the conclusion that their rights were safer under a Protestant ascendancy than a Catholic flunkeydom —if, after all, they thought Catholic chaplains for soldiers more valuable than epaulettes for Catholic squires, what woull be the probable consequences ? The distribution of patronage to Protestants ex• elusively most have been to some sincere Catholics very distasteful. If this was told in anj part of Catholic Ireland, the feeling would be one of supreme delectation, not because the exclusion of Catholics from office was in itself a good thing, but because Irish Catholics in office had distinguished themselves by such a prostitution of truth, such an absence of all political and religious principle, such abandon ment of their constituencies, that they began to be regarded as political harpies. qui Diripiuntque Japes contactuque omnia feedunt. That was a description of no small class in this country. He thought that the best thing they could do under the circumstances was to join the ludo• dendent party of advanced reformers in England. The franchise in Ireland was now only the badge of serfdom. Grand juries returned in reality the members; and the only influence which was wont to interfere between the people and the oligarchy was silenced by parliamentary committees and pro• secutions by Catholic attorney-generals. The exten sion of the franchise was in his opinion utterly useless without the introduction of the ballot system into this country. If in England the ballot was a pressing expediency, in Ireland it was a con stitutiunal neces.iity. Every tenant at will in this country was a serf with a collar round his neck on which was engraven the name of his master, and this would always be the state of things until the ballot was granted. Mr. Moore then went on to show the advantage of the ballot system as setting the tenant electors free from landlord influence, and said that having considered the subject in his retirement from public life, during the last twelve months, he had come to the conclusion that tenant•right would never be carried in its details until the representa tion of Ireland was purified by the action of the ballot. He concluded by asking the meeting to assist the reform party in England in every manner they could by working together with theta for the ballot system. Mr. - MAGUIRE, M.P., said he understood Mr. Moore to object to the passing of a measure of tenant right until the principle of the ballot had been adopted. Why, when did he expect the ballot to pass, and what was the tenant to do in the mean• while 9 He should just do the same as the horse whilst the grass was growing for him to eat—starve ! \Vas he to hold out to the Irish tenant farmers hopes that wou:d never be realized, and which were to be dependent upon a cause which was making no way whatever ? Mr. REDMOND, of the Waterford News, interrupted Mr. Maguire, and stated that the cause of the ballot was not standing still, but, on the contrary, was making rapid strides. Mr. M AGUIRE : All I can say is, and I have spoken to the leading men in England and Scotland, in cluding Mr. Berkeley, upon the question, and their opinion is directly in contravention of such a belief ; and I know the feeling of many of the influential men in the house to be that the debate on the ballot is a harmless annual exhibition. Mr. REDMOND still persevering in his assertion, was called to order, and Mr. MAGUIRE proceeded to state that he believed they would in no case have the ballot sooner than ten years, and if they got it in sixteen it would be by a m►racle. Fur his part, therefore, l►e was not con tented to wait sixteen years to make the first move in the cause of tenant-right. Mr. Moore said that the Tories had no claims to their sympathies or their confidence, and some miserable hicks represented the Catholics, who were giving fair play to the Tories, as their supporters. He was as good a Catholic, and as much attached to his religion, as any man in the world, and he would do as much to advance the cause of his religion and his Church ; but this he would say, that the present Government bad done more for Catholics than had been done by their so-called friends for the last twenty years. Some persons sneered at the app o i ntment of Catholic chaplains as a small matter, but he 1 that putting them In this respect upon th footing with the Protestants was one of t proofs of emancipation that he knew of, priests were nearer to the people ; they belong to the aristocracy. He had no syrapath, the present Government 83 Conservatives, abhorred Orangeisrn from his soul, believing the parent of other vicious institutions country ; lie had, therefore, no sympathy witl but he gave them his support, and would r to give them fair play so lung as they were to his confi fence. He would not, therefore, the political millennium to which Mr. Moore forward, and as to the date of winch he felt amount of curiosity. Mr. MOORE : I will tell you then. It will years before you get any tenant bill from the Government. After some further discussion the meeting adjourned. Yalu anti Voila. CESARINI V. RONZANI. This was an action, tried at Gnildfr Saturday, before Mr. Justice Willes and a jury, to recover a balance of 491. 3,. 41., agreement made by the defendant to pay thi a certai❑ sum of money for singing at t Theatre at Turin, of which theatre he principal director. Mr. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Joyce appeared plaintiff; Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., and Mr. were for the defendant. Mademoiselle Adelaide Cesarini, the stated that she first became acquainted wit fendant in the latter part of 1856. He was time ballet-master at the Italian Opera. aware that she had a desire to to upon the stage. he advised her to study L'Elisir d' Amore. end of the opera season the defendant let for Italy, and she continued to study. Soon , she received a letter from the defendant retp her to study the part of Violetta in an opera Il Bravo, and she did so. In November slit the offer of 2,000 f. for the lour months' Turin, and she went there, accompanied mother and sister, and arrived at Turin on of December, and the defendant provided apartments at the National Theatre. The d wished her to play the part of Violetta, and him she could not do so; and he knew insisted, and she went to rehearsal, and the shortly afterwards told her that he had another actress to perform the part, as lie would not suit her voice. She made ' appearance in January, ISM, in the part of in the opera of Nabucco. Her mother was and died, and the defendant insisted on forming on the day she was buried, althougi asked him for the indulgence of being absent evening. She received altogether from the about 341., and when the theatre closed him for the remainder of her money, but In could not give it her then, as lie had expenses. She left Turin on the Ist came to England subsequently with her sister, the defendant, who had become the manager St. James's Theatre, engaged her to sing salary of 41. a-week. Ali the other prime done the same salary. Cross-examined by Mr. JAMES : Her fi the defendant were on very intimate term! latter frequently visited at their house. not play the part of Violetta at ail. It dii her voice. It was too high. While silk- Turin she signed some paper at the request defendant, but she did not know the nature It very likely was the same now produced. Mr. JAMES herd pin in a written paper which was signed by the plaintiff, and so ported to state that she had received till 250 livees as a final settlement of ha clr the theatre. Cross-examination contitme3 : Her en; at the St. James's Theatre only lasted at weeks, and Mr. Braham mule up a portai salaries that were due to the singers. She aware whether any application for the bah to her was made to the defendant after lu to this country. Her mother was taken ii about two hours' journey by railway from I' the defendant advanced some money for and also to redeem their luggage. She I performed anywhere but at Turin. he at that place were very critical. They hissed all the time of the performance. Mr. JAMES : That must have been a nice the actors. The witness then said she believed ti they hissed was that Rouzani WEIS not a favourite with the public of Turin, and were dissatisfied with the engagements if Rom an St believed pi the g am the h e ,, L th , for the th did not th athy with if ani h e to g it to h e 114 in th e 9 1 ith th em, continue pi B entitled al ?, Wait for tl re looked el a senate II be firt y a to present eting was 1 ford last I minima , under an ie plaintiff the Royal was the !ed for the . Hawkins plaintiff, kb the de. as at that He was stage, and re. 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