The Sun. — London, England, 1835-09-17 00:00:00

MR. OCONNELL IN NEWCASTLE. (Abridged from the Second Edition of the Tyne Mercury of T his day Tuesday.) Monday, Sept. 14th, being the day appointed for Mr. O' , Mon Connell d to visit Newcastle, a scene of unusual bustle and excitement was presented in the streets, stran gers poured in from the surrounding country, and workmen and mechanics of every description, but more especially s uch as were f rom t h e " Emerald Is l e, " para d e d up an d down, and seemed resolved that the day should be ob served as a holiday. Between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, deputations of the reformers of Newcastle and adjacent. t owns proceeded, accompanied by a band of mu- SIC, to m eet Mr. O'Connell. S oon a ft er 2 o'clock he arrived in his carriag e at Sunderland Road end, where a simul: taneous effort was made by the multitude to unyoke the horses from the carriage, in order to draw Mr. O'Connell Into Newcastle, when Mr. O'Connell peremptorily de clared that if they did so he would quit the carriage ; he assured th em h e was no advocate for men to do the Fork of b eas t s, nor would he suffer such an instance of :onion degradation, voluntary and enthusiastic as it was their part on the present occasion. This remark had t he desired effect. He then proceeded through Gates head into the town, followed by an immense crowd of People. A little before 3 o'clock, Mr. O'Connell, accom- Poled by Mr. Fife, Mr. Doubleday, Mr. Larkin, and Oth er gentlem en , got, w i t h some d iffi cu l ty, to t h e p l at f orm , erected in St. Nicholas's Square, where it was arranged he should rece i ve the addresses that were to be presented to h• The multit u d e assem bl e d was i mmense , St. Ni erlas Square, Mosley -street, Collingood-strMarket, the beingClt Jorket, the Middle -street, and the w Groat all thronged with spectators anx i ous to o bt a i n a sight of a moo wo has so, long held a distinguished place in the polities of the country. The Chair was taken by J. Fife, Esq. Mr. Larkin then proceeded at .. considerabl length, to address ... Mr. O'Con r, as the advocate of civil and religious liberty, and the enn inPian of the rights of the people of England, as well as of Ireland. He called on the assembled multitude, in eptielusion, to hold up their hands with him, and pledge t hemselve s i n grat i tude to Mr. O ' Connell f or hi s serv i ces , to aid and support him to the utmost o f the i r power i n obtainingfoiiwoi as ampl e a measure o f j us ti ce f or Ireland as they desired des , for thei r own country . M r . L ar ki n then read the v i cinity : n g__a_ddress from the Reformers of Newcastle and the " To Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P. t i t " We, the i n h a bi tants o f N ewcast l e - u p on -Tyne and its vici tt Y, With less of ceremony, perhaps, but with much more of eeirstness and tr u th th an h as generally belonged to tributes eta si milar desc r ipti on i n ti mes now happily gone by, beg to _o ur hgratul ate you on your visit to this anc i ent town . I n t hi s icefirst communication with you, Sir, we do not, as others t om used, c ontent ourse l ves w i t h flimsy, and therefore pro all us unfounded, with general, and therefore probably false, and compliments ; but we chuse rather a ground on andch we know that both you and ourselves must feel ample ttaa c omplete s ecur i ta reference to the known, and, as we tr y Stow call th em , historical — features of your character. We c e You at fir s t ma ki ng your ear ly an d laborious way, as all styled (21 f enius d, scornful of h countnace of the self be an g d vulga r great ; amidst a e people e so n oppressed as to ►ttle abl e to afford their friends extr i ns i c a id, re l y i ng on your "n energi es a l one , the friend of your country, and the i Pant opponent of its yet insolent and almost omnipotent t9rants• We see you next the ardent, and at the same time, fPou.htic parent an d supporter o f t h a t grea t body from which the to t ure Powerful and efficient political unions of England were r ai • n s P l ing, The Catholic Association ;' and we recur with sled f eelings of exultation and derision, to the t i me w h en , at til e beck of this noble combination, the religious liberties 14 n ation, so long insolently withheld, were yielded up with vit,tssembl,lcl fear and suicidal reluctance, by two men, one of t t 'T .4 Was the boasted representative of the courage and mi • t irY talent —the other of the policy and legislative wisdom, reality is • ef England. j o : P rom this proud eminence your next step, though great oati , in appearance small. From the emancipator of ", you became a Member of the British House of Com "1"---a. distinction which, if mere sound and the common boceptation of words were alone considered, would pass for C hin g better than an anti-climax. As a Member of the atrll 'stature, the common fate of men of a character like your's pursued you. You were hated and feared for the very : i ces you had done ; and like all who have united honesty talent, you quickly make yourself of too much conse rhee to be acceptable to the rulers of your country. No a under ► when in the Legislature you continued to pursue the 1 8 0 11 ?° constant and unflinching course as when you were alien } i it, arid the Coercion Bill in the House of Commons was as aterul to your feelings as were the Six Acts out of it. ia, " The scene changes, as in such times all such scenes must rnadthe the people o f . England now hail you—the once stig itl ti zed vindicator of an oppressed, because a separate a n d .sulated country—as the distinguished supporter of their t., llght s end ad vocate o f th e ir happiness. This is only consis is:lit %kith all the former acts and maxims of your career. It w th e noble hut yet natural course w hich, in a crisis like the : 14 -e ri se nt, Providence has chalked out for a character like yours, f; as such we view it. From your past we derive a guarantee y o ur future conduct, and gladly hail in you a public man, fi Daram ount power and influence, who has addressed plain, tr e „.2 i te, and unsophisticated truths to the people. Of such th "‘us too well do we know the value, for too long have we felt r e • 1° ". We believe with you, Sir,• the true definition of _,ational liberty to be the opposite of licentiousness, and all geParture from law and order to be true tyranny, whether t elt departure be the act of one, or of a few, or of all. 1 )4 ; 11 ," our desires of change arc limited to such as experience grimes to conduce to the happiness of all men ;at lesitatingly lo „ r ` i ntes the sum of our demands is security for life and pro !Y• It is, Sir, because you have spoken plainly and un throughout—it is because you have announced yourself the advocate of free, rational, and (without which i t .the other epithets are nugatory) cheap Government— ;•,9 because of these things that we treat you thus w it h ev en dship unfeigned, and a confidence unbounded, which due° eloquence like yours, unaccompanied by such . 4ements, could never have drawn from us. Deceived You disaPpointed so often, we recognise with grat itude i n 4 r esting -place for wearied and insulting confidence. We urn rel y upon public measures because they are approved by 1i e ;,, 1 and because we know you will not deceive us, we be viit•ims"ve are not deceived. Deprived of the aid of some of :e.cs, — "% i t is the best praise to say that they ever deserved . that . 1 „ e - Aenee to which you have shewn so powerful a claim,— , I ? a y to God to diminish the already too small number of le ° s ,‘" ve their the country." rt a ,nes Mather, Esq."also addressed Mr. O'Connell, and 8 'le following address to him from the Reformers of 31 Shields : tar i c tv ' '': , --Mre, the undersigned, electors and others, inhabi a as i , fl . ° ` South Shields, gladly embrace the opportunity at pre. t e er v ; -4o rded us of offering you our warmest thanks for the ces you have rendered to the cause of freedom. r o i r ,:•,ms expression of our sentiments is dictated b y the ad tett-"°11 with which we have beheld your manly and consis thri e c 4 ltluct throughout the whole of your public life. In 7i outset you stood forward as the champion of the Irish na tirf'. °ltd oftentimes, since that period, have the walls of the The tish , flee °_P fl pre s s enate-house been made to echo your denunciation of flourishing measures that have tusiy :urishing and happy people. You have been assidu lreathcalumniated by the opposed by power, and malignantly . etitse of slander, but in spite of these, your exertions in the iave been comparatively successful. y our c admire the consistency and integrity that dictated co admire in supporting the present Administration. Con -4rane°lof their desire to conciliate your countrymen, and to t th em, at least, a partial relief from their load of suffer -f•4'trou supported them against the efforts of a desperate %I. ° en ,' ~atal assisted them in oust: marg the measures they ye erat e our Ugrit torward • by this conduct y ave won the esteem ~.i_ocrery lover of his country, and especially of those who institutions, and whO would, by reforming them , P e rpetuat e t h em in our land. p os - t .e consider the establishment of any religious sect in op en ton to the wish of a majority of your nation, is an act of 10.aralleled injustice • and, we regard the rejection of the it nsh Church Bill b the House of Lords—a Bill so just in , ri s ve P t r iociple and so moderate in its extent, as another effort to the chains of priestly domination in that country ; we, ther , nor ef o:e, think it the duty of every friend of humanity to be 2 „ tti e fi rmly united than ever at the present juncture. We p c ath iz e with you in all your wrongs, and view every injury ,ted on your countrymen as an indirect attack on our - own ° cm. For these reasons, we p rom i se y o u our support in every act of amelioration, and in every endeavour to resist op s;on and d e f end the liberty of your nation. 6, _ In takin g l eave o f you f or t h e present, a ll ow us t o ex press t‘ eo lv .. l ' . h that you may live to be of still greater service to your increased ; that y ou may w i tness her i nternal sat i s f act i on and prosperity ; th a t s h e ma y b e un it e d t o us by the en inarig ties of interest and reciprocal affection ; and, that the mc of Dani e l O'C onne ll may long f i nd a place in the rn eranc e of a generous and grateful people." ‘,.. e, An Add ress having also been presented from Blaydon by Mr. Emerson_ Mr, O ' CONNELL _ proceeded to address the multitude. aid, the fi rst sensat i on that came f orwar d , overpow hreilncr s cr his mind, was, one of utter astonishment when he be so multit u di nous a body of men, and he cou ld not h e l p asking himself, with astonishment, why is this compliment? talents vanity perhaps interfered, and whispered something of S prung of a superior order ; but truth soon found that it from not u t ng something of a different character. It was that to do him honour, but to show to him and to others, slavese' and, as 4ecid tl d le people of England understood the question to be the song said, " Britons never will be Eroli . h ' He stated that the question now was, whether _s men should be freemen or slaves ; but how could tl!e a y 7 1 7( 3; be otherwise when they had 170 masters? If there be h had at tl • f ranch . ° disposal their rights, liberties, and Ises, their property and lives, they must be slaves if continued so. Mr. O'Connell then spoke in terms of disc of the House of Lords, and stated that he 7_ ore kldraw by ballot 75 of that Assembly, who would be fitted for the situation than 175 lords. Nay, he would tiroanw, fiftyand then Members b e l ong i ng to any mechanics' institu draw n from them, and he had no doubt h t ut they would d sense, and real 14 towl e d, possess more goo Lordships,e and h a-It)", than the whole body of t. eir — (Cheering In alluding to the o-igin of = the present crisis, he contended by the revolution of 1638, when the Lords and people had , wrested from the King his prerogative, they assumed to themselves his power, and had taxed and fleeced the people of this country by the House of Commons, and entered into wars for Hanover and to put down independence in America, and then proceeded to notice the French war, and condemned the national cha racter of that people, whom he stated had disgraced liberty ; but they had to pay the penalty—the national debt. The Reform Bill, he stated, had torn the veil from before the Lords, and had placed them .in a corner where any one could count them—there was just 170, and the question now was, whether they should continue lords and masters, or become part of the people. His (Mr. O'C.'s) bu*sines; in the North was to preach from this text. The Lords claimed to be legislators, from their fathers being so, and in his op:n'on very bad ones. It was as reasonable for a per son to offer to make them. a pair of shoes, because his father was a shoemaker,-or a tailor to make a suit of clothes, or a person to offer a mercantile man to navigate his ship to China, because their fathers were able to do it. Yet this is what they tell us—their fathers were legislators, and -they must be so too. In a case where work was spoiled they could take the parties before a magistrate, but here we could do nothing with the Lords, who had their hands in the public purse up to the elbows. After some further com ments, he proceeded to state that during the session they had spoiled twenty • Bills of different value, and stated that the Corporation Reform Bill, as passed, was only an in stalment of what they ought to have, and it was necessary to agitate, to secure the remainder. Every man who would not have slave written upon his grave, should agitate to en force a further degree of justice to this great and intelli gent people. Mr. O'Connell avowed himself to be an ad vocate of the extension of the franchise, and stated it as decidedly his opinion that every person who was liable to government ought to be eligible to vote, and recited an anecdote which had amused the people of Manchester, of the case of a gardener in one of the States of America, where the elective qualification was possession of goods to the amount of five pounds. This person possessed goods to the amount of four pounds, and to secure his vote he valued an ass at one pound. Prior to an election his ass died, and his vote was objected to, when he discovered that it was the ass that had the vote, and regretted that he had not brought it dead or alive. He expressed himself a friend to short Parliaments, and as it was an old habit in England, he would agree to three years, and stated it as his opinion that if Sir Matthew White Ridley. had to appear there every three years, he would not mind the Derby dilly ; and also expressed himself a friend to the Ballot. He thanked God they bad a government who desired a safe, gradual, and necessary reform in the institutions. Mr. O'Connell then referred to the late speech of Sir Robert Peel, at Tamworth, in which he defended the conduct of the King of the French. He (Mr. O'Connell) expressed his horror at the late attempt to 'assassinate Louis Phil lippe, but condemned the manner in which subsequent inroads had been made upon the trial by jury, and the the liberty of the Press. He expressed himself the friend of civil and religious liberty, and stated be,bad done everything in his power to forward the cause of the D.s senters of England. His principle was, that.no man could have too much religion between himself and his God, but he considered it was profanation and blasphemy for another person to interfere. If there was a person in whose breast throbbed a greater love of liberty than in his, or would do the people more complete justice, he would give up his own energies and follow out the - schemes of that person. After some other observations, the Hon. Gentleman concluded his address, having been frequently cheered throughout. THE DINNER. About 340 gentlemen sat down to an excellent dinner at the Music Hall, Blackett-street, Newcastle, at five o'clock on Monday afternoon, the 14th Sept., in honour of Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P. The chair was taken by John Fife, Esq. ; Mr. A. L. Potter, Mr. Charnley, Mr. John Rayne, Mr. H. Shield, and Mr. M. Dunn, officiating as Vice-Presidents. On the right of the Chair man sat Mr. O'Connell, Sir David Erskine, Mr. Doubleday, Mr. Larkin, Col. Campbell, Mr. Losh, Rev. Mr. Gillow, &c. On his left were Morgan O'Connell, Esq., M.P. (Mr. O'Connell's second son), Mr. Morton, Mr. C. Rayne, Mr. James Mather, G. T. Dunn, Esq., Rev. Mr. Riddell , &c. A number of ladies took their seats in the gallery and gave an air of gaiety and beauty to the scene. After the cloth was removed " Non nobis Donzine" was sung. The CHAIRMAN then rose and said—Gentlemen, as we are Conservatives of the Constitution—as we are destruc tives only of abuse, the first toast I propose to you is, " The King."—(Drunk with great applause.) Mr. CHAIRMAN :—Gentlemen--The toast I now have the honour to propi)se needs no recommendation, 'The People, the only source of legitimate Power.' Mr. CHAIRMAN :—Gentleman—ln proposing that we drink to the health of the Princess Victoria, I take the liberty of adding the aspiration, May Heaven protect her against the machinations of orangemen !'—(The most vehe ment and continued cheering.) Mr. CHAIRMAN :—Pentlemen,—Upon every debated question there is one member of the royal family who has always been the friend of - the people—His Royal High ness the Duke of Sussex deserves a tribute of respect at our hands. The CHAIRMAN then said :--Gentlemen—The intro ductory ceremonies of our festival have passed, and the hour has now arrived when we may permit ourselves to throw aside forms, and indulge in those feelings of admiration and gratitude which have this day assembled us in honour of Mr. O'Connell—(great cheering)—and I scarcely know whether these emotions are strongest when we regard him as the emancipator of Ireland, or the great ally of British reformers.—(Cheers.) His services in the great, I may almost say sacred, cause of Reform, have not owed their efficiency merely to his varied knowledge and extraordinary eloquence, but much also to that prudent policy and those enlarged views which have so often enabled him to prevent divisions amongst reformers—which have enabled him to marshal us in our ranks, and bring our power to bear in its whole united force against the common enemy.—(Great cheering.) Ireland owes to Mr. O'Connell a debt of grati tude which Ireland, as a nation, can never repay. Con template the state in which he found her, and com pare that with her present comparatively triumphant position.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) It is not long since the laws by which Ireland • was ruled were cha racterised as slow, cruel, outrageous in their nature, keep ing men alive only to violate in their persons every right, and every feeling of humanity. Terrific as this picture seems, how exaggerated the horrors of this code appear, when we recollect that such laws were unmercifully and partially administered, that the many were delivered over into the hands of the few, that Ireland was governed by a faction, and that this faction consisted of Orangemen, the wickedness of whose principles we have just discovered, but the barbarity of whose practices we have too long known. The rounded cheek of infancy—the hoary head of age— have they not both been blood-stained by the miscreant hands of these Orangemen ? And yet to such men all places of honour and emolument, all offices of power and trust, were delegated. From such a government it is not wonderful that the best men in Ireland should endeavour to free her, even by open insurrection—it is less surprising than lamentable, that the amiable and unfortunate Lord Edward Fitzgerald should have fallen a victim to this error. — (Cheers.) Of a more exalted character were the weapons used by O'Connell ! It was not by brute force, not by open insurrection, that he sought to break the fetters of Irish men ; it was not by the pike or the musket that he at tempted the relief of his bleeding country—moral power, m e nerated by the dissemination of political . kno wled g e and 'the union of all honest reformers, were the lofty means by which he laboured for and obtained such glorious results — and what mountains has he moved ! By one great effort he struck off the manacles of seven millions of Irishmen, and. in gainin g the glorious measure of Catholic emancipa tion, he wrung it from a Ministry self-degraded by the public acknow ledgment that it hated the measure Of relief it was forced to grant, and Peel and Wellington yielded this concession as the wounded man parts with the last drop of his heart's blood. —(EnthUsiastic cheering.) It is curious that we should.al •ways be met by imputations of infidelity aad blasphemy when we touch upon • the shocking abuses of the sinecure church of Ireland. But such religionists forget that there are two descriptions of blasphemy ; besides the direct mockery of things sacred, there is an indirect blasphemy poisoning the human mind by making the name and in fluence of religion subservient to earthly, temporal, and sordid purposes—(Great cheering ) — and if I were asked to point out the grossest instance of such wickedness to be found in any age or country, I should direct my finger at the sinecure church of Ireland.—( Vehement and long-con tinued cheering.) Is it not more by the misfortunes of his country than by his own talents and his own virtues that Mr. O'Connell has become the vox publica of Ireland, the Hannibal ad ferns of the House of Lords, the conqueror of Wellington. Gentlemen, we drink to the health of Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P.'—(Great enthusiasm.) Mr. O'CoNxiLL rose amidst loud and continued cheer ing, and said, I have not, I do assure you, the presump tuous vanity to imagine that it is any merit of mine that brings down upon me the cheering of your applause. The greetings with which I have been received—by the accumu lation of congregated thcusands—the congregation of ra tional men by whom I have been welcomed, all demon strate that we are arrived at one of those periods of Eng lish history upon which turns the question whether the present state of thingi is to end in the degrada tion of the English name, or the exaltation of English virtue by the acquirement of our rights. We have come to the crisis—we must either write ourselves down slaves, or you must demand that there shall be no such thing as irresponsible, and therefore abused power. The question is, whether you are to have one hundred and seventy masters or Y•) !e , to• pur less. r and ;lock. ;cot or ' ought t occa - Factory iat the n g any forme r and umber• at time present yet ar• ling et o wha t of the it was - - ) f the d also .«•s to t o the vidend g the to put s c eedea would a' tt ' cda ri - ; , 00 • 360,ui, curt ,n v• Lt concebra't' ,tated t r In d) citb e ed there; 3 dea a s fOlll, eJ h a d ag re ith crsh'P 000 1 ' CheerS.' beerE.), 3 t 1 . d t" g a , ratioll had ? 11C' king 8 11 9 a 10 9 s t pro b T it le d iI Y en Cl e°l • tbe . ,o.) i d c b ce o• it pe r or ludo al. re' t of t be a 3 r cen t . ookig I°r ; 111 5 0 surf c ell l'3" crest of ib'' e Cir o" g; 3Cos,oo' 10 1 ' (Mr. 1.1 rt ° l ' t() items c to or stamp b eq: t inctor 0 nd v (3.5 lie 9.7 ' 000 1 be ' as l( ' ; year , , 3 5' ) l a', it s' of the ore 1 0 vie d . 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This looks all very well ; but I should as soon think of suppressing the power loom and annihilating the steam engine, because they have taken the place of less useful machinery, as I would think of upholding an institution because it is old. I am not saying that those institutions were not at one time useful, but they were useful just as the hammer was useful when it beat out nails before you got the nailmaker's machine s And we must have improved machinery for legislation as we have for ma nufactures.—(Great and lons- continued applause.) T see those throbs and throes for liberty at one period overturning the throne, asd covering the scaffold with blood, because the people could not believe in the word of their king, and it is a sad thing to have liars about the throne.—(Applause and laughter.) I see that that struggle ended in giving to military despotism that obedience which the people would not yield to legal monarchy. Then came 1665, and a despot of the same unfortunate breed, agreeing with me in religious opinion, but most widely differin g from me - in political principle and love of human freedom. The English people were growing wiser than to think of cutting off his foolish head, but sent him to carry it through Europe to show the folly of an attempt to reduce Britons to the condi tions of slaves. Perhaps 170 more of the gentry may go upon their travels.—(Applause and laughter.) From the revolu tion tillnow you had but one system followed. Shakspeare has indicated the course which it has been thought advisable to adopt. Only involve this country in a war with France, and the people will forget their grievances. Shakspeare was the Apostle of human nature—he it was who trans lated the human mind into language. What he had alluded to was carried into effect. The effects of this policy have been seen in many tyrannical shapes ; as an instance, I may advert to the blood shed at Peterloo. These are the re sults of the sway of an overweening oliga'chy. We ob tained a Reform in the representation, and in spite of every intimidation and bribery, there was still a majority in the present Parliament in favour of the people. lam afraid I cannot say the people of Newcastle have entirely done their duty = they certainly sent us one good Member, but it was not wise to send one good Member white as the day, and a black one to neutralise him—the name of the black .one happens to be White, I believe.—(Laughter and applause.) The majority of the Representatives were determined to do what ? To produce a revolution—to destroy private inter course—to derange and put an end to commerce and 'ma nufactures ? No, our object was to tate away abuses—to free the people from those who had fed and fattened upon public spoil—to drive away the owls and bats of the old Corporations—to turn out the Aldermen and capital bur gesses—to do justice to Ireland : these were the wise pro jects of the Reformers. We had a lesson read to us. The enemy is wise in his own generation, and accordingly we saw that our business was, to close our ranks—to give up dissentions amongst ourselves—to agree with every one who agreed with us—to avoid quarrelling amongst Reformers, and not to produce divisions before the time for them arrived. This was the plan of many Reformers. That poor fellow Hunt was always quarrelling with the Reformers on some question that was to be decided three or four years afterwards. The people in my country are sufficiently quarrelsome, but we never quarrel about what is to happen next year—(Laughter and applause)—that is a blunder Irishmen never fall into. A combination of Reformers will see the gradual progress of amelioration, the wish to drive no man faster than he would go ; • all that we insist on is, that he should keep moving.—(Laughter and applause.) Slowly, if you please ; put the drag on, if you please ; but go forward as long as abuses are to be redressed, or reform is to be effected. I think that the people of England and Ireland will consider this a wise plan, and I am sure that you will:approve of it and carry it into practice. We are oppressed, and by whom ? By the House of Lords—very unwise and sagacious council lors—they turned out three bills, because one man bad ap proved of them. if that man, who shall be nameless, were wrong, the reasons that showed he was wrongs ought to be sufficient to induce them to, reject the bills ; but if he were right, as some of you suspect, it may be undignified to say so, what dolts and knaves were they who threw them out because they knew lie was right? I have had occasion to compare them to a society who held their' meetings in Fetter-lane, of Fleet-street. At one of their meetings, a member proposed the appointment of a treasurer ; another member got up and said, " Don't do that ; you have no money to keep." What happened? He was found guilty of talking common sense, and expelled the society. This was a society of odd . fellows. They have since given up their sittings in Fetter-lane, and transported them to the House of Lords. It would really amuse one to see what mis chief they have been doing. There was, for instance, a bill for the abolition of imprisonment for debt; that bill was to enable the creditor to recover money to come into possess sion of the property of the debtor without sending his per son to prison. It was to give to honest men what they could not by the present law obtain. What did the society of odd fellows do ? One of these odd fellows went to Brighton and hired a house, and ordered goods of twenty different tradesmen ; then went to London and sent his compliments down to say that it was not convenient to pay them. They suffocated that Bill. There was another Bill to give counsel to prisoners ; the necessity of such a measure is soon seen. A prisoner is put upon his trial, the evidence against him is circumstantial, the counsel for the prosecution has in his address remarked on a chain of evi dence which witness after witness is made to complete in the estimation of a jury ; but if that prisoner had had the benefit of an able counsel to defend him, he would have exposed the sophisms by which the charge was attempted to be sustained, and would have shown that the very circum stances on which such stress was laid were sufficient to establish his innocence. And why is not his counsel heard? because one of our ancient institutions prevented it. They call themselves the friends of the poor, forsooth. We sent them another Bill, which gave indemnity to witnesses who should give evidence to the House of Commons in cases of bribery. It was necessary that we should be enabled to protect witnesses, or we should never be able to put down bribery. We know the people who bribed—we know the banker through whom the money went, as in the case of the York election—we know the man who pasted in the two pounds a-piece for plumpers. Well, the moment the witness is in the box, he throws himself up and says, "I am not bound to criminate myself." If h e is criminal, who is more fit to criminate himself? If he was innocent, he would have nothing to fear. The House passed that Bill, securing to every witness protection from any other tribunal for the disclosures he made before the committee. But the House of Lords, with virtuous in dignation, kicked it out. There is a foolish law which re quires, for bequeathing real property, that the names of three witnesses should be signed to - a will: We proposed that two witnesses"should be sufficient, for if two were guilty of perjury, they would surely get a third to keep company with them. That Bill was kicked out also by the society of odd fellows. Another Bill or two were kicked out, and then came the Corporation Bill. In the discussion upon that Bill were exhibited the two contending principles. We have heard of the doctrine of the Manichees, of there being a god of good and a god of evil, and as soon as this Bill was taken up by the odd fellows, the diabolical principle came into operation. Lyndhurst' took out his shears—Ellen borough brandished his scissars—WicklOw, the Narcissus of politicians—Winchelsea and Newcastle and the rest, did as much mischief in two months, aided by that wiseacre, Londonderry, as they could. contrive, and sent the Bill down to us mutilated and disfigured, but still containing some good principles—the turning out, for instance, the old corporators stock and crop, cleansing the Augean stable, the appointment of the new town councils, the publicity of accounts, making the best political union that could be effected. Indeed, the publicity of accounts prevents the possibility of peculation, without the Joe Hume of the body being able so put his finger into it. All these prin ciples were introduced into the Bill, but there was an aristocratic principle in it which originated in Peel, who cants about reform from his dunghill at Termsorth ; we were obliged to submit to the injustice of a qualifica tion, but while' I am in Parliament, no session shall pass' without my giving them at least one debate in the session on the subject. Now I shall take the odd fellows to Dublin. Tie Dublin police costs not the inhabitants of that city, but the people of this country, for the money is . taken from the consolidated fund—no less a sum than 48,0001. per annum.—(Cries•of " Shame.") A Bill was brought in to improve that police which is exceedingly bad. That Bill would have materially diminished the expense. I have the honour to represent the city of Dublin, and it was my business to support it. I did support it, and they threw it out, for no better reason than this, that 1 had sup ported it. The maniacs of Bedlam would not have given such a reason for their conduct. The constabulary of Ire land were deeply tinged with Orangeism ; in every petty quarrel they were anxious to use ball cartridge. A Bill to prevent such party vindictiveness was with great pro priety introduced by Ministers. That also was kicked out by the society .of knavish fellows.—(Laughter and aP plause.) A Bill was introduced to regulate marriages in Ireland. 'At present it is necessary that a man shall have been a Catholic for twelve months before he is married by a Catholic priest. The effect of this law is often to produce great misery and injustice. When a priest has seen a per son attending his congregation for many months as a Ca tholic, and that person applies to him to be married, he can have no hesitation in performing the ceremony, for it is im possible that he should know that be has not been quite 12 months a Catholic. I have known very disastrous results from such unions. The man is not punished in such cases, but the woman is often punished by the base desertion of the man ; and the children are often brought up and edu cated as if they were untitled to property, and are suddenly reduced to penury and starvation. We sent a Bill to re medy t edy ie that, T butthat acA alspopsrvopra was destroyed ill. siotroyßedblt[brehe L o rds. Then Hon. Gen- tleman here entered into minute detail, showing how greatly the Catholics preponderated beyond every other religious community in Ireland, and added]—Did we seek that the surplus derivable from the Church revenues should be ap plied exclusively for the benefit of the Catholics ? No, no. All we asked "Was, that it should be applied equally to the moral and religious education of the people, without discri mination as to what sect or belief they belonged.—(Great applause.) What did the House of Lords do ? We asked them—Won't you give any thing for education ; and their reply was—Not a sixpence, not a penny. But then they said, after Sir Robert Peel, there is no surplus from the Irish Church. If there is no surplus to be employed, what harm is there in giving a declaration of the principle.— (Great applause.) The House of Lords knocked down that Bill, though that principle would have been a very great thing for the people of Ireland. Six million five hun dred thousand people pay for clergymen they do not want! If any man said that the Catholics should pay for the lawyers, physicians, or surgeons of the Protestants, would it not be called robbery ? Is it not equal robbery, then, to make them pay for their spiritual physicians.—(Great ap plause.) You see what a quantity of mischief, of injustice, the House of Lords have committed. Look back and see the number of bills they have destroyed. Thus it is that they perpetuate the sickness of the heart from hope de ferred. Looking for the redress of her grievances, and look ing for it in vain, would you endure that any gang or ban ditti, I care not by what name you call them, should treat them and you contemptuously. In one word, I will call them rogues. I inculcate peace, Ido not want the stones to , mutiny, but I recommend to you perseverance and per petual agitation until you obtain the amelioration of your institutions.—(Cheers.) The cry will go through England, each man will look at his neighbour and say, ate you for the slavery of England, or for the improvement "Of her in stitutions ; or . will you suffer the Peels and the Goulburns to prey upon the freedom of England, to tarnish that which they cannot destroy, and to prey upon that which is too bright and too glorious for animals so obscene. The speech of Sir Robert Peel at Tamworth is a speech of utter de fiance of the people of England. He says he will have power over you and over us, but I think he is greatly mis taken, and I read badly. the History of England, if English men will submit to such a ruler. He says I thought I could have managed the affairs of England, because I thought I was strong myself, and because I thought the reformers would quarrel amongst themselves. Fas est ab poste doceri. We see what our enemies wished we should do ; we see the prudence of the course we have adopted of union. Peel said, I thought the Irish and O'Connell could never agree with the Melbourne Administration. We had a hang dog choice ; if we did not take Melbourne we must submit to Peel, and that would have been a perpetual coercion bill for Ireland, and from this spot I taunt Peel in reply. I tell him that the choice we made our heads dictated, and our grateful hearts now confirm. From the moment they came into power there is not a single act which the Mel bourne Administration could do to promote the welfare of Ireland, to relieve her distresses, to soothe her sufferings, and to mitigate her oppression, that they have not done freely and actively.—(Cheers, and great applause.) The next part of Peel's speech referred to the Protestant Dissenters. These hypocrites have bad memories, Joseph Surface is liable to forget. I have the honour to be acquainted with a great many Protestant Dissenters. They are generally well informed ; there are blockheads amongt them, there is one in this neighbourhood, who, though a Dissenter, stands up for the Establishment. If there be such a member, what a fellow he must_ be ! If the Establishment be right, he ought to join it ; i 1 wrong, he should not attempt to support it. The most of Dissenters that I have met with are intelligent and well-informed. Does Peel think that they forget his history? He stood against the repeal of the Test and Corporation Act. Last year there was a ques tion whether Dissenters should be allowed to take degrees at the Universities. Honest Peel, the friend of, the Dis senters, opposed it.—(Laughter.) And at the end of his Tamworth speech, he sets about praisin g Louis Philippe, the French despot who stops the freedom of the press, which teaches men to know their rights—which expands the powers of the human mind—he stops the progress of the most valuable information—information that teaches men to defend their liberties, but not to endanger the peace of so ciety ; this was the Prime Minister of last year, who wishes to be Prime Minister again. The trial by jury in effect is annihilated, and the House of Peers of France turned into a kind of perpetual criminal court. A majority of the jury is sufficient to convict ; their names are not even to be pub lished, but they are to write them down individually, and hand them to the judge. If this were done in England, is there a man in England who would not rather be ready to die than to submit to it ?—(Long-continued cheering and. applause.) I expected that ;it you had not given me that response, I should have appealed to the bones, of your fa thers, and your grandfathers and your ancestors, and they would not have remained quiet in their graves. I cannot conclude without appealing to your generosity. I call upon you to remember that if the Peers are allowed to rule, there will be no peace for Ireland. The artillery and cavalry will be again let loose, but after all the people of Ireland will not pay tithes.—(Great applause.) The Hon. Gen tleman here alluded to some cases of great cruelty and bar barity that have recently occurred at Rathcormac and other places in Ireland, in consequence of the present sys tem of collecting tithes, and added, are these massacres committed in some savage country, in the wilds of Ame rica? No ! they occur in Ireland, where the people speak the same language as yourselves, where they sympathize with you, and rely on you, the good people of England, under the blessings of a kind Providence, to rally round them, to aid and support them, in obtaining a release from their o ppression.—(Great and continued applause.) The CHAIRMAN proposed that the meeting should give 3 times 3 cheers, in honour of Mr. O'Connell's speech, which were given most heartily. • Mr. A. L. POTTER proposed the health of Lord Mel bourne and his Majesty's Ministers.—(Great applause.) Mr. DOUBLEDAY proposed as a toast, " the Cause of Reform, and may its' fruits be speedily realized in spite of every effort of the oligarchs to obstruct it." Mr. CHARNLEY said, he rose to propose the health of a distinguished Nobleman, who was a native of this county, to omit whose name at a meeting of this kind would be to be guilty of a, neglect of a great public duty. " The Health of Earl Grey, the Father of the Reform Bill."—(Applause.) Mr. LARKIN was then called upon by the Chairman ; and was, on rising, received with loud cheers. He com menced by saying, Gentlemen, if it would be difficult, under the circumstances, to address you on any subject, how are those difficulties increased to me when the subject on . which I have to address you is Ireland—( Loud cheers) —wretched, oppressed, insulted Ireland.—(Cheering.) Oh, Sir, when I attempt to touch that harp (pointing to the device at the bottom of the room) the harp of his native country, in the presence of the great master of its strings— (Enthusiastic cheering)—l feel indeed my rashness checked and my hand paralysed.—(Cheers.) Who shall dare to bend the bow of Ulysses ?—(Cheers.) Who shall talk of Ireland, its woes, its oppressions, and its wrongs, in the pre sence of O'Connell ?—(Loud cheering.) I leave the theme to the burning indignation of his eloquence, to his tongue of fire and soul of flame.—(Cheers.) But though I dare not touch this theme, there is one subject to which I have confidence to allude. I know Mr. O'Connell's love for his country—l know his grief for its suffering. Ido trust that the reception he has met with this day—(Cheers)—its cor diality and enthusiasm, will carry some degree of consolation to his mind.—(Cheers.) The applause in this room, the enthusiastic shouts of the people on his entrance thiS af ternoon ; the crowds, the thousands, the tens of thousands, who pressed forward to greet and welcome his arrival ; the huzza4 u.nd acclamations which marked his appearance on the hustings, and the bursts of approbation with which his remarks have been received, as well in the open air as in this room—oh, he has, indeed, been received with, in the v.-ords of the device before us, Cead mine Faille, a hundred thousand welcomes.—(Cheers.) This reception will, I trust, convince him that there are multitudes of Englishmen who admire the noble advocacy of the cause of his country, Who sympathise in her sufferings, whose breasts burn with indignation at the recollection of its wrongs, and pant with an ardour only inferior to his own to redress them. He has imbued us with his own feelings, and from the contact and contagion of his eloquence and patriotism, we have almost become Irishmen ourselVes.—(Cheers.) Every thing about this country is strange, anomalous, portentous. But a while ago the law regarded the very people of the country as aliens in their native soil. A whole people were depressed, while a faction was rendered predominant and triumphant. The estates of the inhabitants were confiscated, while foreign plunderers entered upon its fields with swords in their hands, and expelled the original proprietor, partitioned out the soil as spoil among themselves, and the proprietors of which are now, for the most part, absentees from the country. A church has been established and enriched with the plunder of an ancient Catholic Church among a catholic people. The proportion of protestants to datholics has been explained to you by Mr. O'Connell—a few hundred thousand protestants among seven millions of catholic people. The clergy of this minority, whom the law cherishes, while it neglects the millions, are advanced to riches, to dignity, to honour, and to legislative power, while the friends of the people are stigmatised, degraded, dishonoured, calumniated, and denounced. Look then, gentlemen, at the services of Mr. O'Connell. He has abo lished the test.and corporation Acts, for the merit of that act of justice to the Dissenters was principally his ; he destroyed the penal code ; achieved emancipation ; lifted up a low degraded nation of Catholics to an equality with their protestant fellow-countrymen ; he has exposed the injus tice of the tithe system, which, as you have learnt from him, that the people whom we have this night drunk as the only source of legitimate power in the exercise of that as it were regal prerogative have abolished. The parliament having failed to do justice, they h ave done __ _____, justice for themselves, and trampled under foot an unjust laW, which itself tramples upon the highest privileges of hu manity, the rights of conscience. -=--(Cheers.) Since he came into parliament the oppressiveness of the Irish ecclesiastical establishment has been admitted, its abuses have been sub jected to a vigorous investigation, ten of its gorgeous mitres have been blown away 'ay the breath of public opinion, and the right to Parliament to appropriate to what purposes it pleases its revenues has been fully, completely established.— (Cheers.) Now is it possible, I ask, that such a man should not beloved and adored by the people, whom he has served with such unexampled devotion and fidelity ? (Loud cheers.) Talk of his power ! Talk of his influ ence ! It would be strange and mysterious indeed, if such a man (lid not possess influence and power. What ! a man .with such energies, such industry, with such eloquence; and scattering such blessings on his country, the champion of its liberties, the advocate of its rights, and avenger of its wrongs, it is impossible that he should not possess influ ence and power. The enemies of the people dread that power, and are bending all their energies to its destruction. COurnny is their principal weapon. But is itin the power of hireling calumniators to destroy or injure the character of such a man?—(Shouts of " No.") What other effect can ca lumny have but to endear him the more to the Irish people —to make them cling with more ardent affection to him ? It is not, in the power of any calumniator, whether he be duke or baronet, lord or commoner—it is not in the power of the cold, cautious, prudential, and calculating malignity of the Duke of Wellington in the House of Lords, nor the artful sneers, and considerate malice, and " sweltering venom" of the "clap-trap" Sir R. Peel, at Tamworth, to destroy that influence.—(Cheers.) Mr. Larkin concluded an able and eloquent address, which was loudly applauded, by proposing as a toast, " The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and equal rights and prosperity to that country." Mr. CHAlRMAN—Gentlemen, I have the honour to pro pose " Mr. Morgan O'Connell, and the Reformers of Meath." MORGAN O'CONNELL, Esq., M.P., returned thanks. Mr. O'CoNNELL proposed the health of the Chairman, which was drunk with three times three, and very great applause. Mr. CHAIRMAN gave, " Mr. Ord and the Reformers of Newcastle."—(Great enthusiasm.) Mr. JOHN RAYNE, jun., proposed " Lord J. Russell, and the glorious Majority in the House of Commons who drove the Tory Faction from Power." Mr. W. L. HARLE then rose and said-1 rise to give you the " Health of Henry Lord Brougham, and the speedy Acquisition of an Unstampcd Press."—(C ers.) Lord Brougham came not into political existence the i Reform Bill of thirty-two ; but years ago, when parlo iampn tary reform was a phrase at which most men grew pale, and when Lambton and Russell brought forward their motions on that dreaded and intolerable point, in their houses, amidst the gibes and the scorn of placemen and boroughmongers, Lord Brougham, as plain Henry, and itinerant working lawyer upon this circuit, and the representative, too, of a decayed borough, smote hip and thigh the Philistines of the day, the Castlereaglis and the Peels, the Vansittarts and the Goulburnsl—and made all England ring from side to side, with the bitterness of his invective, and the terrific storm of his wrath and his sarcasm.—(Cheers.) The mid dle age of Brougham, to his immortal honour be it spoken, was thus spent in attempting to crush with his voice and with his pen, that haughty, intolerant, and anti-popular faction, which, though bereft of its head by Lord Grey, has yet most unfortunately, like the men of the Dog Star, de scribed in Munchausen—sufficient vitality and hardihood to stand, and even to try locomotiojk with the head car ried under the arm.—(Cheers and laughter.) Again and again, in the days to which I have alluded, the fortunes of Brougham, politically and professionally, might have fertilized in showers of Treasury gold ; but firm to the great principles of freedom—sworn at the altar of Re form to maintain the rights of the people—he laboured in his literal vocation, until the day came, that he rose to the highest honours of the State, not at the bidding of this man or of that, but with the thundering accla mations of the grateful millions of the erripire.—(Loud applause.) He has been; at one and the same time, a reformer of the common law, and an author of natural theology—the supreme judge in equity, and a scientific authority upon the steam-engine—the leading debater in the House of Commons, and a lecturer to school-boys at Glasgow on Demosthenes and Dante—the Speaker of the House of Lords, and a slashing and merciless re viewer in the blue and yellow—the great enquirer into charitable abuses, and the supporter and the advocate of Penny Magazines—the leader of the anti-Slavery So ciety, and the founder, or at any rate the most powerful friend, of Mechanics' lnstitutions.—(Applause.) All this • energy, all this genius, all this activity, devoted to the mental amelioration of the people, and to the increase of their liberty and happiness, must surely have produced wonderful effects, and must surely be entitled tk) your ._. affectionate gratitude, and your oarnest praise.—(Cheers.) If the monopoly of the Press were destroyed, Lord Brougham would seldom, with impunity, be termed drunkard, madman, and harlequin, as he has so frequently, and so disgustingly been, by that shame to our country, the Times. The odious monopoly created by the stamps upon newspapers gives the poison and the sting to virulence and abuse. You are told till you are tired, if the stamps wet. removed, the licentiousness and the vileness of the Press would be tenfold increased. Is it possible, however, that any radical unstamped paper could be more atrociously licentious, malignant, and debasing, than the renegade Tory Times, the 131111, the Age.—(Cheers and laughter.) Thanks to Lord Brougham in the Upper, and to Mr. Bulwer in the Lower House of Parliament, we have now a prospect of a cheap and an unstamped, as well as of a free and intellectual Press.—(Cheers.) Mr. CHAS. RAYNE proposed " Mr. Hume, the indefa tigable Assertor of the People's rights, and the suc cessful Exposer of the Orange Conspiracy." The CHAmm AN gave—" Poland, and may that noble country soon triumph over its oppressors."—(Cheers.) Mr. CHAlRMAN—Gentlemen, I propose " the health of Mrs. O'Connell and the family at Derrynane Abbey."— (Great enthusiasm.) Mr. O'CONNELL returned thanks. The following toasts were then given—" The Earl of Durham and Union among Reformers " Mr. Shiel, and the Patriotic Representatives of Ireland ;" Sir avid Ers kin'e, and the Independent Representatives of Scotland." Mr. CHAlRMAN—Gentlemen, I have an old fashioned toast to propose, which involves the principle of freedom without any reference to financial oppression or prosperity." " Civil and Religious Liberty all over the World," and with this sentiment we conclude this most triumphant meeting.—(Cheering.) The company broke up about twelve o'clock, apparently highly gratified with the proceedings of this interesting and important festival. REMARKS. OF THE FRENCH PRESS ON SPANISH AFFAIRS. The Constitutionnel enters into historical details relative to the decline of Spain, while France and England have re gularly increased in power and wealth. Her destiny has been to take a course directly opposite to that of England and France. It was her misfortune to be enriched by con quest, while she scattered her real force, and left herself ' without a centre of life and - nationality, a focus of industry and progress in civilization. Her conquests have vescaped from her grasp, her riches have passed into other hands, and her credit is gone. When England carried her arms into foreign countries, she also carried her commerce. She gave of the exuberance of her, population ; whereas Spain, having constantly lost the flower of her people,' has wanted arms to work, and 'heads to rule' and regulate ; her soil could produce nothing for commerce, for she had not enough for herself—she was ruined by her conquests. Her colonies for 25 years 'past have been in a state of fearful anarchy, without laws, without principles, without popula tion, without commerce, without industry ; whereas tlte English .colonies had but to pronounce a single word no, and they became at once a powerful nation. The emigra tions, which were so fatal to the Spanish nation, were fa voured by the Government in its attempts to become abso lute, and to annihilate liberty. The insurrection of the communes in 1520, the last sign of' life given by liberty in Spain, was stifled when Cortes took possession of Mexico. At a subsequent period Charles-Quint had other occupation for his people, and South America completed the enslave ment of the Peninsula. Spain has lived on her capital without having placed it out at interest, or having employed it to profit ; it is now from her soil and industry alone that she must seek wealth, but for that purpose she must be come free and united. Her freedom must be wrought out by herself alone, without foreign intervention, for wealth has no value unless procured by labour, and we are too apt to misemploy that which comes by chance. As to the present provincial juntas in Spain, which might proye dangerous by disuniting the people, there seems to be yet the means of safety, and that is by mutual concessions. Federalism would prevent the regeneration of the country. Let the juntas abandon their form, and let the Government accede to their just complaints. It is now three centuries since the Go vernment obtained n complete victory over the communes, and that fatal victory ruined the country. Let not the communes now seek to obtain victory, but let them have satisfaction, in order to preserve that equilibrium which constitutes the force of nations. _ The Temps observes, that in the present situation of Spain, it would be superfluous to predict what is about to become her fate. Every thing is possible in that country, rdid the crisis which agitates it may have a sudden and un expected issue. Of one thing we may be certain—namely, that the movement in the provinces has more particularly been determined by the rumours of treachery and compro mise with Don Carlos. The Spaniard has seen the hand of the foreigner in the late events, and nothing more was want- inz t) exasperate his pride. Our Ministry is now dreaming, not of direct intervention in the Peninsula, but of the grand sanatory cordon, .which gave rise to much mockery, even in the tim3 of Lours — XVlll. Numerouf regiments are mov ing towards the Pyrenees, and it is announced with mystery `that in a month we shall have, 44,9(30 ' isposatle at that point. We date not yet be i lteveln-fh, of an in tervention, especially in the intefst.of.an iniposS . system. Assuredly the insults offe . ted . •.our frontier ougliy4 be #re pressed, and we are too war kttaebed.to the ' our of the French name ever to s :ttan: ; :egr.ani)vithongthe in tention of avenging it i we aOhref,eio,...ntAceive the pro priety of sending troops to tlytAk!.p.o6y*fldpkts the inso lence of the Carlists. But an<1t1V , ,.4141%-the form and in the ideas of 1823, as a ports. It f t: „ ... ti tlyitiet wishes it, would be disapproved by the who , DT. The inter- . vention of 1823 cost France 150,000,000 f., and she has no desire of making a second experiment. • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DONCASTER RACES. Doncaster, Tuesday Night. It is some years since these Races took pince under such ra- . vourable auspices. The great interest attaching to the St. Leger, and the opportune occurrence Of the Yorkshire Festi val, would doubtless have ensured a large company, but it was in a great measure owing to the visit - of their Royal High nesses the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria that so many fashionables remained to participate in the gaieties of the week, and join in doing honour to the Royal visitors. The town has beneatted considerably by the influx of strangers, and it is doing the Corporation and the inhabitants generally no more than justice in stating that they have at once judiciously and liberally contributed all in their power towards the com fort, accommodation, and amusement of their patrons. The assemblage on Monday, however respectable, fell in finitely short of the aggregate of to-day. Vast numbers of persons flocked into the town at an early hour this morning, and carriages continued rattling through for at le4t six hours previous to the commencement of the races ; the streets, in deed, were barely passable. Unfortunately the weather, hitherto so favourable, has undergone so entire a change since our last as completely to dim the splendour of the scene. It was not to a shower, nor to a storm, ncr to a succession of either, with a glimpse of sunshine, but to a steady uncompro mising rain, beginning at daybreak and continuing, without intermission, till about two o'clock; it then ceased, and the Leger race was got over comfortably ; immediately after, how ever, it recommenced, and the day closed as it opened. It will readily be believed that such an untoward visitation ope rated prejudicially on the attendance of the middling and lower classes, thousands of whom had sense enough to withstand the united attractions of the Princess and the Leger. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Bent and Princess Victoria arrived about one o'clock in a carriage and six, with outriders, their suite following in a carriage and four similarly attended ; their Royal Highnesses were accompanied by the Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Milton, and the Hon. Misses Went- • worth Fitzwilliam. Addresses were presented from the Cor poration by their Recorder, and front the inhabitants by the Rector, to both of which gracious answers were returned. During the short time they remained in the town, his Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours and several of the Nobility paid their respects to their Royal Highnesses. A little after two o'clock the illustrious visitors proceeded to the course, and took their stations in one of the principal windows, which Was tastefully fitted up with crimson draperies, the royal arms sur mounting the whole. We need scarcely add that they were received with every possible demonstration of respect, and that their R.oyal Highnesses fairly rivalled the Leger nags in the notice and admiration of the spectators, no small compliment from Yorkshire peoplc,•who, of all others, are the most devoted to racing—it became a question, indeed, which was the greatest favourite with them, the Queen of Trumps or the future Queen of England.' The Grand Stand was excessively crowded, and the con course on the race-ground,, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, scarcely inferior to Doncaster in its best days. The following list contains only a small proportion of the fashionables present : His Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours and suite, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, the Duke of Leeds, and Count-Matuszevic. Lords— Chesterfield, Wilton, Wharneliffe, Mexborough, Mostyn, Newburgh, Spencer, Kelburne, G. Bentinck, W. Len nox, Scarborough, Count Bolen, Baron Biel. Sirs—L. Glyn, J. Boswell, J. Beresford, T. Sykes, M. Sykes, M. Wood, T. Whichcote, A. Clifton, W. Boothby, &c. Hor t gurables—C. S. Wortley, G. Anson, H. Browne, •H. De Roos, L. Saville, T. Dundas, M. Mostyn, E. Mostyn, W. Lascelles, Duncombe, H. Baring, Cochrane, M. Sut ton, &c. Generals—Sharpe, Travers, &c. Colonels—Peel, Hancox, Ferguson, Hildyard, Thompson, Kennedy, Lyster, Cradook, French, Weinman, Richardson, Tower, Hill, &c. Majors—Yarburgh, Tempest, Hancock, Mason, Whyte, Healey, Vivian, Copland, &c. Captains—Ricardo, Taylor, Ada*, Lang,Wyvill, Giblaps, Gardnor, Hunter, Pousonby, Glover, Smith, Browne, Jones, .111‘Melleg., Petit, Potts, Ewbank, Berens, Macdonald,' Jebb, Waddington, Dimsdale, Macnamara, M. Sutton, Fairlig, &c. Messieurs—Cooke, Camac, Tower, Ramsden, G. Baker, F. Wilson, Chaytor, Vansittart, Gratwicke, C. Wilson, Payne, E. Denison, F. Dimley, F. Mills, Glanville, C. Smith, W. Maxwell, M. Maxwell, Codrington, M. P., \Vorrall, Cookes, M. P., S. Fox, G. Walker, W. Payne, Bowes, M. P., aye, A. Hunter, J. Peel,. F. Craven, Etwall, M.P., Ley, Irby, H. Fleetwood, Houldsworth, M.P., Stonehewer, Joliffe, H. Hotham, Foulis, Hawker, Gerard, Greville, Cottrell, Vyner, Gascoigne, White, &c. Ladies—Chesterfield, S. Hastings, A. Hastings, C. Fox, H. Cooke, Turner, A. Milbank, Boothby, &c. Mesdames—Cooke, Vivian, Anson, Camac, Saville, F. Wil son, Ramsdell, &c. Misses—Boothby, Fullerton, Tempest, Cooke, Russell, Rol lesion, Ravenscroft, Fairlie, &c. The following is a retuan of the afternoon's sport The Two Year Old Produce Stakes of 160 sows. each, h. ft. ; colts, Bst. 51b; fillies, Bst. 31b. Red House In. Twelve subs. Mr. Gully's f. 'by Langar or Falcon 1 Mr. Skipsey's The Bard Duke of Leeds's Rover 3 Mr. Houldsworth's Destiny 4 The winner the favourite • but little or nothing done. Mr. Gully's filly laid in front all the way, shook' off Rover and Destiny at the distance, the Bard at the stand, and won easy. The St. Leger Stakes of 50 sots. cub, h. ft., for three years old; colts, Bst. 61b. ; fillies, Bst. 31b. The .second to re ceive 100 sovs. out of the Stakes. St. Leger Course. Sixty-seven , Subscribers. Mr. Mostyn's Queen of Trumps Lye 1 Mr. Richardson's Hornsea ..!. ; ..Scott 2 Mr. Golden's Brother to Hope 4 3 Mr. Greville's Preserve 4 The following also started—Ascot, Jupiter, Mr. Powlett's Langar colt, Trim, Mamsel Otz, Mundig, and Turban. Won very easy. Betting at starting :-11 to 8 agst Queen of Trumps (taken freely), 2 to 1 agst Hornsca (taken), 7 to 1 agst Preserve, 12 to 1 agst Jupiter, 12 to 1 agst Ascot (taker.), 25 to 1 egst Brother to Hope, 33 to 1 agst Trim, 40 to 1 asst Turban, 40 to 1 agst Mamsel Otz, and any odds against It i lfdig. The betting was principally about the first two favourites, scarcely one of the others having a backer. After taking their preli minary gallops before the Grand Stand the horses walked in line to the post, and were started without the. slightest diffi culty. Mr. Powlett's colt took the lead at a good pace, closely followed by Tulaiter, Turban, Mamsel Otz,, Ascot and Preserve, all clustered together ; in the centre were Queen of Trumps and Trim, and in rear Brother to Hope, Hornsea, and Mundig. On getting over the bill, Mamsel Otz declined, nor could Jupiter live the pace many strides further ; Brother to, Hope now went up to the first lot, and Hornsea joined it on making the turn for the Red House. Trim. too, advanced to the front rank, ran a few yards with iltf, found it " too hot," and shut up, but in falling into the rear slippcisl on his haunches and narrowly escaped a turnVe. Mr. Powlett's colt by Lan gar carried oh Srhe running until about half way between the „kd House and the rails, where he gat - e up the lead to Horn s , with whom Brother to Hope and Preserve were well laid up till a distance and a half from home, where the Queen of Trumps passed the other two, challenged Hornsea, ran nearly • head and head wish him t' !k about two-thirds of a distance from the winning -post, beat"birn clean off before they reached the stand, and won le a canter by two lengths. Brother to Hope was well up with Hornsea, but Preserve was beaten four or five lengthS from the winner, and all the rest were cut up so completely that we are enalaled to assign positions to each, namely, Ascot was sth, Porgett 6th, Turban 7th, Jtoiter Bth, Mundig 9th, \lonise' Otz 10th, acid Trim 11th ; t-Pt last twit,. having pulled up. The race was very good; value of the stakes, 1,8001. Mr. Mostyn may congratulate himself upon the possession of a mair which has proved herset the heft of her day, and done what was, never done before—won the Oaks and St. Leger. The settling Will be heavy. • The Cleveland Stakes of 25 sows each, 15 ft., &c., with 25 added by the Corporation, second to save his stake. One mile. (15 subs., 7 of whom paid only 5 sows. each.) Mr i llichardson's Lady de Gros, Bst. Sib Scott 1 Duke of Cleveland's Newton, 7st. 61b. Mr. Watt's Madame Pelerine, Gst. 61b 3 Mr. Maxwell's Knottingley, 6st. 41b 4 No betting 'worth quotin g . Lady Le Gros made all the running and won cleverly 9i7 half a length. v 3 ~~ SINGULAR CRICKET MATCH. On Tuesday considerable amusement occurred at Parson's. green, \Valium, and the vicinity, in consequence of a match of cricket being played between eleven married and eleven single women; the match was made for the sum of 101. and a hot supper. At ten o'clock in the forenoon a tent was erected on the green, and soon afterwards the wickets were pitched. A vast assemblage of persons were congregated to witness the sport, amongst whom were a number of the most respectable inhabitants ; the married women wore light blue dresses, their waists and headS being decorated with ribands of the same colour; the single women were attired in close white dresses, with pink sashes and cap-bows. The game commenced abont eleven o'clock, the married taking the first innings, and obtaining 47 runs; the single than commenced play, and were not so successful, the whole of them being bowled out after 29 runs. The two next innings were played, and the game was won by the single women, but only by seven runs. After the match was over, countl.y dances, ac companied by a band of music, took place on the green, and in the evening the supper was pruvided at the White Horse, on the green. __ j 0 I i i J ~', I.wam a. f} ~