The Sun. — London, England, 1844-03-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNI NG, MARCH 13, 1844. land, his much iiiipr_ed country, he : would care not I repose, there is not one of you whose case it might how they had tressed him ; he would forget it all in the , not be to-morrow.—(Hear, hear.) I say not this to country, and co-operate strenuously : intimidate you, or to warm you in support of the prosperity of his . • • with them for the benefit of his native land.—(Cheer- people of Ireland, for I would be the most mistaken . lag.) What return had these -Ministers made to this ;of human beings, if I was not already aware that it man 1,--s(Cheers.)- What was their reply to the pro- is owing to no other motive but your own generous position ? Why, the reply was this—that con- ; feelings that you sympathise with them. I arraigned cession had seen it utmost limits, and that ' the prosecution against me, and lam just in arraigning condign punishment must be his reward.—(Cheers.) it, for their was nothing of legal form about it; there It was quite clear that the last act of that contempti- ; was nothing fixed or tangible whichyou might encoun - ble drama, which had been play e d i n Ir e land, had yet j ter. It was a monstrous shadow set up by to be enacted ; and that th e G overnmen t, helloed on the miscreant administrators of the law ; but there by the blood-hounds of the Tory press—(Great was nothing which could be met but by fair argument cheering) —meant to send their law officers or or by legal discrimination.—Hear, hear.) I next of the Crown again into the Court o arraigned the conduct of the judge, and I have this Queen's Ben c h in D u blin, there to demand the consolation, that no human being justifies him. The vengeance of the Court upon their victim.—(Cries usual practice when a man is arraigned for his con of "Never, n e ve r," " No, no," and cheers.) Nay, , duct i inP eri Parliament, irl ament, r fora Ministerial Member, if he be fora Member of the Opposition, if society, but if you met any person at this moment you could not go into any a l‘i who be- he belong to m thaatn' o side of the House, is suddenly to get longed to what was called the Orange faction, up and discover him to be a man endowed with with that peculiar delicacy which invariably attached every virtue, and then they eulogise him. This was to all their proceedings, they were heard commenting the usual course in Parliament, and I appeal to those as to the number of years for which Mr. O'Connell who are familiar with its proceedings ; but no person w s as to be incarcerated.—(Laughter.) More than was found to rise up and praise Chief Justice Penne this, they might be heard speculating on the relative father. — (Hear , h ear. ) It s admitted, since the days strength of the gaols of Kilmainham and Carrickfergus. of Scroggs and Jeffries, such a one-handed charge, —(Hisses and derisive laughter.) Deluded and such a side-handed charge was never pronounced by short-sighted men ! Did they think that by his a common-law judge's lips. He has taken you incarceration in a prison they could conceal Mr. back to the worst period of our law. Why, I saw O'Connell from the eyes of his countrymen ?—did myself that he borrowed a part of the prosecutor's they think that by imprisoning such a man counsel, and as out of the fullness of the heart the that his virtues, and that his patriotism, would be lost tongue speaks, he talked of counsel on the other side. to their memories ?—(Loud cheers.) No ! He told —(Groans.) Let it be proclaimed from the extre them in their name, and he told them in the mity of Cornwall to the highest point of Scotland— name of the people of England—(Great cheering) let it go through the length and breadth of the land, —yes, and in the name of the toiling millions of that the conduct of the Chief Justice was not capable England, that how dark soever might be his of being defended by any Government or any party. cell—how strong soever might be his dungeon— —(Cheers.) You see how I am coaxing him to how gross soever the indignities they might heap I pass a lenient sentence upon me. My next im upon his head; he told Mr. O'Connell in that vast I peachment is the omission of the names in the jury and gorgeous assembly that he might lay his head list.—(Hear, hear.) (Jut of 710 names, 63 slipped in peace upon his pillow, for that the petitions, aye, and by accident.—(Laughter.) We had a lot of them, the remonstrances too, of millions of the virtuous, the and out of the entire number of names, 63 were patriotic, and the good, would not only attest to his absent. It was said to be an accident—(Laughter) innocence, but wou ld p roc l a i m hi s liberation from —but out of the 63 names that were omitted, 27 within the very walls of Parliament itself.—(Great were Roman Catholics ; perhaps you do not know cheering.) He had told them before that he had ; that I am of that persuasion. Your esteemed and already gone beyond the limits he had assigned to I excellent friend the Chairman, has told you that the himself, and he was satisfied that nothing he could Roman Catholics were indebted to me for Catholic urge would strengthen the feelings they had towards Emancipation. He might have added with truth, and their patriotic and illustrious guest, and he should, j I might say with pride, that I sought it not by the therefore, conclude his observations by saying, assertion of any sectarian preference.—(Ch eers .) that they in honouring Mr. O'Connell did honour i I always considered that religion was a matter be to themselves; and, farther, that they testified their tween a man and his Creator, and that there was no sympathy and regard for a people whose rights ! right or justice in excluding any man, on account of and liberties, whose prosperity and happiness ought to i his religion, from civil right s ; an d th a t every be, and he wa s sure were, as sacred to them as their 1 man was justified in wor s hippi ng hi s G o d accord own.—(Cheers.) H e h a d now, therefore, only to ing to the dictates of his conscience. —(Cheers.) It propose—" Health and long life to Daniel O'Connell." was on that principle I sought and obtained eman- Perhaps a more magnificent sight was never pre- ' cipation, and I would n o t ha ve it on an y o th er groun d . tented than that w hi c h o ff ere d i tse lf to t h e eye of the It was on that principle that we petitioned for the Pro observer at this moment. The whole company rose, testants in England, and helped to obtain their eman and from the point where the Chairman sat, to the cipation s ---(Hear, hear.) Here is the hand that opposite side of the house, and the very top of the I drew up the petition.—(Cheers.) It was signed by gallery, there was one moving and hurraing mass of 28,000 Roman Catholics, and it prayed for the human beings. The ladies in the whole tiers of boxes emancipation of the Protestant Dissenters in England. rose, and the waving of their handkerchiefs betokened After that petition was presented, Lord John their heartfelt sympathy in the proceedings of the even- Russell succeeded, and Peel was compelled to email ing, whilst the loud and earnest hurraing of the mass of cipate the Dissenters.— (Hear, hear.) Pardon me men seemed as though its reverberations w ere never for the digression, but it is incumbent upon me that to cease. At length something like silence was oh- we should understand each other well.—(Hear, tabled, and hear.) The Catholics were in power three Mr. O'CONNELL rose, and said—l protest that in my times, and 'they never persecuted a Protestant long and varied life I never was so embarrassed as lam at —(Hear, hear.) Oh, let us contend with each other this moment—in truth I am not ashamed to say, 1 in good and charitable and benevolent feelings, and fun almost unmanned—my feelings are overpowered. take no credit to ourselves for any particular or sec- The dungeon has no terrors to my m i n d— tarian advantage, but in the establishment of liberty (Loud cheers)—and if to it were added the of conscience on a broad and secure basis.—(Cheers.) scaffold and the rack, they could not appal me But I come back to the trial; sixty-three names arSer the awf u l magnitude of the compliment you slipped out of the panel.—(Hear, hear.) Mark me, have paid to me.—(Loud cheers.) Oh! how ardent for one moment, for there is something technical in must be your love of justice - how steady and severe what lam going to tell you , but I think you will your hatr e d o f t yranny ; how you must glory in easily comprehend it. We challeng e th e array , as i t seeing justice honestly and uprightly administered, is called, on account of the sixty-three names—(A. when, with the intensity which you have exhibited voice, "It was villainy")—certainly it was not acci to •night, you proclaim the hate in which you hold dent.—(Laughter.) We alleged that those names any partiality in its practice !—(Cheers.) What is were fraudulently taken from the list. We alleged my claim to your kindness and your support ? It is that it was done to the detriment of the traversers. this—that you consider me the victim of injustice That plea we put on the record; the Attorney-General ___(Lond cheering)—it is because you consider had power to join issue on that allegation, and say that the law has been violated in my that it was not in fraud. That issue would have person—because those in power have used that power been tried by triers duly sworn. The Attorney. in a spirit of iniquity, and in your integrity you know General declined that issue. —(Cries of " Shame, how to despise and hate th em f or it.—(L ou d c h eers. ) s h ame. ") H e le f t the allegation to stand uncontra- Yes, you are able to turn defeat into victory, and to dieted, and it stands uncontradicted to this day. He make conviction not a source of punishment but of relied on this, that he had judges who would tell him, triumph.—(Loud cheers.) Glad am lat what has as they told us, that as we did not know taken place, because it has given me the opportunity who had committed the fraud, we were (and I say it in all sincerity of heart), to be satisfied without remedy.—(Laughter and loud cheers.) of the extent of sympathy that England has for Ire- It is literally true. lam here talking to the common land—because it has convinced me, not reluctantly, but sense of Englishmen—their sense of honesty, and above with some difficulty I admit, that there is a higher mind all things, to that noble adhesion to fair play, which is animating the middle classes and the better part o f the highest and most dignified trait in the English the upper classes towards us, and that we were born character.—(Loud cheers.) 'lt is curious that in no to be united as a people, and to stand together other part of the' world can two men fight without the against the world.—(Loud cheering.) Yes, Ido people who come up taking part with one or with the delight in the events that have taken place, be- other. But in England it is proverbial, cause in them there will result a mighty good that no people ever come up to see men to both branches of the empire. —(Loud cheers.) so engaged, that they do not immediately Oh, what a scene is this to-day ! When I see the insist on seeing fair play.—(Loud cheers.) I ap rank and station—when I contemplate the wealth, peal to that sense of fair play.—(Cheers.) There is the talent, the rank, and the virtue—when I think no word to express it in any other language, and of the manly determination here evinced, and mark it deserves to have a word coined for itself. the kindly feeling that glist ens f rom th ose f a i r eyes. Th e f rau d i s un d en i e d to t h e present moment; When I behold those lovely forms that turn this and the only answer we got was, that as we did not scene into a fairy land—when I see those sylphs know the name of the person who committed the those celestial beings, animating us to our duty, and fraud, we had no remedy. I suppose that a person smiling sweetly upon us—l do rejoice in the incon- is not robbed if he does not know the name of the venience I have suffered, seeing that in consequence thief who robs him. (Loud laughter.) If of it I behold such a transcendent spectacle as this. you were to go before Sir Peter Laurie, or any Yes, they have convicted me ; but you ask how, and other of your white witches, and bring a of what ? I am here to tell you of what. They man before him, saying, " I caught this man stealing have convicted me, not of a crime defined or definite; my property, and just escaping from my premises not of anythi ng th a t you can read i n the law-books ; with the goods, " everybody would laugh, more than but of something which the judges have spelt out of they do at Sir Peter Laurie, if it were said " Oh, we those law-books, and have put together to form a can't listen to your complaint if you don't know the monster indictment. There is no exaggeration in this. name of the man." (Laughter.) Yet upon --(A person in the centre of the theatre here exclaime this most ridiculous assertion, we were told that the "If you will come forward, Mr. O'Connell it will fraud should go unpunished, and that we should be gratify the audience." Considerable interruption was punished for alleging the fraud. There remains caused by this circumstance, which was at length one impeachment more of these proceedings, , terminated by Mr. O'Connell's leaving his position at and that is my impeachment of the jury the right of the Chair, and proceeding to a central sworn. In point of law, Catholics and Protestants part of the building amidst loud plaudits front had an equal right to be upon that jury. —(Loud the boxes and the more' distant portion of the cheers.) In point of justice, it ought to be assemblage. The Honourable Gentleman standing so. In fair play it would be so. Chief Justice 'on one of . the tables, went on to say)—The task Fair-play will decide it for me at once. —(Loud which I was endeavouring to perform was that of laughter.) Yet what was the first step ? Ele-- vindicating you to yourselves—(Laughter)—of en- yen Catholics, who were on the reduced list, deavouring to prove to you that you were perfectly were struck off by the Attorney-General.—(Cries of justified in :the ardour ofyourenthusiasmin supporting " Shame, shame.") They say that they were Re my own cause and that of the Irish people.—(Cheers.) peelers. In the first place that was not true. That The accusation which has been made against me, and is one answer to it. In the next place, if it had been upon which I have been convicted, is ofsuch an enor- true, 'it is no reply—(Hear, hear)—because though mous nature, that it is interesing to every human being, to be a Repealer may be a great folly, it is not a whether he be himself liable to a similar machination crime. It is not a crime that makes a man an out or not, to understand distinctly its bearings, its form, law, and if they say that Repealers would have been end its hreadth.—(Hear, hear.) It is not a crime favourable jurors to me, T ask whether the most vio defined by .the law, or definite—it is not a crime lent Anti-Repealers—men who voted against me respecting the evidence of which there is any three or four times over—could form a fair and possible resort to law books, or to the conjurations of impartial jury against ire ?—(Cheers.) I use their inen of my trade.—(Great laughter.) It is called, to own argument. I convict them out of their own be sure, a conspiracy ; but there is nothing of private mouths.—(Cheers.) I appeal to the common sense agreement there is nothing of arrangement of Englishmen to say it' Repealers would have there is nothing of plot or plan in it— been favourable to me, would not anti- Re ( Laughter)—it is something that the judges imagine peelers be favourable to others ? But recol when they dream and make the public suffer when lect it was snore important to have an impartial they are awake.—(Roars of laughter.) One of our jury on this trial, as the crime was not a definite female ate hors of celebrity, in the fulness of her one. Had it been murder, or robbery, or forgery, feminine imagination, has depicted to the world an any human intellect could have judged of imaginary being, of extraordinary dimensions, and the nature of the crime, and would only of ferocious capacity, and has denominated that have had to decide on the question of fact; being " Frankenstein." This conspiracy, which but here the crime was imaginary. One partaking has been tried i n I re l an d, i s th e F ran k enste i n of more of identity than of reality. One which empha the_ law,--(Great laughter.) As the one i s uncout h t i ca ll y requ i re d a t h oroughly i mpartial as well as 0 .. limb, unshaped in form, undefined and indefinite intelligent j u ry. From that jury one Pr o t es t an t in nature, h av i ng nothing of humanity about it—so was struck off-- an i n t e lli gen t i n di v id ua l one the other h as not hi ng of law but its monstrosity. of a higher order of intellect than the others—that How was it endeavoured to be Why supported ?By intelligent Protestant was sent t o k ee p company w i t h the history o f nine months.—(Laughter.) plot did it dis c l ose '? What the eleven Catholics—(Cheers)—and th e y ca ll t h at a carefully committ e d t o th ose aplot which wa s f a ir t r ial. I ca ll th a t a p ersecu ti on rat h er t h an a keepers of secrets, the prosecution. It was not a f a i r t r i a l ; i t public newspapers.—(lmmen se laughte r .) Not one was s hifti ng , sc h em i ng management.—(Cheers ) witness was produced t o prove any fact except th a t I say l am no t conv i c t e d b y d ue course of law, and A and B were the propri e t ors of newspapers,: and in p r i son I s h a ll f ee l th a t I am a v i ct i m —(L oud that they:were members of th e Association, and then cries e Never, never !")—and in that prison I shall the newspapers were read in detail against us have f the the feeling at heart that will raise me superior to and the judges determined that that was evidence open p u m n iehinent.—(Cheers.)lWhy, I have plenty here to of a conspiracy; and here I stand before you a " con victed conspirator."—(Cheers and laughter.) The his- idle to s Y u P p n po s sTti l irt rls—(Cheers)—but it would he very not thoroughly prepared for an tory of nine .months was given in this satisfactory event of that kind. Brautwihatever may suffer for my manner. The chronology and dates of newspapers country, I shall rejoice were all that, varied from one week to another.— Whatever may be the innflinginn erf the o su se ffi e ri i n e g hu . l — lly7ayfor (Che h e a rs v . e ) (Cheers.) The history of only one great meeting to undergo, I shall bear the was detailed as it had appeared in the public prints. sake of my country.—(Loud cheers. Was it allege(l that any one of them was illegal • that the whole of the proceedings ag ') I denounce there was force, or violence, or turbulence, or tumult at words will not be confined to thes-eawmasltls.meiVahnedremveyr any of them ?—(Hear.) Not a particle of any such the English language is spoken—and the sun never allegation could be made.—(Cheers.) Was it al- sets upon the countries in which that lang uage i s !Ned that the magistracy of the country or the spoken—wherever the accents of the English tongue civil p „„,, r o e . the country, or the idle or the timid, are heard, will these my words be borne upon th e were intimidated or frightened at any one of these wings of the press—(Cheers)—and throughout meetings ?—(llear, hear.) There was not a single America France India, throughout every country allegation of th e kind.—(Cues of "He ar , h ear. ") in the world, will this my protest go forth against Time meetings: w er e peaceable--they were legal— th a t w hi ch I denounce as a dishonest persecution— every one of the m was a d m itt e d t o be legei--(Hear, (Loud cheers)—and my contemptuous defiance of hear)—but, by the dexterity of legal =sic,. though those who have conducted it.—(Loud cheers.) the forty-one were perfectly legal, yet thv - whole, But I shall be asked, no doubt, what was my taken together,. f orme d a consp i racy.—(La rig ht er. ) o bj ect in holding those meetings. You will say It is literally a mockery to say that forty-or, ke legal it is true you ought not to have been convicted of meetings made one illegal one.—(Laughter.) Forty- conspiracy, but you have an account to render to us. one cyphers would not make a sum, and 3 ,et the Now, 1 have been accused of wishing to separate law was so decided in our case that forty n, ,things England and Ireland--I have been accused of unne made something.—(Loud laughter.) IV 'as it cessarily meddling with an agreement entered into not to be looked on with scorn and indignatis in, And ibrty-four years ago, of needlessly reviving old causes of were not those men who planned this conspiraw r, with complaint , a nd creatin g new grievances to add to them. trickery worthy_ o f Old Bailey practitioners, them. Now lam quite ready to meet that charge, and I should selves conspirators, and ought they not to be In Itnded be utterly unworthy if I were not ready here in the with infamy you Englishmen, to justify everything ?-_(Hear, hear, and cheers.) . What presence of was called law to-day might be forced into a prece- that I have done, and to rebut every impute dent to-m orrow : ' and if the question be allo w ed to tion which has been cast upon me—(Loud cheers)— and to state to you the reasons why I have held these meetings. They say there is a union between the two countries. I utterly deny it.—(Loud cheers.) There is a parchment compact—(Cheers) —a parchment enactment—(Cheers)--but there is no real union. —(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) What is the meaning of a real union ? A perfect identification between the two countries—(Cheers) —that there should be no difference between Eng lishmen and Irishmen, except the accent.— (A laugh.) that Englishmen and Irishmen should possess the same rights, the same privileges, and the same fran chises—(Cheers) —that there should be no difference in respect of rights and franchises between the men of Kent and the men of Cork—(Cheers)—between the men of Mayo and the men of Lancashire.--(Re newed cheers.) That England and Ireland should be one nation, possessed of precisely the same rights, the same franchises, and the same privileges.—(Cheers.) I appealed to the Parliament to make that parchment union a real one. The Tories, of course, refused, and the Whigs were equally complimentary.—(Cheers and laughter.) Ido not wish to weary this assembly by entering into the dry details of statistics. I will, however, draw your attention to one or two statements. The county of Cork, which I have the honour to represent, has 713,000 inhabitants in its agricultural districts, and upwards of 200,000 inhabitants in its cities and towns, so that the total population of Cork is equal to 850,000 inhabitants. Now, the inhabitants of Wales are 800,000, being 50,000 less than the inha bitants of the county of Cork. The county of Cork, with its 850,000 inhabitants, returns just eight Mem bers to Parliament ; and how many Members do you think Wales returns with its 800,000 ? Why, just eight-and-twenty.--(Hear, hear.) Well, now, surely one Welshman is not able to beat five Irish men.— (Cheers and laughter.) They are a brave and perhaps a somewhat intemperate race are those Welshmen—(Cheers and laughter)—but at the same time, I respectfully submit that one Welshman is not worth five Irishmen. Man for man, lam willing to admit their worth, but I cannot admit that as com pared with my own countrymen they are worth five to one.—(Loud cheers and laughter.) I can not admit they are entitled to return twenty eight Members for the 800,000 inhabitants, while the county of Cork, with its 850,000 inhabitants is only to return eight Members to Par liament.—(Cheers.) Now ought that to last ? (Cries of " No! No l") Is that a thing that ought to be changed ?—(Cries of " Yes, yes.") Then again let us look at the question in another point of view. The Parliamentary returns made seven years ago on the subject of the registration of voters, showed that there are 4,000 registered voters for the county of Cork, with a population of 710,000 inhabitants, while in Wales there are 36,000 registered voters. I was looking over the Parliamentary returns this morning, and I find the number of registered voters for Cork is now I,soo—but 1,500 !—(Hear, hear.) The votes for the largest county in Ireland are nearly extinguished by the operation of the Reform Act, while in Wales the number of voters has ;increased by 2,000. There are 38,000 registered voters in Wales, and 1,800 for the county of Cork. —(Hear, hear.) Now is that common sense ? (" No, no.") Is that justice ?—(" No, no,") Is that fairness, or is it honesty. —(" No, no.") I have endeavoured to obtain redress for the afflictions of my country.—(Hear, hear.) I have felt how great is the delight of being borne along, as it were, on the breath of the people. —(Loud cheers.) Oh, if you had seen the stalwarth men leaving their work and flocking to the road-side to see me pass by; if you had seen their eyes beaming with affection as they looked on me, and their hands lifted up, which wanted but a word from me to strike the blow —(Hear, hear)—if you had seen the aged women with children in their arms greeting me as I passed by, and praying for my health and prosperity —(Loud cheers)—if you had seen the merry children, and heard the chirping cry as I went along—(Cheers) asking for blessings on the head of him whom they called the father of their country.—(Loud cheers.) Oh, if you had seen and felt as I have seen and felt, then your hearts would have expanded as mine did. You would like me here vow never to relax in your exertions to obtain equal rights and privileges for the land of your birth. Those men have been taught the lesson of which I have declared myself the Apostle, that no political ad vantage can be of so much importance as to justify the shedding of one single drop of human blood.—(Cheers.) This is the lesson they have been taught.—(Cheers.) This is the lesson they practise—(Loud cheers) — and this is the lesson they will continue to practise until the triumphant success of the efforts shall imprint the maxim upon the minds and the hearts of the wise and good of all nations.—(Cheers.) The Irish nation is entitled to more than 160 Mem bers in your Parliament. It ought to have them: For the sake of peace we will take less than our right —we will be content with 160, but that will not give us one additional. Then with regard to the municipal franchise, Ire land is treated with the greatest injustice. In England whoever is rated to that poor-rate is a burgess, and is entitled to vote at municipal elections, hut in Dublin, in order to be upon the Burgess Lists, it is necessary that a man should be rated at 101., that is, he should occupy a 201. house, and that he should have paid no less than nine dif ferent rates. The consequence is, that not above one-third of those who ought to be on the burgess lists in Dublin are upon it.—(Hear, hear.) I now come to a subject which I have often alluded to elsewhere, and which, therefore, I will not shrink from mentioning even in this assembly—l mean, to the existence of the English Church in Ireland. (Loud cheers, and cries of " Down with it.") Gentlemen, I appeal to you whether the Church in England, that has the state emoluments, is not the Church of the great majority of the people ?—(Cries of " No.") So much the worse. It ought to be.— (Cries of " No, it is not.") Well, that is a disputed question which I will not argue. The Church of Scot land—that is, the Church that has the emoluments- is the Church of the great majority ; but the Church of Ireland, which has no State emoluments, never has been the Church of the people.—(Hear, hear.) I do not w an t th e emo l uments o f that Churchfor my Church—l would not accept them. There is not a priest who would not do anything sooner than accept them.—(Hear, hear.) There is no Bishop in the Irish Catholic Church who would be the vassal of the State. lam borne out in that by the course that has been pu rsue d b y the Catholic Bishops in Ireland ; my opinion is, that it would be detri mental to the state of the Church. The Catholic prelates of Ireland have proclaimed, within the last six weeks, that they will not take a farthing of the money belonging to State endowments. I do not want to impute selfish motives to any parties, but can there be any doubt that the manner in which the Irish Church has been used is both selfish and unjust ? I do not think that there is a greater crime than that one man should pay for the religion of another, that religion being that which he did not believe. Upon that principle the great oppression of Ireland'. Established Church was founded. Until this system is put an end to it will be in vain to expect tranquillity in Ireland. My Friends, I wish you had seen the Irish newspapers. A short time since a very respectable gentleman, named Archdeacon De Lacy died. He was the nephew of a Bishop, and, according to the advertisement with respect to the sale of his effects, he was such an ex cellent man—that he had eleven hunters—an excellent pack of hounds—and, as the advertisement stated, a splendid cellar of wine.— (Laughter.) But it may he said that these grievances of Ireland are rather speculative than otherwise. I don't think it will be said that the last is so.—(Laughter.) It is said that men might be just and rich without Corporate Reform. But is Ireland rich ? Let me state what the condition of the Irish people is. Forty years after the establishment of the union, the Commissioners on the Poor-law Inquiry reported that they found two million three hundred and eighty-five thousand in a state of destitution upon a population of 8,000,000, namely, one fourth of the whole population ; and Captain Lar kom has reported that seventy per cent. of the rural population were living in huts in one room only-- - -that thirty per cent. of the town popu lation families were living in one room, and in some instances several families Were dwelling in one place. —(Hear, hear.) No sign shows greater misery than a decrease in the population. An increase in the population shows a favourable sign, but the retrogression of a population of 70,000 a year, is a most convincing proof a misery, di s . tress, and wretchedness. Now, just to show you that what I am stating is correct, I will read you the description of Mr. Kohl, a German who has been travelling all over Europe. He has lately published a book, in which is the following state ment : " I remember, when I saw the poor Lettes in Livonia, I used to pity them for having to live in huts built of the un hewn logs of trees, the crevices being stopped up with moss. I pitied them on account of their low doors, and diminutive fory g i• them o d r o a w n e s , ei n. a and dj kn ewga more gladly ly suitable nt a w obt o l u et would that a at l n h ln a e v r e should arranged ae ever se t he heaven their rppcaehrodi people pardon me on whom Almighty God had imposed yet heavier privations. Now that I have seen Ireland, it seems to me that the Lettes, the Esthonians, and the Findlanders, lead a life of comparative comfort, and poor Paddy would feel like a king with their houses, their habiliments, and their daily fare. "A wooden house, with moss to stop up its crevices, would be a palace in the wild regions of Ireland. Paddy's cabin is built of earth, one shovelful over the other, with a few stones mingled here and there, till the wall is high enough. But perhaps you will say, istherosoofs (f i t)lagrtcashsedcuotr fcrooLeraednewigihth bark. Ay, indeed! A few sods at least, if it ' lor a piece of talc, as may ofte n b e bowing bog are be only o h o is lya p a t b h e a tocfh glass ell fix , obdu in a thewindow ,all , 0 0 r r two e bladder of some an , seen in a Wallachian hut? What idle luxury were this! There are thousands of cabins in which not a trace of a f w ro in n tow wh i i s eh to dobue b s l e e s en t h ; e n d o t t l t h y i nogf door,btit m a n l i d t o t l w e q a nuda chimney n l hole n; light, smoke, pigs, and children, all must pass in and out of the same aperture ! " A French author, Beaumont, who had seen the Irish peasant in his cabin; and the NoAh American Indian in his wigwam, has assured us that the savage is better provided for than the poor man in Ireland. Indeed, the question may be raised, whether in the whole world a nation is to be found that is subjected to such physical privations as the peasantry in some parts of Ireland. This fact cannot be placed in too strong a light ; for if it can once be shown that the wretchedness of the Irish population is without a parallel example on the globe, surelyeveryfriend of humanity will feel himself called on to reflect whether means may not be found for remedying an evil of so astounding a magnitude !" And, in Ennis, the following statement was made at a meeting, at which Sir Lucius O'Brien presided : " At a meeting of the Guardians of the :Ennis Poor-law Union on Wednesday, Sir Lucius O'Brien in the Chair, Mr. Butler brought forward the resolutions of which he had given notice, relative to the exorbitant amount of Grand Jury Cess now leviable, and which he stated was entirely borne by the occupiers of land. His object in bringing forward the resolutions was, to call attention to the matter, in the hope that the grievance would be redressed by the introduction of a grand a moiety andjury laws, which would render oft w h s, the tax in the same man ner in which they are subject to poor -rates. the landlords i into e e for "The Chairman and Mr. Carrick supported the landlords, attributing all their misfortunes to bad seasons, failures in the crops, &c. ' • while Mr. James M a h on, B . B ut l er, M r. Finucane, Mr. Knox, and nearly the entire Board, were of opinion, that the major part of the population were in a state of dreadful destitution—that pauperism was frightfully on the increase, and that nothing short of sound remedies should be considered." Why do I harrow you with these pictures ? Why, for the purpose of calling upon you to exert your selves in the cause of my unhappy country, and to do all in your power to render her happy once again. Does this misery that I have pictured to you arise from the laziness of the people of Ireland ? No. Do they not travel far and near to obtain work ? Do they not crowd your streets and your villages in hopes of obtaining work ?—(Loud cheers.) But then it may be said that Ireland is unproductive. Oh, no, 'tis one of the greenest and the fairest isles of the globe.—(Loud cheers.) Its crops are abundant, and its produce magnificent. (Cheers.) It has the best harbours and the finest estuaries in the world. It has all those ad vantages ; and, added to this, it has a cheer ful, lively, and affectionate people.—(Cheers.) Then why is it that this misery exists ? From bad government. It is impossible to give any other reason for it.—(Great cheering.) Since the union matters have become worse and worse in Ireland. They have given us a poor-law, and that poor-law, I will venture to say, will bring rebellion in Ireland if it exists for two years longer.— (Hear, hear.) The poor-law would be the ruin of Ireland, and Minis ters were blind for not seeing it. They may send me to prison if they please, but they may depend upon it that the consequences of the poor-law will be awful.—(Hear, hear.) I have, trespassed on you long, but how could I avoid expressing my gratitude and showing you that I desire at least your good attention, your kindness, and support.—(Cheers.) I have never shrunk from standing by you in any centest—l have always been at your side— (Cheers)---I have never given a vote that was calculated to increase the burdens of the English peo ple.—(Cheers.) But I have invariably supported every measure that was calculated to increase the extension of civil and religious liberty.—(Cheers.) I have ad vocated the cause of the slave in America, as well as the peasant in Ireland. I care not what their creed, or by what sun their face may have been burned. —I care not what is a man's caste or what his lan guage, if I can but provide for him liberty from all tyranny.—(Cheers.) I stood by you in the Reform Bill I formed one of your majority. It promised much. It was spoiled in its manage ment. Its nursing mother looked unkindly upon her future child. In another struggle for freedom I also joined you. I shall always be with you in giving the protection of the Vote by Ballot, and for the shortening cf the duration of Parliaments. recollecting that short accounts make long friends.— (Cheers.) I owe this statement to you ; and now I solemnly assure you, that if I was not thoroughly con vinced that the establishment of a domestic legisla ture was essential to the comfort of Ireland, and that it was necessary to keep up the connection between this country and Ireland, I would advocate it no longer. I never wish to see Ireland separated from this country ;—(Cheers)—but to accomplish so excellent a measure, it is necessary that something should be done to give to Ireland what England had—a local Legislature. He wanted for Ireland that the laws passed there should be passed upon the same principle as in Eng land. (Cheers.) Such was the opinion of the wise and gooel, and such he hoped it ever would be. Let them do justice to Ireland.—(Cheers.) But do they show any disposition to do so ? They came down with the insulting denomination of convicted conspirators.—(Cheers) The renegades !—(Cheers.) There is Peel, who has sacrificed every principle. —the renegade Stanley, who was the principal con triver for destroying the Reform Bill—(Groans) — the reluctant Sir J. Graham—(Groans)—who sat first on one side of the House and then on the other.— (Cheers.) I call them conspirators for they have conspired against the public.—(Cheers.) 'But let those who have desired to adhere to the law, who desire to have it cheap and intelligible—let those do all in their power to do justice to Ireland.—(Cheers.) By adopting that course a union would be rendered valuable by a domestic Legislature, and by a com plete combination of a firm and a loyal people. The Honourable Member sat down amidst applause, which lasted for several minutes. The following glee and chorus was then sung in excellent style : Tho' dark are our sorrows, to-day we'll forget them, And smile thro' our tears like a sunbeam in show'rs, There never were hearts, if our rulers would let them, More formed to be tranquil and blessed than ours I But just when the chain Has ceas'd to pain, And hope has enwreath'd it round with flow'rs, There comes a new link, Our spirits to sink ! Oh ! the joy of such hearts, like the light of the poles, Is a flash amid darkness too brilliant to stay : But though 'twere the last little spark in our souls, We must light it up now for O'Connell to• day. Contempt on the minions who call him disloyal ! Though fierce to his foe, to his friends he is true ; And the tribute most high to a head that is Royal, Is love from a heart that loves liberty too. While cowards who blight Their Sovereign's right, Would shrink from the blaze of the battle array; The standard of green, In front would be seen-- Oh ! my life on his faith ! were he summon'd this minute, He'd cast ey'ry bitter remembrance away, And show what the arm of old Erin has in it, When rous'd to defend her Sovereign's sway. She loves the green Isle, and her love is recorded In hearts which have suffer d too much to forget, And hope shall be crown'd, and attachment rewarded, And Erin's gay Jubilee shine out yet! The gem may be broke B y m any a stroke, But nothing can cloud its native ray ; Each fragment will cast A light to the last ! And then Erin, his country ! though broken thou art, There's a lustre within thee , that ne'er will decay: A spirit that beams through each suffering part, And now smiles through its pain on this happy day. The Earl of SHREWSBURY was then announced by. she Chairman to propose the next toast, and was re ceived with loud cheers. His Lordship said he could not tell them how extremely he felt the disadvantage he laboured under, in having, so immediately to follow after the eloquent and instructive speech which had been delivered to them by their illustrious guest, but on this, as on other grounds, he felt he should re ceive what he so much needed, their kindest conside ration.—(Hear, hear.) The toast which had been assigned to him to propose was that of the people, and in proposing it he was sure that the first idea which presented itself to their minds was the cause of the people of Ireland. That was a great and generous cause, for it was the cause of humanity—(Cheers)---the cause of right as opposed to that of wrong.—(Cheers.) They had arrived at a new era in the history of that cause, for they had at length embodied in it the sympaties and the feelings of the people of England. (Hear, hear.) The time was when the people of Eng land were foolish eno ug h t o i m agine that their political rights and th e i r commerc i a l prosperity were distinct from those of Ireland. This delusion had been done away with, and they were now beginning to see that the way to make her own empire secure WAS to make Ireland her happy, her trusted, and therefore her prosperous allv.—(Hear, hear.) They now were beginning to find ou t that the prosperity of England would never be stable and deep-seated-- that there never would be security for herself- T unless she shared all her privileges and franchises fairly and equally with Ireland. Ireland was now universally i ac knowledged to be one of th e finest countries n the world, but she had been gov e rned by persons blinded by prejudice, and thus her great natural advan tages had never been fairly developed.—(Cheers.) Yes, with every natural advantage that the heart of man could desire, her resources had remained unpro ductive, and the great masses of her popu lation had been suffering a state of misery and destitution more deplorable than any people in Europe—such indeed as they were shocked to con template and ashamed to be obliged to acknowledge. —(Loud cheers.) That that fault was with their rulers, there could be no question ; for were they not also the rulers in England, b u t th e difference was this, they in England were gove rne d by another law and in another spirit than that which had prevailed in Ireland. —(Cheers.) They in England were comparatively prosperous and happy, whil e th e people of Ireland were doomed to poverty, misery, and distress. And so they would continue to be till they had equal laws, equal rights, and equal justice with ourselves. —(Loud cheers.) But Ireland must no longer be allowed to fight her battle for justice single handed. ; th e p eo pl e o f E ngland must ra lly to her help as generous, hear, (Hear, but he must also add , as interested auxiliaries.— deserved every assistanc e t h at it, and cheers.) She was possible for them as Englishmen to afford to her. Her liberties bad been invaded.—(Loud cheers.) The weapon with which the Constitution had armed her for the protec tion of her rights, and which, under the guidance of him whose courage and prowess they had that day met to do honour to, might have effected so much, had been just wrested from her grasp.—(Hear.) Did Mr. O'Connel attempt to seek the freedom of his country by this display of physical force without a just and paramount necessity?—(Loud cries of "No, no," and cheers.) He spoke of course of that sort of display which came within the limits of the law, or rather the spirit of the Con stitution, because it had now become neces sary to distinguish between legal and constitu tional obligations and duties.—(Loud cheering.) These displays of physical force, compared with moral power, and subject to moral guidance were their constitutional and legitimate right _Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights were their title deeds.—(Loud cheers.) Let Ireland then never cease to demand and to struggle far, justice and equality. of rights. And might he (turning to Mr. O'Con nell), who had been truly called the Liberator of his country, who first snapped her bond s asunder— might he live to see his dear native land rise from her present depression and misery—might he, as the reward of his own untiring energies, live to see her enjoying her proper share of freedom and equal rights with the people of England! —(Great cheering.) The toast of "The People," was then drank with great cheering. GLEE AND CHORUS. Goddess of Freedom, from on high behold us, While thus we dedicate to thee our lays; Long in thy cause has principle enroll'd us, Here to thy name a monument we raise. Thus then combining, Hands and hearts joining, Sing we in harmony to Freedom's praise. Goddess of Freedom, in thy might E waking, Spread thy dominion over earth and sea; Britons thy blessings giving and partaking, Own undivided homage still to thee, Thy spirit guiding, Thy power presiding, Britain shall flourish, united, brave, and free. The Hon. CHARLES LANGDALE proposed the next toast. Had he been called on at an earlier period of the evening, he might have been tempted to have oc cupied some _portion of their time in apologising for so humble an individual as himself appearing before them on so great an occasion. But at that late hour he felt he should be wasting their time by offering any idle compliment on such a subject. But he had been called on by the Committee to propose a toast, and he hoped that neither on this, nor on any other occasion should he be found wanting in affording his support to the great cause to which they were met that evening to do honour.—(Great cheering.) He appreciated the motives of those who had ad dressed them, but he would candidly own, that he had an interest of a more selfish nature in appearing before them. Ile felt that Ireland and her Liberator, Mr. O'Connell, had claims on his gratitude of a peculiar nature. If he was now capable of raising his voice in the midst of an assembly of free men, of being equally entitled to political privileges with those he had the honour of addressing, he must attribute it to the exertions of Daniel O'Connell.— :Cheers.) A few years ago he was bound in the same political fetters that oppressed the people of Ireland, and if the penal enactments had ceased to affect him, it was owing to the voice of the millions of Ireland, aided, directed, guided, and instigated by the great Liberator, to whom they were doing honour to-night. It was the meetings then held, and the petitions then presented, that secured the rights they enjoyed ; and he believed it was the fear felt by the same gentle men who were forced to yield their rights, that led them to attempt to put down those meetings, which had before ac com pli s h e d th e o bj ec t s t h ey had in view.— (Cheers.) It appeared to him that while they had not the courage or the honesty to redress the evils of Ireland, they could not bear the reproaches it cost them, at seeing the united hundreds and thou sands of the people who met together on those occasions. The toast he had to propose was, " The Seventy-eight Peers who supported the Marquis of Normanby's motion, and the Two Hundred and Twenty-seven Members of the House of Com mons, who supported the motion of Lord J. Russell." —(Cheers.) He believed if ever there was an in ' stance when vengeance took the place of justice, it was on the occasion of the State Trials. The first portion of the toast which he had to propose referred to the seventy-eight Members of the House of Peers who had voted for inquiry. It gave him great gratification to know that there were in that louse seventy-eight who could be found voting for inquiry ; for he would not be doing his duty if he did not ac knowledge the responsibility which that House owed to the people for its almost universal opposition to the welfare of Ireland.—(Hear.) He rejoiced that some of most noble and ancient blood in the land was to be found in the minority. He rejoiced that his Noble Friend who had pre ceded him had appeared there that evening.— (Cheers.) He knew intimately his habits of life, and the effort which was required to bring him from his home; and he rejoiced that the blood of the house of Talbot was found as the defender of the honour and reputation of Mr. O'Connell.—(Cheers.) With reference to the minority in the House of Commons, he must say, that there was a time when he would willingly have added to their number—when he would gladly have added one vote to the too small minority in favour of redressing the wrongs of Ireland, though even at the risk of lengthening a protracted debate of nine days' dura tion, in favour of his fellow-citi zens . —(Ch eers .) The toast was then drank with loud cheers. GLEE AND CHORUS. And doth not a meeting like this make amends For all the long years I've been wand'ring away ; To see thus around me my youth's early Frien6, As smiling and kind as in that happy day ! Though haply o'er some of your brows, as o'er mine, The snow. fall of time may be stealing—what then ? Like Alps in the sunset, thus lighted by wine, We'll wear the gay tinge of youth's roses again. But come—the more rare such delights to the heart The more we should welcome and bless them the more— They're ours when we meet, they are lost when we part, Like birds that bring sunset, and fly when 'tis o'er. Thus circling the cup, hand in hand, ere we drink, Let sympathy pledge us, through pleasure, through pain That fast as a feeling but touches.one link, Her magic shall send it direct through the chain. The CHAIRMAN then read the following letter from Lord Radnor : Grosvenor-street, March, 1, 1844. " Dear Mr. Duncombe,—l have now for many years de clined attending at public dinners. It is for this reason alone that I have not sent for a ticket for the dinner at which you are to preside on the 12th instant, to be given to Mr. O'Connell. " To all the resolutions voted at No. 3, Cleveland-row, on Monday the 19th of February, I heartily subscribe ; and to no part of them more than to the expression of admiration for the constant advocacy by Mr. O'Connell of the rights and privileges of Irishmen.' " I am, dear Mr. Duncombe, your's faithfully, " PeADNOR. "Thomas Shngsby Duncombe, Esq." He also read the following letter from Lord Kin naird " March 2, 1844. " regret extremely that my absence from town will prevent my being present at the dinner to be given to Mr. O'Connell, as I should have wished to have had an opportunity of expressing my abhorrence of the unfairness which has marked the whole of the proceedings of the Government towards Mr. O'Connell—a sentiment which lam sure is par ticipated in by every liberal-minded man both in England and Scotland. " By having permitted these monster meetings to con tinue, apparently for the purpose of entrapping the speakers into some unguarded expression, b 7 the employment of spies, worthy of the old times of rory misrule; by the quasi packing of the jury, owing to the dropped list, and the exclusion of Catholics ; and, to crown all, by the speech of the Lord Chief Justice, more like that of a prosecutor, than an impartial judge—(which even in the late debates there was no attempt to defend)—the Government must rouse the in dignation of the people of Great Britain, in whom the love of justice is inherent, and who, I hope, will show that they do not participate in the injustice done to Mr O'Connell, and, through him, to the Irish people. " Those so ingeniously termed ' convicted conspirators ' have been brought into the grasp of the law by an undue straining of it. The same principle carried into effect in this country would annihilate our liberties, by putting an end to all meetings for . the expression of public opinion. I do sincerely believe that the repeal of the union would be detrimental to the interests of both countries. Yet, considering the way Ireland has been and is still governed, it is not surprising that Irishmen should look to the repeal as a panacea for the ills of their unhappy country. I trust, however that the sympathy which has been shown by the Liberal party towards Mr. O'Connell since his trial, will in duce the Irish to postpone their demands for the immediate repeal, till another election - has given the Scotch and English constituencies an opportunity of proving whether they will adopt the enlightened views expressed by Lord John Russell and others, or support a Government, content with empty professions of good-will to Ireland, be lied by their acts.—Your obedient servant, _ . " KINNAIRD." The CHAIRMAN said he had felt it due to the two Noblemen, from whom these letters emanated, to read them to the meeting. Having done this justice to the minority, he hoped the meeting would allow him to do a little justice to the majority which over whelmed them.—(Laughter.) Among the majority of Peers who voted against the motion of Lord /Vormanby were to be found—wise men they must be, looking at the distance from which they voted—Lord Ellenborough in In,iia—(Great laughter)—Lord Saltoun in China—(Laughter)—Lord Tweeddale in Bombay or Madras.—(Continued laughter) —and Lord. Sidmouth, who after a long life of political mischief, had voted against the rights of Ireland, even from his coffin.—(Great cheering.) And beyond all this, to the shame of public men, be it said, among the revilers of Ireland was to be found the name of Henry Brougham.—(Groans and hisses from all parts of the theatre.) Yes, he who had been con sidered the vile oppressor's foe, he who had been the esteemed of men, was now - sunk into the mere mounte bank of faction—(Cheering)—and was absolutely bringing the very assembly to which he belonged into well-merited contempt with the people of this country.—(Laughter and cheers.) Having thus done justice to the majority of the House of Lords, he would leave it to his lion, Friend, Sir Richard 7 • Belkelev to 1. ,1 -:nowle',l•,:r t! - Ic ,- .!ernpliment on tit: of the minoriLy of the House of Commons. Lord CAMOYS returned thanks for the minority in the House of Peers. He owned he was a volunteer intruder upon the time and arrangements of the even ing, having been appointed in the absence of those who were better qualified to acknowledge the toast. He was truly proud that he was one of those seventy-eight Peers who had recorded that vote which had met with the approbation of the as , etnblag-e. In the minority were to be found the names of some of the most ancient, some of the most talented, and some of the most patriotic Members of the House of Lords, names which had often been recorded in favour of Ireland, and which would-be again recorded in its favour. whenever the necessities of that country should de mand their services.— (Cheers.) '1 here was one point to which he could not help alluding. Who was it that enabled him at that moment to be returning thanks for the best portion of the House of Lords ? Who, but the eminent individual whom they had been delighted to honour on that occasion, to whom he was indebted for that very emancipation, which enabled him to fill the position which he then occupied ?—(Cheers.) There were no persons who felt so keenly the propriety of extending justice and equa lity to Ireland as those who had been in the condition of those who wanted them. He had come there as an Englishman anxious to show his sympathy in favour of Ireland, anxious to express his condemnation of that mischievous power which ran the risk of making England weak in order to make Ireland wretched.—(Loud cheers.) He had come there to express his indignation at those proceed ings which had brought the judicature of Ireland into contempt, and which had desecrated the right of trial by jury, not only w ith regar d to the accused, but with regard to the entire Roman Catholic population of Ireland.—(Cheers.) There was a disposition in Englishmen to be ju. , t, and he trusted that such demonstrations as that would have the effect of removing that ignorance and prejudice without which it would be impossible to refuse the redress of grievances.— (Cheers.) In this conviction he begged to thank them on behalf of the minority of the House of Peers. Sir R. BULKELEY returned thanks on behalf of the House of Commons. He expressed his admiration of that illustrious patriot, who had devoted all his energies to the best interests of the Irish people. He expressed his opinion that the Catholic clergy were intended to be treated on an equality with the Roman Catholic clergy ; and that the Protestant Church Establish ment must cease to be in connection with the State. He gloried in the. Revolution of 1688, although he might, perhaps, by saying so offend some of his Roman Catholic fellow -countrymen, he still affirmed it; but while that revolution had brought benefits to England, he would acknowledge that, as far as re garded Ireland, it had been productive of insults and oppression to the people of that country. —(Hear.) In Ireland it had produced a religious war. The conquerors had imposed hard terms upon the conquered. An experiment had been tried to Pro testantise a Catholic country; that experiment had signally failed, and the sooner it was desisted from the better.—(Loud cheers.) Many persons dreaded any interference with the Irish Pro testant Church, because they were of opinion that if the Protestant Church of Ireland were to fall the Protestant Church of England would fall with it. He was a member. of the Protestant Church of England, and was firmly attached to it, and sorry should he be if the stability of the Pro testant Church of England depended upon that of the Protestant Church of Ireland.—(Cheers.) The Protestant Church of Ireland had failed in its pur pose. It had not promoted either the religion or the education of the people; and while they had clergymen without churches, and churches without congregations, that Church could conduce to no earthly good, nor could it answer any religious purpose. He hoped and believed that the day was not far dis tant when justice would be done to Ireland. He could not but recollect that in 1830 the House of Commons had, by a majority of 99, rejected a motion for a reform of that House ; and yet, in two years after, "the. Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill," had been the rallying cry of the people, and the measure of Reform h a d been carried.—(Cheers.) As one of the Members of the House of Commons who had voted for Lord John Russell's motion, he begged to thank them for the toast which they had drank.—(Great cheering.) Mr. HENRY BERKELEY, M.P., for Bristol, then rose to propose a toast to do justice to which the eloquence of a Sheil or of an O'Connell would be scarcely adequate. They had testified their approval of the motions proposed by the Marquis of Normanby in the House of Lords, and by Lord John Russell in the House of Commons. He now rose to propose as a toast the principle up o n w hi c h th ose mot i ons were founded. The toast he had the honour to propose was " Justice to Ireland."—(Loud cheers.) He, however, could not say that he had an y h o p e that that justice would be speedily attained. When he recollected the majority that supported those who were now in power, and that if a new election were to come on that majority would not be materially dimini s hed—(C r i es o f " No, no,")—he could not hope that the wrongs of Ireland would be speedily redressed. The people otiEng land sympathised with the wrongs of Ireland, and felt for the Irish people ; but, in order to assist them, they must have an increase of the electoral franchise for themselves. —(lmmense cheering.) There must be an entire change in the electoral system.—(Loud cheers.) The electoral system in England at this moment was a perfect mockery. As long as it continued they might sympathise with the people of Ireland, but they had no power of assisting them.—(Cheers.) Nor would they be able to assist the people of Ireland until the House of Lords had less to do with the House of Commons—(Cheers)—and until the House of Com mons had less power over itsconstituency.—(Cheers.) There could be no hope for Ireland as long as the pre sent party should remain in power_ ; they were the legi timate descendants of those who had introduced Habeas Corpus Suspension Acts and Gagging Bills, and what could be expected from them but that they would consummate their iniquity by the last act of flagrant tyranny against that man— (pointing to Mr. O'Conifell).—(hear and cheers.) Those who studied in the school of suspended Habeas Corpus Acts, would not scruple 'to trifle with trial by jury. The toast of "Justice to Ireland" had his warmest sympathy, and he should only be too happy to hail the time when it should arrive. —(Cheers.) GLEE AND CHORUS. Raise the Song and strike the Harp, Send round the shouts of joy, For the Thunder of War is past, And the Fields of Erin are clad in peace. Raise, ye hundred Bards, the voice of joy, For the night shall pass in song; Till the beams of the morning appear in our halls Raise, ye hun.ired Bards, the voice of joy. Mr. MORGAN J. O'CONNELL acknowledged the toast. He said that, at short notice, he had consented to acknowledge the toast ; but, under no circumstances could he have hesitated to have taken part in the pro ceedings, or to acknowledge with pride and gratification the honour they had done the country to which he belonged. They had practically shown that sympathy with Ireland which England had on all occasions exhibited since the proceedings which originated the assembly of that evening. He had spent a great part of his life in England, but it was a great gratification to him to see them throwing off that apathy, which they would pardon him for saying they had too long felt with respect to Ireland. This awakened sympathy was peculiarly honourable to them, it arose from that spirit of fair play, which, above allTeelings, did them honour.—(Hear, hear.) The moment they saw a man or a country ill used, whatever they had done before to excite their disapprobation, that moment they proceeded generously to take their part. He h o p e d t h at a li enation and jealousies on both sides would cease. They might differ as to what justice to Ireland consisted in ; they might think it could not be done without giving the Irish the control of their own affairs ; but there was one thing they all agreed in, that it could not be done without equality of rights and identity of privileges. Let them go on as they were doing, and they would have the Irish people assisting them in removing all the in tolerant bigotry and grinding monopoly, and all the other forms "of oligarchical oppression. He felt convinced that the people of Ireland were now thoroughly enabled to draw. the distinction be• tween the people of England and the faction, that by flattering the prejudices of the people or by the more substantial power of bribery, obtained power over them. The Irish could now draw the distinction between the people and the oligarchy. .He thanked them for the manner in which they had received the toast, and hoped the proceedings would tend to create a good understanding between the two countries for the preservation of the common rights and liberties of the two people, and hasten the downfall of those factious persons, whether Ministers or in Opposition, who sought to divide the people of England and Ireland, and by dividing, to oppress them both. Mr. GISI3ORNE, M.P., proposed the next toast. He said he had been asked in the House of Commons whe ther he was going to this dinnerkwben : he said he was, he was told by his questioneatke was going to a dinner given to a repealer 471i'ttided over by a Charti s t.—(Ch eers.) He g:ita no . amore for the allegation than if he had told him that their guest be lieved in witchcraft, and that their chairman was a believer in mesmerism. —(Loud laughter.) After nine nights' debate in the 'louse of Commons, after hearing the Attorney-General of Ireland make am able, and he was bound to suppose, the best defence of the prosecution—he was bound to say, that in his opinion tyranny had been perpetrated in Ireland, not only under, but through the forms of law.—(At this • .160 . 400.5. so. r i • a' rart: of the proceedings the Ex.tra,oiciinaly The Sun was b roug ht i n t o th e theatre, eont" 6111. 9 01, full rep or t o f th e speec h o f Mr. OCon for' the rapidity with which the report was tort al nished excited great sensation.) Th e , ho ut he had to propose w as " Trial by Jury wz ft-..d," to which he had the honour to appes d the " Independent Bar of England and IrelaTii4 (Loud cheers.) Had trial by jury • pr e .4 3 1 x, at the late trials in Ireland? Certainly not. ad O'Conn e ll h a d b een t r i e d b y a j ur y that.consis te t Protestants an d T or i es an d w h o could doubt t .j such a jury would find him guilty ? The Ta, Gentleman conc l u d e d by mov i ng —" Trial by without fraud, or suspicion of fraud." The toast was then drunk with loud applauic GLEE AND CHORUS. Bid the festive glass go round, Harmony and mirth'abound, Ev'ry social frolic soul; Call to share my cheerful 1)0w 1 = humour, wit, and sense combiu'd, To frankness and good-nature pied- These social friends alone invite To grace my Festival to-night. Then till fur them the goblet up, For while with them I drink the cup, I feel no want, my cares are gone, I live a thousand years in one. tho Mr. Sergeant M uarit y, i n a ck n owledging „ toast, said th a t, a t th at l ate h our o f the e''' r ; ing, and l a b our i ng , as h e was, under a seve cold, he must con t en t hi mse lf w i t h' a very - few W°n', 00 1 in reply t o th e toast. He had left his profeasiles, avocations, and travelled a di s t ance of . 20 0 I n a , at once to s h ow hi s respect to their illustrious and his gratitude to the English people for the ki n ness shown to his countrymen.—(Loud cheets; It was his duty in his place in Fa.-irbch ment to animad ver t on t h e wa y in I ‘ t b e the recent trials had been carried on, and to 1 1191 1 suspicious circu ms t ances w hi c h atten d e d the 11 ' 1 % 0 7 • stration of the l aw on tha t occas i on . He gin Ecl tained that opinion, and should ever express it; s il o there was a no th er op i n i on h e a l so f e lt bound express, and th a t was , th at t h e b ar o f Irelanu 11 , raised itself by th e t a l en t di sp l aye d on the late °ec ,, r . sion to th e hi g h es t p i nnac l e o f f ame an d hen °- Mr. llisnmiy, M.P. then came forward to per. pose the toast of " The Press." They were all der great obligations to the exertions of the pr and an exampl e o f th e great and rapid e i " ° 'a rto which could b e ma d e b y t h e P ress ' was already that room, for they had a report of the Di u % including th e speec h o f L or d Sh rews b u rZ or ici ssoi portion of that of Lord Carom's, in 7 .4 e bst% newspaper.=-(Cheers.) Now, as the hour Wa, ,h 9 all he could sa y was , considering the lateness 01 73 hour, that he h o p e d th e press would use its honest sincere exertions in cementing the union "Just.bet)".eco Great Britain a n d I re l an d, an d procur i ng to Ireland." Ani •` The toast of " The Press" was then giYo' drank with three times three. heal of Mr. O'CONNELL the n rose t o propose the hew—„.• e , the Chairman. It was not in hiswer to do power to the sentiment s o f gra tit u d e which he ea te p i r tamed toward s th e Ch a i rman, f or th e Ina!' in which he conducted himself that n l g t ' and for the manliness with which he associated 131.11113; self with this cause, and set at defiance every -e a g l i ,a. which was set against him. Every in him an enemy, and the dexterity of the A1ia 1 . 5 „ , 0 found no rampart against his persuasive descriP ti `i o r of wrong. He belonged to no party, and was itill er ; te •-• to all.—(Loud cheers) He never gave a erg oppressor 10.11ter which was not a record of his honour, and he ri- o s' i was found absent from his place when the cl i qg of justice requi re d it. H e congratu l ate d th e asseralure. on having so excellent a Ch a i rman , an d he NvO, s ;c g they would heartily respond to his toast by drill— ., his health in three times three. The toast was then drank amid acclamation. The CHAIRMAN then returned thanks, and si t that it was owing to the kindness of the meeting ', O „ he had discharged his duties well, if he had done is It was the greatest c om pli men t ever pa id to no 13 0 his political life, the being called to preside on,: t i, occasion. It was a compliment not only to self; but to the constituency he had the hon. ° ' — to representing, in being called on on this occalw il i ,,d preside, when the sympathy of the people of Eng t ,"i is was expressed to the people of Ireland. Ther e bt - no t however, one toast, without giving which they ough t to separate, namely, "The Fair Sex." He was sure !`^ - 1 would exercise their influence in behalf of Ire', l3 . with their relations and friends. With the toast he would couple that of " The Stewarda; hom they were so much indebted for the meats of the evening.—(Hear, hear.) GLEE AND CHORUS. Fill a bumper to the Fair ! Love and Wine defy Des-- 1 - 1- 'pair ; Wine can make a coward brave, Love can make a Prince a Slave. Friendship ! Love ! and Sparkling Wine! Form a Diadem divine. Fill high, fill high, &c. The toasts were then dr an k w ith app l ause. Three, th cheers were th en g i ven f or M r. O'Connell, aild,4 l ) band struck up " Th e s p r i g o f aftet wu l " the assemblage separated. NEWSPAPER REPORTING• Towards the conclusion of the banquet a great tinol ber , of copies of The Sun Evening Newspsper, c'ontainit4 n early W seven columns of th e p rocee di ngs o f th e el . including the whole o f th e speec h o f M r . O'Conne • which was rep or t e d an d pr i nte d w i thin twenty railltits: of the close o f it s d e li very, were d i stributed t h ro uP % - : the meeting gratuit ous ly. Th e d es i re to o btain t; papers was m os t i ntense , an d var i ous sums o f In° ll % were offered for them, whi c h was re f use d . I n the Nu". of his speech on proposing the toast of " The Pr es l , l ' Mr. llindl e y a ll u d e d to t hi s unexampled instanc e of • rapidity of the press ih conveying intelligences an d served that it might be taken as a specimen of wil l " 9 .` press could accomplish when occasion called for usual exertions. , • , c DRURY-LANE T HEATRE .—A n a tt rac tion 0. the .f.. highest order is present e d h ere t hi s even i ng, i nasm uch Duprez appears in Guillaume Tell, which will be folloWe iber t, the Beauty of Ghent, in whi c h 3ldll e. Fl eury, M o na k„d s ti and Mons. 1 estris will perform. The house will he er ° " to the ceiling. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRICAL FUND.—Thellrin,4,4l celebration of the Cove n t- gar d en Th eatr i ca l F un d eb— reo took place on Monday, at the Freemasons' Tavern, the Queen -street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. His Royal Iligh iless ond Duke of Cambridge, w h o h a d ki n dl y condescen d e d to At re' and take the chair, was, from an attack of the gou t i,osf. • vented from being present, and in consequence his phs c- ,,,5el • supplied b 1 Lord W. Russell, who was supported by G f e ;,,,15, • • • Corfield, Sir J. Flower, Mr. Adolphus, Mr. Terry, Mt' - '„ tr ool • and other gentlemen more immediately known as 1 3 ' sat and supperters of the theatre. Nearly 200 gentlemen to . down to an excellent dinner provided by Mr. Bacon, t he t tsl. prietor of the tavern, to whom it is but justice to s*P. d tits • as far as the appliances of " creature comforts" coup si,otat festivity and good feeling of the evening, nothing ws, s 4ti sils ing. there was in the galleries the usual show si L" - s ot, beauty to ornament and enliven the occasion. Th are l 2 little speechifying, but to make amends for the des" c i p al eloquence there was some first-rate singing. The Pr i lsoss vocal performsrs-were Mrs. Alfred Shaw, the Misses_ C lod- Miss Rainforth, Mr. Harrison, and a list of vocalists, n w ho ing almost all the old and well-known public favourite a t - oss are to be met with on this occasion. The amount 0 jo . subscriptions was upwards of six hundred peunds,tioe, eluding the annual contribution of her Majesty the Q i .„ and an anonymous contribution of fifty pounds , ; m ote collection of passages from Shakespeare tending to Pr ot ic, religious feelings and practice. The usual loyal, Pe tri d fol and professional toasts were drunk with the honours and lowed by appropriate songs and glees. The toast, "S u do ., to the Fund," having been drunk with three times. Mr. Bartley rose and spoke the speech of the even uig ' s uit advocacy of the claims of the fund to public patronage , . 4 0 in explanation of the ma nner i n w hi c h the sums sube" n were expended. His spee c h was c h eere d a t the cone a manner demonstrativ e o f th e goo d f ee li ng o f his a!idi io tOO6 tt s•tlis The Chairman left the room at h a lf- past ten o'clock, b ut ~„ company did not disperse till past eleven. CO MR. BEULER'S CONCERT.---Mr. Beuler, the 'e cho e singer, gave a concert on Monday at the Crown and t r ues' Tavern; and as this gentleman enlivens his Pr ° , 4 : - ,eopig wh with o a run re o t f o all en description s, enjoy ltie vulgarities h ha o d f a a l r a o u o g m h . 111.1 a : 7 : - tributions were the things most prized, being 604 " h bee" Irish and English, which he knows how to set otl . toe atr advantage. A variety of other vocalists amused an Rude lighted the company. B etween the parts Mr. Lem an gave his imitati ons o f popular actors, and, abating • leuler. he was the mightiest lion of the evening. ann ual GROCERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.- -- Th e 111 60 0 meeting of the subscribers and friends of this Inst i ses eLl took place on Monday at the London Tavern ; Mr. t r tari' in the chair. The Ifeport, which was read by the vt congratulated the meeting on the successful and Pr n g r ano uill advancement of the Society. The total receipts Awn._ a l e subscriptions, donati ons , and dividends on stock darn* tb , past year, amounted to 1,512/. 7s. 2d., of which sunl eock o f committee had invested 900/., snaking the capita , boo the Company 8,300/. Six p ens ioners, two of whorn ha d to 1 I subscribers, were placed on the funds at the. last 2nd election, and there were at present twelve males . 11 (_' , _ rt the tbs t males, receiving respective' . ,v 24/. and 18/. books of the Society. The Report concluded by stating ooil 0 oil • since the establishment of the Institution in 1837, L 2 ,0 c o rnittee expressed a hope that the half-yearly election of r di throug h ' . sum than 11,260/. 12s. 9d. had been collected, and . : nen— sinners would be allowed to proceed uninterruptedly Ropore the continued exertions of the trade generally. 111 7 . , Ot her baying been unanimously adopted, the Presiden e t ele wr. officers of the Society were re-elected, and the m unit rated. • of Per annum' known and the turn-out on Ascot-heath. The well- ‘ , OO " RiLt rA v j . E " s --- T T Y' h a e meiiSertAonG Keys " Young Ripley," on being uncarted, went away 1 ° "” Kennel on the left, and over the •heath to Mr. PS 44 Farm, at Winkfield, then doubled back, passing tt e sw i ; o o °J i f o o n u d i aDys was. p a tl theaT plantations at Sunninghill, circled to Mr. Crntc check; shot and got into the pond, which caused a slight was , to Cranbourn ; - headed back to llighstanding-hill , P 9 he then r " .. • leaving the park, made to Fern-hill, and thence se a d by i nt ije mansion of Mr. Riley, and on to Flemish Farm ; to St. Leonard's-dale, and got into Hearne's / 4. l,l7 di T ui •,• where he was worried by a shepherd's dog manner that Bartlett, one of the whips, found it nee t. cut its throat. The head was given to Paddy, _ . ., 4 known pedestrian, who regularly runs with the hunt, and generally up with the take. The haunches will befi? to her Majesty. The run, which did not exceed in so dreadful: quarters of an hour, was very severe, and the :field 0 ' 04 : 'ugly *elect, not more than 50 being preeest. , v~`-'` .., ~.; ~~'.