The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-24 00:00:00

TO-NIGHT, TO-MIGHT, TO-NIGHT.

[STAMPED, id. ADDITIONAL.]

and it is on that ground and for that reason that you
have at this moment the terrible and calamitous state
of things that exists. In America you have another Ire-
land, an Ireland which dots not fear the government in
Ireland—an Ireland which is full of passion with regard to
what they believe to be the sufferings of the country they
have left—(hear, hesr)—many of these men are capable,
and many of them desperate—they have been accus-
tomed to deeds, what shall I say—deeds of cruelty and of
blood in the course of • most envenomed and sanguinary
civil war ; and freed now from that war, what is more
likely than that they should turn the instruction
they have received to purposes which they believe in some
degree patriotic. If the government of England and the
government of the United Kingdom as it is called had
been • government of statesmen, does any man in the
world believe they would have allowed things to come to
such a pass as this? If your leading and eminent men, in-
stead of clamouring constantly for office, had undertaken
to teach the people what was true, great things might
have been dons; Irel.nd might have been tranquil, and
the kingdom might long ago have been united. (Cheers.)
As it is, see what a position we are in. The whole civil-
ised world points to our condition. The newspapers of
'France, of Germany, and even of Italy, full of trouble as
she is just now, and the newspapers of the United States,
discuss with great fret/tom, bat with more or less fair-
neat, the eanditlea eta& counts, wit/ reenact to Vet abet*
et things imellishesa. They de not nevwerita shout Poland,
or Hungary, or Frame, but they write about Ireland,
and they point to the people of Great Britain and say that
we have not done our duty towards our sister country, and
whatever be the criminality which we all now deplore and
condemn, a responsibility that can neither be weighed nor
measured rests upon us, the people of England. Now, it
would be easy to show that as a nation and people we have
lost greatly in character by the state of things sainting
between England and Ireland; and it were not a delicate
subject to treat upon, which I think It better to avoid,
it would be easy to show bow greatly we have lost in
national power, and moral influence with other nations,
end especially with regard to our plans of defence. Take
one point only, the question of taxes. Many people can
understand the question of taxes who cannot understand
any other question. lam not able to give you the exact
figures, but I suppose that at this moment we are support.
fug out of the imperial taxation a force of 25,000
men in Ireland to keep the peace of a country that we have
rated over—absolutely ruled for so many hundred years—
which has been under the sovereign and parliament of
Great Britain for so many generations. In addition to
this we have in Ireland from 12,000 to 15,000 police,
equal to the very finest soldiers in the quality of the
men, in drill, and in discipline. (Cheers.)
This is not all. We have at this moment
in Canada, 3,000 or 4,000 miles away, about 15,000 soldiers
paid out of the taxes of this country, and why are they in
Canada! In order that they may confront, and, if neces-
sary, drive back, the Irishmen in the United States, and
if it were not for the moral sense of the people of the
United States and the good faith and honour of
their government, there is no doubt but that
great trouble far greater than any we have
yet seen would have arisen on that frontier
between the Irishmen in the United States and the sub-
jects of the British crown in Canada. Well, then, we have
from 50,000 to 55,000 men whom every one of us has to
help to maintain. We do not want them for any other
purpose than those I have mentioned, both In Ireland and
in Canada, because the Irish people are a discontented and
insulted people, having grievances which they con-
stantly explain, but which we have hitherto refused
to look at or refused to remedy, and there
is not a single one of them which any sensible man
amongst us will not say that we ought to have given them
without asking. (Cheers.) It would not diminish our
power of action in the least degree; nay, it would
strengthen it for every purpose, and remove from us the
very greatest disgrace that has ever in oar time or in
recent periods settled on the character and reputation of
England. (Cheers.) We shall see by-and-bye whether
the present government Is capable of dealing with this
question. Sir Robert Peel, when he resigned office
upon one occasion, admitted candidly that Ireland was
his difficulty, not because he had not done his best to
deal with it, but because of the party that sat behind him,
and the stolid opinion which then prevailed widely in the
country, he dare not propose to parliament the mea-
sures which he knew were essential to the pacification
lof Ireland. (Cheers.) He knew that if he proposed
them he would have been driven from the leadership of
his party, therefore he carried on the government as Lin
as he could, doing his best, although he failed at the het,
confessing that Ireland was his great difficulty. What
I then can the tory party do with Ireland ? There is no
part in the United Kingdom in which the principles of the
' tory party have had such full and portent exhibition as
they have had in Ireland. They have had an established
church to their heart's content; they have usurped
the ecclesiastical revenues of the whole nation,
and given them to a small section, whose whole number
does not exceed the population of all Manchester and Sal-
ford. (Cheers.) They have had nearly all the land is
the hands of great proprietor; nearly all the magistrates
have been chosen from these landowners and the protest-
ant party ; they have had any amount of soldiery and po-
hoe ; there is not a single thing that the most obtuse and
bigoted tory can desire which has not been had in the most
full and complete shape in Ireland. (Cheers.) But,
unfortunately for the tories, their only specific when
danger arises is terror ; they have no security, and don't
comprehend any, for allegiance, but that which con-
✓ats in powerlessness to rebel ; and the consequence is now
that I fear they will do as in time past, call for repres-
sive measures, and often of a most stringent character—a
severe administration of the law calling en the people

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of England to support them in all that is severe. (Cheers.)
I could make some excuse for a severe administration of

, the law if I saw that they would rapidly and earnestly
advance measures likely to give satisfaction to a disloyal
people. (Cheers.) At present I see nothing of the kind.
Perhaps when parliament opens we may see something of
it ; but I venture to say that there is no man in Ireland
who is a greater traitor to the Queen and the laws of his
country than a minister who continues to bold office, and
is at the same time not enlightened enough, and who has
not moral courage enough to recommend to the
crown and to propose to parliament measures of
justice for the pacification of Ireland. (Cheers.)
Do not let me be understood as saying that if there were a
change of government this question would be grappled with
with the force which is necessary. There are amongst the
leading men of the whig party men who have fair senti.
merta with regard to Ireland, but who whenever they
treat of this question are afraid of dealing with it
as it must be dealt with, and therefore it might
be necessary, even if there were a change of govern-
meet—suppose that change of government were such
as people generally expect—to stimulate with strong
language,and by a strong expression of public opinion, the
timid counsels of those who might succeed the present
government when it resigned office. But the more I con-
sider this question the more I am impressed with its in-
describable seriousness. I think of it many things, and
which I an, sure arc not without foundation, which I
can't and which I dare not publicly discuss
before this audience. I think it has within it
perils such as for a long time this country
has not known, and that it requires great resolution and
wisdom such as we don't often find in our governments to
meet it as it requires to be met. If Ireland is to be made
content, if her wounds are to be healed, if there I.
to be henceforth what there never has yet beat—
en united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland—if
the sceptre of the Queen, representing the majesty
of the law, shall ever be of equal authority
east and west of the Channel, it must be done,
and it can only be done, by measures of great statesman-
ship and of justice. (Cheers.) The morals of the turf
laid on the floor of parliament or in the secrecy of the
cabinet will fail here—the disease which we are discuss-
ing is one of a different character, but there are remedies,
unless it be that the remedies are too late. Has this
country fallen so low that it can produce no st►tes-
man equal to these things? (Cheers.) I say the
man who, leading the councils of the Queen's government,
shall grasp this great question and end it—who shall com-
prehend the remedies, and shall administer them and make
them law—he would do that which in future time the pen

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of history will delight to trace—(cheers)—he may to the
very full gratify the noblest ambition of his mind, and he
may build up tr himself • lasting memorial in the hap-
piness and the gratitude of • regenerated nation. (lima
cheers.) The bon. gentleman resumed his seat at le
o'clock, having spoken for rather over an hour.

The resolutioneras eamed—r-,andli;.iiPotter, ILP..
and others, subsequently addressed the meeting.

Saba! snit Military.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. T.l.
Whatever information may be in the possession
of the government with respect to threatened Fenian
movements in this neighbourhood, it is perhaps wisely
kept sestet and we are only enabled to judge of the pee-
abilities that may happen by the precautions which have
been taken to meet them. On Friday last, for the Brsl
time, we believe, since it became a royal residence, Osborne
House and grounds were placed under the protestion of a
detachment of foot guards and a squadron of cavalry, sad •
this force will remain on guard duty during her Ma*
sojourn at Osborne. Yesterday morning the • •
screw line-of-battle ship, Captain J. Morisse, C.R., rein-
forced by • detachment of men from the Duke of
Wellington in Portsmouth harbour, left Cowes
roads, and anchored off the Queen's residence, and she
was
_joined by the Warrior, 40, iron screw [riga*, Capteim
IL Boys. which arrived at Portsmouth Wit MOW lONS
WWI. The Brightly, pedalos's*, end dis
mew gasbags; have she been detaeliett ea this
duty. On Friday evening, about eight o'clock, the steam
launch belonging to the Minotaur, was suddenly artiste/
to be got ready, and she proceeded with all despatch fe !
Cowes with a small arm party.
The Pallas, screw-corvette, is expected to arrive te-
morrow from Lisbon, Let from Plymouth.

WOOLWICH, Dzc. 23.
Two smooth-bore 68-pounders bare lately arrived ;
at Woolwich from Portsmouth. These guns were
issued by the Ordnance select committee to the Admiralttyy
about two years ago, and they have each fired one
rounds, with lfilbs. of powder, on board the Excelled"
without requiring any alteration or repair, and on being
examined at the royal gun factories have both been rvs•
ported serviceable.
The workmen employed at the Royal Aroma sod Dock-
yard will, after to-morrow, not return %Mil the following
Monday, the time lost having been made up by the mew
working overtime.

CHATHAM, DEC. 23.
COURT MARTIAL ON FINIAN SOLDlllllB.—This
morning a general court martial assembled at the general
court martial-mom, Chatham Barracks, ender the pre-
sidency of Colonel R. Boyle, C. 8., Royal Marines, by
order of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, fee •
the trial of Privates James Malony and Patrick Daly, tw• r
soldiers belonging to the 2nd battalion of the Ist Royals
on the shame of having made use of seditious language
the public streets of the town, on the 13th inst., br i
shouting ent—" The Queen may kiss —. lam E
Irishman to the backbone, and I will swing the same as
Allan and Lenin swung before. If them is any JOAO.=
here let him fall to the rear," and other expressions ell as
like character. Colonel J. H. Laye, ty4
Advocate for the district, conducted the trial. The primes
Daly was further °bused with having assaulted Carpe e& £
Clarke, Royal Engineers, who was in charge of the molt
who conveyed him to the guard-house. Both prisms
have been previously tried by court martial, and dub(
the time they have been in the Corp. they have boas
very bad characters. The finding of the court martial
will not be promulgated until it has been submitted to
her Majesty for approval.

ADMIEJJ.TIr. DEC. 23. —APPOINTMENTS.--Coni-
wander W. H. Maxwell, to the Octavia ; Navigating
Lieutenants Tom. B. Read, additional, to the Indus, tor
Defence ; and Henry D. Barrett, to the Wavers ; Pay-
master Willm. B. Hutchison, to the Magma ; Actin(
Assistant Surgeon Robert G. Bird, to the Megan; -
Assistant Clerk Reginald B. Rigby.), to the Helpers;
Chief Engineer Willm. Donuison, to the Nevem; -
Engineer George Foote, to the 3legano • First-class r
Assistant Engineers Robert W. Allison, and John Watts.
'to the Dleg.era ; and Acting Second-class demisted
Engineer Thomas Harrup, to the Meglere.

SUPPRESSION OF TEE HOLBORN BRANCH oil'
THE RF.FORN LEAGUE.—An announcement made by 14. •
' Inspector Potter to Mr. Woodward, the landlord of dm .
Nag's Head, Leather-lane, the house of meeting of Oa'
Holborn Bram* of the Reform League, that if munig.t.r,
' were permitted in the house, it would endanger
license, has mused some excitement among the m
On Sunday no attempt was made to hold the usual weelerf
meeting. It is probable that the government bee bow:
induced to take this step owing to the proceedings at the
branch on the Sunday following the outrage at Clerkateir
well. On that occasion, at the conclusion of a lecture met
the past, present, and future of England, some t
strong reflection, were made upon the govern. ,
mad in commotion with the late outrage. After •
the intimation given by the police • few of the,
members of the branch and their friends met together W f.
consider what should be done; Mr. Merriman, Mr. Man.
Mr. Osborne, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Coffey, Mr. tialbraid, la.
Holland, and others were present. Mr. Finleu said the .
Holborn branch of the League was now defunct, as be had
carried out the funeral procession alone by himself..
He should again act independently of the branch, end'
should next Sunday convene a meeting on Clerkenwear,
green, and he ventured to say he would have 20,000 people'
there. Mr. Osborne and Mr. Coffey repudiated say Ole:
tempts to call meetings on the green, as it would eel.
lead to disturbances. Mr. Merriman suggested that a'
would be better to refer the whole matter to the League,:
which had fends sad machinery to take it up. Mr. Flirt
len was asked to reconsider his 'reject and abandon the ,
meeting next Sunday, but be Nall he should carry it oat. '
Eventual] y it was derided to submit the point of the:
closing of the branch to the committee of the Reform'
Intim%
ATTEMPT TO MURDER A SWEISTREAR7'.—At
Stafford assizes, on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Keating,
Samuel Lee, a young man, 19 years of age, was indicMl•
for feloniously wounding Emma Ackley, on the 29th et
August, at Langton, with intent to kill and murder her.
Mr. Young conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Motterana •
defended theprisoner. The evidence showed that the pd.
ironer and the proseoatrix were " keeping company" and '
were engaged to be married. On the evening of the '
28th of August—the day prcoeding the outrage—.
they went to • ball together; and it appeared
that while there the prosecutrix showed more at-
tention to another young man than was agree-
able to the prisoner. The prosecutrix and the pet..
caner met on the following morning, and some words
passed between them. The prisoner, who was Gelb,
a pear, had a knife in his hind. He said to the pme
seeutril, in a reproachful manner, " You bad a line
talk during last night," to which she replied, " Yes, and '
I've had a fine talk this morning as well." This rejoinder •
seems to have enraged the prisoner, who instantly raised
the knife and struck the prosecutrix a fearful back-
handed blow in the breast. Immediately after perpetrating
the crime the prisoner handed the knife to • person stis
ing near. A surgeon was sent for, end Mr. Lane, of
ton, was promptly in attendance upon the injured
who was bleeding profusely from the frightful woun in.
p.
dieted by the prisoner. Mr. Lane described the wound,
which was an incised punctured one, and of • most dab.
serous character. The prosecutrix was still under his earn,
suffering from consumption, which be believed wee
brought on, or accelerated by, the injuries inflicted by the
prisoner. The jury found him guilty and the learned
judge, after remarking that the prisoner had been con-
victed of on, of the most brutal and coaardly attacks
upon a defenceless girl he had ever known, sentenced him
to ten years' penal servitude.
' THE EXPLOSION OF THE GREEK WAR STEAMER
BUBULINA IN TH. BEESLT.—Yesterday moraine the
after portion et the recently exploded Greek war steamer
Bubulina was mimed from the position where it lay in the
Mersey, and towed out of the anchorage ground in the
Sloyne towards the Cheshire side of the Mersey. In
towing the stern portion of the Bubulina towards New .
Ferry the wreck came in contact with several fiats. and
dams two or three of them. To-lay (Tuesday) it is ex-
that the fore port of the steamer will be Matted, and
ends
placed in • safe position on the beach.
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE
RAILWAT.—The total expenses of this company's railways
and canals, including rents, tolls, duty, Lc. from July I.
to December 15,1087, amounted to 242,542/. as against
232,6iCil for the corresponding period of 11384. The pro-
portion of the South Junction receipts accruing to this
company from July 1 to December 13 amounted to
18,42:4.. as against 18,6611, for the corresponding period of
1866, and the expenses to 8,7311., as against 9,77.31._
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