The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-03 00:00:00

TSB POLICE COURT&

MANSION-HOUSE.

Mr. WlUiam Doha O'CouueU, kinsman aid iatimar
friend and companion for a great many years of the late Mr.
Daniel O'Connell, 11.1'., attended this court sad addressed
the Lord Mayor in the following terms—My lord, you will
pardon zee, I hope, for trespassing epos your kind tads!.
err whilst I rake to your lordship a few observatioes. I
have just cm. from the W..t sed or cne town for tbe pur-
posse( appealing to your lordship upon a 'shiest Is which I
feel retailer titterer. I do not know whether you lordship
has ever withstood a most foolish sabibition that generally
takes plain in this eratry on the 6th of November. U
the perms who liras* Ia such absurdity were
to stelae themselves to the represestatica of Gay
Fawkes, or any miserable dishtowel eonspirator of
that deseription, I oriarly shoald sot have troubled
your lordship, but wham I vitaliser on the 61 N.
rola rot the effigy of a catholic bishop, fa posit.
Realer. with a large errs upon his beck, paraded about
the tows lathe mold husking nether, I imasider that that
is en faillivity to those loyal subjects hit Melees the
prise theentholia religion, and l ass perfectly sand Nat
the peril has now arrived when bigotry ad frelsessiee
should he for ever buried la tit etreeshee Wore
fleheshopel,, where ft Is Irma that the poses ask
the pre'.
and the ciallsolies wife fightiag with the most
Murry, foot to fest sad shoulder to shoulder,
aid AM Melt Mind lewd in the same stream to upheld
the begirt sad glory of this groat country, and
le do away for ever with all sutarian differ.
or s& The bravery itabibited by the catholic soldiers at
the Alma sad at lakenuas with their protestant brethren
as sever be layettes. His Ithyst Highness the chivalrous
Doke of Cambridge witnessed their rungs and shared
their dupers, and I am wholly ear word highly dim-
soprre of say insult brig offered to their fellers. His
inerfiray the Lotd Lientsweir of Ireland, than whom a
sere fed or high-traded loglisisara never entered
re perils of the Castle if Debits, or repressated surety
ray native lead, spoke of them la the most liberal and
haaieaa manor at the greed display the other day in
DON% when a diary was gives to 4,000 Crimean heroes,
of religious ociasideration, by the proterants
iliZirsa" tbsilis of the Irish metropolis. I have read your
'Mobilo% spoor with great satisfaction when you wen
prom at ills disuse shish was give a to the Crimean heroes
alb" Pansy Girder, when year lordship heard the natl•
moots of the charms., &Tyrol-Major Eiwards, wiles he
seat that at the battle of Inkermse, "rhea he saw Use Friar
ran up the hill to aid and assist the. during the saagniaary
straggle, that ha raid have shoat knelt down and
worshipped the.. Those were the catholic heroes of
catholic Fares reran late the sanguinary fight with their
weal impetreitym worn* with the protester horses
of interest ingriad for the purpose el witabfladai the
hearer semi glen 01 great soustry, and of establing oar
Word sereefer ague, mean fiemiy the royal repro la
her head, and to hid defiers le her easmiss ell ever the
globe. My lied, r you bolos, to triton denomination of
creeds that I have reatiord, I ouseetly appeal
to your lemiskip to throw eat a suggestion, which
I hays se flehht will be taken up by tth polies
authorities and the sughtrates generally of this antropolb,
and that an sad will be pat to Oil victimless and barbarous
exhibition, at rest that patios of it that pate forward the
effigy of a catholic bishop. I thank your lordship for the
kind isdolgesoe whir you have shown to mu upoa this
occasion. 1 have reed with great satisfaction your admit.
able decisions daring you year of aloe, and I mast be pea
mated to say, without flattery or egotism, that if the ashes
of the gnat Lyeargus err be °Weaved from the waves
and formed into man again, and were to preside In the
chair which your lordship so worthily and honourably sees-
piss, he weld sot have manifested greater ability or more
decided impartiality than that whisk has characterised the
whole of your actions during your mayoralty.
A considerable trout of apple's, was manifested at the
conclusion of Mr. O'Connell's urn's, and the speech was
received with great courtesy by his lordship.
The Lord Mayor, who was sensibly moved, said—l thank
you for the compliment you have just paid me. I may say
that it has bees my ensioas desire, and I believe it is the
desire of ovary magistrate of this 'metropolis, so to ad la the
adroinimation of justice as that our conduct may merit
public approbation. With regard to the more immediate
subject of your appeal to may it is one that depends more
tips public taste end public fooling than up= any
jeriadlo-
tion I can exercise. It is very difficult in any cortry to
get rid of traditional customs. The annual exhibition c
the effig of Guy Fawkes has acne dowel to as from the
ties of James the Fiat, wiles party feeling between catho-
lic and protestant ran very high, and the tomtit/any to blow
up
the Houses of Parlismeat has always bees held by
historians to have been a R ran smartie eau
spiricy. The burning of London in the year 1666 was
attributed to the Salle source, and it Is only recently,
terough the *eerier' of the pretest City Bstisitor, that the
libellsrleseriptiou upon the Moaument on Fish-street-hill,
attributing the Fire of Londoa to the Roman catholic*, was
by order of the Court of Common Council erased. We can-
not, however, corral from essuire that all ear party
steeper, at:shim-at eves, period, have been quickened by
feelings arising rut of • presumed catholic or protection
SONlSidssey. I, however, regret eattemely that lately the
eabibittoo of Gay Yankee, instead of being a MSS memo
rat, should have assumed the t fforive form of which
you so justly complain that the figure, instead
twine the !guts of an abminahlo conspirator,
Guy Fewkes, should it:exhibited as an individual dressed
in to. h,hilimeats of a Amu eatholic ecclesiastic, besting
oa his breast the emblem which all Chrisiisns an b mad to
honour aid to worship. Buck ccuduct asn•t be °barmier
•cs every rue, and most offensive and pistol to member if
tee Roman 'strife commusies. I karat that any cod=
should be kept alive is our Uses., even Meal boys, whir
lott' to give Polo to sal reps individael. 1 hope, thaw
ire, that your representation will be ainveymi threw:44
public press, aid that it may hate the ef