The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-25 00:00:00

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The following toasts were proposed, and drunk amidst loud appialtsl
" Lord Me'bourne and her Majesty's Ministers."
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" Civil and Religious Liberty all over the world."
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The health of Miss Alicia tt,Melt,
French, a member of the Precursor Society."—(Cheers.) •
" The Friends of Ireland in the Imperial Parliament," • ),
" The Stewards and Committee of Management."
Mr. ROBERT N. FINN returned thanks. He regretted that inter,
ruption had taken place.—(Loud cries of " No, no.") He was _
repeat that an interruption did take place.—(Hear, hear.) Hellepicrole . , ---
to the sudden departure of the gentlemen connected with the Freeman
Journal and Morning Register newspapers.—(Hear, hear.) It was -
time to speak out, and express the sentiments which the Liberator htm.
self had just then spoken—(Hear)—that the Press had acted in a most
disgraceful manner—that very Press which has actually lived by the
breath of Mr. O'Connell, and lived too upon his patronage and his re.
commendation.—(Hear.) After all they had the ingratitude to turn
their back upon him, and actually refuse to publish to the world the pro.
ceedings of this important assemblage.—(Hear, hear.) Rut he thanked
Gcd, that notwithstanding the opposition of the press, the undertaking
had succeeded.— (Hear, hear.) There was a glorious manifestation Ot
popular feeling—(Cheerine)—and he trusted that the manifestation
would cheer their great leader in his parliamentary campaign upon
which he was about to enter —(Cheers)—and if unsuccessful they
would all become repealers--(Hear and cheers.) In addition to that
there were gentlemert there upon that platform who have expressed
their determination to establish a national press—(Cheers)—a national
press in the City of Dublin—(Cheers), and he called upon every honest
man who witnessed the manner in which the Freeman and Register
newspapers had acted to support it.—(Hear, hear.) After some other
observations Mr. Finn concluded amidst loud applause.
Several other toasts having been proposed, Mr. O'Connell retired
b ut half-past eleven o'clock, amidst loud cheering.

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THE DINNER TO MR. O'CONNELL.

(From the Pilot.)

We came into town this morning anxiously expecting to lead the
proceedings of a dinner given to Mr, O'Connell yesterday, part of
which we had witnessed with gratification; but we were surprised and
sorry to find that all details were suppressed in the Liberal journals,
in consequence of some observations of Mr. O'Connell harshly di-
rected against the press without any exception. We did hope that at

letst the Pilot would have been excepted from such censure—first, be-
cause we thought old recollections and old services might have had
their due influence; next, because we ought not to be included in
the particular incident that excited the ebullition, which
would seem to be a supposed ntglect of sounding the
note of preparation for the dinner. This duty our rea-
ders know that we took care to discharge as far as good

taste would warrant—that is without making it appear that the Liters_
toe's dinner would fail without the previous puffing of the press. These
considerations, and others which we shall not, as yet, at least trust our.
selves in expressing, caused us to hope that we would have been excused.
We pass the incident, however as one of those which men who mix in
public life are subject to. We forgive and shall try to forget it.
Long since, indeed, should we have been driven into the more
congenial pursuits of private life, were we not sustained by higher
motives than any which individuals, however eminent or powerful,
could give or take away—and our character and establishment

founded on something more stable than individual friendship
or gratitude. We are sorry for, not angry at, the incident. The
prowling place hunting creatures, who lately turned patriots, and who

earwig the great, have, we suppose, their way, in causing Mr. O'Connell
to quarrel with his old friends, that they may set up the paper of their
own, which they have long been hatching, because the existing journals
had too much regard to their own characters to publish all their foolish
sperches and the puffs they convulsed for so indefatigably. This is the
real seortt of the affair. Hitherto we have only alluded to the case as it
related to ourselves. But we must say, for the Liberal press, that con-.
fidence in the public and in Mr. O'Connell, and not any neglect of duty,
caused them not to put in all the ill-written articles of these speculating
creatures. The event has justified their reliance on both.

MR. O'CONNELL-THE PRESS.
(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)

We are quite satisfied that we shall get credit from the gentlemen
connectcd with the Daily Press, when we state, that we are filled with
satisfaction at the occurrences of last evening, not so much as they are
likely to prove injurious to Mr. O'Connell politically, but as that they
afford evidence of the spirit, integrity, and independence of the mem-
bers of a profession to which we ourselves belong, and whose import-
ance and usefulness are neither appreciated nor rewarded as either de-
serve. There is no more laborious, painstaking, or faithful class of
persons, than the Dublin Reporters—gentlemen at whose position

it is rather the fashion to sneer, and whose efforts it is
rather the custom to decry. We have never done either.
We have always sustained and supported them, whenever they
have come before the public in their personal or professional capacities,
and their conduct upon the occasion now under consideration, proves
that we had formed no erroneous estimate of the independence of their
feelings, or their correct sense of propriety—first, with respect to what
was due to themselves—secondly, as regarded the character and import-
ance of the great engine with which they are connected.
We copy the following notices from our Morning Contemporaries:—
FREEMAN (EDITORIAL).

"Tiff METROPOLITAN DINNEE.—The Liberal Press of Dublin was
assailed la,t night, in very virulent and unjustifiable terms (in an
after-dinner speech, by Mr. O'Connell, at the entertainment got up
in honour of the Learned Gentleman, at the Abbey-street Circus.
We had made arrangements for the publication this morning of
the entire proceedings; but as the gentlemen connected with the
reporting department of the Liberal press have seen fit to convince
Mr. O'Connell that they dared to act and think for themselves, and
that they dared also to resent the insulting and ungentlemanlike treat.
mcnt to which they were subjected at the hands of their hosts—by
suppresi.ing the entire proceedings--we have only to express our regret
that the intemperate and unjust tirade launched against the body gene.
rally should have deprived our readers of the pleasure and satisfaction
of perusing a full report of the eloquent speech which, we understand,
Mr. O'Connell delivered on the occasion."