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dignity of the Lords—the talents of their nominees—were all mingham, and that, for the sum of Al. per annum each t
equally powerless against the expressed will of the people.— were there fed, housed and taugia. i eathe Into
(Cheers.) But Earl Grey told the people the Reform Bill operation, and the board of guardians thereby constituted,
was a final measure. Now, was it such a bill as the people had in the parish in question, dragged these two unfortunates
a right to expect at his hands, or was such a bill of British from the asylum, and placed them in the workhouse, there
freedom as was required to the state of civilization at which to live and die like brutes—for without education, brutes
England had then arrived ? No such thing. He had from they must have remained. This was done under the plea
Whig professions expected a bill conferring, if not universal, that no out-door relief could be allowed. This enormity
at least household suffrage. He had next expected it to afford had, however, been abated, not by the Poor Law Corn-
the protection of the ballot ; and, lastly, he had expected it to missioners, but by the exertions of two noble ladies, the
contain provisions for the shorter duration of Parliaments.— one the wife of a Tory noblenian, and the other the sister
(Cheers.) Now, the bill which Earl Grey said went much fur- of a Whig peer, by whose united efforts one of the children
ther than he wished, was silent upon each and every of these had been restored to the asylum, and the other, whose ed uca-
three great principles ; and the measure was still made worse tion was finished, remained at the workhouse. Such, how-
for its absurd and complicated machinery, for registrations ever, were the Whig measures—their Tithe Bill gave satis-
served to diminish instead of extending the franchise. Who faction only to the bishops and archbishops—to the
were these revising barristers who came armed with the odious Corn Laws they still adhered—to the penny
power to deprive a man, nay hundreds of men, of their stamp on newspapers they had adhered, and they had
elective franchise ? They were the hireling advocates of opposed the charitable exertions of the late Mr. Sadler,
the Government, paid by the Government, inimical to li- and of Lord Ashley, on behalf of the children labouring in
berty, and appointed by the Judges.—(Hear.) What was factories.—Cheers.) Thus he had shown that the Whigs
the next measure of Earl Grey, who by this time had were not to be trusted—they bad already trusted to their love
seized upon all the good things of place, and poured their of justice, and the Whigs gave them a Coercion
produce into the pockets of his own family and connexions their love of humanity, and they had provided a hostile
with such a greedy avidity as to acquire for himself the ap- for the poor. If the people wished to touch their fears
pellation of the Minister for domestic relations—(Hear, they ought to tell their Radical Members to leave the
and a laugh)—and who, when he gave the signal, was at Whig party, and let them know that the people formed a
once surrounded by the Whigs, like Southdown sheep round state machine not to be dallied with.—(Cheers.) Ile
an old bellwether ?—(Laughter.) About 30 years ago the knew only of one difficulty at this crisis, and that was
union between this country and Ireland was carried. Earl because Mr. O'Connell and his Irish friends had de-
Grey opposed it, and said it was a measure founded in dared that they would stick by the Whig Ministry, and
blood, carried by corruption, was unwise, impure, and Mr. O'Connell had himself menaced those English Re-
impolitic—that it would not be endured by the Irish dicals who should quit that party. He could not think this.
people, who would eventually demand its repeal.—',Hear, either just, fair, or politic, on the part of Mr. O'Connell..
hear.) When the Irish patriots, after a long night of It was not wonderful, he admitted, that the Irish people
sorrow and suffering, saw the gleams of liberty again should cling with attachment to the mild government of their
(by the accession of Earl Grey to power) dawning in the present Viceroy, Earl Mulgrave, or that they should argue
East, they felt that the time was favourable for demanding that if the Tories should again come into power, Orange
that justice which they had not received from other English prosecutions, and all the evils of bad government, would
Governments ; they said, " Give us equal rights—equal be renewed, and the country again deluged with blood.
benefits with England, or give us our native Parliament, It might be said by them also, that in such an eveAt‘Mr.
that we may do justice to ourselves." What was the reply O'Connell and other leaders might either be judicially war-
of Earl Grey's Whig Government? The Whig Ministry tiered, or become the victims of assassination. The Orange.
said, " No : we will give you civil war—( Hear, hear)—
newspapers had held such language towards Mr. O'Connell,
that he had a right to call them assassins.—(Hear.) The
AOu'Cocoinatnieolhl
obfavitireg-
we will give the sword to smite—the torch to burn—the
succeededtim e had
iin however
organising arrived
the
whene
at i An larl .
whip to torture—and the halter to hang you with."—(Tre-
mendous cheers.) They gave them the Coercion Bill—
(Renewed cheers)—a measure which, by Lord Stanley, land—an association which embodied the great wealtio—all
they declared to be so odious, detestable, and infamous, the physical strength—all the spirit, talent, and intelligence
that it ought never to be drawn into a precedent.—(Hear, of Ireland—increasing daily in strength, and already suffi-
hear.) Such was the conduct of the Whigs towards Ire- ciently strong to resist an ephemeral Tory Government—
land, which had not known anything but oppression for ought to consider that the Government of Earl Muigrave
the last forty years. It might be asked what motive the in Ireland was the result of mere accident—that that Noble.
Whigs could have in this transaction. Earl Grey and the Lord might die or be recalled to-morrow (for he was too.
Whigs knew very well, that if a native Parliament was honest long to belong to the Whigs), and that therefore he
again established in Ireland, it would, according to the
had better
trhees t
RonadtilemalsgroefatEmngalcahninde he had
in allin formed,calling
11po de
temper of the times, be so established, not like the last, but join with
somewhat on the principles of the vote by ballot, universal Whig Government to give them vote by ballot and poor
suffrage, and frequent Parliaments—and they knew full laws for Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) This he ought to do,
instead of giving his support to the double-dealing Whigs,
well that a House of Commons, so constituted, would soon
lay bare all the injuries and miseries inflicted upon unhappy _.(Applause.) The House of Lords must be reformed,
Ireland, and would endeavour to do what the Whigs never and care must be taken that they did not become as locusts
dreamt of—namely, to heal them.—(Hear, hear.) , The on the land.—(Hear, hear.) He did not wish to have them
Whigs knew that in such an event the unjust and partial cast away, but that they should at least be warned, lest tl-in
judge would be removed from the bench—that the secta-
n
cry should become " Up with the people, down with 'the
rian sheriff would be no longer allowed to pack the jury box Lords." Before that cry was raisal lie trusted that, the
with the bloodhounds of corruption and Orangeism—they people would see full justice done to England and
knew that Protestant ascendancy, which means jobbing and and that it prevailed over the whole world,(Lond and
corruption, would be put down that tithes would be long
Generalcontin upeAdLcmhEe
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abolished, not put into the pockets of the landlords—( Hear) ,Al-.
and they know also that that scarlet strumpet of the Irish n and
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then, u Council a
church would no longer be permitted to play her bloody and ee
Mayorby the my
lish.
fantastic tricks before a frowning God.—(Great cheering.) 'The
They knew that the ministers of that church would be Chair; and the company shortly afterwards sepa'cated.
no longer permitted to steep the Bible in gore, and thrust
it reeking to the nostrils of the orphan and the wi-
dow.—(Renewed cheers.) The Whigs plainly saw these
things, and they knew that in:England the same course would
be followed, and that by the creation of a similar House of
Commons—a House containing the real representatives of
the people, some strange and curious exposures might take
place here—that Church-rates would not be collected, nor
the Dissenters oppressed—that tithes in this country would
be altered for the better, that the Bishops might be re-
lieved from their duties in the House of Peers, and that
the House of Peers (to adopt an expression used by Earl
Grey) might and would be set in order.—(Cheers.) But
what they dreaded most was, that the office of Minister of
domestic relations would be done away with, and that those
costly pices of machinery, Whig Commissions, created for
the purpose of providing for hungry expectauts, without en- '
trenching upon the established clerks of the Treasury,
without whom it was well known the Whigs were incompe-
tent to carry en the business of the country for a single week
would be destroyed—they saw these things as plainly as
Belshazzar did the writing on the wall, and they needed not
a second Daniel to teach them that the rage of corruption
would pass away. Thus he thought he had shown that the
Coercion Bill was more directed against England and real
reform, than against Ireland and the repeal of the union.
—(Hear, hear.) But it appeared that Earl Grey, the
eulogised Reformer—vigorous old Grey, as Cobbett desig-
nated him—Earl Grey, who sent these Commissioners about
the country, and whose successors sent the Dorchester
labourers into exile—( Hear, hear)—went too fast for some
of his colleagues. His followers found the game was up,
and they forced him to resign. He did so with the more
readiness, because he had now gorged his relations, and be-
cause he left behind him men of more cunning than him-
self, whom he thought able still to cajole the people.—
(Hear.) A new Ministry was formed, and what followed?
Lord Morpeth went down to Yorkshire to secure his elec-
tion ; and what said he ? He asked the votes of the elec-
tors, not, as he said, to keep out the Tories, but to put
down the Radicals.—(Loud cheers.) Though this declara-
tion was not very wise, at least it was candid ; the secret
was let out, that the object of Earl Grey's, and the suc-
ceeding Government was to put down the Radicals. But
the people of England, who had shewn themselves too
proud to submit to the views of a Wellington, were too
cunning to yield to an Althorp, and thus they added con-
tempt to their pre-existing hatred for the Whigs.—(Loud
cheers.) The next events worthy of attention were the
attempts made by the Whigs to retard the progress of
Reform. Lord Melbourne came into power. Of that
Nobleman he (Colonel Napier) had often said and declared
that he was an honest English gentleman.—(Hear, hear.)
He said so still ; but the Noble Lord had colleagues of
whom he could not say so much. But two years of his
Government had shown that Lord Melbourne wants that
fury, that energy, that enthusiasm of patriotism which
ought to belong to a leader of the people at this day.—
(Hear, hear.) He fights the battle well against Lord
Lyndhurst in the House of Lords, but he did not fight
against corruption out of the House.—(Loud cheers.) He
was either too apathetic himself, or overborne by his col-
leagues, or he was afraid of the people ; and in any of these
cases it was time the people should tell him that he must
change his tone or give way to better men.—(Cheers.) The
Whigs, it is true, had been lauded for the measures they
had passed. Look at them. The Emancipation of the
Blacks had been at an expense of 20,000,0001. to England
and was not immediate in its effects. Of the Constitution
they had given to India nothing could as yet be known be-
yond that the measure creating it had given the Whigs the
patronage of three appointments, each worth 12,0001. per
annum. And again, there was the Municipal Corporation
Bill, which was as thoroughly Tory in principle as they
dared to make it. Insufficient as this Bill was, its provi-
sions were refused to the people of Ireland. The fault of
this was laid by the Government to the Lords, who said,
" Down with the people," and when the people had girded
up their loins for the fight, saying, " We are ready—
down with the Lords," the Government stepped forward
—in the person of Lord John Russell, the organ of the
Whig party—who, shaking like the figure of a Chinese
manderm, in small monotonous tones told the people of
England that he was opposed to all organic changes—
(Hear, hear,)—and that he would not suffer the House
of Peers to be disturbed in the exercise of their un-
doubted rights. Here was the iniquity of the Lords
pleaded in bar to the rights of the people, and the Whigs
stepped in to shield those Lords from the vengeance of an
insulted people: —(Hear, hear.) With regard to the Poor
Law amendment Bill, he knew it had been supported by
many men who had the best interests of the country at
heart. He, however, thought it a bad Bill. It was, he
conceived, strictly a landlord's Bill—it was objectionable
both in principle and operation. In principle it was wrong,
because it went on the assumption that the poor have no
right to relief, and that poverty is a crime which requires
punishment.—(Hear, hear.) Now, he was prepared to
maintain that the right of the poor to relief was as well
founded as the right of any man to his property—it was
founded on the law of the nation—the laws of property.—
(Cheers.) In operation he objected to it, because it pro-
vided no real protection for property—it added insult to
injury—it provided a Board of Guardians of the poor, so
called—but they went not to the Guardians of the poor, but
guardians of the rate-payers--(Cheers)—the guardians of
their own interests, strong against both justice and charity.
—( Loud cheers.) The galant officer here proceeded at great
length to draw a most vivid picture of the working of this
Bill, with reference to the separation, in the workhouse, of
husband from wife—mothers from their offspring ; for which,
from the crowded state of our columns, we are wholly unable
to find room. The delineation, however, drew down loud
plaudits and strong feelings of disapprobation of the measure.
Having drawn several imaginary cases of hardship and op-
pression, Colonel Napier said, there was one fact to Which
he could not resist calling the attention of the meeting-41
fact vouched for by authentic documents now in Ilia' hand,
bearing the signature of Mr. Chadwick, the Secretary to the
Board of Poor Law Commissioners, VT.= them it ap-
peared, that for some time past two, orphan children had been
placed by a parish in an sylolo for deaf wad dumb at Bir-

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JAN. 4.
TITHE SLAUGHTER,--An account has been received,
i hat the military in Wexford left the town yestei day, at a
ilinute's notice, on cars. It was rumoured that a tithe sale
as attempted at Blackwater, and that. some lives were lost.
PARLIAMENTARY.—The followirg is a copy of the
Ainisterial circular, the issue of which we alluded. to
-,3sterday

" Whitehall, Dec. 28, 1823.
" Sir,—As business of great importance will be broug,'.ht
forward immediately upon the meeting of Parlianient, and
31st of January is appointed for that purpose, I. earnestly
!quest your attendance at the opening of the B,ession.

" I have the honour to be, your very obedie lit servant,
"J• RUSSELL."
LONGFORD.—It cannot be too often reitwated, that the
ocent triumph in Longford was effected. through the in-
, trumentality of the old constituency, INliich had returned
ae late Lord Forbes and Mr. Lefroy as Memt)ors for that.
county. The constituency, during the last six months, has
r,:ceived a considerable accession of Reform electors, who
ere not available at the last election. To the
majority
for
Mite, of 93, have to be added the majorities for the Libe.
rlls at the summer registry, 11, and the October registry,
4. It appears that the registries just terminated have
fielded the Liberals a clear majority of 2k4 ; total, 83. In-
, itrling the majority of 93, the Rer.ormers now have a
• weeping majority of 176 in the county of Longford.—
Aublin Evening Post.
THE EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.--The visit of the roh-
-1,,- or madman to Mr. Wise, at his house on the North
Mall, on Friday last, as detailed in our paper of Saturday,
ed to an " awkwardness" in the course of that day, which
thus described in a Morning Contemporary, the explana-
e)n being offered, as is stated, to assuage the feelings of the
party " unintentionally wounded" :—"Conryactecl with this
affair is a circumstance which has occasiorAed some annoy-
ance to a respectable gentleman, at present resident in this
city, and to the magistrate concerned in, his arrest. The:
qentleman alluded to is Mr. Scott, son to the late banker
.)f that name in Waterford—the magistrate Sir Anthony-
Perrier. Sir Anthony was on Saturday taken to the bourse
of Mr. Clerke, the spirit-dealer, in Winthropp-street ; the
door of a small office was opened, and inside was an indivi-
dual who, Sir Anthony was informed, was the person who
had obtained the signature from Mr. Wise. This individual!
Sir A. once recognised as Mr. Scott, and iritimated to the
gentlemen who accompanied him that they re.ust be mistaken;
that he was well acquainted with the individual pointed out
to him, and that he was as incapable of the act imputed to
him as any gentleman in Cork. Mr.. Wise's butler, how-
ever, seeming satisfied of the identity, Sir Anthony ap-
prised Mr. Scott of the offence with which he was charged..
Mr. Scott denied that he knew any thing of the transaction,.
and expressed his readiness to afford any facilities in his
power towards its investigation. At Sir Anthony's sug-
gestion the party proceeded to Mr. Wise's. The butler
still persisted, wo understand, in his confidence respecting
Mr. Scott's identity ; but, the instant Mr. F3cott was intro-
duced to Mr. Wise, that gentleman said, that neither in
voice, dress, face, nor figure, did he bear any resemblr.nce
to the individual who had favoured him. with the vis'A on
Friday, and expressed his regret at the 'annoyance occasioned,
to Mr. Scott by the mistake which had been coniniitted.'„
—Cork Reporter.
The Distillers of Ireland propose to meet on the 21 at
instant, to take into consideration the best mode of hav'mg
the recommendations of Sir Henry Parnell's Commission
carried into immediate effect.
Distress and suffering among the poor aT:e dreadfully
prevalent ; the details are heart-rending. In the south
the charitable donations of the Duke of Lein Ater, Lady Fitn-
gerald, and a few others are spoken of ; but, generally
speaking, the rich proprietors, especially the absentees, ap-
pear Neither to know nor care anything about the vonditicas
of the famishing thousands on their estates.

The Earl of Carlisle is to haire the vacant Garte.r.—
Evening Paper.
The Duke of Wellington arrived at nurghley-louse
on Sunday night, and at noon on Tuesday passed through
Stamford on his way to Belvoir-castle.
Idis Excellency General Bj°rnst,:jerna intends spend.-
Ina a few weeks at Dover, to compete the recovery of his
health.
His Excellency General Sebastiani has reache xl
Paris with his usual expedition in travelling, in spite of tlae
bad state of the roads. His Excellency was the first to
pass over the road opened with so much labour through the
snow betwixt Rochester and Canterbury. Her Excellency,
was so far recovered from her recent illness as to be able
to accompany the Ambassador on his vo:‘, age.
We have heard that, after a recent performance a
the Opera Buffa, the Lord Chamberlain sent to express t
the active partner in the lesseeship, Signor Puzzi, the grati-
fication of himself and hls circle at his highly successful
efforts. His Grace ex,;ftressed his surprise at the inzpresai
having been able to affect so much in so short a notice, in
spite of every obstacle, and added that. he would extt and
the term of the performances this season to the utmost, in
his power.
MR. C. KED4BLE.—The Garrick Club give a:
dinner to this distinguished performer on Tuesday next, a,l
the Albion Tavern. Sir G. Warrender is expected oo
preside on the occasion.
The clerks and other official persons at the Admi-
ralty have been busily engaged the whole or this week
preparing the new Brevet for publication, which is 4ttend,:d
with much trouble, and repeated references to theklist of eau
navy, to preve.'.-it mistakes.
Commander Lapidge, of the Ringdove, has be-n
promoted to be Captain ; and Lieutenants Otway and Le
Hardy, of the Comet and Saracen, who distinguished them -
selves in the actions 'leading to the relief of Bilboa. lave
been promoted to the rank of Commanders.
The Athenwum Club House has been at length'. re-
opened to the members, after many mouths employe,} in its
repair and embellishment.