The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-31 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE-FRIDAY EVENING.

SEVEN O'CLOCK.—This evening Samuel Long, a har-
ness maker in the employ of the great Tory carriers,
Messrs. Swann and Sons, was arrested on a warrant
charging bias with corrupting a voter of the name of
George Smith, by giving hint nine sovereigns to vote for
Mr. Manners Sutton. The complaint on which the war-
rant issued was made by Richard Fe:ter, Esq., the Chair-
ma a of Mr. Gibson's Committee, before the Reverend
Professor Hensbow, a borough Magistrate.
Long will be brought up tomorrow for examination.
The case against hint is exceedingly strong, and several
papers have been found in his possession which disclose a
mast extensive system of corruption on the part of the
Tories, and will, it is believed, lead to results of a highly
important character.
It need hardly be said that the intelligence has excited
an immense sensation in the town. The Tories are
frightened beyond measure, and well they may be, as it is
well known other warrants are about to be obtained.

MR. O'CONNELL'S ADDRESS TO

HIS CONSTITUENTS.

(Continued from The Sun of yesterday.)
The Hon. and Learned 'Gentleman concluded the ad-
dress to his Constituents assembled last Wednesday in the
Cern Exchange, Dublin. We addopt the report of the
Dublin Evening Post :
Why should it be thought, if Ireland had a domestic
legislature, she also would not continue annexed to the
British empire ?—(Hear.) There is no reason for think-
ing so. If we get the repeal, the Queen will not be the less
loved, and the people will be more united.•—(Cheers.)
The enthusiasm with which my declarations have been
received by you tells me that all I have to do is to be
cautious, for the heart of Ireland is with me.—(Renewed
cheers.) What is principally necessary is to prevent the
agitation for repeal from assuming any sectarian
tinge. If we do not avoid that we are lost. It will
be the rock upon which we will infallibly split, if we do
not carefully shun it.—( Hear.) It was sectarianism that
struck Ireland down to the position from which now she is
with difficulty rising. If our agitation assume a Protes-
tant, a Presbyterian, or any sectarian tinge whatsoever, it
ought not and it will not succeed. --(Loud cheers.) We
ought to invite all men of all parties to join in the
struggle. We ought to t..:11 them that, as believing Chris-
tians, of whatever den.ernination they may be, they have
nothing to fear ; but that as Irishmen they have
everything to gain by a repeal of the Union.—(Loud
cheers.) That is the great difficulty and stumbling.
block in my way_. that is the great obstacle to be re-
moved, wed if I suceecd in removing it, success must
, follow, triumph is certain, the Union must be repealed.—
( Great cheering.) We must, therefore, avoid all appear-
ance even of division or dissension in our racks. We must
Inot he too hasty. We must go on cautiously and slowly.
Ia our last agitation for repeal we were headstrong, vio-
lent, and sometimes even exclusive.—( Hear, hear.) I all
along declared that we were going too fast, and that we
were assisting our enemies by a display of violence not at
all borne out or justified ly our actual strength. Let us but
recollect what enemies we have opposed to us. We will
have first the old and bigoted ascendancy party, the ancient
enemies of Ireland's liberties.—( Elear.) They will raise
the ascendancy cry—they will cry out against us for seek-
ing for what they will call a separation, and affirm that
they themselves arc the true loyalists, and the binding link
between the two ccuntrics.—( Hear, hear.) Recollect,
too, that all seekers after office must avoid, or rather that
they must oppose us. If the Government passed a civil
excommunication (arid in my opinion they acted most un-
wisely) against the members of the Precursor Society—if
they would not confer office on members of that body, there
can be no doubt that a repeal agitator will have no favour in
their eyes.— ( Hear.) Place-hunters (and they are 500 to one
, to those who are actually in place) will therefore be op-
Posed to us. The friends of the Government will be
i against Ls—the friends of ascendancy will be against us,
i and only the friends of Ireland will be the agitators for
irepeal.—( Loud cheers.) I have not as yet prepared any
plan to lay before you, or if I have I am not about to state
it to you now. I merely wish to state to you what is my
intention, and I am pleased that it is acceptable to
you.--( Cheers ) I tell you once again that you have
not the slightest chance of obtaining from the English
' Parliament any of those franchises which you should
justly 0btain.......( Hear.) I tell you that no good measure
for Ireland will be granted by the British Parliament ; and
it was the despair, the practical despair, of getting any
redress in that quarter (for I was a Precursor in earnest)
that forced me to recur to the repeal.—( Hear.) I told
you when I established the Precursor Society' that I
would try to obtain justice front the British Parliament,
, and that if I failed I would look ter the repeal of the
I Union. I did make the experiment—l failed, and lam
a repealer for life.—( Loud cheers.) I announce no plan;
I tell you a simple fact, and that is, that we can get
nothing else but the repeal of the Union. Carry it home
Ito your families, and weigh it in ) our minds. Remember
that henceforth we look for nothing hut repeal. But are
you to despair because you cannot obtain justice from the
English Parliament? Is an Irishman to despair? No. Show
me the Irishrenn that is without the hope of righting himself,
and I will tell him that he is unworthy of his country.—
: ( Heal.) Oh, I love my country—l love her smiling sal-
; lies ane, her noble mountains, lifting their fertile heads into
)the eiouds.—(Cheers.) I love her widely extended ver-
dent plains, her noble rivers—her fertilizing streams and
spacious harbours ; and, oh ! dearly do I lovely the gay,
;, the light-hearted, the noble-minded people that dwell upon
her soil.—( Loud applause.) I know not the time, even
t in my earliest youth, when I had not an ardent desire and
a firm intention to write my name on the pages of Ireland's
I history, and if possible to leave her ill a better condition
than I found her.—( Cheers ) If I were to die this mo-
Iment my desire is partly accomplished.—(Cheers.) Ncw
I have a higher, a nobler, and a better aim. Nine millions
of people ought to have a Parliament of their own.—
.1 (Cheers.) We arc too many and too mighty to be brought
1 in at the fag end of a session, and to be satisfied with the
remnents and leavings of justice which had been dealt out
lto otters.—(Cheers,) We are too well situated—God
has gifted us with too many natural advantages, for man
l to trample oil us. Our spacious pots are open to the
commerce cf the world, our living streams carry fertilize- i
tion and trade through every portion of our land ; and is it i
for the inhabitants of such a soil—so blessed by the Al-
mighty, to be subjected to injustice and oppression by
their fellowmen?—( Loud cheers.) Ireland has resources
uncontaminated, undiminished, almost unlimited, and how
can she be oppressed by another nation not blessed by nature
in an equal degree ? It shall be so no longer. We will
to be free,—( Cheers.) It is true that for her no horse-
man mounts his embattled war steed—no disciplined army
is drawn out in array—no battlements frown, and no ar-
tillery thunders upon an enemy; but we want them non--
( Hear, hear, and great cheers.) Independent of all that,
we have the power in our own hands to liberate ourselves
by, moral meatis.—( Hear, hear.) Oh, that I could excite
the spirit that I awakened before. Ob, that I could raise
the wizard wand of affection with the same effect that I
raised it before. —( Loud cheers.) If I can have upon my
side the prayers of age—if I can enlist in the cause of
my country all the talents and enthusiasm of her sons, and
if the beauty, and grace, and modesty of Erin will smile
upon our cffortis, Ireland will be a nation once more, and
the Union win be repealed. The Honourable and Learned
Gentleanart then sat down amid loud and long-continued
cheers.

MIL O'CON N ELL'S DETERMINA
TION TO REPEAL THE UNION.

ee
i A special general meeting of the Precursor Society was
held last Thursday in Dublin, at the Corn Exchange.
After the admission of some new members, and the read-
ing of documents,
Mr. O'Coeseee called attention to the state of the
registry of the city of Dublin, which, although not as pros-
perous as the Liberal; could desire, was by no means in
such a state as was represented by the Tories. The real
return of the present registry was—the Liberals registered
278, of which 108 were re-registries ; the Tories registered
455, but th,,re were of those 344 re-registries. Thus the
Tories had a majority of 13 voters on the present registry.
Since lest election the Liberals had added 138 to their ma-
jority and deducting the minority of 13 in which they were
on the present registry, they still had 123 to add to the
Majority of 95 on the last election. He hoped the Liberals
would, therefore, bestir themselves on the registry,-_( War.)
The time was come when the Precursor Society should
cease to exist. He did not mean to call for an opinion on
the subject to-day ;he would simply give notice for a
meeting for Monday next, to consider the propriety of esta-
blishing a Society having for its object a much greater
design than the Precursor Society. He had before him
the objects which orieinally bound the Precursors to-
gether—namely, to seek for Corporate Reform, the Ex_
tension of the Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and Short Par-
liaments, and the fair equal 'z ttion of religious liberty, by leafing all parties to support their own Clergy. After a
r"itf review of the mme,ures which were rejected during
, the Past
firm
Session, Mr. O'Connell sad that it was his
I t'eler",iPation to rouse Ireland at once in favour of demand-
Pgi Peei of the Uni.at.—( Prolonged cheers.) He wt s
~e'.errninctl fr
re iical—ftet
The 1.11 io oir. thenceforth to advocate the demand for
en,a est Carthago he tv:,uld say.—( Cheers.) '
I sun
wouir,lorught to he ra.pealed ; as sure as to-morrow's
turned cheers. 7 trill, Union would be repealed.—(Ccn-
-1 a.tert'on was) Tae
bee next object that should demand his
laws,
neweesbt ri ode of
the Poor- lightening the burden of
and at, the same time tent
being levied on the country,
refit-charge of 75 per eentiuTTY was burdened with the-
emphatically call for the in
eel of tithes. He would
and indeed, all well-wishers olPtehreation of all Dissenters,
rent-eher,e applied in the first their country, to have that
'of the pour. The registry that in-tattoo to the relief
the passing of the Reform Act wookl place after
1840, it would, ti.erefore, 1,2 neo.o d expire in
somethine to assist the people immedi,,,e`le"arYb to do
tries. The Precursors had done much to "orawtatr-detrhegi3-
gistrics, by sending down barristers and attornevse arned.
a?..vancing, money, but the Government had not only di's-
countenaceed, but absolutely placed a ban on every man
who had any connection with the Precursor Association.
The s, city whic h he should suggest en Monday next,
in lieu of the I'rn urso: 9 he would call—" The Reform
It-eistry Association." True, there was a body of the
sane name at present ;
but, the in, t could hardly be
conerered to have an existence, although they had a
loc I habitation. That body paid for a house in West-
mu e and street; but he saw no reason why the gentlemen
it h 'd ro' join the new Association and meet
forming s, ou: . .
iii this Corn Exchange—a place where so much had been
done for the liberties of Ireland.—( Hear, hear.) On
Monday he should also make a motion on the depopulating
system which was in pro ;ress, with a view of its being dis-
countenariced by the Reform Fe ; !airy Association; and
at an e ,r'y moment he would take an opportunity of
c..llling together those rroprictois of the Bank of Ire-
hod nut and 2r the inflacuce of the Directors, and he
h 'ped that he would be able to conviece them that
the charter was kec ping down their own
property. Mr.
O'Connel', in the course of 11's :Enech 1, that the Com-
mittee would make Sisi ake up the, . emires of the Precursors,
which should be
tha pun Wiped ie the newspapers, and be
h ~: no should t balance of one thousand pounds