The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-25 00:00:00

luirrieane can be already heard ; the ground is
trembling under their feet; the volcano is about to
burst beneath them ; the storm that has been raised
by the intelligent mass of the Euglish lieefle is
about to sweep over then,. Where is the" master-
wire to rule tit'it Atom ? That master-spirit is
not Levi brey, who, at such a crisis, could Italie the
folly to threaten us with Proclamations and Alges
rine Acts.—(Cheers.) Europe is in a state of trans
onion; the lofty towers of despotism are toppling
to their fall ; the breach has been made in the battle-
ments of tyranny; the, people only wait the signal
to Mount the breach and effect an entrance, that the
flag of universal liberty may be erected upon the
tieumbling ruins of oligarchical power.—(Continued
cheering.) In the struggle which our country is
about to make for freedom, neither force nor violence
shall be used.-(hear.) I trust that the favour will
be done me by the press—that press which has
done so much for Irish liberty and for Irish freedom,
and which hes roads so many exertions to enlighten
the Irish mind, I trust that that press will embody
the sentiments I um about to give utterance to—
that it will convey them from the Giant's Causeway
to Cape Clear, from Cunnemara to the Hill of
Howth.—( Hear.) I beseech of the people to listen
end attend to me. I call upon them in the name
of the God of charity to do so..—(llear.) I have
some claims, at least my vanity tells me so, upon
the people of Ireland.--( Hear.) I have, for their
sakes, been the object of marked persecution. Every
indignity that malignant bigotry could pour upon
me has been attempted. T have, too, been the best
abused mutt that ever addressed a public meeting
I have been blackened, deep as printer's ink could
blacken me, by newspaper paragraphs.--(Hear.)
now address myself to the people of Ireland, and I
beseech of them to attend to rote. I implore of
them to be united with each other; I call upon
the Catholics to make every sacrifice to promote
that union with their Protestant brethren, and with
orangeman. If there he a quarrel between brothers,
no man considers one of them degraded if he go
down on his knees to the other and say, " brother,
forgive me; am sorry for what I have done."—
What RUM would despise, what man would disre-
spect, the brother for doing this? I am not the
man.--( Hear and cheers.) I say to the orangeman,
" Brother, forgive me; I was contending for freedom,
and, in looking for that which was of magnitude and
great price to me I forgot the details of the guess
tion ; I have, in thel course of the quarrel, used harsh
terms towards you : I regret them—at ail events
forgive am sorry for having offended you."
—( Hear, and cheers.)—People of Ireland, hear me ;
let not any possibility induce yon to be guilty of
violence, or to shed one drop of blood; let not secret
societies exist amongst you—have nought to do
with them, us you are anxious for a repeal of the
Union. No man who loves Ireland will join in a •
secret society., (Hear.) Secret societies ! I ex-
communicate you fiorn amongst Irishmen—l pro-
claim here, that the man who belongs to one is an
enemy to me and to Ireland.—(Cheers.) Let that
sentiment go forth—let it be published in the most
distant villages, and be preached from every altar;
let it be known that every friend of Ireland exe-
crates secret societies, as injurious to morality end
.118 baneful to the great cause of the repeal of the
• Union.—(Hear.)—lllegal oaths! ye are perjuries
in the sight of God and destructive in the sight of
man; illegal oaths ! he who takes you is not a
friend to Ireland.—(fear.) What man is there that
struggles for what is good, who requires to be bound
by an oath to do so? What mall would resort to a
secret society except for the accomplishment of
what is bad ? We do not require secrecy—we seek
openly to achieve the happiness of our native
country.—(Hear.) Illegal oaths and secret socie-
ties—let them be banished from amongst Irishmen.
—(Heer.) Irishmen, if any of you have been de-
luded into them, quit them for ever ; if any man,
for the future, proposes to you to join them, lay
hold of him—let him be brought before some Ma-
gistrate, or some minion of power; the latter will
probably he sorry to see It friend before him.—
Hear, and laughter.) Let violence of every kind
be avoided.—(Hear.) I have now expended some
time in political life—l have passed four apprentice-
ships and a half in the service of my country, and
I now venture to pledge myself, and all the reputa-
tion which my experience can have obtained for nun,
that the Union must be repealed, if Irishmen avoid
illegal oaths, secret societies, and violence of any
kind whatsoever.—(Hear, hear.) Cannot the people
of Ireland trust me for twelve months?---(Hear.)
Let there be but twelve months of quiet agitation.
—(Cheers, and laughter.) It is no Irish blunder,
in which there is generally more good sense than
grammatical inaccuracy—let there be quiet, no dis-
turbance of the peace, and ne violation of the law—
rind let there he constitutional agitation, by petition-
ing and open remonstrances at public meetings.
Give me these two, and I do venture to prophecy,
in the certain expectation t hut that prophecy will be
fulfilled, that within that time you will see a Perlin.
merit in College-green, and absenteeism put tin end
to.—(LongscontintOol cheering.) I tell Earl Grey
that his orders and contemptible proclamations will
be rendered innoxious—they will be eo if the people
of Ireland take my advice. When the fire of the
enemy's artillery is pouring upon 14 town, the bes
seiged do not seek to defend themselves by hardened
rocks, the broken splinters of which would do more
injury to themselves than the weapons of their foes.
Bags stuffed with wool and with sand are infinitely
better fitted to receive the hostile balls. I shall not
degrade the people of Ireland by the comparison;
I bur I tell them to oppose to the threatened fire of Al-
gernon acts nothing but quiet energy, apparent list-
lessneee, with the determination to proceed quietly
and constitutionally to the attainment of their object.
There shall be no splintering of our energies to in-
jure one another--:there shall be no boring of our
forre--no detaching of it in large masses to afford
an opening to the enemy to gull us. No ; we shall
remain firmly united until the Union be repealed.—
( Hear, heats) Petition—petition-s--petttion—let
petitions come from every class of men—let petitions
crime from every trade. They smiled at me when I
presented the petition from the chairmen of Dublin.
What caret) the haughly aristocrats, returning from
their champaign, for the sorrows and misery of the
hardy, stout, and strong men, who were only seek-
ing henestly to earn bread for themselves awl fanni-
lies. They smiled at the petition of these poor
men; but I told them in reply, that which few of
the papers reported fur me—that the period was
come, when the working classes of society were not
to be smiled at with impunity.—(Hear, mid cheers.)
tell the people of Ireland to have confidence in the
promise l have given—to abstain from illegal oaths
refrain from secret societies—to obey the law
—that violence can only serve their enemies anti
weaken themselves; but I tell theta at the same
time to petition—let tnan, woman; and child peti.
tion—the women of England petition in favour of
the Negro slaves----is not the freedom of the mere
and the children of Ireland as dear to the lovely
women of this country as that of the Negro slaved
can be to the fanciful ladies of England ?—(Hear,
and cheers.),—TheUnion must be repealed.--- Heat,
bear.) Impracticability is not to be thought or
spoken of at the present period. Talk of impracti-
cability, when fifteeit thousand soldiers of France
were defeuted. in tine streets of Paris by a troop of
boys and girls—talk of impassibility, when the
.Dutelt forces were beaten by Belgian chizens,armed
with nothing but popguns.---( Loud cheering.)
Impracticability ! it is a word not to be found in
modern history—practicability has been written by
the Poles on the walls of Warsaw; another lesson
in practicability will soon be read in Berlin crud in
Naples; but there is one thing which it is necessary
for the people of Ireland to attend to—they must
obey the lew—in their conduct they must be tranquil
and quiet—they must be guilty of no offence. I
would riot for one moment connect myself with any
body of men that would sited blood. I am an ac-
countable being, and, in the presence of my God,
I disclaim every man who would think of force or
violence; and, above all things, I exclaim against
him who would stain his soul with the life of a fel-

low.ereature.—(Hear, hear.) Ireland is the only
country which has had one bloodless, stainless, re-
volution; she shall have another; the independence
of the country shall be ogain secured—the throne
shell be eecut ed to that excellent and revered man
who now possesses it— it shall be secured to him
and to his family ; we will also secure the liberty
and happiness of the Irish people; the shout of free-
dom we shall then hear raised in te streets of Dub-
..

lin, as the people behold the Members of Padia-
ment alnuit to begin the first Session in regenerated
Ireland. At such a moment where shall I find ex-
pressions for the impulses, the feelings, and the warm
gush of pleasure that will fill my heart ?—(Loud
and long-continued cheering,)
Mr. PATMCK COStELLOR said he should use his
utmost endeavours to get up public meetings, and
forward petitions from that district of the country
where he might have some influence for the ad-
vancement of both.—(Cheers.) But he conceived
the way of all others to hit the nail on the head,
was to get from any man and from every man who
was ambitious for a seat in Parliament, a distinct
and solemn pledge, not only to support both ques-
tions, hut to oppose every financial measure of the
Minister who would not make them cabinet measures.

--(Loud cheers.) Such was the policy recom-
mended in the Catholic Association, by some of
those gentlemen who were now the enemies of
repeal. He did not require or expect any member
to be a thick and thin supporter of Mr. O'Connell;
bet on the questions of Reform and Repeal, he, for
one, should demand explicit and solemn pledges.—
(Cheers ) The miseries of the Union were felt
throughout the hind—they were not confined to the
metropolis. In the city of Kilkenny, before the
Union, there was prosperous trade—there were
numbers of private carriages. At present trade is
almost annihilated, and there are not more than two
or three carriages in the city. Mr. C. denied the
accuracy of the statement attributed to Lord at--
den—he drew 20,000/. a-year out of the country—
he came in the sheep sheering season, not to spend
money, but to bear away the fleece.---(Hear, hear.)
Mr. C. animadverted on the Noble Lord, and de-
clared that the people on his estates were opposed
to him on that question.—(Cheers.)
Mr. FINN said the most important feature of that
day's proceedings was the proposed public reception
of the Marquis of Anglest.a. Regarding that re-
ception, he concurred in the sentiments of his friend
Mr. Ronayne. He respected the Marquis of An-
glesea—no man could do so more sincerely—but he
would not sacrifice a public principle for that esteem
—(Cheers)—and such was the alternative. It was
said that the Marquis of Anglesea had not any part
in the appointment of Mr. Doherty—an appoint-
ment which trampled down the dignity of the bar,
and insulted the best feelings of the people of Ire-
land.—(Hear.) The people will vindicate them-
selves from this outrage on their opinion; but
though Lord Grey directed it, why did Alit-
sea permit it—why had it his sanction /
(Hear, hear, hear.) What extenuation, even in a
political point of view, was there for this appoint-
ment ?—(Hear.) This Doherty had not even the
merit of attachment to a party to recommend him.
—(Hear.) He was the protege of Canning, and
equally the friend of Lord Goderich when in power;
he became the supple servant of Wellington; and
no sooner had lie lost his command, than this' same
gentleman became" the favourite" of Lord Grey.
Mr. DAVID M'CLEERY next presented himself to

the meeting, and was ►warmly greeted. lie was not
a man who could be on both sides of a question at
once. Ile was delighted with the valuable facts
stated there that morning, and participated it/ the
feelings expressed, particularly regarding the ap-
pointment of one individual, which he thought de-
served their censure—(Hear, hear)—though he dif-
fered from some of the gentlemen on extra and ultra
points. Some persons had expressed alarm else-
where at his joining these coffee breakfasts, and
thought he should lose his character—(Laughtel)—
but he would persevere. This was no party question.
Mr. M. COSTELLO alluded to the reception given
to Mr. O'Connell on last Saturday, and said that
had Mr. Doherty not been appointed to the bench,
no monarch nor man would have received such a
glorious reception as would the Marquis of Angle-
sea on his arrival, but now, if an attempt
were made to get up a public reception for him,
he would Nam the friends of that respectable noble-
man, that never was such a scene exhibited as that
reception would display. The trades would meet
him with black banners, and demonstrations of their
discontent, but if the reception was perfectly pri-
me, then would be (Mr. C.) desire to save the
gallant Nobleman from the pang, and the people
would not interfere. The eloquent and Learned
Gentleman then spoke of the glorious spectacle next
Monday would present, when all the trades of Dub-
lin would assemble to address Mr. O'Connell, and
testify their respect and attachment to him. He
said they ►would assemble at an early hour in the
morning, and form the procession in order, at Cebu*
Road, Phib,borough, from whence they ►would march
through the principal parts of the city, to Mr. O'Con-
nell's residence.
The meeting then gave three cheers for the re-
peal of the Union, for Ireland, and O'Connell, and
separated.

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Nicholas Frcernantle, aged 30; Abraham Childs,
48 ; Benj. (larding, 38;- James Crvpp, 2.5 ; Win.
Primer, 34; and Jos. Glaspolc, were charged with
having stolen from John Watis, 1/.
On the 22d of November a mob of about 200 or
300 came ro Mr. Long's house, at Carliampton,
armed with bill-hooks, hummers, and pickaxes;
Childs led the way, as an officer would have done.
Lie had a red or coloured handkerchief tied round
his body like a sash. Childs gave the word of cam-
triand—" Halt—Point—Full back." On inquiring
for Mr. Long, they were informed that he was not
at home, and they then said that they wanted
their grievances redressed. Freemantle demanded
ten guineas, and victuals and drink. They
insisted on having money, and a servant than
went into the house and procured a sovereign and
three half-crowns. Harding came forward and
took the money, saying, " I am the receiver,"
They were dissatisfied with It 7s. 6d , and said they
would have more or Wood. Some more was given
to them, and they then demanded a machine which
had been used fur thrashing hay. It was pointed
out to them, and they entirely destroyed it. The
prisoners were all proved to have taken a part in
this outrage.
One of the witnesses, who appeared to give
Harding a good character, was a farmer named Tar-
gett. He said that Harding worked for him, and
that, on the 22d November, the mob came and com-
pelled him to go with them ; he is a good character.
Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeunt WILDE—He
went with Harding and the mob to the Rev. Mr.
Hagen h's.
Mr. Serjeant WILDE—WeII, you went there with
your men, Harding, and the mob, to the Parson's,
did you not demand a reduction of tithes ?

witneSs not answering—.
Mr. Justice ALDEnsoN—Why do you not give
an answer, Sir ? Did you go with the others to
demand a reduction in the tithes ?

Witness—Yes, my
Lord, I diti.
Mr. Justice ALDEnsori—The more shame for
you, Sir. It is very clear, now, that some Of the
farmers, and you amongst them, encourage the poor
and ignorant labourers to these acts, and then leave
then to answer and to stiffer for the consequences.
Cross-examination resumed—lle was compelled
to go with the mob, and so was Harding; he did
not go on with the mob, but returned home ; he
did not go to a second place ; he said they should
be firm in their demands, or they might us well go
home ; they all went in a b0dy......h, did not gcr atone.
As the witness was leaving the box, he WAS called
back by
Mr. Justice ALDERSON, who said he Would advise
the Witness to be snore upon his guard, and much
more careful and particular in his conduct; for be