The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-15 00:00:00

mit me to call him so, and that of your defeated
candidate—let but the democratic principle have but
its full sway, and England will yet raise her majestic
head as the envy of all nations. You are in an artificial state
of society at present ; still you must do nothing by force.
There is no condition of society who suffer so much by a
revolution as the millions of manufacturing people in this
country, If they were all thrown out of employment but
for one week by such an event, they would be thrown into
a state of perfect starvation ; but then you have everything
to achieve which you can desire to accomplish, by plain, open,
manly agitation—by constitutional agitation. Call for,
insist, demand of Ministers, and of Parliament, that they
will not further dare tQ distrust the honesty or the intelli-
gence of the people of Enghind.—(Hear.) Who are they
that say those whom I now address don't understand enough
to enable them to be entrusted with the franchise ?
(Hear, hear.) Who are they who dare to say that those
whom I now address are not intelligent enough to be en-
titled to it ? I will tell you one. Your representative
Major.—(Hear, hear.) If he does not tell you that, he acts
it, and a lying action is worse than a lying word—
(" Hear," and cheers)—and while they come out upon
me, and say the Ballot would create a lying word—
why I am aware that sometimes it would create a
lying word, but does not the present system create a lying
action? And the man who gives a vote which in his conscience
he feels he ought not to give, is not that a lie ? is that
not a crime against conscience ? And what a paltry
affectation it is to say, that lest you should give scope to a
lying word, let us proceed in that course in which lying
actions might be practised ! But England, be up and
doing.—(Hear, hear.) Ireland is said to be in an inflam-
matory state. Why, Gentlemen, we are all in a perfect
calm, and in good temper : we have been blistered—we
have been often skinned alive like the very eels, so that we
are accustomed to it, and not out of humour at all—we
remain in good temper. Why? Because we do not
intend to suffer as we have been suffering for one single day
longer than we can possibly help it.—(Cheers.) Up
then, again, England, and be doing.—(Continued cheering.)
I stand before you this day proud at what you have done.
I shall not trespass longer on you time.—(Cries of go on.)
I thank 3 ou sincerely for the manner in which you have re-
ceived me; for the attention with which you have heard me;
and when I am in Parliament with the Tories, shall they
not hear of the cry that this day has been raised in Stock-
port ?—( Much cheering.) Let us then join heart and hand.
Liberty is what we are asking for. Freedom of conscience
is what we desire to have, that men may worship their
God in sincerity and humility, without profaning religion by
making it a base instrument of a political system. Let us
then have liberty of conscience, that the struggle may
not be that I shall be at the same place of worship
with you, or you with me ; but that we may res-
pectively go freely to whatever place of worship
we please, and not thereby stain the name of religion and
profane the name of our God by submitting to the religious
dictation of any autocrat.—(Cheers.) Let us all be for
democratic religion. There is only one man that I would
exclude from that, and that is the man who would acknow-
ledge himself to be below the human creation.—(Hear,
hear.) Well, then, let not this night pass away idly, Let
us not to-morrow talk of this night only as the pleasing ex-
hibition of the talent which your future Member has dis-
played, and the admirable good sense which your chief
magistrate has shown with a remarkable discriminat-
ing taste in saying anything that was necessary for
him to say, and not uttering one useless word.
Don't talk of those things, or of the way in which the Irish
Agitator wearied your faculties ; but let us all become
apostles to the same political creed, and arrive at one grand
. .
conclusion and act upon it-which is, never submit to a
wrong, without endeavouring to get that wrong remedied.
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman sat down (at one
o'clock this morning) amidst the most enthusiastic cheering,
which lasted for some minutes.
The following toasts were then given, and drunk amidst
loud applause.
Mr. O'Connell proposed—
Lord Mulgravc and the Irish Administration.
The Liberal Members of England who have honoured us
with their Company.
Mr. HINDLEY returned thanks.—The Hon. Member
alluded, at some length, to the eminent and efficient ser•
vices of the Hon. and Learned Member fur Dublin. He
congratulated the people of Stockport on the great moral
victory they had achieved in rescuing themselves from the
domination of a Tory corporate faction ; and, after no-
ticing the connexion which existed between Stockport and
the Borough which he had the honour to represent, con-
cluded by assuring them that he would be at all times
ready to promote the interests, and support the inde-
pendence, of the borough by every means in his power.
The Liberal Members of Ireland who have honoured us with
their Company.—Mr. Morgan J. O'Connell returned thanks.
• The Mayor of Stcckport, our Chairman.-William Barlow
Worthington, Esq., Mayor, returned thanks.
Edward John Stanley and George Wilbraham, Esqrs., the
Liberal Members of the County of Chester.
The Borough Magistrates.—Alderman Thornhill returned
thanks.
The Council of the Borough of Stockport.—Aldermen
Steel returned thanks.
The Town Clerk.
HENRY CorrocK, Esq., rose and returned thanks for
the honour conferred on him. He was gratified to state
that the duties which had been imposed on him, as well in
the official character in which they bad toasted his health,
as in the more pleasing one of acting as their Vice-President
on that evening, had been rendered easy of fulfilment by
the kind and generous co-operation and support of the in-
habitants of the borough.—(Great cheering.) He had
been unanimously elected to fill the situation of their Town
Clerk, and so long only as his conduct met their appro-
bation and countenance would he discharge the duties of
that office. The moment they were dissatisfied with him,
he would resign his trust into their hands.—(Great
applause.) -He congratulated the people of Stockport
upon the great moral victory they had achieved, and it was
gratifying to find the great organs and directors of public
opinion, the gentlemen of the Press, cheering them on by
their presence, and The Sun newspapef, whose exertions
in the cause of Reform they were all aware of--(Hear,
hear)—had its gentlemen present for the purpose of report-
ing what took place there that night, and immediately pro-
mulgating it throughout the whole of -Europe.—(Vehement
cheering.) Such superhuman exertions were deserving of
success.—(Hear, hear.) In conclusion, he would assure
them that he would on all occasions be found at his post—
(Cheers) ;—and as the festivities of the evening had been
protracted to an unusually advanced hour, he would not
further detain them, but again acknowledge his obligations
for the favour they had conferred on him.—(Cheers.)
The Ballot.
National Education, without Sectarianism.
The Vice-Presidents and Dinner Stewards.
The Meeting then broke up.

It is rumoured that Mr. O'Connell is to be invited
to a public dinner at Bradford, during the Easter recess.
Will Mr. Carlow Hardy be invited to meet him ?
Contents of the Observer of Sunday, Nov. 12.
Ten long folio columns of particulars of her Majesty's visit
to Guildhall, four columns of the illuminations, five co-
lumns of Prints representing the East and West end of
the interior of Guildhall during the Banquet, an appro-
priate emblematical design' surrounding a miniature of the
Queen, and a panoramic sketch of the Procession.—Price
of the Observer, five-pence. Copies, with franks to send
it to any part of the country, can be had all this week at
the Office, 170, Strand.

THE BENCH AND THE BAR.—The amusing and
instructive work which has just been given to the world,
under the above title, by the well-known author of" Random
Recollections," must, we imagine, be received with peculiar
satisfaction by one very extensive and important class of the
community—the Attorneys ; who would do well immedi-
ately to adopt it as their vade-mecum, at least as relates to
the ticklish and difficult question of the choice of counsel in
the'eases they may thenceforth bring into court ; for this
choice should by no means depend in every case on the
precise grade which the counsel holds in his profession, but
rather on the peculiar points and features of the case to be
argued : and in this point of view Solicitors will find the
work we refer to peculiarly useful, since its chief merit and
value consist in the care and discrimination with which it
points out the peculiar forte as well as foible of each indi-
vidual treated of—whether he excels most in argument, or
in legal knowledge, or in addressing the passions, or the
judgment ; whether he is strongest in an appeal to the jury,
or a reply to his opposing counsel, or the cross-examination
of a witness, &c. &c. All these points are of great importance
in determining the choice of an advocate ; and to set forth
and settle these points, is the chief aim and attainment of
this work, which has long been a desideratum in our current
literature.
THE LATE IRRUPTION INTO THE THAMES
TUNNELL.—Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr.
Carter, the Coroner for Surrey, and a jury, at the Spread
Eagle public house, Rotherhithe, on the body of John Gar-
land, a miner, aged 42 years, who perished in the Thames
Tunnel during the last irruption of the river on -the
morning of Friday the 3d inst. The first witness called
was Andrew Morris, who stated that he was a labourer
employed by the Thames Tunnel Company. On Sunday
morning, shortly before one o'clock, he was on the watch
observing the rising and falling of the water in the tunnel,
when he felt something with a boat-hook in the water, and
brought it to the top of the shaft. It turned out to be the
body of the deceased, which had been in the water since
the irruption. He immediately conveyed it into the parish
of Rotherhithe. He was not aware of any of the eirctn-
-st.lnces attending the late bursting in of the Thames.
After hearing other witnesses, the Jury returned a verdict
" That John Garland was accidentally drowned by the ir-
ruption of water into the Tunnel."