The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-15 00:00:00

148 2 is4l-110 IeDITION

GREAT MEETING AT THE
THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN.

--..„--
(Continued frets The Sun of Saturday.)
Lord Ls Towne said, Ido hope—and there is now al
certainty that that hope will be realized—lreland n-il
cantinue to be governed on the same principles so wisely
ccharereiread.) Yes,
by the Marquis of Normanby.—( Hisses and
Intensity ofe keeindi
,thye universal Irish people felt deep
gratitude tovrards their late Lord Lieutenant, and the
nerd's, feeling towards his successor was
+ less, and for no other reason than that he pro-
mises to render equal justice to all classes of society,
Without the slightest distinction. The same policy
will, I am sure, be pursued, and the same advantages
will result to Ireland. It is delightful to see such
unanimity prevail amongst the Irish people. It is
an
umen of happy des s to see the Peer and the peasant
ted in demanding equal and impartial Justice
ter the country. I will say, that there never
was a time when unanimity amongst all Re-
formers in Ireland was so desirable, because,
Whilst we are united in this country it cannot be denied
that dissatisfaction exists in England in the minds of
dmioamnyanwd goodhoa are anxious advocates for the cause of free-
Butnoes not government, and that the same unanimity
not there that happily prevails in this country.
But
land
I would call upon all classes of Reformers in Eng-
to unite as one man—to lay aside all minor diffe-
reef.
--es, and to assist in carrying out tose tha
must tend to the prosperity of our commonmeasures country,t
amongst a free and united people. I say that Minis.
ters should meet the wishes of the people,
,f!'wedle, all they ask for is based upon truth and jus-
when, eon-
;lee. They (the Ministers) say they arc unwilling to
oring forward questions for the adoption of the Legislature
.when they fancy there is not sufficient of public opinion
to carry them through, or support them in bringing
them forward. I do say that they ought to be in ad•
titan° of Public opinion, and that they ought to lead the
public mind in the cause of freedom, and in bringing
forward popular_ and salutary measures. But on the
11°other hand, I do say that in most of the questions which
w agitate England and Ireland they have public opi-
Mon and almost the undivided support of the people to
"stain them --(Cheers.) For many of those questions
lam l .
, Myse fan advocate—for instance there is the Bal-
ot, to Which lam favourable.—(Loud cheering.) Per-
a
Pa her Majesty's Ministers consider those measures ,
impracticable, and that they would only embarrass them-
the
es by bringing them forward ; but whilst they have '
People with them, they ought not to hesitate a mo-
ruruent in the course that justice calls upon them to
lnee--(Loied and continued cheering.) I know,
and
"ever, that they have difficulties to contend with,
every rational man must feel for the po-
!ition in Which they are placed ; and I could not, there-
itfore,ae,.„..
,sttl,iL myself to my own conscience, nor do I think
would be wise, generous, or just to condemn them or
refuse them our support, because they do not at once go
as, far as they ought to go, or because those measures
Which are deemed just may not be accomplished is a
Women just The Noble Lord concluded by moving the
'esolution,
which was to the following effect :—" That
we Pledge ourselves universally and individually to use
avery exertion which the law and the Constitution au-
thhorises to save our country from the recurrence of so
Po
ever,ey a calamity as the restoration of the Tories to
Baron De Romiace seconded the resolution. There
was not a man in the community who did not know the
miseries and calamities that a Tory Government would
brine upon the country.
The resolution was put from the Chair, and carried
amidst loud cheers, mingled with a few hisses and g
from the Oran roans
gemeu.
Lord SOUTHWELL came forward to propose the next
resolution, and was received with loud cheers. It was
quite evident, from the spirit that was abroad, and the
determination which the
the return of the Tories p
to eople manifested to prevent
power, that they dreaded
such an event as one of the
most direful calamities that
eould befal their country.
Sir Wieuese Someaviees came forward to cond
the resolution, and was most warmly received
b sey
the
Meeting.—You all know what brought us here together
this day ; but if there be any man amongst you din
one not know it, I will tell you our business here in
one sentence--it is to prevent misrule from again
its head in our heretofore ill-fated countr raising
yCheers.)
.—(
If I be asked what misrule is, I may poi to
bours deserted, point , and commerce and
manufac oar har-
tures de-
etroyed, and the general wretchedness
and poverty which
ja Spread all over the country ; and I will ask what has
Produced that misrule ? The answer may be summed
op in one word—ascendancy I—(Loud cheers, ac-
companied by hisses from the Orangemen.) What
Lord Miltown has said is well deserving o4eatten-
lion ; and it would be well if Ministers he cond'u'ct
it.
At the same time I must confess that the condik of
her Majesty's Ministers, as regards Ireland, has been as
Ricted as circumstances would admit. They ought to
44" One more for Ireland, but the question after all is
had they the power ? It, now their own fault if they
are 4ot that power. Tfily have the people with them
athet have all tbtiteis good and virtuous amongst the
wri'tiineracy With them ; in a word, they have the country
fault they
; and I repeat it, that it will be the.
if
this e they have not complete power to
the $
etY, and to accede to the hones,
carTriiiseed'elraers of England.--(Loud cheers.
Midresolution was then put torn the
amidst bursts of acclamatio .
Kerr
: Datillil. CRONIN, jun., of the P
came forward to propose
teerj.
to come
forward. Reformer was imperatively called upon
....7e
tho next
have ln euPport of the present Administration. VN _
Lord; - een el ein • • by the House of
r aceu such a position
that,that
twee caanot shrink from the performance of
t duty hh we owe to ourselves and oteerousl-
- that I, for one, am glad of that vote of the
jr;tilise of Lords. It has aroused the energies of the
is ie People, and I feel confident that the result will be
.....1 evour of the liberties and happiness of the people.
ene‘e„ )remheeera. Although a young man, I am still old
tre to ember the atrocities of the Orange fac-
:i;eayn‘elverleliinave understanding enough to know that
Power again to-morrow they would be
da_ bead as ever they were in their worst days of aseen-
eaensey- He would energetically declare that under the
Filr
commerce
Administretion Ireland was rapidly advancing
fetueinab:nieddoPurtwesepreethriotfygoo,r• and it only required
tilmeasuresoir
happiness which
andthe
1,1ib,0 pr
tlearant rnr yceor
contended
tie y to make Ireland prosperous and contented.
~.e
.felt satisfied in his mind that the return of tho
coartireisi i.s• power would be the ruin, degradation, and
l ceon of the country.—(Cries of " No, no," from
culrietsOrangernen, and loud cheers from the people, with
kr.of " They shall never return to power again.")
Zea Cronin concleded by moving that an address be
,ented to the Queen, -imploring her most Gracious
is •lesY to continue to the Irish people those advan-
hges of the impartial administration cfthe laws, which they
r,(l hitherto under the administration of the Marquis of
the
so happily enjoyed, and to save them from
party
fatal consequences of the return to power of that
Parts who had so long oppressed and misgoverned them,
Mr. S. P. WINTEL came forward to second this re-
*elution, and was reeeived with loud cheers. The ques-
tion to be decided at present was, whether they were to
0 forward in the march of improvement or eve back
ander Orange misrule. Tho country would never sub-
kit to be again trampled under the hoof of Orange des-
Potism. It was said that the Tories were again to come
I„uit° Power, and that the present Ministry should be dis-
e'aeed. 1-1 did not believe that such was the fact.
obeli C .
dell we not strain every nerve to prevent so great a
t,'",araity befalling the empire ? At such a moment,
-,,'4, for such a people, in the east and wcst, in Europe,
Ll'. and America, peace or war seems suspended in the
attee ; and we know not the moment when the
moral standard of Britain may be unfurled in the
11-,4,t„e,!'t. Is Buell the moment to proclaim strife and
stormy with one-third of the empire ? In the coming
0-c?",41 Ireland is anxious to take her post by the side
bats,.r.'ngland, to be a sharer of her perils and her glory,
8 IS too much to expect she should at the same time
414114 to outr• we and insult. The crowds that have
r astnbled ;ere this day from all parts of the country, at
a IN
thet Y Say moments- warning, is. a clonvkinfcoirn
g nothing
bat m will not continue to suffer it. as
4iatamiya_ri,ghts as a free-born Irishman, and I shall claim
his r.,,:"!10 the same for everysubjchcetaorf.)theTenrnmp
4,,,1 :4":1 n what it may.—( Hear, airier:tabine
, a rt those rights we have crowded hweriethtnhoislditatyla.
ist44. Rowean BERWICK said, I heard k
trZiehment the interruption which too
it -"ells
since.—(Loud cheers.) I did not believepl ce s
thatso
ump some
013.r°Ceeded frora a Catholic, and I was sorry to _
.n.
41:netthat it Gould be caused by any Protestant
forgetll
that that any Protestant could for a moment
free
dist the religion he professes is the child of
..
LordLerudlai, and seek to interrupt it.—(Cheers.) Aly
, t,' we are here to-day to consider the policy of the last
drat,'eare, as it effects the various interests of the country,
pecilr4ll it affect!! the character of our people. You declare,
ir resolutions of this day, that the habits of the
Cave Ogre are improving ; let us consider the evidence we
NI: °f this blessed fact, and whether the evidence ad-
(Cheed against it be equal to a feather's weight.—
ld ,t,ers.) Let us first, agree as to the success of the
reerZrY.sestem. Each coming year saw fresh enact-
Th. or terrible severity levelled against the people.
ae-4084eLoeidread
.announcement ushered in each coming..
Ireia,,, teat an iron policy alone could hold society in
tow s together.
Do all men make the same admission
few ,r (Cheers.) Let the voice which, within the last
e 1,1 `'.atlY s, has forth from the •
,iii gone
twat( g then improvement which has taken place, answer
. Crs.) Let the admission of the Tories an-
ti oe; it, that at no former period has the law been en-
rem
__.,
an-
tore sir wiEll greater vigour than under the administra-
eee°' the Marquis of Normanby.—( Hear, hear, and
ha ~1•.!•) If property were insecure—if, day after day,
t„ Qiue were diminishing, would men whose rent-rolls
st;sunt to hundreds of thousands, who from their lofty
tads are obnoxious to no influence whatsoever, be here
iselie7 applauding and calling for the continuance of a
i It SY which must make them beggars ?—(Cheers.)
i 0......_c otestant life were insecure, would thousands of
--fteseese.,,e__

Protestants stand around me testifying to the full
security which impartial justice has afforded their lives
and their religion?—(Loud cheers.) No ; the reso-
lutions of this day, conveying, as they will, the senti-
ments of all that is virtuous, illustrious, and ex-
cellent in the country, will for ever hush, or at least ex-
pose, the profligate madness of the bigot howl that has
been raised on the subject of Irish disturbance, and
against the present Government—(Loud and continued
cheering). Who are those now aspiring to dominion ?
The Reformers who refused a franchise, forfeited by the
convicted corruption of a paltry borough to the intelli-
gence and the wealth of Birmingham.—(Cheers.) The
Protestants who fostered corporations in Ireland now
acknowledged by themselves to have been sinks of cor-
ruption—holds of public robbers—dens of bigotry—and
called them all the time the bulwarks of the Protestant
religion. The Christians who abetted the slave-lasher
of the west in the perpetration of horrible atrocities, and
to hunting from his shores missionaries of that Gos-
pel in which the broken spirit of his harrassed
victims might find comfort and support. But they say a
change has come over the spirit of their counsels—that
experience has opened their eyes and mollified their
dispositions. Well, then, let us suppose that an Orange
club never yet existed to infest the earth, and let us
confine our view to the conduct they have pursued and
the sentiments they have uttered during the last year
or two—a period during which, be it remembered,

courting the people, they have clothed themselves in
the most bewitching garb, and worn only smiles.—
(Laughter.) They meet in their public, nay, in their
religious assemblies, and they brand the Catholic gentry
ns perjurers. They meet as Magistrates to dis-
charge the duties of their sacred office, and they
brand the Catholic peasantry as assassins.—(Hear,
hear, and loud cheers.) They collect at their festive
boards, and when wine and revelry have unveiled the
secret recesses of the heart, they commemorate, amidst
shouts of savage glee those dreadful periods when its
own gore soaked the country.—(Cheers.) They meet in
their place as legislators, and declare that from one
end of the kingdom to the other the Catholic peasantry
are bound under the obligations of a solemn oath (I
0-11 give you the words of the oath as it has been laid
before the eyes of the English public), " to walk in the
blood of the Protestant clan."—(Cheers.) Such are the
opinions which they have formed—such is the character
they have given of the people of Ireland. Will the
dominion of such men, if restored to power, be that of
rulers who love you, or of tyrants who hate you? Will
they sway the country with a golden sceptre, or bruise
it with a rod of iron?--(Great cheering.) With what
save their pulpits incessantly resounded ? With this—
that no Catholic could be accredited upon his oath—
that night after night the flower of the Catholics, their
gentry, their nobility, had openly, deliberately, and scan-
dalously perjured themselves in their places in Parlia-
ment—had violated the oath which they take touching
he property of the Church ; and that to bind them by
an oath was impossible. What, then ! will men imbued
with such sentiments carry out the Emancipation Act ?
Will they, believing that a Popish Judge and a perjured li
partizan designate the same thing, place at his disposal
the lives, the properties, the liberties of Protestants ?
If they are ready to do so, then do they confess them-
selves traitors to the Protestant religion—traitors to
the best interests of their country. No, the virtual
repeal of the Emancipation Act would be the imme-
diate consequenee of a Tory Government. When
I hear English Reformers speaking the arrant, the un-
grateful nonsense that the Reform Bill, though attended
by such a train of salutary measures, has done nothing—
when I see them hesitating, though but for a moment, to
stand by the Ministry against a Tory inroad—when I
see Chartist Associations springing up—hear the ravings
of their profligate leaders, and contemplate the mad ob-
jects they propose to themselves—l rejoice to see this
great assemblage—to find that Ireland is not ungrateful.
I rejoice to see this country teaching her rulers that
the benefits conferred upon her are received with grati-
tude—that the privileges with which she is invested are
Yielded in no cause but that of temperate freedom.—
(Cheers.) The Ministry have declared, and they only
speak the fears of a large portion of the people of the
empire, that a Repeal of the Union would end in the
separation of the countries, and their common ruin.
Suppose the question of repeal to be submitted to the
Legislature, and its advocates to address themselves to
the Ministry in terms like these :—" See how vain the
expectation of Ireland obtaining justice from England.
You know, to use the language of Mr. Burke, no visio-
nary or revolutionist, ' that no reason whatever can be
given why one people should voluntarily yield any degree
of pre-eminency to another but on a supposition of great
affection and benevolence towards them.' See how the
majority of the representatives of England, the genuine
reexfpoetoish subjects.siitoorescorfnhioe her feelings, declare, night after night,
against imparting to Irishmen the common privileges of
Eng
monster
how they have refused the mi-
nutest diastution of her greatest bur n, the smallest
See them ready to
rregstrolerCatnoce—t
powe t y 1
mies. Listen to the shouts with witch every '''sit erP,,
upon her people is received." 'What Answer would the
Ministers make to this ? Would they admit that this
csnduct, and these sentiments reflected the heart of
England ? Assur not ; th.ey would -
say, these men
sek ' the -- -

serve the citizen from the arts of the corruptor—throw
around human weakness the shield of the Ballot—let the
true voice of England be heard in her representative
a.ssembly, and then will the two countries stand or fall
together.—(lremense cheering.) ' I would call upon the
honest portion of the Tories, in God's name, to look
calmly at this subject—they know not what they do.
Suppose them to succeed in all their objects—suppose
them to convince the English people that Ireland swarms
with none but perjurers and assassins—suppose England
to adopt the policy which such a creed would justify
them in pursuing, and millions of Irishmen to be dealt
with as assassins and perjurers ; and then suppose that
crent to take place, the sure and quick occurrence of
which is dinned into our cars by the Tories and their
press. Suppose a general war to break forth—(Cheers)
—then would be rued the insane and sinful policy
which, in place of uniting all classes of men in
one common phalanx to oppose the common enemy
—instead of inflaming them with that ardour
which springs from the possession of privileges
and liberty—had already, for the sake of a momentary
party triumph, performed the work of the enemy by fill-
ing the minds of all with mutual dislike, suspicion, and
distrust.—(Loud cheers.) Look where I will, I see
nothing but ruin from a revival of the Tory system, and
a return to power of the country's old oppressors. Mr.
Berwick sat clown amidst immense cheering.

Lord CHARLEMONT next presented himself to the
meeting, and was received with the loudest applause. I
have often come forward in an assembly of Irishmen to
uphold the cause of Ireland ; and when I desert Ireland
may that stigma be affixed to my name which, I thank
God, has never, up to this moment, been attached to
me.—(Loud cheering.) I have frequently had to la-
ment differences between Irishmen—l have often had
to lament that trifling differences of opinion should have
prevented that co-operation amongst all classes of the
Liberals of Ireland which is so necessary to their suc-
cess ; but, looking upon this meeting, I have the
strongest hope that hereafter Irishmen of all classes will
forget their little differences of opinion, and join heart
and hand in the popular cause—a union which must be
attended with the happiest prospects. (Hear, hear.)
His Lordship then proceeded to read the address, which
has already appeared in The Sun.
Tho Marquis of IIEADYOUT came forward to second
the resolution, and was received with great applause,
the Noble Marquis said, my Lord Duke, my Lords and
Gentlemen, it is now ten years since I had the honor of
attending a meeting in this city—a meeting held at a
period when Ireland had arrived at a great crisis.—
( Hear, hear.) I need scarcely say that the period to
which I allude was that of 1829.—(Churs.) Now
we have assembled for a much more important pnrpose—
whether we shall be ruled by a just and impartial Go.
lToeorknemde wn ti—th e( Haleoaursy ' hear)—
suspicion o rby
uappoaur tiriwehaindch_has t
Teevaerr,
hear)--whether we shall suffer an immediate
ret(urnrte to
ptioroelliotaliunecrtdi as.tenh_isvecrisis ewho(s _ h.p)osetlL theet buess t inbteeresttsruoef
Tory domination—to the rule of those cold-head
tuuomuer
when fr i en di
t y
s übsu t bes shalltruecomeout
victorious
and u t
victorious and triumphant.—(Gre' we
cheering.) Shall
we abandon the honest Whigs, who have ever been
(Groat
:t v e
cheering ever o p
anxious to do us justice 7—(Hear, hear.) To them we
are indebted for those measures of reform which we
have obtained during the last eight years in which they
have been in power.—(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.)
Among the benefits they have conferred on this coun-
try, I will mention the name of Normanby—(Tremen-
dons cheering)—that man whose memory is engraved
upon the hearts, and who enjoys the respect, affection,
and gratitude of millions.—(lmmeuse cheering.) We
all regret his departure ; but the Ministry have sent us
, a worthy successor—( Hear, hear, and cheers)—a man
of enlightened mind, whose votes and influence have
ever been given to the cause of freedom.—(Loud cheers.)
The Noble Marquis resumed his place amid loud
cheering.
Mr. IL GAATTAN CURRAN—YOU have been told,
and well told, that a crisis has arrived—that the
present moment is pregnant with fate—to what? To
Ireland ; aye, and more than that, this hour is preg-
nant with the fate of the British Empire.—(Cheers,
and laughter from the Tories.) Do I say truly—are
you prepared ?—(" We are," and cheers.) I expected
no other response. I doubted not your intelligence to
I discern, nor your spirit to provide for it. I look confi-
-1 dently over this mighty assemblage, and I scorn to har-
bour either doubt or fear. I have said that the present
crisis is not Irish, but Imperial. Aye, this hour de-
cides the fate of the British Empire. Mr. Curran then
went on with great force and eloquence to insist on the
necessity of union among all classes of Irishmen.

be their own spesk not the real nice of &sgiand--Athe;Eneaknotl; Isla
do • ' nenuine sentiments—they represent9t, a, intimidatione win
e
5t de. .. .ractised by .• • • u..n itie -4e,,,1en
....Li,
id,
e chair,, a and smaller " t r --311(...: i..,t!-e•Wp*,.tlicr,a • vogate
e- esi
, ti peal would say---give to- 'Erifilanla a real -re-
Park, county sAntation—complete your own great work 4 refoit renn.,
i
:t resolution. —protect the tenant from the tyrant landliird.e-pre- the.
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