The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-13 00:00:00

EVENING- EDITION.

question so much as on that portion of it that interests all
in common.—( Cheers.) My position and pursuits enable
me hero to stand in this assembly and to Speak here as a
witness for the country of her commercial and general
advancement.—( Cheers and hisses from the Orangemen
in the pit.) And on that account I have presumed
thus to intrude upon you, and thus to hear testimony, as. a
mercantile man, that at no period has the country been so
prosperous as at present, and for these few years past.--
(Loud cheering and hisses.) With respect to the intro-
duction
of capital, I say, that before the passing of the
Emancipation Bill scarcely any came into this country,
whilst immense SLIM flowed in since, and never at all to
be compared to the last three years.—( Hear, hear, hisses,
and loud cheering.) To be sure, some may differ from me,
but I say here, without the fear of contradiction, that at no
period has land produced so much as it has during the last
three years.---( Cheers.) Lord Cloncurry has spoken of
a circumstance that has come within his knowledge, when
in the administration of the law as a magistrate; and spoke
to you of facts within my knowledge. And I stand up
firmly and feal)Essly to state how far the property of Ire-
land has increased of latter days, originating in justice to
the country. and continuing daily to increase, while justice
is dune to Ireland.—(Great cheering, accompanied with
hisses from the pit.) I 'have come here to attend this
meeting; I know I am a very humble individual, having no
pretensions to address you ; but I do say it is my duty, and
the duty of every man to give his meed of support, no mat-
ter how small that support may be, to sustain the policy we
now applaud.—(Great cheering.)
The resolution was put from the chair, and carried.
Lord Laseowee next presented himself. He said—My
Lord Duke, I have the honour to propose a resolution
which, with your permission, I will read for the meeting.
It is as follows :
" That the experience which of late years the people
have had of the advantages of impartial Government,
would render still more disastrous the return to the old
system of misrule under which they had for centuries so
severely suffered, as the contrast bAween the present
syetaim of impartiality and justice, kith the contrary rule
of Toryism, would embitter every feeling of discontont
and resentment."
My Lord Duke, in proposing this resolution, I feel una-
ble to express with sufficient strength my sense of the im-
portance of the occasion upon which we are now here as-
sembled.--( Hear, hear.) My Lord Duke, we are here
met in the name and in the face of the people of Ireland to
express our confidence in her Majesty's Ministers.—(Cries
of " No," from the Orangemen, and great cheering.)
confidence inspired by our experience of the benefits we
hare received from them—(" Hear, hear." and hisses)._
and we are assembled to express our fervent hope that the
policy which brought those benefits may long be continued
to us. My Lord, sure lam that the deepest gratitude has
ever been felt, and frequently expressed by the people of
Ireland fur the impartial and just course of Government
that has been pursued of later years, so wisely and fully
Alliministered by our late Lprd Lieutenant, the Marquis
irr Normanby.—(Loud cheering, which lasted several
minutes.)
[Here we arc compelled to stop wir repeat in order to go
to press. After the Earl of Uowell concluded, the
meeting was addressed by Baron Robeak, Lord South-
well, Sir William Somerville, Mr. Cronin, of the Palk,
Mr. Winter, Mr. Edward Berwick. Mr. O'Connell is
now speaking. ]
The following is the address to her Majesty :
TO TILE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, beg
leave to approach your royal presence with hearts filled
with the warmest affection to your Majesty's person, and
the strongest attachment to the stability and glory of '
your throne.
We beg leave to call your royal attention to the present
state and prospects of this part of your Majesty's domi-
nions.

For centuries previous to the accession of your Majesty's
predecessor, the great body of this nation suffered under a
system of laws the harshest and most oppressive to he found
in the history of any people. The spirit in which those
laws were administered, rendered snore cruel the injastice
in which they had been conceived—framed to secure the
monopoly of a faction, they were dispensed by that faction's
most heated partieans. Such a system begot its natural
consequences—contempt for laws which afforded the people
no protection, and distrust of those by whom they were
administered. Life and property became insecure, and
the oppressed and uneducated masses sougl.t in violence
that redress which they despaired of obtaining by appeal-
ing to the law.
Even when the laws themselves had been somewhat
ameliorated, the people continued to mistrust the men who
administered them, seeing that they were exclusively
taken front the ranks of those who had been the nation's
oppressors.
When our late gracious Sovereign was pleased to call
the Marquis of Normanby to the Government of this
country, the principle was, for the first time in Ireland, not
only proclaimed, but fully acted upon, that the laws should
be administered for the benefit of all, and that to every
class of the Irish people should be rendered equal and im.
partial justice—factious intolerance was no longci a pass-
port to authority, and hostility to the rights of the people
ceased to be a patent for place.
The consequences of this change were soon made mani-
fest in the improvement of the people. The laws began
to be respected—outrage and violence became less fre-
quent; life and property more secure; the Government
won the public confidence, and the seeds of peace and
prosperity were sown throughout the land.
The Irish people will ever recollect with gratitude that
one of the first acts of your Majesty's reign was a gene-
rous and hearty approval of this just and impartial pol_icy—
they hailed that act as the harbinger cf their country's hap-
piness—but they received it with enthusiasm, ac the esi-
(fence of the wisdom and virtue of their youthful Sovereign.
In the selection which your Majesty has been graciously
pleased to make of a successor to the Marquis of Nor-
manby, in the government of this country, we gratefully
recognise the same affectionate solicitude for the peace and
welfare of your Irish subjects.
Whilst we tender to your Majesty a people's gratitude
for the benefits which your Majesty's reign has given,
or continued to us, we see with anxiety and alarm the
efforts which are now made to fill the public and the royal
mind with sentiments injurious to the Irish nation, and to
create impressions unfavourable to the system by which
Ireland has, under your Majesty's present advisers,-been so
happily governed.
By a powerful party in England, aided by a faction in
this country, the character of the Irish people is hourly
vilified—they are represented as a faithless, barbarous,
and sanguinary race—the evils resulting from long mis:
government are imputed to them as incorrigible vices,
and they are pourtrayed in the blackest characters which
calumny can invent.
We, who are deeply interested in the preservation of
the public peace and the security of private property__
we, to whom a just and vigorous admiristration of the
laws is all-important—we who have no interest but in the
quiet and prosperity of our country—we, who are inti-
mately acquainted with the character and condition of its
people—we repudiate those calumnies—we bear testi_
mony to the great social improvement which, under your
Majesty's present Government, has taken place—and we
implore your gracious Majesty not to lend the royal ear
to those who malign a brave, long-suffering and most
loyal nation.
Whilst the crimes and disorders of this country have
been enormously exaggerated, the grievances and severe
privations of its people have been sedulously kept out of
view—and those who are the readiest to assail the charac-
ter of that people have been equally distinguished by their
improve
their to every plan that has been proposed to
their habits, or ameliorate their condition.
The return to power of a party thus'. reckless of the
chsrcter, nut fferent to the sufferings, and hostile to the
interests of the Irish, we regard as the heaviest calamity
which could befal us. To your gracious Majesty, we tutu
to save us from so great an evil; and we humbly beseech
your Majesty that you will not suffer to be delivered war
to Viet enemies, and to the miseries: and horrors of civil
commotion, a generous and gallant people, who rely with
confidence upon the virtues of the Queen, and would gladly
sacrifice their lives, should the glory of your crown, or the
defence of your royal person, require it.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, APRIL 12.—WindN.E., strong brecz2s.-=Ar-
rived from the river and sailed the Cygnet, Dalston, for
Hobart Town ; Water Witch, Rolls, Algoa Bay; Swal-
low, \Vithycombe, Muscat; Science, Rowland, Boibice' -
Cecrops, Finlayton, Quebec; Tulloch Castle, Crawford,
ditto; Mary, Tate, ditto; Houghton lo Spring, Proud:
ditto; Clyde, Kerr, ditto : Onyx, Hogg, ditto; Macia,
Jones, Sydney, C. 13. ; Ann Elliott, Reed, Ricbcbucto
Symmetry, Colledge, Prince Edward's Island; Stephen,
Pictou ; City of Edinburgh, Murray, North Am6riea
*
Ocean, Robinson, river St. Lawrence ; Gloucester, Dar-
ling, 'Matanzas; Conservative, M•Lachlan, Constantinople;
Logan, ditto; and Albert, Charlotte, Bordeaux.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 12.—Wind E.—Arrived the Eesta-
nia, Killisoso, from Havannah ; Koti, Cutiabectson, Ham-
burg ; Adelaide steamer, London; and Alexander,
]Washer, Liverpool.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 11, —Wind E. to E. N. E., strong
breezes.—Arrived the Gemini, Decker, from Bahia;
Winskabit, Blom, Speen; and Iginso Kloster, Lund, ditto.
Sailed the Brothers, Massy, for Quebec; and Enchantress,
Newsom, Gloucester.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 12.—Wind N.—Arrived the Daunt..
less, Jackson, from New Orleans ; Napoleon, Chadwick,
Mobile ; Yaskea, —; Triton, Alarseilles; Herman,
Bremen; and Concordia, Amsterdam. Sailed the Ann,
Whinfield, for Maranham ; Forth, Lamb, Montreal ; Scot-
land, Black, Quebec ; Mary Campbell, Barker, Talnia.,
gouclic ; Nancy, Wilson, Newfoundland; Sovereign,
Jones, Oporto; and Maunsey, Downes, Lisbon.

SHOCKING ACClDENT.—Yesterday evening an '
accident of a very alarming nature occurred to a little girl
named Elizabeth Townsend. It appears that she was 1
crossing Drur-I.ane, near Blackmoor-street, when she w ds
knocked down and run over by a gentleman's cabrifAct, I
and on her being conveyed to the surgery of Mr. Welkor,
of No. 101, Drury-lane, it was found that one, of her
thighs had been laid open to a great depth and I(ATillcat:di
that one of her ears was nearly severed fro:n her head.
The wounds were sewed up, and the gentleman (whose
name did not transpire) who occasioned the accident,
to s a y gave
a liberal sum towards her present comforts, and
every attention to be, paid to her at his expense, and
pro-
mised to see to her future welfare, as the p:oirrocrnhilhdi
drinsh-ortly in town,
sislaitae
all probability maimed tor life.
LORD HoWDEN.—We are happy
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this much respected Nobleman is repceocvtee
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