The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-12 00:00:00

IRELAND

The columns of the Irish Papers are occupied principally
with reports of Mr. O'Connell's progress through the country
and his speeches at the public dinners, to which he goes. On
Saturday we gave the substance of a speech delivered by that
Hon. and Learned Gentleman at Kanturk. To-day we find
room for the following sketch of the proceedings at a similar
entertainment, which took place at Thurles, last Thurday, that
being the day appointed by the people of Tipperary for the
manifestation of their regard and attachment to the Liberator,
by entertaining him at a public dinner. On his arrival he was
greeted by every demonstration of enthusiasm and delight,
and, after having visited the Archbishop of the diocese, he
addressed the assembled multitude from the market-house in
the following terms :—He called upon the people, in the
name of God and of their country, to follow that course by
which they could not fail to put their enemies in the wrong--
it was by the application of moral power that they would obtain
their liberties—it was by that power they conquered Peel and
Wellington, and laid the Orange flag prostrate in the dust. It
was by the application of the same power that they would pre-
vent the return of ruthless ascendancy, that would crush the
people to the dust, and again, if they had the power, lay
desolate their places of worship, and hunt and persecute to
the death the members of our holy religion. He alluded, in
the most feeling and pathetic terms, to the murder of Mr.
O'Keeffe, and, as if anxious to impress his sentiments more
deeply upon the hearts of his hearers, he addressed them in
Irish, with a force and pathos that cannot be described. He
concluded by a solemn adjuration to heaven, that the perpe-
trator of the foul deed should be brought to condign punish-
ment. (This prayer was responded to by a hearty amen, tit-
tered amid audible sighs and lamentations.) He trusted it
would be the last stain upon the character of Tipperary, and
that all honest men of the county would be unceasing in their
exertions to bring the miscreant to punishment. The people,
with one voice, cried out that they would. He then glanced
at the great measures which should be carried in order to se-
cure to the people their just rights. He called upon them to
join the Precursor Society; and said if he once had two mil-
lions of honest men united with him in demanding justice for
Ireland, Irishmen should, beyond all doubt, be placed on a
footing with Great Britain, or else Ireland should have a tio-
rnestic legisture. The enthusiastic bursts of applause which
followed the conclusion of his address were continued for seve-
ral minutes. The town was immediately afterwards bril-
liantly illuminated; and, although hundreds of persons re-
mained in the streets until a late hour, not the slightest act
of impropriety was committed.
The Secretary of the Dinner Committee received letters of
apology from N. Ball, Esq., Mr. Shied, and Mr. R. Otway
Cave.
The Chair was taken by Lord LISMORE, who, after some
appropriate remarks, gave " The health of our young and
lovely Sovereign, who, like the dove in holy writ, is full of
promise, hope, and joy."
This toast was received with long and continued plaudits,
and drunk with nine times nine.
The usual toasts followed, and were all responded to with
demonstrations of delight ; after which the Noble Chairman
having proceeded with some remarks, proposed the health of
" Daniel O'Connell."
The toast was received with the most enthusiastic and pro-
longed cheering.
Mr. O'CoNNELL, after the cheering had subsided, rose
and made a long and eloquent speech, which want of
space compels us to omit. The Dublin Monitor says--" It
was, however, for the greatest part, a mere repetition of what
both ourselves and our readers have heard fifty times, and it is
questionable whether onr columns be not filled with matter
more interesting, and probably more instructive. The affair
-altogether passed off exceedingly well."
The Freeman refers to the dinner in the following terms :
" Truly glorious was the reception that Mr. O'Connell had in
Thurles. How flatly it gives the lie, if any need there was,
to the Tory fiction that the influence of the great champion of
Ireland's liberties was on the wane I He wills it, and even
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the less are we rejoiced at the movement that has now com-
menced, because there can be no political peace until there is
political equality. Let the latter, then, be worked out, and
the energies of Ireland will be directed to those aims from
which wealth and contentment more immediately spring."
The Dublin Evening Post, on the subject of these dinner
demonstrations, affirms that it is the greatest folly in the world
to attempt to deride them. The objectors are " great fools,"
says the Post. " Who (it continues) broke up the Welling-
ton Administration ?
" Who broke up the Grey Administration ?
" Who broke up the first Melbourne Ministry?
" Who dissolved the Ministry of Sir Robert Peel ?
" It would be easy by an induction of facts and reasons, to
show that the main cause of the disasters which so many
Cabinets have suffered, might be traced to Ireland.
" We entirely agree with those who maintain that the
movement at present is thoroughly national, and that it will be
productive of great effects.
" Mr. O'Connell is not doing the thing by halves, certainly.
He has put his shoulder to the wheel, and the people are
roused and ready.

" That success will crown the efforts of the people, we shall
not allow ourselves for a moment to doubt."

The Dublin Monitor, on the other hand, regards Mr.
O'Connell's speech at Kanturk, as well as that at Thurles,
as most miserable productions, while the meetings themselves
are designated " farces." We ought, perhaps, to premise,
that the Monitor is a new paper, professedly eschewing party
views, and class objects, and even going so far as to hint that
there is in Ireland " treachery and trimming, aided by literary
' Swiss,' whose Gothic ignorance renders if possible, the wrong
and insult more unendurable," by attempting "to convert
the name of liberty into something worse than bold and avowed
corruption."
We now subjoin the Monitor's commentary on Mr. O'Con-
nell's speeches :
" We had the same tale repeated again, ad nauseum, about
the beauty and fertility of Ireland, and the bravery and pa-
triosm of her sons, and the services of Mr. O'Connell himself
—all of which are matters which none will attempt to gainsay.
The abuse of Lord Brougham was in the very worst taste, and
contained many statements, by the way, not founded in fact.
We deprecate as much as any one Lord Brougham's support
of the Coercion Bill, and we contend that it is one of
those things which will tarnish the historical fame of his
Lordship. But 'Mr. O'Connell must not forget that
the Melbournes, Palmerstons, Russells, and Glenelgs
—" the men whom he now delights to honour"—all advised
and supported the same measure. The vituperation upon
the dead Royalty of England, and the flattery towards
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nell, who is reported to have scrambled knee deep
into the briny wave at Kingstown, to present a laurel
crown to the Fourth George, after the ill-usage of that illus-
trious personage's daughter and wife, at which Mr. O'Connel
now so maniloquently sneers. Mr. O'Connell denounces the
English Radicals. Why, it is not " a little month" since we
were to beseech these very Radicals to join us ; and when Mr.
O'Connell himself informed us that the only reason why he
delayed the agitation of the Repeal question—the only mea-
sure, we maintain, which would essentially benefit Ireland—
was owing to the circumstance that there was a majority of
persons—honest politicians—in England—who conceived that
Justice to Ireland could be obtained from a British
Legislature. Had Mr. O'Connell not mentioned the
Radicals by name, we never should have thought
but that he alluded to the Whigs, and to that
small section of the English Whigs, which compose the Mi-
nisterial circle. Why should Mr. O'Connell find fault with
the Radicals and Reformers of England, because they refuse
to the Irish people an adequate Reform Bill? Why overlook
his beloved Ministers ? Can he woo Melbourne to extend
the Irish Suffrage, or force Lord John Russell to give the
Ballot? But then we should remember, those Ministers de-
serve the character which, we believe, Rochester gave to a
person who resembled them in want of principle, and whom he
declared there was no "doing with or without." Upon the
whole, we are grieved at the proceedings which took place at
the Tipperary demonstration. There is nothing wholesome
or invigorating in it. Twaddle stands in the place of truth,
and maudlin pot-house sentimentality where once we would
have discovered soul-stirring eloquence."

MR. SHIEL AND LORD WESTMEATII.-At the late Quarter
Sessions held in Mullagar, the Magistrates state in effect that
the charge is totally unfounded, and, in allusion to the recent
official inquiry i❑ Westmeath, they declare that the character
of Mr. Shiel, as a gentleman, " stands perfectly clear from
such an imputation."

PROSECUTIONS AGAINST THE PRESS.
THE QUEEN, AT THE PROSECUTION OF THE MARQUIS OF WEST.
MEATH, V. RICHARD BARRETT, ESQ.
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Mr. Monaghan read the affidavit of the Marquis of
nieath, and the publication containing the alleged libel, both
which
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as disentitled him from corning into. that
claim its interference ; that he made a i
statementn
fact, the House of Lords which was not only false in but him
which, from circumstances, must have been known to
to be so, or which he could have easily ascertained to have
been false. As a roof of this he argued that when the
Marquis of Westmeath first repeated his assertion to the
Westmeath g
Lord Chancellor that Mr. Shiel was unfit to be
placed on the
magisterial bench, that assertion, although coming from the
Lord-Lieutenant of the county, and as such most likely to
be attended to, nevertheless did not prevent the Lord Chan-
cellor from subsequently conferring the Commission of the
Peace on Mr. Shiel. Counsel also argued that Lord West-
meath was perfectly aware that all that he uttered in the
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House of Lords was immediately published to the world in all
the newspapers in the Empire, arid that that did not prevent
him
from giving expression to ungrounded assertions there
which were most prejudicial to the character of an absent in-
dividual. The affidavit of Mr. Barrett stated that he enter-
tained no personal feeling whatever against Lord Westmeath,
and that in what he had written he commented merely on his
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public conduct, which he considered o en to comment, and
that he alluded to the tergiversation f Lord Westmeath,
which was already well known to the world. After some fur-
ther i e argument,n
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anxious to see the
affidavits, as I have not had the advantage
not pronounce hearing the se-
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A similar application was made against the proprietor of the
Pilot, at the suit of Purefroy Bateman and Felix Fitzpatrick.