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tions this ban of proscription bad been removed, and Le was
most happy, therefore, to have the oenortunity of paf use
tr:lute of applause to his Honourable Friend, Mr. O'Cot new,
for ',zinging forth the energies of his ecuntry, tLc exertions
of which enabled him to dlress that assembly in the chin-ac-
tor he did.—( Loud cheers.) As the professor of a certain
religion he had been proseril ed, and he should not feel satis-
fied with himself if he did re': express his feeling and that of
the great body of those who professed the same religion witit
himself, if he did tof offsr his leunele meed of applause to
his Honourable Friend near him.—(Loud cheers.) Ile
would conclude by proposing to them the toast of " Justice
to Ireland."—(Loud applause.)
Mr. O'CONNELL wished to propose to them a toast, the
health of his Gallant and esteemed Friend, their Chairman,—
( Loud and continued cheers.) He might, perhaps, exceed
the limits of expression which were correct in his presence.
but he was proud that to him, his personal friend and his fel-
low-countryman, had been confided the liberties of that great
portion of the metropolis, a circumstance which placed him in
so enviable a situation, that there was no man who must not
feel proud to receive a compliment at his hands.—(Loud
cheers.) His situation was enviable, as having been returned
the representative of one of ties. most intellectual consti-
tuencies in the known world, and this situation had not
been attained by any of those acts which disgraced elec-
tioneering policy.—( Cheers.) He owed it to his own cha-
racter, that their free suffrages had confided to him the
liberty of the people of Westminster, and had placed him
in the situation he occupied in the Legislature of the empire.
Cheers.) It was not for him (Mr. O'Connell) to look to
what were his merits. His early life had been passed in the
service of his country, in which the laurels he had won bad
been acquired in a war which added lustre to its glories. In
the struggles in whichilie had been since engaged in Spain—
and he (Mr. O'Connell) would not now offer any opinion as
to the conflict of parties there—but they had reason to be
proud that the valour of the British soldier had been there
vindicated, unmixed with the cruelty which had stained the
arms of other countries—and if—lie (Mr. O'Connell) only
put it hypothetically in the presence of his Hon. and Gallant
Friend—it were true that he had been brave as his own
sword, still he had thrown over the vanquished his protection,
as if the guiltless blood that thrilled through the veins of in-
fancy had been poured through his, and as if he had been
animated with the spirit infused from the hold strength that
throbbed in the breast of the British soldier. His Gallant
Friend had lately received the honours which were the ap-
proving gift of his Sovereign--(Loud cheers)—and if he now
addressed him as Sir George de Lacy Evans, it was the ap-
plication of a title won in those fields where British valour
led him triumphant—where he had borne down even the
courage infused by republican institutions, and shown that,
in the stand-up fight, no arm can resist the prowess of the
British soldier.— ( Cheers.) There was one pleasing eircum-
! stance to which with satisfaction lie could allude ; in the
present era the British soldier was no longer the military
leader of armed men, bound by a system of explicit obedience.
British soldiers were not now the mere automata, giving
passive obedience as the tools of a despot—they now united
the qualification of the citizen to that of the soldier, and
amongst the most gallant defenders of their country were to
be found the soundest and most disinterested patriots. The
arms of the soldiers yielded to the gown of the citizen, and
the glories of the citizen contributed to exalt the bravery of
the mili:ary man.—( Loud cheering.) And in the case
of his Honourable and Gallant Friend, he might well
ask, what question either of civil or religious liberty had
been debated in Parliament, in which he was not amongst
the foremost in the fight ? What question of taxation had
conic before the Legislature of the country in which he was
not foremost to assist in diminishing the weight of taxatiou,
and of the burthens of the people ? What question had been
proposed which involved the extension of human liberty, of
which that gallant soldier had not been the advocate ?
( Loud cheers.) This was a pleasing circumstance to dwell
upon as regarded the British soldier ; it was one which
augured well for posterity.—( Loud cheers.) His Gallant
Friend had said that he ( Mr. O'Connell) in his address
had spoken of the future rather than the past. What to him
was there of the past to speak ? The soldier could look
upon the laurels and upon the circumstances which had gained
them, and could then dwell upon the oaken crown which
decked his brow, and which had been acquired in conferring
benefit upon his country ; but why should he (Mr. O'Connell)
refer to the past ? There was one remark, however, which ho
would make,—whilst in Ireland they struggled for equal
rights in the effort to preserve Catholic Emancipation—his
hope of success was increased when he saw an increase of the
male creation thrown into their assemblies ; and when man
after man thronged upon them and increased their numbers,
but his expectations were further increased, when the other sex
shed an influence on theirjcouncils. From the moment he ob-
served that an interest was taken in them by the purer portion
of the creation, then he saw that the cause was fortified, rind
that no being dare indulge in those councils the grovelling passion
of interested ambition, and that everything disgraceful, every
feeling that could tend to degrade or to alloy, must be flung aside,
and that all that was generous and noble in the aspirations of
mankind fur the advantage of the human race must be brought
into the strength of rivalry for superioity in the presence of
those whom nature framed as purer beings.--( Cheers.) It
was, therefore, he congratulated his Hon. and Gallant Friend
that his firmness in the field and his fidelity as a citizen were
rewarded by the overwhelming majority of the voices of the
enlightened and intelligent, and smiled on by those who con-
ferred honour where they esndeseended to smile.—(Loud
cheers.) He would now propose to them the health of their
Chairman, Sir George de Lacy Evans.—( Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN was sensibly grateful for the honour they
had conferred on him ; he could only say that he had con-
scientiously performed his duty to his constituents. Since his
return to Parliament some ueforescen circumstances had oc-
curred, but in reference to these, he considered he had dono
his duty, and acquired the approbation of his constituents.
The Hon. and Gallant Member then referred to the struggle
in Spain, end bore testimony to the exertions of the Spaniards
to pass through the difficulties which intervened between des-
potism and liberal institutions. He thanked the meeting for
the honour it had conferred on bins, and concluded by pro-
posing the health of the Stewards of the day.---( Loud cheers. )
''
e'Veral other toasts were proposed and acknowledged, and
the corny any separated at a late hour.

pEmBRORZ.EL ECTION—SIR JAMES
1;.1: A H A M.
cohn:EsFONDENT.)
(FROM OUR O',%N
TUESDAY, FEB. 20.—Sir James GraL.
am was returned with-
out opposition as Member fur the borough Pembroke this
day. He was accompanied by Sir John Gwen, Col( nel
Owen, the late Member, and several gentlemen resident io
the neighbourhood. •
After being proposed by Mr, Mathias, of Lamplie3', end
seconded by Mr. Adams, of Holylah:I, Sir James Galiarei
addressed the electors in a speech of aboti. an hour, whirls
was principally remarkable for his unsparing abuse of the
present Ministry, whom he deseribee, " if not the meet dan-
gerous, were at all events the shabbiest that ever existed."
He then attacked Mr. O'Connell, whom he said -it was the
policy of Earl Grey's Administration to hold at arms' length,
but thin the present Ministry owed their existence to him. He
then defended his own character of being an apostate, renegade-,
Whig, &c., and defied any one to point out in what respect ht
had deviated from the principles he had always held, and that
he had not deserted his former friends ard colleagues in ad-
versity, but when he was in possession of one of the highest
offices under the Crown. He also alluded to the remarks
of the IVelchman and Cambrian newspapers of last week, one
of which insinuated that it was on account of some considera-
tion from the heavy to the PO/ Baronet that the borough was,
turned over to him, the truth of which he denied. And he
stated his gratification at being returned by the almost unani-
mous support of afire constituency.
After leaving the Town Hall he was cheired through the town..
I observe in the Morning Chronicle raper of the 17th inst.
a correspondent states that S:r James Graham :would probably
be opposed with every prospect of success, and who hope&
the Admiralty would exercise their legitimate influence over-
the Dock-yard workmen on the occasion. It is, however, an
en.feramete fact that the Admiralty (as :veil as some other
public departments) permit all the patronage and place to be
held by their avowed opponents the Tories.
Sir James Graham was accompanied down in the Mail by
It's brother, Captain Graham and Captain Laws, R.N., aka
intends proceeding to London to-morrow to take his sent.
In order to give your readers an idea of Sir James Graham
b iing returned by a free constituency, I send you a statement
of Pembroke and its contributory boroughs, taken from the
Corporation. Commissioners' Report of March, 1834, since
which the freemen have considerably diminished and the ten-
pound householders increased ; besides which there is no doubt
but a large portion of the freemen could be disfranchised if
proper steps acre taken, so that there is some hopes that he
may be succes.9:l//y opposed at the neat election.
Extract from the Corporation Commissioners' Report,
p. 371—March 1834 :
PFeunuonr., AND Pr.earoninE Doti( :
Freemen (of whorl 82 are 10/. Householders) 588
Ten pound Householders
TENEY 779
Feeerwn (of whom 38. are 101. Householders) 135
Ten pound Householders . 75
MILFORD :--
Ten pound Householders
AVIsTON:—
Freemen
Ten pound Honseholders

210
164

Total constituency l3ll

BOROUGH OF PORTSMOUTH.

(FROM OUIc OWN COIZZIEST'ONDENT.

Fizn. 20.—Sir Philip Durham will not consent to be made
the tool of our Tories. The brave. Captain Napier not wish-
ing to injure the liberal cause retires, and Sir George Staun-
ton, Bart., will be the futur.i representative of this Borough, but
not without a little fighting, as the Tmics are bent on war, and
as a last resi-nrce are going to bring forward—Dr. Quarrier !I!
NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT.
The Hampshire Banking Company have this day opened a
branch establishment in this town, and intend opening another
at Ryde and one at Cowes, an accommodation much wanted,
particularly in the latter town, and will remove a great deal
of inconvenience felt there by masters, owners, and passengers
of the numerous Foreign and English ships touching there,
and als3 the vast swarms of summer visitors. It is surprisinc, no
banking establishment has been opened there before ;
there is not a wine merchant—but one furnishing iron-
monger, one fishmonger, and one pawnbroker—to furnish the
thousand wants of the united towns of East and West Cowes,
containing full six thousand residents, and often visited by
double that number of strangers. •