The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-08 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, DEC. 6.
NATIONAL TRADES UNION,—An extraordinary meet.
ing of this body was held on Sunday, Mr. F. O'CONNOR
in the Chair. The question of Poor Laws for Ireland
beine, introduced by a notice of motion given by Mr. Law-
less, Mr. O'Connell—amidst some opposition on the part
of Mr. Staunton, who called the Learned Gentleman to
order for discussing a question himself which he had pre-
viously prevented other Members from speaking on—said,
in the course of a lengthened address, that he would solicit
information from Lord Morpeth to-morrow, as to the course
Government intended to pursue relative to a compulsory
provision for the poor. " Gentlemen (continued Mr. O'Con-
nell) are very fond of declaiiining about the spirit and the
humanity of poor laws ; but I doubt very much if poor laws
are not calculated to make the people poorer, and have the
effect of making them continue in a state of poverty—at
least such has ben their result in every country in Europe
where they have been tried.--(Cries of" No, no I") Oh,
but I say, yes, yes, and I will say now upon this subject
that I have not been fairly treated. I have for ever the
opinions of Mr. Evans thrown in my teeth. Why, I say
there is not on the face of the earth existing any where, I
don't care where, such an anomaly as the situation of the
Irish nation presents ; and it can be accounted for in no
other way but by p4litical causes, and it is not poor laws
which the people of Ireland want to remedy their situation."
Towards the conclusion of his speech, he expressed his re-
gret that he had grown warm with the gentleman who bad
been so eager to take the lead in bringing on a discussion of
the poor law question. He wished that gentlemen who
caused interruptions had bottled up their resentment until
Monday week, when a motion on poor laws for Ireland
would be brought forward. Until then he hoped he would
be allowed the benefit of his own opinion. Some resolu-
tions, the nature of which will be learned from the follow-
ing passage in Mr. O'Connell's speech, "-are (said be)
you perceive, ht present, before the meeting three se-
parate propositions, two of which you have agreed to, and
the third now remains for your vote. The first relates to
secret and illegal combinations that have been formed by
the enemies of your country, in order to do you a mischief.
The second relates to the registry in Dublin ; and the
third to the effects of combination, which the law allows, if
kept within the letter of the law, and which has resulted in
effects we have often deplored." With respect to the con-
templated inquiry into combination, let me remind you, said
Mr. O'Connell—" I remember an assassination committed

in the noon-day upon a ship-carpenter, who worked, as it
was considered, against the rules of the body. The assas-
sination was committed in the noon-day, and no one was
ever punished for its perpetration.—(Hear, hear.) One
cannot be surprised if the vengeance of Heaven fell upon
the members of a trade who encouraged such a murder.
—(Hear.) Now, whatever be the result of your inquiries,
remember this, that blood has stained the streets of Dub-
lin, and that that murder was the result of combination."
Mr. O'Connell then went into the history of his country's
trade, and inferred from the opposition made by the English
manufacturers of 1786, headed by the father of Sir Robert
Peel, to certain resolutions of reciprocity proposed by the
Irish Legislature, that Sir Robert was the hereditary
enemy of Ireland. "He would not," said Mr. O'Connell,
be his father's son if he were not the enemy of Ireland. Peel,
then being a principal manufacturer in England, led on that
opposition, and defeated that good which Ireland might
have obtained from her own Parliament." Our space will
not permit us to follow the Hon. Member through his ad-
dress—we must content ourselves with the following ex-
tract :—" Many a battle has been fought for Ireland, and
many a struggle on her behalf has been unsuccessful—her
sons were defeated because there was no universal combi-
nation amongst them. I was the means of extending a
combination amongst Irishmen in the open day, and in the
presence of all honest men, and I trust with the approba-
tion of my God. It was such a combination of strength as
Ireland never had before, and the consequence was, that
like a mountain torrent, accumulating in its course, it be-
came resistless, and bore down all the barriers, and swept
away all the impediments which bigotry placed in its way,
and Catholic emancipation triumphed over all. The here-
ditary enemy of Ireland, Peel, and the bitter enemy of Ire-
land, because he was Irish, and wafted on the blood of the
Irish to high station, Wellington of Waterloo, had to give
way—the dexterity of the one and the military glory of the
other shrunk before my combination—and I now stand here
(you may call it vanity)—(Cheers, and cries of " No,
no")—I now stand here the victor of Peel and Wellington.
—(Cheers.) And what do I ask now? I never asked any
man to peril his life—l never asked any man to peril his
fortune—l never asked any man to commit a violation of
the law, and Heaven forbid I should ever ask any man to
commit the slightest violation of morality.—(Hear.) I be-
long to a creed of which one of the great leading principles
is, tat the greatest possible good i not permitted to be
obtained, if it be the result of the slightest immorality which
the mind can conceive—that, in fact, the means can never
sanctify the end—l belong to that calumniated creed, which
distinctly announces, through its saints and doctors, that you
cannot, and ought not, purchase the kingdom of heaven it-
self by the slightest venial sin. I never, then, have asked
of any man to violate, in the least &awe, the law of God or
of man ; but within the law of God, and according to the
law of man, I do call upon persons who can now serve their
country to do so." After some observations on the duty of
men to fight the Constitutional battle at the registry, Mr.
O'Connell concluded amid continued cheering. The reso-
lution then passed, and the meeting adjourned.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
GREENE V. HOGAN.-Mr. Sergeant Jackson on Satur-
day informed the Court that he had discovered fresh
authorities relating to the case, which would he, likely to
guide their Lordships on the decision they were about to
make. The Chief Baron said he would be obliged to the
Learned Sergeant to hand him up any new authorities
which he might have discovered ; at the same time the
Court was not just then going to make any decision on the
case. Mr. O'Connell was present, and the Chief Baron
asked him if he had any motion to make, and he said he
.had not any of that class which he could then bring before
the Court.
An affectionate address.was presented by the inhabitants
of Kilmore to his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, on the
occasion of his visit to Carton, the seat ,of the Duke of

Leinster.
The Drogheda Journal states that his Excellency is ex-
pected on a visit to Sir. William and Lady Maria Somer-
ville on Wednesday next, where the Noble Earl will remain
until Saturday.
A. public meeting is to be held at Duleek to-morrow, for
the purpose of addressing his Excellency on the occasion
of his visit to that neighbourhood.
DUNGARVAN.--A most ridiculous address from John M.
Galwey appears in the last Evening Post. The address
could only come from a wag or a fool. The writer pro-
mises, if returned, to bring in a Bill for the settlement of
the Tithe question—to enclose the Cunnigar—to raise
Dungarvan above Cork and Belfast:--to build lighthouses
for the fishermen—and to print a paper exclusively for their
use.— Waterford Chronicle.

Badminton Park, the seat of the Duke of Beaufort,
will be very gay during the Christmas holidays, a distin-
guished party having been invited by his Grace to his hosp.
table mansion,