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London, England, 1836-05-30 00:00:00

was
more at home when the dog bit him ; and turning round
'Van the animal, said, " Thou bast bitten me, but I would
not do thee the least injury." The dog, however, did not
like his looks, and ran away. The Quaker only called out
"Mad dog!" He did the dog no injury; it was the neigh-
bours who killed him.—(Laughter and cheers.) So my
Lord Haddington exclaims, " Oh, my dear Irish, I love
you from my heart—you are the finest creatures in the
World, except that you are good for nothing—you have only
one fault which unfits you for liberty—you are, in fact, the
most contemptible set of blackguards in the world."—
(Cheers.) There is the piety and good sense of the Lords.
Who would not be for such an assembly ?—(Laughter.) I
bare seen some of their letters ; I wish I knew who taught
them to spell.—(Laughter.) I have seen some of their
writing. It would ruin a schoolmaster to have it told that
be taught them.—(Loud laughter.)
Mr. JOHN CHILDS, after pointing out the number of
non-resident clergymen who had large and valuable livings
in the neighbourhood of Bungay, proposed as a toast—
" The abolition of State religious establishments."—Drank
with great applause.
Captain MONEY proposed the next toast, " A Reform to
the Peerage."
The toast was received with great cheering.
The CHAIRMAN proposed " The Health of Lord Mel-
bourne and his Majesty's Ministers."—Drank with en-
thusiasm.

Mr. PRIEST proposed " The Health of Mr. Hume and
the real Reformers of the House of Commons."—(Cheers.)
The Rev. R. ELWYN next rose, and after expressing his
admiration of the brilliant eloquence displayed by Mr.
O'Connell, and apologising for his own deficiency as a public
Speaker, said—preaching is my trade, but extempore preach-
ing is not my practice. I shall, therefore, trouble you with
but a single observation, I can never help feeling that
there is a great deal of truth in the supposed retributive
justice of heaven. For six centuries we oppressed Ireland,
and she gave us a Castlereagh and a Wellington. We are
now beginning to do her justice, and she gives us Daniel
O'Connell.(Great cheering.)
Mr. O'Connell left shortly after ten o'clock, and imme-
diately set off on his return to town.

CORPORATION REFORM in IRELAND

(From Keene's Balls Journal.)
On Fiic'ay a public Meetinc, was held at the Guildhall, in
Viis city, to take into consideration " the conduct of the
House of Lords in opposing all salutary reforms, and more
particularly in refusing to grant municipal corporations to
Ireland ; and to adopt such resolutions and petition to the
House of Commons as the Meeting shall deem requisite."
At the hour appointed (1 o'clock) the large room of the
Hall was nearly filled, and by half-past 1 it was thronged.
On the platform were—Gen. Palmer, M.P., J. A. Roe-
buck, Esq., M.P., the Mayor, Sir Wm. Cockburn, Col.
Napier, Col. Chambers, Capt. Mainwaring, Capt. Muttle-
bury, Capt. Berton, Lieut. Schomberg, Rev. J. Murch,
Rev. T. Cater, &c. &c.
Gen. PALMER proposed that W. T. Blair, Esq., Mayor,
should take the Chair ; which his Worship acceded to
amidst general acclamation.
The MAYOR said, it was known to most present that a
13ill had recently been sent up to the House of Lords from
the Commons to reform the Municipal Corporations of
Ireland ;it went up to the Lords a Bill of liberty—a Bill
of rights ; it came out of it—[Here so much confusion was
created by a few persons, that his Worship was for some
time unable to proceed]—l repeat what I said, it went
from the Commons a Bill of rights ; it came back a Bill
of destruction—a Bill of attainder and confiscation.—(lm-
mense cheering, mixed with slight disapprobation.) All
Governments sould be for the general welfare, and not for
sectarian domination . Was not Ireland as competent to
manage her local affairs as England and Scotland ? For
himself, he must observe, that he always considered Corpo-
ration Reform in Ireland as consequent on the passing of
the Catholic Relief Bill. His Worship, in conclusion,
said, that be accorded with the observation of Lord John
Russell, " that he did not seek a collision of the House of
Lords, but he was prepared to contend with them until
Corporation Reform had been attained for Ireland."—(lm-
rnense cheering.)
General Palmer said that as one of the representatives
of the city in Parliament, he had attended the present impor-
tant meeting, not to express his own feelings, but to hear
the expression of the feolings of his constituents, and to
support the resolutions of the meeting with his voice in the
House of Commons ; for in the present Reformed Parlia-
ment, wherein scats were no longer bought and sold, the
representative was no longer free to act upon his own judg-
ment, but bound to vote accordiog to the will of his elec-
tors, or to resign his seat.—(Lnudcheers.)
Mr. ROEBUCK considered the present state of public af-
fairs one of fearful danger. Civil war impended over them
—civil war was about to be brought on by the injustice
and insane bigotted opposition to the wishes of the nation
at large on the part of a selfish and disappointed faction.
The Irish nation naturally feel deeply insulted. They per-
ceive how little sympathy the Lords have for their suffer-
ings and misfortunes, and they are now determined to suffer
this oppression no longer. Resistance is being organized
—agitation has begun—Government, in every thing but
name, will soon be at an end, and all our many thou-
sand troops will be unable to maintain even the no-
minal dominion of Englaud. Headed by O'Connell,
Ireland will resist justice will be on her side, and
success cannot fail to follow. I, as your representative,
intend to go as far in this course as the Constitution will
allow me to go. I am desirous of trying all peaceful and
constitutional means, before having recourse to harsh and
restrictive measures. If these means fail—if the Lords,
deaf to all remonstrance, and listening only to the voice of
selfishness, determine to continue headlong in their present
mad career—then, gentlemen, I am prepared for collision.—
(Loud cheers.) Let us understand what collision means.
It means that we are prepared to take the government of
the country into our own bands, and to put an end to the
present constitution of the House of Lords.—(Loud and
long-continued cheering.) If, by the mad opposition of the
Lords, I am driven to this extremity, the fault is not in
me, but in them.—(Hear, hear.) Justice must be done to
Ireland ;if with the House of Lords, well—if not, with-
out it.—(Loud and continued cheering.)
HENRY ALEXANDER BARRY, Esq., then addressed the
Meeting. He said—l trust the Reformers throughout the
kingdom will be firm and united, but temperate. If we are
to fall into the horrors of anarchy, let those horrors be
solely and wholly caused by our political opponents. The
Reformers would then stand acquitted before God and their
own consciences.—(Cheers.) Mr. Barry then moved—
" Resolved—That the people of England and Ireland,
being one people, require for their good government the
same political institutions, and the same lam."
Colonel CHAMBERS seconded the resolution ;

Upon which a Captain MUTTLEBURY rose and proposed
an amendment, to the effect that the House of Lords had
Only exercised their undoubted right in altering the Bill,
and that in doing so they had acted with a sound discretion.
The amendment was seconded by Lieut. SCHOMBERG.
Only 15 hands were held up in favour of it, and the ori-
ginal resolution was then carried amid tumultuous applause.
Mr. ENGLISH proposed the next resolution.
Mr. BRIDGES, late candidate for Frome, seconded the
resnlution, which was carried unanimously.
Mr. W. P. ROBERTS moved the third resolution, which
was seconded by Mr. WILLIAMS.
Colonel NAPIER then rose amidst tremendous cheering,
and said—Gentlemen, I do not think that the true question
is whether Corporation Reform shall be extended to Ire-
land, but whether the' House of Lords or the House of
Commons shall govern in England—whether the will of the
People of England shall stand, or the will, the corrupt will,
of some crazy and some factious Peers shall henceforth be
Paramount in this country ?—(Cheers, and cries of " No !")
This is to my apprehension the true question, and the Irish
Corporation Reform is but a limb of it—a subject on which
to commence the business of agitation—ay, and a very
good subject to begin the battle with the Lords. Gentle-
Inen, though the present Ministers are far better than their
predecessors, though they are far more enlightened, they
are not yet quite up to the mark. They approach it, but
I should say, with the exception, perhaps, of my Lord
tietbourne, that they are not quite up to it. They linger
kehind at times when they should be in front—they seem
like men aroused from sleep, starting when they should be
;feting ; dodging, skirmishing, and sparring with the enemy
Vhen they should grapple him at once by the throat.—
(Loud cheers.) You must arouse them by your encou-
Ning shout, and even urge them onward by your mena-
-1:41 cries, for ;they have voluntarily offered to lead us
'out of the house of bondage, and they must not tarry
Y the way.—(Loud cheering.) Not that I think
:rem treacherous, but they loiter. They would willingly
fed us with manna in the wilderness, but the seem unable
rlead us into the land of promise. "To your tents, 0
81.4e1." must therefore be the cry. The shouting of the
people must be heard ; and friends and enemies must be
Lehi that if the calm voice of the legislator, and the denun-
'4tion of the prophet are alike unheeded, the clash of arms
1.4 d cry of war will be heard. "To your tents, 0 Irael,"
1311' if Moses cannot lead in the battle, Joshua can.--(Ap-
use.) But against whom? some one will perhaps ask.
11:3r, against the Lords ; against the Tory faction.—
f,eers.) Hew then at the body of the tree, and with the
the
will come down all the' crooked withered branches, all
B"le creepers, venomous reptiles, and insects, which have
enin the recesses of its rotten parts.—(Loud cheers.)
ut, gentlemen, the Lords call us a faction ; they have
it,rc'elairned the whole Irish people a faction—they have put
the tinier the bnn of the empire—placed them beyond
e
unfit
of the law ; yes, they have declared that they are
` even to elect town councillors. The country, which
sentlin forth a Burke, Sheridan, Grattan, Flood, Moore, Wel-
81°11, and Daniel O'Connell, is declared unworthy of