The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

rd the Lords. Should the Tories, by any intrigue, dis-
place them from office, a collision must he the consequence,
and then adieu to the Lords, the Tories, and their adhe-
rents ; the tide of popular wrath would sweep over them,
and when it would subside a different race would be found
~vhere they had been !--Mernin4, Adver:imr.

As we are now at the close of the Parliamentary recess,
it. may be instructive to glance back for a moment at the
exertions which have been made during that interval, by the,
enemies of our tranquillity and freedom, to wrest the Go-
vernment once more from the bands of a popular Adminis-
tration. The Session closed with fierce invectives against
O'Connell from every section of the Tory confederacy.
The Lords, by rejecting many a useful Bill, merely because
it had received the approbation of that pre-eminent patriot,
renewed the ferocity of their partisans, who set up, through
all their organs of the Press, a savage howl against him,
which they literally continued until their strength and the
vocabulary of every species of vituperation were exhausted.
They sought by antagonist yells to counteract the effect of
his electric exhortations to the people of the northern
counties and of Scotland : compelled by the necessity of
the ease to afford insertion to his speeches, they brought into
action all his resources, in order to neutralise the force of
Lis fiery eloquence. The turpitude of Raphael was for a
day an unexpected reinforcement to their ranks. Galled
,more by the loss of his " trash" than by the defeat even
of his ambition—if ambition that ignoble impulse can be
caked, which urges a man of paltry intellect, unbounded
ignorilnce, and vanity of the most idiotic description, to
min glfor the sake of a frank, with the legislators of the
land—he took his opportunity to join in the halloo after
O'Connell, just when the shout was expiring. He was
adopted a 3 an auxiliary who was to decide the fortune of
the field ; but need we tell how he was torn limb from limb,
and 'lung away, even with the scorn of his new associates,
to the derision of the country, the moment lie came within
the reach of the lion whose confidence lie had betrayed ?
Through the character of the champion of Ireland that of
the Cabinet eas also to be slain. He had given them
effective support--had given it generously, for be forgot his
private wrongs—had oven it unconditionally, for he knew the
honour of the men lie Lad to deal with—had given it
triumphantly, for it enabled those men to retain the seals of
power, against a hostile Court, an uncompromising Church,
and an oligarchy writhing in despair. Not a step could the
faction move without encountering O'Connell, as their first
obstacle to success. They saw him at the door of the Ca-
binet, whence he repulsed them like a Fate. They saw
him the idol of the people, to whom be denounced their
machinations—ambngst whom lie defied their malignity,
and broke every weapon they hurled against him. They
'beheld iu his person the whole moral strength of Ireland,
and as they found him invulnerable, they assailed his coun-
try and his religion in language such as never before pol-
luted the pages of Christian literature. Can we forget the
menaces vociferated by the Times, and echoed by the
Standard, against seven millions of the Irish people ?
" Exterminate them !" " Unroof their habitations, let
them perish in the blasts of winter!" " Massacre their
priests" those " surpliced ruffians" those " turbulent
rebels"—those " demons in human disguise"—" away with
them"—" down with their houses of worship"—" over-
turn their altars"—" go forth with the torch and sabre,
and lay waste until Ireland shall be turned into ano-
ther Sahara !" Such was the phraseology, such were the
desires of a party of men, who, beneath the garb of reli-
gion, carry a mass of inward depravity, of which no other
community on earth furnishes an example. And for what ?
To pamper in Ireland an Establishment founded there
against all the rules of sound policy, at war with every
admonition of nature, and prohibited by every principle of
honesty ! And for what ? To dissolve a Government
which has emanated from the will of the people, in order
that we should be placed under a Cabinet whose only sup-
port in the Legislature is derived, according to their own
confession, from a class of men devoid of all sense of pa-
triotism or morality—men who prefer the indulgence of
their passions to the service of their country—men who
must be brought to the vote, reeking from all the hot-
beds of vice with which this Babylon abounds. But mark
how the people of England have answered these barba-
rian appeals to the worst passions of our race. O'Con-
nell, on his return to his Parliamentcry duties, finds his
path crowded every where with Englishmen, who hail him,
not only as the redeemer of his own country, but as
the living guarantee for the liberties of the whole empire.
The countless calumnies which have been raised against
him as a pile of fire, through which it was thought he never
could pass, have become fatal only to his enemies. They
have proved to Burdett that his political existence is con-
summated. They have placed beyond question the fact,
that the influence which the Times not long since wielded
over the public mind of this country is utterly perished.
They have reb,
lunded with portentous force upon the oli-
garchy which encourages them, and upon the Church which
lent to them her minv.isters, her pulpits, and her very sanc-
tuaries. The desperate ;.xtremities to which all the secular
and theological members of the faction have been lately
driven, reveal in letters of light the glad intelligence, that
the core of their system is eaten away, because it never
was sound, and because it never could take root in this
soil of freedom. Let them look to it. The tide of
the battle is now decidediy against them. The popu-
lar cause is beyond their reach, and the question
soon will be, whether their menaces against Ireland
are not in danger of being realised against them-
selves. Meanwhile the Ministry, which, when the Ses-
sion closed, could not get on beyond November—their in-
evitable " Ides of March ;" which in November were sure
to be disbanded at Christmas ; which, at Christmas, nobody
dreamed could hope to meet the Parliament—have calmly,
fearlessly, sagaciously, and without ostentation—without a
single " clap-trap" exhibition—pursued the even tenor of
their course. The municipal elections have demonstrated
the estimation in which Lord Melbourne and his colleagues
are held by an educated, wealthy, discerning people—a
people who hate sophistry, and show, and pretension ; but
who cherish, at its full price, that patient wisdom and in-
flexible perseverance in the guidance of the country,
through a free and honourable course of domestic and fo-
reign policy, by which tke present Cabinet has earned
" golden opinions" at home and abroad. The measures
which they have matured in their councils during the recess
may not be so splendid in appearance as the Reform and
Municipal Bills, but they will be found calculated to secure
for ever the blessings which those great fundamental mea-
sures have promised to all classes of his Majesty's subjects.
—Morning chronicle.

MR. O'CONNELL IN BIRMINGtIAM.

CHARITY BR EAKFAS7'.
BIRMINGHAM, J.Y. 30.-A public breakfast, at which
Mr. O'Connell was invited to attend, took place this
morning at St. Peter's School-room, in support of (ac-
cording to the words of the advertisement) the Charity
Schools and Orphan Asylum attached to the chapel. The
tickets of admission for " gentlemen" were sold at half-a-
crown—those for " ladies" at two shillings, and without.
meaning to infer that this distinction of price could have in-
fluenced the choice of either, yet so it was, that out of 10 )
individuals who sat down to breakfast the majority was in
htvour of the latter sex.

The Tories hrdulge in the most absurd and extravagant
calculations, to prove that the Ministers will scarcely be
able to muster a majurity in the House of Commons on
the opening of the Session. This conclusion, so devoutly
to be wished by corruptionists of every class and order, is
most complacently worked out, by one or two Anti-Liberal
scribes, by taking the numbers in the divisions of last
Session on the Speakership and the Address, and deduct-
ing from the majorities on those occasions the Members
who have since been displaced by the opponents of the
Ministry. The fallacy of this mode of calculation is
apparent at a glance. On the question of the Speaker-
ship, many Liberal Members supported Mr. Manners
Sutton, from personal feelings ; and on that of the Ad-
dress, a respect for the Sovereign kept an equal number in
restraint. In fact, the defeat in these instances was not
owing so much to the intrinsic merit of either proposition,
as to the insuperable indignation which justly existed
against the men who brought them forward. Sir R. Peel,
apparently considering these demonstrations more expres-
sive of the personal than political bias of the House, did not
resign until the division on the Russell appropriation reso-
lution rendered it utterly iniposible for him any longer to

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retain office. This, therefore, is the grand criterion by
svhich the majority of the House of Commons should be
estimated. In July Sir Robert made a second trial of his
strength on this point, by moving that the Irish Church
Bill tie divided into two parts, when, after a debate of three
nights, in a House of 601 members, the division was as
follows :
For Ministers 319
Against ,„
Majority
• •

In the impending session, as in the past, the strength of
Opposition may bc expected to bear with the greatest force
on the appropriation principle of the Irish Church Bill.
The Tories boast of having gained twelve votes since the
above division took place, bat on reference to a list of names
which they furnish, we find three of those who voted against
Ministers in the above division, so that even by their own
showing their recruits, instead of twelve, amount only
to six. This is one side of the account, let us now
look to the other. It has already been proved that a Tory,
or mock-reforming administration cannot go on with the
present House of Commons. The changes alluded to are
too trifling to produce any sensible effect, even if they were
not more than counteracted, which they are, by the seceders
whom the atrocities perpetrated in Ireland, and the mounte-
bank exhibition of parsons in this country, have induced to
withdraw from the anti-appropriation party. The results
of Municipal Reform also must force the conviction on the
minds of many of the dubious representatives of the bo-
roughs, that they can have no chance of re-election if they
withhold their support from. the Ministry. For it is eve.
dent that if the old Corporations were powerful to evil in
opposition to the people, the new must be more powerful to
good. as they represent and are supported by the whole po
pulation of the boroughs. These causes alone must secure to
Ministers a greater majority in the House of Commons than
they had in last Session. But even if they should not
have a majority sufficient to command attention in the Lords,
what is likely to be the consequence ?—A Wellington-Peel
Administration!! Such an experiment will nott 42.4 r repe-
ti.tion. It has already forced us to the verge of A
; and the conduct of the Lords has not since given
any additional encouragement to the forbearance of the
people ; in fact, the present Ministry stand in the position
of mediators between the old and new order of things ;
between the abuses and ameliorations of our institutions ;
between unjust privileges and just principles ; in fine, be-
tween the conflicting elements of good and evil—the people

The Chair was taken by the Rev. T. M. M.DoNNE Le,
Roman Catholic Clergyman, and on his right sat Mr.
O'Connell.
As soon as breakfast appeared to have been concluded,
the CHAIRMAN rose and proposed, in complimentary terms,
the health of " Mrs. O'Connell and the Jadies"—(Loud
applause.)
Mr. O'CONNELL returned thanks.
The next toast was " The health of his Holiness the
Pope."—(Loud cheers.) •
Mr. O'CONNELL had the pleasure to tell them that the
plan, of Government education, conducted by the Protes-
tant Archbishop and Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, had
met with the most unequivocal success.—(Loud applause.)
The schools were multiplying on every side ; and he would
venture distinctly to assert that there were more children,
in proportion, receiving education at that moment in Ire-
land, than there were either in favoured England, or much
boasted of Scotland. There was scarcely any, even the
remotest part of the country, which this system of educa-
tion had not reached. It was working admirably well.—
(Hear.) Hitherto sectarian differences had prevented the
exercise of the best feelings of the human heart—mutual
benevolence and charity ; and instead of promoting the
great and first object of moral education, they had directly
the opposite tendency. There was a wall of separation
drawn between the Catholics and Protestants—for the
Kildare-street Society, and those who acted under it, con-
sidered themselves the favoured class ; and although they
received a great deal of the public money, they also con-
sidered themselves at liberty to insult those who differed
from them, and accordingly excited a reciprocal spirit of
hostility on the other hand. The scheme of education
which that Society acted upon, was one calculated to do
mischief, and to promote and bring into action all the bad
passions of our nature, instead of stilling them.—( Hear.) By
a communion, however, of Catholic and Protestant Dignita-
ries, a system was now being acted upon, which the most
zealous persons of either persuasion could not complain of.
The faction, to be sure, reared its head—the serpent was
heard to hiss a good deal ; and in their virulence they cried
out about the mutilation of the word of God, with that
kind of profaneness which men of selfish minds were likely
to resort to in the battles of the political world. All that,
however, was now nearly at an end.—(Loud cheers.) Four
days in the week the children were educated together, dur-
ing stated hours. The fifth day was devoted to the reli-
gious instruction of one persuasion—say Catholic ; the sixth
day to that of another—say Protestant ; and those who in-
structed were the pastors of their respective persuasions, or
their curates. Thus the children were educated during the
week in perfect equality, and on the days they were kept
separate, they received mutual advantages also of religious
instruction. Then, with regard to the mutilation of the
word of God, it was the most absurd charge he had ever
heard. All the Protestant children were allowed to bring
their Bibles to school ; and if their parents wished to send
them half an hour or an hour beforehand, they enjoyed the
advantage of having the Bible read to them without theleast
abbreviation whatsoever ; so that he was not wrong in desig-
nating the cry of " mutilation" as a most absurd one.—
(Hear.) For the school lessons, such portions of the Bible
were extracted as were translated by all religions in precisely
the same manner, and it was fortunate, as might indeed, be
expected, that they were the parts of it which preached mo-
rality and charity. The books of the schools—the primitive
books, were composed of extracts from the Scriptures,
containing those principles which every man should wish to
see inculcated. He was glad to have this opportunity—for
he perceived it was likely what he was about to say would
circulate through England on the wings of the Press—of
stating, and he challenged any one to controvert it, that
there were more children, comparatively speaking, receiving
education in Ireland, than in either England or Scotland.
—(Cheers.) There was another portion of that system
which he would take leave to refer to. The elder classes
were permitted to be taught by persons of either persuasion
—a circumstance which contributed much to social har-
mony, and, by this equalization of benefits upon all, the ab-
sence of anything like ascendancy was secured.—(Hear,
hear.) In saying that this system produced a good effect
amongst the children, he did so, not alone upon his own
opinion, but upon that of the Rev. Mr. Stanley, to whose
authority he appealed.—(Hear, hear.) That gentleman
went through these schools—took the Catholic children
apart from their masters, put questions to them respecting
not only their own religion, but that of various other
sects, and gave a most triumphant account of the. well
working of the system, in the answers, which he took
down literally from boys of ten, twelve, or fourteen years
of age.—(Great applause.) In Ireland there were two
other schemes of education. There were the nuns, who
educated the poorer class of girls, and there was not a
town in Ireland, which might be called, as they would
say in that country, a " decent" town—(Laughter)—
which had not a convent of nuns in it. Three, or four,
or five educated ladies of respectability, who were bound to
bring with them a sum of money sufficient for their own sup-
port during life, were to be found in each of these convents,
instructing a number of female children in everything that
would be most likely to be useful to them in after life, giv-
ing them habits of great cleanliness, regularity, and con-
stant industry, and teaching them various little trades, from
which they might afterwards derive a subsistence. This
manual education was well adapted for the state of these
poor young creatures ; but it was not all the benefit con-
ferred upon them. They also received a literary education,
as far at least as it would be desirable, and all Catholics re-
ceived a religious education. The nuns, however, made no
distinction between Protestant and Catholic children ; for
they educated the children of parents of all persuasions ;
beyond this—that when giving religious instruction to the
Catholic children, they put aside the others, and did not
allow them to mix in the same classes. Besides these were
lay-sisters, who attended the sick, and he had seen more
than one who had been a lively, gay, and animated lady,
looking like a poor widow, with her black dress and her
long veil, going along the street, active in the work of be-
nevolence, and lie could well discern from her step and her
mien, though clouded in the garments of humility, that
she had once moved in in a very different sphere.—
( Hear, hear.) This wee one of their offices—they minis-
tered at the sick bed of p;-2stilence and disease, or at all
events where everything that was repugnant to human nature
as attendant upon sickness was to be found, there were
those nuns indefatigable in the modest yet painful and ar-
duous discharge of the duties of benevolence. There were
algo, besides these, the societies of monks, composed of
tradesmen of a religious turn, who, after they had served
their apprenticeships, supported themselves in the cheapest
manner for some time, and when they had saved 1001. or
150/., carried their money to a monastery, and after a pro-
bration of three years, if they did not choose to remain,
they were at liberty to go away with their money, and their
brethren shook hands with them and bid them good bye.
In case they choose to profess, they sunk their Money in
the funds of the society, for which they get subsistence for
life, which was henceforward devoted to works of charity.
—(Hear.) Those societies were multiplying fast, and the
members of them were bound to vows of poverty, chastity,
industry, obedience, and the gratuitous education of the
poor. Society was improving fast ; it had been improving
for years past, through the medium of education, and the
result was a gradual extension of the trade, the manufac-
tures, and the commerce of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) The
customs and excise also of Jreland had increased ene,third
during the last year. This ifierease, too, was gradual,
and therefore the mare likely to be peemanent—so that he
considered there was now a cheering pros ,;:r for Ire-
land—for as education extended itself on the one hind,
so would prosperity on the other ; and if they could but
obtain a settlement of the great question of Corpo-
rate Reform, so as to place Ireland on a level with theirs,
and a rational 441justment of the tithe question, so that the
people could be better able to bear their burdens, diet)
might he hope for the p,eage, prosperity, and tranquillity of
his native country—(Hear, li,r;ar).,eend why, should not ono
class of people support. their elliggb 4-40 Wl* r 1"; 9.nother ?
lu his parish, in Dublin, within a short ligriftiz 4 0.1,40'
had bee 4 bat to which the parish contributed 14-,300/.
Last year lie auci;t4z..l the accounts, and they were 1001.
in debt, and when he agei4 zgdited them last Sunday, he
to9ad that they owed but 7001., awl 4 expended during
the y,eiif i 45ides 1,500/. ; and yet all this 14 .4
by vo-
luntary sqbwl/2‘4440.—(
i .
therefore, be *444 Hear, and cheers.) They 14"otii4,
to bear that the grounds of ;:;,,tool ,
good, of social amity, awa 44/ ,i• benevolence, niversal benevol had
been established in Ireland.---Mear;l phpse e,
we,r,e based upon education, sustained by Y principles
1-
sign, Al*the each with other, he trusted they
would produce geuerai
. MU, and mental as well as cor-
poreal prosperity.—(Loud e h eeiiifg.)
The CHAIRMAN then proposed, after
a spirita4 speech,
The Irish Liberator, the English Regenerator, and the
Uni-
versal Emancipator—Daniel O'Connell.--cLoud cheers.)

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1836.

Mr. O'CoNNELL, in returning thanks, said he was ex-
ceedingly
glad that his Rev. Friend had defended him from
all the accusations which he had alluded to, because it
relieved him from the difficulty expressed in the proverb,
that " a man who is his own counsel has not a wise man
for his client."—(Hear, and laughter.) Those accusations
had no other effect with him than this—they proved that
it was worth a man's while to be consistent in his princi-
ples—to view passing events with an honest intention, and
to persevere strictly and to the end in the same line of con-
duct. With such qualifications, added to a humble ca-
pacity, for he did not assume to take credit for anything
more, he had been enabled to triumph (and the fact showed
how powerful was moral consistency) over all the efforts
of his enemies and their calumnious reports ; and he had
lived sufficiently long not to despise them, for he would
not take the trouble of doing so, having become utterly
and entirely careless of them.—(Hear, hear.) He really
h, lieved there never yet was a calumny invented with which
he had not been assailed. Although he was the apostle of
peace, he was accused of being desirous to promote revolu-
tion, war, and bloodshed. These calumnies had even
reached his domestic circle, for he had read them in the
presence of his own family, and the place in which he had
done so he believe was the best answer he himself could
give to thea.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Beyond that circle
he also fou;id proofs of their falsehood.—( Hear.) In the
flattering reception be had inet with in Liverpool, and,
above all, in the reception be bad met with in Birmingham
—(great applause)—and he thought he might also say, in
the reception he would meet there again, he found the
fullest refutation to those calumnies.—(Cheers.) These
meetings had afforded him the highest gratification ; but
that that was of little consequence compared with the great 1
end they were calculated to promote as an example for
others, and as a proof that there was, at all events, one spe-
cies of magic in the world—the honest determination and
endeavour to do right.—(Hear, hear.) It was true, as had
been said by their Chairman, that from the earliest period
of his life he had been 'the advocate of religious equality.
He sought for Catholic Emancipation, not because he was
a Catholic, but because he found that the majority of his
countrymen had been unjustly oppressed on account of
their being Catholics.—( Hear, hear.) With regard to his
religious feelings, the best principle was that defined by his
Reverend Friend : for neither of them could- afford to
cloak with the slightest disguise a single tenet of the Ca-
tholic Church for the wealth of nations. There was no
more awful sanction than to be consistent in this respect,
for if they dared to utter any thing inconsitdent with the
strictest Catholic doctrine, they well knew they would be
obliged to retract it.—(Hear.) Any declaration, therefore,
made by them, incurred an awful sanction when speaking
upon these subjects ; and thus he met the accusations of
Spooner and the doctrines of Peter Dens. But let him be
understood, that when he asserted religious liberty and
freedom of conscience, he did not mean to inculcate indif-
ference to religion ; on the contrary, he had ever felt it to
be the most awful consideration of human life, and had al-
ways held that every man was responsible for the sincerity
of his religious opinions ; but it was a matter altogether be-
tween a man and his God, and one for which he was account-
able to his Creator alone, and not to his fellow man. He
(Mr. O'C.'s) idea of religious liberty,, was a total absence
of all human responsibility, and he accordingly, as his Rev.
Friend had observed, had strenuously exerted himself for
the abolition of the disabilities of the Dissenters.—(Hear,
hear.) He had drawn out a petition in their favour, which
had been signed in Dublin by 28,000 persons in six-and-
thirty hours. It was presented to Parliament in 1828.
Well, the petition was proposed by him, and unanimously
adopted : the effect of which was, that in that session of
Parliament the Dissenters obtained the first portion of
their emancipation. He said the first portion, because
he denied that they were yet emancipated—(Hear, hear)—
for so long as any Dissenting clergyman could be interfered
with in the performance of the baptismal or marriage cere-
monies, or in any of his religious duties at all, so long in his
(Mr. O'Connell's) opinion were the Dissenters as a body
degraded. In the Session following that to which he had
referred they carried Catholic emancipation—(Cheers)—
and it was only then that he could say the objects of his
political life began. He had been working for four-and.
twenty years for this first step, and that was a tolerably
long time to be making a commencement.—(Laughter.)
It certainly was a long apprenticeship to serve, and when it
had terminated he then for the first time set up as a master
in the work of regeneration, and his objects were to obtain
for Ireland what England had, and for England those sa-
lutary ameliorations of her institutions which were within
the limits of her Constitution, but which had been checked
by the selfish aims of partisans, and the long misgovernment
of factions.—(Cheers.) Mr. Spooner had said that the
Catholic religion was One of persecution. Now he (Mr.
O'Connell) belonged to a people who were as firmly at-
tached to the Catholic Church as any other people on the
face of the globe, and yet it was to be found on the records
of history that the Irish Catholics had been three times in
power since their connection with England, and although
they had often and severely suffered from persecution, they
never retaliated.—( Hear, hear.) A historian, a most in-
veterate partisan and a staunch advocate of Protestantism,
Mr. Harris, who had written a history about 100 years ago,
and who had always written hostilely to the Catholics, was
compelled to admit this ; and it was a fact that when Queen
Mary began her persecution of the Protestants, from the
city of Bristol, the port with which Dublin was then
most immediately connected, seventy-four Protestant fa-
milies fled to avoid the terrors threatened to their body
in England, and were received by the Catholic Corpo-
ration of Dublin, furnished with houses, supported and sent
back safe to their own homes when the period of persecu-
tion had passed by.—( Loud cheers.) But what had been the
in‘schievous result of this religious persecution ? He would
beg of them to mark it. It was said that they ought to main-
tain truth, but if the sword of persecution was used for the
purpose, the result generally was that it confirmed falsehood
in its stead. In England, accordingly, Catholicity had faded,
but in Ireland never.—( Hear, hear.) -This was the effect
of persecution, and of the principles of fools and bigots, who
might have been also honest men, but who to be taught to
mix with their honesty a little common sense, the result of
which would be that, instead of persecution, the feelings by
which they would be animated would be those of charity and
universal benevolence.,—(Hear, hear.) But to return. In
1641, during the war in Ireland, the Catholics were accused by
Hume and -Clarendon of having massacred the Protestants;
but the truth was, that no massacre at all had taken place for
two months after the period assigned to it, and then the only
one that occurred was a horrible massacre of the Catholics by
the Covenanter soldiers, and more than that, when a charter
of pardon was sent over by a King's messenger, the confede-
rated Catholics refused it. They burned it, and said that if
murders had been committed, let the perpetrators of them be
published, for they would not accept a pardon for crimes they
never had committed. If murders had been perpetrated, let
the guilty suffer for their crimes, and let the real criminals be
executed.—( Hear, hear.) This was the conduct of the Catho-
lics ; and again, in 1688, when James the Second endeavoured
to control the consciences of Englishmen—and they very pro-
perly kicked him out of the kingdom for it—he took refuge
in Ireland, three-fourths of the Parliament being then
Catholic, and one-fourth Protestant. It was not for their re-
ligions opinions they were thus sent there ; the only reason
being, that the Protestants were not elected. But although
the Parliament was thus composed, there was not a single law
passed for the purposes of retaliat4-, although-they had been
recently the Tictims of the most wanton and arbitrary persecu-
tion. He mentioned these historical facts at length, because
he wished to show the good feeling the Catholics f Ireland
had always entertained towards their Protestant brethren, and
because he wished that Spooner and O'Sullivan should be re-
minded of them. With respect to the latter of these indivi-
duals, he should say, that if there was a man to be met with
in society who was of all others the most unscrupulous with
regard to veracity Mortimer O'Sullivan was that man, and he
had shown himself to be so in, his recent peregrinations for the
sole purpose of preaching discord and falsehood, where he
should have been the advocate of peace and truth, for if his
'(Mr. O'Sullivan's) description of the Catholic religion were
true, be (Mr. O'Connell) would not remain a Catholic for
four-and-twenty bows. Nay, he would feel himself bound to
change his political as well as religious opinions.—( Hear.) Be
would now come back to Catholic emancipation—that was his
starting point. In the coon° of his political utility before that,
and from that time to the present, in the review of his conduct,
as a Member of the Legislature, there was not a vote of his
or
rast he
would
dhad even
wish
to givena lter._whichT he could
Hear.
)Helosok back
tartedatsoawnitahporsetglereot
f,
the doctrine that the greatest improvement in the social order
was to be brought about by the force of public opinion, result-
ini, from the eombination of good men to effect good ends.
The great mischief, however, sustained by the social system
occurred in the agricultural districts, with which there was not
the same facility of communication, and which prevented or
protracted the action and exertion which would result from the
force of public opinion, if they were roused while warm with
the life and spirit of its influence.—( Hear, hear.) That ac-
counted fully for the recent returns of Tories to Parliament ;
but the rapid ineraaso of railroads would soon give an
answer to that, as affording a reduplication of instructive
publications, a million times greater than the present cir-
culation, That was the thing to carry everything in the
state of Toryism before it. But he would ask what To-
ryism was, and whether Mr. Spooner was prepared to
admit what it was? Was it not the effort to get possession
of qip property and the goods of other people_
them /-b.,9 frft4Pf „;I'tliil pretences ?—(Laughter.)
, It put him in
mind of a story a #pirape, ih9, An rip brought before
ay, and to get
Alexander the Great, was ' oilleiled 'by
iiin., to- ',e
L R coted,
upon which the pirate very naturally deniiirred, 'fOr,` xsaid he;
" why do you order me to be executed for robbery—is that
, i +here was not a
liy;,,t.pp .1
I. don't see what. is the difference between es, unless
it ble fiat i Pi 4 wot,t iirtqlc',r..ssel while
single
6wiy3iir)bobrowtl;ll,itubpe,,
--t,,tanCC Of fine asrme3.l.-00aP of No*. ki,„7 in
as:— -
just the same ts a , .
I he, re for—why I am but a single swindler
at the Guildhall who could not tarn !!..:°ll Mr. Spooner and
ap gore at v o
say, "whet
v‘y.phuataf;ll4e P!.„. .. . U,.PI 1. b are imitable to escape
wteonualndeea.s'k' .1:10 was". T 6171316 i • 'rind now he
because there are s 9 many of )1°1.4 t 9 (eel? each Othef in poun-
:---w(liLatiuitgliti.?sii.h3e.Radieals were desiroas of Obtaining ?
Why, nothing more nor less than that every honest man should
have his own, and be allowed to keep it......(fleari hear.) He