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London, England, 1836-02-01 00:00:00

certainly would not go the entire length of the proverb—" Give
every honest man his non and every knave a halter"—(Great
Laughter)—for ho thanked God that a better principle had
been adopted, and capital punishments were nearly abolished.
—( Hear, hear.) He would not, therefore, give every knave a
halter, but he would load them with the chains and the fetters,
which were their just portion.---( Cheers.) They insisted that
they were a superior race of beings, and had a right to do as
they pleased, and thot the mob, as they termed them, were
prone to go astray without the benefit of their guardianship—.
that, in fact, they were beings alteg-ether inferior to them—
cattle quite of a different class, and that they were their kind
protecting angels, who were most anxious to take their affairs
into their own hands, and of course to keep them as much for
their own use as they could.—( Cheers and laughter.) This
was the essential principle of Toryism, and he ( Mr. O'Con-
nell) wondered if Spooner would have the candour to admit it.
—( Renewed laughter.) Now with regard to the alleged coali-
tion between him ( Mr. O'Connell) and the Ministry—Mr. Att-
wood had stated the other night what he thought of it. For his
( Mr. O'Connell's) part, be would be proud if such were the ease.
The present Ministry were proceeding quietly and well with
the improvement of the institutions of England ; and with re-
spect to Ireland, there was no man that ever held the reins of
Government in any country who deserved so much the thanks
of England or the gratitude of Ireland, as Lord Mulgrave.—
(Cheers.) It was impossible for any man to act with more
perfect fairness or greater impartiality than he did. He (Mr.
O'Connell) would just give them one example, which would
bear him out in speaking thus of him. They all knew the
character of the Orange Tory Press, and their anxiety to heap
upon that of their opponents as much calumny as they could,
and yet they had not been able to bring one single accusation
of undue partiality. Even in his treatment of the Orange-
men he was as unscathed as he was uninjured by them, and
there was not to be found as much Orange mud as would be
sufficient to pelt him with.—( Hear, hear.) All the people of
Ireland wanted was impartiality ; and he could tell them, that
if the combined forces of all England were arrayed against
him, society was now in such a state that their largest armies
—the united forces of the world, would not put down the pre-
sent Government in the person of Lord Mulgrave. He (Mr.
O'Connell) was charged with forming a coalition with that
Government as a crime; and all be could say was that he
would be happy to form such a coalition; and the only thing
he had to complain of was that they would not coalesce with
him, when he was ready and anxious that they should.—
He, however, would not complain of this, for he had the benefit
of their exertions, and he was contented. His object was not,
as Sir Robert Peel said, to procure power for himself, for he
did not seek any, being merely desirous that the Constitution
of the country should possess it.—(Cheers.) He never would
submit to any other authority than that which justice and fair
play could give. Mr. Attwood had said the other night that
the coalition between him (Mr. O'Connell) and the Ministers
was the coalition of the sheep to keep off the wolves. Now,
the allusion to the fable was true to a certain extent, but it was
rather a coalition of the dogs, the guardians of the sheep, than
of the sheep themselves. It was not a compact, under hand
and seal, or foot and seal, but it was just that sort of coalition
of the dogs to protect the sheep, which existed between him and
the Ministry. It was with the pleasing conviction of the in-
tentions of the present Government he now visited England,
and he did so as the harbinger not of a Cabinet union, or a
parchment 'mien, between the two countries—not a union of
fetters and chains, not a union of the criminal with the convict,
or of the convict with the turnkey—but a union of freemen
coalescing and combining in the face of the sun of liberty to
procure the peace, prosperity, and power of both countries.—
(Loud cheers.) • But they had still a great battle to fight with
the Lords. Now, he would ask them quietly, were not those
Lords a nuisance? And what was a nuisance? If any obstacle
were met with in the public way ; if any thing happened to
impede the progress of the coaches from London to Birming-
ham, would they not, to a man, rise to remove those obstacles
as a nuisance ? And if any body of men convert them-
selves into a living nuisance, why should, they not adopt a
similar course towards them ? One of the speakers at the
Hackney dinner, last year, in talking of the House of Lords,
spoke of it poetically, in allusion to.a reform in that hranch of
the Legislature, and also spoke of purging it, as cleansing the
Augean stable. One of the persons present asked him,
" How was that—how was that 'ere stable cleansed ?" " Why,
by turning the river into it !" said the speaker. " Well,"
said the querist, " but would it not be better to turn the Lords
into the river than the river into the Lords?"—(Loud cheers
and laughter.)' But one thing I fear, and that is, that these
Noble Lords have so much lead in the upper story, that their
heads will stick in the mud, and the Judge who pronounces
this sentence upon them, may as well at once add the usual
prayer for condemned criminals, " May the Lord have mercy
upon your souls."—( Laughter.) This certainly is a ludicrous
mode of treating the subject ; but, sooner or later, the result
to which I have alluded must take place. It is quite impos-
sible that the good sense of the people of England, which put
down swindling Tories in the House of Commons, will much
longer permit this same lawyer to ride rampant in the House
of Lords. The Tories then talked largely of the representa-
tion of the people, and a pretty representation it was.
There was old Sarum with its two, and Gatton with its
single mound of earth, and these boroughs returned four
Members to the English Parliament, whilst Birmingham
had not one ; and the English people, famed all over the
world for their practical good sense and for every proud
and useful quality, submitted to this for centuries. But
now, when the events of the first few years have put an end
to this abominable abuse, men began to inquire how they
could have borne with it so long, and so, perhaps, within two
or three years more they will express similar astonishment that
abuses in the second estate remained so long unreformed. Can
anything be more absurd than that you should have an exten-
sive police to protect .you against petty larceny thieves, and
that you should be robbed wholesale by my Lords the Judges,
and the various officers of our Courts of Law ? Why, is it not
better for a man to be robbed three times as much, than to go
to law once a year ?—;Cheers.) I ask you whether the
youngest child you have in this school can be more completely
' ignorant as to the law of any case, than the wisest man amongst
you ?—( Hear, hear.) You are obliged to come to one of us
legal conjurors to tell you your fortune, and the utmost we can
do for you, and I say it after thirty-one years' experience, is to
give you some rough guess of what is likely to happen after you
and your adversary have been both put to an enormous expense.
—( Hear, hear.) And why should you send to London for
law ? You make your own machines and manufactures without
sending to London 'for them, why should you not make your
own law without sending to London for it ?—( Hear.) Justice
must be brought to every man's door, and if any man hare a
claim against his neighbour, let him go before a Judge in the
first instance, and say I have such a claim to make. No other
party would then say whether he admitted or denied it. If
he denied—on what grounds ? If he claimed a set-off, or dis-
puted its accuracy, the Judge would appoint an honest man
to investigate the accounts, and the affair would be settled in
a very brief time, and at very little expense.—(Hear, hear.)
Really the common sense of Law Reform has made wonder-
fully small progress in the public mind, notwithstanding we
have for some time past taken so much interest in the improve-
ment of our social system. England, as I have already ob-
served, is at the head of every nation in Europe for firmness
and bravery. British soldiers—that is English, Scotch, and
Irish too—won the battle of Waterloo almost—ay, I will say
it, let them abuse me as they like—almost in spite of their
General. That same bravery, that same fortitude, that same
unconquerable resolution which distinguishes them now, dis-
tinguished them ages ago, and Cressy, Agincourt, and
Poictiers, bear witness to your heroism. Are you not also
superior in arts as in arms? What nation is there that can
boast of having made such improvements in manufactures and
machinery ? Why should not England have the same supe-
riority in all her legal, political, and social relations, as she
has in her manufactures ? This attempt to ameliorate our in.
stitutions, and extend the blessings of that amelioration to
Scotland, has been the great object of my political life. My
friend has said that he has watched me for thirty years in my
career of public life. I rejoice in it, and I hope to have thirty
years more of agitation—( Loud cheers)--and .at the end of
that period it will be said by my enemies, and re-echoed by my
friends, that I had never given up a principle, and never shrunk
from its open, independent, and many assertion.—(Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN in proposing the next toast, paid a high
compliment to the liberality of the Protestant public generally,
and said that the Roman Catholics felt that they owed them a
deep debt of gratitude. He concluded by proposing " The
health of the Rev. Mr. Hutton and their Protestant friends."
Mr. HUTTON (a Unitarian Minister) returned thanks.
Some other speeches were then delivered, after which the
party separated.

Friday morning, between eight and nine o'clock,
the family of Mr. Charles Page, of James-street, Somers-
town, was plunged into affliction by the following melan-
choly occurrence :—lt appeared that Mrs. Page quitted
the parlour, where she had been sitting at breakfast, leav-
ing her child, a fine little boy about three years old, alone
in the room, standing before the fire. In a short time af-
terwards the child was heard to scream violently ; and on
Mrs. Page running to see what had happened, she was
horror-struck on entering the room, which was densely filled
with smoke, by the dreadful spectacle that presented itself.
Her infant was lying on the floor, writhing in excessive
agony, with his clothes blazing fiercely around him. The
flames were extinguished after some difficulty and delay,
and the child was directly carried to the North LoLdon
Hospital, in Upper Gower-street, Bedford-square, where
every possible assistance was promptly rendered, but the
infant had sustained such extensive injuries, that in about
half an hour afterwards death terminated his sufferings.
The child was literally roasted alive ; and on removing
those portions of his clothes which remained unconsumed,
large pieces of flesh, burnt to a state of blackness, came
away sticking to them. Mrs. Page is in a state of mind
bordering on distraction,

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