The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-08 00:00:00

MR. O'CONNELL'S TOUR.

(Abridged from the Waterford Chronicle.)
Mr. O'Connell, after his temporary seclusion at Mount
Melleray, arrived on Saturday at Lismore, where he bad an
enzagement to breakfast with the wry Rev. Dr. Fogharty,
P. P., who invited a select party to meet him ; among whom
we noticed the Lord Lieutenant of the County Waterford,
the Right Hon. H. V. Stuart, Sir William J. Homan, Bart.,
F. Currey, Esq., Lismore Castle, Capt. Bushe, late High
Sheriff, Capt. Croker, R.N., Capt. Bailey, Glencarne Abbey,
L. Keane, Esq., Belmont, &c. &c.
The Very Rev. Dr. FOGIIAkTY having been called to the
Chair, read, on behalf of the gentry, clergy, inhabitants and
parishioners of Lismore, an address, assuring Mr. O'Connell
that " he possessed the unbounded and undiminished confik:p
of the people of Ireland ; and that in weal or in vrge thy ttili
turned to him as the unswerving champinn of her rigio:-,
the day-star of her dawning nationality, not.::: , a."
ustanuing the
vindictive whisper or malignant undo yowl of those, who,
wrecked in moral and polities...! cliaracter, would gladly banish
him whom they hate," &c. 1

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Mr. O'CoNNELL, reply, spoke, with his usual force and
fluency, an gPeroed to have gained renewed vigour by sub-
mitting to the " silent system" pursued at Mount Melleray, as
the Right Hon. Villiers Stuart afterwards facetiously observed.
The Hon, Member complimented Waterford, as the first to
set the example of political independence in 1826, under the
banners of the Right Hon. H, V. Stuart, when Beresford in-
fluence was annihilated. He next passed an encomium upon
the pious brotherhood of La Trappe, " who," he said, " had
converted the bleak and desolate mountain into a blooming
Eden, and improved the agricultural habits of the people. " Is
the pampered sensualist," continued ho, "to turn round with
a sneer and say, that they ought not to be protected—that
they ought to bc banished from the country."
The Right Hon. H. V. STUART next rose, and expatiated
upon the claims of Mr. O'Connell, not to the gratitude of his
countrymen only, but of all mankind. Ile contrasted Ireland's
present prospects with her condition in 1826, when he was but
a raw recruit in the service of the people.
A letter was read from Sir Richard Musgrave, regretting
his absence, through illness; and another from Sir Richard
Keane, who is in London.
The meeting then separated, and Mr. O'Connell quitted
Lismore amid the warm and enthusiastic cheering of the
people.

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GREAT POPULAR MOVEMENT IN
IRELAND 1

In reference to the correspondence between the Secretary
of a Conservative Society and the Secretary of State for the
Home Department, the Dublin Eva* Post thus writes :
Talk of the moving of the " masses" in Yorkshire, and the
multitudinous assemblages of the Birmingham Union, and the
meetings of Irish Reformers in the Coburg Gardens. What
are all these together, in comparison to the movement of the
Irish Metropolitan Conservative Society, which has just pre-
sented an example worthy the immediate adoption of the
test of the Orangemen throughout Ireland, We find
by the correspondence, published with du prominence in the
organs of the faction, that this said Irish Metropolitan Con-
servative Society, constitiog of six hundred and fifty members,
baa had the truo native modesty to forward a letter to the
Queen, requeAing from her M.rjesty the slight ihvour of the
immediate dismissal of the Marquis of Narmanby I Mr. Butt,
the Honorary Secretary of this formidable confederacy,
assures Lord John Russell that the signatures actually amount
to six hundred and fifty l Her Majesty, who is fond of a joke,
must have been considerably amused at this address. We are,
however, sorry that a respectable gentleman like the " Hone-
rary Secretary" should have figured as the Butt in so ludicrous
a business.

We are not informed whether the Address was " graciously
received." Oil that pisint we are left in the dark. But u
may Mite it for granted, that it could not bavq howl received
with the gravity usual upon such occasim,