The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-11 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CU
TOM-HOUSE, APRIL 9.

The Britannia, Downie, from Hanaburgh ; Martha, Olsea,
Sunderland ; Norkshaw, Strong, Gottenburg ; Eclipse,
Yarling, Ostend ; London, Pearson, Rotterdam ; Dcux
Freres, Westlinch, Antwerp; Commercial Packet, King,
Rotterdam ; Prouens Muide, Juike, Gottenburg ; Aldborough,
Murphy, St. Michael's ; Frederica, Backman, Jacobstadt;
L'Aurore, Joseph, Gravelines ; Anna, Roberts, Jamaica ;
Jonge Gotaim, Dellymers, Antwerp ; Minerva, Sundall, Got-
tenburg ; Hibernia, Stockton, Guernsey ; Eclipse, Dalton,
Guernsey ; Lion, Shepherd, Licata; Creole, Tulloch, Per-
nambuco; Petins, Schoulley, Louvain; Market Maid, Wed-
del, Antwerp; Ceres, Blomfield, Belize; Canton, Garbutt,
Mantanzas ; Lieborl Gebroeder, Rubeke, Hamburgh; Manuel,
Andeischea, Malaga ; Excellent, Jackson, Belize ; Friends,
Tomkins, Guernsey ; Magician, Laurie, Oporto ; Vrow
Elizabeth, Van Low, Ostend; Wilhelmina, Kipling, Dantzic ;
Harriett Augusta, Riebecke, Memel ; Henry, Fowler, Tam-
pico ; Dorothea, Madeira ; Anne, Balgoss, Tobago ;
Tino, Ellis, Antwerp ; Earl Grey, Robins, Manilla ; Harriet,
Payton, Demerara; Blundell, Valence, St. Mary's; Gambia,
Maconnell, St. Mary's.
ENTERED OUTWARI4 FOR LOADING, Arnn.9.
The Egton, De Pedila, for Guernsey and Jersey; Hanibal,
Robert, New York ; Tropic, Phillips, Barbadoes ; Africa,
Hammond, Madeira ; the Bengal, Ritchie, Calcutta ; Ara-
bian, Cain, Launceston; Matchless, Bruce, Cape Coast;
William Joliffe, Middleton, Calcutta ; Florentia, De Boeth,
Sydney ; Tam o' Shanter, Davis, Sydney ; Flora, Lambund,
Hamburgh ; Albatross, Forster, St. Michael's.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, APRIL 9.

The Britannia, Fox, for Ostend, Bruges, and Ghent ; 574,
Elden, Miramichi ; Monica, Thompson, Quebec ; Senator,
Grindlay, Cape of Good Hope; Jane, 'Zonings, Oporto;
Vesper, Casser, Jamaica; Batavier, Dunlop, Rotterdam;
William Joliffe, Middleton, Calais ; Lord Strangford, Lotter,
Hamburgh ; Highflyer, Newton, Oporto.
CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, Aram 9.
The Heber, Rice, for Quebec • Cautham, Walker, Wy-
burgh ; Economy, Richie, Riga; Esperance, Cotten, Quebec;
Caroline, Cousens, Quebec ; Neptune, Languehart, Cher-
bourg; Amiable, Lord, Barfleur.

ARRIVED AT LIVERPOOL, Aram 9.
The Mary, from Palermo; Amethyst, Taylor, Trinidad;
Gondolphi Palermo; Albion, Clark, Odessa.
ENTERED FOR LOADING, APRIL 9.

The Princess Victoria, Britton, for Antwerp; Spencer,
Wilson, Berbice; Louisa Maria, Gamble, Buenos Ayres;
Higginson, Gillespy, Barbadoes ; Hesperus, M'Dowall, De-
merara ; Water Witch, Newby, Pernambuco ; Edward
Thorne, Wylie, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Jane, Lindsay,
St. John's, New Brunswick; Brigand, Carman, St. Michael's;
Kelsick Wood, Collins, Montreal.
CLEARED OUTWARDS, ArftlL 9.

The Bell, M'lnnis, for Palermo, &c. ; Governor Douglas,
Lawson, Miramichi; Dibdin, Hutchinson, Quebec; Ninna,
Dawson, Quebec; Norval, St. John's, New Brunswick ;
Betsy, Henlin, Pernambuco ; Hindoo, Driscoll, Bombay ; Vi-
gilant, Heirn, Africa Sir A. Campbell, Cockerill, Bathurst;
Sceptre, Barkley, Hayti; Ellen, Wave, Quebec; Harmony,
Hunter, Tatmagouche ; Garrone, Foster, New York ; Jessie,
Grinn, Quebec; Liberty, Naples, &c. ; Gleaner, Taylor,
Miramichi ; Princess Victoria, Grey, Montreal ; Tampico,
Robinson, Lima ; Horatia, Montreal ; Forth, Williams, Ja-
maica ; Baboo, Brock, C4,cutta ; Sir T. Burton, Hayes,
Africa ; Bahamian, Rio Janeiro; Admiral Benbow, Ayr,
Quebec ; Dalhousie Cowie, Gill, Mobile ; Roothschild,
Laidley, w York ; Anfield, Campbell, New York ;
Prowler, Macdowall, Syra, &c. ; Garland, Whittleton,
Pictou ; Neiro, Jarvis, Lisbon ; Princess, Victoria, Britton,
Antwerp ; Milo, Hudson, Quebec ; Bell, Campbell, New-
foundland ; Port Grayson, Lindsay, St John's New Bruns-
wick ; David Canon, Broadfoot, New Orlean.
SAILED.

The ParkLld, M'Auley, for Bombay; Constitution, Wil.
son, Philadelphl ; Dovecot, Thomson, Port-au-Prince ; En-
terprise, M'Creedy, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Woolf's
Cove, Hamilton, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Visitor, Mop-
pet, Cape of Good Hope; Canton, Melville, Quebec; Nile,
Ferguson, Newfoundland ; Alert, Duncan, Gibraltar ; Union,
M'Dougall, Copenhagen; Fenwick Keating, Moran, St.
John's; Pearl, Cove, Algiers; Zorgen Vlyt, Nile, Rotter-
dam; Milman, Arnold, Quebec; Indus, Hunter, Quebec;
Ava, Gasking, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick ; Riviere,
Rosewall, Elsineur.
TELEGRAPHED.
Off Holyhead, outward bound, for New York, the Hibernia,
A. S., at 6A. M. Dense fog the rest of the day.

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The new Opera called Les Chaperons Blanes, by
the composer of La ilfuette ar*l La Fiancee, will be brought out
at the Opera Cornique on Saturday. It is expected that it
will be even more attractive than the former productions of the
same author.— Galignani's Messenger.
LORD LYNDHURST'S MANNER.—Lord Lynd-
hurst's manner is most insinuating. There is usually some-
thing so seductive in it, that if you are not specially on your
guard, you ace sure to be led astray. No one would ever in-
fer, from any thing he says or does, that he has in his composi-
tion the smallest particle'of the partisan. You would think on
all occasions that the particular view he takes of a question is
solely the result of disinterested, unbiassed conviction. In all
he says, and in his manner of saying it, there is every appear-
ance of sincerity. You would at once set him down as a lover
of truth for its own sake. lam far from meaning to insinuate
that he does not love truth for its own sake, or that he is not
sincere in his political opinions. It is but charitable to pre-
sume that he is so on all points of importance ; but, like most
other men on both sides of the House, he is obliged to view
questions with the eye of a partizan, and to have recourse to
sophisms where legitinfate arguments not within his reach.
In most other men, the partisan and the sophist are too trans-
parent to be mistaken ' • in the case of Lord Lyndhurst they
' are scarcely ever so. You are satisfied, as I have just said,
that in him all is the result of honest conviction—that party
considerations have never been allowed to weigh one atom in
the conclusions to which he has come, nor have had any thing
to do with the course of conduct he purSues.—Randent Recol-
lections of the House of Lords.
MATRIMONIAL ACCOMMODATING ARRANGE-
MENTS.-A married couple in Paris that were impatient of
waiting for the legitimate solution of the question of divorce,
determined in 1834 to effect one for themselves, and drew up
articles of separation, which were acted upon. The husband,
however, lately wishing to reinforce his conjugal rights, sum-
moned the wife to return to him. This she refused to do, and
at the same time appealed to the public officers, in whose
hands the articles of separation had been deposited by her,
demanding that they might be maintained. As these articles
are curious, we are induced to transcribe them entire :—" Be-
tween us, the undersigned, Eugene-Anatole ' living at
Paris, on the one part, and dame Angelique Marie Antoinette
legitimate wife of and living with him, on the
other :—We do declare and agree that, having been married
since the 30th of July, 1832, our dispositions have never been
able to sympathise together; and that, not being able to live
in common agreement, we do reciprocally eonwot toi quit each
ether, and to separate in good-will, and to live eaph by our-
selves, fypely and separately, where we shall deem good, and
with whom we please, without either ore or the other having
any thing to say about it hut under the charges, clauses, and
conditions following,-,that is to say, 1, That I, give
unto my wife all that composes our furniture; it being allowed
me to withdraw only ply clothes, body and other linen? hats,
end shoes. g, That if my said wife finds herself pregnant
i\Ni.
e
during the space of time that we have lived together, and if
she is delivered in thespane of uinc months from this day, I
promise, oblige and engage myself to receiguise the child that
she shall bring
ai
, genr to
Antoinettet
al i
and e world ; to pay the pionthe wsges to
the nurses, and to provide for all its 'wants. 4. That I oblige
and ""gag'i myself in the tie IvaY, never to trcTillP lily
wife under whatever circumstances she may find herself; and
that Ashen g
dmi
;clique
live, come'Ras--if we
ehqausitalnleYtpl?oemnislrem to letied
V—, my husband, named on the other side, live according
pleasure, and to be free as if we had never bem mar.-
t're4 IltiCleekage to ac't With iegard to him as' he 41latract
tdviaids'm ,s 7 other side. in testi-
f which
prny 9
.we have' Signed and approved of the Present
49mi-tient, it had hden read and agreed to at Parts; thti.
-0 #Qtfrth dal tai 41144,1 1§44 • g dono in duplicate."
•

Mr. O'Connell, who arrived in the city from Hull at four
o'clock, entered the room about six o'clock, and was re-
ceived in a manner which must have been truly gratifying
to his feelings. Oh his entry the whole company rose, and
greeted him with several rounds of the most hearty cheer-
ing, which was continued after he had taken his seat, The
ladies also stood up and displayed their gratification at the
Hon. Gentlemen's presence by waving their handkerchiefs.
Mr. O'Connell appeared much pleased at his enthusiastic
reception, and returned the compliments offered by repeatedly
bowing.
On the rigLt of the Chairman, Leonard Simpson, Esq.,
we observed Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M. P., Hon. H.
Butler, Thomas Watkinson, Esq., W. Swinney, Esq.,
Captain Taylor, Henry Smales, Esq., Rev. Mr. Morris,
Rev. W. Flower, jun., Edward Wallis, Esq. On the left
the Hon. J. Dundas, M.P., John Gully, Esq., M.P., Fran-
cis Cholmley, Esq., J. W. Cholmley, Esq., William Har-
grove, Esq., A. F. Barkley, Esq.
The company having filled their glasses—
The CHAIRMAN said—Gentlemen, I give you the health
of the King, and in doing so, I assure you I have great
-pleasure in being able to add that I do it in the most per-
fect sincerity ; for, in William the Fourth, we have an
hereditary and patriotic Monarch ; and, as society is. con-
stituted in this country, I consider that an hereditary Mo-
narchy is one of the surest safeguards to the liberty of the
people. " The King, and may he long live in the hearts
and affections of a free and loyal people."—Air : " God
save the King."
The CHAIRMAN next gave " The Queen." .

. .
The CHAIRMAN—In nsmg to propose as a toast the
Princess Victoria--(Loud and continued applause)—allow
me to observe that the educatinn which that young lady is
receiving is such as to leave little doubt in the mind of any
one that her future Government will be for the benefit of
this country, and that the legitimate influence which she
611 exercise over those who may be called to the helm of
the State will be highly beneficial. I therefore give you
" The Princess Victoria, the future hope of the United
Kingdom." Three times three.—Air : " The Star of
Brunswick."

The CHAIRMAN—It gives me great pleasure that the
present Royal Family form so many subjects of congratu-
lation,—(Hear, hear.) In the Duke of Sussex we recog-
nise a man who during a long life has been devotedly
attached to the cause of Reform, and whose practice has
always accorded with his professions.—(Cheers.) I give
you, " The Duke of Sussex, the long-tried and constant
supporter of civil and religious liberty."—Drank with three
times three.

The CHAIRMAN—The next toast is, " The people, the
legitimate source of all power," and in giving you that toast
1 will.vcnture to state as my opinion, that a people religi-
ously and well educated, is the surest protection against the
'misgovernment of our rulers, inasmuch as they have the
remedy in their own hands.—(Cheers.) The toast was
drank with three times three.

The CHAIRMAN-1 will now give you, " The King's Mi-
nisters"—(Great cheering.) In his Majesty's present Ad-
niinistration we recognise the able and determined advocates
of justice and benevolence to all classes.—(Cheers.) To
them the large towns of England are much indebted for
those great improvements which have been effected in their
local governments, and our sister isle is also much indebted
for the measures they have in contemplation.—(Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with very great applause.

The Climamax—On the introduction to this vast assem-
blage of a gentleman of Mr. O'Connell's celebrity—(Great
cheering)—little is required to be said by an unworthy and
unpractised chairman like myself. In the Honourable Gen-
tleman
on my right we at once recognise a fair specimen of
a citizen of the world.—(Cheers..) In him we find the elo-
quent advocate of civil and religious liberty throughout every
quarter of the known globe.—(Cheers.) To his exertions,
aided by the exertions of his Majesty's present Administra-
tion, Ireland is greatly indebted for the ameliorated condition
of her people; and to his patriotism and eloquent advocaCy of
justice and equal laws, she may attribute the prospect of a
release from that system of oppression and misrule which
has long been inflicted upon her.—(Great cheering.) It is
my fervent wish that the time may soon arrive when no man
in Ireland shall be prosecuted for his adherence tithe reli-
gion of his forefathers, and when the sons of Erin, Ivor-
shipping under their own tree, shall teach their offspring to
lisp the name of O'Connell, as being the favoured instru-
ment, under Heaven, of promoting the religion, the pro-
sperity, and happiness of his native land.—(lmmense ap-
plause.) I give you—" Daniel O'Connell, and justice for
Ireland."
The toast was drunk with the most enthusiastic and pro-
longed cheering.
Mr. O'CONNELL rose, and was received with several
rounds of applause, which having subsided, the Hon. Mem-
ber said—Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I say it with
all humility, that this is the proudest moment of my life—
proud, though impossible to be expressd—proud, though
full of the consciousness of inability to translate the sensa-
tions that are throbbing at my heart, or to give to my

tongue the power of utterance of those indescribable senti-
ments which language is inadequate to convey.—(Loud
cheers.) To be the honoured guest of so many of the In-
telligent citizens of the great:capital of the North of Eng-
land ; men from 'any one of whom I should be proud to
accept the slightest courtesy as an overpaying compliment,
may be felt, but cannot be described. I stand in the capta
tal of a county, which, in population, manufaetviriAg. in-
dustry, in commercial wealth, in agricultnNi produce,
in the amount of its annual income, equals, nay, exceeds
suite of the mighty kingdoms of the earth—(Cheers)—
and stand here, humble as I am—insignificant as I na-
turally am—the representative of eight millions of a long-
suffering and faithful race—(Cheers)-desirous of being
your companions in the prosperity of peace, as they have
ever been your sharers in the perils of war ; solicitous thAt
the eight millions of irishmen should be perfectly arealgated
with the sixteen millions of Britons, end that the union
should not be in parchment only, ov in mere writing, that
it should not have the more technicalities of legislation, but
have the reality of equal laws and equal justice.—(Loud
cheers.) When I look at my career, starting in my pro-
fession as the undistinguished son of a country gentleman of
small but independant means, totally undistinguished except
by that ardour and sanguine temperament which made me
first solicitous for my clients, and then for my country—
my country being now my only client-. 4 ask struck with
astonishment at the success of that political career, which
owes nothing to any Went of mine, but I believe owes much
(I trust it is not profane to say it) to that bountiful Pro-
vidence which is at length smiling on mY native land, in-
suring her prosperity, because it is graciously pleased to
espouse the honest and benevolent efforts of the first Eng-
lish Government which ever evinced any personal interest in
the fate of that too long neglected eountry.—(Cheering.)
I should not presume to stand in this presence, if, in the
course of that career (0, why do I talk of myself) the Irish
representatives in Parliament had ever shrunk from perform-
ing their duty towards the friends of freedom in England.
Since we have had a share in the Legislature, I can say,
without the imputation of vanity, that we have been
found recording our votes for measures which diminished
the burdens or increased the franchise of the English
people..(Cheers.) And full certain I am that the
career we are now pursuing has that object in view equally
with our interest, and equally conducive to the attainment
of one as of the other.—(Cheers.) For, Sir, we have ral-
lied round the King's present Ministers, not only because
they are the benefactors of Ireland, but because
they are the sincere friends of the liberties of the British
peoplo—(Applause)—and as such are anxious to do every-
thing in their power to increase the prosperity of England,
and to sweep away every abuse which has deformed our
ancient institutions, or impeded their utility for the pur-
poses of gc,Tiorta
prosperity.—(Hear.) When I am asked
what the present -Ministry have done, will any man attempt
to ask such a question ? What have they done for Eng-
land and for humanity ? What have th,OY clone for hu-
manity- ? The have Pqtntncnee,d the liberation of one hun-
dred 1114,qqs ny• clur fellow-creatures in the East Indies.
They have commenced by striking: down the charter
of monopoly,
-et la y npeniug the Rill trade of the eastern
world to industry and British hearts, carrying in
their train a knowledge of Christian precepts, the light of
the Gospel, and the smaller torch of science, foiroo,
those myriads of human beings who It'';';'i*,lo-,,,t,A fatly to be
plundered and Atm„,.„--, ciltel:".)
11', .1 '• They have
also struck off' ttie Negroes, and given liberty
to eigld.hdbdred' fliousand slaves.—(Tremendous cheer-
ing.) Need any man ask this? book at the state of
England in 1830, ivklpu llitipresent Ministers came into
09. lloi CPR-rate why state in a few words,

that the manufacturing towns in the north of England were
forming their political unions, the discontent of the people
amounting closely to disaffection, numbers approaching
daily to military organization, disturbing or keeping the
peace of society upon the very verge of convulsion, while
the agricultural labourers in the south of England were ter-
rifying the public, and making the night hideous by the
blazes of their incendiary fires. Such was the state in
which the present Ministry found England—(Hear, hear)
—and those who held the :helm of power in their hands,
declaring every thing was so perfect, that human ingenuity
could not, a priori, have discovered any thing so perfect and
beautiful.—(Laughter and cheers.) Well, what is the
state of England now ? Was there ever a period in which
manufacturing and commercial prosperity was in a more
healthy state ? I pass everywhere, and hear but one cry:
wages can be earned in every town, and the manufac-
turers never were so fully employed as at the present
moment, and with this prosperity there is perfect peace
and tranquillity.—(Cheers.). .Who now hears of any
outrage in England? Who hears of disturbance in Eng-
land? The Tories told us reform would produce revolu-
tion. Why, it has : it has produced
.a revolution from a
state of dans•er and disturbance to a state of perfect tran-
quillity, unbroken, and incapable of being broken.—(Thun-
ders of applause.) That is the radical revolution which the
Reformers have produced.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) I
confess that, putting Ireland entirely out of the question, I
should not deem myself an honest man if I did not devote
every energy of my mind, every faculty I possess, to the
support of a Ministry which has done so much good for
England ; and if they had more power they would use
it
.if they were not stopped by one branch of the Legis-
lature.—(Great cheering.) The first and.leading object.
of my political life therefore is, to rally all classes of Re-
formers round the present Ministry. I am myself in prin-
ciple a Radical—l own, a thorough Radical ; but as a
Radical Reformer, I sec the best and safest mode of ob-
taining improvements is in the gradual but constantly
increasing movements of a Ministry, who, although to
some they appear too slow, are only slow because they
would be secure.—(Cheers.) Having this object in my
political life, as concerning this country, you will not be sur-
prised if there be another which certainly entwines itself more
round my heart, though it does not equally justify-0 but
it does ; for the head, may be wrong, and the heart right—
the affection that I bear for her. Again I am proud
to stand in the capital of Yorkshire, because I am bound
to say that the two individuals at the head of the present
Administration for Ireland, and who have done and are
doing the most for that country, are Yorkshirerrien.—(Loud
cheers.) That excellent and unaffected gentleman, my Lord
Morpeth—(Loud cheers)—who represents a district more
populous than any Member of the House of Commons,
except his colleague, he is honest with a true English ho-
nesty—(Loud applause), winning his way without showing
favour or partiality to any body, but showing justice to
(Loud applause.) At the head of that Government there
is another faithful Yorksbireman, Lord Mulgrave.—
(Cheers.) I will be candid with you. For six hundred
years we never had a Government disposed to do justice to
Ireland. The British Government never sent one who
had not some paltry timidity about the Orange faction, or
some other faction, or some mistaken, or some worse motive.
—(Hear, and cheers.) Yorkshire has sent us a Nobleman
who does not know what fear is, whose only object during
his political life has been to do right, but whom I would
not respect as I do now if he were capable of making the
slightest sacrifice to the party to which I belong—(Ap-
plause) ; if he were capable of showing the least favour to
any party (by favour I mean partiality). He has won the
hearts and affections of the people of Ireland to such a de-
gree that if he were to issue a proclamation to-morrow to
declare that it was a personal offence to him to violate the
law, there would not be a violation. What have we not a
right to expect from Yorkshire ?—(Cheers.) She has
sent us those two ; will you not then join with us, for why
should not the rest he as good as these two ? These have
set an excellent example, why should you not rally round
them and act as they do, insist for what your toast has
proclaimed, which is all bat I desire—justice for Ireland?
—(Loud cheers.) It is said—but what won't the Tories
say ?—it is said we desire ascendancy, something more
than justice. I tell you my answer ; the moment we
ask any thing more than justice, let all Yorkshire rise
up against us.—(Loud cheers.) Some say we ourfa
to take less ; I tell you we won't take les,:,___(Loud
cheering ;) and you ought to despise us if we did
take less. We will ask the full measure of justice for
Ireland, and in the name of these two Yorkshiremen, I con-
jure the rest to join us.---(Cheers.) But what do I mean
by justice to Ireland ? I will tell you at once—an equa-
lization of law and liberty to Great Britain„to England and.
Scotland, that is my definition of it. I put it to the gene-
rosity, in the first instance, of the English people to join me
in that demand.—(Cries oC " We will," and loud cheers.)
I say nothing of the debt you owe. us ; for six hundred years
the Government of England has been guilty of more op-
pression to Ireland than ever was inflicted by one country
on another.—(Hear, hear.) Toryism itself cannot deny
'that (there are some things beyond the power of lying),
it would be difficult to find any opposition to the truth 41
the statement, that for six hundred years England has 'ty6or
a curse to Ireland. I confesß.ln making these stsssalP:s for
freedom of conscience, i.':, Ireland, the thing wVieb -came to
my heart witivtliP, greatest chill, was tiro V-13''..:ion that the
importance tit Ireland, and the extent -Poi her Wrongs and
sufferhigs, do not make suffieionthn",:ression upon the ng-
E
peOple. It was to be rev' etted exceedingly, but not to
be wondered at I occupie',' with their own concerns, engaged
with objects of. B'fitish nationality, or with the affairs of
private life, the English slumbered while the Irish were pe-
rishing..—(Loud timers.) And why ? Because there was no
one to agitate the waters of liFe. You all know, if we leave'
water te, 'remain stagnant it soon becomes a mephetic pool,
deitmciive to animal life, and injurious to every thing it
tomes in contact with : it requires a wholesome agitation
to fit it for use. There was no one to stir up the
water ;therefore I felt it my duty not only to do that,
but to become a kind of flapper to the English ; and
finding I could not raise it in one way I did it in
another : I hurraed for " Repeal," as a most excel-
lent flapper ; a most excellent flapper it is, and more than
a flapper—a resource when everything else fails. Now, I
might have been sorry if it had succeeded, but I may yet
be thrown hack upon it, for I will never consent that my
my country shall be inferior to yours. You owe us—when.
1 say you, I only mean figuratively, as belonging to the
English natipn—you owe us a debt of justice, and y ou are
too honest not to pay your debts—you owe us a debt of
justice, and the present Ministry arc disposed to pay it
for. you. I never felt such a thrill of pleasure come over
my mind, as I did on the speech of Lord Morpeth, in fa-
vour of the Yeforrn of municipal corporations. I do not
mean to fatigue you further, by entering into any details
as to all the measures necessary for Ireland, but I will
take, as a test, the Irish Municipal Reform Bill. Mark
that. See how we stand. Scotland has got municipal re-
form, and right well have her towns and boroughs pros-
pered under that reform. England has got it also, but
in a lesser degree than Scotland, and England has right well
shown the value of that reform. Is there a man amongst you
who would consent to Scotland having municipal reform,
and vet would refuse it to Ireland ? If there be, I
should not much respect him,—(Hear, hear.) You have
got municipal roform : and what do 1 demand for Ire-
land ? I demand municipal reform : shall I be told that
her corporations do not require reform, and that they are
already perfect? Why, if I am told that, I am told what
nobody in the House of Commons attempted to assert :
I have a witness of it here : Lord Stanley observed that
the corporations in England were bad, but that there was
no term in the English language sufficiently strong to
describe the rtate of the Irish corporations ; had there
been any such terms, he who called his colleagues
thimble-riggers would have picked it out.'—(Hear and
laughter.) Up starts Sir Robert Peel with as plausible
look as ever man could put upon it. It was supposed that
lie had some excuse to offer in favour of the Irish Corpora-
tions ; and if any man could have found out one, he was
the boy for it.—(Laughter.) From his intuitive sense of
justice, yonr excellent chairman has described more em-
phatically in a single word than I could .do in a lows' speech,
the great evils of the Irish Corporations, which have so
abused the administration of justice—(oll, no ; of law)--
that was placed in their hands.—(Hear, hear.) They se-
lected a party sheriff, who took upon himself to nominate
the juries ; and men whose liberties, lives, and property,
were at stake, were placed in the predicament Of t.tveso who
should be compelled to gammbles.,t,htrwl.stkite. -property.
men who used loaded dice. with
"v%,‘ Vklarlornell- are we not
paltry, pitiable cowar;:ta t 0,1,441, ItS ._e.ssion so lons.?
It
—(Cries " -isat are.") Woul t 'opt
‘. you have endured this
--Mkt your sheriffs should be nominated only upon a dis-
tinct pledge against the liberties of the people of England,
that they should be coat ge1.,1
to. take the Shibboleth of
party ? No man ep,ul4 take this office unless he would
take this gi h",l
,4i,,etai or pledge himself to party feeling.
Now, what do we want—to obtain that Corporate Reform
which
Scotland has obtained, and which England partially
enjoys ; which you would enjoy, too, as fully as Scotland, if
it were not for an antagonist power, the Aritnanes of the

. .
ow 0-ion, which supposes the existence of two Gods—a God
goodness and a God of wickedness ; and, without pro-
r•Aneness, I will suppose the good principle is represented
by the reforming Ministers and their followers, and the prin.
ciple of Satanic power by the Tory Peers of the House of
Lords, led on by the Tories of the House of Commons.—
(Cheers.) But for Ireland all I ask is justice. The House of
Commons has responded to our call by a majority, and
considering that this is a Peel-Wellington Parliament, I
may say by a most triumphant majority—by a majority of
64 in a crowded House, and by an increased majority pro.
portionally, though not numerically, of 61 in a smaller
House—a majority of 61 of English, Irish, and Scotch re-
presentatives have declared that justice shall be done to
Ireland.—(Cheers.) The great experimont is now being
made, and -if you ask what brought me here, I tell you
I came here to plead for Ireland, to get every one of your
names to a petition to the House of Lords, to tell them to
do justice to Ireland—or else—(Cheers)—l have been
blamed, and it is a subject of dispute among good men
whether I was not wrong in arguing prematurely and too •
violently ; but it is my fashion to be a little violent, and
the excuse of Macbeth for his crime would be more ap-
plicable to me, but I am accused of prematurely agitating
it. I don't agitate it any more, and I will tell you why :
the experiment is being made ; the question is, shall the
union be a real one or not ?—(Cheers.) The question is,
who are to be the repealers or rather the separatists? If
the House of Lords presume to declare for the repeal, (re ra-
ther the separation, I implore of you to knit more s'aongly
the union with Ireland, and compel the House of Lords to do
so. I am not afraid of their decision ; the question is being
understood by the people of England, and there is not. a
Lord in the land who will be comfortable when the people
of England write upon his escutcheon —" Fool or knave."--
(Cheers and laughter.) We are come to a period or
society when •the greatest effect can be produced by the
electric force of opinion, and by its shock, passing fsoos
breast to breast, its small circle expands by degrees, till it
comprehends within its expansive powers and lightning-
shock the whole circle of the isle.—( Loud cheers.) You
require no thunder—you have the electricity without the
lightning.—(Hear, bear.) Public opinion now goes forth
with a force too great for hereditary legislators, and too
powerful to be resisted by hostile combination.• The people
are rallying to obtain justice for Ireland, e.nd the Legisla-
ture will be compelled to yield it.—(Che,ers.) And, after
all, can there be anything more desirable in this country
than the perfect passification of Ireland ? Now, let us take
another view of it for one moment—let us suppose that we
are in a counting-house, and that we open a ledger account
between England and Ireland—a profit and loss account.
In England, Scotland, and Wales, there are something more
than sixteen millions of inhabitants ; in Ireland there is not
more than half that number. Now, if the protection
afforded to both members of the empire be equal, the har-
den ought to be equal also. Great Britain pays in one year
Viirty-nine millions of taxes : how much does Ireland pay ?
The country is as fertile, an?, its produce still better and
mare abundant than. wArs ; the produce, acre for acre, is
greater than that of England ; and what does Ireland pay ?
Five millions ; one-third of the population of the kingdom
thus pay about one-eleventh part of the taxation. You,
may suppose that Ireland is almost free from taxation
altogether.—( Hear, bear, hear.) But I will tell you nu
experiment which was made by a late Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. Four millions additional taxation was put. upon
Ireland ; but instead of increasing the revenue, it was actually
decreased to three millions ; so that this experiment .apparently
made to try how much the camel's back would bear, when
a feather's weight would have broken it, had the retrograde
effect, notwithstanding four millions additional taxes were
laid on, of reducing the revenue to three millions.---(Hear.)
Though these details may appear trivial, yet we should re-
collect that it is not merely a festive entertainment on which
we are met ; we are acting history at the present moment.
(Applause.) Formerly, I understand, the way in which
opponents argued points. near this city was by the point of
the sword ; and I have beard of so large a number as 36,0001
men dying in one battle.—( Hear.) At present we do not
fight by swords, but we are fighting at this assembly to-niiht
ourselves where men of intelligence and Englishmen are so
numerously congregated, listening to an Irishman, and for-
giving his brogue, to a Catholic too, on behalf of' his coun-
try.—(Loud applause.) Now there is one thing I wish.
you to recollect, if Ireland were as prosperous as Englan4
instead of paying 39 'millions of taxation, there would lie a
saving at once of 10 or 11 millions ; we ought to take 'upon.
our shoulders ten millions more, and you to pay ten, millions
less. Now, what is our condition in regard to nuances, in
consequence of having done injustice to Ireland ? It is this,
that we are paying for committir,g that crime at the rate of
ten millions sterling by the 'year.—(Applause.) I sighed
as I passed through the streets of Hull, and found every
house overtopped by 4..'ne masts of vessels ; while I was ad-
dressing the PP :1;1e there, ships were crowding in from every
point of tlo", compass, pressing into the harbour from every
regior• of the world. Those that did not bring in scree cargo,
tiok away with them some cargo from tat place. It.
made me sad to reflect that in my own naive country,
where navigable rivers and spacious harbours open, at every
stage of the tide to the largest vessels, one of them form-
ing a natural harbour, opening in thine° directions, and.
comprising a space of thirty miles, in 'every part of which
vessels may lie safely—(Hear, hear. :and cheers)—it grieved
me when I calle:1 to mind •
almost quite deserted, ".. the Liffey and Shannon
were
rivers which afford the best fa-
cilities. When I corntl)3 `ed with the destitution of the one
the complete thronpr
4 of the other, I asked myself, if
this be a union :rad if it be, is it not a union such as that
of the tyrant, r. ho condemned the living to be chained to
the dead, 't.o
drag about a festering corpse, and to be left a
gangr.me But although your wealth, your industry, and
your:' ir,tellect, have saved you from the pestilential embrace
ro are suffering in every way for the part you have taken
ir.. this iniquitous union.—(Loud and continued applause.)
I do not stop to tell you how much it costs you in the mi-
litary. In Great Britain, amongst sixteen millions of peo-
ple, there arc some 18,000 troops ; in Ireland, though but
eight millions of inhabitants, you are obliged to pay 29,000
troops, and 7,000 armed police. So that there never was

iniquity for which a nation were so completely put to cost
as this.—(Applause, and cries of " True.") True, why
could have any doubt about it ? To doubt it, would
be as preposterous as to say that two and two
don't make four. But if Ireland has justice done
to her, instead of being a negative quantity, diminish-
ing the resources of the country, would she not be-

come a positive good, increasing the means and bearing
the burdens of the State.—(" Yes, and cheers) ? This is
a conclusive statement which cannot be overlooked, which
must come to the bosom of every sensible man. But I
must confess, sanguine as I am upon everything relating to
Ireland, there is something which goes directly to my heart.,

as being a greater stimulant to the-exertions of Englishmen.
The Poor-law Report is just coming out ;it will be in cir-
. .

culation in the course of a month. What will it prove ?
That in Ireland, in a population of eight millions, there are.
590,000 human beings in -such a state of destitution as tr►
totally unprovided with any means of subsistence, and living
upon casual alms ; one in every sixteen inhabitants ! Whe.t
is the reason of this? They live in the most fertile country

upon the face of the earth. It now produces the necessa-
ries of life with superabundance, and with the utmost exu-
berance, and yet one-sixteenth of the population are
wretched and destitute beggars.—(Shame, shame.) Oh, it
can be accounted for only in one way ; we have suffered.
six hundred years of misgovernment.—(Hear, hear.) No

person, until the present Administration came into power,
thought of applying the proper remedy—justice ; it. never
occurred to them that justice was impeded. lam uow ap-
plying to you to become, with me, a proselyte to that
creed which teaches us that our first duty to luau—
and, I submit to you, that it is our first duty before

God—is to evert ourselves for the propagation of the.
opinion, that England is disgraced until she does justice
to Ireland.—(Loud applause.) Where is the man wilo
will prevent justice being done to her, whatever be his
religion? Where is the Protestant who will tell me the
Protestant religion requires that Ireland should be misera
ble, and I will tell him that be calumniates the name of
religion ; that he does not understand it.—(Cheers.) That
religion teaches common charity, common Christianity.
But it is said that we aspire to ascendancy. Now, the:
moment we begin to look for ascendancy, that moment yort
will oppose us ; and I think sixteen millions of you here,
besides a million and a half of Protestants in Irelnatt, will
take care that we do not obtain any ascendaney.—(C;heers
and laughter.) For my own part, I can say, that, there is
not a Protestant in either country who would 'oppose that
ascendancy with greater force than I myseir'trould.—(Ap-
planse.) At present my opinion is, and 1 frankly avow it,
that the connection between Church and State does not
exist for the advantage either of enr„or the other—( Loud
applause)—were it otherwise, I should have had no occa-
sion to ask you upon the so
and to remember that irn ;
...;hr.st.an.;
ty's name human blood
has been sheds—O) The
len. name of Rathcormac has
obtained snob fan.7.;lar intercourse with our cars that the
`.iject of my present mission ;
deed of 1,1000. perpetrated there becomes like a ten times
kat tale., and you cease to weep, because it has ceased, by
its I%petition, to affect you.—(Applause.) The blood that
nas been shed at this and other places is now little thought
of, and of which you are perhaps only reminded by the un-
pronouncable names of the places—names upon which I
must dwell, because they are familiar to every one. And
yet the widow's son there wetted his mother's feet with his;
heart's blood for Ss. 4d. ! !!—(Shatne, shame.) Can you:
forget the blind man conducted by his grand-daughters
?lletotiitnhdeuplgroectloier r
waasffeocutito;n
antodwitibrdes
jut
who when seduced by her playmates to join in their
was shot in the old man's arms.—(Crie',.of
grandchild
preferredtddsef,ahtilide r
Shame,' and expressions of horror.) Are these scenes
to continue ? Is the destitute and blind widow to raise
her hands to heaven in vain ? Are the W'jthers of