The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-21 00:00:00

CONSTANTINOPLE.

DEC. 23, 1835.—The Divan, when I last wrote to von,
had not yet got out of the state of perplexity in which
Lord Ponsonby's note had thrown it. This assembly came
at last to the resolution of informing the British represen-
tative, that although the Turkish Government fully acknow-
ledged the validity of the representations made relative to
the conduct of Mehemet Ali, and the justice of England's
claims for redress, yet the Porte felt loath to return a ca-
tegoric answer to the, application made through his Excel-
lency's channel before being made acquainted with the na-
ture of the English Cabinet's intentions, should Mehemet
Ali refuse to obey the Imperial firman. In answer to this
note, Lord Ponsonby replied that the question which the
Reis Effendi had addressed to him being one of a highly
important and delicate nature, he requested that the space of
four clays might be allowed him, in order to give the subject
the whole consideration it merited. On the fifth day after
the receipt of the above-mentioned communication, his Ex-
cellency forwarded to the Porte a note, stating that he enter-
tained the hope that Mehemet Ali, faithful to his duties of
a vassal, would, on-the presentation of the Sultan's order,
comply with its injunctions ; should, however, his conduct
disappoint the expectations of the British Government, nei-
ther the dignity nor the interests of England could permit
her tamely to put up with a similar injury. In this case,
however, the Porte might rest assured that the British Go-
vernment would not take a decisive step without her parti-
cipation and previous approbation. This explanation has
been considered as satisfactory by the Divan, and it has been
resolved to deliver the firman, such as the English Ambas-
sador originally applied for.
It appears from the intelligence received from Syria, that
Mehemet Alli, far from showing any disposition to avert the
storm gathering against him, is fully determined to brave it.
He is actively pursuing his military preparations in that'
country ; and the general opinion in Ibrahim's camp is,
that early in the spring this General will take the initiative.
One of his aides-de-camp has been sent to France, in order,
it is said, to engage Officers for his staff. Here, also, the
renewal of hostilities is looked upon as certain, although
Russia is using every effort to dissuade the Porte from com-
ing to a rupture. Teffic Bey, one of the Sultan's secre-
taries, was sent a few days ago with autograph despatches
'to Redschid Pasha's camp.
According to the latest intelligence from different parts
of Roumelia, the most perfect tranquillity reigns in Albania,
and in every part of European Turkey. The Roumely
Valessy, convinced that it will be impossible for the Porte
to introduce any reforms in the country lately the seat of
insurrection, as long as the petty hereditary chiefs are al-
lowed to remain in possession of authority, had applied to
the Sultan for authority to depose the most obnoxious
among them. In virtue of the imperial order, be caused
lately four of the principal Albanian Pashas—of Dibra,
Yakova, Ippek, and Dukaneen—to be arrested. They are
on their way to Constantinople, where, like the other Pashas
who have been guilty of political offences, they will live un-
molesta on their incomes.

The Turkish fleet began on Friday last to return into
port. The Capitan Pasha, as I mentioned in my last, is
shortly expected. A steam-boat was sent to-day to meet
him, and should the wind continue adverse, to bring him up
to Constantinople.
The Levant arrived here on the l 7th inst. from Athens,
and sailed on the 21st. for the same port. In consequence
of an agreement between the Greek Government and the
owners, this steam-packet will twice a month perform the
voyage between this port and the Piraeus, touching each
time at Smyrna, Tchesme, Scio, Syra, and Tino. The
want of a regular communication between Turkey and
Greece had. hitherto proved a desideratum severely felt by
the foreign representatives, diplomatic agents, and commer-
cial classes in both countries, as well as by travellers. The
Greek Government has done everything in its power to
render this undertakinc, a profitable one to the owners.
The same advantages whichb foreign ships of war are entitled
to, have been granted also to the Levant. It performs six
or seven days' quarantine. Early in spring the steam-
communication between Vienna and Constantinople will be
fairly established. A traveller will then be able to go from
Vienna to Athens in 17 days. The cabin fare amounts to
100 dollars, living included. Owing to the rapidity of cur-
rents in the Hellespont, Bosphorus, and Danube, the voyage
from Athens to Vienna will require 21 days. Letters from
Trieste mention as positive the establishment of four Aus-
trian steam-boats, which are to run between Greece,
Smyrna, Constantinople, and Alexandria.
The two Russian steam-packets which for the last three
years have run between Odessa and Constantinople con-
tinue to perform this service regularly twice a-month.
Neither the wintry terrors of the inhospitable Euxine, nor
the immense losses which the company has suffered, have
led them to give up this undertaking. The whole expenses,
it would appear, are at present defrayed by Government.
No pecuniary sacrifices can appear to it heavy when ex-
pended in the acquisition of early intelligence from a quar-
ter so vitally interesting as Turkey is to the Cabinet of St.
Petersburgh. . .

The Sultan, whose great hobby is to imitate the Mo-
narchs of Europe, has ordered lately that the anniversary
of his birth-day, and also that of his accession to the throne,
should in future be kept as holydays throughout the empire.

LIBEL UPON A HANGMAN.—It would appear
that there is a law in France which expressly forbids, and
under a penalty, all persons from calling the executioner
by any name calculated to cast odium upon his office. In
describing the last scene of two noted malefactors Lace-
naire and ilvril, which occurred some days ago in Paris,
the newspapers generally spoke of the chief agent upon that
occasion as le bourreau et ses valets, which perhaps may be
translated Jack Ketch and his imps. At these terms M.
Samson fils, the functionary in question, took serious um-
brage, and wrote in remonstrance to the journals. He
states that he is called in the law l'executeur des arrets crii
urinals (executioner of criminal judgments) and that he is so
addressed by the Minister of Justice and the Judges, and
that his assistants are to be denominated aides not valets.
He therefore warns the Journals to use more respectful
language in future. The law to which the hangman refers
is an arret of the Council of State of the 12th of January,
1787, which was confirmed by the Convention of 1792.
This affair served as the gossip of a day in Paris.
FEMALE SAILORS.—A correspondent writes us
Having seen lately in the public papers an account of a
female sailor serving on board a man-of-war, it may be inte-
resting to your readers to learn that three females served
and fought on board the Victory, in Lord Rodney's engage-
ment with the French ; they were discovered after the
battle to be females, and were sent on shore at Lisbon,
where they were clothed at the expense of the British fac-
tory there, to which Mr. Turner, formerly of this city, was
then the treasurer ; a collection was made for them, which
amounted to about 25 moidores. They were afterwards
sent to Falmouth by one of the packets, and brought to
their homes in this city. They belonged to the parish of
St. Edmund, on the Bridge ; one of them was blind of an
eye, a very stout lusty woman ; the others were short, but
stout. They had served at the guns most valiantly during
the whole of the engagement, and had not received any
injury.—Western Luminary.
NEWSPAPER TA x.—Another sacrifice to the
tyrannical law which forbids the circulation of public intel-
ligence without the payment of a heavy tax, has been made
in the person of an industrious and respectable individual,
Mr. Blanshard, of this town. Although we are sufferers,
in common with our contemporaries, by the sale of un-
stamped newspapers, still we are heartily sick of these end-
lessloT of the ENchemuer may
and unavailing prosecutions. Ministers ought really to
trifle no longer with public feeling, but proceed to total
abolition of the duty in the castling stlsslon. The 1311 Ce
lett Thornierils departMent that fit ble smuggling cannot
,pro a
be prevented ; and in the case of newspapers, the chances
against the revenue are greater than in other branches of
centrabao trade, inasmuch as opiaion is altogether in
favour learn from any Cie,* in Sr, Von-
smut led infoilltAtlon
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PUBLIC DINNER to MR. O'CONNELL

AT TRALEE.

Mr. O'Connell proceeded from Derrynane Abbey at an
early hour, and arrived at Tralee about four o'clock. The
weather was inclement in the extreme, and took its due effect
upon the spirits of all anxious to be present at the entrance of
the " Liberator" into the capital of his native county. Mr.
O'Connell's carriage, however, came in much earlier than was
expected, as it was evidently pre-determined by him and his
friends not to accept of any public entry, or encourage crowded
processions. The room, in which an entertainment both costly
and sumptuous was given to the Hon. and Learned Gentle-
man, is capable of containing two hundred and fifty persons,
when seated comfortably at table. This number was present.
After the cloth had been removed, the following toasts were
given by Mr. F. MULLINS, M. P., who presided :
" The King ;" " The Princess Victoria ;" " The People ;"
" The Army and Navy ;" " The present Government."
The CHAIRMAN begged to direct their attention to the
next, and he should say, the most important toast of the
night, and he would demand a high bumper therefore. When
the great services of their illustrious guest were considered,
it certainly was nothing but presumption in him to attempt to
expatiate on them. Ad why ? because he felt that all pre.
sent were acquainted with him too well to need any eulogy
from him ; but, although it was his duty to be silent on such

a personage, he wonld leg their patienc; for a few minutes
while ho called to their minds the services lie had rendered
his country. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to allude
to Mr. O'Connell's public career—his long and ardent strug-
gles for Catholic Emancipation, his subsequent efforts in aid
of Reform, and his recent assistance to his Majesty's Ministers
in their carrying through the House of Commons the impor-
tant measure of Municipal Reform for England. After a
lengthened and loudly cheered address from the Chairman,he
concluded by proposing " The health of Mr. O'Connell."
The toast was received with the most vehement enthu-
siasm, the applause and acclamations continued for a tedious
length, and were kept up with all the best energies of hilarity
peculiar to the Irish heart. When it had subsided,

Mr. O'CONNELL rose and said—Do you know what brought
me here ? I didn't know myself until this evening I saw a
passage in the Times newspaper, which told me that my busi-
ness to Tralee was about the registry of the borough, which is
in an awkward way ; and so it is in an awkward way • but for
whom ?—why, for the Conservatives.—(Laughter.) I did
not presume to stand before you since my late recess from my
Parliamentary duties, and I was glad of the hint given me by
the Times, for it brings to my recollection an important and
gratifying fact, that the first contested election was in this very
borough—the first of those elections which set a tone and dis-
played an example to the rest of Ireland—an example that
was well imitated, and had the effect of giving a great
number of good men to Ireland as her representatives. And
you will do the same again in Tralee, unless a little more of
the money be forthcoming. Why do I allude to this topic
first ? Because the struggle in this borough was the com-
mencement of a struggle which was the most successful that
Ireland was ever engaged in. Well ; lam bound tq
com-
mence a new agitation.—( Hear, hear.) I have not been
wasting my energies since the close of Parliament. No ; I
have been consulting the wants of my nature in restoring my
physical powers. The field sports have dismissed me active
and fresh from my mountains, and, therefore, I say, huzza.
for agitation.—( Cheers.) And why not huzza for it ? If it
failed before, I would say drop it ; but Wellington and Peel
have taught us how to succeed in agitation. They have
taught us, while we look back at the past to look forward to
the future; and while we ponder on the good we have
achieved, to bear in mind that such should be only a stimu-
lant to accomplish more ; and although my natural exility of
temper is such as to make me prefer a good joke to a good
argument, yet I cannot but feel and acknowledge that the
present is the most awful crisis that Ireland ever knew, or
Britain ever experienced. Yet do I despair? No; I re-
member when I could as easily swallow one of those moun-
tains upon which I was so lately hunting, as to draw together
-even: the one-fifth of the number I see before me now, and
still I did not despair. But now, while my heart throbs with
suspense, I look to the past far encouragement. I pause
over the present with anxious fear, and look to the future
with the ardent desire to render the liberties of Ireland per-
manent and irrevertible.—( Cheers.) To be sure we have ob-
tained religious equality, although your purses still feel a
little now and again.—( Laughter.) After that Reform was
carried; for before it, Reform could not pass—it was impos-
sible for any Minister to carry Reform with the Catholic
Question on his back as a sort of a make-weight to re-
tard it. The next thing I regarded as the most useful thing
for Ireland was a domestic Legislature. I acknowledge it ;
and though the pride of my nationality is for the moment
asleep, it is not dead. lam an Irishman. Ido not know
that Irishmen arc inferior to other nations. All experiments
have been tried to have justice done to Ireland; and with
what effect, let me as'c you ? I spent five long years in my
experiments upon the Orangemen, trying to persuade, argue,
and conciliate them ; but to no purpose. This convinced me
that as long as the Orangemen hold their official situations—
and, by the bye, I see that some of your magistrates swear
themselves Orangemen in the Court of King's Bench—and
their power over the rest of their fellow-subjects, you may
as well reconcile fire and water, or poison with medicine, as
to think that they can be induced to yield up their prejudices
and factious views. Next, the House of Commons told us
that Ireland could be better governed by a Legislature of
Great Britain than by one of her own. For that reason I
consented to bury that question in oblivion, but no more.
Why did I do so ? Because I was promised better government
from the Members of the Imperial Parliament than Irishmen
would provide for themselves, and I was anxious to give a
fair trial to British honesty, British integrity, and British ca-
pability.—(Loud cheering.) I entered into no compromise or
surrender of my views or my aspirations for my country, but
I was anxious to ascertain the extent of British capacity in
governing Ireland. And now we can make the experiment in
the best way. Reform was gained for Englishmen by the as-
sistance and co-operation of Irish Members—for I must say,
independent of the exaggeration of friendship, on the part of
your Chairman in mentioning my name, that the British Le-
gislature are bound to acknowledge many obligations to the
Irish Members for the helping hand they lent in the hour of
need—and how are we rewarded ? I am anxious to impress
this upon the honest minds of Englishmen, and, from what
intimations I have got, I shall have some opportunities to do
so speedily. Scotland has received a great accession to her
voters. I'll put it through the press—for what I say here shall
go to the eyes of Englishmen—that although we Irishmen had
a share in the struggle, we had none in the victory. The
reverse was the fact ; for we had a diminution of votes, addi-
tional power being giveu,to bigoted barristers-4 Hear, hear j--
and their professional swearers, who had nothing to do but to
learn to " lip the leather," as the saying is, and thus destroy
the franchise of the people; for two or three men had nothing
more to do than to stand outside a person's house, and then go
swear to the value of its internal improvements—( Laughter)
—and any honest man's vote was destroyed—fellows who
would swallow the book if necessary, or roske an attempt to
swallow the houses.—( Great laughter.) Now, I put my foot
on it. I say that the English and Scotch derived substantial
benefits from the Reform Bill ; just appreciate the benefits
derivable to the English nation by the abolition of a system
that absolutely put English boroughs into the power of Chi-
nese Princes ; for I assert that the Chinese actually nomi-
nated English Members of Parliament.—( Cheers.) See,
then, the Scotch : Scotland had forty-five Members,_ and she
has now fifty-three—thereby getting an addition of eight;
while Ireland, who should have at least one hundred and
fifty, by her population, had only one hundred, and received
one in addition : for, although five additional Representatives
were given to Ireland, she got but one really, as two nega-
tive quantities were thrown in to spoil the boon in the two
Members given to the Orange University—the pious and im-
maculate University of Dublin. Now, I put my foot on it.
Will we get justice now ? Justice I must have. Why do I
support the present Administration ? Because lam con,
vinced that they have given us a pledge of their auxiety to
do justice to Ireland, by the appointment of a good Irish
Secretary, Lord Morpeth—(Cheers)—than whom there is
not a nobler being alive, or one with a kinder heart ; and
a good Irish Lord-Lieutenant, Lord Mulgrave—the noble-
ness of whose character is an honour to human nature.—

(Cheers.) There is not a braver man alive, morally, poli-
tically, or personally, than Lord Mulgrave. Something was
thrown out about the intimidations of Orangemen to Lord
Mulgrave.—( Hear.) Why, what cares he for the faction ?
a man who went down, accompanied with one aide-de-camp,
to the head of a mutinous regiment, while he was Governor of
Jamaica, and stripped them with his own hands of their co-
lours, at a moment when some of the ruffians might have
rushed on him and made it the last of his life ; but he was con-
tent to let it be his last, as that moment was spout in the dis-
charge of an act of duty.---( Cheers.) Think you he is afraid
of Orangemen ?—( Cheers.) Look to his conduct in the case
of Reynolds, who was tried by Judge Doherty ?—(Cheers)
—and while I am on the subject, I must say that it is impos-
sible the newspaper reports of that trial can be true—l cannot
believe them to be correct, for in a case where the very police ,
officers were the witnesses called by Reynolds, who swore
that he was trying to preserve the peace, and how Judge
Doherty or Judge Smith could omit to send that fact to the
Jury, I cannot conceive ; or how the Jury could commit ny
one under such circumstances, I could not imagir:e. But
Lord Mulgrave, the man of personal courage In Jamaica,
without any application, at least in my belief, dismissed Rey-
nolds from gaol. I was for some time conldering with my-
self whether, as Member for Dublin, I. was not bound to make
application for his discharge. Yet I did not ; and I am
sure Reynolds did not; for a braver creature does not ex-
ist, or a better hearted Irishman than he is. No, I said
to myself, " I much mistake human nature if I am deceived in
Lord Mulgrave ; if it be right that it be done, he will do it."
I was right in my estimate of him; the fearlessly brave Lord
Mulgrave sent Reynolds home from gaol. Look to his official
appointments. I think you have an instance in your own bo-
rough of his just discrimination by the nomination of Mr.
Murphy, who is not a man of Tory principles or bigoted views.
____(Cheers.) Would you not Think there was a wide difference
between sending down Judge Perrin to try one of you, and
sending Baron Foster ? Would Judge PcITIA4 ask your reli-
gion ? No; nor does he care wbitt religion any man has, or
whether he has any---(l.,aughter)--uniess it bo for his own
sake—at least he Vatr,idn't try, Lim by that test.----( Laughter. )
Yes; we I,NII have it as an instance to refer to in English his-
tory, that justice bas been done towards Ireland by Lord
Mulgrave—_a proud and solitary instance. Lord Anglesey
was sent here to do justice, and how did he do it ? Why, he
made Judges of Joy, Doherty, and Foster. But then he had
the best intentions in the world. They say that hell
with good intentions ; and so it was wit)" • ,s paved
vernrnent ; for never did the h . uini and his Go-
under the feet of 0-- tricks burn more fiercely
Lord A r poor Irish, than they did
widdeuhrianvge
..6,esey's Administration. But now h
i other prospects, and another Government, we can turn about

to the holiest Englishman, and avow our intention to support
and rally round the present Government. We. can tell hint
that the power and might of Ireland's political exertions will
be to confirm and render permanent the present Government.
—( Great cheering.) We can say, there is no justice in your
reform, as you extended it to us. What was Scotland before
her Municipal Reform Bill ? Why, so many Tralees.-..
( Laughter.) There were but six or eight, or ten or twelve
persons at most, in whom the entire control of a corporate
town was placed. Now Scotland has a complete, reform ;
and I am glad of it, and so must every one who is it friend to
liberty, for Scotland was never conquered yet. Strange to
say, this Scotch Municipal Reform Bill was carried through
both Houses in the very same session that the general Reform
Bill was passed. The Lords got so thumped about the head
by the main measure of reform—( Laughter), that they were
unable to attend to the necessary means for stopping the pro..
gross of the other useful act of legislation. England got, a
good, au excellent Reform Bill. The Lords opposed it;
bat the late corporate elections show how her municipal affairs
have hitherto worked, and the Spee.-ly improvement that Bill
will bring about. Now, regarding Ireland, shall we get it
( A voice, "We must.") Oh, 'tis easy to say we must ;
but I say we must, if we stick together.—(Cheers.) That
we must obtain it is the object of my mission it is the pure
pose for which I came here and have laboured elsewhere, I
am an apostle of that sect who hold that the greatest benefits
are to be had from a conjunction of these moral powers which
are possessed by a people, and that physical power is but an
adjunct to those powers—perhaps to be exhibited., but not to
be used—for I hold the use to be the abuse of it. lam now
about to make the experiment whether .iieft..ice can be got for
Ireland—perhaps I am explaining seenewhat more tediously
than I should do.—( No, no.) however, I come not here to
talk merely, but to speak actions. I say that the Union is de-
monstrated to be a connection between master and slave, if
England and' Scotland are to have municipal reform and Ire-
land not to have it.--( Cheers.) Talk not to me of the sepa-
ration of the two countries—l call that cant; give me justice,
I say.—(Cheers.) On municipal reform the validity of the
Union hinges. Deny us corporate reform and the parchments
of the Union Act are as rotten as they can be,. and no sparrow
can get through a spider's web with more case than will the
people of Ireland destroy that union.—( Vehement cheering.)
Cement the Union with justice, and you made it an adamantine
chain.—( Great cheering.) I say that notwithstanding all nay
feelings of pride for my country, although I am the hired.
servant of -the people— ( Cheers)—yet will I lay down then
all at the foot of the Union, provided you bind me to it by
justice. But look to your unjust conduct, and le defy you to
call on me to respect the Union. We must, get this municipal
reform that we want so much—it is a 7ery nice thing to have
at any rate. Why, could we not
Tralee as the present corporatorsmake as good provosts in
? There are some of us as
fat as ever they were
—(Great laughter.) But, seriously,
whatever improv-ement it would make in Tralee, see what
effect weul'!.. it produce in such cities as Dublin, Cork, Belfast,
and terry. Oh, how I long to see the day when I shall hear
the. rogues' march played after the corporation of Dublin.—
(Laughter.) It was suggested to me at the time that Ca-
tholic Emancipation was carried, that illuminations on a ge-
neral scale should be ordered ; but I said " No" at the time,
for I considered that we had been aided by Protestants in
our struggle then, and that the triumph should be vvith not
over them ; but I promise now, that if we get Municipal
Reform, we shall have illuminations for it ; for there corpo-
rators are of no religian—they are corporators.—(Laughter.)
This reminds me of an anecdote I heard about one O'Shaugh-
nessy, a tailor, from a certain part of the world which you
may easily guess. This O'Shaughnessy was employed by the
late George the Fourth, and after a short time it was whis-
pered into the (then) Regent's car that his tailor was a Pa-
pist. So the next time 0' Shaughnessy went to measure his
Royal Highness, he said, " Mr. O'Sbaughnessey, what reli-
gion are you of ? ' The tailor had the impoliteness to allow
him to ask him the question a second time, and then replied,
e Why, your Majesty, what religion? why I'm a tailor, your
Majesty."—( Loud laughter.) In the same way, when you
ask these corporators what religion they are, they answer " we
are Corporators." (Laughter.) But we'll have a bonfire
over them shortly. I cannot help mixing up a vein of jocu-
larity with a subject that is of a grave nature, and with the se-
rious expression of my feelings on the welfare of my country.
The struggle is not now between two religions, for all reli-
gions are excluded from corporate priviliges, unless it be some
religion fit for the gang- The struggle is for all classes and
creeds; and in my hopes for the future I cannot prove iudif..
ferent to the perils of our present situation. In England, the
liberties of the people are threatened ; but to what extent? A
vain boast, by the Tory press, that the municipal towns will
not reap all the imagined advantages of the Bill. What is
their language towards the Irish people ? Have you seen the
Tory newspapers? They are in an agony of revenge on the
Irish people for their late efficient service to the Melbourne
Administration. They talk of proclamations and Tory rule :
they threaten nothing less than the devastation of this country.
They call the Irish people savages, and the Priests " surpliced
ruffians"—" a brutal Priesthood." But they never shall put
their designs into execution unless they draw the Cromwellian
sword again. Never.—(voices "Never, never!") Think you
if the Tories were in power, would you be safe in walking the
streets? What would defend you from the Orange Club of
Tralee? And if such be the case in Kerry, what would it be
in the North of Ireland, where the Catholics are comparatively
few ? The apostles of sedition and may vilify the peo-
ple, their creed, and their clergy, but we disregard their
tongues as long as we are secure from their bayonets.
Whatever they do, Archbishop Trench has the merit of
serving you, with the grace of God, upon a leeitat_
(Laughter)—and what else are their proceedings or remon-
strances, but swords, muskets, writs, latitats, tied faciases,
and elegits ?—( Laughter.) Quite different from_ the doctrines
you (looking to the Rev. Mr. Falvey) or,yoeir father preach.
—( Laughter.) But what do you thiee has been further
done by this Tory press ? Did you se ,pose there was a mis-
creant so inhuman as to praise acts of blood, as to exult in the
blood of the son of Widuw Ryan ? Did you suppose that a
dog could be found to do so? Yet there is a fellow on the
Standard of the name of Gifford, the son of " the dog in
office," As we would call him ; he has done so ; he has gloated
in the scenes of Rathcormac. Oh, the terrible faction I My
first step shall be to rouse the people into a feeling and an atti-
tude of resistance. The question • is—the safety of property.
Then must we have no waverers. The Athereans punished
not the beaten men in the political contest, nor of course
the victorious, 'out the neutral—(Cheers). True, the faction
have not the sword drawn ; they have not the dragoons, but
that ie from want of power ; their teeth are grinding to masti-
cate the people ; and I proclaim all men slaves who assent to
it by standing neutral. I accuse the Waverers of aiding the fac-
tion—l accuse then; before the court of their own consciences--
I impeach them of abetting and assisting the worst and most
infamous faction by whom a country was ever accursed—always
excepting the Duke of Cumberland.—(Great laughter.) I
henceforth call the neutrals Cumberlanders ; all the little boys
in the streets shall shout " Cumberlanders " after them.
I announce to you the greatest crisis this country ever saw to
the present moment. Life and property. 'are not safe if the
King's Ministers be dismissed from his Majesty's Councils.
Yet we dread not the faction. We conquered them before.
Justice will triumph again. I remember when the voice of
our complaints was like the wailing of a babe, yet it grew
into the voice of' a giant, possessing all its strength, none
of its harshness. I remember our Unions, when with but one
heart and fourteen millions of hands-4 Great applause)--we
demanded our rights, and obtained what Waterloo Welling-
ton, and Peel, in his religious whimperings, said we never
should get. Now I prophecy again that we must get what
we demand. Tithes must be abolished; the stream of human
blood now beginning to flow must cease ; two men have been
made victims already to them—one shot by a pistol loaded by
a Minister of God. I weeder did St. Paul ever load a pistol ?
But I should not mix the melancholy and the grave together
with the ludicrous on so solemn a subject. What do I advise,
thee, regarding tithes ? Resistance ? No ; petition front
every parish for the total abolition of this impost. Re-echo
the cry of the starving clergy, with the cry of the starving pea-
santry.—(Cheers.) They talk vauntingly of large subscrip-
tions being given to the Protestant clergy of Ireland, by the
English people : and so let it be. That's just as it should be.
What signifies a million a year to the English people? And.
if they choose keeping a Church establishment in Ireland,
for their own amusement, why let them do so, but take care
to pay for it. As to urging on Stanley's Bill, and making
the landlords responsibl for tithes, let landlords beware
of that. There is enough of rent already to be collected,
without adding to it. Let the voice of Ireland be spoken out
on this subject. Let but one cry go from the Giant's Cause-
way to Cape Clear, mid from the Hill of Howth to Conne-
marra, calling for their abolition. I thank you for ygur pa-
tience. I thank you for your sympathies. I have announced
to you the danger of our situation unless we sustain the pre-
sent Government. Then down with the Tories ! Down with
the Orange faction. That is the sentiment that pervades my
breast. [The Honourable and Learned Gentleman then re-
sumed his seat, amidst plaudits and other demonstrations of
respect, which contiemed for several minutes.]

The remain;:og toasts on the list were given and responded
to with great warmth. Many volunteers were likewise of-
fered .; amongst the rest the health of Mr. _A. C. O'Dwyer,
ba; Mr. O'Connell, who passed a very high eulogium on That
gentleman's principles and talents ; also taking occasion to
condemn the conduct of the Committee whose decision de-
prived Mr. O'DWyer of his scat in Parliament. Mr. O'Con-
nell left the room at twelve o'clock, and was followt•d by all
at the end of the table where he sat: The company continued
to enjoy themselves for a short time longer;

Messrs. Wild, Hughes, Johnson, Portals, 'and Mat-
thews, gentlemen connected with the New Strand Theatre,
waited yesterday upon Mr. Mash, at the Lord Cho.niber-
lain's Office, in consequence of a communication received
from thence last evening, advising them to discontinue their
performances. Mr. Mash received the gentlemen in the
kindest manner, and promised to acquaint the Chamber..
lain with their immediate and ready compliance with his in-
structions. It is confidently hoped that his Lordship will
take iuto his earliest consideration the claims of th'e ladies
and gentlemen who have been thus suddenly deprived, of
their engagements, and allow them to re-open the hoti.se for
a short period.

The
hecertain English lady
from
the
b a
t fatal duel which succeeded,
a rrocreecign?t.co4rtnd elopement
have been s_l,l,,jects of unceasing curiosity the upper
eirvi—s. The more recent passages of th,,3 life of the frail
beauty are now as well known as fb e earlier ones—but
-
there is a most interesting period undissolved—that which
she passed in Paris with the Yrince, while the question of
divorce was being settled here. On this point, the Court
Journal of Saturday next will contain some curious revela-
tions.