The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-23 00:00:00

GREAT REPEAL ENTER-
TAINMENT AT CORK.

Coax, 20.—This entertainment took place at the
Chamber of Commerce last evening ; and whether we regard
it in relation to the proud event out of which it arose, or the
proceedings to which it gave rise, it was perhaps the most in-
teresting and important political meeting, considering the
eventful °crisis at which we hive arrived, that has taken place
in this city for many years. The chair was well and efficiently
tilled by Daniel Callaghan, E-q., M.P. ; the Vice-P. osidents
were Francis Bernard Beamish, Esq. ; Francis Stack Murphy,
Esq., M.P. ; W. S. Perrott, Esq., of Fermoy ; Daniel
Clanchy, William Fagan, Charles Sugrue, and Francis Lyon,
Esqrs. About three hundred sat down, and amongst them
were present tee leading Liberal characters of city and county.
The cloth being removed,
The CHAIRMAN rose and said that the first toast of the
evening, he had no doub., was anticipated—it was their good
and gracious Queen.—( Cheers.) With great pleasure he pro-
posed" the Queen- the star of Ireland's hope—may the clouds
now gathering fail to obscure its glory, or shut oat its radiance
from a faithful people.
The toast was received with boundless enthusiasm.
The CHAIRMAN—The second toast on his list was that of
"the People."l-tThey had just toasted the source of honour
they would now drink the source of power.—( Cheers. ) " The
People—the Irish people—the day is come for them to spurn
provincial degradation, and to assert the honour and indepen-
dence of their religion and their country."—( Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN—The next toast was that of " the Princess
Royal, Prince Albert, and the rest of the Royal Family re-
sident in Englawd."—(Cheers. ) It needed not that he should
explain -the exception indicated by the terms of the toast.
Everybody present was well aware of the cause. Irishmen
loved and respected that portion of the Royal Family by whom
they in turn were loved and respected. He need say no more—
the exception was single, and it was necessary to be more ex-
plicit.—( Cheers.)
The Cwareasan—Her Majesty's Government deserved well
of the people. They may not—he thought they would not—
be long in powers-but-it was elesasto the Melhoteassa dotlols-
tration to say that but far the difficulties they had to encounter
—now proved to be insnrrnountable—they would have passed
measures of general local policy, which, if administered in a
kindred spirit with that by which they had been conceived,
would have placed the country in a position of political inde-
pendence and national prosperity hitherto unknown. —( Cheers. )
The Hon. Chairman concluded by proposing " Her Majesty's
present Ministers. Under every disappointment let us never
forget that their principle of Government was justice to Ire-
land."
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next toast, said that
by the sanction and advice of their honoured guest, he had
reversed, in the order of proposal, the two next toasts on
the list.—( Hear, hear.) The occasion of assembling together
was to do honour to Mr. O'Connell—to test those principles
of legislation now relied upon by him as the only means by
which Ireland could be saved. Yes, they had assembled to
uphold, in his person, the great struggle now being made for
Irish independence.—( Tremendous cheering.) lie had the
undivided support of the independent interests of the county
and city of Cork--( Cheers.) There was but one great and
grand measure by which the liberties of Ireland would be
secured, and her prosperity promoted. 1 know, continued the
Honourable Chairman, you anticipate what I mean. Gentle-
men, citizens of Cork, country gentlemen !—it is the Repeal of
the Union.—( The company rose, and one irrepressible shout of
exultation burst from tLem. The cheering, which was deaf-
ening, continued for several minutes.) Atter the many ages
of darkness—after the long misrule of England—at that period
when Ireland was beginning to taste a meagre portion of
liberty in what Grattan designated free trade, and when the
Catholics were in part enfranchised—at the period the Tory
aristocracy, lured by bribes, lent themselves to the Minister
of the day in Isis atrocious designs of depriving Ireland of her
Parliament.—(Cheers.) Well, they succeeded, and ever since
the passing of the blighting Union, the people of Ireland had
to send their representatives to a foreign country.—( Vehe-
ment cheering.) Had Ireland improved since that period ?
Hadn't England, by bad laws and bad feelings, kept down
and depressed the energies of the country? Circumstances
had rendered his residence in England for a considerable
portion of- his life necessary; and whether in or out of
Parliament, he had -ever been of opinion that the people
of England felt no sympathy for those of Ireland.--(Loud
cheering.) Domination, monopoly, and oppression had
marked the acts of England to Ireland ; but the period, had
arrived when Ireland would no longer brook the tyranny
—would no longer endure the oppression.—(Great cheering. )
Certain he was that nothing short of domestic government
would satisfy Ireland. We had tried England long and fre-
quently, but she had done nothing but ill treat us, and that
being, incontrovertibly, the case, he would, with a degree of
satisfaction scarcely to be expressed, propose " The Repeal—
England has pronounced against Ireland 'h he penal code or
legislative independence is the alternative. Ireland must be a
nation or nothing." And, continued the Chairman, " O'Con-
nell—lreland's Liberator from religious bondage—may it be
his destiny, as her regenerator, to sound the trumpet of her
social and political resurrection, and proclaim to the world that,
as a nation, she is not dead, but sleepeth."
The toasts, thus associated, were drunk amidst triumphant
enthusiasm, the whole company on their legs, cheering fur at
least ten minutes.
Mr. O'CONNELL rase, and was hailed with repeated rounds
of applause, the most prolonged and deafening. When he
could at length obtain a hearing he said—l never in the whole
course of my life felt so anxious to make a long speech as Ido
at this moment.—(Cheers and laughter.) Like old Dagberry,
1 would s iy, " and though it were three times told 1 would
have the heart to bestow it all upon you." I do not believe
that there is that man amongst those whom I now behold sur-
rounding me who would calmly submit to bear the yoke of
British tyranny.—( Loud cries of " No, no.") No ; you have
come, I have come, we all have come here for other purposes.
We have assembled on this occasion to speak, to think aloud,
upon the present aspect of political aff.irs—upon the awful
aspect of the solemn crisis at which Ireland has arrived. We
have now something in our minds that is of vast importance, and
the firstthing we have to do is toask this question, has any coun-
try in the world, since the history of man was first told, suffered
so much from the injustice of any other as Ireland has suf-
fered by the cruelty and injustice inflicted on her by Eng-
land ?—( Cries of " Never,") Never has any country suf-
fered so much, and though I have often said this before, I
will repeat it over and over again, and reiterate it until it
becomes infixed on the mind of every human being.—( Hear,
hear, and cheers.) Now, then, let that truth be the basis
of the future action of every Irishman. Here are two
countries closely connected to each other by mutual inter-
est and benefits; the one ever ready to join in acts of the
most devoted affection and allegiance; the other in return
for that trying to inflict upon her every cruelty and in-
justice that the most diabolical imagination can conceive.—
( Hear, hear, hear.) That has been the course adopted
towards Ireland by England ever since the connection be-
tween the two countries was formed.—(Hear. ) Robbery, con-
fiscation, murder, every infliction that the imagination of a de-
mon could conjure up has been inflicted upon Ireland by Eng-
land —( Elear, hear.) I ask it of the English themselves ; I
ask it of the men of France, I ask it of the Germans, I ask it
of the Spaniards, who are now coming into life—of America-
let every nation of the earth hear it—has there ever been such a
history of crime • committed by one country upon another, as
that inflicted by England upon this country ?—( Hear, hear,
and cheers ) This is no exaggeration.--(" No, no.") There
are too many facts before us of the horrible reality, and let every
man of you carry it home with him and repeat it over and
over again until it makes a deep and lasting impression.—
( Hear, hear.) Let it be repeated every where and often, un-
til the ehildren shall join in the cry, until the youth who is
bursting into manhood shall boil and burn with indignation at
the cruelties inflicted en his native land,-and until the man,
as he advances into old age, shall direct the course to be pur-
sued for the amelioration of those wrongs, by moderate excite-
ment, but also by fixed determinaSion.—(Long continued
cheering.) I may be told that if England continues to carry
on this reckless career of violence, she cannot continue to do so
without- incurring consequences that are fearful to contem-
plate, or that England will see that she is wrong in her treat-
ment of Ireland, and that she will hold out the pleasing pros-
pect of doing something better for us in future. To that I
reply by asking what are our present prospects—what have
we now to expect?—(" Cruelty.") Yes, I have been well
answered, nothing but cruelty.—(Hear, hear). Here then is
no exaggeration. There are 137 members returned to the
new Parliament, and how do they feel towards unfortunate
Ireland? There are just 22 out of the 137, who are favour-
able to Ireland, and 1 will not answer for it that those 22 are
over anxious about our welfare.—(Hear, and laughter.)
What have we to expect from this formidable array of our
enemies against our friends that stand in a proportion of
137 to 22? It is no ordinary threat that this majority hold
nut. The organs of that party who compose that majority
have ever.--oh;' but you are so familiar already with their
language that it has now become trite and common to your
ears—but do they not call you, the people of Ireland, a "felo-
nious rabble ?" have they not stigmatised your priests as " sur-
pliced ruffians ?" have they not applied to your holy religion
the name of " a vile idolatry ?"—( Hear, hear, and loud cries
of " They have, they have.") And recollect, that the party
who sustain those organs, who practise this language towards
us, are the men who have been sent into the new Parlia
ment.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Were we committing any
crime to deserve this ? No ; Ireland was never so tranquil.
(Loud cheering.) No ; there never was so much acqui-
escence and readiness expressed to forget bygone injuries,
and respect for the administration of the laws as for the few
years that have passed.—( Cheers.) There never was so much
affection evinced by a people for their rulers as during that
period in Ireland, because that affection was sanctified by a
reverence fur the Sovereign.—(Cheers ) At such a period,
if a foreign enemy serried its ranks and dared to threaten Eng-
land, Ireland, with the bound of a lion, would rush to arms arid
assert the independence of the British Throne.—( Hear and
cheers.) But at this very time, when Ireland trusted most,
confided most, in England, site was met by acts of the greatest
cruelty—yes, that is the word, and I thank the gentlerran for
it. She has ever been met by continued and repeated acts of
cruelty from. England.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") I protest
that whistling jigs to mile-stones would be an act charac-
terised by gocid sense and intelligence, compared to the man
who goes into the present Parliament expecting justice from it
by any other moans than repeal.—(Loud cheers.) Of what
use are these expectations ?—( Hear, hear.) Look at the ac-
cumulation of injury and injustice we have suffered; they
form a sort of olio of mephitic vapour, a congregated pesti-
lence in what we have got from England when contrasted with
what Ireland wants ?--( Hear, hear, and cheers.) Am I wrong
in stating this?--(No, no.) Look at the stingy measures
of corporate reform they have given us ; is that not one of
the living crimes of England towards Ireland ?—( Hear, hear,
hear.) By the English Corporate Reform Bill every
man in England can be a burgess who is assessed to the poor-
rate, while in Cork no man can be a burgess who is n-it assessed
to the amount of Wt. rent as a householder. How there can
be any, the most distant, hope of obtaining from England
equality in that measure ?—(Cries of " None. ") Look at the
Reform Bill passed for England, and the par t we toak to give
that Act to the English people.—( Hear.) In fact it was we,
the Irish Members, who carried that measure. There was a
majority of English Members against it ; there was a rnajorit
of Scotch Member* against it—lreland out-numbered botti'
and it was the majority of Irish Members that left the
balance in favour of that measure for the English people
(Loud cheers.) And what did Ireland receive for that?
Why, Why, I need only refer to your present position, to your mise-
rably limited franchise. Cork has 700,000 inhabitants—she
has but 3,000 voters—that is to say, about one person in every
200 of the whole population of this great county has a vote.
(Hear.) Is that justice or reform ?—(Loud cries of " No,
no.") Look at the Church Establishment in England and in
Scotland, and then think of that in Ireland.—(Hear, and
cheers.) In England the ecclesiastical revenues go to support
the Church of the majority of the people.—(Hear, hear.) The
ecclesiastical revenues of Scotland go to support the Church of
the majority in that country._( Hear, hear.) How is it in Ire-

land ?. Who. are the majority? 0, I need not ask you.—
( Hear.) Many of my 'excellent and most valued Protestant
friends join me in this, for:they know it is opposed to conscience
and integrity that we should be compelled to pay for the main-
tenance of a religion we believe to be false.—( Hear and cheers. )
When I recollect how tee clergy of that Church which we are
compelled to sueport, though we believe its doctrines to be
false, have abused and vilified, and calumniated our religion,
and how they still continue to vilify and calumniate it while
they rub us of our money, am I net .warranted in accusing
England of gross injustice and ingratitude to us ?—( Loud cries
of " Hear" and cheers.) And, let me ask, w hat hope have we
that the present Parliament will remedy that giant evil ?
( Hear, and cries of " None.") We have, instead of 175 Irish
representatives, the lowest number we should have, only 105 in
the English House of Commons, yet does any one who hears me
imagine he can remedy those, or any of those grievances, in the
British Parliament. —(Cries of "No; no, never.") When I last
addressed you I told you I had to contend with the hostility of
the House of Lords, 'but that was trivial compared to the pre-
sent aspect of affairs, for now that the House of Lords is bul-
warked up by a House of Commons that will be infinitely
worse than the Lords—a house that will have embodied in it a
personification of all the worst of the bad passions and preju-
dices of the English peeple—(Hear)—who will be your
judges ?—(Hear. ) Oh, you anticipate me—they will be Tory
partizans—men who, bigoted at all times, rendered a thousand
times more so by disappointment, entertaining the most
deadly hatred for you ; those are the man who will
be made judges, and when your lives and liberties are to be
pleaded for will be placed at their mercy.—( Hear.) Oh, you
know them well and can name them yourselves without my
assistance.—(Cries of " Lefroy, Jackson, Litton.") Yes, you
have upon the bench a class of bigotted men, clothed in
ermine, " the unsullied ermine," who with meek and gentle
aspect will take their scats as the arbiters of your lives and
fortunes, who hide the claw beneath the crimson velvet.
Oh, I can endure anything but a Judge who hangs because
he hates, and robs because he is bigotted.—( Hear, hear,
and shouts of applause.) But perhaps we will have a re-
medy in party sheriffs, such as poor Deeble—(Loud laugh-
ter.) Don't you think you will get worse even than him, or
than his namesake ?—( Laughter.) A gentleman once asked a
spoor man who was at work .in a-field -in, Tippeaary, t' -Whose is
th it fine house beyond?" The poor man said, " Colonel
Foote's, Sir." " What kind of man is he ? "He's worse
than the devil."—(Laughter. ) " And whose fine house is
that opposite it ? " That is Colonel Pepper's, Sir." " What,
kind of man is he ?" " He's worse than Colonel Foote, Sir, who
is worse than the devil. "—(Laughter.) So it will be with the
sheriffs you will have; for you will get one worse than the devil,
and another worse than him.—(Laughter.) Oh, I forgot,
you still have one protection, sure you have the trial by Jury !
But there, too, you are mistaken, for recollect that the one
great accusation against Lord Melbourne's Government in
Ireland was, that he gave justice to the wretches in the
dock.—(Loud cheers.) Yes. Leather-lungs Jackson
(Laughter)—made it a ground of accusation against the Go-
vernment that they gave directions that no man should be
objected to as a juror on account of his politics or religion.
—(Cheers.) Yes ; it was actually made a charge against
the Government that they gave directions that the
Crown prosecutors should not set aside a juror because they
had no cause to do so.—( Laughter.) Will the Tories not
object to men who are objectionable only because they are just
and honest ? Oh, yes they will, and they will have jurors in
plenty, ay, as many as would " thatch a gallows."—( Great
laughter.) Well, what sort of Magistrates will ye have?—
(Hear.) Heaven knows, bad as Lord Plunket was, and he
made many bad Magistrates, that was leniency itself to what
the Tories will do.- (Hear, hear.) Perhaps it may be said
that the leaders of the party will not be so unjust. I
wish to Heaven I could delude myself into that belief.
Is it Peel, whose attempt to gain power we have thwarted e
Peel, whose pride we trampled down, to have for-
gotten that, and not revenge it ? It is not in the
nature of the man not to be revenged.—(Hear, hear.) Was
he not the man who armed this country with a mob of Orange-
men who thirsted for your blood ?—( Hear, hear.) The man
who organised 32,000 yeomen in the north, and who placed
arms in their hands to massacre the unoffending Catholics
of Ulster ?—( Hear.) Peel, the partisan, the champion of
these Orangemen who committed murder by wholesale, and
then he got up in the House of Commons and declared—these
.are his words—that the Orangemen of the north had but one
fault, and that was—" an excess of loyalty. "--( Great
laughter and groans.) Oh, but then, perhaps, all will be ren-
dered happy and content by that mild emollient in our cup of
bitterness, Lord Stanley—(Groans)--that man who gut a
majority in the House of Commons, when the Whigs had a
majority of one hundred, and turned round upon Ireland with
his Coercion Bil!.—( Renewed groaning.) But are his preju-
dices so stale as that ? 1 reply, there is his Franchise Bill.—
(Hear, hear.) I ask every Irishman who now hears me, what
will the constituency of the country be with such a Bill ?
(Nothing. ) There are but 3,000 now in the whole county of
Cork ; how many will you hive under Lord Stanley's Bill? How
many of those who now possess the franchise could endure the
hardships that Bill would inflict to enable them to keep it? Why
do the English hate us ? What is the reason of this madness
that is abroad amongst them ? There are two ingredients ;
there is national hatred, " Humnni generis est odisse quern
heserunt."—( Cheers). There is national hatred, and there is
that fell fiend, bigotry, to account for the hatred of the great
majority of the English people. But who can account for the
conduct of the men of Leeds, a great manufacturing town, where
the people are buyers of bread, and not sellers of corn? Who
will account for the conduct of the people of London?—l'll ac-
count for Dublin myself.—(Laughter). It is not to hatred
and bigotry alone that is to be ascribed the conduct of the
English people, but also to a national antipathy and to bribery.
—( Hear.) Why do I throw out these things now ? In order
that every man in this room who hears me may go home with
the impression that it is in his power to do something for Ire-
land, and that something must be done.—( Cheers.) We must
combine with one shout, that will be heard from Connemara to
to the Hill of Howth, and from the Giant's Causeway to Cape
Clear—for the repeal.—( Thunders of applause.) I see a great
deal of excitement now in the country—l never saw
anything like the present excitement in the country.—( Hear,
hear.) I have seen the men, I have seen the boys, the chil-
dren, the girls—all the young blood roused.—( Cheers.) In
Carlow, I understand, the factious bloodhounds shot a woman,
and in Waterford, within the precints of the Orange limits, an
Orange ruffian shot a number of children. This, then, is what
you are to expect from them. Understand your peril : are you
afraid of it ?—( Thundering shouts of "No, no.") They call
me coward ; I would rather it were so than that it isn't true.--
(Cries of "They lie.") No revolution can be achieved that is
worth a single drop of blood—(Cheers)—but that is no reason
that men shouldn't defend themselves.—(Deafening cheers. )
However, remember this, there is nothing our enemies so much
desire as that we should push on excitement beyond the
bounds of the Constitution.—(Hear, hear.) Oh, avoid riot
and disturbance of every kind, our enemies are very strop,;,
" Durate et vosmet servate rebus secundis," which hearts, in
the Brogueaneer dialect, " Paddy, abide your time."—( Cheers
and laughter.) Let there be no secret societies, no unlawful
oaths, no riot, no assault ; do nothing beyond the bounds of le-
gitimate discussion.—( Hear.) Prepare then, and unite your
torte, and let every man who has the feeling of an Irishman in
him, rally for repeal.—(" And nothing less," and loud cheers.
Irishmen, we ought to be glad that we are alive,—( Cheers.
Give me the man who can see the peril and will not blanch.—
( Renewed cheering.) I can see it in the majorite, the Tories
will have; I know they will seek to put forward all their force,
hut I despise them.—(Cheers.) Let no man be deluded by
supposing that the present Administration can remain in office;
they must go out before six weeks, or they can only be kept in
by Ireland giving one universal shout for repeal.—( Shouts of
applause.) I tell you plainly and sincerely your present
position, as the Generals who commanded armies in former
days did. I tell you of the contests in which you must en-
gage. Shrink from it, and you will be trampled on, and
you deserve it.—( Loud cheers.) Do—give way —rely on
your enemies.—( Vociferous shouts of " Never, never.") Said
Iso ? Did I think you would ? No, I know you too well,—
( Cheers. ) Rouse, then, my countrymen.—(ChCers.) Let
every parish join me in the cry for Repeal.—( Cheers.) Let
there not be one parish in the county of Cork that will not have
its Repealers and repeal wardens.—( Hear, hear, and loud
cheers.) Let no crouching, crawling, timid, filthy little
Catholic creature, who seeks for some place as the reward of
his turpitude, thanking Heaves that he has a country on
which to inflict an indignity—traitor to his country and
untrue to his creed—let no such creature's example con-
, taininate you.—( Cheering.)
_Oh, how many Liberal Protest-
, ants are there who feel our degradation, and exclaim, " What
cowards you Catholics are, not to rebel lung ago." I re-
collect an honest fellow named Jack Roberts, a Scotchman,
who once said, "It was well for me I was not born in Ireland
or I would have been hanged six years ago."—(Laughter, )
gridured.—
But I said to him that no men would be the better for b
hanged—(Laughter)—and one living agitator will do more
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The CHAIRMAN, in an eloquent * a
" The Hierarchy and Clergy of lrela speech, next proposed,
ever protect their tried friends and fa'lll —a grateful people will
The Rev. Mr. FALVEY, p.p faithful guardians'."
incompetent he felt himself to r. returned thanks. However
whenever he was called upon toespond to the toast, he should,
clergy, do so to the best of his speak. to that of the Catholic
were actuated, in the first ability. That exemplary body
their religion ; and, secondly,ace arm affect own
ardent love for
try.—( earthH, hear. )The a affection for their coon-
y were the. religious and moral in-
structors of e people
who trusted in them, and with whom
they were content to rise or fall.---( Hear, hear.) They were
abused by the faction
for taking a leading part in election
matters, as being derogatory them as ministers of religion.
He would contend for it to
they had acted perfectly f keeping
with their sacredthe
obligations to preserve their flocks from
contamination of the party, from being induced to afford them
support who had supported a vile system e; persecution against
them and their country, who had insulted their prelates, styling
them surpliced ruffians, their priests demons, and their
faith a tifolly—(Hear, hear)—who had called the sacri-
fice of their adoration idolatry, and themselves perjured
rebels.--( Hear.) But if the Catholic clergy were to become
objects of abuse by the partY, he might safely ask as to the en-
gagements of their clergymen, who were to be found combining
the double capacity of the Ministerial and Magisterial office,
and were never absent from the bench, whenever it so hap-
pened that a Sergeant-at-Law was sent down with a special
commission to try some unfortunate people who had been
driven to the commission of agrarian outrage by that persecu-
hurch had caused? He should but tion which an overgrown c
remark, that as long as Ireland's just privileges were withheld
from her, the clergy would associate themselves with their
flocks in putting forward their claims for them, councilling
them to act within the limits of the law, peaceably and cu„..
st itutionally, and not to afford an opportunity to their enemies
to impede their grand object of achieving their liberties.
not going to
Mr. O:CotiNSTA again roe, and said he was
make a speech, but merely call upon them to drink a toast--
one which they would at once respond to " Their Represen-
tatives."--(Loud cheers. )
r • STACK MURPHY, Esq., in returning thanks, regretted
M
he occupied they had not
that, from the positions r. Cale
iah first to address 'them. He would My, with honest
pese:,nhe stood before them in the proud position of their
Representative, He had been for some time from
amongst them, and had come to them to claim that honour at
their hands. He for one would give England a fair trial ; and
he hoped that his country would obtain better terms than had
been yet offered. If the people were united, no matter who
were in power, they, the source of legitimate power, would
achieve their constitutional rights. He did not fear that his

_.i. MILITARY DESPOTISM IN CARLOW.--FRIGHT-
FUL
The following very remarkable and important statement
appears in the Dublin Evening Post, Mr. SyTnes, the gen-
tleman who risked his life on this occasion, in order to record
his vcte at the Carlow election, is a solicitor, and the princi-
pal in one of the most respectable firms of that class in Ire-
land. His character will be admitted, by all parties here, to
be a sufficient guarantee for his prudence and correctness :
" The temporary triumph obtained by the Tories in Carlow
was the result of open violence and the most flagrant violation
of the rights of election. A very remarkable instance of de-
votion to the good cause has been mentioned to us by our
Carlow correspondent. On Friday, the fourth day of polling,
Mr. Symes, the conducting agent for Mr. Grattan, at Wick-
low, arrived in Carlow, and by dint of exertion, made his way
into the booth for the barony of Carlow, at five o'clock, just in
time to record his vote for O'Connell and Yates. Mr. Symes
rode across from Wicklow, forty-two miles, in three hours and
twenty minutes, haring obtained from a friend, on the way, a
fine spirited horse, which, we regret to hear, has since died
from over-exertion.
" The reception of Mr. Symeg, by the military, on his ap-
proach to the booths, is worthy of notice, as an illustration
of the frightful system of military intimidation by which the
people were coerced and overborne. When that gentleman
arrived in front of the military lines, the streets being
crowded with dragoons, infantry, and artillery, he was com-
manded, in a most peremptory manner, to keep hack, as or-
ders had been given by Colonel Jackson that no person what-
soever should pass to the booths. Mr. Symes, however, in-
sisted upon his right to pass upon the Queen's highway, to
exercise a legal right.
" Thereupon he rushed forward, having to pass between two
pieces of artillery, at each of which a bombardier was placed,
ready to apply the match to the gun. At this moment the move-
ment amongst the soldiers attracted the attention of Colonel
Jackson, the officer in command, who, perceiving that a gentler
man was obstructed, gave directions that he might be allowedu__r.
to go on. If a peasant elector had been in the position fffi.tlat
the Tories
gentleman owes his safety to an impression amongstu
Symes, he would, doubtless, have been sabred; but probably h
that he was an out-voter, come up to
When the people observed air. Symes alighting
recogniseda hint
Tally-room, near the Court-house, they onceresket from the assembled
as a friend, and a tremendous
cheer
rthroughout the entire day,
multitude, who were at this time,
as
walls and houses,
vote for Bruen at dthsßeuLnibbeurrya.l
forced by the military upon the 5..0
al ebullition of feeling pro-
for the people were not event:f .wed to remain in or pass
through the streets. This natural
were placed in battle
and the troops, amountingu. I,soo,aboutponthe part of the soldiery,
array, with fixed -harrie
and there can be no second opinion
doted another demonstrattuion
At this moment the soldiery far
outnumbered the po glace,
that the entire display Asp y was made to carry the election of the.
Tories by
to the determination of the faction to secure the return of the
anotherin fact, still more decided with regard
by means the most .. •
Tory candidates, all hazards, and
to the entrance of the Court.
house, When Mr. Symes proceeded rt-
which the booths were placed, he found the public
house, in
and locked, and he had actually to wait some
entrance closed
until the key was procured from the High Sheriff, or
minutes
nto whom he had deputed his authority ! Was
some person less"aßnduttheremilitary
ything so monstrous ever heard of in the annals of election,
even in the worst periods of our history ? If a poor farmer,
instead of a gentleman, had demanded admittance at the Court-
house, he would, no doubt, have been driven back at the point.
of the bayonet.
the n n optr—o
cdeeardein not
gs
vie he
d
e ca
" The facts which we have mentioned, and which, of therm.
selves would be sufficient to set aside the election as the result
of
gentlemanmilitary
who
ts e
despotism,l
sshave described is, we understand, ready to verify this statement.
enniffiedei ;alfir a artificean
d
Mr. Symes himself will, doubtless, be ready to ive his o testimony upon the subject, and we
need scarcely add no
that no man of any party in this city would question his veracity."
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NAPOLEON AT BOULOGNE.—The bas•relief
for the base of the column at Boulogne, which have been exe-
s toted by M. Lemaire, of Valenciennes, and M. Bra., of Douai,
are new being placed. The inauguration of this monument is fixed for August 15. M. Adam, mayor of Booloi,ne, has
published a notice, that the ceremonies will be attended
with a succession of fetes commencing on the 13th, and con-
tinuing till the 19th. They will consist of civil and military
processions, concerts, dramatic representations, in which the
first actors of Paris will appear, public exhibitions of paint-.
ings, reviews, three days' races, balls, and a banquet given by
the National Guard of Boulogne to those of the surrounding
commune.

DEATH OF LADY DES VCEUX.—Her Lady—
ship died on Tuesday last, after a •sbort illness. The deceased,
who was daughter; of the late Mr..Richaral Hird, of Rawdoe,
Yorkshire, was married in 1801, to Sir Charles Des Vceux,
Bart., by whom she leaves a family of several chilften, iter.
I eldest son, Mr. Henry William Des Vceax, born in 1806,
having married Lady .relict of (Sir Roger Gresley,
Bart., and daughter of the Earl of Coventry.',
BLESSINGS uF THE CORN-LAWS.--011 Wed—
nesday a simultaneous rise in the price of bread took
place throughout the metropolis ! The 41b. loaf as de-
livered over the counter of th© cheap baker is this; (ray
eightpence halfpennny ! and at the full-priced a Naves
that in very
! Furthermore, it is stated,
short time the common or household loaf of cbs. will FA, tenpence halfpenny, and the best wheaten bread thirty en-
pence ! These stubborn faots camp home to every v,nan's
bosom, and tell more keenly than the speecht", of ten
thousand lecturers.