The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-26 00:00:00

NIORNING EDITION

of the smoky atmosphere of a factory, lost all his
virtues. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) My friends—
hale your Central Association you are entitled
to have it—a representative body. I conducted for
many yeas the affairs of an Association, and I
did so at a time when the lawyers for the Crown
(VA not go to bed any evening without examining our
•Preeecclings, for the purpose of seeing whether they could
hang a hook for prosecution upon them. The excuse
made in Parliament for not prosecuting us, was our keep-
ing within the law—that there existed a horrid fellow who
had a great deal of practice, and who therefore kept clear
of the vi oils and quicksands of the law.—( Laughter.)
Yea, if you prefer it, have a representative body, but, at
all events, have a Central Association. Let there be one
common centre for England, Ireland, and Scotland—let
yo-ar unanimity be known, and let it also be known how
numerous is the slave class in these countries. Would it
not be well, too, that the Central Association should go
through the various towns—(A person who stammered
here got up and caused some confusion by attempting to
address the chair). I never knew, continued Mr.
O'Connell, a stuttering fellow who was not anxious to
hear himself talk.—( Laughter.) But he is right. I
have, of course, wearied you.—(Cries of " No, no.")
1 had no intimation' on coming down here, of being
called upon to speak to this toast, but my habits enable
me to draw a draft at sight upon myself, and you
have honoured it to an extent that excites my gratitude—
but gratitude in politics is proved by the determination
to do that which is useful.—l express to you my grati-
tude, and I say that if I wanted a stimulant to work for
the liberties of England, Ireland, and Scotland, I have
received it amply to-night. If my head slumbered, or if
my heart were cold, you have roused the one, and you have
heated the calier.—(Cheers ) I thank yoti then for this
mark of the progress of democratic liberty. Let us work
for tile progress of democratic liberty. Toryism, like Mac-
beth, bath " murdered sleep." I say " Sleep no more."
Rise, men of England. Look to your ancestors. For a thou-
sand years your flag has floated triumphantly. The battle
nor the orceze could not level it. For a thousand years
honour has crowned your energies, and happiness fol-
lowed your struggles. Your dominion is boundless—
your greatness is magnificent—you have given to in-
dustry new nerves, and to commerce new springs--
you have made matter move, and you have transformed
machinery, so as actually to make it appear to rea-
son, and to do all the duties of sentient thinking beings.
(Curers,) Why, then with so may rays of glory sur-
rounding, as a halo, your political crown—why should you
be the slave of paltry tyrants ?--.( Loud cheers.) When
the ehscring, which lasted for some minutes, had subsided,
Mr. O'Connell continued : Britons, you have no superior
abroad, why then should you have masters at home ?
( Cheers.) No one dare assail your rights abroad, why
then shcutd they be filched from you at home, as if they
were but for plunder and spoil? Britons, arouse your_
selves throughout the whole extent of the country, and
never sink back again into quiet, until liberty, pure, un-
tainted, and entire, shall have shore upon the universal
animetlng, cheering, enriching, and adorn-
ing it —( Enthusiastic applause for several minutes.)
Mr. Hume returned thanks on behalf of tha Liberal
Members of the House of Commons.
The next toast was, " Justice to Ireland," to which
Mr. Roebuck was called to speak.
Mr. ROEBUCK said—" As an Englishman (a Saxon),
and a Protestant, I have to p-opese a toast which may
possibly startle the Honourable and Learned Gentleman
on your right hand—it is, " Justice to Ireland."—( Here
the meeti' ruse almost to a man, and cheered vehe-
meetly.) There, Sr,l I hope that gentleman will take
that cheer one testimony at least that the people of
England do net desire injustice to Ireland, and that when
nest he c: mcs to speak to his countrymen of their wrongs
Nerd our feelings towards them, he will not speak but ac-
cording to his evidence, and that he will not charge the
people of E sgl Intl will doing that injustice which is
iee to spi'c of them. Tac Catholic in Ireland is as
free as the Dis.ceter and Catholic in England ; both
th one end the ether may complain of a domi-
nant Church, and endeavour to rid themselves of
the burden ; but the one cannot complain more than the
other, for the existcr.ce of a national dominant Church, is
not an evil peculiar to Leland. Tke civil liberty of lic-
hen I, also, has been extended as far as that of England,
He' people can complain of no one peculiar oppression by
the law ; if an Irishman suffers from an unjest law, the
same evil weighs upon us in England—the whole united
people have alike causes to complain. Among other griev-
&trees cf which Ireland complains, one at least has been
ied„ted out—unequal representation in Parliament. But
is all that peculiar to Ireland? Has it not, this very even-
ing been shown, by the Learned Representative of Dub-
lin him,elf, that Leeds, with her ten thousand voters and
upyvards, sends two Members to Parliament, while Har-
wich, with seventy-fife, sends two also. Shall Leeds,
then-s;hall Yoilishire, for Yorkshire suffers in the same
way—demand a separation from the rest cf England, and
shall we again be split into the old heptarchy of the
Saxons ? 'No, Sir, wisdom teaches us that if we wish
for redress we must by united efforts attain it. There
is not a man, there his not a woman here, that does
not fervently de.ire jtstic: to Ireland.—( Cheers.) Those
cheer tell the Learned Gentleman that I speak the opinion
of all who hear me; and will, I hope, lead him to be chary
of h s reproaches to the people cf England. I myself, Sir,
having reason to complain of the honourable gentleman.
Mr. Roebuck concluded amid loud cheers, by stating that
tire Ie here! members of the English Parliament represent-
ing the Meese' feeling in England were, and are, all in
favour efjughee to Ireland.
Mr 0 CONNELL rose amid cheers. He said, I think I
ewe to myself to do what we call in the House of Commons
" giving an explanation."—(Laughter.) I will first ob-
serve, my friend gsve site both pride and pleasure in using
that epithet towel es me---.(Loud cheers)—l am proud to
bare a man of his unepe st onable patriotism and splendid
talents do m' the honour of calling me by the name of
friend.—(Loud and prolonged cheering.) 1 only beg to
assure him that, as far as I know, I have never been reported
to have said, and I certainly never did say, that the people
of England—England and the people of England—mean-
ing the entire inhabitants of England, were inimical to Ire.
land ; I al says made this distinction : I knew we had
Mewls, Sir; I knew he (Mr. Roebuck) was a friend to
irelond.—( Loud cheering.) I did say, and, lam afraid,
whls great truth, that a great majority of the people of
England being Tories—(Cries of " Ho, ho, ho," and
" hear, hear")—e ere inimical to Ireland. Remark, my
friend says, and with great truth, that be stood by me
against the Coercion 13:11. He did, and many other
Englishmen ; I see one of them here [looking to Mr.
Gully, who sat on his right: the meeting responded by
cries of " Gully"), and my excellent and esteemed friends
on both sides of me.—(C ies of " Hume, Hume.") Ah.
Hume, of course; it is not necessary to say so.—( Cheers. )
They voted always in favour of Ireland while in the
House.—(Loud cheers.) But what was the divi
sion ? We were seventy English and Irish, and they
were 190 against us.—(Hear, hear, hear, and cheers.)
And 140 of them would be English ; so that
if some Englishmen did support us, an overwhelming ma-
jority of Englishmen voted against us.—( Hear, hear ) Am
I the less grateful to the Englishmen who did support us ?
No, but infinitely more grateful on that account, because
they who had no direct interest in the question, generously
and patriotically gave their talented support.—( Load and
vehement cheering.) One word more,—the Bill was carried
into a law, not by an Irish Parliament certainly.—(Hear,
hear.) The House of Lewds were Englishmen.
'Mr. ROEBUCK—And Irishmen.
Mr. O'CONNELL—And they were Irish ; no, not all, the
Duke of Leinater, for instance, did not vote against us;
but the greater part of them did. I fairly concede to
him, if there can he anything worse than an English
Tory Lord, it is an Irish Tory Lord.—(Loud cheers
and laughter.) But he has put the question thus—
says he, is Yorkshire to complain because she has
too few members, and so separate—separate he calls it—
from the rest of England ? Just listen one moment.
What would be the opinion of the men of Yorkshire,
if Lord Stanley was to bring in a Bill, taking Yorkshire
by itself, making the registry of voters so complicated and
difficult, that no Yorkshirernan would be able to register,
raising the qualification so high that only the rich could
possibly cleien reglster—(Shame, shame)—making it a
crime in a Yorkshirernan to attempt to register—making
the Yoikshireman so criminal if applying to register, that
if even the barrister decided in his favour, and some Tory
appealed against Iris eision—if the profligate judge de-
cided against him, he must pay costs, even though the
barrister had given a decision in his favour ?—(Loud cries
of " Shame, shame—abominable," &c.) What would
be the Eolin;s of Yorkshiremen, if Yorkshire were
alone singlsd out for a Bill of that kind, ?—( Loud
cries of " Hear, hear," and cheers.) Why you would
not tie talking abcut it, you would de as your ancestors
did before you—you would turn out by the mountain
side—you would throw your pontoons over your rivers_
no man would dare come within your circle who thus at-
tempted to trample upon you—(Tremendous and pro-
longed e'neeeing)—lf you were to be deprived of the
bancfit of the Reform Bill, and that Lord Stanley were to
give as a reason is the House of Commons that you York-
shiremeri were villanous perjurors—that is the ph ras_e. he
used—and on that ground deprived you of the franchise.
Loud shouts of" shame, shame, ' and other expressions
of execration ) ! consider a poor crawling creature,
that h., should do all this to Ireland, and that he is still
ready in a week to do it again.—(Cheers.) Nay, more,
he bad four majorities in the House of Commolls—majo-
riti ,5 that he called entlaus!astic.—( Shame, shame.) If
there were four such majsrities againt the Yorkshire Mem-
bers en such a 13111, what would be the union betwixt
Yorkshire and England ? True there is no sea, no salt
Yorkshire and the rest of England, but
would they not be as emphatically cursed by the union as
if tee greatest hostility existed ?—( Cheers ) I beg your
pardwa —(Loud shouts of "Go on, go on.") I deserve
your support—(Leud cheers)—for this"reason, that I will
not submit to this Lard Stanley.—(Trcinendous and pro-
longed cheering.) I will not go the length you would go.
My country is accustomed to oppression.—( Hear.) The
eels are
.aecustomcal to he skinned alive. You would not
endure it, rind your ancestors did not.—(Loud cheers.)
For reasons into ;ehielt I shall not now enter, Ireland was
divicleet in such a way ; that my ancestors did. But I
have breathed toe men English air, taken up too much
of Saxon pri!iciples, to endure it.—( Deafening cheers.)
Ti: majority of the House of Commons is against roe; I
will 2:1,1i a remedy if I can.—( Vehement checrirg, lasting
foe some time)—with you, I can without you if I must—
( Repested cheering. ) I remind, my friend, that it was
net I alene, but as overwhelming majority of Irish Mem-
bers, voted in every stage of your Reform (Loud
cheers.) Am I not here, Englishmen, to give you all
the aid in my humble power?—(Loud cheering.)
Is it not that which has brought mo four hundred
miles in two days, inel•-&ng a night, and I am proud that
you p:rrait me to join your ranks ?—( Loud and long con-
tinued cheering.) 1 know surely, I perceive it, that Ire-
land has a multitude of warm friends in this very room.—
(Loud cheers, and cries of " All, all.") Ido not leave
out one ; I add a multitude, but I reckoned all ; and if
the room would contain twice as many, I am convinced
Leeds could produce them. The English Government is
greatly inimical to the Irish.—(Hear, hear, from Mr.
Roebuck.) Multitudee of English Whigs arc inimical to
the Irish ; the entire Tory faction iaeludi-g the dominant
Church, are inimical to the Irish,' I hold them all in fell