The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-25 00:00:00

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EVENING EDITION,

will be a Central Association in London, acting in cones r t
with your Association at Leeds.—(Cheers.) There are,.
perhaps, some in this town who thick themselves men of
such persuasive powers that they would make you believe
a sucking pig was a roaring lion, who will not unite with
you, and who think that the people in the smoke of towns
ought to have the franchise, whilst those in the country
ought to be without it. Now, as they say in Ireland,
" Dare you say peas ?'' Stay," Dare you say, " Baines ?"
—(Cheers and laughter.) Baines would endeavour to
make you believe that the people in the country parts of
_ England are such Zanies that they ought not to be en-
' trusted with the franchise ; as if a man when he went out
• of the smoky atmosphere of a factory, lost all his
) virtues. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) My fliends—
. have your Central Association you are entitled
to have it—a representative body. I conducted for
many years the affairs of an Association, and I
did so at a time when the lawyers for the Crown
did not eo to bed any evening without examining our
proceedings, 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 nithin the law—that there existed a horrid filow who
had a great deal of practice, and who 14 ere fo re kept clear
of the shoals and quicksands of the law.—( Laughter.)
Yes, 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
your 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 end 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 " Nu, no.")
I had no intimation, on coming down here, of being
called upon to speak to this toast, but my hat-its 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 uacful.—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 other.—( Cheers ) I thank yoU then for this
mark of the progress of democratic liberty. Let us work
for the progress of demoer4ic 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 breeze could not level it. For a thousand years
honour has crowned your energies, and happiness fol-
lowed your struggles. Your dominion is boundless—
} our greatness is magnificent—you have given to in-
dustry new nerves, and to commerce new springs—
you have made matter move, end you have transformed
machinery, so as actually to make it appear to rea-
son, and to do all the duties of sentient thinking beings,
(Cheers,) 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 ) Whea
the cheering, which lasted for some minutes, had Eubaided,
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 should they be filched from you at home, as if they
were but for plunder arid 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 shone upon the universal
land,ivivifying, animating, cheering, enriching, and adorn.
ing Enthusiastic applause for several minutes.)
Mr. lICNIE 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. Rou.nuck said—" As an Englishman (a Saxon),
and a Protestant, I have to propose a toast which may
possibly startle the Honourable and Learned Gentleman
cn your right hand—it is, " Justice to Ireland."—( Here
the meeting rose almost to a man, and cheered vehe-
mently.) There, S:r, I hope that gentleman will take
that cheer as one testimony at least that the people of
England do not desire injustice to Ireland, and that when
next he comes to speak to his countrymen of their wrongs
and our feelings towards them, lie will not speak but ac-
cording to his evidence, and that he will not charge the
people of England with doing that injustice which is
done in spite of them. The Catholic in Ireland is as
free as the Dissenter and Catholic in England ; both

the one and the other 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 exigence t,f a national dominant Church, is
not an evil peculiar to Ireland. The civil liberty of Ire-
land, also, has barn extended as far as that of England,
Eler pZople can complain of no one peculiar oppressioa by
the law ; if an Irishman suffers from an unjust law, the
same evil weighs upon us in England—the whole united

people have alike causes to compfain. Among other griev-
ances of which Ireland complains, one at least has been
pointed 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 himself, that Leeds, with her ten thousand voters and
upwards, sends two Members to Parliament, while Har-
wich, with seventy-flue, sends two also. Shall Leeds,
then—shall YoiLsitire, for Yorkshire suffers in the same
way—demand a separation front the rest of England, and
shall we again be split into the old heptarchy of the
Saxons? No, Sir, wisdom teaches us that if we wish
fo: redress we must by united efforts attain it. There
is not a man, there [is not a woman here, that does
not fervently desire jastic to Ireland.—(Cheers.) Those
cheers 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 of England. I myself, Sir,
having. reason to complain of the honourable gentleman.
Mr. Roebuck concluded amid loud cheers, by stating that
the Liberal members of the English Parliament represent-
ing the libcral feeling in England were, and arc, sill in
favour of justice to Leland.
Mr. CON NELL rose amid cheers. He said, I think I
owe to myself to do what we call in the House of C,mmons
" giving an explanation."—(Laughter.) I will first ob-
serve, my friend gave me both pride and pleasure in using
that epithet towards me—(Loud cheers)—l am proud to
have a man of his unquestionable patriotism and splendid
talents do me the honour of calling me by the name of
friend.—( Loud and prolonged cheering.) I only beg to
essure";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 always made this distinction : I knew we had
friends, Sir; I knew he (Mr. Roebuck) was a friend to
Ireland.—( Loud cheering.) I did say, and, lam afraid,
with great truth, that a grert majority of the people of
England being Tories—(Cries of " Ho, ho, ho," and
" hear, hear")—were inimical to Ireland. Remark, my
friend says, and with great truth, that he stood by me
against the Coercion Bill, Ile did, awl many other
Englishmen ; I see one of them here [looking to Mr.
Cully, who sat on his right: the meeting responded by
cries of " Gully"), and my excellent and esteemed friends
on both sides of ine.--(C ies of '' Hume, Hume.") Ah,
flume, 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, bear, 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 ) Ant
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.—( Loud and
vehement cheering. ) One word more,—the Bill was carried
into a law, not by an Irish Parliament certainly.—(llear,
hear.) The House of Lords were Englishmen.
Mr. Roanuck—And Irishmen.

Mr. O'CONNELL—And they were Irish ; no, not all, the
Duke of Leinster, for instance, did not vote against us;
but the greater part of them did. I fairly concede to
him, if there can be anything worse than an English
Tory Lord, it is an Irish Tory Lord,—(L,Aid 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 tile 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 Yorkshireman would be able to registry,
raising the qualification so high that only the rich.. .coulda
possibly claim register—( Shame, shame)—making
crime in a Yorkshireman to attempt to
register—makingister, that
the Yorkshireman so criminal if applying
if even the barrister decided in his favopurro,flatigonadrteags
joamdegeTodrey.,
appealed against his decision—if tchoesis,
even though the
cided against him, he must pay
barrister had given a decii,sio?nianbih
,i,s,,fav ?—( Loud cries
&c.) What would
of " Shame, shame—
be the feeling
of that kind ?—(l
Loud
cries
your you ou
ancestorsw ould
feelings of Yaork°smh_irlemeli, if YorkshLre(Lwoeurde
alone singled out for a
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did before you—you
would turn out by the mountain
'it hear, hear,
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 cheering)—lf you were to be deprived of the
benefit of the Reform Bill, and that Lord Stanley were to
give g.s a reason is the House of Commons that you York-
.,
shiremen were volanous perjurors—that is the phrase ho
used—and on that ground deprived you of the franchise.
Loud shouts of " shame, shame," and titht ? expressions
of execration.) Ah ! consider a poor crawling creature.
that he should do all this to Ireland, and that he is still
ready in a stuck to do it again.—(Cheers.) Nay, more,
tie had four majorities in the House of Commons—majo-
rities that he called enthusiastic.—( Shame, shame.) If
there were four such nujcrities againt the Yorkshire Mem-
bers on such a Bill, what would be the union betwixt
Yorkshire and Logland ? True there is no sea, no salt
Otter betwixt Yorkshire and the rest of England, but

would they cot be as emphatically cursed by the union as
if the greatest hostility existed ?—( Cheers.) I beg your
pardon —(Loud shouts of "Go on, go on.") I deserve
your support—( Loud cheers)—for this reason, that I will
not sul);-nit to this Lord Stnnley.—(Tremendous and pro-
longeil cheering.) I will not go the length you would go.
My country is avenst.aned to oppression,—(Hear.) The
eels arc actn:cined to be skinned alive. You would not
endure it, and your ancestors did not.—(l.Oud cheers.)
For reasons into which 11,11;111 not now enter, Ireland was
divided in such a way ; that my ancestors did. But I
have breathed too much English air, taken up too much
of Saxon principles, to endure it,—(Deafening cheers.)
The
fi n
n,:ii,: m,d
irteyof,t)l,7 [louse of Commons is against me ; I
will if I can —( Vehement cheering, lasting
I can without you if I must.—
for some time)—with you,
(I:,,neated cheering.) I remind, my friend, that it was
not I alone, but an overwhelming majority of Irish AFern-
hers, voted in every stage of your Reform Bill.—(Loud
(liters.) Mn 1 hot here, Englishmen, to give you all
the aid in my bumble power?—(Loud cheering.)