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

CITY OF DUBLIN NOMINATION.

MONDAY.—The nomination took place this day. La early
as nine o'clock the street before the Court-house was thronged
by an anxious crowd. Within the Court two side galleries
were densely crowded, it having been arranged that the friends
of O'Connell and Hutton should have tickets of admission for
one, whilst the other was appropriated for the friends of West
and Grogan, the Tory candidates. It soon appeared, how-
ever, that the Tories were admitted to both galleries, arid that
only a few of the O'Connellites were permitted to enter that
set apart for them ! This monstrous and dishonest trickery
was remarked upon by Mr. Reynolds, who remonstrated with
the Tories, but he was answered only by hootings and laugh-
ter. Mr. Pierse Mahony then addressed them from the bench,
and the Sheriffs also remonstrated, but in vain. During all
this time a scene of dreadful uproar prevailed in the court, in
the midst of which Mr. O'Connell appeared on the bench.
At ten o'clock Mr. Hutton (R), Mr. West (T), and Mr.
Grogan (T), appeared on the bench.
The writ having been read,
Mr. ARABIN, of Corkagh, rose to propose Mr. O'Connell.
Mr. ItEttLy, a tradesman, rose tosecond the nomination.
Mr. GEORGE ROE, merchant, rose to propose Robert Hut-
ton, Esq., one of their late Members.
Mr. RICHARD O'GORMAN, merchant, seconded the nomi-
nation.

The Lord Mayor (Sir J. K. JAMES) rose to propose John
Beatty West, Esq., Q.C.
Colonel Jou NSON seconded the nomination.

Mr. ROBERT SMITH rose to propose Edward Grogan, Esq.
Sir GEORGE COCKBURN, the ex-revolutionist and Cob-
bettite, rose to second the nomination.

Mr.' O.CONNELL here presented himself, and was received
with enthusiastic cheers, which were continued for several
minutes. lam very sorry, said he, for one thing. lam ex-
ceedingly sorry for one thing, and that is that you did not hear
the old General's speech.—(Hear, and laughter.) I heard
him speak when he was not so old a soldier as he is now, and
when he was quite on the other side, and .I really do not know
whether he was better upon our side than he is upon yours.—
(Hear, hear.) We had him a great while with us, and while
there was any good in him, and now I make a present of him,
with all my heart, to the opposite party.—( Hear, and cries of
" Oh, oh.") So much for the poor old General.—( Laughter,
and cries from the Tories, " That is p.rsonal.") That is not
personal. (An Orangeman in the gallery, " No, not from
you.") No, Sir, nor
fi om you either.—(Laughter.) You
.
have got him—keep him. Surely you are not angry with me
because I am making a present of him to you.—(Laughter.
I now come to another subject_ )
General COCKBURN—There is only one point I would cor-
rect—
Mr. O'Co s NEL L— Oh ! do not correct me at all, but sit
down there, General.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) I am,
gentlemen, I say, sorry for this Contest. lam sincerely sorry
for this contest.—( Hear, from the Tories.) you may t
hap, sorry for it because I ca p, suppose that lam
defeat.—( Cheers fromtheTories.) Well, now, have I rl'ot
e
(Hear.) Now is it not sin?
But it is on this account that I regret it. I.am sincerely
sorry to be obliged, and I do it very reluctantly, to protest
against the injustice of the she-iif of the city of Dublin.—
(Hear, hear.) In the first place he has not consulted, as
he ought to have done, the two parties as to
ment of an assessor. I object too to the
thedisthtreibatiproin
distribution of
booths. I say that there has been no justice done to us in any
one thing.—(Hear.) One would think that the Tories
were already in power, and that injustice was the rule,
and partiality the order of the day.—( Loud cheers.)
I now come to what is my second reason for being sorry for
this contest. The old corporation is on its last legs.—( Hear,
and laughter.) It is not dead yet—it has only got an apo-
plectic stroke—(Laughter)—but it will end in the month of
October next. Why, said Mr. O'Connell pointing to the
chein which Sir J. Kingston James wore as Lord Mayor,
that
is a very beautiful chain—(Laughter)—and, if they will only
leave it to us, I have a eotion of sporting that chain myself.
A ery from an Orangeman : " Don't you wish you may
get it ?r'
Mr. O'Coaratera. continued—Yes, I do wish I may get it.—
(Laughter and cheers.) I want you to assist me to rescue your
country and mine from the domination of a party. I want
you to rescue it from the domination of any other than the
legitimate Monarch of these realms.—( Great cheering.) May
God bless her—( Renewed cheers.) lam a Repealer. lam
here in a dress of Irish manufacture, which, I hope, I will
yet see worn by one hundred Lords and three hundred
commoners in College-green.—(Loud cheering.) All any
life since the union was passed I have been a decided
enemy of it—(Cheers)—and many of you know that the
first political speech I ever made was against that Union.—
(Cheers.) And now, after forty-one years of agitation, what ,
is the case? Take up any speech of mine—and I have made
more speeches than any living man, in every species of temper,
and at every time, and in every season of the human frame ex-
cept drunkenness, for I never was drunk, and I am now a tee-
totaler—l Spoke in moments of triumph, when victory is apt
to make a man incautious. I have spoken in momentsof defeat,
ashen anger is likely to make a man virulent—l have spoken in
every temper of mind, and I call on you to point out any
phrase in any speech of mine inconsistent with the principles
of civil and religious liberty, and toleration to persons
of all religious denominations. (Loud cheers.) We
are now supporting the Government against Toryism ; but
do you think I will on that account go into Parliament_to give
my indiscriminate support to the Whigs, and to permit them
to hold on in their career without doing full and sufficient jus.
tics to Ireland ? No. I will drive the Ministry. The terror
of Tory domination has put me in their ranks hitherto; lam
something like Paddy's hat, when the pane was broken, and he
had not another to replace it, he put his hat into the window
not to let in the light, but to keep out the cold.—(Laughter.)
lam before those who have been my constituents hitherto.
and who, I hope, will be so again.—(loud cheers.) And I
declare to them solemnly and unequivocally, that if the people
respond to the Queen's Ministers, the Queen's Ministers must
respond to all the calls of the people.—( Loud cheers.) But I
-wish to be understood, thatwhet..er they respond to it or not,
yet lam still for repeal. I never mitigate o give up my
efforts for repeal.—
tI aoskbey uo uord
evtostteosoati,
thatra R elp e a er
refuse;
but, at the same time, I wisfa '