The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-24 00:00:00

TORY MEETING.

( From the Liverpool Chronicle.)
A grand meeting of the South Lancashire Conservative As-
sociation to receive a deputation from the Protestants of Ireland
w'aich has been looked forward to with so much interest by
*he Conservatives in this and the adjoining county, " came off,"
as the phrase is, in the Amphiteatre yesterday. The house
was well filled, and in many parts crowded. The Standard
estimates that there were 4,500 persons present. A corre-
spondent, on the other hand, who has made a calculation,
states that there were only 1,326 persons in the house !
Mr. HuLToN, of Hulton-park, proposed that Lord Kenyon
be called to the chair.
Lord KENYON was received with the most enthusiastic ap-
plause,

tee Rev. Mr. BUTTON rose and said— At the time, gentle-
men, that I was commissioned to proceed to England to tell
the sad and tedious story of our wrongs, we had an awful con-
templation of the measures about to be adopted for Ireland ; but
since it was first determined that we should come here, an event
has occurred which has placed us in a better prospective
condition---I may say that a new light has broken from the
darkest corner of the heavens. It has pleased the King
of Kings to enable the Sovereign to do his duty to his people
by placing this great hero,_ the conqueror of Europe, who
rescued the empire from a barbarous yoke, in a situation to
rescue his country from even a more barbarous despotism.
The reasons why we are determined to make our statements
here are, that on English ground we are sure to have our case
impartially heard, and that our situation would there be made
'mown to our fellow-countrymen in England, most of whom
have been ignorant of its real state—( Cheers.) The English
church is indissolubly linked with the Irish church, and from a
document I will read it will be seen that the Irish Protestant
church was identified with the church of England from the
earliest possible period of history. lam anxious to give you a
description of the condition in which the country is now placed.
My Lord, it is a difficult thing to convey to a people who
have been living. in a state of peace any notion of a country
so utterly at variance with a state of civilization, quiet, order,
and law as the present state of Ireland. If your Lordship
could imagine a landed proprietor in this country, living in
the centre of his possession, at the close of the evening, after
he has gone round all the corners, windows, and doors of his
house, and ascertained that they are as secure as the building
up of stone and mortar can make, and iron secure them—
if after having gone to the bed-room of all his guests, to see
that the fire-arms are ready, and all in order, against the mo-
vrio‘,~ a a..
----if you can imagine him then ascending tit., re‘,,f of -nis
house, and see the- country studded with fires in the way that
a traveller in the night may witness the country bet Ween
Wolverhampton and Birmingham, and imagine him conscious
that at every one of those fires there is a separate victim of
the atrocity that stalks triumphantly through the land, then
you will have some faint idea of the condition of Ireland.—
(" Hear," and cheers.) The only portion of the history of
Ireland when quiet and order prevailed, was that which pre-
ceded the relaxation of the disabilities of the Roman Ca-
tholics. Then you had quiet for the space of 40 years.
At the commencement of the reign of George 111. it was
thought that the security of the country and the promises
made by the Roman Catholics justified the adoption of li-
beral measures, and then the restrictions against the Roman
Catholic population began to be relaxed. In 1757 there
was established a body, the first of the kind, but which you
have since known by its many atrocities, and which took
the name of the Catholic Association. In 1759 you find
this association bound together by an oath for the extirpa-
tion of the Protestants, for sacrificing that portion of their
property which remained under the act of settlement of
Charles 11., and the consequences of whose acts to this
day have been the misery, wretchedness, and destruction of
the Protestant population, the insecurity of property and life,
and the inevitable degradation and impoverishment of the
country.
The Rev. M. 0' SULLIVAN then came forward and addressed
the meeting, in a speech of more than two hours. We are the
mere readily induced to abridge this part of the proceedings,
as Mr. O'Sullivan's speech has already been reported to the
extent of three folio columns by the " authorized and accre-
dited" Tory organ. We subjoin a single extract from Mr.
O'Sullivan's speech as a specimen of his style, and we are
doubtful whether, after perusing it, our readers would thank us
to treat them with the whole parcel:—
" What was exhibited as the Ministry became vile and ignoble--
as one by one, of those on whom England placed the highest confi-
dence, withdrew from the contamination of guilt ? Why, Ministers
became men unguarded—they were hurried on in their reckless
course, drivenlrom the society of honourable men, till, like Gulliver
in the arms of the Brobdignag ape—(lmmense cheering)—tor-
mented at one moment by the fondness of the nasty brute, choked
the next moment by the filthy morsels which issued from his filthy
mouth, quivering, trembling, and not daring to move a muscle, see-
ing the tremendous precipice to which his filthy conductor was con-
veying him, and yet without the power of rescuing himself from its
revolting grasp ?"
WILLIAM HILTON, Esq., came forward and said, that glo-
rious and gratifying as was their demonstrations of applause to
that apostolic mission which we had just been favoured with,
he would, while their hearts were warm, beg leave to propose
an address to the King. _ _ _

Joux ENTWISLE, Esq., of Foxholes, seconded the address.
which was then put to the vote, and carried.
It was then proposed and seconded, that the Cha:_rman
sign the address on the part of the meeting, and that it be
presented to his Majesty the King.—The motion was carried
unanimously.
Lord KENYON expressed his concurrence in the address, and
the satisfaction it would afford him to convey to his Majesty
the expression of so respectable and intelligent a meeting,
unrivalled in point of numbers and respectability, at least in
this part of the country.—( Cheers. )
T. B. HORSFALL, Esq., moved a vote of thanks to the gen-
tlemen composing the deputation from Ireland.
DUNCAN GIBS, Esq., seconded the motion, which was carried
amidst the most deafening cheers.
Mr. BOYTON returned thanks.
J. KEARSLEY, Esq., moved the thanks of the meeting to
Lord Kenyon, for the able manner in which he had conducted
the proceedings of the meeting.—(Loud cheers.)
The Rev. H. M'NEIL (of St. Jude's) seconded the reso-
lution,

Mr. HULTON the put the motion to the meeting. It was
carried with loud acclamation, and the noble Chairman briefly
returned thanks.

Three cheers were then given for Mr. Hulton, the same for
the Duke of Wellington, and several other individuals, and
the meeting quietly dispersed.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

(FROM LLOYD'S.)
DEAL, Nov. 23.—Wind E.N.E., a steady breeze.—Arrived
from the river and sailed the Duke of Bronte, Harris, for Jamaica.
BRIDLINGTON, Nov. 22.—Arrived the Elizabeth and Ann,
Grundy, with loss of fore-mast and maintop-mast.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 22 AND 23.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived the
City of Waterford, from Sicily. Sailed the David Clarke, Rayne,
for Madras and Calcutta. _ _ _

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PLYMOUTH, Nov. 21 AND 22.—Wind E. S.E.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 21.—Wind E.N.E. to E.S.E. Nov. 22.
Wind N.E. to E.—Arrived the Olive Branch, Stirling, from the
Cape of Good Hope ; John, Leslie, from Pictou ; Juliana, Muller,
from Oporto ; and Wellington, Thompson, from Charente. Sailed
the 21st his 3lajesty's ships Nautilus and Espoir, with provisions to
supply the homeward-bound ships detained in the Channel by the
strong east wind. Sailed the 22d the Lady Mary Pelham packet,
for St. Domingo, Jamaica, Mexico, and Havannah;
,and Lyra
packet, for the Leeward Islands.
SCILLY, Nov. 20.—Arrived off port the Acopture, Aconkean,
from Pernambuco ; and Isabella, from Philadelphia.
LivEarooL, Nov. 22.—Arrived off port the Nestor, Richard-
son, from Quebec; Marquis of Queensberry, from Miramichi ; and
Latona, from Africa.