The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-24 00:00:00

DUBLIN ANTI-TORY ASSOCIATION.

(Abridged from the Dublin Morning Register of Tuesday.)

On Saturday there was a very numerous 'meeting of the
members of the Anti-Tory Association held at the Corn-Ex-
change.
E. S. RUTHVEN, Esq., M.P. for Dublin, in the Chair.

THE ELECTIONS-DECLARATION OF THE

TORIES-TITHES.

Mr. O'CONNELL—The first subject for discussion is the
late meeting at the Royal Exchange. I came into the midst
of the excitement that prevailed there—l came quite cool and
calm from a law discussion in the Court of Exchequer. Per-
haps, then, I should be regarded as the best witness au to the
agitation and excitement which I saw around me. I will do
the Orangemen the justice to say, that I did not see any one
of them act as an outrageous ruffian, with the exception of
Johnny M'Crea.—( Hear and laughter.) I only rise to state
this fact—l came to the end of the table when he was figuring
away. I put my finger upon my lip, and instantly the popular
party were silent. All that were shouting a moment before
became silent. I pointed out to M'Crea that the people were
silent, and "that it was the Orange ruffians alone who were
shouting. I told him, "it is your friends alone who are shout-
ing." " Perhaps so," said he. One of his supporters, who
was behind me, exclaimed, " We will not hear you, if you do
not lot him be heard first." " I understand you," I replied ;
" those you call your friends will not hear him, lest there should
be an excuse for honouring me afterwards, when I would ex-
pose
him and you to the laughter and contempt of this meeting."
—( Cheers.) And accordingly the Orangemen did prevent
his being heard. I saw the people picking them out, and
taking them one by one out ; but as to danger, there was
no more than there is in this room.—( Hear.) Mr. O'Con-
nell then proceeded to report on the elections, which, it ap-
peared, were likely to turn out most favourably for the popular
cause. The Learned Gentleman afterwards went on to say
A new Administration has been formed. That Administra-
tion has given to us its political creed—it may be found in Sir
Robert Peel's address to his constituents.—( Hear, hear.) I
am bound to say I never read a document with more unaffected
contsu'pt than I have perused that document. It endeavours
hypocritically to disguise its real meaning, and yet it reveals
the most frightful and atrocious principles, especially as far as
this country is concerned.—( Hear, hear.) Sir Robert Peel
does not in the least retract his former opinions ; he adheres
to them, and endeavours to defend them. The document which
I describe is a piece of political casuistry—it is intended to
delude, and yet it sufficiently shows so much of depravity as to
defeat its own objects. Let us look at what is done upon the
formation of the present Administration. Its first act is the
nomination of a Chancellor for Ireland. Who is the Chan-
cellor? Sugden—a thorough Tory—a man who would have
put down Catholic charities in this country—a man who most
certainly would have been able to have put them down, as he
wished to do, had I not chanced to be in the House of
Commons at the time.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) Yes—
when I brought in a Bill to protect Catholic Charities, he
opposed me, not because it was the law, but because he de-
clared the spirit of the law negatived the right to establish
Catholic Charities.—( Hear.) I admit at once that he is
a good lawyer—l admit most readily that he is an able advo-
cate, as he certainly is ; but then we, Irish—have we not good
lawyers, and have we not also able advocates ?—( Hear, hear.)
And yet, what a foul and abominable party that is which would
submit and bow the neck, and crouch beneath foreign domina-
tion of every kind ?—( Hear, and cheers.) What ! is no Irish-
:'n as fit to be a Chancellor as an Englishman ?—( Hear.)
. Why, tn.., Tories never have discarded that idea from their
..liave regarded an Irishman as fit to be a
mind—they never.
A change took place in 1805-6
Chancellor.—( Hear, hear.;
—the Whigs came into office, ant :hey appointed an Irish-
man as Chancellor, Mr. Ponsonby. They were put out
of office, and the Tories came in again ; ann again
they appointed an Englishman, Lord Manners.--( Hear.)
The Tories were still in when he retired, and they appointed
another Englishman, Sir Anthony Harte. The Whigs came
in again, and, to do them justice, they appointed nn Irishman,
Lord Plunkett. The Tories have again come in, and their
first act has been to appoint an Englishman.--(Hear, hear.)
And, what 1 is this bar so degraded that it will not call a bar
meeting—that it will not remonstrate—that it will not protest
against this insult? Is the spirit of Ireland so far quenched
—is the love of father-land so gone by, that not one voice but
mine will exclaim against this profanation of Irish talent—this
degradation of Irish intellect—this outrage upon Irish learning
and acquirements—that all, all must be passed by, and an
Englishman placed over our heads. —( Hear, and cheers.) Oh 1
shame upon those who do not love their country.—( Cheers.)
Oh I shame upon those who would allow any pitiful, paltry,
miserable, political spleen to come between them and the
genuine expression of their feelings 1—( Loud cheers. )
This is not the only person whose appointment we have to
complain of in the tag-rag and bob-tail which have been sought
out to complete the present Ministry. Who has not seen that
Goulburn, that hurdy-gurdy Goulburn, has been appointed to
the Home Department. The Home Department, forsooth 1
Protestant Dissenters of England do you understand that ?
The Protestant Dissenters see, and I am sure do understand
such an appointment as an insult to them. Goulburn would
not allow a Dissenter into one of the Universities. He consi-
ders them unworthy of being admitted—he even gave us to
understand that he would consider his son contaminated in the
University by meeting Dissenters there. He said the Protes-
tant youths would be contaminated by those filthy Dissenters.
He opposed that miserable privilege to the Protestant Dissenters.
I do say, that the appointment of Mr. Goulburn is an insult
to them.—( Hear.) His appointment is to me a proof, strong
as human proof can be, that the new Administration design
to rule with a rod of iron, and by military force ; for otherwise
how dare they, by such an appointment, insult so powerful and
intellectual a body as the Protestant Dissenters of Englani ?
—( Hear, and cheers.) But recollect that while with the right
a blow is aimed at the Protestant portion of England, there
comes from the same individual a left-handed blow, which, like
the blow of a left-handed person, with more power in the
' wrong hand than the right—it comes to smite down the Catho-
lics of Ireland.—( Hear, and cheers.) Could they do more
to insult the Catholics of Ireland than by the appointment of
Goulburu ? He who was the protector of Orangemen--the
prototype of Orangeism—narrow, bigotted, and selfish—the
friend of every abuse and the opposer of every reform ;—the
appointment of such an individual could only be meant to
show that the Administration is the enemy of the Protestant
Dissenters in England and the Catholics in Ireland.—
I now come to the Tory Manifesto. I say that never yet was
' a ~...ore Jesuitical document than that of Joseph Surface
'year hear, and cheers.) But he does not retract a
Peel.—
single one of hi: opinions. He says,—" Now, I say et epee
that I will not accept
power on the condition of declaring my-
self an apostate from the principles on which I have heretofore
acted." There, then, a eortlotc avowal of all the principles
which he formerly maintained; but, Opp, be, like himself,
goes on thus :—" At the same time, I never v4ll admit that I
Judicious re-
been, either Were or Aftes' the Reform Bill, the Mender
of abuses, or the enemy of l--4;ciOtig re(orilY,:"
kratiti I--f Cheers.)
forme 1 Why', he supported the rotten.' - * s---

He was a supporter of the entire of the rotten boroughs.—
Ch -ers ) I would appeal to any of the Orange lads, if they
understand a chapter of logic, if his argument does not resolve
itself into a complete syllogism. " I never," says Sir Robert,
was a defender of abuses ; I did defend the rotten boroughs ;"
and it follows necessarily that the rotten boroughs were
I.ot abuses.—( Cries of "hear, hear," with cheers and laughter. )
The next matter referred to by hint, to which I shall call your
attention, is the Commission for Corporation Inquiry. One
good thing can be gleaned from it, that the force of public
opinion upon the subject was so strong that the present Admi-
nistration will allow the report of the Commissioners to be
c.mapleted.—( Hear.) But what will he do when that report
is completed. Here is his promise :—" No report has yet
been made by the Commissioners to whom the Inquiry was
afterwards referred, and until that report be made I cannot be
expected to give, on the part of the Government, any other
pledges •than that they will bestow on the suggestions it may
contain, and the evidence on which they may be founded, a full
and unprejudiced consideration." What a satisfaction that is.
( Cheers and laughter.) Why the King in his last speech from
the throne, gave a pledge of Corporation Reform to Parlia-
ment. Whoever may be the monarch, whether the King or
Queen, the King,we all heard him, pledged himself as far as he
could, in his legislative capacity to both Houses, to that reform.
( Hear.) But Sir Robert Peel will give his no other pledge,
than " a full and unprejudiced consideration." He will pre-
vent that reform if he can ; but I defy him.—( Cheers. )
Then as to the Dissenters, does he mention any concession
that he will make to them ? He does not say he will let
them into the Conservatives, or give them any thing,- no,
he bestows upon them nothing but sweet words.—( Hear,
hear. ) The only remaining part of his address which I
think worthy of notice is, the determination expressed in it
of maintaining the tithe-system in full vigour.—( Hear, hear.)
he declares in the most unequivocal terms that he will not
diminish the amount of tithes. He talks, indeed, of reforming
the distribution of the Church patronage, but he says he will
keep up the full revenues, and what care we for its distri-
bution, if he does so.—( Hear.) He says unequivocally, he
will make the people pay the full amount of tithes. Pro-
testants of Ireland, are you for the pacification of the coun-
try, and yet will you allow this man to have at his com-
mand horse, foot, and artillery, that he may extort by force
tithes which the people have determined they never will
pay ?—( Hear, and cheers.) Will any man be found amongst
the Catholics so base, so vile, as to be a voter for one or
two who would uphold an administration, the supporters of
the tithe-system?—(Hear.) Has not that system had vic-
tims enough already—has it not fed our gaols with many
martyrs—has it not weighed down our scaffolds with many a
wretch—has it not strewed our fields with enough of blood?
No—the day before yesterday eleven fathers of families
were shot to death, and eight or ten more have been des
perately wounded.—( Hear, hear, and cries of horror.) Eleven
fathers of families I I have a letter from one whose eyes be-
held their pale and lifeless bodies stretched in the chapel, side
by side, whose ears were stunned with the wailing of the
widows and shrieks of the children.—( Hear.) This letter tells
me all this blood was shed for tithes. Oh I is, I ask, that system
to continue ? Are we men, are we Christians, to permit it ?
And yet here is an administration pledged to continue such a
system.—( Hear.) I shall read you the letter of the gentle-
man who saw the dead bodies lying together :—" Rathcormac,
19th December. I have just come here to-day, and write to
you to detail the dreadful slaughter that has taken place here
yesterday. I write from the scene of action, and you may rely
on what I state. The tithe campaign was opened here on
last Monday. The papers will give you an account of that
day. There was no one killed on Monday."—(Hear, hear.)
One day and no one killed for tithes---this is considered re-
markable.—(Hear, hear.) " Not so on yesterday (Thursday).
Horrible to relate, eleven shot dead, and many more wound-
ed."—( Hear, hear.) " I have just been at the dispensary,
and such a sight (two certainly) of the poor fellows gasping,
and all the rest badly wounded as far as to death. Thil,
awful transaction occurred at Ballinakilla, parish of Bar-
tiemy, and Roman Catholic union of Rathcormac. The
reople here say, that the army went bent on slaughter."
I do not believe this of the army ; for I never knew the
army, but as forbearing as possibly could.--(Hear, hear.)
" '1 hey went on the lands and dared the country people at
mid-day, who were assembled in numbers. Captain Bagley,
Captain Colles, and the Rev. Archdeacon Ryder." I re-
member this Mr. Ryder, he tried his hand at the bar ; he was
called soon after I was, but he did not succeed. There was

Cowever a profession in which it did not require talent to suc-
ceed—he adopted that, and he is now the Rev. Archdeacon
Ryder, instead of being a briefless barrister. " They were
the three Magistrates in Cummana. The army was drawn
up in a file of four deep in a boreheen" (that is a narrow lane),
"at the entrance of a haggard. The country people were on
the ditches. They (the country people) said that they wanted
not to let the soldiers take the butts that stopped the haggard
gap out of the way ; and that the only missile thrown was a
cabbage stump. Captain Bagley read the Riot Act. A voice
said, " Fire away to the devil, fire." The four first men fired
and made a breach—four (..f the countrymen; their places
were again supplied by the countrymen" (that infatuated
bravery in men unarmed too I) " who were again shot in their
turn. The matter did not end there, for even some of the
country people were shot in the act of running away. Ryder
is the new incumbent, and there are due to him only the tithes

that accrued due since May till November last past; the tithes
due up to May last belong to Collis, as next heir to Archdea-
con Collis, who died about May last ; the late Archdeaco,n
Collis, I may as well state, was idiotic for several years before
his death, and Ryder, the clerico-magistrate, was made Arch-
deacon and incumbent of this parish, for no other reason than
that he and his brother, the Rev. Joshua, were both the tithe-
champions of the neighbouring parish of Castle Lyons, where,
in 1832, they detained cattle in pound till nearly famished. It
was this Ryder, as I think, that wanted the government to
billet the soldiers on the people in 1832, to thus coerce them to
pay tithes. I write in a great hurry. Suffice it to say, that
this place presents an awful scene—the corpses corning into the
chapel ; the bells tolling ; for the bodies, are all to be depo-
sited in the chapel—women screaming, and men silent, in all
the sullenness of dark despair."—( Hear.) There is a forci-
ble picture for you. See how eloquent nature is in a de-
scription of a scene of this kind.—( Hear.) If the state-
ment contained in that letter be true—l do not know whether
it is true or not, and I cannot vouch for its accuracy—but if it
be true, I have no hesitation in saying, as a lawyer, that a more
unmitigated murder than that never has been committed. The
parties that went there, had no right to break into the field to
distrain—their doing so was a direct trespass.—( Hear, hear. )
Here were eleven fathers of families slain for a demand of 5/.
in tithes I Two of them, lam told, were brothers—they lived
in the same house together—each of them bad families. Oh I
what has become of their wives and their children, and their
mother ? They left them in the morning healthy and strong,
with the perfect anticipation of enjoying together many future
days of happiness--they are brought home before evening
corpses, and they are laid down before all that loved them
pale, cold, and senseless—they cannot hear the moans of the
mother, the shrieking of the widows, the wails of the children.
—( Hear, hear, mingled with deep sighs.) Oh Iby the blood
of those victims I conjure every honest man in Ireland to rally
with me against this Administration.—( Hear, hear, and long-
continued cheering.) Are there in Ireland mothers, and will
not whisper to every human being they can influence--oppose
the Tory Administration, which makes the wives widows, and
the children orphans?—( Hear, and cheers.) Is there a baby
that is lisping its prayer to heaven, and thinks, as it sighs in
innocent piety, upon the woes of those who have lost their
fathers—will even the babies not call upon us to drive from the
Councils of the Crown those who would perpetuate scenes of
blood and slaughter in Ireland ?—( Cheers.) My soul is
harrowed, my mind is tortured, when I would carry my
thoughts to the fire-sides of the poor men who have perished
—when I think of their homes, lately so smiling, and now
echoing but the groans and shrieks of the lone and desolate.
—( Hear, and loud cheers.) And yet this is a Christian
country, where the monstrous doctrine is propounded that
such a system can be upheld I Are not eleven victims enough
for the Moloch of tithes?—( Hear, hear.) And yet here is
an Administration, with Sir Robert Peel at its head, proclaim-
ing that this is to be eternal.—( Hear, and cheers.) Let me
not be mistaken. I call from this spot upon the men of Ire-
land—l call upon them every where not to weaken themselves
by the commission of any act of violence.—( Loud cries of
i‘ Hear, hear.") Let them take care not to give their ene-
mies nay strength by the violation of the law; but let them
stand shoulder to shoulder, keep a firm determination, and
mark as their bitterest foe, and worst enemy, him who would
Hive a single vote to a supporter of the Peel and Wellington
Administration. Let them look to the earth such a mis-
creant—let such a man be avoided as a plague—let him be
regarded as a political pestilence—let the women gaze upon
him as an object of detestation, and cursed of his kind
must he be whom they detest—let his children abjure the
da% that gave them such a parent—let the miscreant ap-
pear the hatred of all mankind—let him live a signal ex-
ample how degraded one can be who basely traffics, to
him
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forh the his
sp sbsieonnesfitorofhims
mankind and
tahnadt
the vi'hicghnaids ennfthruiastceadanto-
try.—( Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) I have had much to say
upon these topics. These are the first fruits of the Peel and
Wellington administration.—( Hear.) There is the first offi-
cial declaration of Sir Robert Peel, in which hypocritical
words cannot serve even to conceal the real political integrity
that is hidden beneath them. This is the first sequel of his
holding office —( Hear, hear, and cheers.) There is his de-
claration in support of tithes ; and here is the postscript to the
letter, written in the blood of this ill-fated country.—( Hear.
It has been said he would be a Reformer. Yes; one who
would retard all possible reform. That he will reform abuses.
Yes, when he acknowledges them to be so. He will protect
the source of every evil, and throw his shield over abuses.—
( Hear,) This will be his course in England—in Ireland we
see the fell spirit already abroad. Let us not irritate it—let
us be united, firm, determined—let thore be ng violence.
There are seven millions of the population in this country—it
is unnecessary for them to resort to violence to obtain any le-
gitimate object.—( Hear.) I shall conclude by moving that
the committee be intrusted to propose an address, calling upon
the people ant to return any members who are supporters of
the sanguinary and ferocious faction in this country.—( Hear,
hear, and long-continued cheers for several minutes.)
Mr. COPPINGER was called to the chair, and thanks having
been voted to Mr. Ruthven, the meeting adjourned to Tuesday.

We regret to find by letters from the Mediterranean
that a duel, attended, with fatal consequences, took place last
hi:4A by moonlight, on the ramparts of Cephalonia, between
Lieut. Whitting, the Qt'ith reQiment, and Mr, Scobo, lqte
of the same regiment, son of a highl3, iespectea' g..ntleian of
Stonehouse, who was on a tour in that quarter. Mr. Scobe 1 1
was wonnded in his spine, and died soon after. Lieut, Whit,
ting, iito also the seconds, Lieutenant Adjutant Pollard, and
Ensign 11pbonald? aie' under close arrest.-Devoriport Te-
kgry4!