The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-08 00:00:00

GALWAY.

On Friday a public meeting of Mr. Lever's
friends was held at (be Galway Town Court-house,
which was densely thronged.

The Rev. Father DALY addressed the meeting,
referring at great length to Mr. Lever's claims on
the electors, and especially to his exertions to pro-
mote a packet station at Galway. " Let me tell
you," said the reverend orator, "let me tell you,
my friends and citizens of Galway, I have no poli-
tics now but my packet station. (Vehement and
prolonged cheering.) My politics now consist of
this—that if I vote for a man, it will be for that
man who will apply every energy of his mind, of
his heart, and soul, and body to effect, to complete,
and to establish firmly the Irish and American
packet station at Galway. (Immense cheering.)
And, moreover, if I vote for the man who will do
that—(A voice : " Sure there he is alongside your
reverence." Loud and hearty cheers for Mr. Lever)
—I will bind him, if he goes into the House of
Commons, to vote for nothing that will peril my
packet station. (Cheers.) Repeal of the Union
was talked of, and I was a Repealer; but Repeal of
the Union would not bring us money for our arti-
sans and labourers, and I sincerely believe it would
not bring us union among ourselves. (Hear, hear.)
It would leave us not only in the dangers of dis-
union among ourselves, but in the peril of dangers
from abroad—(hear, hear)—and the condition c
the poOr working man would not be a bit the better
by it. - (Hear, hear.) Not so by the establishment
of the packet station, for that would bring plenty
and comfort to the home and hearth of the poor
men of Galway, in whose behalf I have put myself
forward. (Great cheering.) There is a gentleman
standing by my side at this moment (pointing to
Mr. Samuelson, the Mayor of Hull, whose presence
was acknowledged by most cordial, genuine Irish
cheering), who is the contractor for building two
despatch express steamers that will be guaranteed
to make the passage from Galway to St. John's
in less than five days, (Immense cheering.) Oh,
again and again I repeat it, all shame upon you,
Limerick conspirators, who, in 1852, when Father
Daly was working like a horse to get an Irish
packet station, you raised your voice as enemies of
your country, but when I did not succeed at that
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you left what you now put forward as your
claims—you left them in abeyance from that day
to this—until you found that the sun of prosperity
was commencing to dawn upon Ireland, and that
it was about to rise, as, thank God, it has now
risen, over the bright waters of Galway bay. (Tre-
mendous cheering, the whole dense crowd in the
Court-house shouting vehemently for several
minutes.) Father Daly concluded by suggesting
that a deputation should wait on Sir Thomas Red-
ington, and request him to postpone for the present
his claims to the representation of Galway.
On the motion of E. C. BURKE, Esq., a deputa-
tion was appointed to proceed At once from the

Sir T. REDTNGTON then briefly addressed the
meeting. He observed that the constituency wished
that Mr. Lever should be returned as a proof of
the universal feeling in favour of the scheme he
had so actively worked for transatlantic communi-
cation, and he (Sir T. Redington) felt that if such
were the opinion of the constituency, although he
might pursue the contest to a successful issue, yet
he would never feel happy if any one even sus•
pected that he had by his conduct endangered for
a moment the great cause in which their hearts
were all engaged. (Cheers.)
The meeting dispersed with three enthusiastic
cheers for Mr: Leven. rizoctsiremiww.A.o—