The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-13 00:00:00

ANTI-TORY ASSOCIATION.

r (Abridged from the Dublin Morning Register of Wednesday.)
Yesterday a meeting of the members of this society was
held at the Great Rooms, Corn-Exchange ; Dr. MULLEN in
the Chair.
Mr. O'CONNELL rose, amid loud applause, and said, it will
be my duty to start for London on Friday, as I wish to be
there on the 17th, and have the 18th to arrange about the
choice of a Speaker. If we succeeded in that, it will be idle
for the Orange Tories of England to think they can manage
the business of the country, The popular cause has received
an impulse such as it never got before.--( Hear, hear.) The
Whigs now are of a different character from what they were
before. Every man must see that our only reliance is upon
popular support and strength. We cannot and must not
trifle or play with the feelings of the people—still less can
we afford to lose their confidence.—( Hear, hear.) They are
the enemies of the people who surround the King. I do
not allude to his Consort, but to his servants. The Whigs
can have no support against the Court faction, but in the
popular voice. Two-thirds of them are radicals, and there
is no measure of salutary reform they would not carry if we
could but displace the Tories, and replace them by a ministry
whose only basis of support would be and could only be in
popular opinion.—(Cheers.) I will be in London on the
17th, at the very latest, in order to make the necessary
arrangements ; and here again I declare that I will go there at
the sacrifice of every point of minor difference, and will not
introduce the question of Repeal or anything else, that could
divide us, but confine myself entirely to routing the common
enemy.—( Hear, hear.) That is my plea. I avow it before
my constituents, who, I trust, will still continue to be so
despite the threats held out of deafening the result of their
triumph in electing me as their representative.—(Cheers.)
The worst men in Parliament are decidedly military men.
There are a few good ones in the House. Being constantly
under influence, they act in perfect obedience to orders. The
advantages of military education have been talked of, but I
look upon it as the worst feature in standing armies, that they
have always educated the youth and gentlemen of the country
in the worst of all doctrines, that of absolute obedience to
orders. Beyond military discipline, it is the protecting
power of despots and tyrants, without which liberty must
prosper. They will be the canker and the bane of this coun-
try, if the people do not resolve and be determined to no
longer continue in power such an administration. If they
succeed in their wishes on this point, we will have an opportu-
nity of discussing this question of military government in the
presence of another administration.—(Hear, hear.) Sir,
there is another thing, that every man in Ireland should reflect
upon—lt is the clear Orange feature, putting into the employ-
ment of the administration (and the Dissenters of England
cannot shut their eyes to the fact either,) the enemies of the
people. Goulburn has been restored to office, their bitter and
decided foe. They cannot forget that Gregory, who was put
out of the Castle, because it was thought as long as Gregory
remained, nothing like justice could be done, is now restored
and made a Privy Councillor. Lefroy has been made a Privy
Councillor ; and lastly, the most determined enemy the Ca-
tholics ever had, a smooth-goingly but exceeding determined
and truculent foe Shaw, the Recorder, has also been made
a Privy Councillor. The administration has committed
to his hands the calumniating of the Whigs. They
have used him as their mainspring against the Whigs,
and he was accordingly glorified. To be sure, he was
too young to be Attorney-General. But mark his maiden
step. When only three years a barrister he accepted a judi-
cial office, and consented to be a judge, and now he would
not consent to be Attorney-General. But he well knew that
he might not be three weeks Attorney-General. Did you
ever hear that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ?
_He was not goose enough to look for two birds that he had not
got, when his maiden modesty would secure to him one that he
had got. The feature of the present Administration in this
country is every where to give dominion to the Orange party.
Even the underlings are all Orange. To such a height has
the system been carried, that the Evening Mail actually
blushed through her columns at its extent, and said that they
were not so much Orange as Mr. O'Connell thought, and
that some liberal appointments should be made.—( Hear.)
What state must we be in when even the Evening Mail is
ashamed of the Orange domination that is exercised over us ?
We have arrived at a time when a wall of separation is inevit-
able. On one hand are the liberal Protestants and the Ca-
tholics-:-on the other, the Orangemen. For shortness, I
shall call the two first Christians—the other Orangemen.
The country is, then, divided into two parties—the Christians
on the one side, and the Orangemen on the other. There is
now no middle party—no choice between the two.—( Hear,
hear.) very man must range himself vt ith either ; and,
as for my part, though my taste be bad, I prefer ther
Christians to the Orangemen.—( Hear, hear, and laughter.)
This being the case it is is incumbent upon me to take a de-
cided part against the Orangemen. I see no reason why I
should not, and why we all should not, for they are exceed-
ingly truculent. I have spent the last five years in fruitless
endeavours to reconcile them. I did not utter one word of
abuse against them. - I thought to bring them over, but I
might as well attempt to coax with success the sucking tiger
or the full-grown lion.—( Hear, hear.) In numbers they are

' vastly inferior to the Christians, and have no chance, unless.
like the Orangemen of Cavan, as it is alleged of them when
k in Kells, where five of them, with daggers, attacked an unfor-
, tunate Catholic,,and put him to death.—( Hear, hear.) That
. being the state of the country, it is incumbent on us to take
the strongest measures to alter the system by which it is kept
in such thraldom. I mean to propose that we shall call upon
every parish, barony, and county in Ireland to meet as speedily
as possible, and prepare petitions to Parliament, with two
objects--first, the total extinction of tithes in name and
nature—( loud cheering)—next, praying the House to address
his Majesty to dismiss his present ill-advisers.—( Hear, hear. )
Let us have two millions of signatures to a petition, calling on
the Parliament to call on the King to dismiss his present
advisers, and if not, to refuse the supplies.—(Loud cheers.)
Every account from England fills us with pleasure and delight,
and tells me of approaching triumph—that the Tories will
soon be scattered, and that a new Administration will be esta-
blished upon a broad basis.—( Hear, hear.) It may be thought
that I am soliciting, office or truckling to power, when I say,
in the presence of my constituents, that I am ready to form a
member of the new Administration.—( Loud cheers.) I wish
to give a full experiment to a British Parliament, and to know
whether they can legislate as effectually for Ireland as an
Irish Parliament would. They say they can. I don't think
they can. However, lam disposed to give them a trial and
fall back upon my own resources, whets I shall have demon-
strated the inability of any other 'than an Irish Parliament to
do justice to the Irish nation. It is the strongest conviction
of my mind, and the most determined decision of my judg-
ment, that nothing can eventually and effectually secure Ire-
land, but a Parliament in College-green.---(Loud cheering. )
Mr. O'Connell said, that in order to effectuate this plan, it
ought to be impressed upon the mind of every Irishman, and
this. Association ought particularly to impress it upon the
minds of their Representatives, that it was necessary for the
present to forgot the faults and follies of the Whigs. Who
was more vindictively persecuted by the Whigs than he was?
He was made the subject of a ridiculous prosecution by Lord
Anglesey, through which he found it as easy to break as if it
had been a cobweb:. He was also prosecuted under Lord
Wellesley:s Government. He, however, freely forgave them ;
and if he did not forget it, it was because it rejoiced him to
reflect that the men who then persecuted and oppressed the
people were obliged now to rely upon them in their extremity.
He did not despair of his country he had stronger hopes than
ever of seeing her prosperous arid happy. Mr. O'Connell
concluded by moving, that the Association call upon the coun-
ties, baronies, and parishes in Ireland to prepare petitions to
Parliament for the total abolition of tithes, and the expulsion
from power of the present Administration ; and that the Asso-
ciation will give every legal assistance to the oppressed people
of Ireland.
Mr. M. CosTEnt.o seconded the motion.

The resolution was put from the Chair, and passed unani.
mously.

The meeting then adjourned to Thursday next.

THE MELIORATIVE REFORMERS.

To the MIDDLING and INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES of GLOU•
CESTERSHIRE, and the COUNTIES ADJACENT.

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hi assuming the title of " Meliorative," it will be seen
that we wish to contradistinguish ourselves from those who,
with recklessness of spirit, greedily seize upon every op-
portunity of trampling under foot the established institutions
of the country, merely because they are established, and on the
other hand, from those who, with blind devotion to the idol
god of custom and usage, would uphold every institution, how-
ever replete with imperfections or ignorance, merely because it
is an established one.

The former have been justly branded with the name o
" Destructives," and the latter have as justly earned the title
of " Conservatives," being as tenacious of preserving what is
bad as of retaining what is good of the elements of the
Constitution.

From each of these parties, we hope to be distinguished ;
and he who, as another Hampden, wishes no other change than
what may conduce to the ultimate benefit of the community,
(more especially of the " middling classes," who have not re-
ceived any amelioration from the " Reform Bill,") may fairly
be entitled henceforth to invest himself with the novel appel-
lation of the " Meliorative."
A man's opinion was his own, his due
And just possession, whether false or true." /
A VOICE FROM THE COTS-WOLDS.s
February 13, 1835.

* Sheep-walks.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

Sheridan Knowles's play of the 'The. Wife was last night per-
formed for the first time at this house. Mr. Wallack appeared
as Julian St. Pierre, and played this difficult part with just
discrimination and with much feeling. The part of Mariana
was played by Miss E. Tree. She has often performed the
character, but she never better earned the praises of the audi-
ence than she did last night. She is not a powerful actress,
but there is an enchanting modesty and delicacy, and, when
the occasion calls for it, dignity in her manner, which attracts
the heart and enchains the-mind far more than mere physical
power ever didor ever can do. The curate, Antonio, found a
grave, steady, and impressive representative in Mr. G. Ben-
nett. Mr. Warde's Ferrardo commanded much approbation.
It was not merely a judicious but a spirited performance. The
play went off exceedingly well.