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London, England, 1844-11-23 00:00:00

without one shilling going into the pockets of Irishmen.
On the score then of centralisation alone and of its ill
effects, I demand a repeal of the union.—(Cheers.) I
appeal to you again, was ever anything so preposterous
and unjust as allowing the present limited number of
Members of Parliament to Ireland ? England has 548.
Ireland has but 105, and two of them belong to Trinity
College, which may be considered as not being in Ireland
at all. They certainly do not speak Irish there, and
they have still less of Irish feeling among them. Lord
Castlereagh admitted that Ireland ought to have 179
Members at the time of the union ; and I find by the
last printed returns of population and revenue, that Ire-
land ought to have 175 Members. At the time of the
Reform Bill I offered to take 150 Members. The Irish
Members in Parliament at the time were willing to take
that number, but they refused our demands, and Ireland
got an addition of only five Members. But Scotland,
with only two millions of inhabitants, got eight addi •
tional Members, while Ireland, with eight millions of
inhabitants, got only five.—(Hear, hear.) In England
the Members were given according to the scale of popu-
lation. Every county in England having more than
50,000 inhabitants got an additional Member. Every
county having more than 100,000 inhabitahts got two ad-
ditional Members, and so on. Yorkshire got 8 or 10 addi-
tional Members, and other counties got 4, or 5 or 6 ; but
not a single additional Member was given to any county
in Ireland. The consequence is, that Cork, the
county which I represent, has a rural population of
700,000 persons, and only two representatives. Wales
with a population of 800,000, has twenty-eight Members.
—(Hear, hear.) South Lancashire with a population
of 28,000 inhabitants, has four representatives, while
Galway and Mayo, with nearly 900,000 inhabitants,
has but precisely the same number between them.—
(Hear.) Again I turn to John Bull, and ask him—
How dare you talk to me of a union, after the treatment
that Ireland received in the measure of municipal re-
form ? You gave Scotland municipal reform two years
after you gave England municipal reform. For five
years you refused municipal reform to Ireland.—(Hear.)
That is what you call justice to Ireland, but what I
call an ingredient of separation.—(Cheers.) My next
argument is derived from the financial robbery done
to Ireland by the unien, and I am sorry to
find that that very able man, Mr. Sharman Craw-
ford, does not seem to understand this matter at
all. At the time of the union England owed a debt of
440,000,000/,while Ireland owed but 20,000,0001., and they
since made us liable to have their 440,000,000, while
they generously took upon themselves half our
20,000,0001. Mr. Sharman Crawford does not appear to
know that it was expressly stipulated by the union that
Ireland never should be made liable for any part of the
interest of this 440,000,0004, and that England should
be taxed to the amount of 16,000,0001. a year on articles
that were to pay no duty in Ireland ; and yet with the
exception of the assessed taxes, which were dropped
because they were found to be unproductive in Ireland,
and the income-tax, which is a modern introduction,
there is no tax in England that does not also exist in
Ireland. But of all the evils of the union there is none
more ruinous in its effects on this country than the
absentee drain, which is daily increasing in its amount,
and which already exceeds six millions a year. I tell
England there must be a cure for this evil, and that the
only cure for it is the repeal of the union.—(Hear.) I
have detained you long.—(Cries of " No, no ; go on.")
There is no use saying no, no—you can't put back the
clock.—(Cheers and laughter.) Well, I have but a few
words more to say to you. They are these :—The
period of my life cannot now, in the course of nature,
be long.—(Cries of " No, no.") Yes, I have fallen
into the sear and yellow leaf, and the span of
my life is measured by a few fleeting years, in all
human probability, by far less ; but this I tell you, be
the time long or short, I am determined, till the grave
calls upon me, that not a week, not a day, not an hour
shall pass, without my thinking how I may do good to
Ireland, and acting for her independence.—(Cheers.)
No matter what disappointment or treachery I was met
with, I shall work on.—(Loud cheers.) Will you work
on with me ?—(Cries of "We will.") Aye, well I
know it.—(Cheers.) The brave, the religious, the
moral people of Ireland, will work on with me. Even if
we fail, is it not delightful to be engaged in a struggle
for one's country.—(Cheers.) What do I feel course
through my veins at the thought, which he who never
has been in that struggle can never feel—(Cheers)—as
he goes crawling along calculating on which side lies the
profit. Poor paltry wretch, if such there be, I tell him
to reckon the throbbings of my heart as it beats with
all its pulse for old Ireland, and to know what the plea-
sure is which I feel in struggling for liberty.—(Great
cheers.) That is my duty and my happiness, and recol-
lecting that loved land, the fairest, sweetest spot on
earth—more fertile, more populous than sixteen states
of Europe—more powerful, I will say, too, than almost
any state—for her tremendous physical force is concen-
trated in a narrow compass—can I doubt that such a
country was fitted for one day, of prosperity and happi-
ness ?—(Cheers.) Aye, that day is near at hand. The
morning star of independence has shone forth. I think
the sun of liberty will soon appear over our horizon, and
rise into the ascendant, giving light to all, and infusing
the life, heat, and animation of liberty into old Ireland.
Having resumed his scat amid applause, which lasted
some time.

Mr. O'CONNELL again rose to propose the health of
the Chairman, which he did in terms of high eulogy, as
the descendant of Brian Borroihrae.
The CllaittmeN returned thanks.
Other toasts followed, after which the company sepa-
rated at past midnight.
IRISH RAILWAYS—SIR ROBERT PEEL.
DUBLIN, Nov. 21.—The Dublin Evening Post con-
tains the following communication from its London cor-
respondent :

a LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING.—The Government
has abandoned the intention, if it ever were seriously
entertained, of sending a cornmision to Ireland to report
upon the numerous railway projects which have been
started. The duty of inquiry and selection will be com-
pleted by the Board of Trade, which now have their
hands quite full, on account of the immense number of
applications from all parts of the empire from railway
companies. The belief has become pretty general that
Mr. Gladstone will, through motives of delicacy, retire
from the Board of Trade, on account of the great extent
to which his connexions are concerned with several of
the railways."

VALUE OF MONET IN THE PUBLIC MARKET.---The
exceedingly little value that money possesses at this mo-
ment was tolerably well tested at the Auction Mart last
week by Mr. George Robins. He had to sell freehold
"round-rents, amounting to 2401. a year, for which he
obtained 7,5001., which exceeds thirty-ono years' pur-
chase, and is less than 3 per cent. per annum upon the
outlay. To this was appended the reversionary interest
in 77 years to about 1,800/. a-year, but all such as are
conversant in figures are aware that the fee at such a
prolonged time is worth nothing. At the same time Mr.
Robins announced a peppercorn rent to bo sold for 77
years, and after that period the fee simple to a public-
house (the Hope and Anchor Tavern, Lisson grove),
of the annual value of 100/. The opulent brewer (Mr.
Hoare), who holds the lease until the year 1921, and
receives no rent during that period, became one of the
spirited competitors for this reversion, and actually gave
for it 100 guineas. A small portion of time devoted to
calculation will demonstrate the fact that the interest
and compound interest upon the said 100 guineas will
amount to 4,6001. when it falls into possession. It will
be seen that Mr. Robins, in his printed detail of this
property (which we extract), prophesied something very
like a faithful result :—" The time is exceedingly fa-
vourable for investment, especially for those who have
capital to remove from three per cents. to solid freehold
ground-rents. It is by no means an improbable event,
that in a few short years, the funds may make a retrogade
movement, while the property under review is not merely
a security that must every day increase in value, but it
is free from doubt and uncertainty, and to those who
have large families to provide for, every succeeding year
increases the pleasing prospect that it is in view of ex-
changing a small ground-rent into a large annual free-
hold income. Many of those lots, separately viewed,
will, in 77 years, be a competency for one child ; this
will be worth a serious thought to all those who have
families to provide for.—Morning Herald.
THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN
RAlLWAY.—Yesterday we noticed the serious fact that
two men had been run over on the Great Western Rail-
way and killed during the fog on Thursday. The fol-
lowing further particulars are supplied by a casual re-
porter : On the morning of Thursday last a dreadful
and fatal accident took place on the line of the Great
Western Railway, near the station at West Drayton,
Middlesex, by which two men, named Samuel Brooks
and William Tuckwell, have lost their lives. It appears,
from inquiries made on the spot, that about half-past
eight o'clock, six men, including the two men killed,
were engaged in repairing that portion of the line of
railway westward of the West Drayton station, nearly
on the confines of Buckinghamshire, when the sound of
an approaching up-train was heard in the distance. Four
of the men immediately got off the line altogether ; but
the two men, Brooks and Tuckwell, instead of following
their example, moved only from the up line to the down
line. At the time there was a very thick and dense fog
prevailing, so that objects could not be seen beyond a
very short distance, in consequence of which the men
were not aware of the approach also of the down train,
which leaves the Paddington terminus at eight o'clock,
until it was so close to them that all chance of escape
was hopeless, and they were instantly knocked down and
passed over by the train. The persons having charge of
the train were not aware of the accident until their ar-
rival at the Slough station, when some of the railway
officers observing blood on the tender of the engine,
communicated the fact to the guard, when persons were
immediately sent along the lino to ascertain the cause,
who found the bodies of the two deceased lying in a
frightfully mutilated state on the down line between the
Slough and West Drayton stations. Beth bodies were
promptly removed to a shed at the West Drayton sta-
tion, where they still remain. It is stated that the bodies
presented a most frightful spectacle, and that the watch
of one of the unfortunate sufferers is driven into his
body. Information of the accident has since been for-
warded to Mr. Wakley, M.P., Coroner for the district.
CAMDEN CHAPEL, PECKHAM.—The ceremony of
the consecration of Camden Chapel, Peckham, was yes-
terday performed by the Bishop of Winchester. Soon
after eleven his Lordship, attended by his chaplain, ar-
rived, and was received at the door by the Registrar of
the Diocese, and the district clergy. He immediately
proceeded to the communion-table, where the petition
praying for the consecration was read, and to which the
Bishop consented. The procession was again formed,
and his Lordship walked down the aisle repeating the
24th Psalm, the clergymen making the responses.
Upon his return lie offered the usual prayers, after
which the sentence of consecration was read, signed by
the Bishop, and handed to the Registrar for enrolment.
The lessons appointed for the occasion were next read
by the minister, the Rev. Mr. Moore, and following the
prayers the Bishop read the communion service. The
sermon was preached by the Bishop, who chose for his
text the 24 chapter of Nehemiah, 2oth verse.