The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-15 00:00:00

MR. O'CONNELL'S DEPUTATION:

(From the Dublin Morning Post of Friday.
We have every reason to be of opinion that the new
scheme has - received the coup de_ grace. On Saturday
last we said, " Air. Wyse declines the honour, Mr. Sheil
also, and we have no doubt that the events of the last
'deputation (the ever_memorable deputation of 1825) are
fresh in the recollection of Lord Killeen." At the Asso-
cietion yesterday, Mr. Secretary O' Gorman stated that he
bad letters from Lords Killeen, Menai, and Gormane-
town, and also from Mr. Michael Dillon Bellew, declining
to accompany the
,mission to England. These letters were
not read—for what good purpose we are at a loss to eon
jecture; but we think it would be only common justice to
the writers of the letters, and common decency towards the
public, to make known the grounds on which- they have
declined. This system of cushioning public documents is
didre theyal
really disgraceful. Did they disapprove of the Mission, or
hold the political quack who planned it in too much
contempt to obey his commands, or in too much doubt to
trust themselves under his leadership? Whatever may
have been their motives, we cannot but admire their pru-
dence, for assuredly had this itinerant deputation pro-
ceeded to England, headed by a man who has rendered
himself so obnoxious to every educated and noble mind by
his vulgarabuse of all those, however respectable in society,
who ever had the honesty to disapprove of. his .fully, the
consequences would Jae , most dangerous to the Catholic
cause. We are glad to observe that the more intelligent
portion of the catholic body are at length beginning.
to
judge for themselves, and to take a right view of things,_,_,
We hail this event as a proof of returning good sells,
—We give Mr. O'Gorman credit .for his manly
sentiments, in reference to the
.opinions expressed by
the writers of a letter from Waterford, who pour -
forth their indignation against all those who are guilty of •
the heinous crime of opposing the virtues, as they are
pleased to say, of Mr.- O'Connell. We would be glad to
know what they mean by his virtues.. Mr. O'Gorman said,
he " considered that all gentlemen had a right freely and
fully to express, their opinions; but,. certainly, he did not .
think there was any right whatever to load with anything
like opprobrium, men who acted honestly in their labours
for the public good.. He felt most anxious. that all their
sentiments should be public ; but he, at the same time,
had ua idea of the propriety of using such words as ma-
lignant opposition,' and therefore could not move fur the
insertion of them on their minutes." These, we repeat-,
are manly sentiments, and are creditable to the public spi-
rit of Mr. O'Gorman. Mr. O'Connell told a story about
a Bishop's lady, and a New Emancipation Bill.; which
nobody heard any thing qf but himself: We now entreat
the Catholics to be on their guard, and to keep a strict eye
on the progress of events; aecresy in affairs which concern
the nation at large is at all times suspicious.

THE LATE LEEDS MEETING.

(From the Leeds Mercury.)

The Brunswickers of Leeds have been driven
..quite to.
their end by the defeat of yesterday week: .For
time they pretended to dispute-the victory, but seeing that
this was of little use, when the--prize was actually in.the
bands of their opponents, they have resorted to one of those.
ludicrous expedients, to which persons are sometimes driven
by the shame of defeat, and which. only, expose them still
more to public ridicule. • Not content with .the Hole-and -
Corner Meeting at. the Music-Hall, the results of which
they have had so much cause to toe, they oiled another
at the Court-house for Wednesday last, and there a
.few of
the routed troops of bigotry assembled iu sad rendezvous,
to consult

" What reinforcements they might gain from
"If not, what resolution from despair." • .;
Hut hope, alas! had no. reinforcements to offer them; and
the resolution of despair is shown in, that irregular, unpre-
cedented, and silly ". Protest," which they
,intend to send
up to his Majesty, with a string of names collected by, 1)4-
sons, constables, and sextons, it t of clubs and workshops.
The first and most promineui..feature Ott this .proceed-
ing is—Acknowledgment of Defeat, Its authors do nGt
-
evenpretend to victory.

The numbers present at the meeting have heervvariousiv
estimated from 15 to 25,000. Our own op;;n10u is, that
they were about 16 or 18,000.

It has been asserted, with an utter disregard to truth or
-decency, that the stones which were thrown so atrociously
at the close of the meeting, proceeded first ti-out the side of
the Liberals. This is so manifest and notorious a falsehoo
.l,
that it is scarcely worth noticing. But every person at the
meeting must have seen that the missiles proceeded front
the Biunswicker side of the Cloth-hall, and that a conti-
nued volley was poured front the roof by persons who must
have prepared a quantity of nminynition beforehand, at
the Liberals, both on the hustings' and in the crowd. A
few stones were thrown back in self-defence •but not one-
' tenth of the number whick, had been flung from the roof
of the Cloth-hall; and we have not heard that a, single
Bronswicker was hurt, n hilt many of the gentlemen on
the Liberal side, both on the hustings and ;trate yard, were
seriously cot and wounded.. 'This ahotninable transaction
illustrates the spirit of the " party ; when they Sod them-
selves defeated, they display an almost frantic violence.
A statement has been put forth in the intolerant papers,
to the effect that, at the meeting in the Cloth-hall-void, at
Leeds, whatever might be the disparity in nitiohets, the
Binnswickers
had the superiority in point of property
as.
five is to one ! This is one of. those bold mendacious as-
sertions which unprincipled men are accustomed to make
when they know that, from the ruttore of the subject, there
can be no demonstrative evidence to cOntradik them. But
in order to put these boasters to the test, n, will under-
take to prove, if they will go with us into the inquiry,
that the 402 inhabitants, who signed the rrqiiisition to call
the meeting in support of the Address to the King in fa-
vour of the tatholic Claims, occupy property, and wa
way fairly infer possess property, to a larger amount than
800 out of the I,ooo' of those who last week signified their
intention to oppose that proceeding, by what is
called " the Protestant Declaration and A4.ess." If the
Brunswickets do not take up this challenge, the pithlic
will know libui in future to estimate their vairoglotious
boasting. Our firm conviction is, that iu point of pro-
perty, (no very good test of truth), the .402 Liberals woutki
outweigh the 1,000 Itliberals ; and we size quite sore that
the former greatly preponderate over the latter in inieth-
genes and disinterestedness, thongh not so much as the.
athnethoaruitthoryoifty of
Mr.
oosPittt those two dMprr.ofPotid
txlpsret,aptoenstal,tesmolv„.;
"
Hall, Esq., and the Rev: Thomas Galland,
111 r. Alderman Halt laid down at the Leeds 'Vesting of
ayesterday
tnh'eeetkh,r
otnhtewaves highly
novel
pression of opinions on doubtful measures of policy, by
ghly doctrine, that the ex-
injutlfeious and indelicate,"
and added, " that it appeared to him, that addresses to the
King were only proper on subjects
of congratulation, on
which there Was no ditierence of opinion." This is a very
King, on which the
absurd notion, and Mr. Hall will findon examination, that
there have been hundreds and thousands of addresses to the
public opinion has been very much
divided. But if it is improper for a public meeting, duly
convened, to approach
the Royal presence through their
Chairman, with a loyal address,what lutist Mr. Hail think
of the "indelicacy"
of a pr_ vats meeting, at which only one
side could be heard, voting an "address and protest" to
it about. from door to door to obtain
This is not only indelicate, hut it is unprece-
sigtatures ?
hinclined to thin •
dented, and we are very touch
of Mr. Secretary Peel presenting such an address to tin.
be will tend it back to " the place from whence it
Kitor,
came."
the King antlltal%king

_ .
TRIBUTE TO MR. BEAN.--It has already
been stated, that this gentleman mast liberally gave op
the profits of his performances at the English Opera House
to the general fund. The rest of the pet formers, feeling
grateful for this handsome donation; deter Mined upon
spewing their gratitude iu a more substantial form tbau
that of mere worda. Yesterday, immediately after Air.
Kean's rehearsal of Virginius, a handsordie tortoiseshell
snuff-box was presented to him. It is a large box, and
lined throughout with pure gold. On the inside of the inl
is the following inscription :—" To Edmund Kean, Es,„;
as a trilling but cordial acknowledgAnt of his vala.A.
assistance-, ,and most liberal conduct, at the Theatre niwol
Euglish Opera House, in November, ises, on the sudde4l
closing of Covent Garden Theatre, this Box is prerwou'd,
by his Brother Performers." It was presented 4 Mr,
__eats returned auk
Bartley, in a neat speech, to which 31r. K
011 the day of Lord E
appropriate acknowledgment. . .
Great Seal, a certain little hvoryer, aftefr etxhpattialstg, n
le atrl
diuner-party, on the pulAk' merits of of his kindness and
Learned Person, pratve" to 'speak
barristers of his Court. "To
eondescensiork tc.wards Idon's resignation of
lisar. ilt.;epa_ra.ble,,,fer,.!..lo,reds.E”lsadoinci.
Alwityo behaved to me quite
company, I understand
of the " Brougham, who was oue .
like
.1
,i .
ted you quay a chi d. —Literary that he always - trea
Gazelle, e lilac a father.
u 16," atlAil be, "the Itol:41

Tho lute Earl of Guilford's valuable and ex-
t,„ive library, the result of many years' laborious collect-
in in every part of the Continent, and is the Greek
L+lan,lH, by she Noble I.crd himself, will commence selling-
this day by Evans, in Pall-mall. The second portion of
these books, which are equally rare and Lotions with the
first, will. he 4014 after Christmas.