The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-01 00:00:00

JUSTICE TO IRELAND

GREAT MEETING IN COVENT-
GARDEN.—(THIS DAY.)
A great meeting of the inhabitants of the City of West...
minster, was held this afternoon in Covent-garden, for the
purpose of taking Into consideration the proceedings
of the Government for the subjugation of Ireland,
and the persecution of O'Connell and others for their
support of the rights of Irishmen, and to petition Parliament
for the immediate release of Mr. O'Connell and his brother
martyrs, now confined in the Richmond Penitentiary, Dublin.
The meeting had been convened by the High Bailiff, Francis
Smedley, Esq., in conformity with a requisition, most numer-
ously and respectably signed, which had been presented to
him for that purpose.
The hustings were erected rather to the left of the Church,
instead of being erected in front of it, as heretofore. This
arrangement was most judicious, as it afforded standing-room
for at least three thousand people additional in front of the
hustings. The hour appointed for the commencement
of the proceedings was two o'clock, but the • people
began to assemble as' early as twelve o'clock, and
by the time the proceedings commenced there could net
have been less than ten thousand persons assembled.
Never have we known a meeting in Covent-garden more
numerously and more respectably attended, and the be-
haviour of those present -Was beyond all praise. A :Nero
orderly, well-conducted assembly, never congregated to-
gether. At two o'clock precisely the High Bailiff took the
chair. On the hustings we observed T. Duncombe,
31.P.,:C010nel Rawdon, M.P., Sir R. Bulkeley, M.P., Summers
Harford, Esq., E. D. Davenport, Esq., late High Sheriff of
Cheshire, James Coppock, Esq., Feargus O'Connor, Esq., and
several other entlemen, supporters of the Liberal cause.
The HIGH BAILIFF, who was received with much cheering,
then came forward and said, that having received a requisi-
tion from the householders, rate- payers, and electors of the
City of Westminster, most numerously and respectably
signed, requesting him to convene the present meeting, he
had fixed upon that day for the purpose.—(Cheers.) The
object of the meeting was to petition Parliament to present
an address to her Majesty, praying that she would be
graciously pleased to exercise the prerogative of her Crown,
and to direct the immediate release of Daniel O'Connell, Esq.,
M.P.—(lmmense cheering)—and the other State prisoners
confined in the Richmond Penitentiary, Dublin.—(Lonst
cheers.) He had no doubt but that they would give every'
gentleman who was desirous of addressing them an attentive
hearing, and that their proceedings would be conducted with
the good humour which they had invariably displayed when-
ever he had had the honour of presiding over them.—(Cheers.)
Mr. T. DusrcosinE, M.P., who was received with the most
enthusiastic cheers, which lasted several minutes, then came
forward for the purpose of proposing the first resolution, but
before he did so, he would take that public opportunity of ex-
pressing, on the part of those who had signed the requisition
to the High Bailiff, their gratitude to that gentleman for till
prompt and courteous manner in which he had acceded to
the :wishes of the requisitionists, by convening the present
meeting—(Cheers)—and thus affording to them the opportu-
nity ofexercising one of the proudest and dearest rights of Eng-
lishmen, that of meeting together in public meeting assembled,
for the purpose of discussing the grievances of which they
had to complain, and of calling upon their representatives
in Parliament to redress those grievances, as far as it was iri
their power so to do.—(Cheers.) He would also, before he
proposed the resolution, congratulate the friends of Ireland-
on such a large, numerous, and respectable gathering as thst
which he had then the honour of addressing.—(Cheers.) It
I was a proof that the city of Westminster was beginning at
last to arouse itself from that apathy, that indif-
ference to public questions which he was Boni
to say had hung over the constituency for so many years.
(Cheers.) This meeting would prove to the world that the
citizens of Wesiininster were still the Mends of the oppressed
and the enemies of persecution.—(Loud cheers,) IVest,
minster had never before met in her thousands and tens or
thousands in any cause which stood more in need of her Byrn'
pathy and support than the cause they were met to advocate,
What was the question they were met to discuss? They had.
met to consider the treatment which Ireland had experiences
for many years— the tyranny and misrule under which Ire;
land had suffered, and which had nearly driven the people 01
that country to desperation, which would undoubtedly be-
fore this have shown itself in acts of violence, and is
the destruction of property if it had not been for the energl
exerted in the cause of pacification by that individual whet*
a contemptible Government had thought proper to place jo
the Richmond Penitentiary (Hear, hear)—and who
now suffered with those gentlemen, his brother martyr*
merely because the Irish people had exercised, for Inge,
months, totally uninterfered with by the Government, ths'
very privilege which they were that day met there to exer-
cise—that of meeting in public to discuss public grievances,
The Irish had met to take into consideration the Act of Par-
liament under which so much injustice had been perpetrated
in the Act of Union.—(Cheers.) He was not there to expreo
any opinion as to the Act of Union, but in consequence of lbe,
treatment which they had experienced, and the misro,l7
under which they had suffered, the Irish people had a rig":
to meet, to discuss, and to petition Parliament to repeal thsT
Act. He was not there for the purpose of disgusting 111,
wearying them by going into the details of those trials WiT,
which they were all, no doubt, well acquainted. State trig"
indeed I—they ought to be called State farces.—(Cheerili
There was not an honest man in England who would coo 3,
forward and say that O'Connell and his brother martyrs 110‘'
had a fair trial.—(Cheers.) He would not disgust them bi
going into details. They were as well aware as Ii
was how the jury had been packed—(Cries of "
ah l" groans, and hisses)—how certain sheets °,l
the jury list, containing the names .of Roman Catholics b$
been conveniently lost—(Renewed groaning)) how e'Ve
impediment had been thrown in the way of Mr. O'Conn
and the others in making their defence.—(Renewed groaning.;
They all knew the contemptible and partial conduct of tb
Lord Chief Justice—(Renewed groaning)—who acted °
Counsel for the Crown instead of Counsel for the prisoner*,
—(Continued groaning and hissing, and'cries of " Shaine.
They knew these things, and did they suppose that the bras,`,
men of England, who warmly sympathised with tbe"
Irish brethren, would tamely submit without an effort to
rescue from the fangs of a powerful tyranny the individual"
now in prison, on whom the hearts, the affections, and 01;
hopes of the Irish people were settled ?—(lmmense cheering*/
He would, therefore, propose the following resolution : „
" That we, the inhabitants of Westminster, in public niee%
ing assembled, do hereby protest against the prosecution
which have recently taken place for what is called seditiel
and conspiracy. And more especially against the illegal .07
unjustifiable means resorted to to procure the conviction
O'Connell and his brother martyrs, now undergoing imprison;
ment in the Richmond Penitentiary. That, as rational men, o_,
feel called upon to declare to the world our conviction that l";
Irish State prisoners have not been legally, tried, and ar,
consequently unconstitutionally deprived of their liberty.;
while we further assert that had the laws been duly achor,.
nisteretl it would have appeared that neither O'Connell 01
the other prisoners had violated any statutory enacti
nor offended against common law; and therefore this mean',
resolves to petition Parliament, to take such steps as 80
insure the immediate liberation of the said prisoners, and Pre-
vent a recurrence of those acts of persecution and despot's°,
which, whilst resorted to under the pretext of law, merel,f
uphold the ascendancy of faction by the prostration,v°
national feeling, and the suppression of public opinion.
(Loud cheers.)
The meeting had not concluded when we went to pr es,.

FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 28.—The loan, the subscription to w+lll
will be opened to-morrow, continues to engage univer7,6
attention. In adding the sums which are supposed toLf
known, and the subscriptions which are considered as certg;
we obtained sums total, which we do not venture to stsij
for fear of being charged with exaggeration. Thus 1`,.,4
affirmed, that even before the subscription was announrie.
our two great banking establishments offered to take to
whole loan ; it is also affirmed that a single banking b 0
offers to subscribe for 25 millions.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bituassts, Sinfit 2S.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ............ RCI
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent SI9
ems—— Three per Cent
Thirty-seven Milli ns, ditto
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent.... ............ lin%
IE4I. ................ •••••••ft••••••• ... ••••••••• IN%
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent.

Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent -
Issue of 1841

—.Brussels Papers. June 29

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES'

BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock I: 534 Indian Stock ....• et,
4
.9 per Cent. Red 99q Ditto Bonds
nd
3 per Cent. Cons.
314 per Cant. Red 102% Ditto New Annuities ... --- .00'
New 3% per Cent. Ex. Bills 10001. liid ... 75 nei
New 5 per Cent. Ditto 500,.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small /3
Jan. IWO ;Bank Stock for Acct.... HO
Oct. 1559 Consols for Opg. •,S4
Jan. ISCO
---- llndia Stock for Acct.... 25/
--- -- ------ -

_.... -
FOREIGN FUNDS. 05
Austrian, 5 per Cent ...... — Portuguese, 5 per Cent ...... ....
Belgian, 5 er Cent --,Ditto, New Ditto ...............
Brazilian ponds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — ;Russian, 5 per Cent... ....... . ,
Chiller), ti per Cent .......
Colombian, 6 per Cent ....., 13% Spanish, 5 per Cent ..........
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, S per Cent
~.
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent.. *
.. :Ditto, Deferred
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 18-5, 5 per Cent.... ,Exchange
_,,G,
Mexican, 5 per Cent -
, French, 3 per Cent. ...... --Az
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 —i Dutch, 2% per Cent.... CO_,flut,
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — ;Ditto, 5 per Cent ........W. J.
SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby, £lOO paid 64)4
Cheater and Holyhead ( 5 paid): 4)41
Eastern Counties (23 paid) ;. . -
Ditto Registered (8/6s 8d paid)
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 13s 4d. paid,No. 1 - I
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid 784
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto New Quarters ( '2 [mid) 24)
London and Blackwall (161.135. 4d.) 74
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Greenwich (121. 15s. 4d. paid) 6si
Mao, Preference or Privilege, XiB 17s Vd paid 19N,
London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid)
Manchester and Birmingham
Northern and Ea.terts (45 paid)
North Midland (100 paid)
Ditto, Thirds, .£2l 13s. 4d. paid 3l
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid)
York and Scarborough Branch (2% paid)
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid .....
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Paris and Rouen. 20 paid ..... ........... ........

IMPROVEMBNTS AT TUE TOWER.—The co- beer
plated improvements at this ancient fortress, which hate bole
laid before his Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Cousc7oo'
of the Tower, and been approved, will forthwith be hio
mewled. The old armoury, which was destroyed by Oe',lo
been cleared away to make room for the new barraats• ut to
ditches are all well dried up, and sewers have been cOOO
carry off the soil. What was formerly a putrid and ett,pl,:t
moat round the Tower will very shortly form a fine oti°,l;
nade, gravelled over and Wanted with trees for the reer ; the
of the garrison. There are no water mains laid down "ea t"
Tower, and the inhabitants and the troops are obuidol
drink the Thames water, with all its impurities, wili6rop
been the cause of many disorders ; and the spring pu-010"
Postern-row is the only means they have of procuriugt;,
water. This great inconvenience has been represented fob
Grace, who is at all times most ready to study the 04
of the troops, as well as of the residents of this little ffLe:,
town, the population of which amounts to 3,000, and SP;O-07ti
ments are in contemplation for layin don relar 114
and pipes, so as to supply them with purified mater water.oot
sanatory state of the Tower since the drying of the 1111
highly satisfactory.
EXTRAORDINARY STRAWBERRY. ---An exto,,f(l,4]
la'' - -•• • - _..-.ion of 4'40"

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