The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-12 00:00:00

own part Ite;iyould go into Parliament to struggle
fOr•that, happy state of- things—he would seek for
the popular voce, and even if the popular voice
would fail him, still he would struggle on. From
This native mountains he could behold the ocean
bAJOAvs_3(Ating- iti;,awful majesty beneath his feet,
and speaking in a voice of thunder, which rotmed
him to the duty which he owed his country—the
performance of that duty might be beyond his *shill.
ties, but it was not above his inclinati',l4 tNtt sleep
should not encumber his eyel':.!,, tfts.r watchfulness
weary him • with its toil, he beheld all sects in
perfect union and concP:a, until he saw reFain and
retrenchment go hand in hand, a popular represen-
tation secured, and, to Up all, a repeal of the
Union. The lea,:-„im and eloquent gentleman con-
cluded a mo:t 'impressive address, of which we do
not profess to give more than an outline, and sat
down amijat tremendous and long-continued cheering.
1-.,e next toast the CHAIRMAN would propose was,
The health of the Venetable and Patriotic Earl Fitz.

JOHN WALSH, Esq. returned thanks on behalf of
the Venerable Nobleman, in a brief but neat address.
The Army and Navy—three times three—(Cheets.)
The next toast was one that called for a bumper
—he had the honour of proposing the health of a
lady, not more distinguished fos her high and exalted
rank, than for her virtues and for the exercise of an
universal charity, withreat respect to sex or creed.
Her Ladyship had ssstablished schools for the educa-
tion of both Psotestant and Catholic children, where
ho atten7er at proselytism was ever made.—( Cheers.)
--In, fine, her Ladyship was in every respect a fit
partner for her Noble Lord. He would give—
Lady l)uncaneon and the Noble house of 13essborough—
nine times .ninr.—(Great cheering.)
Lord Du:mention returned thanks with much feel-
ing and emotion.
The Forty-shilling Freeholders, who were disfranchised
for their patriotism and virtue, and may they soon be
restored to their rights nine times nine.—(Great
cheering.)
Mr. O'GoamaN being loudly called on, rose and
raid, he felt both honoured and complimented in be-
ing called en to return thanks for the toast just
given, lie did believe a more honourable and vir-
tuous body of men never existed. He did believe
Oat it was not for any imperfection in the system
they were disfranchised, but that a sacrifice was
made of them, It was one thing to remedy defects
in a system, and another thing to pull it up by the
roots altogether.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN stud, the next toast he would
esive was the he ith of a long-tried and persevering
friend to Ireland—
!Sit slehe Newport.—(Cheers.)
• V.'s. MORRIS, of Waterford, was called on from
nil parts of the room : he rose and stated, that he
felt himself highly honoured at being called on to re-
turn thanks for the honour conferred on that pa-
triotic and venerable Statesman. I regret, he said,
my incompetency to do any thing like justice to
the splendid character of one whose long life has
been one continued effort to promote the happiness
end the liberties of his country and of mankind ;
he has been a steady uncompromising advocate
of the constitutional rights of the people, his
course Ms been straight-forward and manly, his
public life exhibits the most splendid example of
political integrity, he can proudly say that his
only object was the public good, and his only re-
weld the public gratitude; how different from those
45 flaming who scorch us in the meridian,
but soon sink mildly in the west, and are scarcely
felt as they descend; he has been noble in his rising,
splendid in his meridian, and even more glorious in
the mild rays of his setting sun; he' states that his
infirmities prevent him from appearing at this meeting.
I hope we will never be so ungrateful as to forget
that those infirmities have been much increased by
his laborious efforts to promote the liberty, the pros-
verity, and the happiness of the people of Ireland;
it is to be lamented, that notwithstanding the exer-
tions of Sir John Newport, and the other great men
who along with him have devoted their lives to the
service of Ireland, that we are obliged fully to concur
in the feeling and melancholy description which my
distinguished and eloquent friend Mr. O'Connell gave
of the wretched state of the people of this country.
I aleo fully agree with him that the primary cause
was and is in the wretched system of mis-government.
however, I have little doubt when Mr. O'Connell
takes his place in the Imperial Parliament, that he will
exhibit the errors of that system to the contempt and
execration of England and the Empire ; it cannot
exist much longer, there is no living man so com-
petent or so capable to level the corrupt fabric of
Irish mis-government as Mr. O'Connell. In com-
mon with Mr. O'Connell, I lament that Ireland,
has not advanced in wealth, commerce, or agricul-
ture, why she has not advanced with all her natural
advantages is an important enquiry. Mr. O'Con-
nell stated the true cause, but it would appear that
those who had the destiny of the country in their
hands, have shut their eyes to the truth, they have
•heen anxious to attribute it to any other cause than
the right one, the disease has been visible to all,
every political quack is ready is ith his infallible nos-
trum, they are equally prompt with their remedies,
'when the people ask for bread, they offer them
bibles, testaments and tracts, when they seek for
justice they give them bullets, bayonets, and Insur-
rection Acts ; will you allow me, Sir, in support of
the general opinion given by Mr. O'Connell, to
state what I consider to be the immediate cause of
the miseries of the people. I shall do it in a few
words, it is because we have not such land-
lords as our Noble guest Lord Duncannon.—(Ap-
plause,)—it is because we have had not such in-
flexible legislators as my Lord Duncannon.—(Ap-
plause.) To the want of such landlords as our
distinguished guest may be traced a principal cause
of the miseries of the country ; he sees that he has
a common interest with his tenantry, that any mea-
sure calculated to promote their interest must also
promote his own ; that if the tenant is miserably
-poor, without agricultural knowledge or agricultural
stock, the situation of the landlord cannot be much
beztcr; his enlightened mind clearly points out to
him that an impoverished agricultural tenantry is a
great evil, that it counteracts the advantages of soil
and climate, and blights every improvement in the
bud. Ireland exhibits a melancholy proof of the truth
of this doctrine, a luxuriant soil, an active popula-
tion, the one unimproved, the other unemployed.—
It was the opinion of an able writer that if the lands
throughout England were as highly cultivated as the
lands in the neighbourhood of London, they would
produce five times as much as they do at present,
with perfect safety it may be stated, that if the
lands of Ireland were cultivated with the same
care and under the same enlightened system of
agriculture, and with the same outlay of capital
as the lands of England or Scotland, they would
produce many times more than they do at present,
why then, I would ask, with. all the natural advan-
tages which Ireland possesses do the people remain
in misery ? I answer because the landlords do not
give their tenantry a sufficient interest in their land,
give a man an interest in a rock he will make it a
garden, without it a garden will become as barren
as a rock ; it is folly to expect that Ireland can ad-
vance in wealth until the landlord allows the te-
nantry of the country the means of creating capital.
It is on the firm basis 'of agriculture the foundation
of Ireland's greatness must be laid. If the landlords
of Ireland wish to see the value of their property
increased—if they wish to see commerce and manu-
facture rise and flourish, they must reverse then
system—they must encourage the accumulation of
capital amongst their tenantry; the surplus of this
capital will find its way into other channels and give
birth to commerce and manufactures; the advan-
tages will revert back on themselves. The in.
terest of commerce and the interest of agricul.
• tare are the same; you cannot benefit or Injure
the one, without benefitting or injuring the other.
The want of capital in Ireland is made the sub-
ject of loud complaints; to induce' English capi-
talists to come over, is a favourite scheme with
many. We hear it spoken of both in and out of
Parliament; the. complaint and the remedy, in my
opinion, are equally' false. Ireland will never be