The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-25 00:00:00

IS VIE CLASS OF MAMMA MEDICA.

Dr. A. 'l'. Thomson, Professor.
)o,tw•
Gold Medal.—Mr. Hobert Garner, of the I 1
Staf ordshiir. 1101'
First Silver Medal.—Mr. Frederick Duckliarn, °f
Shef•

Second Silvr George Atkinson, of
field.

IN TILE CLASS OF CHEMISTRY.
Dr. Turner, Professor. of 1/'
Gold Medal.—Count Calhariz of Lisbon, sol
Marquie Painaelle, Portureft Arnbaleador,

tag Stlver_Meital.,:,.Mr..EdWin J. 4nehett, of Lang-
port, Somersetshire.
.!SiSond Silvet-ltledal...-411r.IHenry Plank, of London.
?RE CLASS•ok p•micixcAL ANATOMY. •
ft: Bennett, Esq., .Demonstatot.
00 Benjamin. Phillips of Newport.
Fold
Silver Itiedal.—Alr. F. .Duckha;n, of Falmouth.
Medul.-111r, John Jones, of Kidder-
in addition to the prizes given by the Council,
Books
,Were preSented to Mr. Henry Cooper, of
raiitA;' "bear' Hull, by the Professors of Materia
fir ia• ChYmistry, and Practical Anatomy ; and to
Bartley, of Great Bedwyn, Wilts, by the
lal9resior of Materia Medico • in testimony of the
e°"i•abst' verin • of these ' young gentlemen, which
g
-PPraftehed so near
I 3 that of the medalists in their re-
'ctive classes, as to entitle them to this distinction.
it,was stated with respect to Mr. George Atkinson,
jhob•ained three gold medals and one silver medal,
at2t/14 was the rst year of his being a student in
Y medical school.
T.._e; prizes .having been awarded, the Professors
'ead over the names of those students who had
c '4"lie(l.certificates of honours, the attention of the
beinguncil especially called to Mr. Henry Cooper,
ki,near Hull, who had gained certificates of
seven of the classes, in all in which he
next.a competitor, and in three of them he stood
tp:the second silver medallist.
'ate Warden then stated, that there had been 183
areit attending the medical classes during the
n 10 of whom 65 had been competitors for prizes
hqaoura, and that 32 had been declared entitled
by the cDnditions affixed to the questions
q?-varetl!.ll bytothe students at the different examinations.
/11e•of• b•concluded,
us,iness the meeting eing
of LANspotvNE addressed the As-
-e
-449 Y: $$ follow :—.I cannot leave this chair with-
h°—:g'Ytng
.espression to a feeling which all here must
44. experienced viz,—that the pleasure of distri-
-1 114.t.ibi prizes we have just been conferring has
,I,9.t,hecu surpassed. by the pleasure
.of those who
them.---(Applause.)—l hope—indeed
i!nt,lrtain.a.. confident feeling—that the early suc-
,ll,of thaw who, by the honours they have re-
ceived . this day, have in
. so remarkable a manner
connected their names w't h the early rise, or rather
16. birth: of this infant institution,i will be infallibly
ttj •
vrnvulated to proceed in the career of fame,
,that
rnay. adorn and illustrate the University by
maturer efforts.— (Applause.)—l should
pqTrig:-it an injustice, after what I have heard the
ham;
say, if I did not arid the expression of a
‘-!w; that those who have failed of gaining nrizes
flthC Present occasion will not be discouraged. from
IPr.e,. ex!rtions. I urge them to continue, because
en!-.Pe.rtuaded that of all sciences the medical sci-
ii;C- t4at, .which will most surely reward persever-
atfudy;those who receive instruction here
tion--.-ir..Ppportunity of pursuing accurate investiga-
c,' .-qact.and truth with the most complete suc-
,Z' I trust that what has passed bis day will
an incitement to all who are here present
PY.their efforts the success of the institu-
°l•"7•CApPlanse)
41,`•1'.1.1114,,l'ye're.m.Oved to the Professors, by Lord
annx seconded by 11. Brougham, Esq.
.

!O ;MR. O'CONNELL.
°1" tiLtC;TORS OF THE COUNTY ot, CLARE.
shall thou be my waking theme,
.Thrglories-still my midnight dream ;
'4Di-every thought and wish of -mine,
UNCONQUERED Erin, shall be thine."
'louse of Commons have deprived me of the
pßrlt eottferred.: on me by the people of Clare.—
Livi.have,lif my opinion, unjustly and illegally de-
ivo(l,erie of dila right; but from their decision
the r'
rcia,es..stppeal, save to the people.—l appeal
• -. •
'4lector's- ot the County of Clare; to von is due
I.Iv•
1:-ory or, converting Peel and conquering Wel-
-400n...: The fast election for Clare is admitted to
,the immediate and irresistible cause of
Vt'dtitingc.fqbe.Catholic Relief Bill." You have
seineired:the.--religious-liberty of Ireland. Another
tititi:lictory in Clare, and we shall attain the poli-
Ittfieedom of•onrbeloved country.
ri.lhi.'Catholic Religion i 3 liberated from the
acm,"*of oppression. The Protestant Religion is
lihiaetlliOt the stain of persecution. The causes
11-..e11 Produced Orangeism and Brunswickisrn are
end. The Catholics are emancipated, and
4)l"eience is: free !!
hElectors
:To-the of the county of Clare are these
PPY results. mainly and immediately due. But
141e:remain many political and practical grievances
and
oPpressions. There remain many obstacles to
hprove
(/ttiPitAa' thy of our countrymen—to the diffusion
--to the safety of the poor man's cottage—
tp
e-skltrity. of the rich man's mansion ; in fine, to
People.f°ri3 prosperity, and happiness of the Irish

'Velectorsof
the County of Clare, give me the
c and the power to correct these grievances
to remove these obstacles, to abolish oppressive and
!_lintlitigcesses and county taxes, to repeal the new
ti'd most oppressive law respecting sub-letting, and
Pr:oeare for the sick and poor a well-regulated
prr"li°nout of the property of absentees and other
free fro provision for the poor to be perfectly
from the insulting, debasing, and demoralising
details, of the English Poor Laws.
l' The first grievance we have to redress is the abo-
tiltoTilt,°.l the forty-shilling freehold. franchise.. I do
yet :ink that in the annals of legislation there ever
tilt, as Passed a law more unjust and groundless
Chi„ that which destroyed the forty-shilling fran-
catha it? Ireland—it destroyed that franchise for the
°lles at a period when they had exhibited heroic
ittitirlitai_, It was- destroyed for the Catholics on the
dest false accusation of a nominal crime—it was
l'°Yed for the Protestants with still stronger fea-
efee_a of injustice, because the Protestants were not
accused of any crime.
tt rnetu
Pres me to Parliament, and I will instantly
1144 this subject on the consideration of the House,
str
-
Public sentiment in England, becoming too
rsi,"lf for any oligarchical faction, shall compel the
future4' of the Disfranchisement Bill, and regulate the
rodeexercise of the elective franchise so as to give
f,Peedence and security to the voters.
trio,: You send me to Parliament, I undertake to de-
Irate there that the abilition of the forty-shil-
tlti franchise is a direct violation of the Legislative
Aan between the two countries.
regain, if you send me to Parliament, I under-
ttle t t 0 demonstrate there that the refusal to allow
414:0, sit and vote was not only an assumption of
pile '4l Power under the name of Parliamentary pri-
ge
lv° U , but was another direct violation of the Legis-
•
ti 41011'
c'w sincerely rejoice that the Ministry mixed
hqw interests with those of the forty-shilling
free-
of
-,:ra; and when they destroyed the vested rights
htli(leore than two hundred thousand registered fre-
!list l's; they did me a kindness to fling me into thed
liiy°trstic whirlpool in which they have submerge
Se portion of the British Constitution.
the kiencl, me to Parliament, and. I will assail there
to
sailsaa e
11UI tt. s Act. I am convinced I shall be able
to-with success that Act—an Act calculated
ltak• ;
.destit 0 the poor more wretched, and to render the
settle more miserable.
'and, I tile to Parliament, and I will there assail,
taost trust, with success, the Vestry Bill; that
testa- unconstitutional law, which enables a few Pro-
the Ito tax, to almost any extent they may fancy,
4tPhr°tPertY of the Catholic landholders. Indeed,
aT
'net
pte to add, that the Protestants have, in many
Te;', shown a forbearance from using this Act
Rooris-s'elY, which does infinite honour to their
b/t haQlense and humanity. But, in many instances,
been already grievously enforced ; and it is in
ed nature that it will, unless repealed or amend-
duce all its fruits of bitterness.
Slid id,L,rne to Parliament, and I will their assail,
'Johbin"unk, successfully, the system of Grand Jury
,
ao' and Grand Jury Assessment. I will then
that th t° Prove to those who ought to give redress
4,e taxation of th-e people, by the Grand Juries,
°PPre'ssive-in .practice as it is unconstitutional

in principle ; and it enableS the rich Man- to form
gravel walks near his demesne at the expense of the
poor, and gives to the influential portion of the
Aristocracy a dominion over the properties of -their
fellow -sobject s,
Send me to Parliament, and I will struggle hard
to procure a diminution of heavy and illegal exac-
tion, and an equitable distribution of the revenues
of the Established Church between the poor on the
one band, and the most meritorious and really labo-
rious portion of the Protestant Clergy on the other,
by operating to the deprivation of at least part of the
enormous wealth of the pampered and over-paid
pluralists and dignitaries.
Send me to Parliament, and I will struggle hard
to cleanse the Augean stables of the law—l will de-
vote all my faculties to destroy the toils and nets of
form and fiction in which justice is at present so
often entrapped. I will dedicate my life to the
glorious work of rendering law at one and the same
time all-comprehensive, and also precise and intelli-
gible; and in making the administration of that law
cheap and expeditious, so that the poor may have
effectual and ready protection against every species
of illegal oppression, and that at the same time the
property of the rich man may become more valuable
and secure. My professional habits give me peculiar
facilities to attempt at least this Herculean task ;
and I will attempt it with an unchangeable and per-
severing determtination► to effectuate this most useful
purpose.
Send me to Parliament, and I undertake to pro-
cure
laws to protect the property of Protestant Dis-
senters as well as of Catholics, for all charitable
purposes—for the maintenance of their churches and
places of worship—of their parochial houses, schools,
and hospitals; and in particular to consolidate such a
system as may, by means of public and private
bounty, procure for every Catholic rector of a parish
in Ireland a parochial house, and an adequate glebe
in each parish, transmissible by law to each successor,
and protected against all abuse of trust, and all ex-
pense of litigation.
Send me to Parliament, ar►d I will convince every
rational man, and every man possessed of sentiments
of religion, of the monstrous injustice attempted to
be done to the Monastic Orders in Ireland, by some
clauses in the late law. I will be the constant ad-
vocate of the pious men who devote themselves to
God in singleness of heart arid humility of spirit—
of those invaluable institutions which give not only
literary, but religious and moral education, to the
poor; and I will challenge inquiry and promulgate
the truth respecting that most learned body, the Je-
suits—a bOdy of men who have done more for lite-
rature and religion than any other Society that ever
lived. They have produced more scholars—they
have furnished more martyrs—they have preached
Christianity to mere infidel nations.
I trust I shall be the instrument of erasing from
the Statute-book that paltry imitation of the worst
and still existing portion of French Jacobinism—a
miserable imitation—which pretends to do that
which nature and religion forbid to be done—to
extinguish Monastic Orders in Ireland. While it
is law, its penalties will be submitted to ; but let
me add, as matter of fact, that its mandate will
most assuredly not be obi yed. It was formerly death
in Ireland to be a Friar, and the Irish earth is still
scarcely dry from the blood of martyred Friars; the
Friars multiplied in the face of death. Oh, for the
sagacity of Peel, and the awful wisdom of Welling-
ton, that meditate to suppress Monastic Orders in
Ireland by a pecuniary penalty, and the (head of a
foreign mission, under the name of banishment!!!
The law permits men to be profligate, and de-
bauched, and corrupt and selfish; it cannot—and,
I venture to add, that if lam in Parliament, it
shall not—long prohibit- men from devoting their
lives to poverty, to chastity, to obedience, and to the
education of the poor.

Send me to Pa►•liament, and I will incessantly
urge on Government the necessity of assisting in the
internal improvement of your county—in particu-
lar, in the improvement of the navigation of the
Fergus, and the construction of an asylum harbour
on the western coast.

Send me to Parliament, and I will strongly .urge
the abolition of .the accursed monopoly of the East
India Company—a monopoly which, while it grinds
more than sixty millions of native inhabitants by u
ruinous and death-dealing revenue exaction, Worse
than the worst rack rents of Ireland, loads the in-
habitants of Britain and Ireland with prices which
render an indispensable article of consumption about
twice as dear in this country as in any other part of
Europe.

Send me to Parliament, and I will struggle for
freedom of conscience for every human being—and
for liberty for men of every creed, caste, and colour.
Send me to Parliament, and I will strain every
nerve to renovate the British Constitution, by
abolishing rotten Boroughs and fictitious titles to
vote—by extending the elective franchise to every
man who is affected by taxation—and by carrying
into full effect that species of constitutional reform,
which, whilst it applies a radical remedy to every
abuse in the system of popular representation,
would necessarily diminish the public burthens, aug-
ment the value of private property, increase the
safety of individual life, and add to the security of
individual and popular liberty.
Send me into Parliament, and I will employ all
the intellect I possess, and every faculty of my mind
unremittingly, perseveringly, perpetually, to restore
to Ireland a resident gentry, and a real representa-
tion in Parliament. Protestants and Catholics are
equally interested in having Ireland and Irish inte-
rests faithfully and effectually represented in Parlia-
ment.

I address Protestants equally with Catholics—l
address the Landlords equally with the Tenants—l
address the Rich as well as the Poor.

If the Landlords of Clare wish to preserve their
estates from the merciless fangs of the English sys-
tem of Poor Laws—if they wish to develop the na-
tural resources of their country—if they wish to
bury in oblivion all former feuds and animosities—if
they wish to render their properties more valuable
by the diminution of public burthens, the encou-
ragement of domestic manufactures, the advancement
of Irish commerce, the increase of Irish agriculture,
the amelioration of the social circle, the extension of
industry, comfort, and prosperity—if the Landlords
of Clare desire all these things, they will join in
sending me to Parliament to work for the benefit of
our common country.

If the Tenantry desire the repeal of the Sub-
letting Act and of the Vestry Bill—if they desire to
have the Parish Cess lightened and the Grand Jury
Cess abolished—if they desire to see a domestic
provision made for the sick and the destitute, and
opportunities afforded to the strong and the healthy
to earn the wages of industry—if they desire to see
Catholic Charities established and secured—if they
desire to see the Catholic Parochial Clergy rendered
independent and comfortable—if they desire to see
the Catholic Monastic Orders vindicated and pro-
tected—if they desire to see Catholic rights and
liberties prevented from being sapped and under
mined by the insidious policy of those men who,
FALSE TO THEIR OWN PARTY, CAN NEVER BE TRUE
TO US—and who have yielded, not to reason, but to
necessity, in granting us freedom of conscience—if
they desire all this, let them do me the honour to
elect me.

If, in fine, the Gentry of Clare are desirous to
have as their Representative a man who is able and
most desirous to protect in Parliament their pro-
perties and permanent interests, let them do me the
honour to select me.

But let them not lay the Clattering unction to
their souls, that they can, without an independent
man of business as their representative, postpone
the introduction of the English system of Poor
Laws.

I implore of them to recollect that the English
Members of Parliament have a direct and personal
interest in introducing Poor Laws into Ireland, in
order to relieve themselves from a portion of the
burthens created in England by the Irish.labourers
throwing, by their numbers, and the cheapness with
which they work, a large portion of English la•

• •
bowers on the-English' i`l"4"'-rates. If I am re-
turned to Parliament, it Will lie my sacred duty to
arrange the necessary provision for the infirm and
sick poor in Ireland, in such a manner-as to avoid
the mischief's of !be English system,- and to render
it not only healing in its urp!icition to the poor, but
advantagem,s ev,n to the ik.euniary interests of the
resident propnctoN of Ireland.
Shall I be it'll that it is impossible now to do all
this? My answer is—that I was often told that it
was impossible to obtain Catholic emancipation.—
Every difficulty creates an impos%ibility to those
who will not struggle against it. There is •no im-
possibility tof him who, having no other object
under heaven but the good of his country and his
kind, is determined, by honest, Open, and constitu-
tional means, to achieve the restoration of his native
land.

Impossible to restore Ireland to that happ►ne's
and freedom of which she was so foully deprived !!
Impossible !! ! I utterly deny it. The spirit of im-
provement is abroad. The causes of political rege-
neration are multiplied. The Landed Aristocracy
of England, by means of' the Corn Laws, have an
undue share of the pried of the morsel of bread with
which the exhausted artisan feeds his hungry family
—whilst that very same Aristocracy purchase the
articles of their own consumption more cheaply by
means of " the free trade" in manufactures. The
principle of free trade, let me add, is one which I
cherish; but that principle, to be. just, should be
universal. It should not operate to the disadvantage
of the poor man, by making his bread dear, and at
the same time operate to the advantage of the rich,
by gising him cheap ()reign manufacture. It ought
not to make food dear, whilst it made silks cheap.
The spirt of improvement is abroad—and the
present oligarchical system which produced these
mischiefs is rocking to its centre. England is inte-
rested equally with Ireland—mote interested than
Ireland in the prosperity of Ireland. Ireland con-
sumes at present but a limited portion of B►irish
manufactures—suppose ten millions of pounds' worth
per annum (for I have not the documents before me
showing the precise amount); but taking it at ten
millions at present, it is quite certain that it would
rise to thirty millions at least—that is, to three times
the present amount by the natural and necessary re-
sult of Irish prosperity and Irish greatness.
The coal mines, the iron mines, the salt mines of
England, give her facilities for manufactures not
possessed by ally other nation on the face of the
globe. The rich teeming soil of Ireland—her ever
verdant plains—her suany hills and rich meadows—
the luxuriant lime-stone districts, and the hardy and
steady fertility of her gravelly mixture of soil, ren-
der her the fit nursing mother of her neighbouring
artisans and operatives by her superabundant supply
of food.

Thus the efficient represmtation of Ireland,
giving a natural stimulus to the one country, would
be doubly beneficial to both, and, in mutual pro-
sperity, would increase in mutual strength and se-
curity.

I appeal for support to Protestants as well as
Catholics. Protestants as well as Catholics are
equally interested in the prosperity and glory of Ire-
land.

In my person the County of Clare has been in-
suhed. The brand of degradation has been raised
to mark me, because the people of Clare fairly se-
lected me. Will the people of Clare endure this
insult, now that they can firmly but constitutionally
efface it for ever ?

My friends—my beloved friends, Protestant and
Catholic—they who put me in nomination at the
late election—O'Gorman Mahon, and Thomas
Steele—have also been visited by a similar attempt.
People of Clare, what are your sentiments towards
the persecutors of O'Gorman Mahon and Thomas
Steele ? You are not ignorant that they made
themselves enemies by the activity, couraze, and
success with which, at a critical moment, in spite of
every obstacle, and of every incitement, they pre-
served the peace of your county. You know how
much bloodshed they prevented. The Commission
of the Peace was never in the hinds of men who
so sedulously and successfully preserved the peace.
But it was a crime in the eyes of sorne.of our ene-
mies, too great to be forgiven, that the King's
peace was preserved. Now, again I repeat my
question—What are your feelings towards the per-
secutors of O'Gorman Mahon and Thomas Steele ?
Any man who Totes against me at the ensuing elec-
tion must be a man who joins the enemies of O'Gor-
man Mahon and Thomas Steele, and thinks that
these estimable gentlemen ought to be visited with
a paltry attempt to insult them, merely because they
preserved the lives-of the people, and nobly vindi-
cated at the last election the religion and liberties of
the Catholics of Ireland.

It has been said that I um a stranger in Clare.
Me a stranger in any part of Ireland ! Foolish and
absurd. lam identified with the people of Clare in
every thing that can identify man to man. All,
however, I can claim, is the ratification of the for-
mer election. I ask only the sympathy of Clare
upon this vacancy. I have a title to that sympathy
by the community of interest and of generous feel-
ing and exalted resolves.
Catholic Brothers—respected and esteemed Pro-
testant Friends—l claim your suffrages on this
occasion.

To my Catholic Brothers I say, that the protec-
tion of the rights of the Catholics in Parliament—
that the establishment of Catholic charities and
schools—that the independent and permanent sup-
port of the Catholic Clergy—that the integrity of
the Catholic religious and charitable societies ; and,
in fine, that the vindication of the principles and of
the genuine purity of calumniated Catholic doc-
trines, require that I should be in Parliament.
To my esteemed and beloved Protestant Friends
I say that the local interests of your county—the in-
dividual interests of your resident gentry and landed
proprietors—the universal interests of Ireland re-
quire that I should be in Parliament.

To both Catholic and Protestant friends I would
recal to mind that we achieved emancipation in the
most peaceful, loyal, and constitutional manner. We
committed no offence—we were guilty of no crime—
we destroyed no property—we injured nu man's
person—we affected no mean's life. The glorious
revolution which gave us Catholic emancipation was
effected without the destruction of one particle of
any man's property—without the shedding of one
drop of human blood. A sober, a moral, and a reli-
gious people, cannot continue slaves ; they become
WO powerful for their oppressors ; their moral.
strength exceeds their physical powers; and their
progress towards prosperity and liberty is in vain
opposed by the Peels and the Wellinvons of so-
ciety. These poor strugglers for ancient abuses
yield to a necessity which violates no law, and com-
mits no crime; and having once already succeeded
by these means, our next success is equally cer-
tain, if we adopt the same virtuous and irresistible
means.

I conclude as I began. Electors of Clare, I have
been illegally injured, and you have been unworthily
insulted by that unworthy ministerial dexterity which
deprived me of my right to represent you in Parlia-
ment. I call upon you to wipe away that injury—
to blot out that insult, by sending me back to ex-
press my sentiments and yours to the men who, in
so undignified a manner, injured me and insulted you.
Protestants and Catholics, Friends and Brothers,
I am your devoted servant,
London, May 25, 1829. D. O'CONNELL.