Star.
London, England, 1830-04-10 00:00:00

PUBLIC MEETING IN DUBLIN, FOR 7'He
REPEAL OF THE UNIOY.

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A society has been organised in Dublin, under the auspiees of
Mr ()Co.' nell, tailed ;he " society of the Friend:. of Ireland- et ell
religious ele: emirs.' a," which promises to he a new alal rroitti,:
source of 4,:itation. They held a meeting the other dm, and adored
the report ie the committee, in which arc arranged, under :trent,.
fire brad., the national objects to be attained, and tile grievances to
be redeemed, among which are the repeal of the Union—the repeal
of the Irish malt duty—repeal of the duty on wets la:ported
into lailluel —repeal of the Irish excise on paper--repeal of
the Subletting At t—repeal of the Vestry 13:11—abolaion of the
Grand Jury ;Laws—abolition of tithes, and new arranganteet of
Church property —abolition of Corporate monopolies—resistance to
the proposed increase of stamp duties—consideration of the whole
scheme of the poor Imes, with a view to ascertain the propri-ty or
unfitness of their introduction into Ireland—to discourage secret and
illegal associations—to obtain a reform of the .ystean of pleadiegs
and proceedings in Courts of Equity and law, and to preemie the
eatablishntent of a cheap, expeditious, and intelligible ace, of pro-
cedure and jurisprudence—to procure a radical reform in the Rept:-
Natation in Parliament—to promote the liberation of the slaves in
Ourcolonies—nrd to terminate party feuds by a great rational corn.
blnation of Irishmen of every class and creed.
At the Meeting Mr. O'Cox NELL spoke at great le.tgrit, and
skew the following contrast between Ireland with the Proe,:aut as-
cendancy in 1782, and emancipated Ireland in 1333. No country
In the world is circumstanced as Ireland at this moment is. Her
population equal to one-tenth of the free states of Europe, her sail
keine and genial, her commercial resources (without which uo
wealth can be useful) boundless, and her people merry, peaceable,
and industrious. There is no country on tart!: wale' proeuces
mom of the things with stuck man cannot dispense than tins island
does, and no nation stands less in need of the aid, in any point ut
view, of foreign states. And yet such a loecly country, blessed
by Heaven, and prolific in every thing th is useful or omainen-
' sal to man. indented with harbours large enough to contain the ship.
ping of the world, and protected from every wind, beautiful and
enriched by nature—that country is the poorest and most wretched
In the ciehized world ! After 1782 Ireland began to revive fast.—
Villagee became towns, towns became burghs, burghs became cities,
mountain'. became verdant, and the very bogs were turned into rich
and iodic plains—(cheers.) Oh, there was never know/ such a
spring in any nation on earth as Ireland made in the slier: slut.t•
of ten years. And what a ?melancholy picture does this extraor-
dinary land now present ! Trade at a stand, the noise of com-
merce hushed, the loom idle, the shuttle still, the labourer unent.
ployed, the rich flying out of the country, the pool emigrating
whenever and wherever they can, and typitto• fever taveging with
deadly stride the provinces, desolating the cottages of the poor,
and filling the mansions of the rich with calamity and mourn-
ing—(hear). This is not, I ant sorry, the language of ex.:ae-
ration—lreland has a heart bleeding at its very cure; those re-
sources which should help hat through the crisis are flowing fast
away from her, and she is noutly becoming like a bloated hectic--
animation is almost fled, and death inevitably must ensue if proper
support and nourishment be not in time atfurded to the deelinie;
State- - (cheers). (Another part of the Learned Agitator's speech
is worthy of particular notice for the curious portraiture which
it gives of the political character of the " Liberal" Representa-
Seta of Ireland," and the avowal of the gratitude which he feels to.
wards them for their votes in favour of the Roman Catholic claims.)
%Veil, how is Ireland at this moment represented ? The Repre-
sentatives of Ireland are composed of two classes—one which is
called Liberal, and the other anti-Catholic. The alai-Catholic
member was returned solely because he vowed and swore he hated
Popery ; and for this pledge he was considered a patriot by his party.
This is certainly a species of political fame I should not much
admire. (Hear.) The othcr patty of patriots are equally bad,
and equally contemptible in my judgment. (Hear.) I confess I
don't know which of the two 1 would prefer—the man al,.
voted against me in order to get a mat in Parliament, or the
man who supported our claims for the purpose of securing
the interest of Catholics.—(cheers.) These men Frac us, like true
patriots, their annual vote, and for this would claim our confidence
and esteem—although I know that many of them we:c exceed-
ingly delighted at the defeat of the question which they pretended
to support. These, gentlemen will, I suppose, feel greatly an-
noyed and astonished at what I say; but 1 have made it a rule
always to speak what I feel; and I must observe that since I went
to Parliament I received less support from Irish Liberals than from
English Taies.--(hear, hear.) I feel it my duty to speak out—it
is my political conscience to tell the people the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth.—(cheers). The people of Ire-
land require a radical change in their Representatives. I tell 'he
protestant. and the dissenters of the North it is idle any longer to
isiert Mum useless men as their tatives, meetly because tile)
say entertain poilthal to their catholic fellow-subject:—
mil ee tbs sabellet et t and Munster I say ; " be re.
WON the ar at Ilbetdameeamt no man as your representative
who Le alit Ihine la pensive your interests, and the honesty to
=lllelfee-(10m1 chasm.) This is the time for exertion, and
big ; and the folly of supporting a corrupt or an iner-
tia/NA ive is, or at least ought to be, manifest to ever)
mar in Irelaad at this moment. Ireland now wants useful, and
active, and well-informed persons to really represent her wishes,
and maintain her interests in parliament ; and the man is a rogue u.
a fool who would any longer vote for an anti-catholic blockhead or
alibaal knave. (cheers.)
Several other gentlemen addressed the assembly—among the rest
Mr. Lawestes, whose speech contained the following observations :
I heard with great, but unusual pleasure, the eloquent picture lb .
O'Connell had given to the meeting of the past sufferings—the
causes of these sufferings—the inexhaustible resources, physicai
and intellectual, and the cruel injustice with which these resource,
have been beaten down and trampled upon. I have followed hint
through that miserable history of humiliation and torture which
the last thirty years exhibit to the eye and imagination of the
world; but atter all the animated description—after all these eh:-
Tient and pathetic appeals to the herd and heart of the meetins—
how surprised was I to find in the teputt, which so elaborately give,
us a litany of the grievances of Ireland, that the great, the para-
mount, the master grievance of Ireland is thrown down so low as the
21st allele, whoa in my mind it should ever hold the first place in
:he contemplation and abhorrence of every Irishman. What matters
It whether the coal tax, and the vestry act, and the subletting act, and
the grand jury system, and all those minor evils be alleviated and
softened down, when the grand master evil, the fruitful and primary
source of all national calamity, still remains ? I will admit, for
the moment, that every grievance enumerated by Mr. O'Connell,
we struck out of the list by the justice and wisdom of the Le.
&filature. Would all this reconcile Ireland to the Union, or
stake atonement for the daily and hourly mischief which this ac-
cursed measure is bringing on the country ? Our Nobility and
Gentry banished—our beautiful metropolis a collection of splendid
MNalatimes—our magnificent mansions the abodes of poverty or
abilil...ld yet that sapient ground-aud-lofty tumbler, 'Wetherell,
lit egimented Mime declared, in his place in the House ut
Caralecee, that he would consider it treason to propose the Re-
peal of the Union—acknowledged by all to be the fountain ut
all calamity; but he was not heeded but to be laughed at
Well, if the Constitution Is dead, the repeal of the Union will
not bury I. deeper—we will, I say, go on in despite of Sir C.
Wetherell, and make our appeal to the juz.tire, the common sense of
hob countries, to put an end toe measure pregnant with injury to
bleb. Mr. O'Connell has urged with great power the propriety
an* ever obliterating from our memories the acts of our old oppo-
ANL I agree with him • I *mat I shall have the honour of
elides on the same benches with Orangemen whose talents and
ohms station will be devoted to the regeneration of cur common
memay. I trust they will see with me that we are all reduced to
MIS common level—that sectarian ascendancy should be no
the object of any denomination—and that Protestants,
ies, Dissenters, and Quakers, and all other divisions to
Christians, should maim common cause to recover for their country
the station she ought to bold in the stale of surrounding rations -
(cheers). This is the great and leading object of our Society ; ate(
i am consoled by the reflection that the Committee you, appointed
the last day of our meeting have presented a petition for the rapt al
of the Union, which 1 shall read to you this day— (cheers).
A Committee was finally appointed to submit a petition to the
Society ; and thanks having been voted to the Chairman, tke Sleet.
ing adjourned.

The Middlesex Sessions commence on Monday at
Clerkenwell, the London Sessions on the folios ing Wednesday at
Guildhall, and the Old Bailey Sessions on Thursday next. The
calendar is unusually heavy, and presents • fearful catalogue of
crime. 'llse increase of offences of every inscription is much greatir
in the county of Middlesex than in the city of London, and the
number of persons committed by the lord Mayor and Aldermen is
trilling, as compared with the number committed by the county
Magistrates.

GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF DRITI3II CORN
(morn comes inroaragson)
For the Week Mull April!, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors ia the different attested Towns in Basked and Wales.
Imperial General Weekly Average.
Wheat 65.. ' 14. Oats eta lid. I Beans sfis. sd.
Barley 31i. 11 `Rye Ms. id. I Peas Us. 20.
Aggregate Arm" or the Eh Weeks white swarm Doty.
Wheat 81t. id. I Oats II s. led. 1 Pom ID. id.
Barley spy.. Id. Rye Us. IJ. Pies Iffe. 44

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