The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-13 00:00:00

SIR. O'CONNELL'S ARRIVAL AT ENNIS.

On Monday night, or rather Tuesday (this) morning,
about half-past twelve o'clock, the illustrious ex and wry-
Member for Clare made his public entry into that ton it
from which he was before returned as the Representative
of the county. The houses at that hour were all brila
liantly illuminated. The widows, branched with ever •
greens, were filled with rejoicing females, who continued
saluting and waving their handkerchiefs to the "Man of
the People," as he passed along. His carriage was lite-
rally wedged up, and could scarcely pass at the rate of a
mile an hour. At length, amid the most deafening and
enthusiastic shouts, he arrived near Carmody's Hotel, and
by possibility could not advance farther. (Here, at that
awful hour (one o'clock, midnight), surrounded by the
most imposing scene, Mr. O'Connell, who was sitting
outside on his carriage, rose up, and, after endeavouring to
still the enthusiastic shouting of his Constituents, ad-
dressed them in nearly the following words:—
" I addressed my fellow-countrymen five times yester-
day, and this is the fourth time this day that I have also
addressed them. I am, therefore, a little exhauste(l, but
in mind—in an unceasing endeavour to serve our common
country—my spirit shall be ever inexhaustible.—(Tre-
inendous cheers. )—I am as fresh and vigorous this moment
as if I only began.—(Cheers. )—Yesterday, at Maryborough,
I addressed assembled millions of our countrymen upon the
subject of a gross, palpable, and paltry injustice, which was
done to them, and you, and me, by Wellington and Peel,
after I had forced upon them emancipation. They have
ten-fold excited your sympathy in my regard, by the
baseness of their conduct towards you, and surely you will
not give them an opportunity of repeating this conduct to-
wards you. —(No, no; we will return you.) The forty-
shilling elective franchise was taken from them, and din
ten pounds substituted in its stead. They would give
him an opportunity of having that franchise—that right—
restored.—(Loud cheers.)—lle promised them religious
freedom, and he kept his word.—(Enthusiastic chi ering)—
The Catholics were now free, and the Brunswiekers were
no longer their masters—(hurrah, hurrali)—and a vdtry
set they were to he our masters. They could turn up the
white of their eyes to heaven, hut at the same time they
put their hands very slily into your pockets. They would
discount God Almighty for the ready money. But while
they had such men as Hewitt Bridgeman, or Tom Steele,
or, oh ! yes, he would emphatically name him, Major
Macnamara, such men it was who fought the battle—
it was consoling to him to think that they shared the
triumph. After recommending the countless thousands
who wedged his carriage, to form themselves into police,
as they (lid last year, and to keep the peace, Mr. O'Con-
nell, amid a scene of congratulation not to be described,
wished them good night, and leaving the top of the car-
riage from which he spoke, conducted by W. J. O'Con-
nell and Staunton Cahill, Emirs., came into Carmody's
Inn, where about sixty gentlemen were in attendance to
receive hints to dinner.

Count MUNSTER and the Judge-Advocate-
General had audiences yesterday of the KING.

Among other rumours, which have been pre-
valent for some days in what are called well.informed
circles, is one of the Duke of RICHMOND being destined,
at no very distant period, to occupy the station in the Go-
vernment now held by the Duke of Wzrmrcrox- For
ourselves, we do not attach the smallest credit to such a
report. The only shadow of ground on which it appears
to rest is the marked and distinguished manner in which
the Order of the Garter was lately conferred upon his
Grace, in preference to many other aspirants. Besides, the
country in general, we believe, is prepared for almost any
change in the Administration, in preference to that here al-
luded to. Though the Duke of WELLINGTON may have
lost same zealous friends and admirers by his accedance of
the Catholic Question, we are equally convinced that he
still possesses, to a greater degree than any other man, the
public confidence. Such taint as the Duke's is unfor-
innately very rare in the present tiara. —Morning Herald.

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SPIRIT OP'TIIE LONDON JOURNALS

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A petition flotn• Blackburn, in Lancashire,
which, under the phrase of" stagnation of trade,"
comprehended, or was meant to comprehend, a
great multitude of public interests and questions,
came before the House of Commons last night,
and was introduced by the Member for Newark.
The Hon. Gentleman, whose other designation
is "Mr. Sadler," lamented that no previous op-
portunity had occurred for going into an inquiry
on the " state of the nation ;" and Colonel Sib-
thorpe and Mr. Hume were more than com-
monly indignant, that the House should adjourn
without having done any thing of all that had
been called for by the necessities of the kingdom.
" Nothing," quoth the gallant and enlightened
Colonel, " but passing that foolish, detestable,
and atrocious Bill, which gave emancipation to
those devils incarnate, the Roman Catholics !"
Mr. Baring demanded that gentlemen who
were so anxious for Parliament to continue
its sittings, and to open at this late hour
of the Session an inquiry into the whole mass of
public affairs, should afford some glimmering at
least of the sort of remedy which they would
propose for the distresses which they dwelt upon
—so as to let the House entertain a conjectural
judgment on the possibility of doing good by in-
vestigation. Mr. Attwood, " a clever man," as
it is termed, came out promptly with his cure—
of the novelty and efficacy of which an opinion
may be formed without much trouble, since it is
one on which the majority of thinking persons
throughout the country, who are not at the same
time interested in the prevalence of a certain
course of thought, have long since come
to a decision rather different from that of
the Honourable Gentleman. Mr. Attwood
is for " supplying the public exigencies,"
—a very plausible expression this, s hich assumes
the whole controverted matter—by a larger issue
of a paper currency ! The gentleman says that
he has no connexion with country bankers.
Very likely ; but he is a noted doctrinaire, or,
indeed, quack-doctor upon the paper question,
and his authority is in the same ratio reduced.
What may be that " public exigency" which
Mr. Attwood is so anxious to supply ? A mar-
ket, and nothing but a market. Will an in-
crease of paper give us that ? There are, ac-
cording to common sense, just two methods of
forcing a market,—viz. by selling things cheaper
and producing less. Mr. Attwood's remedy,
therefbre, is to increase the amount of circulating
medium, that nominal prices may be raised, false
credit renewed, and all sorts of productions
multiplied! So much for the grand scheme
of those who, to realize such schemes,
would insist upon a dog-day committee. Now
as to specific representations of national ruin.
One gentleman affirmed, that the capital of the
country was declining ; which Mr. Peel an-
swered by a simple and striking fact—namely,
that the taxable rental of Lancashire had in-
creased in 13 years from three to four millions,
or 33 per cent. Another Member stating that
the merchants only sent their ships to sea to pre-
vent their rotting in harbour at home, Mr. Hus-
kisson admitted that such might have been the
case, if it were not notorious that the ship-
builders had been constantly adding new mer-
chant-vessels to those already in existence. This
we conceive to be enough. It will be seen that
the House of Commons is adjourned till Friday
next, so that Parliament will probably be pro-
rogued about Tuesday week.—Times.

The Journal des Debats has a long and a
well written article on the discussion in the
House of Commons, on ;the affairs of Portugal.
" The motion of Sir James Mackintosh was
merely an occasion offered to the Opposition,
says the writer (if we can still give it that name),
of expressing, on the conduct of the Usurper of
the Crown of Portugal, the warm and sincere in-
dignation which it has excited throughout all
England. The answer of Mr. Peel is a timid
and by no means happy justification of a policy
which they dared not disavow, but of which the
adoption was certainly a year ago the result of
circumstances which exist no longer." From
Portugal our French Contemporary proceeds to
the East, though he observes that discussion
threw little light on the plans of the English
Cabinet. After alluding to the campaign of last
year, the effect produced by it on Mahmoud,
and the fresh efforts of the Russians, the French
Journalist adds—" Attentively observing the
movement and the shock of these two great
bodies, seeing whether one should merely waste
its energies in a useless struggle—and disposed
perhaps to act, if reverses should threaten the
other with too speedy a dissolution—the English
Government could, in the acknowledgment of
the blockade of the Dardanelles, have a pretext
constantly presenting itself for an armed inter-
vention, which it would be necessary to give
reasons for to Europe the moment it could no
longer be delayed. Whatever may have been
the motive for the conduct of England, it is
certain that emancipated Ireland has ceased to be
a garrison for English troops, and that the second
campaign of the East opens with all the chances
to which the combination of a more active
policy shall be subject. Now the English pride
and commerce begin to feel uneasy at this Russian
developement round the mouths of the Bos-
phorus. The visit of a single vessel by the
sailors of the Baltic, who, perhaps, /nay not
proceed with all the forms of diplomacy, extorts a
long sigh from the British Press, and we know
the magic effect of an appeal to the pride of our
neighbours with regard to what is most dear and
roost:sacred! All these adjacent gulphs, Enos,
Kevala, and Saros, added to the Dardanelles,
impede the navigation of the Archipelago, and
even of the Mediterranean, in such a way, that
the Englishlag, accustomed as it is to plough
the seas, 'Must feel very much incommoded.
From the complaints of subjects to the recrimi-
nation of Cabinets the inclination is rapid and
the passage abrupt." The Journal des Debats
alludes to the conversations on the English Stock
Exchange, of reinforcements to Admiral Mal-
colm, and the breaking through the blockade ;
bat observes, " that there is a certain public
faith in Europe which has made immense pro-
gress during the last twenty years, and that there
are few Governments who now dare to pass
from alliance to war by one of those bold opera-
tions, the memory of which presses for centuries
on a people. Let us hope, for the honour of
England, that these times are past." We
may here observe that we do not believe that the
Ministry will act with rashnes.s in a matter of
such moment as involving the country in a war
with Russia. Ministers will not allow them-
selves to be influenced in a matter of such mo-
ment by the swaggering of a few speculators on
the Exchange. When war becomes necessary
they will obtain the support of the country; but
this country is sufficiently strong to be able to
display considerable forbearance, before it de-
cides on having recourse to force. The follow-
ing observations are important, as we believe
affording an indication of the difference of feel-