Star.
London, England, 1830-12-28 00:00:00

MR. O'CONNELL.

The following are extracts from a speech delivered by the
Learned Agitatory Dictator of all Ireland at the " public
breakfast" in Homo's Tavern, Dublin, last week, as re-
ported in the Dublin Mail.
It does my heart good to stand up in an assembly of Irish
agitators. Irishmen, thank GOD, are uniting, and the day is
fast approaching when all Irishmen shall have one common
wish and one common sentiment for the happiness and in-
dependence of their native land. (Cheers.) I may be told
that I ought to have confidence in the present Administra-
tion. I think of that Administration that they will do as the
Whip have uniformly done, unless public opinion and
national Fentiment compel them to attend to the fulfilment
of thel promises. (Hear, and cheers.) Iby no means in-
clude in that censure Lord Althorp-7.he is an honest and an
honourable man. I must speak differently of Earl Grey.
He threatens Ireland with proclamations and Algerine
Acta. I defy him to do so. " Earl Grey, I defy you ; "
from this place I proclaim my defiance. (Cheers.) Since
1 came into the room a paper was put into my hands,
in which my name is introduced in connexion with that of
the Marquis of Anglesey. (Hear.) There was in this country
a sort of aristocratic order who affected to patronise us, and
to give us their assistance ; men who pretended to be anxious
for our emancipation, in order that they might have an op-
portunity of seeming to patronise us. Such men, I suppose,
think they have a right to lead us. As I have entered
on this subject, I must observe it was said that I expressed
a wish that Lord Anglesey should be insulted. No man
respects him more than I do; but I would consider my-
self a party to that outrageous appointment in which he
has been instrumental if I joined in any public demonstra-
tion to him. Ido not want to dictate on this subject; but
this I say for myself, that as I would consider myself base
were I to join in an insult to him, so I would consider my-
self equally base if I were the slave to join in congratulating
him. (Cheers.) I will call on all men to join me in demand-
ing Parliamentary Reform. I am for Universal Suffrage,
nothing less will satisfy me. The North is awaking. My
honest friend George Ensor is there exerting himself for us,
stimulating the sluggish and arousing the apathetic. There
is a subject that attracts the public attention, and that is, the
amount of pensions paid by the Government. It appears, by
a late return, that two millions per annum are given away
in salaries of 1,0001. and upwards. In England the pension
list is more than half a million. I want to know why it is
that since the Union Ireland should pay Sir R. Shaw 8001.
per annum ? I want to know why Lord Gifford and a dozen
Germans should have been quartered upon the country—
(hear). The Irish undertakers had the thing in their own
bands, but they killed the goose for the sake of the golden
egg (hear). The arch miscreant of that unholy traffic has
since made expiation ; he immolated the indepeudence of his
country ; he bartered the rights of millions for a base bribe
—loud cheers.) He has since made atonement, by being
his own executioner. I will not curse him, but exe-
crations will follow his name; and, when the future nurse
shall want to quiet the struggling infant, she need only
mention the name of Castlereagh, and instantly it will
shudder at the sound, and be hushed into quiescence at the
frightful and accursed name—(cheers.) I never knew a
more base and sordid oligarchy than the English oligarchy.
I told them so to their beards. When I got amongst them
they treated me as if I was an outlaw—(hear, hear).
I have no confidence in the present Administration. The
signs in the political horizon are too distinct to be mis-
taken. England is rocking to her centre ; the vol-
cano is beneath her feet ; the political tempest is raging.
Oh ! it requires a master-spirit to ride in the whirlwind
and direct the storm. Europe is in a state of transition.
It is said that patriotism is a dream of olden times—
a mere bright and radiant vision that gleamed upon the
Greek and Roman, and was never heard of since—
but patriotism does exist. (Cheers.) Whilst lam com-
pelled to admit that there were some base men in our camp,
I acknowledge that there were many good men amongst
our enemies. We now implore the Orangemen to join with
us for Ireland. I beseech the Catholics to implore the
Orangemen to join us. I implore the Orangemen to forgive
us, and be reconciled to us. It is no humiliation for the
Catholics to implore forgiveness and reconciliation from the
Orangemen. Our contest is too recent. The differences
that have been buried in the tomb have not had time to
moulder: but let us never again evoke them from their i•-
pulcbral slumber, but let us, as brothers and Irishmen, be-
come reconciled to each other.—ls this a time to talk of im-
practicability, when 15,000 troops have been defeated in the
streets of Paris ?—impracticability, when the glorious tri-
umphal march of liberty has been spread from Brussels to the
streets of Warsaw ? I tell you that, before another fortnight,
you will hear of a revolution in Berlin ; and, if the States of
Austria catch the flame, who can calculate where it will end?
Give me but oee year more of quiet, and peace, and order,
but of constitutional agitation, and we will see the accom-
plishment of our wishes—(cheers). A about of triumph will
again be heard echoing through the streets of Dublin. And,
gracious GOD, where shall I find expansion for my heart the
day they come down to open the Irish Parliament in College.
green ?—(loud cheering.)

Miss Mitford's tragedy of lees di Castro was read on
Thursday mooing, In the green room of Covent daeden Theatre, by
Charles Kmble. . . .
In the statutes of St. Paul's Cathedral, the vergers are
ordered to be unmarried men, A because a man cannot serve two was.''
ters--namely, his wife and his official duty."
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Champ de Mars, there was A placard to the following effect:—" With
the exception of the luirses whisk are to run, every gentlemen Is pre.
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tied behind in a queue, and had A fi4ourltn tent. in the thoP with hie
beck to the window. Alderman B. pointed him out to mei " Look, 1
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