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asked to pay toll, and on asking " what toll—there is no toll
here"—to be told, “Oh, but there is a toll at Lambeth, and you
must pay me fur the toll at Lambeth, although you are not going
that way at all. (Laughter and cheers.) And this was the
Way in which titey placed tolls on the way to heaven. (Cheers.)
Let. every wail go on his own road to heaven, and heaven speed
every loan on that road! (Cheers.) Now these were his was
asking but that was nut what he was asking for. All lie
asking for was this, that the wants of the protestants should be
supplied in Ireland; and, when they were supplied, he did not
want •to pay for clergymen keeping coaches and four at Bath.
lie would ask if any protestant was the better for that? Oh,
but you do not understand common sense!—Englishmen never
do! (Laughter.) That is a spiritual want. (Continued laugh
ter.) .This was all the uoverninent was disposed to do away with
and for that a cry had been raised against them by a mighty
great authority of a very small circulation now—(laughter)—
by the Times and the Standard. (Cries of " Hah, hah.") All
that the government wished was, that the surplus should, after
supplying the spiritual wants of all the protestaiits of Ireland,
be applied, fur what? Given over to _the popish priests, per-
haps. No such thing; but given to educate the children in a
religious and moral way. (Cheers.) He wished to be distinctly
understood, that all he wanted, all he looked for was justice;
but he looked not for a fraction of justice. - And now he would
ask could anything be more preposterous than the absurd,
slavish, and interested cry which had been raised of Spoiliation
and robbery, and confiscation of protestant property. He could
not think there were men capable of crediting such absurdities.
But head heard those cries at. the Exchange that day, and as
he had never sects a being of that silly sort, he should have felt
gratifiettin witnessing one, and he looked round for the purpose
of catching a glimpse of one of their faces. ( Laughter.) Why
these very men said, that') it was ignorance which kept us
poor papists from becoming protestants. Why what did he do ?
He wanted that they should educate them, and that would be a
better trap for catching them. (Cheers.) Ah, they smiled. Many
and
come a jocose thought had coe across their minds, as they
thought on the subject. but what was merriment for them teas
death for. Ireland. Blood flowed there—notch blood. The
struggle had been one which had shaken the souls of her inha-
?Aleuts; Oh the wails of the widow for the blood-bolted-corpses
of the sons of her unhappy land. There was a voice crying to
heaven through her valleys and over her hills and plains, and
not for bounty anrt prosperity—not for blessings, but it was for
curses on the heads of those who made that blood to flow, and
caused the widow to wait, and rendered the children fatherless.
(t'heers.) He would allude but to one scene of slaughter, for
it would amply suffice. In that case the son was the sole sup-
port of his aged mother. He went out in the morning in vigour,
rind was brought inane to his mother a gashed and bleeding
. corpse.. By the demand of. the tithe-proctor was that mother
left without a protector to linger out the remainder of her days
in want and wretchedness. Oh say here, that the great God of
charity does not see that mother? Think you that the angels
cf god would not weep when they saw the name of religion so
profaned. as to. --be:.turried..ixto• the instrument of slaughter?
Let.christians of every denomination rally with him, and let the
mothers .of Ireland no-longer weep for their sous.. Aid hint in
'obtaining peace to Ireland—tally with him in obtaining justice
and
had been tanit. There tvas a most emhc silence ' he
speyaking lately Oil that subjecpt ;ati he now read iwhenn their
countenances their determination to assist him. And he knew
that when Englishinee
what was right to be accomplished,
was in progress very speedily of being
attained. (Cheering.)
He came now to his second demand. He now wanted corpo-
ration reform for Ireland. (Loud cheering.) Let them again
understand each 'other. .Scotland had got a good, and a full
measure of corporate reformi—right well she deserved it. It
would be verv-hard to find any of your pettyrogging tories get
into the public bodies in Scotland, and she had sent almost
the whole of her members to support e erals. could
he had got corporate refor m,th notlib (Chee
entirely what could
e wished, but still " pretty well, I thank yOu." (Great
kughter and cheers.) He need not tell them that England had
not any longer any-reason to be dissatisfied. Now Scotland hav-
ing got it—England having got it—was there any reason in the
world why Ireland should not get it ? (Loud cries of " No.")
He wanted to ask the dullest of all possible tories, if he could
state one plausible reason why Ireland should not get it ? Could
they assert the, onion as a reason ? Justice shall be done to
Sculland, because there is a union. Jostice shall be done to
\England, because there is a union. And there shall be no kis-
tice to. Ireland because there is a union. (Laughter
and
cheers.) That was the doctrine of the tories. Would they give
them no justice but what was to be foiled at the points of their
bayonets and in the breaches of their artillery ? Since the
union to the present period that had been the working out of
their system. When they wished to get rid of obnoxious mat-
ters it,was common to make use of 'a flapper; and, as it was no
use iti4teing the matter, he had taken up a flapper, and a
80E4 large one; he took up the question of the repeal sometim,.
like the gun-beggar in Gil Bias. lie was the most successful
beggar on the read; ..he always asked charity in the Hanle of
Heaven, presenting a musket. ( Laughter.) He believed that
was the way that political charity was ever obtained. .(Conti-
nued laughter.) In that case it will be granted. If England
and Scotland don't do Ireland justice, why should not seven
millions of Irishmen do justice to themselves ? (Tremeedous
eheering,) Would not you do it ? (Cheers, and cries of " Yes,
• not") a despised the Englishman in leas heart who would
do so, and he did not care whether he blamed lion or Suppose Scotland got corporation reform, and Ireland got cor-
poration reform, and were in the enjoyment of it, and possessed
all its blessings—amid was it not a blessing to look round and see
that no person had got a snug little job its the neighbourhood.
t".",orporate reform was altrarly visible among them, for they had
slow only four tories instead of forty-one amongst them, and the
reporters dissenneinating the proceedings would make a consi-
derahle .differeece.. But suppose the case he nes putting, sip-
pose that Scotland had got corporate reform, and that Ireland
bad got corporate reform, mid that England was refused' it on
account of the tmion, was there an Englishman echo would not
give an answer to any one daring to assert that as a reaselifwhy.
he should not have it, - hey kitocking the fellow down ? ( Loud
and long continued cheering.) Aye, they would knock him
(town first, and.then kick hie, for reform afterwards The Irish
were said. to Le ..something like eels in the well-sanded fist of a
cook; thev. were so accustomed to be skinned that they did not'
feel it with the vivacity of the English. They would not feet it
as the Englislew.euld feel if, butt they Were as determined as the
Etiglish. not to submit to it. There' were two reasons, three,
why they shoold- not submit. First, it was not right they
vhould; Titext; thsty •-were- tolerably -strong ; and third, they
had the assistance of the Eligiu.h. (Loud mid continued
cheers.) Repeal agitation in Ireland had had considerable effect.
'fie had spoken to his countrymen iu many placeg, and had pia
the question to tliten—"•lf I get you justice from England, will
sou give up agitation ?" eue and all said give us jitstice and
we will give up agitation. (Applause.) Ile had put the same
questquestion at a large irteeling • in Connaught—he had put it at
ion
to fifty thousand people, " Will you authorise flue to git e
tip the agitation of the repeal fur ever if I get yott justice
England ?" - The reply wits, " Get us justice from Engn:d meti
He had petit to his, own _constituents at Dublin—he h
the trades political union in Dublin and told them there t.
told
then, sgrowing feeling in Englend towards liberality ; he hard
their, how- many honest Englishmen blamed them for wishing
a repeal he haatold them how many were rallying witirhiin to
-obtain justice for Ireland, and he then asked them, " Will you
authotiseone to give up the question of repeal ?" l'he answer
was not unanimous, one individual had objected to it, (laughter,)
and there he stood authorised to give tip repeal for ever if they
sot justice. (Cheers.) Would they judge so meanly of him
as to imagine that ,he would consent to give up any weapon .of
Offence that could be legally used if he did not get jystice?
(Cries of " No.;') That was exactly his them—justice;
and he deserved- their assistance. (Cheers.) And oh t what
Itind of Englishmen were they who stood between them and
justice ? A certain number of them turned up the n hires of
their eyes to heaven and preached against popery. Why, he
wanted to know if ever the Pope did worse titan that? Did
they ever hear that he had three counties or three' states nailer
his dominion, and that he dim justice to one, and justice to
another, and none to a third? (Loud cheering.) lie now
tame to speak to the common sense of Englishmen, and. above
all, to speak to their generosity. Here are a fine people. toll
of intellect, bud activity, and industry, their enemies theist-
!selves adinitting that there were amongst them the.bravest men
7--that it was imposible for men to be ureter than Englishmen
the shouts of victory never rose front British foes; lint when had
tiglatul shouted victory that meny an Irishman ',millet joined
in the attaimnent of? ( Loud cheering) st the tir i the battle. and in the breere, the Irish had stood by them.e In their their conflicts for civil liberty their names were enrolled amongst
friends, and, therefore, as the advocate of his native land,
at the retained counsel-let his -enemies make the Most of it
'-(cheer's)—as the organ of their wants and their wishes, he
came to Etualand to call on Englishmen•to rally round him and
asaist him in banishing the incubus of toryism, and then oho
liould stand against England, Scotland, and Ireland, milted
li)' the bonds of affection and community of rights ? A bond
which tied together twenty-four millions of men. Who should
dare to offer the slightest insult- to the sovereien of twenty-four
millions of men ? Was it the autocrat of Russia? No ; there
was no power that dared then to lift its breath in anything like
•:Thetracesngainst them, Oh, how he wished that moment were
arrived—that the wisdom of the administration may carry it
into full effect—that administration to which he was proud to
'Five his humble support—that administration which has been said
to have coalesced with him because they were willing to do justice
:,_lo:lreland._ Oh, what a eompliment!'who have not coalesced '
w(th me, but with whom I am quite. ready to coalesce for such a
purpose. (Great cheering.) He wished that these measures
tiehlegrht be consummated- at the early part of the. sessiuti, that
causemight be one shout raised from
.the neighbourhood of
Minster-hall, by the real representatives of the people, be-
lost"O Of its attaientent. (The conclusion of the sentetice was
i amidst the disorder rind • cheering of the meetito;.) Ile
the cause
the proceedings of that day as a pledge giveit in aid'
cause f "justice for Ireland," and Ireland when she
heard of it, of
ye joy in her heart at the prospect of tai_
(Great assistance in the attainment of a real and just Union.
.atZat cheering.) NeW hopes sprung in his heart as he looked
Zit; Ineeting and he would see that his wishes would be ate
"1""e• 11, how mooch had been done for corporate
frefortn, he saw his excellent tfriend on his left, who had toiled
loors! t
_when scarcely it hope sprung up to cheer hint, and he had
scioictiefeeses.en
tsiseivre. several of his most sanguine wishes crowned with
O'Connell concluded amidst great cheering and
bY propos the health of Mr. William Rathbone
And the ce
The cuutreon Council of Liverpool.' having eis"kamAN then rose. .He felt highly honoured fur
gnished guest ealth drunk and he felt gratitude to their distils.
wouldnot t far bearing, his testimony that corporation reform
He would ment d to confusion but to the good order of society.
himself, but take
up their time by returning them thanks for
bronget teem reald •revert again to the subject which had
say to thens that the welfare of Ireland. And he would
on that unhappy he day spring of liberty had at leng=th
lansen
had received th cl"nt rY. (Cheers.) The way in whirls they
a proof that Eneeel gentleman they had just heert , was
done to Ireland a(le,'"lewould no longer submit to injitstice being
had new in I -fleets-) But there waS another proof: they
lieutenant.
Ireland
a patriotic, an intelligent, and a just lord-
(Loud dicers') 'That had not always been the
case, because' lhey had sometimes put one horse to drag one
Way, and
now
. another another but the lord-lieutenant was
w aided by
lueeting they a liberal secretarav), a' nil with the permission of the
.I.ey would drink " Cord Mulgrave and the Irish Ad-
, ration o
Air iC
rt. Auld long sync."
he t as
Lee„e.d.°--t was drank amidst much cheering, but not acknow-
'fhe C • - tvas ,c,„nAllattratt.—The next toast he should propose to them
the fir,' ue health of the son of the author of Jasper Wilson,
the t referiner who has filled the civic chair—the worshipful
Air "
O, "Rule Brittania,"
The to
Was „ ast was loudly cheered ; but, like the preceding ohe,
.eo.icknowledged.
of win: s.t am N. —As the friends of education—as the friends
drink in the criminal law, he now called upon them to
tire,milli e hellealth of their .honest, their efficient representa-
Fewere Esq. (Loud cheers.)
baud we ART, on rising to return thanks. was received with
trurn iele7ss-,hshouts, and clapping Of hands.—ln rising to re-
i.'nguishee e seta. that if it were a difficult matter for his dis-
nir
,rlend, Mr. O'Connell, to express his gratitude,_
emintre "."0 Was RI accustomed to receive the thanks of his
tult Tee'sn't(!n•—for him who' so well deserved them,—how
°Monied Lt!,t!e fur hint (Mr. Ewart) who was by no means ac-
gree (1
tslpe • eSerVintt and Who. certainly was not in
,t,he ••de-
rY way d of them: (Cries; of "No, no. and ou. ate
e thairrnanlLeerveing of the
When his excellent friend
bitn the honour to invite him (0 attette

the dinner, he' was at a distance from Liverpool; but let the
calculating pause. and the timid shrink, whenever his fellow-
townsmen called impee him 'to decide a pdint;
.or to take a cer-
tain position, he would not allow any motive whatever to in-
fluence him,- or' to turn him from their request, (Cheers.)
lie therefore came; determined to concentrate his humble
endeavours, in the furtaerance of the cause of .Ireland, and to
contribute -his humble tribute of applause to her great cham-
pion, Daniel O'Cennell. (Cheers.) Ireland had a thousand
claims upon- their synipathieS, and still more upon their assist-
ance, on the grounds which they had heard so touchingly de-
scribed. II is excellent and learned friend, Mr. O'Connell,
had. delivered one of the most excellent speeches he (Mr.
Evart) had ever heard.—now pathetic,—now humorous,—now
appealing to their reason, and anon to their feelings, in be-
half of his still oppressed and suffering, countrymen. (Cheers.)
He remembered well the exclusive feeling which actuated what
was then called the Irish protestant interest in the House of
Commons. When he first became a member of that house, he.
said to himself that this was a feeling in which he not only
could never participate, but which he positively could not un-
derstand. And when he asked his sober reason what was the
cause of it, it appeared to him that one party claimed the right
to do wrong, and to dictate to the consciences of another. It
appeared to him unjust that any man should call in question the
equal rights of conscience; as far as he could see, what was called
protestant ascendancy in Ireland was that they should have
this power. He stood up for equal rights of conscience; and
he appealed to the example of the 'United States for a proof of
the tendency of the human mind to Enget the claims of equal
justice, when long-continued ascendency was at stake. There,
the rightl of sovereignty over the black population was looked
upon as a matter of natural right—the whites clung to it as a
natural and original right. Fortunately, the ascendency of
one party in Ireland had been overturned, principally by the
gigantic moral power and unremitting physical exertions of
Mr. O'Connell. (Cheers.) In Ireland, time word religion had
been interpreted to mean the Word church ; but, fortunately, the
churchmen, the dissenters, and the Roman catholics of England
were now beginning to be enlightened, and they would no
longer endure that injustice should be done to Ireland. (Cheers.)
Ireland had a Second claim on their consideration—Mr. O'COn-
nell had. a second claim on their consideration, for, since the
Irish liberal members, under the emancipation act, had formed
an integral part of the reformed parliament, there was no mea-
sure of reform, whether social, political, or ninnic!ril—whether
for the freedom of conscience or the freedom of politcal rights,
which had not been strenuously supported by a phalanx com-
posed of the Irish members, (Cheers.) In the great cause of
parliamentary reform, they never missed the assistance of their
Irish friends; they stood by them in the hour of victory and of
danger—they were with them in the hour of victory, and with-
out the assistance of that phalanx he firmly believed that they,
would not have triumphed. (Cheers.) By their assistance
they achieved the great measure of parliamentary reform and
brought about 4 new era in local-government. He would now
'Chide to the next occasion on which they received the power-
ful aid -of the Irish Members. They all recollected last year
when he (Mr. Ewart) came down amongst them, and when
their opponents, backed by all the power of the ministry, at-
tempted and thought they had succeeded in turning out every
liberal representative for Liverpool, (cries. of " Hear, hear, a 1
and " You shall not be turned out;") they remembered their
tory tricks—their conciliatory speeches, half liberal and half
servile, in the 'vain hope of deluding the reformers and catching
the votes of all parties ; they all remembered the speeches of
Sir Robert Peel, who stood in the ambiguous predicament of
being in what, in school phraseology, was called the common of
two genders. .(Laughter and cheers.) Sir Robert Peel was
indeed a politician of the epicene description. He might most
aptly be compared to the flying fish, of amphibious nature, for,
when he found that the deep waters of toryism no longer kept
him safe, he took refuge from his tory friends, if friends they
might be called, in the higher regions of liberalism. (Laughter
and cheers.) He must say, however, that his flights were only
of a very limited extent; the inhabitants of the air were not to
be deceived by them, and, anon, he tell again into the deep
waters of toryism. (Cheers.) When that minister, backed
by the Duke of Wellington and the most dangerous portion of
the aristocracy were in possession of power, who was it that
never flinched from the side of the reformer?—Who was it that
gave their most zealous aid to the glorious object of turning out
the tories?—Who was it that contributed so powerfully towards
the attainment of that object as the Irish representatives in the
House of Commons? (Cheers.) That fact was acknowledged,
not only by the reformers, but by their enemies—nay, even by
Sir Robert Peel himself, and it constituted a debt that. was due
to the representatives of Ireland from the people of England.
(Loud cheers.) Again, who was it that manfully supported the
municipal reform bill in all its parts till it was unfortunately
amended in that chaos of opinion which had been called, in
comparison, the Serbonian bog—the House of Lords,—who was
it who supported the liberal clauses of the bill ? Who but
their friends the Irish members? (Loud cheers.) Should it
ever be said, then, that they Would not stand by the Irish mem-
bers until justice bad been done to their country? Forbid it rea-
son—forbid it justice,.! The independentmembers of the House
of Commons—every man who called himself aliberal must come
to their assistance, and nothing should prevent the voice of the
parliatnent of Great Britain from sanctioning reform for Ireland.
Another debt of gratitude was due to the Irish members. When
the English municipal reform bill was returned from the House
of Lords, many of them were for rejecting the bill because it
was so mutilated that they hardly knew it for their own offspring
—to whom were they indebted for counselling moderatien—to
whom were they indebted for representing that in the bill as it
then stood they gained the assertion of a great principle, and
that the details would follow?—to the Irish members generally,
and to Mr. O'Connell in particular. (Loud cheers-) He con-
sidered himself called on as an independent member of the
British parliament, to state whether they were indebted to Mr.
O'Connell or not, He could not for one moment withhold his
acknowledgements of how deeply they were indebted to him.
Mr. O'Connell and those who acted with him had gained a
great triumph for their country by means of lawfal, and not
sanguinary resistance, and this was a triumph reserved for
modern times. They had fought with the law and for the law.
He (Mr. Ewart) warmly advocated,. as Mr. O'Connell had
always advocated the just rights of the people through the means
of lawful agitation. Let them but proceed in an orderly,
peaceful, and legal course of resistance to oppression and in-
justice, and they might depend upon it that in the end they
would certainly succeed. (Cheers.) He most cordially con-
gratulated time reformers of Liverpool in seeing in their respect-
ed fsiend the chairmafi, an alderman of the corporation of Li-
verpool. None of them had expected to live to see such a day.
The ancient Egyptians • represented the globe by placing the
representative of an elephant on the back of a tortoise; the
ancient corporations of the country might be properly repre-
sented by placing an alderman on the back of a turtle.
(Laughter and cheers.) Fie was sure that the duties of an
allerman would be much better discharged by his friend than
they had been heretofore, for he (Mr. Rathhone) had already
come .forwaid us a friend to the advocates of the rights of
people—as au- advocate for education, public libraries, and
for other means of recreation and amusement. (Loud
cheers.) So long as Mr. O'Connell persevered in the peace-
ful and orderly assertion of the rights of his fellow-countrymen,
so long would he have the support ot' the people of this country
—of the liberal members of the House of Commons, and most
certainly .his (Mr.- Ewan's.) The most puerile objections had
been advanced ag.,aiust Mr. O'Connell, but the people of this
country were not to be deluded by them. The only allegation
which the tortes could with truth advance against him was that
he sometimes hit them very hard, and sometimes fairly
knOcked them down. (Laughter and cheers.) He sometimes
discomfitted them with a thrust of the rapier, and at others with
a blow from the shillelah. (Laughter.) If Mr. O'Connell pro-
ceeded as he had begun, advocating the rights of his country—
demanding for her justice—if he proceeded as the advocate of
every sound measure of general reform—and he (Mr. Ewart)
must express his conviction that the time was come when they
ought to have a reform in the upper as well as-in the lower
blanch of the legislature—(Cheering)—as long as Mr. O'Con-
nell proceeded in the course of safe, sound, and constitutional
reform, he would receive the sympathy and support of the libe-
ral members of the' House of Commons, and the support of the
14)(1;11 portion of the kingdom.
by
[Great uproar and
contusion was here created some one at the further end of
the building dissenting from this opinion, and the speaker's
voice was for some time drowned amidst vociferous cries of
" turn him out."l
Mr. EWART then continued. Mr. O'Connell had had the
support and admiration of the generation in which he lived; let_
him pursue the same course, and he would deserve and receive
the approbation of ages yet unborn ; and posterity would en-
twine his memory with flowers, and with the imperishable
garlands of immortality. (Great cheering.)
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of Mr. O'Connell's
worthy son, " Morgan O'Connell, Esq., M.P. for Meath."
(Great cheering.) .•
Mr. MORGAN O'CosavEr.e.rose amidst loud cheering. They
had paid him an honour which he was afraid he should never
be able to prove himself worthy of. , It was his determinationdo
struggle for the improvement of the condition of his country,
and fOr every measure vihichmight be calculated to do away
with the abuses which still existed. Although he might feel a
degree of persenal vanity in the manner in which they had re-
ceived his name, he felt still greater pride to witness the cor-
diality with which they had received the mention of his country.
Hitherto the country to which he belonged had not received the
assistance of the people of England—hitherto Irishmen had
been obliged to rely upon themselves only—they had been
slandered by the baSe tory press of this country - their conduct
had been misrepresented, and they had only been held up to En-
glishmen ii) the light of men, who acre struggling, not for the
good of their country, but who were striving-for their own pri-
vate ends, and for the purpose of sowirg dissensions. But the
scales had now fallen from the eyes of Englishmen—the tory
believed—theypress now saw that the Irish
struggledlorinu
igye rf,ir wastheir
country, and they came forward to
help them. (Loud cheers.) ,He thanked them for the manner
in which they had received him, and be should always endeavour
to prove himself 'worthy of the trust devuted to him. (Loud
cheers.)
Thp CHAIRMAN had a toast to propose to them which he was
sure they would drink with cordiality. It was the commissioners
who had been appointed to inquire into the state of the munici-
pal corporations.. The toast was " John Blackburn, Esq., the
member for Huddersfield, and Mr. Justice Perrin, the chief
commissioners in the municipal inqtory, and Coupled with a
hope that Ireland Will soon have municipal reform.

Mr. Rt7sirroN haVing been loudly called on rose. Ile would
occupy but a very few moments of their time by return;ng them
thanks on behalf of the illustrious men mentioned in their toast.
On their behalf he would return them heartfelt and.grateful
thanks for the. distinguished honour which they had conferred
on them. One of these men had, happily for Ireland, been
since elevated to the bench ; and there remained to tight the
battles for English and ;,rish freedom in the hall of 'Westmin-
ster—and it was with pride and pleasure he declared that free..
doom had no more faithful friend—no more zealous advocate,

than in the person of John Blackburne, Esq., the member for
Huddersfield. (Loud cheering.) He felt very much tempted to
say one word, and only one word, respecting the commissioners
who had been nominated to inquire into the corporations, the close
corporations of England and Ireland. As the humblest of those
men, he could only say, and he said it with pleasure and with
pride, that the insolence and injustice with which they were all
treated by a certain great assemblage in this country, (loud
cheers) was more than compensated by the flattering reception
they had received from the assemblage he now saw before him.
(Cheers.) He believed also, that in their encornituns they
were-right. He would say that their duties had been discharged
with correctness and fidelity. Was it possible, that in dis-
charging those duties with fidelity and conscientiously,
that in exposing the peculations of bad men and political
jobbing, by which characters of no importance had attained to
high places, it was not to be expected but that by those who had
been so exalted they would be slandered ? A great portion of
what was to come from this inquiry they had witnessed iu En-
gland, and he agreed most heartily in the demand for an equal
measure of justice for Ireland. (treat cheering.) Her corpo-
rations were no less corrupt. There, parties were no less
venal; The system was no less corrupt there, and the exposure
of those corruptions bad been no less perfect than it had been
in Engldnd; and it Was not to lie borne that a great nation
should be tOld, that the only reason for withholding municipal
reform to their corporations was, that it would haVe a tendency
to give a pteddritinaney to that class proleSsing what might be
called the irtilVerSal religion of.the country. He-hoped the day.
was tint!, fxt .:';scant 'in Ireland, when ',-the flags of freedom
froM Derry's shores to Antrim's strands,
theft' sons shall shout for joy, for awful justice rules
thelikiii:" Fttrshttiq talf,tltirfed ithitUt ttprilaridui hhttn: