The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-02-05

M. Nesehsrs ecture ON Grattan and the voiun-
team sayy the Boston Times, was delivered ON the
al int ct the Music Hall, to an immense audience
ssa s the hall was greeted with three eathu
ssstic cheers and splendid bouquet, which he pre-
sented to Miss Mitchell, (sister to John MitcheD
who appeared ON the platform.
Previous to the commencement Of the lecture, Mr..
Neagher made brief allusion to the hearty welcome
he had received in Boston, and thanked the people
for It, He should return in April when he would
delvers lecture upon "Theobald Wolfe Tone and the
men of &c.,"
Mr.. Meagher said =
The ancestry of Henry Grattan was matter of
sequence might be well enough to say however, that
at the time of his birth Q746) his father Recorder
of the city OF Dublin and afterwards occupied seat in
Parliament His mother superior his father in
every respect The lecturer alluded to the gallant spirit
most rash contempt for danger of his leading
characteristics. In that day in Ireland, every
fought merely to oblge his neighbor In 1865 find
Grattan's name entered upon the books of the Middle
Temple London every Irish law student did and does
to eat his through succession of dinners to the bar
Grattan while in London spent most of his time the
opera the theatre, and in the houses OF Parliament
There temptation enough for him too Garrick Mack
upper house he listened to Lord Chatham whose scowi
gave Robert Walpoe pain in the back. Edmund Barke
was in the Commons In these scenes and amid these
temptations is it be wondered that Grattan lured
dsase for the legal proiession His client should be
nation and her freedom the only brief from which he
should speat. (Cheers) He became uneasy and sad
he deserted the fashionable London lounges and in
his loterings in Windsor Forest, and afterwards By
the clear brown current Of the Ldey, the groves
of Swift and vanessa, he grew convinced that he
was right-he determined to persevere. This spirit
laughed louder longer than himself His landlady in
London his friends that he crazy that he
continually walked about his calling upon
imaginary individual, whom he addressed as ''Mr.
Speaker Passing by gallows one night he
exclaimed, why, how the al did YOU get down" 4
short time afterwards, in the Senate, he was called
mailman by Edmund Blu rke, who like many Irishmen of
the present day, (hear hear made his genius and
his labor TO country not his own (Applause.) Such
men have had costly funerals by the princes and poten
tates Of the earth pered panegyrcs and stored monu
mens; but they have lost what better than all the
pious love- the fond Of the people amongst
whom they born and bred and amongst whom they
should have lived and fought and died. Appause Such
men, Grattan said imagine they represent something
higher than their own country when in fact they only
represent their salaries. LET tell those gentlemen
said he, that If they not Irishmen they
nothing" This was the mailman, who in his wild
ings thought that Ireland might be FRI Grattan
took his seat in Parliament the day that Wash
ington accepted the command of the American forces
first speech against the inscription OF four thou
sand Irish troops with whom England desired the
throats OF her American brethren prolonged applause
Both men had the freedom their county to work out
both succeeded but the triumph of the
Cheers At this time England fall of business
abroad; but there little trouble in rpperary
Daughter and applanse) and all the troops drawn
Oh from Ireland. The mother country the kind old
dowsger therefore concluded to send her grenaders
administer gunpowder tea to the Aercans and twist
fathers had discarded (Cheers) LOYAL people in Ire.
Land became aarmed-only the loyal people in Ire
land became alarmed daughter and applause The
executive legs much that it
was obliged to borrow EGO 900 from Iatouche private
bank and SO weak was its credit that when the Lord
Lieutenant applied for another loan he genteey
fused Then did the people enrcl themselves by compa
MES regiments brigades into the ranks Of the voun-
teers Ireland said to be at the mercy of the invader
The rich enrolled themselves from the instructive desire
for preservation and the because they felt the
hnna in h.Hv l;aI Iva
few months the Volunteers amounted to forty thousand
men, and England saw her despised tributary stand ac
knowledged her superior (Cheers.) Then it that
Grattan shone resplendent He said et the friends
OF liberty rejoice at this means of safety-he hour OF
weak and in the hands of Ireland her fate rested The
day will come again when England will be struck
, rita iMnr ay and let go her hold upon Ire
free his country from the oppression of English lords and
commons With him the fate of England second
ay eaar He said that he knew Of no gratitude which
should obge Ireland to be subservient England (En
thusasic spphuse) In the spring of the year 1850,
Lord North turned out of office, and the minis
try came in with good prospects, but their faces dark
ened The beggar was no longer in rags but stood be-
fore them in uniform and belts The Volunteers
numbered hundred thousand men, while the Kings
troops mustered but five thousand An English regi
ment halted to allow regiment of Volunteers to pass
who had advanced with bay onets at the charge to dis
pute the pass. lAppause Fox at once that there
all or the right side He thought it better to try
little diplomacy. 1t is always the way with
English whggery When Samson is strong, Delah Sc
duces him. Grattan loved Lord extraordinarily
and intensely loved him. Fox knew it. and sent Charlie
mont to him to ask that the declaration OF Irish rights
might be held over for few days Gratan i'll when
Charlemont called upon him but his eye flashed, and his
frame seemed mbued with new life, as he exclaimed
and shall not be postponediS Gnthasiastic chsersj
Afterwards he and Lord Charemont invited to take
Office and refused the ground that offices held in Ire
land under the influence OF the English 20.
yernment, which always opposed to, and fire.
queRty in direct collision WITH the interests of Ire
land Let this example De a warning to those gen.
temen who pretend to Ireland with the in their
mouths the collar of servtude about their necks and the
wages OF perfdy in their pockets prolonged appause
The speaker beautiful episode Of the appearance of
Dublin when Grattan made his memorable speech, and
the Volunteers parade front the Parliament
House Dublin has never since such a day. Eng
land bowed the knee for How the glory OF that day
daLened-how the Volunteers we're disbanied-and how
the Senate dismissedwere topics which the speaker
had not the time OF heart TO discuss That the Irish
Parliament should be reformed he die not deny but when
built again it should fashioned after the model of
Westminster but after that of Washington Cheers Our
space win not permit an extended report but our
porter cannot refrain from giving in full Mr. Meagher 5
most brilliant peroraon In closing he threw immense
power into the following words:Ihe streets Of Dublin
silent The hoofs that paved the pavement on
that day beat the duh stones The beauty that
shone ike the hues of the morning through that vision
of freedom, has vanished in the night that has come
upon the land The throbbing heart has grown cold
beneath the shroud The white which those
chains Of crused gold set with stones Of crimson vo
let, and emerald, have vithered like the leaves of
the Lly-have been strewn upon the earth have
become the sport Of the wind and the spoil Of
the worm In silent hall-into the desoate
seclusion Of which busy nqusitve foot intruies
and where the DUST falling from the cornices might
steal languid sound from the marble slab beneath
deep the repose which dseIs there by night and dayn
this silent hall called the Royal Exchange, looking
the solemn and impressive for the loneliness which
surrounds stands the statue Of Henry Grattan erect
ed as the inscription in foreign tongue with paintiye
modesty relates by a country not ungratefui Great
applause) Thus has passed away al that pershabe
OF that day-all that not STEPPED in the living
tiers, and, BY their virtue, made vital and nvunerabe
These notwithstanding with the spirit from which they
emanated, and clad with yesture Of beauty which
neither the moth, nor the mllew, the shall
consume Those lessons Of propety citizenship courage,
and good faith and pure ambiton-whch quickened the
sense Of wrong, but did not infame II with impure
veDgeance-which ennobed II into the perception Of a
great duty and sanctifed with moral excellence, whilst
they fed 1t with military fervor, which taught the
country Of Swift Berkey and Punkett the Gersdines
and Goldsmith that their country should longer be
squsbing secretary perpexng her little Wits and
firing her furious statutes with bgotry disabilities and