The Sun. — 1829-11-20 (London, England)

EXTRACT FROM MR. O'CONNELLS SPEECH AT THE JOSEPHIAN ORPHAN SOCIETY.-(From the Dublin Morning Register of Wednesday)—" It is impossible that Ireland should continue a province. She has twice as much population, and capabilities for independence as Portugal, which is an independent State. She has within herself twice as much political power as Spain, which is an independent State. It exceeds infinitely in power independent States in Italy. It has more population and energy than Prussia, which has made a great figure in the modern history of the world. It has more combination of strength and political power than the new kingdom of the Netherlands, whose broken-faithed Monarch has trampled upon the religion of his honest-hearted and confiding subjects. It has more strength than Sweden, Denmark, or twenty republics of South America—even the glorious eagle of North America cannot look upon the sun of liberty with a more firm eye, and the beams of freedom would be as little like to dazzle the sight of infant Ireland. rising in all the strength of native combination.—(Cheers.) —Of my country I have never despaired—l have never despaired of her, when I could not get Arne five or six men together. We were a species of political outlaws— we were scarcely noticed, and the only attention paid to us by the Orangemen, was to manifest how utter was their contempt for us. Almost the entire press was against us, and those who ventured to take our part were consigned to the dungeon's gloom, where the life was exhausted from honest JOHN MAGER, for daring to be true to Ireland, and where died Ilitou FITZPATRICK, the venerated father of a respectable family—the last martyi to Ireland,— (Cheers.)—At that period, there was combined against us the government, the castle, the police, the yeomanry, the law, and toe church, and with all these against us, and . the majority ofthe people of England, whose mistaken prejudices were arrayed against us ; and yet, from small beginnings, we encreased and became of so much importance as to carry our emancipation "—(Hear, hear.). THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH AND GERItAN ROAD,—In a novel just published, entitled, " Stories of a Bride," is a ludicrous description and a serious adventure, such as is usually incident to travellers who venture into the interior of Germany, where roads, horses, and postillions, are of the most uncivilized description. It is well known that Dr. MARSH, the present Bishop of Peterborough, was much in that country during his former days. It chanced upon one occasion, when travelling post, that his carriage was upset, and his Lordship, then plain Mister, safely grounded in the mire. On remonstrating with the driver for his negligence and stupidity, the driver doggedly replied, that they, always upset there! The same accident beftl a reverend friend of the narrator's some years after in precisely the same spot, which, when relating to the Bishop, brought forth the relation of his Lordship's mishap —Stamford News. The following new figure of speech occurs in a morning paper's account of the accident to Mr. HIGGS, the Ccrnner lie was coming from a gentleman's house in Cannon-row, Westminster, when, the stepS of the door being muddy, his foot slipped, and he received a severe fall." A few days ago, no less than three persons, two females and one man, were brought before the sitting Magistrate at Londay, charged with attempts to destroy themselves. One of the Justices observed, that suicide was becoming so common, that there was no chance of elreckitig it without making it a capital offence.— York Chronicle,