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IRELAND . MR OCOXXELL'S VISIT TO CHAKLEVILLEThe Limerick RrporUr contains a very long acceunt of Mr . O ' ConneH ' s visit to Cbarleviile , ecnniy of Cork . The follcwing is an abridgment : — Mr . O'ConneU slept at Nenagh on Wednesday night , and arrived , accompanied by Mr . Steele and Mr . E . W . O'Mafeony , in lameriei , at ten o'clock yetterday rooraing , when be started for CbarleviUe , tiking Brnff in bia route . At Broff he -was joined by hundreds of the peaBMtry on horseback , and , vrben he halrad to ebange horses , -was received by Dr . Svryny , head repeal warden of Bruff , and bifl excellent staff , with & teetotal baud which struck np " See the conquering here comes . " After delaying for about ten minutes , he proceeded on
bis jonrney , accompanied by Dr . Swyny and a eujperous cavalcade . From BrnfF to Kilmallock the ¦ whole country round poured forth its tens and hundreds of thousands of men , women , and children , whom the terrors of a coercion bill could not prevent from joining in the magnificent demonstration in favour of KepeaL From KUmallock to Charleville the scene along the road -was of the most animating description . As far as the eye could reach a vast mass of human beings presented itself to the -new , carrying laurels and boughs of trees in their bands , bo 38 to present the Eppearsnre of a moving forest , so dense was the crowd which filled the road . At Kiiroallock the carriage was met by a deputation from the Congregated Trades of Limerick , with their banners , and attired in the same way as
they had bees on the day when they met him a few miles from Limerick , on his way from Rathkeale , and by thousands of the CharleTille people and the district immediately surrounding it , beaded by their respected pastor , the Rev . Mr . Croie , and his cerate , the Rev . Mr . Dwyer , with two temperance banis , all carrying wands , and -wearing bine and green sashes . The Rev . Mr . C . -oke sat with the Liberator on . the dickey of his carriage . As it -advanced the numbers increased tenfold , "While the same cheering and waving of hats continued to rend the air with aedap&tSo'ns . Same idea may be formed of this splendid and magnificent demonstration of popular strength , when we 6 tate that from Bmff , ¦ which is a distance of ten miles ,. to Gnaiieville , the Liberator ' s carnage was obliged to proceed at a walking pace , bo great was the immense cavalcade which
accompanied it He arrived in Charievuie at a quarter to five o'clock , accompanied , in processed , by a : least two hundred thousand persons , who rent the air with their enthusiastic gratnlations . The scene- in the prin eipal street of Ciiarlerille was at this nomect one of the xnoet animating description . The house-top 3 were crowded by adventurous spirite , the windows by elegantly dressed ladies , who wared t £ eir handkerchiefs . A large platform was erected in the centre of the strt = t opposite the market-house , in which was stationed z party of the 43 th Light Infantry and a stipendiary magistrate . After considerable difficulty , the carriage srriTed opposite thr r ' atform . but it was so crowded , axd the streets to rlo .-ksd up , that Mr . O'CoDneil found it was impossible U > make h 3 wsy , and accordingly determined to addresE the muitude from the d : ckry .
On the motion of Michael Ryan , Esq ., of Bruree , the Rev . Mr . Crofce was called to the chair . Mr . Q"ConneIl addressed the multitude at great length . It had , he observed , been said by a person who was represented the other day as one who had a great regard for every one ' s character bn : bis own—it was asserted by Lord Brougham that such meetings as the present were turbulent assemblies ^ , Groans . ' The newspapers stated bo , and put Lord Brougham ' s ramc st th * head of the speech of the man who made the assertion . He < Mr . O'Connell ) believed that in th- _ - course of a long life that lord never asserted acj thing half so fcul and so false ; for he had himself seen , ¦ within the last fortnight thousands upon thousands assemble in various parts of the country , and sever did
be witness anything bo orderly , or with so much merriment and good humour—loud cheers . ) But Brougham degraded the last ministry by his being associated with them , ard he was then € Dd- « vouring to speculate for his own advantage , by assailing the people of Ireland—( Groans . ) The Date of Wellington was quite disgusted with him—and , as the Amerian newspaj-er said , that a Jf ew Tork man was so handsome that be was obliged to carry a sack to keep off the women , they sfconJd send there for that stick , and give it to the Duke to fceep cf Brougham—icheers and laughter . ; That was his illt . O'Conaell ' s ) answer to his charge of tbere tsing tumultuous assemblages in Ireland . Bat it would HI become tb- - m to meet at any pfcriod for the purpose of petitioning against the iEJusnce and ororession lLflicted
on their country , if they insulted t r irjered any bo » iy , or do more than endeavour to convince tbose in a peaceable manner who had Dot tfee good sen ^ e to join them—( cheers . ) Within the fortnight he had addressed himself to upwards of a miilicn of the people—lou-3 cheers . ) In the course of next week he would meet and address another , because it was most important that those public demonstrations should be made . tCheers . ) He came there to ask them to petition for a Repeal of the Union . ( Cries of '"" We "will , we will . ''; His object in coming amongst tbem w&s to call en them to do so . They knew the treata ; 6 i . t they met at the oilier siJe of the water ; for when they aeked for breid they gave them stones , and whei . they a&ked for fish they gave them a serpent
{ Hear , hear . } Although his excellent coi : eague , Mr . Roche , remained away like himself froni Parliament ; yet they -were working for the cause of Ireland at home . ; Ch 9 ers . ) They next threatened them with military -violence ; and he was told that a party of soldiers was sent to that meeting for the purpose of preserving the peace . He regretted that for their sake , for they were the bravest men in the world ; and ¦ whenever the Queen's troops were sent among the people , they performed their duties faitfefuliy , and conducted themselves with the strictest propriety . ( Hear , hear . ) Three cheers for the military : a call ¦ which was heartily responded to ) . The Hon . and Learned Gentleman thtu corclnded : — " Were they terrified at the threat of the Dcke of Wellington ? t Indignant cries of " No , no . ") Were they terrified at that of Peel ? ( So , no > No , let them take bis advice-¦
let them keep withi » the law , and when they separated , let them go home witbont the least disturbance or irregularity . ( Cries of "We will . '') Let them insult no one , but be lively and merry at the prospects which were opening upon their country . ( Cheers . ) He ¦ wanted liberty for old Ireland . He was travelling through the land , and would have the entire island Trith him before many months were i-ver . ( Cheers . ) Who would tell him tfter that a British statesman would refuse their just dfcmauds , ' -and -who -would tell him he would not gf& a repeal of the legislative union ? iCheera . ; Fiance knew tkst Eaglanti was weak as long as Irtland was jnstl / discontented—America knew it—Russia learned , and all Europe "ros aware of it ; and Heaven forbid she should oe secure while Ireland was in chains . ( Cteers ) The Kon . Gentleman then concluded &Trid the same deafening cheers .
CFrom ihc Ttmes . j Dcblix , 3 Iat 22 . —The Repeal Association nut this day at twelve o ' clock , and notwithstanding the absence in Cork of Mr . O'Connell , the room was erowded to EuftvcatioB . Mi . Town-CoancUlur Shannon toc-k the chair . Air . Rat announced at the commencement of tt- proceedings the receipt of £ -K > 0 as tt .- MfDscri&iiocs stnt np to Saturday evening . Ee then \ oc . edcn * to rtua a voluaiinous mass cf torre-. poxOferc-, enclosing fattttr sums of money , in which agretabie ixrccpaticii he > ns en gaged up to tie post hour . It is stated that the amount of the rent for the week will be equal to that acknowledged en the last day J meeting , namely , xCS * . odd ihiiiingt .
The Athlone paper contains a rtqaishi-. n , headed by ILcrd French . Bishop CaDtwel ! , cf Meatb , and Bishop Hizzins , of iiollingsr speech notoriety , addressed to 3 d ? . O'ConneJl , reqaesticg him to name a -Jay ' or a public meeting and dinner , to be held in Athene " the purpose of forwarding the regeneration of I .-elan-V " The terms proposed for the country ' s " rec-ntratioa " beiEi reasonable enougfe , Mr . O'Cotiiell ba = > ^ xed Sur .-dsy , th ^ - l * : b of June , for the meeting and dn . acr . In addition ro ti-e names attached to the requ'sitio " , there figure no less than tweijty-thrde priests , and ib r uf one baronet , of Wkig creation , Sir > 1 . D . Brliew T . ^ document it&elf breathes throughout £ tone rT ^ rnitce aad contempt of the recent Jlinisteriil dtcl-ratioBs it
sars"Weare full ; impressed with the conviction that sotting short cf the repeal of the " union can be of any beneficial service to Ireland . This conviction is mor * firnf . y eatablished by the threats said 'o be made use cf by Wellington a :: d P ^ el , and particularly by the c- _ claratiou of the latter , who seems to entertain so thort-njfh a coBtemp : for Vha Iruh people , tha * . be Bays he will r-t conrei . t to listen to the unanimous voice cf her ertire representLtivea . Kis threats of coercion -we tespiee , and as a pr ^ x ^ cf the Mttle weight they have with us we beg to inviu- you , the Father of Repeal , to comc
amongst us , that w , msy shew him , by the reception we will give tju , fhi > measureless contempt we entertain both for nim and hiB abtttora . We beg to assure ^ 'J ^ k ^ tbere "re m = Dy of M who teve not before in , ^ ^ ^ r ! 1 Ilk - ' w < mld ve > P ^^^ PB , even S ^ JS ? ^ - whicl 1 *<» Parliamentar y SSS ^ V " b&Tetfe ^ iaade «» of towards ^? i f w £ Te nov determined to pursue a SS ££ * MctiDl 1 ^ course of agiialon untU ireiana is once mere a natioc "
zzyzsns : -i xv ^^^ pne ^ wbo ln the couKe of cia 8 :.-eech , in allusion to fee threata of Sir R . Peti . ud the Dake said--" Befixe he ( tbe I > uke of Wellington ) threatened ireland , be ibould remembw Waterloo , where be screamed Eke a dnugbill cock that had just got a taste of the « teeT—( Langbier . ) It is 3 fact , when he saw the French amy charging down upon his lines , and on the poaition wliere be stood , be acreambd from very fear , til ] be was surroundad by the brave aeiru and strong arms of Irishmen ; tbeo indeed , when Eurronnded by his countrymen , bis fears vanished , bis self-possession returned , and be was able to issue hi * crders with precision and effaet—( hear , Lear . j This , however , is the person who bJU tbe ftpg>y to threaten tti ; Irish
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peov' € . But we regard his threats , as O Connell says , as so lEir . y niGUths full o * " sawdust lie dare not put them in execution ; and however willing he and the English aristorcrscy may be to tyrannizs over Ireland , they dare not , and we fling back the threat with all the contempt suck fiendish expressions deserve—( hear , and cheers . ")
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^ PROGRESS OF REPEAL . GREAT DEMONSTRATION AT MULLINGAR . MuUingar , Sunday Night , May 14 th , 1843 . The great Repeal demonstration for Westmeath took place here to-day , under circumstances of the highest national importance , and exceeding ; , in the display of public feeling which it exhibited , the most splcn&id of the many magnificiest exhibitions of popular strength which have latterly occurred throughout the kingdom . The entire front of almost every bouse was hid with sreen bnshes and wreathes of flowers , and the half dczen residences that formed exception to the general rule only served to heighten the effect , in shewing by their bare wall ? ( as destitute of the enlivening hue of the national colour as the hearts of
their occupiers were of national feeling ) , how few the enemies of repeal really were . At short intervals , through all the streets—not only those through which O'ConneJl should pass , but also the streets which were wholly out of his way—were erected beautiful triumphal aTche . 3 , several of which were decorated with flags of red , grfeen , and white ; and all beariiig appropriate inscriptions , such as " Cead mil ' . e failtt-, " " Ireland for the Irish , and the Irish for Ireland , " ' Ireland » nu . ^ be a nation , " " We setk equality , to : ascendancy throngh the Repeal , " '¦* The man who commits a crime ^ c -s strength to the enemy , " We mu-t have Repeal , " " A nation of eight millions is too powerful to be dragged at the tail of any other country , " "Repeal , and ' no
Surrender , '" " Repeal , Repeal , " &c < 5 cc . JInch of the enthusiasm described in the repea ; newspapers as existing in favour of the national cause is considered by the anti-lush party a 3 exaggeration , or , at least , is represented as Mich by the Tory press ; but , as facts are not so easily combated as assertions , we leave the impartial reader to reflect what the state of the public mind thoughcut Ireland at the preseDt period must be when large bodies of men travel on foot distances of from twenty to thirty Irith miles for tbe mere purpope of swelling by their numbers the immense assemblages that congregate at the Repeal meetings , as from the extent of the crowds there mn-t be always a very doubtful chance of their being able to hear the speakers ; and the expectation of being delighted by the eloquence of Mr . O'Connell
and other popular orators can , therefore , be scarcely » sufficient inducement to them to undergo so much fatigue . One reporter , speaking of this meeting , says , — " I have seen here to-day , upwards of twelve amateur bands , many of them from localities at a Vt . ry considerable distance , and ^ each accompanied by large masses of their fellow-townsmen . Among them were the bands from Kilcock , 24 miles ; Kells , 22 miles ( drawn in an ornamental coach , with four horses ) ; Trim , 21 miles ; Philipstown , 14 miles ; Kiunegad , 9 miles ; Kilbeggan , 12 miles ; Ballinazore , 10 miles ; Castlepoilard , 11 miles ; Castletowndelvin , 11 miles ; Old Castle , ice . "— A large pluiform was erected in the market-place , which the charge of Is . for admission to it did not prevent from being most inconveniently crowded . The a = ^ mbiage was 120 , 000 i-r 130 , 000 .
Ua the motion of the Blahop of Meath , seconded by Mr . Fitzekald , Bin > AKD Mabtj . n . Esq ., Mullingar , was called to tbe chair . The Rev . Mr . Kear . vet , P . P ., Tabberclare , moved the first resolution espressive of the evils of the Union , and of their determination to use every legal and constitutional means to obtain its repeal . Jlr . Tcitk seconded the resolution which was carried . Mr . O'Coxnell then came forward , and was receireJ with deafening shouts of applause , which continued for a con-iderablc period . Ho said : WelliDgtou and Peel have proved this—that they are ready enough to show their Ueth , but they cannot
bi ' . e—( hear , hear ) . That is the entire amount of all tbeir mighty schemes . But 1 will tell you why—for the same reason that the cur dog cannot bite your hand if you keep it wrapped in your coat—( cheers aud laughter ) . We do not give them anything to bite ns on , and they cannot touch us . Now , there are two reasons why their declarations should prove aborare . First , our object is legitimate ; and secondly , our means are peaceable and lawful—( hear , he ^ r ) . Our object is torepeal an Act of Parliament , and there can be no crime in endeavouring to do that by peaceable and legal means . The crime was in iu p&ssiL * it , and it was by a multiplication of crimes thatii was originally carried- ^ - ( hear , hcar ) . | My first object is to get Ireland for the Irish—( loud cheers . )
1 am content that the English should have England , but they have bad the dominion of this country too long , and it is time that the Irish should get the management of their own conntry—the regulation of their own country—the enjoyment of their own country—tbat the Irish should have Ireland—( great and long chetrB ) . Nobody can know how to gorern U 3 as well as we would know how to do it ourselves—ru-body could know to relieve our wants as well as we would ourselves—nobody could hare fo deep an interest in our prosperity , or conld be so well fitted for remedjing our evils , and procuring kappiness for ns as we would ourselves . ( Hear , bear . ) And if I am told that the present system has been working for seven
centuries , my answer is , the more speedily is it incumbent Hpon us to break onr fetters , and to obtain the liberty of our native laud . ( Cheers . ) Old Ireland and liberty I ( . Loud cV . etH . ) Thafc ia what 1 am struggling for . ( Heir , hear . ) If I was to teil the Scotch that they slivmld not have Scotland—if I was to tell the English that they should not have England—if 1 was to tell the Spaniards that they > -hould not have Spain—or tbe French that they should not have France , they would have a right to laugh at , to hate , to attack , or to assail me in whatever manner they choose . But I do not say any such thing . What I say 13 , that as all these people have their own countries the Irish ought to have Ireland . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) What numberless advantages would not the Irish enjoy
if they possessed their own country ? A domestic Parliament would encourage Irish manufactures . Tue linen trade , and ths woollen trade would be spreading amongst you . An Irish Parliament would foster Irish commerce , acd protect Irish agriculture . The labourer , the artizan , and the shopkeeprr would be all benefited by the Repeal of the Union ; but if I were to describe all the blessings that it would confer ] would detain you bete crowding on each others backs until morning before I would be done—( laughter ) . In the first place , I ask did you ever hear of the tithe rent charge—( groans ) . Are you satisfied to be paying parsons who do not pray for you —( no , no ) . It is time , therefore , that they should be put an ei ) d to—( hear , hear ) . The people of England do not pay for the church of the
minority . _ A Voice—No , nor the people of Scotland either . You are quite right , though I think I heard the remark before— ( laughter ) . But carry home my words with you , and tell them to your neighbours . 1 tell you the people of Ireland will not be much longer paying them—( hear , hear , and cr . eers ) . I uext want to get rid of the poor-rates—( cheers ) . England does chariry in the way a person will throw a bcuc : o a dog by tlashing -. ' . in between his teeth—( ruar . uear ) . That " tbe poor law charity , the chariiy < -i the c-inn - > io « ers , inci assistant-commiMioarrs , a&d aii concerned nader tl ^ m , except the poor themselve .-, and when they do j ; ive relief , they loo ) : upon the poor as if they were criminal ? , or as if fHA <_ ny T * u > a crime to be punished by perpetual imprisonment— ( hear , hear , aud loud cheer ?) , liui 1 would relieve the poor without the imposition of
poor rat-es , aDd I would prevent you from paying any clergy but your own ( loud cheersj . I saouid no : have used the word prevent , because if any of you wished to pay both you m'ght do it if you pieiis ^ d ( laughter ) . I often asked Protestants how would they like to pay for the support of the Catholic clergy by force , and they always said they would not like it at ail , and why should the Catholics like it one bi : the better ( bean . Cobbett had a phrase for it . He used to say , " what ' s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander . " ( Laughter . ) The next thing that the Repeal would abolifch is the graud juryct ?? . ( Cheers . ) I believe it grinds some of you ? ( Cries of ' It does ? o . " ) There is not a more isiquit-us tax in the world , for it cosies on the occupier instead of on the country at large . Give me the iv ^ peal , aud the national Treasury will pay for the r . king and repairing of all the roads , bridgesand
, pu :.. ' : c buildings , and instead of the poor farmers ani occupiers paying the money themselves , it will cot . 1- . rom tho treasury , and would go in giving empl- ; iaent to those wbo have to pay it . I will tell you au ^ . her thing I want to do , I want that every heau pi' a family , every married man , and every hou .- > . L * er , should have a right to vote for members of Par ... crent . They said that I would have an interest ia that , because I would then have more votes ; bat my answer is , that if I would it is because the peopk now I am acting honestly by them , and every body Jse who does the same will be equally supported . iLoud cheers . ) The landlords now persecute those who rote differently from their
wishes , but I would institute the ballot-box . The next advantage is one that does not ranch concern the majority 01 you . It is the giving the management of their o ^ m affairs to the inhabitants of the towns , instead of their having the miserable municipal reform that ihey now possess ; bnt I will not trouble you farther with that . You know that the landlords have duties as wtll as rights , and 1 would establish the fixity of tenure ( ioud cheers ) to remind them of those duties . I wiil tell you what my plan " 1 an . d you can consider it amongst yourselves . My plan is that no landlord should rccorer rent unless he made a lease for twenty-one years to the tenant —no lease or no rent 5 ay I . ( Lo « d cheers . ) Unless he mode a lease , he wppld have do more business
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— r ] ><> king for his rent than a dog would have barking at the moon . ( Cheers and laughter . ) It , may bo eaid the landlords would , iu that case , put too high a rent on their lands , but I have a remedy for that too in my plan . ( Laughter , and cries of " More power . ") At present-, if a man goes to register his vote , he must prove on oath what a solvent tenant could pay to his landlord for his holding , and in the same ' manner I would give the tenant an opportunity of proving what a solvent tenant ought to give for his land , in order to fix the amount of rent he would have to pay . ( Cheers . ) I would give the poor man the benefit of a trial by Jury in such case , so that it would be impossible for a landlord to get
more than the fair value of his land . It may be said the poor man would be turned out of his holding at the expiration of his lease , and his land given to another , but I have a cure for that also ( cheers ) . I would allow the tenant by law every year to register , as he can now register trees that he plants , all the improvements that he makes ok his holding , and if the landlord does not pay him the full value of these improvements , he could not turn him out , but would be obliged to give him a new holding . Every tenant would then be building a better house for his pigs than he now inhabits himself , as he would be sure to get every farthing he laid out on his holding before he could be deprived of possebsion at the end of his lease ( cheers ) . Is it not worth
while , I ask you , to look for a Repeal of the Uuion for that alone ( cheers ) ? Would it not do more to produce happiness and prosperity in the country , and put an end to the horrible wholesale murders of the landlords who now send their tenants to die by twenties in the ditches , and the fearful retaliations , by assassination , that so frequently take place on th « J other side . But this is not all . Every year since the Union nine millions of money has been sent out of Ireland , after being raised from the produce of tha soil—( cries of "eh , murder , murder" ) . It is no wonder you should cry " murder , " for there i ; no country in the world where such a system would exist that must not be poor . The only countries except Ireland where anything like it occurs are
Sicily and Sirdinia , aud both of these , from having absentee landlords , aro miserably poor . There is not , however , a country in the world so impoverished as Ireland , where it has been found that there are 2 , 3 © U , 000 persons in a state of destitution every year . LoTd Eliot , the other day , gave a proof of this , for he had to admit that out of 83 , 000 poor rate payers , 44 , 000 were rated under £ 5 . For the last ten years no less than ninety millions have been drawn out of Ireland , but if we get the Union there will be ninety millions spent in Ireland that would otherwise be taken from , her—( hear , hear , and cheers ) . That will leave an average of £ 750 , 080 a month , or £ 125 , 000 a-week of six days to be spent in wages , and in giving employment to the
people—( loud cheers ) . 1 have all this within my grasp if the people join me . Now , what is there in all this tbat Wellington should stammer at in hi 6 old age , and that Peel should bluster , and get very angry about it . Even their enemies should admit the progress they had made ; and let him have but three millions of Repealers , and then he would make his arrangements for obtaining the Repeal . He would have tho Repealers send up 300 gentlemen , chosea from various parts of the country , each entruated with £ 100 ; that would be £ 30 , 000 . They should meet in Dublin to cousuU upon the best means of obtaining legislative independence . They would not leave Dublin till they would agree to an act of Parliament to establish a domestic Legislature , household suffrage , vote by
ballot , fixity of tenure , and a law against absentees having estates in the country . Many estates would then be sold in lots and purchased up by those who would th < n become small proprietors ; and it was a fact well ascertained that in proportion as the owners in fee were numerous in auy country , so in proportion were the people prosperous —( hear , heur . ) It , was truly said by Mr . Martin , their chairman , that if they had their own parliament , taxation would bo diminished to almost nothing ; for in five or pix years they would be able to pay off their portion of the national debt—the duty upon every excisable article would be reduced—they would have a pound of tea for liitlo or more than was paid for two ounces and a pound of sugar at the price of a quarter
of a pound ; the duty on tobacco would be reduced eo that there was not an old woman in the couutry who might not have her pipe lighted from morning till night if she pleased —( laughter . ) It was said that the Repeal was to be put down by force , but he did not believe a word of it , for there would be nothing against which the force could bo applied . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) They wero bringing soldiers into the country to gallop against the wind , for they had nothing else to oppose them . ( Laughter . ) He would be delighted tbat they brought a much larger number , for they would cause tbe expenditure of a good deal of money , and they were besides the friends of the people . He recollected once being counsel for some unfortunate
men at Limerick who were tried for the robbery of ammunition , and assaulting fourteen soldiers who were in charge of it , wheu the facts came out that as soon as the people discovered they wero soldiers , not police , they determined that a man of them should not be killed , but they closed in upon them , and disarmed them ; but in the strugglo the . sergeant , who fought desperately , and seven of the men , were wounded , and , as soon as they were completely in their power , they took them to the neighbouring houses , had tbeir wounds dressed , and their wants attended to , declaring , at tho same time that , had it been police who wero in it , not a man of them should be left alive—( hear , boar . ) The unfortunate men were found guilty , and it being a capital offence
for which they had forfeited their lives , Baron Pennefaher , in passing sentence on them , said , with tears in his eyes , that , when they had tho lives of others in tbeir power , they showed mercy , and he would take care to use his influence in the proper quarter to nave mircy extended to them . The people were always friendly to the military , and the feeling was reciprocal . He would be glad , then , how many of them was sent among them , and he would promise them that they would have nothing to do but amuse themselves and spend their money , which would be very pleasant to those who spent it , and those amongst whom it was spent . He again exhorted the people to continue in habits of morality and order ,
violating no law and giving their enemies no advantage over theoi—he called upon the Repeal Wardens to do their duty , and if the people followed his advice , then there would be no doubt of their success ; a song of gladness would pervade tho land , and he wouid outshout them all from his native mountains with the cry of liberty and prosperity to Ireland . They desired not to seek for Repeal by other agencies than those of peace , law , and order , and they would adhere to the constitution as long as one inch of it was left to them to stand upon—( loud cheers . ) The Honourable and Learned Gsntleman concluded by moving the presentation of an address to the people of Ku ^ land aad Ireland , ou the present state of political atf-iire , a ; . d that it be referred to the committee to prepare such address .
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numbers lflOO , the national debt of Ireland amounted to twenty millions , that of England to 446 ' millions , and if tho act of union had been framed upon honourable and equitable terms , it would have bean enacted that for the future tha respective debts of both countries should continue to bear the same proportion one to the other as they bore before the Irish Parliament was abolished—( cries of hear ) . The English Tories were cook-ahoop in their dignity , and talked very loudly and bombastically about putting down the Irish people ; but , he asked his friends on the Stock Exchange if a battle were fought to-morrow on the Curragh of Kildare between the English soldiery and the Irish peasantryno matter what might be the result to the
latterwhat would be the value of the three-and-a-half per cents , on the morning whan the tidings would reach London 1 The resistance offered on the part of the people to aggression was characterized by various titles , generally depending upon the result of the 8 trutrglo . When it failed it wa , s called a rebellion , when it succeeded it was called revolution , and he would , therefore , give it no name , but this he could tell them , that if it were announced upon the Stock Exchange that Ministers were mad enough to have recourse to physical violence against a loyal and true-hearted people , who were looking for their liberties by moans purely constitutional , the tidings would excite a panic of no ordinary description in the Money-Market , and it mattered not what gazette full of victories might follow , the three-anda-half per cents , might be purchased for fifteen shillings the morning after the battle—( hear , ' and cheers . )
Let it not be supposed that he ( Mr ; O'Connell ) was the on ' y person who had denounced the financial injustice done to Ireland by the Union , for the man was scarcely cold in his grave—who when Chancellor of the Exchequer had admitted in his place in the House of Commons that the Union exacted vastly more from the Irish people than they ought to been called upan to pay . " You contracted with her , " said he , " for an expenditure s-ho could not meet . " Vesey Fitzgerald had made that declaration , and it was one well worthy the attention of tho Tories , who instead of blustering about putting down Ireland , ought to appoint an honest committee for the purpose of inquiring with accuracy into the state of the national debt as between the two countries , with a view to relieve Ireland from her unjust proportion—( hear , hear , aud cheers ) . If the English Tories would consent to this proposition he would m % kc over to them that section of the
Repealers who wero induced to join the Repeal standard by the financial injustice inflicted on Ireland by the Union ; but if they refused , he had still that , wing of Repealers at his side . He called upon the Tories to take another' ection of Kepealersfrom his standard by giviug to Ireland a fair and equitable proportion of parliamentary voters—( hear , hear . ) Tim latest returns est'mated tho rural constituency of Cork at 4 , 000 ; but 01 that number not more than 1 , 500 voters could now bo mustered together in the agricultural districts of the county , so lamentable was the falling off ; for the franchise was perishing day by day in Ireland . Twenty-five per cent , of the population of England enjoyed the franchise , whereas it was ouly one man out of 400 that possessed a vote in
Ireland . There was fully a hundred to one in favour of England , and against Ireland ; and that was what they called justice to Ireland ! Was that a union between tho countries—( hear , hear , hear ) 1 It was madness—it was infatuation to say so . He called upon the English Tones , if they desired to rob him of his Repealers , to come forward with the sword—not of venge » nco , but of justice ! and to give to Ireland a franchise which wilt bestow the right of voting upon twenty-five percent , of her populavi . > n—( cries of hear , hear , and cheers . ) It was too limited a franchise , he confessed it , for any country , but it waa tha one ' which prevailed in ^ England , and if wo cannot obtain a full measure of justice , let us , at all events , be placed on terms of equality with our
fellow-Bubject& at the other fide of tho Channel . Tho next project to which the English Tories should direct their attention , if they wished to alienate his ( Mr . O'Counell ' s ) followers from him , was the granting to tho Irish people of au additional number of representatives . We ought , at all events , to have the means of protecting ourselves in their alien parliament . They gave us 105 msmbers , but at the very lowest calculation we ought to have as many as 150 . Wales , with its revenue of £ 34 ! J , 090 had twentynine members , while in Ireland he found that eleven hundred thousand lrishmeu were represented by four members . Others might endure that , but he would not endure it , and ho would not surrender one single Repealer to the Tories , unless that grievance was
put an end to . The next matter of justice to which Peel and his party ought to direct their attention was the extentitm to Ireland , of the game description of municipal reform bill , which was conceded to the people of England . The Irish bill was a mockery . It took from the people tho appointment of magistrates and sheriffs , and rendered it necessary , in order to the enjoyment 01 ' the municipal franchise , that a citizen should be valued to the poor ljteat £ 10 , whereas iu England every man who'was rated at all to poOr rate , it mattered not in how insignificant an amount , was permitted to exercise the borough franchise , ila would not surrender one solitary Rspealer till this monstrous grievance was remedied . The fourth subject which should engage
the attention of the Eaglish Tories , if they would estrangi the Repealers from him , was the roaioval from this country of that most crying of all evilsabsenteeism . The throe poorest countries in Europe , were the three in which absenteeism most provailed—Sardinia ., Sicily , and Ireland—( hear ) . Absenteeism was an evil not to be cured by any other means than that recommended by Dr . Lust as a cure for the toothache—total extraction—and he told Peel that without extirpating this fruitful source of misery , it was vain for him to hope for a cessation of the Repeal cry . Indeed , it was infatuation for him to indulge in such au anticipation at all , for nover ; would there be a cessation of that cry until they heard the echo of the shout which would
proclaim that the Speaker had taken the chair in the Irish House of Commons—( loud cheers ) - . What next did ho demand I—He demanded an immediate and salutary change in the relations between landlord and tenant in Ireland—( hear , hear , fhear ) . He defied Peel to take a Repealer from him as lo : i ^ as the relation between landlord and tenant remained unaltered . The seventh topic for England to turn her attention to was the state of tho bench aud the magistracy—( hear , hear , and cheers ) . The Honourable and Learned Gentleman then proceeded to refer at some length to tho judicial and magisterial appointments made by the present Government , and having dwelt for some lime on this topic , observed , that the magistrates ought to be elective
officers as in the olden times , and ho wouid never relax his efforts until he saw the power granted to every barony of electing its own magistrates—( hear , hear . ) The eighth point which he begged leave to submit to the moat attentive notice of those , who made it tbeir study to think how they could lessen tho number of his adherents , was the consideration of the purposes to which tho ecclesiastical resources of the country ought to be applied . In Ireland , tho ecolesiastical temporalities went to tho church of the minority . They had another remedy for them—the Arms' Bill—a more horrible measure was n'jver yet introduced—( hear , hear ) . He owned it—he was not of those who wished to see the people armed—( loud cries of " hear , hear . ") He wouid be glad
tha , t all Ireland , fiom the Giant " Causeway to Cape Clear was unarmed , but he would not leave any portion of them armed , and if the government disarmed them all , they should have his assistance , for he wanted to work alone by moral means . But they left the magistrates the power to take away arms from those they pleased , and to leave them with those tiiey pleased ( hear ,- hear ) . Did they forget the gun clubs that exited in the north , or that lords , and baronets , and magi . s'rates were members of those club ? ? The Orangemen paid a shilling each ; every twenty five pursoas had a rills , and the person who threw the highest number got a musket and bayonet . Now , to be sure , they would not require to have gun clubs any lonntr , for
those lords , and baronets , and magistrates could L-t , them havo the arms , and supply them with arms , without any lottery ( hear , hear ) . That was the bill tho government wero bringing in to satisfy the Repealers that they were the friends of Ireland ( heir ) . There was a clause in it making it penal , and subject to transportation for seven years , to have airy- concealed arms , or anything that could be used as a pike or weapon , and it gave liberty to search your hcu « o at any hour of thefour-and-twenty . The poor Irishman had no longer his castle . His door could be broken open , if it was not opened in a reasonable time . Those were the words of the statute . What would a young policeman standing at the door , perhaps in the rain , think a reasonable time , aud there
was no person to decide it , but the person who wanted the door to be opened 'hear ) , And then he could go in and find the families iu their beds—Oh , it was a diabolical act—( hear , hear . ) Let them go to England , and read the horrific accounts , of immorality there—and then come to Ireland , and dare to enter the bedchambers of the pure and virtuous women of this country—( hear , hear . ) That was the way they wanted to conciliate them ; and what thea followed , if in any man ' s house , out offices or grounds , there was found a concealed weapon , he was liable to be transported for seven years . He has this defence—it is not necessary to prove that he knew it to be there , but he is entitled to prove that he did not know it to be there—( hear ,
hear . ) Now he wanted to know , it in English bloody blundering , there was ever such a blander a 3 that \ Why he could prove what he knew , but how could he prove ia metaphysics what he did not know—( hear , hear . ) Yet this was the way they were going to conciliate them —( hear . ) There was a worthy farmer , named Baker , in Tipperary , who married a respectable widow , who became the mother of seven children ; one of these was at her breast when her husband was obliged to go to England , and during his absence some miscreant contrived to drop a bayonet into a tub of her milk where it was found m a few momenta after by the police . The poo * woman was taken to Clonmel , where she was brought before the magistrates , aad without judge or jury sent off out of the
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country in half an hour with one of her seven ovi rtren in her arms- ( expressions of horror ) nJti English Government intend a repetition of , 2 scenes by way of conciliating the people of Ir « S or were the English people so absurd as to ima *? d « that Irishmen would consent to be separated ( h hear )? But what was the consequence ] *' man who took an active part in havine the nn ? woman , convicted , waa afterwards shot dead bv t » * men in the presence of at least a dozen other nT ° sons , none of whom made any effort to arrest thVm " It was a horrid crime , but so was the treatment «» the poor woman . But he would not be drawing , „ comparison between them . It might be asked w £ did he not go to the Imperial Parliament to ' stat these things . What business had he there—( cheers ^ There was not an idle whipster in the House , belong to any of tbe bells or gaming-houses fn London Sv would not be willing to leave his sport and to thro
away niu dice-box in order to come and vote aM ' n- * him . He once before bad occasion to call their shout " ing beastly bellowings , " and the Speaker admit ** that he was 80 far right , that no other term could * S applied to the noises that had been made . Poor c «* den now called them " inhuman voices , " though h might as well bave repeated his name for them ( laughter ) He would not go under the chan ce ot being exposed to their beastly bellowings again , but ha would remain at home , where he would continue t expose such Acts of Parliament where he would be attended to . But -who brought in that bill ? the mild lady-like Lord Eliot ( Hear , hear . ) He wondered did his Lordship want to have mow Irish mothers trans . ported , or wouM Be devise any means to prevent a from
man ' s enemy concealing a bayonet or a pikt oa hia premises . If the bill passed , and he hoped it wonia uot—he asked was not the intention in which it \? a framed clearly to decimiateand destroy the Irish pejnj ( Hear , hear . ) Such , was the manner in ¦ which Irehad was treated . Tiiey gave her a stamp tax , a wfcisfc . tax . They were preparing to destroy every pop ^ principle in the poor law , and they were finally giviair her an infernal arms bill . Waa he wrong in calling it " infernal ? " ( Cries of no , no . ) Yes . he was wrong jr there was any more reprobatory word in theEacjL language that he could use . But the people of England imagine that because the Dake of Wellington tw » d * dies over the half of an old resolution , and because Sir Robert Peel set at defiance the Irish people , thej
wore tranquilly to submit to a union pregnant wftj such mischiefs . If they had a Parliament -in ColW green , would such a poor law exist , would bo much taxes be levied , or would the members dare to lv \ them in the face after passing such an arms bm ? ( Hear , hear . ) No—but he would allow no law toba violated , and no force or violence to be used . He was going on Thursday to Charleville , on Sunday thev would have the magnificent trades procession in Corkon Monday the great meeting in Cork would be held . On Tuesrlay he would attend the meeting in Casfcel , aad on Thursday he would be at Nenagh , and waa there any ene having the slightest apprehension that any . thing like violence or a breach of the peace would take place at any of those meetings ? But he would rem nd
the people of the law . He would have placards posted through every county telling the people that if they committed the slightest violation of the law they would continue the infliction of tb . e Union , they would impose an injury on themselves , and they would gratify their enemies . ( Hear , hear . ) If ; my magistrate or person ia authority commanded them to disperse they should do so at onca . The Irish Riot Act only allowed threa minutes to' the people to disperse , after which the troepa could flte on the people ; but he woald earnestly recommend the people to disperse at onca . Mr . O'Conn 9 li then proceeded to refer to a passage from the Standard newspaper , which contained a passage from a speech made by Sir Walter Scstt a ? ainat emancipation , in which he said that he could produce a million of Protestants from Antrim and Down to pat down the Repealers . He considered Sit Walter Scott no authority on such a matter , as he had presided at i
meeting against emancipation a fortnight before he came to Ireland , in order to ensure his popularity in thia country , and he rejoiced that h ! i brother John , who then kept the only staghounds at Killarney , took especial care not to invite him to a stag hunt , though he made the offer to Miss Eigeworth , who accompanied him . Ha did not know why the Protestants and Presbyterians of the North should not be as interested in getting the fixity of tenure , and in having the eountij prosptrous as any other persuasion—( hear , hear > . Bslfast , it was true , had a great deal of trade , but would she not have much more under the protection of a native parliament ? By the late treaty with France tha duty on Irish yarn was raised , while the duty on Eag . Hah cutlery was lowered ; but would not an Irish Parliament at once raise the duty on French wices and silks , if such au attempt waa made to raise the duty on Irish yarns under them —( heat , hear ) . But what were the facts ? Instead of tha two eounties of Antrim
and Djwn having a million of Protestants in them , the entire population of both counties was not more than half a million— ( loud cries of bear , hear ) . In Antrim there were 223 . 142 Protestants , and 87 , 351 CathuHc 3 ; and in Down 267 , 717 Protestants , and 109 . 446 Catholics , leaving the majority of Protestants in both only 2 . 34 , 062 Protestants , and one-half of these were , of course , women—and half tho remainder aged and children—the entire surplus fighting population of the two counties would , therefore , be not more than 50 , 000—( hear , hear ) . But this would not be very comfeitable if opposed even to the Catholics of Ulster alone—for in the archdiocese of Armagh there was 3 surplus Catholic population over all sects of Protestants of 783 503 . In the archdiocese of Tuam the sarplns
Catholic population was 1 , 142 800 ; in Cashel , 2 , 105 , 117 ; and in Dublin , 879 , 072 , —making in all Ireland a surplus Catholic population of 4 910 , 492—( hear ) . They 8 a w , therefore , that it was very absurd to pay any attention to Sir Walter Scott as an authority upon such a question as the present He was glad to find that the true nature ond character of the Repeal question was daily becoming better understood . Tha Times itself had admitted that the Repeal movement was not one susceptible of a sectarian complexion—no , it was s national movement intended and designed for the benefit of all classes of Irishmen irrespectively 0 * religious or political discrepancies , and this was eloquent y evidenced by the fact that every day saw a fre 3 h accession of Protestant gentlemen to tbeir standard .
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SIR J . GRAHAM'S FACTORY BILL . Manchester , Monday Evbnj . ng . — On Saturday evening laat and again by adjournment to-day , a numerous meeting of delegates from all the manufacturing districts within thirty miles of this town , was held ia their place of meeting . London-road , tor the purpose of considering the Factory Bill no * before Parliament . The meeting was very numerously attended , there being between thirty and torty delegates present . , From the statements made it was the almost unanimous opinion that ten hours a day is the ionsest period to which factory labour ought to be extended . Before the resolutions were put , the delegates from one of the districts retired , alleging that , as they were instructed to advocate eleven hours , they cou . a not take further part in the proceedings .
The following resolutions were afterwards unanimously adapted : — , -. " Tnat in the opinion of this meeting no chnfl ought to be allowed to work in any mill or factor ) , until it has completed its tenth year . . " That this meeting strongly objects to any illative enactment which would create or encourage the working of relays of young hands iu muis a . a factories againrt adult labour . . . " That a petition , founded upon the foregoing , oe drawn np , signed by tho chairman , and torwarae to Lord Ashley for preaentation to ths House 01 Commons . "
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LOYAL NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION . Tne usual weekly meeting of the Loyal National Repeal Association waa held on Monday , at the Corn-Exchange . The room was crowded almost to suffocation , aud hundreds went away from the door , unable to effect au entrance . After the handing in of funds , Mr . O ' Connell said , I havo thehonou :- to announce 'hat thr Repeal rent for the pa .-t week anv-nnts to SIX HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIX POUNDS TWKI . VE
SHILLINGS AND FoURl'EiNCK-Ctreme-dous applause which lasted t \ - > r several minutes without inten _ is . > ion ) . . Mr . O'ConueJl observed that he waa wrong in annouue-ni ; it as the Repeal rent , he should have termed it the IVol and Wellington contribution —( laughter and chetr >) . Dr . Gray was thei . < ^! ied to the chair . Mr . O'Connell mowd ihu thanks of the mreiing bi Mr . Langtree , and expressed his satisfaction that the chair had that day been occupied by three Protestant gentlemen successively—( cheers ) .
ADJOURNED MEETING—TUESDAY . E . W . O'Maijony , Esq ., was called to tho chair , and after some other busiucss , t Mr . O'Connell said that ho rose to call the attention of the association to the present state of pnblio affiirs , to the course which th ;; y threaten to take , and the mode in which Ireland ought to resist farther despotism . In co » si > : ering the steps tha . j ' nould be liiken by the British Government , and by the British people , it was most material to ascertain what the present state of the facts an .. IIU toon up the declarations of Sir Robert Peel and the Duke ot Wellington , in both Houses of Parliament , aud he fouuu in them as they appear in the uewspaper reporis , a most important and significant omission .
In those declarations tfcey recited the resolutions ~ b ( 1834 , as they were menaeious and threatecii . ' f ,, but they suppress those resolutions as far a- * they were conciliatory and promising . It was in tac : a piece of dexterity , he would call it unequalled ia its tolly as well as in its turpitude —( hear , hear , and cheers ) . They attempted to delude tho people ot England , and they thought they could delude the people of Ireland by threats . It was unjust to the people of both countries . They should have recollected that the promise followed the threat ia 1834 . Tho promise cannot be denied , and neither can it be denied that that promise was fallacious , and not carried out . It would be monstrous to allege otherwise , for no homau being could be found degraded enough
to make such an assertion . Wishing to take advantage for his country by anv means , or in any way that could offer , he did not hesitate to suspend the agitation for the Repeal in order to give England time to perform a promise so solemnly entered into j but let nobody suppose that he was at the time deluded into a belief that the promise would have been fulfilled —( hear ) . He merely wished to put England in the wrong . He said to them— " Recollect that the people of Ireland have given up tho agitation fer Repeal , and that they now look to you for justice , and the redress of their grievances . " But has any one of' those ftnerances been redressed—( hear , near ) ! On the contrary , they have been increased considerably , as he meant to ehoir them
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heforo ho pat down , for he meant to address them at some length ; and therefore those who had other business to occupy them had better be going home at once—( cheers and laughter ) . He asked had any thing been done since ' 34 . Had England assisted in doing anything for Ireland ? He did noi expect that she would act otherwise than as she had done ; but still , if they had kept up the Repeal cry after that promise , how triumphantly would Sir Robert Peel be now able to shout out u England made promises —the high word of England , that was never broken " —he would say it was never kept—( laughter)— was pledged—the plighted faith , the unstained honour of England were bound up in the pledge , and it would
have been fulfilled / ' Ho ( Mr . O'Connell ) would not say one word about Limerick , to be sure , while Peel would be so boasting —( hear , hear , )—but boast he assuredly would , and exult he would . He would say , iv there can be no doubt the grievances of ireland would be redressed , but they wanted separation . They wanted not justice , but whey had a vexatious and rebellious cry for separation between the two countries . " If , under tuch circumstances , the people of Ireland continued to agitate , they would do so only through the timidity that must naturally arise within them from the recollection of the broken faith of England in . former times ; but m ? ny of those who join us now would be far from joining us then . ( Hear , hear . ) It was also to be recollected that the
reform parliament had then been only just institutea , and its working had not yet been known ; and Sir Robert Peel would also have relied on that fact . They would thus be placed in aa unpleasant a position as ever public men were placed in ; but on the other hand , see how triumphantly they were placed . ( Cheers ) By their actions—though not by i ' nr belief—they gave to England tho opportunity of doing thea . There were two grounds of apathy and indifference towards the Repeal agitation : one of these was caused by tho agitation having been abandoned for a time , and many honest men icared that it had not been seriously revived —( hear , hear ) —and the other was the policy adopted by the Whigs in the notorious declaration of Lord
Ebrington , now Earl Fortescuc , against the Repealersthe paltry attempt at corrupting the youth of Ireland by bribery—the effort made to corrupt the waters of social life , bo that those who drank of what ought to be the pure spring of patriotism imbibed only baseness and turpitude , and the personal expectations of po'itical benefits—( hear , hear ) . Where were the bar that used to surround them at former times 1 Lord Fortescue can tell . They are still afraid that the Whigs may come into power agaiu , and that they would be excluded from promotion . Shame on the Irish bar for having at length deserted their country—( cries of shame , shamo ) . Bnt tho Repealers could do without them . They had a sufficient number of the honest portion
of the bar to do the public business ; and with that portion , and the popular strength that was collected nround them , and the aid of that Providence that ho hoped was watching over the destinies of the country , they would go on—( loud cheers ) . Ho had boon aware that that public apathy could not continue much longer . Ho knew how anxious the people really were for their country , and that the moment he was able to cry out " Ireland for the Irish , " he would have a talisman that would bo irresistible ia rousing the patriotism of tho country . But as soon as he saw a predisposing sentiment of a higher order of agitation , his hopes brightened . When he called 1843 the Repeal year , many persons laughed and sneered at him . Who laughed
aud sneered now ? In point of history how then were' they circumstanced ? Peel and Wellington threatened them ; they came out with their declaration of a throat . They are , forsooth , to apply to Parliament for more power , that they may put down the exercise of a constitutional power . But will they do it —( hear , hear ) . Ho would not discuss tho prudence of their doing so for a while , but this he would say , for the present , that the threat had come forth : the brutum fulmen had been announced . Tho thunderbolt had been heard to hiss but not to roar through the upper air , buc the Irish people despised it . What was the first response \ The great meeting 0 ? Westmeath—( loud cheers ) . He was not exaggerating when he said that tens of
thousands , and he believed he did not exaggerate when ho said more than 100 , 000 persons were assembled there . But whatever the numbers were the assemblage was majestic , and it was also well conducted . The people were civil towards each other , and their mutual politeness prevented the pressure of the crowd from injuring any person . They were sober , good humoured , and steady , while they exhibited the most marked hatred of their enemies and the strongest love of their friends . They met to hear the advantage of the Repeal talked of , but there was a pre-gone conviction in their own minds that required no instruction to them . Let Wellington and Peel know that that was their reply to their menacts . When they said "the
resolution of 1 ( 534 , he would say " the meeting in Westmeath" —( cheers . ) And was it no answer to them that they had £ 696 12- -. 4 d ., and he would not forgive Peel one penny of it—( loud cheers . ) But ought not tho people of England , and the statesmen oi England consider whan steps they ought now to take . They should -recollect that the Irish people violate no law , infringe no statute , are fcuilty of no violence . There shall bo no rebellion while he lived . The name of it should not be heard . The Irish people would attack no one , but ho would not say that , if attacked , they would not defend themselves —( enthusiastic cheering for several minutes . ) The Repeal would be carried by legal means , or , at least , by means that wero constitutional —( hear , hear . ) But the English , it seemed , did not like the cry for
Repeal . If they did not , why did not they join them in insisting that justice should be done to Ireland—( hear , hear . ) Tae Tory party never attempted to apply the proper remedy for tho ills of Ireland . He s ated at Mullingar that they acted like tho Frenchman who attempted to fatten his horse . He tried one day a purgative , another day a pill , another day a drench , and then he tried more medicine , he supposed Morison ' s pills—( laughter . ) At length he tried tobacco water , but the horse would not fatten by all the trials , and at length somebody asked him " did you ever try oats "—( hear and laughter . ) Ia the same manner England tried every means of tranquillising Ireland except the oats—the doing her justice —( hear , hear . ) She tried coercion bills , transportation bills , peace preservation bills . A Voice—The arms bill .
Mr . O'Connell—That had not passed yet , but he would come to it by and bye . But would it not become the people of England really to see whether the Irish people had not grievances to complain of ? —cc | iild the English minister hold bo high a tone towards the King of France now , as if he could say that England , Scotland , and Ireland would man their arinius and navy ; but waB it so 1 Could he tell the Emperor of Russia or the King of Fiance to fear him—could he tell the Americana not to dare infringe on the British boundary ? They would reply to him in the short and emphatic word , " Ireland "—( hear and cheers ;) and it would be a reasonable answer for them to give him , for heaven forbid that England ehould be strong as long as she is
unjust towards Ireland —( cheers . ) No , they well knew that the Irish people , attached as they aro by allegiance to the throne , have still one love higher than that or any other passioru and that is love of their native land , and that thly will not miss any opportunity of compelling England by the foyca of circumstances to < lo Ireland that justice which she is so rehiciant to afford —( hear and cheers . ) Was it not proper and befitting that the English people affected as they appeared to be towards this question , should seriously consider how to put an end to the Repeal agitation ? This seemed to be the desire of Wellington ; for this object Sir Robert Peel proposed to be in an especial degree desirous . Surely it was not possible for him ( Mr . O'Coiinell ) to
pursue a more generous or more disinterested course than that which he adopted when , he proceeded to show his opponents how to take the Repealers from him—how to disperse the forces which had congregated around his peaceful standard—how to reduce him from the giant which he had now become , according to the representation of the Times to his natural and befitting condition of a political dwarf—( laughter , and cries of" hear , hear" ) . For his own part he declared most emphatically that he would never abandon the Repeal—no boon would induce him to do so—no threat would coerce him , for he considered that no temporary advantages could compensate to a country for the loss which she sustained in charaofcer , dignity , and prosperity , by the absence
ol that protection which it vf&s in the power of a domestic legislature alone to confer . But while he made this declaartion for himself , it surely could not but be admitted that he acted a generous and magnauiaioua part in explaining to hiB opponents the course they ought to adopt if they desired to lessen his force 3 and weakeu the effect of the Repeal agitation . Sufficient had already occurred , even since the launching forth of the brutum fulmen , to convince the Tories that the course which they were at present pursuing was not calculated to diminish the numbers of the Repealers . It had ar . effect exactly opposite ; it had served to increase their numbers a hundred-fold and had but added further fuel to the flame they were desirous to extinguish . Yes , the declarations of Peel and Wellington had had a most marvel Iou 3 ( fleet throughout the country . Men , who were silent before spoke—men who had been torpid
were now awake to fresh energy , and those who were heretofore neutral had now come forward to take a deoisive part . It was clear , therefore , that their present policy had failad in a lamentable degree , and it was right that they should bethink them of some more efficacious expedient whereby to put down the Repeal agitation . There were eight or nine propositions , he would enumerate them seriatim , to which they ought to direot their attention , with a view to attain the object , to them so desirable , of diminishing the Repealers . The first Bubject to which they should direct their most serious consideration , and which was indeed well worthy of their attention , was the financial iBJustice inflicted on Ireland by the act of union . This was a grievance which it behoved them to remedy effectually and expediently if they would carry out their project , la the year 1799 , or he would say for round
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Depreciation of Property in Brighton- At a meeting held at tho Town-hall , on Monday , the proprietor of th- > . Bedford hotel appealed agamst a charge of £ 1 , 250 in poor ' s rates ; and counsel na'i ^ been heard , tho assessment was reduced to i" > Mr . Peg * ( tho hotel-keeper ) stated that thereof ;; of his business for the year ending May 1 , 18 M , we « £ 1 , 200 less than for the same period in 134-.
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 27, 1843, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct804/page/8/
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