respect. ferences. We may again quote the Scotsman on this

point.

Protestantism ? nalist, but of a sober Whig.

Scotland as one whom of all others they delighted to honour. ception of Otoertexte among our Northern fellow citizens. It is The Tories are now forced to pretend that men of " respectability" plain that the union of the different classes of Reformers has be abstained from giving him countenance, and that the dinner at come more firm. It was in their disunion that PEEL founded his Edinburgh was attended by few except the rabble. This is Oise: chief hope of being able to form a Ministry. But at a dinner in lute falsehood—a lie which will deceive none but idiots. The honour of OCONNELL, the lualths of Lord MELBOURNE and the fifteen hundred who formed the party at that dinner were the Ministers were toasted with ecrdial applause. This is gall and men who elected the Members for Edinburgh : they belonged to wormwood to the Tories ; but it should inspire the Liberals with that class which can at any time control the Government of the confidence and joy..

rountry—to that class which possesses by far the lergest portion of In Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, O'CoN-

int4.41igence,virtue, and property of any in the country—to the middle NELL held but one language himself, and heard but one sentiment class, in short. The leading Whigs were absent; but what of that ? from the multitudes he addressed, respecting the House of Lords. The men who set up or put aside the leading Whigs were there. The peaceable, and legal, but thorough reform of the Upper Legis- The men without whose aid the leading Whigs are persons of lative Chamber has become a National cry. It is no longer pre- exceedingly little consequence were there. The absentees coin- mature to agitate the subject. The country is now prepared for omitted a blunder in not putting themselves at the head of the it. The conduct of the Peers during the last session has con- Movement ; but the Movement went on very well without them. vinced even moderate men that the House of Peers must be re- There was no disorder, no abuse. The tone of the meeting was modelled. On this point Mr. O'Cosismee is by no means an zealously Liberal ; but perfectly decorous. An attempt to be Ultra. He is for preserving a second Elective Chamber, the sarcastic at the expense of Lord Jolter RUSSELL was put down members of which may be Lords, for any thing he cares; but he promptly and peremptorily. In future the more timorous among is strongly in favour of two Chambers. There are, however, many the Whigs must have small apprehensions of any thing violent sound thinkers, and many active spirits, who are opposed to having

from the Liberal party. any second Chamber. The question, the Peers should know, is

It was from a meeting so constituted and so conducted in the not so much whether it be right to remodel the constitution of iestaital of Presbyterian Scotland, that the " Popish Arch-Agitator" their Lordships' House, but whether its entire abolition would met with the most cordial, the most respectful attention. Every not be advisable. This is a subject which the speeches of one, and we are not surprised at it, was charmed with his elo- O'CONNELL have by this time rendered familiar to the thoughts quence. They who had heard O'CONNELL described as an . and conversation of the People. Behold another consequence of overbearing bully found that they had misconceived entirely the his Scottish tour.

style of his oratory. In all the principal places which °Costs/ELL has visited, there

"We expected (says the Scotsman) a Stentorian voice,. a manner untutored, have been immense masses of people collected; but not one act of coarse, stormy, and denouncing. Instead of this, we found a thoroughbred violence, not one accident has occurred. The 150,000 assembled %mini-, who seems to have studied the art of elocution with great care. His on the Green at Glasgow were as peaceable as any dinner-party at voice is soft, but of great compass, and better fitted, we would say, to persuade Holland House. There is that consciousness of power in the than terrify. His person is tall aud somewhat corpulent, and his round, full minds of the masses which has a strong tendency to prevent face gives an impression of jolly good humour. NS e speak, however, on this point with diffidence., as we were not near enough to him in the hall to catch tumult. There is also a confidence that under the MELBOURNE the expression of his eye. Ills general manner is easy, yet the ease speaks of Ministry, while they obey the laws, they will be protected from early stony; his action striking, but seldom overcharged. The charm of his outrage. Let timorous politicians reflect on this, and cast oratory, however, lies in its infinite flexibility. He knows how to touch every away their ignorant dread of the People. Let them also consider chord with the hand of a master : lie is gay and grave, sarcastic, humorous, pathetic, and indignant by turns ; and his voice and gesture adapt themselves whether Men who conduct themselves under circumstances of most happ;ly to the hue of his thoughts. The matter of his speeches seems unusual excitement, like the men of Manchester, Nee castle, perfectly unstudied, as if it were the spontaneous produce of his feelings at the Edinburgh, and Glasgow, are not fitted to be the recipients of Instant. There are DO traces of yore-arrangement, no high-wrought passages, and to exercise more extensive political rights than many thou-- smelling of the lamp, and forced in for effect. Ile passes from one key to sands of them now enjoy. O'CONNELL'S tour has demonstrated another, from the calm to the vehement, from humorous sketches to bursts of passion, the auditor hardly knows how, yet the transition seems always natural, the safety and reasonableness of extending the elective franchise, When his health was drunk, he spoke an hour and ten minutes—the length of and the folly of a just and Liberal Government regarding the two fashionable sermons—yet his auditors hung on his words with intense and People with apprehension and distrust. This is not the least iantiring interest to the last sentence. In his printed speeches the tropes often important among._the advantages resulting from the O'CONNELL appear misplaced or unnatural ; but printed speeches are always less or more progress in the North. obridged : and then the fascination of his voice, manner, and gesture, are

wanting."

O'CostsrEee's speech was, in fact, one of his very best in manner THE TITHE WAR IN IRELAND. and in matter. That it should produce an extraordinary effect on

Lis auditory is not wonderful; but it is clear that lie did not ad- THE Tithe campaign is about to be reopened in Ireland. Already dress notes of preparation for the struggle between the clergy dress a reluctant assembly, or one prejudiced against him. Any the people are heard in the counties of Cork and Li tuking feeling of the kind, if it had existed, was removed by his Limerick. There TOPICS 10F THE DAY. noble and affecting appeal in the morning from the Calton Hill,

in behalf of the rights of conscience. It could not be denied by ' the most straitlaced Presbyterians, that the Catholic might be as

O'CONNELL IN SCOTLAND. sincere in his erroneous belief as any one of themselves. All he O'CONNELL has triumphed in the North. The Tories predicted claimed was freedom from persecution on account of that belief. his defeat. The Liberator of the Irish millions, the successful He did not even ask for the Catholics what the Scotch Presby- and untiring champion of civil and religious liberty everywhere, terians had fiercely demanded and proudly won for themselves.— was to be hooted out of Scotland, because he is a Catholic! Re- that their religion, being that of the majority, should be the ligious prejudice was to prevail over every nobler and better feeling Established faith. It was civil and religious liberty in the true among the countrymen of JOHN KNOX. These were the hopes sense of the term, simple justice, no favour, far less the power and prophecies of the Tories. They erred—these selfish and to oppress others, that O'CONNELL so eloquently pleaded for. factious men—they erred as they constantly do, in attributing Here he struck the chord which can never fail to respond in base, narrow-minded, and ungenerous sentiments and principles the hearts of the Scottish People. to the mass of the People. The object of their dread and exe- Let the Liberal Ministers then take courage and fail not to per. cration was welcomed with open arms and a shout of joy. It ceive that even in Scotland the dislike of the Catholic faith is a was not a question of creeds which O'CONNELL went to Scotland to thing distinct from a wish to perpetuate the abuses of the Irish discuss; and the men of Scotland knew this, and acted accord- Church. Let them learn from the reception of O'CoNreet.e, that ingly. He was the missionary of political amelioration; and as the spirit of bigotry is abated in the land, and the love of equal such was bailed throughout his progress with enthusiasm and justice become stronger than ever in disregard of theological dif-

lire call upon men of all parties, but especially on those who " The dinner is the first striking demonstration of popular regard and affec-

pretend to the character of statesmen, to ponder well the cir- tion witnessed in Scotland towards a Catholic, and that Catholic a man cumstances of O'CONNELL'S reception hi Scotland,—for they are who has gained his celebrity by contending for the religious rights of his own

sect. Bigotry is the master-failing of our countrymen. Our ancestors fought the most striking signs of the times. ,i a hard battle for the establishment of their faith ; and their posterity have held

O'CONNELL is not a Catholic in name only; he is known to be it with a tenacity which had no small taint of intolerance. We consider the an ardent and uncompromising Catholic : he is identified with dinner as a great public tribute by the mass of our population to the principle Catholicism ; and his public career has been such that it is quite of religious liberty. On this point O'Connell occupies high ground. lie impossible to separate the idea of the man from his creed. To has never said 'We Catholics are the majority of the Irish People; and therefore our Church ought to be the endowed Church of the State,' though he has the the stern Protestants of North Britain his faith is and must be authority of Protestant writers for holding this language. From first to last he

peculiarly hateful. The habits of acting, thinking, and speakin/ has merely contended for the abolition of religious distinctions and preferences,

of the Scotch are very different from those of Irishmen ; an and the civil equality of all sects. It is plain to us, that the complete establish. O'CONNELL is an Irishman intus et in cute. No effort was ment of this principle would work immense good, in promoting the growth of

Christianity and securing the peace of the world. The two dissenting clergy. spared to rouse Scotch prejudices into full action against him, men who officiated at the dinner, and the others who were present, will robo- tic was maligned morning and evening in the newspapers; all bly be abused for assisting at a Pte in honour of a Catholic. In our opinion, if approve of their conduct."

Instead of being mobbed, he was received by the People of The abatement of bigotry is not the only fact proved by the re-

Scotland as one whom of all others they delighted to honour. ception of Otoertexte among our Northern fellow citizens. It is The Tories are now forced to pretend that men of " respectability" plain that the union of the different classes of Reformers has be abstained from giving him countenance, and that the dinner at come more firm. It was in their disunion that PEEL founded his Edinburgh was attended by few except the rabble. This is Oise: chief hope of being able to form a Ministry. But at a dinner in lute falsehood—a lie which will deceive none but idiots. The honour of OCONNELL, the lualths of Lord MELBOURNE and the fifteen hundred who formed the party at that dinner were the Ministers were toasted with ecrdial applause. This is gall and men who elected the Members for Edinburgh : they belonged to wormwood to the Tories ; but it should inspire the Liberals with that class which can at any time control the Government of the confidence and joy..