SCOTLAND.

Afr. O'Connell arrived at 1!additr:!ol CO the evening of Wednesday, the 16th in,tant, and the next dr,y proceeded to Newington, where he was met by the preeessien of the Edinburgh Trades, who greeted him with loud :nig enthusiastic cheers.

Ile was dressed (says the Elinburpli (11,serrer) in a green surtoat, and pantaloons with a ereen travelling-cap, encireled by a gold bad, amid seemed it: exce'llent heelti aud spirits. The people crowded around hie ear- Hoge in their engerness to get a near view of hint, anil lie replied to tier: sada- tations with the greatest tilfaldlitv and good-humour. I I•re part of the 1,17:: j.C.- sion having filed round Mr. O'Connell's carrialto, the reinaieing portion soak their place in the rear. In this order the whole tittn.c.1 hae't to the town, pro- ceeding along the bridges to the Waterloo Hotel. Mr. O'Connell here left his carriage, and entered the large room, where the Committee and several ladies were assembled to receive him. After having been introduced by Mr. Aytotta to these gentlemen, an I also to same of the ladies, the Committee formed three deep, placing Mr. O'Connell in the centre, and walleed to the hustings, winch were erected on the North part of the Calton 11 ill, ionnediateht licaiod the Monument. The early part of the day being reinark.ably sue, the procession, as it moved through the city, had tha most imposing effect, a long line of gorgeous banners being seen lb:lung as fir as the eye cored reach, while the windows on every. side were filled with anxieus spectatirs, including a greet proportion of ladies, many of whom waved their handkerchiefs as Mr. O'Cua- Dell passed. There were, to be sure, a few hisses fu-unit some windows opposite the College, but they were soon drowned by the accumulated cheers of the crowd. "The most striking part of the scene was the appearance of the Calton Hill, every part of which emninanding a view of the procession was crowded with well-dressed people. We cannot give an idea of the number assembled in this quarter, especially on the space around the hustings, but it must have amounted to many thousands; as at the termination of the proceedings, a denae body continued for a long time to your out at the two approaches leading to the hill. Twenty-six of the trades mmed in the procession. The tunnels were mostly the same as those used at the Jubilee, and the entry of Earl GI e3-: few, however, were prepared thm the occasion, among the most conspieuaus which was a green flag, hearing the device

O'Connell, the Chatnitiou of the Pculle, Tacit in temptation, Strengthened in distress."

" The United Irishmen," who formed a very numeroua body, hail many of their national emblems; and we were particulaily pleataal with the respectable appearance which they presented. the whole of them wearing white pantaloons, besides being decorated with handsome green unifirrrn sashes. The appearance of the other trades was also highly creditable to them, the members being ha- hited in their holiday suits.

In the centre, or rather at one corner, Uliere nothing interposed ire- tween him and the sloping side of the Calton Hill towards the sea, stood the stalwart form of the orator, projected against the sky. He gazed on the Parthenon and the monuments of the illustrious dead and the finest panoramic view of the city, plain, sea, and the distant bills: the SCOW was inexpressibly sublime. The reception of O'Con- nell by the immense assembly combined solemnity with enthusiasm. After the address from the Trades had been presented, Mr. O'Cnsa- nell commenced his speecb. " Mtn of Scotland, I hav i e sai for you ; I come here to tell you the news. The Tories in England say they will come into power again. They repent that they permitted the Reform Bill to be carried ; and I have no doubt that their repentance is sincere. (Laughter.) There is no mockery at all about it; and I tell you, that although they have put forth much hypocriey and delusion, they are equally sincere in their determining to defeat the object of the Reform Bill, and to bring back the tyranny of Toryism. But they never shall succeed. I have seen one hundred thousand proofs to-day that they never shall succeed. I have traversed the broad lands of England; I have visited her great commercial towns; I saw swarms of ner intelligent operatives pouring forth by hundreds of thousands, determined that Britons never shall be alaves.' I have come to your lovely land. I never had the honour to set my foot on Scottish ground till yesterday ; and from the first moment I entered your cultivated soil till this instant, when I see such a multitude assembled to meet me, my heart has thrthbed with pleasure, and glowed with a fresh love for human freedom. And when I look around me, not only on the vast quantity of goodly beings who have surrounded me this day, and the congregated myriads I now see before me—but when I look upon the splendid panoramic views which now meet my eyes on every side—oh ! when I see that beautiful scenery, lover of nature as I have always been, my entranced soul exclaims, Where is the coward who would not fight for such a land ?' (Loud cheers.) Yes; we are safe from the inroiuls of Toryism. Long has Scotland felt the galling chain of the Dun. dases—that gang of peculators, who fell off from the public only when, like leeches, they could gorge and swallow no more. But they had a fresh gang of Dundases in stole for you. I remember the time when a man in Edin- burgh who would have dared to address a public meeting as I am now address- ing you, would the next week have been sent on board a transport to visit the far distant shores of the .Pacific, if he was lucky enough to escape a morning walk to the Grassinarket. During the Dundas reign thought itself was not free ; for a man on whose brow might be read a frown of indignation was held to have committed a crime against the majesty of Toryism. But, worse than that, they employed spies ; they sent among the Liberals of the day their mi- nions of blood, who promoted the spirit of freedom that they might the more easily sell it for lucre and for gain, and enrich themselves with the blood of men."

Was such a state of things aguin to exist in Scotland ? It could not ; for Scotchmen, who never yet broke a vow, had sworn to keep out the Tories —

" When England attempted to coerce the consciences of your ancestors, they registered a vow in heaven, they thew their broadswords, and they never sheathed them till they obtained perfect freedom of religious belief. But not only when you have succeeded, but even your defeats have shown that you are an unconquerable people; and Peel and Wellington might as well attempt to shake this rock to its base, as to drive back the Scotch when determined to obtain reform. And can there be stronger proof of this than the manner in Which you have this day received me—a humble and, personally, an insignificant individual, with an Irish accent which must grate upon your esirs, and a Popish creed which you have beers taught to hate ? With all these prejudices, nu-

tional and religioua, yet I have been received among you with a enthu m sias

which I have never seen exceeded even in the green vales of my own lovely land. Is it with pride that such a reception should inspire me? Shall I in.. dulge my own varsity by attributing to any thing connected with myself the breathless attention with which this multitude listens to Ore? No; though the gratitude I feel is such as no language can deseribe—though I am delighted above all the dreams of youthful poets, or the visions of anchorites, when they fancy that heaven has opened upon them—yet I wrong not you, and wrong not myself-1 know that it is tint the man but the cause—it is Or z the individual but the ptinciple—it is not the advocate hot the plea—it is not the rep' esenta- tire of a portion of the Pet plc, but a friend of liberty to all mankind. Yes,

and you have met here to prove that you coincide in these principles. In the eloquent address which has la en read, in which you have pronounce:I an elabo- rate panegyric upon my sera ices, you have given literal exprvssion to my prin. elides. I an) of the People—my order is the order of the People. You have had high and haughty aristocrats among you, as advocates of freedom, but you felt that their feelings were dillremit flours vs ur s. I am of the People : I contend that there shall be no restraints upon them hut for crime or oifemmee ; I insist upon good and upon cheap government. Ihave long struggled in the cause of religious freedom. 'When I was born dark clouds hovered over my native laud. Those who sought to worship God in the manner in which their fathers worshipped, in sincerity and truth, were proscribed as aliens in the land which gave them birth. I hardly remember the period when the aspirations did not throb in my bosom to be able to remedy these evils and banish these mischiefs. I have struggled keg for it. Not for a sectarian triumph ; not for a victory of one sect of Christians over another ; but for the sacred principle of freAtim of con- science to all. I never put it on any other footing. We Roman Catholics, blessed be the great God, succeeded; but not until we had obtained liberty for Protestant Dissenters, which we did a year before we achieved our own liberty. I have long been of opinion that 17:ah C:11010t have too much or enough of

gion between himself and his God. It is a question of awful concern, not limited by time or space, but involving an eternity of weal or wo. I have long been impressed with this feeling, awl I respect those who feel with the saw intensity, leaving the question between himself and God as to who is in error. With these sentiments overpowering me, I insist that human law shall be confined to human action ; and I call that man a blasphemer who interferes between the created and the Creator, whose name be blessed for ever ! That is my principle of action, and it is the principle which has congregated you here together to-day to testify your approbation to these Christian sentiments. I have always insisted that government was made for man, and not man for government—that rulers were made for the People, and not the People for the rulers."

He was for the extension of the suffrage, for T‘iennial Parliaments, and the Ballot ; but was opposed to the hereditary House of Lords-

" The Lords are determined to regain their former power, and to swindle you out of the Reform Bill. They made a desperate attempt upon England at the last election : an attempt which was worthy of one of those worthy drill. corporals they call generals—it was worthy of Wellington. He made a bold attempt again to possess himself of power, and it had nearly succeeded. The fact is, we Radicals were not sufficiently ready to make allowance for the po- sition in which the Whigs were placed, and the Whigs were not sufficiently alive to the necessity of carrying the People along with them. They were inclined to put confidence in the Court faction, and they thought that common sense would teach that faction to leave the Whigs in, rather than put them out to make way for Reformers of a more determined character. But the Duke did make the attempt; be seut his military adventurers with full powers to Ireland, and he sent his legal adventurers to the freemen of the old boroughs of England,—where men are called freemen for no other reason than because they are willing to sell themselves for slaves. He hired, he bought up the press : hired that instrument of venality and corruption the vagabond Times ; he even bought up that wretched tag the Morning Herald. Ile succeeded in his attempt in England ; for there was a majority of 27 of the English and Welsh Members against human liberty. But Scotland stood by her colours well; the flag of freedom floated over her cities, her counties, and her towns ; and Scotland scut a majority against the Duke of IS out of 53. That, however, would not answer ; there was still a majority of nine against liberty. Elm hurrah for paor Pat—( Great laughter)—Pat drove into the thick of the, fight. ( Cheers.) It's a custom be has ; and really, gentlemen, he cannot help it. ( Continued laughter and cheers.) He would be braver than either English or Scotch, if braver than either of these brave nations could be found ; but he well deserved to stand along with them. Well, Paddy sent a majority of 33 for liberty ; and here am I, as large as life, one of them. ( Great laughter and cheering.) And though all the 33 cannot talk as long and as loud as I can, yet they are all equally devoted to the amelioration of our institutions, and to

the ultimate triumph of freedom. Well, we gained the victory ; but though the Commons are with us, yet the House of Lords are against us, and they have determined that they will not concede a portion of freedom which they can pos- sibly keep back. 'I hey have stood upon the limits of abuse, and have declared, with respect to improvement, ' thus far shalt thou come, and no further.' They have assumed the prerogative of the Creator ; and as the Almighty has set bounds to the ocean, so the evil principle of Manichwism has entered into the Lords, and they have said to human improvement—' There is your boundary, and the Lords won't permit you to pass it.' But we have burst many stronger barriers than this, and this also shall be broken down, and it will not be endured that one hundred and seventy men shall have the control of millions. Oh ! but say some, it is an ancient institution. Now I should be glad to know if one hun- dred and seventy damsels of the Court of George the Fourth, faded and tooth-

less as they must now be, were to be allowed to stop the progress of useful mea- sures and prevent liberty from extending in a 'country where the arts and

sciences and mauufactures are extending on every side, what you would do with the old ladies? I suspect that, notwithstanding your respect for the sex, you would kick them out. Now I like the one hundred and seventy old women in pantaloons much less than the one hundred and severity old women in petticoats. I have come on a omission to rouse Englishmen and animate Scotchinen to put their shoulders to the wheel and help us to dismiss the one hundred and severity pantaloon wearers, as we have turned out the old corpo- rators, every man of 'cur, and substitute a principle of connuon sense in their room."

He called upon Reformers of all shades to unite. Unanimity was of no avail if a man said, " I'll be unanimous if you agree with me"-

5' The unanimity of statesmen and patriots is not an abarulonment in principle, but a compromise in the working out of it, in order to insure general consent— to secure the operation of it with perfect safety. The Whigs have gone far enough at present ; they will go the rest by degrees, if they are not shoved on too fast. They introduces! two great measures; and it was near the fag-end of the session ere the Tories allowed them : the one of these measures was Corpo- ration Reform, the other was for the peace and tranquillity of Ireland. The Lords mutilated the-one and assassinated the other. But that was not the fault of the Ministry : they deserve your support. I am a good Radical, and as ultra as need be in abstract opinions ; but I am a practical man. I run willing, practically, to support and advocate measures of utility, giving me a better title to shove Ministers on if they should stop, and to oppose them if (which I am sure they never will do) they attempt to secede. Let us be unanimous. The Lords are unanimous. The Tories are unanimous: they are all agreed as to their ends, and not over scrupulous in their means. Why, Tories, the word

originally signified a robber, and it has never deviated from its original signifi- cation ; and, what is worse, it meant an Irish robber ; but here the name has deviated, fur the English awl Scotch Tories have carried oil more public plun- der than was ever seized by the Irish mountaineers under the name of Tories."

He again called upon them to unite against the Tories—

"You have already practically recognized this doctrine, by returning two Whigs ; when every Radical at the last election gave them his hunest and disinterested support ; and on another occa.sion I have no doubt the Whigs will he found giving their suirpfirt to honest Hz:die:di. But ye must keep cut the Tories ; their power is strong, and their plans dangerous to behold. Gentlemen, I have detained you too long. I have delighted myself with thinkiug aloud ' in your presence. From you my thoughts wander to the oppressed land of my birth. I remember her romantic valleys and her splendid hills ; the evergreen verdure of her plains ; tile sound of her mountain streams falls on any ear ; the rush of

her waves against the cliffs announcing with the voice of en rnity, that that nation is not to be enslaved nor degraded. My countrymen will hear with de-

light the manner in which I was received in England aud in Edinburgh.

(Long and loud cheering.) That shout shall reach from one end of Ireland to the other ; and many a true -hear ted Irishman will feel his heart animated

and uplifted within him when he hears how Scotland has received the humble individual now before you. Many an Irish mother, while she hugs her babe to her breast, and sings it to repose with an Irish air, will mix the noble strain

with Auld Langsyne,' or • Scots wha has wi' Wallace bled ;' and as the ac- cents lull her babe to sleep, will raise a prayer to God to bless the generous people who stood by ould Ireland in her days of need." (Immense applause.) [During the delivery of this speech the immense multitude was unu- sually attentive—they were a mass of eager listeners. A writer in the Courier says, that Mr. O'Connell "spoke so clearly and loudly that

all the multitude beard, and they caught up every syllable. They scarcely cheered ; but it was obviously owing to the intensify of the interest which they felt that they remained so silent. O'Connell sitar this, and alluded to it ; but it wits a great addition to the labour of his address. He never obtained a minute's respite to draw breath, which applause allows, but saw anxious eyes and ears drawing in his words as fast as he gave them utterance. The Tories may study these facts. They show that he was not addressing an ignorant rabble, but a thinking People; and when the People think, the Peers, even, would do well to think too, and to mark the signs of the times."]

After a vote of thanks to the Lord Provost for the use of the ground, and a few words from Mr. Aytoun, the multitude dispersed in good order ; and Mr. O'Connell with his friends returned to the Waterloo Hotel.