29 AUGUST 1840, Page 6

A meeting in Dublin of the united parishes of St.

Nicholas Without, St. Luke, and the Bishop's and Derm's Liberties, was held on Sunday, for the purpose of aiding the cause of Repeal. Several resolutions aud speeches, of the usual kind, set forth the injuries of Ireland from the Union, and that no justice would be obtained from the United Legisla- ture. As a specimen of the kind or oratory which the Dublin people were assembled. on a Sunday to listen to, the following passage from the speech of Mr. Reynolds may be taken-

" I was in London during the debate on the Repeal question. I heard that wretched renegade, Spring Ricc—nmv my Lord Monnt-Kiie—state in the House of Commons, that Ireland was improved and improving, and that every measure they prepared for Ireland was hrr tier benefit. Ile had from Ireland a body of men aiding him in putting forth a string of falsehoods. W hy,' said he, 'the Irish are -better clothed than they used to be ; for they used to wear frieze, and now are wearing English broad-cloth.' But Mount-Kite did not tell them where the Irish got the broad-cloth. But I'll tell you how ; they got the cast-off clothes of the cut-throat, self-destroying English."

The resolution which Mr. Reynolds concluded by moving was a vote of confidence in Mr. O'Connell ; who readily availed himself of the opportunity to make a speech. Before he began, however, he called for three cheers for the Queen, mid three cheers for Repeal ; which were heartily given. lie commenced his address in the following character- istic 1111£1111101!— " If you wish to know what brought me here to-day, I will tell you. I came here to beg your pardon : I came here to tell you why I appear to have broken a promise which I made on this very spot some ten years ego. At that time I told yon, I would continue fixed in my determination to redeem that pledge by reraline. the Irnion. Notwithstanding that, I gave up the agita- tion ; and, if you allow me I will make to: humble apology hir having given up my own opinion to what I coesidered the better Judgment of men whom knew to be sincere friends of Ireland. (there a buy gut upon a gutter on a -wooden shed opposite : the speaker called to him to get off, as the board was as rotten as the Union ; ' and this produced a hearty cheer.) The reason why J gave up the agitation of the Ii peal was this, there were then sonic people, -whose COMTI1011 sense I respo,ted, Ito toid me we had not yet suffi- cient experience of the effects of the Emaneipation and Reform Bills, or the just intentions of the British people. There were also a good many knaves who held forth precisely the same doctrines : and I was obliged to yield, in order to allow the men of character and common sense to be undeceived. I knew it was a pretext on the part of the knaves; but I knew also that tile honest men would be deceived by the pretext, and vould be leagued 11:4.:LIIINt me bad I forced on the measure. Then, I yielded, therefore. fiat diti I e.t justice ?—No 1 I have, year al't cyear, asked jus- tice; Mit, instead of [Mt:titling justice, and of doing us service, have not their Members and their leaders gone through the towns of England calumniating us—exhibitine. the most inveterate hatred to the religion and to the people of Ireland ? Tice's: is not a human being in Ireland but must admit that I made that experiment in good faith, end have continued it long: enough. What chance have we, I would be glad to know, for obtaining justice from the Par- liament or England ?—Yott might as well go atik 11, diamond for nothing from a slew, or it boiled potato from a huugry sow. (Lanyhter.) Now, don't you think Lord Stanley is very like the hungry sow with the boiled potato ? (Laughter.) have conic here to apologize to you, and that is my apology. I do not make this apology for myself, but tbr ethers :I have kept faith with them, and now I am perfectly free to follow out my own experiment for justice, and that ex- periment is lfepeal. Now, hurrah fur the Repeal! clinch cheering) and now I repeat the pledge I have elsewhere given, never to cease agititting the question until the Parliament shall assemble in College Green, or until death terminates my political existence—for I believe death alone can put an end to that."

• Mr. O'Connell went on with the wonted usual topic of Repeal speeches—the animosity of Englaud to Ireland, the distress of Ireland from the absence of the landed proprietors, and her claims to a sepa- rate Legislature founded on amount of population. lie dwelt on the comparative insignificance of Belgium, Holland, and Hanover ; and yet those countries had separate governments. He protested, however, against being supposed to wish for a separation from England : he wanted to be bound to Eneland by " the golden link of the Crown." Most of our Colonies had their separate Legislatures ; and it was a shame that a privilege which was granted even to Botany Bay should he denied to Ireland. Mr. O'Connell enforced the claims of Ireland on the ground of the improved state of public morals, as evidenced in the last Assizes. During the month of July, he said- " Eighteenyersons were tried and convicted for stabbing in England. For the same period in Ireland, there was one; and I give you my word mid honour, he was :Ili Englishman. Are not we as good as they are ? Are there not Infidels in Eugland?' and can auy man point to one in Irebuld ? Are there not still remaining some liegering Infidels in France, and in many other coun- tries? Call any matt say Site is one in Ireland? If any man avowed himself on Infidel in Ireland, he Ivould run a great risk of being soused in the nearest river. I claim the 6u1taiority, then, for lreland—fur the loved land of my

Edith." •

lie next boasted of the improved prospects of' Repeal ; and among the obstacles removed, be mentioned the old Corporations. 'rile pa-

tronage to be enjoyed by the new Corporations would place additional power in the hands of the Repeaters. The members of the old Corpo- rations would be comingsto join him, day after day, because it would be their interest-

" I have the pleasure to tell you, that the funds of the new Corporation will be forty thousand pounds a year ; iind every Protestant bas a direct interest in the proper application of those fends. Blessed be God, I am working for all. Go to your Protestant friends, and tell them what I tun doing. Why, if a Tory Government were to come in, out of very eituniug and policy they would not take back the corporators to their confidence; so that between the two stools they are likely to C0111C to the ground. Join 111C, then, my friends, and enrol the mighty millions of Ireland under the Repeal banner. Tell every one to enrol. Let men, womee, and children enrol." He stated that when he laboured before to procure Emancipation hA worked for the people of high station, but now he was working forlii;

poor ; and the poorer they were the more they would be his work. beneflunq

Immediately on the conclusion of his speech, Mr. O'Connell got it a carriage which was waiting for him, and drove off, amidst the nn;

clamorous cheerings and the wavings of handkerchiefs from th :" e dows.

On the following day, the weekly meeting of the Loyal National Re, peal Association was held. The meeting was called for eleven, bah was kept waiting for upwards of an hour and a half for Mr. O'Connell Amongst the letters which were read, was one from Henry Grattan,

M.P., requesting to be proposed a member. He was admitted wi

j th applause. The journeymen tailors of Dublin sent in a subscription et

201.; and were enrolled as members.

At the desire of Mr. O'Connell, a letter of Mr. Sharman Crawford, addressed by him to the Secretary of the Repeal Association, was reek - In this letter Mr. Crawford repeats his charge against the Irish Liberal Members of having deserted the cause of Reform ; and he replies to the resolutions passed at the last meeting of the Association respecting the impossibility of preventing the passing of the Irish Municipal Bill, lie asks if the amended bill was in any way denounced by the Repeal , Association, until it had become the law of' the land ; and he milieu the fact of no appeal having been made by that body to the British cm Irish Representatives to reject the bill if mutilated by the Lords. an, Crawford also observes, that so far from taking measures to oppose the bill, as soon as Mr. O'Connell intimated that it would probably pass,e resolutiou was carried for canvassing the wards of Dublin for the ese. porate offices. In reference to the compromising policy of Mr. O'Ona. nell and the Irish Liberal Members respecting the Corporation Bill, he observes- " Mutilation after mutilation has been concurred in by the representatives of Ireland; and the result is before you, in the insulting measure which hasps, become law. Whether that policy was right or arcing it is not my present purpose to argue; but the representatives of Ireland having promoted ana sanctioned it, under the authority of their leader, it is not just that they shook now be allowed to retire from their posts, and east the opprobrium of the ca. SeglICI1C,CB which have resulted, either on the government, on the representative' 0 of Britain, or on the British people. There can be no justice expected for Ire. land, if justice be not done to England also."

After the letter had been read, Mr. O'Connell moved the insertion of a it on the minutes of the Association, as a future record of the kind of person Mr. Crawford was. He would not any more notice the attacks of Mr. Crawford ; and while the Repeal Association would be doe with that gentleman, it would also cease to bold any communication with the Ulster Constitutional Association. Mr. O'Connell continued to attack Mr. Crawford and the Ulster Constitutional Association; but his observations on that topic, and indeed on all the other subjects in- traduced, was far less racy than his outpourings at the parish meeting. He concluded the first part of his Repeal speech by moving the follow- ing Anti-Repeal resolution ; which was carried unanimously-

" That it is not the intention of this Association to seek from candidates for the weresentation of Irish constituencies the Repeal pledge, as long as the pees sent Government shall remain in office."

Be subsequently moved a resolution calling on the Protestants of Ireland "to take into their serious and dispassionate consideration the incalculable advantages which must accrue to Ireland from a domestiC Legislature." This also was carried, and the meeting adjourned.