9 SEPTEMBER 1837, Page 5

IRELAND.

A brilliant party assembled at Waterford on the r3Oth of last month, in honour of Mr. Barron and Mr. Wyse, the Liberal Members for the city of Waterford. The speech of Mr. Wyse, probably the best that was :delivered on the occasion, is miserably reported, and it wou id he an njustice to that gentleman to quate any of its mangled pa,sages. Mt. Barron thought it becoming to attack Mr. Roebuck ; and we are happy to say that he encountered the disapprobation of the company, met as it was to flatter him, in so doing. Mr. Shiel seemed to place great reliance on the Court;he talked indeed about a " stable, working majority of forty," (nobody knew better than Mr. Sheil that he was referring to a creature of the imagination), but it is plain that he looks to the Court as the chief prop of the Melbourne Ministry— If the Tories had gained an accession of numbers, the Whigs had gained a stable (to use a technical, a Parliamentary phrase)—a working majority of 40. It was notorious that in the late session the Court was against the Administration ; at present it was notorious that the Court was not unfavourable to the 3Iinistry. Is Wind‘or to weigh nothing in the scale? The Crown, with all its jewels and prerogatircs, would bunly produce some preponderance in the ta'once. lu the last Parliament the Louts and the Crown were against them. Now the Queen was generally understood to be favourable to the Ministry. This made a great difference, and would be found to operate immediately. Who !lid not know that regal smiles were powerful And when these regal smiles beamed on the face of youth and beauty they would be found to have an influence on the hardest Tory heart. Towards the close of his speech, Mr. Shell, more sue, grew pretty ind poetical-. " I au born amongst I have WSOtIetli far sima then. By the sal: that enchanting river which flows along your city, aud wi ira dalus:s and increases your wealth, I received may birth. When I was far away, and after the lapse of many years, the murmurs of that stream have echoed on my memory, and now return with new power. Amidst eircumatonces so difrerent —after years, I lament to say, so distant—my heart threbs with melancholy pleasure in coming among you. I have seen great moral and physical changes. I have seen what I did not expect to see, steam and liberty ! I have seen gigantic forms instinct with life on the waters. James Watt did more for the Union than Pitt. But the moral changes are more exuberant with pleasure than the physical. When I played on the banks of these waters as a boy, was a slave. I am now on them, a man, and free."

The last toast proposed by the chairman, Mr. Henry Villiers Stuart, (who is also Lord-Lieutenant of the county,) was the health of Daniel O'Connell— Were be to attempt to extol Mr. O'Connell in their presence, he might expect some question to be put to him such as was put to a citizen who perambulated ancient Rome, singing the praises of Hercules through the streets, until some person asked him " Who has found any fault with him ?" lie would, therefore not be guilty Of the bad taste of offering to an individual who IVIS se notoriously exalted in the country'. estimation the puny incense of his tlatt.ry ; but he considered that he should be guilty of base ingratitude if he omitted tc testify the sense which lie entertained of the services of so eminent an indi vidual. True, it was not he who taught them the knowledge of their ea inspired them with a desire to obtain these rights—but it was he who taitglit them to rr.arshal and combine their forces so as to render sticecss :tier it.t )1e at. no di-tarit day. Under these fe !Bogs he rose to prni 'ne the health t!,e, great 'ne the health t!,e, great champion of Irish liberties—" Daniel O'Connell, t,he Member for the cute of Dublin."

Mr. Sheil, being called upon, spoke a few sentences in behalf and in praise of O'Connell ; and the party broke up.

Mr. O'Connell has addressed a long letter to the People of Ireland; the scope of' which is to impress upon them the necessity of stre»nously supporting the Queen's Government. But though this is the maim object of his letter, O'Connell discourses on a eariety of other subjects. Ile strenuously insists on the necessity of the Ballot " It is now manifest that the Reform Bill has not gonc far enough in Englaa 1 e Scotland. In the first place, take England. 'rlie Reform Bill cadmic's au/me-moo,: number of the people of England from the franchise. Can the excluded right or just ? I should despise them if they here it patiently. I.et them not w aste their iniergien in :drafting the Whigs or aiding the Tories; but let th.■ miarepre wilted English rally and meet, and form Reform Asauciations, and signity to Parliament, by their petitions, their demand of the franehise. It seems to me that al! the 11,1,VICIA England tnay, with the greatest safety, be empowered to vote fur Repres.mtatives. : deem it palpably uojast to call upon any man to tray any tax either directly or a, t art of the price of any necessary article, unless that matt IIAS a right to vote in the .:•oicp of the taxing represent itive. •• When I see one class of Englishmen coining out of the hands uf Natorre'raerroi in (none and ill intenest to anv other clasa, I m ll then, nod not 113 then, admii that there ought to be a sop r•or oi master class, and an inferior mm slave class in England ; and that the first should be exclusively entitled to participate ii making lilt. laws, nod that the second should lia,e nothing to in with the laws Mit to ohey

'• But this slave class il•ws exist iu England. More shatue far tli.• Englkh. " Oar duty will lit to vote r every eVeT1%': a of satTlage to Itit English Perna-%

• ■ We owe a similar duty to t'ie Peopleif c,ilttn,t. a. ,imuriemiiii of the dar...tian of Paili Intent ta, at the tit me d. yea.i..••• ml another dirt V. " Bei tlr. greatest of all is ilie Ballot. I Ertst con'e,s, that after Ili f the reee,:t e1,6i .1,,—:Leit.■in■;r1.,th.n. the th • i•ra ti.> of the Toil, :.a

bee elections. rendering the ItetOrm Bill, iii mina mor:e t

of direct noniiii otii -a'tert!,•• o7'ht• !t,av,Isi 11.11, it tm.,• eredible that :My 11011,2 a:1,1 ....t,cientders: man ,•an h. an enemy to 1.1..• Ball

my part, I vaielidly eoral-ss I eannot understarri dull; a mail e.,11 desire o.;

the vetora freely i•xerei-e th..ir right or voting and yet opoo..• the Ilk:: a: -.11 mveimis wo.:I.1 leave Ilk ni gait,. ft• to v.,'.•• as thy 1'ka4..1. It it I sai,i

etiormously large Ma n coustitnericies the Ballot is hot a-a...-. Iry : et even it

could du no harm. and woul.t neeessarily prote.a many. It may that in very small conatituent•es for example, as II nrwieh -it would Mr. bribery. Itut Rik is a strong argum it agalust small emst it maleie.., :tad Ira the Ballot ; because, is th •re uo doabt that, without the 11th i hribery pre-. ails in Ilarwiell?-and even then the Ilittot would ren.h.r y ens. did*: a,it to be eff.a•te.: and more easy lobe proved. In Inge consEtunmeies the Bathe. would wail,' .in.hery tilmoat impossible, and render int imidation goite t h.a me tate to tell the People of Ireland SO lilt bat little faith in airy limo lio doe: ird vete fur the Ballot."

He reiterates the old declaration that he is still a Repealer; and that, in supporting the Melbourne Government, he is only working out an experiment, the success of which he does not anticipate .. Irishmen I beloved countrymen, with whom or for whom I have lahotned for n,•ar forty years-for whose welfare my heart is as warm, and may spirit as imlet.vigable and as undaunted as when, with the blood of boyhood boiling in my vein:, I cora. meneed my enthusiastic, and nut unsuccessful careerIrishalen! beloved. ,'.teemed countrymen -you who have the gerrn of every virtue implanted by N,itme's God (blessed be his lady !Janie :) in vour hearts and dispositions -you hu have so much contributed to obtain political advautages for tFeolland intl Englatul..-y on aim have been usefully numbered to every battle, but ns Oct basely deprived 01 th.• hum,,'01, or your own vielories,-Irishmen ! attend. Remember, I am a M.N.:17.K:: ren.e ober I tell you it is my belief that justice will never be 0.0ne to you until you have once again a Parliament in College Green ; and every filet that iwisi•s proves more :ine more strongly the utter hopelessness of relief from the British Parliament. Tlw strength of the Tory faction in England is bigoted hatred of Ireland awl the Irish. Ths stock iti trade of 'Toryism in England is the pride of domino ion over Iraand. Th, r-ot of the recent elections in the English counties. alai the garbage 07 the press on is hIt, the English Tories so fondly gloat-all, all, prve that wills the gouda ill of .Englaryl,

lee will never he attained for Ireland.

" Irishmen! at these convictions deeply impreF,ed un my I am

do persuaded of the prudence, the policy. and wisdom of making nor presem expe• i-u-'' The Qiieen has declared for us. l...t us with unliesitatlog emilidenia• relm t .• Queen, nor give the slightest reason to cause her to alter her benevolent illt1.111iV111. it be possible -to render the Repeal of the i7trion unnecessary, the Queen will render it so If she fails, or causelessly deserts us, what hope can there be tutu iii Inc Repeal ? "The Qacetes Ministers are our decided Ii hints. They are struggling to run ler t1a. Repeal unnecessary. They have unequivocally admitted that hitherto we have borne an equal share of the bordens--alas! more th to a jti-t Aare -iii loirden, or tire Union, without participating in the benefit of political erptality. The Queen's Nlini••• ters are determined, if t hey cam, to do justiee to Irelaud. Let its. then, work out our great experiment honestly -by honestly and cordially supporting that Mini try who are Otis endeat oaring to p•rsoade us by acts and not by words that the It .. ; . eal is heedless."