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Mr. O'Connell arrived at the residence of Mr. Thomas Potter, Buile Hill, near Manchester, on the evening of Wednesday week. He was accompanied by Mrs. O'Connell and two of his sons. 012 Thursday, a numerous proeession, vomposed principally of Irishmen, with bands of music, flags, and wreaths of shamrock, escorted him to Stevenson Square, where hustings were erected. The cheering was constant and enthusiastic as the procession went along. About seven thousanol persons were assembled. NI r. 0.1 'onnell was introduced to the meeting by Nil% Potter, and then spoke at letigth on several points of piddle infrrest. I le reminded his audienee of the aid which the Irish Liberals in the House of Commons had uniformly given to the cause of English freedom- " I tell the People of England we would not ;Isk for their sympathy, if they had found us shrinking from their enntest when we coalul assist them in the b title for their liberties. I would remind every man who is here to hear me in this asst mbly, I would call to his recollection the history 1/1the last four years, and would ask him, then zi siligIe division in Po!iliiient on any measure that went to lessen the burdens, or to Met ease the traheltise, er to procure any amelioration of institution for the People of England, that the Irish Alembers were tiot found in the majority, voting for ?' It is not an imaginary thing, nor any false statement of tnine, it is a literal truth ; and I am proud to say, that even it: the Unreformed Parliament, when the Reform Bill was read a second time in the Parliament, in Is31, there was a majotity of Scotch Alembers against it, neatly ten to one—because at that flint! the Scotch People bad no voice in the choke of their Representatives ; then: were even majorities of English and Welsh lembers; but the bill seas read a secoall time beeause the majority of Irish Members put down the English, Scotch, and Welsh majorities. I would remind every Englishman who hear: me, that during the present session of Parliament the majority of the Irish Members have contributed in the same stay to English freedom. In the great Lurk f. ur the Siraker-hip there was a majority of :27 English Memhers against the People and for Manners Sutton and the Aristocracy ; thete was 3 majority of nine Scotch :Members en the ether side, which reduns;11 the English majority of 27 to IS; and then carne the Irish majority of :CI, leaving the ultimate majority of 15, including the two tellers, by which we la itimplied in the first lauttle this session over Wellington and Peel. Why do I dwell upon these things ? Is t of any vain boasting? Oh, no. I only speak of them in order to show my brothers in England that we deserve a partici- patina in their tights, because we were ready for their tight, so we would be for our own ; and I say that we are douhly deserving of it, because if we consented to take less than Great Britain agreed to take we should be unworthy the fel- lowship of flu:elven. We imist upon as mill, aml will never be content with less. ‘Vhat is it that I would animate the People of England to? I would animate them, one and all—no matter whether a man has a franchise or not, he is a man, and takes a part in public opinion—to insist upon justice for them- selves and justice for vs, bemuse Parliament will despise Ireland if the English do not assist her ; and I tell yen, I who was so long the decided advocate of the repeal of the Union, that the only reason why I looked for repeal was because the English Parliament was not doing us justice. But as long as we have the hope of obtaining that justice from a British Parliament, so long shall I be content to look to them for justice. Let Wellingtmi and Peel shut the door of hope upon me, and then I shall look again for Repeal ; and Heaven forbid I should ever be contented till Ireland is as well governed as any other part of the British dontinions !"

But how did he seek to achieve the blessing of good government for Ireland?-

" Not by force, not by violence, not by secret and illegal associations. There is nothing worse than a secret society. It must, in its very nature, be illegal; and it is my duty, as a lawyer and a public man, to pronounce to you distinctly my abhorrence of every illegal society. Why, do you remember the six poor labourers from Dorchester? They thought they were doingno harm—ignorant and uninstructed—they did not know of the Act of Parliament that made this thing illegal ; and six of diem were torn from their families and sent to the other extremity of the globe, leaving their wives and children and mother. and sisters in poverty and distress. The present Government will bring back four of them immediately ; and the remaining two will be brought back in another year, or a year and a half. But if Peel and Wellington had remained in office these men would have been for seven long years transported from their native country. Why do I mention that ease? To put you on your guard, as I am inciting you to constitutional exertions, by showing you that no man can ever be safe who belongs to a secret society. I may be told, perhaps, that Orange- men are safe. I tell you they won't be so long. I tell you that they will be prosecuted and put down by the law. Only one thing would enable them to continue, and that would be any opposite and counteracting illegal society. I have told the People this it: Ireland ; and in the county Meath in one speech I put down forty-thtee Ribbon societies, and made the men give them up because they were illegal, and only encouraged and gave an excuse to Orangemen. That is always the effect of illegal societies. In the county of Tipperary I stopped it. In Kerry I got the men who were swearing in Ribboninen dis- missed from the county in disgrace. I tell you not only that you ought not to belong to any secret society, but that you are great fools, besides being criminal, if you do ; for no man is safe for five minutes against a spy. Why the man who went to Armagh pretended to be not only a Catholic, but a devout Catholic. He went to communion, the miscreant, the morning he saw the People's blood flowing ! How could any one guard against him? What did he do? He swore treason against them, though they were only in an illegal society; and if we had not blown up his character, he would have hanged twelve innocent men. He accused but ten of them, sparing two to be witnesses against the others; but when these two were put into the box, the Judge asked them, Were you present?'—' Yes." Then go into the dock ; you can't be witnesses.' So that no members of a secret society going to give evidence can tell whether they mayn't become included in the indictment, and, instead of witnesses, find them- selves prisoners. I put this to the People of Ireland—fur Paddy is shrewd sometimes—and he bit his lips, and I saw a determination upon him never to allow a miscreant in this way to show his blood. So let no man go abroad, as they have done there, pretending that I have not spoken to the People on the subject. I did there ; I do here ; and here and there I denounce as an enemy to his country the man who belongs to an illegal society. And, having done that. I denounce, as the enemies of this country, every man who possesses leisure and intelligence, that does not exert himself in forming a moral and public com- bination, joining in public combinations of every kind, in the eye of the law. and the presence of the magistracy, to forward the great cause of public liberty." He was not in favour of utterly abolishing the Upper Chamber of the Legislature- " I want two honest Houses. I want not one white anti one black ; thaegoes for nothing; but we want two whites, and throw the black out altogether. want another House— of Lords, if you please ; but let every county with 200,000 inhabitants (and where comities have not that number, put them to- gether till they have) elect oneMan—a lord, if you please • I have no objection at all, provided he be honest ; but let him be elected only for three or for biz years, and let him be responsible to the People. I throw back from these hustings upon Sir Robert Peel the calumny that we Reformers want but one House of Parliament. I am as opposed to it as he can be, because if there Were only one House of Legislature, a majority of that House, perhaps a fac- tion, would become the ruler of the entire nation. Them is therefore a safety in the second !louse, on the simple principle of acting as a cheek to the other ageinst such uudue power : and 1 am for two Ilouees, but they must be two holiest Houses.

It was asserted by Sir Hubert Peel that democrat.y had not flourished in A merit-a-

" Why they began their war the year I was born, and that was sixty years ago, and they have gone on prospering ever since. And what could Sir Robert Pea against them ? Horrible out' ages—a murder committed all five gamblers who came into a town and cheated its inhabitants. They deeelved to be ducked and sent away. The people wanted to send them away ; they resisted, and in the attack upon their place a physician was allot. The 'people got hold of the five men and hung them. There they committed murder ; and for such proceralings am as little the ad- votste as Sir liebert Peel can be. But what dots he do? Ile attributes that nturdet to their Government. Are there no murders in this country ? Did Sir Robert Peel never hear of Peterloo ? of what has been called the Man- chester tnassacie? ( (7wers.) Why the actors in the hangings in America, by II hat they call Lynch law, will be, as they ought to be, punished for their mink ; and Eli warrant the American Government sill do all it can to punieh them ; shove all, I am sure it will never applaud or that& or reward any of them. But what did sir Robert l'eel's Government du to the authors of the Manchester massacre? Thee gave them thank,, awl rewarded them and honoured them. I throw Peterloo in his teeth when he talks of outrages across the Atlantic. But is that all ? Did he never hear of Ratheormac and Rathangan, red tvith the blood of the granddaughter of a blind and aged man ? Did he never hear of Wallscuurt ? Was it the democratic principle that for 4s. IA slaughtered nine men in Rathaugan ? Did he never hear of the widow _Ryan ?"

After j usti tying the policy of taking the Municipal Bill as an in- stalment of tine debt due to the People, Mr. O'Connell concluded with an exhortation to the assembly, and especially to his own country. Melt, to avoid violent measures— c, violence and bloodshed are far from us; but, to make up for tho deficiency, have been thirty-five years the advocate of the liberties of tile People—(my family are apt to live to the age of ninety-six)-1 have thirty-five years to spare yet; and in the mean time I will agitate the public sense and feeling to dis- countenance and put down all tyranny and oppression in this country. Oh, frown upon the man who would oppress von. Touch hint not ; but look upon him as a mad dog, awl avoid his bite, lest he drive you to insanity. It is in that stiuggle I now address you ; it is that every man who hears me may be- come an apostle of the sect to which 1 belong—the sect that requires of and preaches to the People peace and peaceful exertion and that asks for ankliora- tiou in the way in which no good man would coUdenin it, awl in which God would smile upon it. Let every man who hears me cat ry as much as he can of the moral sermon which I have preached from this pulpit. But above all. let Irishmen set an example of peace and order and theu we shall get England with us in' the fight of peace, as Iriehmen Lave ever stood by Englishmen in the fight or 'attics against the enemies of their country. 1.et are conclude, then, by imploring you to remember what I have been saying to you. Avoid secret societies, every man of you. Let every man (I:scout:ten:ince in his neigh- bour hood those who are the enemies of popular riahts. Recollect that you have now a House of Commons struggling for the People of England, and that, while you have such a Parliament, and a Ministry that are leaders of the People, believe me that, with the exertions that good men are snaking, happier days will smile upon this land ; and this great and glorious country, that has in every :era of its history shone transcendently above the nations of the earth, will arise from the present struggle, not 'like a giant refreshed with wine,' or any figure of a violent nature, but like the bird of Par:olio: refreshed from a period of repose, and shedding front its wings peace, content, prosperity, and happiness to all nations."

Loud and long-continued cheering followed the conclusion of Mr. O'Cunnell's harangue. The people crowded round the hustings to shake him by the hand, and, after three tremendous cheers for "Daniel O'Connell," quietly dispersed.

Mr. O'Connell then proceeded to Hayward's Hotel, where a dinner was laid for two hundred and fifty gentlemen, the number to which the party wits limited. The original price of the tickets was ten shillings each, but is much as 51. was given for them, in some in- stances, when they bevaine scarce. Air. C. J. Walker was in the chair ; and among the company, were Mr. Motgan O'Connell, Mr. Caton of Liverpool, Mr. Thomas Potter, Mr. J. C. Dyer, and other gentleman of property and influence in Manchester. Numbers were admitted into the room after the cloth was withdrawn. The usual loyal toasts were given, followed by " Earl Grey," and " His Majesty's Ministers," both of which were drunk with three times three and great enthusiasm. The Chairman then proposed " The health of our honourable and learned guest, Daniel O'Connell, Esquire ; thanks to Lim for his distinguished and patriotic services, and may be long con- tinue to promote, by tine exercise of his great talents, the cause of civil and religious liberty." The company rose, gave three times three and one cheer more, and, amidst chipping of hands and waving of handker- chiefs, Mr. O'Connell commenced his speech as follows.

Gentlemen, your excellent Chairman has apologized for the shortness of Iris speeches, by twomieiug you a long one from use; and indeed if tediousness were the English name fur gratitude, and that I were ten times as tedious a 1 can be, I'd have the heart to bestow it all upon you. But it is not the insignificant individual who addresses you that has elicited this applause here, or congregated thousands to-day. No; it is the cause in which we are all engaged. I am but like the straw that floats upon the torrent's surface ; it shows the course of *he current and the rapidity with which it flows, but it no more leads the torrent than I lead the People. I am but an index of the popular mind, and I glory in being so. I never deapaired of my own couutry ; and yet when I was born the night of dankness and desolation was set upon her—the great mass of ber people was marked with a brand of slavery of a darker dye than the sun ever burned upon a negro's visage. The faction was small, but virulent, and spiteful, and malignant, and hating, and oppressing—and all in the name of religion. But do you know what gave them strength ? I'll tell you that at once. The British Government—tor they had no strength in Ireland—and the acquiescence of the British People. But why was the British Government misguided, and why were the British People mistaken ? Because they knew ss not ; and they slid not know that there glowed in the hearts of these Irish slaves as pure a spirit of freedom n as ever Wed with Siduey upon the scaffold or with Hampden in the field. And ally are we beginning to like each other better? Simply because we ate beginning to know each other better. And even I can proudly boast (and it may be called a boast that I make) that I, Irish, born a slave, having broken my own manacle, I used the broken part of it in striking at the heads of our oppressors ; 1, even I, took a shale in that triumph which you have celebrated in your toasts to-night."

His aim in coming before the English People was to bilist their sympathies in behalf of suffering Ireland-

" I am engaged in that mission—I am labouring in that vocation ; I trust I may say it without profaneness, I am working out may salvation by the single

instrumentality of endeavouring to do good to my country and my cumin) melt.

I want that the advantages of your civil institutions shall not only extend throughout the remotest portions of the empire, but that they shall be amelio-

rated In their progress, and imployed in the course of their exten . I want

that you yourselves—for here we have common cause—shall have that ma- chinery of legislation which shall enable you to reform every abuse, to cut away every corruption, to ameliorate miy portion of your institutions, and to secure to you that progress winch you have secured to yourselves in arts, in scieoce, in commerce, and industry and literature—I want to secure to you the same progress in the great arts of good and of cheap goer:Influent. 1 a ill cone- to the point at once. You have one house of Legislature, the niajoiity of which is disposed to do its duty.. You have another House of Legislature avowedly againet the People—haviug an interest that tells them to stop the progress of improvement, arid faithfully acting up to that interest, you may be sure. Well now, if any man can suppose the House of Lords ten times worse tin in it is (and Heaven knows he must have a powerful imagination), what remedy have y tor ? How would you control them ? You cannot turn them out. Can yom out violence and revolution, have any species of redress? Are the) not there, from father to son, fixed ia their seats in spite of you, without any specks of correction but that which we should abhor ? I remember some one asking at a meeting in London, What do you mean by cleansing the Augean &table of the house of Lords?' Why the Anton stable was cleansed by turning a river into it." Oh, I have It now - but if instead of turning the river into the Lords, suppose we turn tire Lords into the river?' (Laughter.) Now that's a plan I totally disapprove of. I am afraid, amongst other reasons, there is Si) much lead in the upper region, and that there would, there-foie, be so much alacrity in siukine, that they would stick in the mud. ( Shouts rf laughter.) But in sober sadness, is this great country come to that Print? Do you ask why have we not arrived at it long since? Because the laud. %sere masters of the House of CDUM10119 when Old Sarum bad representatives and :Manchester had not ; for the majority of the house of Commons were nothing but the noniinees, stewards, and servants of the House of Lords. 'fine machine went on perfectly well, because there was but one locomotive power to it ; but if you put an engine at each end of a train of your railway carriages, arid each engine pulls in a different direction, you would first have a stand-still is loirg as the two moving powers were equal, and when this ceased there worth! follow a subversion or a burst. It is so at present with the State machine. We have conic to a rest. They will do nothing but pull their own way. see what a slaughter they have made of good measures in the present session !"

Mr. O'Connell then enumerated the principal measures thrown out during tile session by the house of Lords, whom he likened to a club of Odd Fellows, who expelled one of their members for objecting to the appointment of a treasurer before they had got any monc) ; Ilich being a motion agreeable to connnon sense could not he eittertairied; so the House of Peers scouted measures which had common sense and humanity to recommend them. lie referred especially to the conduct of the Lords and Sir Robert Peel in regard to the Alton:Livia Bill- " See what the Lords bad done to quiet the country, and put an end to poli- tical agitation. They have given us a bill conferring a powerf I

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agitation, and also imposing upon the People the necessIty of agitating; and here was he in the midst of them, agitating accordingly. Sir Rolea t. Peel, to be sure' told us, in his Tamworth speech, that if he had remained in olliee lie would have given us substantial reforms. Why, he had often been iti orrice before ; and why did he not give us those reforms then? Or why had he riot helped the Members of the Lower House with their reforms during the hit-sent session? The only sort of help lie had given was of the Irish sort—to spoil the job as much as Ile could. (Laughter.) 4 Substantial reforms!' yes; he had insisted that Cation and Sarum, and such other places, were pert. of the constitution, and ought to have two Members of Parliament ; while, when .Mancliester, with upwards of 200,000 inhabitants, was talked of, he turntel 13,) the whites of his eyes, and called out for Protestantism and the principle; of the constitution! Had not he called l'eel a special humbug? And this was the man to declare that he was determioed to have given us substantial reform h. d tweed the Tories remained in office. Ay, they would reform exactly as the crab walkS—backwards. Then a great part of Sir Robert's speed; was taken op a it It declaring what a great friend he was to the Disseutets. But did Peel thiek il e Dissenters had such short memories that they could not recollect his conduct on Lord John Russell's motion for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts—how he got up like a spoiled and petted schoolboy, and walked out of the House when that motion was passed ? 011, what a friend to the Diseen ters ! ' Catholic Emancipation, too, he reluctantly conceded in ; anti yet he was an ardent friend to the D:sienters! '" But he believed tit it there WJB sense enough in the Dissenters to know that one promise of Lord John tins ell and his party was worth all that Sir Robert Peel and the Tories mild make. Ile would tell Sir Robert Peel,—and perhaps what he was saying inight be spread abroad on the wings of the press,—he would tell hini this, dart in spite of and his party, and of their specious promises, the present Athirirrietra- tion would remain in power. (Loral chcers.) Ile would tell him that the Commons would send to his House of Incurables a bill for the redid' of the Dissenters • another for the refolin of the Church; another to allow Dissenters to baptize ;heir own children, to enable them to celebrate their own marl iages, and to inay the last honours to their departed friends, without being compelled to listen to ceicinonies in which they had no confidence. Ile would tell him that the stain of spiritual inferiority which the law had put on Dissenter -s ehould Inc wiped out by the rough but honest hands of the Commons. Let the perfumed and silken hands throw these bills back from their receptacle of political filth ; but the Commons of England would do justice to the Dissenters in spite of them, and in spite of Peel and his party. He adverted to tine misery of Ireland, notwithstanding the fertility of her soil, the salubrity of her climate, and the noble qualities of her people She was fertile to profusion: her valleys were productive to abundance of all the comforts dear to man. I ler noble harbours, spacious and secure, wooed the man iuers to take refuge in their ample bosoms, but wooed in vain. Iler noble rivers, murnitniug as it were with tile voice of heaven, descended from her mountains into her plains, and ran into the majestic entrances of her teas. Commerce, manufactures, industry, and wealth were hers. No bU iiiii ita's sue burnt her fields into sterility—no winter's snow chilled theta into barrenni as ; yet her lofty mountains and her wide-spread plains spoke the Yoke of buffering. Her some were the children of industry—we hatl proofs of this among us: they woe laborious, patient, merry even in their misfortunes, generous—ay, and he would say, a brave people. Why (continued Mr. O'Connell), why have all these :olvantagee been taken away? and why, while I have thus feebly traced the defective and failing images of the natural wealth of my poor but beloved country, why am I obliged to make the confession that amidst all these advan- tages then' is not a people on the face of the earth that has been so oppressed and so wronged by a cruel aristocracy ; who are so dependent upon the varia- tions of the weather and the atmosphere, that while Connaught has been starv- ing last year, Munster may haves famine the next? It is because man bath de- faced what God bath made beautiful. ( Cheers.) Ireland has been misruled for seven centuries by the English Government, and the English People have

acquiesced in the misrule front ignorance. lItt wily let Englishmen under- stand this. and injustice is at an end—oppression is no more. Be this my ex-

cue. I have pleaded for yourselves : I have shown you that you must better —not as dreamers, who say To. morrow and to-morrow,' and depend upon the exertions ot whets—but you must better yourselves, and make one of the chandlers if the Legislature (the other does already) respond to your feelings."

It eould never be that the twenty-four millions of the Ilritish isles would submit to the insolent domination of one hundred and seventy Lords- " Yinhave Inland trembling for her young liberties of yesterday ; and man- fully she strove for them, her NMI% going up to vote for honest and independent Rt`1111”.1.11ratiVt.4 in the face of threatened ruin to their families. Scotland is also by or side; but you need no allies. And I shall conclude this long—to me pleasing, and to you. I perceive not weari,ome—specch—( Loud eni, s of " Go on !")—by reminding you that you have arrived at a great crisis in the history of your great nation. I am glad to have arrived it such a thee, to share in the contest ; it is a time when men ought to be glad to have come to inch a erisis. When the Royal power was too strong for the People, and ex- ercised itself in attacks upon the subjects at latge, the Lords then made coin • With cause with the People, because there was, tin a great extent, a community of glievanee and suffering. The kingly tyrant was pint down, but another equally great was set U. Cromwell, a special humbug—a sort of Peel in his way--Inc assumed supreme power, and set up as great a tyranny ae that which had been abolished. The Restoration came next, and James, the son of him whom the People had beheaded, afterwards mounted the throne, anti was guilty of tie most abominable treachery. But the People did not behead him ; they had become better instructed, and they left his foolish head upon his shoulders, allowing him to wander about Europe, a specimen of the folly of trying to make the People slaves. And will not the People take it lesson front this ? May not one hundred and severity other persons walk abroad in the sanie way with- out any great damage to the interests of the country ? (Loud cheering.) I will not dwell on the different results of a different policy in regard to Ireland. twill clime back to your own ease, and remind you of what your forefathers did in MSS. You are the descendants of those men whose graves raise the awareli in your own churchyards, anti you are the most despieable of mankind if, with the present state of your knowledge, anti power, and strength, you the de- scendants of the patriots of BiSS, allow a paltry one hundred and seventy Lords In play the part which kings have in vain attempted to play. In the name of afflicted behold, then, I call upon every man who now hears me, to become an apostle of that new sect whose text is ' Reform the House of Lords.' In the wove of the honest and sensible People of Scotland, hut above all, in the name of Ow People of leciand, you, who for a thousand years have borne the banner of victory, and whose country ins never been disgraced by the brand of slavery, I call upon you to talon» the !louse of Lords." ( Loud cheering.)

Several other toasts were drunk, and the company then dispersed.