On leaving Mencliester, Mr. O'Conne proce eded ded to Newcastle- upem-
'Fyne, which be reached on Monday. The people gave hi in a hearty and enthusiastic reception.
A srvzie of unusual bu,tle viol excitement was presoited in the streets ; stratieers poured hit from tho surromiding conatry ; and workmen and me- ehanies of everv description, but more especially such as were from the " Emerald paraded up and down, and secined resolved that the das 'mould be oliserved as a holvday. Between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, depu- tations of the Refornuars of N4 wea,tle and adjacem towns, proceeded, acrom- padol by a band of music, to meet Mr. O'Connell. Soon after two o'clock, he arr,v.ed in his carriage at Sunderland-toad-end, where a simultaneous efthrt iv,. mad,. by the midi-italic to unyoke the horse: from the carnage, nit order to draw it iiito Neweastle, when Mr. O'Connell peremptorily. declared, (kit if they did so, he would quit the carriage; he as-ared them he was no advocate for wen to do the work of beasts, nor would lie sidlly suell an instance of Imirsia do;radation, voluntary and enthusiastic as it was oil 'heir part, 011 the pecamt ocea.ion. This remark had the desired effert. Ile Own pro- veeiled throtc;11 Gateshead Mtn the town, thllowed by an immense crowd of people.
A platform was erected in St. Nicholas Square, to which Mr. O'Comn-li, accompanied by several gentlemen, made their way with difficulty through the crowd. Mr. Larkin presented the aildressfrom the Reformers of Neweestle, and Mr. ',Mather that from the South Shields Liberals. Mr. O'Connell spoke for some length in reply to these addresses, urging the necessity of a reform of the House of Peers, end using similar rguments to those which we have given above in extracts from his -Manchester speeches. In the evening, Mr. O'Connell dined with a party of three hundred and forty gentlemen, et the Music-hall ; many ladies being seated iii the gallery. The " King " and the " People " were the first toasts, and then came the " Princess Victoria—may heat-en protect her against the machinations of the Orangemen !" This was received by
the company with the most vehement cheering. life can only affore room for one or two passages from the powerful speech delivered
by Mr. O'Connell. He dwelt on the necessity of union among Re- formers— " We hail a lesson read tic us. Time enenna. is wise in his own generation ; and accordingly we saw that cur business was to close our ranks—to give lilt
&mete:ions amongst ourselves—to agree with every one who agreed witlt to
avoid qmirrelling amongst Refin-iners, mid not to produce divisions Were the time tor them arrived. This was the plan of many. Reformers; that poor fellow Hunt was always quarrelling with the Reformers On Wine (11:04iInt that was to he decided three or four %var. afterwards. The people in my country are sufficiently quarrelsome, bui Ivo never Tiarrel about what is to happen next year—that is a blunder Irishmen never fall into. It is too bad of Relormers to make greater blunders thin CVCII Paddv himself The speech of Sir Robert Peel at Tamworth is a ;pen+ of utter defiance of the people f if England. He sass, be will have power over you and over us; but I think tie is greatly mistaken.; and I read badly the history of England, if Engkshmen will submit to such a ruler. Ile sayit, I thought I could have managed the affairs of England, because I thought I was strong myself, and latantase I thought the Reformers would quarrel among themselves.' Fas eat air lioste doceri. We see what tale tawniies w:shed w should do ; we saa the prudence of the course we have adopted—of union. Peel said, ' I thought ba Irish and O'Connell could never agree with the Melbourne Atiministra ig • We had a hang-dog choice ; if we did not take Melbourne, we must sallow ai Peel; and that would have been a perpetual Coercion Bill for Irelm; ' iti I from this spot I taunt Peel in reply. I tell hi no that the choice we made out heads dictated, and our grateful hearts uow confirm. From the moment dal- e:me into power, there is not a single act which the Alelhatirne Administration could do to promote the welfare of Ireland, to relk-ve her distresses, to soothe her suffi‘rings, mid to mitigate her oppression, that they have not done freely aud actively."
The Prime :Minister of last year, who hoped to he Prime Minister again, had lauded Louis Philip-
" I think that he ought to be impeached elsewhere ; if ever I see him again in office, I will ask him—Are not ■ou the man who praised the wickedness of Louis Philip ? were not VIII1 the Prime Minister who had tlw audacity to use such language? Would not such language set Tory, Whig, Radical, into one universal outcry ? is it not emit raging the public. opinion of the empire? ill it not condoned by the public voiee from the Land's End to the distant Ile- brides ? The French nation seemed to pause, in the hope that the People of this country wauld sympathize with them in their persecution, and up starts Peel—an upstart, indeed —( Lan filder mind great app.fause)— and lits the organ of a party awl the Prime Minister of last year, halloos urn the nil spit ire his career of despotism. No inan praises that which he would not, or aught not to imitate. Peel, therefore, approves the measures el Leuis Philip, and ought, if lie dare, to carry into action the measures he has sanctioned Ly his In udation. Ile is tied up with the policy of Louis Philip; !ad he dare not do that in England which he praises in connex:on w;th Prance."
Mr. O'Connell concluded with an appeal to the better feelings of Englishmen in behalf of the oppressed Irish. Several other toasts were drunk, and some energetic speeches deli- vered, by the orators of the party, which then broke up.
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