IRELAND.
Mr. O'Connell dined at Cork on Monday with a large party, ire eluding the two Members for the city, Mr. Beamish and Mr, Callaghan Mr. Garrett Barry, and Mr. William Crawford ; the last-named ger. tlemati in the chair. Mr. O'Connell told the company that matter' were continually growing worse for Ireland in the British Pali. meat— - But the Queen's Ministers cannot do justice to Ireland ; they are =bleb: do justice ; they have not the power, though they don't want the inclination.
They are growing daily worse and worse in that respect, because, arid I au prove It, iu 1835, the House of Commons maintained a large majority Erne able to justice to Ireland. In 1837 it was newly elected, but it scarcely escaped having a majority against it. They are growing daily worse, and why? Ea. land bears an antipathy to Ireland. Englishmen are daily calumniatiug her. I know that in England there are honest, high.minded individuals, and Mee. tiers disposed to do justice to Ireland. I know there are many who feel for her, bat they form a minority to the overwhelming force of the -Tory confederay. We delude ourselves if we expect any thing from them ; and the majorityal Scotland is too trivial to countervail that of the number of membersiestby England into tine House of Commons, pledged, nay sworn, against granting a Ireland her rights. Therefore our enemies are almost in the majority hid* Commons, at least a powerful! minority, while in the Lords there is a powerful majority against us; anti if we cannot ourselves advance, we will be forced by England to retrograde."
But Ireland should have her rights-
" They fancy we will be put down. I tell you we will not. I'll raiz my voice, mild it shall sweep from the Giant's Causeway to Cape Clear, and Caw mara to the Hill of Howth. I'll raise all Ireland to determination. We cotnplain of the Tithe system. Without its extinction there can be no religiai liberty'. No man should contribute to that from which he derives no hennas instruction. It was said I approved of it. I never did. I said directly the reverse. I said it ahifted Whiteboyism from rags and films to Witittheyistait broad cloth. I promise you that from Moore Park to Bantry you willso longer see Peep-o'-day-boys, but in the full noontide of the sun will be comic forward meetings—influential meetings—to prove that rent.charge means into, and that abolition is the remedy for both one and the other."
He enlarged on the injustice done to Ireland by the existing appa• tionment uf Parliamentary Representatives-
" I deny that an Englishman is worth flee Irishmen ; yet there is a Meade to every Englishman, while there is but one to evety five Irishmen; and Sol. land with its 2,00,000 has Members making every Scoteltman equal wahto Irishmen. Will you really submit to this ? (Cries of "No, no!") be sure you will not. Why, I see amongst you more than one boy %box eyeu beaminF with indignation to think that men would submit to such a degrade tion. rhey would despise you ; they could not bear the contempt; yam not so paltry ; there are these in this room (alluding to the ladies) who mei not believe that one Englishman would be worth five Irishmen. (te!.1 laughter.) I defy Englishmen, therefore, to say it. We did, in the ire* stance, submit our case and our wrongs to Ministers to remedy them:. we war asked to do so, and we immediately dissolved the General Association. lit gave up agitation, to let the Ministers carry their measures; we paid them a! high honour of dissolving it ; we embarked our cause in their hods; be: what have we been the better of it? They travailed for nine months, la brought forth nothing ; or rather, they were for nine mouths bringing ford II abortion in the shape of the tithe measure." * • * • "We must hatters; franchise England has, and above all equalization of Members. We %reread do we want to take them away from England? If we cannot get eqsaa without it, I am for taking them away ; but I might not push so far mothers while I would so far as the twenty-five rotten boroughs go. I would take two from Harwich; and would that be unjust to England ?" He would have taken less than he now demanded, last year, or Oil present year; but next year, said Mr. O'Connell, "I'll get alltor will have Repeal"— " Oh, how my heart springs when I think I shall again see the Salle' Dublin, the capital of a nation—when the den of thieves and monerchneer.5 shall be driven from her portly building—the representative of NIajesty gat! the castle, not surrounded with armed soldiers, but with the quiet, lotOT prosperous people who will then crowd the streets of Dublin ; ttbta 1*(6 casket of the Irish House of Commons enter into the temple of Liberty, and ..."`S the chair ; tl en I shall rise and bid the father of my country hail. Oh 11,1poica will be then prostrate in the dust, and Ireland again free." t )Jr. Reamish declared that he was proud to be one of O'Connell's and Mr. Callaghan said, though he was for starting at once the Repeal agitation, he bowed then, as he always did, to O'Con- nell's better judgment. Lord Normanby has been received with great enthusiasm in Ros- common. In his reply to the County address, he exhorted them opinst "any.unseemly change in the tone, any untimely alteration in the woe, of thew demand.." This is evidently levelled against the new agitation, and the forty-five Member project ! His Excellency was to proceed to Clare.—Northern Whig.
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