REPEAL.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 28, 15 February 1844, Page 4

REPEAL.

i Spkbch of Mr. O'Connell at Ballitore ou Sunday, October 1. (Continued horn our luit Supp'etntnt.) ihat you date not attempt such a deed again ! (Enthusiastic cheering and cries ot " Never dare they.") Let every mother who hears me think of the moment when each gallant chiet I*f*. his home with a parting to his wife and babes. Let her —o!» let her imagine for « moment, that husband, the lathei of those childien brought h«»nie to ber a biuised and b ood) .■oi, t*« ' ( Hi-i«r. ) In the pride of manhuod, in the confidence of strength, with sinewy arm, capable, if but prepared, to eh ml hei tiom any foe, did he lea*e her; mi xi day was he brought home in all the in.nity of death— powerless to defend, iucaphle oi affording anything but bitter •Mut, inletmil'able sorrow j (Cheers,) Oh jkiigland, England! thy crimes have fi.led the cup of bitterness. The hour of ihe veii-e.mce of God, I greatly tear me, cannot be fai from you ; but thou, oh lie lai'd, has many days ot glory still before rtire Thou bant suftVied much, and committed not injury in return. (Cheers,) v Saxon ingenuity to show when you • tiy. biolce a compact, lett your plighted laith uniedeemed. My glorious countrymen, tin- c .ntia>t betweeu l your tyrants is to me a s< o h. hi;hesl tie i.lc. Jo*T«rytW*j| ■j, u .•nei«»»iiy and nobleness -in eveijil.i g have bey proved iheir cruelly U.id uru.h-i\. (ilueiv) Mr < > 'Connell I h< ii v» » ni o. »• h * oft iepeat«d asserturns i -oiM-. nutiu I! .hi Cathode liberaln\ in h- ! 'ini to » very creed, and thtir f m i |)eisecrtiiug spirit; premised to give up repel ■ « any c nld b»- adduced o the latter; de meed stou in religion ; and afhimed that England vii tVioiestaiit because Mary had pi«.!MCHieil Protenti id lidicu- .. ot his evei becoming a prosec r utter his thousand* of speeches in and religious h . n> which he haif of en piovtnl by bis acts lo be the seutiUM ftcf ot his loan. He had draws tip I hi petil on of ihe Luulish disseun Isf, i i u. Mi. L" Ksuai ge, I | had hud It adopted i-V holic aaeot'iulion. W nlnn three we-ks alterwards «he Dissemtis were emancipaand that was a > • n I* fqrt tin i ni.in ciraiion of tin- Csjtholics lh«nu#ei*e» , rs ) 'I h■ < ■ Master of the Oiange men. Sir A. I*> Kit g, bad | latt A his claims in his hands, and, despite all party leelini:, satisfied of the jusiieo' his claim.*, he i Mr. O'Connell) had |fr«M him £?,SCO a year; ami on Ins i .-nth-bed Sir A. I ! . K ii- bad desired his so»»-iu law f a captain 10 Hie aimy, 10 lell li in <> Mr. O'Connell) that the Giaud HVs<<*r oi •angemen had died in com'oi mined tliiough him, ami for w 1 ich he 'hanked hun. (cheers.) He was iM ed ti at ihirfl -Was no danger ot <jtii»> tude— (|on ni'i' r»l («locs ) There was never such a ministry before *ot together. The renegade (iiiha.u; SiapJey, whose t.nui'\ in-nnty pio-iuced ,t irfoii. mama ot bftttod to Ireland; and the poof old Duke —their plan ot i BmtiL silly and dnvelling. lie reeKfed tin m lo spend ih. n \ a- « in W ah - daughter.) Tin- Hon. i man prt* patlm at ihe iio(s in W ales, and cub d the Ministerial plan of putting tin in down by fteiidiiipj a Mi»et ollicei ,hrie, he supposed to find out the real cause of the old somen's death whom a Welch juiy iwpoiud to have died of" a Sihii <>l blood." He then referred to the coin-law agitation, and claimed Mr Colnleii as his jiupil in sgialion- attai ked liberal Catholics, whom he calied " I opish Orangemen," and ihe Mtinl'ir fol Kildaie, Mr, O'Ferrall, and " little Archy," lVlr. ArcliDold. I he latter was once a repealer; the fyoiiuei had declared, in ihe House of Commons, " that il he went to war with Ireland, he would not take up arms toi ihem unless tithes weie abolished." I here was a fellow for them ; he had "no notion of taking up arms on the right-side at all. and iremuidous cheers.) He called on repealers lo stand together, and piontised that as soon as he had ascertained the constituency, so as to enable her Majesty to issue her writs he would take the step of assembling what The Times, had factiously termed his "300 bog-trotters." They would see who would sink in the bog first (Cheers and

liuguter.) After some further enervations, he declared their struggle to be for ' a nation which deserved to be'free, was I once fee, and that should and resumed his seat amidst tremendous cheer, iug. Several other toasts weie proposed and spoken to, and the banquit was broken up shortly after nine o'clock, Mr, O'Connell retiring to his carriage amid loud shouts from some huudreds of the peasantry outside, who had remained throughout the rain to see him depart. He was attended by a body of "his po. lice," with a great number of pine torches blazinu on all soles, and drove off rapidly to Kilculleu. where he passed the night, iu oider to beat the Association at one o'clock next day French Officers in Ireland.— In a recent number ot the Evening Packet , a the close ot an article on on 6 of the late re|>- al demoiisti aiions, there occurred the followingstrange aunouncemeut: —•» It is only this very morning that we have been apprised by a gentleman from the county of Down of the important fact, that French officers, disguised as priests, hive been organising and diilling the pesaanttv provinces," In refeience to the going* the Be/fast Newsletter, a moderative conservative journal, says, " Of the last mentioned fact we have no doubt, as one ot these disguised military officers is understood to have been in Belfast within the lest eight days. Who the parties are with whom he was in communication we do not know, but we cau avert that the information received by the Packet is not without foundation, so far as popu ar report is concerned. Disguised French officers, ofcourse without the concurrence oftheFreiu ninent, are ■aid to be now perambulating the rural districts for purposes which cannot be mistaken In addition to this it must be Slated that several * foreigners,' or ■ aliens/ I Mr. O'Connell calls all £iig!uhmen, were observed at the lut<; demonstrations at Ctare, Ath one 'IV brave only know how to forgive; i the mos> rein., d and generous pitch nrtue human frtture can arrive at. Cowards have done good and kind actions,, cowards have even fought, ;,eiimes even conquered ; but a coward never forttave m is not in his nature ; the power of doing n Hows only j ro m a strength and greatness ot soul, conscious of its own Be and security, and aqove the little of resenting every fruitless attempt to interrupt its happiui