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      TO THE WHIG EDITOR OF THE TORY » LEEDS TIMES . " 1 knew that when the " itch of -writing" vras op . y 0 Tl i th&t job could not stop , the eruption . Ton hay ? , -written % second comment on mj " political consist ^ ngj . » va TeryprettymwyoahaTeaaaeoflt . J ^ i your flat paragraph jam my : " onrreaders will remember that a fortsight ago we made a lew quotatiens yaoH the Northern Star , showing that the con «> ieenl leader of the Imperials had , in 1838 , been in Javoni of a total and immediate TepeaJ of the Caraltfwi . " In your floird paragraph yen a » y : —

      " We-niTirt state , howeTer , Sbai as T ? e had not the JTort&eni Siar bslbre nt -when we made the extracts referred to , bat quoted from memoranda beside ' as at thetimei we have unwittingly fallen into the error of quoting title date of the paper from which the second extract was made , as the 28 th of March , 1 S 38 , in » ttad of tire 2 * tn , wbich it should be ; and also of mtjqaotlDg toe word should * instead of ' can' { which we can pro-re not to hare been our fault ) . "

      2 ? ow that ' s both a lie and had English . It ' s a lie , if your first paragraph is trne ; and yonr first paragraph is true , —for yon had the Northern Star before you at the fime . It is bad English , because yon would not bare mUqnoted me if yon had need the word " can" instead of " j honld . " In your next paragraph yon aay ; " this however makes no difference in the impression istssded to bb C 05 YETED . though for the sake of

      iaib ? ess we regret thatTre have xtsiktextiokallt Bi&de a mistake of a single word . " Now in that short sentence there are three great lies . The alteration did state all the deference ; and the wrong word teas "intenSed" to con-rey aialae invpreuion ; and yon did doit intentionally i for let job ask yon if you think that any man , except a free trader , Trill beliere that , the *• memoranda from which yon say yon quoted had la it the word " ahooia" instead of the word *• can" !

      I am going to proTe that you had tha Norther * Star before you , when you wrote your first essay . When you had misquoted me froa a leading article , you follow the quotation thus : " and again in a lecture delivered by Sir . O'Connor in Leads hi the same month , as reported in the Norther * Star , ( most probably by the lecturer himself ) , on the necessity for a total and immediate repeal of the Corn Laws—we find it stated as follows : " then yon quote two sentences from different parts of my address , and pnt them togtther ; and they are correctly quoted . They are in the same number of the Xerttern Star from which you would make it

      appeal that you did not quote but from" memoranda r-I am not quibbling with yon ; for I am about to give the whole comment in that very week ' s Star on the debate OB Mr . Tillier * motion ; and there it will be seen thai you , " FAIR" saan!— stopped short exactly wJtere $ » a should have looked for the sskdion of my approval ef the Repealo / the Corn Laics ! The gross , and wilful , and dubby misrepresentation of which yon hare convicted yourself , would fully justify me in declining to take further notice of ysur ownmeaU . Nothing caa more tend to lower the character of journalist * in the eyes of the public , than s * cb mean , nngentleiaanHtee and BSproIeanoual conduct as y db have been guilty of .

      Although you say that the misquotation Bade no difference , yet you well knew when you fabricated the falsehood that It made all the difference . If I had eaed the word " shtndd , " it would have been an unconditional pledge on thejiirtof the Sidles !* , as we were then called , as far as I could pledge them , to support the repeal of the Coin laws svbstantioely and uncon dttioaatfy ; ff-H ££ E £ S THE WOSD " CAS" IMPLIED

      THAT THERE WAS A C 0 SO 1 I 10 S ANSjsXED TO IT . It is a word that J have toed from thai time till now , and xchick 1 still use . And yon will learn by the concluding portion of the Tery paragraph with a part of which you concluded yonr last quotation , that that condition wai express . Bead the last aentepce ef that comment , and then say if even YOU can attach to it an vneenditie * al meanlog . It is : " BUT T ? TS ASE 5 OZ FOB AST -SIEASCSS

      TTHJCH , TBOrGH . FiOFJESSISG GOO © , Mi £ LEAD TO A TCBTHEB fBOSTBATJOJi OT LABOCB TO BSYOEH 1 SG capital . " Now , this is from the Star ef March 2 * th , JS 33 , and written by me . I wish to place my comment on Mr . Clay ' s speech , on the motion of Mr . Yilliers , prominently before you . It is : —" This -gentleman seems to speak * m # re in sorrow than in anger ; and all through his lucubzstion is marked by folly and ignorance . It appear * Eiai if we clamosr for that which Mx . Ciay requires , = * re are 'practical' men ? but when we seek for a means to produce all the benefits of those results professed to be sought for by Mr . Clay and bis

      party , we are then chimerical . By the realisation of oca principle—namely , TJaitkrsal Scj ^ xage , the jxop le would make the repeal of the Com Lava a reality instead of a-thimera , which it vmdd tarn out It ie in tie ' ¦ practical " - txrkings of Mr . Clay audits economical coadjutors . " l " o » , then , had not the " CAN , " winch meant the adhesion of the Pree Traders to Universal Suffrage , xsmdhing to do kWi ilfi In the ether article from which you made your other extract , you stopped Tery conveniently short . It ceotinued -8 ms : — "By the Beform Bill , howeTer , the money gad labour mongers hare got into Parliament ; and they not only wish to preserve the funds .

      fcot also to be placed in a position to double their already ill-acquired capital . " And that article concluded thus : — "It can only be by ; DSJVeb-Sll stFFiAGE that industzious men can be made to Consider themselves protected , and that idlers , willing idlers , can be made to feel that they are * be * eckless authors of their own destitution and disgrace . All former agitation on the subject ef the Repeal -of the Cora Xavs has been * Q ,. give the people cheap bread i * Some old hen in London-begins to clnck ' cheap bread , cheap bread' ¦ > and the gaping chicks in the country begin te chirp cheap bread , cheap bread '! Goo hel ? THE ? OOB PEOPLE J 2 £ ET BEALL 7 A&B HOST EASILy . GELLED . "

      2 fow , then , don't yon tkk& that the eountenanee the Corn Law Repealers " cm 1 * haTe for Repeal " £ teuld > hare something to do with CSITESlsal sc ? 5 uag : e ? In the i £ Xt number of the J £ tar , in the Star ot the 31 st of March 1858 , you will find in a leading article -written by me the following ad-rice given to the Free Traders . " Lay aside your economical mysteries -with regard to free bade , oTer production , OTer population , and competition . Take the fragments of misery from yonr political Haleidescope , and show the fair picture to the people . Speak to them

      in homely phrase . Tell them that to be great abroad ve must be first great at home . Talk to them of 5 ATI 0 SAX FKBS -TRXDS , Tell them to dissolve the incestuous union between Church and State , and to isstore the tithes to the uses of the people . Tell them io make the laws such as can be obeyed from love , aadtliBbsncl jour irmj . Bet rid of yonr pensioners ; Jcoi drones , your locusts and j our expensive establishments of e ? 6 iy description ; and then , thoBe who now coEpIfiin of disorder aod want of moral perfection , will speeSIly find that the cause being remored , the effect \ rHl have ceased to fxisl "

      Wbat do yon say to that ? I > ont yon think the " can * had something to do with than Although 1 dont belieTe tbat you haTe scope of mind to grasp , or brains to understand , the whole question , neTertheless 2 shall make yon the medium through which I can Jeason generally on the subject with the belter informed Working daises . 1 was fora Repeal of the Corn Laws in 1838 , as I am for their Repeal in 1 S 44 : but sot fob SHE 2 SCLIT £ ITE BESEF 1 T 0 ? THE CAPITALISTS . I >' 1 S 31 the Whigs were in power ; andHalthusiansastbey are , they were the party npon whom the agitation for a ligpeal of the Com Laws was to haTe had effect Sinee the dissolution ot that party , an attempt has-been znsdeto NSMril&iB , 01 rather to remodel , Whigsery on the

      pnreit ilaiamsian principles . In 1838 Wti ^ gery was propelled by the Free Trade party ; but still that party did not abandon its former theory , or rather it professed to uphold all the essential doctrines of Whiggery . In 2 SH , the Pree Traders threw aside toleration of WMygery ,- acd ss I well knew that equality looks for ascendancy , my opposition to the unconditional Repeal of the Corn Laws became based upon mneh njore extewive grounds . Since 1838 I haTe witnessed the distauctiTB elements - of the party that has embodied itself under the denomination of the

      Asti-Co £ 5 Law League . I haTe seen theii ferocity as sgistrstes ; their cruelty and injustice as maslem ; * nd thejr disregard of all duties as neighbours . I ha * e seen these ihiogn eTen while they were looking for power ; and whrt should I hare seen if they bad had power ? ; " I baTe vliseoTered since 1838 . that Free Traders struggle voi so j > : uc \ for the accomplishment of Oieir J > ofessed tided , AS PO . ^ IHB aSCEKDASCT of ^ olihgal powbb under the aa ^ oned mask of humanity ted pbHantrop Their eTery act , their erery moTe , ¦^ h staer » the reg ^ e , orio tiiekitoiT ) 55 » l ?» P& * ity ,

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      i ^ laket me the more shrink from the horrors that must be a eooaequenee of their unopposed sway . And hence I might , if required to establish my consistency , eTen if I had changed my opinions , offer the bold , the daring the uneqaiTocal acts of the Anti-Corn Law League , as a justification for that change . From the wicked past I might anticipate a more wicked future ; and it will be my boast , while lWing , and my consolation when dying , that I haTe stood between their uncontrolled sway and the sufferings of those who would haTe been Tictima to their class power .

      Young man ; that army must be in a forlorn and disconsolate state when it makes your cockloft its battle ground , and your muddled brains its weapon . Let the League die in peace ! and rest assured that if eTer their trumpet should sound another adranee , that yon would be but a sorry " make-weight" between them . and the working classes of this country , who know how justly to appreciate their merits , and know what would be the result of their triumph . And now one word of adTice . If you can ' t be wise , be as little f » olish as possible ! If nature did not make you a philosopher , don't make yourself an ass . The League " can" yet hare the support of the working classes , and of FBABGrS O'COMKOB . P . S . —Berefollaws fee article from the Northern Star , of March 24 th , 1838 ,

      beaded—CORN LAWS , from which you hare so " fairly" quoted to show that I was then for an immediate , total , and unconditional Repeal . Let the world judge of your "faimess '^ - " in our third page win be found an article on the general principle inTolved in the Repeal ef the Com Laws , while we shall now observe upon the speeches of the several speakers on Mr . Tillier ' s recent motion on the question- The speech of Mr . Yilliers , taking it as a worked aum upon the general arithmetical principle ; by which calculations haTe been made upon the subject of cheap bread , cheap labour , and competition power , was able , m Bl ^ ly , torching , and according to ro '«; but , as applied to the means professed to be attained , it was fallacious , unproductiTe , and

      unoon-Tineing . Toe arguments , all through , went to place in odious comparison the state protection afforded to the landlord , with the no-protection administered to Ihe manufacturer , without the introduction of one single sentence or attempt at proof , as to the permanent effect which his scheme wonld haTe upon the new order of things to be created by the Repeal of the Corn Laws . There was some guessing at and backing of former prophecies it is trne ; but no general scale of probable general results . Instead of troubling our readers with an elaborate report of the debate we shall lay before them , with comments , the most striking extracts from the speeches of the several speakers . Mr . Yilliers , early in the debate thus opened upon the House .

      [ Here was given aa extract from the speech of Mr . Tilliers 3 . In eTtry word of the above extract we fully concur ; bnt what guarantee would the people hone Suit a change tf power from Ike htudlords to the manufacturers would produce a beiiet stale of things 1 On the contrary , with the prvsent limited and interested constituent body , may we not suppose that the just taunt * of " making the people look upon the present House as an unreformed one in all that touches their own interest " , would be under the projected chance as applicable to those into whose bands power wocld fall , as it is new chargeable upon tie landlords ? As to the time arriving when the fears of the House must give way to popular demand , we are agreed ; BUT THE EEMASTD will . BE FOR MORE THAN A WEBB REPEAL OP THE corn l&WS . Thi Hoo . Gentleman then proceeds j—[ Here followed further extract ^

      With respect to the threat of the Russians and the Americans , to'manufacture for tbe « c « elves , Mr . Tellers has been well answered by Sir William Moles worth ; and we shall presently show -from the words cf the Hen . Baronet , that the contemplated reanlt of the-repeal of the Cornta-srs would , bat from different motives , haTe a precisely similar tendency . As to the manufacturers of Xottingham and Derby not being able to contend witk foreign manufacturers , it means nothing more nor less than a declaration that the wages of the English operative -must-be reduced ; while all the speakers have lost sight of , or omitted to state , the fact , that the ExaKH OPEBATITE METBB CAS COHPBTB WITH OTHER STATES , OX EQtAL -TSHMS . SO LONG AS HIS

      PRODUCE HAS TO GO THROUGH THE EXORBITANT NATIONAL TOLL-BAR , "WHERE lDi-EJfESS , LCXORT . DEPRAVITY , ARISTOCRATIC D 0 M 1 M 0 N , and OLD prejudices sit as TOLL » 00 LLECT 0 R-s . In contending against the protection which landed property unjustly receives , there teas no -attempt to protect LABOOB ; but all was a demand for the protection of capital and speculation , at the risk of laboni—all bnt l&bosr being » fiction , and labour being the only real capital- -Agziia Mr . YOliers proctods : — [ Another extract ] Tea , truly ; the landlord in acehcase would ask tbe tenast a greater price tor his land . And , &a the operative stands in the same relation to tha manufacturer as tbe tenant does to his landlord , so . by & parity of reasoning , wonld tbe mannfactnrer offer the operative a lew price for Ms labour , if theories of bread was rednced .

      Tbe exordium of Sir William Molesworth's speech was a mere elementary tresti * e-on social institutions and probable -results , from hypothetical -data . We commence onr commentary with tbe following extract [ txiract from-Sir William Moleeworth's speech 3 Tbe ^ deas contained in tbe above extract are exceedingly eoismatical ^ and , in his reasoning , tbe Honourable Bfcxonet seems to haTe strayed from the wide field ot foreign policy , and to have made his commentary on the simultaneous contentment of ifce landlord , manu factnrer , and laboarer , from a cossideration of their domestic . dependency tbe one npon the other : otherwise , hew substantiate the favourite argument , that high price of labour , and tbe power to meet foreign competition , is incompatible ! Sir William-teas proceeds . { Here fcUowed another extract ] .

      Here , Sir William Moles worth seems to lose-sight of the following fact , namely , that Ireland is an agricultural country , and that the standard of wages is more simply regulated , ss -being only applicable to the produce of tbe soil , which is regulated by the price of the said produce . Again , tbe trice ot agrieultfcral wages tbe only description of wages which was raised , while the wajjea of the mechanic was not only reduced , but still subjected to contend against the higher price of agricultural produce-- a circumstance which threw many weavers and mechanics out of their usual employment , and induced them either to substitute tbe spade fer the shuttle or the hammer , or to -emigrate to the English manufacturing markets ; tosnutatis mu ' andis ; reduce ,

      -WITHOUT AS EQCITABliE . ADJUSTMENT , the price M agricultural labour , and you of necessity drive tbe reduced agricultural labourer am a competitor into tbe advanced labonr market . Tbe only means by which Sir William ' s farther argument caa be met is this : —that bycosipetition is meant , tbe powsr which tbe capitalist has in unrestrictedly dabbling is tht labonr market He leaves wholly untouched the necessity of a certain portion of the profit in labour rt ? tnrning to the place trots whence it came , namely , Ui tbe working man . In raefa erent his dread of overproduction and over population , would go to tbe winds . Alas ! the wrong ehrmxA into which the profit upon labour goes , is the great , the crying , the insurmountable grievance . We

      now give Sir William ' s short but pithy and convincing conclusion , and which furnishes the best answer to the most-relied < on-p&rt of Mt . Viliters ' s speech . ( A fnrfiier extract from Sir William Moleswortb ' j speech ) . Mr . Yillien deplored the threat of the Russians and Americans to manufacture on their own accoant , in consequence of the restrictions laid on their produce , and the unequal terms of barter between their country and this . Now , suppose the assertion of Sir William Moles-• worth to be trne , ' and that the effect of the repeal of the Corn Ls ^ s , would be an advance in rent , in the price of produce , and in the price of labour , must not a corresponding advance take place in the price of English would

      manufactures , both at home and abroad ? and - not such an advance be n still greater inducement to Americans and Bussians to manufacture on tbeir own account , unless , indeed we may be told , that they wonld be satisfied -with a mere increase in the price of agricultural produce ? It is clear either that England Ifl the one only great cook-ahop of Eurepe and America , and that tbe price of every acre of land upon thoBe great continents is to be regulated by the scale of English necessity , or the whole argument falls to the ground . If the price of English land is raised , the price ot American , RjjMian , and of all oVher countries with which we trade , mn * t be raised also : or what comes of our «< jualisinz Bjstem ? Will Sir William point out how the

      price ef labour can be equalised all over Europe , without equalising that by which its price is regulated t And , then , are we such cormorants , as to gobble and devour all the corn of all tbe coao tries to such on extent , as to affect the price of land in this universal degree 7 Raise the Eoglish rente , and you raise the continental rents , and then what becomes of . the " cheap-foed " lisb ? It must haTe this tendency ; for Sir William Molesworth cannot take the maps of America , Russia , Poland , Germany , Prance , and Prussia , and dot them by an acreable scale , as to the proportion in which they will be selected for furnishing the necessary supply for the English market . We next come to Sir Henry Parnell . He says : —

      [ Extract from Sir H . Parneirs speech . ] In nominating the amount of tax laid on by the Corn laws , it should be recollected , that the good things are always usurped by an exclusive body , -while grievances are generally laid b .-fore us as a kind of partnership concern , so that when Sir Henry Parnell was stating the increased amonnt laid npon a certain amount of corn , by the operation of tbe Corn Laws , he should have given us a scale . Soppose then for uniformity -we take Mi . YiUiei'B ecalt of increase at £ 15 , 000 , 000 per annum ; that is , on the -whole amount consumed . Even this is erroneous : for the very corn , Trith which , we are ttireatened , though so \ sold in tbe

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      market , would have a considerable tendency to affect tbe price of home produce . However let us deal with the fact as it arises . Suppose that there are fifteen millions of a bread-consuming community , and that five millions of those work for daily hire ; and even admitting the factory child consumes aa much aa the Duke or his pampered menial , we find that the- tax falls at the rate of about £ 1 per head , or £ 5 , 000 , 000 per annum on those who are to be relieved by a repeal . This is not our way of dealing with the question : it Is the hacknied phraseology -of tbe arithmetical workera of it Bnt to return to the desired effect , which is , to reduce tbe price of bread by £ 5 . 000 , 000 annually npon the working classes , where is to be the master ' s

      shate of the booty ? " Cheap labour' ! Now , suppose snppose that labour is reduced by fourpence per day , the five millions of working people suffor to the amount of £ 26 , 000 , 000 a year , and receive £ 5 , 000 , 000 in exchange in lieu thereof : and that is a loss of £ 21 , 000 , 000 per annum 1 If a reduction of twopence per day £ 13 . 000 , 000 ; and if a redaction of one penny P « doy , £ 6 , 500 , 000 ; that is if a man ' s wages was redneed from four shillings a day to three aud eleven pence ; a reduction which we much doubt the masters would be satisfied with . But as oar object is to deal fairly with tbe qnestion , rather than to use it as an electioneering or agitating oiutcn ,

      we may here obserre that no matter upon what description of produce , extensively used , a tax maybe laid , it will considerably affect all other produce of every sort aud kind . Thus corn being protected , more land is devoted to its growth than to other produce ; and therefore the Corn L 3 ws impose a tax npon bread , beef , mutton , pork , linen , tallow ,-cheese , milk , butter , and all else which the land furnishes , and which would be produced in greater abundance and with more competition than at present If milk was very generally used and could be imported from the Continent , a tax upon mill : -would raise the priee ' of Corn . We now sirs Mr . Clay's morsel .

      [ Extract from Mr . Clay ' s speech j This gentleman seems to speak more in sorrow than In anger ; and all through , his lucubration is marked by felly and Ignorance . It appears that if we clamour for that which Mr . Clay requires , we are " practical '' men ; but when we seek for a means to produce all the benefits of those results professed to be sought for by lir . Clay and his party , we are then chimerical By the realisation of OUR principle , namely Universal Suffrage , the people would make the repeal of the Corn Laws a reality instead of a chimera , which it wonld

      tarn oat to be in the " practical" workings of Mr . Clay and his economical coadjutors . He mourns that while 196 , 000 persons were found to petition for a repeal or the Poor Law Amendment Act , not more than 20 , 000 have petitioned for a repeal of the Corn Laws . Now common honesty should have induced him to show the value of petitions ; bat as be has failed to do so , we shall show that the votes of Honourable Gentlemen are in an exact inverse ratio to tbe amount of petitioners . Thus while 95 vote for the petitions of 32 , 000 , only 17 are found to veto for the petitions of 186 . 000 . BT A LIKE RULE WE KOPE THAT

      UNIVERSAL SUPFRA < JE WILL BS CARRIED WlTHOUt AKY petition at all . We Dow come to sum « p the debate , by giving the speech , the whole apecob , the trnth telling speech , of oar excellent successor , Mr . E . Roche , Member for Cork County . And here we cannot avoid congratulating our political children of Cork , upon the selection of a young gentleman of great spirit and promise . He lets the cat out of tbe bag as follows ^—£ Here followed the speech of Mr . Roche ] Read that , mark it , learn it , and inwardly digest it I and think on a reduction at sixpence a day , which is the Irish wages ; and think upon our power of , and task for , increasing population in Ireland : and then

      nflscttipon the corps of reserve , which poor starving Irishmen would form es competitors in tbe English marfeet . We are for tbe immediate Repeal of the Corn > Laws , because we feel convinced that tbe change would lead to a farther and a more general alteration in our entire financial system . IShonld America adopt tbe projected policy of a metallic currency , it will speedily enforce , tha contemplated change . We are for any I thing that will make the labourer happy , comfortable , I and respectable ; as our motto is , a good day ' s hire for ! a fair day ' s work . Bst we are wot for any measure WHICH , THOUGH PROFESSING G 60 D , M * T LEABTOA FURTHBR PROSTRATION OF LABOUR * TO UE-VOOR 1 NG CAPITAL . "

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      LIBERATION OF THE STATE PRISONERS . ( From the Reporter of the Morning Chronicle J Dublin , September 6 th . I arrived here yesterday evening , in the same vessel that brought the solicitors of tie travellers , and with them th * Joyful intelligence that thejadgment of the Court of Queen ' s Bench had been reversed . The manner in which the tidings were received is worthy of a detailed description , as evidescing that which m&y be truly called the national feeling with respect to the prosecution of the government against Mr . O'Connell .

      As the mail steamer , 4 he Mednsa , neared the pier of Kingstown , it was observed that there was on the jetty a large collection of persons of all classeB—the richly clad and the miseraoly poor . The travarflera ' solicitors had provided themselves in London with flags , oo which were inscribed the words— " Triumph of law sad justice— tbe judgaaent royersed , " "O'Connell is free . " It had been intended , by meanB of these flags , to notify the defeat of the Government , long before the ship could touch the land ; but as the captain < of the vessel represented that such a display might be objected to by the Admiralty , the flags were not unfurled until those who bore them had stepped on shore . The solicitors , and several of those on deck , wared their haLs . A movement was

      instantly perceivable in the crowd , but no response was made to the intimation that was thus conveyed to them . Again the bats were waved on deck , and a cheer was giren . It was not responded to ; bat the instant the faces of the solicitors were recognised , that it was seen that the chee . rers were Mr . Maheny , Mi . Ford , ilr . Cantwell , and one of the able counsel of the traversers , ; Mr . O'Hagan , then indeed was every hat raised in the air , and a cheer burst from the multitude , so vehement , so earnest , and so fierce , that in its excitement of exultation it pierced the ear as if it were a shriek . " O'Gonnell is free . ' " was rung forth by the Btentorian voice of Mr . Ford , and the word " free" was echoed back again in an hundred voices MeD rushed tumultuously forward

      to the very brink of tho pier , and seemed ready to bound across the space of waters that yet separated them from those who came the messengers of such joyfnl tidings . All was confusion , all excitement upon shore ; whilst the only words that could be heard were H free , " " free , " " iB O'Connell free V and whilst men bounded and shouted aloud for joy , there was not a woman present whose hands did not seem clasped together , aa if she were engaged in prayer . At last the vessel reached the land , and then the flag-bearers , jumping on shore , displayed them fully to view , and as the words were repeated by the toagues of many men aloud , sheuta and blessings rang around from every side . The

      appearance of the flagB seemed to produce a magical effect ; it looked as if the population bad been , like Clan Alpine ' s men in " The Lady of the Lake , " concealing themselves from view , until a certain signal was given ; for the moment that tho white banners fluttered in the air , men , women , and children , were Been hurrying in thousands down towards the pier . There was no point within view on which persons might not be observed collected—in the windows of Kingstown , npon the roads at a distance , or , farther ob again , from the lowly cabins , there were men waving handkerchiefs , or hats or lifting their hands in the air , exhibiting how emhuaia&tieaUy they participated in the general joy . The hurried pace of those

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      who had arrived by the steamer , and were endeavouring to seoure their places by the train was , despite of themselves , changed into a triumphal procession , in which each and all were welcomed and blessed . upon their arrival in IrelaHd , as if those who ohanoed to accompany suoh news had the merit of aiding in Ua accomplishment . At length the tumultuous , but truly pacific , crowd were left cheering outside the railway station , and , upon taking my place in the train , I perceived that theengmeere _ bad " begged the loan of one of the banners , which decorated their engine , and thus ntimated to all , as it sped along the line , which can > e seen for the greater part from the shore , as from the sea , that it was the bearer of those ldinga which few , from the intelligence brought by tne two preceding nacfefits . ha . H TPntnrftd even

      to hope they would be destined to hear . It was curious to see , aa the train flew by , the labourers in tne helds , and the operatives at their different occupations , how the men stopped in taeir toil to cheer that which they regarded as the emblem of freedom to their ohampion . Here the same curious * 7 « . k obaetTable as at Kingstown . The sight or the banners seemed to evoke a population in places that a few moments before were apparently destitute of inhabitants . As the train entered beneath the buildingB that cover the terminus at Wo 3 tford-row , crowds were seen hurrvintr aloner the

      Btreets , which lie at a considerable depth beneath the railroad , and that branch off from it in ail directions . The clamorous shouts of joy were breaking around the gates in front of the railway station , whilst the distant cheer , becoming each moment more distinct , was diBoernable in the streets that circle around it . I had stopped not more than a couple of minutes to forward an express , with copies of the Evening Chw ntcfe , to the Evening Post , Evening Freeman , and Other paperB , when , I found that ilr . Ford and Mr . Cantwell had already hutriedon to the gaol with the joyful news . They were followed by Mr . Mahony , on whose car I was accommodated with a seat ; and as it was decorated with a banner , it was honoured not only with cheers as it passed along , but it was also ornamented with an enormous queque of stalwart lads , who attached themselves to it , and contrived , by their ejaculations for "O'Connell and old Ireland , "

      to excite an universal hubbub wherever they were seen or heard . I could perceive that fast as we were travelling , wo had been fairly distanced by her whose diligence as an express messenger has been celebrated by Virgil . Upon no face that I saw in the streets , in the windows , or even in carriages , amongst the rich or the poor , was there any one expression visible but that of joy ; in moist there was that ardour of feeling and vehemence of exultatation exhibited which we might expect to find denoting those who have heard tidings of victory over an enemy ; in some it was the placid joy communicated by the receipt of news which is gratifying to a person ' s feeling ? , irrespective and forgetful of what may be its effects on others ; but in no face could I discern any sentiment evinced but that of gladness , j I even observed , npon the countenances of the poJice , as we passed along , the subdued smile of sincere pleasure .

      I hare already observed , that I could not have been more than two minutes behind Mr . Ford and Mr . Cantwell ; and yet when I reaohed the gaol , I perceived crowds hurrying in all directions towards it —© n horseback , on foot , on cars ; aud in many places I observed that tbetsarmen had deserted their 8 lands in a body , forgetting themselves and their ohences of employment , in order that they might be the sooner at the gaol , to hear the news abeut the Liberator . " Shops , 'houses , all things were left to ohance , whilst every habitation seemed to push forth its inmates to hear the great tidings of him , who I have more than once * to day heard distinguished as ¦ " Our Own Father . " Hundreds were clamouring at 4 ke gate to see Arm , and greet hm ; but admission was , as a matter Of course , refused . Mr . Mahony having advanced himself as one of the solicitors , was admitted , and through his influence I also obtained admission .

      Upon being conducted to Mr . O'Connell ' s apartments , I found him and his friends in the vary flush of the triumph , which was now -officiaHy , it may be said , announced to them . Large as the apartments are allotted to Mr ; 0 'ConneH ' s use , they-were swarming now wrth a crowd . He bore the intelligence with the same oalmneaa that it was manifest he would , havo'fihown had it been-of an opposite nature . His lip and his eye , and the -cordial -grasp of his hand , showed his joy , and hew deeply he felt the sympathy exhibited towards hhn , but he was not in the slightest degree shaken by the intelligence . I might truty-say that I could see him * but for a moment , for he wes overwhelmed with gratulations upon grptulatious , that came pouring in upon him , in fresh accessions of ote and steadfast friends , who rushed'to his p / aoe of confinement to bid him joy .

      Upon turning to look at the other travelers , I perceived thataone had suffered from their confinement—that all [ looked like -men who felt they had been unjustly . persecuted , and were-determined to scorn and defy < the worat efforts of their worst foea ; that all , Mr . John O'Conne ll , Mr . Dilffy , Dr . Gray , Mr . Barrett , Mr . Steele , and the Secretary of the Repeal Association , Mr . Raj , were , if it wore possible , improved in health . It was certainly a most interesting sight to behold those gentlemen , surrounded as they were with their families , thus immured for the moment in a prison , and receiving , the congratulations of all permitted to have access to them , hailing their suocess as a national triumph , while the fact was attested by the hoarse and incessant cheers that now and again penetrated through the thick walls and icner circle of that gaol in which they stood .

      At length dinner was announced , and comparative quiet was for some time restored . Having been one of the few out of the hundreds who had burst into the prison , invited to remain , I must own I could not resist the temptation of being a witness to such a scene of unmin ^ Jed joy—a joy which combined tho pure and tranquil pleasures of a happy family with an event which all must feel . as of deep importance , destined to have no slight effeot upon theiutnre destinies of the country . A name that . 1 never heard before in Ireland applied to Mr . O'Connell , I have already remarked , I now fouud used by many in speaking of him—that endearing one , which shows how deeply he is fixed ia the ? Sections of his country . It is that of " Our own Father !"

      Those who have men Vauxhall or Surrey Gardens upon a fete day ,, caa have something like an accurate conception of the soene which tho gardens attached to the prison of the Richmond Penitentiary presented this day . As the sheriff had intimated to the governor of the prison that Mr . O'Connell and his fellow traversers wjre to be liberated the moment the order from the House of Lords had arrived , they were of course no longer regarded as subjected in any respeot to 'he strict rules of the prison * and directions were given that as many as they chose to admit to their preB&ace should be allowed to see them . It was well that suoh on order was given , tor otherwise hundreds of the most respectable classes must have been subjected to a great

      dieappoistment . All regarded Mr . O'Connell and his brother travelers as free , and it would have been a dreadful pain to them to have been told that a mere formality stood in the way , and prevented their seeing " the victors and the Victims . " From an early hour hundreds upon hundreds of the middle classes came pouring into the prison . Those who came upon political matters , or to make arrangements as to the procession to-morrow , were admitted to an aud'ence to Mr . O'Connell , and then proceeded ' personally to pay their respects to the other traversers . So many and so incessant were these calls , that at length it waa found the prison rooms could not convenien tl y contain the numbers that pressed for a eight of Mr . O'Connell , and be was finally obliged to desoend to the garden ? , wherein ladies and gentlemen , and children in vast numbers , kept crowding around him , each contenting himself with pressing his hand , uttering a

      fervent prayer for his welfare , and then passing on . The same course waa observed with the other traversers , and wherever they were found , they were each one and all entreated to write their names . Large coloured cards , and richly embossed borders , had been procured for this purpose ; and to what extent these signatures had been looked for may be learned from the fact , that so early as two o ' clock , Mr . Duffy , of the Nation , assured me he could not have written his name less that 1 , 200 times . Such was the scene exhibited in the garden of Richmond Penitentiary during the day . It began early in the morniDg—it lasted until dinner hour , when for the last time the prisoners and their friends met within the walls or the prison . The order of the House of Lords had been brought by Mr . Gartland . The usual formalities were gone through , and it wa 8 announced to Mr . O'Connell and tne other Traversera that " they were FREE . "

      I pass over all other minor circumstances , to sta ' e a fact which will shew the state of organization , of perfect order , of the earnest desire to maintain the peace , that prevails among the poorer classes in Dublin . During the day thousands had been gathering around the prison to see Mr . O'Connell quit its walls , and as the evening approaohed their numbers were momentarily increased . Tne police were sent for ^ o secure the public peace as Mr . O'Connell returned through the streets . He wished , he said , to have the peace preserved , and declared that if the populace were left to his management , that not one

      should be impeded in his passage whilst he walked home , for that was the mode of returning he preferred rather than go in his carriage . What then occurred ? In the midst of their joy , their exultation , their triumph , that portion of the population that in other oities are designated the mob , here ranged themselves in close files ; each grasped the other firmly by the hand ; they pressed together in such a manner , as to leave space , a free space for Mr . O'ConneU and the traversers , from Richmond Penitentiary to Merrioa-squwe , a distance , I think , about two miles at least , and thus it was , that , there waa given a most extrordinary instance of his influence and their subordination , to

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      i the world . I doubt much if suoh an exhibition at this could be witnessed } in any other part of tho world but Ireland . I certainly do not hope that the procession of to-morrow can at all equal it for simplicity and grandeur of effect .

      MERR 10 N-SQUARE . As he neared Merrion Square , the tidings' that he was positively abroad spread wider , and fresh crowds rushed eagerly to meet him , incredulous that he was there till they had actually seen him , ' for it was understood that he would not leave the prison until next day . The people leaped and danced about him , while their acclamations rent the air . When he entered the square , having still to pass along the whole length of one side of it , crowds rushed along tho flag way a to seoure a place near his house . Mr . O'Connell had to walk in the middle of the road , but the people still preserved the whole road in front of him olear , not more eager to see htm than to have him seen . 'Twaa not curiosity , but pride , taey seemed anxious to gratify . They wished tbe world to look upon him , and behold their Liberator now liberated of right , __! .....

      Long before Mr . O'Connell bad traversed a third of the distance to the house , or could be seen from h —for it was growing da ? k—an immense orowd had occupied the space around , and cheered , and oheered , looking towards the door he was to enter by , as if he were already within his [ house . By this time there could not be less than fifteen thousand persons in the f quare . Their acclamations never onoe subsided as Mr . O'Connell approaohed ; but when he did approach , and actually placed his foot upon the step to ascend to his own door , then indeed such an exhibition of mad joy took place as we have never seen anything that it resembled . We were then occupying a place in Mr . O'Connell ' s balcony . The enthusiasm of the ; multitude seemed inoapable of subsidence ; their acclamation was a sustained body of sound that smote the air as sharp as pealing musketry ; hats were not waived , but flung up into

      the air , nay , flung away as if the wearers could never possibly need them again . Oae only thought , seemed to possess the ; multitude . O'Connell and Ireland had triumphed . I O'ConneU was abroad before their eyes to embody the victory , and the tumultuous joy of the moment was but faintly expressed by the expenditure of all the energy and voice they could devote to it . In a few moments after Mr . O'Connell entered tbe house he presented himself a the balcony . The greeting with which he had been received below was continued—it could not be exceeded . He frequently essayed to address the assemblage , but bis words were drowned iu the reiterated acclamations that ascended from the vast multitude , and several minutes elapsed before their enthusiasm became sufficiently subdued to permit them to listen even to him . At length , during the brief intervals of silence , he spoke to the following effect : — !

      MR . O"CONNELL'S SPEECH . Wby you aeem——( cheers ) . It seems as if you were glad to see me home again —( tremendous cheering and waving of hats ) . This iB . tny own honest home —( cheering for several minntea)—but I have come home from a prison—( cheers ) . In other countries—(« heers)—they send the rogues te prison ] and leave the honest men at home , but many a pultry rogue was left at home while I was confined witbin the walls of a gaol —( immense cheers ) . But God is stronger than oar enemies— ( cheers ) —and thanks be to thati God—< gtest sensation )—I am here tonight in ray own , home—( cheers ) . The rogues ore at home too , but do they feel as comfortable to-night as I do—( cheers ) . The foal atte&ipt to destroy the sacred right ot petition , I to violate the jury-box , and

      trample the-censtitution in ray parsoa—that foul and feloefous attempt has signally failed—( loud cheers ) . The people ef Ireland have gained a mighty "victory , and well hsvo they deserved that Tfctory—they havetbe "moral , 'the temperate , tfcs religions people of Ireland —< tremendeus cheeringjj In their hundred thoasend strength they were mild as the plsjful lamb that « rops tbe herbage as it passes along , and such mildness will tfcey show in their might at preseut—( tremendous cheering ) . O , but we'll have ' £ •' a bra pleasum , tomorrow—< loud cheers ) . But no man shall be harmed —no man shall be insulted or offended—there shall not < sven be a groan —( loud cheering ) . We will laugh tomorrow , and keep the { groaning for another day . I did not make a speech these three months —(

      tremendoos cheering asd j waving of bats)—I did not make a-speech these three months , so my pipe is a little out of tune —( renewed-cheers ) . In the meetings of 1343—tbe glorious meetings of 1843—they called them monster meetings— - ( cheera , —because sash assemblage * eould not be peacefully collected in aey country on earth except our own—( trenendoas cheers )—not a blow was struck—not-a glass of whisky dranfc—not even an accident occurred—( cheers ) . Mo one was shoved , or crushed , or pressed upon—*( gteat cheericg ) . O , it could' happen nowhere bat amosgst the courteous people of Ireland—tbe people oflrelead who are &ind to one

      another—the Christitn people ot Ireland— ' ( cheers )—and now ,-blessed be God , we are here to-night jsjoicing—( deeprflensation ) . We shall nave no tumult to-morrow —a little shout we will have—and some cheering—the happy biid must chirrup ^ - ( ttemendous cheering ) . And now g © home in quiet , and tell every one you meet that we are to assemble to-morrow in peace and happiness —( cheers ) . And then go to your rest , bavmg first offered up your thanksgivings to the Almighty that he haa -vouchsafed to look ; in mercy upon his people of Ireland , and I promise yon we will b » ve the Repeal—( tremendour cheers ) . The , Liberator having retired from the

      balcony—The Bead PACiFiCATOR tbsn came forward , and waving his band to the people , cried oat , "Home , home . " I in mediately from tbe vaat ossemby arose tbe cry , "fiome , home ; " and then they moved away , passing'the boose of the Liberator is one dense -deep staraara , and at half-past seven o'clock Merrion-aquare was silent , or distnrbed only by the footstep of the casual passen ger . ' !

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      ANOTHER ACCOUNT BY ANOTHER HAND . The Times has its * ' own correspondent" in Dublin as well as tbe Chronieie . Hear what he says , when writing for other tastes and to square with other

      opinions ^— i Dublin , Sept . 6 . The excitement consequent upon the startling event of yesterday has , in a great measure , subsided to-day . Early in the morning the Richmond Bridewell became the grand centre of attractiongreat numbers of persons , chiefly of the lower orders , having retaken their poats , lest by any chance the ex-traversers might teffect their release in private , and thus escape the rude welcome that awaited them on the Circular-road . At the Corn-Exohange large crowds assembled from an early hour this morning . The doors of the Conciliation Hall were completely blocked up by multitudes of the lower orders , in expectation of an extraordinary

      meeting being convened , whose excitement and delight seemed wound up to the highest pitch . The Committee Rooms were crowded to excess , aud couriers kept rushing to and from the Penitentiary all day , j charged with despatches and advices , whilst every half-hour some new deputation from Trades' Unions and such political bodies sought interviews with the managing committee , or proceeded to learn Mr . O ' Connoll ' s wishes as to the grand demonstration tomorrow . Many of the leading members of-the Assoiation were of opinion that a longer day should be allowed for the metropolis and Buburbs to collect all their forces for the great ovation , and that Monday would be the most suitable day for that event ;

      but a peremptory message from the liberated Liberator , that he coala not consent to any postponement , settled the matter at onoe . At this moment brll-sttckere are busily engaged in posting on every dead wall throughout Dublin the announcement that a Repeal meeting—another monster meeting , the precursor probably of similar portentous scenes to those of the past year , will be held at Sandy ford , in the county of Wicklow , and rumours are afloat , which will very likely be confirmed on Monday next , that " the gre&t Clbntarf demonstration , " suppressed by tho viceregal proclamation last year , will , p ! O 3 iix-like , spring to life upon the anniversary of tho day which witn ^ ssediits suppression . The confidence and almost religious faith which the people placed in the invincibility of Mr . O'Connell , shaken as it was by his apparent defeat and imprisonment , haa revived again with tenfold force

      and firmness . They audibly declare their conviction that" the hand of God isin it , " whilst the Repealers of a more enlightened class assure you , that if Daniel O'Connell were the prime mover of events , and the grand counsellor of Government , he could uot have ordered events in a way pore suited to his purposes and his cause . Having suffered what will be called an unjust imprisonment , having established his claim to a sort of peeudo martyrdom , by % pleasing retirement from public life for a few months , he has puocef ded in inflicting a heavy blow upon tho law officers of the Crown , in bringing the Irish law oourts and executive into contempt , and comes forth from the Richmond Penitentiary , with ail the prestige of a great victory ^ around him , at the vory iustant when his most sanguine followers were beginning to doubt , and when the funds of the association were ebbing slowly away .

      With respect to the effect of the reversal of the judgment upon the bulkjof the Conservative pariy here—of course excluding the placemen and placeseekers—it must not be concealed that tho intelligence failed in causing any marked sympathy for the dilemma in which Government has been placed by this new and most untoward "Irish difficulty . " And there is but little doubt that this feeling would manifest itself more unequivocally , but for the unhappy consequences which it may be safely

      predio > ed will be certain to follow on a decision which id regarded here as havicg been given more in accordance with the political than the legal opiniona of the judges who pronounced it . On the arrival of Mr . i G-ar-tfan , who was accompanied by a troop of O'Connell ' s admirers at the Penitentiary , a most unseemly scene of bacchanalian disorder is said to have taken place . Thirsty with joy at the intelligence about to be announced to the liberated Liberator , a furpua and indiscriminate onslaught was made by the strangers on the contents

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      f the well-supplied sideboard of wines which graced the gloomy cells of the martyrs . " Fingers were made before forks , " or corkscrews either ; and accordingly necks of bottles were mercilessly smashed by hand , and the vinous juice poured down the parched throats of the patriots either through cups saucers , glasses , or the bottles themselves , when nothing more convenient could be found . Nor could the exclamation of " This is really beastly" from tho lipa of the leader restrain his and Bacchus's ardent yotaries from the indulgence of their pleasure , until at length the exhausted sideboard could yield no more , when order was restored .

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      GBA . ND PROCESSION FROM THE RICHMOND PENITENTIARY . Saturday , September 7 . This day is certainly one of the most extraordinary I ever witnessed , as affording a display of popular enthusiasm . It began as unpropitious as possible , for , from an early hour in the morning , the rain came pouring down in torrents . It waa such dreadful weather , that it would appear to ba an aot of madness for aay one to venture forth ; and I must own that my expectation was , that the intended procession would prove to be , despite of the inclinations of the multitude , a complete failure . I proceeded towards Merrion-sqiare , whilst the rain came pouring down , and to my astonishment I found that crowds had already collected , and there it seems they had determined to remain , for the purpose of accompanying the procession to the

      prison , where Mr . O'Connell had gone at aa early hour in the morning , in order that he might finish one of the devotions of the Catholic church , which , continuing for a certain number of daya , terminated with to-day . This devotion , eatitled , " the Novena , " it seems was offered up for the purpose of beseeohing Heaven that justice might be done . In this devotion it seems that all the Catholic traversers had united , and all , I was told , were thea at the prison , when it was intended that the procession should advance on its way to the Font Courts . Upon going to the prison , I found that the devotions had been completed , and that the parties were proceeding to breakfast . Here , again , I witnessed the same soene of enthusiasm , that I have already

      noticed . Persons were begging of Mr . O'Connell and the other traversers to give them their autographs . I was here informed « f a very kind and generous act which had just been performed by Mr . O'Connell . He inquired the names of all who were in the prison , incarcerated by reasmi of the nonpayment of fines imposed upon them , and he directed that all whose characters were good sliould have their fines paid for them . This order liberated about forty prisoners , or gave them the option of being liberated , if they choose to pay the fines . Some , whose punishment was to expire in a few days ,

      preferred keeping the money , as they had already mostly discharged their fines by their persoBal sufferings . The joy which Mr . O'ConneU himself felt at the termination of hiB imprisonment was thus communicated to the families of many of the poor , and these individuals left the gaol , joining in the heartfelt blessings which were uttered by so many who were perfectly free from crime . About eleven o ' clock the heavy rain which had been falling the entire morning ceased , and a bright burst of sunshine came to make the general joy complete . At thai time there were thousands collected along the Iine 3 leading from Merrion-square

      to the prison . In the front of the gaol there is a road about two hundred feet wide , and beyond that fields extending towards the city for about a quarter of a mile , where they are then closed in by houses , This ia the position of she place which was now ocoupied by the population , and looking down from the outermost parapet of the gaol , I observed that every point was occupied , not merely where the procession conld fee seen , but , as it appeared to me , where , there being no chance of seeing that which was on the road , there could , as I fancied , only be the opportunity afforded of hearing or joining in the shout with wbioh it was intended to greet Mr . OPConnell on his emerging from the prison . I waa not aware at the moment that the triumphal car fitted up for the occasion was so high as to tower for twelve or fourteen feet over every other objeot There tho people knew Mr . O'Connell would be , and all they wanted te see was O'Connell .

      Amongst the crowd I perceived that which I had never bef > re noticed ia any large collection of persona assembled together . Instead of the CTOwda being jam bled together you coald observe that they formed lines within lines , not running as straight , certainly , as if they were military , nor so wide apart from each other ; but , as if inspired with a feeling of mutual convenience and propriety , they seemed to have adopted a mode of standing which gave to every person tbe best opportunity of seeing , and ef allowing those who deaired to shift their position the means of doing so . It was thus they stood , in the roads and in the fields ; and I suppose this " manceavre , " if I may so term it , was acquired at the monster meeting ? , and suggested the notion of that '" military array" of which so muoh was said ia the late prosecution .

      It was not until twelve o ' clock that the first portion of the procession reached Richmond Penitentiary , and the length to which it extended may be surmised , from the fact that it was not until two o ' clock the triumphal car reached tbe doors of the prison . Daring those two hours thousands upon thousands defiled before the gaol , in one unbroken line of fall-grown msn . Taere was a wide space kept for them by the people themselves , unaided by a single policeman , the entire population obeying oa the instant the eignal or the voice of Mr . Thoma 3 Reynolds , the city marshal . This vast mass of human beings was only broken up into sections by the bands of music preceding the flags or carriages of the different trades , amongst which were the

      following , that I was able to note , as they went along —the bricklayers , Dublin horse-shoers , ship carpenters , house painters , nailers , clothiers , woollen operatives , printers , coach-makers , machine-smiths ' society , cabinet-makers , tallow-chandlers , tobacconists , shoemakers , skinners , tin-plate-workers , Spanish leather-dressers , the Friendly Brothers of Frenoh-street , the sawyers , the Post office ward , the stone marble sawyera , the coopers , tanners , the silk trade , the butchers , saddlers , housesmiths , slaters , bakers , poulterers , tobacco-pipe manufacturers , and the Temperance Society of the Reverend Mr . Spratt . Each of the preceding , with others , the names of which I could not ascertain , were preceded with bands of music , the players being all dressed infancy uniforms , and wearing colours of the most vivid description—light blue , pink , green—everything that could attract and gratify the eye ; whilst as to the bannerB and

      carriages that were displayed , some of them were of the moat gorgeous description . Tbe trades were followed by carriages of every kind—postcfiaisea , jaunting cars ; coaches . In fact , such was the demand for vehicles of all sorts , that Dublin alone could not meet the supply , and carriages were obtained from : Bray , in the county of Wicklow , and all the other large establishments for miles round the ? metropolis . In these carriages were the Repeal wardens and persons who were merely members of the Association . These were again followed by the members of the Corporation , the aldermen and towncouncil , in private carriages , headed by the Lord Mayor . These then were succeeded by the personal friends or political admirers of Mr . O'Connell ; and amongst them , I was informed , was , in the same carriage with Mr . Grattan , the member for Meatn , the Hon . Hely Hutchinson , the brother of the Earl of Donoughmore .

      Never in Dublin was there snoh a procession seen , either for the numbers that it included , ot that witnessed , or for the respectability and wealth who either participated in it , or manifested their delight in witnessing it . The great climax . to its magnificence was , however , the moment in which Mr . O'Connell , accompanied by his son John and tbe Rev . Dr . Miley , Mr . Duffy , Mr . Steele , Mr . Ray , Dr . Gray , and Mr . Barrett , emerged from tho prison gates to take part in it . A movement from those who could Bee from the parapet of tho prison into the iuner court , intimated to those outside thai Mr . O'Connell was about to appear . Thecrowds which up to that time had been cheering loudly , paused ; the . silence seemed to run

      with the rapidity of electricity along the'line . There was a dead Bilence . It continued for at least five minutes , and then , when at length O'Connell wa 3 conducted from the gaol by Mr . Smith O'Bri ? n , M . P ., a sudden cheer burst forth , but it was instantly suppressed , as if it were premature . A low , deep , and thrilling murmur seemed to be uttered by tae thousands that were witnessing tho scene ; it was the suppressed exclamation of men who were struggling with , their feelings , and endeavouring to master them . At length Mr . 'O'ConaslI , wiifl Mr . John O'Connell and the Rev . Dr . Miley , were seen ascending the triumphal car , and thea came forth a shout so loud , so long , so vehement , and so

      enthusiastic , that eFen the man of firmest nerve must tor the moment have felt himself shaken by it . Wherever £ he eye could reach upon the space beneath it waa occupied by a human being , and each and all we . ro senuing fonh a peal of acclamation that iu its unanimity and he strength must have startled the boldest and the most relentless of the persecutors of the man for whom such feelings were displayed . 'JOxq shout of those in front of the prison tyas caught up along tho whole liae of procession , * and / for at least five minutes theair seemed to be rent with a tKuiiderbursfcof joyful cbeeringB , that came reverberating back upon the utterers , making every heart beat quicker , and every eye £ lttnce ; bnghter .

      The oneors coutinaed ; ' and then Mr . O'Coana who were on his head a bright green velvet cap , rose and waved it two or three limes round his head , wheu again aud a « ain were the acclamations renewed , each time appearing to increase m fervour and iu strength . I have often seen exhibitions of popular enthusiasm ; I have often observed multitudes collected together for festive occasions ; but . ; . never did I sea anything to be con . "pared with , this exhibition of popular triumph . There could ; uot have beea less than five hundred thousand persons gathervd , W--: ( Continued in our eighth pige . j

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      Tbe above ia the "whole article from the Northern Star ot the 24 th of March , 1 « 3 S , from which d > r-Siop has most large !; quoted in bis last cemmont on Mr . O'Connor ' * " « onsi » tency . " In Mr . OGono « r ' a letter be is helped to more extensive selections from the article that appeared in the third page « f tbe Northern Star ot the toe date , than suited biflipurpose to quote . Whtre is the inconsistency of looking for an immediate Kepeal of the Corn Laws as -eontended tor in the concluding portion of the above article , with the contingencies , and . < ibove all . the k&v : t-ABIrE ADJlIST > IEIiT >! riiaOliGH ' DfilVailSAI . SUBF&aGB -stipulated for throughout by Mr . O'Connor ? Well may thit-gantlbKian say that onr friend over the way bacno . scope of mind to grasp , or brains to understand tbe

      whole-question ; for tl gifted with those reqaisitee , he woatf at onca nave -discovered that Mr . O'Csanor ' s advocccy of tbe Repeal of the Corn L % wb was based tbrocghont npon maeb more extensive grounds than the narrow vision of-our party-blind contemporary is capable of embracing . We think we may add , that of all Mr . 'O'Connor ' s fregnent triumphs over Mother Goose , not oae bas been so complete , or so damaging to her , ai the . last She is proved , out of her own month , to be a hissing , meddling , lying , fabricating thing : italicising falsehoods for tbe purpose of producing tbe " IVTJEWDED IMPRESSION "; and then as If ignorant of . the value of words , telling as that the fabrication made no difference : though fob . the sa&&'OF " Piis » £ SS" tbe dameaegreto bar dmintjsniiohal mistake" I

      We would recommend Dr . Slap to confine his practice to candles , emo ^ ienta , and elixirs for his feeble emaciated and exhausted " League" patient , and to abstain from tbe manufacture of boluses too large and impal&table even for tbe capacious gullet of the sw ai-LOW-ALiS . As Holbeoi made him "fiWAiiaw Jos ; the " Imperial FeargBa" bas washed him down with a dose of " Jmperiar . elixir .

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      September 14 , 1844 . . THE NO It i H . ERN STAR 7 — ~ " ' * *~ - "" - ¦ ¦ ' i r i ¦ »»^»» . — » ¦ ' —¦« : _ ... ; r

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 14, 1844, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1280/page/7/