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“VOL. XV.
TO GENEVIEVE, |, wh
The sad’ning years that tried thee have but paled
The cheek, whereon the blushing rose was seen;
They left thee purely fair—thy brow serene
As tho’ deep thought the roseate tint exhaled,
And silent contemplation had unveiled,
‘Her chasten'd light where joyfulness had been;
Those radiant smiles bright as the morning beams
Are mellowed into moonlight’s milder glow,
Where love in melancholy beauty seems,
Sule empress of the heart from whence they flow.
Long years of hope deferred, from which arose
Grief, and the signs of grief and inward care,
The sickness of the soul—the torturing woes,
Of mental warfare urging to despair,
Have left thee what thou art, all failtly weak, os *
And blaached, but not bedimmed the beauty of thy cheek.
. : ie : ALBANIO.
IRELAND. .
. TIPPERARY ELECTION. oa
Triumphant return of the Right Hon. R. L. Shiel.
On Monday, pursuant to the proclamation of the High Sheriff,
Count Dalion, the constituency of the high-spirited and patrio-
tic county of Tipperary, assembled at the Court House of Clon-
mel, t0 elect a represestative in the room of the Right Hon. R.
L. Shiel, who had, since his furmer election, accepted the office
of Vice-President of the Board of Trade. ‘The right hon. gen-
Heman, who bal arrived at Carrick-on-Suir on Sunday even-
Jog. entered Clonmel at an early hour, and shorily afier pro-
ceeded in company with the High Sheriff, and auended by se-
Yeral distinguished friends, to the Court house. — Elis reception
» Was inoxt enthusiastic, and shewed how deeply the honest-teart-
ed peuple of that county estimate the eloquent asserter of Ire-
| dand’s tights, aid hopeless would be the efforts of the Qrange
) Sunes to wrest the representaton from our illustious country-
mau, The usual formalities having been gone through, the
| High Sheriff called on the freehalders present to propose # can-
Vise &e the high honour repreventing the county of Tipperary,
is
in
{The Hon, Cornelius O'Callaghan, M. P.eose and said—Mr.
: Sherif, aud gentlemen electors of this great county, I feel great
(Pleasure in proposing to your consideration my excellent and
Vllented frieud, Mr. Shiel, as a fit’ and proper person to repre-
} Sent you in parliament. doing so, it is hardly necessary for
' Me to say anything of his distinguished public career, more par-
‘cularly'as you have-afl been the €elighted witnesses of his ma-
:Pyand loog services. This is the filth time he bas appeared
j tefore you to soli ur sefftages—suitrages to which he is so
y“hinently entitled. Wf will not detain you at any greater length
j “aa by proposing the Right Hoa. Richard Lalut Shiel as a fit
| tof proper person to represeat this county in parliament.
j__ This was veccivet with every demonstration of alfection and
| oem, © nonrisation was seconde ire Latian, who
| Mecheered till the house rang again. When the approbation
| Gata little subsided, .
The Very Rev. Archdeacon Laffan said—Mr. High Sherif
| aud free-hodders of Tipperary, I rise with feelin i
: : :
“ es
right hon, friend to re-
; PSeut the interests of this really great and important county
; i Perliament (loud cheers,) and’ in doing so L beg w state that
~ tomy feelings a matter of great personal gratification to have
* Dleasiug a duty to discharge (hear, hear.) - Indeed, 1 ai of
on that there can be found no honest Reformer in the coun-
i 2 of Tipperary who will not exult in seeing our highly gifted
| “0feventative Taised toa seat in the privy council of England
i died ee Irish Catholic who has for centuries enjoyed that ex-
j vir lonour. I Ought, in fact, to be matter of exultation to eve-
i Siege of religious liberty to see a man professing a Teligion
' as ¢0 long and so violently proscribed. and which still,
} ao certaig party, is so hated and maligned, raised to the dig-
| ver of & member of the privy council of England. From the
{ dope roumstance of his appointment a fresh gleam of stronger
| tite ‘he ad tlumate, and, 1 trust, nut remote success, opens be-
none qeugh the dark vista of oppression. Lam, Ladmit, a
hile en adical Reformer. I am no admirer of the wait-a
= Megtg 2 t2™M5 but T cannot, nor can aay rational man, who re-
) +00 he difficulties which encompass the present govero-
( s2PPosed as itis by a formidable majority in the Commons,
on inter Ped by such an ovewhelming majority in the Lords—
The best, Mestioned the Lords, let me be permitted to hope
labo,gaulg’ £08 feturn to its reason, and listen to the voice
Ptodacey 5 aed not drive the people of this mighty em-
reflection upon whic!
&
Now, ute edgonduct the bare
‘a whe pressure from without—the tide
foot : ,
- @ruth ts powerful and will prevatl.
“NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1839. ay
of popular indignation—the soil of the long-suppressed, but ir-
resistible flood of a nation's wrath would sweep away with every
vestige of this lock-up house, and the dreadful and appalling
shout would be heard from millions of British sebjects, when
“Delenda est Carthago” would te the mottodemolish this
sink of hereditary legislation. . This, sir, I dread will and must
be. + Forbid it, I say, that the political consistency and honesty
of the amiable Brougham, the alienship of Lyndhutst, the fa-
mily sanctity of Roden, the veracity of Glengall, the honour of
ord Donoughmore, should be deemed such an ‘unseemly exit
from the stage of useful legislation.” However, ‘L trust in hea-
ven that better days are near: when I compare the past
with’ the present, even bad as it is, my hopes ate greatly aug-
mented. What was our condition ten -years ago? But what
was the situation of the Irish Catholics for years before?’ [read
lately that in the year 1666 a monster had‘a roving commission
to hunt down and hang every man, woman and child of the Pa-
Faithful to his order he fulfilled his bloody instructions
to the letter, In one instance he saw a few old women sitting
by the side of a fire, and what think you were they employed
at? tearing the flesh from a human corpse to satisfy the cra-
vings of hunger. ‘To such a state were the unfertunate Catholics
of this country reduced. In 7795, the Lord Mayor of Dublin,
accompanied by the sheriffs, and orker corporate officers, went
to a private house in Boot lane, in teat city, wkere they under-
stood a priest was saying mass; ‘they'seized the clergyman at
the altar, and dragged him 4n his vestments, in mockery, through
the streets. I but mention these things to contrast them with
the present. The tight hon. gentleman whose nomination I have
the honour to secoud is a member of the creed which that priest
professed, and bekeld him asprivy councillor. 1 fear very much
if the Tory parry here had the same power their ancestors en-
joyed they would be as releatless :persecutors. It behoves us,
Reformers, to keep togother, shoulder to shoulder, and not waste
our much-needed strength in petty divisions, by carping at this
and the ‘other act of the only government that, for a series of
years give fair r country. Let us bear in mind
that the wolfof Toryism is on the walk ready to pounce uy
its prey, if the sentinels should slumber. |The Liberal consti-
treacy of Ireland are the watchmen; let them ‘only do their
dary to their God, to their country, to their Queen. by returning
sech men as our right hon. friend; who will stand by her Ma-
jesty’s goverument—who will extract the fangs from that mon-
ster party, who are prowling for our destruction. Thus shall
we give a great rioral lesson to the world, that we are contented
even to forego our just rights fora time, in order to put our foes
and the foes of justice in ibe wrong... Dr. Laffan concluded a
brilliant speech, of which the foregoing can scarcely be calle:
xn outline, by seconding the nomination of the Right Hoa, Rich-
ard Lalor Shiel, and sat down aiid loud cheering.
being nother candidate, the Sherilf declared the Right
Hon. Richard Lalor Shiel duly elected, amidst enthusiastic ac-
clamations. : B
Mr. Sheil said—I have been proposed by Mr. O'Callaghan,
the member for Dungarvan, and the representative of the great
possessions of that exccllent nobleman, who has, tothe credit of
the governinent, been enrolled in the imperial peerage, and who
in the House of Lords will never fail to evince that devoted so-
licitude for the interests of his country by which he has been
uniformly distinguished. © If Mr. O'Callaghan were a person of
less station, yet his individual merits, asa politician, would ren-
jer me proud of his ood opinion ; butthe sepport which I ce-
rive from him and from his noble father, derives additional
weight from the high position which they: occupy in society.
founded allegation, that Tam returned to par
Dy mate excitement of the popular masses,
zad that the entire property of the country is opposed tome. 1
might readily disprove this exceedingly i¢rroneous statement by
koing into details; but it is enough for me to advert to the fuct,
that [am strenuously and zealously sustained by the proprietor
of anestute in which there are registered more than one-third
of the members to which the Tory constituency, by the utmost
a
vot Peart
Birevin,
RO, 42,
[peace of the county. “Having been proposed by the Hon. Mr.
| O'Callaghan, I have been seconded, at my especial request, by
y valuable and reverend friend, Archdeacon Laflan, who from
the first. moment at which I became your representative,’ lias
been my zealous and powerful supporter. I account myself the
representative of the people of Tipperary—of that powerful bo-
dy which bas proved itself irresistible in the struggles in whicl
Toryism rashly entered with its might—and, being the repre-
sentative of the people, I stand. forward with that man as mv
auxiliary, who, from his personal character, and his professional ,
station, exercises so just and natural an influence on the great
community with which I am associated. There. are many
measures for the benefit of Ireland which the ministers are most,
anxious tocarry, but which the state of parties has unhapply se-
turned [hear.J Archdeacon Laflan tells you that you ought
not to condemn the government for_not achieving what it is out
of their. power to accomplish. There is one other subjet ro
which Archdeacon Latfan adverted, and to which Lthink it,
right that your attention should be called [hear, hear.} 1s
spoken in terms of natural and well-deserved condemnation of
the course pursued by the Tory faction in the House of Lords.
For my part, strongly as I reprobate the factious proceedings
adopted by the predominating factions in the House of
1am couvinced that that assembly will ultimately give way 1
the imperative demands of the Irish people; and that whatever
reristance they may hitherto have offered, they will yield, a+
they before have yielded, whenever the will of the couutry, co-
operating with a constitutional exercise of the prerogative, sliall
have expressed itself in a pre-emptory and decisive manner.—
Remember what befel on the passing of the Reform biil, and
with what facility the House of Lords was coerced into an ac-
quiescence withthe demands of the country, even at a
more recent, far less important, indeed, bet still exceedingly il-
lustrative incident. In the last session of parliament the post
office measure was denounced by the tory party with the Duke
of Wellington at his head; and, yet, because the pupular feel-
ing had been unequivocally manifested, yet, afier a great deal
3
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Lords,
efforts, have been raised. “he Tories, in the chief contest in
this country, could uot poll five hundred yotes. In this country
the population exceeds five hundred thousand... What a fact is
this? Out of a_ population of five hundred thousand, the 'To-
ties coul2 not poll five hundred men [eries of hear. hear.] Ido
not advert to this circumstance for the perpose of idie vaunt,
but because it atfords evidence of the condition to which that
party, once so powerful, is reduced. This country is, perhaps,
the most important, in several Tegards, in Ireland. It is of
reat extent, surpassing fertility, augmenting affluence, and its
population is not less remarkable for the magnitude of its num-
bers, than for the attributes’ by which the energetic and high-
spirited peasantry are distinguished. * The representation in this
county is, in a political view, of incaloutable consequence; yet
the Tories, whea ‘they put their strength, to the test, could not
poll half one’ thousand votes and now,. after a great deal of
boasting, have shrunk from an“encounter,... heir abstinence
from a useless contest dees them some credit, and shows that
they are less disposed tan they ‘formerly were to disturb the
‘ .
in} of idle protestation, the House ef Lords succumbed to the ne=
cessity which had been imposed upon them. But what need
have we to refer to eventsin which the conduct of the House
of Lords js to be referred to tre operation vf public opinion ia
England, when we may appeal tothe extortion of our own
great emancipation, from the sense of dire necessity which we
awakened in that party who have always predominated in the
upper house of Parliament? As we then succeeded so shall
we hereafier prevail; and bear in mind that we bring adaitionai
means of success ia the vast and augmenting power with which
the people of Ireland have been invested. But to. those whe
conceive sterner measures of enforcement must at last be re-
sorted to, with reference to the, House of Lords, L beg to sug+
gest that even now they exercise no strong practical control over ,
the government, and that although they may thwart the min-
isters in the passing of useful measures, yet We ministers aré. .. ,
not effected in their retention of office by any proceedings of the
House of Lords.” Although it is to be Jamemed that tue House
of Lords have ‘taken the steps which the have, yet one good .
fruit has resulted from those rasii proceedings [hear, hear.J—
They have proved their own weakness and insignificance with
regard to the constitution of the executive. The passei!, resolu-
tions respecting the state of Ireland, and appointed their cele-
braved committee [hear, hear.] «Had such a proceediog been
taken in the Commons, the government could not have lasied
ove hour: but how have the proceedings of the Lords a'tvcted
the stability of the adniinistration ?.. On the education question
the made a similar manifestation of their evil feeling iwards
the government bat, in spite of there Jordstips’ pleasure, the
ministers have perseveredy and have not been in the Jeast slis-
more practical vonsequence than a majority of one hundred in,
the House of Lords. I have thought it right thus Tar to reer to
to the observatiuus of Arcideacou Laflan, in order to prove to
him that it is not probable that any necessity will arise of re=
sorting to such proceedings as those of whiclt he reluctantly an=
ticipates the need. I pass with greater satisfaction from this
topic to another, in which Archdeacon Laffan has with glows
ing eloquence so powerfully expatiate¢d—I allude to the forcible
terms in which he declared that the present_ government was in
the enjoyment of the full, unquallified confidence of the people
of Ireland. His testimony is of great value upon this moment-
ous fact [hear.] Yes the government are in the full enjoyment
of the confidence and the gratitude of the Irish people; ‘and o
wherefore should they not?) Did they not give us Normanby
as a Lord Lieutenant? [hear, hear, and Joud heering.J—
I rejvice to witness the enthusiasm, and 1 may say, the affection
with which the utterance of a name that will be dear to us as
long as we have hearts in our bosoms, hés been received by you}
nor is this feeling confined to the locality in which I am at this
moment speaking. In no partof Ireland could ten men, deser= *
ving Of the name of Irishmen be collected together, who at the
‘ulteraace vf the name ‘of Normanby, would not feel as you do.