The New York Herald Newspaper, June 6, 1848, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. Whole Vo, 5116, NEW YORK, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1848. — Price Two Cont. THE GREAT IRISH DEMONSTRATION AT THE BROADWAY TABERNACLE. ADDRESSES TO IRELAND, ENGLAND AND THE UNITOD STATS. Organization of an American Provi- sioual Committee for Ireland. A meeting of the friends of Ireland, of unparallel- ed magnitude, and exceeding in numbers and en- thusiasm anything of the kind. perhaps, ever be- fore witnsssed in this city, was held last night at the Tabernacle, on the requisition of a large num- ber of our most influential and respectable citizens. Before eight o’clock, the hour ap- pointed for meeting, the immense space of this large building was completely filled—there were, at the lowest calculation, 5000 persons in the build- ing, besides hundreds in the passages and at the doors, who could not gain admission for want of room. Shortly after eight o’clock, the committee of arrangements, the requisitionists, and other gen- tlemen, forming an imposing and highly respectable cortege, were seen making their way along the dense crowd to the platform. Several eminent and distinguished citizens were in the group; among them we noticed the Hon. Mr, Hannegan, of In- diana; several members of Congress, whose names we could not learn; his Honor the Mayor of New York city; the Mayor of the city of Brooklyn; the Mayor of Jersey City; the Hon. B. F. Butler, U. 5. District Attorn John Van Buren, Esq.; John MeKeon, District Attor- ney of the city of New York ; Robert Emmett, Esq., and other distinguished individual A well appointed band, which was present, played, in the meantime, some animating and patriotic irs; whereupon, the music having ceased, Dr. Hogan called the meeting to order, and, in a few brief but appropriate remarks, proposed that his Honor, W. F. Havemeyer, Mayor of the city, ik n, the a, of the city, upon s to the meeting for He (Mr. H.) Wn. taking the chair, returned than! the honor it had conferred upon him, felt it indeed to be a great honor, to be called to pre- side over such a meeting as the present.and upon such F. Haveme un interesting occasion. Ireland is now eng: struggle to repair the injuries of centuries, w been inflicted upon her by misrule and | misgovern- ment. Her condition and her efforts were such’ as ex: cited the deepest sympathy in the breast of every ad- yooute of freedom, who longed to see her restored to legislative independence, and to see her take her place again, among the nations of the earth. It was worthy of us, and it was due to her generous sons that the encouragement and support of a city such as this. the emporium of a country which was the only example of freedom in the world, should be extended to such a people, a people who, though long oppressed, Yet bad never been subdued (Immense. cheering.) The bold and free spirits which animated her ancient chieftains in her ancient struggles for freedom. animated her brave and noble sons of the present day. But especially now at this crisis, in the midst of the dis- elements'of Europe, the hope began to dawn of ing her desire, a dissolution of the union and of establishing her independence. The present. spirit of Europe gave a pswer to hor just demands which her present rulers wouldnot be wise if they should diare- gard. It wasgratifying to him (Mr. H.) to witness the spirit and the sympathy of such a vast assemblage as that which he had now the honor of addressing; and ho did not doubt but this sympathy would meet with an enthusiastic response from every friend of freedom and humanity. Loud and enthusiastic plaudits re- sounded throughout the immense assemb.uge at the conclusion of this address. The following gentlemen were then proposed and unanimously accepted to act as Vice Presidents of the meeting:— Francis B. Stryker, May- or of Brooklyn, Mayor of Jersey City. Theodore R, De Forest, Niel Gray. Libby, Amos F. Hatfield, Robcrt Swartwout, Thomas Garnley, Edmund Fitzgerald, Thomas K. Downing, William Adams, Dines Carolin, Frederick D Kohler, Linus W. Stevens, Mortis Franklin, Washington Smith, William J. McDermott, Clarkson Crolius, Jacob L, Dodge, Moses Maynard, Jr. ‘After which, on motion of Mr. Devennvx, editor of Freemen's Journal, the following persons wore appoint- ed to act as Secretaries of the meeting: — Robert Emmett, Terence Donnelly, Dr. Wm. H. Macnevin, — James W. White, Robert Hogan, Dr. William Power, Charles O’Conor, John T. Doyle. At mention of the name of Emmett, in the above list of gentlemen, the applause of the whole meeting was d most enthusiastic. As soon as the above bu- was disposed of, the cries for “ Emmett” on all were deafening. The chairman, however. rove, ng procured order, introduced Mr. Horace ire ne of the committee, to the meeting. who pro- ceeded to read the following address to the people of Great Britain:— din « ich had Phineas C, Dummer, KOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN. i Apart from the al wh pectacle of human suffering addresses ery child of Adam, the tea of blood and kindred, the testi- mony of frie ighbors who have experienced and fled from those the geveral heart. remote or doubtful line, fron British or the mingled bloood of Gelt and of Saxon . Indisregard, moreover, of and dislike, many of ns che- id the race whence this re- anil gion was col and prowess in arms we trust have heir American descendan' We be! ‘at ths proverbial enerzy, love of liberty and regard for order of the eth race, are not without witness among "s— Sh. ace aad Milton, aud Hampden are to us not foreign. ui kindred and count, —~and that whatever impeach nanity of Britain is matter of inter@&t to her the New World, We elaim, therefore, to speak to yon rhs you, Not as strangers and adversaries, but as kins- nb intercessors for otherado we claim your of Ireland are diffused to other “Land: ‘Our are daily exposed to die, a# a num- jed, of contagious fevers gemera ted the justice avd kindr di iy Each week witnesses i's long proce: rish destitution debarking on our shores, ‘and wasted beyond the hope of future usefalness and When by such objects of pity. our charities, pub- ery. fugitives frou ie and private, are exhausted, while our taxes are swelled, yoo questi ight to mynire into jises of stich waparallcled wretchedni thrown upon as by Trel nedueated, and thus fnefficient in Teast recompensed departments of industry, shall we tying and supplying their deticiencies, remonsteate ith those whose plain dats it was to have provided for thelr ine action aud enlightenment? When the wail of a fataishing peo ple is heard across the broad Atlantic, and every billow, ax it son our shores, bears an argent’ appeal to our humanity feom perithing millions, who shall ‘say that we may not inyaire ‘pon into and pronoun the remote ag well as the imme. je of Great ‘Uh have new ine and. its consequences, nor cried to you for bre : pel us, then, as impertinent and obtrusive, but hear t a4 conscience and Christivaity shall dictate, For we know by observation and experience that the confident aseumption of your leaders and rulers, that the woes of Treland have their origin in the characterand genius or in the faith of the Trish people, and are ingeparable therefrom, it unfounded and . Coming among tis, ax they mainly ‘do, unlettered and ituié, and atruggling against the immense disadvantages and s ihence resulting, there are very few among them who ‘erse race, and erved, and spece', fre ty of those among whom they must seek employ. i & Serious impediment in the great number of for rude imanual Inbor incessantly landing : 4, they yet enerally succeed in finding work, because nothing honest and useful is too hard or too humble to be accepted . Among our eminently energetic and hard-working peos every enna! and railro nirt the work of their hands; every village rises and city ‘ls Hearing Witnoss to thelr induftry; and the proportion of re and dcowes among them is probably less than ainong any ther chiss of onr people, Do not these notorions facts ignally te the idea that their destitution and results of their own slothfulness and 4 to be attributed to inisgover mont, and nity But not merely in the domain of industry aro the native vieor anil elasticity of the Irish character indicated amengus. While many Trish emigrants, through infirmity or ineapacity, are pers sonally objects of charity, comparatively vorf few of their children fare #0; and our countrymen of Lrith descent arv no whit inferior 0 their fellow-citizens s, Judges: they fill i Usefatness, — Weald! an fs readily as by others: geniuts of the Trish race reems to vindicate iteelf, sav ‘There only does that, race stagnate, implore, and farial crv only does it breed postilence, to scourge and appal mankind, ‘Move facts, people of Great Britain | we commend to dorstandings and your consciences, You aro feartutly blo to Gad and hemenity fur thelr just appreciation, | 5 dons is the responsibility beaved by that nation which dares to other o itk rule—which assumes the Dir ament over others—which helds in e ‘cies and tho destinies of a race. been just, humane and beneficent, why ‘orimo, misery and despair! If your etormed, why are Poureullens Treland, ‘in the very destinute, turbal hart of viyilization, herself ‘® seandal and 9 row to Christendom’? If, as qery ie ian Alison aud others of yowe lend ng mils ant, Toland js to you an unsolved aud per. plexing eniana (though’ readily solved by all the world be- Hide) why (do you “not leave her to if? In cone fussing that they know not how to make the Irish people content. ed, peaceful, prosperous a , statermen admit that thay haye not, the ability to govera. I ‘and therefore have no moral right to porsist in the attorapt. We at og fore, to absolve yoursolves from farther: ‘her woes ond her orimes, by the ‘tho expe Ifyour rience of six centuries has proved calamitous to her and there- juve discregitable, to you, and thus test her capacity for wll gor eruwent. Call this an untried experiment, if you will; better this than ap established failure, Hear us, men aud brothren our earnest entreaty, and tempt not the visitations of that Who, through wii and yprough, judgments, nrought. the dren of Israel out of their bybdage ia Egypt, by persisting deavors to hold in thraldom # peuple whova you camnot_ tral; ‘and whom the sword may silence and seater, but © comfort, eulighten, elevate or feod, We are your brethren in Humanity, As the above masterly and well-written address was reading. the cheering. at some of its most emphatic points, was truly deafening and tremendous, ‘The chair then put the question that this address be adopted as the address of the people of the city of New York, which was carried with rapturous applause. Mr. Casserly, another member of the committee to draft an address, was then introduced by the chairman, | who read the following address to the people of Ire: land :— ‘THE FRIENDS OF IRELAND IN NEW YORK TO THE IRISH Farexns iw I 1 Across Jeneg and with attention the course of e the instincts of our common humanity aro no longer {0 be re vd, In the fullness of our hopes and fears, we hasten to re- of sympathy and succor which early and long have existed between Ainerioa and Ireland, Five yoars ago, this nonth of June, when Natare was kindling into Summer Yerdure aud beauty, Ireland, too, seemed burstin into the fulness of a new life. quickening impulse was felt Uivoughout tis lands and from the Misael ppt jk to the Atlantic, the whole country Couragement and aid. Suocess did not then crown our hopes; an | After the mightiest demonstrations of popular force witnessed in | Our age, and the hottest agitation that ever shook an empire in | peace, freland was still a province, and instead of liberty and | Rappiness, State prosecutions and a famine | “*WRe'eannot be mistaken b of another character, and tends inevitably to a different result. Five years have made great changes in the world. It is not the time now in Europe when the people are content to make a holi- | day parade of thoir wrongs or their strength. ‘That day is past. | They know their own power and tha impotence of their rulers; | and the rights which they are able t take, they will uot stop long to beg. Once learned, the lesson need not be repeated; aud the ight of « people's will, vindieated at \¢ sword, govern- meats forever afterwards respect with prompt obudiencs. | "Tae right of man to self-government is inseparable from lis na- | ture, and essential to his happiness, In the order of things on this earth, the assumption Ly any eluas or raco to govern another, can produce nothing but manifold evils. | "In our own history we did hot choose to test how far the wrong might be carried, or what were the virtues of passive resistance to the utmost, As has been truly said : “ We drew our swords against ‘& preamble, and made war for a principle.” A few yenrs’ struggle ve us all that we could ask, and moro’ than the most sanguine flopes ventured in the Loginning to propose. The experience of more than tifty years enables us to aay, with hearts full of thank- fulness to Him who olds in His hand the destinies of nations, that a Republic based upon the amplet recogni tion of the right of every man to a voice in the State, is the best form of human government. If this Republic, as we believe, furnishes the most striking exam- ple of the blessings of self-government, Ireland appears, on the other hand, to furnish an example, equally striking, of the miserie: inseparable from the want of it. For seven hundred years the attempt has been made to govern Ireland in violation of this principle, At this moment, by the ¢ommon consent of the civilized world, the attempt has resulted ts in your island, unti~ in failure the most frightful. This ix the universal judgment of mankind: governed, most distressed, aid most mis- of wrth, is Ireland, To us, eape- has been brought home of late, by the famine ery hour, and the postience which the Irish emi- grant carried with him through the land. For now fifty yeara the remedy of sought in your own way—not with gris or bloodshed, but by the moral forcd of a people combined jn a peaceable agitation for their rights, and of the awakened and concentzated public opinion of Christendom, What success has attended this mode of striving for freedom need not be discussed, Neither ist ours to say how far oF how goon that polioy should be modified. Although, Friends in Ireland! wo cherish the right to legislate for ourselvee as the very corner-stone of our liberties and happiness, so that to resist the first invasion thereof, if in- vasion were we are rendy to draw the sword, as our fathers did—fur be it from ws to assume to suggest to you auch course, We venture on no such tremendous responsibility. You alone can know woat is the similarity between the condition of our country aud yours with reference to such. But since the same voice of civilized man j—that the worst the this terrible wrong you have le. ich adjudges the wrongs inflicted on the people of Ireland to be without parallel for enormity and duration—has also declared that by the patience with whieh they have been borne, the Irish people have amply bureliaged, if any people ‘can purchase, the sight to resst—it lus grieved us to ve the Prime Minister of England, in the English ment, golomnly and deliberately deckre that he would sist with his life” the determination of the Irish perple to ob- tain at all hazards tho Repeal of that Union which they, in common With the rest of the world, firmly believe to Le not only a momentous wrong iu itself, but the perpetual barrier in the way of all amelioration for the future, People of Ireland! be well assured this is » declaration which no Minister, no King or Quoen had any right to utter—and which At this age of the world it might cost dear to make good. Very many of those who now address you are of your own flosh and blood, quickened by the same tmpulaes, moved by the same sentiments, Distance has not blunted our keen and passionate indignation at your wrongs; while freedom of speech and thought, houndles# as the air we breathe, naturally shape it into the freest words, “Others of ns boast somo strain of your lineage, “All of us arenound to you by the strongest bonds of sympathy for your sufferings, and admiration for the many virtues of your national character, and eepecialiy of your national struggle for your bertios, We take it for granted that a very great social and political change is at hand for Ireland. "Attentive. observers of the state of Europe with reference to Ireland, we cannot believe that she alone, that most weeds and Lest deserves it, ix to lose the benefit uf the mighty revolution which is sweeping over the Coutinent, Uurowing down the hoary tyrannies of ages, and restoring to the people their long lost rights. Russia, entrenched in ignorance and brute force, may resist the new spirit of the age, England cannot, Ireland's triumph is scarcely now n question of time, Peace- ably or forcibly, ite at hand, “Resist fe with, all ber power, anil England could only delay it for a brief period. We will not be- lieve that burdened with # load of debt which bowseven her colos- sal strength, —with a failing Exchequer and a people taxed to the utmost,—with her whole financial and commercial aystem totter- ing from rocent convulsions, and the constant pressure of conti- nontal commotion withall Enrops quivering on pie ego of war— in the midst of all this we cannot believe that Englund will ven- ture on the risk of a civil war in Ireland. She will not parchase ‘a short delay at such tremendous cost. People of Ireland! Friends and Brothers! do wre, tea, of zoe aaard anght by, impatience tion. Remember, that in a nation’s growth, to anticip fulnose of tine fs to postpone it indefinitely. "We who recognize froely the divine right of every people to resi a clare also our firm conviction, that the moment you are obtain your demands by force, they will be conceded pesceab ‘To this end, union! union! union! among all classes nnd creeds of Trishinen—among all parties and sections of Repeaters. What wmadnowe ia it that drives men who are pressing forward with th: saune bright-goal in view, to fall upon each other by the way? the evil genius of Ireland never to be exorcised? People of Ireland! did you but know hi yourselves depress, mortsly, strike dead the ¢ And most untiring friends you could not hark The high hopes that are bli the generous et designs that are the first sound of disunion among Irishagen! A street brawl—e new@paper wranglo—gives sucl heavy Vlowsand great discouragement to Ireland's cause abrond as itis not in all the power of imperial England to inflict. Anexpresaible, therefore, ‘Autisfaction with which we have hailed the many recent indications ef a union among Irishmen, upon a broader basis than heretofore, without reference to crved or patty, for the rights of Ireland. "We give honor to the true sons of their country who snorificed their personal prejudices and avimosities for her sake. ‘The hour that complete: Ireland! Thi uch a union, achieves the liberties of consummation not to be pat off by the machinations ta of power. Irishmen will not by i imperil the commanding position struggle yuaceably for their rights, and tak nly in the extremity of self defence. On the other band, fe England to attempt by Lrute force to resist the constitution: Trish people coward freedom, would be to attempt trace which the work, in this age of ‘victorious Iherty, could Jn the name of the fraternity of sation every re-ist the outrage upon a people that hare the aympathies and assistance of mankind ; and the will come to you, the best and wirest imporsibie or innpro je. Such we pre- this arming and orgn- sume to be Sh] own convictions, else why nizing, of which, for months past, the sounds have reached our cars ‘That the crisis, if it shontd come, may not Sud you unprepared, is the hope of the world—even of those who desire most fervently tonee it averted. The ame reavon which demands of you not to piace ourselves in the power of the oppressor ly. any’ Fash outs Kk; requires you to Le thoroughly prepared against his agave Ww You are to be prep tis not for ua to indicat & prime article of our political faith that to ann telf-defenco can be no crime under just laws. is si within every man's discretion, That all war, but especially civil war, lightly to be encountered, is a tenth disputed by nove. Hut that there aro evils more dreadful than a people ar-ned and united inn Just quarrel for their rights, inn truth equally indisputable. kuow of no calamity that war brings, comparable to the misery of ‘& people wasted in body and soul by the slow tortures of centu- ries of misgoverument, victims of periodical famine and. pesti- Jonce—without ineentive ¢o honorable toil—sunk in listions a) thy or discontent—without eure for the prevene or hope for the ture—with hate and discord forever in the land, and poazs and prosperity unknown, ‘This is'9 condition of things compared to which the horrors of war nto insignificance, and escape from which, is cheaply purchased, on almost any terms, That this is the present, as it has ben the past, condition of Joscomntry, jan melancholy fact; and that itis to be ine for the future, English legislation affords no hope, With you, re- mains to amend it for yourselves. That you will do s0 by the ma- nifestation of the strength of a combined and determined people, without being driven farther, we fervently hope, Should our hopex be disappointed, and England draw the sword. for a civil to maintain for a few ye Ker, her power to misgovern Ireland, be asstited no struggle between the people and tyranny could more deeply, than that which must then ensue, enlist the aympathies of the World, No nation that loves liberty and hates oppression can look coldly on while the effort is made once more to hurl back into the degradation of ages, the people that have ao proved their capability for self-government by the patience with which they In bored for their rights, and tho elevation of their genins by ite wisest brillianey, after centuries of misrale, Arnerica, linked to you by so many ties, will not he wanting. Whatever tho friends of Ireland in New York may do, a4 citizens of the republic, shall be doné without stint, Such saauranoo we may give yon now. ow much farther the course of events may lead, time alone oan disclose, Come what may, be certain that the heart of the American people is with you, to the Inst, "Be but trac to yourselves—be not diverted from. your urpose by foree or fraud, by assaults from without oF divisions your ranks—meithor dazzled by the display of England's strength or her’ pomp, by tho threatening array of her armies and fleets, or the cheap condessensions of “ Gracious Mafest and the end is nig In this occasion’ of the world's emancipation, no power on earth, without your own fant, can dobar you from your rights: and the attompt will but hasten your triuniph, Heaven is over all; and neither you nor we needed the revolu- tions of Burope to remind us that its vengeance, armed to snite by the wantonness of power, ix as sweeping and swiftias it is cor- | tain and omnipotent. The reading of this address, also was, at every em- phatic part. interrupted by bursts of the loudest ap- plause, The address having been concluded, was unanimously adopted, with loud cheers, atter which the cries for “Emmett ! Emmett !" were renewed with redoubled onergy. The chairman, however, in pur- suance of the arrangements for tho meeting, then in- troduced Mr. Recle, who read the following address to the people of the United State: | ‘TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. | Fetcow Crrizexa:—Why isit that the wrongs and sufferings of Ireiand are regarded by a portion of our poople, with less aym- Fathy than the wrongs oF snflerings of au other ation?) I cannot be the romult of mere theological 4 Ineo those existed with respect to Poland, Greece, and the South American drondful evil, vat not epublig al of bine phy hg several etruagles for indopan- nce, Ware regarded by oUF wi not wot oF wary wien warmest and most aotive jai The at may r. fact to wa than tion of Burope whieh haa of pe to he _ auber fo bave induced a warmer Intro ta bee Well Ua a e have watched in sil | of remote and un . Buta portion of our people have imherited the Eng forefathers and kindred, cod by he effects of ages of of that people most conch | sive refute: | Ireland has at length resolved to struggle earnestly fur the re- covery of hor frvedoin and nationality. The relig ous and other feuds which havo so long distracted and crippled her, are melting away in the fires of fraternity and patriotism. Her warring fao- tons, under thy ex e nd uffering, are gradual- blending inte one poople. ‘he. Irish nation seen about to Te | Gmnativute iteelf, with a view to the great ends of securing its own rights and redressing its own wrongs. And if sufferings intense | nd general, endured through ages—if destitution a0 vast and ex. (avme as to copvulse the world with horror—if generous thies with he cause of universal freedom, and blood freely poured out in torrents for the liberties of other nations, constitute any | claim to the ard :l effective sympathies of the fre, then way Treland justly olaim the councenanee and favor of the struggle upon which she is now embarking. Follow Citizons !” If thero be any among you who cherish judices against Ireland or her people, and on that account look coldly on her struggle for self-governinent, we bessech you to put aside sneh unworthy illusions, aud look at the whole subject, in the light of philanthropy and ‘eternal justice, We ask nothing for Ireland that we do not earnestly desire for all mankind, But, believing that government resting on the subjugation of one nation can never be just nor beneticent—that the evils one dured by. Treland for centuries are unequalled in the history of moder States—and that the gonerons devotion of many of her sons to the cause of American independence at the outset of ational eareer, give her a peculiar claim upon the affection and gratitude of our people, we appeal to you for such manifestations of your sympathy with hor efforts as are demanded by the prinei- ples, the institutions, and the history of Ameri¢an froedom. This Is the very crisis of the Irish’ people, If they fail, now, their caus may be deemed well nigh hopeless Never before were influences of the tines» so favorable.— Continental Europe as arigon, from the Baltic to Mediterranean, to cast away the shackles of old opprestion, and to assert the righ's of man, The spirit of freedom has proved stronger than the strength of thrones, ‘The sympathies of fi inon have catriod revolution from capital to w armed intervention of one people in the o Mill ithe iu the case of Ireland. ‘The oxample and the aympathy of other nations will prove stronger than the bayonet of England, Let your sympathy, Americana, be equal to your example. Act promptly as well as earnestly, fellow citizens, and the blessings of millions’ redeemed from thraldom and famixe ahall be your cer. . So tain roward, ‘The day is not distant when the electric currents of au enlightened and eluyated public opinion shall govera the dex tinies of nations, forming @ cheap and discriminating substitute armies, fortres wi artillery, Aid us in the inauguration of new and beneficent rar, whose foundations are brogd as anity, and whoso reign shall be ax enduring xs tho world, A stranger, from the body of the moeting, after the above address had been read, appealed, in a loud voice, to the chair, and said he begged leave to be per- mitted to dissent from that passage of the address which represented the people of America as entertaining pre- Judices against the Irish people, He cordially agreed with the sentiments contained in the other addresses which had been adopted; and also.with those of the last one, excepting only the passage he referred to. As regarded that sentence, he thought it impolitic and in- judicious to send across the Atlantic Ocean any thing which might lead to such an erroneous impression, as that which this passsage in the address was capablo of conveying. Some explanations were attempted to be made from the speakers’ platform, but every voice and every word was eompletely drowned in the crics of + Emmett, Emmett,” which rose from all parts of the vast and immense assemblage. It seemed to be the feeling of the whole meeting, that the names of Ire- land and Emmett were synonimous. Mr. Emer then came forward, and began by in- forming the meeting that he would first proceed to per- form a duty which had been imposed upon him; which was, that of selecting and nominating a number of fit and suitable persons to constitute a provisional committee for Ireland. He stated that the names he was about to read to the meeting were so arranged, as to constitute three persons for each ward of the city. The purpose intended was, that these committees should be in permanent and constant session—to watch over events and prepare every means to aid, support, and oncourage the Irish people inthe present crisis of their affairs; and to move as the occasion might require, and according to the news which might arrive; as this was simply a matter of business, he would continue by reading the names of the persons selected for this purpose. Mr. Emmett then read the names, amounting to fifty.four, composed of men popular. eminent, and distinguished in this city, who were to constitute a “Provisional Committee fur Ireland. When Mr. Emmett had finished the reading of the names of the “Provisional Committee-for Ireland,” Mr. Titus came forward to propose an amendment. He had. he said, observed his own name upon the commit- tee; but there was a name which ho missed there—a name full of recollections dear to every Irishman—the name ef a man in whose veins there flowed streams of patriotic blood—he need not say he meant Esmrerr ; that name he wished to see placed at the head of the committee. This proposition was hailed with lowd cheers of approbation. The chairman then submitted to the meeting the names read by Mr. Emmett, with the amendment of- fered by Mr. Titus; whereupon, the names of the * Pro- visional Committee for Ireland,’ as nominated by Mr. Euunett, at the request of the executive committee for the present meeting, were accepted by the meeting. with Mr. Emimett’s name at the head of them, with rounds of loud applause. . Mr. Ear then addressed the meeting as follows : Fellow citizens !—It was my intention on coming to this meeting to have addressed a few observations to you on the subject of Ireland. and in reference to the cause and occasion which have called us here together on this evening. But, fellow citizens. | now feel my- self obliged to say, that the warm, the enthusiastic manner in which my humble, my unworthy name has been greeted by you, (cries of no, no, not unworthy) has entirely unmanned me; it has overcome me in such a manner that | find myself almost incapable of cc lecting together my thoughts. 1 it beyond my power to place them in an intelligible form before you, and I can truly say at the emotion which your ardent reception has created in my heart, that my tongue cleaves to the roof of my mouth! (Applause) TI ad- mit, fellow citizens, that this is a weakness, but [ trust you will forgive it. I hope in the kindness and justice of your judginent you will not think me dishonored by it. (Applause) It had been originally my intention to have spoken upon one of the resolutions prepared to be brought forward for your reception this evening. but that resolution will now be laid before you by ove more competent to do justice to it than myself. It was a resolution touching the great object which hus brought us together this evening. The spirit and purport of it ix, that the friends of liberty throughout the world feel happy and rejoiced at the spirit of liberty which has awakened throughout the dif. ferent countries of Europe, not only, as it has been said, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, but I might say from the Caspian Sea itse en to the Atlantic Ocean. in such a promising aspect of the world, it is impossible that the fgte of Ireland. whatever may be the result of the present mighty crivis in which she is immersed, should be a matter of indifference to the friends of freedom throughout the world. ‘This spirit, roused at length in Europe to a v' gorous life, now acts powerfully upon the destinies of Ireland; and it gives the most cheering and gladdening prospect to the sons of Irland that at length the day of her regeneration is at hand. (Loud cheers ) Yes, fellow citizens, we may hope that that day is at hand, and if there is anything most caleu- lated to bring it about, to which the glory and success of that event will most be attributable, it is the spirit of fraternization—the spirit of union among all the sons of Ireland, of whatever name or party! It is the sight of Irishmen forgetting their old feuds and burying them in oblivion. At this sight ] for my part greatly rejoice. | am glad to witness the dawn of this union, for in it | hear at once and for ever the death- knell of the long misrule and oppression of unhappy ireland. (Loud and enthusiastic cheers.) Fellow-citizens I've been brought up in @ peculiar position with respect to Ireland; I have always had strong prejudices against « certain party in Ireland,—I will not name it now.— for | trust im God the day is come at last when every name of disunion and discord among Irishmen is now forgotten !—(loud cheers)—n day when all Irishmen are merged in one same mation and mass, animated with one fevling, aiming at one common object—the gm a, the liberty and the independence of Ire- laud. (Thunders of applause) Yes, fellow citizens, my ardont hope is that now at last the distinetio which have divided our native land heretofore. betw Catholic and Protestant, Orangemen and United I: ish- men, are swept away and forgotten forever! (Ap- plause.) God knows I have had cause, great cause. for such a prejudice, (xensation,) but here, before you all— here, upon my country’s hopes, and in my country’s name, I renounce them--I lay them down forever! (Immense and loud ap; . A voice in the crowd was heard londly to utter the name of Lord Norbury, « name of frightful and terrific recollections, when coupled with that of Emmett.) Late events in Ireland are such as are calculated to inspire the warmest confidence that the hopes of Irishmen are about shortly to be realised. How did it for- merly happen there, when the crown instituted, trials against her patriots for alleged sedition and treason? Heretofore juries were always to be found servile enough to bring in a sure yerdict of conviction. But how is it now? How has it happened in the case of Smith O'Brien! (Enthusiastic applause.) Three cheers for O'Brien were called for, and the immense multitude rose and gave them in sounds like the roar f thunder.) The government was not able to fi docile enough and servile enongh to convict him ated cheers.) So it wasin the case of Meagher. ‘These two champions of Irish freedom, these heroes of old Ireland, have been redeemed from the terrible grasp of tyrany and power, by the union and fraternity whic! dawns at longth upon our county, and | trust in God that the next news which shall be wafted across the Atlantic, will bring to us the glad and joyfal tidings that a third hero there—he who has dared and done more than the other two, will, like them, by the spirit of Irish union and fraternity, come off from the indiet- ment which has been found against him, still more triumphantly than the other two, (Loud hurras, and three cheers for Mitchel, the individual to whom Mr. immett made allusion.) ‘Fellow citizens: If my prayers are heard on his behalf—if he shall come forth un- | scathed from the flery trial—it will be, | venture to say, the proudest day, next to the day of the declaration of Ireland's independence, which Ireland for many a day haa witnessed in the long course of her sorrows and sufferings. Fellow citizens; It truly gladdens my heart to seo such a mecting as this, True, | know you are not all of you Irishmen ; but when I see so many of my American fellow citizens joined with somany of my Irish countrymen, it makes me doubly glad, and! feel doubly proud, not only of my birth, as an trish- man, but of my adoption ax an American citizen. (Loud and repeated applause.) Yes, all I see around me fills my heart at once with emotions of joy and pride; I nd I feel proud that | am a son of Ire- Americans in| | monstration, jand, and glad and proud do | feel, also, that | am American citizen, (Cheers.) I give you, my Ameri- can fellow citizens credit and thanks for the warm feelings, the strong interest you have manifested in fa- vor of Ireland. {tis not true that there is @ prejudice here nguinst Ireland, and the gentleman who objected to ‘@ passage in the address on this account, was quite mis- taken; it arose from a misapprehension. ‘The sentence in the address was hypothetical «nd interro- gatory. It said, or meant to say, to the American people, if you have prejudices against Ireland. these reasons which we lay before you will be suffieient to dispel them. And now, fellow citizens, having vindicated the address from this misappreten- sion, I think the best thing 1 can do will be to yield the stand to a gentleman who probably vill address you, and certainly more effectively than | am capable of doing. I will only say in reference to the provision- al committee which you have adopted, that its object is that this meeting should not be a mere empty de- Its movements are intended to be nade upon & large scale, and not to be limited tothe action of | an ephemeral meoting. It is intended to keep our eyes | upoa affairs in Ireland, to watch their progress and ad- vance, to excite a similar spirit which animates you here, throughout the whole Union. We mean, also, toex- | tend this action to the British colonies, When I say | a similar spirit, let me be understeod, We do not by | any means propose to act in violation of the laws of | the country; but our object will be, to keep alive, to | awaken, to stir up, the feeling which animates all of us here, and to contribute our help to the great cause. If, after all, war should be inevitable—if Irish inde- pendence cannot be accomplished by peaceful mea. sures—if it'cannot be achieved without blood—then be it so; let it be by blood. (At this word, an immense, loud, deep, thuadering burst of enthusiasm seemed to animate the mass as one man, and the shout of applause which ascended was long, loud and vehement). If, continued Mr. Ewmett, if argument should fail, if it vannot be accomplished by peace and reason, then let it be by the pike! (Again, at thislast word, the up- roar of loud applause was, if possible, more vehement, and almost frantic, passing description.) And now, follow citizens, we see before us these two alternatives —either Ireland must obtain her independence by fu'r and peaceful means, or it must be accomplished by forcible and warlike means! In either event, I pledge you all, and promise for allof you, that you will stand by her. (Loud cheers, “We will, we will’). If the ono alternative should not’ occur, if it should not be by peace that this great object shall b2 accomplished, how shall we aid, how shat we here help our native country best? Not, fellow-citizens, by violating the laws of this country—not by making idle military parade, wnd threatening to send armed men to Ireland—no; but we.will furnish Ireland with the sinews of war—we will find her aid, we will furnish her means, and give her the means of procuring the means for herself. God grant that such a fearful crisis may never be necessary—may never occur. | pray sincerely it may never come to this; for well know, I have had some experienc: knowledge, of what are the miseries and horrors of civil war! May that alternative, therefore, never be necessary, and if Ireland shall accomplish her inde- pendence with peace, I shall heartily render the sin- cerest thanks to Heaven, (A dead silence pervaded the assembly at these words.) Yes, I shall feel the utmost gratitude to Heaven; but if, on the other hand, if it be not possible to accomplish this great and desired end, this object of all our patriotic desires, without blood- shed and war—if it should come to this alternative. then | trust in Ged that lam not yet too ald to enrol myself among the ranks of those who shall be found fighting for their country. (Rounds of enthusiastic cheers upon cheers, followed ‘this doolaration, in the midst of which Mr. Emmett retired from the front to his seat.) ‘The Hon. Mr. McKro spoke as follows :—It was my pleasure, some years ago, to be associated with many of you in subjects connected with Ireland, and to have witnessed many splendid spectacles, but never until this moment have I looked upon such a multitude as this. | have seen many congregations of men; but le it go forth to the world, that never has there been gathered together so many eminent and patriotic citi- zens as this assemblage contains, | speak not only to you, but I hope the press will carry it to all parts of this country, and across the broad Atlantic, the fact that this meeting is presided over by the chief magis- trate of the first city in the Union; that among its vice-presidents are the chief magistrates of two adjacent cities, ex-members of the United States Cabinet, ex-Governors of States, and, in a few minutes, I shall haye the pleasure cf introduc- ing to you members of the Congress of the United States. “What does all this speak? That the public sentiment of this fonnt isaroused from the highest to the lowest ; and by wiat onuo?. The wrongs per- petrated by the British government on unfortunate ireland. Think you that their cause can be light, when the whole community is excited? Can the British go- vernment continue to perpetrate them? Will, they look back for six hundred years, and view the blood- shed that they have caused, and the persecutions which they have imposed; and let them ask if it is singular that any country should rise up and demand. of that government if they are to continue them? Let me tell the British government’ that public opinion is now in- vincible. Let the intelligence and patriotism of the whole world be concentrated against them ; and if that won’t do, let them look to ireland, and there see armed millions ready te make any sacrifice for the attainment of their rights. Will they say, that it is impossible to grant relief? Relief will be obtained (loud applause), be the sacrifice what it may, Are the thousands, and tens of thousands of Irishmen in this country to look on in quiet? Never (Applause.) Do not the sons of Irishmen in this coun try owe something to the government that has driven them from the soil of their fathers? What Ameri is there, that does not feel there is something dus to the cause of freedom? The resolution which I intend to speak to alludes to the spread of liberty throughout Europe. You have seen the fire lighted in this coun- try throwing its gleams across the Atlantic, aud you sev a whole continent in a flame burning on every side. The bauners of the church, with the holy cross 4s an emblem, leads at the head of the columns of the armies of liberty; and he who holds the keys of St Peter, is now vilified by Lord Brougham, (hisses fron all parts of the house.) treated, with contumely, because he has been true to republican principles. It’ was his sagacious mind that perceived the spirit of the age, and it was he who first told the captive to go free. (Enthusiastic applause.) The spirit which he waked has flown over Europe, and at the present time tyrants are trembling before it. Are we not to hope that the light of liberty will shed its genial rays over Ircland, too? (Applause.) It will reach it as sure as the sun will rise to-morrow. And when it does reach it, it will reach it to illumine the dungeons of the un- fortunate men who are incarcerated there, and I trust in God that its first light will burst on John Mitchel applause which lasted some minutes)—in freedom. ‘There is not a day when news arrives from Ireiand that Ido not look with anxiety for intelligence from that country, Like the people of Ireland, I think it can’t be worse, andit might be better. Here is evidence that the people of that country have done with talking. ‘They feet that the time for action has arrived, and the government of Great Britain will find that there is something more to by done than listening totalk. Iam for talking plainly to them. ‘They have other troubles pending over them besides Ireland. That is their chief difficulty, and has upset many of their administrations. Butthey have other troubles; and allow me to tell them, that after settling that, they will have something to do with their colonies, as they had a few years ago with us. [am not in favor of violating the law, I cannot my- self violate law; my position will not allow me to do 80, but at the same time I would suggest to Great Britain, that they have some of their colonies in a very bad neighborhood. They have on this continent some co- lonivs to the north of us, that have cost them a great deal of money, and which serve to give nice sinecures to some of their statesmen, and I would adviee them that if they want to keep them, they had better let Ireland go. (Applause ) Trt country has troubles at home aud abroad, and all we ask is, that they give in- dependence to Ireland. Are we to believe that that country is not capable of governing itself, on they have so often asserted! Why, England herself is indebted for the most of her distinguished statesmen ‘and warriors to the very country which she says is in- capable of governing itself, Ix there not intelligence, patriotism, erey of character, and virtue ij country, which, if only relieved from oppression, would see that country what she has frequently been stated to be—“the first gem of the sea?" She will, if refioved from the burdens of misrule, produce such a state of things as will show to the world that she is capable of enjoying liberty, which is the right of every freeman and every nation in the world. (Applause.) I will not detain you. [ am to be succeeded by some who are the pride of the nation; and I will have the pleasure of introdncing to you a gentleman whose acquaintance | | had the Pieeaure to make when in Congress, ten or | twelve years ago, and who is as good a friend of Ireland as breathes—I mean the Hon. Mr. Hannegan, Senator from Indiana. | Mr. M‘Keon then sat down, and calls were made for | Mr. Hannegau, from all parts of the house; in answer to whic | | enthusiastic as yours is support of a creed in which they do not be- lieve. She charges them with ignorance. ‘The “Ignorant Irish”? is rung over th and why are they ignorant? Because their ‘ : ood is drawn from them. The income of bility, some two or three millions per annum, (voice in the crowd, six) is squandered on the con- tinent. When you drain @ country of its sources—when you take the lifeblood, and do not supply the deficiency—must not fatal consequences en- sue?” She sends to Ireland @ standing army, not one of whom is an Irishman. and she governs her by « standing army, and not by law, and she drains from fer the money to pay for the bayonets which control her. And the liberty of speech, which you love so well, has been punished as a crime, or attempted to be punished. in the persons of O'Brien and Meagher, and the tempt is again to be renewed; but from the depths of his dungeon, John Mitchel sends forth the glorious ery for freedom, and we answer him. (Rapturous ap- plauye.) It is not Irishmen alone that answer him, America answers him. You think that the appeal must be answered by this great city; but I tell you that the great West will auswer it’ as well, 1 live on the far off prairies of the west, close to the setting sun, and [ tell you thatevery heart, Irish, Ger- man and American, responds as yours do here to-night. I take it on myself to speak for thea, because I have.n0 often heard them. When the great O'Connell, time and again, made pene for freedom; when ‘that great and good man, Father Mathew, made progress after pro- gress inj the cause in which he Tad embarked! we had our country meetings there, and they were as to-night. But, fear not for Ireland—-fear ‘not for Ireland, Her hour is co- ming when she shall be free. Our eyes will see it —our eyes will see it. Before there are five more revolutions of the earth, the mothers and daughters of Ireland will play on their native harp, asdid the daughters of Judah of old, play on thelr timbrels, the freedom of Ireland, (Tremendous applause.) And | tell you more—and it seems to me that I speak to-night with all the faith of a seer, who looks on destinios—I tell you, Robert Emmett, (turning to that gentle- man)—I tell you, Robert Emmett, who first ad- dressed this vast assomblage—I tell you that your uncle’s monument shall soon be built, (Tremendous applause, and waving of hats and handkerchiefs.) Robert Emmett, from the Cove of Cork and Dublin Bay, your uncle’s monument shall soon be built, and in the tomb under it shall O'Connell's heart be placed. (The meeting here arose—every man of them, and waved their hats and ‘kerchiefs, and fairly screamed with delight.) Mr. Hannegan then sat down, and was succeeded by Hon. Bexsasun F, Burien, who addressed the meet- ing in the following language:—-Mr. President and fel} low citizens:—The duty has been assigned to me to propose a resolution and support it with a few remarks in its spirit, but I can’t stop to read it, My Irish blood runs too fast. (Applause.) That blood which gives me my name will not allow me to stop to read the re- solution. I tell you why it is; 1 wish to get at it—to speak of the accumulated wrongs which have beon heaped on Ireland by Britain, wnd to say that they are unequalled in the history of tyranny and oppression, and I believe every word of it, and so do you. (Ap- plause.) Talk of the inflictions by the Turks on Greece—why, the Turks were barbarians. They had a creed which taught them to apply the torch to all that was wise, that was eloquent, that was rich in the tres- sures ofancientlearning. Their creed taught them that the Christian wasan infidel, and that to win a high place in heaven they could do no better deed than immolate the Christian. Who then will venture to compare the atrocity of the British government with that of the Turks? ‘alk of the oppression which Poland has re- ceived from Russia—wrongs which have now aroused, not only all America, but France and Europe. And yet what are thoy to the wrongs which Ireland has sustained at the hands of Great Britain? Russia was, a century ago, inhabited by barbarians, or nearly so— great has been the progress she has made But what was England when she commenced her oppressions to- wards Ireland? @Christian nation, and so was Ireland. They acknowledged the same system of fuith—they professed te worship, not only the same jod, but they recognized the same Judge and the same head of the church—and yet from the time of Henry the Second, the rule of England over Ireland was by intolerant laws, as unjust as it afterwards became when great differences of religion arose between them. For the last two hundred years, what has been the rule of England over Ireland, and how has that tyranny been aggravated by the fact that during the whole period England has stood at the head of civilization, of science, of letters, and in her professed love for liberty? And yet, with a rule of iron has she oppressed that people, Andwhy? Chiefly because of differences of religion—and how has she attempted to remove these differences? By the application of reason and convic- tion? By treating her with equal and exact justice? by benevolence towards her? No, but by penal laws, and by pains and penalties. Is that the way to con- vert people from a faith which you believe to be errone- ous? We, who understand the right of private judg- ment in religion—would we be taken from our fuith to another by these means? And yet the protestant clergy, for ‘the last two hundred years, have been com- plaining that Ireland remains a Catholic country. [’ro- testant, and Presbyterian, as lam.if! were a Roman Ca- tholic in Ireland, I never would give up my faith, (cheers) —never would I give it up to an argument of a bill of pains aad penalties, and the bayonet; and I marvel much that Lord John Russell, who is descended from the great Russell who lost his head in the reign of Charles the Second, for his devotion to the principle which the Irish are now contending for—I marvel that he should not comprehend what is to America the very plainest of our political prepositions—that man has an inalienable right to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience, and that any attempt by penal laws to restrain that right ix not only a crime against the soul of man, but the highest crime that can be committed against God. Mr. Butler then made some statements showing up the Protestant church establishment in Ireland, by which four fifths of the people are taxed to support a creed which they do not belive, with its archbishops at a salary of $60,000 @ year, and its bishops at fifteen and twenty—the whole amounting to five or six millions of dollars per year drained from that country; and said, that if the Protestants and government of England only understood the immense blessings that flow from religious freedom they would soon disconnect the church from the State. In conclusion, he ad- verted to the condition of Ireland, and said he would advise Lord John Russell to abandon the State pro- secutions, and commence to redress its wrongs, wh England has perpetrated, and is perpetrating on Ire- land. He explained to the audience why he had not attended any previous Irish meetings, because his office and position would not allow of his so doing but he admitted that his feelings would not permit him to be absent on this occasion. He was followed by Jour Van Bure, Eeq., whose rising was the signal ofa few histes, and some remarks by one or two per- sons at a distance, which we did not hear. Silence being secured—It is, in my judgy i cularly appropriate that this great metropol commercial centre of the United States—the capital of the North American continent, should on all questions which relate to liberty, and when oppression calls for sympathy from a people struggling to be free, this great city should +4 the first to respond to its call, and to ascure the ers promptly, of: its sin- cere and cordial sympathy. It is due to those who- r Shey, may be, whether in Germany, Poland, or France, but most ofallin Ireland. (Applause.) Con- nected with us, as they are, 4 the ties of association, by friendahip. and many of them by the 'ties of kin- dred—that this great city should respond to their demonstration. and assure them, as well as others, that however perilous may be the contest in which they are engaged—however dark may be the day of their struggle, there is a great army of freemen in the United States, hoping, praying and longing to help them. (Great applause.) An assemblage like this is a suitable demonstration from this great commercial centre of this free republic It may well be termed the throbbing of the great heart of freedom, the pulsations of which must be felt at the Temotest points of civilization. That the condition of Ireland it one eminently calling for a careful examina- tion, no good citizen will deny. It has been my for- tune to be intimately acquainted with her physical condition, having travelled over it during two or thre months from one end to the other, and it was a source to me, not only of grief but of inquiry, that in the midst of a people, like those of Ireland. distinguished, as every person concedes they are, for courage, for wit and industry, living, too, in @ mort salubrions climate, that that country was not only standing still but nc- tually retrograding in prosperity This was my in- quiry, and what did I find? That the country was conquered by Great Britain, that a union was carried against which the Irish ‘people have continually pro- tested, which. it is charged, was passed by fraud and corruption, which the masses of the people believe is not binding, and which they see has been followed by continued disaster and destitution, The traveller finds a people agitating for a repeal of that union; during the agitation a famine comes on the laud, and you see them supported by the charity of their neigh- bors, and the liberality of the friends of freedom and Hon, Mr, Hayxecan arose and spoke as follows :— Hannegan is the poor son of a poor Irishman, who left | the land of oppression when a boy, for the land of the | free, during the war of the revolution ; and, though | boy as he was, he lifted his rifle for American freedom, (Applause,) I did not expect to be called upon to ad- dress you this evening. I declined the honor of the | invitation that was sent to me, but | felt in my heart that when the great pulse of America beats in the city of Now York, that there was about to be » demon- stration sent forth to Ireland, | could not stay back. 1 have come here to mingle my sympathy with your; to add to my feelings a brief expression of them. and Tam warned that my presence here interrupts the otder of the occasion. To be brief, | have come here | simply to say to you that if there is a man breathing in this world who sympathises with ircland, | am he, Why, should I not? My name tells my an- cestry. ‘Thore is no Irishman but knows that « [an- negan must be descended from the North of Ireland, and wherever [have been, in whatever position | have occupied, and under whatever circumstances I have been placed, | never yet have found Irishmen or Irish- women, that did not serve me to their utmost. We sympathiso with Ireland—and why! For the oppres- | sion which sho bas suffered, and under which she has groaned, for many ages, ‘Take a brief list, and I will | point out to you three of the terrible ‘oppressions | which England has perpetrated on her, First, then, | three-fifths, four-fifths, of Irishmen are Catholics, and England taxes Catholic Ireland to support her Pro- | testant, clergy, She drains from those three-fifths, fatel these four-fifths, their substance for ‘and the humanity throughont the world. Now for such a coun- try, so situated, the sympathy of every civilized man, should be exeited, and not alone his sympathy, but the exercise of his best intelligence and capacity in re- dressing the diffi sunder which she labors, and in assisting her people in applying a remedy, Now with great deference, it seems to me that one of the main difficulties under which Ireland labors, i want of concert among her people. (Hear hear) The professors of different religions are divided among themselves, The members of the different orders of society, the nobility people, are divided among themselves, They ivided at the time Ipeak of. There was 1 concert between the leading men of the country, and the great difficulty to be remedied at that time, was this want «f concert, consultation and a niutuality of effort among the leading and influential | men of Ireland itself. They all labor under the same diMeulty—they all possess the same property —they are all subject to the same government—are of & common destiny—and they must all see that that destiny is total annihilation ; ana therefore it is, that an effort at concert has brought them to that strong were 40 | determination to have their liberty, and of a wil- lingness to maintain it at all hazards, which we now see exhibited, It is to respond to that determination, | to assure them of our sympathy. to assist them with means, and with arms, as far as the laws of our coun- try will allow it, that this mecting is assembled. And. gentlemen, it is for the Irish people there to do all | that they can, to bring about a concert of action among the leading friends of liberty in that country. know that among the nobility there, there are | many indomitable men—the representatives of the old houses, which stood firm during the Irish rebellion; the representatives, of @harlemont, of Achesson, and others, who are thorough friends of freemen, and who ought to bring about « @ncert of action. They are false to their country if they do not. ‘There ia another difficulty, that there, and here, and everywhere, the cause of freedom gets into the hands of leaders whe falsely immagine that they have « leasehold in it, and that they have no trust to fulfill for the public good. Now, no man can admire more than | do the great services rendered to Ireland by the distin- | guished patriot who is now no more. | allude to Mr. O'Connell. He was a man of extraordinary intellect— of great genius, great wit, great eloquence, and indo- mitable energy of character. Ho was a man of the mast absolute incorruptibility—of the most unqualified dis- interestedness. He was the leader of the Irish bar, at which he was making ten thousand pounds per year, and which he abandoned for the cause of the people. He would not accept office under the British govern- ment, knowing that, by doing so, he would compro- mise his position; but, at the same time, | aay, with the greatest difldence and respect, that, with the un- bounded sway which ho possessed over the ceuatry, | when he had assembled at the Rath of Mullaghmast, | or that monstrous assemblage of # million of men at | ‘Tara, willing to act as ho wished, whom he could per- | suade from violating the law, and whom he could | make violate the law if so desired, that he did not then right the accumulated wrongs of forty-eight years. It emed to me that then was the time to apply the coup- | let which he was so fond of instilling into his eountry- | men: | Hereditary bondsimen, know ye not ‘Who would be free thomselves must strike the blow? Mr. Van'B. next reviewed the course pursued in re- | lation to the English reform bill, and went on to say, that there was nothing in the constitution of the Uni- ted States to prevent any man’s going singly if he | choose, to aid Ireland in her struggle for national in- dependence, (Cheers.) Both the district attorne: who had addressed them that evening would admit thi part, notwithstanding that the constitution would not permit them to organize a body with hostile intent against « foreign power ; still it would not prevent any man shouldering his musket, and going forward to aid in such astruggle. (Vociferous cheering, which lasted for same time.) The British government, therofore, had but one election to make, namely, whether the freedom of Ireland, was ,to be written with the pei or weitten with the pike. (Renewed cheering and rapturous applause, amid eries of “the pike.”) Mr. Van B. after further dwelling upon the importance of union in the cause of the Irish people, and impressing upon them the necessity for vigorous action, concluded by moving the following resolution :— Resolved, That the indications of public sentiment around and about us, and the popular movements of th that the auspicious moment has arrived rights of th jh quick to wee and now to moot this crisis in a true and determined world. ert §. BoswontH, Esq., seconded the resolution as unanimou! Mr. Joux Van Be ward, and said he felt much pleasure in following resolution, which had been handed him by Mr. John Griffin, who wished him to move it for the adoption of the meeting. He would take occasion to read it as follows:— Rewlved, That we hail with feelings of pride and satisfaction, the triumphant liberation of Messrs. Smith O’Brien and Thomas F. Meagher, on their late trials in Trelas nd while we cordi- ally applaud the course pursued by these cl and their respective js i rnestly invite the nartyrs to [rial tism, on a mission to States, to aid in carryit it the spirit and objects of this meet- ing; and we further invite Mr. Mitchel, for a similar purpose in | the event of his discharge, which we confidentially anticipate from a Dublin jury. ‘The President hereupon put the resolution, which was carried by acclamation, amid loud cheering for O’Brien, Meagher, and Mitchel. H. Gureixy was next loudly called for. He came forward, and said. he did not at the late hour of the evening to which they had been detained, mean to apass upon them, but hoped every man in the meot- | ing would give as he felt towards ireland by his sub- scription, (Cheors.) Subscriptions were here handed in freely. His Honor the Mayor gave $50, Dr. Hogan 50, Senator Hannegan $10, H. Greeley $10, and Several other subscriptions varying from $10 to $6 were handed in, when, on motion, the meeting ad- journed at 12 o'clock, determined to take action on future day to further the objects for which they had assembled. ‘The utmost harmony and enthusiasm | prevailed throughout. hereupon again camo for- City Intelligence. A Fracas’ netwees Justices.—Yesterday morning, about 10 o'clock, the Assistant Justices Court, located on the corner of Third street and Bowery, wasthe scene of a funny fracas occasioned by the collision of Alderman Crolius and Justice Haskins. The latter is one of the Justices said to be holding over, having been superceded by the election of Mr. Wm. H. Van Cott. It appears from facts in the ci that Alderman Cro- lius.; being chairman of the committee of public offices, proceeded to the above court, for the purpose of plac- ing Mr. Van Cott on the bench. On entering the court, Justice Haskins was on the bench, and, of course, in- possession ; on the request being made by the Alderinan, Justice Haskins ordered him to leave the | room ; this the Alderman declined doing, when the Justice left his seat to eject the Alderman, by taki: hold of his collar, Both clinched, and a kind of rough and tumble scramble took place between them, in | the midst of which the Alderman’s ear came in con- tact with the edge of a door post, and as the latter was much the sharpest the Alderman’s ear suffered somo- what from the collision, Constable Austin, after some little difficulty, separated the pugnacious magistrates, who should make his appearance in court but Jus- tice Van Cott, and took his seat on the bench by virtue of his election, Justice Haskins disputed his right, seized him by the collar, and, after a violent struggle, suceced«d in removing him from the bench. A parley now: | took place between the parties, which resulted in Justice | Van Cott taking the bench to call on @ case, ‘This was permitted, and no soouer done, than Justice Van Cott proclaimed himself in legal possession. prohibited Mr. Haskins to interfere any more. Hor ir, Mr. Has- kins made another attempt to take possession, and in +o doing, Justice Van Cott exercised his judicial power by committing Mr. Haskins for a contempt of court, and placing him in custody of constable Austin. Du- ring all this émeute, no blows were struck by either = ty, but merely a pulling and hauling for the judieiat chair; and thus the matter terminated for the present. Scanerry or Croton Wate —Great complaints are made relative to the scarcity of Croton water, some houses and offices down town being unable to obtain a supply in their upper stories. In reply to some of th complaints, it has been asserted that the sing! now use) the water tothe city from Wer Chester side, is not of sufficient capacity of bring the necessary supply. If such be the case, isit not ‘high time for those who have charge of the matter, to stop the use of the Croton for watering the streets, when abundance, quite as good for that object, could be pumped out of the North or East rivers with a little trouble, instead of depriving citizens who pay for the water for more important purposes. Revize to Broapway.—Since the present Common Council came into power, the subject of relieving Broadway, appears to have been completely lost sight of. How is this? Of course it cannot be urged t! relief to Broadway is less needed now, than it was some months ago. Is it, then, because some of the committee aving the matter before them. or members of the ‘ommon Council, are interested in some other project? The subject is one in which thousands of our citizens are deeply concerned, and ought to be promptly at- tended to. To the property owners along the proposed lines of a new avenue, it is of the utmost mportance to know if anything is going to be dene in the matter; and if xo, what, inasmuch as many con- template making improvements upon their premises; | and wish, t pre, tocut their coats according to their | cloth; or. words, plan their buildings to the best advantage upon their respective lots, after the size and shape of the same shall have been clearly de- | fined. Ferrous Daivixe.—William Connolly, stage driver, | was arrested yesterday morning on a charge of farious driving in Broadway, and brought before the Mayor | He was fined $10, and in default of payment commit- | ted to the city prison | Resi rrom Drowstsc.—William Ryan, a sea- man belonging to the United States navy, fell from pier No, 30, Kast River, into the water. Officer Ah- tens happened to be standing on the pier at the time, and with a good deal of difficulty resewed him. He was nearly suffocated when taken out of the water He | was brought to the station house, and the usual reme- dies applied; after some time he recovered, and }was sent on board his vessel, | Asornen Man Kitten ny rae Hance Cans.—Wo understand that a man whose name we were anable to learn, was ran over yesterday, and killed by one of the | Harlem railroad cars. This makes the second man killed on this road by the cars within the last week. Ivquesr.—An inquest was held yesterday on the body of Margaret Wiseley, in the New York Hospital, by Coroner Walters. Verdict, came by her death in con- sequence of the ignition of some fireworks, in building No. 13634 Mulberry street. | Law Intelligence, | Surnese Count—Gevenat Team, June 5th.—The court opened at 10 o'clock, pursuant to adjournment, | jon W. H. Shankland, of the sixth judicial district, presiding, with the Hou. Hiram Gray and Seth Sill, as- sociates To-day being motion day, the ease of Lo- vett vs. Tylee, in equity, was the first tak nothing of interest, except to the parties e occurred, T.-day, (Tuesday,) the will be taken up, commencing with No, 183, ceeded with in regular order. Oven «xp Tensixen.—This court organized to-day, Judge Edwards, and Aldermen Adams and Kohler, on the bench. The jury list was then called over, and the court adjourned. The case of Mrs. Barbara Widde- mayer, for the murder of her child, is set down for to- day, (Tuesday.) Circuit Covurr.—This court was organized, Ju Fdwards on the bench, and adjourned after the call- ing of the jury list, Count Carerpan—Tuts Day— Superior Court—8, 22, 24, 29, 30, 32, 35, 36, 38, 40 to 68 inclusive. Circwit Court—401, 1, 17, 18, 11, 18, 19, 20, 21, Common Pleas 117, 127, 193, 66, 22, M4, 32, 19, 33, 37, 45, 47, 58, 50, 00,