Excerpt from A Full and Revised Report of the Three Days' Discussion in the Dublin Corporation: On the Repeal of the Union; With Dedication to Cornelius Mac Loghlin, Esq. And an Address to the People of Ireland by Daniel O'connell, M. P., A Valuable Appendix, and the Petition From the Corporation to the Imperial Parliament for the Restoration of Ire This being the day appointed for bringing forward Alderman o'connell's motion for the discussion of the question of Repeal, the Assembly House, in William Street, was, from an early hour in the morning, surrounded by hundreds of the populace, who testified by their presence the deep interest they took in the subject about to be debated, and the anxiety they felt to ascer tain what arguments could be urged against the legislative inde pendence of their native land. It was evident, from the day the hon. And learned Alderman had put his notice of motion on the books of the Corporation, that, not only the citizens of Dublin, but the people of all Ireland, felt that he had taken a course more likely to forward the great cause of Repeal, than any other which human wisdom or foresight could possibly suggest, and the result was looked to with an intensity of interest which it would be impossible to describe. The great champion of his country's liberty, accompanied by some members of the Council, arrived in William Street, at half-past 10 o'clock, and was received with deafening peals of acclamation by the people out side, which, as soon as he entered, were renewed by those who had previously filled the house. The other members of the Council arrived in quick succession, and, before 11 o'clock, the gallery and body of the house were filled to suffocation, by those who had been fortunate enough to obtain tickets of admission.

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