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Wanganui Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 2452, 8 May 1875, Page 2

JOHN MITCHELL IN TIPPERARY.

Mr John Mitcliell, who was convicted of treason and felony in 1848, and who afterwards effected his escape from Tasmania, since which time he has been resident in America, was on 16th February returned unopposed member of Parliament forTipperary. At the time of the election Mr Mitchell had not arrived in Ireland, but he landed at Cork the next day. A correspondent writing- from Clonmel says : " MiMitchell is physically a wreck ; pale, wan, feeble, emaciated. So weak is he that he had to by supported by two friends from the hotel omnibus into the railway carnage on his departure this afternoon. He had almost wholly lost the Irish accent, and there has been substituted for it what I may call the American intonation. Mr Mitihell had made up his mind no further as to the future than that to-day he would visit the county of Tipperary, and! meet his friends in the towns of Tipperary and Clonmel. He started with this intention by the 12.30 p.m. train from Cork, receiving a most enthusiastic ovation from the large crowds, both as he quitted his hotel, and on his departure from the station. When he reached Limerick Junction, which is the station for Tipperary, we found it in a chaos of wild excitement. In the main streets outside Tipperary crammed itself en masse, and listened while tlie patriot spoke. His words were something as follows:—"Men of Tipperary,— It is true I have come more than three thousand miles to find the people of Tipperary, and get returned by them to Parliament. For this I would have I come from the North. Pole ; and' yet I have not the honor to be a Tipperary man. lam a Derry man. But I suppose that Derry is as Irish as' Tipperary. At any rate I am an Irishman. Allusion has been made to some steps which it is believed the Government are about to take—That is the British Government over in London. There is a man there who writ«s novels, and is of opinion that he knows better who. Tipperary should elect than you do. I Now, if Tipperary is to submit to the [ dictation of this novel writer, why the next thing will be Cork, and then Limerick, and he will make them select the candidates 'he approves. Now, some years ago the British Sovereign selected ' me as a fit subject to carry felon's chains and to bear the penalties of felony at the antipodes. Now that I have returned here—(A voice : 'Thank God') —you, the people of Tipperary, have thought me the person worthy of'being returned to her Majesty's Coun c -i

}o offer her Ministers and advisers the to offer her Ministers and advisers the best aid of my talents and information to help them to govern the three kingdoms. It seems they cannot do without us. (A laugh), "i have only this nmch further to say ; you have had little experience of me yet 5 ye have only heard of me and read of ny (A voice: "Sure we know youfroi 48.") So long as I represent you 1 will not sell yon, or trade upon you i\ any shape, but will appreciate the sacrifice the people of Tipperary have made to put me into the very proud position which I now hold."