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Tttlt 29, 18*8' THE NORTHERN STAR. 7
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Test of Htpocbobt.—Much talk about relig...
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EXCITEMENT IN LIVERPOOL. In coussanence ...
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THE SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS (IRELAND...
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MEETING OF THE CONFEDERATE CLUBS IN MANC...
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TO THE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN. r Fellow Count...
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Inquests.—Mohdat.—Allbgeb Mobdbk.—Before...
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! ithouli tes " lT £ n ' fl : t t 0 S ? a " 5 SD ? W op P ° li ^' urdaT being fair-day at Cerrirk , the town f ? ? Sitb country people , aad Messrs Meagher ** s fVBrieu addressed the people , ; i is said by * ° ho were present , in a more violent and de 60 ine -ed strain than heretofore , stating their det £ rjn ^ aSon not to ba arrested under the provisions ter ? new act . B ( rtn gentlemen , it is stated , were 0 J with pistols , which they are deierarinei to ardf x . eTent of an attempt being made to cap-053 fntm - &*? stafe | i & at they had f ^ nt their tcie a in ^ e people ' s cause , and would hazard for ^ lg , f 0 r their service , and would now throw * « slres on the protection of the people . ^ T ^ this city the clubs are well organised , and rland ready to act when called upon . "The ^ teseem reckless from poverty ; groups cf wcrk-^ may be seen in the streets by day aad Dij ; . it , * ri « siug polities and retailing the news of the honi . iiw
! rw » Qneen ' sforces nere now are aoous , strong . Iu the anvils in the country ring with pike-forging . A every weapon is put in order fer tha fray . * The loyalist families are flying . Cancel wrote the above , I have leerred on the iJl authority- that Messsrs O'Brien and Meagher ^ Lrnnd Carrick-on-Suir , surrounded by the armed - ^ Star dJSmined to sell their liberty d ^ rly if tStod It is also stated that Messrs Dili ™ , 0 GorgudD . Lane are with them . . rrtCTPATEB ISSURRECTTOS . —THE STA TS CF IRSiiXD . -SI CMBS , 45 D THEIR LSUWKS . -OOV 1 SIUV 11 EST PKIFAB ATIOKS-ABHTSG OF THE 0 RAJGKHE 5 AKD tSUCS —PBOHTBrnOS OF HESSB 5 S £ ARH 5 A 5 D DTJFFT TO ViBITE IS KEWGATB .-JOHS o ' cOXXELL , A 5 D 7 SASGE 3 O COSSOB —THE CBOFS .
{ From our own Correspondent . ) DcBL . iK , 25 th Jtjit . There is less excitement this morniug then there . w vesterdsy . The streets are not so crowded , and rtere is more confidence abroad . Yesterday people p ? - ^ i a Hsing of the clubs every hour : to-day it is p- £ - ' :. 4 d ; hst the Dublin Con / ederatesare waiting r ¦" - ' ' cm the provinces . atd will tot stir until ihere ; - chersrn' m : we in Kilkenny , or Tipperary , or l \ i rcK , cr Waterford . I z ™ »« ey ^ T member ; . 'he eouccii of the late 1 'hh Conraderation has t ' Dublin , - : th the twofold oljoct of escaping arrcs : ' : \ lt suspension oi the Habeas Corpus Act , and rJraising the standard of rebellion in tho eoutbern counties . It is certain that some [ of the principal nembers are gone away , at all events . Smith O'Brien is gone , to Wexford , and it is said he intends in call the brave men of that county to Vinegar Hill .
Ob Saturday he took his departure , asd i am told that in bidding adieu to a certain wealthy and icflu gnfial Alderman of this city , he said , ' I quit Dublin a v dear Mr , and if ever I enter its walls again it will be as a chained victim , or a bloody corpse , or s triumphant conqueror of Saxon tyranny . ' I do EOt vouch for the truth of this report , but I have the statement from a very respectable and trustworthy person . It is thought an attempt will be made thia , iIt to arrest him , as the government are well aware of hia whereabouts . If such attempt bs made , it Is th ought he will not ' seller himself to be captured without making resistance ; and if resistance be eJEred , it will ba the signal for & commencement of hostilities . We are every mement expecting an
express from the southern counties , aad from Kilkenny . Hichard O'Gorman , Jun . and Michael Deheny are np in Limerick and Clare , whilst Thomas F . Meagieris about Kilkenny and the neighbeurhood of Fin Jlaeeaol ' s celebrated mountain-home , the classic Slisrenamon . This is a gigantic mountain , lying on the south-eastern borders of Tipperary . sboat fifteen niles west of Kilkenny city , and la said to be one of the hkhest of Erin ' s hills . This waa theold hunting pound of the famous herculean Irish chieftain , Fin Uzccooi , who two thousand years ago led his warriors and his wolf-hounds in stormy chase through its defiles , and over its crags . It was crossing this mountain that Oliver Cromwell halted bis troops to gtze on the goldenjallies of Tipperary , and the rich slopes of the Kilkenny upland ! , making the memorable observation , that'Ireland indeed ia a country
northf . ghtingfor . ' It was in s village near this great mountain that the police ( . eighteen or twenty in number ) were massacred , some fifteen or sixteen years ago , ia a tithe battle with the peasantry ; and it was on the summit of Shevenamon ( which in plain English means , « the hill of the white women , ' ) that Thomas F . Meagher and Michael Doheny , arrayed in the costume of Irish chieftains , assembled 20000 pike-men oa Sunday , the 9 sh of July , 1848 . It is thonght that MrMeagher waits an attempt on the part of Eovernment to arrest him , before he sounds tha call , 'To vour tents , oh Kilkenny and Tirperarj ! ' J . B 4 ~ D ! lioa is , I hear , up iu Galway , stirring up the'tribes' of that ancient anti-Saxon city . Some . of the minor members of tbe council are in the midland districts : aad it is calculated that fourteen of the thirty-two Irish counties will be in open rebellion before the end of the week .
In the meantime , government is cot losing a moment . In a late letter to the Stab I naid they would leave no atone untamed , ' to pot a final period to the insurrectionary movement in this island . I have not been deceived . They go on bravely with the work . The garrison of this city has been augmented by a couple of thousand men , and further military arrivals are expected to-day and to-morrow , _ On yesterday , a camp was Hong np on the Phoenix Part , near the magazine battery , which is occupied by 800 men of » hs 75 th Infantry . The arming and organisation of the Orangemen goes en quickly too , and the poHcs have received cntksei and pistols . It is said that the military will take possession , of all the fcrzdgesover Una Lifiey and the Vrf- s *» . als
lo-morrow , and that no person will ba les into or ent of the city without a pass . The search for arms will be commenced on this day or to-morrow , xnd it is said that tne most fiery of tha clubs will shoot down or pike fiie police who may come to their houses . A good many arrests for carrriBg and having arms abrtadhaxe been already effected , and those a > arrested nave in most cases , been sent for trial . One young mau , the son of a respectable grocer-and apirit merchant , was arrested at a late hour last night with a pike in his possession , which be was carrying to fling into tfeeLifey rather than surrender- it to the authorities . No arras—notasinglestand—I believe , have been as yet given up . and very few have made application to the officers appointed to grant licences
for retaining them . No member Jar ex-memnar ot a Confederate Club , no matter how respectable , will be granted licence , but it appears that the fact of a man ' s being aa O'Connellife Eepealer will not dispalif > him from the privilege . Solera ! of the gunsmiths and pike-makera have left , town f « the purpose of effecting Bales in unprodanned district * . It is said that the celebrated pike-forge in Charies-street isshnt-up , and Darin HjlaEd , the proprietor , gone down ta pursue his' occupation' In the town of Carlow , which , by the war , is getting a § rebellious these latter days as any other town in Ireland . In short , terror and uncertainty is the order of the day , and no man knows when the dreadful intelligence of the rural population beinij' np * may arrive . The Bank of Ireland aud the General Posi ^ fnde are strongly
garrisoned , and every clerk , and servant , and porter in each of these . establishments , is armed to tbe teeth . There will be no review of the garrison troops in the Phoenix Park to-day , though there has been * review there on every Tuesday aad Friday since the commencement of the summer season . It has been'told to me this memest , that -there are sentinels on all the avenues leading to the hay and errs * markets , in Sml & fisM , lest ttieeftrta and waggenlpads of these materials should be captured by the dubs for tie construction of barricades . I do not vouch for this , however . . . . ~
You will see that the Nmos * fld Paws of hit Saturday have cot abated a single scintilla ot their 'Felony . ' There are no copies exposed for sale in the hands of the newsvendors or print-shops , but , notekliih 1 if amen wanted fifty copies of either J 9 UTnal , he could get them . . C . G . Daffy , John Martin , and the otherincareerated * Felons , ' will not address the people any more . An order from the Board of Supermtendenc-e prohibits their being allowed to write any political arti cles . orto publish or date any writing or document from Newgate prison in future . John O'Coanell is now in the South of Ireland . It is said here that he is the daily £ uest of Sir Charles Naoier . and that he is instructing Mm on the best
moda of sticking and destroying the ' rebel' lush villages and towns oa the Cork and Kerry coasts ! He has published another of his blackguard letters in the PmoT newspaper , denouncing' -Young Ireland , ' hounding the government on the dubs , and telling his 'dear countrymen' that he willeome to Dublin in s few day ? , and that he will re-open the old Markethouie on Burgh Quay , for political traffic and menster 'thimbk-riggmg , ' early in August . Bat we deft him 13 plsy the old game again ! Ob , no , ' my dear son John , ' it is all up with you ! Yonr occupation is gone , and , whatever may be the fata of'Young Ireland , ' jour inaueaoe aud political character is crushed for ever . Fesreus O'Connor has once more earned
theeterc & lbleainssof Ireland , His gallant stand against Lord John ' s ' Suspension' notice in the Commons , will fill a brightpage in the weary histery of our unfortunate country . And yet Mr O'Connor was once pointed at by the Concilution Hall swindlers , as an enemy to Irel / ted , and a dangerous member of society . He was certainly a daogerouV member in any society where the CConneus would rule the ' react , but every day proves that Ireland has no warmer friend , no more faithful idTOC & te , than the brave descendant of the brave O'Connors . I refret to say that , during the last few days , the cross have msered much frem bad weather ? and the fatal potato blight has cade its appearance is many districts of the country .
Tttlt 29, 18*8' The Northern Star. 7
Tttlt 29 , 18 * 8 ' THE NORTHERN STAR . 7
Test Of Htpocbobt.—Much Talk About Relig...
Test of Htpocbobt . —Much talk about religion is a sere sign , ef its sbsezce . JNe seldom talk much about what we bave ; we are apt to talk a great deal about what we want . A rich man never talks go audi about money u a poor man , nor an heneit BancotAutkabonthonest ? as troga & doee . The raise of fowls consumed in London alone is e & aated to be about £ 100 , 000 inauallj .
Excitement In Liverpool. In Coussanence ...
EXCITEMENT IN LIVERPOOL . In coussanence of information to the effect that several thousand men , sympathisers with the Irish Repealers , wsre armed in Liverpool , waiting for the opportunity of a rising in Ireland , to barn and destroy all they could , the mayor , magistrates , aldermen , and councillors of the sixteen wards issued circulars , of which the following is a copy , to all the respectable aud peaceable inhabitants ;—Liverpool , July 22 nd , 1848 . Sir , —Wo earnestly beg of you to attend a meeting of s & me of tbt inhabitants of thU ward this day at the Meipbi Hotel , at half-past saves o ' clock precisely . Considerations of no ordinary importance oblige us to urgEjouratiendanes , which , be assured , wo should not venture to do so strongly , were it * sot a matter of im . pcratjve necessity , a necessity tbe magistrates are now a : tlng ueon ; and which they expect us and yon to aid them ia preparing for .
In obedience to the wish conveyed in the circular , uactings of a most satisfactory character took place , and every possible preparation was made for any em-irger . cy whioh might arise . A large number of troops bava arrived in Liverpool , and were to be seen in Ptery direction on Saturday . The following is from the Liverpool Albion of Monday . ' It is a matter of notoriety that , since the agitation for tbe repeal of the union assumed its physical force a ? ppct , aimed confederate clubs have been in course of formation in Liverpool , for the purpose of raising here , when events in Ireland might render it a service to detain the military in this country , a sympathetic rebellion . The language , as our readers have bien aware , employed at the recent meetings of Chartists snd Confederates in this town , has been of the most exciting character , one of Itha speakers
remarking thai the first blood shed by the government in Ireland should be the signal for the rising of the Confederates in this town , and the burning of'the Babylon of England , ' as Liverpool was complimenfcarily called . Under the advice of mischievous leaders , it is stated that onwards of fifty clubs , of 10 Q men each , hare bsen organised here , snd arms of various descriptions , from the mde i / iko and cnt ? a ; s to the more costlv rifle , have bu'n openly eold to the dif affected , The ' magistntcs are , we believe , iafull possession of the proceedings of these disaffected coteriee , erjd are quite avrare of their most secret resolves . Special cosstaKea to the number cf 4 , 000 have been sworn in within the latt month ; but from the threatening aspect of affairs in Ireland at present , and information which has come to hand , the magistrates have felt it their duty to take itill more vigorous and ^ extraordinary measures for the preservation of the peace of the town .
A military camp is to ba formed at Everton ; it is to be pitched in a field opposite to Waterhouse-lane , and the 9 ; h Regiment of Infantry , 1 , 000 strong , with a body of Dragoons and a brigade of Artillery , arrived on Saturday to occupy it . The police , who for the h » t few days have been trained to the use of the mnsket , in addition to the sword exercise , appear to relish the task , and have attained , it is said , a surprising efficiency for so short a time . For some time a body of 500 military have been stationed here : the pensioners , a most efficient corps
of 700 mea , also hold themselves in readiness . The additional soldiery who have already arrived are , the entire regiment , with the exception of one company , of the 9 th Infantry , three companies of the 81 st In . fantrv , and three or four troops of the 4 th Royal Irish ' Dragoons . A brigade of artillery has also arrived from Chester ; and we understand thataneffioial communication was yesterday ( Sunday ) received that another body of 1 , 000 men ( the regiment is not mentioned ) will arrive here by rail in three companies , dieect frem London , in the course ot the day .
About three o ' clock en Saturday afternoon a pstition to the House cf Cemmoss , emanatingfrom the recently formed Constitutional Association here , praying for an extension of Lord John RusselVs measure for suspending the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland to Liverpool was taid upon the talk in the Exchange ' rooms . Id was headed by the Earl of Sefton , signed also by the mayor , Mr Rushton , and aU the magistrates , snd received nearly 400 signatures in the course of an hour . Two arrests were made on Saturday , those of two men charged with having illegal weapons in their possession . One of these , a man named Caddie , was stopped in the street with a bag full of formidable pikeheads in his possession . Last night the various clubs in town had private meetings . The ' John Mitchel' Club also met at Birkenhead , with closed doors . PBCGBES 3 OP POLITICAL BXCITEMBKI AT LIVERPOOL .
( From the horning Cftronicle . ) ARBESI OF PIKS-VEKBEES . Tuesday . —From the great preparations whioh are going forward on the part of the Mayor and magistrates of Liverpool , it is evident that they labour under the apprehension of an outbreak , should the 4 Confederate Clubs' dare to resist the tremendous power with which the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has just been armed . Accordingly , special constables continue to be sworn in ; bat as the inhabitants have but little taste for facing pikes , great numbers of extra police are being appointed . Plenty of recruits for this business are coming forward , and they display , the most laudable zeal for ' preserving the peace . ' The military , of whom there are cow upwards of 2 , 000 in Liverpool , are about to encamp at Everton , so that they can command the town from that eminence .
The police are not only drilled to the use of the sword , but have had muskets placed in their hands , and although they are not yet by any means as crack shots as Kentucky men , still report speaks eery favourably of their progress in the manual and platoon exercise . Several arrests have taken place of persons carrying pikes . Last night a man was earjtnred in HQhtstreet who was carrying a hag contuning pikes , bayonets , cutlasses , and pistols . He was taken to Bridewell and lodged there . The pris oners were examined before the magistrates to-day , & remanded . Two privates of the 89 th were arrested last night for shouting for Repeal in the streets . They were lodged in Bridewell . " Aportion of the 89 th sail for Ireland
tfaisafterHoon-( From the Liverpool Mercury of Tuesday . ) The regular police force , under the direction of Mr Bowling and his officers , numbers 800 . These , bj direction ef the Secretary of State , haye been lately regularly drilled to the use of the carbine . and the sword , and they already display great proficiency in their new duties . Annoyed and fatigued by extra drill and extra doty , they have arrived at that state of mind when they will prove very formidable opponents , if once let loose npon a rebellions mob .: Their hearts are in ( heir work , and they seem determined , at all hazards , to protect the peace of the tewn , snd tbe safety ef the unoffending and orderly inhabitants . The force is to be increased to the extent of 500 , and Mr Dowliug was occupied the greater part of
yesterday in examining applicants for the situation . The list is rapidly filling np , and considering the number of able-bodied men who are applying , the full complement of 1 , S 00 will . In all likelihood , be completed today . The corps of pensioners , numbering 700 men , have had directions to hold themselves in readiness ; and those who know anything of Liverpool , and tha peaceable nature generally of its inhabitants , will be inclined to think that such a force would be sufficient to quell any riot which might take place here , but the magistrates have determined to be on the safe side . They have applied to government , and the head-quarters ef the north-western military district have been removed to this town . General Sir William Warre and his staff of officers hare taken np their residence hers . and thersisa rumour that permanent barracks are about to . be
erected in Everton . There are at present in Liverpod the following troops;—The Otb Regiment , two companies of the SlstTtegimeut , the SSUh Regiment a company of the 60 th Rifles , & squadron of the 4 th Dragoon Guards , a brigade of Artillery , and yesterday , the 60 th Regiment arrived , the total number in town being about 2 , 000 . These are disposed in various parts of the borough , so as to . be brought out immediately should their services be required . The warehoneis of Mr Molynenx . Sefton-street , Sealstreet police-station , the North Corporation Schools , and Lucas's Repository have been temporarily' appropriated to the use of the troops . Two additional pieces of artillery hare arrived here for use , the four pieces belonging to the town have been ordered te be mounted , and it is known that upwards of two thousand stand of arms have been sent here by government , with the necessary ammunition .
It is intended , we believe , to erect s camp for a portion of the soldiers in a field opposite Waterhauselane . Everton . We were informed that the materials arrived yesterday , but ¦ up to ten o'clock last night nothing had been done towards the formation of the camp . Of special constables , somewhere abaut 20 . 000 have been sworn in in the several wards . Steps have also been taken to organise the corps and appoint leaders . A place of rendezvous has . been taken in each ward , and there a guard is placed night and day , to give the alarm , should the necessity for-so doing arise . About 1 , 000 men belonging to the dock works have been sworn in , and amply provided with
formidable weapons , and all . the puhlio muioings in the town are gnarded day and night . BrnKiKHKAn . —Birkenhead , following the example of Liverpool , has set its shoulder to the wheel , w mifejr , * preparations for any outbreak ! which . may occwm the present unsettled state ef affairs . A ^ reoomnendation having besn sentjto the PfS ^ tf . signed by many of the . mort TespectaWe inhabitants * Dose of swearinfe of special constables , Mr Harden , ffsKSS ** A *>? . "J OWond Glegg attended vesterday at the P * hce Court for that purw t ££ S 5 ^ S () 0 of the iinabitante ware Sworn in , and the number yet to be a worn in is about 700 .
The Suspension Of Habeas Corpus (Ireland...
THE SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS ( IRELAND );' .. "' ' ? This measure , which passed the legislature since Saturday , and which receiving the royal assent became law yesterday , is entitled 'An act to empower the Lord Lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland to apprehend and detain until the 1 st March , 1849 , such persons as he shall suspect of conspiring against her Majesty ' s person and government . ' The first clause enacts that every person who may now be in prison by virtue of warrant issued by the Lord Lieutenant , or by the Irish Privy Council , on suspicion of high treason or treasonable practices , shall be detained in custody without bail or mainprise until 1 st March , 1849 . ' The second clause , after empowering the keepers of all gaols in which prisoners for treason shall be confined to detain them as aforesaid , provides that they shall onl y be removed from one place of safe custody to another by warrant from the Lord Lieutenant , & e . The third clause orders that copies of all warrants be transmitted to the clerk of the crown at Dublin .
Meeting Of The Confederate Clubs In Manc...
MEETING OF THE CONFEDERATE CLUBS IN MANCHESTER . n 7 S *\ E re « -Th 7 memtersof the several Confederate Clubs met to-night in their respective club rooms , and proceeded thence , about nine o ' clock , in miliary order , toi a large space of vacant ground adjoining the new Roman Catholic Chapel on tbe Cfaeetham Hill-road . The number present was very great . ^ No speech was delivered , but three cheers were given for 'the cause , 'immediately after whioh the assembly dispersed .
To The People Of Britain. R Fellow Count...
TO THE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN . r Fellow Countrymen—Tou are now put in poszession of the fact that the authorities of thia borough ( Aehtor .-under-Lyne ) have thought proper to issue a Warrant for the arrest of Dr M'Doiiall . It is time we ail exclaimed t ( gether , Alts , poor country , almost afraid to know thyself 1 because if warrants can be issued , men arrested , upon the evidence ef police spies , and committed to prison , fer speaking about twenty minutes from an hotel window ; aud that evidence partly made , after the meeting was over , and the most unconnected stuff ever delivered in a court of justice ; then do we say thst there is as much libert y in England as there is in Russia . There is this difference between Russia and here ; there they deal with them summarily , but here xra are insulted with the mockery ef an
examination before poor old Dame-Durden . liberal magistrates , who are frightened at their own shadows , and would go into hysterics at the sound of a popgun—then we are sent to trial before partisan judges aad bigoted juries—found guilty , sentenced to imprisonment , and the premier , the attorneygeneral , the hangers-on of government , and all the short-sighted of the land , proclaim the startling truth , That the majesty ' of the law has been vindicated , the designing selfish demagogues put down , and peace and tranquillity restored ! ' Humbug extraordinary . M'Doaall baa been committed on three distinct charges , viz .: attending an unlawful assembly , sedition , and riot ; and we have seen
and heard one of the ' noble' lords who committed him , spe » k at as riotous , tamultuousj and seditions , an assembly as that for which he committed M'Doaall . Bnt that was in the days of ' rampant , tyrannical Toryism . ' The noble lord aboye went scot free , and it remained for us , in these days of Whig liberality , to witness the damning spectacle , of a professional gentleman , educatsd at one of the first colleges in the world , committed to prison for addressing the inhabitant s of Ashbn from a window , This meeting was unquestionably one of the most peaceable and orderly meetings ever held in England , Oh shame ! where is thy blush ? Oh bigotry ! where is thy conscience ?
However , men and women of Ashton , so it i ? . M'Donall , upon the patched-up—made up—dovetailed evidence of four policemen , has been committed to take his trial at Liverpool , in ranEB weeks fbom now . When ho came amongst jou , he had a good freehold property in Scotland , a profession and practice which realised him several hundred pounds annually—besides a large sum of accumulated money in the bank ; all of which has been spent long ago in the advocacy of the right of the people to get a good living for moderate labour , and the universal right of the people of these realms to be enfranchised , and enjoy the great principle of ' Equal rights and equal laws . ' Now that his all has been spent , and another attack about to be made on his liberty ! shall we desert him ? No , never , never , never !
Let us then realise a defence fund , and make tho same generous sacrifices for him that he has made for us . Plenty of evidence can be produced oh the trial to disprove many of the statements made and sworn to by those who swore agaii st him ; bat never forget that it cannot be done without money to pay tha expenses ef those parties going to Liverpool . Fly , then , to the rescue of oue of Britain ' s beat and bravest sons , and by your united energy your collections may be of inch a cast that even should a jury
be found base enough to oonvict him , he will not have to add to it the mortifying fact—he must exist on prison fare ; and his wife and three little ones under seven years of age suffer not only his want , but want also the common necessaries of life . A committee has been formed to receive subscriptions for the defence , and we hope that warm , generous , and enthusiastic feeling displayed daring his detention , examination and release from the Town Hall will cod die away , till he is again himself as free as he wishes to see the whole human family .
William JUtken , Treasurer , to whom all subscriptions mtiBkbe taken . The Committee will meet iu the Chartist room , on Saturday evenings , from seven till nine o ' clock . a P . S . On inquiry we find that there is not a single tittle of truth in the rumour , ia reference to Mr Mostyn , as he declares his feelings and sympathies are with Dr M'Donall , and that he would suffer death iu any shape sooner than become the hireling of a government ^ or any set of ; men who seek to stab liberty , and injure the fearless and honest advocates of holy freedom . We deeply lament that any rumour should get abroad injprions to the character of an honest man , and we believe Mr Moalyn bo to be . VI & hope 'this short appeal will remove any wrong impressions made on the minds of the people ,, and tha Mr Mostyn will receive that respect he is entitled to .
Inquests.—Mohdat.—Allbgeb Mobdbk.—Before...
Inquests . —Mohdat . —Allbgeb Mobdbk . —Before Mr H . Baker , at the Royal Mason , Poplar , respecting the death cf John Doharfcy , aged nineteen , a ballast-getter , in the employ of the Trinity-house Corporation , who was alleged to have been forced into the river by George Green , On Monday , the 17 th instant , the deceased , with his parents went to BlaekwaU to witness a rowing match . They proceeded in a boat to s ballast-barge , belonging to . the Trinity-house , lying off the East and West India Docks . The boat was made fast to the barge , aad the deceasedandhissister went on board , leaving their parents in the boat . ¦ > ¦ . The deceased went along the gunwale of the barge . Green was sitting npon tha washboards , aud on the deceased attempting to remove them to form seats , Green desired him to
leave them alone , saying that he did not belong to the barge . The deceased replied that he was in the service of the Trinity-house , and that he had a right to be on board . An altercation then ensued between them , and , Green offered to fight the deceased , who refused , when Green struck hima violent blow , and he fell backwards into tho rirer , and was drowned . The . body was not recovered until the following . Friday . —Mary Ann Doharty stated positively that Green was the man who struck the deceased . —Another witness corroborated her evidence . —Mr Pelham , who appeared on behalf of the ao ensed ; said he had several witnesses who would prove that George Green was not the person , but hia brother William , who so nearly reaemb ! ea the accused that in the absence of the oae the other would be
taken for him . .- Mr Ballaatine , the magistrate , had remanded Gaorge Grean until thia day , for the purpose of having the prisoner ' s brother apprehended and brbughtbefore him . —The Coroner said it would be better to have both brothers placed together , and the inquiry ttss adjourned until Wednesday next . Magisterial Ttbabtjt towabdb a Special Consiablb . —Lor / GHBOBonaH . —It will be remembered that en Mr O'Connor ' s visit to this town on Whit-Wed ^ nesday lait , the meeting was prohibited by the authorities , and that Yeomanry Cavalry , police , and special constables were in great requisition . A Mr William Harris , ^ special constable , after having been on duty all the day , was disgusted at night on seeing a number of ithejpeoial intosiocted ; and judging from the quie £ state , of , the town that his services were not lfkely to be wanted by tha inhabitants , went home . For this he was gammoned before the magistrates , and fined £ 5 and costs , or in default to be committed to prison for one month , with hard labour . The
sentence WMi aowever » commuted to a fine of 31 and costs , or fourteen day * ' imprisonment , which imprisonment -he served rather than pay the fine . A publio meeting of the inhabitant * was held on Wednesday week , July 19 th . in the Market-piece , te memorialise Sir 6 . Grey to dismiss the magistrates , and en the same day the term of Mr Harris ' s imprisonment expired . A number of the inhabitants met him at the railway , atstien on hia return from prison , and eswrjedf-hinj to ; tbe Wheat Sheaf , lao , when Mr Skevington addressed the meeting , * and after having given three cheers for the Charter , and three , for the victimised special , Mr Harris returned thanks , and the meeting separated . , „ ..,., „ . . . Lord Stanley is the steward of the Jockey . Club , in the piaee of Lord George Bentinok . # # Chikbsb Ibszois . —A vessel arrived in the river from Canton has brought the » cmewh » t , wroarfeabJe ifflr ^ rte 6 ion of li 0 , 000 Chinese iBWStfcfwthspurpc ^ t fnitiralhiator :
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SATURDAY Jolt 22 .. , Tbe Uouoe of Lords met at four " o ' clock for the purpose of hearing tho royal aesant given by oomcbisBlon to a great number of bills , HOUSE OF COMMONS . i-ThlB house alio met specially at twolve o ' clock for tbe purpose of SUSPENDING THE CONSTITUTION IN IRELAND . Lord J . R 0 S 9 EH In rising to move this bill of which he bad given notice , to empower the Lord . Lfeutenant , or ether chief governor or governors of Ireland , to ap . prebenS aud detain uatil the 1 st of March , 1849 , such persons as he or tbey sholl euepect ef conspiring against her Mojeaty ' t ) pereen and government . ' The noble lord said—I never felt so deep a concern in bringing any
, question before the house as that whioh I now feel In proposing to the bouse ta suspend for a limited time the constitutional liberties of Ireland , I feel , however , at tbe same time , that tbe measure I am about to propose Is necessary for tbe preservation of life and property In Ireland—that it is nioessftry for the purpose of prevent . In ; bloodshed—that it is necessary to stop en incipient laiurreotlon ;—and that it is eminently called for in respect to the safe'y of the British empire , ( Cheers . ) With this coavictlen in my mind , therefore , ! shall proceed without any further preface or apology to state to the house the grounds upon which I rest the proposition I am about to propose . It appears to me , Sir , that it is absolutely necessary I should prove tbree things as the grounds of my proposition . One is , that
the present state of things in Ireland is fraught with ovil , that it threatens dacger , aad that we are on the eve of an outbreak If it is not timely prevented . ( Hear , hiar . ) The second is , that there are means sufficient to produce great . irjary and great danger unless some measure ie adopted to avoid them . And the third is , that tho measure which I shall have the honour to propose is that remedy which appears most appropriate in the present calamitous state " of Ireland . ( H ar . ) ; With respect ta the first of these proposltlona—wlth . respect to the pre . seat state ef Ireland—I do not propose to reetmy case on any secret InforrnMicn , on any grounds known solely to she govevnwfq' . sf . tb'B country or af IrelamJ—upon any Information which may in > al upon dttubtful Or Uttcertain evidence as regards the accomplice ' s in tha
proposed rebellion , —I propose to rent my case upon facts r * bfch are patent , notorious , and flagrant , ( Cheers ;) This heuso la awara that e good number of joara ago , after the passing ef the Emancipation Act in 1829 , there were formed various associations in Ireland succeeding ono another , under the direction of the lata Mr O'Connell , for : the promotion of the repeal of tbe legislative union . The house is likewise aware that while in those associations , aad lathe meetings—the most numerous meetings—whioh took place on some occasions , for the purpose of promoting this repeal , the most escltihg language was used , while there was every appearance that that language might lead to insurrection , there was on tbe part of tho leader of that agitation a frequent and emphatic declaration that , in his opinion , bo
political objec t was worth one single drop of blood , aad that it was only by tho force of demonstrations , by the force of the collection of great numbers , by uniting all the people of Ireland in one exhibition of feeling—that their object , of the repeal of the union , was to be accomplished , I am not making any comment on these proceedings . I am not sayiag whether they were lawful , whether they were wise , or whether tbey were just . I am only reeaUing to tho recollection of tho house facts which are already snowa , Toward ^ the end , however , of that course of agitation , and likewise towards tbe end of the life of Mr O'Oanuell , there broke away from the old Repeal Association a now party , which took a courso different both In Its objects and the . raeans by which they proposed to effect those objects . The object which Mr
O'Conaell and the Repeal Association bad held out to the people of Ireland was , that the Act of Union might he repealed—that a Parliament might sit in Ireland , csnstltuted of Lords and Commons , and that , as a Far Iiament had sat in Ireland from 1782 to 1800 , so , likewise , bythe repeal of tho union , another Parliament might be revived to leglslate for Ireland . Thoy also declared that they desired to attain that ' object only by peaceful agitation , Tbe new confederacy , by whatever name they were called , held forth their object at first somewhat covertly and ambiguously , but more openly as they pro . eeeded—< althoagh I think it was quite evident to any one who examined their language from the beginning , that their object was a total separation of Ireland from the
dominions of the Crewn , ( Hear , hear , ) They held , on certain lax conditions , a sort of allegiance to the Sovereign of this country , but their ' object evidently was that they should be totall y Independent ^ and that no counsels of the Sovere'gn of tub country were ot all to affect the ciurso of legislation or administration in Ireland . ( Hear , hear . ) Tbey pointed clearly , as I think , to tho separation of the two nation * , and to the Independence of Ire land under eosae other form of government ; for , whatever might be thought—whatever I for ono might think of the proposal | of the repeal of the legislative union , as tending to a dismemberment of the empire , that was a matter of reasoning , of argument , and of proof—the separation which these persons contended for was ob viaus in tho face of their proceedings and proposal * .
( Hear , hear . ) Likewise as to the means by which , tbey proposed to effect their object—those moans , from the beginning were distlnguished ' by tha application of the term ^ physical force , ' as opposed te' moral farce , ' which designated the mode of operation by tho old Repealers . By the term' physical force , ' they intended no less than refeeU ' on against the Crown of this kingdom . ( Hear . ) They thought by means of rebellion , if successful , to establish tho separate government at which they aimed . Whatever might bo the thin disguise assumed at , first an to their object , or as to the want of power of carrying -it into effvCtj a gre 9 * change has been produced , by the events which have taken place witbia the last few months . The misfortune which fell upon Ireland of . the blight in the potato crop , and the consequent want of
feed by millions of her people—the imperfections which naturally belong to any p lan of endeavouring by artificial means to feed those who are deprived-of their ordinary subslstence- ^ afforded to those who w » ra looking ' to the -separation of Ireland from this country tho means al fartherlne their objects , and of exciting the passions of the people against this country . Be it observed that , as far as I know , they never did anything to . assuage that calamity . ( Loud cries of * Hear . ') While £ 8 , 000 000 were lavishly poured into Ireland by the ' vote of' this house—while £ 400 , 000 were contributed by the volua ^ tary assistance of those in this country and Scotland , who could not bear to see their f ellow-oroatnres perishing —all that was contributed by theaa parties were seditions haraagues , inflammatory . appeals , to the paseions of the
people , and endeavours to misrepresent tho motives and amount of the contrlbutiona of this country . ( Cheers . ) When Ireland was . in some degree , and but very slowly , recovering from this great calamity—when the evils consequent upon it , although otlll very severe , were some what mitigated , there occurred an event in a neighbour , ing country , whioh has been productive ef ¦ encourage , ment to all who wish the overthrow ^ our Institutions ; to all who wish to promote rebellion ; to all who believe that the Throne and authority of this empire can be overthrown by revolt—1 allude to the event which occurred in Prance In the month of February last . We , cannot forget , thai immediately upon that ' event a deputation mi sunt over to Paris , comprising amongst H 3 numbers a member of this house , ( loud cries of' bear , hear , ' ) with
the view of asking assistance from a country which had just set tho example of revolution ; with the view of asking their assistance against the authority of this country . The attempt was unsuccessful , The government of that country , altheugh ' sprung out of a revolution , folt that its duties towards neighbouring countries were paramount , and refused to lend Us aid to tbeir designs , ( Loud cheers , ) Their projects , however , went on end there was little or no disguise any further at . tempted as to what they really intended . We may all remember that a newspaper was Set up , called the UtUTEB IbI'Hhah , to wboss arguments I will net call the attention of this house with any ' view to the author of the articles , because he is now suffering tha penalty of the offence which he committed ( hear , hear ) : but I call
tbe attention of the house io . the fact , booautd the sympathy which baa been exhibited towards him by this party In Ireland shews that they identify themselves witb the sentiments which were expressed by the author of those articles , and which were found in Ireland to be articles tending to the overthrow of the government of tbe country , and to the deposition of the Queen from her crown and dignity . ( Hoar . ) It is notorious that every kind of sympathy has been shown , and that every sort of indignation has been expressed that a person who had avowed such sentiments should haveib ' een punished . It has , been declared that he is one of the best patriots in Ireland , and that to far from deserving punishment he merited reward . Other pipers were subsequently set up which followed in the same steps , and I now hold in my
hand a newspaper called the Ieibu Felon , and so called because that individual was convicted of a felony ; I wish to read a passage from the writings of one person , a contributor to that ' paper , who signs himself ' James F . Lalor , 'in whioh I think willbefound the general spirit of the sentiments which have been expressed by these Confederates . The writer says : — ' We hold the present existing government of this island , end all existing rig hts of property ia our soil , to bo mere usurpation and tyranny , and to be null and void , as of moral effect ; and our purpose ia to aboUsh them utterly , or lose opr lives in the attempt . The rlght ' fouoded on eonquest , and affirmed by laws made by tho conquerors themselves , we regard as . no other than the right of a robber on a larger scale . " We owe no obedience to laws enacted by another nation without our assent , nor respect to assumed rights of property which are starvtafr and ester
mloating our people . The present salvation and future eeourirj of this country require that the English government should at once bo abolished , snd the English garxiion of . landlords instantly expelled , ' He goo ' s on to stats the means by which this is to . bs done : — ' We advise , ' he saya , ' the people to organise and arm at once in their own defeace . We mean te assist them aad to set an example by organising and arm | ng ourselves , * ( Loud cries of 'Hear , hear . ' ) Now , sir , I do think that ia these extracts is contained , in a few words , a true description of the object of this conspiracy , and of the mesns by which that object is to be effects * . It is declared at ones , first , that the Imperial Go-Ternmeat—notthoBnglUh Government ,. but the govern * meat whioh represents England , Scotland , and Irejap d—Is to bo utterly abolished . It proposes to take awe . / ( torn tha Queen alt author !* / overlrelsno , Jt ( pxopossf , at the same Mac , to abolish at once all riguii of
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property—save , indeed , that there is made a sort of menaoinjaalvo with respect to those who shall break their oaths of allegiance and join In a rebellion . Bat , with respect to the great body of those who hold property in Ireland , however acquired and however held , the threat is that they are to bo deprived of it , and those rights of property are to be utterl y abolished . ( Hear , hear ) I ' is proposed that the means for tffeoHrg this object Should ba by the people , arming themseWee , and being thus ready to enoojnter any . force which tho authorities may have at their disposal . Another article , written more recently , appeared ia the Katiok of Jul y the 3 rd of which I will state the general purport . The article U headed 'The Value of an Irish Harve » t ; ' ami it states that there is now growing on thelrUh 6 oilabout £ 8 0 , 000 , 000 worth of produce , and that it will be fer the Irish
Leaguccsnaietlng of a Council of Three Hundred , or tush other government as may be appointed , to consider in what manner that produce shall be apportionedwhat portion of it may be given as an indemnity to those who now hold rights of properly in that country ; what portion of it should be given to encourage industry and manufactures iu Ireland ; and what portion of it may be necessary for the purposes of government ; but evidently intending that none of the existing rights of property shall be acknowledged , but that the whole of tho produce of the Irish soil shall , by one sweeping act of confiscation , ho held hy nnd bo at the disposal of these masters of what the French have called the 'Red Republlo 'men who have no regard whatever to any of the existing rules of our social state , or to any of those purposes for which society ha « been fbuaded and is kept
togetherbat men who give to the mind and the appetite of those who are without property or character themselves a vision that the whole of that produce which has beea the fruit of regular industry , which has been the fruit of tke Institutions of society , which has been the fruit of property guarded . and of rights enforced by thoaa institutions , shall by one desolating measure he distributed aecordlng to the will and arbitrament of the rulers of that Rtpublic . ( Loud cheers . ) I think I need not quote farther to prove this faot . But there is one document more to whioh I will refer iu regard to Iho otjeote of these Confederates , because tboao objects are set forth in it evidently . for tho purpose of qoleting . alarm . I alludo to the resolutions peasedftt a meeting held in Dublin on the night of Saturday , 3 uly 15 , 161 s , It has been stated in Ireland , and by none mora earnestly than by tha
Roman Catholic cUrgy , that if ouch a Confederation as has been formed should succeed in its progress , there would bo an end to all tospeot for religion , and to nil regp-rd for what men have hitherto hold sacred , and that the rule of brute ff > rco would be established . In order to prevent the alarm which the doctrines bold b y these Confederates have naturally excited , there was a meeting of tho officers of what are called the Dublin Clubs held on Saturday night , July 15 , at which Mr John B , Dillon , described as the president of the Curran Club , took tbe chair . At that meeting the following resolutions wore moved by Mr William S , O'Brien , MP ., seconded by Mr Richard O'Gorman , president of the Oliver Bond Club , and adopted unanimonelj-: ' That the Bjstematio tffortsmade by writers ' in the pay of the British government to cause it to be believed that
the repeal dubs of Ireland are organised for purposes of pillage and massacre , and for tho overthrow of religion and social order , render it expedient that we should dofine the real objects of the club organisation ; be it therefore resolved and declared : —That the purposes and end of our organisation are the overthrow of the power of the British legislation in this island .-rThat while we are firmly resolved to abstain , in our political capacity , from any interference , in matters of a religions or sectarian chnreotor , we are not the less desirous that religion should be upheld and the legitimate influence of its ministers , maintained in its integrity . —That so far from desiring to overthrow social order , and to subject our country to universal anarchy , our first onxhty has been , and is , to secure the legislative independence of our country with the least possible in jury to anyelassof
its inhabitants ; and in the accomplishment of these our designs we hope to put an end for ever to the sufferings and the disorders which have never ceased to afflict our people under the sway of Britain . ' The house will see in this dieclalmer that they meant to associate for purposes of pillage and massacre ; that they do not dltgulse that their object is not to obtain a repeal of the union , but to overthrow altogether tho sway of the government which they are bouad to obey —( hear , hear );—and that nothing less than the dismemberment of tho empire would satisfy their wishes and aspirations . ( Hear , hear . ) So much then , I think , from tbeir own confession , may be taken as to vfaat is their object . You may believe with me or not , that in the accomplishment of that object they wonld necessarily overthrow the sway of religion , and the existence of property as it is new held in
Ireland ; but this you must believe , that it is a traitorous conspiracy intended to overthrow the government of tho united kingdom , and to put some new national authorlty , republican or otherwise , in its place , which is hereafttrto rule Ireland as a separate country . ( Hear , hear . ) . . ThatI say is the least—rating their objects at you will—that is the smallest end to which you can be . Heve them to aspire . ( Loud cheers . ) I come now , sir , to that which' I have stated would be the second propoel . tion which I should have to submit to' the housenamely , that there are formidable means preparing intended to produce rebellion , and which are only too likely to end in rebellion , against the authorities which now exist ! Sir , although there may be projects of the moat ipjarleuB and of tho most mischievous character ,
ye t if theso projects are entertained byafewpersonsonlyif they are entertained by some obscure club or insignificant association , such is the free constitution of tbe government of this country , whioh permits every kind-of opinion to be expressed , It would bo felt that we should be sacrificing the greater to the less if we were to interfere by means of nay extraordinary law . to crush an evil which was in itself small in amount , and which was not to be compared to the general advantage ond good arising from the , perfect liberty of opinion which every man in this country has a right to enjoy . But , although I believed for a time such was tho nature of these projects , and although I had hoped that such would have continued to be the case , yet I am sorry to say that all the accounts that wo have received frem Ireland have tended
to the conclusion that , the organisation proposed by theao Confederates Is formidable , * that It Is rapidly extending , and that in some parts of tie country they and the persons associated with those Confederates , are already ripe for rebellion , After the law was passed by this house , somewhere about the month of April , which gave the power of bringing before a court of justice for felony persons who were conspiring to depose the Sovereign , or to levy war ogainstthe Sovereign , and by which law a groat check was placed upon the " designs of conspirators in Ireland , a confederation was formed is the organisation of clubs , and It was determined to send missionaries into the country with a view of persuading persons In the great towns , and o-en in smaU towns and villages ; to adopt a similar Organisation . ' For a time thooe efforts did not succeed . The accounts we received
from the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland tended to induce us to believe that that organisation would not become immediately formidable . But very goon those accounts changed their character , and both tho Lord-Lleutcnant and the Lord Chancellor of Ireland , founding themselves upon what they saw in Dublin and upon the accounts received from the country , pronounced that the co ' nfe . deraoy of clubs was becoming organised , numerous and formidable . It is * however ,, ohitfly within the last month that these proceedings bave aespmed tbe character which I am about to detail to the house . In the first ' placa I will refer to a private letter which Lord Charendon directed to ray right hon . friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department , in the beginning of this month , ' ia respect to the then state of things , He stated that' A decision need not bo immediately come to
by her Majesty's government but I am afraid that before the Parliament is prorogued the government will hare to determine whether they shall ask for greater powers fromparllament or permit the organisation for an immediate civil war to remain unmolested . ' The accounts received , through the constabulary reports , at tbe same time , from different parts of Irelahu wore of an equally formidable character . On the 3 rd of July the following account was received from Tipperary : — 'There have been five confederate clubs formed at Carrlok . on . Suir ; they have about 600 members ia all . Ko parsons but members are admitted to their meetings , Their object seems to be to ascertain their strength , in case of insurrection . ' On the 0 th of July the following account was received from Meath : —* A meeting to form a Repeal Club was held at Trim onthe 2 ndinet . Messrs Daffy and
Dillon wore present and addressed the people , urged them to provide arms , and said they expected to see tho constabulary in the front rank of the Irish National Guard , ' Oa the 6 th of July the following was received from the county Louth : — 'The United Irishman Club met at Dandalk oa the 28 IK ult , , about fifty persons present , . The usual speeches were made . A Mr Boston eatd , be would endeavour to put the government down unless they put him down , and if he was transported there wore others to take his place . ' The'followtng was the account from Wexford ou the 7 th of Jnly : - * ' A meeting of tho Repeal Club was held at Breeon the 2 nd instant . Mr Whltty proposed several violent resolutions that none but men of good character be admitted , ' nor policeman to be , admitted > without a warrant . A Mr j Covin produced a pattern of a
cheap pike for poor persons , urged the people to arm and drill , and suggested modes of attack , die , ' 1 should gay that tho method pursued by these Confederates was in general to summon a meeting for some political object , to harangue that meeting in violent speeches , and Immediately afterwards to form en association or club which was to meet secretly . There clearly have been in all these instoniss in the first place , a meeting in which some speech , woa tnado of . a violent character ; but mes . tipgs then followed week after week , in . which no persons were admitted butthose who belonged to the . Confederation ; and if any person presented himself to be admitted , such as a policeman , for the purpose of ' giving information to tbe government , or who went ai a loyal
man te observe their proceedings , he was carefully excluded : The account received from Cork oa the' 7 th of July is thia : — . ' Thers are now about fifteen Confederate claba fermeJ , or in course of formation in this cit y , and probably about 3 j 0 ? 0 names , enrolled , in them there are few , if any respectable persons amosgit them ; someef these club ' s nave been open to the police visiting them ; at a few admission has been ' . refused , ' Another aocoant ' frera cork on the same day states that , « A meeting of Confederates took place ' at Skibbereen on the Sad "to enrol fi National'Suaia ^ 'the speakers ¦> advised . ' arming' and' organisation ; ; it waa stated ; -Mo srenjo ?! w « w enrolled , ' On the § th of * July tbe following seooant was weired from
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Wexford ; — 'A meeting of the EnniscajJthy club was held on the 3 rd last ., a man named Dwjle at > tended , bearing a pole , with a pike on it , The conatsbuiary were refused admission by a sentinel at the door who stated that be would only admit ihtm over his dead body ; tbey consequently could obtain ao information as to the proceedings of tho club . On the 10 th of July the report from Cork was this;— 'There are fifteen olube inC . rk ; their » ffective membera are , it is said , 4 , 0 C 9 » Mr Thomas F , Meagher recently attended a meeting ' of the otfifeersof tho different clubs ; he is about to pro . ceed to America on a mission of importance . The police applied it the following clubs for admission , tho first six . refused it : — 'Citizen , ' 'Mercantile Assistants , ' « Ar thur O'Connor , ' 'Robert Emmett , ' 'St Patrick ' s , ' 'LordEdward Fitzgerald , ' 'Wolf Tone , '
William Orr , ' and ' Felon Club ; ' in the three last there was no business doing . " Now , these names are to be remarked , as some of them are the names ef persons who wore conspicuous in the rebellion of 1798 , and they show clearly that the intention was to imitate the esampie of those times . Tho report from Cork on the 11 th of July runs thus;—' Great exertions aro made by the leaders Of tho oluts in Cork to template their organisation } themembers are well supplied » . ith firearms and pikes , the latter are readil y sold for Is . 3 d . each . From the reign of terror which prevails little information can be had . * Outhe 18 th of July an account U given of » meeting held at Croasbany , in the county of Cork , on the 2 nd inst ,, to form a Confederate club . They advised " tho people to arm and demand their rights , ' with a clean steel in the hand of ovary man '—not more then 150 per * sobs attended ; informations have been sworn to as to the
words used . " On the 14 th of July the Rev . Mr CooneyV Roman Catholic clergyman , addressed his cengre * gatlou at Mlnnane , ceunty of Cork , and urged strongly their joining a Confederate club , which Mr Luko J . Shea would form after mass . Mr Shea , who is a magistrate of tbe county , roon after addressed the people in the ehapel yard ; he urged them to join the olub , said he would not do so if it were not perfectly legal ; that each club should consist of 300 fighting men ; that the clubs all over the country ehobld bo in communication with each other , under those in Dahlia ; not more than twenty persons enrolled their names . ' I wish , now to state the occurrences which have taken place at Cork and Drogbeda slues the beginning of the present month . At Cork a meeting was h : ld , whioh was att . ' -nded bj all the clubs , < nho marched , or , as Mr Smith O'Briui terms it , 'walked' in regular order , and who af . ondt . d what h <> afterwards calls ' a review . ' There
was an inspection of the clubs ; and the report states that— ' As each club passed the president announced its nnme and all gave the ealuto , Mr O'Brien wetcnefl cautiously to see that ench man gave the salute ; and whenever a party fovgot to do so ko rebuked him , occasionally sftjing , 'Ju « fc touch your hnto as jou walk along , ' Tho St Patrick ' s Club hav . ' ag halted in front of him for a moment , he cried out , ' Do movo along , and when you meet the other club turn to the ease , ss 1 want to see what kind if men the patriots ot irel ' ind nre , ' On one of the cluba passing , he remarked oa the number of young boys in it , to which Town Conn * cillor Mullan replied , ' We are particular to enrol none under sixteen years of ago , and all these will bo found to come up to that . ' Mr O'Brien having disapproved of tbe order in which one club marched , one of the mem *
bers said , ' We want a little discipline yet , sir , but we are willing Co learn- ' To which Mr O'Brien said , ia as authoritativo tone , ' Keep up your places end be silsnti * A woman here rushed forward and exclaimed , ' Three cheers for the King of Munster ; ' to whioh Mr O'Brien replied , ' Not yet—not yet ; no shouting—ao shouting . ' Now , sir , it is to be remarked that there were after * wards meetings of the clubs at Drogbeda and at Dablin , and at both those meetings Mr Smith O'Brien adverted in bis speeches to what ho said had been called his review at Cork—stating that the numbers that attended the review was vary considerable ; that they were ready to arm themselves , and to appear whoa they were called for . Another event to whioh I wish to allude took place at Waterford . A Mr Meagher , who is one well known for having used language frequently exciting the
people to rebellion and insurrection , was arrested at Waterford on a charge of sedition . Several thousaad persona collected together wishing te rescue Mr Meagher , but he declared that it would be wasting the blood of the Irish people to attempt such a thing . The Roman Catholic Clergy , ! am bound to say , used all their ifferts to keep the peace , and Mr Meagher was con » veyed wlthoat resistance eut of the town of Waterford , There was sooa afterwards a meeting , which assembled on a mountain well known in the political history of Ireland , colled Slievenamon , which was attended some say by 10 , 000 , and others hy . 15 , 000 persons , to heur Mr Meagher , Mr Doheny , and others . When Mr Meagher returned to Waterford from that meeting , he was waited for by several thousand persons , who wished to give him a welcome , aud I have an account of what happened at
Waterford from a person with whom I hare poms ao » qualntance , whom I know perfectly well by refutation , and who is entirely trustworthy , as to the class of per . sons who were thus waiting to receive Mr Meagher . This gentleman says : — ' It being now ten o ' clock at night , and dark , I resolved to go to the end of the bridge , where many thousands were waiting . » * There were no politics spoken of , but that all the plans wera making to upset the authorities , eo that they xn & y hars the plunder . One fellow said , ' I am against plunder , ' * Well , and so am I , ' was the ans wer , * but it is not plun « der ; they once got it from us , and it must he oar turn now ' This , was tbe sola aad serious burden of then song-, and I hare no hesitation in saying that , unlejg government take Instant steps , although tbey will in the end get the better of these people , before that much
property and the lives of many respectable people will ba sacrificed , ' I can answer for the character of she gen « tlensan who wrote that letter , being o mas of experience ) both in civil life and in foreign war , and of as much con . rage and firmness as any ™ n who is in tbe service of Her Majesty , Tha state ot Waterford hat been described to me by other persons , and I have seen many letters from persons who either were in the neighbourhood " c , S the time , or who Went there immediately afterwords , some of those persons bains connected with the place by tha ties of property and family , and well acquainted with Its inhabitants and their political feelings , and what ia most likely to be the disposition 'o'f tne different classes ' of ( he people . The evidence of all theseperMus is . ta ' one and tho eame effect , namely , that although tho . per . sons of property and tke clergy , both Frotestast and
Roman Catholic , are decidedly against any outbreak , yet that np influence that is used by them will have any effect whatever in deterring many thousand persons of the younger men ef every class , but more especially of the farmer and peasant class , who are determined te rise iu Insurrection , ( Hear , hear , ) That , sir , is the evidence which I have received , supported , as I think it is , by all the publio accounts , and entirely believed by the Lord-Lieu tenact , who has himself seen aad conversed with some of those persons who were at Waterford , la , the town of Corrick-on-Sulr , also , there occurred that which , although it did not end in blood , is a most ae > naolng warning for the future . Three person * were or * rested in that town for what happened to be a bal !» b !» offence—ubt under the Felony Act , but arrested fe ; . oa > dltieus language and drilling , and for thai offence placed
lathe Bridewell of that town . An immense collection ef persons immediately assembled from all the couatry round . ' Various reports were spread ; some that a priest had been ' shot , seme that these men had been coju fined , as was the osae , and others that the insurrection had begun . But what has been seen and witnessed nag that the peasantry of the town and neighbourhood , a few armed with muskets , and many with rude pikes and eojthee , marched into tbe town with a most menacing aspect , and declared that tbe prisoners most beliberated . It was thought advisable , such being the state of things , and as the offence was bailable it could properly Be done , that the prisoners should be let out ou bail ; end whoa they appeared before the people the town , which had been in the hands of this multitude for some time , re * , gamed its usual appearance , and again became peaceably , !
But it was evident that if there had been cause to retain these perfbas in custody—that if the offence witb whlcn they were charged had been such " that they could not have been bailed—or if , for any other reason , the desires of that armed multitude could not be complied' , with , that blood would have been shed , and the bet ginning of the insurrection would have taken placs , ( Hear , hear , ) It is clear that there was not want * log the design , that there was [ not wanting the will , that there waa not wanting the Intention to reb $ l ( cheers ); bnt that all that was wanting was the paitt . culor . occasion—and that those who meant to rise being satisfied with what was done , and their object being completed , no rising took place . But no mas caa doubt that if matters bad been otherwise a commence , ment of tbe . insurrection would then and there have
taken place , ( Cheers . ) Sir , the accoaats from thee © various places are , that now and for sometime past the ' < Confederate clubs have been making great progress iQ > t forming associations which are in fact , secret societies * into which no person ie admitted who is not a BtmtNR f Ay ef these clubs ; that the general object which , is ' mt ?; out to them is , that they are to overturn-the- ' goWiJS ment ; that they are to procure arms for that p urpose } aad that nothing ie now wanting but the day and tha hour to be fixed by their leaders in order to carry into- < effect that fatal aad dreadful resolution , ( Hear , hear , J ' , In the beginning of a private letter which I , bare ro > ceived from the Lord-Lieutenant to-day , fee says : « . ' £ , hove nothing satisfactory to send job today . The accounts from the country are 'as had as they can He short . ! of open rebellion , and everybod ' Jr conc ' ara iarsajinfr ( net . ' the change in the feelings of the people wiiain the last '
week or ten days has been memos ! rapid and complete thing ever known even in Ireland , The . bad spirit ha * n now extended UseU to Tipperary ,. and the stipendiary' rl magistrate at Clonmel tells me there ia great alalia foi ? . -. that town . ' It is certainly to be stated , and that leads ' , ¦ ' me w the further part of that which I have to state to I the house—It is certain that that which ' two xnentht- ' sg 6 mi not formidable has become formidable now , ' " ' and that for 'the purposes" of insuweetionP It may bs , and I bellava'H will be , 'as the wriNrof tStfe - l letter from Waterford affirms , that in tbe event of as- " ! outbreakithese jesgons- > wlu , ib * putdowa in th «>* nfy i but that much bloodshed will take plac . 9 ;; thatoaaajf m Uvflswillbe sacrificed , Andwe should have toreprotsfeVp ourselves if we did not take suoh measures « j afo \ s * . , . *; ceoiary ia order to' prevent that outbreak from tajs ^ ny ~ ° plies , and prevent the ; ledderB ' of thaVergsniied ihsuiw rebtlon from 'tahlnir thu -finld'for theDurboso of cW **' kvavVAvu 4 mWm CfMV ¥ &* V «
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 29, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_29071848/page/7/
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