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rwrssoons formed a ! ocS the quay , and cat rff all 1 ^ nnicfltien from the streets that branch cff the " ^ to lfae north side of the city . A boat , manned § pVht sble seamen , was lying off the Light House , to which he vras immediately placed from the raTan w& two oar strokes placed him on board the Sfaner which immediately got under weigh , and *! rracleired theharbour . The following letter from Mr MitiheVs brothsr apeared this evening :-TO THE EDITOR 0 ? THE FEEEHAK .
Ssfsrdsy , Four o ' clock . —Sir , —I ask yonr permission * 9 Ikobb fact btf- 're the citizens of Dublin , Having , tVr 92 £ h & * assignee of a friend , obtained sn orderfor jjmittsnce inio Xewg&te to see my brother after settenee had been passed upon him , I went there at three o ' c lock spplied for admittance . I -was then toll tfcat I could not be allowed to £ 66 him to-day , bat that I fhouM call in the morning , I have just heard ({ our o ' clcci ) that te was fince carried off in the prison yEZ cn fcis war to Xbrfblk Island . I need say no more . ' ¥ H . H . MlICHEL .
The Etekisg Fseemas , published late on Satur-£ st evening , coatains the following account of the tosrtnre of MrMitekeh—Trecisely as the prison , clock struck four the convict . tsd drew up at the front entrance to Kewgate , and was Ijaneflisttly furrouEded by two squadrons of dragoons , gcder the command of Col . Maun « ell and Col . Gordon , la s few ruinates sn cfScizl , bearing the warrant of Mr jatDhirsrimoTfti , enured , the prison , and delivered tbe iime to the high sheriff . T ! ie counted pelice and ir sgoon ? , with drawn sabres , formed frnr deep round the T * n . The doorway having betn opeised , Inipector Selirood cave the word at the prison g « e ' all is Kifly . ' One of the tun keys then came forth with b bundle of clotfees , which were understood to be the coarict drus , and threw it into tha van . Precisely at £ irht cinntes pass four the gates were op ? ned , asd Mr
Jiitchel cime forth with a firm step and fi-m demeanor . He wore a brown frock coat , light waistcoat , -nd derk troosers , and had light glez-: d cap cpoa his head , the hair appearing to be closely car . His hind and rigl = t lsg were heavily manacled , and fastened to each other by a ponderous iron chaiti . Ha sast cce qaist , dignified glance about , and recognising S friead , who called oat « Mitchel , ' bowed and shoek hgnds with him . He was then assisted into the van , scconpanied by four or five inspsctors of palice . Tbe door was immediately banged to , and ihe cortege moTcd forrtaii at & double ( jnict trot np Bolton-itreet , and thence by the Circnlar-rosd to the North Wall , where the Sheerwater government steamer was l jing in readiness . Mr Mitchel having been placed oa board , the steamer set sail for Spike Island , as is supposed , from whence the mtrtjrsd Mitchel will be eonvtved to Sorfslk Island .
Spike island , where Mr Mitchel is now located , is a convict prison near Cove , recently established as a pencanent depot for persons sentenced to seven vears transportation , who are employed at stene breaking , 2 nd in rarioas avocations connected with toeexten-Eionof the buildings , and the improvement of the establishment . As Mr Mitchel ' s term of expatriation is fourteen years , he will remain for a short time only at Spike Island . He is in a bad > tate of health , froiH pulmonary affection . A subscription has bsen already set on foot for the TTife and children of Mr John Mitchel . The lady is a niece of Sir William Yerner , M . P . for the county of Armagh , and was married at tfae early age of fifteen years . AUhoBgh still youthful she is the mother of four children , the eldest of whom is nine years old . Among the contributors to the subscription are Mr R . O'Gorman , sen ., for £ 50 ; MrT . F . Meagher . £ 50 ; Mr W . O'Hara , £ 50 . Up to Friday night the sum collected amcunted to ncarlv £ 400 . *
SEIZURE A > D SUPPRESSION OF THE 'UNITED
IRISHMAN . ' At s few minuf e 3 to po 3 t honr a body of policemen , headed by se inepector , inarched up to the office of the Uhii ± : i ) IsisHHi . s and took possession of all tbe property and effects therein . The large quantities of tha paper m ? . de up in parcels for the provincial agents , as irell as the copies directed to the regular subscribers , were carried off by the police . This is regarded as a very arbitrary proceeding on the part of the authorities . Subsequently the property was replaced . It appears that Mr Mitchel , seme davs before his
conviction , had made a deed ef sale of hi 3 effects , and of the copyright of the United Ikishmax , to two leading members of tbe Confederation—Mr John Martin , of Longhorae , and the Rev . John Kenyrn , late parish priest of Templederry , both of whom , is is stated , intend to eoctinne the publication ef the journal ? ia tte eame spirit ia which it ba ? heretofore beea conducted . Mr Devin Rei . 'Jy , it is said , is also s part proprietor . On the production of this deed of sale , tie persons acting for the Crown suspended the execution of the sequestration ' .
STATE OF DUBLIN , The 'force' mastered strsrg on Friday night . About S 5 ven _ o ' clock , divisions marched from the different station-h 9 nses , and took up their positions in the precincts of Newgate . This attracted an nausual nntabar ol' idle boys , and elicited item them lond shouts . At length some stones were thrown , doubtless by some mischievous urchin , and one constable was cat under the eye , another on the forehead , and others hscl their tats broken . The police nsre ordered into rsrk , and to charge the street ? , vrhich they did several time- ? . In one of the charges Mr Drennan , Mr Divia Reiily , Mr William Mitchel , and Mr Irwin ( an elderly gentleman ) , who were returning from Kerigate after visiting Mr Mitchel , vrere knocked down . Mr Reilly received a blow of a baton on the arm , which hurt him considerably , and Mr Irwin got rather a severe cat on the back of his head . Mr Mitchel wa 3 also cut on the back of the
head , but not seriously . The three gentlemen were taken into the medical establishment of Mr Bnrke , of Capel-street , where they receired such attentiens as their cases required , and when their wonrds were dressed they proceeded to their homes . Thi 3 was the only casualty we heard of during the night . At twelve ' o ' clock the streets were perfectly tranquil . The police remained about Gre <> n-8 trset up to a late hour . There ware upwards of fifty constabulary and metropolitan police stationed inside Newgate , with a proportionate amount of anas and ammnnitisa . Tie council of the Irish Confederation met at D'Olier-Etreet imaediately after the verdict wa" ^ announced , and the several club 3 in connexion with that body held meetings during the evening , which were attended by tbe leading members of the Confederates . Mr Daffy , Mr Meagher , Mr DiiloD , Mr Pigott , < fc ; ., visited many of the clubs in succession , find addressed the Confederates on the re 3 ult of the day ' s proceedings .
Dueli . v , May 23 . —The overwhelming excitement created by the " extraordinary scenes enacted yesterday , unlike ordinary ebullitions of popular feeling , remains unabated ; and it would be but shirking the truth to conceal the fact that , beyond his own friecd 3 asd partisans , there prevailsno small amount of sympathy for Mr ilitcbel . The precautions taken yesterday to prevent sbv rash attempt at rescue rn the way to the place of embarkation were most effi ; tire and judicious . There was , however , some rioting at Seville-place , on the North Strand , where the police were assailed by a Eob . the chief leadera of which were wc-men . One amazon was conspicuous by her daring . She hurled EtoEEs and brickbats with " unerring aim at the heads
of the constabulary , cursing lustily the cowardice of the men of Dublin in leaving the figfatisg to toe women . All the efforts of the poliea to effect her captHre were useless , and she finally escaped in the crowd of combatants . One man had his head laid open by the stroke of a baton , and several of the ringleaders were taken prisoners ! Dcelis , Monday , May 29 . —There is EtiH an extreme degree of excitement amongst a large proportion of the popnlatiea , who look upon Mr Mitchel aB a patriot and a martyr . Many P » oman Catholics , too , are deeply discontented at what they consider a Eiijiit cast upon them in the mode of arranging ^ the juries in the state trials . I shall mention an incident illustrative of this feelins .
Chief Baron Pigot , himself a R ^ man Catholic , presided this day in the Nisi Prius Court . When a jury was about to be sworn , the first person called refused to ce sworn , on the gronna iaat He wa 3 hot qualified to discharge the duties of a jnror . ,. Chief Earon . —What , sir , is the ground of your diiqnslifiealion ? Juror . —I am a Roman Catholic . Chief Baron : —Iamnotaware that there is any disqualification in that . Juror . —Nor was I , my lord , until Friday last , when Catholics were excluded . Chief Baron , addressing tha officer : Sweir that gentleman en the jury . .
. , Tha oath was administered , and the juror took his place in the box . The two indictments against Mr Mitchel for sedition , ¦ which > ere to have been tried in thepieEent term , have , a 3 a matter of course , been abandoned by the Crown . Notices have been served upon the two juries which had been struck for the trial of those cases , intimaJiBg tbat their attendance will not be required . The Crown has yet taken no step for proceeding with new trials in tbe cases of Messrs Smith O'Brien and Mesgher ; but it is said they will bs tried in the
present terra . Tte United Ihi-hilsK BeffSpspeP IS extinct . It £ > peara that the Crown has fully carried out the sequestration Egaintt 'he property of Mr Mitchel , so tar as the printing materials are concerned . The enly goed 3 returned on Saturday were certain fixtsres claimed by the landlord of the house . As Mr Mitchel was registered proprietor , the Stamp-omce kss tte right to reject any other perssns seeking to * e ? ister themselves as his successors . But already a pewj-inrnal or rather the Usiied Ibieeman revived , ^ « -Qoupced : £ syou will perceive by tfae following e £ ' raorJinarv notification : —
THE UNITED IRISHHAS . TO TEE ? £ O ? H : OF ISELASD , 3 - * -e Hitchil is 8 captive in the hands of ear enemies . E i = oS .-e , types , and newsgapcr sEcbinerj tre ia the fcinds of the pojee—the Usitid Isishitan is st an end , tat , uadEr another name , we ere enxiously preparing to
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restore it ; and as sson as we can get together the neces : sary material of a newspaper , the Uhiied Ibishhak will aeain appear under the sovereign title , style , and dignity of the Ieieh FiiOM , to suBtain the principles , aad accomplish the intentions of the illu 3 trions man who i 9 taken from amongst as . In this case we but discharge our clear duty to our country , and to him . Subscribers to the United Isisbkak ehall bB Bnjpll = d with the IEISE PlLOK as soon as possible and am tims that may interrena shall be allowed them in the term of subscription . T . Devis Reillt , John Mabtin .
ARRIVAL OF JOHU MITCHEL AT SPIKE ISLAND . An extraordinary edition of the Cork Examiner published on Sunday evenine . containg the following — _ The vessel that brought John Mitchel to Spike arrived m the harbcur at an early houe to-day - ' and before it dropped its anchor , the martyr-patriot was landed on the island , and handed over to the custody of the governor . He was brcucht on Ehore , from the vessel , by two of the Dublin police , and two marines . Shortly after his arrival , Captain Atkins , of Water park , the inspector of the Penitentiary , gave orders that a separate room should be provided for him , and that he should not be interfered with for this day ; but that , on to-morrow , he would ba obliged to wear the convict dress , and be treated in all respects as an ordinary convict . '
REPEAL ASSOCIATION , Mat 29 . The weekly meeting of this holy was held this day in Conciliation Hall . The meeting was more crowded than on ordinary occasions , in the expectation that reference would be made by some of the speakers to the proceedings of the past week . MrBcRK . E ( barristerjhaving been called to thechair , proceeded to refer to the trial of Mr Mitchel . He declared that the loathsome Whigs—the loaded dice Whi £ S—( hisses )—hsd cast aside the mask , and proclaimed as practically as if they bad written it on the walls of the city , that they htd suspended the constitution . Mr Galwet , having chareed the government with jury packing , moved the following resolutions : — 1 . That in the late case of the Q leen v . John Mitchel , the jury selected to sit on tbe trial of the accused was packed , from the known political opponents of the prisoner .
2 . That , therefore , the verdict of that jury is no evidence of Mr Mitchel's guilt . 3 . That punishment baB ' . d upon that verdict is an ect of arbitrary power , and a blow struck , through tbe me dium of iary packing , at the HveB and liberties of
Irishmen . i . That , under the circumstances , it is the bounden duty of Ireland to adopt the family of Mr Mitchel as its own , and to provide fer their comfort and education , at the public expense , duriog the absence of that gentlernae from thi& country . 5 . That a copy of the foregoing resolutions be presented to Mrs Mitcbel , aecompanied by sn expression of sincere condolence oa the part ot' this association , ' Mr O'Coskell seconded the motion , and said , that on the following Monday , or that day fortnight , he
hoped he should be able to lay before the association a coarse of policy for its sdeption which woald be approved of by Mr William Smith O'Brien and all classes of Repealers . ( Hear , hear . ) The learned gentleman next attacked the government for convicting and transporting Mr Mitchel by a packed and partisan jury , and concluded by stating , that any Irish Roman Catholio sheuld spit in tbe Attorney * General's face if he dared to speak to them , as he had spat in all their faces when he excluded them from the jury-bos , and considered them unworthy of belief on their oaths . ( Cheers . )
One or two other speeches having been delivered , to the same purport , at fire o ' cleck the week ' s rent was stated to be £ 12 . New Reading of the Fel-kt Bill . —We have be « n informed that Mr Ilagh Magnire , who was arrested and committed te prison on the 17 th ult . for havirg in his possession a copy of Smith O'Brien's speech in thellonseof Conmons , and a espy of the National Guard Declaration , is still detained in Cavan gaol , notwithstanding that bail to any amount has been repeatedly offered for him . "We are
also informed , that since his confinement he has been treated a 3 a common felon ; that he has been obliged to submit to have his haircut , and to put on the felon ' s dresa . Had we not these facts npoa the best authority , wecouldnotbslievesogrossaaoutrpge would have-been ventured upon . The excuse which Mr Ilclmes , the stipendiary magistrate , has offered for not acccepting bail is . that the' Authorities' in the Castle are so occupied with other matters , that they have not had time to consider it , snd that until he receives their instructions , Mr Maguire must remain a prisoner , and be treated as a felon !—Natiok .
PROTESTANT REPEAL ASSOCIATION . Bcslix , Tuesday Btehihg . —A meeting o £ the Protestant Reptal Association was held this evening in the Music Hall , Abhey . street ; The ball and galleries were densely crowded . Dr Kcital was called to the chair . He said they were assembled that night to tell the government that they were desermined to repeal the disunion that had hitherto existed between the Catholic aDd the Protestant . ( Load cheers . ) They were not contented , and they onght EOt to he contented with the present state of the country . The minutes of proceeding at last meeting were read . About 800 members were admitted , including 100 Orangemen , making the total numbtr of members admitted 1 500 Several resolutions , denouncing the Union and the Esglish government , were adopted ,
Mr Ieelakh , barrister , delivered a lengthy and elequent speech . SpeaHrg of Mr Mitchel , he said , it was as palpable as the face of noon . day tbat that maa had not been tried , but prejudged—he had not been found gnilty , sentenced—( lond ehefers)—&Bd he ( Mr Ireland ) arraigned the whole proceedings as a judicial assassi . nation . ( Lond cheers . ) He calle 3 upon the Protetanta of Ireland to come forward and resent this Infernal and diabolical act of aggression en the liberties ef the country . ( Cheers . ) The meeting , on dispersing , cheered loudly for Mitchel .
MEETING AT BUNBOYNE . On Hon 3 sy evening a public dinner was held in Donbsyne , Afcoat 10 ? persons sat down to dinner . Many of those attended as deputations from the Confederate Clubs of Dablin ; but the majority of the company was composed of the sraall farmers and landholders of the district . Hr Simon E . Frazsr , ef Bue-iin , occupied the chair . Amongst tha speakers was Mr Doheny , from Dublin , who delivered a brilliant speech of which the heroism of poor Mitchel was the theme . Amongst the toasts were the fo ! lo * iag : — Tfae CBA . IBH&K . —I will now proceed to give the health of one of the bravest men that Ireland ever gars birth tc— 'the health of the martyred patriot , John Mitchel . ' { Lond and long continued chgering . )
The Chai&sias proposed the health of the Heroine , Harrlfiteoel / snd in doinp so detailed a scene , of which he was witness , in the prison of Newgate . Mrs Mitchel had visited her patriot husbaned—after some words cal . culsted to cheer his spiritB , she as if by inipiration ex . claimed , ' So matter , John , the day will come that thej Willpay for this ; if necessary , die / or Ireland . ' ( Loud cheering . ) It was unnecessary to say more to make the toast be received as it deserved . The entire company rose , and reeelred the toast with the most enthusiastic cheering . TEE MUOLillOS OF JOHN MITCHEL—APPEAL TO THE CHABIISN OP EX 8 IAKD—LAST ECBNEi OF IHE TRAGEDY—HEROISM OP THE « ABTTB AXD TERROB CO ? BI 3 BKCTiL E 5 EMIES . { From our oivn Correspondent . ) Dublin , 29 th May , l&S . The woof Is wove—the thread is spun .
Ay indeed ! To the ETERNAL INFAMY of England , and the ETERNAL DISGRACE of Ireland a braver and a better man than Wallace , or Washington , or Emmett , or Tell , ianow a holocaust to Saxon tyranny , and for loving his country , and pleading for his starving countrymen , John Mitchel is a chained convict , ploughing the ocean wave on his melancholy way to Norfolk Island . Chartists ! loTers of liberty ! honest Englishmen I What do you say to this ? Do you blush at your name of Briton ? , or do you spurn all sympathy—all connexion—all community of soalof thought , ef feeling , with those monstrous men who have again violated every law of liberty , and honourand justiceand humanity , that they might
, , be revenged of Ireland . Chartists ! BritonB ! will you reEt oh your oars , and , without a murmur , Eee the brave Mitohel banished from his native land for thinking and Eajing , ejen as you do yoursslves , 'that the blessings of liberty and equality are the right of all , and that the poor son of labour is as good and as valuable as the pampered child of luxury and wealth . BritonB ! Englishmen !—arouse yon . You were bsrn in a land , once great , gloiioua , and free ; you now 'Jive , and move , and have your being' under tbe crushing Bway of a corrupt and a vilianous government . Will you submit to it ? Are you satisfied at the fate of poor Mitohel ? Will
yau not hold council in your towns and villages , and tell your tvrants that they are MURDERERS , and deserve * the MURDERER'S doom ? Will you sot do this ? Tou ought to do it . John Mitchel wa 3 one of yourselves—not by birth , indeed , but in thought and feeling—in his aim and objects—in hia hopes , his yearnings—his struggles for right . He fell gloriously , eo donbt ; but still he is a victim . Do yoa feel that he deserved a nobler fate ? If you do , esy ea ; and let it not go forth that the honest people ef Erigland , even by silent implication , sanctioned the wroko put upon John Mitchel and Ireland :
I cannot write to day- My heart is full ; my eyes , as I think on what we are , and what we might be , aro suffused with tears . A week ago , we were slaves ; but we bad a hope within us , and a gaidinp stir before us . To-day that hope is crashed , and the glowing light of tuat bright particular star' is eciipsed perhaps gone down forever . Yet no ; even in the solitudcB of Norfolk Island , that Western luminary will shine resplendent !? , and the trai which it left here behind will irradiate that field on
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which" Mitchei ' s wrongs will be ~ ave nge , ~ the last game for Ireland played—played and won , or lost for ever ! ¦ • • The Dublin journals will furnish ample records of the trial and eoEviction of poor Mitchel . I need not , therefore , say much on this memorable eubject I do not mean to . say he had not a fair trial—yefc ] never heard a man speak ( and I have spoken with thousands of every creed and par y en the matter ) who did not agree that John Mitchel was a maityi t > corruption , and perjury , and injustice . Nobody is hardy enough to assert that he had any chance ol fair play . Every device—every stratagem was used
to ipsure a conviction . Not only was every Catholic juror in the Catholio city of Dublin struck t . ff unceremoniously from the ' chosen twelve ; ' but every Presbyterian -was similarly excluded , nnd every Protestant , too , from whom a fair , and honest , and impartial verdict could be expected . Those 'retained ' were men ' tit and proper'for thebuaineBs ! They were men , n 9 t of much respectability , but on them Lord Clarendon , and tha Attorney-General could depend—and their confidence was not misplaced . Their ' good men and trne' knew what was expected , and they performed their work to the entire satisfaction of their employers .
Last week will be long memorable in Ireland . It was a perilous , a trying time . Dublin was like a city oa the eve of an insurrection . But there was no chance of such a contingency , after all ! John Mitehel wa 3 let go as if he was the lowest pickpoeket or Btreet vagrant , and Ireland , far the pre ' sent , is more trampled , baaten , and bullied than ever . On Friday evening , Mitchel was pronounced ' Guilty . ' The streets about the Conrt-honse exhi bited a stirring , and yet a gloomy aspect . People knew he would be found guilty , and yet they could scarcely believe their ears when the fatal word ran through the crowdi It was then about six o'clock . The evening was soft , sunny , and delightful . Half the population of Dublin was crammed in the vicinity of Newgate . In tfapel-atreet alone thsre could not be Ies 3 than 80 . 000 persons thronged together . When tise aews ef Mitchel ' s being convicted was declared , the scene became terrific . The yells and hooting *
of the vast crowd showed their hatred to the government , as well as their sympathy for the 'felon . ' The large parties of police , Btationed at the various points about the Court-house , formed themselves into solid bodies , drew their batons , and prepared for conflict . A single lancer , with a leathern letter-pouch , might ba seen galloping from the Castle towards the different barracks , and in half an hoar 10 , 000 soldiers were under arms in this city . It was a moment of intense—nay , painful , anxiety . None could tell the moment when a body of pikemen wonld march lo Newgate , or when a blue rocket from Cork-hill would announce the presence of an insurgent host at the Castle walls . But all passed away . Next morning ' s Bun shone brightly on the British flag , and if a stray beam could penetrate the gratings of the cella of Newgate , it would find John Mitchel a fettered captive—a hopeless , yet not repining , slave .
Early on Saturday morning , the streets near Newgate were again alive with people . The police were still more offensive and insulting than on the preceding days . Everybody , not on ' particular busi ' ness' or friendly to the ' powers above , ' waa rudely thrnBt back from approaching the Court-house . Still the patience of the crowds did not desert them . Under a broiline sun , meni women , and children stood without flinching . At eleven o ' clock , the judgeB ( Baron Lefroy and Chief Justice Moore ) took their seats on the bench . John Mitchel was called forth . He stood there , fearless as ever , pale , sallow , and delicate looking , yet a scowl of defiance in his
fine eyes and undyinghostilliy fco the ! enemy , ' ' was imprinted on his haughty brow . It was a melancholy , yet a glorious , scene . There stood Ireland in the person of John Mitchel , and there sat England in the shape of a wigged and ermined judge . There stood the two hostile nations , after a struggle of seveH hundred years , fresh for the combat still—the one ruthless and rapacious aaever . the other abating not a jot of tfae stubborn , indomitable , undying spirit of hostility of her malignant rival . There they stoodbat again England was the victor—Ireland was crushed once more , and John Mitchel was santencad to
'FOURTEEN YEARS TRANSPORTATION BEYOND THE SEAS !!!' The scene now enacted in the court-house was never equalled before , and will never be forgotten in Ireland . Mitchel arose . His eyes flashed terribly on the quailing judges . ' Hear me , ' he cried , ' I am convicted by partisan judges , a perjured sheriff , and a corrupt jury . I do not regret the part I have acted . I defied the Lord Clarendon and the British government to drag me here . I knew they would do it . I knew the fate that awaited me , but I was prepared for it , and I do not regret it . But is the struggle over ? Is tha British government secure bow that I am immolated ? They are not . The fight is but b ? gun . The RoraaD hero who when his
hand vras burned to cinders , 'said , that three hundred others were prepared to take hie place , only spoke what I feel at this moment . I will go . But others will come , and I tell my foes that one , two , three , nay , three hundred better men are prepared to take my place to . morrow . ' As he uttered ( he latter word ? , the ' convict' looked into the eyes of his friends around the dock , and a scene ensued which beggars description . T . F . Meagher , Michael Doheny , and several others jumped forward with a wild cry , ' Yes , yes . ' they shouted , ' Bravo , Mitchel , yon spoke the truth . Here we swear to do as you did , and sell our lives in the struggle for the land's freedom . ' The judges trembled on the bench . ' Take that man from the bar , ' eried Baron Lefroy . The friends of the 'felon' ruahed forward to grasp
his hand . The police rushed to the rescue , thinking that the game was up , and that the ' rebellion' had commenced within the walls of Green-street Courthouse ! It was novr a terrific moment-. The bustle of the police _ in personal confliot with Mitchel's friends—the cries of the Sheriff and the Court house functionaries—the cheers of the Mitch ' eliies and the screams of the ladies in the galleries , formed a strange and appalling uproar . Baron Lefroy actually ran away trembling from the bench , whilst his brother judge grasped the railing as if he was about t 9 faint away . At last Mitehel was dragged , by a subterraneous passage , to his cell , and in a few moments the clanking of iron 3 told that the best and bravest oftkepreaent generation of Irishmen was a fettered captive !
In three hours after he was already shaven and equipped for conveyance to the transport waiting in Dablin harbonr . At four o ' clock he wa 3 placed in the' black caravan , ' and escorted by a few dragoons , driven rapidly through the city down to the north walJ , where two armed boat 3 were ' awaiting to convey him to the Shearwater frigate , lying in Halpin ' 9 Pool . On his arrival at the pier he was hurried en board one of those boats , from whence he wastraea . ferred to the transport , and within sight of his dear Dublis , poor Mitchel was sent ' below . ' Immediately the vessel sailed , the English flag fljing from her mast-head , and our hero was on his watery way to Norfolk Island .
It is gratifying to find that Irishmen have spirit enough still to do their duty to the bereaved family of poor Mitchel . Subscriptions to a eonBiderablo amount have been already effected , and it is expected that such a sum will be raised as will maintain Mrs Mitchel and her six little children , in that way to which they are entitled , until the period of the ' convict ' s ' slavery will have expired . Lord Cloncnrry , with his nsual generosity , has sent the muaificent subscription of one hundred pounds to thiB National Fund , through the hands of the Very Rev . Dr Spratt , of th . 9 Carmelite Convent , Whitefriars . It is hoped that few of the literal party of Ireland , whether of the Old or' Young Ireland' section , who can at all afford to assist in this good work , will refuse to
testify their gratitude to poor John Mitohel , and their abhorrence of the vile government to whose malignant schemes he is a martyr . 1 dare say the United Irishman will appear no more . Poor Mitchel had scarcely set his foot in the transport on last Saturday , when bis ofSce was entered by the myrmidons of the government and the printing materials , presses , books , &o ., belonging to fcho establishment sei 2 ed on foi the orov / fl . HU dwelling-houses too , at Rathmincs . and every penny * worth , clutched in like manner . AH is gone ! But Ireland will not see John Mitchel ' s family pine in poverty . Wealth shall be theirs . Alas ! Alas ! if gold could restore our hero from the irons of the Saxon , we soon should' look upon his face again . '
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Miss Smith won Mr Jones by her cuening . lie was a very timid young man , and very bashful , bo after two or three letters had passed bstween them , she wrote another , and the artful creature spelt her Christian name with two R ' s , bo that it read thus — 'Marry Ann Smith , ' and the poor creature took the hint and did marry Mary Ann Smith : Fortuke . —A certain philosopher was accustomed to say , ' The favours of fortune are like steep rocks , only eagles and creeping things mount the summit . ' Young Women are Bbautiful . — ' What i 3 it that comes after women ? ' It's the fellers , to be sure ; they are always arter the young women . '— ' That wilt do . '—American Paper .
Lamartineand Byron . —Lamartine was always an avowed admirer of Byron ; and when that great bard died , leaving hia' Childe Harold' incomplete , Lamartine resolved to write another canto , and Le Vernier Chant du Pderinage de Harold was favourably received by all lovers of the two poets—the great majority of readers in Europe . Caution to Gkls . —The young men fall on their knees before you ; but remember it is but as the infantry before cavalry , that they Kay conquer and kill ; or as the hunter , who , enly on bended knee , takes aims at his victim .
In consequence of tho disfrancbisement of 1 ' armoatb , b ^ which the 'Member ' s Plate'is lost , the races have been abandoned thi 3 year . paring the eighteen years of Louis Philippe ' s reign , fifty-seven journals were obliged to disooaiinue publication . Their write ™ and contributors frere sentenced , in the aggregate , to an imprisonment oi 3 , 141 years .
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THE TRENCH REPUBLIC . PROCEEDINGS 6 TtHE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY . The Assembly , was chiefly occupied on Thursday with the decree proposed by the" Executive Commission , defining the powers of the latter . It required , iirat , that its members should be exempted from sittinS ln ^ e Assembly ; and , secondly , that they should be entrusted with the entire safeguard of that body . The members of the Exeoutive Commission aignified their intention of resigning in a body if tbe decree were not adopted by the Assembly . It waa agreed that the attendance of the members of the Executive Commission in the Assembly should only be require d when explanations were to be demanded , and then on the express requisition of at least forty members , but that part of the project which entrusted the safeguard of tbe Assembly to the Executive Commision was rejected by precisely the same majority . The safety and freedom of the Assembly is entrusted to the president and queetors .
CONDITION CF THE LABOTJItBRS . On Friday the Assembly proceeded to dfscusa the j ° " i 5 j of a decree , brought forward by Citizen Wa ' .-deck Kou « 8 eau , to institute an jcquiry into the condition ot the labouring classes throughout the Republic Ihe committee had fully approved its principle , and resolved that Buck an inquiry should ba opened in every district under the presidency of the juetice of the peaoe , agaistcd by a commission , composed of an equal number of operatives and masters delegated by their respective classes . The oommission is to inquire into the number of operatives of both sexea engaged in every branch 9 \ industry , of the children under sixteen years of age , of the apprentices of both Bexes
employed in manufactures , &c , and mention their aee . the terras of their engagement ; the resources afforded by each district , the condition of its manufacturing establishments , the state of tho salaries ; the agreements usually entered into between the operatives and masters ; the average duration of the works annually ; the supposed cause ot the prosperity or deterioration of each branch of industry ; the ex'stence , condition , and reeults of associations , either among the operative ? , or tho operatives and masters ; the influence over private industry and labour of works executed in prisona , hospitals , &o . ; the means of increasing the production and insuring the progressive development of consumption : the
number of provident institutions in each district ; the state of instruction and of moral and professional education ; the condition df existence of the operatives , as respects their dwellings , food , and clothing ; the situation of the agricultural interests ; the works that might be undertaken with a view to afford em . ployreentto the unoccupied labourers . &c . The commissioners are to be appointed in the course of the week following the promulgation of the decree , the inquiry is to commence immediately afterwards , and ba terminated in a menth . In Paris the inquiry h to be carried on by the Committee of Labour of the National Assembly . The decree waB adopted , after a short discussion .
TRIAL BY JURT . The Minister of Justice next presented a project of a decree for the reorganisation of the jury . Hitherto , he said , none were admitted to form part of thejury , except electors and the class des capacites . The immense mass of French citizens were consequently excluded . The Executive Committee had directed him to Bubmit a decree to the Assembly , in virtue o f which all French citizens , thirty yeprs of age , were entitled to exercise the functions of jurymen , with the exception only of judicial officers , military men in active service , citizens who can neither road nor write , Borvants . bankrupts , in . dividuals condemned for robbery , swindling , abuse of confidence , < fec . Septuagenarians and labourers may , at their request , be exempted . The list of the jurymen is to be drawn up by the Mayors and posted up at the gates of the churches and municipalities . FEBPETUAL BANISHMENT OF THE OHIEAN 3 FAMILY .
The President next announced tint the Orleans Family Banishment Bill was the order of the day , It conBifated of the following articles : — ' The entrance of the territory of Franco and her colonies , interdicted for ever to the elder branch of the Bourbons , by the law of the lOih of April , 1 S 32 , is equally interdicted to Louis Philippe and his family . M . Vezin thought that tho discussion on the bill should be postponed until the result of the judicial inquiry , now proceeding , should be known . ( ' No , no , ' from several members on the left . )
M . Laurent was opposed to the enactment ef a law t > i perpetual and hereditary proscription , inasmuch as it was contrary to justice end the liberal spirit of modern democraoy , and to the principles he had at all times professed . He accoidingly moved that tbe decree bo thus modified : — ' The entrance of the territory of France and her colonies , Algeria included , shall be interdicted to the members of the two branches of the Bourbon family , until the pacification of France and the general aituatjon of Europe shall permit the cessation of that prohibition . ' M . d'ADEiswARD said that ho had heard the word reaction mentioned in the course of the discussion . The Assembly had witnessed the demagogical reaction ; where was the other ? He , however , confined himself to propose the suppression in the article of the words 'for ever . '
M . ViGUEBiB , who next rose , said , that the law repealing the banishment of the Bonaparte family was only temporary and conditional . Ilcre loud expostulations arose on all sides , and M . Jeromk Bonaparte having ascended the tribune , observed , that be felt the greatest reluctance to com 9 forward on such an occasion , but he could not help protesting against the expression 'temporary , ' used by M . Viguerte . ] So member of the Assembly should presume to say that one ot hia colleagues Eat in it only in virtue of a temporary right . M . ViorjBRTB having consented to withdraw the word' temporary . ' M . Jehoue Bonaparte deolared that he considered himself a mere citizen , like M . Viguerte , and like him amenable , if he conspired , to the laws of the country . ( Bravo . )
M . | Ducoux objected to the assimilation of the Bonaparte and Orleans families . The former , he said , represented the tradition of a glorious period of French history , and nothing eke . M . Ducoux then moved that the decree be voted in the form presented by the government . Tho discussion being closed , and none of the amendments supported , the president was preparing to put the decree to the vote , when fifty-two members demanded the division . The operation immediately commenced . The representatives who were
of opinion to adopt the measure left by the door on the right of the president , giving their name aa they passed to an officer of the house . The opponents , consisting of the Legitimists and members of the Bonaparte family , walked out by tho left door . M . Odillon Barrot , and about fifty or sixty others , abstained from voting . Daring the scrutiny , M . Lamartine , Arago , Mario , Garnier Pages , and Ledtu Rollin entered tho hall , and shortly afterwards M . Louis Blanc , who had absented himself for some days . The following was the result of the ballot ; —
Number of vptes ... 698 Absolute majority 345 For the banishment 632 Against it C 3 Majority —569 The decree was accordingly adopted , and the names of the voters were ordered to be printed in the MONITECR . The proceedings of the Assembly on Saturday wore not of general intereat , with the exception of the following . EMPLOYMENT ON THE LAND . M . MohtreuiIj , developed his motion relative to the expediency of applying a sum of 30 O , O 0 O , O 0 Ofr . to reclaim unproductive lands in France and to coloniee Algeria . M . Flocon , Minister of Commerco , informed the Assembly that a project nearly similar , but more complete , was preparing in his department , which would be Ehortly submitted to the Assembly .
After some further conversation , the proposition was taken into consideration and referred to different committees . Monday , May 29 . —Extraordinary precautions had been adopted for the protection of the Assembly , from an apprflhession that tha operatives about to be discharged from the national workhouses would make a demonstration . An immense force occupied the neighbourhood of the palace , and the thoroughfares were interrupted along the quays and in the adjoining streets , where a taw groups only were stationed , quietly discussing the questions at the order of the day .
At two o ' clock IH . Senard , vice-president , took the chair , and shortly afterwards M . Falloux wsb called to the tribune to present a report , of the Cemmittee of Labour on the National WorkhouseB . The committee had resolved to propose to the Assembly to substitute piece- ifork for the day-work , to opeji special credits in the Ministries of Public Works , Commerce aud Agriculture , and of the Interior , to construct and repair departmental roads , &c , and those operatives who had not resided more than three months in Paris , and were actually destitute of means of existence , should receive passports and be allowed travelling expenses to return to their families .
The Assembly then fixed the discussion of tha report for Tuesday . M . Bastide , Minister of Foreign Affairs , next ascended the tribune , and announced that Belgium and Spain had formally recognised tho French Republic . M . Taschereau followed , and addressed someque 3-tions to the Minister of Public Works , relative to the arrast of M , Emile Thomas , Director of the Nafciooal Workhouse . M . Treiat . the Minister of Publio Works , said that on the 12 th ult ., the day he was called to the ministry , he had applied to M . Emile Thomas fer the return of the number of tho operatives employed in those establishments . That dooument had been constantly promised him but he had never been able
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to obtain it . ¦ Finding it impossible to procure an official and exact return , ho had appointed a commit , tee to inquire into the matter , and M . Emiie Thomas having repeatetedly apprised him of his personal fears , and told him that heforesaw the moment ' when his services should be requited by ingratitude , violence and perhaps tha loss of life , he ( M : Trelat ) had thought proper to Bond him out of the way , and con . tided to him an honourable mission to the departments of the Gironde and the Landes . M , Taecheiieau , who followed , invited the minister to declare whether the measure adopted towards M . Thomas assailed his honour and character . ' The minister returning no reply , M . Taschereau observed that it was evident he wished to leave him exposed to an accusation derogatory to hia reputation . The Assembly afterwards passed to the order of the day .
The president here rose , and was preparing to read a letter addressed by Prince Louis Napoleon to the National Assembly , when criea of ' No , No ! , ' resounded on all sides . The Assembly , on being consulted , decided by an immense majority that the letter should not bs read . The discussion then opened on the project of a decree relative to the relations between the National Assembly and the Executive Committee . A lengthy and noisy discussion ensued , in which Ledru-RolliH took part , and was met with considerable opposition and interruption . The Assembly broke np in confusion . Tuesday , May 30 th . — This day the discussion opened on the project of the decree relative to the National Workhouses .
Mr Souvebie , the first speaker , called on the Assembly to adopt prompt and energetic measures for the _ protection of the operatives anxious to return to their work . M . Joaknot , who followed , recommended an intelligent re-organisation of tho National Workhouses , and opposed , as cruel and despotic , the expulsion from Paria of workmen who have not resided more than three months in the city , proposed by the Committee . M . Bbnoisi next read a speech in favour of the necessity of employing the operatives in fioWworks . M . Pelletibr , who followed , protested against the statement of M . Souverte respecting an alleged indisposition on the part of the operatives to resume tlieir work .
M . Thelet , Minister ol Public Works , said , that on the following day he would Bubnut to the Assembly a aeries of dills to enable the government to create labour on different points of the Republio , and thus afford employment to tho real epe « ratives . The Assembly afterwards voted , without any opposition , the four articles of the bill . A discussion on the bill regulating the relations between the Executive and the legislative powera occupied the remainder of the sitting .
ARRRST OF BLANQTJI . Blanqui was arrreBted at six o ' clock on Friday evening , at No . 14 , Rue Montholon , and taken to Vincennes . He had kept his pursuers at bay for the last twelve days , and it was supposed that he had at Jast contrived to escape to Belgium . Another important arrest has bsen made in the person of FJotte , who had hitherto escaped the vigilance of the police .
DKU : CRATIO BANQUET . We find the following in the Commerce : — ' It appears that a banquet is about to be given in honour of MM . Albert , Barbes , and their fellow prisoners . If we are rightly informed , this banquet was decided upon on Thursday evening . It is to take place at St Mande , not far from the fort of Vincennes . The tickets are to be 25 s . ( 5 aous ) each , and the guests are to content themselves with wine , bread , and cheese . The getters up of this manifestation reckon upon a gathering of about 150 , 000 gueats . On Monday tkere was a very formidable meeting , as to numbers , at the Port St Denis , and the humbler operatives had their pronvsed dinner at five aous a head , at Saint Maude . The speeches were of a very violent character . RE-OKGANISAIION OI THE 4 CLUB BAHBES . '
The ' Club Barbes , ' which had been closed since the 15 th ult ., was reopened on Thursday night , at eight o ' clock , in the Rue de Grenelle St Honors , in ihe presence of more than 300 members , and of se veral visitors in the galleries . The objects of the meeting were the reorganisation of the officers of the club , and the course to be adopted during the ensuing elections . The presidency of the club was awarded by acolaraation to Citizen Armand Barbes , and the honorary vice-presidency to Citizen Qesau , both prisoners at Vincennes . Citizen Laraieusaens was unanimously elected vice-president . The Club Populaire of tbe Sorbonne has opened a subscription for a sword of honour to Gen . Courtais , and inuited all the democratic clubs to follow its example . MUIS BLANC .
Some of papers state that the Procureur-General of the Republic ha 3 found such strong evidence against M . Louis Blanc , for participation in the affair of the 15 th of May , that he was about to demand authority from the Assembly te put him on his trial , but ho has been formally interdicted by the Executive government .
ME NEW CONSTITUTION . The committee of the . National Assembly on the constitution adopted two ' . important resolutions in its sitting of Saturday—viz ., it resolved that there should be a Binple president and a Bingle chamber , and tbat both should be elected by the universal suffrage of the nation . The committee is divided on the question as to the duration of the office of president and of the chambers . Some of the members wish to fix both at three years , while others think that , for the tranquillity of the country , the elections of both president and legislature should only take place once ia four years . There are a great number of important points not yet considered ; but still it is thought that the committee will be in a position to make its report to the Assembly by the end of June .
MYSTERIOUS AJF AIR . M . Emile Thomas , late direotor of the national workshops , was obliged to resign that post on Friday night last , and was sent off post for Bordeaux , in charge of—at least accompanied by—two police agents . His reported arrest created great excitement . The Mokiteur , and other organs of the government , assert that M . Thomas has merely gone to Bordeaux on a secret expedition . Publio rumour , supported by a letter written by M . Thomas himself , showa that the mission , if it exist all , is a forced one —that M . Thomas left Paris in the charge of gendarmes—that he was Rot allowed to communicate
with his family or friends—and tha ); ho was ignorant of the mission upon which he wa 3 sent . The affair is altogether a very mysterious oae . On Saturday and Sunday evening the working clasees were evidently in a state of great excitement . Immense crowds of them congregated in the neighbourhood of the portes St Martin and St Denis , at the Palais National ( Royal , ) and along the Boulevards . They discussed the affair of M . Thomas with great animation , and many of tbe orators delivered violent inveotlves against the government for their conduct to the maa whom they declared to be le pere dts ouvriers . The excitment was bo great that several battalions of troops and National Guards were kept under arms all night .
DISTURBED STATE OP PARIS . Paris , Monday , —The excitement which reigned yesterday evening in the quarticr St DeniB and St Martin seems to have been prolonged through a part of the night . A report was current this morning that two patrols of from twenty to twenty-five men each had been disarmed in the Rue St Denis and Rus St Martin , and that an officer had his epaulettes torn off . To da / every measure ib taken to ensure tranquillity from any interruption ; on all points of the capital considerable forces are stationed ; seven batalions of tho Garde Mobile under the orders of General Tempoureare posted in front of the Hotel de Ville . The workmen , brought back to sentiments o f peace and of submission to the authorities , have confined themselves to naming delegates , who are to proceed to the Assembly with a petition , but not accompanied by their comrades , and which petition they are to place in the hands of one of the representatives , who will be their organ before the Assembly .
During the whole of to-day the park of Monceaux has been crowded with the workmen . At Vincennes too there is a large assemblage . The Pkebse mentions amongst the alarming reports ciroulatsd in Paria , that the ' conspirators' were manufacturing twenty-four gun carriages in the Faubourg St Antoine to be mounted by cannon carrying eight pound shot . This story was seriously told in the lobbj of the National Assembly . The same paper states that a man was arrested in one of the galleries of the National Assembly on Men . day : On being searohed , firearms wore discovered on his person , ; and also , that M . Bade , who had been appointed Commandant of tho Cavalry ot the Garde Mobile , has been arrested . The night passed over without any outbreak . The agitation which pervaded all classes cannot be adequately described ; nothing like it has been witnessed since February , and it is even , in some re-Bpoots , more serious than at that period .
Some of the papers state that the celebrated George Sand has banished herself from Paris to avoid arrest . It is said that she was one of the deposxtanes of the secret of the attempt on the National Assembly on the 15 th of May .
_ . _ WONS . The Coukrikr de Lyons states that the municipality of the faubourg of that city called la Gaillptiere , has ordered the following changes to be made in the names of the Btreeta . The place Louis XVI ., arid threa streets which bore names of Malhesherbes , Tronchet , and de Seze , ace to be called places Robespierre , Rue Marat , Rue Saint Just and Rua'Barrere . The names of Crequi , Vendome , and Dugueselin , are to be replaced by ' tlie names of Danton , Henriot , ana Oouthon . In consequence of this deoiaioni ton mem tars of tbe council cave given in their wsignatior 8
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THE EUROPEAN REVOLUTION . GERMANY . OPEK 1 NO OP THE PRUSSIAN DIET . At noon on' the 22 nd ult ., his majesty the King o f Prussia opened in person the Assembly of States of the Prusaian Constitution , in the white hall of the Palace , THE NEW PRUSSIAN CONSTITUTION . The project of the new constitution , as submitted by the King to the Assembly , consists of seven chapters and eighty-four articles , of whioh the following are the principal ;— chap . 1 .
All the territories of tho Prussian monarchy in their present extension , with the exception of a portion of tha Grand Duchy of PoStn , for which aspeOlal reorganisation ia undar consideration , conBtitu ' o the Prussian domaias belonging to the German confederation . The confines of this territory can only be changed by a law . CHAP . II . —ON THK RIGHTS OF PBO 8 SIAN CITIZENS . All citizens are equal in tbo eyo of the law . Personal liberty of tbocir / zjn is guaranteed . No citizen can be arrested except in the form prescribed by law . Confiscation of property 1 b abolished . Private pro « pcrty can OHly be appropriated by the Btate when for the common weal , and at a just indemnification . Freedom of confession . Separation of civil rights from from religions confessions . Liberty of the press . Censorship is totally and eternally abolished .
Asjemblages of unarmed eitiz ^ ns for peaceiol discussion are allowed . The right of petitioning la open to all . The secrecy of letters 1 b Inviolable . In extraordinary oasea , such as war , cfcc , special laws are established ,
CHAJ > . HI . —THE KIKO . Tbe person of the King ig inviolable . His ministers are responsible . All the nets of the King require to be countersigned by one of the ministtrs to show their re . Bponaibllity . Tho exacutive power appertains to tho King alone . The King is eommaBdei ' -in-ohief of the army , and makes all tho appointments . The King has tho right of appointing all tho civil functionaries ' , o £ conferring titles of nobility and of distinction . The King has the right of convoking an : ? closing the chambers . The Crown ! s hereditary In Iho male brunch ac cording to the right of primogeniture and the ngnatic
. The King is of age at eighteen . CHAP , 17 , —THE MIVISTEES . The ministers can bo arraigned for neglect oi duty by tha second Chamber . They have a vote in each Chamber ; they may command the attention of the Chamber , Each Chamber may demand tho presence of the ministers .
CHAP , V , —THI ! CHAMBEBS . The legislative power is executed in common by the King and two Chambers . The consent of the King and the Chambers is requisite to every law . The first chamber congiHa of the princes of the royal house as soon ae they have attained their eighteenth year , and of , at most , sixty members who mnst h&ve reached their fortieth year , and have a yearly Income of not under eight thousand dollars : their seat is hereditary . The second Chamber Is to consist of 180 members . The members of the seoond Chamber are elected for four years . They msst have attained their thirtieth year . Ko one can be a member of both chambers . The Bittings of both chambers are public , CHAP , VI . —THE COUBT 3 OP JObiCiTUBB , The judges are appointed for their lifetime by the King .
CHAP . VII . —FINANCE . A bndgefc for the expenses and revenues of tha State for each coming year must b 8 presented be forehand . TheolauseB in the projected constitution respecting the throne and first chamber have excited great dissatisfaction . Copies of the Constitution were burnt by the people en the evening of the 23 rd alt . SOUTHERN . GERMANY . It appears that the lato disturbances at Mentz are for the present ended , though great animesity still prevails . In the sitting of the Constituent Assembly at Frankfcrt of the 23 rd ult . a detailed report of tho 3 e lamentable events was given to the Assembly by Mr Zitz , tho ultra-Radical member for Mentz . In conclusion he made a motion about putting a stop to military despotism , and ordering the Prussian troopa to evacuate the town and ! citadel . The Constituent Assembly declined dis ' cnsdng the motion , but voted a commission to be appointed to inquire into the facts of the case .
THE RUN-AWAY EMPER 1 R . On the 21 st ult ,, a manifesto to his people , signed ' Ferdinand , ' was posted in the streets of Innspruck , ( Tyrol ) , declaring that he'had sought refuge among them from anarchical faction , and in particular denouncing the Academical Legion of Vienna . Tho end of this no one can see , The Austrian empire is , to all appear&pce , going to pieces .
ITALY . HORRIBLE MASSACRE AT NAPLES BY THE TRO 0 P 3 AND THE liA . ZZAB . ONI . Lettera from Naples , of the 15 th ult ., state that a difference between tho King and the chamber led to a breaoh of the peace , in consequence of which tha troops were called out . The national guard immediately raised barricades in the streets , and a combat ensued . After a time the fightips became general , musketry and grape-shot being discharged . The popular party were overpowered and horribly massacred .
Ib appears that on Saturday , the 13 tb , in the morning , the deputies were assembled in the Salle de Monte Olivetto , in preparatory session , to modify the form of the oath to be taken at the opening of parliament . This oath waa in these terms ;— 'I swear fidelity to the King and the constitution of 29 th January . ' The deputies were opposed to thia form , because it was not in coasonance with the concessions of 3 rd April . Saturday snd Sunday passed in negotiations . In the evening , at eleven o ' clock , it was announced that the King would not modify the form . The deputies , to the number of eighty , met , declared themselves in permanence , and sent a deputation to the King to treat as to a modification . The King refused . The national guard went in great numbers to Monte Olivetto to persuade the deputies to persevere . About midnight , another deputation
was sent to the palace , when the King demanded time . A modification of tho oath was then proposed , in which a reservation of the rights conferred by the decree of the 3 rd of April should be made . The King pretended to accept this , but the chamber learned that the troops had , meanwhile , been ordered out , and , force being thus resorted to , all conciliation became impossible . Soon after midnight the national guard commeEced constructing barricades . At half-past one the g&nerale was beaten , &nd at two , the troops—infantry , cavalry , and artilleryissued from their barracks and occupied the Bpaoea around the palace , the castle , and the market . _ The King , being informed of the construction o £ the bari'icadeg , ordered the soldiers to withdraw , and consented to the parliament being opened without any oath ; the formality waa to have taken place with explanations oa the subject of the statute .
The national guard , however , refused to lower the barricades , except on the condition of the abolition of the Chamber of Peers , the surrender © f the fortresses and the removal of the troops from the capital * Hhis being deslined , the troops were again ordered out , and the squares of the palace and other places were covered with armed forces , including a great quantity of artillery . ' : At nine o ' clock , the Swiss troops were drawn out around the ca 3 tle . At half-past nine , there was an apparent movement to retreat , but about eleven o ' clock a musket was'discharged by accident , when the national guard , believing itself betrayed , com « menced firing .
The Swiss and the other troops then opened a murderous fire of musketry by battalions , and the artillery commenced a murderous discharge of grape ; the conflict , in fact , bao&nle general . At tho basirioades of San Fernando and San Bridgida the National Guards sustained a fire of musketry and artillery for three hours without yielding an inch of ground . On the corning&cecient , the lower orders seemed disposed to take the side of the National Guard , but being offered by the King and the troopa tho privilege of pillage they took the other side . Doors and gates of shops and private houses were soon forced , and a general pillage and massacre commenced to cries of ' Viva el Re ! ' The Bignal of attack waa given by three guns from the fort , when the red Sag was raised .
Unheard of atrocities were perpekatad by the Ia 2 « zaroBi and tbe troops . They rushed into the private houses , and massaored the inhabitants without distinction of age or sex , flinging the bodies of their victims from the windows . In one house were shot a father , mother , and four children . Other vicJima wero dragged alive through the streets to be butchered , struck as they went along , insulted by tha agents of tbe police and the soldiers , who compelleaj them to cry ' Viva el Re . ' When they refused they were pricked in the face by thq points OitllB bayonets . Tho royal guard murdered two 1 son * ol the Marquis Vassatori in his own palace : tho fatheg went stark mad . Tho palace waa Backed . Th 0 emissaries of Del Caretto , and according to BOmQ accountuDel Gftretfo himself , were employed m these acts of
goading on the rabbla to atwcMy . -Several persons known to entertam liberal © prnfonB were dragged from their houses and shot . ; The massacre continued for eight hours . ThetlOS « nitalswere filled with wounded . In one Swiss regiment alone there were 800 killed and wotradad , of which thirty wereofflcera . Government was proceeds ing to disarm the National Guard . l . The aspect oftheoity was deplorable . Jtseejaed to be converted into one vast tomb . The correspondents of the Freaoh journals day that the Trenoh admiral , Baudin ,. expressed , " jthe greatest indignation at the conduct of the KinWand announced that treaties and the law of nations bar * ing been violated by the Neapolitan government , he would give owe hour to stop the disorder and guarantee the inviolability of persons aad piepttnta
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