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THE BEPEAl MOVEMENT . 3 HR CLARE . DEMONSTRATION . TftiniB , Thursday night . * The people of dare this da ; made a ncbledemonstration in favour of national Independence , ' and ose ¦ worthy of their former achievements in the peaceful contest for tsvZ a * ** xeillgions freedom . The absurd preparations for defence adapted by the authorities in the capital are also / practised here . Glare Castle has also its double gnatds as -well as Dnblin Cas-Be . and its ramparts setter -with bayont&s . These
hostile dgmonstr&tiuns are not confined to the precincts of lbs fortress . A picket of four men keep sight }; watch sni ward at some distance from its trails , a precaution sot observed" sonee foe year 1798 . Three treops of Dragoons and some -infantry irere ordered here from iamerick ; but the recently appointed Lord IAentenanV of the county , Sir Imeras O Brien , -having pledged himself to preserve die peace , as he fcry safely might , withcut their introduction into the town , they had been ordered 10 remain at Newmarket , distant about aeven 2 & 3 e& £ n > iD Ensis .
The preparations for O * Connell ' s public entry were cormmenced on Monday , and up to this morning , "when they -were completed , "were carried on "with untiring ZsaL At the ratracce on all sides whole trees were planted , ¦ with triumphal arches across , having -various mottoes aufl devices , sueh as— " Sae the conquering hero cornea , " "Repeal 2 Repeal I ! Repeal ill" " Ireland for the Irish , and the Irish far Ireland , " ic . from elsren np to half-past one o ' clock the Roman Catholic clergymen of the county marched into town heading their respective parishioners , before whom hands played .
The place appointed for the meeting -was the new xaoesaurse of BaTyeoree , where a large and commodious platform was erected capable of containing at least 500 posons . ThB procession met the Liberator about halfpast twelve , and greeted him Tiitb such a hearty shout of-welcome as can only be given by the brave men of Clare . It then moved on slowly amid the enthusiastic acclamifioTiB of sonntleES thousands , and on passing Dromolsnd , the Bast of Sir L . O'Brien , Mr . O'Connell Oiled for Scree cheers for Mr . W . S . O'Brien , which were warmly and enthusiastically responded to . On itsarri-Tal in IBnniSj the scene was one of the most fiTr ?""* * " ^ description . " -
The procession havingpassed tlironghEnnis , proceeded to the racecourse , whence the rfrwaririg of the mighty multitude could he heard distinctly , although more than two miles diBtaut . £ 00 , 000 men marched before the Liberator of his country and the champion of her independence , on whose very breath he seemed to float in Ms progressi&roiigh the country . The first portion of the procession entered the racecourse at half-past two o'clock , and it was after four o'clock before the carri&jfe came in sight , and was able to make its way to the platform . > Ty _ . O'Connell hating ascended the platform , on the motion of Mr . H . Bridgtman , MJ * ., justice of the peace , the chair was taken by Mi Cornelius ' O'Brien .
The Rev . 3 dx . Sheesas , in proposing the first resolution , observed , ? at the battle of Trafalgar whan NelKm saw one of his admirals come on gallantly to the fight , and pour in Mb broadside on the enemy , he exclaimed with the pride of a -Briton and a hero , * See how nobly Collingwood bears down ; " and when they lsoked around them that d&yand saw how nobly O'Connell Iwrs down on the enemies of his country , they beheld him liie another Sampson hi the temple of the Dagon , palling down the pillars of the temple of corruption , monopoly , ana bad government , bat , more
the favourite of Heaven , and more fortunate than the Jewish Sampson , escapingnnhurt andtmiTijnred himself . —When Bonaparte got into a scrape with the council of 500 , one of his generals told him he had got into a pretty plight . 'Ho sutler , * said Boosparte , ' affairs were worse at &b battle of Arcola , when the horse of the first consul was precipitated into a morass , and the chief ef the army of Italy was about to fail alive into the hands of the Austrian Dragoons ; bat still I gained a-rictory that astounded Europe in despite of the horrors that thundered on me from the bridge of Arcola . '' So it was with them . Matters 'were bad iader thB
penal laws ; and yet in twenty-eight they succeeded in shivering them to atoms , and in hurling them into the daikheai whence they came—( cheers ) . It was said , that the Government wonld have recourse to the alternaliv * of civil war sooner than grant them their rights , cmd they would deluge the land with blood . Was the tragedy oiSculaboj ^ iesndT 3 negar-hill to be re-enacted , when the moan of the widow and the matron sounded more melancholy than the sighing of the night wind as it sweeps ovet file common ? - —( hear ) . They threatened them with another' 88 , ' and with exhibitions similar to those which gave a melancholy notoriety to that iatal year ; but , let ii be recollected , that it was the attempt to put down the voice of the people by fores that led to file war in America , find the capture of the British army at Saratoga *—fhe 3 T ) . : Mr . O'Cossell presented him **?? , and was received with the most enthusiastic cheering we ever Witnessed . "When silence was in some measure
tbatared , he addressed ¦ Qw vast assemblage . Men of Clare ( he Bald ] , "be 'had strm fox them ; -the Repeal was coming 3 they were on the very verge of carrying it , and it would not be long postponed . ( Cheers ) Clan hid spoken eat , and Inland once again should be Iree . jGheers . } The fvojes of Clare was heard again on the wild winds of heaven with the power of the storm and the force of lightning . ' Itspoxrerfn ] light already proclaimedliberty for old Ireland , and frightened "Wellington of Waterloo , and his confidant Peel , the Spuming Jenny . JCheers and Laughter ) Clare beat Wellington and knocked down Peel—^ cheers )—and laaghed at both for falling . tCheexs and laughter . They did that before , and he would say , that though he was not born in Clare $ he had claims upon it , for the hlooS of ^ his -family was shed among t ^^ and the remains of some interred in their county . He appealed to their worthy chairman if such was sot the fact . The CBXtsxxs . —Tea .
Mr . © "Gossbu . continued—Yes ; "the remains of Mb ancestors were in Clare , and General O'Connell , who commanded -a division of the Irish at JLughrim , who struck not , but remained firm to his post , and died for Ireland , was buried in Inaga in that county . His Irenes xeposed in their last lestang-plaee , hut the spirit which animated him was still living in his descendant { Great cheers . ) "We tread the land that bore ns , Our green £ ag flutters o ' er us—Th « fripr . rt * we have tried are by our side , And the foes we hate before us . " ( Loud cheers . )
Tea , the green foliage of Clare was spread oat before them . Peel and Wellington wera the foes which they hated , and were quailing beneath their Exertions ; their tenner was waving on the summit of the loftiest hill in Ireland , and 1 st him see the >» sm /» that would bring it down , iCneera . ) The foice with which thty contended fox emancipation was not one-tenth of fee power which was then displayed through the land . Within the last fortnight he had addressed 2 , 000 MOO of men—ch £ erfnl , healtby , chirping , determined , and peaceable men—myriads , whose arms slumbered with mere than : £ he giant's strength In the fable , and whose physical power was able to conquer Europe and Asia . ( Loud cheers . ) The magic -ef their might was intsisSHe , for there was one thing which made them sore cf
conquest—and that was tie fact , fiiat their force should never be used , to mm **! , —fer their-enemies should begin , y * t 3 t "would serve as a good defence . { Cheers . ) TheyTTonia not violate the law—they would not fxceed the bounds of peace or quiet , but let no man that ever txistedattack them ! Was there , he w » ul 4 ask , any man there who would join him on snch a day as that ? ( Tremendous cheering , which lasted for seveialminutes , ) They came there to know if Mehmsn were capable of governing themselves ; and was there , he asked , a man in that assembly who thought sn JfrigluthTnan better able to manage his bushie&s t ^» " he himself ? ( Cries of no , bo . ) They should pni themselves under his command ; they should become members of the Repeal Association , and arm themselves
with a card from that loyal body . On Monday last he got £ 652 is . id . at Mnrroe , is a valley at the foot of a beautiful cliff , in the county of limerick ; and , as the recruiting sergeant , when he ecHstea received a sMlling , so should they give one to enlist themselves under ihe loyal banner cf BepeaL iCneers . ) He would tell fhem-aat the momeat he had 3 , 000 , 000 of Repealers Ib wonld begin an > vtKrT carter ; and he m : gist as well then announce , that the principal impedijnenj which existed against emasdpatiDn , did not at all exist as regarded a Repeal ef the Union . { Hear , hear , and cheers . ; It was necessary for an English PsrEsment to pas * a law granting emancipation ; bitin ths case of Be > eal it was not necessary . The Hoa&e of Lords at Jhst threw it ont , bntthepccple gave a hffle chirp , and iX
was soon allowed to pas 3 without any very strenuous opposition . Tha Queen ' s prerogative could levive the Irish Parliameiit , as James I . did when he created forty-four boroughs in Ireland , giving saSnsea to twelve Protestanta , and Eanis was one of the bad Bargains . 4 a Isagh . ) Tne tisaehad arrived for Her asajeBty to order new writs for the Irish Parliament , and » s assured them he was not talking of imaginary things whenhe told them distinctly and tmphatically , that by tteaid « f the Queen ' s name , and-without any appeal toEarhameat , they eould ofeaina Bepeal of the TJnion . { Cheers . ) let Englishmen have England , let Scotchmen have Scofiand , let Frenchmen have France , and ajrasa t «» aMnl country , lfet Dutchmen have Holland , ^ aisles and Miches ; but the Irishmen should Jiave Ireland . ( Cheers . )
SHE DINKHR looiTilacefatlieeTenmg , in the Old Chapel of twi .. at winch upwards of 400 genaemen sat down toan f XT «> HBT » t -fnt ^ T *^^""** !^ About sevm o ' clock the guests arrived , and shortly after tSe chair iras taken Jy 3 fc Cornelius O'Brien JtP ^ jnsace of tte peaee . ThB asual toasts having been given , The Eev . Mr . SmET , parish priest , in speaking Jcr " aiePeopk | , ^ aid Ireland for the lrish , * "bh 8 erTed It was said the landlords tept away from ihe agitation . " Many , no donbt , did , and some there were who wished in doing so to retain ihui commisdocs , and ¦ t huii jqqrntgTjtft ffeA ^ Tifln ^ rifp of Tory magistrates Mi the l > mei ^ eh 8 ln , V Ai to Peel and Wellington saying
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ttcy wcu . a not K ^ peal the Uaion , they once made the same declaration as regarded Emancipation . In 1 S 26 Louth and Waterford set a noble example , and in 1828 Clare pat forth its strength , and victory was achieved—( cheers . ) He would say that O'Connell , in the present struggle , had the prelates of Ireland with him , to use the words of Dz . Higgins ; and he wonld invert the maxim—that those who were not against thsm were-with them . They had also dismissed magis trates who were supersedad by Sir Edward Sugden ; and if Mr . O'Connell had five of themlin Drogheda he
> st > ten in Ennls on that evening —( cheers . ) Those gentlemen were respected in the discharge of their ofEcisl duties at petty sessions ; and if they were driven from the magistracy there wonld be no warrants issued from the bench . ( Mr . O'Conhell and the entire company here rose and cheered most enthusiastically . ) The Liberator had 3 , 000 clergymen of the second order with him , save a pragmatical gentleman . he had forgotten at the other side of the water who wrote unread letters to Sir Robert PeeL Ha would , however , leave him where he found him , asd to the tender mercies of TsSlck Clear—( cheers . ) !
Mr . O'Conkbi / l — Send Mm to the Hong merchants . The Rev . Gentleman continued—The Liberator would see before he left Glare , that the people were in earnest . They would hand him £ 1 , 200 on the next morning . [ Mr . O'Gonnell here again rose , followed by the entire assembly , who received the announcement with the greatest cheenngO " O'Gonnell , and a speedy Repeal of the Legislative Union . " Mr . O'CosKEU rose , when the cheering and waving of handkerchiefs was continued for many minutes , at the conclusion of which h * said , —I am a proud man I own it I am a prond man—I never qualified it , — 1 never will deny it—( cheers ) . 1 maybe sneered at
for the declaration , but I ewn it—I am a very proud man . J am glad of this gradual growth of the great cause , until it has accumulated at length into so powerful and gigantic a shape , that in its " career it becomes lite the mighty avalanche of the Alpine Hills , small in its career as it left the Mountain top ^ increasing as it comas down , and bears with it every obstacle , until , overshooting all obstructions , it pours irresistibly forward , annihilating towns , villages , streams , and lakes , and alters the entire face of nature in one gigantic convulsion—( cheers . ) When I resumed the Repeal , after its suspension by the fact of an English House of Lords and an English Song mating promises and declarations which , like others , were only soade to be broken , I found a chill of suspicion existed throughout
the country even against myself . That chill prevented the swell of the Repeal cause . I laboured incessantly to convince those who doubted me that I was in earnest . I printed more letters , issued more declarations to the people , made more speeches , than ever I did in the course of my life before for five times that period—( load cries of "Hear , bear , hear . ° { I found the atmosphere warming by degrees ; a more genial glow arising in the public mind , a greater disposition to listen to my injunctions , a greater certainty increasing that there was no other remedy for national grievances ; some still thought that the Whigs might corns into power again , and that it might be necessary to make the last great movement for the establishment of a native Parliament , Many wise and good men
thought so , bnl at length they were all undeceived , bringing upon us many of them , with Sir Coleman O'Loghlen at their head , who joined our ranks—( Tremendous cheering . ) What hope had they from the Whigs ? For his own part , he knew not how they entertained the slightest expectation on that head . Sugden was guilty of using the grossest nneonstitntional language when he stated what purported , as he put it , te be the declaration of the Queen . Bat , after ail , di d not Lord Fortescne do worse when he was lord Lieutenant of Ireland?—( Hear , hear . ) Sugden struck directly home . The worthy little KnglinTiTnan did not dare to bellow in perron ; for had he done so he ; would have been doubly fit for a maihouse . —( cheera . ) He wonld really be the saddest of thB five Lord Chancellors—( Laughter .
Bat did you hear that Lord Fortescne , had the baseness not to mind the matter—to boost of it in the House of Lords ? . No , he did sot intimidate , bnt be songht to corrupt—he did sot intimidate—bnthe attempted to seduce the youth of Ireland— ( cheeny Lord Fortescue { said Mr . O Connell ) , yon have disgraced yourself ss an English gentleman ; and for my own [ part I prefer the downright Twry who did the job openly in the broad daylight , to the miserable , pitiful , sycophantic spirit which actuated yon in the conanct you pursued . Let him come back and attempt it at the Irish bar now . Oh , sacred memory of my beloved Michael O'Loghlen , your angel spirit looks down apon the opening hap * of your house , who , although bat in his 24 th year , has made for himself a place in history , and taken a niche amongst
the foremast patriots of Ireland!—( Tremendous cheering , which lasted for several : minutes . Yesl I fiing Whig and Tory from me with equal contempt —( Cheers . ) As to the Qnetn ' s declaration , somebody had the iriTi'foP "' to communicate to mealthough , mind , I dont say she knew it would be done —that Her Majesty made bo such declaration , and for which I am truly gratefuL He had it from her own lips , and I have it from him , who heard her declare in his presence that she never authorised Peel to make such a declaration . ( Loud and long-continued cheermg . ) I want to know now who is j the loyal man—Peel , who calumniated his amiable ] and lovely Sovereign , ox the agitator , Daniel O'Connell , who would die for her ? ( Cheers for some moments . ) On they so threatening as , and on comes a fnrions tirade in The Times . newspaper , which , as yon know , by its spirit of
virulent bigotry , inflamed the minds cf the English against the Irish people , their religion , and its ministers . By this means they succeeded in packing the present Parliament , and mMpng Her Majesty a [ state prisoner in her own palace . ( Cheers . ) The Times came oat on me and said war should be made immediately . I got the intelligence from Mallow , where I addressed 450 , 000 of my countrymen , who all heard what I said , because all listened with the most profound attention . Between that and dinner hour , I got the newspaper containing the threat , which I instantly met with my high and haughty defiance , as the man does' who is met by a miscreant and threatened to be plundered of his property . ( Cheers . ) Let me tell yon that the Ministry have been employed latterly in deep ; debates upon the state of Ireland ; that division reigns among them . I may venture to assure you that coercive measures will not be used .
A Toice . —They dare sot . Mt . G"Coh » eii . —I have received information on which I can implicitly rely , and from a quarter incapable ef being deceived , or deceiving me , that Peel ' s parly of conciliation hi the Cabinet have triumphed ; and an attempt will be new made to s * e how they can boy us off . ( Cheers and laughter . ) They want to coax as , and they shall succeed in doing so when they coax the birds on the buBhes . \ A laugh . ) He , however , firmly believed the determination he alluded to was adopted by the Cabinet , and he was quite prepared to meet it in
excellent food humour . If they Were prepared to sever the church from the state in Ireland , be should bemuch obliged sad delighted with the change . The Catholic Church had all the church livings and tithes in former times ; and when they were taken away net one Catholic went after them . No ; I * peak in hilarity . They must yield to thousands , and tens } of thousands , for the question is not at all like Emancipation , when the greatest aggregate meeting which conld be congregated would not fill this chapel . The Ijiah people don't mean to fight : bat nobody will fight them .
• A Toice . —Let them if they dare . 2 dr- O'COSSELL . —Ay , if they dare ; but a * long as I am allowed to guide the progress of the glorious cs . use , salon ? -will 1 keep the people within the strict letter of the law and tbe bounds of the constitution . The Chairman gavs ' -The Bight Rev . Dr . Kennedy and tht Roman Catholic Hierarchy of Ireland . " ( Tremendous cheers ) The Right Rev . Dr . Keskedt being loudly called on , rose and said , —Sir , J am firmly persuaded that there is not , evtn in Ireland , an unhappy people who have been , and still are , more cruelly ill-used than the moral , industrious , and most unoffending people of Clare . ( Hear , and cheers ) It would seem , indeed , from the cruelties whieh have been so long practised
upon them , . and of which thvy have bsen , in latter years , even m » re than -ever , the hapless yet unresisting victiins , as if their inhuman—shall 1 say their fiendish ? —persecutors were resolved to press their mercUesB exactions , asd to urge the murderous system of their extermination to the very utmost limits of tmman endnr&Ece . But let them beware . ' It onght not to be no soon forgotten that human endurance has its limits in Clare as well as elsewhere . Gentlemen , I agree fully with your illustrious guest , that nothing but the legal murders or assassinations perpetrated in Ireland throngh the instrumentality < f the ; cmel process of extermination ean account for the awful deficiency , amounting to over 700 , 000 human beings , in the ordinary increase of our population fropi 1831 to 1841 ,
when the last census was taken ; for we have not been visited , thank God ! wiihany other plague within that time to destroy our people ; and it is clear that Emigration alone cannot account for it . I must , therefore , a ^ ree with him , that thousands of our persecuted people sre , owing to the accursed process , annually wasted to premature graves by hunger , cold and disease ; and that the atrocious guilt of vengeance , is justly chargea ble to British hostile government and British hostile legislation , as well as to the acknowledged hard-heartedness and cruelty of Irish landlords . ( Hear , hear . ) Yes , Sir , it was that hostile Government and hostile Legislature , which , bound to protect ; th 6 people of this country from the vengeance and the rapaciousnesB of a set of men whom they well know to be the most heartless tyrants with whom a country wasever cursed ,
afforded to them notwithstanding every legal facility toxoband persecute and exterminatethem—( h * ar , and cheers ) . Men of Clare , hesi whatyour own countryman , ilir W . S . O'Brien , who is . an honour to your county , though he is not one of its representatives , has said in his excellent , bis manly , and patriotic letter to the Chancellor , when indignantly resigning into his hands his commission as a magistrate : — "Nor am I sorry to be relieved from the responsibility iof acting in any capacity ander a Government wMchi while it forbids the expression of national ! indignation , loses no opportunity of exciting well founded discontent" As to the practicability of the Rspeal ef the Legislative Union and of the re-establishment of a National Parliament in Ireland , I will only say , gentlemen , that if I did not firmly believe , that under the guidance of
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O'Gonnell t *»» y can be achieved without blood , without crime , and without the slightest prejudice to our allegiance to our Beloved Sovereign , you may rely on it , Ii would net be a party to the present agitation for their attainment , ] and I trust that you will be strictly guided by his wise and Christian counsels in your virtuous and patriotic struggle for its accomplishment —( Immense cheering for several minutea . ) The company shortly after separated .
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atrocious Fabrication . —The following appeared in the \ Muil of ThurmJay : — " In the Mail of Monday we gave ft circumstantial account of the murder of the Rev . James Lowrey Dicbsen , rector of Lavy , in the county of Cavan , alleged to have taken place by the band of a maniac , while in a state of furious excitement produced by intoxication . That excitement and the finding of the inquest we gave on the reputed authority of a person who represented himself in bis letter as the coroner of the county , and we inserted it without entertaining a doubt of its correctness ; fer we could not
have imagined depravity or baseness to exist to such an extent in the mind of any fiend as to induce him to invent so atrocious a story . The whole statement is a villainous fabrication : and fortunately , having preserved the origininal manuscript , which we have given to a near connexion of Mr . Dickson , by whom it will be forwarded to . the eountry by thiB night's post , we are not without hop © that the miscreant will yet be detected . With the view of increasing the chances of such a discovery , we hereby offer a reward of twenty pounds to any person who will afford evidence substantially establishing the guilt of the writer . "
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EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF INFANTICIDE AT CREWKEBNE . ( Abridged from Vie Sherborne and Yeovil ilercury . ) Considerable excitement has existed in the town of Crewkerne for some tinie past , in consequence of a rumour that prevailed 1 that a girl named Martha Clarke , who lived as servant to a Mr Alven , a person of | independent property , and the son of a former banker of the town , had been delivered by him of a child , of which he was jthe father , and which he had destroyed . So long ngo as the 19 th of May last the girl bad made disclosures which led to the apprehension of both prisoners , and aeveral investigations had
taken place before the magistrates , who from time to time . remanded the prisoners . On Sunday last , however , the body was found id the garden of the male prisoner , and an inquest was held on it the following day , when the jury found their verdict " that the body now found is the body of a human being , an infant , but how or by whom placed there is not known . " The prisoners , however , were aqain brought before the magistrates on Thursday last , when the case was folly gone into . High Symonds , constable of Crewkerne , examined . — 'From information 1 bad received , I made a search in Richard Alven's garden on Monday last , between eleven and twelve , and , moving the ground , I first turned some dung ; and iu the middle of the dang I found the remains of what I believed te be a
human body . There "was a hayband found round the body . On finding it I communicated with the parish officers . William Pattinger—On Sunday lost , the lltb inst ., I assisted Hugh Symonds iu making search in Mr . Alven ' s garden ; we found something there about a foot under the"surface ; it first appeared like dang . I desired SymondB to be careful with the spade , I saw him take up something ,. but I don't know what it wna , bat from wbat I have seen to-day , I think it was the head of a child . I fetched Mr . Bowdage , and saw him and Symonds take up -what we so found with two spades . I saw a band ; round the body , as I believe , composed partly of bay and straw . There was an appearance of blood about the band , and I stained my Sneers when I touched it .
Emanuel Bowdage— -I am a Burgeon . About a quarter before one on Sunday I was called upon by Pottinger , and in consequence went to Richard Alven ' s garden . My attention was directed to the body of an infant lying on its back ; the head was distinctly visible . SymondB and myself placed it on a board . The bonos of the head fell to pieces . I this morning have again examined the body . I found a band ronnd the body which la composed of btiy and straw . It was tbebody ofia full grown infant , much decomposed . From the appearance of the blood ; on the hay band , I believe it came from the body of the child , If the child had been stillborn , in my opinion there would have been no blood . In my judgment , and forming chat jndgroent from the state of decomposition , the child must have been born about five or six months since . The body was so decomposed , that I cannot Bay whether it was male or female .
Sarah Bulgin deposed , that iu the harvest time of last year she had observed that Martha Clarke looked large , aa if with child ; that she had joked her on the circumstances . She had afterwards remembered and observed to her that there was a great difference in her appearance . Mary Fowler , wife of Joseph Fowler , yeoman—I know Martha Clarke . She was a servant of Mr . Alven . On Sunday week before Christmas-day last , Miss Coles called on me . Miss Coles is a relation of Mr . Alven ' s , and lives in his bttiise . She said to me there were
strauge tales about Martha Clarke , and asked me to coine to , Mr . Alven ' s house to see if I thought she was in ] the family-way . I w «> nt to Mr . Alven ' s bouse about roar o'clock . About ao hour after I got there , I henrd Martha come into the passage , through the back door . Site pat something on the table , and I heard a noise as if she was pouring milk from a pail into a milk-pan . I af ierward 8 saw a pail on the table , and the milk . I then heard her go up staira j Bhortly after some one came to the door . Miss Coles called Martha to come down stairs several times . Martha said if any person wanted her th « y must come up to her . Miss Coles then went
up stairs , and aftervrarda came down again , and asked me to go up and see her . I then went up stairs and found Martha Clarke in bed there . She was sitting upright I asked ber how she was , and what was the matter 1 Sbesaid "I am poorly , but there is not much the matter . " She said , " Mary ; you know it has been reported a good deal about ma that I am in the familyway '' I said , " Yes , I have beard of it . " She said , " I assure you it is uo such thing . " She then took h » ld of » my band , and said , ' Nowfeel me . " I . then put my hand all over her stomach , and felt as it I thought she wasnotinthe fa « iil 3-w » y . , cousinand the
, Charlotte Coles , Mr . Alven ' s , manager of ibis house , corroborated the last witness's testimony , except with regard to some trivial points pf couversa turn . She deposed that fhe haS not wspeoted Martha Clarke of being In thefamUy way ; and although she had heard reporta " . to that effect , she had nos attaohedany " jElteabetii ^ rner , wifeof JohB Tamer , policeman . — My busband brought Martha Claris t » his house in custody on Friday , the 19 th of May . , She then , said she was not aware why f he was in custody , but she said my busband bad read the warrant to her . The following morning she was crying , and would not at first eat anything for breakfast . After breakfast she said , "If I am bad up to-day before a magistrate I will confess all about it . " I asked her what she meant , but I said nothing to induce her to make any statement She said either if she had had a child she knew nothing more about it , or she had bad a child , but knew nothing more of it , and added , "If I suffer Alvea shall also . " She
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then told me she had bean confined in the hay-loft , and Mr . Alven was with her ; that he saw she was ill in the morning and he mentioned it to ber , and said that he knew wlmt was th » matter with her . She told me she first went into the place where the cows were , and Mr , Alven came to her , and after a little while he told her she had better ) go into the hayloft That she believed it was about four o ' clock when she went there , and that about six o'clock , jthe child waa bora , that Alve : i assisted her in her I confinement . That she believed the child would have ( been living at this time if it had not been destroyed . That about a minute after the child was born , Alven told her to go down oat of the loft . That she weut dojwn where the cows were , and that Mr . Alven came down in about five minutes , and that
she took her clothes , and pinned them up before her , in order to prevent any running . Sh « said that she bad never Been the child , but bad left Alven in tbe loft with it ; that she knew nothing of what became of it afterwafda ; that Alven had milked the cow for her ; that she Stood there whilst he milked it , and afterwards earned in the milk herself , and went to bed . She also said , that to tbe beBt of ber knowledge and belief the child was born alive ; that Alven had never told her what ha bad dope with the child , and that she bad never seen it . She also said , that some time afterwards , when Alven ' s doe bad pupa , be made gruel for
it ; and that shejhad said to him that he had behaved kinder to his dag than to her . This being tbe [ case for tbe prosecution , the prisoner Alven was askadjif he had anything to address to the Court ? when he replied , " I am innocent of the charge , gentlemen . " Upon this the female prisoner instantly exclaimed , " He ] is not innocent , gentlemen . ' - ' It is impossible to describe the impression made in the court by this unexpected announcement , and it was . not for some time that siierce could be obtained . When order was restored , the prisoner said that she wished to tell everything , and proceeded to make the-following confession : — i
" I was delivered of a child , and the prisoner Alven took it from me . j He delivered me himself . It was on the Sunday before Christmas day last . He twisted a hayband and tied it round the child ' s neck , and hid it then amongst tije reeds . He never allowed me to see the child , and he said I never should see it ; and be never would tell j me whether it was a boy or a girl , because if no one saw it I should never blush if accused by any jone . As soon as I was delivered be told me to go down . I heard the child cry before and after I went down . I was in the hayloft about ten minutes after the child was bora ; and about ten minutes after I was confined I went down and'fetched the milking paill and brought it up to milk the cow . Alven carried the milk as far the kitchen door ; I took it up and carried it in and placed it un the table . I
then went ap stairs and went to bed . 1 saw Alven place the bayband round something and beard it cry . It wasmooniightjat the time , and there aro windows in tne place . When he was twisting the hayband bis back was towards me , and , after it was tied ha threw it among the reeds . I heard the child cry after I came down from the l < kt I left him there , and he returned about five minute ' s afterwards . I never heard tbe child after Alven came ! down . He sever told me where the child was . I ] suspected it was somewhere in the garden . The day after I was confined I went into tbe garden , and saw the ground had been removed , at the [ top of the garden , near the middle
walk , but I never examined the ground . I was in the stable at tbe time I was taken ia labour , and Alven told me to go up into the hayloft ; he said it was tbe best place . I never asked him what had become of the child . Mr . j Alven was the father of the child . He talked to me about my being with child ; be said he knew what was the matter with me ; he never mentioned that he should deliver me himself . * 1 hod provided the clojthing myself , and gave it to my sister to keep till I wanted it I purchased it myself ; Mr . Alven never suggested the getting any clothes for the child . I never left his service . That is all I have tossy . "
The whole of ] this was delivered with much simplicity of manner , and the prisoner , when questioned on particular portions of it , did not , in any instance , vary in her statement . It was afterwards signed by her . The magistrates then withdrew for a short time , and , on their return , commuted both prisoners fox trial at the next assizes , Alven as principal , and Clarke as accessary after the fact . Application was made to the magistrates to take bail far Alven ' s appearance , and bail to a large amount was offered ; but the magistrates refused to entertain it The prisoners were then boned , and shortly after conveyed to Wl ton GaoL
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Statesmen of Little Pabts . —That her Majesty does not mistake the capacity of the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel to act the parts of statesmen is obvious , from the use she put them to on Friday last , when she sent them to their respective houses with a communication on the subject of a pension for the Princess Augusta . However unequal they may be to sustain the principal characters in the political drama , they are thoroughly competent to the " delivery of messages . " —Punch .
Shefffield , Ia Corporation . —We find that the draft of the charter of incorporation for the borough of Sheffield was prepared at the last meeting of the Privy Council , held on Saturday last , June 10 th , and that it ; is to be immediately transmitted to the Secretary of State for the Home Department , to receive the Queen ' s warrant ; after which a short time only will jbe necessary to carry the charter through tbe Seals . All doubts , therefor ? , with regard to a municipal corporation for this borough are now removed . —Sheffield Iris .
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From tht London Gazette of Friday , June 16 . BANKRUPTS . George Chapman , Ayleabury , grocer , to surrender June 30 , at eleven , July 31 , at one , at the Bankrupts ' Court Solicitors , Messrs . Norton and Son , Novr-atreet , Bisbopsgato ; official assignee , Mr . Graham , Basinghallstreet Donald Black , John Alfred Gore , and Robert Taylor , Sambrook-court , merchants , June 24 , at eleven ; July 21 , at twelve , at the Bankrupts'Court Solicitors , Mr . Ashurst , Cheaps de ; and Messrs . Cooper and Wray , Manchester ; official assignee , Mr . Edwards , Frederick'splace , Old Jewry .
John Burton , Sheffield , batcher , June 27 , July 8 , at eleven , at the Bankrupts' District Court , Leeds . Solicitor , Mr . Kyalls , Sheffield ; official assignee , Mr . Fearne , Leeds . { James Stoodley , Bridport , Dorsetshire , twine manufacturer , June 23 , at one , July 12 , at twelve , at tbe Bankrupts' District Court , Exeter . Solisitor , Mr . Brace , Surrey-street : Mr . Stogdon , Exeter ; And Mr . Nicaoletts , Bridport ; official assignee , Mr . Hirtzsl , Exeter . j Thomas Lam pen , Devonport , linendraper , June 23 , atone , July 19 , | at twelve , at the Bankrupts' District Court , Exeter . Solicitors , Mr . Penkwlll , West-street , Finsbury-circus ; Mr . Stogdon , Exeter ; and Messrs . Beer and Bundle , Devonport ; official assignee , Mr . Hernaman , Exeter .
Edward Farmer , Wellington , Shropshire , grocer , June 30 , at half-jpast ten , July 19 , at one , at the Bankrupts' District Court , Birmingham . Solicitor , Mr , Marcy , Wellington ; official assignee , Mr . Christie , Birmingham . William HallJ Birmingham , shoemaker . June 30 , at half-past ten , July 1 . at eleven , at the Barkrupts ' District Court , Birmingham . Solicitors , Mr . Chaplin , Gtay ' s-inn-square ; and Mr . Harrison , Birmingham ; tffioial assignee , JMr . Valpy , Birmingham . George Leeson , Birmingham , factor , June 24 , at half-past twelve ^ - July 27 , at half-past eleven , at the Bankrupts' District Court , Birmingham . Solicitor , Mr . Lowe , Birmingham ; official assignee , Mr . BittlestonBirmingham .
, John Lloyd Dobson . Kidderminster , carpet manufacturer , Jjune 20 , at balf-paat twelve , July 25 , at twelve , at the Bauki-upt'lpistrict Caurt , Birmingham . Solicitor , Mr . Suckling , ( Birmingham ; official assignee , Mr . Valpy , Birmingham . « , . John Djnnelly , Liverpool , mercbant , Jane SO , at half-past twelve , ; July 28 , at eleven at the Bankrupts ' District Court , Liverpool . Solicitors , Messrs . Manfiham and Kennedy , CtkncetJ-k " ; and Mr . Ctanneryi Lvreipoo ! j official assignee , Mr . Bird , Liverpool . William Haakfos , King » wood , Glocestershire , grocer , June 30 , at one , truly ' 28 , at eleven , at the Bankrupts ' District Court , Bristol . Solicitors , Messrs . Clarfe , Medcslf , and Gray , j Lincoln ' s-inn ,-flelds ; and Mr . Hull , Bristol ; official assignee , Mr . Morgan , Bristol .
DIVIDENDS . July 7 , W . Payne , Hand-court , Holborn , victualler July 7 , T . and T . I Oriel , Poland-street , tailors . . July 7 , W . Young , Miiford Nursery , near Godalming , nurseryman . Joly 8 , H . Reynolds , Liverpool , druggist July 11 , G . B . Brown , Liverpool , commission merchant July 11 , T . M . Conkey and A . Howia , Linci 8 biro , < bleachers . July 4 , W . James , West Bromwich , Staffordshire , coal master . Certificates to be granted , unless cause be shown to the contrary on the day of meetirg .
July 7 , J . Reynolds , London-road , draper . July 11 , W . Paine , StonyJ Stratford , baker . July 11 , N . Wegg , East Greenwich , victualler . July 12 , C . Bunyard , Old Kent-road , ' grocer . July 7 , T . Herridge Upper Wharton-street , fcjlerkenwell , builder . July ll , F , Jenkyns and J . H . Hardyman , Love-lane , merchants . July fIl , N . Tuite , Liverpool , wholesale poulterer . July 10 , T . Brooke , Liverpool , victualler . Joly 10 , K . M'Leod and J . B . Wood , Liverpool , ship chandlers . July 11 , D . Bolton , Kingston-upon-Hull , corn merchant July 10 , J . Lewis | Fernblll , Shropshire , draper . certificates to be granted by tb « Comrt of R * vlcw , unless cause b « shown to the contrary on or before i July 7 .
B . Barnes , Newcastte-upon-Tyne , tanner . E . Thompson , East Gricatead , com dealer . E . Diekin , Longden , Shropshire , diaper , e . Harris , Dorking , tailor . S .
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Glyde , Sauthampton-row , and Yeovil , groeer . A . Lei * ton , Liverpool , merchant . H . Hughes , and W . Hubu St . Leonard ' a-on-Sea , builders . J . E . Pearson . sh » field , wine merchant W . and B , Cribbj H eart ? canal-basin , lucifer-niatch manufacturers . T . Jon * *" Glynn , Merionetahire , cattle salesman . S . Banks w ^ nesbury , Staffordshire , screw manufacturer . ' j V , Roberts , Old London-street , merchant H . Ued ) Leeds , oil merchant . " PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED . T . and C . Walker , Thornhill , Yorkshire , tanna , Macdonald , Milne , and Co ., Liverpool , and Pofl ^ fe Milne and Co ., Bombay , commission merchants . 8 t < 5 and Loxton , Liverpool , coal-merchants . Q . Wood bm J . Galloway , Leeds , canyaas-manufactarers . Sm j ^ Brothers , and Co ., York , grocers . I . Barber and p Waller , Sheffield , opticians . Fisher and Olleraaht * Liverpool , mat manufacturers . "" " •» ,
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From ihe Gazette of Tuesday , Jun ± ao . BANKRUPTS , James Watkins , draper , Exmouth-street , Clerk * well , to surrender , June 30 , at half . past twelve Atf * 1 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Solicitor Messrs . Mardon and Pritchard , Christ Church-cW bers , Newgate-street ; official assignee , Mr . Ahaa , " Birchin-Iane . ^*> Charles States , hotel keeper , Southampton , June 97 at half-past one , Jaly 28 , at twelve , at the Coart rf Bankruptcy , London . Solicitors , Messrjt Smith im Atkins , Serjeants Inn , London ; official assignee Ji PennelL ' ^' Frederick Marby , brewer , Peterborough , NdrtW ^ tonshire , June 27 , at balf-past one , August 1 , at eleten at the Court of Bankruptcy , London . Solicitors , Meta !' Meredith and Reeve , Lincoln ' s-inn ; Barley and ^ fa March ; official assignee , Mr . Green , Aldermanbaw
Charles Clark ,, baker , Tower-siteet , Westminjk . road , June 29 , at half-past one , July 31 , at t » 8 at tt Court , of Bankruptcy . Solicitor , Mr . Kins , ( j ^ T church-street ; official assignee , Mr . Tor ^ tiaoi om Jewry Chambers . *> via Samuel Napper , dealer , tTpper Stamford-street , ^ friara , July 4 , at half-past two , Jaly 28 , at one , jjZ Court of Bankruptcy . Solicitor , Mr . Burkitt , h ^ l wall ; official assignee , Mr . Edwards , Frederick ' s-flaa OldJewrF . . ipw , John Lavender Gray , tailor , Jermyn-street , S * James ' s , July 6 , at twelve , July 28 , at two , atthj Court of Bankruptcy . Solicitor , Mr . Whitakeri Fm nival ' s-inn ; official assignee , Mr . Groom , Abc&areh ! lane .
Richard Burton , wareboseinan , Wood-street , CW side , June 27 , at two , August 2 , at twelve , at \ t » Court of Bankruptcy . Solicitor , Mr . Goddsrd , Km street , Cheapside ; official assignee , Basinghall-atraet James Rowe , ironmonger , Marylebone , June 30 it eleven , August 2 , at one , at the Court of Bankruptcy Solicitor , Mt . Clipperton , Bedford-row ; official assig . ' nee , Mr . Lackington , Coleman-street-buildingB . Albinus Carter , Bhip broker Lower Thames-street City , June 30 , at twelve , August 2 , at two , » t t&i Court of Bankruptcy . Solicitors , Messrs . Sheiwood Peace , and Jones ; Tooley-atreet ; official assignee , Mr ' Johnson , Basingfaall-street . John Atkins , jeweller , Birmingham , June 29 , tf half-past twelve , August 9 , at eleven , at the Binning , ham District Ceurt Solicitors , Messrs . Colmon ahd Beal , Birmingham ; effisial assignee , Mr . Blttleston .
William Cook , worsted spinner , Bradford , Jons 30 July 21 , at eleven , at the Leeds District Court Soli citors , Tolson , Bradford ; Blackburn , Leeds ; official assignee , Mr . Young . George William Travis , joiner , Sheffield , Jnneao July 21 , at eleven , at the Leeds District Court Solid ! tors , Messrs . Smith and Wightman , Sheffield ; Sndlow Sons , and Tonr , Chancery-lane , London ; officialasfo ! nee , Mr . Freeman . R . Bonlton , builder , Leeds , June 30 , July 21 , at eleven , at the Leeds District Court of Bankraptcr . Solicitors , Mr . Bointon , Pickering , Yorkshire ; ' Messrs . Dunning and Stawman , Leeds ; official assignee Mr . Freeman . Robert Waddington , grocer , Boston , Yorkshire , Jnly 1 , 27 , at eleven , at the Leeds District Caurt of Bankruptcy . Solicitor , Mr . Sanderson , Leeds ; offioialasag nee , Mr . Hope , Leeds . «
Thomas Wood Daville , stag-scale-cutfcer , Sheffield , July l , 27 , at eleven , at the Leeds DlBtrict Cenrt . Solicitors , Mr . Unwin , Sheffield ; Mr . Blackburn , Leeds ; official assignee , Mr . Hope . John Frost , baker , Bristol , Jnly 6 , August 10 at the Bristol District Court Solicitor , Mr . Gringdon , Brij tol ; official assignee , Mr . Miller . John Harford and William Weaver Davieg , iron founders , Bristol , July 17 , Aaguat 14 , at eleven , it ths Bristol District Court Solicitors , Messrs . Cooke , and Son , ' Bristol : Clarke , Medcalf , and Gray , Lincoln ' s Inn-fields , London ; official assignee , Mr . Hatton . Thoma * Huxley , tailor , Tunstall , Staffordshire / June 6 , July 25 , at one , at the Birmingham District Court . Solicitors , Mr . Williams , Stoke-upon-Trent ; Mr . Smith , Birmingham ; official assignee , Mi . Valpy .
Jabn Lacon Bennett , druggist , Shmaall , Shropshire , June 30 , at half-past twelve , July 28 , at one , at ths Birmingham District Court . Solicitor , Mr . Bennett , Wolverhampton ; official assignee , Mr . Christie . Robert Price , coal dealer , Waterloo , Lancuhlre , July 5 , at twelve , August 2 , at eleven , at the Liverpool District Court . Solicitors , Mr . Morrow , Liverpool ; Mr . Whitebouse , Chancery-lane , London ; efficul assignee , Mr . Cszonove . Robert Brown , butcher , Sunderland , July 6 , at one , August 2 , at two , at the Newcastle-upon-Tone District Court . Solicitors , Mr . Barn Sunderland ; Messrs . Crosby and Compton , Church-court , Old Jewry ; official assignee , Mr . Baker .
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Liverpool Cattle Market , Monday , Jdnb . 19 . —We have had a large supply of Cattle at market to-dav , the greater part of which sold at high price ? . Beef 5 d to 6 d , Mutton 5 d to 5 id , Lamb 3 5 id to 6 | d per lb . Number of Cattle : —Beasts 1 , 006 Sheep and Lambs 9 , 219 . Liverpool Corn Masket , Mosdat , Jc » e 19 . — The imports of Grain , &c . since this day se'xmigbt are of very small amount . A week of very fide
trade dull . At Friday ' s market only a limited business was done in Wheat , and the few sales that occurred were at 2 d to 3 d per bushel below tbe quotations of Tuesday . Flour , too , was Is per sack and 6 d per barrel cheaper , and met a very languid demand . Oats were held for full prices ; few , however , were wanted , and we make no change in their value . Oatmeal barely supported previous rate 9 . Several parcels of grinding Barley bare found buyers for the country during the week at 3 s 3 d to 3 s 8 d per 601 ba ; more money 13 now asked for what rp . mains on the market . Beans and Peas are held
with more firmness . Manchester Cobn Market , Satubdat , Jvys 17 . —Since this day sa ' nnight there has been but little raia in this neig hbourhood , and during the past four days the weather has undergone a most favourable change , with every prospect of a continuance . The supplies of Flour , Oats , and Oatmeal , from Ireland continue liberal ; but of all other descriptions the imports thonce and coastwise are unimportant . of lat
The arrivals of Flour from the interior haw , e , been to-a fair extent , but not more than adequate to the demand for consumption . At our market tea morning a very inactive feeling prevailed , bnt ire do not make any change in the quotations of Wheat or Flour , the stocks of which are in buc limited compa ^ in factors hands , as well as in those of Aa tew * The inquiry for Oats and Beans was only on amoae " rate scale ; and Oatmeal , except of very supenor quality , met slow salo at rather lower rates .
London Coen Exchange , Monday , June HThe demand for all descriptions of English Wbeai was inactive , and the rates suffered an abafemeni ou those obtained on this day se ' nnienti . ° * from Is to 2 i per quarter . Fer free foreu ^ Wheat the rates were quite Is per < ffl * nf lower . Tha value of bonded parcels was almost nominal . Barley at previous rates . Good somu Malt sold freely ; other kinds at last vreers figures . The vaine of oats was freely sustaiaea . Beans and Peas at full quotations . In Flo" » ° alteration to notice .
London Shithfield Cattle Market , Mondat , June 19 . —The Beef trade was in a very depressea state , and we have not the slightest improvement to notice on Friday' 3 figures . The Mutton trade , generaily , was vsry dull , and the currencies wer e irom 2 d to 4 d per 8 b beueath these on this day f aiB # »' The saie for Lambs was in a very sluggish state , as a decline of from 2 d to 4 d per 8 ib . Veal , 4 d per » w lower . Pigs 2 d pet 81 b cheaper . The imports pi Btock have comprised two cows , at Hull , from J * 0 Jl terdam ; but we had none here to-day . Bokougii Hop Market . —The accounts from fte plantations being more favourable than oflate . cou siderable effect has been produced upon our « # »»¦ Although the supply of bops offering is by no mean * extensive , the demand is extremely inactive , " decline of from 2 i to 3 a par cwt ., while lower njoK »
are generally expected . , Borough and Spitalfields , —For the timeHJ year , a liberal supply of potatoes has beenjace ^ at the water-side , during the past week . The tw finest descriptions are selling at full prices , pa **" value of all other kinds has a downward tenaencj . Wool Market . —The public ; sales of wool ¦ Bg during the past week have been well . attenaeu . ^ buyers , and a fair portion submitted for oompe »^ has been sold at about tha previous salw «^ By private contract , a very moderate business » doing , -I I * W ... riTir Tho murW iantili ilnnvflSSfid . eSDCCliWV
on the Bpot ; and for the autumn the price 18 «*» . " ? which there is little business doing ; for sep » K * months , from August to Becomber , 42 s 6 d .. K advices received this morning from St . Pet ersW £ L are of the same tendency as the two or three P rflTI . jS poets , as to prices ; ' but there was a less qnaW j shipped off and sailed than at the same date last ye * Torn Talkw is 4 Qs 6 d net cash . s
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REPEAL MEETINGS—MILITARY MOVEMENTS . The limerick Chronicle , a Toiy paper , gfves the following Btriking description of the Repeal demonstration in Clare , on Thursday last : — " Frem an ares of more than 100 miles the peasantry gathered to } the rendezvous travelling day and night from every village and camlet of Glare , nay more , not only the coniineB , but more central parts of the counties of Limerick , Tipperary , Galway , and even King ' s CouEty , having crossed the Shannon in different parts for the purpose : bo that it is not Btrange under a combined and j simultaneous movement , there should be assembled { a mtiltitude of certainly not less than 150 , 000 persons , many of whom have not yet reached their homes , after being witnesses and actors in this unprecedented Repeal demonstration . Partisanship
will be eager enough ( 0 magnify the numbers present to one million , but the above calculation may be depended on ; and it is miracnlous how snch a vast meeting separated without accident or injury . There were about 6 , 000 horsemen on the ground , and the cavalcade of cars might Batisfy the large commissariat Btaff , having extended from Ennis to Newmarket , a distance of six miles . There were upwards of 1 * 0 Temperance bands in attendance , and the lion of the day was Mr . O'Connell ; but his voice , however familiar with maeses , ' could not be heard by more than half the concourse who surrounded the platform , in an area of several acres , the others being left to imagine what waBsaid by him and other speakers . Mr . O'Connell received , £ 1 . 200 Repeal rent at this gathering , with a promise of more .
Cusiotrs . — " We shall conclude trith a perfectly novel and BtrikiDg incident in the performances of tbe occasion , which was the presence of two Frenchmen of most respectable appearance , but like most ferelgners , ' naouBtached , ' and who held an earnest conversation with Mr . O'Connell on the platform . We have since ascertained their names to be , M . Lesbre , advocate of the Court . Royale , Paris , and M . Deasault , his companion . Tb , ey have never been seen in Limeriok or Clare before . * 'There was not a soldier or policeman in view or hearing of the immense Repeal assemblage at Ballycoree , the troop of the loth Hussars not being nearer than Ennis , and the 36 th and 81 st at Clare Castle . "
Limerick , Saturday . —Captain Bonbnm's troop , 10 th Hussars , returned to this garriBon yesterday morning from Eunis . Two companies ef the 36 ( h , under the command of Major de Lacy , returned from Clare Castle this day , to bead quarters . The military calculation of the numbers at the EnniB Repeal meeting ison the Race Course , 14 , 000 . About tbe roads and in Ennis—5 , 000 . The arms of all the staff of Militia Regiments in Ireland are to be deposited in the Ordnance Depots of their respective districts . Three military pensioners have been struck off tbe establishment in conseqaenoe of attending ft Repeal meeting *—iZimmct Chronicle . The military force at Skibbereen has been increased a > there ia to be a Repeal assemblage on the 22 nd there .
) The Beginning 6 f thb End . —The Tipperory Constitution of yesterday contains the following , under tbe head of " More News for the Government : "" On Tuesday , Captain Bradshaw ' s men , when out in Golden district collecting county rates , were regularly hunted on making a seizure . There could not have been less than 1 , 000 persons collected on tbe surrounding hills . ( Several of the persons who paid cautioned the collector not to come again , as the Repeal would certainly come before Christmas . " And again , tbe same paper thus announces the progress of a " passive resistance 1 movement : "— "The Magistrates in Tipperary haviDg some time ainee granted warrants for recovery of poor-rates in that onion , the collector put aeveral in force , the parties allowing tbe stock to be
impounded without resistance , and then lodging security ' in money' with the pound-kdeper for their forthcoming on Ihe day of sale . The sales were to have taken place on Wednesday , Thursday , and Friday last . Notices were in the meantime posted through the country , calling on the people to assembla in Tipperary on those days , and particularly on Thursday , the holy day , to make a passive resistance demonstration ; in consequence of ' which the Magistrates deemed it advisable to make application to Lord Downea for an additional force , and accordingly two troops ef Hussars and an additional company of Infantry arrived in Tipperary on Tuesday , but whether it was the message said to be
sent by O'Connell , or that the bidders were actually in attendance , or the fur caps and hairy faces of the Hussars prepared for the tournament , so it was those passive props of good order considered it more prudent to pay the rate , and all expenses on the aeveral morning ' iLof sale . There were also in attendance upwards of 1000 police , under tbe direction of Messrs . M'Leod and Knaresborongh . Much credit is due to tbe Magistrates and some members of the Board of Guardians , for the arrangements made and the determination to effoct sales , as otherwise this ' preface' to resistance against the recovery of all legal demands would have become an established precedent "
PoMEWii Doubtful . —The Berry Standard says , " We have beaxd , on authority en which we feel disposed to place reliance , that the Government intend to apprehend O'Connell , and have him tried for hiph treason , and that their object in filling the country with troops is to preserve tbe peaoe when such aa occurrence may ; take place . " The Morning Herald , the only Ministerial organ amongst the Morning Daily Pret >« , appends the word " fudge" to this announcement " Who ' s the Tkaiior ?"—The following strange observations are siade by the Tippermry Free Press . the southern organ of Repeal : — " Nothing can arrest the Repeal movement but the treachery or timidity of the leaders . We will not suspect them of one or the other , wejdenot believe them capable of either . The
man who pauses now or turns one step aside , or compromises one jot of nationality , is a coward or a traitor . The question of Repeal is distinct from any measure of reform—it does not consist of parts—it cannot be made up of patches ; the Independence of the Irish Legislature must be unequivocal , unconditional , and fully * recognized , or the condition of Ireland will be worse than subjection ; This struggle can only terminate in national glory or in a national grave . We see no middle ground . If the Repealers ate not honest , open-hearted , daring patriots , they are sneaking pedlars , trafficking in dishonest ware . It is said , indeed , that some brace or two of lords having nerved np their hearts to a certain point in national oonrage , the great current of the pub } ic blood shonid cool down to a befitting temperature in order to bave the honour of circulating through them . These men are cautiouB , because they want the
virtue to speak out ; they are temperate , because they have not the conrage 10 be honest ; and they are steady , because they have not tbe ken to see which way honour leads . We hope their gloomy counsel shall turn no cloud on this the sonny morning of Ireland . Some t » lk thereiia of fedaraliBm . We do not understand the phrase , nor "wish to do so . If it mean Irish Independence , either mediate or immediate , it is a deception on those who join the nationalists in its name ; and if it means less than' such independence it is treachery to those who' would consent to struggle only for that '' Now , it should be borne in mind , that Mr . Connell himself , at ths close of his celebrated speech in the corporation , unequivocally declared that he would be satisfied with a federal Parliament Does the Free Press mean to attribnte ' deception" and " treachery ' to the Hon . and Learned Gentleman ?
Ominous . —Mr . G Connell has promised to hold a Repeal meeting in Waterford , on the 12 th of July , the anniversary of the battle of Aughrim . Search FOR Arms . —Tbe Belfast Chronicle contains the following announcement : — " It . is said that it is not an uncommon practice to convey fire-arms clandestinely into some parts of the country , concealed in cefnus made for the purpose . We understand that orders have been issued to tbe magistracy and police to be vigilant in detecting this and other unlawful moats of conveying arms into the interior . "
That the authorities do suspect that arms are surreptitiously obtained by the peasantry is quite manifest from tbe following rather ludicrous result of police vigilance which is reported in both the Limerick papers : —V On Sunday last , two poor countrymen and a woman were proceeding along the Crescent to their neighbourhood of Patrickswell , with a coffin in a car , in vrhich to lay in its last resting-place the body of a relative who died the previous day , when , to their astonishment and dismay , two policemen stopped them .
and demanded to see wbat the coffin contained . In vain the poor creatures protested against so gross an outrege- ^ -ih vain they assured these worthy officers of the law that it only contained a few necessaries for the " wake . ** All would not do—opened the coffin should be , and opened it was , when they discovered to their hoiror , —no * bnllets , powder , and implements of war , — but candles , tobacco , and snuff ! Having made this notable discovery , the policemen retired evidently disconcetted , ! and the poor people were allowed to proceed on their way home . "
Efpecis op the Repeal Agitation . —The Limerick Chronicle remarks— " Since the Repeal agitation has become so hot , a greater stagnation of business in every branch of trade was never known in Limerick , and the shopkeepers complain universally of it , ascribing it truly to the political exdtement and apprehension which' occupies every mind at present The utmost difficulty is found in the collection of rents . " Captain ; Henry Cooper's company , 4 fith Regiment , arrived in Cork garrison bom Spike Island , on Monday . Part of the baggage of tbe 2 nd ( Queen ' s ) Dragoons arrived in Cork on Saturday , per Jupiter steamer , from Dnblin . . . ; The first division of the Queen ' s Bays arrived in this garrison on Wednesday from Feraoy .
All the troops in garrison attended their various places of worship on Sunday under arms . — Cork Constitution .
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M& . THOMAS 3 TARKE 7 , AND THE DEFENCE * FUND .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir—I have seen in the Stars of May 27 th and June 10 th , an attempt by Mr . Starkey , of Stoke , to shew that he f has bsen neglected by the Chartist public in tbe hour of need , while suffering for the Chartist cause ; and that he has a right to some compensation fur the losses he has sustained , and apparently feels aggrieved that you do not boldly assist him in hia appeal . Ftarlng that some persons may believe , from Mr Starkey ' s appeal that he has not had justice done to him by the managing committee of the Defeuce Fund at the late Special Commission at Stafford , whereat Mr . Starkey was tried , and as I was one of that committee , and happen to know something of Mr . Starfcey ' a affairs , I deem it to be my duty to explain tbe matter .
When Mr . O'Connor remitted to me the £ 50 for the defence of the victims , I immediately proceeded to the npmination of a committee of management . This being accomplished we proceeded to examine the ground we occupied . In so doing we discovered that , according to our calculation ( the cases being so many ) we could not do more than fee counsel , unless we received more funds from other sources . With this view we passed a resolution that all persons on trial should support their own witnesses . This rule was strictly adhered to , and in no instance broken . True , one person borrowed a sovereign of | me with an understanding that it Bhould be refunded the next day but one ; but it has not yet been refunded ; and if it be not fortheomine soon , I shall be under tha
unpleas&ntuecessityofrUBUCLY appealing for it . ThisI must do in common justice to those parties who were refused support for witnesses . Therefore , whatever Mr . Starkey ' B expenses may have bean for witnesses ( and I believe they were great . ' , the defence committee could do nothing for him . And I further add , that should compensation be made to Mr . Starkey , it will open tbe floodgates for such a sweeping appeal for compensation as has never been ht ard of in the history of Chartism . I would , like to see ALL injured persons compensated . But can it be done ? Can we now support the families of those in comfort who are in durance ? Let Mr . Starkie , therefore , take comfort that he is at liberty !
With regard to bis law expenses , I am only sorry that Mr . S . never applied for our assistance . Had he bnve done so , he would have received all the assistance that could possibly have been rendered from myself , the committee , and Mr . Roberts , whose exertions on behalf of the victims were herculean . I will only add , that had the committee undertaken to support witnesses , one thousand pounds would not hajve served their purpose . To obviate , therefore , the great expense that parties were subjected to by public accommodation , I threw open my own house to make a home for them . And the compensation I received was the
loss , of a month a work , with danger of loosiDg isy employment , debts contracted to the amount of several pounds , to serve them ; and when I asked for the money to pay them off , I was abused for not paying myself out of the surplus funds , instead of refunding them to Mr . O'Connor . ; And I have not , even jet , received anything towardB " compensation , " unless it be the esteem of a few , I shall ever delight to serve . I am , Mr Editor , & friend to even-handed justice ; and Unless we all be so , we shall make poor regenerators of our poor , bleeding , and prestrate country . Wm . Pbplow . Friai-stret , Stafford , June 11 , 1843 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 24, 1843, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct807/page/6/
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