The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUB JAN. 211.
A crowded and influential meeting LI
ofN, the protes-
tant, of Dublin was held yesterday, in the round
nom of the Rotunda, for the purpose of adopting al
series of evolutions and a petition against the con-
tinuance of a parliamentary grant to Maynooth Col-
lege. Shortly after 11 o'clock, on the motion of the
Venerable Archdeacon Magee, seconded by Mr.
J. 11. Lecky, the chair was taken by Edward
Grogan, Esti., one of the City representatives. The
following resolutions and a petition to parliament
were adopted:

Resolved—That we hold that the British State has for
its first daty the maintruanee of truth end liberty, and
that, la the fulfilment of this duty, it will be, under Ood,
Ware against the assaults of foreign or domestic foes; but
that to comproatitc its performance, ill the hope of conei-
Rating its opponents, is a policy unprincipled and suicidal.
That justice demands that the professed principle, of the
realm should be acted on with integrity and honour ; but
that it is inconsistent with religion and remon, that the
State should at once prof,is principles, and legislate in
defiance of them. That protcst.int principle calls for the
toleration, by the State, of all varieties of religious opinion,
but forbids the inculcation, at the public expense, of prin-
ciples which it pronounce* hostile to truth, liberty, the
welfare of the people, and its own existence. That the
State suppirt of Maynooth is indefensible upon any grounds
of truth or prudence; that it has been miwhievous in its
effects, and is likely to end in ruin to the eionire ; and that
the following addreis to the Queen, and petitions to both
houses of the legislature, fur the repeal of all laws for its
support, be adopted:
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The
.trunilel banquet took place last evening at
Limerick, but like the omission of the part of Ham-
let in the play, it lust its chief eclat by the absence
of the guest of the night, himself, who, as his friend
Mr. Monsen explained, was detained in London by
illness so severe that he was unable even to write an
apology. His lordship was expected, however, up
to the latest moment, and Mr. Ntonsell stated that
it was only an hour before the dinner that he re-
ceived a letter from lady Arundel communicating
the fact of the earl's very severe indisposition. Thu
absence of the guest did. not, however, prevent the
necessary quantity of talk to constitute a great Irish
political banquet, and the Free iiiii is of this morning
has contrived by the aid of expresses to till some ten
of its columns with the mess-dings. Thu chair was
taken bv the Mayor of Limerick.

The speciai commission issued for the trial of pri-
soners charted with agrarian (limes in the county of
Monaghan was opened yesterday with the usual fur
totalities the judges (Chief Justices Blaekburr. and
Monaghan) were eittorted by parties of the Ist Dra-
goon Guards and the 31st Regiment, eighteen extra
carriages with troops and constabulary having been
attached to the train by which their lordships went
down from Dublin. The grind jury having been
sworn, the chief justice proceeded to address them.
He said

IS WAS unfortunately too true that a large portion of
that and of the two adjoining coanties of Louth and Ar-
magh were pervaded by a mischievous— • moat mischie-
mats aseociation. There could he no doubt that, in these
tounties nbisoniven for that was the name by which it
was known—pervaded in these districts in all its horrors,
and with all its terros. They were aware that, on
the present ememless, they would not ho called upon
to di.poo.• of any cam except such it. might be selected by
Rey Majesty for trial. lie w u informed that there were
some few ewes which might be sent before them as partak-
Jag in sonar degree of that character of disaffection and in-
sub irilinatiou to the law winch hal led to the issue of the
eial commissioo, and which unfortunately chameterised
the country. But there was one CAW which would most
undoubtedly be submitted to them —a case which, taking
into ronsiderviort all the eireurnstamas attending it, was
one of the my gravest importance. There would come
two persons before them charges' with oho murder of the
late Mr. 'Chorea. Bate son.

His lordship having detailed the circumstances of
this moist abominable murder, proceeded as follows:
Whether •he murder.-r- of Mr. liateton were actuated by
private and in linden hatred, or whether they were the
official awns intrusted to carry out the sentence of death
pronounced by the Ribbon Society, it was not just sow perhaps
a matter upon which it was very important to be informed.
But there was one thing elem. These man, however situ-
atea h, . never would hare perpetrated te offence--nay,
would never Inv attempted to pet Means it—at the time,
in the place, and miler the circumstances it was effected,
unbar, they were reared of that protection, end that sup-
port, and that connivance in crime which the ribbon
society assures to all criminals, no matter how atrocious the
offence which they perpetrate. Tht re was no doubt to his
mind that this particuLir crime was committed by parties
who trusted for safety to that organisation. Let them ob-
serve the eircumstasees under which it took place. It took
place on the public highway—in the broad daylight, within
a short distaace of a populous village, at a place where
people were passing and repassinr every minute, coming
to the town, and going to and from the fields—and yet
there was no hand lifted, no voice raised, no effort
made to suture the mord, errs. There was no man in his
senses who would believe th it such an attempt would be
made, that such a crime would be perpetrated, unless the
perpetrators were prevent-1y assured of the protection mid
support of the people amidst whom it occurred. It unto,-
tuuately happened that they were, in the present case, right
in their calculations, to a certain extent; for, notwithstand-
ing the plea:. the time, the circumstances, there waa no as-
sistance given to prevent or expose the murderous deed.
The 1.11.1t14 walked off securely; and it did nut appear
that the slightest anistioice was given by the people in
following out the track of the murderers. if there was no
other fact or circumstance but that one, it would be sell-
eient to show, clear as evidence could make it, the existent.e
of a wide-spread system of crime and intimidation. In the
simple statement which ho (the learned judge) had made of
the simple facts of this outrage, there was abundant evidence
of this fact—abundant evidence to satisfy any one of the ex-
istence of this terrible hody to which he had alluded. It was
$ body that had followed the example, and formed Waif es
the model of several others of the same kind which had
ceded it, and which he was quite wife in stating had
to be the severest scourge of Ireland. He did verily=
that if the bitter.vt em our of Ireland was to be calla wpm
to devise some scheme by which the . the pewee,
the happiness of Ireland might be asset menred
and destroyed, that enemy could set sere
form his mission than by the formation, ands=l=
and progress of such bodies as that. The amount of pod,
in its way, to Ireland, which was obstructed by such seta,
and by such organis.atiens, it was wholly impossible to
calculate. Such acts obstructed improvement, they pre-
vented employment, they paralysed every effort for the
amelioration of the people's condition; and, last of all,
they kept out of the country that capital which was so
necessery for the development of the great natural re-
sources of Ireland. They repelled it; the introduction, be
repeated, of that capital which woe necessary for the deve-
lopment of the resources of Irelann, was repelled by the
subordination and insecurity which resulted from suck or-
ganisations. And what was the consequence of all this?
Why that the very class who would be the most benefited
by the expenditure of capital—the very parties who seemed
to have the greatest interest in promoting the country's
welfare., and in having the greatest amount ,of capital ex-
pended in Ireland, but who defeated this end, were the
very parties who first felt the difference, and who suffered
the most. But criminal, highly criminal, as were the
parties immediately connected with this ,murderous and
maeohievuua assocultioo, there well others who, although
not quite to amenable, were even still more mischievous than
thorn who performed the deeds, . I mean," said his lordship,
" those persons and •elsases of persons who, by their
speeches, publications, and otherwise, palliate, extenuate,
and justify crimes, the commission of which is not only a
disgrace to our nature and to our national character, but a
downright breach of all the leers of God and man."

The Lord-Licutenant has offered a reward of 00/.
for the arrest and conviction of any of the persons
who, to the number of 300, armed with guns, and
firing shuts, assembled at midnight, on the 20th
instant, on a hill in the barony of Upper lveagh,
county of Down. Also, a reward of 601. for the ar-
rest of these implicated in the murder of a woman,
named Henrietta M'Kialay, at Castlebar.
The latest account of the state of Mr. Chambre is
the following:
Mr. Chambr4 had rather a Bond night, but delirium Is
still prevent. No improvement in his symptoms ham as Ist
taken place. J STKONOS, M.B.
B. U. Ilaemaza,
Mondsy, 2 o'clock r

CLERICAL.
SSSSS
Rev. Jolts Sidney Boucher, to the Head Mastership of
St. Paul'. Grammar School, Knightabrido, Middlesex.
Rev. William Henry Davies, to be chaplain of St. George's
Hospital, London.
Roe. Thomas grotto, Perpetual Curate of Prostwood, to
be • surrogate, diocese Oxford.
Rev. Philip Hopkins, to Buford St. Micheal Perpetual
Caracy, Oxfordshire ; patron, Bishop of Oxford.
Rev. Richard H. Hamilton, to K awash Rectory, dimmer
D patron, Bishop of Derry.
Rev. Thomas H. Kersey, to the Second Mastership of Sir
John Poolis Grammar School, Appleby, Leicestershire.
Rev. William H. Stack, to Mime' Rectory, dimes,
Derry ; patron. Bishop of Derry.
Rev. Christopher Hod Cook, to Dlaeworth Vicarage,
Leicestershire ; value, 1971. ; patrons, the Haberdashers'
Company and Christ's Hospital alternately.
'ter. Charlie Greenock Davies (Vicar of Tewkesbury),
to Wineheombe Deanery Rural, diocese of Olouroster and
Bristol.
Rev. Henry Bernal Greenwood (Perpetual Curate of St.
Saviour's, Aston), to the Chaplaincy of the Union, Stone,
Staffordshire.
Rev. John Philpott, to Brook Rectory, Kent;
1711. ; patrons, Dean and Chapter of Canterbury.
Sonnet Watson Steadman, to be Colonial Chaplain
at llong•Kong.

VACANCIU.

r &&&&& UAL CURACV.• Ewe:, diocese of Ito.
cheater ; Talße, 1.501. and revidenee ; patrons, Christ's floe-
pits! ; Her. C. F. Cook. promoted.
MASTIVAHIP.—Wmtborno Uranium School, Dorset,
Assistant hlastenhip ; salary, IOW. ; testimonials before
Feb. 3.

NAVAL
ADMIRALTY, JAN. 28.—Are

want I'. S. Poetrin, Muter I). J. Louttid, Purser J. 0.
Whit' and Clerk J Colliver, to l'enirius. Second Mu-
ter. 0. 11. Hills to Neptune; and C. A. Wilkinson to Re-
sistance. Master's Assistant W. Pewee to Vesursui.

l'intrsmorrrt, JAN. 2s.—The Sprightly, ateam
vessel, Master Commander O. Allen, sailed to-day for Ply-
mouth, having en board marine artillerymen for the steam
ships fitting there. She will bring back supernumeraries
for the Britannia and other ships here. Seamen have
arrived to-day for the Britannia from the eastward, in a
steam tug-boat. The florgon,4team sloop, Commander Poyn-
ter, cams into hathour to day to be paid off.
DEVONPURT, Jas. 28.—The Hecate, 6, steam
sloop, Commander Hand, is ordered to have her defects
made good with all poss,ble despatch at this port.—The
Tortoise, lighter, which sailed on Friday for Falmouth
with the furnituie of Admiral Reynolds, was again obliged
to put back, not being able to make headway against the
wind and heavy sea.—The Vesuviu4, steamer, is about to
be commissioned at dna port. Commander Frederick L.
Barnard is appointed to her.—Theßelgian schooner, Karel,
driven on shore at the back of the Batten during the gale
on Saturday morning, was towed off the same night by the
Confiance, steamer, and taken into Plymouth on Sunday
morning, with loos of rudder aad some other slight injuries.
—The ying ketch, Sparrow, was paid off here on
Saturday.