The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-07 00:00:00

the foreman of the jury which convicted Mitchel, has re-
ceived no fewer than five threatening notice's. The first
received by that gentleman beers the post-mark of Hooters-
town, and is inscribed with a coffin, curanuated by a death's
head and cross-bones. It runt its the following terms:
By the thunder ing CO4l. you &mon meat, your life, and your life
only, shall pay the sacrifice, for your orange bigotry. That's the way
the street shall be. You may bring this to the police-office; but, by
Gal, I'll shoot you.
The neat is daubed over with blood. It ha... in like man-
ner a drawing of a coffin and a heart-the latter coloured
wilt blood. The content.' are as follow:
Your, Lou? NOME.- By the great and living God, I will mike a
corpse of you for your murderous conduct to por Mitchel. I enclose
your coffin, and by my blood, which stains it, yours eh shard, flow
from your veins, by the hand of your deadliest enemy. Don't think
you shall escape, or that your wife or children will maw.
The remaining three are of the same character. Mr.
Mansfield, another of the jurors, has receive I two nukes
of the same kind. The first is addressed to his wife-the
second to himself:
in Mrs. •lanetield, Grafton-street-Madam,- look at this, and
shudder when you think that that unfeeling wretch, your husband.
who bee been paid to condemn Mr. Mitchel, and send him to a foreign
land, from hie wife and five hotplate children. tie could have saved
him, if he only disagreed with others. No, the wretch was too well
paid by government. Ile and his family will, sooner or lamer, pay
&arty for his base corruption. I will watch close after him. lie is a
diegrate to human na•ure. You can at present nit down with
all
your oesprirg and your husband in comfort and Itspitiaere, which
poor Mrs. Mitchel ant her five helpless orphans. cannot, being de-
prived of that comfort by your bse wretch of a companion. God
helpyhim !
HARVEST PROSPECTS -The accounts from the country
continue of the most cheering character. There is every
reason to anticipate one of the most bountiful Beason* this
country has ever been blessed with. The people appear by
their exccilcnt cont Let to he grat4nl to l'rovideuce for his
promise of abundance. The following, from the Batista-
sloe Star, gives a fair idea of the general t.ne of all the re-
ports supplied by tne country papers: "Perhaps in the me-
mory of the present generation there never seemed such )right
prospects her the former-so far as abundant crops can
testify-as at present. The earth, in common phrase, groans
under its preci•eus burdens of wheat and other grains.
The dearly-lovcd potato of tha Irish peasant is wing-
ing up with seeming health, sold in greater luxuriance,
and in get ater abundance, at this early period of the
year, than w e recollect on former occasion.. This
we have just had an opportunity of witnesairg through
various parts of Galway, Kiag's and Queen's Counties,
Meath, Kildare, Dublin, Wicklow, Kilkenny, and Tippe-
rary. Turnips are slowly making head against their rivals,
the potatoes. It is yet too early to report of them. The
lee dry weather bus been unfavourable to their germina-
tion, but abundant and mild rains are now making ample
provision fur immediate and rapid vegetation of all mg:tab:es
and other plants.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
Teen was a very large assemblage of this hely in Con-
ciliation-hall to-day, attracted by the announcement in the
morning repeal paper that the bates of arrangement between
"the forces" would be developed. Dr. M'Kcon presided.
Mr. J. O'CeerieLL said: He thought it would be more
respectful towards that association, slid also most proper in
every respect, to move that the standing orders regulating
the ordinary husinese of the association be rescinded, in order
that he should speak on that aubject which was at present
necupsing the minds of all repeaters the iughout the country.
He felt, as often as be had the pleasure to address that body,
there was no occasion so important as the present—it was
one of the utmost importance, not only to the
body itself, as regards its existence, but of still greater
importance s regards the interest of the rreat cause of
which it was the agent, and also the irterest of the Irish
people, so deeply connected in the decision they would
take on the matter to which he was Rhea: to allude. He
should not bare on that day to make any specific motion
beyond that of summoning the committee to consider finally
the steps that would be proposed to the body en that day
week. He would conclude his eietiou with one or two
remarks, and also by putting a notice on the boas, provided
the terms of arrengement on which repealers were eivided
met the approbetion of the committee of the association,
specially summoned to meet to-morrow, and to continue
sitting every day in the week—providing these terms
would be agrect to, it would be his duty on that day week,
as he said, to move that the association do stand inde-
finitely adjourned. The consequence of such a step will
be taken seedy as the grounds on which a new body is to
arise. (CLetrie In the Irish confederation at ',meet
Weeny, similar steps would be adopted . t their meeting
to-morrow. The terms of arrangement will be sulsmitted
not to any particular members of the council of the confede-
ration, but to the entire body of that council. If they
agree it wi 1 have the effect of causing an indefir ito adjourn-
ment of the confederation thus the two bodies will cease
to exist, so that a new body, repress nting :11 /tedious of
Irishmen who have been so long divided will spring up.
(Cheer'.) Ile trusted that be might at taut lerrow so
much from the I istory of his public life, when they were
about to adopt that step in obedience to the call of the peo-
ple, as to say, no matter what his predikctions might have
been for that association, he would not be fund leis heartily
co-operating in his endeavours to ark° the new asaeciation
work, and to forward it by every means is his power.
While he pledged himself to do that, he would not, he
trust. d, I e premuded from expressing the feelings which
operated on his mind on this important day. Ha had a hope
—a dear and cherished hope to his heart—that that associa-
, Rion, without we urnment or dissolution, would have ac-
complished its object peaceably and legally. The reason
they I.st the talented individuais who seceded from that
association they all knew, arid he would not wish to revive
angry feeling, passed away, he hoped, for eve r, by entering
into any discussion on these matters. This much he would
say, no matter what their ideas might have keen, tbey
had now to bow to the voice of the country—one uni-
versal and patent voice—whose demand could not be de-
nied—union amongst all repealers. (Cheers.) Ile had
not come lightly to the conviction that a new association
must be formed, but they all had to agree with the will
of the country. He did not take the expression of that
will from hearsay, nor from the tewspepers, nor from the
rumours of interested p.rties—he made it his business to
consult by 1- tier with influential persons thrnughout the
country, and he found the utter impossibility of the asso-
ciation continuing if the country did not support it. He
examined the whole state of the case. and ho was bound to
say that the accounts received rendered such a step neces-
sary. The people generally were influenced by cue deep
sentiment—union almost at any price—union immediately
among all repealer,. (Loud cheers.) One thing was quite
competent to show that they could not go on in that aeso-
ciation—he alluded to the decline in the rent. The c.untry
was refusing them support. They could not complain, nor
remonstrate egainst it, for they made it keown in the meat
unmistakable manner. The weekly rent was inadequate
to sustain the assoclatien. The Tent wee only 121. last
week, and on this day it fell short even ..1 that sum. It
was impossible, therefore, to continue without union. The
country had spoken out, and would not give them support
sufficient to maintain the old association. It would he •
matter of necessity, even if that great voice of public opinion
had not spoken out—it would have been, he repeated, his
duty to propose an indefinite adjournment of the aesocia-
tior, as the country cad not give them the necessary supple.
He would avoid any unpleasant discussion or amigo any
reason that might b 3 assigned on the withdraw .i 1 from that
association of the people. It might have been that they had
not confidence in the doctrines of him to whom the people
gave the most unlimited support, or it might have been
that they bad no confidence in them who took in that
body a prominent part Circe he left them. It
might have been that men's minds were wound up to a
pitch of excitement by the oppression and hestility
evinced every ,ay in the dealings o' England towards
this country. These things may have weaned the
people from that legal and constitutional course which he re-
cto amended them to follow. Ile would not say these were the
tense', but they might hare had some ir lluence in depriving
the association of stiupart. These COOKS might have induced
tee people to consider it good to enter on that fearful struggle
which he would h eve died rather than see them rush into,
and which, if they wee, bent on, he (Mr. John O'Connell)
would take neither act nor part in. The merits of that asso-
ciation, which had limn tried and proved by the fiery ordeal
which it went through in 1844, he would not now discuss.
He would bow to the decision of the country. He might
have doubts aid fears, and he confessed be had some, but be
would bow to the decision of the country, area do his
utmost to work out fully the experiment of the new aiso-
eiation, (Loud applause.) It was just suggested to him that
it was an unquestionable fact thit the people of Ireland
did not support the confederation either, ss strong was
the desire for union ; and the only my was now for the
formation of the new body. (Cheers.) Lest it might be
supposed that the new body was to have anything illegal in
it, or be calculated to inveigle them into any violation of the
law, it would be well for the country to know that the new
body was to be formed by the union of all Irishmen.
—(cheers)—the concentration of public opinion. That was
the principle of the new body, which was perfectly legal.
Mr. O'Connell then proceeded to state that the committee of
the association and the council of the confederate a would
deliberate en the steps to he taken in the fermatiou ef the
new body, and it they should not agree, insterd of moving
an indefinite adjournment, on next Monday he would move
that the association adjourn for another week, in order to
give them an opportunity of fully considering the matter.
Such is the sum and substance of the honourable gentle-
man's statcmcut, as given in his party paper, the Pilot. The
other proceedings of the association were of no importance.