The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JULT 9.
The club western makes a passing noise, but you
hear the sound through the sonorous trumpets of the
provii.cial papers, which increase the volume most
wonderfully. Half a dozen of the " busy " folk who
take the lead paitical in every country town, or-
ganise what they call s club, and straightway the
tens are magnified to hundreds, and a staff of ima-
ginary officers enter on their grave duties. Tr e
country is perfectly free from this vicious system.
The rural population have not organised a single club,
and without the active support of the catholic clergy
they never will. The absence of that support is now
decided, for the exceptions are too insignificant to be
considered for a moment. They will not endanger
the lives of their people by leading them into the ill-
baited traps of the confederation. Every day mom
fully develops the hostility of the clergy to the
dangers of club organisation. The most determined
reps alert; in Ireland are the clergy of Tuam. Every
week produces its declaration and subscription. What
they say will be seen below. The clergy of the deanery
of Ardagh are even more explicit in theircondemnation
of confederates and clubs. "The ally and puerile
avowed sentiments of some, and the rash, ill-consi-
dered, and dangerous declarations of other leading
members of the confederation, have induced us to
withhold our sanction or approbation from the forma-
tion of local repeal clubs, and our opposition to
these clubs is strengthened by the consideration that
their rules and regulations are supposed to be secret."
Another prudent clergyman asks—" How can the
lovers of peace and order become members of a so-
ciety whose orators arc not restrained from preaching
sedition and treason ?" So you perceive there is no
great danger of the club system taking deep root. in
Ireland, or of the confederation rising in popular
esteem.
The Freeman of this morning gives some slight
paiticulati of Mr. Mitchel. A gentleman who had
conversed with one of the officers of the vessel which
conveyed Mr. Mitchel to Bermuda informed the
Freeman that he arrived in good health, though his
spirits were much depressed. He was very silent and
reserved during the voyage.
The death of Serjeant Warren is attributed to the
homceopat hie treatmentto which he had been subjected
for six months. About January last he exhibited a
tendency to paralysis arising from softening of the
brain. Two homcelathic doctors were called in and
continued their infinitesimal prescriptions. The day
before his death two of our most eminent physicians
(Crampton and Adams) declared his rec,..very impos-
sible, and ascribed his sudden decline to the treatment
he had receiv,.d. .

Tr.o "monster repeal meeting," to have taken place
in Derry on the 6th, and which was to be inflam d
by the eloquence of the confederate leaders, was post-
poned to the Old Kalends. Parts of the north are
greatly excited. Apprehensions are entertained of a
colli ion, especially in Donegal, on the 12t.b. An ad-
ditional mike force hss been ordered to Ha Aloe.

CATHOLIC PROTEST AGAINST TIIR LSAOUE.—A letter
of protest, in reply to the inquiry Tee, ntly sent round from
the Repeal A,so:tation, was received yeAerday from Tuam.
It beers the signatures of 2t of the clergy of the rural
deanery of Timm—all serving in and around the cathedral
and its adjacent parishes, and three of them professors in
the archbishop's college of St. Jarlath's. "Ha ing ma-
turely consi .eted the queries in your circular," say these
gentlemen, " we feel constrained to express our entire dis-
approval el thu contemplat.il league." They proceed to say
they twee with BishopCantwell, that every sacrifice short of
principle should be made for union among Irishmen. They
think the published rules of the league fair and reasonable,
eut they express an apprehension, amounting to conviction,
that the m. n who is Conciliation Hall, on the day Mr. John
O'Connell last addressed the people there, would not listen
with n dience to his doctrine of constitutional agitation, would
certainly not listen to the mernht r for Limerick at ail in the
league. The " disrelish and disapprobation " thus mani-
fested, the rev. gentlemen intimated to have proceeded from
confederates, and it they could not restrain themselves when
they were intruders, what will be their boisterousness when
in a place where they have a right to speak. The remon-
strance against " the league " proceeds to say that the lead-
ing members of the league would honourably observe the
rules laid down ; but they distrust two classes, " those
who have union on their lips, but who, to gratify some
selfish feeling, endeavoured to demonstrate in letters and
speeches and articles in newsp .pers, that those with whom
they seem anxious to be united were the guilty cause of
those divisions the country has such reason to deplore." Even
if those persons were wronged, proceeds the remonstrance,
where is the wisdom, prudeece, or patriotism of raking up
differences? In such circumstances sincere men will act ou
the principle of forgiving and forgetting. Manifestly they
refer in this to the Natio& ana Mr. S. O'Brien. The nextclass
whom they dread is that not so prominent as " Ir-aders' " but
having the capacity for noise and interruption, and they think
that those persons, having been stimulated outside the league,
by " war speeches" will not within it "patiently listen to
the sober accents of constitutional agitation.' Mr. J.
O'Connell, therefore, would he "driven from the league
within a fortnight ;" and they plainly intimate it would
not then retain their confidence or the confidence of
Ireland. In conclusion, these reverend gentlemen declare
" for the Loyal National Repeal Association—the movement
of the liberator's mighty genius which has stood the test of
prosecurions." They declare they will take no part in any
but constitutional agitation, " in which they sincerely desire
the co-operation of all honest repealers." This is the greatest
discouragement the projected league has yet received.
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EXAMINATION OP MR. JOHN MARTIN.—This morning
at college-street police-office, Mr. Martin was brought up in
misted) of Sergeant Prender of the detective police (to whom
he had surrendered himself ), on a warrant charging him
with felony under the recent act of parliament. lyndal
addressed Mr. Martin, and stated that there had bees infer-
mations lodged against him for certain articles which appeared
in the Irish Felon.—Mr. Martin said he understood so, bat
he did not know exactly what articles were named in the
information.—Mr. Williams (the clerk) said the infinmations
set out in the publication of the 24th of June a letter signed
"James Lslor ;" in the publication of the lst July an article
headed "The First Step," and signed "James Lahr;"
also an article headed " The Confederate and Repeal Clubs,"
and "A song for the future." Mr. Williams wished to
know if Mr. Martin required all the articles to be read ?
Mr. Martin said he had heard enough ; he merely wished to
know the articles.—Mr. Tyndal said Mr. Martin was
charged with the intention of deposing the Queen, and it
became his duty to send the case for trial.—Mr. Martin said
that the reason he kept out of the way for the last few days
wee, that he wished to have a fair trial, and as there was no
chance of that at the late commission he merely stopped
away until it terminated ; he wished the public to know
that, he was not afraid, for he knew the consequences, and
was responsible for all he had done.—Mr. Williams inquired
it Mr. Martin wished the informations proving the proprie-
torship of the paper to be read?—Mr. Martin said he did not
—that was a matter of course. He understood for what he
was to be indicted, and he had no hesitation in saying that
he would take the legal and moral responsibility on himself
of all be had done—he was not afraid of anything.—He was
then removed to Newgate.
AT A SPECIAL MEETING Or THE COMMITTEE Or THE
REPEAL AasociaTion yesterday, at which the Turn
document was actively canvassed, the " legal, peaceful, and
constitutional" party had a decided majority. The old body
shall pars away, but only on the following conditions, which
are in fact identical with those which created the confederate
schism, and will prevent that body from taking part in the
new organisation " That the league be specially and dis-
tinctly pledged to the use of peaceful, legal, and constitu-
tional means, to the exclusion of all others ; that the club
organisation be entirely abandoned, and the clubs finally die-
solved; and that any local organisation to be crested or used
hereafter shall be strictly on the above principle, and entirely
under the control of the league.
Mr. MEAGHER is about to visit America, to stir rap the
Irish element in that quarter. lie will, doubtless, delight
the folk at Niblo's Gardens, but his friends and admirers
a y that 'York is wanted" nearer home. What about
fighting for the harvest from the sickle to the ship 2
HARVEST PROSPECTS.—WEIPOILD.—The Wexford paper
to-day, in writing an agricultural review, says that the pre-
vett of potato culture is very fine, notwithstanding that the

high winds recontly prevalent, coming after somewhat heavy
rein, "had partially shattered the stalks of the earlier tillagr,
causing some alarm." In geceral the crop never looked
mere healthy. Wheat is very fine, and barley beyond an
average.—TzerneanT Nosten.—Tbe wheat crop looks
healthy, but does not promise to be so prolific as was ex-
pected. The breadth of potatoes sown is very large, but
there is a slight failure from bad seed," and some injury
to forward crops from high w HdA.—TIPPEHARY SOUTH.
—The corn crops in this division are described as very
flourishing; in potatoes there hu been some "misses" from
had seed, but no manifestation of di:ease or blight.--
MAYo.—Nothwithstacding the partial "miss" is some
fields in this county, and which is represented to be very
rare, the crop we ore promised will be " more abundant than
in any season fur fifty years."