The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1848.

breakfast to a large party. Tim bride sad bridegroom left
town el.ortly before three o'clock for the seat of Yr. H.
Drummond, .H.P.., and Lady Hart*. Hrunimong. near
Guildford, Garay, in page the holneyntook.

THE IRISH MAIL rid HOLTHEAD.—The change in
the mails via Holyhead will take place on the 13th of nest
month, from which day the mail via Birkenhead will be
discontinued, and the mail for Holyhead will leave Kings-
town at 10 a.m. The hour of departure from Holyhead will
be 8 cm. For the present there will be no change in the
evening mail between Kingstown and Liverpool.—Dublin
Mercantile Advertuer.

BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION AND RE-
V/SAT.—Yesterday evening • meeting of the board of
directors of the above institution wee held at the committee-
rooms is Paternoster-row. The report congratulated the
m•mbers on the increasing prosperity of the institution, and
the anxiety evinced by those oonnected with the trade for its
success. There are now on the books 476 members. During
the past year relief has been afforded to 6 retail
booksellers and 12 booksellers auistants, and 3 widows
of each of thou classes, to the amount of 2621. 163. 4d.,
five persons included in this list being permanent
annuitants. The whole expenses connected with the
institution since its formation in 1837 have not
averaged more than 801. per annum, and the sum thus cha-
ritably distributed during the same period amounted to
nearly 1,3001. Upwards of 1,0001. during the past year has
been added to the permanent fund, which reaches above
18,0001. In connexion with the above institution • " re-
treat " for the reception of aged and infirm members, de-
lightfully Situate at Abbotts Langley, Ilerta, was opened in
1846. It consists of seven houses, of which at present two
only are occupied.

IRKLI ND.
FURTHER ARRESTS.
DUMAN, JULY 19.
The metropolis being covered over with proclama-
tions placing the city under the provisions of the
Crime and Outrage Act, attracted immence crowds to
the streets last night, but there was not the slightest
attempt at disturbance. There were meetings of all
the clubs held 'n the course of the evening, at which
the proclamations were considered, and it is said
that Mr. Smith O'Brien was among the advo-
cates for non-compliance with the conditions of
the act, which require all persons resident within
the proclaimed districts to serve notice on the'
proper authorities of the arms, pikes, swords, or am-
munition in their possession, and ask for license to
retain them. lie argued that such notices would be
tantamount to a general disarmament, and suggested
that each confederate should treat the proclamation
with contempt. Against this, however, it was urged
by some that the police were in possession of the
names of all the armed confederates; and if they did
not comply, nothing could save them from the conse-
quences. It was at last settled that each should be
tree to act as he thought best for his own safety, ard,
if possible, for the advantage of the " cause of
Ireland."
On Saturday last no less than 26 persons were
arrested in Cashel, and committed to Clonmel gaol, by
the Hon. Martin French, R.M., charged with a riot,
and also with an attempt to rescue Mr. Michael
Doheny.
The Tipperary Vindicator gives an account of the
arrest of some persons at Templemore, charged with
drilling and training. Bail has been refused, and the
prisoners are committed to Nenagh gaol.
Kilkenny was the scene of considerable excitement
on Monday, owing to an unfounded report having got
abroad that a warrant had been issued for the arrest
of Dr. Cane, the leader of the Confederates in that
city. The people assembled in great numbers, with a
view of preventing the warrant being put into execu.
tion; " barricades" were thrown up at one or two
points, and it was not until an assurance had been
given that the report was a fabrication that the popu-
lace desisted from hostile demonstrations. A man, of
semi-military appearance, who mixed in the crowd,
and advised the mob not to let Dr. Cane quit the
town, was mistaken for a detective, and only es-
card summary vengeance through the intervention
of the supposed " martyr." Before evening closed
t. anquillity was perfectly restored.
The intelligence of the rising at Carrick-on-Suir
was received all through Tipperary with en-1
thusiasm. On Monday night the mountains were
all in a blaze with fires, from S:ievebloom to Slieve-
namon, and the peasantry crowded around them in
large masses. The cheering along the Waterford
range was distinctly heard in Clonmel, and the clubs
turned out to do homage to the general enthusiasm.
They marched through the town in motions. The
military were under arms prepared, if necessary, for
repression.
A private letter from Clonmel states :
The Carrick people, on hearing of the arrest of some of
the club members, and the rumour that one of their own
curates was marked out for arrest, rose en masse, and with
arms in their hands, consisting of rifles and pikes, repaired
to the authorities and demanded the release of the prisoners,
who were at once delivered up to them. They then rung
the chapel bells, when 4,000 men descended from the neigh-
bowing hills, armed to the teeth, who remained in Carrick
all night, lest an attempt should be made to arrest Father
Byrne. The delivery of the prisoners and the withdrawal
of the few troops were considered as a triumph. There is no
mistaking the national feeling.
There is a great deal of colouring matter in this
statement, and I send it to show how liable to exag-
gerration reports from this quarter are :—the num-
ber of rifles and pikes were very few, and as to the
bivouack of the 4,000 mountaineers in the market-
place of Carrick it is all Tipperary romance.
From other sources the following facts have been
ascertained : three persons in rather humble circum-
stances were arrested in Carrick on Monday morning.
They were office-bearers in the clubs. The Rev. Mr.
Byrne, himself a prominent member, of course in-
terested himself about them, and at once proceeded to
the Bridewell. Hence the first rumour of his arrest.
The clubs assembled as soon as the news of the arrests
spread, and some of them with arms in their hands,
and, proceeding to the authorities, it is said the latter did
not deem it prudent to refuse a compliance which they
seemed strong enough to enforce. Whether the Rev.
Mr. Byrne took any part in this movement, or showed
any sympathy with it, I cannot tell; but an account
reached Kilkenny yesterday in an authoritative shape
to the effect that Mr. Byrne was then in custody.
The government, along with a strong body of con-
stabulary, are concentrating troips in Waterford and
its neighbourhood. Troops marched yesterday from
Wexford in that direction, and from Kilkenny this
morning. The place of the latter in Kilkenny is oc-
cupied by companies of the 73rd, from Carlow. There
is artillery both at Waterford and Clonmel. In addi-
tion to the police force despatched yesterday by the
Rhadamanthus steamer, a regiment of infantry is or-
dered up from Belfast per the Duchess of Kent,
chartered for the purpose, and despatched last night
Cahir also is to supply some troops of cavalry.
Mr. Doheny appears to have spent his time most
lyr,cally "in Nenagh gaol. The Tipperary Vindi-
cator contains a ver-ion of the national anthem "in
prison measure," which is not remarkable for force or
elegance. After his release from poetry and prison
he addressed the Nenagh men in the old style,
" Clu..s and arms."
The moral force principle, notwithstanding the pre-
sent excitement, gains ground, and it is to be hoped
will finally triumph over clubbism and folly. The
Kilkenny deputation, while I write, are closeted with
the council of the Irish League, urging on that body
the flees ssity of a peaceful and constitutional agita-
tion. On no other principle will they combine with
the league. The catholic bishop and clergy of Derry
deprecate all violence, or any alliance or sympathy
with violence. They, too, seek to divert the league
to a more orderly progress. Dean Burke, of Clon-
mel, a clergyman of great influence in Tipperary, has
written on the same subject, and with great force.

THE IRISH LEAGUE.
A meeting of this body was held last night, in the Munc-
hen, Lower Abbey.stri et. The attendance was very nume-
rous, even at an early hour, the greatest interest having been
excited by the announcement that the mayor, a member of
the corporation, with several other influential citizens of Kil-
kenny, had come as a deputation from that important and
patriotic city to tender their adhesion, and that of the eiti-
mins, to the newly.formed association. Long before the hour
appointed for taking the chair every part of the building
was thronged. Order and decorum prevailed, and not a
single policeman was visible in the neighbourhood of the
place oi meeting. At shortly alter eight o'clock the chair
was taken by the Mayor of Kilkenny, Thomas Hart, Esq.
Several hundred new members were proposed.
Dr. CA.N•E handed in a list of 1,700 Kilkenny men, in.
eluding the mayor of the ci.y, and three magistrates of the
city of Kilkenny, with a great number of the cornoratioe of
Kilkenny sending in their pound each. Dr. Cage said it
was no light cause thit brought tour out of the five borough
magistrates, to whom the peace of Kilkenny is confided, here
to-night. (Hear.) No ; it was a deep and responsible duty,
which pressed into the souls of every one of them. It was this.
that oppression of the direst nature, and grievances not to be
endured, presses their country to the very earth—denying to
their countrymen occupation or employment, casting thou-
sand• of them into premature graves, and (continued the
doctor) driving the bee. of th,z,s, who remained into foreign
lands. (Hear.) If all Ireland does its duty, and comes
into this League, the British minister and the British par-

figment, and my Lord Clarendon—(groans)—must see the
property of conceding oar just and constitutional demands.
But I would not have you groan any man. No one feels
more deeply than I do the wrongs which Ireland has suffered
during his administration; but nothing ever yet was gained
by offering outrage or insult to any man. We can differ
with him to the utmost without showing him anything that
would compromise our principle,. No man who differed
from us was ever convinced by biases or groans ; and, there-
fore, let us argue with Lord Clarendon, as we would argue
with each other, and he—cold diplomatist though he be—
must yield to time, reason, and public opinion. (Hear, hear.)
My friends, from this place, I would, as though I were beg-
ging my life—and no man who talks at public assemblies
row knows but he may be pleading for his own liberty
and his own life, in seeking to win peaceably the liberties of
his; country—from this spot I would appeal to the good and
true hearted of every clam, but, above all, to the catholic
clergy of Ireland, as they would rescue their flocks from
what one day may mew, to come into this league, and de-
mand from England th.o just and full measure of our rights.
The last of Lord Clarendon's acts is the proclaiming of the city
and county of Dublin, the city of Waterford and the county
of Cork ; and, my friends, I ask you—for I am in utter igno-
rance of it—what has been the crime ? Where bu been the

outr—where has been—
the guilt, that has induced the
Lord. Lieutenant to think it expedient to proclaim those
counties, and thus abridge the little liberty—God knows it
was but little—which was left to the people t True he is en-
dowed with the legal power to proclaim those counties; but
it is a violation of the spirit of the act to put it in force
where no crime has been committed. How much nobler

a position he would have won for himself if, treading in
the steps of the Marquis of Normanby, he had moved
amongst the people and sympathised with their sufferings—
if, calculating as a statesman ought to do, on the resources
of the country, he had proclaimed that our mines should be
worked—our fisheries called into life—our manufactures
revived—trade once more established in our cities. and tom-

merce made to tliuj;;;;; mighty riven. Oh! whit a
proclamation that would be ; how history would refer to it
in future times as an evidence of the wisdom and humanity
of the man. (Cheers.) But lam reminded by a gentleman
near me about the reclamation of the waste lands. True,
something has been done in the way of reclaiming bogs;
but from beginning to end the whole matter has been a job,
like the other comprehensive measures of the enlightened
whigs. (fear.) Alter some further animadversions on the
conduct and administration of the Lord-Lieutenant the
speaker proposed the first nip:anion
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• • •
That the acts of the English parliament since the legislative union
between this country and England, but more especially during its
latter sessions, are sufficient proofs of the utter hopelessness of look-
ing to it either for justice or good government, and that there is no
prospect of happinem or prosperity for this country until it Is free
from the baneful influence of foreign, hostile, and oppressive legisla-
tioo. That bitting on this conviction, "The Irish Longue" has been
tome I. with the sore view and object of restoring to Irishmen their
ancient constitutioe, Queen, Lords, and Commons, by the combina-
tion of liishern in a course of action at once conwitutional and
decided.

Mr. LOVOIINAN seconded the proposition, and in the
course of his addrtss asked who was there that could deny
the expediency, the necessity of repeal for Ireland? What
of late had been the conduct of government towards those
who advocated repeal ? Arrests were proceeding day after
day, one following another; a man was arrested and im-
prisoned for no other reason than that be formed opt.
pions favourable to repeal, and announced those opi-
nions openly and fearlessly. He was seized on—de-
prived of his liberty—the form of a mock trial wan gone
through—twelve men were placed in the jury boa to pro-
nounce upon him—twelve men selected because they
were known to be the avowed and deadly enemies of the
principles he advocated. Was It not absurd—was it not a
blot and a disgrace on the country, that such a:system should
be resorted to or allowed to continue while a constitutional
means was left to end it for ever ? (Cheers.) Would it not
he fairer, would it not be more honest and more just, for the
English government to fling aside this mockery and say,
away with law, away with trial by jury—we will have no
more of either in Ireland, and any or every man we choose
to imprison or transport for fourteen years—aye, or for lite,
that man we will send in fetters from the shores of Ireland,
and no one shall dare to ask to why we do so? (Cheers.)
The Rev. Mr. O'MALLEY neat came forward. He said
much of the public speaking and the public writing et the
last few months on the popular side which seemed to have
for you the greatest attraction has not been equally success-
ful in winning over converts to the national cause ; on the
contrary, it has repelled many, and whilst it has caused timid
friends 0.101 off, it has given Irish stimulus to opponents to
pries on more vehemently. (Hear.) We had taken in our
impetuosity too advanced a position within point-blank range
of the enemy's twelve-pounders, facetiously called by their
general jury guns, and exposed, on both flanks and in the
rear, to the incursions of hie light infantry, or light-
fingered detectives. (Laughter.) We have now aban-
doned, and most wisely, that ialse position, and fallen
back upon this league, no leftlinking itself rapidly might
and lilt with branch associations in the provinces, will
soon run across the whole face of the loon. (Cheers) Fear
not, my friends, that this falling hack behind the entrench-
ments of the league shall be a falling short of our great en.
terprise. No, it will be rather stepping back a few paces
to make a higher bound. (Cries of " Hear, bear.") Stand•
ing here, then, upon this secure ground, I would easneatly
entreat all real repealer', all true patriots, to take to heart
these two primary truths—first, the Irish people are now so
pledged before the world to the ssaertion of their national
rights, that they cannot without disgrace irremediable
Teti: quish it. But, secondly, this everlasting agitation of the
matter is an obvious hindrance to the consolidation of the
elements of our material prosperity. From these two
propositions, which are beyond question, the corol-
lary is inevitable, that whilst the national honour
commands us to persevere in asserting our rights,
the national interests urge us most pressingly to set
about the work in earnest, so that we may accomplish it,
and not leave it amid the jeers of all Europe to solve the
preblem of " pert etaal motion." (Hear, hear.) Now, ma
any man of sense pretend that there is, or can be, any other
mode by which we could finish this great work sooner than
through this league, offering as it does full ample space for
the rail) ing together of our whole strength ? (Loud sheers.)
All those who are for " peaceful and legal " agitation have
it here. Surely the " union of Irishmen. and the concentra-
tion of opinion, is peaceful and legal," and those who Malt
that it is only by " constitutional action " the league shall
make itself felt, must he satisfied now, by the passing of this
resolu. ion, which distinctly argues that to it shall be. (Loud
cries of " Hear.") Any man, air, that lacks for more than
that we may safely set down as a sham repealer ; and it will
not be the least of the oenefits of the league that it will give
us a happy riddance of all such; but all those of the peaceful
school who arc not shams I now call emphatically to join
us without delay—even in the name of the peace they prize so
highly I invoke them to hasten to our ranks, for every fresh
secession of theirs will be a fuller:guarantee that peace shall
be preserved. (Hear.) But if, yielding weakly to the sickly
influence of a false delicacy or false alarms, they still hold
back and leave the field of agitation to the eager and im-
petuous alone, and if so their holy peace be broken, can they
even excuse themselves to their own conscience or to their
country? (Hear, hear.) Alter some further ohservatisns
the speaker added—We must repeal the union. We must
restore to this country its old constitution—the King, L ads,
and Commons of Ireland. (Loud cheers.) We are not here
to declare war upon the Queen, or to erect the standard of
an Irish republic. But it in in the spirit of true loyalty to
the Queen I would warn her ministers from imperilling the
empire on the game of blind hazard they are playing with
the Irish people. (Hear.)
.Air. W. S. O'Beirne was then loudly called ter, and on
coming forward was received with loud and prolonged cheer-
ing, which lasted for several minutes. Ile said—lt is now a
fortnight since I home, and during that time I have
visited the cminty Kerry, and the western portions of the
county Cork; and in those remote regions I found as intense
ardour, a. patriotic dos two, as have been exhibited here to-
night. lam enabled to tell the people of Dublin that the
men who dwell in that portion of Ireland which has suffered
perhaps more than any o'her from the disastrous effects of
misgovernment, acting on the visitation of Providence—l
mean the di-trict about Bantry—that the men in those parts
are prepared to co-operate with you. At Berehaven—the
nearest point to Ameriere—(hear and cheers)—at Berehaven I
rem ived a similar assurance. At Bantry, Macroom, and Kil-
larney—in short, wherever I passed, there appeared but one
unanimous feeling that the time was come when one simul-
taneous effott should b- made by the Irish nation to accom-
plish its freedom. (Cheers) I hope you have read the
account of the proceedings in Curk. They. call it a review of
my troops. (Chas rs.) Well, lam happy to tell you that I
met at least 10,000 ahle-bodied men, who promised to co-
operate and sympathise with us. A:ter come further
account of his travels, Mr. O'Brien went on to say, in refer-
ence to those who have been convicted of sedition—For
these men I claim your sympathy; and row I feel myself
again somewhat fettered, and my lips closed, as to the advice
which I ought to give : but I call on you deeply to consider
what ought to be the conduct of the Irish nation with
reference to those men. I ,rust there will be a una-
nimous determination throughout this laud that these
men shall not be subjected to the same jugglery of in-
justice as John Mitchel, and that the Irish cation will show
they are prepared, if necessary, to suffer with them. (Cheers.)
The hon. gentleman then proceeded to allude to the effect
which the coming trials were likely to produce on the funds,
and continued—That will be a consideration for the fund-
holder, of England. I have no desire to damage public
credit. Far from it. I believe there is no part of the wcitld
in which banking institutions are more firmly based than in
this country. There is, however, one question upon
which I am bound to relieve my mind, beeante I have
been silent upon it for some time. I have come from
a county in which I find a very large portion of the
working classes have been sufferin very severely from
the bankruptcy of mime savings banks; and if any man
asks me what chance there will be of obtaining money
from the savings banks, I tell him it is my opinion
that it will be a very poor chance ; and if this be as-
admonition to the government, I trust they will take the hint.
I believe lam at liberty to state that I had to-day a lovg con-
versation with one of the most eminent of the catholic
bishops of Ireland—l mean Dr. Match= I believe there is
no man among you entertains sounder doctrines with respect
to the rights of the people than he does, and though he feels
it his duty to forbear entering into any emaciation which
may have objects other than constitutional agitation, I be-
lieve it is the intention of this great prelate, provided you
pledge yourselves as you have done already to a course of con
stitutionnl action not only to present to you his own sub-
scription, but to send in the adhesion and subscriptions of
all his clergy. (Protracted cheering.) Mr. O'Brien con-
cluded by_p:oposing the following resolution :
—ltit-to!c4—Tfulitie arrangements catered into at the late con-
ference ot repeaters, requiem that the repeal clubs should continue
totally independent of this league ' • but this must not be understood
to imply any disapprobation of local repeal clubs under proper

Mr. J. arenas protoeed the next resolution:
—hat the arrests oraietere. Duffy, Met Ether, !triFtan, Dolleny,
MAIM, &Doherty, M'Clee, and 11‘;Ilywoixl, and seizure of their prir
petty, ea well ea the general policy at present pursued by tea

called government of this country, is unjust and despotic, and shell
as still further =firma us in our desire to secure the lamed right
of wrif.legislation. That, after experience of the summurtitutional
and despotic means by which John Iliteltel was deprived of his
liberty, we demand for the Irish patriots now In gaol a fair trial by
an iM.ifterently chosen jury. If by fraudulent practices a conviction
against these men be obtained, we shall regard such an set as utterly
subveraive of the liberty of the people, sad calculated greatly to as
danger her Majesty's crown and government in this kingdom.
Mr. Minna (ef Drogheda) • seconded the resolution.
After some introductory observatioes, he said the conning-
tion of the country had settled that long ago. It was not a
question now to be debated—neither was this the time for
Ireland to assume a suppliant posture, and beseech as at
alms that which she should demand as her undeniable right.
The Irish nation, when menaced by the threats of uescrupu- '
loan power, ought to demand her rights with dignity—a
dignity becoming a nation. (Cheers.) Now, as to the gen-
tlemen who had been arrested and imprisoned, and the pro-
ceedings which had been taken with regard to their pro-
perty, he (Mr. M'Kenna) believed be was right in saying
that there could be but one opinion, even amongst the bit-
terest opponents to the repeal principle and its advocates—
that the course pursued by government was one untenable
In law, and unjustifiable and disgraceful is the eye of the
world. (Cheers.) And now all who felt this gross out-
rage should unite in demanding for their imprisoned country-
men at least a fair and an impart:al trial—a trial not by a
jury packed and boxed up by fraud and contrivance—not by
a jury elected on the " stand aside" system, but by a jury
fairly empannelled according to the just principle' of the law
and constituticn. (Cheers.) When this oppressive act was
first pasted, it was alleged that the law should be the same in
Ireland as it was in England in the operation of the act.
Now, if the same law was to have an equal operation in both
countries, was it not just that ti.e same mode of trial should
be adopted in each ? (Hear, hear.) And here he would
direct attention to a questien of vital consideration on the
coming trial. It was the question of the right claimed by
the crown to set aside jurors peremptorily and unlimitedly,
without assigning cause. (Hear, hear.) In the English jury
act there was a proviso, that in prosecutions where the crown
was the prosecuting party, jurors were not to be perempto-
rily challenged on the part of the crown. The crown
was to challenge no juror except for cause assigned.
The privilege of peremptory clialenge, though granted to
the prisoners, was denied to the le:rig; but in another
statute a clause was cunningly inserted, by which it was
provided that no previous clause in any enactment should
interfere with the " power and custom of the court trying
the ease, to set jurors aside without cause. if they so willed."
This power had not been exercised since the passing of the
statute until recently, and he (Mr. M'Kenna) thought that
if it was mtemptid to be put in practice oa the cornixg
trials it ought to be put on the court itself to tell the
jurors objected to by the crown "to stand aside." (Hear.)
There was another important point. According to the statute
the jury was neither to be packed nor selected, but it was to
be composed of twelve men the equals and neighbours of the
accused, indifferently chosen and superior to all suspicion.
(Cheers.) Now, he would ask any man who heard him
could be say that there was no suspicion in the manner In
which the law was carried out in the case of John Mitchel 2
(Cries of " No, no," groans, and hisses.) Had it not been
even mid in defence of the proceeding—had it not been ad-
. mitted in the House of Commons—that the reason that caused
jurors to be set aside on that trial was that they were known
to be repeal'rs of the union ? ("Hear, hear,"and hisses.) He
(Mr. M'Kenna) would like to we such a causes given fcr e
challenge in an ordinary court of law. Such a reason woulc
be scouted as ridiculous and absurd. But under the con-
struction of the statute the privilege assumed by the
crown had been thus exercised, or rather abused,
to the perversion of justice and right. (Cheers.)
If such a practice was to be tolerated or continued, life and
liberty were no longer cafe in this country, There could he
no protection from imprisonment or transportation even fur
the innocent—no immunity from the seizure of a man's
person with impunity, hie consignment to a dungeon, and
perhaps his exile from his native land. Tee property of
those gentlemen now in prison was seized, illegally and ure
justly seized, while they were unconvicted of any crime.
There was, to be sure, a statute empowering the seizure of a
felon's goods after conviction, or after judgment by default of
appearance. But the Taw recognised every man as innocent
until convicted. But what had been done in this case ? A
body of policemen invaded a man's house, that man being
charged with felonious objects and intentions, and that chsrg-
founded on the opinion of a police constable or sergeant, ac
to the intent of the accused party in writing certain letters
or articles. They invaded his house—they took sway his
hooks, papers—in short everything they could lay hands on
They might as jumly take away and seize on his (Mr
hlSKenna's) person, or enter his house and seize on the the
niture. But this exertion of arbitrary authority was die
played—this gross injustice,was perpetrated—because it was
thought that this country was oiviilhd and weak. (Hear.)
The meeting be now addressed gave the lie to that suppo-
sition. That splendid assemblage was an answer to the
Clarendon proclamation of that morning—a proclamatier.
putting this city, the city of Dublin, under the operation 01
the arms act, and acting as it on the suppositiuu of crime
existing among its people, when crime there was none
Mr. M'Kenna concluded his speech by seconding the resslu•
lion, and retired amidst loud cheering.
Mr. JOIIN REA, of Belfast, proposed :
That the proclamation by the Lord Lieutenant and Privy (bane
of Ireland, published the lith indent, placing Dublin, Cork, Water-
ford, and Drogheda, under the operation of the act II Vic., cap. 4
enacted for the sucpregion of Mlle and outrage in certain parts of
Ireland, at a period when theme localities are perfectly free from
crime or outrage, la an uncalled for aggression on our liberties, end
calculated to produce the results it pretends to counteract.
All the resolutions were carried unanimously. Thanks
were voted to the chairman, and the meeting separated.

ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY FROM THE GRAND JURY OF
Exitax.—Yesterday, an address to the Queen was votes by
the grand jury assembled at Tralee, but not without oppost
tion. The address first contained a declaration of loyalty to
the monarch, and an offer to place the lives and properties of
those subscribed to it at her Majesty's disposal. In the second
place, it condemned the unhappy imitation carried on in the
country as " visionary" in its objects, and denounced the
physical force movement which being now organise..
throughout the kingdom, as still aggravating the pre existing
evil. The address then proceeds to point out a number ci
remedial measures therein proposed for the good of Ireland,
such as the extension of railways, the encouragement et
fisheries, the improving of harbours, and building of piers,
bridges, &e. The address having been proposed and seconded,
Mr. 1). Cronin, jun., opposed it, because of the covert attack
which it made upon repeal, for he had no doubt in his mi.d
that the agitation therein referred to, and described as
" visionary " in its object, was intended to apply to the agi
tation for the repeal of the union, though the framers of tae
address did not openly avow it. He concluded by moving a,
an amendment that the address be not adopted.—Mr. D. S.
Lswlor seconded the amendment, and added that he thought
it useless to petition for anything, for that all their petitions
and addresses, and the remonstrances of their grand jury,
were treated with contempt—Mr. Hickson thought it use-
less for them to make declarations against the expression of
physical force opinions. A nation of paupers never yet were,
and never would be, a nation of loyalists. Political agita.
tion was merely as a straw indicating how the current flowed.
It was thus that it should be viewed by a statesman. It was
in this way the prime minister of England ought to view it.
Whether the agitation of the millions was legal or
illegal should always depend upon those who guided it.
At one time they. saw an agitation confined within
legal bounds by a Flat and experienced head ; at another
they saw the like agitation conducted in an illegal manner
by persons of inexperience and wild enthusiasm ; but the
object of the statesman should be to take the laws out of the
hands of both parties, which could only be done by remov-
ing the causes of the agitation. and remedying the evils of
which this country had such just cause to complain.—Mr
James O'Connell regretted that any address .f a political
nature had been introduced into their grand jury. He never
was a repealer. Even when his late brother, Daniel O'Con-
nell, devoted his energies to the repeal agitation, ho was
never induced tojoin in it; for he believed that, if carried by
popular clamour, it would lead to a state of things still
worse, by giving to the lower classes an amount of power
which they would certainly abuse. He remembered when the
infamous penal code operated in this country. The time was
when Its father could not enjoy so mush as a freehold on an
count of his religion, when he himself could not be a magis-
trate or a grand juror. Ile then joined the catholic board,
and struggEd for his freedom. It was the commercial classes,
and not the catholic aristocracy, for they were crushed and
their spirit extinguished, who carried Catholic Emancipa-
tion. But, as be was now on an equality with his other MI
low-subjects, he was satisfied, and would not agitate for a
repeal of the union. Again he should express his regre,.
however, that any political subj, et had been introduced
among them, and he would vote for the amendment —Mr.
Fitzgerald then replied. There were some gentlemen smeller
the grand jury who complained of what they called a co-
vert attack upon repeal. Of course those gentlemen were
entitled to hold and express their opinions, but that sea. no
reason why the majority of that grand jury shoal I alter
• their opinions or change the address.—The foreman then
put the Question to the vote, when an re appeared 16 for the
address and 5 against it.

PROVINCIAL.
YORKSHIRE.
A Swannffi nonoun Or SIR.VINCENT, one of the
candidates for York at the last general election, wee given in
that city on Wednesday. The room was crowded, then
being not less than 1,000 persons present. An address war
voted to Mr. Vincent, which, amongst other things, stated
that the list contest in York
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Was the first York election known to the present Freneratkm which
wan ever conducted on the principles of entire and ahaolute purity of
election. There arc instances on record—such as that of Mr. ltarkly.
in 1835—0 n which occasion he nobly maintained similar principles ;
but the city of York Ms no idstance upon record where, taking the
whole contest into consideration. 'nth absolute purity generally pre-
vailed. It was the fist election, too, wherein •'head money " was
not demanded and obtained ; wherein debauchery did not frightfully
revel; and .-berefrom all the candidates departed, neither seined
In pocket nor tarnished in their moral characters..

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NORTHAMPIONsIIIRE.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE TENANTS OF THE DUCHY OF
LANCASTER.—The following sums are paid for property
held in this county Somes, Esq., fee farmer of the
manor of Wollaston, 491. Is. Bd. The rents of main within
the manor of Irchester, 191. Os. bid. The like within the
manor of ltuanden, 491. 3s. 91d. The like within the manor
of ltaunds, 451. lls. 21d. 0. Burnham, Esq., for the manor
of Irchester and lands there, 21. 2a.; for the manor of Rush-
den and lands there, 111. 19s, and land-tax redeemed,
15e. Bd. ; for the manor of Raunda and lands there, 121. 9s.
and land tax redeemed, 11. 7s. 10d.; and for three several
roods of laud in Ringstead and fisheries in the river Neene,
41.; together, 301. 10s. Earl Fitzwilliam, for the manor of
Higham Ferrets, and messusges, lands, and premise' within
the parishes of Higham Ferrets end Chelveston-cum-Caldi-
cot, 1,2481. 18s. sd. J. Hankins, Fsq., for the bailiwick and
liberty of the duchy in the county of Northampton, and the
office of clerk of the market there, 51., and cur landlin
Byflekl, 71. ; together 121.—Total, 1,4511, os.

OPAActplreoNALALlic3:l.ll.EßlguisFiOtißonTwllasE EhsecldArats
Monmouth, before the coroner, to assess damages in as
action against the sheriff, consequent on the escape of a pri-
soner from the custody of Mr. Graham, jun., one of the
sheriff's bailiffs. Judgment had been allowed to go by default.
It appeared from the evidence adduced that Mr. Graham,
jun., in April last, arrested a man named T. Thomas,
for a debt of 781. Is. 6d. Ile had been in custody at an
inn at Nantyglo for several hours, but he was himself
in a different room from that in which his pri.nner was
placed. N. restriction appeared to have been placed upon.
Thomas, and in the course of the evening he quierly walked
away. Ile, in a few days afterwards gave himself up, but the
writ having in the meantime been returned by the sheriff
he could not bo arrested under it. The present action was,
therefore, brought to recover the amount of the debt for
which Thomas had been arrested. Evidence was also given
to chow that Thomas was in a situation to ; ay the amount
of the debt, on the testimony, or rather the belief, of a credi-
tor, with whom he had had transactions. In chaosing the
jury the learned coroner left it for them to a.eeaa, as da-
mages, the whole amount of the debt, if they thought
Thomas had poss. eruct the means of paying it: if that was
not their opinion they could give any smaller !UM ; or if
they thought him v man of straw, they might give merely
nominal damages. The jury were some time considering
their verdict, and they ultimately gave it for the plaintiff
with 101. damages.

ARCHAOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.—Active exertions
are now being mads in Worcester to receive the above asso-
ciation at the approaching congress, which will last from
August 14 to 19. A comakttee has been formed, the use of
the Guildhall has been granted, and the public buildings of
the city will be opened for the gratuitous inspection of the
visiters. The association will also probable take the oppor-
tunity afforded by this congress of nesking excursions to Mal-
vern, Breden, and other places of antiqusrian and historical
interest to which the invitations of the resident nobility and
gentry may lead them.

TIIE CHELTENHAM MORDER.—The death of Mr.
John Mulcock, fly proprietor, whole body was found in •
shallow brook in the suburbs of Cheltenham, and who it is
believed was murdered on the night of the late Cheltenham
election, is exciting intense interest in that town. The
inquest on the body has now been adjourned three times,
and still the matter is involved in the deepest mystery The
case has already been briefly alluded to in the Express.
When deceased was discovered the grass upon the banks of
the brook appeared much trampled. The deceased's hand-
kerchief was off his neck, and his shirt unbuttoned. Deceased
did not appear to have been in the water long. The feet
were in the mud. There was a mark about the left eye,
and some blood had oozed out of it. A medical witness
was of opinion that death was not caused by drowning,
but by the pressure of fluid on the brain. This might have
been caused by concussion of the bvin brought on by
blows administered to the parts where extravasated blood
was noticed at the back of the neck. The parts being soft,
it did not fellow that a fractnre or other injury of the
vertebrae would be consequent on blows. He thought the
deceased must have been insensible many hours before death.
The bruise under the left ear might have been caused by a
blunt instrument, or by a blow of a fist. On Wednesday,
after several witnesses had been examined, the coroner and
jury consulted, and it was decided to adjourn the inquiry
again for a fortnight.—A reward is to be offered for the die.
covery of the perpetrators of the supposed murder.

Alustc.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. leyerbeer's long-
expected epera " Les Huguenots" was produced lot night
at Covent-garden, under the title of " Gli I.lgonotti." On
this occaaion the Queen went in state to the theatre. Mag-
nificent preparations were made for her Majesty's reception.
The royal box, fitted up io the centre of the grand tier, had
the appearance of a spacious and lofty apartment, brilliantly
lighted with chandeliers within it. It wars surmounted by a
canopy reaching the height of the second tier; and below it
there was a platform for the yeomen of the guard.
The royal suite, which was numerous, occupied
several of the adjoining boxes. Her Majesty and
Prince Albert were received with the usual demonstra-
tions of loyalty. " Gad save the Queen" was sung with
great effect, the principal verses being sung by Madame Can.
tellan, Mdlle. Alboni, and Madame Viardot Garcia. Meyer-
beer'. celebrated opera has been promised since the begin-
ning of the season ; but the delay in its production is not
serprising when it is considered nut only that it is of unpa-
ralleled difficulty, but that the new Italian vneion contains
many alterations from the original, made with the sanction
and co-operation of the composer himself. The opera, origi,
sally in five acts, has been compressed into lour, with great
skill and judgment. Nut a sieele incident or prominent
renege has been lost ; but the dialogue, by compression, has
trained in terseness arid energy, while the effect of the music
is heightened by the omission, in the concerted pieces, of
many uuneceasary repetitions. Even atter all this abridg-
ment the opera is sti.l very long, having lasted till past mid-
night ; but so intense is the interest of the subject, so full of
grandeur and beauty is its treatment, and so admirable was
its performance, that everybody, we are convinced, must
have felt that it was the reverse of tedious. At this time we
can only mention, in an unconnected manner, a few of the
features which especially struck us. In the first ecene
where Raoul is introduced to the convivialities of the;
catholic gentlemen, the romance, in which be relates
kis meeting with his unknown fair one, was sung
by Mario with exquisite sweetnets. The effect of
this air is wonderfully heightened by the delicate viola
accompaniment, one of those fine traits of instrumentation,
for which Meyerheer is so distinguished. The chorus with
which, in the original score, this ballad is intermixed, was
omitted. In this scene, the %tern fanaticism and military
roughness of Marcel were well expressed by Marini. He
looked the character perfectly, and his fine rolling bass gave
great effect to the Lutheran corale in which the old
Huguenot soldier lifts up his voice against the enemies
of his faith. In the " pif pat" song he was less
happy ; the song, indeed, is no favourite of ours—
its blustering style is not in keeping with the elm-
racter of Marcel. In the scene which introduces Queers
Margaret of Navarre, in the midst of let ladies, the fine air
" 0 vago suol eella Turrena," war pettily but somewhat
coldly sung by Madame Castilian. The little trio for fe-
male voices, " Fosche chimere," was deliciously executed.
The chorus of bathers, so exquisitely graceful and flowing,
had a charming effect front the richness and purity of the
voices and the soft breathing of the accompaniment.. This
scene contains an air which has been newly composed by
Meyerreer for the part of Urbana, the page. performed by
Mlle. Alboni. This is a very small part. The page appears
only twice, and each time merely to deliver a message.
In the original score he has only one air, in which
there is nothing remarkable; and the second air has been
added to strengthen a part assigned to so eminent a singer.
But this addition bar not been happily made. It is a des-
made absurdity to make the page, in the Queen's presence,
entertain the ladies with a long jocular song, when he has -
enteted merely to announce the arrival of a person expected
by his royal mistress on business of serious import. The air
ihieif, moreover, is ovetlatcured, and watts lightness and
simplicity. It was, however, nicely sung, and of course
encored. The second act, in this new ve r,ion, opens with
the famous scene representing the holiday sports ard
merry-making of the inhabitants of Paris ; an unrivalled
specimen of the power of choral and concerted music
in giving life and ar.imation to busy and bustling groups of
peope. We ha.e, at the same time, a chorus of citizens
enjoying themselves at table, a band of Huguenot soldiers
trolling a war song, and a religious procession singing en
" Ave Maria;" and all these different strains are kept dis-
tinct and strongly marked, while they blend into one mem
of rich harmony. It is in this scene that the character of
i Valentine, the heroine, becomes striking and prominent.
After the celebration of her ill-stirred marriage with Neese
she overhears in the chapel her father and his friends laying
their plot for the murder of Raoul, and enters alone,
almost frantic with terror. Eager to find some means to
save him, she suddenly meets his faithful servant Marcel,
and the scene between them is of intense interest. Hers
Madame Viardot's powers es an actress and a singer were
fully displayed. Ti.e air, " Ah, l'ingrate," whether as a
piece of enchanting vocal execution, or of fervid expression,
has probably never been surpassed on the stage. The burst
of passion with which she exclaimed, in &rawer to Marcers
inquiry who she was—" A woman wbo lore s hie, and
would die for hint," j reduced a visible thrill eif emotion
through the theatre. We find that time and space pre-
clude us from turther details, and can only mention the
scene of agony between Valentine and Raosil in the third
act and the terrible catairophe, scenes in which the dramatic
powers of music are carried to their very higheat pitch.
Madame Viardot was nothing lees than sublime; and Mario
exhibited a degree of energy and feeling which did him
great hor.our as an actor. Tamburini, as NC. Boa,
perforated with his usual judgment and intelligence,
though, perhaps, he did not sufficiently bring out the fierce
and gloomy features of the character. Tne music, whether
solo, concerted, choral, or orchestral, was, on the whole, ad-
mirably executed, and showed the exertions that must have
been made in getting up the opera. The scenery, and every
thing addressed to the eye, were splendid and beautiful in the
extreme.

IFIIV
The last caricature of H. H.Rid& represents the Whig
ministers u the daughters of Pandarus, attached by the
Harpies. Lord Stanley does. certainly, nuke a capi.al harpy.
Lard Grey is well yourtrayed. We cannot say i4l much for
Lord Palmerston.