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to toward thr: ~vork of cat,sj, rc i
ceedings of the Executive, which appear to be only the
prelude to divers others, lead us to regret that the hula of
the local administration should not, under existing circum-
stances, have been surrounded by men possessing the con-
fidence of the public, and uniting with great experience in
business a perfect knowledge of the feelings and disposition
of the people, and who, as such, would not have advised the
head of the Executive to acts which can only increase the
difficulties already existing.
" The particular and local objects pointed out by your
Excellency, and, more especially, the advances of public
money made to relieve the distress in certain parts of the
province, and for other purposes, shall be the subject of our
deliberations as soon as the circumstances of the province
will permit."

The Address having been read, his Excellency returned
the following answer :
" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House •f As-
sembly :
" The Address which you have just presented to me I
shall lose no time in transmitting for the informati• of
her Majesty's Government. I cannot, however, refrain
from expressing the deep concern and regret I experience
in learning from it that you persist in the determination to
deprive the country of the benefits of domestic Legislation
until ail the demands you have urged shall have bee❑
granted—demands which it is not in the power of the Exe-
cutive Government to grant, and which on being submitted
at your request to the highest authorities of the empire,
they have solemnly declared it is inexpedient to grant.
" The voluntary and continued abandonment of your
functions as one branch of the local Legislature, notwith-
standing the assurance you have received from the high
authority to whom you have appealed, that improvements
will be made in the Executive and Legislative Councils,
while it daily increases the evils under which the province
labours, is at the same time a virtual annihilation of the
Constitution under which that Legislature derives its
existence. _ _

" Being thus unhappily denied that assistance which I
had hoped to receive from the representatives of the people
for relieving the country from its present difficulties, it only
remains for me to assure you that I shall exercise to the
best of my judgment the powers vested in me as the re-
presentative of our Sovereign for the preservation of the
rights and the advancement of the interests and Ivelfare of
all classes of her Majesty's Canadian subjects.

" Castle of St. Lewis, Aug. 26, 1837."

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 25.
THE SI.IGO MURDER.—The mad of to-day continues
its report of the investigation before the Magistrates. The
latest evidence of which we have any account is that pro-
duced on the second day's investigation by the Rev. Mr.
Spelman, the Roman Catholic Clergyman whom it is the
object of certain parties to implicate in a criminal partici-
pation with this horrible transaction, and thus to bring into
odium and discredit the great body of the Roman Catholic
Clergy. The Rev. Mr. Spelman, as we stated some drys
ago, has been virtually acquitted by the Magistrates, who
did not hesitate to admit the Rev. Gentleman to bail. A
contemporary justly remarks that, " As against the indivi-
dual charged, there appears as yet no ground for believing
that he was a principal or consenting party to the outrage,
it is distinctly proved by one of the witnesses, a physician,
that he had no control whatever overthe mob, who regarded
his emlea,. ours to procure accoes to the unfortunate pri-
soners with a most hostile feeling ; and as involving the
Retinal Catholic priesthood in general, the charge wholly
fails, for it is certain that the first information of the outrage
was given by one of that maligned body : and it was given
in the way best calculated to serve the persons aggrieved
and bring their assailants to punishment, being communi-
cated to the recognised protectors of the peace, the police,
and with the least possible delay after the first assault had
been committed."
The following is a report of the evidence of the two last
nit nesscs produced by the Rev. Mr. Spelman, on the second
(lay of the investigation :
Thomas Kilmartin, sworn—Remembers the day Allen
end AlcKenzits were beaten ; left Tubbercorry with Allen
and McKenzie that morning on the car ; witness was going
with clean linen to his two uncles in Sligo ; got on the car;
when he got into the middle of the town of Tubbercorry it
was midnight, or about two o'clock in the morning ; saw
Mr. Kyle, who said, " there they are, there they are, those
are some people who intend to injure us ;" witness then said
to Pat Kilmartin, who was with him, it is better for us to go
to them ; Kyle came to meet them as witness and Pat Kil-
martin were going up ; he had a pistol in his hand, and
asked who witness and Pat Kilmartin were ; Kyle said, he
was on guard of the cars ; saw him make no use of the
pistol, but still held it in his hand ; witness said they were
tenants of Mr. Cooper, and that they were going to Sligo ;
Kyle then said, there are two cars here belonging to your
master, and you may ride on them going down, loaded or
unloaded they will be going down ; witness then got on the
car ; it went to Cloonacool for two freeholders ; Allen and
McKenzie were on the car with witness ; did not get on the
car till he got up to the church ; M'Kenzie and Allen were
on the car when witness got on it at the church ; they made
no objection to witness getting on the car ; they did not tell
witness at the time of getting on the car they were going to
Cloonacool for freeholders ; they told witness along the road
they were going to about Priest M'Hugh's house ; they did
not tell what business they had there ; witness, Allen, and
M'Kenzie went as far as Priest McHugh's house, and when
they got there, they said they had a little distance further
to go. When they got beyond the Priest's house, they
cried out—" Cooper and Perceval for ever." IslcKenzie
was one of them who cried it. Some one else cried it.
Can't say whether it was the driver or Allen. Witness
went on with the car to where the two freeholders were.
WaAed on the road, while Allen went into the town to the
freeholders place, where he lived. The freeholders were
gone before them,
.and witness returned with Allen, McKen-
zie, and the driver, back again. They came along, and
met a party of people on the road. Allen rose up on the
car and said—lf they would not keep back he would shoot
them. When they were not keeping off, Allen snapped
the pistol twice, when the pistol misted file Alien either
threw the pistol at him, or reached out of the car and
struck him. Saw Allen make an attempt to strike the
man, and afterwards saw him bleeding. The man whom
he struck was in the front of the car. He did not stop the
car. Saw no one stop the car, unless the driver did so. There
were not, a great many persons in it when the man was struck
and bleeding. About from twenty to thirty people. Did not
know one of them. Mr. Spelman was not among them.
Knows Mr. Spelman since he came to be curate in this
parish. Knows him more than twelve months. Could not be
in that crowd, without witness seeing him at the time the
car was first stopped ; at the time the man was bleeding
after being struck by the pistol, the party took Allen and
pulled him out of the car ; lives about five or six miles
from that place ; never was there before ; thinks he would
know the man who got the stroke of the pistol ; it is his
opinion if Allen had not threatened to shoot them, and
struck the man, they would not be molested ; they were
then beat when they were dragged out of the car ; the party
kept witness, M'Kenzie, and Allen, in the house into which
they put them ; witness was not beat, he was saved by a
party of women ; would not know any of the women who
saved him ; did not see a woman at all in the place when
the attack was first made ; he threw himself out of the car
and a man seized him ; some time after another man came
up with two stones to strike him ; six or seven women, big
and little, followed and took the stones out of the other
man's hands ; they then put them into a house ; Allen,
McKenzie and witness were about an hour or two in the
house ; they then came and tied Allen, M'Kenzie, and wit-
ness ; they brought them away into a mountain ; thinks
he would not know any of them, ezianpt one, who,
he thinks, he • would know by eye-sight ; before
they *ere tied, Priest Spelman came into the house, he said
they were badly off and should be let go out of that. That
was the first time witness saw Mr. Spelrnan that day ; was
let go, after he was brought up to the mountain, some one
came and loosed him, whom he did not know. Allen and
McKenzie asked Mr. Spelman to let them go, and Mr.
Spelman said they should be let go, and a man out of the
crowd said, " Devil a one of them should be let go." Mr.
Spelman said nothing after the man said so, but that Mien,
McKenzie, and witness were in a bad way ; did not see Mr.
Spelman after that. Does not remember whether Mr. Spel-
man said anything else. It was a very short time after Mr.
Spelman event away they were tied. If the mob could be
said or led by Mr. Spelman, think they would be let go.
Does not know the man who liberated him. Witness, Allen,
and APKenzie were brought to the mountain together.
Witness was not blindfolded at that time, it was on the
mountain side he was, not in any house. Had no conversa-
tion with Allen or 'McKenzie on the Mountain. As soon
as lie was loosened, he went as fast as ever he could home.

Mrs. Anne Branan, sworn—Remembers the day Allen
and M'Kenzie were beaten ; saw M'Kenzie go into a yard ;
she stood on the street for about half an hour, and was
quite alarmed ; saw Mr. Spelman riding down from her
father-inlaw's house ; she stopped on the street until Mr.
Spelman came up to her ; asked Mr. Spelman what she
would do, she was so confused ; Mr. Spelman bid her get
something to refresh them ; Mr. Spelman rode off then ;
can't say which road, Frenchford or the mountain road ;
was told Mr. Spelman was baptizing'; at his return Mr.
Spelman came into her house, and she called him up stairs ;
can't toy how long he was away ; made a drink for him
winch he had not taken, when there came an account that
Cie police were in the street ; begged of Mr. Spelman not
to go one of her house, as she had not a Christian in it at
the time ; he said he would go out to speak to the •police ;
he did go out to the police ; did not see him after; it was
in witness's out-11°,3,7e Allen and M'Kenzie were put into ;
did not look out at all ; does not know any of the persons
who put them into the out-house ; closed the doors and