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

LONDON, MONDAY E V E Y N G

IRELAND.
ARREST OF MR. DUFFY.
DUBLIN, SUNDAY MORNING.-Mr. Duffy, of the Na-
tion, was arrested last night, and committed to Newgate
on a charge of felony; all the manuscripts in his office
were seized. More arrests spoken of. The city per-
fectiv tranquil.
Dt-nessi, JULY B.—Mr. Jelin Martin, proprietor of
the Felon newspaper, surrendered this mornirg, and has
been committed to Newgate to take his trial on a charge
of felony, at the commission which stands adjourned to
the Bth of August next, and nor, as Mr. Martin ima
gined when he gave himself into the custody of the police,
to the month of October next.
'Flit Government are acting with energy, so far as the
state of the law will permit. Previous to Mr. Martin's
surrender, the police had seized all papers, letters, &c.,
et the office of the Felen; yesterday evening and this day
they seized upon all the numbers of the Felon they could
ay their hands upon, either at the office of that paper or
Amongst the newsvenders in the streets. But the treason
journals are still increasing in violence, and the club
organization proceeds at railroad speed.
Mr. F. Meagher, who is about to proceed on a mission
to America, has addressed, through the Nation, a long
letter to the members of the Dublin clubs, in which, after
instructing them on the means of carrying out the
struggle to a successful issue, he says—
" The Members or the Council are doing their work,
and doing it well. They have heated the metal, and
now they work it into shape. It is precisely because
there are no speeches, no defiances, no enthusiastic
meetings, no noise, no hubbub, that business at last is
being done. Clubs are springing up in every direction,
with the aid of the Council. Twenty, forty, fifty, a
hundred miles, are nothing to them, even at an hour's
notice. Ceasing to be the mere preachers of the move-
ment, they have become its organizers. The struggle is
now conducted by hands, not by tongues. The orators
have become workmen, and the workmen may become
martyrs.
" The Council sit every day, and there is nothing left
undone by them to keep the mind of the country fixed
upon the object of its enthusiasm—its ambition
—nothing left undone by them to keep it in a
state of disciplined activity—full of hope, intelli-
gence, heroism. The trial of John Mitchel—his
letters to the Protestant tenant-farmers—the infamous
construction of his jury—his speech—the speech
of Mr. Holmes—the letter of the Rev. Mr. Hughes to
Lord John Russell—Mr. Duffy's statement of Ireland's
capacity to assert her independence by arms—the Ame-
rican address—every document, in fact, that can instruct
the public mind, strengthen, and inspire it, has been
printed, published, and circulated, by the thousand,
through the country.
" More than this—we have anxiously watched the
political trials in England and Scotland, and by votes of
money, have sustained, in both countries, the men who
suffer, or have yet to suffer, for their political courage
and integrity.
"In the case that recently occurred here—in the case
of Gogarty, English, and the other traversers—the
Council appointed a conducting agent—retained counsel
—teed them—and did all in their power to ensure the
parties the best legal assistance. It that assistance was
not rendered, it was the fault of Mr. O'Hea, who left
town the day previous to the trial, without providing in
time, as he was bound to do, a competent substitute. And
no sooner was the decision in this case known, than the
Council took the necessary steps for an appeal by a writ
of error. You will admit, then, that in this instance
the Council has evinced an earliest anxiety, and have
used their best efforts to protect the liberty of these
generous, brave, and honest men.
" If there are any other complaints to be made upon
this subject, I will be happy to hear and answer them."
Mr. Meagher thus concludes with an avowal of the
object of the clubs, just as distinct as any made by John
Mitchel or John Martin :
" Our object--it is simply this, to destroy the Eng-
lish interest in this country— root and branch—to insti-
tute a National Government in this city—and by our
laws and arms to restore the country—in its full integrity
and glory—to its own brave people.
"Our determination—to do this at any and every

" Our faith—that it will be done.
" In very great haste I have written this letter—and
I am sure you will excuse its many inaccuracies for this
reason. Next week I shall write to you again.
" In the meanwhile, and always, believe me, my dear
friends, your faithful friend,
" THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER.
" Council-rooms, Friday evening."
Mr. John Martin has published, in the Irish Felon, a
long letter, addressed "To the Right Hon. the Earl of
Clarendon, repi,sentative of the British Crown and dig-
nity in Ireland." It is dated " From my hiding-place,
July 6, 1848," and gives the following account of the
causes which induced him to keep out of the way of the
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police:—
"On last Monday evening, when, armed with your
warrant for my arrest, your detectives searched for me
in my office in Trinity-street, and afterwards in the
nous° or my friend Mr. Iteilly; it nappened that t was
sitting comfortably in the house of another friend, where
I had dined. Information reached me very soon of your
proceedings; and my friends and I formed ourselves
into a little cabinet council, to consider the course pro-
per for me to take; and we agreed that the best course
was, that I should endeavour to keep clear of Green-
street till after the rising of your present
Commission. We understood that the Crown '
had provided itself with a panel of even surer loy-
alty' than the one you packed for the conviction of
John Mitchel; that the most ferocious of your par-
tisan judges, Chief Justice Blackburne, occupied the
bench; that your convict ship the Shearwater lay in
Kingstown Harbour; that, in short, you had all your
arrangements ready made for ' trying' me, convicting
me, and robbing me—putting me in irons, and sending
me off„ like a burglar or murderer, to live and die among
burglars and murderers—all within twenty-four, or at
most forty-eight hours; while I could have no time or
opportunity for preparing my legal defence or my moral
vindication—no means of exposing to the world the in-
iquities of your packing, your contrivances for making
Crown," government,' and ' law,' abominations to all
honest men—your official meanness, lying, and malig-
nity. My friends and I considered that your advantages
trial' for felony,' under such circumstances, would
be too enormous—that your dice were really too heavily
loaded. And, therefore, we determined that I should
avoid a trial' during this commission. And thus
it is that I have condescended to hide myself from
your detectives for these days. Your commission,
which, as I am told, finished all the business
before it on Tuesday last, stands adjourned
till Friday ;' and people say that this sitting on
Friday must be intended for my especial case, which is
really doing me far too much honour (for indeed I am
but a very feeble opponent of your empire, though I
will yield to no man in hatred of that grand engine of
human debasement and misery). The commission, I
understand, must rise for the long vacation on Friday,
as the benignant Blackburn° and the other esteemed
Crown and Government Judges are to go on circuit upon
Saturday. And after Friday it will not be convenient
for your Courts to try me, or any other patriots, for
' felony' till October next. If, then, you confine me in
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as we can among those of our countrymen whom their
ignorance and bigotry, and the acts of your faction, keep
away from the national ranks, as the Orangemen of
Ulster, the demented landlords, who are rushing upon
their own destruction, and the misguided men of your
army and police force. For my own part, I hope to
effect some good by explaining the national doctrines,
and urging the necessity of the course proposed by Na-
tionalists, and so effacing from the minds of our wretched
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Mr. James F. Lalor, in an article in the Felon, headed
" What must be done?" recommends the formation of
a Felon newspaper proprietary of from 400 to 1,200
persons. He says :
" The hand of the English Government points to this
journal as the foe which it hates and fears the most, It'
Ireland be desirous that it shall not sink, overborne by
repeated assaults, there is one sure way to support and sus-
tain it, and but one 'alone. I now do what I have deferred
too long—l appeal to Ireland to come to the relief of her
assailed and endangered fortress; and I claim, for sake of
her own success and her own safety to have that fortress
manned and provided—its garrison increased, its defences
strengthened. I demand the immediate formation of a
joint-stock company to take Mr. Martin's place, if he
should be crushed, and to continue this journal under its
present or some other name."
Mr. Lalor thus concludes :
" Form the company I propose, and then—before they
squelch' Ireland they must squelch' the Felon office.
Ha ! squelch it—by heavens—squelch it rio It is no

* " Ireland is like a half starved rat that crosses the
pith of an elephant. What must the elephant do?
Squelch it—by, heavens—squelch it."—Late Letter of
Thomas Carlyle,