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

' good. No middle course can answer that. Your knee
to the ground—or death and defiance, oh Ireland I
F. LALO"
THE PROSECUTION OF" MR.JAMES JOHN MARTIN.
The Irish Felon of this day contains letters from Mr.
Devin Reilly and Mr. James F. Lalor, addressed to the
Under-Secretary for Ireland and the Attorney General,
on the subject of the prosecution against Mr. John
Martin, proprietor of the Felon. Mr. Reilly, whose
letter is dated RLtliminrs, 6th July, states that he is un-
aware of the precise articles which form the subject of
the prosecution ; but he adds :
" If I am the author of them, or any of them, I now
hereby offer to avow the authorship, and to assume the
entire responsibility which may devolve upon all con-
nected with their publication, and to surrender myself to
you, or to any other officer of the English Government,
whenever and wheresoever you may appoint,
on the sole
and express condition that the warrant against Mr.
Martin shall be withdrawn, and that no prosecution
shall be instituted against him for any past publications
in the Felon newspaper."
Mr. Reilly also states that he has written this letter
without the knowledge of Mr. Martin.
Mr. J. F. Lalor, whose letter is' ated from the "Felon
office, Trinity-street," without d • after referring to the
prosecution, says :
" I have reason for believing th the only articles in
that journal which could be consid dto afford grounds
for such a charge were none of them written by Mr.
Martin, and were published in opposition to his expressed
opinion:

Mr. Lalor then respectfully inquires " whether the
warrant against Mr. Martin will be withdrawn, if the
real writer should avow the authorship of those articles,
and make himself legally responsible for them? If the
warrant will be so withdrawn, on that condition, such
legal avowal will be given."
The following appears in the Freeman's Journal of
this morning:—
" SEIZURE OF DOCUMENTS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF
THE IRISH FELON' NEWSPAPER.—Yesterday evening,
about seven o'clock, fourteen policemen entered the office
of the Irish Felon, in Trinity-street, stating that they
had a warrant for Mr. Martin's (the registered pro-
prietor's) arrest. Not finding the gentleman on the pre-
mises, the constables proceeded to seize on all the papers
in the office, consisting of accotipts, correspondence, and
other manuscripts—in fact they took away every paper
they found, no matter of what description. They forced
open the office desk, and the editor's room, and emptied
both of their contents. They stated to one of the clerks
in the office that they had authority to do so. Having
collected all the papers they could find, they retired. The
paper was at press when the above seizure was made."
SURRENDER OF MR. JOHN MARTIN.
This day Mr. John Martin, proprietor of the Irish
Felon newspaper, surrendered to Sergeant Prender, of
the detective force, after which he was conducted to Col-
lege-street Police-office, accompanied by his attorney.
Mr. Keramis, the Crown solicitor, was present, but did
not take any active part in the proceedings. On Mr.
Martin being brought before the bench,
Mr. TYNDALL asked him if he was aware of the na-
ture of the informations which had been sworn against
him ?—Mr. Martin replied that he was aware of those
informations, but he was ignorant of the specific charge
laid against him.
Mr. TYNDALL stated that there were different charges
laid in the informations, one of which was for the publi-
cation of a letter on the 24th of June, in the Irish Felon
newspaper, signed "J. F. Lalor," and the other was for
the publication in the same paper, of the Ist of July, an
article headed the " First Step," and for those offences
it was his duty to commit him for trial.
Mr. MARTIN said he wished to say a word or two on
the subject of his absence, in avoiding the execution of
the warrant, the reasons of which he had already ex
pluined in the Irish Felon of this day; but, as that paper
had been seized by-the p)lice—a proceeding which he felt
bound to declare was a public robbery—he wished the
circumstance to be publicly known. The reason he had
kept out of the way was, that he wanted to get something
like a fair trial, which he could not expect to have had
at the last commission.

Before Mr. Martin had surrendered, the police bad
orders to seize the Irish Felon newspaper, and, in the
execution of their orders, they seized every copy of that
paper which they could discover, either in the office
where it had been published, or in the possession of the
newsvenders in the streets.

COMPLETE BREACH BETWEEN THE OLD
AND YOUNG IRELANDERS.
The Repeal Association has finally declared against
the clubs, and the rupture with the Confederates is com-
plete. At a special meeting of the committee, held at
the Corn Exchange Rooms yesterday, resolutions were
adopted to the effect that the replies to the circulars, en-
closing the terms of junction with the Confederates, re•
quired that " the League should confine its operations
to legal, peaceful, and constitutional action," and called
for " modifications to that effect." In order to prevent
all doubt on that point, the committee, whose resolutions
are signed by Mr. Ray, the ------
.6 Th„, ;„a,,.„„„v, intention both of the Confe-
rence and of this committee was to have the League a
strictly legal, and constitutional body, and in order to
remove every doubt that might retard the desired union,
as well as to make the rule of action of the body into
which it is proposed that the Association should merge
so distinct as to admit of no doubt, this committee do
refer back the original basis to the Conference, stating
that, yielding to the voice of public opinion,
this com-
mittee are willing to adjourn the Association and form
the Irish League on the following condition, suggested
as well by the public opinion of the country, as by the
current of recent events, viz.:—
to the use of peaceful, legal,
" That the League be specially and distinctly pledged
the exclusion of all other.
" That the club organization be entirely abandoned,
and the clubs finally dissolved, and that any local orga-
nization to be created or used hereafter shall be strictly
on the above principle, and constitutional means, to
the League.' and entirely under the control of

" Resolved, That in consequence of this reference, the
meeting of the Association, fixed for Monday, the 10th
instant, be postponed till further notice."
The Nation, of this day, regards those resolutions as
" a sudden and bitter disappointment"—as a declaration
by Mr. John O'Connell, and the Committee of the Re
peal Association, against a
junction with the Confede-
rates, " on any other basis but the dismantling of the
popular fortresses—the annihilation of the clubs, in
which the country has embodied its strength." Thus,
the Nation has again avowed that the clubs and League
are identical.

The Nation adds:—
" There will be a public meeting of the Repeal clubs
of Dublin, on Monday evening
next. Those who fear
dishonour more than personal danger, and whq prefer
death itself to desertion, will find in Ireland a willing
audience and a powerful following. On them, singly, the
destiny of our venerable cause has now been flung. May
they prove fit to bear it!"

On the subject of the
Queen's visit the _Nation, while
writing on the " union of Irishmen," says:—
" The Queen is coming to Ireland, and the Queen's
Ministers have assailed another patriot felon. The day
she lands on your shores let the Council of 330 meet in
the capital, and invite her to open the revived Irish Par-
liament. Let us have no sentimental nonsense about
courtesy to a Sovereign. When the corporation of
Dublin, on behalf of its ruined trades and bankrupt
citizens, and with a beggared nation at its back, memo-
rialised for repeal, they received scant courtesy from
the Royal Lady. And now, with our patriots in our
penal settlements or her gaols, shall we bend our back
in the slave's loyalty that kisses the scourge ? No; the
black banner of Skibbereen, and the green banner of our
rising hopes, shall fly before her face wherever she ap-
pears in this land, unless she comes to negotiate their
liberty with the Irish people. Let hirelingsor
shtu.r
jraahriitthh,s
College,the
men of Ireland have a prior allegiance and a deeper
loyalty, which they must not discredit—their loyalty
and allegiance to their suffering country,"
THE LEAGUE AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY.
—Nineteen clergymen of the Deanery of Tuam, includ-
ingeight
andp aristehnperuiersattse,s, hthraeveeforwarded professors
to Mr. Ray a
communication expressing their " entire disapproval of
the contemplated League."
MR. MEAGHER'S MISSION TO AMERICA.—The Lime-
rick Reporter of to-day contains as follows:—., We have
the gratification of announcing that Mr. T. F. Meagher
proceeds by mail steamer to America to-morrow for
productive of
important public purposes connected with this country.
We are vastly mistaken if the mission of this true and
gentleman who
llone of the officers
gifted son of Ireland will not be attended with great and
glorious results. He will be received with open arms
by the people of the great Republic. The conviction
athned
rsiegnhttenfeceelionfgJionhtnheMuitnehiteeld have been
ARRIVAL OF JOHN MITCHEL AT I3ERMUDA. We
acionnvtherescaotimonpawnyithof
of the vessel with carried John Mitchel to Bermuda.
Mr. Mitchel arrived out in good health, though in a
rather depressed state of mind. On his outwrd
voyage he was remarkably silent and reserved, but en-
THE have
day just
travelled had
en-
joyed good bealth.—Freeman's Journal.
THE POTATO.—We are gratified at being enabled to
lay the following statement, which we have
received
from a trustworthy correspondent, before our readers:--
"As you have copied the Gardener's Chronicle, relative
to the potato disease on the estate of Lord Oranmore, in
the county of Mayo, I think it well to inform you of all
I know. A fortnight since I found the disease in a
small plot, surrounded with a close edge, where it oc-
curred in 1845 and 1846. There was then but a perch
affected, now there are ten perches, showing g the disease
to be contagious or infectious. On no other spot of this
estate (about 12,000 acres) ave I heard of it—all po-
tatoes looking well; however,h I hear of the disease as
being at Balla, Hollymount, Ashfield, and Castlegrove."
—Dubin Evening Post.

FUNERAL OF TIIB COUNTESS DE GREY.—The
remains of the late Countess De Grey were consigned to
the family vault at Wrest, Beds, on Friday forenoon, in
the presence of a very numerous congregation of sorrow-
ing friends, and those villagers residing on the estate, to
whom the late Countess had been a liberal benefactress.
The funeral was private, the Earl De Grey, the Earl
Cowper, the Earl of Enniskillen, Mr. Viner, Mr. Balfour,
and the Hon. Mr. Cole attending the obsequiea.