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

MONDAY 'yENING

IRELAND.
ARREST OF MR. DUFFY.
DUBLIN, SUNDAY MORNING.-Mr. Duffy, of the Na-
tion, was arrested last night, and committed to Newgate
o❑ a charge of felony; all the manuscripts in his office
were seized. More arrests spoke❑ of. The city per-
fectly tranquil
DUBLIN, JITLY B.—Mr. John hist tin, proprietor of
the Felon newspaper, surrendered this morning, and has
been committed to Newgate to take his trial on a charg e
of felony, at the commission which stands adjourned ti)
the Bth of August next, and not, as Mr. Martin ima •
gifted when he gave himself into the custody of the police,
to the month of October next.
The 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.,
'st the offi,!e of the Felon; yesterday evening and this day
hey seized u; on all the numbers of the Felon they could
ay their hands upon, either at the office of that paper or
amongst the newsvendrrs 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 Notion, 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 of 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, flit), 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, lay 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
—feed 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 earnest anxiety, and have
used their best efforts to protect the liberty of these
generous, brave, and honest men.
" It' 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
mid 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. Joh❑ Martin has published, in the Irish Felon, a
long letter, addressed " To the Right Hon. the Earl of
Clarendon, representative 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

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
house of my friend Mr. Reilly; it happened that I was
sitting comfortably in the house of another friend, where
1 had dined. Information reached me very soon of your
proceedings; arid 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
in 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 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 Blackburne 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
Newgate till October, we will both of us have three
mouths for preparation before my trial—which I trust
will be also your trial. You can employ the time in
perfecting your packing arrangements, instructing'
your lawyers and judges—perhaps getting new Acts
from your Parliament anent the atrocious 'illegality'
or spelaegal eh
speaking
anctruthle
of escape ; and in settingfrominlreland—totakeaway
me
any the
speakers and writers of your faction to slander and
vilified John Mitchel, representing me as a communist,
avisliofayialmiset,
anin advocate
evnesaatme
and war,ll
and in torrents of human blood—so as to ha
same
fwpai yl
l a gaes ati hi
de ym
asslsaancdreer, ead fiendand
convicted as well as legally. On the o
whose delight is in tempests of anatriacehrycivil
hand,
have me morally
it will be
the part of my friends and myself to offer all the little op-
position in our power to your jury-packing, and at least to
expose your practices in that department of govern-
ment to the contempt and detestation of the world;
and to propagate felonious' sentiments as extensively
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
better classes' those prejudices and fears which impel
them to prefer civil war to Irish independence. I can
s3rabtor
(anf;autdt reasonably
millionh)
ttte:bon s ya organized,aw
oa
abonoyl
brydeu
your
calculateodorbiu
hsi
aedhynr
October
ea x moral or al triumph
And
have in
goodth e
hopeey e s
ands determined,
next
felons'
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rsydn yo,
,sen
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will
meanest
for
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of
tt so
ehpoaneefrsarmemrt
hteosi policemen'sarmed
curse your impious Crown and Government.' "
Mr. James F. Lalor, in an article in the Felon,headed
" What must be done?" recommends the formation of
a Felon newspaper proprietary of f
rom 460 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., If
t
Ireland be desirous that it shall not sink, overborne b
hointnafeheenotat
dsdhut
repeated assaults, there is one sure way to support and sus-
tain3''
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 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— i squelch t."—Lale Letter of
Moms Cellyle.

good. No middle course can answer that. Your knee
to the ground—or death and defiance, oh Ireland
" JAMES F. LA LOR."
THE PROSECUTION OF MR. JOHN MARTIN.
The _lrish 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 Rethmines, 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 dated from the "Felon
office, Trinity-street," without date, after referring to the
prosecution, says :
" I have reason for believing that the only articles in
that journal which could be considered to 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
this morning:—
" SEIZURE OF DOCUMENTS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF
aPpears in the Freeman's Journal of
THE IRISH FELON' NEWSPAPER.—Yesterday evening,
about seven o'clock, fourteerepolicemen 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 accounts, 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. Keinmis, 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 be 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
plained in the Irish Felon of this day; but, as that paper
had been seized by the police—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 had
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 constlehtional action," and called
fur " modifications to that effect." In order to prevent
all doubt on that point, the committee, whose resolutions
are signed by Mr. Ray, the secretary, declare:—
" That inasmuch as the 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.:
" That the League be specially and distinctly pledged
to the use of peaceful, legal, and constitutional means, to
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 entirely under the control of
the League.'
" 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
a
hs
embodied peal Association, against a
the
Committeei
ts sof hte ho.” theT h Rue
unction with the Confede-
rates, " on any other basis but the dismantling of the
Nation adds:—
f
Thus,
clubs, in
the Nation has again avowed that the clubs and League
PWlTicuhlar the fortresses—thecountry
are
Tidentical.
" There will be a public meeting of the Repeal clubs
of Dublin, on Monday evening next. Those who fear
annihilationnd t
strength."
dishonour more than personal danger, and who 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, menus_
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 Skihbereen, 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 hirelings hurrah ; 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-
ing eight parish priests, three professors of St. Jarlath's
College, and ten curates, have forwarded to Me
• 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
important public purposes connected with this country.
We are vastly mistaken if the mission of this true and
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 convictio and sentence of John Mitchel hare been n
productive of
the right feeling in the United States,
ARRIVAL OF JOHN MITCHEL AT BERMUDA. We
have just had a conversation with it gentleman who
this day travelled in the company of
one of the officers
of the vessel with carried John Mitchel to Bermuda.
Mr. Mitchel arrived out
remarkably silent an in good health, though in a
rather depressed state of mind. On his outward
voyage he was remarkably reserved, but en-
joyed good health. —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
the disease
to be contagious or infectious. On no other spot of this
estate (about 12,000 acres) have I heard of it—all po-
tatoes looking well; however, I hear of the disease as
being at Balla, Hollymount, Ashfield, and Castlegrovo."
—Dubin Evening Post.

FUNERAL OF THE COUNTESS DR 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,
rd ikegon. Mr. Cole attending the obsequies.