The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-08 00:00:00

of high treason. 11,wever. as yet no ov,rt acts or trea-
son had been committed, and tkis consideration brought
eini to the immediate watenient which he had to make
uu the subject. of the ine•isure *inch he had ro pr pose
to l'Ar;istuent. Li the iVotrun newspaper would be
found d:•call.,d in.rtructiorrs for the construction of b irii-
trades, and showing how the Queen's troops might. br-st
b., interrupted and even mu,dered by missiles trim the
windows or houses, whil-rt perfortniin.! then- duty. This
species of street warl,re had been studied by those who
di scribed and the writers ill the paper he had named
did not hesitate to declare that their object *as to drive
the Queen's representative, the Lord-Lieutenant, out or
the kingdom, and to instal a Republican Government
there. On the 23d of March he found the following
speech reported as having been delivered by Mr.
Mitchell, at one of the meetings to which he had re-
ferred:— _ _ _

•' I am charged with writing seditious articles, having
a tendency to inflame the minds of the people, and excite
discontent. I did write seditious articles, and I will
write seditious articles.—(Loud cheering.) I will incite
the people to discontent and disaffection.—(Renewed
cheering.) I know no reason why they should be con-
tent—why they should be well-dr...civil—towards the
Government of England.—(Loud cheers.) On the day
this confederation was formed, I, as you remember,
came forward and declared myself a disaffected subject,
and promised to devote myself continually to excite dis-
affection in others.—(llear, hear, and loud cheering.) I
think I have kept that promise; and, come what may, I
will continue to do so."—(Loud cheers.)..

The— person who spoke thus was one of those who had
been brought by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and the
law officers of the Crown there under the jurisdiction of
the law, and who, even if he were found guilty of utter-
ing such speeches as the above, would only be subjected,
as a punishment for his offence, to a moderate fine and
imprisonment. Another of tne persons indicted, Mr.
C. G. Duffy, of the Nation, was the next speaker, to
whose words he would draw the atterrion of the House.
He found the following report contained in the papers
of that person's address :
"I am guilty of an attempt to sow disaffection in the
minds of the people—l am guilty of an attempt to
overthrow this Government, which keeps its footing on
our sell by sheer brute force, and by nothing else.—
(Loud cries of Hear, hear.') And this I tell you,
that until that Government be thoroughly upset, I shall
not cease to write, to speak, to act sedition. One cir-
cumstance alone shall stop me in this career—my death.
—(Loud and enthusiastic cheers.) In their courts of
ls.w we shall take issue with them boldly and despe-
rately. IF we do nut throw them there, we shall throw
them on a broader field.—(Vehement cheering.) It
must be done. The news this morning announces that
Vienna is in the hands of the people.—(Renewed cheer-
ing.) Dublin must be iu the hands of the people.—
(Enthusiastic and deafening cheers.) Stand by us, citi-
zens, and it shall be done.—(Cries ,:f 'We
such was the language uttered by these persons, and
those who were in ti-:e intuit of realing tires, speechss
~ould be aware that the more violent and tieason.ble
expressions., the more vehement was the applauNe
ith which they were greeted, On the saute day Mr.
ceine fora ard to propose the formation of a na-
tional guard. lie (Sir G. Grej) must warn the House
again.t adopting the supposition that this proposal was
merely sedition, for it might turn out, to be a far graver
ertme. The speech attributed to Mr. Devin Reilly was
as follows:

6' Nlr. Devin Reilly then came forward to propose a
resolution for the organization of a national guard, and
in doing so was vehemently cheered. He said he was
satisfied that the country would see iu that evening's
meeting a good beginning.—(Cheers.) It was his high
privilege to propose that they should take that evening
the initiative step in the broad path of freedom—
(Cheers)—to prose the first of a series of steps for which
his soul had long hungered, and for the want of which
tens of thousands of his murdered courerymen had pe-
risned—the formation of an armed national guard iu
Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) Tiflis resolution called on the
council of the confederation to inquire and report
on the best and mos', effectual means of organizing
and arming such a body.—(Loud cheering.) That was
their answer to Lord Clarendon.—(Cheers.) For every
one of them he might imprison, hundreds would be ready
to take their places. For every leader of importance
imprisoned, they would arm ten thousand men —(Loud
cheers.) For every hour he confined them, they would
shorten his rule in Ireland by one hundred days. For
every hair of their heads he touched, for every one he
hanged; but be would not talk to them of hanging, for
it there was sufficient manhood and devotion amongst
them, long before things arrived at such a pass they
would open the gaols with their pickaxes and crowbars.
Long before that day every street of Dublin might be
a bat ricade or a fortress, and every pavement carpAted
with blood.—(Great applause.) Long before that day
they would show the tyrant out of Ireland by the light
of the burning gaols.—(Cheers.) Before that day every
field in Ireland must be fought, every ditch defended,
and every river obtain a notorious memory to lire
throughout future ages. Aye, and if they were driven into
the remotest corners of their beloved island, they would
make the graves of their murdered countrymen the last
resting-ground for the defence of their precious liberties.
—(Cheers.) If they were to fall, let them nobly. tall—.
if they conquered, they must do so by their own right
hands. %Voile they had arms in their hands they might
defy the whole world—without them they were at the
beck of every petty constable.—(Hear.) Four months
ago, when the Coercion Bill was introduced, he called
on the people in that hall to urtn.—(Cheers.) Now he
culled on them a second time to arm, arm, arm !—(Loud
cheers.) Had they armed tour months ago they would
he Jour months nearer their liberty that day. Let them
art), now; and when they had armed, they would be
ready, and not souner.—(eheers.) o,Then they were
willing to aid themselves, liod would assist them, and
not betore.—(Cheers.) They had often deed told about.
Ireland's opportunity, and that the time was not y• t
come. Now, he would tell them that no time was oppor-
tune to a nation which was not prepared to go out at
any moment and assert its rights —(lmmense ap-
plause.) It was slaves only who waited for oppor-
tunities—a nation of brave men should be alway'
prepared.—(Cheers,) A great movement of the peopl.
was passing over the world. Democracy had crossed the
Alps and entered Austria. Last week he was in Paris.
and there smashed the strongest dynasty in the world.
—(Loud applause.) He would presently come to Ire-
laud.—(Cheers.) 300,000 Englishmen, Chartists, would
asseinol, in Lore :on next week, and then they woul.i
have Lend .n iu their hands.—(lleer, hear, and cheers.)
lie pronds« d them, as a br ether, filet wte tiller that time
came soeuer or later, the tirst budge in England would
be answered in Ireiand.—(L cheers.) Let them welt
fur that day, and prepare for it, by arming themselves ;
and, till that day arrived, he had but one advice to give
them, and that advice was, to • put their trust in God and
keep their powder dry.'
From another .1 thy sp eches it would seem that. a
treasonable appeal had been made to a foreign court
try to help these psrsons to overthrow the established
Government and to institute a republic in Ireland. The-
speech to which he referred was printed in the papers as
follows:

" Mr. C. G. Daffy, of the Nation, then came forward
and was received with loud cheers. He said he had
news fur them from Mr. Smith O'Brien. He thought
they knew that he was no boaster. He believed that
they could trust in what he said, and felt that he said
only what he intended to do. He (Mr. O'Brien) re-
ceived last week an address from a certain Irish club in
Paris, and the answer to that address excited a storm of
curiosity. The Morning Chronicle received that day
expressed great annoyance that it could not lay its
hands upon it, and the Lord-Lieutenant would give his
eye out for it: but they would be generous—they would
give it to him for nothing.—(Cheers.) Hero it was.
Mr. O'Brien said, in answer to the club to which he
referred, • I nave seen enough of Franca to convince me
that she is able and willing, if invited, to make au effort
to send 50,000 of her most valued citizens to support the
Irish nation in a struggle.'—(Great cheering.) The
answer of Lamartine had been received, and like all
state documents, it meant nothing; but he thought they
could be indifferent to it, after the promises of one of
their truest men ringing in their ears.—(Cheers.) The
union was repealed.—(Cheers.) He thought so that
morning, but he had 50,000 additional reasons fur be-
lieving that it was repealed.—(Cheers.)"
He did not read this extract with the intention of having
it believed that he attached the slightest confidence to
the statement of the disposition on the part of France
to send 50,000 armed men to aid the separation of
Ireland from this country.—(Hear, hear.) Whatever
opinion he might entertain as to the conduct and
views of the Provisional Government of France, no
man could read the answer of M. De Lmartine to the
Irish deputation without respecting the courage and
boldness which dictated that reply—a reply giving,
in the most explicit, and as he thoroughly believed, in
the moat honest, terms, a distinct refusal on the part of
the Government to interfere in any way iu the internal
affairs of England, or to send any men to this country,
or to Ireland, to aid the deputation in their treasonable
designs.—(Hear, hear.) M. De Lamartine, had as a
matter of course, especially under the circumstances in
which he was placed, received these gentlemen with civi-
lity; but as to assistance from France, toe disturbers of
the public peace in Ireland might wait for it in vain,
whatever might have been said to some member of the
deputation by some member of a Parisian club, eager!)
caught up by the Irish emissary in his despair at the
wholly discouraging reception given to him by the autho-
rities —(Hear, hear.) He would not impute to a Mem-
ber of the Imperial Parliament a design to deceive others,
hut assuredly Mr. Smith O'Brien, in his eager enthu-
siasm, wholly deceived himself, when he talked of
the comiug aid of 50,000 French baayonets ti,
the designing men of whom he was rendering himself the
tool, and to the excitable band of followers for whose
fate, should they not be in time prevented from
incurring punishment, he would be so deeply responsible.
—(Hear.) A. Mr. Magee, it' seconding the motion,
spoke in still more vehement terms ef an a l ppea to arms in
the assertion of the cause they h-ol to view, lie wits
sure, however, he need not read any more then he had
read, to show what was the character of the a tvice given
by these men to the excitable et owds they addressed, or
what were the designs which they d.a not merely not
attempt to disguise, but which they unblushingly and
fiercely avowed and exulted in.—(Hear, hear.) One
word he would add, however, respecting a sentence in
Mr. Magee's speech, which described Lord Clarendon as
going about and soliciting the protection of the wardens
of the Dublin trades, for he was bound to say, in justice
to the large proportion of the population of that part of
the country, that, during the progress of this agitation,
the Lord-Lieutenant, so far from having found it neces-
sary to make any appeal for a manifestation of confidence
in his government, had, so far back as the 27th March,
informed his colleagues at home that an address had been
presented to him expressive of the fullest confidence in
Ilia) and in the Government. and of the most loyal
ateeeehmeet to the Crown, the laws, and to the iu-
stitutions of the realm, signed by persons of all
ranks, professions, and religious persuasions, many