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LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1832.

IRELAND.

NATIONAL POLITICAL UOION.

(From the Dublin Morning Register of Friday last.)
Yesterday there was a meeting of the members of
the National Political Union, held at the Corn Ex-
change, EBENEZER JACOB, Esq., in the Chair. Sur-
geon Farrell acted as Secretary for the day.

THE PARSONS-MR. O'CONNELL-THE

NISTRY.

Mr. O'CoNNELL—I should be extremely happy
if I fell into any misapprehension, to have it cor-
rected, and when there has been a misapprehension
on the part of others, in which I am connected, I
am equally bound to correct it. In the discussion
upon the tithe question, which took place in this
Union, I stated that in the parish which belongs to
the Rev. Mr. Hamilton, a gentleman who is now an
extremely remarkable character, from the fatal event
that took place at Knocktopher, in the county Kil-
kenny—(Hear, hear, hear)—l stated that that mas-
sacre might have been avoided, if the Rev. Mr.
Hamilton had condescended to accept the offer made
to him by Lord Duncannon and other proprietors of
the parish, and this I stated upon the authority of
Mr. Power, of Carrick•on-Suir, then in the room,
and ready to prove the fact—that it was offered to
Mr. Hamilton to take the average of the last seven
years' tithes, allow an abatement of ten per cent. for
collection, and that the amount should then be paid
to him. Had he accepted that offer, the fatal event
might have been avoided. I gave the detail as I
have now mentioned it to you. The fact was printed
correctly in the Freeman—it was taken with equal
correctm ss by the reporter of the Morning Registcr,
but in that paper " two " was printed instead of
" ten" per cent. The error was one of the Press;
it was one that was easy of discovery, and a gentle-
man, before he rushed into print, should, I think, be
anxious to ascertain whether any mistake at all was
committed.—(Hear.) But the Rev. Hans Hamilton
—for that I find is the gentleman's name—is deter-
mined to appear as a writer, and comment upon what
I was a mistake, not of the reporter, but the printer,
[ and, accordingly, in the Evening .Mail, he writes
the letter which I shall now read to you :
" A report of a speech of Mr. O'Connell's, at the Na-
tional Political Union, having appeared in your Paper of
the 23d inst., and in which Mr. O'Connell is said to have
spoken as follows :—' Mr. Hamilton, on account of whose
tithes the unfortunate massacre took place in the county
of Kilkenny, is a perso❑ to whom Lord Duncannon and
the gentry of that county offered to take the average of
seven years' tithes, to take off two per cent., to defray the
expenses of coll. ction, and that they would pay him V e
amount of his tithes'—l request you will have the good-
ness to allow me, through your Paper, to state that what
Mr. O'Connell has asserted is entirely false."

This parson is not very polite, at all events. Now,
what I asserted is not false—but it is perfectly true.
—(Hear, hear.) He then says—
_ .

a When I have leisure—"
Why he has quite leisure to be impertinent.—
(Hear and ldughter.) But he then continues—
" When I have leisure I shall state fads which will set
the whole matter in a correct point of view, and which I
shall forward to your office for inmertion on an early day.
I remain, Sir, your faithful humble servant,

" HANS HAMILTON."
When he has leisure he will state facts ! Why
does he not state facts? I do not know what is to
prevent his having leisure, for he has very few
parishioners to attend.—(Hear, and cheers.) The
Rev. Hans Hamilton should have many idle mo-
ments to enable him to state facts, if it would not
be troublesome and annoying to him to state them.
—(Hear, hear.) I now assert, and I do so on the
authority of Mr. Power, that the offer was made to
him to take the average of the seven past years for
tithes, and that he, taking off the ten per cent. for
the collection, would have the money for those
tithes put into his hands, and that he refused that
offer.—(Hear, hear.) I think it was highly improper
in those who send out the police for him after his
refusal to accept so reasonable an offer.—(Hear.)
And yet, Note the remarkable feature in this
parson's letter, that though there was a massacre of
police—though a great loss of life attended the col-
lision that took place on account of his tithes, yet
this parson has not one word of commiseration for
those who have fallen; but he takes it as a matter of
course, that blood should sprinkle his tithes.—
(Hear, hear.) Where fifteen or twenty lives have
been lost, this man has not leisure either to pity
them, nor to tell the truth.—(Hear, hear.) Parson
Daly—a man who seems to me to be as mad as
" Arms-Bill" Stanley—there is, I think, amongst
these men a spirit of dementation which is almost
inconceivable—(Hear)—this parson has a living in
the county Wicklow, in which he is seldom found.
Instead of being there, he is at the Tea Tract assem-
blies in England, and is to be heard of as gallavant-
ing from one pious party to another. He
has another in Galway—it is a spiritual pro-
motion of some kind or another, and the same
gentleman has a spiritual promotion in Cork.—
He is a cation or a chaunter there, or some-
thing of that sort ; for, whatever it is, it is exceed-
ingly valuable. Are the public aware of this fact,
that the land which belongs to this spirituality, and
I know not of any spirituality he can see in it, ex-
cept the land, and that a number of houses were
built near it, and this worthy gentleman, being
then a young man, thought of running his life against
the leases, and the inhabitants were glad to compro•
miss with him for ten thousand pounds.—(Hear.)
There is a man who would consider it a degradation
to him to have a Catholic Priest compared with
him.! I should be glad to know what Catholic
Bishop or Priest could get ten thousand pounds for
his spirituality.—( Hear.) Ten thousand pounds for
one single transaction of his spirituality !—(Hear.)
When the inhabitants of that part of Cork, in the
last or the present year, asked this same parson for
his subscription for the relief of the poor people of
that impoverished district, what was his answer ?
He asked them how he could afford to contribute to
the relief of the poor, and at the same time defray
the expences of his preaching the new Reforma-
tion ; and he ended an impertinent letter by asking
them to give their money to some other purpose.
Mr. Murphy, of Cork, a highly respectable gentle
man, is my authority for saying that he got that ten
thousand pounds.—(Hear.) The people of Eng-
land are kept exceedingly in the dark with respect
to such facts as these. The people of England
ought to know that here is a man who has three or
four distinct livings or promotions in the Church,
and yet whom I have challenged before now to say
whether he agreed to all the Thirty-nine Articles
He wrote an abusive article in reply to my chal-
lenge; but he declined answering the material point
that I pressed upon him.—(Hear.) He got a good
deal of money from his spiritual situations, and 1
now defy him to state what are his tenets upon the
important subject of baptism. I say it advisedly,
and I ask him does he entertain the same tenets
upon the important sacrament of baptism that the
Established Church does ?—(Hear.) He is so flip-
pant with the pen, he can easily state his opinions
upon that point—(Hear)—and then it is concealed
from the people of England that this Parson Daly
has published an atrocious letter, in which he affects
a superiority, which I do not know where he found,
over the Catholic clergy of Ireland, and he seems to
scorn an association with them, as if they were a
gang of " smugglers" and " gamblers."—(Hear.)
And yet I have heard it wondered at that the people
of Ireland have ceased to pay tithes to the man who
calumniates them in this way ! It is extraordinary,
indeed, that the people should not be most anxious

Ito pay money to them who call them smugglers and
gamblers.—(Hear, hear.) Are the people to be
despised and trodden upon, and pay money to those
who trample upon them ? Are they to act like the
Jew in the Merchant of Venice and say, " You spat
upon me on Wednesday last, and therefore am I to
give you moneys." So this Parson Daly is to say
to them, " Give me money, for I have abused and
vilified you, and compared the clergy of your reli-
gion to smugglers and to gamblers."—(Hear, and
cheers.) I would not now allude to myself, if the
newspapers did not appear to regard me as their
chartered property. It is from no selfish motive
that I make the allusion, but because I have become
a portion of the public cause.—(Hear.) The
Courier has alluded to me in a most flattering man-
ner in one way, and it has been most abusive of my
morality in another. It says that lam cringing to
the Ministry for place. If I am, it is certainly the
most singular cringing that ever a man was guilty
of.---(Hear.) I do not flatter them much, though I
formerly gave them credit for their good intentions.
It is then said that I have taken a hostile part against
the present Administration. I have, on the con-
trary, only desired that they should act up to their
own principles. If it -he said lam hostile to them,
let me ask what have they done for Ireland ? But
then it is said allowances should be made for the dif-
ficulties of their situation. They hare, I answer,
involved themselves in difficulties of their own crea-
tion. Why have they promoted their enemies here ?
Why have they made Lord Lorton a Lieutenant,
and why have they appointed Mr. Joy a Chief
Baron ? Why did they not, when they put out Mr.
Joy as Attorney-General, find a Whig to fill his
place ? Did not Mr. Joy do that which, in my
opinion, he ought not to do—take part in an election
after his appointment ? In a discussion which took
place this very week in the Court of Exchequer,
Sergeant O'Loghlen told the Chief Baron that he
had the honour of his opposition when he was a
candidate. But the Whigs gave that man 5,0001.
a year for his life, and he showed his contempt for
them by voting for a Tory candidate at the Dublin
election. And then they took up my friend Mr.
Doherty, and for no other reason that I can conjec-
ture, except that he abused me. Could not a Whig
and not an enemy, have been selected to fill the
situation ? Mr. Blackburne, too, was made Attor-
ney-General. Would not Mr. Perrin, or Mr.
Holmes, have suited the situation infinitely better ?
Who, then, is their agent for the Excise ? Mr.
Saudi!, whose father sought to organise- an associa-
tion against them. Let them look, too, to their
Counsel for the Excise, and see whether it is Whigs
or enemies they have among them. Within the last
ten days, too, they have appointed, in the county of
Tyrone, one of the most ardent Orangemen there to
a lucrative office. This, then, is my way of cringing
for place ?—(Hear.) I would occupy the entire
time of the Political Union, if I were to detail for
you all the bad appointments the Whigs have made
since they came into office. I shall say nothing of
their Governors of Counties; for these, I suppose,
they are now heartily ashamed of. But, I ask, what
has been done by them for Ireland ? The negative
quantity of their useful measures is quite abundant.
Have we not a right to cheap institutions and good
government in Ireland ? And have we not here a
right to see our enemies out of office as they are in
England ?—(Hear, hear.) But what kind of a Re-
form Bill is it that is clued to us—and what
kind of tithe amelioration, I ask, is it that is
offered to us ? Do they think that tithes will
continue to be paid to clergymen, who abuse us in the
manner that the people here are abused ? Would,
I ask, a Christian Clergyman publish such a letter
as that written by Dr. Hans Hamilton ? He could
have easily ascertained that it was only an error of
the Press that was committed, before he said that
what was uttered was totally false. Now, even if I
had really fallen into the mistake which he imagined
I did, was his language becoming in any Clergyman,
except a Clergyman whose tithes were dipped in
human blood ?—(Hear.) It is a gross mistake in
the Government Press to keep the people of Engs
land ignorant of the real state of this country. It
is a gross mistake in them to do so; for here we are
most hearty Whigs and determined Reformers, and
we are disgusted at not seeing the principles of
Whigs and Reformers carried into practice here.
We are disgusted at seeing pretenders in power.
All the Government appears to want is, that the
people should be quiet, aria that they should do
nothing for Ireland—let them but enjoy their offices
and emoluments, and Irishmen may, for aught they
care, fall into increasing poverty arid accumulating
distress.—(Hear.) If we look to the Equity Bill,
we will find in it an attempt to aggravate the evils
of Ireland. It is bad enough to have the appeal to
the House of Lords, and even that I have known to
be attended with most frightful consequences. I
know of a recent case, in which a man succeeded
there on an appeal from Ireland ; he got but 1001.
costs, and he had to pay his English solicitor (for
an Irish solicitor will not be allowed to act there)
no less than 2,3001., so that unless a property was
immense, success itself must be ruinous to the
suitor. If the question is between Ireland and the
Ministry, I am for Ireland.—(Hear, and continued
cheering.) It is said that we are suggesting mea-
sures to the Ministry. That, I answer, is the very
thing lam doing. I have a motion to propose, to
procure two persons in each parish who will under-
take to forward petitions and collect together the
local grievances that affect the people in their parti-
cular districts. Alr. Fisher, of Carlow, has already
volunteered to have petitions forwarded from that
neighbourhood. I hope that when our friends are
increased, we will be able to send weekly News-
papers to these individuals, as we did to the Catho-
lic Churchwardens, and by that means have a most
useful body of indiwidaseale organised, we bad be-

fore.—(Hear.) The question now is, what are the
Government disposed to do for Ireland ? We do
not find them doing any thing except speaking of
their good intentions.—(H,ar.) The question of
" Education" is at present left in a very indefinite
state. Arms• Bill Stanley procured a letter from
Lord Althorp, pledging him to support the Kildare-
place Society—the honest men who acted with me
drove him from that position, as we will, in a similar
manner, drive him from the tithe-proposition, and his
Reform Bill for this country.—(Hear.) We will
oblige him to restore the forty-shilling franchise in
fee to this country—not the mere rack-rent free-
holders, who are under the controul of their land-
lords, and who can be made, as they were before,
the instruments of Aristocratic domination. We
will insist, too, that the 71. freeholders in Ireland
shall be equal to the 101. in England. In Jamaica
the right of franchise is given to the 101. nominally;
but what is really only equal to 71. 3s. in British
money. In Ireland the man who has 71. is more
independent than the man who has 101. in England.
If the Ministry really intend to conciliate Ireland,
they will make this concession. Why, I ask, should
we not make a determined stand upon this subject ?
And above all things, we should require 125 Mem-
bers for Ireland. That, I think, should be the
sine qua non in our demand for Reform.—(Hear.)
I look for 125 Members for Ireland, and in doing
so, 1 have such an overpowering case that they
cannot refuse it, without declaring that they will
not do common justice to Ireland.—(Hear.) Shall
I be told that this is acting like the demagogne ?
If such be said to me, I reply, is it acting like a
man who is looking for place ? I shall use no other
language—l despise them—they have no place in
their gift which 1 would accept of, and whatever

dreams of power I may have entertained, I tell
them I would accept of none if I were not able to
do good for Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) After some
further observations, Mr. O'Connell concluded by
moving, " That the Secretary should be instructed
to devise the best means of procuring two persons
in each parish to procure signatures to petitions,
and who would volunteer to take charge of peti-
tions from their respective districts."
Mr. FINN seconded the motion.

Mr. E. RUTHVEN said, as the gentleman who
preceded him had spoken of the conduct of two or
three Protestant Clergymen, he would just mention,
as a Protestant, that a Rector in his neighbourhood,
who drew a handsome income for communicating
spiritual instruction to two Protestants in his parish,
for that was the entire number, distinguished'himself
by writing for the Evening Packet, while he was
also in communication with the Castle, and was the
intimate friend of Colonel Gossett, who had contri-
buted to get him the living. This was one of the
friends of the Reforming Ministry.—(Laughter.)
Mr. J. DWYER begged to observe that he, for
one, was disposed to be satisfied with a Reformed
Parliament in England, if it would, as he expected,
give that attention to Irish interests they required;
and he did not think the Union should withhold its
confidence from the Reformed Parliamencprorided
Ireland received an equally extensive measure and
its due proportion of Members.—(Hear.)
Mr. O'CONNELL proposed the Rev. F. M'Donnell,
of Birmingham, as a member, and did so with the
more pleasure, though that excellent clergyman was
his most particular friend, because he was also an
active and useful member of the Birmingham Poli-
tical Union, which, under the guidance of Mr. Att-
wood, a man of the highest character, public spirit,
and talent, had first raised the standard of Reform
in England, and made it impossible for any Ministry
to withhold the measure.—(Cheers.) He also pro-
posed Messrs. William and Thomas Ryan, Thomas
awd Philip Kirwan, and John Boulger, all of Thurles,
as Members.

Mr. LAVELLE seconded the motion.—Agreed to.
After which the meeting separated.

ARMAGH PROTESTANT MEETING.
(Abridged from the Northern Whig.)

Wednesday a meeting was held in Armagh. It
purported to consist of the Clergy, Gentlemen, and
Freeholders of the county; and its object was to
address his Majesty on the present grievances and
perilous condition of the Protestants of Ireland. The
Orangemen of the county, it was pretty well known,
were summoned in to support " the Protestant in-
terest ;" and the Reformers, including the principal
nobility and gentry of Armagh, very justly dreading
a collision of parties, that might be attended by fatal
results, resolved not to come forward at the meeting,
but to address the King or the Parliament in favour
of Reform. This, we understand, is the determina-
tion of the Earl of Gosford (Lord Lieutenant of the
county), the Earl of Charlemont, the Hon. H. Caul-
field, Charles Brownlow, Esq. M.P., &c. &c. Owing
to the summons that had been sent to the Orange-
men, it was anticipated that the meeting would be
much too large for the Court-house to contain, arid
consequently a platform was erected in front of the
building. This was a prudent determination, as a
vast concourse of men, bedizened with orange
ribands, and accompanied by flags and music, came
in procession to the place of meeting, some of them
from so great a distance as ten or twenty miles.
The muster of gentlemen on the platform was not
great ; but the multitude of the lower classes of the
Orangemen, most of them giving, by their appear-
ance, ample indication of their wretched condition,
amounted to several thousands.

Mr. KELLY would content himself with reading
the first resolution, expressive of attachment to the
House of Brunswick, and the principles which
placed them on the throne of these realms.
Mr. A. HAMILTON seconded the resolution. It
was with regret that he had observed the introduc-
tion of late changes. The progress of knowledge
had retrograded. They had seen revelation banished
from the Councils of the nation, and the principles
of the Constitution trampled upon. The Scriptures
had been withdrawn from schools in which our
children were to be taught morality. The course
now pursuing would banish capital. Many of the
Protestants were collecting together their property,
and emigrating to America, and thus withdrawing
capital from the country. Could they look on this
effect of the march of intellect without stirring
themselves ?—(Cheers.)
[This resolution was passed over without being
put to the meeting; and we may as well state here,
that all the other principal resolutions were disposed
of in a similar manner. We humbly conceive that
this course was very impolitic. We know well
enough that these gentry and political tithe parsons
have sufficient contempt for the creatures whom they
use as tools; but they ought not so openly to show
their feelings.]
Mr. ROGER HALL moved a resolution to the effect
that they should respectively lay at the foot of the
throne a statement of the present causes of alarm to
Protestants. He cordially approved of the motion.

Mr. A. ST. GEORGE seconded the motion.

Mr. SYNNOT, in moving the next resolution, said
that, at the present moment, not only the liberty and
property of Protestants, but their very existence, was
threatened. The first attack was made through the
Church. The assailants knew that, if it could be
beaten down, all the Protestant institutions would
follow. In many parts of Ireland, particularly in
the diocese of Dr. Doyle, the clergy were reduced
to very great difficulties, in consequence of refusing
to pay tithe. He ought to be prosecuted for a con-
spiracy against Government. Police had been
slaughtered its the discharge of their duty; he was
the cause of that ; and yet that man was an adviser
to the Government. What could they expect from
a Government with such counsellors ?—(Cheers.)
The Protestant cause had been deserted; but they
were strong. There were three millions of men;
and their advanced guard was the Orangemen of
Ireland.—(Cheers.) Were any present afraid ?
( Cries of " Death before Dishonour !" and " No
Surrender !") They would all fight for the old Con-
stitution of 1688 ; but they would never receive the
new Constitution. They must hit upon some plan
for acting more in union, and not expose themselves
to be cut off in detail. Having the principles of the
Bible in their hearts, and their swords in their hands
they might bid defiance to O'Connell—(Cheers—
drums and fifes in the distance.)
Mr. W. 'mull seconded the resolution.

Lord MANDEVILLE came forward, and was re-
ceived with loud cheers. His Lordship was, for
some time, unable to proceed, as several lodges of
Orangemen arrived, at that moment, with drums and
fifes. He called upon them to desist, but they chose
to continue their music until they had marched into
the throng. At length silence was procured, and
his Lordship began by saying—Gentlemen and
Brothers, I have to propose the fourth resolution.--
(Cheers.) The other resolutions, he said, declared
that Protestants were aggrieved; this one stated
some of the complaints which they had to lay at the
foot of the throne. The first complaint was that
associations had been formed of an unconstitutional
and mischievous character, and had been permitted
by Government to continue in existence. The next
ground of complaint was, the weakness which Mini-
sters had shown in dealing with the demagogues.
Again, processions had been permitted, even under
the eyes of the Lord Lieutenant, in Dublin; and on
the other hand, Prottetants had been dismissed from

the yeomanry because they joined, not as yeomen,
but as private individuals,in commemorating an event
which had been the cause of our liberty. They
had to complain, besides, that the clergy were
not protected, nor the violators of their property
punished.—(Hear, hear! and loud cheers.) They had
to complain that money had been continued to May-
nooth College for teaching Popery : and that Scrip-
ture, which is to show the abomination of Popery,
is to be withdrawn from our places of public edee
cation ; and that the funds for promoting education
have been entrusted to Papists and Socinians. Thse
was a glorious day. In Dublin, the spirit of -Prc-
testantism had been awakened. The shout of" No
surrender" had reverberated from that meeting; and
the lion of the north had been roused.—(Loud
cheering.) When such things were going ore, was
it not their duty to unite? in Ulster, the popula-
tion was one-third of all Ireland; and was it, he
would ask, in the power—he would not say of the
rest of Ireland but—of any country in the world, to
crush Protestant Ulster ? His reply was, No.—
(Cheers.) With respect to the clergy, Dr. Doyle
had told the people not to pay tithes.—(One man
here called out, " We will pay tithes," but, not-
withstanding the high Protestant enthusiasm of the
moment, none seemed disposed torepeat the pledge.)
That was what Dr. Doyle had told them, and the
King's speech just re-echoed the same advice. A
dozen men had been slaughtered in protecting the
rights of the clergy. Was this to be borne ?--(Cries
of " Will you give us guns ?") Have you not,
said his Lordship, your clock clubs, and why do you
not supply yourselves with guns ? I'll give you all
I can.—[This dialogue between his Lordship and
some of the Orangemen in the throng below him,
seemed to appear to several of the gentlemen on the
platform not very judicious; and they sugge.ted to
him that it would be as well to desist from the con-
versation. He took the hint, and proceeded with
his speech.] Ministers hail greatly mistaken the
character of the Protestants of Ireland. They had
supposed that we were not willing to act. This
was a great mistake. They thought our conduct
proceeded from apathy, instead of regarding it as
proceeding from a cool, fixed determination to defend
our rights. Because we were not clamorous and
blustering, they think us indifferent. It was there-
fore necessary, even at this inclement season, to call
together the Orangemen, that they might be told
what was going on. We must unite. If the Pro-
testants had not united, we might have heard of
another tinkling of chancel bells to another massacre
of Protestants. Our safety, concluded his Lord-
ship, depends on our standing together, shouting to
the last " No surrender."—(Cheers.)
_ _

Mr. J. VERNER seconded this resolution.
The Rev. HOLT WARING said Government had
pledged itself to maintain to them their free Pro-
testant Constitution, and their free religion. They
were to be secured in freedom of worship; and
they were to have the power of educating their
children through the aid of the State. These pre-
mises had not been kept. Our ancestors did enjoy
those Protestant privileges, but we are about to be
deprived of them. We were to have a Protestant
Parliament ; but a number of Papists have been sent
into it. And what did they do? As soon as they
went there, they called out that the Church was an
overweening monopoly, and that it must be reduced.
—(Never.) No : but if so, we owed it to the
Orangemen. As long as they stood together against
Popery, the Protecting arm of Providence would aid
them, for a blessing from above always attends those
who unite against Popery. They had not yet, it is
true, been prevented from going to worship in their
own churches, No, but some of them had been
murdered; and this murder is committed and
tolerated—for the love of justice Ministers wish to
srlid forth Popery, and to put the beads above the
Bible.—(Here some cries of " No tithes" were
raised, which caused a little confusion.) The res;)-
solution he had to move called on all Protestants to
support the Protestant cause, and the Protestant in-
stitutions of Ireland.

Mr. J. ATKINSON seconded the resolution, and
proposed three cheers for the Orangemen of Ireland,
which were accordingly given.
Mr. DOUGLAS took that opportunity, as the re-
presentative of his father, to protest against all the
abominations of Popery. We had been tardy. Let
us go forward as one man. If Ministers trembled
before the yelping of the hounds of Popery, where
will they fly before the roar of the lion of the North ?
They must tell the son of George the Third, that
they are two millions and a half. They must hint
to him, that it is upon them he must depend, not
upon the Papists, who had sworn allegiance to
another. By an exertion now, they would, perhaps,
be saved from the Bill. If it passed, it would in-
troduce half a hundred Papists into Parliament.
The Lords still stood between them and Popery.
Had Wellington known their power, he never
would have given way. Their cause was the cause
of God; for a blessing always rested upon a cove-
nant against Popery. Let them look to God for
support and succour, who alone could give them the
victory.
Mr. C. R. DOBBS seconded the motion.

Mr. ARTHUR KELLY, Sovereign of the city of
Armagh, was then called to the chair, when thanks
were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting dis-
solved.

In the course of the morning, a troop of dragoons
arrived in town, for the purpose of acting in case of
any collision of parties. Two companies of the 30th
Infantry, who were on their march from Thlfast to
Enniskillen, and a company of the 29th were under
rm 3 in the barrack during the time of the meeting.
Fortunately, all passed over quietly; but the pre-
caution taken by (we suppose) Lord Gosford, in
conjunction with some of the magistrates, was highly
proper, because, had the Reformers of Armagh not
kept back, the most serious consequences might have
ensued.

A gold fish, the property of a lady in the
vicinity of this town, expired a few days ago, after under-
going a complete change of hue, having assumed a blue
and then a black colour immediately preceding death.
Was cholera the cause ?—Sunderland Herald.

A CLASSICAL HORSE-DEALER.--A
horse-dealer in the Athenian city of Oxford, who is fami-
liarly designated Squeaker Bill, lately made au addition
to his stud of two fines horses, to which he assigned the
classical cognomina of Xerxes and Artaxerxes. A
gentleman commoner having demanded of him his " ex-
quisite reason" for so doing, he replied, " Why you see as
how when I drives tandem, I makes Xerxes my leader,
and puts the other in the shafts, and so I calls him Aster..
Xerxes."—Bath Herald.

VILLAGE GOSSIP.—Some time ago, a young
man in a village not far distant from this city, resolved
to take unto himself a wife. Late on a Saturday night,
while on his way to the Dominie, he called upon a friend
to accompany him and witness the " giving up of the
names." He of course communicated to his friend the
name of his intended bride, and desired him to keep the
matter secret. " What !" exclaimed his companion,
"keep the name secret ! Why it will spunk out from the
pulpit, and be food for the gossips, for a week !" " I'll
lay a wager," said the bridegroom, "our names will not
be talked about during the whole week." " Done—for a
crown bowl." The bridegroom managed matters so well,
that when the bellman went through the knit-yard next
morning to fetch the key of the kirk from the Manse, he
was appalled on seeing that a considerable excavation had
been made at the end of the grave of a person lately in-
terred, The alarm was given ; hundreds rushed to the
spot. It was found that the daring resurrectionists had
not accomplished their purpose, having been scared away;
but what creat-d wonder wa., that they had left behind a
spade and sack, which were the property of a farmer in
the neighbourhood. Such a daring, sacrilegious, and
mysterious affair, had never before disturbed the imagina-
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of the village, and nothing next day was beard but
"did ye e'er hear the like o't ?" The proclamation of
marriage in the church passed unheeded. The marriage
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