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he was then on ?—They were too rapid—my memory cannot
now suggest them.
Here witness looked over his notes—a long, old, torn
paper—and said, " He (Mr. O'Connell) spoke of Saxon op•
pression—of being ground to the dust—never being con-
quered"—then he made the pause.—(Laughter.) " They
were never conquered"—again a pause. I arrived
(continued witness) in Longford on the 27th, and the meeting
was held on Sunday. There were no riots there. 1 was not
sorry for that. The people came into the meeting in
a most disorderly manner, leaping, and shouting, and
brandishing their sticks , but, of course, they were not
going to quarrel with one another. I did not hear the testimony
of the last witness. This conduct was exhibited by large
bodies of men as they came to the place of meeting, from ten
o'clock until two o'clock in the afternoon, when fur. O'Con-
nell arrived. Indeed, the people were in a sweating
rage of excitement.—(Laughter.) They were led on by per-
sons whom I believe to be priests. I saw no sticks in the
priests' hands that I can recollect. I saw some of the parties
pulling others off the platform, and I might have seen. a mo-
mentary anger arise, but will not swear that it did. I was in
the house of Needham the chandler at the time. There were
no policemen there; indeed, they dare not appear. I was not
afraid because by the directions of my superior I was in co-
loured clothes. The meeting was perfectly obedient to Mr.
O'Connell's orders.

Was it loud shouting that you heard ?—lt was.
Then every person must have heard it as well as you?—l
suppose so. I might have heard the shouting further off from
the spot where I stood.

And you must have seen the winding of sticks?—l did.
It was a very remarkable thing, was it not?—Yes.
And you saw no police there except between the hours of
eight and ten in the morning. I saw pollee there in the early
part of the morning. I would say about eight to ten o'clock.
Did you see policemen in the streets till eleven o'clock ?
might have seen an odd oße.—( A laugh.) •
Was he armed ?—He may have had arms.-
Mr. Warren—Did you ever hear of a cat's-paw ?—Yes, and
I have heard of persons being made cat's-paw s.—( Laughter.)
Mr. Fitzgibbon—That arises from the course of my exami-
nation. 1 heard of an exclamation the other day as coming
from one of her Majesty's Cottasel, and I now add that that was
said by one of her Majesty's sergeants, as arising out of my
cross-examination.

The Court then adjourned until ten o'clock to-morrow.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
The usual weekly meeting of the Association took place on
➢Monday at the Conciliation-hall.

Theie seemed to be an increased degree of interest about
the proceedings of the day, as, for a long period before the hour
appointed, the building presented a crowded appearance.
At two o'clock Mr. Maurice O'Connell entered, accom•
panied by William Smith O'Brien, M.P., Caleb Powell, M.P.,
and several other gentlemen.
On the motion of Mr. Maurice O'Connell,
William Smith O'Brien, M.P., was called to the chair,
amidst the most rapturous applause.
The Chairman—Gentlemen, 1 feel overpowered by the con-
gratulation with which you have received me; but 1 must not
be misled. I feel that this congratulation is not so much the
reward of past services, but an incitement to renewed exertions.
Gentlemen, at any time I would have felt it an honour to be
called to preside over a meeting of an Asscciation which pos-
sesses the confidence of many millions, but doubly so under the
circumstances of the present moment. I feel that we are at
a crisis of the nation's fate, and posterity shall tender its grati-
tude to those men who shall safely conduct the people in the
hour of their danger.—( Cheers.) I entered the room with
exultation and with hope, for I am not deterred by the
menaces of the Attorney- General. —( Loud and long-continued
cheering.) It is true that your leaders are taken from you at
the present moment.—( Hear, hear.) It is true that means
have been taken to procure a verdict, of what kind I will not
say, but which will deprive it of all moral worth.—( Hear).
But I cannot believe that any jury, however composed, will
surrender the rights and liberties of our country.--( Hear).
But I still feel exultation and hope, when I know that the
people are determined to maintain the privileges which are our
birthright. I came here to tell the Attorney-General that,
though not ambitious of martyrdom, if he wants another
victim I present myself to him.—( Tremendous cheering). Are
there not many that are ready to go to prison for the cause of
their country?—( Cheers, and cries of "Yes, yes," and " Every
one of us.") Well, then, we tell the Government that every
man is ready to go to prison in defence of his constitutional
rights—( Hear, hear, and cheers)—and let us ask them will
they, or any Government, venture to build prisons large
enough to hold them all 2—(Cheers and laughter.) But.
Gentlemen, I told you I entered the Association with
feelings of exultation and with hope ; and I did so because
I see a spirit of nationality rising through the country in
consequence of the exec Lions of this Association. I see this
national feeling evinced in the rising movement in favour of
Federalism—l see it evinced in the Meeting which took
place in Charlemont House.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) The
time is coming when the Caulfields, the Geraldines, and the
De Burghs will take their proper station at the head of the Irish
people. I know not whether those speeches were justly re-
ported; but I find that Lord Miltown, and my friend, Lord
Stuart, have asserted that if the rights of the country be not
conceded, they will join the great confederation of the people.
—( Hear, and cheers.) I cannot forget that Lord Stuart was not
ashamed to enrol himself with me in the Catholic Association.
The conduct of the Government has created doubt in his mind
whether he ought not again to enrol himself; and why should it not
be so ?—why are we forbidden the name and rights of a nation ?
The Englishman is proud of his country. The Scotchmen is
proud of his country. The Frenchman thinks there is no
country in the world like his own ; and the Circassian has en-
countered the colossal power of Russia in defence of his free-
dom; and shall Ireland be the only country in which nationality
is forbidden ?—( Cheers.) But a spirit of patriotism does
exist, I believe, both within and out of the holy pulitic.--
(Hear, hear.) And I would remind you, my friends, that that
cannot be called a national movement which does not include the
Protestants ; for, we cannot shut our eyes to the fact
that as yet (though many Protestants of high family have
joined us) there is a coldness among that class towards the
movement. We must conciliate the Protestants—we must re-
move their prejudices,_ and convince them that we do not 'seek
an ascendancy, and that you are determined to protect the
rights of conscience.—(Cheers.) I came here, then, to offer
to you my services—( Hear, hear)—abilities I have not ; but I
have some experience in public affairs, a patient and persever-
ing industry, and a resolute Irish heart.—( Cheers.)
The Chairman then read the following letter from Mr. John
O'Connell :

" Four Com ts, Dublin, Jan. 22, 1844.
" My Dear Sir,—As I find I am not to be allowed to attend
my duty in the Association this day, may 1 beg of you to state
for me that the committee for collecting evidence respecting
land tenure is steadily pursuing its inquiries, and is every day re"
ceiving a very large number of letters from all parts of t"'
country, detailing sad stories of sufferings from the oppression
of bad landlords. We punctually abstract these documents, and
forward immediately afterwards to Lord Devon all such letters
as contain a special request to that effect—reserving the other,
to be made use of when his Lordship's commission shall visit
the localities to which they refer.
Permit me to express my humble, but most anxious hope,
that every friend to the people, and to the peace of the
country, will endeavour to do away with the dangerous misap-
prehension the peasantry in various places labour under, in sup-
posing that Lord Devon's commission is empowered to relieve
their distresses, or to do anything further than report upott
them to the Goverment.

Simply this commission was intended as a delusion by this
miserable Government ; and were even a good report to be
furnished them by Lord Devon's commission, it would never
be acted upon by them.
In great haste, faithfully yours,
JOHN O'CONNELL.

Mr. Stritch, Mr. Reilly, and Mr. ;yin handed in a
shilling each, which they had received from the Attorney-
General.—(Much laughter followed this subscription.)
Mr. Maurice O'Connell handed in 301. from Thomas
Lyons, late Mayor of Cork.
Caleb Powell, Esq., M.P., addressed the meeting. Ire
had to apologise for net having availed himself of the privi"
lege which had been conferred on him by the Association.
He did not consider himself bound to enter into the merits
of the Repeal question, as the Attorney-General had fully ar-
gued in favour of the measure, and agitated it sufficiently in the
Court of Queen's Bench.—( Hear, and laughter. )
Mr. O'Connell entered the Hall about a quarter to three
o'clock, and was received in the most enthusiastic manner.
He said that, as he was under the imperativ:t necessity of re;
turning to the place he came from, he begged to be alloy/ea
to say a few words ; but, before he did so, he could not pre.
vent himself from congratulating the Association on the pro'
sence of Mr. Smith O'Brien in the chair. You, Sir (addreiS"
ing the Chairman), are in your natural place at he head of the
people of Ireland—you are in the place of your ancestor, Brian
the brave.—( Hear, hear, and loud cheers,) The Learned
Gentleman congratulated the Association on the perfect peace
and order which subsisted throughout the country. He
strongly recommended that Catholic societies should-be insti-
tuted in every town and parish of Ireland ' • and that the con'
stituency of May), Ennis, Clare, Tralee, Cork, and Meath,
should call on their representatives to absent 'themselves from
Parliament, except on some very extrordinary occasion, and t°
take their stand in the Association to guide and direct the
people, should some five or six of them be locked up some fine
morning. After some further remarks Mr. O'Connell with'.
drew, and

Mr. O'Neil, of Bunowen Castle, addressed the meeting 8t
some length.
Mr. Maurice O'Connell handed in 301. from Omagh, and
201. from Belfast. He warned the meeting that the time for
the election of the poor-law guardians was drawing near, and
that if they did not exert themselves they would lose the be"
nefit of the Municipal Corporation Act.
Town Councillor Reynolds next addressed the meeting.
He had travelled much through the country within the last
ten days; and he there stated that the people were deter"
mined, no matter what was the result of these trials, to Per:
severe in their exertions for Repeal of the Union. There Via;
a report that the Government intended to pass a Bill makini
it penal to agitate the question ; but if such an Act was pass"
he for one would feel it a credit to disobey such a law.
Mr. Doheny, barrister, made a long speech. He asked f
were the people to be angry at these prosecutions—( Cries 0
" No, no")—or were they to give up ?—(Cries of " Never►
never.") No, never. Let the people persevere, and they Mu,
be triumphant.—( Cheers.)
At five o'clock Mr. John O'Connell entered amid loud eheer°...
Several sums of money having been handed in,
Mr. Maurice O'Connell announced the rent to be 3961.
19s. 7d.
e
Mr. Caleb Powell was then called to the chair, and the th
thanks of the meeting having been given to the chairman, the
meeting separated.

A balloon ascent took place on Sunday at Toulouse,
which nearly terminated in the death of Mme. Lartet, tbe
aeronaut. After several pilot balloons had been sent I
Mme. Lartet entered the car about three o'clock, and;
having cut, the rope, ascended. As ter floating about fen
short time, the balloon went towards St. Pierre, and Ll' be
began to descend most rapidly. Mme. Lartet could nate
manage the apparatus, which, it would appear frnm,
nt-
Toulouse papers, was incompletely formed on 14° „
golfier's plan, and fell into the Garonne. She was
ported for some time by the balloon, and a boat 110,11 e.
put out rescued her just as she was about to sink. Pro
was taken to an inn in the neighbourhood, and afteov.ad to.
to a private house, where every attention being Palion.
her, she soon recovered from the effects other inuarer*,
This is the third time that she has fallen into the G aro n_ u
with her balloon.—French paper. ft..*:
AN EASY MANNER FOR. ACQUIRING Nat'
DINNER PA RTY. As some wine:was delivering from othnero
~761,
wich Wine Company's pony barrow; in St. Anotew's,
v"ing
nesday last, two light fingered gentry, it is presumed, repayod,
party of friends to dine with them, and not being Plint,
either with a sufficient stock or variety for their entertat_ll:_o,
took the liberty of extracting from the basket in the
,b rriie of
calcavella ; which it hoped they fully
oue bottle. of 1834 poi+,-t*o bottles of champagne, ana,l en-
joyed, without any inconvenience to the gallant officer they
intended for.— A orfelli Chronicle. el'OnS
THAMES TUNNEL.—Last week, 25,311 p
appreciated a' were
visited this structure. «I have
THE LADIES
so.—A quaintthey are afraid to ride,.or tot
of :the horses cunning away; afraid to sail for fear 1;Z; but
might overset ; afraid fo*Wilk, for fear the de* Blight
I never knew one afraid to be married l"

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