The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

We refer with pain, but no astonishment, to
our Dublin correspondence of this day. The
letter from Clonmel, if we had none but reason-
able minds to deal with, might be left to work
its own effect upon the public. It contains: a
narrative of certain alarming proceedings in the
chief town of the populous and powerful county
of Tipperary. Many thousands of Catholics
marched on Sunday last from various quarters
of the county to the appointed rendezvous of
Clonmel. The description of one brigade or
corps of this multitude may serve for all of them.
" The Cahir party arrived first, with band and
colours, about 500 horse Men, all stout, able
fellows, dressed in green uniform': they were
followed by several thousands on foot, generally
clothed in green jackets and pink
.facings—
white trousers with a green edge run up the
thigh. They marched three deep, and kept
time, like the soldiers, to the tune the band was
plaNing. Then came the Ardfinnan men,
&c. But the Clogheen men, it appears, were
the most formidable. There were of them
at least 2,000 horsemen, " for all the world
like a cavalry regiment ;" and so the ac-
count goes on. Said we not truly some days
ago, that the organization of the Catholics,
though resorted to for a constitutional end, was
convertible in a twinkling to purposes of direct
warfare ? Why here was a strong corps
d'armele regimented, clad in uniform, marching
in column ; and one part of the account, which
will be found in the body of the letter, states
that there was a huge standard, bearing on one
side the harp, on the other O'Connell and the
King, who was graciously presenting:the dema-
gogue with Emancipation. Thus was the single
cause in which all this pomp and circumstance
had originated kept religiously before the eyes
of the people, as if all but one grand wrong, and
one signal reparation, seas to be wiped from, the
memory of Irishmen, lest the unity of the league
—the main principle of its efficacy—should be
disturbed in a moment of unstretched attention
or of unstimulated feeling. What we mean to
contend for is, that if the Government will
not at once come forward with a candid
declaration of their desire to appease the Ca-
tholics, the passions of the Irish people—
Protestant as well as Catholic—will prove too
violent to be withheld. Events will outstrip
the lazy meditations of men who heed not the
prelusive rocking of the volcano. Yet, even if
their dreams be dissipated by the first explosion,
and their power destroyed by it, what indemnity
have we, the English nation, for the ruin of this
noble empire, in the downfall Of its headstrong
and stupid authors ? The irritability of the
Catholic population of Dublin is proved by a
circumstance which strikes us to have been
quit: accidental. The Castle guard, on being
relieved, marched, it seems, through Thomas-.
street (the street, by the way, in which poor
Lord Kilwarden was murdered during Emmet's
brief rebellion, 1803), with their band playing
the old Orange time of the Boyne Water. The
fact is spoken of in the Dublin prints as being
an outrage against the Catholics of the most un-
pardonable nature. We are perfectly persuaded
that it was wholly fortuitous, although an acci-
dent which ought to have been averted by the
commanding officer of the party, if he happened
to have an ear capable of distinguishing one
tune from another. The Catholics, however,
were foolish, and worse than foolish, to take of-
fence without ascertaining-that there was a deli-
berate intention to wound their feelings. - We
venture to say, that no officer of the King's
troops would he capable of affording them such
au impolitic and malicious justification.
ceoNsien, SEPT. 22.—We had yesterday the
grandat scene that Clonmel ever saw, and the most
glorious display of the power and union of the
people. Though Father Brennan preached against
as, after seven o'clock mass, and warned us not to
go to meet the bop of Clogheen, Cahir, and Ard-
finnan, who were to assemble here to celebrate the
general reconciliation of all true Irishmen, yet up-
wards of 200 of us, dressed in green jackets, with
feathers in our hats, and lookity for all the world
like soldiers, headed by O'Connell's Clonmel band,
playing Patrick's Day and The Melodies, moved
westward through Irishtown to meet the Cahir, the
Cleo-been, and the Ardfinnan parties that were com-
ing into town. At our head we had a colour borne
by four stout boys (men), with a very large flag, on
one side of which was painted the harp, and on the
other there was a picture of O'Connell and the
King—O'Connell receiving emancipation from his
Gracious Majesty. At twelve o'clock there could
not be less than 50,000 countrymen assembled in the
streets of Clonmel and its neighbourhood, expecting
the above-named parties to enter. The Cahir party
arrived first with the band and colours, about 500
horsemen, all stout able fellows dressed in green
uniform. They were followed by several thousands
on foot, generally dothed in green jackets and pink
facings, white trowsers, with a green edge run up
the thieh. They marched three deep, and kept
time like the soldiers, to the tune the band was
playing. After them came the band and colours of
the Ardfinnan men, horse and foot, in numbers and
appointments the same as the Cahir men. But the
Clogheen men, who closed the procession, sur-
ed them all in fine appearance of the men,
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aseand in the numbers and the dress they wore.—
There were at least two thousand on horseback,
for all the world like a cavalry regiment, only
they bad'nt swords, and among there were some
of the best farmers in the comity and their sons._
When the bead of the cavalcade reached the bar-
racks, the last were at the workhouse, about a mile
off, The town was full of countrymen from the
surrounding country ;
they all carried green branches
in their hands, and wore green leaves in their hats,
all that wasn't in the cavalcade, The procession
passed and repassed twice. through the principal
g and kept as good
streets, with their bands pi
- ay thing' was carried on
order as any soldiers. Ever]
with good humour. No noise or shouting, just like
many regiments before a General at a review or
grand tield-day. At the appointed time they again
assembled in the same-order in which they ca_me.
Not a drunken man wow to be seen, and by four
o'clock the town was entirely cleared of strangers.
The military and police were kept in their barracks,
~rid not allowed to go to church. Fifty respectable
townsmen formed themselves into special constables;
for the purpose of preserving the peace. They went
through all the public houses at ten o'clock at night,
and turned everyone Out. All obeyed except in a
single instance, when the man was taken to the
river and ducked, amidst the applauses of the people,
for disobedience of orders. Yesterday, at Fethard,
a most numerous meeting took place; the people
were all dressed in the same way. At Roscrea, ott
the same, day, upwards of 20,000 assembled. But
the meeting in the town of Tipperary, for the beau-
tiful dresses, and the horses, and the officers, sur-
e all the rest that was ever seen .or
passed heard of in
d
scipline. They were 'Aliene
tine appearance and di
for the night on the farmers around the town. we
are all united and happy, and never was there such
pleasure in the county of Tipperary.—Tinter.
No:perSon can read the frequent accounts of
death occasioned by the fall of ruinous or ill-
constructed buildings in the metropolis, without
a mixture of horror at the personal agony suf-
tered, and of indignation at the individuals to
whom it can in almost every instance he traced.
The case of the two houses which have recently