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OCTOBER 29.
AT TWO O'CLOCK.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The Letter of " A POJTUCUIII' to-morrow.

This day his Excellency Baron ByLow had an inter-
view with the Earl of ABERDEEN, at the Foreign Office,
in Downing-street.
STATE OF IRELAND.

The condition of

to letters from all

quarters—proceeds rapidly from bad to worse ; from
intolerable to terrific. The private correspondence from
Dublin, which occupies a great space in the Times this
morning, justifies the most gloomy forebodings. On
the theme of the DONERAILE CONSPIRACY, the writer
says—"it would not be judicious at present to expatiate."
The peasantry of Cork and Kerry are in a state of per-
petual collision. It is reported at Dublin that a Tip-
perary clergyman—rector of Moyaliffe, and brother to
Mr. GOING, the Police Magistrate—was shot dead on
the 23d instant at Thurles. Mr. GOING, the Magistrate,
was murdered just eight years ago. The Rev. Mr.
Sit A w—the clergyman of Kilmactreny—it is said,
has been attacked in his house by a party of
Whiteboys, who have SWORN him to discharge
his Protestant servants, and employ PAPISTS
in their stead. They made him, also, take an oath to
discontinue his schools. In the meantime, seventeen

others—implicated in LEARY'S plot—are about to take
their trials.—There is an account, also, of a political
dinner given to Mr. SHEIL, which, probably, we shall
not dismiss so summarily. Surely, Government must
look with an anxious eye at these manifestations and de-
velopments ? The cloud which was "no bigger than a
man's hand," already darkens the whole horizon with its
shadow.

In the first page of our Paper will be found the details
of that Irish trial to which we made imperfect allusion
yesterday. We are now collected and dispassionate—
we have weighed impartially our first impressions—tnd
they bear down the scale against all pro-Catholic sensibi-
lities with undiminished and stern preponderance. We
will speak out : who has a better right to do so ? We
appeal fearlessly to the integrity of our public career—to
the consistency with which we have ever stood forward
the friends of all liberal messures,the advocates of all
improvement 1 Since we have conducted this
enemy even has so much as attenwted to
principles ? Who, among our silent awl lax
has dared to assail the purity whisk has

placed us so high above surrounding corruption ? Shall
we not, then, speak out—without fear---as without fa-
vour? The Noble Duke has been liberally used by us.
We bore with him long and patiently, before we declared
his incapacity to conduct the Government : we even bore
with him—and his colleague in emancipation, Mr. PEEL
—specifically because of that cardinal measure, and the
promise which it was interpreted to carry, of a liberal
administration of things.
Through a series of successive acts—every one singly
tending to alarm us more and more for the Constitution—
we held the Noble Duke undisparaged for the sake of
his " great Bill," and kept him upon trial in our opinion,
'till his understanding with Po LIG'S AC and METTERNICH
became too visible in its effects to be longer questioned.
We then denounced him as unfit to be entrusted with
the direction of the public destinies—as an unsafe and
incapable pilot—only steering the State vessel to disaster
and shipwreck.
We call back these ' things to the recollection of our
readers—not for any arraignment of the Noble Duke
to-day—but to show the side to which our predilection
leaned on the merits of that measure, which has no
mitigated the depravities that it loosed from bondage•
We call back these things to show that so far from
being intolerant, we rejoiced in the dispensation of re-
ligious liberty to our fellow-subjects—that we were not
orangemen, but emancipationists—advocating systems of
government, to which the NEWCASTLE faction is as an-
tipodal as darkness to the morning. Shall we not, then,
speak out—without fear—as without favour ? As-
suredly we will. To what end, else, shall we have pre-
served ourselves clear from suspicion? Assuredly we
will !

The often splendid, though corrupt Journal, from
whose columns we copy to-day our account of the Done-
raile Conspiracy, tells us that it made his blood run
cold to read it. The greater part of the world, he
says—himself among them—discredited -at first the
existence of such a fiendish plot. He then argues
upon the motives which could have instigated the as-
sassins to band together, for the destruction of three
innocent, Protestant lives : but he omits to tell us that
the lives were Protestant, and the life-hunters Roman
Catholic. But let him speak for himself; for even
he is sufficiently stirring :

" There was no insurrection in the county of Cork ; the Magis-
trates had not been hunting down any claw or sect, or party, of
the people ; the landlords had not been ejecting their tenants whole•
sale ; of the tithe proctor there was no complaint ; there was to
all appearance no spirit prevalent of more than ordinary anger or
ill-blood ; there was no excitement visible to which a temporary
excess or outrage might have appealed for pardon ; yet this time of
imagined serenity and composure was perverted to objects fit only
for the meditation of denten:ter—die foul and butcherly murder of
persons in the upper walks of life, (or no reason but that one of
them had exercised his lawful rights as a landlord ; another of
them, Mr. Low, bad discharged his duties as a Magistrate ; and a
third, Admiral EVANII, bad spoken and voted in Parliament against
a popular measure, which had nevertheless been carried in spite of
him ; so that in fact he had done no harm, and was, we believe, not
thought capable of any. It the several actions thus imputed by
the conspirators themselves to their future victims. as the only
crimes for which they deserved assassination,—if such, we say, are
to draw down the punishment of midnight murder on the gentle.
men of an Irish county, can we feel much astonished at the crowds
of absentees from Ireland, who infest Great Britain and every part
of Europe ?"

Two remarkable expressions ofour contemporary merit
particular notice in this passage ;—" no spirit prevalent
of more than ordinary anger or ill-blood"—" no excite-
ment risible :" and yet, with all his acumen, he does not
seem, somehow, to lay his hand on the place ! May
we, then, be so familiar as to ask the Times, what
he means by the " ordinary" ill-blood and anger of
Irish society ? When he says that "no excitement
was visible," does he not allude to an
agency, which--though occult—was dealing pes-
tilence round it from under its guilty shroud ? But
as we have asked the question of our contemporary
we will answer it also for him. It is the spirit of Popish
Confederacy, which he designates by "the ordinary ill-
blood of Ireland:" he knows—he feels it is. It is the
strong under-current of Roman Catholic hate, to which
he points by his " no visible excitement :" GOD stay it,
for emancipation will not ! It is this, which perverts a
season of serenity and composure" into one of dark-
ness, and mystery, and bloody peril. This is the invi-
sible excitement which rouses the brooding Whiteboy
" to objects fit only for the meditation of demons—the
foul and butcherly murder of persons in the upper walks
of life, for no reason" but that they are Protestants.
We cannot shut our eyes to the conviction. Look at
LEARY, the manager of these assassinations—his rank

. _
in 'society, for he paid regularly, never once failing, a
rent of £220 a year to the man against whose son's life
he conspired—his advanced age, for he was nearly
seventy—his delegated authority from somebody, for he
it was who administered the secret baths. SHINE,
too, was in easy circumstances. But men in easy

circu.mstances do not commit murder for common mo-
tives. What then instigated LEARN to devote Admiral
Ev ANS to death ?

The vote which the Admiral gave in Parliament against
Catholic Emancipation. It is in the evidence. But why
does the Times print all this, and yet affect to misunder-
stand in his commentary the true principle which knits
together the diabolical Papal league. Does he suppose

that the inflammatory speeches of priests and demagogues
—during the great holiday of agitation—are to produce
no fruits ? Does he fancy that the everlasting rancour
which has never ceased to distil from certain lips against

the PROTESTANT RELIC; lON, is an iIIIIOXiOUS distillation ?
We can tell him the contrary. Ask him—Would he
sprinkle vitriol upon silken garments, or water violets
with the tears of the Indian Ups ?
Thus far we have permitted ourselves, and—if need
arise—we will go even farther yet : nevertheless, we

are friends to complete religious equality, and the unob-
structed exercise of every form of worship. Why not ?
Who are we, that we should judge another man's ser-
vant ? To his own master he standeth, or falleth. The
measure of emancipation has been carried. During the
conflict for it, we never molested its advocates by opposi-
tion of ours. We held it unfair—while the religion was
under a political ban—to join the bigot outcry which
was raised to perpetuate oppression. But the moment
that the disabilities were removed, we felt ourselves free
as air to canvass and impugn, as we might see oecasioa.
It was no longer a proscribed faith, a persecuted sect;
but it stood erect—a great national establishment by
the side of our own—in equality of right, and privilege,
and legal recognition. In this state of things we can
engage it par pari—and perhaps we shall. We took off
its manacles, but not to arm it for our own extermination :
we gave the boon ; precipitate gift—we fear—if we do.
not misapprehend the symptoms ! But—no : after the
speech of Mr. SHELL at Dundalk—who can misappre-
hend these ?

By the Flanders Mail this morning, we have received
a variety of notices from the Continental Papers—none
of them of much importance. The Frankfort Papers
are still indulging in idle speculations on what might
have been the case—if the OTTOMAN PORTE had
been properly supported ; while the Allgemeine Zei-
tung, in a tone far more decided, informs us that it
is impossible for the SULTAN to fulfil the conditions
of the Treaty,—his treasury being quite exhausted.
The same print, in an article from Ancona, dated the
11 th instant, states that important events are about
to take place in Greece " which demand the atten-
tion of the British Government ; and that the English
troops in the lonian Islands will again receive consi-
derable reinforcements. A fortnight before, about
4,000 troops were landed at Malta."

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