Star.
London, England, 1828-07-01 00:00:00

MARY-LA-BONNE.

Woe. Cork and Pm Bidet:ad, young men of decent appearance,
were charged with felony. Mr. John Edwards, cheesemonger,
saw Clark take a piece of bacon from his shop window on Saturday
night, and give it to the other prisoner; and be ran after them, and
sent them to the watchhouse. The prisoners denied the charge, and '
the bacon could not be produced, for it was lost amongst a crowd
of persons who joined in the pursuit; bet Mr. Edwards asserted
that he cool/ not be mistaken as to their identity, and they were
fully committed for trial.
. QUEEN-SQU A RR.
Camelia:Ass was charged with cruelty to a child about eight
years of age, named Elizabeth Ryan, the daughter of a female
with whom be cohabited.
Ann Welsh, a lodger in the same house, deposed to the frequent
brutal treatatent of the child by the defendant. On Friday night
last she heard the poor child begging fur mercy, when he took her
up and dashed her on the floor. The marks on the child's back
were here exhibited, which was completely covered with bruises,
black and blue. The defendant said be lived with the mother of
the child, and only corrected it when it was necessary. I look to
the child, and bring it up in a moral manner, your Wonhip ; I
also learn her the Prayers, which I make her say every morning
and evening.—The Magistrate recommended him to mend his own
morals, and ordered him to find bail.
The landlord of the King's Head, Marsham-street,Westminster,
was charged with keeping his house open a quarter of an hour be.
yond the limited time. Mr. Scott called several witnesses, who
proved that his bar was closed at four minutes before ii o'clock,
and was most respectably conducted. On the night in question two
men gm fighting in the tap-room and Mr. Scott sent for the
watchman to clear the house, which made it open a quarter of an
hour longer.e—The charge win dismissed.
UN lON—H AL L.
Yesterday a man named Mem a shoemaker, was charged with
assaulting a sailor named Mist, in a most violent manner with a
poker. It appeared that Mist went to sea some time ago, after
having placed his wife under the protection of some of his rela
titres, with a sum adequate for her support during his absence.—
The faithless wife, however, soon after the departure of her bus-
band, became acquainted with Ebbe. the shoemaker, and eloped
with him from the residence of her husband's relations. Poor Jack,
on coming home from sea, instead of finding a partner to receive
him after the dangers and hardships of the voyage, learned to his
dismay and surprise, that she had abandoned the home he pro-
vided for her for that of the prisoner Ebbes. On the arrival of her
husband he repaired thither; and on remonstrating with her upon
her faithless and base conduct, the prisoner beat him with a poker,
and he was found lying in a senseless state covered with blood,
by the beadle. Mises said that be struck Allot in his own defence.
He was ordered to find ball.

A Silver Cup was on Saturday presented toWannace
by Mamma, on behalf of his colleagues, in testimony
of the kindness and esteem evinced towards them during
his management.
Yestliday morning the LORD MAYOR and Mr. Al-
derman WOOD went through Smithfield Mat ket, to see
that certain regulations which have been ordered with
respect to the protection of the cattle horn injury by
carriages passing through the market were canted into
effect. It has appeared before the Committee of the
House of Commons on Smithfield Market, that the cat-
tle are greatly injured by the above practice.
Sunday, as a respectable female was attempting to
get upon one of the northern stages,-near the Angel,
Islington, her foot slipped, and she fell to the ground,
when a vehicle passed over her and broke one of her
legs, and inflicted other and, it was supposed,more severe
injuries. She was conveyed au, ay immediately to re-
ceive surgical a.s stance, but she appeared to be in a
hopless sate.
Sunday of ernoon, about half-past five, a lad, named
Daniel Herren, was taken out of the Regent's Canal,
near the New North Road. After unremitting exertion
he was restored to his parents, with every symptom of
doing well.
About nine o'clock on the morning of Friday se'nnight
a smart shock of an earthquake was felt at Connie and
in the neighbourhood. It continued for about forty
seconds, during which the furniture in various houses
was repeatedly shaken, and fire utensils and earthen-
ware thrown with violence to the ground. The shock
seemed to be confined as formerly to the strath between
Comrie and Locheam, increasing in intensity as it a.p-
proeched the village. A slight- shock was felt at the
WIC place about this time last year... Perth Quirier.

CLARE ELECTION.

DUBLIN, hue et.
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F This afternoon at three o'clock, Mr.O'Connell set off
from the four Courts in a chaise and four for Ennis.
He was seated on the box, and departed amid the enthu-
siastic cheers of the spectators. The deputation which is
to accompany him intend addressing the people at Mass
to-morrow, to incite them to subscribe in aid of the
funds, and also to pledge themselves that not a free-
holder shall be injured for the discharge of his duty.
Since yesterday Mr. O'Connell has determined to
address the Clare Electors anew. At a Meeting of the
Catholics, held on this all-imposing subject to-day, Mr.
Valentine Blake, formerly Member for Galway, at-
tended and declared his conviction that the Learned
Gentleman, or any other Catholic, were eligible to sit
and vote in Parliament equally with a Protestant. He
had himself introduced a • statute on this subject, and
from all the inquiries he had then made, his opinion
was, that although the law declated a Catholic was not
eligible, there was no prohibitory Itatute. The law
subjecting persons to pains and penalties for not taking
the oaths before he sat and voted in Parliament, was
confined to England, not extending to Ireland or to
Irish Members.
Mr. O'Connell addressed the Meeting to the same
effect, and declared his intention to try the question.—
The Act of Charles 11. which excluded Catholics from
Parliament, applied to England, and had no effect in
Ireland. Up to the 3d of William 111, Catholics were
eligible to sit in the Irish Parliament, and an ancestor
of his (Mr. O'Connell) actually sat during that reign.
Tne Act of William applied to Ireland only, so that
there was one Act excluding for England, and ancther
for Ireland ; but there was no excluding Act for the
Parliament of " the United Kirgdom." N:ither did
the Act of Ireland attach any penalty on Catholics for
sitting and voting ; it referred to the oaths in the Statute
of Cnarles, but affixed no penalty for a refusal to take
them. The Learned Gentleman again declared his de-
termination to put this question to issue in the British
Parliament before the British public.
The following is the new Address to the Electors al-
ready alluded to, and which Mr. O'Connell cakes with
him to the County this morning:
" Femme Comminute I—Two important topics preu on my
mind, and I hasten to communicate them to you.
" The first relates to the pace of the Country during the ap
proaching Election. AIT first intreaty of my friends—their first
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" Let us conquer them at the hustings by our votes; let us ex-
ceed them in the streets, in the roads, and in the fields, by our good
humour, cheerfulness, and kindness.

" My friends, one and all, I implore of you to take measures to
prevent our enemies from enacting or fomenting any riot or dis-
turbance. It is only an enemy that could be either riotous or tur-
bulent. We and our friends are the friends of merriment and
harmony.
" The second topic is of a different nature—it relates to matter of
law. You will be told, that although you elect me I cannot take
my seat, or vote, or speak in the House of Commons, without
taking the horrible oaths.
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f pledge myself a you as a Gentleman and a Lawyer, that the
assertion is untrue, and that if you elect me, I will sit in Parlia-
ment, speak and vote without taking the obnoxious oaths. In other
words, that if you elect me I can remain a Catholic (I never can
be any thing else), and sit, speak, and vote in Parliament, without
incurring any penalty or disability whatever.
I frankly acknowledge, I was not, myself, sufficiently alive to
the favourrble state of the law in this respect, until I was called on
to consider it minutely on this occasion.
" I new declare that if you elect me, the Government cannot
prevent my sitting and voting in Parliament without violating the
Act of Union, and thereby giving the people of Ireland, Protestant
as well as Catholic, the moral right to consider the Union as
repealed, and the duty to insist, In a Constitutional way, upon
carrying the Repeal into effect.
" I stand upon the Union. I never approved of that measure,
but wish its thousands of evils it has one good effect, it entitles me
to avail myself of your ►indness, and to become—if you please to
select mi—y Our Representative in Parliament, not in name merely,
but effectually and completely.
" Catholics and liberal Protestants of the County of Clare, the
choice is between me and Mr. Vesty Fitzgerald—between me the
friend of Ireland, and ►im the friend of an Anti.lrish Intolerant
Administration. 014 Ireland for ever:
" Your faithful Servant,
" DANIEL O'CONNELL."
FROM THP LIMERICK ETRNING POST, JUNE 27.

WIEDNESDAY.—Mr. Fitzgerald and his friends com-
menced a regular
two
through the town, but with
the exception of two or three personal friends, his effort
proved unavailing.
At half-past two o'clock Mr. O'Coanell's address;
which at this hour came by the Dublin made an
extraordinary sensation all over the town. When the
address itself appeared, nothing could equal the exulta-
tion manifested in every quarter. Hundreds cf it were
sell to all the parishes of the county, and circulat-cl
through the town. It was regarded as forming a new
Cr ain the history of Ireland. Every Clareman telt that
with his county it•vested not only to reject a member of
the present Cabinet, but to graft upon that rejection a
novel and astounding mode of bringing the Catholic
Question into the very seats, and coupling it with the
most important privileges of Parliament itself. The
Committee of Independence are unceasing is their ex-
ertions.

THURSDAY.—The rumour this morning is, that Mr.
Fitzgerald means to pole but a few of his freeholders.
trusting to a Petition to restore him to his seat. Sup-
posing this to be the case, and we have strong reasons
for believing it, such a step is a singular triumph to the
Independents. Mr. O'Connell will, of course be returned
by the Sheiiff, as the representative for the county of
Clare, while Mr. Fitzgerald will have to come before
the Commons as a petitioner against the man, and the
principles he so often professed to sup?oiti
Mu. O'Gorman Mahon passed this morning through
Kilmastrefla, on hi+ way from Dublin, it is said, to
canvass the barony of Tulla.
Six o'CLocx—This moment a deputation, appointed
by the Committee of Independence to wait on and
ascertain the intention of the House of Dromoland at
the present crisis, returned from an unavailing confe-
rence with the head of that house.
The exertions making through the County by those
who have embarked in the independent struggle, are
meeting with a success commensurate with thqse extra-
ordinary and almost incredible exertions. On Wednes-
day night between 10 and 11 o'clock, Mr. O'Gorman
Mahon, who had. left Dublin that morning, arrived
in Killaloe. • Tke instant his arrival was known,
the entire town was illuminated. The chapel was
also lighted up ; and the people, headed by their
Blest. assembled there and were appealed to by
our decisive and eloquent countryman, in favour of
O'Connell and the national hopes. The enthusiasm of
this meeting was evinced by the cheering of hundreds.
When the proceedings were over, Mr. O'Gor man Mahon
was drawn in the carriage by the people up the moon,
tali road to Ogonette, where he arrived about half-past
one, and found already assembled, by an avalent-courier,
the Clergyman with his parishioners in the chapel. • A
similar appeal, and with the same unlimited success, was
made there; after which Mr. Mahon proceeded to
Scuff, Tomgreany, and the other chapels in that dis-
trict, at all of which be met with increased success.
FRIDAY, ELEVEN O'CLOCK , A. at.—This moment Mr.
Maurice O'Connell, Mr.jiticbard Scott and Mr. Cull-

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mane. set off from Limerick for Ernie. Mr O'Connell
himself reacher timeeck on Sundry, accomp3n;ej br
three thousand Nenagh Gentlemen on horseback. headed
by Mr. O'Brien Dillon,. Never did we seer more simul-
taneous expression of public feeling than is echoed back
.o Clue from every quarter of the kingdom.