Star.
London, England, 1829-10-28 00:00:00

DREADFUL CONSPIRACY IN IRELAND.

There is an account to-day—given at full length in the
Times, and which we shall give to-morrow—of a trial
for CONSPIRACY TO MURDER, which in point of fact is
only one ramification of a much more extended conspi-
racy, originating in the principle of the late Irish Asso-
c ATIONS, and exceeding in its character of deliberate
and cold bloodthirstiness, all the perpetrations which we

yet ever heard of in that disorganised and distracted
land. The victims marked out for destruction by these
barbarous way-layers of life without provocation given,
were GEORGE BOND Low, ESQ. MICHAEL CREAGII,
ESQ. and Admiral Ev xxs—all Magistrates of the
county of Cork, and Protestants—and marked out for the
slugs of the assassin, for no other reason than that they
were " Magistrates and Protestants." The names of
the four criminals who are more immediately concerned
in this conspiracy—but who form only an insigni-
ficant branch—a twig, as it were—of a terrible,
wide extended, and oath-bound confederacy against Pro-
testant life in Ireland—are John Leary, James Roche,
James Magrath, and William Shine. In our state of
excitement to-day, we cannot unhurthen ourselves of half
our feelings at this enormous disclosure : indeed, they are
so complicated and so unutterable, that we prefer to let
our agitation subside, lest perchance any thing might fall
from us, which might be imputed to party bitterness.
Some passages, however, of the SOLICITOR-GENERAL'S
address to the Court—in technical phraseology, the open-
ing of the case—we cannot resist transcribing : they will
pave the way for our minuter analysis to-morrow.

"It is a case"—said the Right Honourable and
Learned Gentleman—" in which, if well founded, every
man's interest is involved ; but of the many consi-
derations bound up with the enquiry, all others fade
before the high enormity, the branching extent and
atrocity, of the crime itself. It does NOT confine
itself to the persons now on trial: but if esta-
blished, tends to prove what does not alone exist in
the present charge, but grows out of a SYSTEM
ruinous, extensive, and desolating." "Ifl am rightly
informed, it will be established by evidence, that there
exists—and has long existed—an extensive CONFE-
DERACY, bound together by oaths, acting in concert
—headed by CAPTAINS, directed by COMMIT-
TEES—whose authority is acted on, and obeyed
by instruments ever ripe and ready to act their
guilty bidding, and obey their edicts of robbery
and murder. It will be sworn that LEARY
ranks high in the gradations of this conspiracy, not
simply as a Captain—he takes his station as a Com-
MITTEE-MAN-11 man of years, of station, of compa-
rative importance." " Not only is he of the Committee,
but he also administers OATHS.—first, an oath of a
general nature, imposing secresy, and readiness at all
times to take aims, and for all purposes ; and then, par
titular oaths as to the individual transactions. We are
now but treating a symptom of the disease,
which prompts to this taking up of arms
for no definite purpose—not to protect, but to perpetrate.
I could traverse back for months into a narrative of this
conspiracy, of which to-day um probe but a singb mem-
ber. ITS OBJECT DID ROT MERELY ♦FFECT TUE

GENTLEMEN AGAINST WHOM THE !RESENT PRO-