Star.
London, England, 1826-08-01 00:00:00

MEETING' OF THE OPERATIVES AT THE

NICENIX-PARK, DUBLIN, JULY sa.
A large placard was posted in every part of the City
yesterday, intimating that a Meeting of the working
classes was to take place in the Phenix Park at one
o'clock, About 500 persons assembled at that hour,
and, after some consideration, they came to a resolution
that they would not work on any terms than for the
same amount in the present currency that they had
previously received in the Irish. They behaved very
peaceably, and did not display the slightest intention
to tomtit. One of the party bad a banner, which it
appeared to be their otiginal intention to have hoisted
on a pole, and carried into town before them. This,
however, was not.. done: the flag bore the Coopers
Arms, with tht following inscription :•••••410bedience to
the Laws, Redress'of Grievances, the Currency agree-
able to Trade, and Prosperity attend our Cause." They
dispersed quietly about five o'clock. Alderman Esshaw,
accompanied by Mr. Cooper, the Chief Constable of
Arran Quay Office, and twenty of the horse patrol, at-
tended during the day. A few squabbles took place
during the close of the evening, bat they were merely
confined to individuls, and not at all connected with
the object of the Meeting.
DIVORCE, BIGAMY,4 AND INTOLERA.. NCE.
A warrant to apprehend William M,Clenaghan, for
the crime of bigamy, having lately been .granted at
Londonderry, be has absconded, and for the present
eluded the hand of justice. The investigation was taken
up by the Right Hon. the Recorder, Sit G. F. Hill, who
summoned before him the witnesses necessary to eluci-
date this shoCkingissitasaction, from which it appears,
that W. M4Clenaghan was regularly married is the Ca-
thedral Church of Derry, to his cousin, Sarah M'Oeeban,
by the Rev. Hamilton Stuart, Curate of the parish, on
the 2d of October, IBlB—that they lived together
happily, as man and wife, under the roof of his
father-in-law, Junes McGeehan, for the space of one
year, and the marriage was publicly known through.
out the entire neighbourhood, but this happiness was
to be of short duration; the unrelenting bigotry of
a Church, which sets at defiance as well the law
of Goo as the established law of the land, would not
tolerate a union sanctioned by both, the unfortunate
couple were s'lemuly denounced in the Roman Catholic
Chapel, as living in a state of fornication, and that too,
in the presence of the woman's egad father, and they
were deprived of the rites of their Church ; and it appears
in evidence, that so far was the prosecution cat ried, that'
•ouse time near the end of the first twelve months,
James McGeehan, the father, having been seized with al
.evere illness, it was thought necessary to send for his
Clergy, to administer to him the comforts of religion.
His hrother-in-law went to the Rev. Mr. O'Donnell,
the Rouen 'Catholic Curate of the parish, for the pur-
pose, who refused to go to the sick man's house, saying
that he dare not do so without the leave of the Bishop;
and why? because Wm. M'Clenaghan and his wife lived
:n the house.; and .o far was this relentless and inquisito•
rial sentence carried, thathi•Clenaghan and his wife had
actually to quit their abode, earethen,tod sat till then,did
the Clergygive to the sick man the last comforts of his
religion. During this period of persecution, it appears, an
application was made to the Bishop, by-letter, written by
M.Olenagban, an the part of olddanses McGeehan, lea-
; toting relief from the sentence, and that something
'night be done for them ; but to this request no answer
was given, and in the end they were obliged to separate.
A tier this M'Clenaghan left the country for some time,
And having returned thereto, and courted a girl called
E eanor O'Gorman, who resided 'in the neighbourhood
('i his former wife, the Roman Catholic Bishop was ap-
;lied to for a license, who wrote to the Sec. Mr. Quinn,
is Cane) to marry them, and they were accordingl7
riited in marriage in the house of -Eleanor O'Gorman s
t,r,)ther, in the month of June last.

al r. Quitm, during his examination, stated broadly, that by the
of his Church, all marriages within the degree of fourti.cousins
wye prefhibtted, escept upon a dispensation from the Bishop. He
tiiiitted, however, than an uncle and niece could be married, but
a diqpensatiOn for the performance of Ibis turjrassecereasevcoald
.ituy he granted by his Holiness the Pope. Doctor Coppingse,lsow.
ever, goa a little further than Mr. Quin, far he says, that the
Church will not admit any marriage to be legal, celebrated by a
Prote3unt Clergyman between tsvolleman Catholics.Dermleurstel.

In Cori-, on Monday se'nnight, Maurice Sullivan, a'
Tesurrection man, was sentenced to be imprisoned three,
inolchs a:id a fortnight, for assaulting Mr. William!
L Icas. The prisoner, it appears, sold the 'body of his:
•1! lt last Christmas, to Gentlemen uf the surgical pro-;
9i for ten shillings'!
A :other unfortunate young man, 'named leiha 'Mos-
ho WAS woundesi in the riot at Tialee. on Sunday
e 'lsth of June, languished till Salida/ sennight,
RIAU he died.