The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

OPENING OF THE CONCILIATION HALL

The Repeal Association held its usual weekly meet-
ing yesterday, for the first time, in the newly-erected
building on Burgh-quay, called the Conciliation Hall.
This new place of meeting is a quadrilateral structure,
capable of containing from three to four thousand per-
sons. A spacious gallery runs round the entire build-
and at the end, fronting the entrance door, a plat.
form has been erected for the accomodation of the chair-
man, the principal speakers, and the gentlemen of the
press. The place is in a vary unfinished state, and pre-
sents a rough and cheerless appearance. It was densely
crowded in every part long before the hour for which
the meeting had been called ; but none of the corpora-
tion, as was announced, attended in their robes.
Mr. O'CONNELL entered the meeting shortly before
one o'clock, and was received with tremendous cheers.
Atter a vain attempt for several minutes to ad crass the
meeting, in consesequence of the great inconvenience
arising from the pressure of the crowd in the body of
the hall, he said that he bad the high honour of mov-
ing that the chair should be taken by John Augustus
O'Neill, Esq., of Bunnowen Castle—(loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN rose amidst loud cheers. The cabi-
net could not expect Irishmen to agree with them ; be-
cause they were diametrically opposed, and had been
so for 50 years. In 1819 Wellington held the opinion
that if Catholic emancipation was granted, the next
step would be to demand the forfeited lands. Now if
that were the case, he (the chairman) would be enti-
tled to upwards of £lOO,OOO a year, handed down from
genera►ions through father to son. (Cheers.) In 1827,
Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Goulburn spoke against Ca-
tholic emancipation, and the present chief justice of
England opposed them, and in the following year they
came down arid adopted his speech. (Cheers.) They
were called cowards tor doing so, but no feeling of that
kind instigated them ; for he was sure they bad acted
upon conscientious conviction. (Cheers.) It was quite
a fiction of the law to say that kings could do no wrong;
for they might do wrong, and had often paid very heavy
penalties—(hear)—for doing so. (Hear.) One set of
statesmen told the king that it would be perjury to
sign the Catholic emancipation bill, while others forced
him to subscribe to it. (Cheers.) He (the chairman)
hoped that there was a government reporter in the hall.
Mr. O'CONNELL.—Yes; there is one from Gurney's
office.

The CHAIRMAN continued to say—that he personally
knew that there were letters in Dublin from the Duke
of bent (the Queen's father), in his own writing,
breathing the greatest and purest affection for Ireland,
and expressing a wish to be appointed Lord Lieutenant
at a certain critical period. People talked of a federal
parliament but what was the meaning of the word ?
If gentlemen did not understand it, they should not
lamenaoddr,
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A federal treaty was " that which shall be done by
order of, and with the authority of, the senate." (Loud
cheers.) Mr. O'Neill next described the manner in
which the Belgian revolution was effected.
By the in-
terference of France she became a diademed kingdom,
and k• cl om,
and the only part England took in the proceeding was,
to send a king there. (Hear, hear.) Belgium had suc-
ceeded
accidentally by foreign iatervention—but Ireland
would depend upon Irishmen, on God, and on Ireland.
If it should be the pleasure of a rash • • minieter,forgetful
of the law of God and man—and such a forgetfulness he
by no means attributed to the Duke of Wellington, who
always during his campagins was most careful of human
life; but if, for a moment, he should think of steeping,
in the blood of Irishmen. the laurels which Ireland's sons
had placed on his brow, their still remained for them an
interposing power between him and the nation—they
could look to the Queen. He had shown that they had
a right to look for hereditary love to Ireland in her Ma-
jesty. Should the Duke resolve to act as he had de- 1
scribed, of which from his (Mr. O'Neill's) soul he ac-
quitted_his Grace, one might imagine the Queen, in the
words of Shakspeare—" Beware, take heed, how you
awake the slumbering sword of war ;" I charge you in ,
the name of God to take heed! He would respectfully
offer his opinion, that if repeal were forced in the hour ,
of England's weakness, it would be the ruin of Ireland. 1
Repeal held back too long would create national bank- 1
ruptcy. Repeal at once cenceded would be productive '
of peace, prosperity, and inoissoluble connexion with
England—(hear, hear.) But if a collision should take
place—if the Almighty in his anger withdrew his pro-
tection from the empire, the same Gazette which pro-
claimed the victory of England over her twin sister,
would announce that one nation was depopulated, and
the other tottering on the brink of ruin—(hear, hear.)
Mr. O'CONNELL rose and said,—The first sentence I
wish to utter in the Conciliation Hall is this truth, that
there is only one way of obtaining a repeal of the union,
and that is, by using none but peaceable and legal means.
(Hear, hear.) My second sentence is, that the repeal is
certain. (Loud and long-continued cheering, waving of THE CONSALL ESTATE, STAFFORDSHIRE.
hats and handkerchiefs, &c.) Yes, repeal is certain, pro-
The county of Stafford vided you use no other than peaceable and legal means. bath , from time immemorial,
(Cries of "We won't.") I promised the master butchers, been famed for the preference which it possesses in in-
as they gave me the largest sum, that I would hand in vestment, and this distinction will be especially seen by
their money first. I, therefore, beg leave to hand from an enumeration of only a few of the leading points. Its
them £l6O. (Hear, hear ) I am now about to make a proximity to the Potteries (from which it is removed be-
motion of the utmost importance to the liberty of Ire- yond the possibility of annoyance) increases the value of
land. I shall not say one word in support of it. It is i the produce very considerably, because it is a never-end-
that W. S. O'Brien, Esq., M.P. for the county of Lime- ing source, without reference to the capital markets which
rick, be admitted a member of the association. (Enthu- are to be found within easy distances. The Trent and
siastic cheering.) Mersey Canal forms the eastern boundary, and passes
Mr. O'CONNELL said that Mr. O'Brien had been an I through a portion of the estate. The railway, belonging
anti-repealer, but events had shown him that there was to the owner of the estate, and commencing at the canal,
nothing but repeal for Ireland. He was honest as an extends through the property more than three miles,
anti-repealer—oh ! he was honest and brave, now that communicating with the turnpike-road leading to the pot-
he was a repealer. (Cheers.) The hon. gentlemen then teries, and which are seven mhes off- Tx ECOALS, BELOW A
entered on the subject of a federal parliament, which VERY FINE SURFACE, AND WORKED BY A WATER LEVEL
had been alluded to by the the chairman. It was for (saving the vast expense of steam), HAVE BEEN VALUED
an independent parliament he was looking. He was AT ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND
firmly attached to the connexion with England; but he POUNDS, will, in a very few years, approach the present
insisted that Ireland had a right to the revival of her le- I value of the fee simple; and this, it should be observed,
gislature. (He ir, and cheers.) He wi ull reject no 1 without any annoyance. The canal and railway are con-
man's assistance who went any part of the way with , nected with the coal-pits: this is probably the most en-
him. Any man who wished for a repeal of the act of 1 couraging feature of the property; there are already five
union might join him until some parliament would ascertained seams, the quantity appears without end, and
be obtained, and he (Mr. O'Connell) would obtain they are all of the best quality. The pits are contiguous.
the best parliament he could with their assistance. Ito a branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal, giving great SLAVERS AND PRIBE MONEY.—The "Acorn," 16,
There never would again be an attack on the part of the facility to the transport of coals to all parts, but more sloop, Captain Adams, lately arrived at Devonport. Du-
people, and if the government chose to continue the pre- especially to Manchester, where coal is now so scarce and ring the time she has been on the coast of Africa she has
sent contest, there was determination enough amongst the so much in request. There is almost a superabundance made no less than nineteen captures of slave-vessels, and
people to continue it too, rather than resort to violence, of lime, which a good agriculturist knows to be of infinite that in the short space of two years and a half. On her
The hon. gentleman next alluded to the letters of " Phi- importance, inasmuch as it is the most effectual mode of going out to the coast/in the year 1841 she made a good
lalethes," in the Morning Chronicle, (the substance of dressing corn land ; and as it regards the meadow and beginning, by capturing the noted slave brigantine " Ga-
which will be found in our columns.) The name of the pasture, where they have twice undergone this essential briel," on board of which vessel they found 52,0 slaves.
writer of these letters was a Mr. Trevelyan, a secretary ordeal, it will not be difficult for ever afterwards to watch They fell in with her between Rio Janeiro and St. He.
of the treasury, who was brought into office by the its proud superiority over all its neighbours. There is, lena. The Anna was the next slaver she seieed, in which
Whigs, and had been some time in the Indies, where besides, and in great abundance, gravel and stone (a por- they found 500 slaves, in the most miserable condition. itv
he was laughed at by the people, as he was now by the tion from one of the rocks assisted in the completion of They were huddled together so close as scarcely to leave
ineill•pol
inhabitants of this country, for his absurd statements. Waterloo-bridge). The soil varies in the quality ; about breathing room, and the miasmatic and unwholesome va- foe...
riolo,
Mr. O'Connell proceeded to censure the letters, and two-thirds are admirably suited to dairy farms, the re- pours that rose from the dens were almost overpowering. tion too."—Scotch, paper.
„AV the Pf 1
aIS of is 0
declared them to be full of misstatements. He gave mainder adapted to wheat, barley, and turnips. The re- In a place called a cabin in the after part of this vessel,
POPULATION OF GREAT nal-I'OOW cosr.„
notice that he would make two motions to-morrow— sidence, in its outward form, bath very little pretensions, measuring 16 feet by 9, were no less than 219 females
teresting table, exhibiting the P9P by the 001.
one for a committee to procure petitions in detail from and the order of its architecture is certainly somewhat packed. An officer of the Acorn at first supposed it in- . .
cities and towns of Great
Britain,i beg le ts
equivocal ; originally it was intended to add four principal credible that so many human beings could be squeezed . sled from-obi's 0°76
re:, ,6:,_
every parish in Ireland ; the other for a conciliatory ad-
recently
• is com the e
rooms, and a plan is prepared to accomplish this, thus into so small a space; and it was by formally counting En- In"; fe030"1 d'0561,
dress to their fellow-subjects in Ireland. They were
consigning to his successor the pleasure of indulging and the number that he satisfied himself of the fact. He said star, bite_ moiee. 09,
working for all classes—for Presbyterian and Protestant
recreating in his own peculiar taste, in contradistinction it put him in mind of the celebrated black-hole of Cal- al ouees* '99,, 353°J, elOO
as well as Roman Catholic, and he would not accept any City or Town. Acres. e 1
1.)
to that of a more doubtful character. The offices, both cotta. In the fore part of this vessel, reaching from the
benefit for the Roman Catholics exclusively. He would London, within walls 370 lee ava 3.5071 /AI I
_„43
within and without, are as good as need to be desired. mainmast to the forecastle, 300 males were confined. This Dwithout walls 230 8-4" ..--!. 63.P' eaVe
not take the Repeal, if he got a Catholic ascendancy o
~
with it. (Hear, hear.) He declared this most solemnly, The pleasure-grounds and lawns are very judiciously laid part was called the gaol, and was 50 feet long by 27 broad,----- 6177 u 606 09°
16080 ^ll 9 •
and he thought he would be able to convince his Protes- out. The kitchen gardens, encompassed by lofty walls, the height being about 3 feet 3 inches. They were in a
Cit of London — 620 reBl ee2 •
taut fellow-countrymen of this truth. (Loud cheers.) are exceedingly productive, and the domain in front puts most impure and filthy state, and were forced from the
Westminstery't ,ct y } 2329'
- 10.' sox 0
41
He concluded by proposing two resolutions—the first on a park-like appearance throughout. The distance from lowness of the deck to keep in a sitting position, not hay-250047746 :b 17,,4
and liberty —. • 80 . ,9672
Buxton and Matlock is within easy reach of those who ing room to lay themselves at length. Some of the other
relating to the preparation of petitions from every parish h 590 13
s's 6 w --.- /4900'
in the kingdom, and the other proposing that a con- may need the beneficial influence of those waters. The captures of the Acorn were egnally important, and made Southwark borough
' . 876'7 --- 60 5.0
cilatory address to their Protestant and Presbyterian estate is on the turnpike-road which leads from Birming- with no less skill and resolution. The following revolting Adding other parishes, ...,e ~..(1008
__ea- oil ,
fellow-countrymen be forthwith prepared and issued. ham, through Lichfield, Uttoxeter, Cheadle, Leek, and account of this demoniacal traffic in human flesh has been Total. Metropolis 44Sot, 4-"_._:___- ----;a23 ~'.l3u ~t 0
__---- IP° k' ./ -al
For his own part he solemnly assured them that he Macclesfield, to Manchester ; and the Birmingham and recommended to the attention of General Cass arid the 42059 000
..„.., 6
would not take repeal if it gave Catholic ascendancy— Liverpool railway two hours' drive from Conseil. It is American slavery defenders :—" The Portuguese schooner Manchester,borough 6070 10001 --- 5433 -'' /
(Hear, hear.) tithe-free, the land-tax is redeemed, a'd it is extra-paro- of 41 tons, the Esperanza, his been condemned by the Salford, borough 1220
______.
.a 4/ 1
.., ,ig
--- I4ID -- 62t°'
These resolutions having been adopted, the secretary dial. The manor and manorial rights, over an estate Mixed Commission Court, and broken up for sale, agree- 0 52063
__,..----- _,,,, .0
continued to announce the sums contributed since last which is fruitful in game of all descriptions, will be duly ably to our treaty with Portugal. her instructions con- Total. Manchester 729
_____-- „, Obi', 441
—_.— 1377 a (3,27?1 IP/
estimated, There is abundance of the best stone, which taro a tale of horror, requiring no varnishing to render it 2929
for t would materially reduce the outlay of any one intending a romance. She was commissioned for the coast of Africa, Liverpool, bor. the 1 5300 4 570 000 4314
) Hie to enlarge the residence. Possession of the house and all for the Mozambique, and with a crew of ten men, and Park, &c....... I 27771 ,3089 -4 0/
i
the land in hand (about 240 acres), and the woods, may provisions for fifteen days (I) was to take in 220 slaves, or Glasgow, city " 29664
ee..----; 143 t„, -',/ev
Ling a be had immediately on completing the purchase. The if small bales, so the slaves are termed, 250! and easily Do., suburbs .. • • • ' ......----- .13047(' ....----„40 l'e,e4
estate extends to 2,000 acres. The present rent is £4,000 packed in a space of (what? gracious God!) the hold of a 57441
."..----- oad•', ler,
+O2ll. a-year, and in seven years the coals alone will add from vessel of 44 tons, with a height of 32 inches—ay, inches ! Total. Glasgow • • • _----' sigo .01 63r,
--
36121 63 i ' 600
XlO,OOO to £20,000 a-year to the present income." between the slave, or under, and upper deck. Manacles
bar 18780 37 31711 6,"
SIGN and chains were on board to the number of 900 for another Birmingham, • •
31626 ne2 Fie
IST T DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN M MANCHESTER.—On Friday cargo ; and with provisions for fifteen days was this fright- Leeds borough and l• 21450 - 053 45v-, !At
859e8 3676° ,-i,,, a IXA
last, a destructive fire occurred on the premises of Mr. ful freight—this cargo of human misery—to cross the wide Town.
tstitutio Dickson, jeweller, Market-street Manchester. In about Atlantic, to traverse, at a bird's flight, nearly 4,000 miles. Edinburgh, city •• • • .. 143 o"
......----:, 7uv 64K0
Do., suburbs.. • •
e_.------ 613," .a• eel Ow,
ers of s an hour from the commencement of the fire a pile of Suppose calms, or adverse winds, or storms occurred—---
22599 „...-/ 34/13
ti/96
literati buildings, five stories high, and extending twenty-fivl suppose the voyage was delayed for twenty days, to no
Total. Edinburgh • •
____--- 29475 3/2.1 ,
oughout yards down New Brown-street, with a frontage of about port dare the slave-ship run; from no vessel dare she
9276 25911 ....-'<il l'
:y, a fire ten yards to Market-street, was lett a skeleton of smoul- seek for assistance; 259 human beings, without food or 1840 eg3l „.., 69v ,
Bristol city Bri ~6
sly. Fir dering walls. Part of the premises were unoccupied. water, crammed into a space not high enough to sleepBo3o ' •--- 02 / 109
Do., suburbs .. . • ...------, 55•ss ." 11' it
The sufferers by the loss will be Mr. Hanley, about £200; when Ding down in one position for 20 days and nights,
seen to 1-0 00 ~..-----. ra°' 610
Mr. Dickson,jeweller, whose loss we have not learnt, but in a hold fetid with their own filth, without ventilation, 08i ./
every direction with a putrid and foul atmosphere, on a deck 32 inches Total. Bristol - ,ege Olen,
who saved some of his most valuable goods; Mr. Hind,aace miss (er
exactness wit from the ceiling. Can any fiction, any romance, portray 22270 to oia d s
a country manufacturer, whose rooms fronted to Swan-
into light, alto lane; Mr. Gilliam, the hatter, whose loss (some of his what might have been the bitter agony, the tortures of Sheffield, borough 1 22830 ,ee, or
toga of
le
displayed he stock being saved,) will probably not exceed .C3OO or £4OO. these Africans? A slave can be purchased for 10 bars of and parish only nine c!,' 3, efiejeraeo fifths
the ontY ectivr'zopol,",, ol"eet,',o•
• was almost Mr. Livesey, Church-street, who owns the buildings in bait, or 10 pieces of blue cloth, say 205., and will fetch at The above are
i,_,,on resp
~r, p
_, ta _ oe dr
nnot aseerti which the fire commenced, and which are insured in the Brazil 480 dollars, or often £l2O. The immense profit Britain having a pot), 'a" The en" 0 the the
of 1841. „, ogi ; $
ore aloe
tended for Manchester Office for £lOOO, (probably about the value,) renders the slave traders regardless of human life; one by the census
s 18,5aSe' ~„bly 0 fo'
and Mr. Charles Lacy, who owns the rest of the buckling slave in every 10, if brought to Cuba or Brazils, yields an Britain in 1841
was
cons,"'" efth I °
',in also sa
but who was insured in the Manchester Office for £2,800, ample return ; and anxious as our cruizers are to check enumerated comprised_
_i___, 040-i,
Is were isomewhat less wow
about sufficient to corer the loss. The total loss by the this wretched traffic, the western coast of Africa is too although _
corim,
fire is from £5,000 to £6,OM 1 vast and extensive for the fleet employed to watch it," lation of the island.

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6. claishposonti.f
LONGEVITY OF THE Hoasx.—A 31.. RO.'- bite 3"
departed this life a mare belonging to 0"• to art ° its
named,p! etesthes
belonged to ttaol
twhee
li i
noticeete
into m.atieto:
dinary age of full forty years. She eagle ets° Cony
• g hen
which 0
benison'sw Pbari
possessionkn,g the
fac t Bothwell—her
tihnatlsBhpier:hnacia:
having
nroc Ipaii
eo 1 d tbe~jr, b e s 5... it?
~
comparatively advanced age of fifteen Y.ereer-'O,O ssAvdorips
the perod of twenty-five years. since ,6 his f6ol,legil
Robertson's propertY, served him 8" with °Ai 00,
plough, saddle, or gig, at kirk and markel3oo) e n.:
of faithfulness which made her known in of ecitd; by
the surrounding parishes as the veil .tYP:opst f.ech be
haveliEt r d ys tl-altiegdhl a nd jbrbseoedh'etientrlier-14e;
delity and perfection. For a long tire" ' I !isle
animal ee P bf
been looked upon with interest, as an lope so A es°,,,,i
longed to a race of horses that has "Zeltn-neon"" .
abelcivaimnge
away, and every one was anxious-to showeior her oefecti
bd ai
cc
tki en cln
treating her to a " hained hip " or filehingnicl Jr,6eetilcien,
bations from the corn kist. In this welLie,l,l'iessti;eh
contradiction
to the very last, and in I,PPear- ante,
/ertol ' it'
umberbre, ye 0 pg 0
had passed over her head. I. two or t else heo
tor ones ~,r end,
she had been rather a kindly-used•Pens'" of erfrogt ;e
hr labourer, but notwithstanding this age 00 go po 0
;tobutnteregnaveaaint end "o:ee, 0.0 5 y/i01.5t
always put to any little tid of work that death' so ei ;
was in harness the very week before her but ler sena%
old Jess might have lived much longer, e. On. 0, in,. •
lucky accident which hastened her dernisber eoie'ir
week the venerable animal was enjoYing hrotiga Wre.
paddock adjoining View Park House, t „Ole rs •
stit boo roe.
burn meanders on its way, and having a., for ce e•
she was unable to recover herself, and inl'oists:bich.4,
fore her situation was discovered ana,.B,ent 'toore! ea
She apparently recovered under the trea,e'oest
sotsistab,
applied, but was found,dead i❑ the stabiL hialvo sou
caused no doubt, either by the injuries sii:had , ore tii,
in the pool, or by the strains to which 5P',..000 . thride
jected when drawn out of it. Theol6 fibjboootlet, ../;st
buried in View Park garden with all tbe her ootiooi
in her own skin, and with her shoes onyiti heYresi,
have rarely heard of an instance of longethe saPte eel„jels
of this animal;_ and her case may taile with et beleibt
that were this faithful assistant treatea ie 03ign 01100'
deration and kindliness the average °f .1 horne:e ortollf
lengthened. In fact, this suprositiott le_bo ha eicer 00
opinion of Mr. Yonatt, and all others 71 it is °octet
on the natural history of the horse; en a yell the 10
assumed by them that we should for:l°,4 frooraed'of s;
estimate of the natural age of the an'tn„"d desE'neal,de oi
period at which he is now worn 0.0 nioain srthe 94 CI!
recording instances of longevity, ivtr' did at, rece,l-heicl
gentleman who had three horses that e the.' sotircelP
30, 37, and 39. Mr. Cully mentions 01:0 171 J, read
year. " There cannot," says
ball in his neck at the battle of Presat°florl Mr,. his went
was extracted at his death, in 1 75' 't died!, be s fre°
gives an account of a barge horse
b„ 0150' st 0:4
severe satire on the English nation t e horse. 00„pei"
the absurd practice of runnin our? re.c 000'00'0;
three years old, and working oes Intreogth cods [jest
before their limbs are knit or their 5„, far beOf OOP
and cruelly exacting from them seryle.',b port, o it, thst
sor. f the to rS
powers, their ages do not average a hor° ser fes
mentioned horse." The scientific an, dm es tee • thiP
Kingdom"- declares that " it maY be ,si in eveYthe;streli
more horses are consumed in Engin(' is toter!fliis;aell
than in any other countey in the wn..t., or • a. so et f
period, excepting those that periSh jc—onside,re, chetpareg
has, with the English,. been loeg hoar' real" loe
it,
t dP r e 110
mere profit and loss, and it has be it, an fo 0 , ,
bring the young horse early into vOr..io liiin,ele Lots
exhaust his strength, than to ainietoostao)l fee'
period, and at a considerable expense'aotl re
1 matter requires much consideration
e.tVotiatt, . tbst 0 pd

Awrut, VISITATION.—One of those alarming and
dreadful acts of God's providence—the fall of a thunder-
bolt—attended with fatal effects, happened at Cooper's-
row, Runcorn, on Thursday night week, about ten o'clock.
The rovv consists of fourteen cottages, standing in a field
near to the entrance of the town, and the electric fluid
struck one near to the centre, entering the chimnoy, and
coming out above the mantelpiece, passed through the
room-door about a foot from the grate, and descended to •
the house-floor hearth, around which were sitting the
unfortunate occupier's wife and two children, another
being in the cradle. The tenant, Thomas Moores, who-
is a stone-mason, with a family of six children, had re•
tired to bed a few minutes previously, and three of tha
children were also in bed in an adjoining room ; but the
wife, who bad all her life been greatly afraid of thunder,
was sitting up till the storm was over; and, dreadful to
state, the electric fluid struck her, and instantly rendered
her a frightfully mangled blazing corpse, dashing the chil-
dren against the opposite walls, and tearing up the flags
of the floor in its downward progress. Poor Moores
states that he was knocked out of bed down stairs, and
on coming to his senses found his wife's clothes on fire,
as well as several articles of clothing near the fire-place.
The neigbours fetched a surgeon, hut the poor woman
was dead ; the two children and the infant in the cradle
recovered. The house is literally a heap of blackened
ruins.

meeeting.
The amount of the rent for the week was declared to
be—Two Thousand Two Hundred and Eighty-four
PoundB.

At six o'clock the meeting adjourned till one o'clock
to-morrow.

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SIMULTANEOUS SIGNAL FIRES-MOVE-
MENT AMONGST THE PEASANTRY.

The Tipperary Constitution states that " on Thursday
night between the hours of seven and eight o'clock the
entire country was literally covered with fires. From
every eminence throughout the counties of Limerick,
Clare, and Tipperary, a fire blazed, and all shot into light
almost simultaneously. Fires blazed on the public roads,
and torches were seen to be borne along by the country
people in every direction. It was really wonderful to
witness the exactness with which each fire, for miles
round, blazed into light, almost at the same moment, and
the organisation displayed by the incendiaries in lighting
these signal fires was almost incredible. The meaning
of those fires we cannot ascertain, but of this we are cer-
tain, that they are intended for no good purpose.

The Cork Constitution also say's :bat " in the direction
of Donoughmore the hills were all " ablaze" on Thurs.
d about ten o'clock,