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morning. The language of Mr. Shiel was sometimes very
'ouching, but he did not attempt to grapple with the law
so lucidly aid calmly laid down in the opening address of
the Attorney- General.

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.^THE ROYAL SPEECH.
—The Dublin Evening Mail, of Monday, says,—" We
can state upon the most authentic grounds that the speech
to be delivered by her Majesty at the opening of parlia-
ment, on the is' of February, will contain a strong and
pointed reference to the state of Ireland—to the organised
system of agitation by which its peace has been disturbed,
-and the safety of the empire endangered ; and to the means
adopted by her Majesty to vindicate the laws and main-
tain the union inviolate."
EFFECTS OF THE AGITATION.—The Limerick Chron-
icle says,—" The Derby estate was put up for sale on
Saturday at Master Goold's office. Counsellor James
Dwyer was instructed to move, on the part of the Head
family, that the sale be adjourned to April, on account of
the depreciation of landed property in that riding of the
county of Tipperary, from the disturbed -state of it. The
Master said the state of the country was unfortunately
notorious, but he must proceed with the sale. The estate
was then set up in the whole and in lots, and adjourned
for want of bidders—£3,ooo per annum in fee, with a
beautiful residence on the banks of the .Shannon.. So

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much for agitation and outrage._ If quiet prevailed this
. fine estate would meet a ready and remunerative market."
ALDERMAN ROE'S '• AMNESTY.”—The Corporation
of Dublin has received an answer from the Secretary of
State for the Home Department, acknowledging the re-
ceipt of the address to the Throne praying that Her Ma-
jesty will be graciously pleased to grant an act of amnesty
to Mr. O'Connell, and the other gentlemen now on their
trial before the Court of Queen's Bench -on charges of
sedition and conspiracy, and stating that on the return of
of Her Majesiy to London, a day will be appointed for
.tke reception of the deputation, of which due notice shall
be given. Their " reformed" Honours were ,to meet on
Wednesday, for the purpose of taking Sir James Graham's
letter into consideration, when a wish was .expressed that
Sir James should present the petition, in order to save the
expense to the City that would be incurred by the state
journey of the Lord Mayor.
A WOMAN POISONED BY HER HUSBAND AND MO-
THER-IN-LAW.—A poor woman, named Mary Potts,
died in the townland of Kilpike, and parish of Seapatrick,
three miles from Banbridge, on the 6th inst. after a short
illness, and was interred in Drornore on the following day.
Suspicion having been excited by the abruptness of the
interment, and by a communication made to her brother,
to the effect that her death had not resulted from natural
disease, the body was exhumed, and an inquest held be-
fore the county coroner, at Banbridge, on the 11th, after 1
a post mortem examination. The inquest was adjourned
till Tuesday last, and the stomach of the deceased in the
meantime was submitted to test by eminent chemists in
Dublin; the husband of deceased, John Potts, and his
mother, Elizabeth Potts, being committed to Newry
Bridewell. The result has been that a verdict of Wilful
Murder has been returned against both, on the evidence
of a little girl, daughter of the deceased, and of a young
woman named Isabella Dickson, and they have been corn.
mitted to Down jail for trial. Potts was proved to have
purchased poison in Banbridge about six weeks before,
and, on the day of the death of deceased, the little girl
saw her grandmother mix some white substance from a
paper in deceased's drink. She had been lately confined.
Arsenic was found in deceased's stomach.—Belfast Vin-
dicator.

MURDER AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—On the night
of .the 16th instant, a poor man named Peter Donovan
was proceeding homeward from Dunmanway market,
when he was attacked by some person or persons, who
beat him on the bead with atones in a most frightful man-
ner. He was discovered on the following morning lying
on the road side a ghastly corpse, with an extensive wound
above his left temple, and otherwise much injured. The
constabulary were shortly after on the spot, and had the
body conveyed into Dunmanway. Two men have been
taken under suspicion of being the perpetrators of the
foul deed. The unfortunate man has left a widow and
thrce children.—On the night of the 17th instant, at
Dunmanway, a person named Daniel Collins quarrelled
with a labourer of his, named John Collins, about nine
o'clock, and in an hour after came, with two others, to
the labourer's house, forced in the door, put out the light,
and dreadfully beat him and his sons with stones on their
heads, inflicting on each several cuts of a dangerous na-
ture. Poor Collins, who is upwards of sixty years of
age, has been so maltreated that he now lies in a hopeless
condition, and was unable, as also one of his sons, to go
before a magistrate. The others escaped with less injury,
having got under a bed. Two of the wretches have been
lodged in our bridewell, and fully identified.—Cork Con-
stitut ion.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—There was an extremely
crowded meeting at the Conciliation Hall on Monday, in
consequence of the announcement that Mr. O'Connell
would attend, notwithstanding the commencement of the
State trials in the Court of Queen's Bench. When the
hon. and learned gentleman entered the meeting, about
half-past three o'clock, he was greeted with the most en-
thusiastic cheering. Martin Honan, Esq., ex-mayor of
Limerick, filled the chair. A great number of subscrip-
tions and remittances were announced, including one
from Newfoundland. Mr. O'Connell, in the course of
his address to the meeting, alluded to the State prosecu-
tions. He did not, be said, care one pinch of snuff
about them. (Cheers and laughter.) And, as he used
neither snuff nor tobacco, they might easily estimate the
degree of importance he attached to the prosecutions.
(Continued cheers.) Mr. O'Connell in the most earnest
and impressive manner conjured the people to observe the
strictest order, and the most complete tranquillity—to be
perfectly inoffensive in their demeanour to those who
differed from them. He had heard that some persons
during the procession to the court to-day bad called upon
others to take off their hats. Such conduct as that was
most reprehensible and absurd. He (Mr. O'Connell)
would not like to be compelled to take off his hat for any
man he did not respect ; and the same liberty they claimed
for themselves they should extend to others. It would
be tyranny to do otherwise. (Hear, hear.) At the close
of the proceedings, Mr. O'Connell announced that the
repeal rent for the week was £904 19s. sd. (Long con-
tinued cheering.) Martin Madden, Esq., ex-mayor of
Sligo, was called to the chair, and the meeting adjourned.
DARING ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE.—On the eve-
ning of Monday, the Bth inst., as Mr. D. O'Malley, his
wife and sister, were on their return from this town to his
residence, Windfield-lodge, within three miles of here,
they were met on the road below the Charter-house-hill
(before coming to which he overtook one of his herds, to
whom he was speaking) by two men armed with pistols.
Whilst one of them was putting a question or two to Mr.
O'Malley, who was driving his car and pony, the other,
on the opposite side, pulled a pistol out of his breast, and
fired the contents at the above gentlemen. The pony
(being a spirited one) plunged, and broke some of the har-
ness, and the car upset, throwing Mr. O'Malley and his
wife into the gripe, immediately upon which the herd
knocked down the ruffian who fired. However, his ac-
complice rushed upon the herd, also presenting a pistol,
and the poor man, imagining his master and mistress was
killed, ran away. The pony also took fright, but Miss
O'Malley was enabled to preserve her seat for two miles.
The second assassin, whilst Mr. O'Malley lay prostrate
in the gripe, fired his pistol at him, but providentially he
escaped both. The screams of Miss O'Malley induced
the ruffians to leave their victim, who have as yet evaded
detection. The cause assigned for this inhuman act, it
appears, is, that Mr. O'Malley some time since took a
farm from the Rev. Thomas Goff, from which several
families were the previous two years ejected, and shortly
after the taking of which 100 of his sheep were killed at
night. Mr. O'Malley his since obtained a presentment
either off the townlands or parish. Shortly after which
he was served with various Rockite notices, desiring him
either to give up his claim for the malicious injury alto-
gether, or at least to have it placed upon the county at
large, which he could not attempt to effect till the next
assizes. Very strong informations have been sworn, as
well by Mr. O'Malley's herd, as by Mr. O'Malley, his
wife and sister. Mr. O'Malley has always given employ-
meet to a great number of labourers, and a kinder family
to the poor does not exist.—Roscommon Journal.

Tux IRISH REBELLION OF 1798.—After the battle of
, Ross, in 1798, and when the insurgents bad taken Wex-
I ford, "The rebels, after causing thirty of their prisoners
to be either picketed or shot at the hall door of Scullabogue
House, forced the remainder—to the number of one
hundred and eighty-four persons, men, women, and
children. mostly Protestants—into a barn, when they
deliberately consumed the barn, with every living being
therein by fire." A Roman Catholic priest—Father
Philip Roche—was named by the rebels their commander-
in-chief. At the battle of Arklow, in 1798, where the
rebels had 20,000 men, (of whom 50H were armed with
muskets, and the remainder with formidable long pikes,
sustained by three pieces of well-served artillery,) a
Roman Catholic priest, named Father Michael Murphy,
was killed by a cannon-shot within thirty yards of the
British lines, while leading on a furious assault of his
men, under which the royal troops quailed and were very
nearly routed. At Gorey, which was in the possession of
the rebels in 1798, the Protestant Church was sprinkled
with the blood of two Protestants, who were ignomini-
ously massacred therein, after which the rebels destroyed
the sacred edifice. In Kildare. the rebels put to death
Mr. Crafford, a Protestant, by thrusting a pike upwards
through his body, and then roasting him before a slow
fire. " ONE OF HIS YOUNG CHILDREN WAS ALSO PUT
TO DEATH IN A SIMILAR MANNER." Mr. Boyd, an
amiable but a Protestant magistrate, had an iron pin
thrust through his nose, his hands tied behind his back,
and he was left fastened to a dunghill until he expired.
One Protestant clergyman was bled to death in a pig-
trough, after which the Roman Catholics danced and
washed their feet in his blood ! Let those whe believe
the charge against the Protestants of Ireland of " religious
bigotry," for their reluctance to confer political power on
a vast number of uneducated and but nominally Chris-
tianised Roman Catholics, peruse, as the writer has done,
pages upon pages of the most disgusting details of human
ferocity, and savage fiend-like barbarity, as practised on
the Protestants of Ireland in 1641 and 1798, and they will
then see that this charge is like other statements relating
to Ireland, which, from being unscrupulously as-
serted and widely propagated, have at length been most
erroneously supposed to have some foundation in truth.
And let it be remembered that this rebellion arose after
the elective franchise had been restored to the Roman
Catholics, and a Roman Catholic College had been esta-
blished by an act of the Irish Parliament at Maynooth,
and after the passing of different acts in favour of the
Papists, and removing disabilities—whether as regarded
the possession of property or the dictates of conscience.
Indeed, both the British and Irish Parliaments vied with
each other in removing with all practicable prudence the
disqualifications under which the Romanists laboured,
notwithstanding the experience of the past : but this did
not prevent the insurrections of 1798 and of 1803. An
examination of the debates in the Irish Parliament will
demonstrate most fully that the penal laws had reference
to religion only so far as it influences political conduct
and public liberty.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.