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public indignation from the real aggressors
Throughout, the proceedings of the police are repre-
sented as having been rash and bloodthirsty; whilst
the conduct of the faction-fighters was that of inno-
! We leave the actual facts of the cave
;cl by the coroners's inquest; and if irn-
permitted to be offered—if men

leader of the Ribbonmen afterwards declared, that had
the weapon not been instantly returned, no one man of
the constabulary could have escaped. The possible fate
of the Protestants of the town generally was involved in
theirs, as was not only evident from their circumstances
and situation, but from the occasional and unequivocal
declarations of chiefs and subalterns in the armed party.
Thus, one general of the body said, in the hearing of a
respectable Protestant, that if any Catholics had been hurt
in the country, "not one Protestant in the town would
hare been left alive ;" and a second inferior leader ob-
served, ihat in such a case, " neither man, woman, nor
child should be spared; and when a report was spread
that an engagement had taken place at Losset, and that
some Romanists were wounded, a conversation was over-
heard between two privates in the Ribbon force, the first
saying " come, let us go out to meet them," and the other
replying, " no, there's no use in delaying ; " let us begin
with what's in the town, and finish them first, and then
the town is our own ;" and, truly, they could have little
difficulty in finishing about 80 able-bodied but unarmed
Protestant men, and above 300 of their wives and children,
all of whom owed their lives apparently to lucky chance,
but really to God's merciful providence."

And now we come to the question, what are Sir
R. Peel and his colleagues prepared to do to rescue
the loyal and peaceable people of Ireland from ter-
rors and outrages such as are here described. This,
at least, is no casual affray, arising out of an attempt
to put down a faction fight. The origin of such a
display of rebellious strength is not to be traced to
the letting of land. One of the leaders of the band
was heard to boast that he had with him " 200
honest REPEALERS, who would do their duty ;" and
that duty, plainly, was the extermination of every.
Protestant family which the town contained. " Nei-
ther man, nor woman, nor child should be spared !"
We ask, then, of Sir Robert Peel of what is such a
feeling as this significant? By what agency has it
been brought about, and how is it to be put down ?
Men who fear not to speak the truth about Irish
affairs—who fear no " little cloud rising in the west"
—who are not steeped at once in political profligacy,
and moral and mental blindness—will acknowledge
that the source of these outrages against the law, is
to be found in that baneful agitation, which Sir
Robert Pccl has declared the law to be too weak to
put down. It is to be found in that toleration of
the preachers of sedition, and discouragement of
loyal men attached to the British connection, which
is the key-stone of Sir Robert Peel's Irish policy.
It is the fruit of the seeds of "hatred to the Saxon," '
which has for years been sown with such untiring
perseverance by the unpeaceable demagogues, who
batten upon the energies of their prostrate and un-
happy country. The Irish peasant has ever before
him the inspiring promise of " Ireland for the Irish;"
and though be is told that this means simply that
Ireland is to he self-governed—that her Parliament
is to sit in College-green—that her cherished faith
is to rise to supremacy, and that all this is to be
achieved without the shedding of a drop of blood, by
peaceful agitation, by monster meetings, by orga-
nization—he has his own mode of reasoning. He
asks himself, " How can Ireland he for the Irish, if
the land is to be still for the Saxon intruder ?"
No sane man can drive from his mind the con-
viction that, however cunningly the mode, by which
Repeal is to be carried, is glozed over by its men-
dacious author, the conclusion is strengthening
itself in the mind of the Irish masses, that the ulti-
mate resource is to be, if not rebellion, at least the
extermination of the Protestant gentry, or their ex- ;
patriation, as the result of a wide-spread system of
terrorism and outrage. With what practical measures,
then, is the present government prepared to cope
with such a state of things ? The jesuit policy of ,
conciliation, it is clear, has already failed. What,
then, is to be tried next ? Is the nation to he roused
to crush rebellion in the bud, or are Protestants and
loyal Irishmen to be left to the assassin's knife, or,
as their only alternative, to prepare to protect them-
selves ? We wait for a reply.

THE CROPS.—The whole of the field crops in this
neighbourhood still look remarkably promising, especially
the wheats and spring sown grain. A very heavy showef
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The air continues sultry, and occasional

EXCHANGE NEWS-ROOM.—Mr. Jones is about to re-
tire from the mastership of the Exchange Newsroom, an

office which he has filled, with great credit to himself and
satisfaction to the committee and subscribers, for the long
period of seventeen years and a half. The frequenters of
the room are about to present him with a handsome sub-
scription, which lie richly deservt-s.

ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT.-Our spirited contempo-
rary, the Liverpool Standa, d, of Tuesday last, publishes
as a supplement. one of the most complete and best il-
lustrated descriptions of the Great Britain steam-ship we
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age across the Atlantic.—Mining Journal.
An influential meeting of noblemen and gentlemen of
the counts, of Cavan, convened by the High Sheriff, was
held on Wednesday, for the purpose of adopting mea-
sures to restore the county to its former peacefuCcondi-
tion, by forming a union between the Roman Catholic
and Protestant r!sidents—lay and clerical, to use their
utmost endeavours to discover the murderer of the late
George T. Bell, Esq.. of Drumcurbin. There was a very
large attendance of the country people present—at least
5,000. The resolutions were proposed by the Marquis
of Headfort, Lord Farnham, the Earl of Enniskillen, the
Bishop of Kilmore and others.

CAUTION —Some three or four years since, the Rev. J.
M. Capes, who has just left the Church of England, and
joined the Rornish Church, proposed to the inhabitants of
Bridgewater to build a church at his own expense, pro-
vided the townspeople would raise a sufficient sum to en-
dow it. The necessary sum was raised, and the church
built, and it was opened about two or three months back.
Service has been performed there regularly every day since
by the rev. gentleman and his curate. Great apprehensions
are now felt by the subscribers as to whether the church,
which is an extremely handsome building, will be given
over by the rev. gentleman to the Roman Catholics. or
whether it can be retained by the establishment. The
bishop has been applied to consecrate the church, but how
matters will end, is at present a mystery.

PROTESTANT DEMONSTRATION.-011 Tuesday evening
a great Protestant meeting was held in the Rotiti!do Gar-
dens, Dublin, to commenvrate the Battle of the Boyne.
A platform was erected which accommodated a vast num.

ber of persons. There was a very large attendance, and
several banners and bulges appropriate to the ocebsion
were displayed in the gardens and by the audience.
When night approached, the lamps as usual were lighted,
and the proceedings were protracted to a late hour. A.
band was engaged to render the proceedings more effec-
tive, and played several national and Protestant airs dur-
ing the evening. The meeting was addressed in very
spirited speeches by the Chairman, the Rev. R. H. M.
Eyre, Mr. Ferrand, Rev. T. D. Gregg, and others.
During the progress, aid after they had separated, the
persons forming the meeting were hooted by a mostunruly
mob outside, who did all in their power to create a breach
of the peace, happily, we believe, without effect, the
Orangemen having been requested to abstain from colli-
sion with any other party.
NEW MISSIONARY COLLEGE —At the last meeting of
the Church Missionary Society the Rev. Hugh M'Neile
suggested the expediency of forming, on a large scale, a
college for training young men for missionary service.
A movement has been already made with this object in
view with the sanction of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
who has appo'nted a provisional committee. eonsisring,
gst others, of the Bishop of Lichfield, Bishop Cole
Dr. Lvall, Dr. Jelf, &c. A

ite in the rnetrovoli-
tical city of Canterbury, (the ruins of the ancient Abbey
of St A none. ;..P 1 1. 0 1,...1... r

tim gm in a Jay memner of the
Church, been clovotod to this design. And the sums de-
rived from the limited applications of a single individual—
independently of the site, and the assurance from its mu-
nificent donor of yet further assistance towards, the erec-
tion of the buildings, in addition to a large donation to the
general fund—alieady amount to £39,003. It is proposed
to commence immediately the principal quadrangle of the
college, which includes the 'hapel, hall, library, and apart-
ments for fifty students, with the requisite accommoda-
tion for the officers and servants of the establishment.
The arrangement* • f the building will be so constructed
as to admit of quent enlargement.

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WHAT DOES RIBBONISM MEAN?—The truth is at
last out. V: know the object, or one of them at least,
why the r. otestant gentry of Ireland are one by one
slaughtered by the confederacy of ruffians who, on the au-
thority of no less a personage than Father Tom Maguire,
have earned for Ireland, instead of her favourite designa-
tion of "the Isle of Saints," the more appropriate one of
" the Island of A ssassins." A meeting of the nobility,
gentry, the clergy of all persuasion., and the yeomanry of
the county of Cavan, was held on Wednesday last in the
town of Cavan, to consider the awful state of the county,
as exemplified in the recent murder of Mr. Geo. G. Bell,
and to devise means to put down the infamous system of
assassination practised throughout the district by the
Ribbon Societies. What was the response of the mass of
the meeting to the entreaties with which they were urged
to discountenance this system and to arrest its perpe-
trators whenever they could be met with? What was
their recipe for procuring the restoration of peace and
tranquility ? " Abatement of rents!" To one speaker
the reply was " don't give us resolutions, but allow the
rents to be lowered," whilst another speaker more plainly
declared, " the rents are too high ; lower them and all
will be right 1' Here then is the secret of such murders
as those of Lord Norbury, Mr. Bell, and a hundred
others. Assassination is to go on ; Ribbonism is to select
its victims at its pleasure ; until the Protestant land-
owners of Ireland consent to have their rent rolls revised
and their property virtually rejected, or, more properly,
confiscated, by the bloodthirsty gangs who compose its
secret tribunals! '• Reduce your rents—resign half your
incomes—and then all will be right ;' you may, perhaps,
be permitted to walk from church to fair without the risk
of a bludgeon or the assassin'. pistol !" A pleasant pros-
pect for the Protestant landowners and yeomanry of Ire-
land,
truly ! rhie is Ribbonietri,