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HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY.

Mr. Bright (who was introduced by Dr. Bowring and
Mr. Brotherton) made the declaration required for
members of the Society of Friends, and took his seat for
the city of Durham.
The Speaker having attended the Royal Commission in
the other house,
Lord WORSLEY, in answer to a question from Mr.
Gibson, said he should introduce a clause into the
Coroners' Bill, preventing it from applying to the
coroners of boroughs.

During a short discussion on fixing the time of the first
and second readings of Lord Brougham's Slave Trade
Suppression Bill, of which Mr. V. Smith has the manage-
ment, Mr. GLADSTONE intimated, that the government
would give the measure " its most favourable considera-
tion," but not, apparently, its most efficient support, as
he added a fear that " legislative interference might
possibly do mischief."
On the order of the day for going into Committee of
Supply,
Lord J. RUSSELL rose to bring before the house the
general state of the country. He referred to the legisla-
tive failures of the session, and asked what bad been the
result of the great majority possessed by the ministry?
We might well ask what has been the result of that happy
state of things which the right hon. gentleman opposite
announced when he went to his election as a Minister of
the Crown, and told his constituents that the majority in
the House of Lords being now agreed, the constitutional
instrument would be in harmony. One might well ask,
now that this instrument is in such harmony, what is the
music which it plays? (Laughter.) What are the tunes
with which our ears have been delighted in this happy state
of musical concord ? (Continued laughter.) It has not
been, I think, " Rule Britannia," (Loud cheers and
laughter.) The agricultural gentlemen would hardly say
that it has been " The Roast Beef of Old England." The
Irish members are not agreed in saying that it is " St.
Patrick's Day in the Morning." I alai not sure (as we
understood) that it has always been " God, save the
Queen !" The only tune which occurs to me is one which
we sometimes hear from the glee singers at public dinners,
" We're a' noddin". (Great laughter.) Such appears to
me to be the result of this admirable harmony which the
right hon. gentleman gave out as such a great advantage
to the country. With respect to the foreign relations of
the country, the noble lord alluded only to one question :
the war carried on against the Ameers of Scinde ; he de-
scribed the conduct of the Ministry in withholding the
papers referring to the origin of the dispute with them as
most extraordinary. He then reverted to domestic affairs,
and went into a minute examination of the state of
our manufactures and exports, reading a number of
tables to show that, in several important branches
of trade, there had been an alarming decrease. "It
is said," continued the noble lord, Maguum vecti-
gal parsimonia ;'—(laughter)—but I might say now,
Magnum vecligal sapientia: (Cheers and laughter.) If
you had only recourse to those principles of trade so ably
expounded by the right hoe. gentleman 'the President of
the Board of Trade,—(hear)—you might have done some-
thing to make up the deficiency ; but, notwithstanding
your own incomparable skill,—(laughter)--and though
you taxed us with being miserable financiers,—(hear)--
you have not been able to overcome the difficulties with
which you are surrounded." (Cheers.) They had let
the time for retrenchment go by : they might have re-
duced their expenditure considerably at the close of the
Chinese war : could they do so now ? Was it now a state
of quietness and peace? Expensive establishments were
rendered still necessary because they had not adopted that
line of policy which tended to preserve peace, order, and
content. He alluded to Wales, and, at much greater
length, to Ireland.
Sir R. PEEL 'admitted the right of the noble lord to
attack the Government on a question of supply, without a
specific motion of condemnation. But if that Govern-
ment were as culpable as the noble lord had represented
it, he might well have concluded with a more practical
censure. And if he had really thought the prospects of
the nation to be so gloomy as he had painted them, he
would hardly have indulged in the levity with which he
began his speech. The Government had endeavoured to
improve the administration of the law, to extend the be-
nefits of education, and to carry other measures of general
benefit; and why had they not succeeded in these en-
deavours. It was said that they were supported by a
large majority ; but what could a majority effect against
the opposition of a few, resolutely bent upon adjourning
debates from night to night, and so preventing the pro-
gress of public business ? On three questions, fifteen
nights had been employed ; on the Indian question, three
nights; and so on, upon minor matters. There had been
seventeen nights of discussions and divisions upon the
Arms Bill. Parliament had a strict right, no doubt, to
occupy all this time in this way ; but after doing so, let
them not taunt the Government with not having em-
ployed those nights in other ways. The noble lord hr_d
twitted them with abandoning the education measure.
They had long clung to the hope of accomplishing a sys-
tem of combined education, and at first the House seemed
almost unanimous in its favour. But it soon appeared
that there was not that generally favourable disposition
toward it which was indispensable to its useful working.
To have forced it on without the cordial concurrence of
the dissenters, would but have aggravated religious ani-
mosity. The noble lord had passed very lightly over the
subject of foreign policy. He might, when he alluded to
Scinde, have recollected in what situation other regions,
not very remote from it, had been left by the late admi-
nistration. The time would probably arrive when the po-
licy of the government respecting Scinde would be fully
stated to the house ; but in the existing position of that
subject. the government would not be justified in making
large communications. He much regretted the present
state of our commercial intercourse with the United
States; but this commerce had always been subject to
great fluctuations. He should not think it prudent on
this occasion to express an opinion upon a commercial
treaty with any power, though certainly the past expe-
riments had not been very encouraging. The late reduc-
tions of import duty on American produce had not been
so met by corresponding reductions on the part of the
United States as to justify any very sanguine hope in
that particular quarter ; on the contrary, they had been
followed by that high American tariff, which had
been the main cause of the decrease of English exports.
He had the satisfaction to think that in the last six months
there had been indications of improvement in some im-
portant branches of manufacturing industry—particularly
cotton, linen, and woollen ; and this improvement ap-
peared progressive, being greatest in the last month.
Could it, then, be justly said that the measures of the
government respecting the corn law and the tariff had
been thus far unproductive of benefit to the country ?
The noble lord had talked of the Canada Corn Bill as if it
had been some new matter, originated in this year; but
in truth it had been a mere performance of an engage-
ment made with Canada in the year preceding. Then, as
to finance, the cause of the imputed deficiency was, that
when the account was made up, a large proportion of the
proceeds of the income-tax had not come in. There had

not yet been time to ascertain the full results of the tariff;
but, as far as they were known, they were highly satis-
factory. Even the reduction of timber duty, large as was
the present sacrifice, would, he believed, be eventually
beneficial. On the subject of the Welsh insurrection,
he must say that the causes of it were not charge-

able upon the govei nment. The noble• lord might
recollect what had happened at Newport in his own
time, and the cordial aid by which he was then en-
abled to strengthen the hands of government with
5,000 additional troops. The present ministers, however,
had omitted no precaution ; and he hoped the same aid

which they had given whp in opposition would be re-

turned to them by those who bad then held office. Now,
as to Ireland, the course of the government had very lately
been explained in full. They had declared their resolve
to leave no means unemployed for preserving the union,
but to reserve to themselves the choice of the time when
they might deem it necessary to apply to parliament.
Meanwhile, their forbearance had met, he believed, with
very general' approbation ; though the removal of the ma-
gistrates had not been equally well received. He briefly

defended that removal, but declined to enter into the de-
tails of Irish questions-. He admitted that the govern-
ment had failed to conciliate one party, and had lost the
confidence of another ; but they had thought it their duty
to govern impartially, and without reference to party feel-
ings ; and he trusted that they would be rewarded by the
final tranquillity of Ireland. The house would not have
forgotten the difficulties in which he and his colleagues
had found the country. In foreign affairs, in finance, in
commerce, the government had made every effort, and
their efforts were beginning to produce a good result. He
hoped they had not forfeited the confidence of their friends;
and with that hope they would persevere in their endea-
vours to secure to this country the proud position to which
she was entitled.
Lord HOWICK followed in a speech of some length, in
which he lamented that a long session was about to close
without one single important measure having been carried
for the benefit of the people.
Lord PALMERSTON made a speech; imputing the failure
of Ministerial measures, not to want of time, but to the
opposition of large classes of the community ; and con-
trasting the financial policy of the two governments, past
and present. As to long debates, an opposition weak in
numbers but strong in argument, had a right to avail
itself of its forte. He. intimated that, if Ministers did
not improve, their supporters would receive hints from
without which might enable the opposition to cope with
Government no less effectually in the lobby than in the
discussion. Touching upon foreign topics, he made good
use of the Spanish revolution, declaring that Espartero
fell for want of moral support from England.
Lord STANLEY doubted whether even the discussion of
that evening were a very useful employment of that time,
about the waste of which so much had been said. The
noble lord had assumed for his own side a vast superiority
in debate. If he meant in point of length, perhaps it was
so ; but the frequent failures in making or keeping a house,
chiefly on evenings not devoted to government business,
did look a little as if the house in general failed to appre-
ciate the oratorical powers of that party. The Ecclesi-
astical Courts Bill had indeed been postponed ; but the
same thing had repeatedly happened to the last govern-
ment. As to the County Courts Bill, there had never
been even an opportunity of bringing it to a second read-
ing. The fate of the Factory Bill he deeply lamented;
had it not been for the feeling out of doors, he believed
that this bill would have been temperately discussed in
the legislature, and passed. Lord Palmerston had re-
gretted the whig deficiency ; but all that the whigs ever
did was to regret it. They did nothing to repair it, whereas
this government had boldly, and at all risk of unpopularity,
imposed an income tax, the produce of which was only
half collected at the point of time at which the deficiency
was alleged by Lord Palmerston to exist, the uncollected
half being more than sufficient to cover that deficiency.
He controverted Lord Palmerston's statements respecting
the Affghan and Chinese wars, showing the insufficiency
of the arrangements and provisions made by the whig
ministry. It had been objected that the free trade prin-
ciple had not been followed out in full. No; and any
government which should attempt any such thing, in the
complicated state of our commercial affairs, would bring
the country into inextricable difficulties ; but so far from
making prohibition their war cry, the present ministers
had brought in the largest measure of relaxation ever
passed. He explained, with reference to an allusion of
Lord Palmerston, the reason why the Scotch Church Bill
had not been earlier introduced ; and excused himself
from going into the question of Ireland and her church.
No doubt it was true, that when the whigs were in office
people asked, on every movement abroad, what England
was going to do ; because no stir ever happened in any
corner of the world but Lord Palmerston must needs in-
terfere in it ; more especially be was always haunted with
a fear of French interference France was absolutely his
bgte noire. Lord Stanley then maintained that all possi-
ble support had been given to the Spanish Regent, with
whom he expressed his strong sympathy. And, lastly,
referring to Lord Palmerston's anticipation of political
changes, he assured him, that if it was founded, as it
seemed to be, on some notion of division in the Cabinet,
the hope had nothing to sustain it.
Mr. HUME, Mr. V. SMITH, Mr. E. B. ROCHE, Mr.
LABOUCHERE, and other members followed, the majority
of the speakers being on the Liberal side.
The Committee of Supply was postponed till Wednes-
day, and the third reading of the Irish Arms Bill till
Monday.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the house adjourned.

UNIVERS ITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

DURHAM.

ORDINATION.-At a general Ordination held by the
Bishop of Chester, in the Cathedral, in this city, on Sun-
day, the 16th instant, the following gentlemen were or-
dained :

Priests.
Thomas Hugo, 8.A., Worcester Colleen, Oxford.
Leonard Charles Wood, B.A. Jesus College, Oxford.
John Paul, S.C.L., Magdalene College, Oxford.
Francis Hind, A. 8., Lincoln College, Oxford.
Richard Charles Swan, A. 8., St. John's College, Cam-
bridge.
James Hool Sharples, A. 8., St. John's College, Cam-

bridge.
David Henry Morice, A. 8., Trinity College, Cambridge.
Benedict Arthur, A. 8., Trinity College, Dublin.
George Grey Cashman, A. 8., Trinity College, Dublin.
Henry George Price, A. 8., Trinity College Dublin.
William Walker, M.A., Trinity College, Dublin.
Gustavus Barton, M.A., Trinity College, Dublin.
William Messenger, University College, Durham.
Edward Thomas Clarke, St. Bee's.
John Dalton, St. Bee's.
George Lancaster, St. Bee's.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD:

IRE L AND.

GREAT REPEAL MEETING AT TUAM,

The repeal demonstration in this district took place on
the 23d ult., and was looked to with peculiar interest from
the circumstance of the requisition convening the meet-
ing having been signed by Dr. MeHale, Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Tuam, The place fixed for the proceed-
ings of the day was the Gurrane race-course, two miles
from the town, on the side opposite to that by which the
procession had to return, and in consequence of the mul-
titude who thronged the road it was half-past six o'clock
before Mr. O'Connell reached the platform. The im-
mense number of persons collected covered an area of
about seven acres, besides forming a continuous line from
the place of meeting to the town. On the platform they
seemed one and all disposed to fix the number present at
over 100,000. There were no military at this meeting,
but a large body of police were in the town, brought in
from the neighbouring stations.
On the motion of Dr. M`Hale, J. J. Bodkin, Esq.,
M.P., J.P., and D.L., took the chair.
Lord Ffrench moved the first resolution.
Mr. M. Blake. of Frenchfort, seconded the resolution,
which was carried with acclamation.

Mr. R. D. Browne moved a resolution of gratitude to
Mr. O'Connell, and pledging the meeting to co-operate
with him in his struggle to obtain complete national re-
generation.

Mr. T. Bodkin seconded the resolution, which, it is
needless to say, was carried amidst much cheering.
Mr. O'Connell said he had not language to express his
delight at that magnificent assembly. But if he was de-
lighted with the sight before him, he had also cause for bitter
regret. It was with pain he had to complain of the conduct
of a portion of the people of that country. At Ahascragh
they had been guilty of treason to Ireland. It appeared
that triumphal arches had been erected there, which
police were sent by a magistrate to take down. The
magistrate might have been right or wrong—but if wrong,
the people were sure of obtaining redress. The law was
open to them, and be promised them its protection ; but,
instead of looking for that protection, they violated
the very fundamental principle of the Repeal Associa-
tion. That principle was, that nothing was to be ob-
tained by the slightest force or violence. Instead of
acting on that wise and sacred principle, the traitors
of Anascragh pelted the police with stones, and one of
the police was injured. The poor police did nothing but
their duty ; they were merely obeying the orders they re-
ceived, and the people must have known that any act of
violence offered was a crime of a double dye. He would
blot out Ahascragh from the map of Ii eland. What was
the consequence of their rash and criminal conduct? The
enemies of repeal in the neighbourhood of Ahascragh were
to-day triumphing, and many of the people engaged in the
riot were in gaol already. He called upon them to spread
through Connaught that there was no protection for those
who broke the laws, but there was protection for those
who virtuously endured the iniquitous misconduct of those
who wronged them, as was the cause at Headfort. Now
what happened at Headfort ? A man shouted " Hurrah
for O'Connell." It was a foolish cry, no doubt, but
there was no harm in it. But one of St. George's inyr-
midions knocked him down for it. What did he do? He
merely got up and walked away, and with the blessing of
heaven they would obtain justice for him. With respect
to Ahascragh, not one of the people should be allowed to
join the Repeal Association for twelve months. He would
stand by no man who gave a blow. If a life had been
lost, or blood bad been spilt at Ahascragh, he would not
have been here to-day—he would have gone back home to
Dublin, and not have returned to join his voice to-day in
the general shout for repeal. By repeal they would be
protected from English oppression ; they would be freed
from the slavery of paving the clergy of a church in which
they did not believe. If he got repeal, his first step would
be to put an end to the poorhouses—(cheers) and with the
£8,000,000 from the church temporalities, he would build
hospitals and housea of refuge for the poor. He was
working on the second step of the cause of reveal—the
appointment of arbitrators—for in every parish they
would have magistrates of their own in place of those who
were dismissed. They would next beg of their clergy to
fix a day of humiliation and prayer, that they might be
better prepared on the organisation being completed, to
proceed with the appointment of the Preservative So-
ciety, which would consist of 300 leading gentry of the
kingdom. Oh, he hoped May would not dawn on them
without seeing repeal ! (Cheers.)
A resolution, expressive of sympathy with the super-
seded magistrates, and of a determination to resort to the
arbitrators in all cases of difference, was then proposed
and carried ; after which, thanks having been give❑ to
the chairman, the meeting adjourned.

THE DINNER
took place in a large room attached to the Mitre Hotel,
in which two galleries were fitted up which accommoda-
ted 300 ladies. About 400, among whom were a large
number of Roman Catholic clergy, sat down to dinner.
Mr. Bodkin presided.
After the usual loyal toasts, the Chairman rose to pro-
pose "The health of Mr. O'Connell," which was drunk
with long-continued acclamations.
Mr O'Connell rose, and the cheering was renewed.
When it ceased, he said that was a time to try their souls
—that was the time for them to show how much of the
noblest metal constituted their nature. Yes, this was the
final struggle for repeal. If England conquer now, Ire-
land is prostrate in the dust. It was now or never.
(Loud cheers.) They must either have it now, or they
never will have it. (Cheers.) He would even suppose
that England was in a high and palmy state, and he would
yet say there was a power in Ireland capable of bearing
down any opposition, and that England though willing to
coerce, would be too prudent to try it. But was England
in a high and palmy state ? Her manufactures were dis-
tressed, her commerce embarrassed, and her finances were
diminishing. There was a deficiency of some millions in
the receipt of the revenue.
A Voice : More of that to her.

Mr. O'Connell : Yes, more of that to her until the day
shall arrive when she will render justice to Ireland, and
from that day may every glory and prosperity attend upon
her people. (Cheers,) But now what was her state ?
The wages of her manufacturers were diminishing—her
poor-houses were thronged, and the operatives in Stafford-
shire were talking of walking to London four abreast.
They even spoke of carrying pikes with them, to help
them, he supposed to ask a question of Peel. (Laughter.)
Wales was in a state of insurrection, and Scotland was
agitated not more by the material suffering of her indus-
trious classes, than by a deeply-felt religious movement.
He would be at Castlebar next Monday, where he would
show whigs and tories he was only beginning the struggle.
The Chairman then proposed " John of Tuam, the lion
of the fold of Judah."—(Drunk with loud acclamations.)
Dr. AP Hale (titular Archbishop of Tuant) said that at
that advanced period of the evening it would not be im-
puted to a want of gratitude for the high compliment paid
to him, if he confined himself to the simple expression of
his thanks. As the people clung to the clergy in past
times of trial and suffering, so the clergy would now cling
to them. (Cheers.)
Several other toasts were given, and the duties of the
chairman did not terminate until two o'clock in the morn-
ing, at which hour the meeting separated.

FURTHER RIOTING IN BELFAST.

(From the Ulster Times.)

It appears that the repealers are not yet satiated with
their sanguinary proceedings, and that the series of at-
tacks upon Protestant life and property, which commenced
on the 13th instant, and followed up for three successive
days and nights, were only to be, as it were, preludes to a
more extensive and organised system of lawless outrage
and blood-thirstiness.

It was on last Sunday evening, then, that this physical-
force demonstration and murderous attack upon the poor
and persecuted Protestants of Belfast, in the locality of
Sandy-row, took place ; and the pretext for large masses
of repealers assembling in well-organized and regularly-
disciplined army was—a funeral. _

It appears that a man named Cosgrove, who had long
been ill, and who resided in the Pound-loanan, died some
day during the week, and whose corpse was kept un-
buried from that time till four o'clock on Sunday even-
ing, when the funeral took place. During the time which
elapsed between Cosgrove's death and the funeral, the
repealers, at the distance of ten miles round Belfast were
summoned into town by some henchman of " the cause,"
under pretext of attending this funeral. Thus a mar-
shalled force of upwards of 4,000 men, women, and
children, assembled in Barrack-street, from whence the
procession proceeded to Friar's Bush burying-ground,
where the corpse was interred. When the repeal mob had
all entered the place of sepulture, or as many as it would
accommodate, the gates were ordered to be closed, so that
we cannot even aim at a guess as to what further plot or
arrangements took place at the time of the corpse being
inhumated.

After the interment the loyal repeal mob again formed
themselves into marching and fighting order, somewhat
after this fashion :—About 500 men, who appeared to be
all country people, occupied the van ; after them followed
about 500 or 600 women, carrying stones and weapons for
the premeditated attack on the unconscious Protestants,
and at each side of them were files of men, whilst the
rear was brought up by the immense mass of adults who
composed the procession. In this order they marched
along into the town, till they arrived at Wellivood-place,
a short distance beyond the Ulster Railway station, when
a piquet was sent out to provoke a quarrel, that they
might have the colour of a pretext for commencing their
attack upon any or every Protestant who might be un-
fortunate enough to come within their sanguiaary grasp.
A young man, who happened to be on the road-side, was
challenged by some of the repeaters to fight. This he at
first refused, when the challenge was repeated by another
of the Sabbath-breaking repeaters, accompanied by such
insulting taunts and unbearable provocation, that a fight
was absolutely forced upon him ; but no sooner had the
rencontre commenced, than the blood-thirsty repealers
rushed upon the young man and the few friends near him,
and with that savage brutality and unmanly cowardice so
peculiar to them commenced an attack with stones upon
their persons, who retreated down Wellwood-place; but
the repealers were speedily repulsed by these poor fel-
lows, and a few friends who came to their assistance,
and were driven out into Victoria-place. This, it ap-
pears, was but the commencement of the Sabbath
evening's game, intended to be played by these savage
monsters of human delinquency, for when they pro-
ceeded a little further on, at a place called the Mill-
ane, they made a rush up it, and commenced a furious
attack with stones upon a few defenceless Protestants,
who were standing at the further end of it, next Sandy-row.
These poor fellows were, however, with some little assist-
ance, enabled to keep their position and repel their assail-
ants. This second attack was, in the first instance, made
upon two men, named Byers and Millar ; how we must
admire the manliness, the courage, and the indomitable
bravery of 5000 repealers making an attack upon two de-
fenceless Protestants, who did not even-provoke them by

hn insult ! Byers and Millar were carried away insensible
and are not yet pronounced out of danger. When they
had proceeded a little further on towards the railway,
these heroes, the pride and flower, we suppose, of Hiber-
nian chivalry, made an attack upon two little boys who
were sitting in a field, about fifty yards from the road,
and, without any cause whatever, commenced throwing
stones at them from that distance ; one of the constabu-
lary removed the boys, so as not to give these lawless in-
vaders of the peace and quiet of our town even the
appearance of provocation. At this period of the Sabbath
evening's amusement, Thomas Verner, Esq., and
Sub-Inspector Giveen, with a body of the county police,
came up, and upon Mr. Verner's speaking to one of the
mob, who appeared to have more of the outward marks
of respectabillity than his fellows, and requesting him to
use his influence with the mob to desist from their riotous
. conduct, this person, in an offensive manner, made some
impertinent reply, when Mr. Verner received a severe
blow from a stone which struck him immediately under
the left eye, by which he is suffering considerable pain, if
it does not ultimately prove a serious injury. Serjeant
Campbell also, at the same time, received a very severe
blow which cut through his cap and inflicted a serious
wound on the temple, in consequence of which he was
carried away insensible, and continued in that state for
some time; in fact, every policeman that was on the spot
at the time received more or less injury, and all have the
external marks of violence on their persons. During the
time that this attack upon the magistrate and the police
was being made, a little girl named Emily Clayton was
returning from a Snnday school with her Bible in her
hand, when a woman from the mob ran up to her, and
called her a little " heretic b-," knocked her down.
In this act she was assisted by two or three men, who
kicked the poor child and tore her Bible in several peices.
The child cried out to beat her if they liked, but not to
tear her Bible. She is lying at her mothers of Durham-
street, in a dangerous state, owing to the brutal treatment
which she received. Shortly after this, a company of the
53rd regiment and a troop of the 3rd dragoon guards,
under the command of Brevet. Major Block, arrived,
prior to which the disturbance was quelled. The dragoons
returned to their barracks about 10 o'ciock, and the in-
fantry remained till 12, at which time the town was quiet.
The Protestants of Sandy-row and its neighbourhood
are justly entitled to much credit for their patience and
forbearance upon this trying occasion. One fact is on all
hands admitted, that they were not the agressors, and
that, until they were provoked and wantonly attacked by
the repeaters, not a man of them lifted a hand to strike a
blow or throw a stone.
We are happy to state that, up to the latest hour in
which we could obtain any information as to the peace of
the town last night, all was peaceable. During the day a
good deal of excitement prevailed, and further rioting was
apprehended, even up to a late hour in the evening; but
we are glad to hear that nothing of the kind occurred. It
is impossible, however, to calculate how long we may con-
tinue free from an ebullition of repeal mobocracy, in the
shape of Bible tearing, and attacks upon the lives and
properties of the Protestant inhabitants.

The forces now concentrated in Ireland exceed, it is
said, 35,000 men.
A heavy shower of snow fell on the mountains of Coal-
carney, county Sligo, on Thursday last.
The most daring acts of intimidation are daily prac-
tised in the neighbourhood of Carlow, to prevent witnesses
from attending to give evidence at the assizes.
The Duke of Leinster's tenantry in the county of Car-
low, have (with the exception of two aspirants for fame as
speakers) refrained from attending the repeal meeting at
Athy, or from taking any part in the repeal movement.
THE REIGN OF TERROR.—Captain G. H. Fitzgerald,
summoned as a witness for the trial at the Limerick as-
sizes of the Rev. Charles Dawson's alleged murderers,
received a threatening notice, warning him of the conse-
quences, should he have the temerity to give evidence.
O'CONNELL AND THE REPEAL RINT.—WiII it be
believed—and it is a fact which may be relied on—that
Mr. O'Connell has, within these four weeks, paid off two
mortgages on his estates, and renewed all his fines at
Derrinane? In addition to this, he has also lately in-
vested £6,000 in old 31 stock, in his own name.

FRENCH SYMPATHY WITH IRISH REPEALERS.— Up
to Thursday se'nnight the proceeds of the grand national
subscription of Paris, in aid of the Irish repeal association,
amounted to 610 francs, about £25, hardly sufficient to
bear the expenses of M. Ledru Rollin's projected em-
bassy to Dublin.

The following sentence is extracted from a leading ar-
ticle in the Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday night :
" Let it be known among loyal men that negociations are
at this moment pending, which will probablyiresult in the
contribution of large additions to the repeal fund from
other European countries besides France."
EFFECT OF THE REPEAL.—An English nobleman,
Lord S—, who has a large property in Ireland, agreed
with an eminent London Capitalist for £70,000 on loan
at 3 per cent, to pay off incumbrances of 5 per cent. ; but
such has been the fear of repeal agitation that the above
house declined executing the proposal, and paid all the
expenses attending the negociations, sooner than hazard
their capital.—Limerick Chronicle.

The usual repeal meeting was held at the Dublin Corn
Exchange, on Tuesday. Mr. O'Connell intimated his
intention of attending a meeting at Baltinglass, County
Wicklow, on the 6th of August next. He then moved
the admission of the Right Rev. Dr. Coen, Roman Ca-
tholic Bishop of Clonfert, which passed amid loud cheers.
Father Murtagh was admitted a member. The week's
rent was announced to be £1,464 19s. 74d.
RIBBON PROCESSION.-We could scarcely credit what
we now find to be an incontrovertible fact, that on the
morning of the 12th of July, between the hours of one
and two o'clock, an immense assemblage of persons,
amounting to about 800 men, marched through Stranor-
lar, to the great terror of the Protestant inhabitants, who
conceived that a general rising had taken place, and that
the bloody scenes of 1641 were about to be re-enacted.

At the King's County assizes, on Friday, Thomas Dow-
ling was placed on his trial, before Chief Justice Doherty,
for the murder of Mr. Gatchell, a magistrate of that
county, at Clonbulluck, near Edenderry. The most ex-
traordinary feature in this case was the fact that the chief
witness for the Crown, an approver, named James Dunn,
is the brother-in-law of the prisoner, being married to his
sister. On Saturday, the jury not having agreed, were
dismissed by Chief Justice Doherty.

THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN ENNISCORTHY.
—Hope seems to diminish. A letter, from the writer of
the communications which we published on Thursday,
and which was dated on Sunday morning, says :—I regret
to inform you there is now not the slighest hope of poor
W. Fayle's recovery, yesterday being the tenth and most
critical day, when an evident change appeared for the
worse, which continues up to the present. He is in quite
a low state, and evidently fast sinking. We were buoyed
up a good deal in the hope of his ultimate recovery, but
it has only made the trial of his friends more severe."

THE ABSCONDED TREASURER FOR THE DUBLIN
CORPORATION.—Mr. Finn has, after all, proved too
many for Mr. Ross Cox, and, accordingly, the latter
gentleman is expected home in a fortnight " all alone,"
to resume his police-office duties. It appeared that the
absconded treasurer had been traced as far as the Falls of
Niagara, but further deponent sayeth not. Can it be that
the acquisitive gentleman who has left the immaculate
honours of the civic body to monrn that e'er he left them
has acquired the Indian fashion of covering his trail, and
thus, albeit encumbered with his squaw, and several small
Finns, baffled all pursuit. Be that as it may, he is, like
Mr. O'Connell's repeal scheme, not come-at-able, and
there will, doubtless, be a small flare-up when the modest
enforcers of the borough rate come to decide upon Mr.
Cox's rate of remuneration.
THE ARMS BILL.—The grand jury of the county of
Tyrone, (Lord C. Hamilton, M.P., foreman,) have agrees
to a petition to parliament, praying it to pass the Arms
Bill now before the house. They say, " Your petitioners
consider this bill calculated to give security to the lives
and property of her Majesty's subjects in this kingdom,
requisite for the suppression of those outrages which the
unlawful possession of arms has so unhappily produced,
and a safeguard and protection to the well-disposed ;
whilst it can only be looked upon as oppressive by those
who are leagued for unlawful purposes. Our knowledge
of this country leads us earnestly to entreat you not to
abandon that clause of the bill which enacts the marking
of arms ; inasmuch as we feel it no disgrace to submit to
that regulation, but consider it the most effectual means
for detecting guilt, and the surest check to the commission
of crime. Feeling grateful for the manner in which this
measure, so necessary to our welfare, has been entertained
by your honourable house, and being confident of your
anxiety to secure for this country the protection and tran-
quility which other parts of this empire enjoy, we earnestly
pray you will not allow any protracted or factious opposi-
tion to defeat a bill so essentially requisite at the present
time."

REPEAL RUFFIANISM TOWARDS THE PROTESTANT ,
CLERGY.—The Irish are, according to Mr. O'Connell,
" the most religious and moral"—the most amiable and
excellent people under the sun. He is never tired of singing
their praises and holding them up as examples to all the
nations of the earth. For our parts, we believe there is
not, even in wretched and priest-taught—wretched because
Priest-taught, Portugal or Spain, a people more blindly
bigotted, and scarcely more ferociously revengeful, than a
large proportion of our loudly lauded countrymen, and
good care they take that this belief shall be neither re-
moved nor weakened. There are many matters in which
we protestants are resolute enough ; but whatever our
zeal against principles, we scarcely transfer it to persons.
Not so the misdirected people among whom we live, and
an instance of this occurred on Sunday evening in the
crowd that followed the Rev. Mr. Moriarty from church.
Having preached at St. Anne's Shandon on behalf of the
Infant Schools, a number of people collected about the
door and in the yard. They waited in silence until the
congregation had departed ; but as soon as Air. Moriarty,
in company with the Rev. Mr. Tuckey and Rev. Mr.
Chinnery, appeared, they set up a yell, and followed them
shouting " bloody ministers," &c., as far as St. Patrick's
Bridge.—Cork Constitution.
EXCLUSIVE DEALING.—The Romish priesthood are
making desperate exertions to levy contributions off the
people of Carnew and its neighbourhood—nay, such is
the daring of those petty scoundrels called wardens, or
drill sergeants, that the Protestant shopkeepers are threat-
ened with exclusive dealing if they persevere in their re-
fusal to pay the repeal or " rebel rent ;" but I am happy
to state that their threats will be treated with merited
contempt by the sound-hearted and loyal inhabitants of
this town. It is also gratifying to know that Robert
Challoner, Esq., agent to the Earl Fitzwilliam, has taken
the field in opposition to repeal, and not only reprimands
those miscreants who are prowling about fleecing the
people of their surplus cash, but has intimated to the
tenantry that such of them as are disposed to take part
in the repeal movement shall be visited with his lqrd-