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is in the enen.y's

they have not yet taken possession.
iger a field of battle: there are none
but eenqucrors, fugitives, and an insulted population.
The loss of human life is not yet accurately ascertained :
it is said there are about 1.100 killed on both sides. The
noblest'families have lost their sons and brothers. The
corps of students from Kiel, 159 young men have been
altogether cut up. The number of the Prussian troops
now assembled in Rendsburg is 8700. No Prussian
cavalry has as yet arrived in the duchies.

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The Duchy is no 1

Lieut. Colonel Defies died of fever at Gibraltar, on the
nth ult., and was interred with all the honours due to his
rank. Five of the men under him have also fallen tic.
titns to the fever.

PORTUGAL.—On the 9th inst. Lisbon was perfectly
tranquil. The Cortes had not then interpreted the 63rd
article of the Charter, nor hat the Ministry made direct
elections a cabinet question, although favourable to that
system. No progress had been made in financial mea-
sures.

The Archbish of Canterbury remained. over Sunday
last at Osborne House, on a visit to the Queen.
SusrEc-rEn MURDER. —On Sunday, a woman' Was
found in a dying state near Vincent-row, Westminster,
and on being lifted up, a Wound was discovered just above
the left, breast, three quarters of an inch in length and
two and a half inches deep. She was not able to speak, and
died Ina few minutes. A nnin wen in her emnrany

a short time previously, and...(;;;* I;;ing;Vrrested a very for.
midablo clasp-knife, btained with blood, was found in Lis
roel(et, and there were also PatirkS of blood on his left
hand. Thik• man was alFo ider.titiNi by a gentleman as
the person whom he had seen running away from the Fpot

with a largo ela-p-knite in his ,Lana deceasett
20 years at, and the 4ectv,ed ie 2i.
._""here is evcrf -rea-
son in believe that an improper intimary existed between

their

PROGRESS OF SEDITION

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The Dublin Nation of Saturday is rank with<
its poetry is set in the same tune. The most r
feature, however, in the number is a letter ach
Mr. Meagher "of the sword," by the parish
Borrisokane (the Rev. Mr. Bermingham), set
the " doctrine of Catholic resistance,." a passage
is, perhaps, the most instructive that has yet is;
the pen of any man professing to be a minist
Christian religion. It opens as follows :
" My good people, the times are eventful• ar
tons ; no man knows to-day what to-morrow a
forth. Prepare, then, for the worst ;be not
surprise, and be not found defenceless
prepare' I mean simply twothings_
peace with God ; ' put your houses
it, in order;' dispose yourselves
arm quietly, and without tumult.
ever the day for such shall arrive_
preparations, keep steady.; let not
premature or partial outbrea

-First;
3-the
to die.

for your d
Havin

Ling tempt you to a

When the day of yOur struggle shall come, when
liberties as well as your lives shall be invaded,
not be a turning out of two or three counties. bi
land rise to the contest as one man; and let
he is about taking his position to perform tl
rious act of his life, make a vow to the f01i0'....,;
I vow, before God and my country, to lessen, it
by one man at least, the enemies of my r
to die.' When being thus prepared,
the foregoing vow, you are fairly comr..
bat, don't show yourself to the enemy o
on the plane; but take him from the dik,, “tu 4: uure
hedgerow, from the broken bridge, or the obstructed 'rail-
way. Be sure you do all the mischief in your ppm
all the good I should say, for the mischief is the g
this case—by all the means within your teach, and
not for one moment of living—
and die,' be this your motto."
Mr. John Mitchell's paper abounds, as usual,
glowing panegyrics on the pike, the rifle, and th 6 t.‘not
vitriol cure for her Majesty's troops. In reply to a Kit.
kenny Repealer, requiiing information as to what he i- '-
do now that sedition is made felony, Mr. Mitchell
sponds,—

Todo or

•ery

or `to do

Why, get arms. If any one doubted or delayed
before, let him about it quick now. Whoso intended Cr
get a pike, let him get two or three, that he may have
to lend to his poorer neighbours. Let those arm noir
who never armed before, and those who always arm
now arm the more. We entreat Irishmen to call meet-
ings, to make a fire therein, to burn publicly their ii
try certificates, and to sign a written pledge to pro
without delay, certain arms, to be therein specified,
ammunition befitting."
Mr. Mitchell has ceased his correspondence wit/
" Butcher-General," and has now taken the P
Minister to task for the part Lord John has taken te
press treason by the Bill for the Security of the (
Open defiance is, of course, hurled at the measure
means of stifling public opinion. Alluding to tt
precedented success of his own journal, he asks,—
" And why has it grown so popular? Why d
men club their pence to buy it, and get it read to-
crowds every Saturday evening and Sunday nice
Why ?—Because it utters for them the deep and
tinguishable hatred they all bear in their i
against the ' Crown and Government' of Brit
it translates this holy hatred, never yet utter
stifled curses and gnashing of teeth, into loud def
and hurls it weekly in the face of all your Viceroy
Premiers, and Commanders-in-chief; and especial]
cause it points out the way, and the only true w,
which brave men ever win freedom or bridle tyrant
exhorts them continually to rise out of the mis-.
slough of moral force wherein O'Connell plunged ti
and stand erect with the words of freemen on their
and the arms of freemen in their hands, defying
trampling on cant, and waging open war upon humbr
That Mr. Mitchell's aspirations for a general a
are likely to be realized is abundantly evident by
creased demand for pikes in the metropolis, as
throughout the counties of Cork, Limerick, --
Queen's County, the following startling announce
appears in the (York Examiner:—
" A Youghal, correspondent says, that the spirit of in
surrection is rapidly spreading in the south-(
Youghal to Mallow, from Cappoquin to Clonine_,
nothing is spoken of but rifles, and rifle clubs, pike_,
ricades, &c. He mentions the meeting of a rifle club at
Clay Castle, last Sunday, at which over 2000 persons were
assembled. This state of things is becoming a mattes of
general notoriety. The most formidable rebellion that
ever shook Ireland from sea to sea is, unfortunately, a
this moment, threatening the community. And the voices.
that could arrest it are not raised, and the words of recess,.
ciliation and union that would brighten all the future al
Ireland are not spoken. If the upper and intelligent:
classes will not guide and control this inevitable move-
ment, the masses will settle the destinies of Ireland ae
they best can. Lord Falkland never sighed for peace
more earnestly than we do for . union.' Union of all her
children would be the salvation of Ireland."
The Nation mentions as a rumour that Lord Shrews-
bury has given in his adhesion to repeal, and that his,
lordship had a long interview with Lori John Russell orc
the subject in the course of the week. A Dr. O'llandota•
in a letter addressed to the Limerick Reporter, beets
both reports, stating that there is no doubt of their
accuracy

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save tot

and that

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ITS
CONSEQUENCES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARE.
SIR,—In the present state of uncertainty as to &tug
events in France, I think the following quotation from
Ilistory of Europe, chap. v, page 416—A. D.
1792, the period he was then writing about—impresses cet
with a truth that I think we may as well be prepared for
in unhappy France:—
" It is not at the commencement of revolutionary dis-
turbances that the danger to social happiness is to be ap-
prehended ; but after the burst of popular fury is overt
and when the successful party begin to suffer from 314
passions to which they owed their elevation. The lOti
August did not come till three years after thel4th Jul!
The reason is evident :—ln the first tumult of passic
and in the exultation of successful resistance, the pee
are in good humour both with themselves and their
ers, and the new government is installed in its
amidst the applause and hopes of their fellow ci
But after this ebullition of triumphant feeling is
come the sad and inevitable consequences of public
vulsion—disappointed hopes, exaggerated expectan
industry without employment, capital without Me
meat. The public suffering which immedie 'v folk
the triumph of the populace is invariably gre- ',an et
which stimulated their resistance. The ablest repOdica
writers confess that one half of the misery which des: 'lto
France during the revolution would have overwhelme. he
monarchy. The suffering is inevitable : it is the neces,
consequence of shaken credit, invaded property, and I
controlled licentiousness; but coming, as it does, in t
train of splendid hopes and excited imaginations, it occa
sions a discontent and acrimony in the tower orders
which can hardly fail of producing fresh convulsion
The people are never so rife for a second revolutior
shortly after they have successfrlly achieved the fir'
This is an extract from one of the ablest and
writers of the present or any other period

Wens.

—Your's, &
R. (

A VERY HUMBLE MINDED DELEGAT
day's meeting of the Chartist Convention
one of the delegates for London, in propo
tion of exclusive dealing, justified such a si
lowing little revelation of the domestic arrangements et
the Coffey family :—" Having,". he said, "been out of
work lately, he had allowed Mrs. et:trey to go out wash-
ing (much laughter); and at one of the houses where she
had been in the habit of cleaning, she was asked whether.

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she was the wife of Cuffev of the convention.
she was ; and she was then informed that her ser..
would not be required again." Of course the honourable
members cried loudly " shame !" at this cruel treatment
of the lady of the metropolitan representative. The as-
rangement was altogether so comfortable for " Cuffey of
the Convention "—tbr his wife to wash and clear ls stare
whilst he indulged his fondness for spouting sediti.--
that his fellow .labourers in the sacred cause of disor
doubt sympathized with the deprivation which
suffer from its being broken up. "'
Convention " to be thus driven to work
like other cpmmon fellows ?
berty over the water, every ma
nigger," was " Cuffey of the

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