The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-13 00:00:00

KILKENNY

This demonstration came off on Thursday. A correspond-
ent of the Pilot of Friday thus describes it The proces-
sion, consisting of the trades, with a numerous assemblage
of horsemen and the people of the city, left this at twelve
o'clock, and extended the entire road from the city to the
stand-house, upwards of three long Irish miles. The assem-
blage at the race-course, when the meeting commenced, ex-
ceeded, on the lowest computation, 300,000 persons. P. S.
Butler, Esq., took the chair." The meeting was addressed
by the liberator, Mr. Stele, and 13 other gentlemen. The
procession returned in the same order 'as in going out, and
did not reached the city until nearly seven o'clock. Six hun-
dred tickets have been sold for the banquet, which takes place
this evening at the Black Abbey. Mr. O'Connell suggested
that in future no green boughs should be carried at repeal
processions.
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Mr. O'Connell was received with the most enthusiastic
and deafening shouts of applause. When silence was re-
stored, the hon. and learned gentleman proceeded as follows :
—ls there a band within hearing ? If there be, let them play
up " God save the Queen." (More than a dozen bands here
played up the national anthem, the entire vast multitude re-
maining uncovered. At the termination of the air three
hearty and deafening cheers were given for the Queen.) I
will now give you another subject to cheer—three cheers for
the Queen's army—the bravest army in the world. (Tre-
mendous cheers.) Three cheers for the Irish people—the
most moral, the most brave, the most temperate, and the
most religious people on the face of the earth. (Great and
continued cheering.) And now, having gone through these
heartfelt ceremonies, I present myself before you to address
you on topics of the highest interest. It has never happened
to me to behold a more gorgeous assemblage of human beings
than that now before me. I have never seen anything to trans-
cend it, though I have seen some sights equal in importance
and in moral dignity. I have before me more physical force than
any military commander that ever existed, and I have that
physical force perfectly cognizant of this fact, that they could
not do anything that would be such great injury to the cause
of repeal as committing the slightest breach of the peace.
(Cries of " Never fear.") Somebody says " Never fear."
Why, I am afraid of nothing except being wrong ; for as
long as I am right I fear nothing, and I think 1 have plenty
here to join me in being right, and to join me, too, in fearing
nothing. (Great cheering.) No, the only thing I could ap-
prehend would be any species of a breach of the law. There
never yet was any country presented the same moral specta-
cle as Ireland, or where the people were so determined to
carry the restoration of their national independence by con-
stitutional means. (Hear. hear, and cheers.) I promise
you the repeal of the union. (Tremendous applause.) I
repeat it, 1 am able to promise the repeal to you speedily
and rapidly ; and it is more near to us than even the most
sanguine imagine. (Renewed cheers.) I suppose you have
heard of the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel having
come down to parliament one tine evening, and declared that
they would prevent the repeal of the union even at the
expense of a civil war. We will not go to war with them,
but let them not dare to go to war with us. (Tremendous
cheering, which continued for some minutes.) We will act
on the defensive, and believe me, men of Kilkenny, there is
no power in Europe that would dare attack you and the
people of Ireland, when they keep themselves in the right
and act on the defensive only. (Hear, hear.) They threatened
us with this civil warfare, but we only laughed at them, and
you aro at liberty to laugh at them again. (Cheers and laugh-
ter.) I hurled back my indignant defiance to them from the
Repeal Association, and told them what 1 now tell you, that
we never would violate the law, or commit any violence, but
that we have hands enough to defend .our own heads, if they
dared to attack us. (Great cheers.) . What was the conse-
quence? The great Duke of Wellington and the crafty
Sir R. Peel pulled in their horns a little, and they said they
did not mean to attack us. (Hear, hear.) Very well. There
is peace then, for we will not attack them, and they will not
attack us, (Laughter.) But they bate sent over 36,000
artillery, cavalry, infantry, and marines here, and I am very
glad of it, for they will spend 36,000 shillings every day
while they remain in the country. (Cheers.) It would
be a kind of little repeal of the union in itself. ( A
laugh.) As to the army, it has been always on the best
terms with the people. In the \Vhiteboy times the people
never :Ai; wed the slightest animosity to the soldiers, who did
no more than their duty, though they disliked the police, and
small blame to them. The Queen's army is the best in the
world, and the class of sergeants that it contains is the most
educated in existence, and I trust that the day will come
when all the sergeants will be in a fair way of becoming com-
missioned officers. (" Hear, hear," and loud cheers.) I will
tell you a secret, arid mind you promise me to keep it—(a
laugh)—it is temperance that will give us the repeal. (Cheers.)
Temperance will give it to us, for I can now trust in every
one of you, as I am not afraid that any drunken vagabond
will get into a riot, or that a drunkard will, in his haughti-
ness, refuse to obey my commands. (Cheers.) I have you
disciplined by temperancg,and I defy your enemies. (Cheers.)
Irishmen, your country shall not be enslaved. The repeal of
the union is approaching! From this spot I proclaim to you
liberty and prosperity to old Ireland. (Loud and continued
cheers.)

Several other gentlemen spoke, and in the evening the
liberator spoke at a banquet given him.

REPEAL IN ENNIs.-2The'repeal demonstration in Ennis
will take place on Thursday and it. is expected to be the
greatest display of strength that has taken place. With res-
pect to the progress of actual organizatign of the masses, the
Galway Standard states that, " there is not a town, there is
not a village, in this hitherto peaceable country, whose inhabi-
tants are not well organized—ready for any event. They
have their daily, their nocturnal meetings ; their proceedings
are secret, and the deluded peasantry have so much confi-
dence in demagogues, that at a day's notice they would, if
called upon, take up arms against the Queen's troops. They
are well drilled, and have their inferior and superior officers,
and yet there is no part of Ireland left more at the mercy
of the disaffected of Galway. We must call on the Govern-
ment emphatically for a sufficient protective naval and mili-
tary force."

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE COUNTY CORK :
" The repeal agitation has some influence here—the minds
of the people are much excited by the expectation of a great
change. Last Sunday we had a Cork temperance band in
full military costume, with a large party of teetotallers; they
were, however, very orderly ; still the military character of
the proceeding may have a bad tendency laying the foun-
dation of a regular system of organisation and military
training. The parish priest here has declined to advise the
people for or against repeal. He stated that his opinion
was that it would be injui ions even if carried, but he thought
it would never be granted ; and he then told the people that
he would leave them to act as they pleased; that possibly
some few beneficial measures might be extorted from
the ministry by the stir. So far as I can judge from hear-
ing the sentiments of the people in this quarter, I don't
think a rebellion is anticipated. The fact is the whole
business is got up and managed by the priesthood for the as-
cendancy of the Romish religion. They had too nearly suc-
ceeded with the Whigs in annihilating the Church of England
in this country to despair of success; and I am afraid from
the tone of Lord John Russel. Lord Listowel, &c., and the
expediency principle of our Prime Minister, that sooner or
later the Church will be sacrificed—perhaps not ►n toto, at
once, but by gradual compromises as heretofore. Already
we have lost church rates, one-fourth of our revenues, 10 of
the bishops, numbers of the dignitaries and benefices, and
the reversionary interest in church lands. At present Pro-
testants are scarcely tolerated in the south. How would they
be were the sanction and protection of the law taken from
heir religion and transferred to Popery ?"
MEETING OF KING'S COUNTY MAGISTRATES.
There was a very numerous meeting of the magistrates of
the King's county held at Parsonstown on Tuesday, convened
by the Earl of Rosse, to consider the measures proper to be
adopted in consequence of the recent murder of Mr. John
Gatchell, a magistrate of the county. The noble Earl was
furnished with a copy of the Arms Bill, which he had read
for the meeting, and which was unanimously approved. A.
committee was formed to watch over the new registry of fire-
arms, and to prevent in every way arms getting into the
hands of the peasantry. Resolutions and subscriptions were
entered into to co-operate with and assist Govern►uent in the
protection of witnesses. It was deemed unnecessary to enter
into the subject of reward for the apprehension of the mur-
derers, there being already persons committed to abide their
trials for the crime. His Lordship put down his name for
£lOO, and before the meeting separated £4OO was subscribed.
Among the resolutions agreed to are the follwing :
" We deeply regret that another crime, and that of the
most heinous character, should have disgraced this country,
and that we should thus be constrained to relinquish the
sanguine hope of restored tranquility, which was grounded,
not on the solid basis of the law re-asserting its rights i►► the
conviction of the guilty, but on that very questionable evi-
dence, the comparative cessation of outrage in its worst form
during the last two years.

" On a former occasion w•e ventured to express an opinion
that because the assassin had, in every instance, been pro-

vided with arms in an efficient state, the presumption Was,
that these arms had not been co►►cealed, that they had not

been kept in a dry place, openly, and perhaps, even had been
registered. On that occasion we strongly pressed upon the
government the urgent necessity of a more efficient arms'
act; and, although differing on
.general political subjects, in
this we acted unanimously. We do not see that an efficient
registration of arms can act injuriously to any one; neither
do we see how any real objection can be made to. an enact-
II would require that all fire-arms should be
ld act as a security azainst

theft, precisely as the marking of any other description of
property, while it would afford very valuable security against
the application of tire-arms to improper purposes.
A peasant in his cottage, with a thatched roof, which can
be ignited in a moment, though he may have his gun, is in a

. • . _ .
And further, we mny add, that rtl tna numero4s outrages,
connected with the robbery of arms, extending over a long
period, we know of no instance where the inmates of a soli-
tary thatched cottage actually made use of their fire-arms in
a successful resistauce to an armed banditti."

INQUEST AT CARRICKMACROSS

The inquest on the body of Peter Agnew, who was killed
during the recent affray between Mr. Shirley's tenantry and
the police, was held at Carrickmacross on NVednesday and
Thursday.

Mr. (i'Hea attended as counsel, and Mr. Croker as agent
for the next of kin to Peter Agnew, deceased ; and Mr
Gibson appeared for Mr. Wilcocks, R.M., and the police.

A jury, composed of six Protestants and thirteen Roman
Catholics, was sworn, and several witnesses who had taken
part in the riot were examined, their evidence going clearly
to prove the dangerous position of the police, and the fury of
the mob, when the order to fire was given. The evidence on
the behalf of the next of kin having terminated,
Mr. Gibson tendered the evidence of Mr. Barry and
the police, but they were objected to by Mr. °glen, and
after some argument Mr. Gibson stated, that as the investi-
gation had been conducted with so much good taste and
feeling by Mr. o'l-lea, he (Mr. Gibson) would not press their
evidence, as Mr. O'Hea had stated it would not be satisfac-
tory to the people.
Mr. Gibson then tendered the evidence of a policeman who
had not tired a shot, but whose mouth had been badly cut,
and several of his teeth nearly knocked out by a stone; this
was also objected to by Mr. O'Hea, but he would not object
to evidence of the nature of the wound.

Doctor Al'Effer was then examined, and proved that the
policeman's teeth and gums were considerably injured.
The jury soon after retired, and in half an hour returned
the following verdict:—

We find that Peter Agnew came to his death on the 6th of
June inst., at Maheracloone chapel, in the parish of Maher-
acloone, by a gun-shot wound received from a party of the
constabulary commanded by Mr. Wilcocks, stipendiary ma-
gistrate, and Mr. Barry, sub-inspector, firing on a body of
people assembled about the said chapel on that day, and that
it has not been sufficiently proved to us that at the time of
the firing the party of constabulary were in imminent risk of
their lives, and that we have no proof who fired the identical
shot which caused his death.

The verdict is tantamount to an acquittal, as the evidence
shows that the opposition was of such a nature as to justify
the magistrate in firing for the purpose of dispersing the
rioters and forcinc a passage along the road, though the life
of the party was not in imminent danger. A troop of the
3d dragoon guards, and a company of rifles, have arrived in
Carrickmacross, and tranquility has been restored.

ATTACK ON THE POLICE.—Sub-Inspector Fitzsimon, and
his party were severely maltreated at the fair of Molahiffe,
Kerry, and one policeman got his head fractured. Magis-
trates were previously called on to attend the fair, but de-
clined.—Limerick Chronicle.

ACCIDENT AT KILCULLEN.—Two men, named Keogh,
were drowned, on Wednesday, about half a mile below the
bridge of this town. They, in company with three others,
were washing sheep, the property of Mr. Burchell, of Browns-
town. They were both young, and have left families. Another
man was drowned here a few days siuce.—Dublin paper.

THE DEFAULTING CORPORATION TREASURER.—By let-
ters received from Mr. Ross Cox, it would appear that he is
on the " trail" of Mr. Finn, the defaulting treasurer to the
corporation. On the 21st of May Mr. Cox left New York
for Pennsylvania, next for Baltimore, and was on the 29th
of May in Philadelphia, whence he was to start on the next
day for Ohio.—Dublin paper.

ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER—A STEAMER SUNK.—As the
steam-tug, Adelaide, belonging to Messrs. Streaker, was pro-
ceeding, on Wednesday, to the Kish Light, towing a small
lighter with stores, she was discovered to have sprung a leak,
from some cause not ascertained. She was immediately put
back to the North-wall, and just as all the stores on board
were landed on the quay, the vessel sunk, and remains in that
position at present.—Dublin paper.
Lord Roden has addressed a letter to the editor of the
Dublin Mail on the duty of Irish Protestants at the pre-
sent crisis, in which he dissuades them from all processions
and assemblies of large bodies, to which many of them were
inclined to have recourse. From the former he advises them
to abstain in consequence of their having been declared ille-
gal, and from the latter because his lordship considers them
superfluous and unwise.

COMMUNICATION WITH IRELAND.—The Government has
appointed Captains Sir G. Back and R. Fair, R.N. to sur-
vey the harbours of Holyhead and Portbdinllaen, and report
on their capacities as packet stations. They left this place
for Porthditillaen, by land, on Tuesday last, and will return
before the end of the week. An order has been received for
one of the packets on this station to be at their service to go
on with the survey at both places.— Carnarvon Herald.
MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE.—The
Dublin Mercantile Advertiser gives the following letter re-
ceived from a correspondent at Drunmore &at, county Wa-
terford, under date of yesterday Since I wrote last
evening we have witnessed a very melancholy scene. A
large American barque, laden with cotton, has been wrecked
at Browston Head. There were 16 hands on board, and
only one saved out of the whole. The gale has not decrea-
sed, only tends a little more to the west."

HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—Mr. Brereton, who resides
near Nenagh, directed two of his men, one of them an
Orangeman, to watch his plantations on Wednesday night
with fire arms, suspecting that some persons might have re-
course to them for green boughs to adorn their h 'uses at the
approach of Mr. O'Connell yesterday into Nenagh. Horri-
ble to relate the Orange watchman having, it is supposed,
mistaken his fellow watchman for one of the people, tired at
him, shattering his abdomen almost to pieces. On last even-
ing the unhappy victim was not expected to survive many
hours.—Limerick Reporter.

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dead, he struck the former, which a son of Mrs. Buckley (a
boy about 12 years old) observing, the little fellow called
out, " Oh, mother, he'll kill the cock." " Come in," ex-
claimed the mother, "or he'll serve you in the same way."
Burk ley, hearing this, made a rush at the boy, who, how-
ever, escaped into the house. Buckley followed, and pro-
ceeding to the room in which he was in the habit of sleeping,
he returned to the kitchen with 3 gryfaun. Seating himself
on the table, he watched until his sister-in-law stooped
down to do something to the fire, on which potatoes were
boiling for breakfast, and then struck her on the side of the
bead with the " griffaun." The child, we understand, says
that he gave her six blows. The skull was fractured behind
the ear, the face greatly lacerated under bne of the eyes, and
the cheek laid open. Buckley immediately made off, but in-
formation having been conveyed to the Ballyfeard station,
Sub-constable Moloney, with two other active policemen
(Coghlan and Pigott) went in pursuit, and, after searching
the plantations at Hoddersfield, fell in with his coat and
shoes. From this they concluded that he had swam across,
but soon after they met some fishermen who had found the
body floating near the little cottage so well known to " pic-
nickers," and not far from the spot where he had left the
shoes and coat. When the policemen saw it life was extinct.
The wom in died the following day.—Cork paper.
PROFFERED ASSASSINATION.—In the course of Wednes-
day evening the greatest bustle was observed in and about
the neighbourhood of the court, in consequence, as it was
understood, of communication having been made from the
authorities at the Home-office to Mr. Twyford, in the absence
of Mr. Hall, the chief magistrate, for issuing a warrant for
the apprehension of a man of the name of Mayne, who, from
the accounts which our reporter was enabled to collect, had
written a letter to Sir James Graham, offering, for a certain
reward, to assassinate Mr. O'Connell. Mr. Twyford, in the
absence of Mr. Hall, was occupied during the whole of the
night upon the subject, and between four and five o'clock on
Thursday morning he went away in a cab, and on his return,
about eight o'clock, being met by other persons connected
with the Government, they remained in consultation some
time, but the entire proceedings were conducted with so much
secrecy that the result of their deliberations has not been
allowed to transpire, and we were unable to learn whether
any person had been taken.into custody.—Times.—The fol-
lowing further particulars of this case, about which so much
mystery has been made have appeared .—On Monday morn-
ing Sir J. Graham received a letter directed to the right hon.
baronet's private residence in Hill-street, apparently written
in a rambling, incoherent manner, in which the writer, ob-
serving upon what he terms "the treachery of Mr. O'Con-
nell," proceeds to say " that he would undertake, as he
might he advised, to risk his own life against that of Mr.
O'Connell's" On the prisoner being informed by Mr. Hall
of the nature of the charge against him, the evidence of Sir
James Graham read over, and being shown the latter, he im-
mediately, and without the least hesitation, admitted that he
was the author ; and on being asked what could have induced
him to take such an extraordinary step, he repled that the
night before he had been dining with a party of friends, and
had taken too much wine—that he certainly wrote the letter,
and posted it by mistake, having other letters in his pocket—
that he became immediately afterwards sensible of the ex-
treme folly which he had been guilty of, and acquainted
his friends of the act, and asked them if it would not be bet-
ter to send another letter to Sir James Graham in explana-
tion—but they looked upon the epistle as being so ridiculous
that they thought no public notice would be taken of it, and
therefore he did not do so. He now exceedingly regretted
what he had done, and hoped that the contrition on his part
would be favourably considered. After consideration, Mr.
Hall told the prisoner that the charge against him was one
of a most serious and important character, and that no minis-
ter of state could have passed it by without public notice. It
had, however, been determined to admit him to bail, himself
in the sum of £lOO, and two sureties in the sums of £2OO
each, to appear at the next July Sessions of the Central
Criminal Court, to answer any charge that might be preferred
against him. The prisoner then gave in the names of Mr.
Jones, a shipowner at Gloucester, and a gentleman named
Watkins, as his bail, who it was understood, were in Lon-
don, but they had not arrived at the Home Office when our
report was sent off; consequently, the prisoner at present
remrins in custody. The prisoner has been deprived of his
situation for his indiscretion.