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REVOLUTION IN SPAIN.

By extraordinary express from Paris, accounts have been
received from Madrid, which state that a revolt had broken
out at Alicante, on the 28th January, of the most for-
midable nature. The Provincial Regiment of Valencia,
stationed in the town, joined in the insurrection, which
was directed against the government. The cry of the in-
surgents was " Lon live the constitutional Queen, down
with the Ministers.' The military commander and poli-
tical chief were surprised and arrested by the Custom-house
Carabiniers. The Council of Ministers at Madrid, on
receiving this news, immediately gave orders for the arrest
of the leaders of the Progressista party, and, among others,
of Cortina, Lopes, Madoz, Garnica, Ors, and Benedicto.
Cortina was arrested. Lopes and Ors could not be found.
The others have been taken. It was said that Generals
Serrando and Concha had also been put under arrest. The
pretext for the arrest is, that the whole Progessista party
have entered into a vast conspiracy, of which the breaking
out at Alicante is the first symptom.
The Gazette is full of the most severe decrees directed
against the Alicante insurgents. The provinces of Ali-
cante, Murcia, and Castellon de la Plana. are placed under
martial law. A large body of troops, under Brigadier
Cordova, have bcen directed to leave Madrid for the dis-
turbed districts. It was reported that Carthagena had
joined in the revolt. The National Guards are to be sup-
pressed, and the liberty of the press abolished.

Dr. Kalley was liberated from prison in IVladeira, on
New Year's Day, in consequence of the remonstrances
made by our government.
MADAME C ATALINI.—This celebrated singer has ad-
dressed a long letter to Dr. Heller, the journalist, of
Leipsic, complaining bitterly of the cruelty of the German
press, in so repeatedly putting her to death. " What,"
says she, " have I done to the German press, that they
have now for the fourth time killed me ? Though at the
age of sixty-four, I still retain good health, and litre in
quiet retirement, in the remembrance of former days."
OLDENBURG, Jan. 27.—A most afflicting loss has un-
expectedly fallen on the Grand Ducal family and the
country. This afternoon, at four o'clock, the Grand
Duchess expired after a short but severe illness, in con-
sequence of her accouchement. Her Royal Highness was
a daughter of the late King of Sweden, Gustavus IV. She
was born June 22, 1807 ; and married the Grand Duke
of Oldenburg, May 5, 1831.
VIENNA, Jan. 25.—The Imperial Family was yesterday
visited by a severe affliction, by the sudden and unex-
pected decease of her Imperial Highness the Archduchess
Maria Carolina Augusta, eldest daughter of their Imperial
Highnesses the Archduke and Viceroy Rainer and the
Archduchess Elizabeth. Her Imperial Highness was
born on the 6th February, 1821, and was consequently 23
years of age. This bereavement is the more melancholy,
as the Archduchess was to have been married, in March
next, to the Prince of Savoy Carignan.
PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS.—WARSAW, Jan. 22.
An imperial ukase has been received in Lithuania direct-
ing the authorities of towns and other localities inhabited
by Jews to transport those unhappy persons, amounting
to 36,000 families, to a distance of 12 leagues from their
several actual places of residence. This cruel ukase was
further to receive its execution before the 18th instant; so
that at a moderate estimate, 150,000 persons of both sexes,
and of all ages and conditions, are at this moment, in the
midst of all the rigours of a Lithuanian winter, expelled
their houses, and forced to seek a resting-place in strange
countries, and not merely among strangers, but among
people predisposed to view them as outcasts and objects
for extortion, persecution, and violence.

COLONEL STODDART AND CAPTAIN CONOLLY.—The
following news of the Bokhara captives is given by the
Malta papers :—" Trebizonde, Dec. 13.—0 n the 11th
some passengers from Bokhara report that Colonel
Stoddart is alive, that he is a general of artillery in the
service of the Emir of Bokhara, and th..t he was compelled
to embrace Islamish, under the name of Abdul Semmel
Khan, given him by the Emir, with whom the colonel is
a great favourite. As to Captain Conolly, the information
is less positive ; the same passengers having only said to
have seen, in company of Colonel Stoddart, a young man
of a rather short stature and a wide beard, who attended
the colonel as secretary: The statements given by these
passengers as to the stature and description of these two
persons perfectly correspond with those of Col. Stoddart
and Captain Conolly, as given by the Rev. Mr. Wolff."
Another letter of the 24th ult. says " that the statement
of the former passengers was fully confirmed by others
who arrived from Bokhara some days after." Mr. Wolff
had reached Erzeroum, on foot, from Trebizond, a dis-
tance of 150 miles.
WRECK OF AN AMERICAN STA AM-110A T.-The latest
arrival from America brings intelligence of the diastrous
wreck of the steam-boat Shepherdess, from Cincinnati to
Philadelphia, just above the mouth of the Cahokia Creek,
about three miles above Philadelphia, on the fourteenth
January, ab,ut eleven o'clock at night. The vessel struck
a snag or rock, and in a very few minutes the water rosy
to the lower deck, where most of the passengers in that
pr
tabs
ss nagne
dr s
the in t
lhaed
eesn
tootlem gentlemen's cgaebni ne r
ah
lal dy
part of the boat were asleep. At the moment of the col-
t.' mostision
to t their irt hbee
nndressed for the night. The scene may, therefore, be
better imagined than described. The water rushed in with
tremendous rapidity, and in a very short time was up to
the floor of the upper cabin. A portion of those on deck
were saved by getting into the yawl, which was cut loose
and rowed to shore with a broom. The water rose so ra-
pidly that it soon became necessary for all to seek safety
upon the hurricane deck. Much difficulty was experienced
in doing so, for the bow was sunk so deep that the only
access was by the stern. After the boat struck the snag,
it drifted down the stream, and a few hundred yards below
struck another snag, which was far out of water. This
threw the boat nearly on her beam's end, on the larboard
side. Drifting from the snag, she again lurched to the
starboard, and at each lurch several persons were washed
off. Some of them reached the shore, but many were
drowned. A short distance below, just above the first
shot tower, the hull struck a bluff bank, which again ca-
reened her nearly on her beam's end. Here the hull and
cabin parted. The hull sunk and lodged on a bar above
Carondelet, and the cabin floated down to the point of the
bar below that place, where it lodged and remains. It is
estimated that from ninety to a hundred of the passengers
were drowned. The night was extremely cold and frosty.

I R E 14 A IV D.

THE STATE TRIALS.

At the opening of the court on Monday, Mr. O'Connell
(who appeared without his wig and gown which he had
worn every day since the trial commenced) proceeded to
address the jury. lie commenced by saying, that he did not
stand as his own client, but that his clients were the Irish
people, whose rights he stood forward to protect. He
was not going to deny or palliate anything he had done,
but the substance of all he had said he was there to vindi-
cate. When the political order of things was restored
every where, Ireland alone was left without its full
day of retribution. The jury differed from him (Mr.
O'Connell) in religious belief, and that difference was,
perhaps, aggravated by the fact. that he, a Catholic,
had done most to pull down Protestant ascendancy.
The prosecution was the strangest one that had ever been
entered upon : the jury had not one or ten facts to try,
but they bad to wade through the history of nine months,
and the evidence of the acts as laid before them was raked
up from newspapers ; and it was a monstrous thing to term
that a conspiracy which everybody knew of. and three-
fifths of the people were engaged in. There was not suf-
ficient evidence to support an action for the recovery of
£lO. No conspiracy was proved ; and the Attorney-Ge-
neral had made a long speech, but he had at the close
merely told the jury to go back to the beginning and find
out the conspiracy for themselves, The hon. traverser
then related two or three anecdotes, which he conceived
to be in point, as showing that because the Attorney-
General had taken so long a time in stating the case, there
was really no charge against the traversers. The trial was
a ministerial one, to see whether the present ministry were
to retain office, or whether we were to have the whigs again
promising much and doing nothing. (Laughter.) They
could not believe that he, who was to receive that awful
judgment which could not now be much longer postponed,
pniroatcyta.keTfhreom verdicthim
ei ghtim
consciouspri -
scomnadhiemn,tebruitntiot acocuolnds
innocence he possessed. If the Attorney-General's doc-
trine of conspiracy were tight, the slave-trade would
never have been abolished, and Wilberforce and Clarkson
were as much conspirators as he (Mr. O'Connell). The
hon. gent. then referred to what be termed the " machi-
nery' of the evidence, dividing it into two classes—mclasses—mon-
stermeetings and newspaper publications. The meetings
were legal : no disturbance took place at them—no life
was lost there—and there was no evidence brought
forward to show that they led to intimidation. They were
peaceable by design, and were discontinued the moment
a proclamation was issued discountenancing them. He
left the meetings to the jury, as men that must answer
for their verdict before their maker. As to the newspa-
pers he had nothing to do with them—there was no proof
of any connection between him and the newspapers; and
he had frequently disavowed at the association that any
newspaper was the organ of their body. They had circu-
lated newspapers, but the evidence on that point merely
went to show that those who subscribed a certain sum
allocated a part of that money to the choice of a news-
paper, and there was no proof at all that even these re-
ports in the papers had led to any breach of the peace.
The hon. gentleman then went on at great length to show
that his whole life went to disprove that he could he guilty
of such conduct as was attempted to be brought to his
charge. He then read a number of extracts to show as
he conceived how much Ireland prospered under her own
independent Parliament, arid brought forward an immense
number of figures and a!tsertions to make it appear that
his country suffered severely from the Parliament sitting
in England, and concluded as follows :—I leave the case
with you—l utterly deny that I have said or done any-
thing to warrant the imputation that I am a con-
spirator. I reject the accusation with contempt. I

acted in open day, in the presence of the government,
of the magistrates, and I said nothing that I would not
expose to the universal world. I have struggled for the
restoration of the parliament of my native country.
Some have succeeded in the attempt—others have failed.
If I succeed or if I fail, it is a glorious struggle to make
—the first land upon the eatth possess that bounty and
benefit— what God and nature intended it should possess
—(partial applause.)
The Chief Justice.—Are you going into evidence Mr.
Moore ?_

Mr. Moore.—We intend so, my lord ; but at this late
hour there might be a difficulty in getting the witnesses
into court in its present crowded state.

The Chief Justice.—l do not wish to put you to any
inconvenience.

Mr. Moore.—Then, my lord, I think that as the case
has closed so far as the speeches are concerned, that we
might abridge the evidence much by a conference before
any of the witnesses are produced.
The Chief Justice.—Then we will be ready to hear them
to-morrow morning.

The Court was accordingly adjourned until to-morrow
morning at ten o'clock.
Mr. O'Connell was loudly cheered while passing through
the hall, and in the vicinity of the Courts, upon his way
home.

The traversers brought their defence to a conclusion on
Tuesday by the examination of a few unimportant wit-
nesses. Mr. F. W. Conway deposed to the facts and
speeches of a repeal meeting held in the Royal Exchange
in 1810, at which Mr. O'Connell took a part. Mr. Jas.
Perry was produced to prove the system and rules of ar-
bitration adopted by the Society of Friends ; and Mr. W.
Cosgrave was examined relative to those of the Ouzel
Galley Society. Mr. Vernon, of the Stamp-office, was
called on to produce and read extracts from the late
Morning Register and the Freeman's Journal; and se-
veral other documents connected with the Repeal Asso-
ciation, and the several monster meetings, were, pat...in
evidence, and read by the officer of the court;. after which
Mr. William Morgan deposed to some partiettlas of the
Tullamoore meeting.

The Solicitor-General commence& his reply on Wed..
modes: . Ile °Wetted that the eigat gentlemen who bad
pidreenslthemillid introduced matter not only different.
fatet4theattsistertt'; but in one respect they marvellously
taaaafted the alma:nee of the least reference to the merits
of the case. They had aot,in fact, introduced one ob-
servation upon the real Merits of the question, but had
carefully evaded touching upon the question which the
jury had been sworn to investigate,—namely, the exist-
ence or non-existence of the conspiracy with which they
bad been charged. He denied the charge that government
had seduced the people into crime, contending that every
warning ha I been held out, and that the prosecution which
had been ultimately resolved upon was one which they had
every reason to expect, and could not have been brought
forward with effect earlier than it was. They had been
told, usque ad 'Wino'', that this was an attack on the
legal and constitutional rights of the people,—an attempt
to put down free discussion. It was his thorough belief
a'nd conviction that a verdict which could have the effect
bf stopping the proceedings to which those unfortunate
People had become victims, would be the most favourable
result which could happen for them. It would not abridge
their rights, but lead to their amelioration in every respect
But it was then said the crown were prosecuting for the
purpose of putting an end to free discussion. Now, his
reply to that was—they were not prosecuting any person
for holding any particular political or religious opinions;
he avowed at once that every one of the traversers had
the fullest right to express, in a constitutional and legal
manner, his opinions upon any public subject whatever—
nay, more to use his best exertions, if he thought right,
to propagate them, and to have them entertained as far as
possible, by all persons in the community, and to use all
legitimate and proper means to accomplish them ; but he
denied the right of any person to attempt to bring about
that object by means which were charged in the indict-
ment. Their verdict in this case could not interfere with
the liberty of the press, or the exercise of any constitu-
tional right; nor were they prosecuting here for any pub-
lic breach of the peace, though they might have supposed
so, from a great deal of the remarks made upon evidence
on the traverser's side. No ; their charge was this,—
that Mr. O'Connell, Dr. Gray, Mr. Duffy, Mr. Barrett,
and the other traversers, had entered into an illegal con-
federacy, for the purpose of effecting changes in the con-
stitution of this country by other than constitutional
means. The learned gentleman then went on to lay down
the distinction between the legal and the popular defini-
tion of the word conspiracy, and contended that it was
abundantly proved that the traversers concurred in a
common unlawful design, in an attempt to procure, by
means of intimidation, the repeal of the act of union,
which, according to the law of this country, could not be
legally repealed, except by an act of parliament, the re-
sult of the free will of the legislature. After adverting
to the charges in the indictment respecting the army, and
the creation of hatred and animosity amongst the queen's
subjects, he said the multitudinous assemblages were
gathered together for the purpose of intimidation, in or-
der to erort from the government what could only be
done by a free and uncontrolled act of the legislature it-
self. He said the exhibition of physical force, not the
use of it. They would see the peculiar nature of the case,
and so far as the evidence went as to the peaceable conduct
pursued at the meetings, it was a proof of the combina-
tion, for it was only by peaceable and tranquil means
that the combination and conspiracy could be successful.
It was indispensable to the success of the scheme, and it
was ridiculous to say it was not. It was contended that
the, meetings were peaceable, and that no breach of the
peace, or tendency to such, had taken place; but that
fact was the greatest proof that could be adduced of the
conspiracy, for it was agreed between them that there
should be none. From the entire nature of the case the
jury would see that the traversers sought to bring about
by illegal means what in itself was legal ; and one of the
means resorted to was physical force and intimidation.
There were two branches in the case, but it was not
necessary to prove both, as he had given evidence on
both points, and affecting the traversers. It was plain
and manifest that if one point was proved, he would
say, under the direction of the court, that would con-
sider the conspiracy entire. The jury might be less sat-
isfied with one point than they were with another, but
yet the indictment contained counts applicable to each
branch of the case. After commenting at length on
the doctrine of conspiracy, the learned gentleman said
the traversers might have spared themselves an in-
finity of trouble with respect to Mr. O'Connell's ad-
monitions for the preservation of peace and order ; for
it was the purpose and object of the meetings, and not
the demeanour of those who attended them, that left
them open to prosecution. He admitted that each of a
series of meetings might, per se, be legal ; but be pro-
nounced the repeal meetings unlawful, because it appeared
that they were held for the unlawful purpose of exhibiting
to the aegislature and people of England a demonstration
of the physical force of the country, which it was expected
would frighten and intimidate them into the concession of
the measure which they (the repealers) desired to obtain.
He proceeded at great length to defend the course adopted
by the government with respect to the prosecution? and
to defend the crown officers, with respect to the striking
of the jury. He was willing to admit that Mr. O'Con-
nell had always entertained the opinions he expressed in
1810 and 1800; but Mr. O'Connell and the other traver-
sers were now prosecuted for endeavouring to carry out
those principles in 1843, by unlawful means. The crown
was not called upon to prove the place, day, and hour,
where and when the traversers concocted the conspiracy ;
all they had to prove (and this they had proved) was, that
there was a community of purpose between those several
traversers, each of them acting in his several department
in the prosecution of the common object, and• that could
not take place unless a common object existed. The
learned gentleman having commented at great length on
the speeches of the various counsel on. Op other side,
proceeded to explain the counts of the.indictment over
again, showing how the evidence applied to each, and
which of the traversers were affected by it. He read
many of the newspaper articles and reports again ; and
having intimated, at four o'clock, that he was not yet
nearly finished with that part of his case, the court ad-
journed to Thursday.

On Thursday the court sat at the usual hour, and the
traversers and jurors having answered to their names, the
Solicitor-General resumed. In the course of his address
he read a number of passages, chiefly from the speeches of
Mr. O'Connell at the various repeal demonstrations, with
a view to show that the object of the traversers was, by
collecting large assemblages of people, to produce an im-
pression in England that such was the state of discipline
and organisation among the masses, that it would not be
safe to refuse the granting of the repeal of the union. The
learned gentleman continued to address the jury up to five
o'clock, at which hour the court rose, the address not
being concluded.

On Friday the Solicitor-General continued his reply.
He referred to the speeches at M ullaghmast, and took the
occasion of vindicating (which he did very successfully)
the character of Mr. Bond Hughes and Mr. Ross from
the epithets which had been cast upon them, as if they
were government spies and informers. He then went on
to notice the intended meeting at Clontarf, and the im-
portant and treasonable preparations for it, and concluded
his masterly and lawyerlike address by arguing that the
object of the traversers was nothing else but to accomplish
the repeal of the union by illegal means. Their common
object was to bring the government into contempt—to
neutralise the army—to disparage the administration of
justice—to create and dissension amongst the
people, and to excite discontent and disaffection amongst
them ; and all this was done for the purpose of attaining
the common object or end, namely—the repeal of the le-
gislative union between Great Britain and Ireland, and for
the attainment of which each and every one of the tra-
versers at the bar had openly avowed himself to be en-
gaged. The learned counsel concluded his reply a few
minutes before one, having occupied in its delivery the
two previous days as well. The Chief Justice then com-
menced his charge to the jury.. His Lordship
i recapitu-
lated the various counts in the indictment, that n the view
which he was about to take of the law of conspiracy, the
court was unanimous, and in that view they coincided with
the counsel for the crown. The jury should be satisfied that
there was a concert between the traversers, for the purpose
either of doing an illegal act, or else of accomplishing a
legal design by illegal means. A conspiracy might exist
without any treachery or secrecy, which had been insinu-
ated by Mr. Shell, Mr. Fitzgibbon, and Mr., O'Connell
himself, to be necessary to constitute that crime. They
might accompany it, but were not necessary ingredients.
in it. The court had looked into the numerous cases cited
by the traversers counsel, and, in their lordship's opi-
nion, there was not one of them which supported the view
for which they were brought forward—that, in order to
substantiate a charge of conspiracy, either treachery or
secrecy was necesary. Iu support of the opinion of the
court, his lordship referred to v?,rions decisions of Lord
Lenman and other judges. Ills lordship then laid down

Feb. 13, 1811.

several rul”s for the guidance of the jury, and said the
very fact of the meeting to concoct the conspiracy was
not necessary ; if the jury were satisfied that there wag
an illegal concert between the traversers, the acts were
the acts of all. What was the law, the violation of whicls
they were called upon to bring into judgment against the
traversers—the law as it existed—the law as it had existed
for the last forty-three years—the law as her graciortS
Majesty had, by her coronation oath, bound and sword
to maintain? He would read for them the coronation
oath—or, at least, the commencement of it—as given itr
Judge Blackstone's Commentaries, 244 :—" The arch-
bishop or bishop shall say, Will you solemnly promise
and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of Eng-,
land, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to,
the statutes in ph rliament agreed on, and the laws and
customs of the same? The King or Queen shall say,
solemnly promise to do so." What, with regard to that
country and the connexion with Great Britain. were the
statutes which her Majesty was sworn by her coronation
oath to abide by, administer, and preserve? They bad
heard a monstrous deal of assertions; they had heard
monstrous deal of declamation ; they had heard a nion•
strous deal of complaints of grievances ; they had beard
a great deal of what the law ought to be; they had heard'
the jury called upon to decide whether such a law on_ght.
to continue, as if they had the power to alter it. Tit!
law of this realm, as it stands by the act of union until it
was repealed, w- the -nly law" t.120' tht ld Akr Mt°
their consi.
law which I
to preserve
of that la%
depart from
own in Irela,
people, and
this eneutrY,
His loeiip . . this - 3
said that the idea of"string that the Queen- of- gedgett.
might be treateriant dealt with as a Queen of a seperallik'''
kingdom,.was absurd and- was seditious. Until the la*
was altered b./the proper authorities--which be did nol
say bO, it might—but while the law remained as it
that adage, and as it bad been during the year /10113, and
the preceding years that had intervened since tbeenact-
merit of the act of usion—tbere was one Sovereign...NC
the kingdom who was incapable, by himself or hendr, dr:
treating with any class of his or her subjects, except the'
legislature..with regard to new constitutions or new laws,
with respect to any part of the united kingdom ; *nate.
(the Chief Justice) said moreover, that whoever of the
Queen's subjects would take upon himself to inculcate or
to proclaim amongst the subjects of this part of the united
kingdom that he or anybody else abstractedly from the
legislature a power, either separately or by himself, or
jointly with other inhabitants of the same part of the
united kingdom—that he or they, independently of the
legislature, had the power of treating with the Queen for
an abrogation of the existing law, or to put in its place a
new law such as was suggested—was or were guilty of an
offence—that was, guilty of the crime of sedition ; and if
her Majesty was pleased to condescend to treat or nego-
tiate with any person or persons separate from her parlia-
ment, for any of the purposes he had named, she had not
the power to do so without violating her coronation oath.
The Chief Justice then read several of the clauses in the
act of union, and a long charge of Mr. Justice Bayley on
meetings for the suppression of alleged grievances. A
man, continued the Chief Justice, had a right to commu-
nicate his sentiments on the subject of this grievance not
merely to friends but to strangers; and he could make
these complaints as often as he thought fit, and might get,
by peaceable means, as many allies as he could procure,
but he should ever take care not to infringe upon the .
rights and privileges of others ; and he was the more
bound to be careful of the effect of what he did, if the as-
semblies which he attended were conjugated and assem-
bled in such masses and multitudes as to excite terror and
alarm through and amongst the neighbouring people, or
amongst those who were bound to preserve and watch
over the frame and constitution of the country—if he acts
to, it does not follow that the laws will not be infringed,
and that the meeting will be legal.
The learned judge, at five o'clock, adjourned the court.

Before proceeding with his charge to the jury on Satur-
day, the Chief Justice. in reference to some remarks
which had fallen from him on the preceding day, explained.
that he had not intended to reflect personally upcn Mr.
Fitzgibbon, whose public and private character he greatly
esteemed. Having made this explanation he directed the
attention of the jury to the organization of the repeal as-
sociation, and to the large funds which they had drawn
from all parts of the country and from America. By this
kind of organization, and the funds thus placed at its
disposal, that body, he contended, had been endeavouring
to carry the repeal, and not by the legal means of ad,
dresses to the Queen or to Parliament. He next directed
attention to the " plan for the renewed action of the
Irish Parliament," by which it was declared that " the
Irish people recognize her Majesty Queen of Ireland."
Such a position he showed to be clearly illegal, her Majesty
by the act of union, ceasing to be Queen of Ireland, and
becoming Queen of a united kingdom, from which station
she could not be removed without the consent of the le-
gislature of the united kingdom. The whole of the pro-
posals in this plan being based upon such an understand-
ing of her Majesty's powers, were therefore illegal, and
were couched, besides, in the language of demand rather
than of entreaty. He proceeded to review the proceed.'
ings of the monster meetings, and selected a number of )
the seditious speeches made at those meetings by Mr.
Barrett, Mr. O'Connell and others, referring plainly to
force as the ultimate weapon to be appealed to for the car,
bryyinmg
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me nro.tnedeaiunmopnatrttitchualat
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contended was not a fair mode of bringing the weight of
publi: opinion to bear upon a great political question, but
was calculated directly to "excite hatred and discontele
amongst her Majesty's subjects, particularly the Ingu
people against the English." The Chief Justice went on
to comment upon various inflammatory speeches made St
Tara and elsewhere, in which the English government"
from the time of Cromwell to the present time were ac-
cased of various butcheries, !(such as that of 300 women"
at Wexford,) and in which it was also declared that Wel-
lington and Peel were about to indulge in similar acts-
The effect of such speeches, he contended, were to exeate
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the assumption
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Orders have been issued from the office of the Corn.-
mender of the Forces for the establishment of a militart
station at Tyrrell's pass, the force to consist of forty men.
This is the first time since the rebellion of '9B that a sol-
dier has been quartered in this retired and peaceful vil-
lage.

An outrage of a wanton and most aggravated nature was
committed on Tuesday night last, on the property of Doc-
tor Pierce, situate about four miles from the town of
Tullamore: in King's County : a very fine and thriving
plantation of larch of ten or twelve years' growth was-
completely broken down and utterly destroyed, not one
tree out of upwards of a thousand being left standing.
DISINTERESTED PATRIOTISM.--" Men of Ireland,"
says the Nation of Saturday—" Men of Ireland, Your
food is scanty, your clothin,, rags, your lodgings the wet
floor, your labour heavy. and your reward death. Hard
it is, no doubt, to expect much from you. But still, most
of you can pay into the treasury of your country some-
thing. Stint your meagre food, your diluted drink, your
your fitness for a higher destiny." Such is the pathetic
torn covering, that you may give earnest to the world of
people; such the urgent call of the patriotic editor for
funds to sustain the righteous cause in which he and hit
literary confreres are engaged.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—On the rising of the Court
on Monday, Mr. O'Connell forthwith adjourned to the
Corn-Exchange, where the Repeal Association was sit-
ting in full conclave—Lord French in the Chair. The
only business of any importance transacted was the ap-
pointment (on the motion of Mr. W. S. O'Brien) of "3
committee to watch over the proceedings of Parliament."
Mr. O'Connell, who had recently entered the room, then
read his usual homily of peace, order and tranquility--
expressed an opinion that, as soon as the Anti-Corn talc League produces another revolution in England, there,„;
will be some chance of the question of Repeal being en-
tertained by the Imperial Parliament, and announced the.i
rent for the week to be £5O 108 4d.—and so ended the"
proceedings of the day.
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSIN ATE.—A correspondent of the •
Dublin Evening Mail, writing from Strokestown, in the
county of Roscommon, under date of Feb. 3, communi-
cates the following :—" It is my painful duty to comma'
nicate to you the particulars of an outrage whichoY,
afternoon of yesterday, and which, place within a mile of this town, about
I am sorry to say'
about 3 o'clock ' m
proves the dreadful state of organization and combination
that now has extended itself to this county, and has been
brought about by the agitators of this afflicted county.
Mr. John Balfe, of Lisadum, was returning from his
farm of Canonclogher (at the hoar mentioned) yesterdat,
accompanied, on his outside jaunting car. by the bailipr
servant, and herd ; he was met by four ruffians, w" ordered his servant to stop, which he did. One of [hensasked—" Is this Balfe ?" and upon Mr. Balfe replying
it was, the fellow said, ' You are tyrannizing over your
tenants,' and at the same time fired a pistol-shot, which
took no effect ; and the second of the fellows fired a gun; shot, the contents of which killed his horse. Mr. Bahk
ran away, and the fellows deliberately walked off, amongst set of Mr. Balfe's tenants 30 or 40 of whom were
within a few yards of him, and witnessed the entire trang:
action without rendering the slightest assistance to the'
landlord. A meeting of magistrates took place in the
court-house here this day, to investigate the matter. Thf
above facts were elicited from several witnesses, but, as $
matter of course, not the slightest information that wile
likely to lead to detection was obtained.

G u AFFAlR.iAullthe neighbourhood
transpiredN somewhat
Wakefield,rom aan romantic adtior
ago. It appears that about eleven years since a highly
respectable lady and gentleman, whose names we do not
think it right to mention were married in the neighbour'
—A
hood of Halifax. In a few hours after the union, for sonie
cause or other which did not transpire, a separation be;
tween the parties was effected by the lady's friends ;
she shortly afterwards removed to a secluded spot near
Wakefield, where she has been living ever since havill%
heard nothing of her husband until last week, when the
gentleman appeared to claim his bride. It appears that
the gentleman, who had been living in Wales had bee°
endeavouring for a considerable length of time to find 01
lady, but with,:ut success, those of her friends who knew
her " whereabouts" having their own reasons for not en"
lightening him on that point. The lady we are told 09°
net less pleased than surprised ; and as soon as her 31.;
ri..ngements were made she took her departure with he
husband for Lis residence in Wales.

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