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of any of the tunes they played ; the procession moved in
a column of_about five abreast.

Johnston James examined by Mr. Sergeant Warren—
head-constelee of constabulary belonging to the Sligo es-
tablishment ; I was at Longford on the twenty-eighth and
wenty-ninth of May last; there was a large repeal meet-
inn held there on the latter day. As near as I could guess
the number assembled was forty or fifty thousand—seve-
ral of the persons were on horseback ; I should say about
one hundred of them, who stationed themselves in front
cf the platform : the people were led in large bodies,
headed by horsemen and priests; they were in many in-
stances accompanied by bands who were in uniform.
There were several banners with mottos of which 1 took a
note. State what those mottos were that you saw ?
" Cead Failtha." `, Ireland for the Irish, and the
Irish for Ireland." " Every man who commits a crime
gives strength to the enemy." Breathes there a man
with soul so dead." " Welcome Ennis brightest star."
" Repeal and no separation." "A population of nee
Millions is too great to be dragged at the tail of any
other Nation." I saw Mr..O'Connell and Mr. Steele at
the meeting, accompanied by several other persons whom
I don't know ; the first speaker was the Chairman, Count
Nugent; he said the Irish would get all they wanted
if they attended to their priests ; " he also referred to
the conduct of the landlords, but I did not take his
words: he also said that it was the duty of every Irish-
man to. rally round the standard of repeal; Priest O'Brien
was the next speaker; he said—" This is not a time to
give a silent vote ; every Irishman must rally round re-
peal, The loyalty of Ireland is not the loyalty of expe•
diency. Ireland will be raised again to the dignity of a
nation, and cease to he legislated for by those who are ig-
norant of her condition and hostile to her prosperity."
A person named Carberry said, "they ought to join to
crush England—this year will close with your parliament
in College-green. Your liberator's prophecies will be
fulfilled, we will legislate for ourselves, and make our
people happy and contented." Another person spoke,
hut I don't know his name. The next person who spoke
was the Bev. Mr. Gavern, as he took it. He said " Ireland
was coerced some years ago." I was told that Bishop Hig-
gins was the gentleman who next addressed the meeting,
but I could not catch what he said. Mr. O' Connell,
senior said .—" I can tell vou yours is no vain cause"—
" we are peaceable"—let them but attack us—then—we
stand at their defiance. (The pauses are to denote the
emphasis.) I will tell you what they will do—they will
take the commission of the peace from your respected
supporters ; but an Irish parliament will help us
one of those days to punish them in an exemplary
manner; talked of the depressed state at present of the
Irish linen trade—and said, we will see that the tempo-
ralities of Ireland are not all allocated to the church of the
minority. I will tell you what repeal would give you—
fixity
of tenure, I will explain what this is. It would
prevent you having any landlord but one that would give
you a lease of 21 years. " I'll tell you what the union
has done for us ; it has carried away nine millions of mo-
ney from the country that could otherwise be spent in it
—hurra! bravo !) We will not continue under the do-
mination of the Saxon, (depreciated the English charac-
ter in a comparison with the Irish.) We will not submit
to the Saxon oppressor, and be ground to dust, but (long
and expressive emphasis), but were never conquered.
Ireland must be Irish.' You will be libetated from their
oppression. ' You are too goud not to have the majesty of
your nation raised—you must fight for repeal and liberty.'
Go home quietly and tell your friends, and when I want
you again I will let you know the day." I took no more
notes further than the character of the meeting.
The court adjourned at a quarter to five o'clock.

The Judges took their seats on the bench a few minutes
past ten o'clock on Tuesday morning. Mr. Justice Bur-
ton was absent fi om indisposition.—The first witness
called was John Maguire, Head Constable of Police at
Sligo. He deposed, that he attended the Longford meet-
ing on Sunday the 28th of May. There were several
bands of music there, dressed in military caps. He cal-
culated the number of persons present to be about
40,000. Some of them came into the town in military
array, led by a person he believed to be a Roman Catho-
lic Priest. Bishop Higgins was in the same carriage with
Mr. O'Connell. Messrs. O'Connell and Steele were the
only traversers the witness could identify who attended
the meeting. The last sentence of Mr. O'Connell's
speech on that occasion was, Go home quietly, and tell
your friends what was said, and when we want them here
again, to be ready."—John Jolly, a head constable of
police, said he had attended at the Malton meeting, in
June last. There was a large procession, about six deep,
headed by two persons who seemed to command, carry-
ing wands, with ribbons attached, in their hands. Mr.
O'Connell and Mr. Steele were in the procession. Mr.
0' Connell, in addressing the meeting, said they should
have the Union repealed. That they should have Ireland
fur the Irish, and he defied the English to withhold it,
for the Irish were too strong, too virtuous, and too tem-
perate to be kept in slavery.—Henry Godfrey, a police-
man, was the next witness. He was examined by Mr.
Freeman, in reference to the Balling-glass meetings in
August last, and deposed, that Mr. O'Connell and Mr.
Steele were present, and that some violent language was
used. An interruption on the part of Mr. Cantwell,
during the examination in reference to a leading question,
led to an altercation between the counsel on both sides,
which terminated by a threat, on the part of the Chief
Justice, to have Mr. Cantwell removed on a repetition
of such conduct. Nothing interesting was elicited by the
cross-examination. Patrick Lennaghan and Mander
Hughes, constables, corroborated the testimony of the
previous witness, and added, that previous to the meeting
be had heard several persons declare " that Mr. Sander's
house should be attacked because it was once the scene of
blood."

Mr. Justice Burton was still absent from indisposi-
tion on Wednesday.
At the opening of the court there was some discussion
about a letter written by Mr. Samuel Maunsell to the
High Sheriff, couched in very abusive terms, because that
functionary had refused him a ticket of admission to the
court. Mr. Maunsell apologized through counsel, but did
not attend in person when summoned.
The first witness called was James Healy, a constable,
who attended the Mullaghmast meeting on the Ist of Oc-
tober. He calculated that there were 250,000 persons
present, and stated that many came preceded by bands in
a boisterous manner, driving all before them. Others
came in a very regular manner. There were about thirty
bands. Some were dressed in uniform and some in dress
resembling very much the Hussar bands. Purchased for
a penny a printed document, of which several thousands
were distributed. Tore up his own copy, but remembered
another being purchased by John Donohan, a sub-inspec-
tor. [The document was understood to be an account of
the massacre at Mullaghmast.] Saw a great many per-
sons who had labels on their hats—" O'Connell's police."
—and a piece of timber in their hands, from five to six
feet in length. Were they thick ? No, your Lordship,
(laughter) quite small, about the size of a cane. The
witness proceeded to describe the banners, mottoes, &c.,
but gave no account of the speeches. .Cross-examined—
Mingled very much with the crowd, but the only expres-
sions which he could catch were, " Repeal and Old Ire-
land," although sent specially from Cork to watch the
proceedings. It was a very peaceable assembly so far as
he saw. The people were enjoying themselves in
tents and other places in peace and quietness. Those who
were driving all before them did no mischief. Did not see
any of the papers given away for nothing. People were
in the habit of attending large meetings for the sale of
ballads.

There was then a long legal argument as to the admis-
sibility of ballads or papers sold under such circumstan-
ces, the counsel for the traversers contending that it
ought first to be shown that they had some connexion with
them, but the Court ruled unanimously that the document
was admissible.

The Attorney-General put in the Queen's speech on
the prorogation, after another legal argument, observing
that he did so because it had been asserted that it was not
her's but that of her ministers—that it was a lie ; and was
the language of a fish-woman from Billingsgate.
James Irwin, who is connected with the police-force of
this town, stated that on the 14th of October last, he saw
a number of placards posted in the streets of Liverpool,
(O'Connell's address.") He produced a copy.
Mr. Charles Vernon, registrar of newspapers, was
called to prove the proprietorship of the Pilot, Freeman's
Journal, and Nation newspapers. He did so with re-
spect to the two former, but with respect to the latter,
could only say that he received the declaration of the pro-
prietor of thr Nation newspaper on the 18th of Novem-
ber, 1842, and saw it signed by a person whom he under-
stood to be Mr. Duffy, but did not know that gentleman,
and could not speak to his handwriting. This was
objected to as insufficient.

The Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Crampton, in the
first instance, seemed to think further evidence of pro-
prietorship requisite ; but the Attorney-General contend-
ing that he had done all that was required, they ultimately
ruled the proof to be sufficient, Mr. Justice Perrin dis-
senting.

The Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Crampton, and
Mr. Justice Perrin, took their seats upon the bench at
ten o'clock precisely on Thursday. The jurors and tra.
versers having answered punctually to their names, Mr.
M'Evoy Gartlan (agent for Mr. Duffy) applied to the
court to grant his client permission to retire until two
o'clock, on the ground of Mr. Duffy's illness. The Chief
Justice said it was not in the power of the court to make
any order upon the subject ; but it was for the Attorney.
General to say whether he had any objection to such a
course, and whether he would insist on having Mr. Duffy
called upon his recognizance. The Attorney-General in-
timated that it was not his intention so to do. He would
not take any notice of Mr. Duffy's absence from court.
The proceedings commenced with the reading of docu-
ments from the Nation and the Pilot, which gave rise to
more legal discussion, and lasted the whole of the day.
The court adjourned at five o'clock.

The whole of Friday was occupied, like the day before,
in reading from the Nation, Pilot, and Freeman, the va-
rious passages referred to in the indictment. The crown
very properly declined entering into proof of the con-
nexion of the traversers with foreign sympathisers, which
would be unnecessary in reference to the general objects
of the prosecution,. and would have had the effect of in-
creasing the tedium of an already sufficiently tedious pro-
ceeding.
The case for the crown closed at a quarter-past three
o'clock, and Mr. Moore, R.C., applied to the court to
adjourn till the next morning, as Mr. Sheil, who was to
open the case for the defence, was confined to his bed by
illness. The court acceded to the proposal.

On Saturday Mr. Sheil delivered his address on behalf
of Mr. John O'Connell, and occupied the whole day in
doing so. This speech was in the possession of most, if
not all the Dublin journals, prior to its delivery, and was,
we are informed, in type, if not published, on Saturday

morning. The language of Mr. Sbiel was sometimes very
!ouching, but he did not attempt to grapple with the law
so lucidly aid calmly laid down in the opening address of
the Attorney-General.

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.--THE ROYAL SPEECH.
—The Lublin Evening Mail, of Monday, says,—" We
can state upon the most authentic grounds that the speech
to be delivered by her Majesty at the opening of parlia-
ment, on the Ist of February, will contain a strong and
pointed reference to the state of Ireland—to the organised
system of agitation by which its peace has been disturbed,
and the safety of the empire endangered ; and to the means
adopted by her Majesty to vindicate the laws and main-
tain the union inviolate."
EFFECTS OF THE AGITATION.—The Limerick Chron-
icle says,—" The Derby estate was put up for sale on
Saturday at Master Goold's office. Counsellor James
Dwyer was instructed to move, on the part of the Head
family, that the sale be adjourned to April, on account of
the depreciation of landed property in that riding of the
county of Tipperary, from the disturbed state of it. The
Master said the state of the country was unfortunately
notorious, but he must proceed with the sale. The estate
was then set up in the whole and in lots, and adjourned
for want of bidders—£3,ooo per annum in fee, with a
I beautiful residence on the banks of the Shannon. •So
much for agitation and outrage. If quiet prevailed this
fine estate would meet a ready and remunerative market."
ALDERMAN ROE'S " AMNESTY.”—The Corporation
of Dublin has received an answer from the Secretary of
State for the Home Department, acknowledging the re-
ceipt of the address to the Throne praying that Her Ma-
jesty will be graciously pleased to grant an act of amnesty
to Mr. O'Connell, and the other gentlemen now on their
trial before the Court of Queen's Bench on charges of
sedition and conspiracy, and stating that on the return of
of Her Majesiy to London, a day will be appointed for
the reception of the deputation, of which due notice shall
be given. Their " reformed" Honours were to meet on
Wednesday, for the purpose of taking Sir James Graham's
letter into consideration, when a wish was expressed that
Sir James should present the petition, in order to save the
expense to the City that would be incurred by the state
journey of the Lord Mayor.
A WOMAN POISONED BY HER HUSBAND AND MO-
THER-IN-LAW.--A poor woman, named Mary Potts,
died in the tuwnland of Kilpike, and parish of Seapatrick,
three miles from Banbridge, on the 6th inst., after a short
illness, and was interred in Dromore on the following day.
Suspicion having been excited by the abruptness of ,the
interment, and by a communication made to her brother,
to the effect that her death had not resulted from natural
disease, the body was exhumed, and an inquest held be-
fore the county coroner, at Banbridge, on the 11th, after
a post mortern examination. The inquest was adjourned
till Tuesday last, and the stomach of the deceased in the
meantime was submitted to test by eminent chemists in
Dublin; the husband of deceased, John Potts, and his
mother, Elizabeth Potts, being committed to Newry
Bridewell. The result has been that a verdict of Wilful
Murder has been returned against both, on the evidence
of a little girl, daughter of the deceased, and of a young
woman named Isabella Dickson, and they have been com-
mitted to Down jail for trial. Potts was proved to have
klsi t
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ep odiasyo no
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hßeadnebartihd g
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saw her grandmother mix some white substance from a
paper in deceased's drink. She had been lately confined.
Arsenic was found in deceased's stomach.—Belfast Vin-
dicator. _ _ _

MURDER AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—On the night
of the 16th instant, a poor man named Peter Donovan
was proceeding homeward from Dunmanway market,
when he was attacked by some person or persons, who
beat him on the head with stones in a most frightful man-
ner. He was discovered on the following morning lying
on the road side a ghastly corpse, with an extensive wound
above his left temple, and otherwise much injured. The
constabulary were shortly after on the spot, and had the
body conveyed into Dunmanway. Two men have been
taken under suspicion of being the perpetrators of the
foul deed. The unfortunate man has left a widow and
three children.—On the night of the 17th instant, at
Dunmanway, a person named Daniel Collins quarrelled
with a labourer of his, named John Collins, about nine
o'clock, and in an hour after came, with two others, to
the labourer's house, forced in the door, put out the light,
and dreadfully beat him and his sons with stones on their
heads, inflicting on each several cuts of a dangerous na-
ture. Poor Collins, who is upwards of sixty years of
age, has been so maltreated that he now lies in a hopeless
condition, and was unable, as also one of his sons, to go
before a magistrate. The others escaped with less injury,
having got under a bed. Two of the wretches have been
lodged in our bridewell, and fully identified.—Cork Con-
stitution.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—There was an extremely
crowded meeting at the Conciliation Hall on Monday, in
consequence of the announcement that Mr. O'Connell
would attend, notwithstanding the commencement of the
State trials in the Court of Queen's Bench. When the
hon. and learned gentleman entered the meeting, about
half-past three o'clock, he was greeted with the most en-
thusiastic cheering. Martin Ronan, Esq., ex-mayor of
Limerick, filled the chair. A great number of subscrip-
' tions and remittances were announced, including one
from Newfoundland. Mr. O'Connell, in the course of
his address to the meeting, alluded to the State prosecu-
tions. He did not, he said, care one pinch of snuff
about them. (Cheers and laughter.) And, as be used
neither snuff nor tobacco, they might easily estimate the
degree of importance he attached to the prosecutions.
(Continued cheers.) Mr. O'Connell in the most earnest
and impressive manner conjured the people to observe-the
strictest order, and the most complete tranquillity—to be
perfectly inoffensive in their demeanour to those who
differed from them. He bad heard that some persons
during the procession to the court to-day had called upon
others to take off their bats. Such conduct as that was.
most reprehensible and absurd. He (Mr. O'Connell)
would not like to be compelled to take off his hat for any
man he did not respect ; and the same liberty they claimed
for themselves they should extend to others. It would
be tyranny to do otherwise. (Hear, hear.) At the close
of the proceedings, Mr. O'Connell announced that the
repeal rent for the week was £9O-1 19s. sd. (Long con-
tinued cheering.) Martin Madden, Esq., ex-mayor of
Sligo, was called to the chair, and the meeting adjourned.
DARING ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE.—OR the eve-
ning of Monday, the Bth inst., as Mr. D. O'Malley, his
wife and sister, were on their return from this town to his
residence, Windfield-lodge, within three miles of here,
they were met on the road below the Charter-house-hill
(before coming to which he overtook one of his herds, to
whom he was speaking) by two men armed with pistols.
Whilst one of them was putting a question or two to Mr.
O'Malley, who was driving his car and pony, the other,
on the opposite side, pulled a pistol out of his breast, and
fired the contents at the above gentlemen. The pony
(being a spirited one) plunged, and broke some of the har-
ness, and the car upset, throwing Mr. O'Malley and his
wife into the gripe, immediately upon which the herd
knocked down the ruffian who fired. However, his ac-
complice rushed upon the herd, also presenting a pistol,
and the poor man, imagining his master and mistress was
killed, ran away. The pony also took fright, but Miss
O'Malley was enabled to preserve her seat for two miles.
The second assassin, whilst Mr. O'Malley lay prostrate
in the gripe, fired his pistol at him, but providentially he
escaped both. The screams of Miss O'Malley induced
the ruffians to leave their victim, who have as yet evaded
detection. The cause assigned for this inhuman act, it
appears, is, that Mr. O'Malley some time since took a
farm from the Rev. Thomas Goff, from which several
families were the previous two years ejected, and shortly
after the taking of which 100 of his sheep were killed at
night. Mr. O'Malley his since obtained a presentment
either off the townlands or parish. Shortly after which
he was served with various Rockite notices, desiring him
either to give up his claim for the malicious injury alto-
gether, or at least to have it placed upon the county at
large, which he could not attempt to effect till the next
assizes. Very strong informations have been sworn, as
well by Mr. O'Malley's herd, as by Mr. O'Malley, his
wife and sister. Mr. O'Malley has always given employ-
meet to a great number of labourers, and a kinder family
to the poor does not exist.—Roscommon Journal.

THE IRISH REBELLION OF 1798.—After the battle of
Ross, in 1798, and when the insurgents had taken Wex-
ford, " The rebels, after causing thirty of their prisoners
to be either picketed or shot at the hall door of Scullabogue
House, forced the remainder—to the number of one
hundred and eighly.four persons, men, women, and
children, mostly Protestants—into a barn, when they
deliberately consumed the barn, with every living being
therein by fire." A Roman Catholic priest—Father
Philip Roche—was named by the rebels their commander-
in-chief. At the battle of Arklow, in 1798, where the
rebels had 20,000 men, (of whom 5000 were armed with
muskets, and the remainder with formidable long pikes,
sustained by three pieces of well-served artillery,) a
Roman Catholic priest, named Father Michael Murphy,
was killed by a cannon-shot within thirty yards of the
British lines, while leading on a furious assault of his
men, under which the royal troops quailed and were very
nearly routed. At Gorey, which was in the possession of
the rebels in 1798, the Protestant Church was sprinkled
with the blood of two Protestants, who were ignomini-
ously massacred therein, after which the rebels destroyed
the sacred edifice. In Kildare, the rebels put to death
Mr. Crafford, a Protestant, by thrusting a pike upwards
through his body, and then roasting him before a slow
fire. " ONE OF HIS YOUNG CHILDREN WAS ALSO PUT
TO DEATH IN A SIMILAR MANNER." Mr. Boyd, an
amiable but a Protestant magistrate, had an iron pin
thrust through his nose, his hands tied behind hit back,
and he was left fastened to a dunghill until he expired.
One Protestant clergyman was bled to death in a pig-
trough, after which the Roman Catholics danced and
washed their feel in his blood Let those whe believe
the charge against the Protestants of Ireland " religious
bigotry," for their reluctance to confer political power on
a vast number of uneducated and but nominally Chris-
tianised Roman Catholics, peruse, as the writr has done,
pages upon pages of the most disgusting details of human
ferocity, and savage fiend-like barbarity, as practised on
the Protestants of Ireland in 1641 and 1798, and they will
then see that this charge is like other statements relating
to Ireland, which, from being unscrupulously as-
serted and widely propagated, have at length been most
erroneously supposed to have some foundation in truth.
And let it be remembered that this rebellion arose after
the elective franchise had been restored to the Roman
Catholics, and a Roman Catholic College had been esta-
blished by an act of the Irish Parliament at Maynootli,
and after the liaising of different acts in favour of the
Papists, and removing disabilities—whether as regarded
the possession of property or the dictates of conscience.
Indeed, both the British and Irish Parliaments vied with
each other in removing with all practicable prudence the
disqualifications under which the Romanists laboured,
notwithstanding the experience of the past : but this did
not prevent the insurrections of 1798 and of 1803. An
examination of the debates in the Irish Parliament will
demonstrate most fully that the penal laws had reference
to religion only so far as it influences political conduct
and public liberty.