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given to the Consuls to have all such foreigners arrested
and sent to Hong Kong. The death of Major Eldred
Pottinger, which occurred at Hong Kong, was greatly de-
plored. Colonel Knowles, of the Artillery, and assistant-
surgeons Griliam and Dill, have also fallen victims to the
prevalent malady. Rumour spoke of some differences
between Sir H. Pottinger and the British Admiral and
General.

The Plenipotentiary is said to be anxious to return to
Europe. The Admiral was about to sail for Calcutta.
The American frigate and minister had gone to China
from Bombay and Colombo, at both of which places he
had been feted.
The inhabitants of Calcutta and Madras are struggling
hard to secure to themselves the large steamers ; but their
voyage would pay the Oriental and Peninsular Company
far better if thee. took the mails from Bombay to Suez,
and had branch boats from Bombay to Ceylon, Madras,
and Calcutta, and even Sincapore.

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 " Long 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 Gazelle 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 Madeira on
New Year's Day, in consequence of the remonstrances
made by our government.
MADAME C tTA LIN I.—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 live 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

WRECK OF AN AMERICAN STE AM-BOAT.—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, about eleven o'clock at night. The vessel struck
a snag or rock, and in a very few minutes the water rose
to the lower deck, where most of the passengers in that
part of the boat were asleep. At the moment of the Col-
lision most of the passengers in the gentlemen's cabin had
retired to their berths, and the ladies too were generally
undressed 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.

IRELAND.

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. He 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 had 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
CIO. 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,
could enter into a conspiracy. The verdict might impri-
son him, but it could not take from him the conscious
innocence he possessed. If the Attorney-General's doc-
trine of conspiracy were right, 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 he termed the " machi-
nery" of the evidence, dividing it into two classes—mon-
ster meetings 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
for left
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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 be 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, and brought forward an immense
number of figures and assertions 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 goverrnirnr,
of the magistrates, and I said nothing that I wonid 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 ha‘e
If I succeed or if I fail, it is a glorious struggle to make
—the first land upon the earth possess that bounty and
benefit— what God and nature intended it should possess
—(partial applause.)
The Chit Justice.L-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. OConnell 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 put in
evidence, and read by the officer of the court ; afOr which
Mr. William Morgan deposed to some particulars of the
Tullamoore meeting.

The Solicitor-General commenced his reply on Wed-
nesday. He observed that the eight gentlemen who had
addressed them had introduced matter not only different,
but inconsistent ; but in one respect they marvellously
concurred—the absence of the least reference to the merits
of the case. They had not, 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
had been charged. He denied the charge that government
had seduced the people into crime, contending that every
warning had 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 nauseam, 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
and conviction that a verdict which could have the effect
of stopping the proceedings to which those unfortunate
people bad 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 he
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 extort 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 ease 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 legat; but he pro-
nounced the repeal meetings unlawful, because it appeared
that they were held for the unlawful purpose of exhibiting
to the Legislature 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-
tshernssewe
principles were ow prosecuted ons elcsnot db
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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 the 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
havingintimated, 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 he 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 recapitu-
lated the various counts in the indictment, that in 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
secresy was necessary. In support of the opinion of the
court, his lordship referred to various decisions of Lord
Lerman and other judges. His lordship then laid down

Feb. 13, 1841.

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an illegal concert between the traversers, the acts were
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the acts of all. What was the law, the violation of chid'
they were called upon to bring into judgment against In
traversers—the Liw as it existed—the law as it bad existea
for the last forty-three years—the law as her gracious
Majesty had, by her coronation oath, bound and sworn
to maintain? lie would read for them the coronation
oath—or, at least, the commencement of it—as given in
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 i
the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws so.
customs of the same? The King or Queen shall say, I
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 bed
heard a monstrous deal of assertions; they had beard *
monstrous deal of declamation ; they had heard a mon'
strous deal of complaints of grievances; they had heard
a great deal of what the law ought to be; they had heard
the jury called upon to decide whether such a law ought
to continue, as if they had the power to alter it.
law of this realm, as it stands by the act of union until it
was repealed, was the only law that they could take into
their consideration in dealing with this case. It was the
law which the Queen, by her coronation oath, had swore
to preserve ; and it was idle to say that, in violation
of that law, the Queen, if she thought proper, might
depart from that law altogether, call a parliament of her
own in Ireland, of her own motion, in concert with the
people, and set up a new law and a new constitution for
this country, in direct violation of the act of union.
His lordship read several of the clauses of this act, and
said that the idea of saying that the Queen of Ireland
might be treated and dealt with as a Qneen of a separate
kingdom, was absurd and was seditious. Until the laW
was altered by the proper authorities—which he did not
say but it might—but while the law remained as it was on
that subject, and as it had been during the year 1843, and
the preceding years that had intervened since the enact-
ment of the act of union—there was one Sovereign over
the kingdom who was incapable, by himself or herself, of
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 ; and hs
(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 tide
so, 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, expline&
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 numbt.r 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 cart
bryyinmgro.fore,Cpeoalnn.
ellHteo
Nqiuro.td Beeaiunmopnatr,titclulalate,.tihehealblurostmhners
of Helen O'Moore would be near his castle," which he
contended was not a fair mode of bringing the weight of
publi:: opinion to bear upon a great political question, bud
was calculated directly to "excite hatred and disconteOt amongst her Majesty's subjects, particularly the Irian people against the English." The Chief Justice went 00
to comment upon various inflammatory speeches made at
Tara and elsewhere, in which the English government
from the time of Cromwell to the present time were ac-
cused 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 exeite
the people to the assumption of a hostile attitude for the
overawing of the government. The Chief Justice con-
cluded his speech, and at half-past five o'clock the issue
was sent to the jury. The latest proceedings will be
found in our fifth page.

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Orders have been issued from the office of the Com-
mander of the Forces for the establishment of a militarl
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 clothing 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
torn covering, that you may give earnest to the world of
your fitness for a higher destiny." Such is the pathetic
appeal of the National Press to the pockets of the
people ; such the urgent call of the patriotic editor for
funds to sustain the righteous cause in which he and bib•
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 "
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 Lahr
League produces another revolution in England, there
will be some ,thance of the question of Repeal being en'
tertained by the Imperial Parliament, and announced the
rent for the week to be £560 lOs 4d.—and so ended the
proceedings of the day.

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE.—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 coral:
nicate to you the particulars of an outrage which took
that now has extended itself to this county, and has ot.
afternoonpp lraocvee proves
withint he
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dreadful
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organization
which,ai
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returning
ncaocligroofremcyfkrbroeti ininopnai_tys t_iiii!y:::
brought about by the agitators of this afilietedeountY„
mentioned) yesterdal,
accompanied, on his outside jaunting car, by the bailiff,
servant, and herd ; he was met by four ruffians, wile ordered his servant to stop, which he did. One of than
fiaMat:krm: was,djo—f:Ct‘nhalesnß°fatenhilcflielo:wgßhoasfelarfieLd( i?a,:ta'' tdYhauenomduh' tyrannizingouauwrpreaosn over
not theyfr,
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. Babe
ran away, and the fellows deliberately walked off, among" a set of Mr. Balfe's tenants, 30 or 40 of whom were
court-houselwaintdhli
on rad.fewAhyearmredestehtoiifsn
meeting
of ma
action without rendering the slightest assistance to their
above facts were elicited magistratesand witnessed
s etdo
took
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in trans'
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matter of course, 8
likely to lead to detection was obtained.
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aTio:
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SINGUL AR AFFAIR.— A somewhat romantic affair
transpired in the neighborhood of Wakefield, a few days
ago. It appears that about eleven years since a WO/
respectable lady and gentleman, whose names we do not
think it right to mention were married in the neighbour'
hood of Halifax. In a few hours after the union, for guile
cause or other which did not transpire, a separation be;
tween the parties was effected by the lady's friends ; and
she shortly afterwards removed to a secluded spot near
Wakefield. where she has been living ever since having
heard nothing of her husband until last week, when til
gehentleman appeared to claim his bride. It appears that
t
gentleman, who had been living in Wales had been
endeavouring for a considerable length of time to find the.
lady, but without success, those of her friends who knew
her "whereabouts" having their own reasons for not ea:
lightening him on that point. The lady we are told was
not less pleased than surprised ; and as soon as her at.
rangements were made she took her departure with ber
husband for his residence in Wales.