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I R E la A N D,

THE STATE TRIALS.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, DUBLIN.

The Court sat on Monday morning at ten o'clock. Three
of the Judges only were in attendance. We regret to
state that Judge Burton's absence was owing to indispo-
sition. An attempt was made on the part of the traversers
to suspend the investigation pending the illness of Judge
Burton, but the objection was overruled.
The first witnesses examined were Thos. Packer, John
and Joseph Annesley, all persons in the employment of
Mr. Holbrooke, Crow-street, who were questioned in
reference to the engraving and printing of the different
cards used by the Repeal Association, and the source from
which Mr. Holbrooke had received the order.
In the course of the day Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Steele
left the court for the purpose of attending a Repeal Meet-
ing at Conciliation Hall. The circumstance having be-
come known to the Attorney-General. the Right Hon.
Gentleman very properly insisted on the traversers ap-
pearing in court. Messengers were accordingly dis-
patched, and after a short interval, both the traversers
resumed their places, and continued to occupy them
the remainder of the day.
John Ulick Macnamara, examined by Mr. Tomb,
Q.C.—I am a shorthand-writer, and was present at a re-
peal meeting at Tullamoore on the 16th July last ; I
arrived there the evening before the meeting; the pro-
ceedings commenced about two o'clock ; I observed the
people coming into Tullamoore as they would have seen
coming to a market ; there were great crowds ; I took a
note in short-hand of what passed at the meeting, and
copied my notes out with the exception of a few senten-
ces ; my short-hand notes have been destroyed ; I have
my transcribed notes here. (Witness produced the tran-
scribed copies of his notes, and said he saw Mr. D.
O'Connell and Mr. Steele at the meeting ; the Rev. Mr.
O'Rafferty presided.)
Mr. Hatchell—State what the Rev. Mr. O'Hafferty
said at that meeting? The witness proceeded to read the
following speech :
" Fellow-countrymen and brother repeaters, the regene-
rator and liberator of our country has come to pay you a
visit. Allow me to tell you that the mighty leader of the
Irish people has come to address you-; this is the first
time we had the honour to see him at a public meeting in
the town of Tullamore. I don't say too much for the
people of this locality when I assert that they were at all
times the ardent and sincere supporters of every measure
introduced by that great man for the benefit of the coun-
try. He has come to talk to you about repeal. I believe you
all know what that means ; he has come to bring back our
native parliament, to establish a legislature in this country
that will make thelaws for the benefit of the people; that will
respect the rights of the people, and that will give them
good government. They have been too long trampled on
by the representatives of Saxon authority; too long have
they been trodden down and treated worse than slaves.
That great and illustrious man will address you ; he will
tell you, as he often told others, the great and lasting bles-
sings that a domestic legislature will bring to this coun-
try. I return you thanks for the honour you hare done
me ; for thirty years I have laboured sincerely for the pub-
lic cause., I have been a supporter according to my hum-
ble means of every measure introduced for the good of the
country, and my exertions shall not be wanting to forward
the great cause of repeal."
The witness then detailed what was spoken by the
Rev. Mr. Spain, Mr. Nolan, Mr. Kearney, and others,
and stated that continually during the speeches the mob
utter& cries of " Repeal, repeal." He also gave a long
report of Mr. O'Connell's speech. The meeting was
held on Sunday, at Tullamore.
Mr. Tomb.—State to the jury if you saw any of the
inscriptions on these banners what they were. One was
" See the conquering hero comes." Another
" Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself bath said—
This is my own, my native land. (Laughter.)

Mr. Tomb—Any more? Yes—" Ireland, her Parlia-
ment, or the world in a blaze," and " Cead mine failtha."
A Juror—Was the banner on which were the words
" Ireland, her Parliament, or the world in a blaze," dis-
played at the meeting or in the town ? I saw it before
the meeting took place, in one of the streets.
(To Mr. Tomb.l—There were a great many bands of
music there; the meeting lasted about two hours.
Cross-examined by Mr. Hatchell. Q.C.—I arrived in
Tullamore on the evening before the meeting : I went to
th.- market-place before any crowd had gathered ; there
was a platform erected for the speakers ; 1 was on it ; I
saw one reporter there, and I understood there were
others ; there was not the least obstruction to my taking
notes; the people assembled as if they were coming to a
market or a fair; there was a great number of females
amongst them, and some children ; everything appeared
perfectly peaceable, so far as the conduct of the persons
there; I do not belong to that part of the country.
Mr. Macnamara was then subjected to a severe cross-
examination from Mr. Hatchell, but his testimony was
o t shaken.
John Sampson Stuart examined by the Attorney-Gene-
ral—l am a sub-inspector of constabulary ; was stationed
at Tullamoore; was there at the great meeting which was
held upon the 16th July ; was on duty there • I looked
about the town on that day ; I saw mottos and banners
before the meeting was called ; there were a large number
of persons in the town ; a great number had come early
in the morning, between nine and ten o'clock, but the
great body had not come in ; thousands were there at
that early hour ; I know " High-street," Tullamoore ; I
observed banners and mottos in that street, and I took
them all down. What mottos or inscriptions did you see ?
On the arch in High-street I saw on one side, " the slave
master may brandish his whip, but we are determined to
be free I" and on the other side I saw, " Beware, phy-
sical force is a dangerous experiment to try on the Irish
people—Repeal shall not be put down by the bayonet."
Where in Tullamoore is the Roman Catholic Chapel?
Opposite the Corn-market, where the meeting was held.
Was there any banner or motto in the Chapel? No. Was
there a banner or motto opposite the chapel ? Yes, there
was a motto on the archway which extended from one side
of the street to the other, opposite the chapel. What
motto was there? "Ireland, her parliament, or the world
in a blaze." On what day of the week was this ? Sunday.
And this was opposite the chapel gate? Yes. Did many
of the thousands of persons who were assembled pass in

that direction ? Yes ; the greater part of them went under

that arch. Where was the platform erected? Exactly

opposite the arch. Was there a banner opposite the plat--
form? Yes ; stretched along the wall, and on it was in-
scribed—" Ireland must not he—ought not to be—a serf
-nation." Was there any motto on the platform ? Yes ;
" Nine millions of people are too great to be dragged at
the tail of another nation. Mention any other mottos?
" See, the conquering hero comes ; " " God save the
Queen;" " Breathes there a man with soul so dead,"
&c. ; " Repeal ; " " Justice, and prosperity to all creeds
and classes." At what hour did the crowds begin to en-
ter the town in the morning ? The greater number came
from ten o'clock to one by the Birr road. Did many
bands come into the town that morning? I saw about
nine bands, exclusive of the Tullamoore temperance band.
Did any horsemen come into Tullamoore that morning ?
Yes. Did you observe anything particular in their man-
ner of coming ? Yes ; the horsemen who arrived by the
Birr road came in sections of four—that is, four abreast.
Did you observe anything particular with respect to one of
these horsemen ? I did. What was it ? One of them
wanted to leave and alight at a house before going into the
town, and another got indignant at it, and said to him,
" D—n you, sir, keep your ranks." Did he do so? He
did. How many horsemen did you observe there? I
counted from seventy to eighty sections of four. That is
about three hundred and eighty? Yes. Did you observe
anything particular in the manner of the footmen? They
endeavoured to observe the same kind of order as the
horsemen, but were not able to do so ; they kept about
the temperance bands, and were forced on by the crowd.

Did you observe any persons giving them directions? I
did. I observed persons halting them, and appearing to
give them orders. When did Mr. O'Connell arrive ? The
night before. At what hour did Mr. O'Connell ascend
the platform ? At about two o'clock. Did you see any
other of the traversers there besides Mr. O'Connell?
Yes, that gentleman (pointing to Mr. Steele.) Did you
bear Mr. O'Connell speak there ? Yes. Where were
you ? I was in a store over the platform, and about 10 or
12 yards from it. Did you take any notes of what Mr.
O'Connell said ? I took very short notes, indeed. Read
-what you did take ?
" Mr. O'Connell commenced by assuring them most
solemnly that repeal of the union was now a certainty ;
that he came there that day to announce from the centre

of Ireland the certainty of repeal—he could prove from
Peel and Wellington themselves, that they knew repeal
was certain. But to keep appearances, Peel had made the

Queen to say she would not consent, and had told a great
lie to the House of Commons. With respect to Sir
Robert Peel's declaration that he would prefer a civil war
to granting repeal, I say (said O'Connell) the better day
the better deed, be tries the experiment of going to war
with the Irish people, and he came there that day to give
Peel a haughty defiance."
Did you make any calculation of how many were at the
meeting ? I did. I think there were from 60,000 to
70,000 persons there. How were the bands dressed ? In
fancy dresses of white and green.
Neale Brown, Esq.,
R.M., examined by Mr. Napier--
lam a resident magistrate in Tullamoore; I was residing
there in July last ; I remember Sunday, the 16th of July,
the day of the great meeting; 1 know the part of the
town where the church is situated ; my house is not in
the neighbourhood of the church, but in the high street
of Tullamoore; saw the people coming into town that
day from the western side; that is the Frankford side of
the town ; it was about one o'clock in the morning ; that
was the first time I observed them coming in ; there were
some in before one o'clock, and some came in about that
time ; had not been at church before one o'clock that
day ; one o'clock was church hour ; remained from church
for the purpose of being in readiness if called on as a

magistrate ;• when the procession was formed to go to
the place of meeting, it turned to the left, and pas-
sed near the church ; it was about half-past two o'clock ;
I saw Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Sheil—(laughter) and
Mr. Steele I mean, who was sitting inside the carriage;
I had been in the rere of my house when I heard the mu-
sic coming, I then went to the front, and in about five
minutes the carriage passed. The great body of the pro-
cession passed before I came up ; the people were walk-
ing about fifteen abreast ; they were walking with regu.
larity and order ; the bands were playing while the nro-
cession was passing the church ? I afterwards saw people
coming from church through my own field ; that was not
their usual way of going home ; the number I saw going
this way was about thirty ; they usually went home by the
route the procession came; the bands had on what he
should call military uniforms, with the exception that
they had no belts ; the Roscrea band had shoulder-scales
like what cavalry officers wear in undress ; another band
had some device in their caps. I dorft Inow the names

of any of the tunes they played ; the procession moved in
a column of about five abreast.
James Johnston examined by Mr. Sergeant Warren—
head-constable of constabulary belonging to the Sligo es-
tablishment ; I was at Longford on the twenty-eighth and
twenty-ninth of May last; there was a large repeal meet-
inc 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
of 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 I took a
note. State what those mottos were that you saw ?
" Cead Mille 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 Nine
Millions is too great to be drared 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 be legislated foieby 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,
but I don't know his name. The next person who spoke
was the Rev. Mr.Gavern, as be 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 you 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 liberated from their
oppression. You are too good 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 mor.iing. Mr. Justice Bur-
ton was absent f,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
for 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 Baiting-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
he had heard several persons declare " that Mr. Sander's
house should be attacked because it was once the scene or
blood."

Mr. Justice Burton wes 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 be 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 ber 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 bad done all that was required, they ultimately
ruled-the proot-tu be ealfteiarmr,—/Arr. Justice Terriiidis-
senting.

The Lord Chief. Justice, Mr. Justice Cramp ton,
_a d
Mr. Justice Perrin, took their seats upon theben'n
chat
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, Q.c
adjourn till the next morning, ' a pp lied to the court to
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. Shiel was sometimes very
touching, but he did not attempt to grapple with the law
so lucidly and calmly laid down in the opening address of
the Attorney-General.

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.---THE ROYAL SPEECH.
—The Dublin Evening Mail, of Monday, says,—" \%e
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-
tam 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—X3,ooo per annum in fee, with a
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 townland 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 mortem 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 Wilfu

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
purchased poison in Banbridge about six weeks before,
and, on the day of the death of deceased, the little girl
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 bad the
body conveyed into Dunmanway. Two men have been
taken under suspicion of being the perpetrators of the
foul deed. The unfortunate man bas left a widow and
three children.—On the night of the 17th instant, at
Dunroanway, 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 eheering. Martin Honan, 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 he 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 peopl

le to observe the

sti icteit -order. 811 A-the marTst,sontapieis tCanquillity—to be
perfectly inoffensive in their demeanour to those who
differed from them. He had heard that some persona
during the procession to the court to-day had called upon
others to take off their hats. 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 £904 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.--On 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 pool': 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 ball door of Scullabogue
House, forced • the remainder—to the number of one
hundred and eighty 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
Britimr-itnesrwbfle 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-
otmhuersl.yscamracraffesdo.sarecdrd,eiafidcptetri.oerteelsinnta,nicatfi,tledbrayrwethlirtcuhhsetti,ih.legebareelsbpeiplksuetduetpostwdroaeyradethds
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 his 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 feet in his blood l Let those whe believe
the charge against the Protestants of Ireland of " 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 writer 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 Maynooth,
and after the passing of different acts in favour of the
Papist, and removing disabilities—whether as regarded
the pbssession 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 penallaws had reference
to religion only so far es it influences political conduct
and public liberty.