Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-10-17

'i1 PioioSation OF Farliament. lie had
another monster meeting at Loughraa on
Sunday the 10Th, which, as regards num-
bers, was hardly inferior, if the great agi-
tator himself is to be credited, to any that
has gone before. According to his testi-
mony, there were no less than 10000
horsemen present at this Repeal gathering.
The proceedings were good deal damned
by the heavy rains which fell during the
greater part of the day. Mr.. O'Connell
was obliged to address his drenched hear.
ers with an umbrella over his head, but he
comtoaed them with the assurance that the
rain fell alike on the Just and on the un-
just" Alter the meeting dinner took
place, at which DR.. M'Hale and other dig
nltaries OF the Roman Catholic Church
were present. The speeches were of the
ordinary kind; those Of O'Conrcll-for he
made two-related chiefly to denunciations
Of the Queens speech, which he still
treated MS the speech of the Ministry; i,
has had tendency, he said, 10 deaden the
feeling OF attachment which the Irish peo-
pie entertained for the person of the Queen
The proceedings at the Corn Exchange
have not possessed more than the avera ge
interest. Money continues to roll in from
America. Last week $500. which had
been collected in Pennsylvania, was paid
IN, and letter from Robert Tyler, son OF
the President, expressing sympathy with
the Repeal movement, was ordered to he
entered on the journals Of the association,
and a respectful answer returned. Mr..
O'Connell has been busily employed in
Safeguarding Mr.. Bennett, of the New
York Herald, whom he has followed Up
with manevolence almost fiendish.
The Repeal agitation has crossed the
channel this week with very Indifferent
success. Having accepted an invitation
from the Repealer5 Of Liverpool, Mr.. Da-
mel O'Connell, jun, and bevy of the
Corn Exchange men, arrived here on
Tuesday, and in the evening proceeded 10
the Amphitheatre, where the meeting was
announced to take place. Mr.. O'Connel's
son having addressed the assemblage, a
general row took place. A party of Or
ange men armed with bludgeons. gained
access TO the meeting, and acting simuta-
neously. rushed at given signal upon the
Reporters, whom they be'abored Justify
with their weapons. The party assaled,
stunned for moment, turned upon their
opponents, and for nearly half an hour the
lower part of the circus presented a scene
OF the most brutaizing character. Broken
heads and limbs, and faces, in which
scarcely lineament Of the human coun-
tenance was visible, attested the fury of
the onslaught and the punishment with
which it was visited.
SPA!N.--The new government of
Spain is busily engaged in conflict with
The dlscordant elements which called il in
to being. Barcelona is in arms, and the
expulsion of E, partero is likely to be sue
ceeded by sanguinary civil war. The
Fort OF Monjuich has been firing upon the
Atarazanas. As the army cannot be de-
pended upon, measures Of extreme severity
have been adopted to awe il into subsection.
A battalion Of the Sd regiment at Barcelona
mutIned few days ago. numbering about
800 men; it was feared that the example
might be contagious. Narvarez promised,
if they laid down their arms. they should
have what they wanted; they did so, and
a number were Immediately placed under
arrest; priests were introduced to them, and
soon alter five sergents, two corporals, and
Il private were led out, and shot within
sight of the barracks. Spain is in state
Mt transition, and the present condition Of
that fine and distracted country is a libel
upon civilization. With the finest colonies
and the most brilliant prospects which a
modern nation has ever possessed, Spain
has been gradually falling into the rear,
and mental and moral decrepitukc seems
to have overtakcn her people which rem
ders her piteous sight amongst nations.
From the events of which that d stractcd
country is now the theatre, it would seem
that the disease under which the bodily cor
porae labors, cannot be cured without the
administration Of desperate remedies
More unlikely things have happened than
that Spain. ere long, will sink into a prov
ince eli France.
\ daughter Of Victor Hugo, the celebra-
ted French novelist, and Nj. Facquerie,
her husband, were drowned by the upset
ting Of boat in the Seine, on Thursday
night.
ADVICE TO SUNDRY PERSONS.
When you feel your passions rising ne.
yer cenfine or ropress them. How many
boilers nave burst by too c.osc an impris-
onmem of their contentSl
Always proclaim the faults of others
There should be no secrets in a republican
form of Government