Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1843-11-16
Foreigs. News.

Arrival Or TIE BRTTxNNI4.- FfF-
81 TEEN DAYS LdTER FROu EUROPE
IMPORTANT FR0H IRELAHD--A r.
Rest or o'coNNELL AND OTHERS.
j SC Sc
j The Bftish mail steamer 3ritsnnia ar
rived a, Boston Oh Saturday evening last.
We learn from the Bost Atlas that SHE
/ left Liverppoi on the 10th uli. at 10 min.
utes be fore 3 r. Nj. arrive al Halifax On
the 81 instant at II z. NJ. and left again
al 20 MINUTES belize p. NJ. The Br.-
tannia has made her passage from Liver
4 pool 70 Boston 10 l6 days aud 3 hours.
She has had very boisterous passage,
enconnteIlng head winds nearly all the
way.
From the extras transmitted by the
Boston Daily Advertise r, Atlas, and Times,
New YORK Hefald. Sun, and Ph,lsdelphia
Ledger, are much the annexed samma-
" Of intelligence:
The britannia brings news of good
deal Of interest Of the state OF affairs ia
Great Britain, as well as from China. In
Ireland the agitation Gems to have re-
ceiyed check, in the peaceable arrest Of
y Council and several of his followers,
ON charge Of a conspiracy to excite Sc
cition, end their giving bail for their ap.
Pearance far their trial on the 2 ] of No
sember. A large military force was as.
sembied in Ireland for the support OF the
civil government, should their interfer-
ence be necessary. The disturbances 10
Wales seem to have in some measure,
subsidized. The state OF commercial fairs
was improved.
4 INDIA AND CHINA The India Sep,em.
Der nail f,om Bombay had not arrived.
The steamtr Oriental, however, had ar.
} rived at Marselles from Alexandria, bring
ing news and passengers from India and
China, which had been brought TO Suez
by the Oriental Company's steamer Him.
dostan from Calcutta. This steamer
brought Col. Malcolm, Secretary of LIE.
: CATION. from China, with the ratified tr, a.
J ty, and l0S passengers from Calcutta.
+, BY this conveyance is also received am.
J Pile intelligence from China and India,
with the Tariff, and other commercial ar
engagements entered into by Sir Henry Pot.
, finger, for the definite arrangement of the
J China trade, which seem to be highly sat-
islactory.
The steamer Caledonia, Capt. Lott,
, from Boston, arrived at Liverpool on the
, morning Of the 18th Oct.
Mr.. Gushing our Minister to China, ar
: rived at Alexandra in the steamer Orien.
, tai, on the 10th of September. He had
an audiences with the Viceroy, and left on
the same day for Suez, whence he was
: to proceed TO Bombay in the monthly
steamer, expecting there to meet the A.
merican squadron ready to receive him
and to convey him to China.
IRELAND The most important in.elIi
gence Of general nature, is that of the
course adopted by the British Government
to put stop to the progress oil eg.tation
in Ireland. A great repeal meeting had
been called for Sunday, the 9Th nlt. at
Ciontarf, which was expected to out mum.
Der any Of the monster meetings" thus
far held, when, on Saturday afternoon, the
7th, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, De-
Gray, issued his proclamation, of which q
copy will be found below, folbidding the
meeting. The Committee of the Repeal
Association was Immediately called to-
4 gether, and it was resolved, on advice
strenuously urged by Mr.. O'Connell, thai,
the meeting at Clontarf should be coun.
demanded, aud every means used to pre-
vent the people from disobeying the order
of the Lord Lieutenant. A; the same
time MIR. O'Conpell avuwed his intention
of remaining in Dublin to continue the agi.
tation instead Of proceeding to his country
seat as he had intend d.
A notice Of the abandonment Of the
meeting YVES adopted, and it was immedi-
ately printej, in the same shape as the
Lord-heutenant's proclamation, surmoun-
ted like that document by the royal arms,
and industriousy circulated. Persons on
the part of toe Association were sent to
all the outlets of Dublin, and to a / the
. PLACES at which preparatory assemblages
of the repealers were to be held, to dis.
peise and send back those coming to the
meeting, but the time at which the prohi-
, biiion was declared, was so near that APP
pointed for the meeting, that great many
, were already on the road towards Clon.
/ tart.
! On Sunday, all the troops in Doubin
were paraded supplied with go rounds OF
ball cartridge. and disposed on the ground
appointed Tor the meeting, and on the
ro,ds thther. The day, however, passed
off quietly and the troops were Withdrawn
al night without disturbance.
On the 9th and llth, great meetings OF
: the repeal association were held in Dublin,
at which Mr.. O'Connel was present and
spoke. On the 18th, Mr.. O'Connell and
his son we're arrested upon warrents issu-
ed by judge Burton, charging them with
+ having conspired, with others, TO change
the laws of the realm, and with having
raised money for that purpose, and with
having, before various assemblies of the
people, used innammatory language.
The Attorney General to proceed by in-
dic,ment, and not er.oGicio, if the grand
Jury found bills. Mr.. O'Connell imme-
dlatey after giving bail by entering into
recognizauces in the sum Of El000, with
two sureties of E500 each, issued the fol-
, lowing letter to the people Of Ireland, cali
; ing upon them to keep the peace:
TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND.
"Beloved Fellow countrymen an
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