Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-08-22
The following despatch is published in
ahe N. Y. Herald
Most Important from Ireland.

DUBLIN, Friday night, July 81.
We are almost In q state of siege in
this city.
To day proclamation was issued BY
the Lord Lieutenant for both the county
and city Of Dublin, calling upon all per-
sons TO deposit and leave at the respective
police stations, on or before the 25 the July
inst, all guns, pistols and other fire. arms,
all swords, cutlasses, pixies. and bayonets,
and all gunpowder and ammunition, on
pain of being Convicted and being i'm
Prisoned two years, with or without hard
labor.
g, The police, who are armed with cut
lasses. took up number of pixies and
guns to day throughout the city.
All applications having been made to
Judge Perrin, presiding at the Tyrone
assizes, TO admit Mr.. John Martin to bail,
he refused the same, and strongly cen.
sured the conduct of the government for
allowing Mr.. Martin the privilege of wri.
ting from Newgate to the FeIon.
The nation makes its appearance again
to morrow. Its leaders are, as usual, to
the point,aDd equally spicy as to"ielony."
MIR. G. &. Duffy, from bis cell in New.
gate, furnished an article headed "Cassus
Belli," in which be reviews the course
adopted by the government for suppress.
ing the demand for repeal, and observes,
''it is solemn and terrible responsibility
TO advise nation to peril its hopes on the
battle field; to permit them to fall to
pieces by the fatal dry rot Of inaction to
see them lost without honor or sympathy,
or the chance Ofredemption-lost by some
fatal eowardice or incapacity that is the
hell in which there is no consolation. p
Referring to the Revolutions which have
taken place in this memorable year of
1913, and glancing at their results, Mr..
Duffy proceeds -
"At length, with clear deliberation and
full knowledge of all the perils and all the
responsibility, but with assured faith of
Gods providence, and The justice of our
course, we bid England choose speedily
between concession and the sword. We
formally proclaimed war of independ-
ence. and the lime IS, achen that pledge
must be promptly fulfilled, or as formally
dishonored." The article concludes by
expressing wish for transportation, rath
er than live in Ireland, if the Clubs be su.
pine in the hour of action, and are defeat
ed by the military power Of England.
The Nation also continues lis practical
instructions in military affairs, and among
other directions explains how polished
arms are TO be preserved in damp or
under ground positions ; suggestions as to
widow grenades how to break down a
bridge or rebuild one. and how to blow up
a bridge with practical remarks on gun.
merry.
A letter from Waterford states that thai
city is greatly excited by the proclama-
ton issued against it; the notices are torn
down as soon as put up. Mr.. Meaghel
has issued counter proclamation, in
which he calls upon his fellow citizens to
initiate, the men of Limerick and Tippe-
rary; to- be firm and steady, and to or
ganize calmly, speedily, and fearlessly.-
Mr.. Meagher, in mockery, of the castle
procla mation,put at the foot of his address;
"God save the people,"