Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-05-18

'iSiuilt Vi Tue L our OOurlS; ana the police pat
rolled the streets from an early honr in the NOR
ming. At half past eleven o'clock the trayer-
sers, followed by about twenty or thirty gen.
tlemen, and some members of The Confederate
Clubs, walking two abreast, proceeded on foot
to the courts. The mob. which was not nu-
merous al that hour, owing perhaps to the ex-
IRENE wetness of the day, preserved an omin-
Gus silence until the traversers entered the gates
OF the courts. when cheer was raised for
Messrs. O'Brien, Mitchell, and Meagher. The
grand jury having been sworn, Mr.. Justice
Champion, the presiding judge, proceeded to
deliver his charge. Before the rising of the
court, at four clock, true bills were found
against the traversers upon every count in the
indictments sent to the jury. They were then
severally given in charge, and the usual four
day rules to plead were entered.
DUBLIN, April l6.-Shortly after the sitting
of the court of Queens Bench to-day, the APP
plication was renewed ON the part of Mr.. o.
Brien, that he should appear by attorney. The
motion was unopposed, and the presence of
Mr.. Potter, his attorney, vice the member for
Limerick, was allowed by the court. The same
rule was applied to all the other cases, and
Messrs. Meagherand Mitchell absented then.-
selves. Smith O'Brien's trial, the first of the
series, will take place May Is, the first day of
the after sittings.
lfSmith O'Brien be convicted, his property,
which amounts TO between four and five thou
sand pounds year, will be confiscated to the
Crown. One of the charges against him is tam
pering with the military.
The drilling &C has been put into operation
in Dublin. Accordingly, number of young
men, thirteen in number, were arrested on
Sunday evening last, April l6, while perform
ing military evolutions in large room in that
city. They were lodged in the station house,
brought up for examination at the head police
office on the following day, when they were
committed for trial at the next commission
The offenders, if convicted, are liable to trans
poration.
Notwithstanding thevigorous determination
of the Government to put stop TO the move
ments of the disaffected throughout Ireland, the
preparations forrebellion still proceed. COM
munication from Youghal states that ''the
spirit OF Instruction is rapidly spreading in
the southeast-from Youghal to Mallow, from
Cappoquin to Chonmel, and that nothing is
spoken of but rifles, and rifle clubs, pixies, bar
ricades, &C." The writer mentions the meet
ing of rifle club at Clay Castle, at which over
1900 persons were assembled. This state of
things is becoming matter of general noto-
riety. The most formidable rebellion that ev-
er shook Ireland from sea to sea is, unfortun
ately, at this moment, threatning the commu-
nifty.
A Limerick paper, in abiding to the state of
the country, says: 1--WE have it from author
ity which we have the best reason to trust,
that, in a quarter not quite thousand miles
from Limerick, 5000 men are nightly engaged
in practising the pike exercise"
From the Liverpool Mail of April 22,l
THREATENED ATTACK IN TRINITY COLLEGE,
DUBLIN.-A gentleman, from Trinity College,
Dublin, arrived in town yesterday, by the
Duchess OF Kent, states that an attack upon
the College was confidently anticipated. In
formation to that effect was received from the
Castle, from which three orderlies arrived in
succession, and at the request of General Nc
Donald, the College gates were closed against
all ingress or e5ress at eight o'clock In addi-
ton TO the three companies permanently loca-
ted in the college, reinforcement OF five hum
dred men arrived about seven III the evening,
and the whole were ordered to be under arms
during the night.
The divergence between the Repealers head
ed by MIR. O'Connell, and the party led on by
MIR. Mitchell becomes greater every day. The
O'Connells manfully declare that they will take
their stand upon, at the very nc plus ultra, the
uttermost bounds of the law and constitution;
and will adhere to the counsels bequeath-
ed to them by their father, to obtain re-
peal by peaceable and constitutional means
only.
The rent has fallen TO f25, and it is evident
| that numerical majority of the Irish people
are i'll favor of outrageous measures. In the
meantime, the people i'll every part of the
country continue to supply themselves with
arms; some arrests have indeed taken place In
Dublin, Cork, and Limerick, to check the pro-
gress of the armament, but these steps are OF
course wholly inadequate to ward off the dam
ger. We expect, almost by every post, intelli-
gence of some disastrous event arising out oil
the excited state of the country.
Great and influential bodies continue to pour
in their addresses to the Lord Lieutanant, ex-
pressive of their determination to support the
Government, but the train of discomfort seems
now to be laid so extensively, and with such
mischievous effect, that we doubt whether the
whole weight of the Government. with even
the support of the O'Connells, will be able tc
prevent some great explosion. Another sig
nifcant feature attends this unhappy state Of
things. The run on the Savings Bank in Corh
and in the south of Ireland, goes on with &C.
CELEBRATED speed. The depositors desiring theil
+ funds are paid in Bank of Ireland notes, which
are speedily converted into gold. Mr.. Mitch
ellis language in the United Irishman increases
in violence daily. The Nation also vies witt
the younger journal in disseminating treasona
BILE doctrines. A late number contains lette
from parish priest, setting forth the doctrine
of Catholic resistance.
4 II inculcates the duty of aiming quietly, ant
goes on to say to the people, ''Make you
peace with God, put your houses in order, anC
prepare to die" 1t then teaches them to bidt
their time; and then, when it comes, ever
man must vow "before God, and his country, Il
5 lessen, if he can, by one man at least, the enc
mics OF his native land, and then to die. p
! Such language as this, coupled as it's wit
minute instructions from the United kishma
how to drill, carry, and use the pike and the ri
!, fe, can only be productive of some mighty cal
astrophe.
: The feeling as to the efficacy of repeal i
: staying the mischief, appears in some quarter
to gain ground but there is not the smalles
appearance of such an idea being entertained
. the Government. Amongst the converts
9 repeal, however, it is said to be no less pc
i sonage than the Earl of Shrewsbury, who n
! doubt trembles for his estates. The State pre-
), secutions against Mitchell O'Brien, and Mea&
e her commenced on the first day of term. an
a true hills ha We been found against them. Pull