The Sun. — 1858-11-23 (London, England)

THE RIBAND CONSPIRACY.  ThC Leinster Express (moderate Conservative) re• marks that no stronger or more conclusive evidence of the existence of the riband conspiracy could be adduced than the fact that another week has elapsed and the murderer of Mr. Ely is still, through the connivance and assistance of the neighbouring peasantry, enabled to elude the grasp of justice. The Express adds :—" That the reported assassin has not yet left the locality is commonly believed, and his sleeping in one place, and his departure to another are flippantly reported. Many must be aware of these transactions, yet not one can be found to give the information necessary to secure his arrest or rid at once the earth of such a monster and the country of a foul stigma that attaches t) hii being harboured among the people. Men speak with horror of former bloodshedding exploits ; and, with expressions of the deepest sympathy for his last victim, condemn the atrocious miscreant ; yet even they confess that a word, a sign, or the slightest aid towards his capture they dare not afford to the authorities. The expression ' dare not' is a clue to the dreadful system that like a shadow of death' overawes our present population, destroys their finer feelings, and perverts their sense of justice. We admit that any person, who would dare to act as a free denizen of a free country should, in honestly maintaining the laws and bringing offenders to justice, do so with the certainty that his home, kis property, and his life, would be no longer safe, and that expatriation would be the least penalty he would receive by his contempt of the fiendish conclave that sits in secret to try all offences against its rules, and whose savage code knows no lighter sentence than that of death." In another article the _Express gives this warning to the parties engaged in the conspiracy : " Though Mr. Ely has perished by the bullet of the assassin, his death will not be permitted to pass without that terrible retribution sanctioned by the laws of God and man. Though the murderer is not yet apprehended, his arrest is but a mere matter of time; the police are on his trail. Sir C. Coote has pledged to visit with immediate removal from his estate, and the infliction of the severest punishment the law permits, in each and every case where it may be satisfactorily proved that any tenant of his either harboured or succoured Delanv (the alleged assassin), since the night on which -Mr. Ely was shot. Henceforward if any tenant on the venerable baronet's estates shall countenance persons of bad or questionable character, be they members of his own family or otherwise, his tenure becomes forfeited, and he must seek some other more congenial locality. The several magistrates of Clandonagh and the adjoining baronies, who met at Borris-inOssory on Monday last, are determined to follow this laudable course, and thus effectually guard that part of the Queen's County from the inroads of Ribandism and all its atrocious concomitants." Meanwhile other denunciations of secret societies are becoming more frequent. The Kilkenny Moderator is informed that on Sunday last, at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in that city, the Right Rev. Dr. Walsh, Roman Catholic bishop,' preached a serm on cautioning the members of the congregation against being led into secret political societies, and exposing the danger and sinfulness of conspiracies of the kind,in somewhat similar words to those previously used by the Rev. Dr. Kieran in Dundalk, and the Rev. Mr. Salmon, P.P., in Callan. The Lublin Gazette of last night notifies that the Lord-Lieutenant and Privy Council have issued a proclamation tFthOffect that the Peace Preserva NE \ , ShUIER ";:',„..,il. ._,,/ .-- - • 05,;_---, tion Act shall apply to, a AO the barony of Clandonagh—N-tkoZIKW ,5i.:'..i. y.