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      Mr Dohe _. (From The Correspondent Of Th...

      j -1 " u ! d tc _ ven , nit to spare any who _opposition ) •¦ _^ _v _' _s _- _tr ' a _. b 2 ing fair-day at Cwrick , tho town Vfii _ d « i ' . h country people , and Messrs Meagher _** ( I'Briea addressed the people , it 13 said by _-Birhn were present , in a more violent aod de 63 ired strain than heretofore , stating their de-¦ _^ . tui tion not to be arrested under the provisions * __ . new act . Both gentlemen , it is stated , were m . with p istols , which they are determined to p in the event of an attempt being made to cap-Pi fh ' m ; they stated thatthey had spent their F tun es in the people ' s eause , and would hazard 1 . ir 'i _** e 9 f ° _tk-ir B 6 I _'* ice ' an _would now throw _2- ««? Ives on the protection of the people .

      jn this city the c ! _ub 3 are well organised , and . ffied , and ready to aot when called upon . The S _ onle ' cee _ reckless from poverty ; groups of work-L _ mav b . teen in the streets by day and night , _S ___« _irjs - politics and retailing the news ofthe hour . The Queen ' s forces here now are about 1 , 000 stron _? . \ n _t _^_ anvils in the eonntry ring with _pike-forgicg . s _ everv weapon is pnt in order for the fray . ' Th e loyalist families are flyine . Since I wrote the above , I have learned on the u ... author ., thatMesssraO'Brien and . Meagher _i- _beTond CarTick-on-Snir , surToundedby the armed _S-. antry , determined to sell their liberty dearly if Jrrestti-. It is a _\ . o stated that Messrs _DiUon _, _O'Gor-__ , and D . Lane are with them . _iSTICIPATED I 5 SOR 3 ECTI 0 X . --HE STATB OF IRELlKD . THB CLCBS . AKB THEIR K _ J _ M .-G 0 T __ _85 _ -EST

      _PRFPAKATIOKS . —ARMING OF THE OKA ! GEilEK _AJ _. D pouce . —rsoniBiTio . v of mesers m _ rtix asd duffi TO WfilTE Ef _KEWG-TE . —JOHN O ' _COSSELL , ASD _TEAKGCS o ' _cOSNOK —THB CROPS . ( From our own _Correspondent , ) Dcblis , 35 th Jult . There is le ** excitement this _morning then there _™^ e . r . " The street , are not so crowded , and there is more confidence -br _. sd . Yesterday people « n _ _ rl a _riBing of the clubs every hoar ; to-day it is _furniis _ed that the Dublin Confederates are waiting _cews from the Drovince _., _acd will not stir until there u 3 diversion' made in Kilkenny , or Tipperary , or T _irserck or Waterford . I am told every member £ the council of the late Iri . -h Confederation has

      1-f r Dub'in , with the twofold object ot e _ aping arrest _-idcr the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act , and _ raisin * the standard of rebellion in the Eouthern __ nne 3 . It is certain that some " of the principal _Eet- _hera are gone away , at all __ event ? . Smith O'Brien is gone to Wexford , and it is said he intends to call ' -he brave men of tbat county to _Vinegar Hill . On Saturday he took his departure , 8 Bd I am told thst in bidding adieu to a certain wealthy and _irflu £ E iia ! Alderman of thiB city , he said , * I quit Dublin By dear Mr , and if ever I enter its walls again jt ' will fce 33 a chained victim , or a b'oody corpse , or s _fr _' _nG-ohant conqueror of Saxon tyranny . ' I do EOt T . - _. _och for the truth of this report , but I have the « iaten- ent frem a very respectable and trustworthy made this

      ppr . ii . It is tho * _aght an attempt will be lav fn . rest him , as the _. overnment are well aware -f " hi * whereabouts . If suoh attempt ba made , it i 3 _thought he will not ' suffer himself to be captured _without tasking resistance ; and if resistance be offered , it will he the signal for a commencement of _bosrilitiis . _T * _Te are every mement expecting an _expr . _ from the southern counties , and from Kilkenny . Richard O'Gorman , Jnn . and Michael _Deheny are Cp iij Limerick and Clare , whihit Thomas F . Men ? . h . r is ahout Kilkenny and the neighbenrh * iod of _h in _J'sceeol ' s celebrated mountain-home , the classic _Siievenaaon . This is a gigantic mountain , lying on the s-utf .-e _ -. te _ borders of Tipperary , about fi' teen miles west of Kilkenny city , and is said to be one of

      the hi-hest of Erin ' i hills . This was the old hunting pound of the famous herculean Irish chieftain , Fin _Jlacw-ol , who two thousand years aeo led his warriors _s . his wolf-hounds in stormy chase through its d . les , and over its crags . It was crossing this mountain that Oliver Cromwell halted his troops to paz _? o _ the golden rallies of Tipperary , acd the rich s ' ores of the Kilkenny upland ? , making the memotable _observation , that ' Ireland indeed is a country : _orth nqhting for . ' It waa in a village near this great monn _' am that the police ( eiehteenor twenty mnumber ) wtre massacred , some fifteen or sixteen years at . in a tithB battle with the _pea _ n try , and itwas

      or tbe summit of Shevenamon ( which in plain English __ rs , the hill of the white women . ' ) that Tinma < F . Meaeher and Michael Doheny , arrav _ in tie costume of Irish chieftains , ass-mbled 20 000 pike-men on Snnday , the 9-h of July . 18-8 . It is _thought that Mr Meagher waits an attempt on the part " of eovernment to arrest him , before he sounds the rail . * To your tents , oh Kilkenny acd _Tinpet 3 ry . _* ' J . -. Dillon is , I hear , up in Galway , stirring up the'tribes' of that anri-nt anti-Saxon city . S " _ ie of fhe minor membera of the council are in the __ : dh _ d d ' _stricts : and it 13 calculated _^ _that fourteen of the thirtr-two Irish counties will be in open

      rebellion _tefore the end of the week . Is thr meantime , government is not losing a mo-__ t . In a late letter to the Star I said they wonld ' leave no stone unturned , ' to put a final period to the insurrectionsry movement in this island , I have n _ be ? n deceived . Tbev eo on bravely with the work . The garrison of this city ha 3 been augmented bv a cnuple of thousand men , and further military arrivals are expected to-day and to-morrow , _Onyeaterd _. v . a camp was flung up on th . _Ptcen x Park , zm the magazine battery , which ia occupied by 800 r _ en of 'he 75 _'h Infantry . The arming and organisation of the Orangemen gce 3 en quickly too , and the police have received cutlasses and pistols . Itis sain that the militsry will take _possessica of all the

      brid-: ea over the Liffey and the two canals to morrow , " and that no person will be Jet into cr ont o f the city without a pa ; s . The search for arms will be _c-jinirenced on this day or _to-mGrrow _, and it is ssid that ine most fiery ol the clubs will shoot down or pike tbe police who may come to their houses . A go _:-d mscv arrests for carrying and having arms abroad bave been already effected , and theso so arrested have in rao 3 . cases been sent for trial . One youn _? c _ b , the son . of a respectable grocer and spirit ? fr _. hant , was arrested at a lata hour last night with a tike in his _possession , which he was carrying to fling into the Liffey rather thaa surrender it to the _a- _'hiritiea . No arms—not a single stand—I believe , h 3 _re been as yet given up . and very few have made

      application to the officers appointed to grant licences for _reraining them . No _msmbe _. ' ot _ -membar of __ a _Confederate Club , no matter how respectable , will be = rar , ted licence , hat it appears that the feci of a n __ b ? _ins an O'Connellite Repealer will not disqualify him from tha privilege . _Seteral of the _gun-. _mi' . h _* and pike-makers have left town for the purro == nf effecting _sa ' e 3 in nnprocla ' _med district ? . It i . said that the celebrated pike-forge in Charles-street is shut-np , and David Hjla 3 d , the proprietor , gone do _ to pursue his ' occupation' in tbe town of Carlow , which , by tte way , is getting as rebellions these latter days as any ether town in Ireland . In Bhort , terror and uncertain , is the order of the day , and

      no man knows wben tbe dreadful intelligence of tbe ratal population tains'' np' may arrive . The Bank of Ireland and the General Post-office are strongly 2-r _ oned , and every clerk , and servant , and porter in each of these establishments , is armed to the t . eth . There will ba no review of the garrison troops in the Phoenix Park to-day , though there has bsen a review there on every Tuesday and Friday since the commencement of the _Euramer season . It has been told to me this moment , thafc there are eentin ?! 5 on nil the avenues leading to tbe hay and straw markets , in Smithfield , lest the carts and _wageon lo ? d 3 of the _. e material- should be captured by the _' uhs for ths cocBtruct . oa of barricades . I do not Touch for this , however .

      Yon will see that tbe Natios and Feloi ; of last _Saturday have not abated a single scintilla of their ! _Felonv . ' There are no copies exposed for _aalo in the h _* _r-ds ofthe _newsvendors or print-shops , but , notbochlish . ' if a man wanted fifty copies of either jour n * - , he con ' . d get them . C G . Daffy , John Martin , and the other inea _ 8 rated ' Felon ' ?/ will not address the people any more . Aa order from the Board of Superintendence prohibits their being allowed to write any _politiesl arti cle _* , or to publi & h or date any writing or document from Newgate prison in future .

      Jo _* m _O'CoEnell is now in tbe South of Ireland . It is said tere that he is the daily guest of Sir _Charles _Napier . and that he is _instruoiing him on the best mode of attacki _. g and destroying the ' rebel' Irish _villag _* . and towns on the Cork said Kerry _coasts 1 He has published another of his blackguard letters in tbe Pilot newspaper , den' uncing' Young Ireland , ' fcouwring tbe _government on the dubs , and telling bis ' __* -ar countrymen' that he will eome to Dublin in a few day ? , and that he w ' vl re open the old _Markethotis ? on Burgh Q , nay , for political traffic and monster ' _thimble-rigging , ' early in August . But we - » £ _ bim _ti play tbe old _gamesgain . ' Oh , co , ' my dear son John , ' itis all up with you ! Your occupation is _sone , and , whatever may be the fate of' Young Ireland . ' your influence and political character is - rn ? b „ for ever .

      Fearga _* O'Connor has oHce more earned the eternal _blessine _. of Ireland . His gallant stand against Lord _John _' 8 * S _ _peniion' notice in the Commons , * f ii fi 1 a bright page in the weary history of our unfortunate country . And yet , Mr O'Connor was once . inted at by the Conciliation Hall swindlers , a 3 an enemy to Ireland , and a dangerous member ot _society . He was certainly a _« da-gerons' member in any society where the _O'Connells wonld rule the resort- , but every day pr oves that Ireland has no wa mier friend , no more faithful advocate , than the brave descendant ofthe brave O'Connors .

      I _regret ta tay that , daring the last few days , the crop , have suffered much trom bad weather , and the fatal potato tuh _ t has made its appearance in many < ii-trictB of _ 9 country .

      J !D Tc Nit To Who Opposit Liverpool Jul...

      July 39 . _J _848 THE NORTHERN STAR __^__ S _0 _^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ' ——————— _¦•_ ¦ _^ a * 8 * ,, _^ _" * _^ _MM _ -C-B- _—M-- _^ -. _—r—^ /

      Test Cf Hifccs-Ist—Much Talk About Relig...

      Test cf _Hifccs-ist—Much talk about religion is * sure sign of ita absence . We seldom talk much about what we have ; we are apt to talk a great deal about what we want . A rich mzn never talks so _ttnch about money as a pcor man , nor an honest Qsn so much about honesty as s rogue doe ? . Th . value of fowls consumed in London alone ia _etli-aakd to b « about _S 1 W . WH ) annually _.

      Excitement In Liverpool. In Cons.Queues ...

      EXCITEMENT IN _LIVERPOOL . In cons . queues of information to the " effect that several thousand men , sympathisers with the Irish Repealers , ware armed in Liverpool , waiting for the opportunity ofa rising in Ireland , to burn and destroy all they could , the mayor , magistrates , aldermen , and councillors of the sixteen wards issued circular ? , of which the following is a copy , to all the respectable and peaceable inhabitants : — Liverpool , July 22 ad , 1818 . Sir , —We earnestly b _. g of you to attend a meeting of some of tbe inhabitants of this ward thiB day at the Adelphi Hotel , ot half-past _seveB o ' clock _precisely . Considerations of no ordinary importance oblige us to _nnje jour attendance , which , be assured , rre should not venture to do so strongly , were It not a matter of imperative n . c 2 __ gity , a necessity the msglstratcs are n _^ w & . tlng npon , and which they expect us and you to aid them in preparing for . " " —

      In obedience to the wish conveyed in the circular , meetin . a of a mest _eatisfactory character took place , and every possible preparation was made for any emergency which might arise . A large number of troops have arrived in Liverpool , and were to be seen in every direction on Saturday . The fyllowiEg is from the Liverpool Albion of Monday . ' It ia a matter of notoriety that , since the agitation for the repeal of the union assumed its physical force aspect , aimed confedeiale clubB bave been in course of formation in Liverpool , for the purpose ol raising here , when evenc _. in Ireland might render it a service to detain the military in this country , a sympathetic rebellion . The language , as our readers have been aware , employed at the recent meetings of Cbartists and Confederates in this town , has been of the most exciting character , one of { the _. peakera

      remarking that the first blood shea by the rovernment in Ireland should be the Bignal for the rising ofthe Confederates in tbis town , andthe burning ofthe Babylon of England , ' aB Liverpool wa 3 complimentarily called . Under the advice of mischievous leaders , it is stated that upwards ot fifty clubs , of 100 men each , have been organised here , and arms of various descriptions , from the rude pike and cutlass to the more co 3 tly rifle , have bsen openly sold to the disaffected . The magistrates are , we believe , in full possession of the proceedings of these disaffected coteries , snd are quite aware of their most secret _molves . Speoial _coEstableg to the number of 4 , 000 have teen sworn in within the last month ; hut from the threatening aspect of af _ _irs in Ireland at present , and information which has come to hand , the magistrates have felt it their duty to ta . -till more vigorous and _jextraordinary measures for the preservation of the peace of the town .

      A military camp is to be formed at Everton ; is is to be pitefced in a field opposite to _Waterhonse-lane , and tbe 9 : h Regiment of Infantry , 1 , 000 strong , with a body of Dragoons and a brigade of Artillery arrived on Saturday to occupy it . The _prlice , who forthe last few days have been trained to tbe use , of tba musket , in addition to the swrrd _erercise , appear to relish the task , and have attained , i _: is said , a surprising efficiency for so short s . tiae . For some time a body of 500 military have been stationed here ; the pensioner ., a most efficient corps

      _ofTOOmes , also hold themselves in readiness . The additional soldiery who have alrf ady arrived are , the entire regiment , with the exception of one company , of the 9 : h Infantry , three companies of the 81 . tinfantry , and three or four troops of the 4 th Royal Irish Dragoons . A brigade of artillery has also arrived from Chester ; and we understand _thatan-ffi-Oial _eo-araunicaiion wss yesterday ( Sunday ) received that another body of 1 , 000 men ( the regiment is not mentioned ) will arrive here by rail in three companies , dieect frem London , in the course- ot the day .

      About three o'clock on Saturday afternoon a petition io the Honse of _Cemmocs , emanating from the recently formed Constitntional Association here , praying for an extension of Lord John Russdrs measure for suspending the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland to Liverpool was laid upon the iaile in the Exchange _, rooms . It was headed by the Earl of Sefton , signed also by the mayor , Mr Rushton , and all the magistrates , and received nearly 400 signatures in the c ' uur _ e of an hour . Two arrests were made on Saturday , those of two men charged with having illegal weapons in their possession . One of these , a man named Cuddie , was stopped in lhe street with a bag full of formidable _pikeheads in his _posees-ion . Last night the various clubs in town had private meetings . The ' John Mitchel' Club also met at Birkenhead , with closed _doore . _PBCGKESS OF P . LIT 1 CAL _EXCITESIEKI AT L 1 VEBPO 0 L .

      ( From the Mor ning Chronicle . ) ARBEST CF PI __ _. VE 5 D * -K 3 . Tuesday . — From the great preparations which are going forward on the part of the Mayor and magistrates of Liverpool , it ia evident that they labour nnder the apprehension of an outbreak , sbould the ' Confederate Club 3 ' dare to resist the tremendous power with which the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has just been armed . _Accordingly , special constables continue to be sworn in ; but as the inhabitants have but little taste for facing pikes , great number ? cf extra police are being appointed . Plenty of recruits for thia _busiress nre coming forward , and they di .-play the most laudable z . al for ' preserving the peace . ' The military , of whom there are now upwards of 2 , 000 in Liverpool , are about to encamp at Everton , so that they can command the town from that eminence .

      _Thepolica ara not only drilled to the use of the sword , bnt have had musket , placed in their hands , and _altheogh they are not yet by any means as crack shots as Kentucky men , still report speaks very favourably of their progress in the manual and platoon exercise . Several arrests have taken place of persons carrying pikes . Last night a man was captured in Hunt street who was carrying a bag containing pikes , bayone' _., cutlasseB , and _pietolB . He w _ taken to Bridewell and lodged tbere . The pris oners were examined before the magistrates today , a nd remanded . Two privates of the S 9 th were arrested last sight for _ahouting for Repeal in the streets . They were lodged in Bridewell . A portion of the 89 th sail for Ireland this afternoon . ( From tbe Liverpool Mercury of ' Tuesday . )

      The regular police fores , nnder the airection of Mr Bowling and his officers , numbers 800 . These , by direction t > f the Secretary of State , have been lately regularly drilled to tbe use of the carbine and the sword , and they already display great proficiency in their new duties . Annoyed and fatigued by extra drill and extra duty , tbey have arrived at that state of mind when they will prove very formidable opponents , if once let loose upon a rebellious mob . Their hearts arc in their work , and they seem determined , at all hazard ? , to protect the peace of the tewn , and the safety of the uneff . _nding and orderly inhabitas _... The force is to _ increased to the extent of 500 , and Mr Dowling was occupied the greater part ot _yesterday in examining applicants for the situation .

      ThB list is rapidly filling np , aad considering the number of able-bodied men who are applying , the full compiement of 1 , 300 will , in all likelihood , be completed ts day . The corps of pensioners , numbering 700 men , have had directions to hold themselves in read ness ; and those who know anything of Liverpool , and the peaceable natore generally of its inhabitant ., will be inclined to think that snch a force would be sufficient to quell any riot which might take place here , but the magistrates have determined to be on the safe aide . They have applied to governmenti . nd the _head-quartera ef the north _. _we _. tern military district have been removed to this town . General Sir William _Warre and his staff of officers have taken up their residence here , and there is a rumour that permanent barracks are abont to be erected in Everton . There are at present in

      Liverpod the _fallowing troops . - —The 9 _ Regiment two companies ofthe Slst Reeiraent , the _ ; h Regiment , a company of the COth Rifles , a squadron of tbe 4 th Dragoon Guards , a brigade of Artillery , and yesterday , the 60 th Regiment arrived , the total number in town being about 2 , 000 . These are dispoed in various parts of the borough , so as to be brought ont immediately should thtir services be requited . The warehouses of Mr Molyneux , _Sefton-street , Seelstreet police-station , the North Corporatien Schools , and Lucas ' s Repository have been temporarily appropriated to the use of the treopB . Two additional pieces of artillery have arrived here for use , the four pieces belonging to the town have been ordered tt He mounted , and it is _knawn that upwards of two thou sand stand of arms have been « ent here by government , with the necessary ammunition .

      It is intended , we believe , to erect a camp for a portion of theBoldiers in a field opposite Waterh _. us _. lane , Everton . We were informed that the materials arrived yesterday , bat np to ten o ' clock last night nothing had been done towards the formation of the camp . Of special constables , somewhere ab . nt 20000 have been Bworn in in the several wards . Steps have also beea taken to organise the corps and appoint leaden * . A place of rendezvous has been taken in each ward , and there a gnard i 3 placed night and day , to give the alaim , Bhould the necessity for so doing arise . About 1 , 000 men belonging to tbe dock works have been sworn ini and amply provided wiih formidable weapons , and all the pnblio buildings in the town are guarded day and night .

      Bibkenhbad . —Birkenhead , following the example of Liverpool , has set its shoulder to the wheel , in making preparations for any outbreak which may occur in the present unsettled state of aff _ irs . A recommendation having bean sent to the magistrates , signed by many of the most __ _-e 3 r __ Uble inhabitant ! , urging upon them the necessity of sitting for the purpose of swearing ef epecial constables , Mr Harden , Mr Shaw . Mr J . S . Jackson , and Colonel Glegg attended yesterday at the Police Court for that purpose , when upwards of 300 of the inhabitant * were sworn is , and the awaber yet to be swora in ii abcut

      The Suspension Of Habeas Corpus (Ireland...

      THE SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS ( IRELAND ) . This measure , which passed the legislature -ince Saturday , and which receiving the roval assent became law yesterd ay , is entitled < An act to empower the Lord Lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland to apprehend and detain until the 1 st March . 1849 , such persons as he shall suspect of conspiring against her Majesty ' s

      person and government . ' The first clause enacts that every person who may now be in prison by virtue of warrant issued by the Lord Lieutenant , or by the Irish Privy Council , on suspicion of high treason or treasonable practices , shall be detained in custody without bail or mainprise until 1 st March , 1849 . The second clause , after empowering the keepers of all gaols in which prisoners for treason shall be confined to detain them as aforesaid ,

      provides that thev shnll r , ni « _t , _ . r - _ _vides tnat they shall only be removed from one place of safe custody to another by warrant from the Lord Lieutenant , __ . The third clause orders that copies of all warrants be transmitted to the clerk of the crown at Dublin

      Meeting Of The Confederate Clubs In Manc...

      MEETING OF THE CONFEDERATE CLUBS IN MANCHESTER . Tuesday _EvsMNo . -The members of tbe several _Confederate Clubs met to-night in their respective club rooms , and proceed ed thence , about nine o ' olock . in mhtary order , to a large space of _vacant ground _aoj . nwg the new Roman Catholio Chapel on the _Oheetham Hill-road . The number present was very great . No _speeeh was delivered , but three cheer _, were given for « the cause , ' immediatel y after which the assembly dispersed .

      To The People Of Britain. Fellow Cocntrt...

      TO THE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN . Fellow _Cocntrtmen—You are now put in possession of the fact that the authorities of this borough ( _Ashton-under-Lyne ) have thought proper to issue a warrant for the arrest of Dr M'Douall . It is time we all exclaimed together , Alas , poor country , almost afraid to know thyself I because if warrants can be issued , men arrested , upon the evidence of _yolice spies , acd committed to _prisen , for speaking about twenty minutes from an hotel window ; and that evidence partly made , after the meeting was over , and the most unconnected stuff ever delivered in a c . urt of justice ; then do we say that there is as much liberty in _Eogbnd as there is in Russia . There i . this _difference between Russia

      and here ; there they d _* al with them summarily , but here we are insulted wiih tbe _meckery ef an examination before poor old Datne-Durden liberal magistrates , who are frightened at their own shadows , and would go into hysterics at tbe 8 _'_ nd of a pop . gun—then we are gent to trhl b _& _fora partisan judges and bigoted jaries—found cutlty . sentenced to imprisonment , and the premier , the attorceygenerah the hangers-on of government , and aU the short-sighted of the land , proclaim the _startlin _" truth , ' That the majesty of the law has been vindicated , the designing selfish demagogues put down , and peace and tranquillity restored V Humbug extraordinary . M'Douall has been committed on three distinct charges , viz .: attending an unlawful

      assembly , Bedition , and riot ; and we have seen and heard ono of the ' noble' lords who co „_ itie _ him , _spessk at as riotous , tumultuous , and s _. ditious . an assembly as that for which he committed M'Douall . Bui tbat was in ths days of ' rampant , tyrannical _^ Toryism . ' The noble lord ' above went scot free , and it remained for us , in _thete days of Whig liberality , to witness the damning spectacle , of a professional genikmati , educated at one of the fir _. t colleges in the world , committed to priaon for addressing the inhabitants of Asht _ from a window . This meeting was unquestionably one of the most peaceable and orderly meetings ever held in England . Oh shame ! where is thy blush ? Oh bigotry ! where is thy conscience ?

      However , men asd women of Ashton , SO it v , M'Douall , upon the _patched-up—made up—dovetailed evidence of four policemeu , has been _com-nitted to take his trial at Liverpool , in three weeks from now , , When he came amongst you , he had a good freehold property in Scotland , a profession and practice whicii realised him several hundred pounds annually—besides a large sum of accumulated money iu the _batk ; all ot which has been spent long ago in the advocacy of tha right of the people to get a good living for moderate labour , and the _universal right of the people of tbese realms to be enfranchised , and enjoy the great principle of ' Equal rights and equal laws . ' Now that his all bas been spent , and another attack about to ba made on his liberty , shall we desert him ? No , never , never , never !

      Let us then realise a defence fund , and make the same generous sacrifices for him that he has made for us . Plenty of evidence can be produced on the trial to disprove many of the statements made and sworn to by those who swore _agaii et him ; but never forget that it cannot be done without money to pay the expen 3 es of those parties going to Liverpool . Fly , then , to the rescue of one of , Britain's best and bravest _sonB , and by your united energy your collections may be of such a cast that _evenshou'd a jury be fonnd base enough to _csnvict him , he will not have to add to it the mortifying fact—he must exist on prison fare ; and his wife and three little ones uader seven years of age suffer not only his want , but want also the common necessaries of life .

      A committee has been formed to receive subscriptions for the defence , and we hope that warm , generous , and enthusiastic feeling displayed daring hia detention , examination and release from the Town Hall will not die away , till he is again himself as free as be wishes to see the whole human family . William Aitken , Treasurer , to whom all sub > _criptions must be taken . The Committee will meet in the _Chaitist room , on Saturday evenings , from seven till nine o ' c ' o . k . P . S . On inquiry we find that there is not a Binele

      tittle of truth in fhe rumour , in reference to Mr Mostyn , as he declares his feelings and _sympathies are witb Dr M'Douall , and that he would _suff . r death in auy shape sooner than become tbe hireling ef a _government or any set of men who seek to stab Hberty , and injure the fearless and honest advocates of holy freedom . We deeply lament tbat any rumour shonld get abroad injurious to the cbaracter of an _honett man , and we believe Mr Mostyn so to be , We hope thia short arpeal will remove any wrong impressions made on tbe naiads of the people , and tha Mr Mostyn will receive that respect he is entitled to .

      I\Qwbst. » .—Monday.—Alleged Mtmdeb.— Be...

      I \ qwbst . » . —Monday . —Alleged MtmDEB . — Before Mr H . Baker , at the Royal Mason , Poplar , respecting tbe death of John _Dohatty , aged nineteen , a ballast-getter , in the employ of the Trinity-house Corpsracion , who was _alleged to have been forced into the river by George Green . On Monday , the 17 th instant , the deceased with his parents went to Blaekwall to witness a rowing matcb . They proceeded in a boat to a ballast-barge , belonging to the Trinity-house , lying -ff the East and West India Docks- The boat was made fast to the barge , aad ths deceased and hia sister went on board , leaving their parents in the boat . The deceased went along the gunwale of the barge . Green was sitting upon the washboards , and on the deceased attempting to ren-ove them to form seats . Green desired hira to leave them alone , eaying that he did not belong to tbe barge . The deceased replied that he waa in the service of tho _Trinity-houae , and that he had a right

      ta fee on board . An altercation then ensued be tween them , and Green offered _toflghtthe deceased , who refused , when Green struck him a violent blow , and he fell backwards into the river , and was drowned . The body was not recovered until the following Friday . —Mary Ann D _ arty stated positively that Green was the man who struck the deceased . —Another witness corrobnrated her evidence . —Mr Pelbam , who appeared on behalf oftheac cuBQ . Baid he had several witnesses who would prove that George Green was not the _peraon , but his brother William , who so nearly rtsemblea tho accused that in the absence of the one the other would be taken for him . Mr _Ballantine . the magistrate , had remanded George Green until this day , for the purpose of having tne prisoner ' s brother apprehended and brought before him . —The Coroner said it would be better lo have both brothers placed _together , and the inquiry was adjourned nntil Wednesday next .

      Magisterial Ttrakny towards a Special Constable —Loughborough . —It will be remembered that < m Mr O'Connor ' s visit to thia town on Whit-Wednesday Ja _ , the meeting was prohibited by the authorities , and that Yeomanry Cavalry , police , and op _ ial constables were in great requisition . A Mr _William Harris , a special constable , after having been on duty all the dav , was disgusted at night on seeing a number of the ' _special intoxiocted ; and judging from the quiet state of the town that his services were not Ifkely to be wanted by the inhabitants , went home . For this he was summoned before the magistrates , and fined £ 5 and _o-sts , or in default to be committed to prison for one monthwith hard labour . The

      sen-, tence was , however , commuted to a fine of £ 1 and cests , or fourteen days' imprisonment , which imprisonment he served rather tban pay tbe fine . A public meeting of the inhabitants was held on Wednesday week , July 19 _sh , in the Marketp ' ace , ta memorialise Sir 6 . Grey to dismiss the magistrates , and en the same day the term of Mr Harris's _imprisonmept expired . A number ofthe inhabitants met him at _$ he railway station on his return from prison , and escorted him to the Wheat Sheaf Ian , when Mr Skevingtoa add . * s _* ed the meeting - and after having given three cheere for the Charter , and three for the victimise- - special , Mr Harris returned thanks , and the meeting _separatad .

      _Loxd Stanley is the steward of the Jockey Club , in the place of Lord George Bentinck . Chikb sb Insects . —A vessel arrived in the river ; f _ ra _Casfe-a has brought the somewhat remarkable importation of 140 , 000 , _ChiacEe _iaseota , for the pur-DC 4 . Of _MtW-O . Lltt _l-

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      SATTJRDAY , Jolt 22 . - Tha f _. oii-0 of Lords met at four o ' clock for the purpose of hearing tho royal _ass _. at given by _comais-toa to 3 _grsat number of bills , HOUSE OP COMMONS . —Tbis houso alio mit specially at twelve o ' clock for lhe purpose of SUSPENDING THE CONSTITUTION IN IRELAND . Lord J . Ru __; £ X- In rising to movo tbis bill of wbich he had giv . n notice , to empower tha Lo _ . Lieu . t _ an ., or other chief governor or governors of Ireland , to apprehend and detain until the 1 st of _March , 18 . 9 , such persons as he or tboy shall suspect of conspiring against her Mije . _ty ' - _persoD and government . ' The noblo lord said , —I nover f . lt so deep a concern in bringing any

      question before the house as that which I now feel in proposing to tho house te suspend for a limited time the constitutional liberties cf Ireland . I feel , however , at tbe same time , that the measure I am about to propose Is neee _. sary for the preservation of life and property lu Ireland—that it is _nioa-sary for the purpose of prevent _, ing bloodshed— . that itis _neceB . ary to stop tnlnoiplent iasurrection ;—and tbat it is eminently colled for In respect to the safety ofthe British empire . ( Cbeers . ) With this _cosviction In my mind , therefore , I Bhall proceed without any further _prefsoe or apology to state to tbe house the grounds upon which I rest tbe proposition I am about to propose . It appears to me , Sir , that it is absolutely necessary I should prove threo tbini _. as tho grounds of my proposition . Oae Is , thai

      the present state of things in Irela- d is fraught with evil , tbat it threatens danger , and that vro are on the eve of an outbreak if It ts not rimaly prevented . ( Hear , hear . ) The second is , that there ore means sufficient to pro _. _ucigreat injury end great danger unloaBBomo measure is adopted to avoid them . And tbe third is , tbat the measure whieh I shall have the honour ( o propose is that remedy which appears moBt appropriate In tho preeont calamitous state of Ireland . ( Har . ) With respect to lhe first of these propositions—with _respsct tothe pre . sent state of Ireland—I donotproposo to ri-tmy case on any _secret information , on any grounds known solely fo the government of thiB country or ef Ireland—npon any Information which may rest upon doubtful or uncertain evidence as regardB tbe accomplices fn the

      proposed rebellion , —I propose to rest my oase upon facts whieh are patent , notorious , and flagrant . ( Cheers . ) This _heuse Is aware that a good number of years ago . after the passing of the Emancipation Act in 1829 , there were formed various associations in Ireland succeeding one another , under the direction ofthe iato Mr O'Connell , for the promotion of the repeal of tho legislative unio n . Tho house is likewise a wore that while in those associations , and la the meetings—the most numerous roeetingB—which took place on some _occieions _, for tbo purpose of promoting this repeal , tho moBt exciting language was used , while there was evory appearance that that language might lead to In _. urrecllon , there waa on thep-rt of the leader of that agitation a fr . quint and emphatic declaration that , in his opinion , no

      political _objaet was worth one single drop of blood , and that It was only by the force of demonstrations , bythe force of the collection of great _numberc , by uniting nil the people of Ireland in one exhibition of feeling—that their object , of the repeal of the anion , was to be accomplished . I ' am not making any commeut on theso pro . ceedlnga . I am not _saylag whether they were lawful , whether thpy were wise , or whether they were just . I _a _ only recalling to the recollection of the house facte which are already known . Toward-tha _ d , how _. _va _* , of that course of agitation , and _likewise towardB the esd of the life of Mr _O'Connell , thtre broke away from the old Repeal Association a new party , which took a course _different both In Its objects nnd tho means by which th « 7 proposed to eff _.-. ot those _objects . The object which Mr

      O'Connell and tbe Repeal Association had held out to tho _pjoplo of Ireland was , that the Act of Union might be repealed—that a Parliament might sit in Ireland , _constituted of Lords and Commons , and thot , as a Parliament had sat in Ireland from 1782 to 1800 , bo , likewise , bythe repeal of tho union , another Parliament ml _. ht be revived to legislate for Ireland . Thay also declared that they desired to attain that _objoot only by peaceful agitation , The new confa _. eracy , by what _. ver name tbey were called , beU forth their object at first _somewhnt covertly and ambiguously , but more openly as thsy proc-eded—altho _ n I think it was Quito evident to any one who examined thetr language from the beginning , that their object waa a total separation of Ireland from the

      dominions ofthe Cr . n . ( Hear , hear . ) Tbey held , on certain lax condition ., a sort of _ftlleglutteO to the & HV 6 . r . _lita of this country , but their object evidently waa that tbey should be to : _cliy Independent , and that no counsels ofthe Sovereign of thh country were at all to _efifoct tho _course othgis l ation or administration in Ireland . ( _Ui-ar , bear . ) Tbey pointed clearly , ns I think , to the ' _separation ofthe two n-lion ? , and tothe _iadepandence of Ire land under noma other form of government ; for , wha t _, evar might be thought—whatever I for one might think of tho proposal _' _. of the-repeal of the _le-jlolatlvo union , _ts » tending to a di-memberm . at of tbe empire , tbat was a matter of reasoning , of argument , and of proof—tbe separation which those persons contended for _wob ob _vions in tho face of their proceedings and proposals .

      ( Bear , hear . ) Likewise as to the mc _ _s by which they proposed to effect taeir object—those means , from thc b ginning were distinguished by tha application of the term ' physical force , ' as opposed to ' moral farce , ' which designated the mode of operation by the old _Repaalers . By tho term ' physical force , ' they _intended no less than r-bell ' ou ' against the Crown of this kingdom . ( Hear , ) They thought by m-ani of rebellion , if successful , to establish tho _separate Kovernment at which they aimed . Whatever might b _. the thin disguise assumed at first as to their objeet , or as to the want of power of _earrj _ g it into _effect , a great change has bean produced by the er _ _ts which have takea p lace within the last f _. w months . The misfortune which fell npon Ireland of tbe bliKht in tha potato crop , and the consequent went of

      _fa _ bs million , of her peopio—the _imptrt . _oilons which naturally bilong to any plan of endeavouring by artificial means to feed those who aro deprived of their ordinary subsistence—afforded -. 0 those who were looking to the separation of _Irtlahd from tbis country tho moans of furthering their objects , ard of exciting the passions of ths people agoinst this country . Bs It observed ttat , as far as I know , they never did onythlngto _assuage that oalamlty . ( Loud _cr-Ias of » Hear . ') While £ 8 , 000 , 00-were lavishly prmred into Ireland by tbe vote of this h iust' while £ 400 , 000 were centributed by tho voluntary assistance of thoso In this country and Scotland , who could uot bear to seo their _follow-croatures perishing —all that was contribated by then ? p _. _rties were seditious harangues , _Indammatory appeals to the passions ot the

      _people , audeod . _avo < VB to misrepresent the _motiros nnd -mount of the contributions of this country . ( Cheers ) When Ireland waa In some degree , and but very slowly , recovering irom this great calamity—wheu t '> o . vile _conspqu _. nt upon it , _blthougk atlll very .. vera . wer _. some what _mltigat-. d , there occurred an event In a neighbouring country , which bas been productive ef _encouragement to all who wish the overthrow of our institutions ; to all who wish to _promote r « b _j _! lion ; to all who believe that the Throne and authority of this empire ean be overthrown by revolt—1 allude to the event which occurred in France In the month of February last . Wo cannot forget , that _immediately upon that event a deputation wbb sent over to Paris , comprising _amongBt ltBnum . _era a member of this house , ( loud cries of' hear , hoar , ' ) with

      the v 0 * of asking assistance frora a country which had just Bet tho examplo of revolution ; with the view of asking their assistance ogainBt the authority of this country . The attempt was unsuccessful . The government of that country , allheugh sprung out of a revolution , felt that Its duties towards _Hul _^ _hb-iurlng countries were paramount , and refused to lend its Bid to tl : e r designs . ( Londcheers . ) Their projcctB , however , wenl on , ond there was little or no _-legutBo any further attempted as to what they really intended . Wo may all _remember thst n newspaper wbb sot up , called tht United Ibi bm _. _u , to whose _arguments I will net o _. ll the _attention of this house with any view to the author of tho * rtlcleR , _because he is now _suffering tho pen . lty ot tho _offenea which ho _commits d ( hear , beat ); but I call

      the attention of ihe house to thi hot , becauso tho sympathy which bas been exhibited towards him by this p- rty In Ireland shows that _thc-y identify themselves witb ttio sentiments which were _expressed by the author of those _artichs , ond which were found in Ireland to be articles tending to the overthrow of the government oi the country , and to tho deposition of the Queen from hvr crown and dignity , ( Hear . ) It is notorious that every kind of sympathy hai beon shown , and that every sort of indignation has been _espreonod that a person who had avowed such sentiments should have been punished . It has bsen declared tbat hc is one of the best patriots in Ireland , and that so far from deserving punishment he m 9 _rted reward . Otberp _. p ' . _rs wore _subflfquentlj g . t up whicb followed in tbo same steps and I now hold in .

      band a newspaper called tho Ikisu Felon , and so culler , because tbat Individual waB convicted of a felony ; I wiBb to read a passage from the writings of one person , a contr ibutor to that paper , who elgnB himse : f 'James F . Lalor , ' In which I think will be found the general spirit of the _aentlmeatfl which have boen expressed by these C _onfatleraYf-8 . The _writtr flays : —* We bold the present existing gorernment of this Island , end all existing rights of property _ •? our sol 1 , to be mere usurpation nnd tyranny , and to be null and void , as of moral effect ; ond _ourpurpjBe Is to abolish them utterly , or lose cur lives in the attempt . Tno right found .- on conquest , « n . affirmed by laws m _ o by the oonqueror . themselves , we _rigiird as no other than tho right cf a robber on a larger scale . Wo owa no _obidienco to laws enacted bj _another nation vtiibont our _iisaent , nor _rearec : to an . _aumed Tights of _property which nro _starving and exter

      nol . _atlog our peopio . The pr sent salvation ond future _seourlty of this country require that the English government should at once bo abolished , and tbe English _garri-Aon of _laaulords instantly _oapelled . ' Ho goes ou to st ate the means by which this is to be done : — ' We advise , ' he says , * tho people to . organise and a _. m at once in thoir own defehee . Wo _mean te assist them and to set an _erample by organi-lng and _armlssg _ourselvflfl . ' ( Loud cries of ' Hoar , ha-r . ' ) Now , sir , I do think that la these extracts ia . _sont-iasd , ia a -aw words , a true description of tho object of thit eon . pl . acy , and of the means by which tbat objoot Is to bo effected . It is declared at onee- ,. first , thai the Imperial _Government—not the English ( 7 . _ovem-. 8 ut , but the government which _repreaen-s B _' _aglands Scotland , and Ire land—Is to be _utttuly a . _llshsd - It proposes to take away from tha 0 _ - _ De _ . aU authority over Ireland . It pronoflW , atthe 8 NB _* t _ a > ' t & nil . » _fc n * _ww t . rights of

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      prop . rty _ . save _Ind . _^ d , , taere j- nTe T n ° Y " " 9 ptCt t 0 lh 0 _" _" ° Bhall break ti _ r oaths of allegiance and join in a _rebellion Bat wt h respect to the great body of those who hold _prcperS I .-land however _acqu :.. , ' _ d however held th . threat is that they are to b . deprived of it , and those lights of pr party are to bo utterly a-oiisUe-. ( Hear , hta- ) Iis proposed that tbo meani lor _-ff-cting ' thin object 8 OUld bo by the people _arming _tlemse . Tt ., f . nd b . ing thus ready to encoanter any force which the authorities may have at their dispoB _. l . Another article , wri _' len more recently , appeared io the Nation of July _t'if 3 rd of which I will state thc _goncjal purport . Tiie _ar'iclo is headed ' The Value of aa Irish Uarvc . t ; ' und it _states that there is no wgrowin _^ on the Irish i so il about £ S 9 , 000 , 000 worth of produce , and that it will be _fcr the Irish

      League _censfating of a CoupcII of Three Hundred , cr tush other government as may be appointed , to consider ia what manner thot produce ishall bo app-rtlr . nedwbat portion of it may be given as an indemnity to those who now hold rlghta of property in that country ; what portion of it _ ould be given to encourage _indusiry end manufactures in Ireland ; and what _pr-rtlon of It may be necessary for the purposes of government ; but _evidently intending that none of the existing rlgb to of property shall be acknowledged , but that tho whole of thc produce of the Irish soil shall , by one sweeping act of _confiaca . tloo , be held by and bo at tho disposal of _theae _master _. of what tho French have called the ' Rod Republic 'men who have do regard whatever to any of the existing rules of our social state , or to any of _thoie purposes for whioh society has been founded and Ib kept to _/

      eihrrbut men who give to the _oiind and tbe appetite of those who are without property or character themselves a vision that the whola of that produce whioh has been tho fruit of _regular industry , whieh has been th . _fruh of tke _in-Btitutiona of society , whioh has been tho ftuitof proprty guarded and of right , enforced by tho _* o _inotltu : lons , sball by one desolating measuro be distributed _nsfordln _* to the will and arbitrament of the rulers of that a public . ( LOUd CheorB . ) I think I need not quote further to prove this fact . But thera is ono document more to whioh I will refer in regard to the objects of those . Con foderates , because those Objocts ore eet forth in it evi dently for tho purpose of _qulotlog alarm . I ul ude to the resolutions _psssod at a meeting held in Dublin on tho night of Saturiny _Ju _' y 15 ] 1818 . It has boen _ntated in Ireland , and by none moro _earntstlythan by _th-j R _> -

      man Catholic _ckr _^ y , that if such a _Confederation as bus bben formed should succeed in _iUpngre _. B . thero wou ! d be an end to all respect for religion , and to all regard for what men have hitherto held sacred , and thatthe rule of brute force would ba established . In order to provent tho alarm whioh the doctrines held by these Confederates have naturally txiitod , thero was a _meetlTg of tho officers of what are called the Dublin Clubs held oh Saturday ni _f ht , July 15 , at which Mr John B . Dlllou , described as the p * t , _ l _ t of tho _Curron Club , took the chair . At that meeting the following resolutions were moved by Mr William 8 . O ' Brien , M P ., seconded by Mr Richard _O'Goroinn , _pre-Bid-. at of tho Oliver Bond Club , and adopttd _nnnnimously : ' That the Systematic ( fl ' orts made by nriter »|' in the p . ofthe British eovernment to cause it to be believed that

      tho repeal clubB of _Ireland are organised for purposes of pillage and massacre , and for the overthrow of religion and _social order , render it expedient that we should du . fino the real objects of tho club organisation ; ba it therefore resolved and declared : —That the purposes and end of our organisation are the overthrow ofthe pow > r of the British legislation in this island . —That while we aro firmly resolved to abstain , in our political capacity , from an / _interference in matters of a religious or see . tarian character , wo are not the 1 * 88 desirous that religion should be upheld and tbe legitimate influence of Its ministers maintained in its integrity , —That so far from desiring to _ovtrtbrow social order , and to _subject nur coun ' ry to universal anarchy , our first anxl ty b _» 9 been , and is , to secure the legislative independence of our country with tho least possible I _ ury to any elass of

      ita _lahabltante ; and in the _accomplishment of these our designs wo hop . to put an end for ever to the sufferings and the disorders which h _.- . ve never ceased to tffllct our people under tho away of Britain . ' The houso will see in this disclaimer that they meant to _associate for purposes of pillage And massacre ; that tbey do not _disguiao that tbeir ohjeot Is not to obtain a repeal of tha union , but to overthrow altogether the sway of the government which tbey are bound to obey —( hear , hear );—and that nothing less than the dismemberment of tbo empire would satiefy their wishes and aspirations . ( Sear , hear . ) So much then , I think , from their own confession , may be taken as to what is their _object . Vou may believe

      with me or not , tbat in tbe accomplishment of that object tbey would necessarily overthrow the _ewoyofreli gion , and the _cxlstenco of property as it is now held in _Treland ; but this you must believe , that it is a traitorous conspiracy intended to overthrow the government of tbe united kingdom , snd to put eome new national au tborlty , republican or otherwise , in its place , which is hercafttrto rule Ireland as a separate country . ( Hear , hear . ) Tbat I say lo the least—rating their _oVjects as you will—that is the smallest end to which yeu c & u believe them to aspire , ( Loud cheers ) I come now , sir , to that wbich I have stated would be the second propoBU tion which I Bhould have to submit to tho

      housenamely , that there are formidable moans preparing inten _. ied to produce robellion , and which are only too likely to end in rebellion , against tbo authorities which now exist . Sir , although thero may be projects of the most if- _jurlous and of the most mischievous character , yet If these projects are on tertaiued bya few persons onlyif they aro entertained by eome obscure club or insiguifi cant association , euch is tbe free _constitution of tbe _government of this country , which permits every kind of opinion to bo expressed , it would be felt tbat we should be sacrificing tho greater to the less If wo were to interfere by means of a _ extraordinary law to crush an evil which was in itself small in amount , and which was not to bo compared to tho general advantage ond good arising from " -be perfect liberty cf opinion which every man in this country has a right to enjoy . But , although I believed f . ra time such was tbe nature of theso projects , and although I hid hoped th _ . t Buch would have continued to bo the case , yet I am sorry to . say that all the accounts that we have received frem Ireland have tended

      to the conclusion that tho organisation proposed by the io Confederates Is formidable , that it Ib rapidly _extending , and that In somo parts of tfee country they and tbe persons associated with theso Confederates , are already ripe for rebellion . After tho law was passed by thia house , _flomewhera about the month of April , whieh gave tho power of bringing before a court of justice for f lony persons who were _conspiring to depose the Sovereign , or to levy war against the Sovereign , and by which law a great check was plaoed upon the _declgns ot conspirators in Ireland , a confederation was formed in the organisation of elubB , and It was determined to send rriUBlo _. B . _ies Into the country with a view of persuading persons In tbe great towns , nnd e en in small towns and villages , to adopt a _oimilar _organUation , For a time those effrts did not succeed . Tho accounts we received

      from the _Lofd-D . euteuant ot ... Und tended to Induce ub to believe that that organisation weuld not become Immediately formidable . But very soon those accounts changed their character , and both the Lord-Lieutenant and the Lord Chancellor of Ireland , founding themselves upon wbat they saw in Dublin and upon tbe accounts _received from the country , pronounced that the confederacy of clubs was becoming organised , numerous and formidable . It Is , however _cntifly within the last month tbat these proceedings have assumed the character which I am about to detail to tbe house , In the _fi'et place I will refer to a private letter which Lord _Cliarendon directed to my right hon . friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department , in the beginning of this month , in respect to the then date of things . Ho 9 tated tV . at' A decision need not be Imm . diately come to

      bj her Majesty ' s _govtrnment ; but I am afraid that before the Parliament is prorogued the government will hive to determine whether they sball ask for greater powers trom parliament or permit the organisation for an immediate civil war t _» remain _nnmelested , ' Tho acoennts received through the _constnbulary reports , at the same time , from different parts of Ireland were of an _equally formidable churaet _. r . On the 3 rd of July the following account waa received from Tipperary : — 'There have been five confederate clubs formed at _C-rrick-on-Suir ; they bave about 600 _mombora in nil . No persons bu ; members nr _» _admltied to their _mootiugs . Their obj ; ct seems to be to ascertain tbeir Btreng _* h in cased insurrection . ' On the 5 h of July the following account was reoetvod from Meath : — ' A meeting to form a Repeal Club was held at Trim on the 2 nd inst , Messrs Daffy and

      Dillon were preBent aud addreBSed tho people , urged them to provide arms , and said tbey expected to seo tbe conBtabulary in tbo front rank of tho Irish National Guard . ' O- the 6 th of July tho following was received from tbe county Loutb : — 'The United Irishman Cub met at Dundalk on tbe 29 th ult , , about fiftj persons present , The usual _fpcechea were made , A Mr Boxton Baid , ho would endeavour to put the government down unless they put fcim down , and if ho was ( ransported there were others to tak « bis place , ' Thef 'Mowing was tho account from W _. xford on tho 7 th of July ;— 'A meeting of the Ripest Club _wob held at Bree on the 2 nd _Instaut . Mr Whit ' _. y proposed Beveral violent resolutions thnt hooe but _cueu of good _chcracter be admitted , nor policeman to bo admitted without a warrant , A Mr Devin produced a pattern of n

      cheap pike for poor persons , urged tho people to arm and drill , and suggested _modos of attack , < _fcc . ' I should any that tho method pursued by these C . nfiderates was in gf neral to summon a meeting for some political objoct , ro _harang ' - o that meeting in 'violent speeches , and Immidt-t- ly afterwards to form on association or club which wbb to meit _aecretly . Thtre -l _. nrly have bein in all theso ! nstanc « a In the first placo , a meeting in which _oome-ppeech _wasmade of a violent _eharaclor ; but _ta _.-tinga tben foiU . ed week after week , in which no _pmons were admitted but thoao whobelongod to tbe Confederatloo ; and If any person presented himself to be admitted , sueh as a policeman , for the purpoBC of giving information to tho government , or who went as a loyal

      man to observe their pioceedingB , bo waa carefully exeluded . The account received from Cork © n tho 7 th of July is this ;— ' There ore now about fifteen Confederate clubs formed , or in _conrse of formation in this oity , and probably about 2 . 0 ( 0 name , enrolled in them ; there are few , if any respectable persona amOFgH them ; some of these clubs bave been open to the police visiting them ; at a few admission hai been refused . ' Another account frem Cork on tbe came day -Ut _. B that ' A meeting of Confederates took placo at Skibbereen on tbo Sad to enrol a National Guard ; tbe speakers advised arming and organisation ; it was stated 140 names were enrolled / On the 8 : h of Job ihe foll _. wl-5 _tccoaut was _secsiv _« 4 from

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      Wexford : — 'A meeting of the Enniscarthy clu _^ i was held on the 3 rd last ., a man namt d Dwylo attm _ ed , bcariiig a pole , with a pike on it . The _constab _ilary w . re _f-fused ac ' _inlesiori b _; a 3 entinel at the door . who stated that he would o „! y _aimit tkim over his dead body ; they _consequently could obtain no _iufvrmatiou aa to th . proceedings of 'ho c ! ub . On th . 10 th of July tho ivp . t from Cjik w _ this : — ' Tti _. a are fifteen olubs in C rk ; their ( ffective members aro , it is said , 4 . 003 . Mr Thomas F . M _. _aghir recently attended a mtetirg of the effleers of the diff rent _ciuos ; he is about to pro . C _'* 'd to America cn n misBlon of importance . Tho police applied _ntti-e _following _cluba for a-m _.: ; sion , the _tirst _r , s refused it . - — 'Citizen , ' ' Mercantile _Assiitants , f Arthur _O'C . mnor , ' ¦ llobatt Emmett , ' ' St Panoi . a , Lord E hvard Fitz . erald , ' < Wolf Tom , "

      Wilno business doing . " Now , these names aro io bo remarked , as some of them are tho names ef persons who were conspicuous in the rebellion of 1703 , _ nd the , show clearly mat the intent ! n was to imitate the example of those turns . The . por . _from Cork on the IHh „__ _, runs _ttw _;— Great _tXirtionsare mado by the loaders ot tbo olu . s In Cork to . mpleto their organisation _the _laembfrs are well supplied v . ith firearms end piker , the latter aro readily sold for Is . 31 . each . From the reign of terror which prevails little information can be had . ' On th . 13 th of Jul y on account is given of a meeting held at _Creasbany , in the county of Cork , on the 2 nd inst ., to form a Confederate club , They advised "the people to arm and demand their rights , ' with a clean steel in the hand of every man '—not more than 150 _ rboes attended ; informations havo been . worn to as to the

      words ; u _< ed . " On the 14 th of July tho Rev . Mr Coonty _, Roman CatJolic clergyman , addressed his _cengregatlon at _Mionano , cf unty of Cork , and urged strongly their jjining s _Confederal club , wbich Mr Luke J . Shea would form after mass . Mr Shea , who is a _magistrate of the count } - , roon after addressed the people in the chapel yard ; be urged them to join tbe club , _ ld he would not do bo if it wero not perfectly _logal ; tbat each club should consist of 3 _. fighting men ; ih _. t _tte clubB all over tbo country _eboald be in commu _« nication with each other , under thoao in Dublin ; not moro tban twenty persons enrolled thtir names . ' I wish , now to B _' alo tbo _occurrence which hava taken place at Cuk and Drog _' ___ a since tho _beginning of tho present month . At Cork a meeting wbb hid , wbicb was at . _u-nded bj all the clubB , who marched , or , as Mr Smith O ' _BrjsB teims it , ' _rfaiked' in regular older , _antf who utended what ho afterwards calla ' a review . ' There

      was an inspection of the clubs ; and the _report states thnt— ' As each elub passed tbe president announced its n : in-e , and all gave the salute , Mr O'Briea watched cautiousl y to see that each man gave tho salute ; and whenever a party forgot to do so he rebuked him , occasionally eaying , _'Juat touch jour hats as jou walk _-. _lo-jj . ' The St Patrick ' . Club having halted in ( rent of him for a momcut , he cried out , - Do move along , and when you _miet tho other club lurn to the eaBt , as I want to see what kind f men tho patriots of Ireland are . ' On OIH Of the clubs passing , he remarked on the number of young bo _^ _s in it , to which Town Councillor Mullan r _> plied , Wo are particular to enrol none under six teen _yturs 0 f _oee , and all theso will ha found to come up to that . ' Mr O'Brhn having disapproved of tie order In which one ciub marched , one ot the

      members -aid , Wo waut a little discipline yet , sir , but we are willing to learn ' To which Mr O'Bihn said , iu an authoritative tone , 'Keep op yonr places and bo silent . ' A woman here rushed forward and ( x . laimed , 'Three cbeers for the K _' n _^ cf Munster ; ' to which ilr O'Brien _replied , 'Hot jet—not yet ; no shouting—so -bo-ting . ' Now , air , it ia to be remarked that there were afterwards _meetings ot the cluba at Dn gbeda and at Dublin , und at both those _meetings Mr Smith _O'Brkn adv _ . tei la h . ' a speeches to what he eaid had been called his review at Cork—stating that thb cumb _rs tbat attended the review was v . ry considerable ; that they wer . ready to arm themailve » , and t ? appear when thiy were called for . Another event to which I wish to allude took _tlaco at Waterford , A Mr Meagher , who la one well known for having used _laujuage _fttquently exciting the

      people to rebellion and insurrection , waB arrested at Waterford on a charge of Bedition . Several _tbonsaad persons collided together _wiihicg to rescue MrMe . _gher , but be dtclared thnt it would be wasting _tliebb . od of the Irish _pecplo to attempt 6 U _ a thing . Th _^ Roman _Catholic Clergy , I ara bound to say , used all tbeir efforts to keep the peace , and Mr Mesghei was conveyed _witboat _roBistanc * eut of the town of Waterford , Tbere was toon afterwards a meeting , which assembled on a mountain « ell known in the _political bistory of Ire . land , called Siievenaroon _, w _* -ich wasattendtd -. mesay by 10 _. 0 UO , and others by lo _. OOO persons , to hear Mr Mea -hir , Mr Dobeny , and others . Whin Mr Meagher returned to W .. iterford trom that _meeting , he was waited

      for by Bevtral thousand _ptrEOEs _, who wished to give him a Whlcomo , and I have an account of what happened at Waterford from u _pfrson with whom I have some acquaintance , whom I know perfectly well by reputation , and who Is entirely trustworthy , _ to the class Of _psr-Buns who were thus waiting to receive Mr Meaghtr . This gentleman says : — 'It being now ten o ' clock at tight , uud dark , I raoired to go to tte end of the bridge , whtra many thousands were waiting . * * Thero were no politics sp _. ken of , but that all the p ' ans wero making to upset lhe i > utborluc » , 8 u that they _urny have the plunder . Ono fellow said , 'I _ m _ngbirat plunder . ' Well , and so am I , ' was the answer , ' bat it is not plunder ; they once got it irom us , and it must be o . r turn now . ' This was tbe sole Bid _serious burden of their

      song , and I bave no hesitation in _eujiog that , unless goveroimnt take Instant st-ps although tbey wiil in tbe end get the bettrr of these people , before that much _property and tbe lives cf many respectable people will be sacrificed . ' I can answer for the character of tte _gtmtlco . an who wrote that letter , being a man of experience both in civil life and In foreign war , and of as much courage and firmness as any man wbo is in tbe _Bervice of Her _Majesty . The _Btate of Wateiford has been described to me by other persons , and I have Eeen many letters from persons wbo either were in the neighbourhood at the timo , or who wont there _imme-i-tsly afterwards _, eome of iho . e persoce _beinp connected with tbe place bj the ties t f _property and family , aid well acquainted with its inhabitants and thtir political feelings , und what ib most likely to be tbe disposition of tbe different elasses

      of the people . The evidence of all these per . _ s ig to ono and tho same effect , namely , tbat although the persona of _property and the clergy , both Protestant and R _? n _ n _C-ttulic , are decidedl y _agaioBt any outbreak , yet that no influence that Is used by them will have any effect whatever in deterring many thousand persona of the younger men of every class , but more especially of the farmer and paaa & at class , v . ho are _determined to _riso in insurrection . ( Hear , hear . ) That , sir , (» tha evidence which I bave received , _supported , as I think it i _« , by all tbo publio accounts , and entirely believed by Hie L . rd-Lieutcna __ . t , who has himself seen and convened with some of those persons who wero at Waterfoid . In the tjwn of _C-rrick-on-Sulr , also , there occurred tbat which , although it did not end in blood , is a most _menacing warning for the future . Three persons werear *

      r < Bted in that town for wbat _happ ned to be a bailable offence—not under the Felony Act , but arrested for seditious language and drilling , aud for that offence placed la tho Bridewell of that town . An immense collection of persons _Immediately assembled f torn all the country round , Various reports were spread ; some ibat a priest had been sho ' , some tbat these men had been confined , as was the cubo , and others that the _inaurrectioa _hsd begun . But what has been seen and witnessed was tint tho peasantry of tho town and neighbourhood , a fa * . armed witb _wuBUets , and many wiih rudo pikes and scythes , marched into the town with a most menacing asp ct , and declared that the prisoners must be liberated . It was thought advisable , such being the state of _thiDge _, ond as tho offence was bai able it could properly be done _, thatthe prisoners sbould be let out on ball ; and when

      tboy appeared before tho people tbe > tewn , wb . ' oh had been in the bands ot tbis multitude for acme time , rt » _samed its usual appearance , and again became peaceable _^ . But It was evident that if thore had been cause to retain those persons in custody—that if the offence with whicb tbey wore charge . - ) hod bucn such tbat ihoy could not . havo betn bailed—or if , for Bny other _icueou , the de * sires of that armed multitude ceuld not be complied with , that blood would have been shed , end t- o beginning of tho inBUrrection would have taken place . ( Hear , bear . ) It ia clear _tbnc thero was not want * im ; the design , that tbere was ' not wanting tb » will , that there wa » not wanting the intention to rebel ( cbeers ); but that all lhat was wanting was thc particular occasion—and that those wbo meant to rise being satisfied with what was done , and their object being

      completed , no rising took place . But no maa eafl doubt tbat If matters had been otherwise a commencement of ti . e insurrection would tbin and there have takvn place . ( Cheera . ) Sir , the eccouats Irom thesa various places are , that now and for Boni . _time past tba C . mfcderate clubs have beon making great progress iu forming associations which aro in fact , . e . r . t _societi _. * , into wbich no person is admitted wbo is not u member ofibeeo cluba ; tbat tho geaeral _otject which is heldout to tbem Is , thot they are to overturn the govern * ment ; that they are to procure arms far tbat purpose ; asd that nothing is now wanting but the day and tho hour to be fixed bv their lead-is in _wder to curry fat ©

      < _ ct that _f-tnl aad droadful resolution . ( Hear , hew , ! In the beginning of a private lettii wide" I bave recei _ved frem tbe Lord-Lieutenant to . day , he says . —* 1 have nothing B & _siafn-tory to send job to-day . The oc _« counts from tho country are as _ tt aa they can ba short of epim _rebell'sf , and e > erjbc * _ly concurs in _s & _jii-g _thsjti tho change in tho _fcclingB of the pui ' _-lc within the last ; weik or tin - ay b bas been the most rapid and ct _mpletai thing ever known even in Ireland . Tho bid spirit hssi now extend _ itself to Tlppirary , and tbe _ftipendiarjr _Biajl-trate w Clonmel tells me there is grsat _al _ vm f . that town . ' It iB certainly to be stated , and that Iead-i me to the further part of that which I bave to state to

      the house—it is certain tbat that which two mentWJi ago was not formidable haB become formidablai now , and that for the _patpo-es of _iusurr . _ctiou-i It may be , end I believe It will be , ss the writer of thei letter from Waterford affirmB , that outbroak these persons will bo put but that much bloodshed will take lives will be sacrificed . And we should _OurselveB If we did not fake _iu _; h c . BBary ia order to provont tbat plaoe , and prevent tho leaders of rectlon from taking the field for jug tbe authorities of tho country , come now t _» tbe measure whioh I to propose , la order to meet thi J _< v _ _-M __» esaai ef _Iretend , la

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 29, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_29071848/page/7/