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      MR DOHE _ . ( From the _correspondent of the Times . ) The liberation , on bail , of Mr Michael D-heny afforded that gentleman au opportunity of d _^" a highly inflammator y harangue to a _^ rnob ° _* s _?™ P _attrisers at Nenagh . In the course of his addres he gave the following piece of advice , which , it is _acwc y to be observed , will be implicitly obeyed by the wiia blood of Tippera-y : * - _. fa t baar a « Let every man whe i * strong _eaoJ h . no weapoajom the cl ubs _^ ee _^ _l £ _meetings , no demonstrations iiko . 3-no _mosste m _^ unanimous resolution s . _^ ( Hear , _ hear . ; _Bolntion be here ( placing _hwngb _= J »* » _£ be _ripa . amid load _cheering . ) __ _. e . __ - _¦ *• ' * " . . _ftfifbland _bafore the year-is over , or-to let it

      __ T _; for ever . ( _Eiithusiaatic cheers , and _ . ___ We wUV . _Lve no m-. ra idle buffoonery ; Usteu to no mo e nonsense , but prepare tort he final S _ ° . a Ka men . ( Cheers _, and cries of * We will . ') Meetine-here , proclaiming your wrongs , and _KpMBin _fyofr hatred of English misrule , will net benefit yon . _c-nntry , * no , it will nut . Then , swear by Al miehtv God , that this year will end the _m-senes ot 'Ireland or b . for ever the son of the branded slave . ( Loud cheers , and cries of ' We will . ' ) There is no necessity to violate any ! ax ; obey thc law , but form c _' . ub- ; have your wardens—thev may , if tbey please , call themselves officers ; you -hould divide the clubs

      into sections , and let every man brinz with him as many as he can ; and let us ha _ a million of brave , stout _joang men —( cheers)—confederates throughout Ireland , armed or not armed . I trust they will bs armed where _thi law all _iws it . A Voice . —They cannot take from us the arms witch God gave us . .. .. . Mr Dohzxy—Let tha people be armed , if tney like , with a _riflf , or with what they call the . ue ? n of weapons '—the pike . I , for on ? , am not loy al ; l _amnitanoverz . _alouslnjaliJt . fLaughter . ) I owe the Q , _. een allegiance ; and she owes me protection . The rule of her Majesty ' s En _. Iish government in Ireland mu 3 t be overthrown . ( Cheers ) It is the li ? ht of erery Irishman to b _. _uisii from this country the authority and laws of those felons called government . ( Cheer ? . )

      * Mr Dohsst then _descended from the cart , and iu the evemup _, whilst an hi . way to _Templed . rry , he delivered the following remarks in Barrack Btreet . * D ) not mind talking about foreign war or foreign aid . _Yonrsehes must meet the English foe on Irish Boil . Mike no man an enemy of yours . Be the friend ofthe Protestant . « A Voi _. _s . —Tares cheers for the Protestants . ( Cheers . ) I care not how soon I may bs transported , bnt my life is at yonr s _? r _« ce . ( Loud cheers . ) _« A Voice . —Tipperary is at your service ; wo are at your command .

      • MpD-hesv . —I came here a sort of felon ; lam Eorrj I am not going away a felon ; but all I tell you is this —that I shall not leave Ireland until I leave a mark behind me . ( Cneera . ) Remember that my last words to you here are to unite , combine , and confederate , and be well prepared when the time come 3 . ( Loud cheers , and cries of 'We will , we will . *)' -SStTBHEC-TOSi-. T MOVEMENT . ( Abridged from the Times ) Dubli . Jolt 21 . —So far the utmost tranquillity prevails : but in this country a lull is always open to suspicion , and people as certainly prepare for the _> nterr- ption to the ealm as mariners would for the approaching storm . Silence is the mo 3 t dangerous

      element of Irish agitation . Dp to ths present , the _ap-rehe _ ioE 8 of disturbance , h _. wever remote , are eonfined to the metropolis ; aid of the result of any insane attempt ' to levy war' in the capital , there cm ba but one reasonable conclusion — that it _woild be a sangu _i nary e * neu .. * o . an hour or two ' s duration , terminating in the annihilation of the insurgent * _, and the farther prostration of the country ' s eiergiesfor half a century to come . Itis _sta ' ed that orders were issued yesterday to the Custom-house authorities to search for and seize all arms and ammunition which the disaffected are busily importing

      into Dublin and other ports , and a vigilant scrutiny has been established . It is quite notorious that some of the * felonious' gunsmiths * shops in the city are absolutely gutted of their deadly wares . Neither gun aor rlfl _., musket , or fowling-piece , pistol or blanderbass , is to ba seen in the windows . The 3 e rapid salemust have been effected within the last few days . Hylaud , the * pikemaker to his _excelleacy the Lord-Lieutenant and Colonel Browne , ' ha _? pat out the fires of his forge in Charles-street and _tnansferred hi 3 aavil and other apparatus to a southern county , free from the incumbrance of a government proclamation .

      It is the general impression that the provinces are not yet ripe for an outbreak , and that until the provincial clubs are more widely extended the Confederates will make no hs _. tile demonstration , either in the metropolis or elsewhere ; nor is it calculated that the organisation in the country can consume anything like a formidable attitude for two , or perhaps three , months more . Some gentlen _ eB in the north hava reclaimed against the policy of withdrawing a regiment from that district for service in the south ; but their objections were met by an assurance from the Esecu . tive , that it was indispensably necessary to concentrate the army _ much as possible in the disaffected _dis-tie . and that for the present , at least , there was no reme _. y for the alleged grievance .

      Proclamations have been baaed this day , calling upon all persons in the county and city of Dublin ( not qualified to carry arm . in accordance with ihe provisions of the act ) to deposit such arms at the police station nearest to their residences _befere the 25-hof Jaly . No -lessees have been granted _without strict inquiries a 3 to th- chaiacter of tha _per-ons seeking to have their arms registered , their position in life , and whether they are in any way connected with tbe Clubs , or ' Irish League . ' Tae most respectable men are _snbjestsd to these queries—the police going from house to house to collect the _neee & sary information prior to the applications to regB ' er being taken into eonaidera'ion by the parties _toaoinied to do that duty .

      In Cork there was some exoitimeafc on the arrival of the intelligence from Dablin that that city was proclaimed by the Privy Council . The Reporter t-U-3 de _ rib- _ the _scene _^ _t—• - shortly afier tha arrival of the proclamation in ths city yesterday , two 8 __ nted orderlies were Bent off to Ballincollig to order in the artillery , and at about seven o ' clock last _erening four pieces and a mortar were Been entering try Great George 6 treet , under an escort of the 12 th _Lancera . As the head-quarters of the Lancers had enly come in that day a large concourse of people __ mbled to see them , when great excitement _prang up amongst the people , wkich was further increased by sjme _inooasiderate jeering and seeffiag at them . Ths Lancers having left the artillery at the barracks were returning to _ _Wl _ . _ ig , when _ eir reappearance in the streets renewed the

      excitement which was fast subsiding , and they were saluted with jeers and shouts . One woman walked ap to the rear guard of the troop and spat at them , When a trooper laid his lance ou her head without soy intention of injuring her , bat this only caused greater uproar . The troops having passed on large £ - ___ _-bei-3 of persons assembled on the Parade , whence some of them proceeded to the police guardhouse and _ea-amenced hooting atthe _constabulary , upon which ths police got under arms and proceeded to drive them into the centre of the Parade with the _biyonet . Hsd not Mr Walker come up , who ordered tha constabulary into barrack ? , serious consequences vrauld have resulted . We understand that on _Saturday thera will be au addition oi 200 polica made to tire present force in the city , the expense of which -will be levied on the city , and fifty _soldiera are to be _saartered in each police _guardhouse . '

      SUSFBK 5 I 0 H OF THE HABEAS C _ P _ AM . The announcement of Lord Joha Ru . sell ' s intenfian to apply this day to Parliament for additional powers to crash insurrection in Ireland , reaohed here by electric telegraph early in the forenoon , and had _.. thunderbolt fallen upon the city it could not have created greater dismay or terror .

      ( From the Morning Herald . ) Th * . Natios asd Felon of this day are more like proclamations _publiehed in a barricaded city , from _T _ ich the troop 3 of the lawful sovereign had just been driven , th'n newspapers b . aring the Crown stamp , which entities them to a free passage through _sdl the post offices still in the possession of a partially _deposetl monarch . The first-named journal hai flung off all semb ' . anee of restraint . John Mitchel never went so war in his _Usiied _Ibishmas as Mr Duffy—a prisoner in Newgate on a charge of felony—has gone in his paper of this day . The leading article i 3 entitled the ' The Casus Belli , ' is dated from Newgate pri-on , and signed

      THE CA 6 . B _BEWI , Tto long-pending war with England has actuall y e » m-- senc-d . We haTe been formally gammoned to surrender ac _diier-rion . The metropolis , and the chief _strongfcold . of nationality in the island , ars audaciously COO xa & a & ed to deliver up their « _rtni to England . The power of the nation , regimented into repeal clubs , is warned to di-bind itself without parley or delay . Nearly for ty prisoners of all ranks and conditions now in the fe * Bds of the public enemy , as hostages for the people , wait a ea- __ mary _coavistion , and a trenchant sentence . Tba national prest of the capital bas beea practically _oppressed—one _tection no loruer _ventnr-s to _ntt _.. the

      _tsnguage ot _resUUMies ; the other is onl y published by open aad advised d _^ fimce of ths _English authorities . Io this pass the _coataj . t has came at last ; and ot this » _congest can piun . taB fiaal il 5 Qe _^ notfar ofi Tbtt barm , whicii we . . nlly hoped would ripen with wr ripening hopes , will _ se them already crowned _ane-a-SBinmate _., or scattered tothe foar winds like ___ _bs-er _ the winnow . May God deal with tho _CSUB 9 Of the psople in thi . p . _ o _ extremity according to his justics . We hare born 3 onr wrongs In silence tiU eUence w *» s sin and a reproach ; and now when we are pricked to tte battle , to stand up for our very lives , la our own ¦ _afl , we b- _ - _ h the just God that oar causa may proi . _ r-f ai far as it is pare and righteous and bo farther

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      I _bcli-ve the _issnft that is now raised will decide the c . _ates : for _« " <> feneration . I believe It wiU decide it , though one cartridge is not baraea in the straggle . If _England ca n coiamit these excesses with the _immunity of a despot , Ireland Is utterly and ignobly overthrown . Sh _^ will die like a b _ gar and mak - no sign . Ia _roton : tions s ra treat is fatal ; In Ireland , where the memory of ' -13 haunts all onr fairest hopes _lik . a mocking fiend , it _would quench die _vi-ry 8 -ul cf the country , Two months hence the muster-roll of Repealers may bs as long the hatred of England may bo as Intense , but If t _ club ., the arms , and < _ha prestige ara gone , the power to resist her will ha . fl d sway like a dream , mt in __ _,. ,., _ _ _,. „ , , ..,, .

      ththe arms and tke orga-B _. tion alone , potent as they are , but in that of _whio _. t _ y were but the signs and svmbols . For power do ; s m ' t reside In swollen _nuabers or in perfection of equipment , but ia a _§ uMle element which neither adjutant nor ar sourer can compute . It _resldi _s mainly in the _self-r ell . nc » ofa pe-ple which to-day may woTk _miT-cUs , aad to mo-. _tow evaporate , though not a man is missing from the tanks . . Naked hands and an armed soul , a . of ol- * , are . _trttng _. r than a hireling spirit braced in steel ; acd _"hoT-so r is formidable to-day exactly bf cause _she has thr . Jsr . nl . More formidable than in M 3 , _because _tiiati-or . i it . more intense . Butifit t & ciie . woetoher _andnirni _^ only the dead bulk of a _Ht , ti _ will remain—only fl cartas , to b _. trampUd npon

      by the Iron heel ot htr _oppressor . It is a solemn an-1 terrible responsibility to advise a nation to p _^ ril its hopes on the battle fi _; ld . But it is not tbe wont mpon « ibility . To peril and blast them _, _without a battle _fi-ld—to permit them to fall to pieces by the _fatal dry rot of inaction—to see them lost wltbou _ onour , orsympathy . or the chance of redemptionbu ' . _lost by so nefat _ lc . wardiceorincapaclty-.. t-at is the hell in which th _ _e is no _consolation . The question of peaea or war is not one f - > r Ireland to-day . She has already in t . _rms tho _m- _^ t prtciee sod deliberate proclaimed a war of indepen . _ence . From tho _pr-pular _tribunes _, in the papular press , from the green hill . side , In the forum of the crowded city ; in the very midst of tbe foreign senate itself , it has been proclaimed in her name that the limit ef endurance was ut hand . And Gad is our _* itu--9 , not rashly or without weighty cans ? . * * * * The aristocracy in wbom we had

      trusted stood revealed as selfish , hardened , and _nnseiu . pulou ?—without chivalry and without faith . The-, nnd not until then , wa cast them away , and asked what other cure was there for our desperate malady . Alas , what cure was there left bnt one . Tha remedy mast still be _praporlionats to the disease , and tha depth of human _suffering and degradation can only bo medicined by tbe height of human dating and devotion , _f _. heard tbe potent 5 p : cific muttered in the musquetry of Palermo , we heard it again sounding in the deeper echo struck by the _flying feet of ministers and of Kings . It was trumpeted to us from every end of Europe in the litany ef rising _satloBS , bo on . of wbom rose _againet its _oppressors in vain . And then , at _length , with clear deliberation _, and full knowledge of all the perils and all the responsibility , but with assured filth in God ' s providence and the jastice of our cause , we bade England choose speedily between concession and the sword . We formally proclaimed a war of _independence .

      And now the time is wben that pled ge * a __ u _. t be _promptlj fulfilled , or as formall y dishonoured , * * * * We cannot plead that we are taken by surprise . When John Mitchel was _consigned to Bermuda we received formal notice that England bad accepted our challenge . We cannot doubt tbe sjmp _. thj of the people . A spirit older and sterner than ' 43 has re-appeared among them . Wherever the English government have laid hands on a prisoner there the psople , with the true instinct of manhoo _ , prepared to resist . In Caahel . In Neragh , in Wntcrford _. in _K-lkenny , in Carrickon-Suir , by tbe door Of Newgate , On tha hills of CastleweUan _, the voice ol one man might have _ on _ ed the _tocjln of a national revolution . * * * # The moment of time that fixes the destiny of _g _ G _ - tions is near at hand . How will Ireland come through tbis ordeal ?

      I dare not answer . I know she p _. _ssesses passiva conrage without limit . There i . a legion of men in the _froat of this battle who would not yield an inch before exile or death . The courage of endurance tbat makes martyrs is aB plenty ai it ever was In any nation . But the daring and adventurous _genius that begins a great undertaking , —the fiery vehemence that _ oei not Stop to calculate , — or the penetrating , far-reaching eagle spirit , in whom prudence is _iastinct , bat who , like Bacon , counts upon audacity as tba Surest element of success—these are not so common . Ireland , in this terrible crisis , may fail a victim to consciences whoBe _sensi _* _biU-y is not healthy but morbid ; and the _greatist of aU human afflictions may come of the amiable fear of doing wrong . God grant the _people and their leaders that _wiidora wbich has trust in tbe indomitable spirit and resources of a nation struggling for liberty ; that wisdom which does not count upon the convenience of to-day , or the risk of an hoar , but takes counsel for the pei _ _oane _ t prosperity and honour of the nation .

      For myself I will say , that , if the people are robbed of their arms—if the clubs are broken np—If all the organi at on and discipline won with such toU are flung away in an hour—if the spirit of the count'y , aa mlraculo _. 6 ly evokod , be -gain permitted to die out , while the leaders of tbe people look on in dumb _submiseien it these thlng 9 can happen after the terrible lessons we have before us written in the blood and tears of the nation , I for one , will noi curs , the packed jury that sends me far from such a spectacle . With m . _wfr is not a natural or instinctive resource ; I accepted it only as the last _ahernative ; but I _accapted It without reservation , I counted upon resisting at the first point where further delay would damp the ardour ofthe people . I knew

      well tbat there were limits to their patience , for they had been betrayed . That a certain point passed , thousands of brave m _ would fl y from tho country In despair , that our self-reliance would die out liko a _ee _' . ting sun , in a single hour—that the obscene vermin who have grown fat on onr misery would re-appear , and anew reign of fraud begin a thousand t ! tr _ more hopeless than the first . If that hour is at hand , er if ever it shall come , msy I not stand upon Irish soil to see it . The _kaell ef our hops . i . _;_ _, t saddest sound I can ever hear ; _thOQgh the judge and thejury that await me should do tho will ofEagland without scruple . Newgate Priion . C . G . D ,

      ( Fromthe Jim .. ) * * * With such undiluted treason as Sows through tie columns ofthe Nation and Fklon it is difficult to know _where to begin or when to stop . Mr GavanDnffv _. a . the senior journalist , is perhapa entitled to _precedeoc . and here is an extract from one of his appeals to arms : — R _s ? , then , men of Ireland , since Providence bo _wIHb it . Rise in your cities and your fields , on your hills , in your valley ., by your dark mountain passes , by your rivers an 4 lakes and _ocean-w & shed shoreB ItiBe aB a nation ! England has dissevered the bond of allegiance . Rise—not now to demand justice from a foreign king . -on , but to make _Ireland an independent kingdom for ever . It is no light task God bas appointed jou , It

      is a work of tnal aud temptation , Oh ' . ba steadfast in the trial—be firm to _resht the temptation . You have to combat injustice , therefore yon must yourselves be just , Yoa have to overthrow a deBpot power ; but yoa must establish order , not Buff . r _anaroby . Remember it is not against individuals or parties or sects you wage war , bnt against a system . Overthrow—have no mercy on that system . Dawn with it—down with it , ev . n to the ground ; but show mercy to the individuals who are bat the instruments of tbateyBtem _, You look round upon the land—your own land—tridden down ani tr ___ p led and insulted , and on a persecuted , despairing people . It is your rightarm must raise up that trampled land _^ _-must make her _tgaln beautiful and stately , and rich in _blsssings . Elevate that despairing people , and make them free and bappy , but teach them

      tobe majestic m their force , generous In iheir clemency , noble in their triumph . It is a holy mission . Holy must ba your motives aad your acts if you would fulfil it . Act ss if soar soul ' s salvation hang on each deedaud it will , for we _st . nd already within the _Bhadows of eternity . For us is the combat ; but notfor us , p * rhaps , the triumph . Many a noblo heart will He cold , many a throbbing pulse bs stilled , ere the cry of 'Victory' will arise . It ha solemn thought , that now Is the hour of destiny when the fetterg of seven centuries may at last be broken—and by you , men of this generation—by you , m . n of Ireland ! You are God ' s instruments ; many of jou mnst ; b _. freed . ai ' s martyrs . Oh , be worthy of the namo ; and as yoa act as men , as patriots and as christians , so will the blessing rest upon your head when you lay it down a sacrifice for Ireland upon the red battle field .

      • His brother felon , Mr John Martin , is equally intelligible : — TO THE _ItEitBESS OF TBE E _? E _ CLBB . OF IEEL 4 ND , Bbotheb iBisnHEN , —I address yon , it may be , for th . last time . While yet I have the means avid opporm-ity of communicating with you let rae offer you my ad . vice as to the position you ought to take with regard to the proclamations directed 8 gainBt jon and against Ireland by the foreign tyrants . Hy advice is , shortly , that you stand to your arms . Stand to yoar arms J Oh I as you have the spirit ef mea to revolt again . t our country ' s shame and slavery—the hearts of men , to feel for our people ' s misery—as yon love justice and bate oppression—as you lova and fear the God of whose righteous decrees British iills In Ireland Is a dire violation—stand firm , aud jield not an inch of ground to the threat and the rage of our alarmed tyrants . Let them menace you with the bulks or the gibbet for daring to speak or write yonr love

      to Ireland . Let them threaten to mow yoa down with grape shot , as tbey have massacred your kindred witb famine and plague . SpurH their brutal ' aots ef parliament' — trample upoH their lying proola . matioas — fear them not 1 The work you have undertaken is to _ovtrthrow and utterly destroy | Eiglieh do-rintoa In Ireland . That work must be dona . It must bo done at any risk , at any cost , at any sacrifice . Though hundreds of us be torn from our families , and from the free air , to be Bbut up in the enemy ' s dungeons or sent in chains to his felon Island' !—though thousands of us bs butefcered by the enemy ' s cannon and bayonets , our street- and native fields be pnrpled _-tiih our blood _—nsver shall the struggle for Irish freedom cease but with the destruction of tbat monstrous system of base and murderous tyranny , or with tho utter extermination of the Irish people . Oh , dear _cauatrymen ! let aat your hearts quail at the sight of the enemy ' s prepara--ions—of 40 , 000 _homaa machines arranged witb their

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      weapons of death to batcher yoa on your owb land for tha crime of loving your own land . Stand to your arms ! resist to tbe death ' . Better a hundred thousand bloody deaths than to leave Ireland another year disarmed , cowed , and defenceless , to the mercy of that _fiendis _- i despotlcm . J _« M , Oely listen to Mr Jamea F . Lalor , and then judge whether the time has not arrived for suspension of the Habeas Corpus Aot ; ay , and martial law , to make it the more effective . [ The reader of the Northkkn Stab is reminded that these are the words of the Times ruffian . ] In the case of Ireland , now there is bnt one fact to deal with , nnd one _guc . _lfoii to bo considered . The fact ig this—that there are at preBent in occupation of our country some 40 , 000 armed men In the livery and service of _E-Rland ; and the _gueslion Is—how beat and _eoonest te kill and capture those 40 , 000 men . .-on , of death to batcher yon on your o * b l 8 nd for

      If required to state my own individual opinion , and allowed to choose my own time , I certainly would take the time when the fall harvest of Ireland shall be stacked in the haggards . But not unfrequently God selects and _g-ndjhisown seasons and ocoasions ; and oftentimes , too , an enemy is able to foresee the necessity of either fighting or failing . In the one case we ought not , in toother we surely cannot , nttompt waiting for our harvesthome _. If opportunity offers we must daBh at that opportunity—if driven to the wall we must wheel for resistance . Wherefore , let us fight in Sep _' . ember _, if we may—but sooner , if we mi » t , Meanwhllr _, however remember thie—that somewh-r * and somehow , nnd by _somebody a _beginniag mnst be made , Wbo strikes tbe first _blow for Ireland ? Who draws first blood for Ireland ? Who wins a wreath that will be green for ever ? J . F . L .

      The following is from the pen of a man who , at a meeting of the * Officers of the _Cluba , ' held ao recently as this day week , proposed a resolution to the effect that the outbreak should commence this very week , and after a Btormy discussion the motion waa lost by a _majority of one only ! Thia ia an undoubted fact , and for the comfort of these gentlemen it may be added that , although the meeting in question was limited to twenty-one individuals , each holding a responsible position in the rebel councils , the government were in full possession of thoir ' secret' intentions before the sun had set upon the day following : —

      A revolution Is inevitable . The proclamations , of course , but foreshadow the _mppresalon cf the clubs . If the people allow these clubs to be suppressed without a struggle they deserve tbe fate which they assuredly will meet , It is tbis . Tbe coward * , curse sball cling , like the bird in the mystic poem , round their necks , ahd It will quit them neither in the daytime nor in the nighttime . They will be forced to tell the story of their guilt aad of their misery to tbe nations , but they will remain houseless upon the earth , Scorn will point Its finger at th _? m frora every place—contempt will glance on them from every eye ; and they must bow their heads and apeak not . The slave ' s portion will be thelt J , Let the

      _ccfi-u-makers heart be merry , for his trade will thrive . Will not tbe land be rich and produce great harvests for luxury when the bones of the poor manure it ? Will it not bo a merry life to walk up and down the streets of the populous _cltiest , and inhale the death smell from tbo reeking churchyards , and watch tbo infant drawing the poisoned milk from the mother ' s breast , and the strong men witb tbe blood stream dtied _, rotting off the stalk of life I These things wUl be if you strike not . My eyes have seen tha working of the curse already . In my memory Ireland onco beforo played the coward ' s part ; and she W > s cursed , and she was covered with sores , and she groaned In agony . Now , th . n , or never t Now , and for ever !

      But we are unprepared ! True , most prudent' leader , but will we be ever better prepared ? At ' harvest , ' perhaps ! I won-er Is it generally believed that each golden ear will turn into amounted pike , to arm the hands of _IrUhmtn . since so much importance is attached to ' harvest ! ' Now , I have not imagination enough to think thU . I believe clubs do not flourish under coercion bills , and an arms act ( unresisted !) does not tend to improve the spirit of a people . As tbese will come , I think we had better front our fate at once , and be free in death if we cannot live in freedom . Joseph _Beeu-n .

      The provincial papers of yesterday contain no intelligence of importance ; but private letters say that the greatest excitement prevails throughout the district extending from _Carrick-on-Suir , in the county of Waterford , to Clonmel , iu the South Riding of Tipperary . The club organisation all along is quite complete ; and , after the metropolis , this is the only quarter in which immediate danger is to be apprehended . Troopa hava been already _disnatched thither . _Preparations are being made here for the reception af an additional military force from England . Four regiments of infantry , it is said , are to be added to the Irish establishment , besides a company of artillery from Woolwich . Their arrival is almost hourly expected in this garrison .

      It is currently reperted that on the arrival of the reinforcements from England , four regiments will be encamped in the Phoenix-park . Already the troops are daily exercising in pitching and striking _tenfs , Ac . Half-past Three : o ' clock . —A Privy Council has just assembled at the Castle . All kinds of reports are flying as to the object of its deliberations . According to the Cork Examiner , ' The county grand jury , which , as may be _anpposed . is exclusively composed of landlords , has addressed a memorial to the Queen and Parliament , calling ; for a further extension ofthe Coercion Aot to all the county , for the suppression of the clubs , fer the prevention of the manufacture and sale of arms ; and praying tbat when peace shall be restored , the serious consideration of government may ba directed to the provisions of the Poor Law , with a view to their amendment . This is the gisfc-of the memorial . '

      It appears from the Constitution that tho severest scrutiny is exercised in the granting of licences for arras . Subjoined is a brief sketch of the proceeding before the officers appointed to discharge this duly : — Mr _ -ar _ _fiborO , R . M ., and Captain PoX , County Inepector , opened their court in the Tuckey . street police station , on Thursday morning at ten o'clock , for the purpose of granting licences tc keep arms in the city of Cork , In pursuance of the preelamaHon of tha Lord Lieutenant . They were attended by bead constables Crowley , _O'Nell _, and Roe , and a namber of constables and sub-constables , wbo objeoted to all applicants getting licenses who were in any way connected , or even nu _ ected of being connected , with the Confederate Club .. In ihe course of the proceedings ilr Knaresboro stated that his Instructions

      were very special , and were of a most restricted nature _. He could not grant a licence to any person to hold any large quantity of arms , or wbo bad not a legitimate use for them ; and in no case could he licence young men to keep arms who merely wanted them for amusement . He further stated , that he could only license to keep arms ta a _certain amount in this city , which was very limited . A corporation clerk , in the North Maia-street market , named Casey , was objected to by head-constable Crowley , on ths ground tbat he believed he was a member of a club . _Cieey denied that be was a member of any ofthe elubs , and called oa the head , constable to prove it . The head . constable said it was impossible for bim to give snch evidence , bat be knew tbat the applicant practised firing at a targot with a rifle gan , The applicant was refused . '

      Mr J . O'Connor , salt and limekiln works , applied for his licence , and was objected to by the constabulary . Mr Knabesbobo . —It was reported to us that you were a member of bb illegal club 1 AppticANT—I am a member of the Felon Club . Mr _Kn-Risbob . 0 . —Thea , sir , my instructions are positively to _refuse _licenca to any person la any way _conaected with theie dangerous confederacies . Applicant . —I ' m a . man _ possession of extensive pre . raises ; and would you tell mo , if you please , how I am to protect my property ? Mr J . B . Balla & d remarked '—The' Feloa _. ' will p rotect you . Applicant . —I ara as worthy to carry arms as you , for I pay more is tes than you do . Mr J . B . _BaL-Aed . —Indeed , sir , you are not SB worthy ; for I never threatened a breach of the law , while you pride yourself on being a felon .

      Applicant . —As I am refused a licenoa , I tellyoulwlll not turrendtr my arms unless b y force— x will defend them - kith my life , Mr Nicholas _Fitzqeeald , road contractor and civil engineer , residing in Bowling-green-street , applied for a licence to keep aad carry a guu . Mr - . tua- _ obo said , that i > . wan _reported to the Court that Mr _Fitzgerald had att _ ded tho Confederate soiree and other illegal meetings , nnd therefore ho could not be licensed to carry arms , The applicant admitted he attended sueh _meetlHgs , and referred to his residence of 35 years in tho city of Cork as giving him a right to keep arms , Mr _KsAaL-sBoao replied , tbat his instructions wtre peremptory not to license any man who was or had been in any way connected with snch bodies , aad thereforo he could not be granted licence _.

      THB REFEAIi COUNCIL . ( From another correspondent ofthe Times . ) _DcBurr July 22 . —At the head of tbe Confederation which for some time past has existed iu this unhappy country , Btands a Council , which consisted , before Mitchel ' s apprehension , of thirty _aix members . Since that time ita numbers have been reduced te twenty-one , at which they now _staEd . The cause of the reduction waB the very obvious one , that _seoresy had become _essential to the operations of the body , and that it was too unwieldy to _act with that amount of energy and silence which are necessary in an executive constituted for each peculiar purposes . Those

      who understand Irish character will at once see the policy of a step which reduced the probability of dissension by thus diminishing the number of members in the Council . As a further stroke in the same direction , matters have been so arranged in the constitution of the Council , that of its twenty-one members sixteen or seventeen are only important as representing certain icfluences , ready to be thrown into the scale when a movement dees take place , while the remaining four or five are the real leaders and heads of the Council , direct all its operation !" and give body and _Bubstance to its proceedings . 1 should add , that the Council haa no fixed place of meeting , being held now at one member ' _a residence

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      and now at another ' s , aa may have been previously agreed upon . Such being the internal etructure of the Council , it has proceeded for . ome time past steadily to organise the clubs about which the publio bas heard so much . These clubs , while subject to ita authority , sire by no means admil-ed to ita confidence or allowed to be cognioant of its _operations . In fact , they are , I believe , muoh more in tbe dark aB to what takes place at the Council than the Government itself , who , among twenty one Irishmen lea . ued together ostensibly for rebellious purposes , have no doubt found traitors io the republic as well as traitors to the throne . Somo of the loadera ia the Confederation are beyond all question sincere , however infatuated . There are others whose conduct admits of a less creditable solution , as events may yet show . and now at another ' s , as may have been previously

      As to the _oluba and the extent to which they have been organised , I hear from excellent authority that in Dublin the number of armed member , does not exceed 3000 . They consist principally of artisans and mechanics , and ail of them can read and write . This is a singular feature with regard to them , for the mob has not yet joined the movement , and the Confederate leaders are aware , and , indeed , calculate that they must gain its support by _Btrategy . Out of Dublin the club organisation has assumed in ever y direction a very alarming aspect , and has given rise to the most serious uneasiness among tbe well affected . It has made the most rapid progress alon g the line of country extending from Waterford , bv Carri ck-on-Suir and Clonmel , to Tipperary , and

      thence south to Cork , ihe masses of the rural ana town population in the _. o districts are more deeply com promised in the present agitation thaa in the metropolis , and , in all probability , sbould a rising unhappily take place , it will commence there . Recent occurrences are significant on this point , and indicate with tolerable certainty that if rebellion is attempted the Irish patriots don't , at present , intend to take the bull by the horns by beginning their _operafrona in Dublin . That would be a bald stroke _, and , in ene way or other , a decisive one ; but now that the crisis appears to be approaching tbere seems a wonderful amount of reluctance to try conclusions with the garrison of G , 000 men by which Dublin ic ooeupied , and whose high discipline the

      _Confederates have the most ample opportunities of observing by a stroll on Tuesdays or Fridays to the Pbcciix Park . It must not be forgotten , in calculating the issues of a struggle in the metropolis , that the loyal and well affected inhabitants are all well armed , and weuld afc once co-operate with the military . The recent insurrection in Paris bas greatly quickened the alacrity oi the middle classes here to _aui pott tbe government , and men who wonld not previously have whispered their _Bu _. _piciona of the treason whioh was carried on before their eyes now come forward and communicate all they know . The hands of the _sum ' - EH- power have thus been greatly * . ren £ _ - _*__ d , and the mostample information is now in the possession sf government as to the strength and character of this pernicious conspiracy .

      ( From the Morning Chronicle . ) The Nation and the Irish FeiiOn made their appearance to-day . In the morning _Bime police were _statiened outside the Felon office , but tbe _newsvenders oame up in a body , and obtained their supplies , regardless of the warnings of the police . The sale of the two papers to-day has been

      enormous . Regarding tha proclamations , the Nation says : — ' The proclamations are mere waBte paper and wasted words . But they will be followed by aots , and for these the peeple mud prepare . But are the ueople to come alone into contact with the _usui ping government ? Where are the popular authorities ? What is the Lord Mayor of Dublin doing ? These are daily questions asked in every Btreet . The Lord Mayor is doing nothing , and will do nothing . The people ne . d not lo > k to him , except it be to precipitate him from office before his time , an' aot of mercy ' to the city cursed by his care , in whioh we wish them all speed and success . ' Mr M . R . Leyne , in tbe Nation , thus concludes 1 Challenge to Ireland' : —

      The true way to act now is to extend the organisation without pause , by day or night . This will form the country into an army of defence . Then—to watch the preparation for the trials ; aad if tbe British government dare , in defiance of the people ' s will , to pack another jul . y _ . _p'Ie the barricade 1 I like not at al ! tbe assignment of o month for preparation . We bave no such time . Bid the Castle villains dread our being ready for them Ib that interval , they woull improvise a ' Special Com * miBalon' to anticipate and defeat onr action , Let not the paaple dream , then , that they can delay for a month , a week , or a day . They have but _thepresent , Lot them act aB if the hour in whioh t _^ ey read tbese lines were tbe ' _ast of a truce . And then they mill be ready . Another subj et to be explicitly canvassed is the chanceof success , I do not believe , brave friends ofthe clubs , that you will mtet this question with timid _ansi-ty .

      Waterford paused not to measure difficulties or cal . culate probabilities when sbe saw her yeung chieftain marked for vengeance . Had Meagher willed , he conld have held his city against all tbe garrisons south of Dublin . _Fiery _oolumns of tall TJpperarym . n would have rushed to his banner . The men of Limerick , of whom valour is the Inheritance , would have rallied round hira impetuous cohorts . Cork would have furnished Iron rnnhs to his army , Wexford would have carried the ppirit of ' 98 to combat for him . Kilkenny would bavo sent contingents 6 trong and _fearlesB . And the young tribune might have marched through Monster another _Macoabieus . Still was be wise to ' bide the time' until all Ireland shall bo banded , and the plenty ofthe maturing harvest be boarded for the people . Monster is sure . Those who . / ould have Ireland win the struggle , must secure for her ether strongholds io tbe east and west _j yet either p-rtly held fe y England or wanting perfect organisation .

      There will , must be , no defeat this time . If there bs ' twill come from ourselves . Think again ef the _work to be done , and how to do It ! Aot instantly to complete tbe organisation , and our demands will be ceded through fear . For there is no greater coward tban our tyrant . Or , if It be not thus , when shall bo heard in one defiant war-cry , the charging obeer of Tipperary— . the stormy shout of Galway—tbe thunder toncB of Donegal—and that true ol len rally of Wexford f Avengers shall stand on tbe graves famine filled , pluck tbo _. bararook from the diadem of Britain , crown the captives of Newgate , and be hailed as the deliverers of Ireland ! Amen . M . R . Lethe ,

      The accounts frora the south are really very alarming . In the Clonmel Chboniclr of Thursday , I find the following : — 'The city of Waterford still remains in a state of the greatest excitement . Strong reinforcements of military ( 3 rd Buff . ) and constabulary , fully equipped for a campaign , have arrived there for the preservation of the peace , The Lord-Lieutenant ' s Proclamation , ending with the usual phrase ' God save the Queen , ' has been posted all over the town , which was immediately posted

      over , with a counter proclamation , signed ' Thomas F . Meagher , ' and ending « God _eave the People . ' The police , in pursuance of instructions , tore down _Beveral of Mr Meagher's proclamations , but in doing so , they received every possible annoyance and obstruction ; they were _shoveblhere and there by groups of idlers , hooted , and in eome instances pelted , There are several smithies hard at work making pikes , and cart loads of ash poles for pike handles have been brought openly into the town . MEETING OF THE PRIW COUNCIL— MORB PB 0 CLA 1

      _IATIONS . Five o'Clock . —The Lord-Lieutenant presided at another meeting of the Privy Council this day , when it was detei mined to place the following districts under the operation of the Aot forthe Suppression of Crime . In all , the act ia to take effect on the 25 th inst : — 1 . _Countj Kilkenny . 2 . County of the City of Kilkenny . 3 . County of Meatb . 4 . The baronies of _Decles within Drum , Decies witb . out Drum , andCoshmore and C _. _sbbrlde , in the county Waterford . fi . Barony of Kerrlou-rehy , _Klnsale , Courcloo , Klnnl . _? aky , Barretts North , Barretts South , Barrymore , _Kinnatallow , Imokelly _, East _Muskerry , East Carberry ; and Ibaue and _Barrjroe , in tho county Cork .

      Half past Five o'Clock . —It is stated that some arrests under the Felony Act . or for sedition , have been deteamined upon . Mr Meagher has arrived in town from Waterford . Mr Stai . h O'Brien , it is stated , went down to Wexford this morning to inspect tbe club organisation in that district . The Freeman ' s Journal contains a number of resolutions whioh hare been adopted by the Right Rev . Dr Majinn and tha Roman Catholic Clergy of the diocese of Derry . The resolution , which haa special refer ; nee to a junction with the 'Irish League , 'is as follows ;—

      n & ving maturely _comi-or-d the proposed terms for a reunion of all sections of Repealers , to be henceforth called ' The Irish League , ' it affords us the slncerest gratification to find that they ' are such as we can , without any derellctiou of our peace prlnolplos , conscientiously approve , and notwithstanding what has been said to the contrary , we have full confidence in the honesty of purpose and patriotism of tbe parties to these terms of reunion—that both thoir letter and spirit wili be undnvlatingly adhered to in tho Leigue , eo as to work out Ire . land ' s legislative _Independence by the concentration of public opinion , and peace purely _l-gltimat _. aad Christian . The third resolution implores Mr John O'Connell to co-operate with the new League , and the last ia expressive of thaF . ks to Mr Sharman Crawford M . P ., and Mr P . Scrope , M . P ., for their advooacy of the claims of the Irish peasantry . A NEW TREASON JOURNAL .

      The following appears in tha I _ Fbmn of the 22 nd inst . : — On Tuesday next , and on every futuro Thursday and Tuesday , will te published , the _Nettoate Calendar bucoobbo . to tho Ikmh _Tbibone , a political , mllitaiy ' and felonloue journal . Edited by It . D . Williams and Kevin J . O Doh . rt , _, at _preeent prlBonerB in _Nowgate 6 _aoJ , Price , Twopence . 6

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      1 . The object of this j-Hrna ! is to teach the Irish people the ways and means of their deliverance , and the uses and results of freedom when won . 2 . That it may do this effectively , a third of the journal . ill be occupied with military information ,. torn shed by the ablest _an-Horl'le _.. Under the heads _^ of OMy Fighting , ' 'Guerilla War , ' Military - _^ . _« 'Munitions of War , ' all the requisite _knowledjre wilj be carefully arranged and classified ; and the 'WarDepartment , of the United _Ikishhan , and the ' Praol cal In . . motor ' and 'Easy Lessons ea Military Matters' of the Nation , reprinted entire . ,,, i-i , _ 3 _. With tho Dame object the journal wiU be published in a convenient pocket shape , at the eoavenlent pocket price of Twopence , and to facilitate its worh , it nut De published IWtCE a wbek ; the opinion of the editors , en an Irish revolution , being tbat— ' If 'twere done , when ' tis _don ° , 'Twere well 'twere done qulokly . ' " ~~ , , _, „ »«« rh the Irish 1 . The object of _thisj _. _wnjrf ' •*• _"" » and the

      _,. Several approved Felons bave promised their _asslstance ; and the editors have te nnnounoe , that articles will appear in early numbers from C . G . Duffy , John Martin T . D . M'Ghee , M . M D . rmott , M . Doheny , Joseph ' Brenan , Jam _^ _s F . Lalor , and a host of _comp . tent felonious oontributora . —Office , 11 , _Trlnlty-slreet . ( From a correspondent of the- Morning Herald . )

      calamitous intelligence . I deeply regret to state , that there are account ) from all parts of the country of the re-appearance _^ of the potato disease of ' 47 . Ita destructive operation may be judged by the following note from a Protestant clergyman , resident near _Tullamore , in the King ' s county : — Friday , July 21 . * # The potato _dlsenso has broken out in tbis neighbourhood with awful virulenoe , I haveju 3 t returned from an inspection of several farms , and the Bight I

      witneBeed was most _distressl- g . Last Wednesday there waa not a sign of failure , Yesterday , the _stalba were drooping as if from the _rain—to-doy all is rottenness . The ash . leaf kidne > , which escaped so well before , appear - now worse than any other . Great alarm prevails amon (? the _poar farmers , who have plimted large quantitieB of potatoes . From Kerry , Mayo , Cork , Waterford , and the midland counties , the reports are equally distressing . The northern counties do not complain much , bat enough appear , to warrant the apprehension that the disease has commenced in the province of

      Ulster . ( Abridged from the Times , July 25 . )

      CHARGE OP FELONY AGAINST BMITH 0 BRIFN . Dublin , Jclt 23 —A warrant was last night issued for the apprehension , on a charge of felony , of Mr W . Smith O'Brien . The hon . gentleman , as reported yesterday , suddenly left town for Wexford . It was rumoured that warrants were out against Mr Meagher and Mr D & rey M . 'Ghe ., hat oa _. _nqv-. ty I Snd that such is not tbe fact , and that as yet these gentlemen are free to spout treason without let or hindrance . They are , beyond comparison , the two most dangerous men in connexion with the movement , the former especially , on account of his restless energy and that mastery of language which at once charm , and frenzies an Irish mob to the commission of any enterprise , however desperate or hopeless .

      From the tone of the last provincial intelligence it would appear tbat Waterford continue , to be the centre of the insurrectionary movement ; and to tbat quarter are all the energies of the government directed . An idea of the present condition of tbat ounty may be gathered from the tone of an article published in a local paper totally opposed to the physical force movement . The admission of the declension of the power of the Roman Catholio priesthood , by one of their own organs , is an ominous sign of tbe times : —

      • For months past , ' says the Waterford Chbohicle , ' we have handled with no coward spirit the apologies put forward for the government by their venal scribes ; and with a full _consciouaneaa of the ills wbich tbe government organs would eoon accumulate upon ub , we laboured to give them a trpe pioture of tbe sufferings of the people , accompanied by the honest expression of our fears that the day was nigh at hand , when , throwing off all restraint , aB well that of laics aB _eocleaiastica , the people would _. lutch the pike and _Bternly defy their rulers . Our warnings were disregarded , and our advice was valued at the price of a fool's ravings . Because we spoke through a journal professing repeal principles , we were pronounced delirious by the organs ofthe

      government ; and onr apprehensions were met by deo _arations that the people would never take up arms in a body against the government . The people are now armed in all parts of the country ; and the pike and the rifle , the scythe and the pickaxe , are graBped by sinewy hands to beat back the _eacroachmentfl of a government thoroughly hated by all sections of Irishmen . What say the Whig croakers to this change in the disposition of the people ? How are they to be quieted ? Bow is the experiment of diear _ aing them to be essayed ? Verily , the crisis has at length arrived , and indications of & bloody struggle are most daily supplied , now in our populous cities , and anon in sequestered districts—to-day on the apex of a lofty mountain ten thousand voices

      shout for repeal , and the next day are assembled , at a moment ' s notice , in a small ill-garrisoned town , 1000 hale , determined men , armed with pikes and athirst for vengeance . What will the time-serving , _vacillating , double-dealing , eowardly minister say to this state of things ? The people in almost every district have flung away the peace policy and are determined to try their Btrenglh with the _governmetit . We have now to notice a new feature in the present determination of the people which should command the grave attention of every man who takes an interest in the welfare of the country . For some weeks past tbe influence of auch of tho Catholio clergy aa do not sanction the clubs , and are opposed

      to the new teachings , has been declining apace—their advice is disregarded , and their admonitions are without effect . This , certainly , is not more novel tban disastrous , and wbat is worse , the strange spectide of one clergyman presiding at a club that had been denounced by his fellow clergyman will of course strengthen the people's distrust in those ofthe priesthood whose opinions are not favourable to their views . And tbis ia not confined to one or two parishes , but is _taking the wide circle ofthe island . Thus , then , stands the position of the people—determined to advance , they assert they will use their arma , and will not be beckoned back by any authority . '

      I have been informed that tbe Dublin clubs are unanimous in their determination to retain their arms and refuse to obey the terms of the proclamation . They are , however , surreptitiously conveying away large quantities of the munitions of war to th . unproclaimed counties . Several hundred stand of arms have been transferred to Carlow . Wicklow , and Wexford . Two _regiments of infantry are hourly expected from England . THB POTATO CHOP ,

      Misfortunes , it is eaid , seldom como . ingle . The weather continues wet , cold , and har . ii , and without giving heed to all tbe croakings of the ravens , it is unfortunately undeniable that the accounts of the potato blight are becoming daily more numerous . The province of Munster generally appears to be the greatest sufferer . The idea of another famine , su peradded to the probabilities of an insurrection , is too fearful for contemplation .

      ( From another correspondent of the Times . ) If , therefore , a rising ia to take place at all , it cannot now be long delayed . At the meeting of the clubs last night Tuesday next was mentioned as the day . They are to meet , however , tonight again , and their planB may bo altere . When it does take place the insurrection will probably be simultaneous in four or five towns , such as Cork , Waterford , Kilkenny , Clonmel , and perhaps even Dublin . That some movement is contemplated here also seems clear , from the agitation whioh the Confederates are endeavouring to foment among the sympathisers in Liverpool , and from the fact that Hyland and Co ., the great pike makers , have discontinued working here , and are going to light their furnacea on the other side of tho Channel .

      But whatever may be attempted in the metropolis , tbe struggle will commence in reality in the south , and on the line stretching from Cork to Tipperary , and thence to Waterford . In theso districts there is too much reason to believe that large masses of tbe people are quite ripe for rebellion , and that even if their leader , were alow in coming forward they would drive them to insurreotion . ( Frem the correspondent ! of tho Morning Chronicle . The Limbbick Reporter announce } the arrival of Mr Riohard _O'Gormau , jun ., the member of the Irish deputation , who remained in Paria to acquire knowledge in the erection of barricades . Mr _O'lior . man haa been deputed from head quarters to _insptct tbe oluba in tho counties ef Limerick and Clare . Mr Butt , Q C , who _addreesed the juries on behalf of Mr Smi _ O'Brien and Mr Meagher , in the recent State trials , has been retained for the defence of Mr Duffy , at the approaching commission

      . Regarding the state of John Mitchel at Bermuda , the Limerick Reporter co & tains the following : — ' We are prepared to state , upon the authority of a letter reoeived in thiB city from tbe Catholic chaplain of Bermuda , the Rev . Mr M'Leod , tbat Mr Mitchel is not Bubjeoted to the usual convict severity ; hia health continues pretty good , though his spirits are not the best , und he labours under asthmatic affeotion , to which he had been naturally much subject at home . From tho day to entered the hulk at Bermnda , to which he is _consi _^ _ni-d , the Rev . Mr M'Leod writes that every Catholio and Irishman have been removed from it '

      ( From the correspondent of the M orning Advertiser . ) Dublin , July 2 _.. ~ _Asyct the proclamation ofthe city of _Dubliu has onl y opctatcd to tho disadvantage and annoyance of _well-dl-poted parties , who were endeavouring to comply with tho provisions of the law . On Saturday _laafc several persona were arrested , and held to bail oti the charge of being found with arms in the street . In every instance it was shown

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      that the parties were actually on the way to _den _- _nif the arms with the authorities , previous to obtain ; - ! the necessary licence ; but it appears the _m _^ _lt trates have na discretion in such cases , and the _ conscious delinquents were bound over to app ear u " fore the Commission . The foll 6 w _ ng is from the Mail , this evening -. The squadron under Sir Charles Napii r hai ' bec . ordered for service on the Irish coast , to co . n pe ( a » n with the authorities in the event of an om break An _enoampmentis formed in the Pho 3 nix . « rh The 75 th Regiment was thiB day placed under can . * vaas . ' that the parties were actually on the way to _deoo . u the arms with the _authoritieB , previous to _obtaiZ .

      ( From the correspondent of the Daily News . ) The Belfast Vindicator gives a flourisbine ar count of the five Belfast clubs . The same _au . hnrj _» " Btates that the organisation goes on in tbe count _' _en of Down , _Monaghan , Tyrone , and Cavan . In Co naught also—nayi even in perishing Mayo—th . have their clubs . A now society , on a new pl an -Z about to be established in Galway . It ia called ( ha ' Faugh _a-Ballaugb , ' and no man iB admi ssibl e who does not present himself with arms . Galway had as well keep clear of the proclaiming power . The suspension ofthe Habeas Corpus has excited Clonmel to nn unwonted degree , On _hp-rim _* the news yesterday , the John Mitchel , the ' cruet' club of Tipperary , was suddenly called to council , tj _,. clergy endeavoured to deprecate the infatuat _ from dangerous courses . Lectures were delivered from the altar at tbe Bevcral masses , thongh , I believe with little effect . I have heard that Dean Burke was hooted in tbe chapel when commencing to a _^„ dress words of peace to the deluded _.

      Dublin , July _9- > . — Two or tbree person" who were charged by the police for selling thc Felon and Nation newspapers were held to bail at College atreet Police-court yesterday , to stand their trial at the next Commission-. Prison Preparations . — Preparations upon a scale commensurate with the _necessities of the time are making , to render available tbe prison accoramodation of the country , and to insure the safety of the prisons themselves from external or other operations . The building in the Phoenix-park , called Mountjoy Barracks , is being fitted upwithhammeeka and other accommodations for a considerable number of inmates , and rumour haa it tbat it is intended for

      the safe cu „ tody of our expected political prisoners . A military cordon will bo drawn around the barracks , which , together with the Btrength of its position , and a good garrison , will , it is supposed , ensure its inviolability , The boards of superintendence of the ordinary prisons of Dublin , Newgate , Richmond , and Smithfield meet together to-morrow , by special invitation of tbe authorities , to consult for the safety of tbe prisons , as well as for augmenting the accommodation they afford . Arrangements will be made for accommodating within each a considerable Dumber of troops , and tbe gates and such portions of the walls as may present easier access , will be defended by barricades .

      MB JOHN O CONNBLX . Mr John Q'C <_ flell co _\ _-iea *_ _$ peopio of _. _n-. and not to fight . If tbey do he will go to America , and take with him the bones of his father . Thn is the substance of a long published address bearing his signature . [ As , _Jofcm ' _s countrymen say . — ' Joy go witb him acd a bottle of moss , If he never returns the . ' 11 be no great loss , '] ( From a correspondent ofthe Morning Chronicle . ) Dublin , July 24 . —There is a report here ( which I

      can scarcely credit ; that Lord Clarendon intends to have all the heads of _^ the _Younir Ireland party arrested , and detained in gaol , without any trial , until the expiry of the new act . If he does this , ho will have them all as fresh as possible for the work m March . Failures in conviotion can now do tho government no harm ; thoy will only _estab ' uh the inefficiency of trial by jury in the present state of feeling in Ireland , and enable government to come to parliament with a good case for an altered mode of trial .

      ( From another correspondent of the Morning Chronicle . ) A bloody , determined , hand . to-hand fight will _Jn . evitably be fought before one month passes shonld coercion bills be the remedy for Irish grievances . One hardware shop here sold seventeen suna on the day before the new proclamation _taok effect . All the arms here—say 5 , 000—will be interred this week , unless the arrest efthe leaders , under the suspension of the H & _beaa Corpus Act , be acted upon . Not a gun or a pike will be given up in this district . A person in Carrick has given a supply of iron to the people , and a gentleman is reported to have allowed his timber to be cut down for pike handlps—I suppose , to conciliate the people . All appak of civil war as a thing unavoidab _' e , and tho children draw pikes with chalk on the pavements . It ia hoped tho clergy and tbe government will manage to ward off the terrible misfortune .

      ( From the correspondent of the Times . ) The intelligence from the provinces is upon the whole rather meagre . All that can be gathered from it is that the armament is progreBsi * e without any sign of abatement . Galway is becoming a nest of clubs , and in Louth , according to le al authority , the pike and rifle Kama ' s at its height , ex gr . ;—' We are happy to be in a position to state that the people of this and the adjoining counties _ocntinue to prepare arms—such aa _pikea and rifles—with increased eagerness - , and we trust that in a few days there will not be a man in Louth who will not be in a position , if necessary , to defend himself and the right ? of his country . '

      Private accounts from Waterford , received ' this afternoon , speak very alarmingly of the probability of an outbreak , notwithstanding the presence there of a largely increased military and police foree . The populace are in a state of the highest excitement . A gentleman who arrived to-day from North Tip . perary states that the whole Riding is ripe and ready for disturbance—that , in faot , it is a mistake te suppose that Waterford is the centre of the provincial organisation . Ti pperary , he says , iaone monster club .

      The Roman Catholic Bishop of Leighlin ( Dr Ilelly ) is going through his diocese preaching peace , and exhorting his deluded flocks to surrender tbeir arms arid ammunition , _admonishing them of the Utter folly of going to war with one of the most highly disciplined armies on the face of the earth . The advice of tbe right rev . prelate is treated with the utmost derision and scorn by the peasantry of Kildare , Carlow , and the Queen ' s county .

      ( From the correspondent of the Times ) Dublin , July 25 —The course of action recommended bythe' Provisional Government * is said tobe this , —thatthe heads ofthe Exeoutive should f 3 ll baok upon the Btrongholds of the clubs in the provinces , and , _eafely intrenching themselves undercover there , defy the government to proceed to extremities , -thus throwing upon the latter the enus of commencing the insurrection . With this object in view , Mr O'Brien has retreated to Wexford , Mr Meagher to Waterford , Mr O'Gorman , jun ., to Limerick , and Michael D-heny to _Cashel or Clonmel . If this be anything beyond the merest brag , tbe way of government ia _ clear as noon-day , h would appear that the formation of clubs in Belfast bas been already on a scale sufficiently extensive to excite some alarm in the government , and ac * cordingly , precautionary measures have been taken to insure the continuance of tranquillity in that quarter .

      GOVERNMENT SECURITIES . There was a further fall to-day in the prices of government securities . The Three per Cents , opened and closed at 85 ; _Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent . Stock , £ 5 8 . 83 8 . i } ¦ Bank Stock , 186 . Net a single bargain in railway or other shares . Business almost neminal .

      ( From the correspondent of the Daily News ) The liberty of writing from Newgate ia to hc limited henceforth . The superintendents have ordered that tbe prisoners be not allowed to publish any articles dated from the prison , or with their _signature 3 attached . A new * Military . Political , and Felonious' publication , entitled tbe' Newgate Calendar , ' was to have appeared to day , written by the inmates but tho order of the board has stayed the issue . ' _Cl' _-nmel . July 21 th . —I have arrived thus far in my progress through the Bouth , and muat at once tell you that the disaffected party are manifesting a spirit , and a determined spirit of resistance to the

      , government . I do not wish you Bhould infer from this that an insurrection is inevitable . I merely urge the fact , in order to show how necessary it is that the authorities should be on the qui v vc and how important that they should make a judicious disposition of the limited powers at their command * . * . * , * lf tao _disaffeoted Bucceed in surprising and overpowering any force , no matter how small , the c _ _st quences will be dreadful . Rumour will magnify the success a hundredfo'd , and the whole country will rise en masse . Ic may be truly faid that With them the first blow will be . not merelv the half , but the whole battle . ' 7

      ( From the third edition of tho AforniW chronicle July 27 ch . ) Watbrpobd , July 25 . arrival of messrs meagher and o ' brien at carrick on-su 1 _r—ohbat excitement thbrk , and ai _WATERFOHD-PLIQUT OP _ _.-, __ sxs FROa _ _iBKF 0 _itD —OPEN REBELLION . Intense anxiety prevailed in this city iast night and throughout to-day , as numerous reports were _Rfl'iat ; at ono time it was stated Mr Meagher was advancing against Waterlotd , atthe head of the

      Carrick-on-Suir clubs , a _determined band of 2 , 000 men of a hardy daring character , _auited to any desperate enterprise ; at another time it was stated that the disaffected of Clonmel , Cashel , Fethard , _Killenaule , Callan , and Nine-mile-house , were to storm our poor city . These _reportsaroso from the fact that William Smith O'Brien and Thomas Francis Meagher reached Carrick-on-Suir at half-past five io the eveni-g from K Ikeniiy ; on their route to Callan , they addressed thousands , and told them for the present not to interfere with the police or soldiery , as they should perform their duties but when the

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 29, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_29071848/page/6/