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      - 6 THE _NORTHERN STAR July 29 , 1848 . ... i - -- ¦ . ,. ' ' ' ¦ iiiiiri _^ _i * tfJg _SgBBiliMlli » . ' iJB _.. Hl . w » jeB " _** " " ' ¦ ¦ . t _uti v .

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      MB D _0 _HEST . ( From the corre ? pondent oi ths Times ) The llberaticc _, on bail , of Mr Michael _Daheny afforded that gentleman aa opportunity of oe . iverm a _higkly inflsntnatoiy _hira _^ e to a mob of _^ _sympathisers at N _.-naah . In tha course or hi ? andr _* _-. he gave the following pi * : _« of _advice , _wbish _. it ¦ " to be _cbsemd , wilt be implicit * obeyed b } tae wild blood _ofTipetrarv : '— , u _„„_ .. _Lst every aai who is _s'msg « ough to bear k weapon join the data . ( Cheers ) Let there ba no V * J . v . u „ >< " _ nn _mooter ru 'e' . _mga , i : o demonstrations like io — no nu-. _^ _« , TOiniraou _* resolutions . ( Hear , tea .. ) Lc tne re-Sntion he _h-re _( _placin * his right hind upon hilea '" amid loud _cheering Let . that _rauuiwn b « to tree this Wand before t he ye _^ . r is over or to let it

      _ co _froa . _ves hr ever . ( Enthusiastic _cafeis , and _hd-a oi' We _wi ! . _' ) _Uavo no m . re idle bnff . » onfry ; listen to bo mors _noMinse , but _prepare Sor the trial _etrnJg'O li & e men . ( Caeere , and cries of' We will . ' ) Meeting hsrc . prcclaimins _y-ur wr-m s and _cxpr-ssing yoar hatred of English _misrn ' . c , will not benefit Toar " country ; n ? , it will n-t . Tber ., swear by AI mighty Gea , _rhai this year will end the _nvseries cr Ireland , or b : for ever the son of the branded shv _? . { Loud cheer . " * , and cries of * Wc will . ' ) Th ; re is no necessity to violate any ! av ; ob : . v tho bw , hut form dabs ; hwe yeur wardens—tliey raay , if trey _pleiie , call them *** rives _orncars ; yoa _shaul-J _divid- * the dubs into _section *! , and Ut every can _brinir with him a-

      many as he can ; sad let u * have s . million of brave , stout joang men—( cheers )—confederates throughout _Irelsn _**! , _armsd or not _srraed . I trust they will ba armed wfae : e th ** law ali < _ws it . ' A Voice . —They cannot take from us the arras _whrch Gud g ; f ? _'j US . * Mr _Doaasr- _—Lsfc tho _pe- _pb bs . _ii-med , if tht * y like , with a r'U _? , or with what- they c _* iil' tho Q _.-. ie-. n ofweapon _^'—fhe pike . I , for on ? , am not _h-y . il ; I sunn * t an over zealous loyalist . ( Laughter . ) I owe the Queen allegiance ; and ihe owes mft protection . The rale of her Majesty ' s _English government in Ireland _must be overthrown . ( _Cheers ) Ic is th ? ri _*; bt o ' every Irishman to _bmisa from this country the authority aud laws of _tho-e felons csiied _goveruaseat . ( _Cheers )

      * Mr Dohekv then _descended from the cart , and lathe eveain _? _, whilst en his way to _Templederry , he delivered the following remarks iu Barrack street . * Dj not mind talking about _foreign war or foreign aid . Yourselves must meet the English fee on Irish Boll . Mifeo no man an enemy of yours . Be the friend of tha Protestant . « A Voice . —Three cheers for tha Protestants . ( Cheerc . _) I care not how _sson I aty be transported , bnt m ? lite is at yonr _service . ( Load _chesrs . ) * A Voice . —Tipperaryi 3 at yoar service ; wa are st yoar command .

      • Mr _Djhssi _, —I came here a sort of felon ; lam Eoro I am noi _gnins away a felon ; bnt all I tell ysu is this —that I shall not leave _Ireland until I leave a mark behind rae . ( C & eers . ) Remember that ey * last worcU to yon _hera are ta nnite , combine , and confederate , and be well prepared when the time comes . ( L _3 ad cheers , and crie 3 of ' We will , we will . ' )'

      THE _KSURfiECTHWlBS UOTfiilEST . ( Abridged from the Times ) _Dublts , Jci . y 21 . —So far tke utmost tranquillity prevails ; but in this ceuntry a lull i 3 always open to _EttspiciOD _, and people as certainly prepare forthe Interruption _, to the calm a 3 mariners would for _thfapproaching storm . Silence 13 the mo 3 t dangerous element of Ir ish agitation . Up to tfce present , the _spprehensiofiB of disturbance , _hswever remote , ate confined ( o the metropolis ; aid of the result of any insane attempt' to levy war * in the capita ! , there can ba bat one reasonable conclusion — that it woald be a . _sangtrHsj / e & eutcjot an hour or two's duration , terminating In the annihilation of the in-Bnrgaitj . and the farther * prostration of the country ' s eaergies for half & century tocome . _Itissla ' ed that

      orders wera issued yesterday to the Custom-house authorities . to _s-j & rcb . for and seize all arms and ammunition whieh the disaffseted are bnsily importing into Dablin and other parts , aad a vi gilant scrutiny has been established . Itisqnifenotoriocs thatsome of the" felonious' gunsmiths' shops in the city are _s _^ _solutely _gattei of their deadly wsreB . Neither gun nor rifle , musket , or fowling-piece , pistol or _blaaderbuss , is to be seen in the windows . These rapid sales must haTe been effected within thelast few days . Hyland , the ' pikemaber to his excellency the Lord-Lieutenant and Colonel Browne , ' has pat ont the fires of his forge ia Charles-street and transferred his anvil and other apparatus to a southern county , free from the incumbrance of a _gOTernmeat proclamation .

      It i 3 tho general impression that tho provinces are not yet ripe for an ontbreak , and that until the provincial clutB are more widely extended the Confederates will make no _histils demonstration , either in tb _£ _metropolis or _elsawhere ; nor ia it calculated that the organisation in the country can consume any - thing like a formidable attitude for two , or perhaps three , months more . Sana _gentlsmes in the north have redaimed against ta & policy of withdrawing a regiment from that district for service in the south ; but their objections were met by an assurance from the Execufive , that it was indispensably necessary to concentrate the army a 3 much as . possible in the disaffected ferric *; -- , and that for the present , at least , there was no remeiv for the alleged grievance .

      _Preclsmafcions have bsen iraned this day , calling upon all persons in the county _atsd city of Dublin ( not qualified to carry arm 3 in accordance with the provisions nf ths act ) to deposit such arms at the police station nearest to their residences befare the _JBthof July . No _licsEces have ham granted with oat strict inquiries as to tha character of the persons seeking io have their arsis registered , their position In life , and whether they are in any way connected with _thsClnbs , or ' Irish League . * Tne most _re-^ _ectable men are subjected to these queries—the _potied going from _honsd to house to collect the _neesasary information prior to the applications ta regzs _' er being taken into _conodeia'ion by the parties appointed to do that duty .

      In Gork there was Bams exoiSment on the aifiTal ef the intelligence from Dablin that that city was _proclaimed by the Privy Council . The Refojiteb tins describes the scene : — 'Shortly after the arrivalof the proclamation in the city yesterday , two _axasnted orderlies were sent off to Ballincollig to _ceteris the artillery , asd at about eeren o ' clock last _eveaing four pieces and a mortar were seen entering by Great George street , uadsr an escort of the 12 th irinc _^ _rs . As the head-quarters of the Lancers had only eome in that day a large _concoorae of people assembled to sea them , when great excitement _^ rang up amongst the people , which was further _Btxeased by same _inooasiderate jeering and _sccfiiag ai them . The Lancers having left the artillery at the barracks were returning to _Bzliincoilig , when their reappearance in the _stresU renewed the

      exeitement which was fast subsiding , and they were sainted wi < h Jeers and shouts . One woman walked up-to the rear guard of the troop and _spafe at them , when a trooper laid hia lance on her head without anj intention of injuring her , bnt thia only caused greater uproar . The troops _havins passed on large _saabera of persons assembled on the Parade , whence some of them proceeded to the police guardhouse and _OHimenced hooting atthe constabulary , upon which tha police got under arms snd proceeded to drive tnsm into the centre of the Parade with the bayonets .. Had not Mr Walker come np , who ordered the constabulary into barrack *) , serious consequences would have resulted . We understand that oa Satariij tbere will teau addition , of 200 police made to file present force in the city , the expense of which will ba levied on the city , and fifty soldiers are to be _bartered in each polioe guardhouse . '

      _SEBFMStOS OP THB HiBSiS _COBPOs MIT . The announcement of Lord John Russell ' s intention to apply this day to Parliament for additional powers to crush insurrection in Ireland , reached here try electric telegraph early in the forenoon , and had a thunderbolt fallen upon the city it conld not have created greater dismay or terror .

      ( From the Morning Herald . ) The Nation and Faros of this day ara more Yike proclamations published in a barricaded city , from _vhich the troops of the lawful sovereign had just been driven , thin newspapers _bearing the Crown stamp , which entitles them to a free passage through allthe _pdst-offiees Still in the p 03 _sesaien of a partially deposed monarch . The first-named j _ournal has flung of all aemb ' ance of restraint . John Mitchel never _« _ent so war in hi 3 Ukikd _Istsrmax as Mr Daffy—a pmoaer in Newgate on a charge of felony—has gone in his paper of thiB day . Tha leading article is entitled the ' The _Casaa Belli , ' is dated from Newgate prison , and signed * C . G . Z ) . ' - :

      THE CASUS BELLI . The long-pending war with England has actually _cnaisieaced . We have been formally _snminoaei to surrender at dUcmioa , The metrc'KiUs _, and the chief _strongb—Mi of nationality in the island , are _auiscioaily _comxaasded to deliver np their arms to Eagland . The power of , the uation , regimented into repeal clubs , is wraed to dubind itself without parley or daisy . Nearly fcr ty _prUoners of all ranks and conditions now in the , _gsads ofthe public enemy , as host ages for ths people , await s _e nmmary coari : tion , and a trenchant sentence . Ub _national press of the capital has been practically _tapprssssa—one tectiea no longer ventures te atter the

      _faaguage . of resistance ; the other is onl y published hy open aad _adriied defisnee ofthe English _anthoritieu To this pus the _coatnt has oaaie at last and at this no _congest can _psose j the _fiaal _itsaa is not far cff . Tn * t harrest which we fandly hoped would ripen with oar ripening hopes , wiU sae them alread y _crooned ani etasammatea , or scattered to the four winds _liks chftfif Wore thi wianuw . Hay Goi deal with tha cause ofthe people in ' thi * perilous extremity _escordisg to his justie * . We baTe boras onr wrongs in silence till silence •**• a Etu And a reproach ; and now when we are _prieitd WtnebitUe , to stand np for onr very _liras _, in oar ewn bad , we beseech the jut God that onr came may prosget at far as It is pare and _rbrbteoai , « nd no fcrtaer-

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      I h-l'eve the issue that ib n _? w raised will decide the _emotes- , for this _jeneration . I _bellevo It will decide it , though ono cartridge is net _baraei in the s : ruggle . If En _; lan 4 ca-. cosmic ; h- ee _uxctsscs Rith the impunity of a de . pot , Ireland la utttily end ignobly overthrown . Sh will < jie like a b ; _gs ; ar and _maks po sign . In revo . iti m _" . a rt treat is _fatul ; in Ireland , where the memory f '• _" _* > hiunts all out _fiite ?* . hopes lik : a mocking fiend , it -. _'ou : d _qa--nr . h xbe wry _fi-ul cf the country . Tivo m tiM . s huice tbe muster-roll of R _^ _pealero _ititiy ba »» 011 ' , _t'e hatred o'England may be as intense , but If ' . ; c _clu ' _is , the _; rtus _, an i th ..- prestige _u- _< _3 gono , tho _pi'Wdt : o resist her Kill have rW nwaj- _lifc _? a dr _^ nm , n t _Xx \ he _ar-as end thn _orga-i _suion alone , potent us _tliry _aiw ,

      _b-n iu that of whio ' i ti ej were but the signs nmt _sjint'Ols . For _po _^ r does n _^ t resMo In »« _- < . _lleil _nuttlbijrs Or 111 V _^ _rtrttiion of cqulpnv .-at , but Ir a sa' tie element _whli-li _iitithir adjutant nor ar-, curcr csn computo . It _resld . _e _m-v . nly in _thestlf-reli . ncof ape pie which _ts-dny mnj * ork _mlraal .-a , und to mo _t-jW _t-vuportt _* _* , _IDOUgll _HOt n -, \ ea is _missing fivn the rr . nk _? . _N-iked _lianda ami nn _-MTne _> ' srul , •»< = oi' ol , Aro _etr- _'niir than a _hlrcliotf _fplrii triced ia ' steel ; nnd Irclsnd is _fcr-nidnbl-. < to-day _tstii'ti y _ke-iuso _the has -hit a ml . lioro foimidubie ih . n ' " . ' 43 , _beciu-o tr at s _^ _-ul U tr . oru Intense . But If it fC ie . woe to her _atin sham ; only tho dead hulk ofa s-uio i Will reimin—on ' . y a carcass to be trampl d upon bv tiie iron h . e ; of !>• r _.-ppre-scr .

      It is a solomn on 1 _terriMa responsibility to _advlao a nation to prii its _hopts on the battle fi Id . But it is no : the r . or- ; _responsibility . To peril nnd blast them , wi ; h _>? . _iab'Ule fi Id—to permit them to fall to piece ,-bv the _faial dry rot of inaction—to tee _insm lost w' . th . ou * . honour , gr _^ _yini'atfey _, cr the chance of redemptioncu ; ioit by * o _eftflaleesardiceorincnpacity-. tfeat is thi hell ia _wtich th re is co _onsol .-. _tlon . The _qu-stlon of pew _i-r war is not oae f \ r Ire _' ond to-day . She has alrvadv ia _t-. rms _th-.-ai _- _-s _. _prtciae and deliberate _proclaimed a war of _indt-pen . lence . From ths pr . _pular tribun ? , in thc p -. polar pres = _, from the green Ljll . alde , ln the forum of toe _crowded city ; in the very midst ol the _iV-roi _. n senateitsel _*' , it has been proclaimed in her name : ha : tii « _liaiit ef tr . _dnr ; _ince w _; S nt _ba-id . And Gad is

      our viitnt ; g 9 . not rashly ir withou : weighty causi _* . * * * * Tho aristocracy in whom we had _tru'tedstool _rewaled as selfish , hardened , and unscrupulous—without _chivalry and without faith . Then , and co * . _unti' then , wc cast them away , and asked what other cure wa ? thtr . j for our desperate malady . Alas , what cure was thera left but one . The remedy must still bo _pr- 'portionate to the disease , and tho _'epth of human suff ring and degradation can only ba medicined by the herght of _humsn daring and devotion . We heard the

      potent specific muttvred in the _musqaatry of _Palermo , wo _ht-ard it again sounding in tho deeper echo struck bj the fl / in _^ _f-jtt of ministers and of _KiDgi . It was trim peted to ns from every tnd of _Europs in the litany ef r ' _slttg _es ' . _Ioss , co ono of whom ro 3 e against its op-P'eKor * in vain . Aod then , at length , with clear deii . _beraiioa . ani .- ' all knowledge of all the perils and all tho _respon ? ib'lity _, bnt with assured filth in God ' s _previu-ucs ard the _j'isiice of our cause , we bade England choose speeiilj between concession and the sword . We formally _proclaimed a wir of _independence _.

      And now the time is when that pledge must be pro _* ript ! y fulfilled , or as formally dishonoured . * * * # We caanot plead that we are takes by surprise . When John Mitchel was _condoned to Bermuda we received formal notice thai _Englaad had accepted our challenge . We cannot doabt the sympathy of the people . A spirit older asd sterner than ' 43 has re-appeared amon ? them . Wherever the English government have laid bands on a _prisoner there ths people , with the trae Instinct of manhood , prepared to resist , Iu _Cashal , in Keiagh , in Waterford , in _K-. _'fcenny , in Carriebon-Sair , by the door of Newgate , on ths bills of Castlewellan _, the voice or one mau might have soasded the tocsin of s national rcvolut on , * # * # The moment of lime that files the destiny of generations is near athand . How villi Ireland come through this ordeal !

      I dare not answer , I know she possesses passivo courage without limit . There h a legion of men in the frost of this battle who would not yield an inch before exile or death . The courage of endurance that makes martyrs Is as pleat ? as it 6 ver was in any uation _, Bnt the daring and adventurous g ? nius that begins a great undertaking , —tbe fiery vehemence that _ioei not atop to _calcalite , —or the _praetrating , far-reaching eagle _spirli _, iu whom _ptuience Is Instinct , bat who , lik * Bacon , counts upon audacity ss ths surest element of success—these are not fo common . Ireland , in this terrible crisis , may fall a victim to conscience * whose _eensibiliy is no : healthy bet morbid ; snd the greatest of all human afflictions may coma of the amiable fear of doing wrong . God grant the peoplo and their leaders that _wiidam which has trust in the indomitable spirit and _resources of a nation struggling for _Uberty ; that wisdom _Thich does not count upoa the _convenienoe of to-day , or tae risk of an hour , but takes counsel for the _permsnest prosperity and honour of the nation _.

      For _mysflf I will say , that , if the people are _robbad of their arms—if tbe clubs are broken up—If all the organi . it ' on and discipline won with such toil are flung away in au hour—if the spirit of the country , eo _miraculously evoked , be again permitted to die out , while the leaders of the people look on in dumb _submissisn — if these _thiols can happen after the terrible lessens we have before us written in the blood imd team of the _natian , I , for one , will not curse the packed jury that sends me far from such a spectacle . With ma w « r ie not n natural or _instinctive resource ; I accepted itenly as the lost al'erna _* iv 8 4 but I _accepted it without _restsrvatton , I counted upon resisting at tbe first point where further deley would damp the ardour ofthe people . I knew

      _trell ihat there wero limits h their patlenoe , for they had been betrayed . That a certain point passed , thousands of brave raen would fly from the country in despair , that our self reliance would die out like _aee ' ttng sun , in a single hour—that the obscone vermin who have grown fat ou our misery would _re-appcar , aud a new reign of fraud begin a thousand times more hopeless than tho first . If that hour is at hanl , er if ever it shall come , may I not stand npon Irish soil to see it . The _kaell ef oar hopes is the _Baddestsound I can ever hear ; though the judge and thejury tbat await me Bhould do the will of England without scruple . Hewgate _Priion . C . Q . D .

      ( From the Times . ) * * * Withsuoh undiluted treason aa Saws through tie columns of the Nation- and Felon « . t is difficult to knew where to _begiu or wher . i to stop , Mr Gavan Duffy , as the senior journalist , is perhaps entitled to _precedes ; and herd is an extract from one of hia appeals to firms : — B se , then , men of Irelaud , since Providence so wills it . _R ' _-tB in yeur cities and yonr fields , on your hills , in your _vslleys , by yoar dark mountain passes , by your rivers and lakes and ocean-washed shores ! Rise as a nation ! England has dissevered tbe bond of alleglauoe . Rue—not now to demand justice from a foreign kingdots , bat to make Ireland an Independent kingdom for ever . It is no light task God has appelated yoa . It

      is a work of trial and temptation . Oh be steadfast in th ? _trial- « b 9 firm to resist the temptation . You hare to combat _iBjustice , therefore yon must _yoursslves be just . Yoa have to overthrow a despot power ; but yoa must establish order , not suff .-r anarchy . Remember it is not against individuals or parties * or sects you wage war , but against a system , _Orerthrow—haTe no mercy on that system . Down with it—down with it , 6 T . n to the ground ; but show mercy to tha individuals who ara but tha instruments of that gystem . You look round upoa the land—your own land—tredden down and trampled and insulted , and on a persecuted , despairing peoplo . It is your right arm must ra _ise np that trampled land—muBt make ber tgain beautiful and stately , and rich In blessings . Elevate thst despairing people , and make them free and happy , but teach them

      tobe _majestio in their farce , generous iu their clemency , noble in their triumph . It Is a holy mission . Holy must be your motives and your acts if you would fulfil it . Act ss if soar soul ' s salvation hang on each deedand it will , for we stand already within the shadows of eternity . For u » Is the combat ; but notfor us , perhaps , the triumph . Many a nobis heart will lie cold , many a throbbing pulse be stilled , ere the cry of ' Victory' will arise . It la a solemn thought , that now is ths hour of destiny when the fetters of seven centuries may at last be _broken-r-a & d by you , mea of this generation—by you , men of Ireland ! Yoa are God ' s instramentB ; many of you mu 5 th _3 _freEdom ' _s martyrs . Oh , be worthy of the name ; and as you act as men , as patriots , and as christians , so will the blessing rest upon your head when you lay it down a sacrifioe for Ireland upon the red battle field .

      His brother _felorii Mr John Martin , is equally intelligible : — TOTHE JIEHBEBSor THE REPEAL CLUBS OF IRELAND , _Bsotueb _Ibiseheh , —I _addrsss you , it may be , for tb . _3 last time , While yet I have the means and opportunity of communicating with yoa let me offer you my advice as to the position yoa ought to take _with regard to the proclamations directed against you and against Ireland by the foreign tyrants . Hy advice is , shortly , that you stand to your armB . Stand to yoar arms ! Oh ! as yau have the spirit of men to revolt against our country ' s shame and slavery—the hearts of man , to feel for our people ' s misery—as you love justice and hate oppression—as you lore ani fear the God of whose righteous decrees British rule in Ireland is a dire violation—stand firm , and yield not an inch of gronnd to the threat and the rage ot our alarmed tyrants . Let them menace you with tbe hulks or the gibbet for daring to speak or write your love

      to Ireland . Let them threaten to mow yon down with grape shot , as they have massacred yoar kindred with famine and plague . Spurn their brutal ' acts of parliament' — trample npoa their lying proclamations — fear them cot l The work yon haTe undertaken is to _overthrow and utterly destroy ( English dominion In Ireland . Tbat work mast be done It must be done at any risk , at any coat , at any sacrifice . Though hundreds of us be torn from our families , end from the free air , to ba shut np in the enemy ' s _dniieons or sent in chains to his felon islands—though thousands of us ba _butcliered by the enemy ' s cannon and bayonets our streets and native fields be purpled with onr blood —never shall the straggle for Irish freedom cease but with the destruction of that monstrous system of base aid murderous tyranny , or with the u : ter extermiUBtlon of the Irish people . Oh , dear countrymen J let net your heart 3 quail at the sight ef the enemy _' _a _prepzra . tions—of 40 , 000 _humaa machines arranged with their

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      weaponB of death to butcher you on yonr own land for tha crlrao of loving your own land . Stand to your arms ! reBlat to the death ! Better a bundled thousand bloody deaths than to lcnv 9 Inlaid another year _disnrraa-l , cowed , and _dcfuncolcss _, to tho mtrcy of that _fijndls i _dc ' _-potlsm . J . M . Only _litlon to Mr J : _» ino . _i F . Lalor . and then judge whothor tho ti * n <* Iihh not arrived for suspension o ? tin ! Ilduui _(' . irpin Aot ; _uv , and martial law , to _iimKx it tho _tiuiro _t'llof-. tivo . [ Tho reader of tho _N ' _.-tuiiMtN Stah \ t reminded that _thwc are the words ol tlio 'I ' lMKrt _rullUu . ] lu _Dio utiHi ) nf Inlniiil _, now , tliero Is but one fact to _< t » . il with , t _» uJ on < i question lo bo _considered . The fact _( o _ilils—tlmt tHiTo uro at _prcot-ut lu ocoup & Uon of our rouiitry imnti 10 , 0110 nrin . ' _-J men In tho livery and _ecrv ' . oa of _K-jrlaml ; and tho question In—bow bc 3 t nnd _noimi'Rt t » kill nnd _onpturo those 40 , 000 men .

      If r . _qulrcl to stato my own Individual opinion , and . _llloirid to choose ray own time , I certainly « 6 ul ( l l & ltG the timo nhtn th j fall harv . _st of _Treland _ehnll ba stacked in tho haggard ? . But not unfrcquendy God selects aiid s nd _) his own seasons and occasions ; and oftentimes , too , au oae my Is nblo to _faroeoo ths necessity of either _fijhtlns or failing . In tho ono easo wa ought no _* , ( n thu othor wo ( . _nroly cannot , _attempt waiting for _ourharveB _* . homo . If opportunity offers we must _daali at th & t _opportunitj—if drivin to tho wall wo must wb < el for rosUtanco . Wherefore , let us fight in Sep ' . ember , if we may—but sooner , if w _; mmt . _Meanwhilf , however r _.. _* - mmber this—that _somewhero and somehow , nnd by a ; nr . body a _brginniag must be made , Who _atrikes tho first bio- **? for Ireland ? Who draws first blood for Ireland ? Who wins a wreath that will be green for ever ? J . F . L .

      The following ia from the pen of a man who , at a _meeting of the _Officers of tho Clubs , 'held so recently as this day week , proposed a resolution to the effect that tho outbreak Bhould _commenco thia very week , and after a stormy discussion the motion waa lost by a majority of one only ! This is an undoubted fact , and for the comfort of these gentlemen it may be adiled 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 iheir ' secret' intentions Is / ore ike sun had set upon the day following : —

      A revolution is Inevitable . Tho proclamations , of coarse , but _foresbadow the suppression cf the clubs . If tb 9 people allow these clubs to be suppressed without a struggle they deserve tho tale which they assuredly will meet . It is this . The coward'a curse shall cliog , like the bird in the mystic poem , rottnd their necks , and It will quit them neither in the day limo nor ia the ni g ht _, lime . _Tiry will be forced to till the story of their guilt and of thoir misery to tho nations , bot they will remnfn houseless upon tho earth , Scorn will point its fiogcr at th -m from every place—contempt will glanca on them from every eye ; and they must bow their heads and speak not . The slave ' s portion will be theira . Let the

      coffinmaker ' s heart be merry , for bis trade will thrive . Will not tbe land be rich and produce great harvests for luxury when tbe bones of tha poor manure tt ? Will It not be a merry life to walk up and down the streets of the populous cities , and _inhalo tbe death smell from the recking churchyards , and watch tbe Infant drawing the poisoned raiik from the mother ' s breast , and the strong men with the blood stream _dtled , rotting off the stalk of life f These _tbingu will ba If you _strlko not . My eyes have seen the working of tha curse already . In my memory Ireland once before played the coward's part ; and she was cursed , and she was covered with sores , and she groaned In agony . Now , then , or never ! Now , and for ever !

      But we are unprepared ! True , most _prodent * leader , ' bnt will we be ever better prepared t At' harvest , ' per . hap _> ? I wonder Is It generally believed that each golden ear will turn into amounted pike , to arm the hands of Irishmen . _Blnce so much importance is attached to 'bar . vast ? ' Now , I have not Imagination enough to think thl « . I believe clubs do not flourish under coercion bills , an J an arms act ( unresisted !) does cot tend to improve tho spirit of a people . As these will come , I think we bad better front our fate at once , and be free in death if we cannot live in freedom . Joseph Bezkan .

      The provincial papers ef yesterday contain no intelligence of importance ; but private letters aay that the greatest excitement prevails throughout tbe district extending from _Carrick-on-Suir , in the county of Waterford , to _Clotnae ] , in the South Riding of Tipperary . The clnb organisation all along is _qnite complete ; and , after the metropolis , this is the only quarter in which immediate danger is to be apprehended . Troops have been already disnarched thither . Preparations are being made here for the reception of an additional military fores 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 repsrted that on the arrival of the reinforcements from England , four regimenta will be encamped in the Phoenix-park . Already the troops are daily exercising in pitching and striking tents . & c . Half-past Three o ' clock . —A Privy Council has just _assembled at the Castle . All kinds of reports are flying 28 to the objeot of its deliberation !} . According to the Cork Ex & miner , 'The county grand jury , which , as may be supposed , is exclusively composed of landlords , has addressed a memorial to the Queen and Parliament , calling fer a further extension ofthe Coercion Aot to all the county , for the _suppression of the olnbs . fer the prevention of the manufacture and said of arms : and praying that when _pease shall be _restored , the serious consideration of government may be directed to the provisions of the Poor Law , with a view to their _aaendment . This is the gist oftbe memorial . '

      It appears from the Constitdtion that the severest scrutiny is exercised in the granting of licences for arm Subjoined is a brief sketch of the proceeding before the officers appointed to discharge this duty : — Mr _Knaresboro , R , M „ and Captain Fox , County Inspector , opened their court in the _Tackey-street police _sluiion , on Thursday morning at ten o ' fllook , for tha pur _^ pose of granting licences to keep arm * In the city of Cork , In pursuance of the preclamatlon ofthe Lord Lieutenant . They were attended by head constables Crowley , _O'Neil _, and Roe , soda _aamber of constables _aadsub-coastables _, who objeoted to all applicants getting licenses who were ia any way connected , or even suspected of being connected , with the Confederate Clubs . In the course of the proceedings Ur Knaresboro stated tbat hU instructions

      were very special , and were of a most restricted nature , He conld not grant a licence to any person to hold any large quantity of arms , or who bad not a legitimate use for them ; and in no case could he licence young ; men to keep arms wbo merely wanted them for amusement . He further stated , tbat he could only license to keep arms te a certain amannt in _thlsolty , which was very limited . A corporation clerk , in tbe North _Maia-street market , named Cisey _, wss objected te by bead-constable Crowley , on th _3 ground tkat he believed he was a member of a club , Casey _geniod that he was a member of any of tho elabs , and called on the head . _constable lo prove It . The head-constable said it was impossible for him to give such evidence , bat he knew that the a pplicant practised firing at a target with a rifle gun . The applicant was _refuBeoY

      Mr J . O'Connor , salt and limekiln works , applied fer his licence , and was objected to by the constabulary . Mr _Kshesbobo , —It was reported to _ua that you were a member of aa illegal c ' ub ? Applicant . —I am a membsr of the Felon Club . Mr _KifABiBBOBo _. —Then , sir , my instructions are pool _, tively to refuse _licenca to any person in any way connected with theie dangerous confederacies . AppiiciHT . —I ' m a man in possession of extensive premises ; and would you tell me , tf youpUase . horr I am to protect my property f Mr J . B . _Bailabd remarked '—The ' Felons' will protect you , ArrLiCAHT . —I am as worth y to carry arms as you , for I pay more rates than you do . Mr J . B . Ballard . —Indeed , sir , you are not as worthy ; for I sever threatened a breach of the law , while yoa pride yourself on being a felon ,

      _Applicant . —As I am refused a licence , I tell yon I will not surrender my arms unless by force—I mill defend them olth my life . Mr _Nicholas _Fitzoeeald _, road contractor and civil engineer , residing in _Bowling-green-street , applied for a licence to keep and carry a _guu . Mr _Kmabb _^ boeo said , that it was reported to the Court that Mr Fitzgerald had attended the Confederate soiree and other illegal meetings , and therefore he could not be licensed to carry arms _. The applicant admit Ud he attended sueh meetings , and referred Jo his residence of 35 years in the city of Cork as giving him a right to keep arms , Mr S . SAEESBOBO replied , that his instructions wcre peremptory not to license any man who was or had been in any way connected with such bodies , and therefore be could not be granted licence .

      THK REPEAL COUNCIL . ( From another correspondent of the Times . ) Dublin July 22 .-At the head of the Confederation which for some time past has existed in this unhappy _country stands a Council , which consisted , _« _£ ? S _w - 8 a . _PPwbenaion , of thirty six members-Since that time its numbers have been reduced te _twenty-one , at which they now 8 tap . d . The cause of the reduction _wbb the very obvious one , that seeresy a Rf ? essential to the operations of the body _, and that it was tuo unwieldy to act with that amount of energy and silence which are necessary in an executive constituted for such 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 membe ! s 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 influences , ready to be thrown into the scale when a movement does take place , while tho remaining four or five ara the real leaders and heads of the _Cennr-il _, direct all its operation ? , and give body and substance to its proceedings . I should add , that the Council haB no fixed place of meeting , being held now at one member ' s residence

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      and new at another's , as may bave been previously _^ uc _^ bein ' g the internal structure of the Counoil , it has proceeded for some time past steadily to organise the clubs about which the public bas beard so much These _olubs , while subject to its authority , rre bv no mems admitted to its confidence or 'ulo _** vrd to be _coi-nis-tntof its _operatwns- In fact , thev are I believe , much more in thc dark aa to wh ' t takes place at . tha Council than the Government itself who , among twenty one Irishmen leagued together _ostensibly for rebellions purposes , have no doubt found traitors to the republic as _xvell as traitors to the throne . Some of the loaders in the Confederation aro beyond all question sincere , however _infatiuttda There are others whose conduct admits of a lm creditable solution , aa events may jet show ..

      . \ s to the _olubs and the extent to which they have been or ganised , I hear from excellent authority that in Dublin tllO number ot armed membera does not excee'i 3000 . Thej consist , principally of artisans and mechanics , and all of them can read and write . Tbia ia a singular feature win * regard to them , for the mob has not yet joined tho movement , and ( he Confedera te leaders are aware , and , indeed , calculate that they must _( , 'ain ita support by strategy . Out of Dublin tha club organisation has assumed in every direction a very alarming aspect , and has eiven rise to the most serious uneasiness among the well affected . It . haB made tbe most rapid pro-mas aloog ' the lino of country extending from Waterford . hv nkrriok-on-Suir and _Clanmel . to lipperary , and

      thence south to Cork . Ihe masses ot the rural and town population in theso districts are more deeply compromised in tho present agitation than in the metropolis , and , in all probability , should arising unhappilv 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 patriot !* don't , at present , intend to take the bull by the horns by beginning their operat _ons in Dublin . Tbat would be a bald stroke and in ene way or other , a decisive one ; but now that the crisis appears to bo approaching there _eeems a wonderful amountof reluctance to try conclusions with the garrison of 6 , 000 men by which Dublin is occupied , and whoso high digoiplino the

      Confederales have the _most ample opportunities of observing by a stroll on Tuesdays or Fridays to the _Pbceaix Park . It must not be forgotten , in calculating the issues of a _utruggle in the metropolis , that the loyal and well affected inhabitants are all well armed , and weuld at once _ci-operate with the military . The re cent _insurreotion in Paris has greatly quickened the aiacrity of the middle classes here to support Ihe government , and mon who would not previously have whispered tbeir suspicions of the treason which was carried on before their eye 3 now come forward and communicate all they know . The hands of the supreme power have thus been greatly strengthened , aDd the most ample information is now in the possession of government aa to the strength and character of this pernicious conspiracy .

      ( From the Morning Chronicle . ) The Nation and the Irish Felon made tbeir appearance to-day . In the morning some police were Btatiened outBide the Felon office , but the _newsyendera came up in a body , and obtained their supplies , regardless of the warnings of the police . The sale of the two papers to-day ha 9 bsen

      enormous . , . „ Regarding the proclamations , the Nation says : — ' The proclamations are mere waste paper and wasted words . But they will be followed by aots , and for these the people must prepare . But are the oeople to come alone into contact with tbe _usut ping government Where are the popular authorities ? What is the Lord Mayor of Dublin doing ? These are daily questions asked in every street . The Lord Mayor is doing nothing , and will do nothing . The people need not lo _^ k to him , except it be to precipitate him from office before his time , an * aotof mercy ' to the city cursed by his care , in which we wiah them all speed and success . ' Mr M . R . Leyne , in the Nation , thus concludes

      • The Challenge to Ireland : — The true way to act now Is ta _estend 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 gevernment dare , in defiance of the people ' s will , to pack another jury pllo the barricade I I like not at all the assign . ment of a month for preparation . We have no such time . Did the Castle villains dread our being ready for them la that interval , they would _improvieo a 'Special Commission' to anticipate and defeat our action . Let not the people dream , tbeo , that tbey can delay for a month , a week , or a day . They heve but tbepreaent . Let them act as if the hour In whiob they resd these lines were tha ' ast of a truce . And then they will be ready _.

      Another _sobj et to be eipllcitly canvassed la the chance of 6 _uccess . I do not believe , brave friends oftbe clubs , tbat you will meet this question with timid anxiety . Waterford paused not to measure difficulties or calculate probabilities when _sho saw her young chieftain marked for vengeance . Had Meagher willed , he could have held his city _ogalnit ali tha garrisons south of Dublin , Fiery columns of tall _Tlpperarynaea would have rushed to hiB banner . Tho men of Limerick , of whom valour is the inheritance , would have rallied round hira

      Impetuous _cehorts . Cork would have furnished Iron ranks to his army . Wexford would bave carried tbe spirit of ' 98 to combat for him . Kilkenny would have sent contingents strong and fearless . And the young _trlbuno might have marcbed through Huneter another _Maccabteus . Still was he wise to ' bide tbe time' until all Ireland shall ho banded , and the plenty of the maturing harvest be boarded for the people . _Munster is sure , Those who would bave Ireland win tbe straggle , must secure for her ether strongholds la tbe east and west , yet either partly held by England or wanting perfect or . gonisatlon ,

      Tbere will , must be , no defeat this time . If there be ' twill come from ourselves . Think again ef the work to be done , and bow to do it ! Aot instantly to complete the organisation , and our demands will be ceded through tear . For there Is no greater coward than our tyrant . Or , If it be not thus , wben shall bo heard in one defiant _war-ery , the charging cheer of Tipperary—the stormy shout of Galway—the thunder tones of Donegal—and that true _olicn rally of Wexford ? Avengers shall stand on the graves famine filled , pluck the shamrock from the diadem of Britain , crown tbe captives of Newgate , and he bailed ae the deliverers of Ireland ! Amen . M . It . Lsvmb .

      The accounts from the south aro really very alarming . In the _CtONMBt _Chronicxb of Thursday , I find the following : — 'The city ol Waterford still remains in a state of the greatest excitement . Strong reinforcements of military ( 3 rd Buffs ) and constabulary , fully equipped for a campaign , have arrived there for the preservation of the peace . The Lord-Lieutenant ' s Proclamation , ending with the usaal phrase ' Ged save the Queen , ' has been posted all over the town , which _waa _^ immediately posted over , with a counter proclamation , signed ' Thomas F . Meagher , ' and ending ' God save the People . ' The police , in pursuance of instructions , tore down several of Mr Meagher ' e proclamations , but in doing bo , they reeeived every possible annoyance and obstruction ; they were shoved here and there by groups ef idlers , hooted , and in eome instances pelted . There are several smithies hard at work making pikes , and cart loadB of ash poles for pike handles have been brought openly into the town .

      MEETING OP THE _FRIVI COUNCIL—MOBB rSOCJUMA

      TIONS . Fivb o'Clock The _Lord-Lieutenantpresided at another meeting of the Privy Council this day , when it was determined to place the following districts under the operation of the Act for the Suppression of Crime . In all , the aot ie to take eSect on the 25 th inst : — 1 . Counts Kilkenny . 2 . County of the City of Kilkenny . 3 . County of Meath . 4 . The _bnronies of _Decles within Drum , _Decies with _, out Drum , and Coshmore and _Cishbride , in tbe county Waterford . 0 . Barony of Kerrlcurreh y _, Kinsale , _Courcies _, _Klnalmonky , _Bsrrotts North , Barretts South , Barrymore , _Klnnatallow , Imokelly , East Muekerry , East Carberry ; and ibaue tnd Barrjroo , in tbe county Cork .

      Half past Five o'Clock , —It is stated thatsome arrests under the Felony Act , or for sedition , have been deteamined upon . Mr Meagher has arrived in town from Waterford . Mr Swith O'Brien , it is stated , went down to Wexford this morning to _inspeot the club organisation in that _diatriefc . The Frebman ' b Journal contains a number of resolutions whioh have been adopted by the Right Rev . Dr _Magip . n and the Roman Catholic Clergy of the diocese of Darry . The resolution , whicli has special reference to a junction with the 'Irish League , 'is as follows : —

      Having maturely oonslderod the proposed terms for a reunion of all sections of Repealers , to be henceforth called ' Tho Irish League , ' it _effords us the _sinoerest gratification to find that they are _suoh as we can , without any dereliction of our peace principles , conscientiously approve , and notwithstanding what bas been said to tbe contrary , wo have full _confideaco In the honesty of purpose and patriotism of the parties to these _ferms of reubIoh—that beth their letter and spirit wiU be _undevlatlngly adhered to In iho Leigue , eo ao to work out Ireland ' s legislative Independence by the concentration of public opinion , and peace purely _legitimata and Chris . tlQO _, The third resolution implores Mr John O'Connell to cooperate with the new League , and the last is expressive of thanks to Mr Sharman Crawford M . F ., and Mr P . Scropc , M . P ., far their advocacy of the claims of the Irish peasantry .

      A NEW TREASON JOURNAL . The following appeara in the Irish Felon of the 22 nd inst .: — } On Tuesday next , and on every future Thursday and Tuesday , will te published , the Nehoatb Oamwdab successor to the Imsh _Tbidone , a political military ' and felonious journal . Edited by R . 1 ) . Williams and Kevin J . _O'Dohertj , at present prisoners In Newgate Gaol . Price . Twopence .

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      1 _, The object of this _jaurnal is to teach tbe Irish people the ways and means of their deliverance , and tbe uses and results of freedom wben won . 2 , That it may do this _effectively , a third of the journal will be occupied with military information , furnished by ( he ablest au _horltlts . Under the heads of ' City Fighting , ' 'Guerilla War , ' 'Military _Engineering / an < i ' Munitions of War , ' all the requisite knowledge will be carefully arranged and _olasolned ; and the ' War _Department , of tho United laisnuAN , and the ' Practical In--truotor' and 'Easy Lessons ea Military Matters' of tho Nation , reprinted entire . 3 , With the same _oVjtct tho journal will bo published in a convenient pocket shape , at the convenient pocket price of Twopence , and to faoilitate its work , it will be published . ... _^ .... . „ ..

      _vwtee A week tho opioion of the editors , on an Irish _evolution , being that— , . _^ ' If 'twere done , when 'tis don _* , 'lVere well 'twero done quickly . ' i Several approved Felons have _promlflt'd their _88-slstance ; and tho _editors have to announce , that articles will _appsar in enrly numbers from C . G . Duffy , _Jjhn Martin T D . _M'Gheo , M . MDmnoit , M , Doheny _, Joseph ' _Brenan , Jam s P . Lalor , and a hoBt of competent felonious contributors . —Office , 11 , Trinity-street . ( From a correspondent of tho Morning Herald , )

      _CALAMIHiUS INTELLIGENCE . I deeply regret to state , that there are account > from all parts of the country of the re-appearance of tha potato disease of ' 47 . Its destructive operation may be judged by the following note from a Protestant clergyman , resident near Tullamore , in the _Kine ' _e county : — Friday , July 21 , * _* Tho potato disease has broken out in thiB neighbourhood with awful virulence . I have just returned from an inspection of several farms , nad the Bight I witnessed was most _dlatresslrg . Last Wednesday there _wab not a sign of failure . Yesterday , tbe stalks were drooping ns if from the rain—to-day all is rottenness . The ashleaf kidney , which escaped so well before , appears now _worBO thau any other , Great alarm prevails among tho poor farmers , wbo bave planted large quantities of potatoes _.

      From Kerry , Mayo , Cork , Waterford , and the midland counties , tho reports are equally distressing . The northern counties do not complain mucb , but enough appears to warrant the apprehension that the disease has commenced in the province of Ulster . ( Abridged from the Times , July 25 . ) CHARGE OP FKLONT AGAINST SMITH O ' BRIEN . Dubus , July 23 —A warrant was laefi night issued for the apprehension , on a charge of felony , ot 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 _Darcy M'Ghee , but on inquiry I find tbat such is not the fact , and that as yet these _aenllemen are free to p pout treason without let or hindrance . They are , beyond comparison , the two

      most dangerouB men in connexion with the movement , the former especially , on account of his restless energy and that mastery of language which at once _aharm 9 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 that Waterford continues to be tho centre of tbe insurrectionary movement ; and to that quarter are all the energies of the government directed . An idea of the present condition of that county 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 Catholic _priest hood , by one of their own organs , is an ominous Bign of the times : ¦—

      ' For months past , ' says the Watbrfobd _CnnoNiclb , ' we have handled with no coward spirit the apologies put forward for tbe government by their venal Bcribss ; and with a full _congcioagneBB of the ills which the government organs would soon accumulate upon us , we laboured to give them a true picture of the sufferings ofthe people , accompanied by tbe _honaat expression of onr fears that the day was nigh at hand , when , throwing off all restraint , as well that of laics aa ecclesiastics , the peoplo would clutch the pike and sternly defy their rulers . Our warnings were disregarded , and our advice waa valued at the price of a fool ' s ravings . Because we spoke through a journal professing repeal principles , we were pronounced delirious by tho organs ofthe

      government ; and our apprehensions were met by dec _arations that the people would never take up arms in a body against the government . The people are now armed in all parte ofthe country ; and the pike and tho rifle , the scythe and the pickaxe , are grasped by sinewy hands to beat back the encroachments 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 ? How is the experiment of _disarming them tobe essayed ? Verily , the crisis has at length arrived , and indications of a bloody _straggle are most daily supplied , now in our populous cities , and anon in sequestered districts—to-day on the apex of & lefty 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-gerving , _vacillating , _double-dealinpr , cowardly minister say to this state of things ? The people in almost every _diatrict ha ye flung away the peace policy and ar _^ determined to try their strength with the government . We have now to notice a new feature in the present determination of the people which Bhould command the grave attention of every man who tabes an interest in the welfare of the country . For some weeks past the influence of suoh of the Catholic olergy as 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 than disastrous , and what is worse , the strange spectacle 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 this is not confined to one or two _pas-ishee . but is taking the wide circle ofthe island-Thus , then , stands the position of the people—determined to advance , they assert tbey will use their arms , and will sot ba beckoned back by any authority / I bave 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 the nnproclaimed counties . Several hundred etand of arms have been transferred to Carlow , Wioklow , and Wexford . Two _regiments of infantry are hourly expected from England ,

      THB POTATO CROF , Misfortunes , it is said , seldom come single . The weather continues wet , cold , and harrh , and without giving heed to all the _croakings of tbe 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 _greateBo sufferer . Tho 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 is 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 , to night again , and tbeir plans may be alterei . When it does take place the insurrection will probably be simultaneous in four ot five towns , such as Cork , Waterford , Kilkenny , Clonmel , and perhaps even Dublin . That gome movement is contemplated here also seems clear , from the agitation whioh the Confederates are endeavouring to foment among the sympathisers in Liverpool , and from thc fact tbat Ilyland and Co ., the great pike makers , have discontinued working here , and are going to light their furnaces on the other side of the Channel . in the

      But whatever may be attempted metropolis , tbe struggle will commence in reality in the Bouth , and on the line stretching from Cork to Tipperary , and thence to Waterford . In these districts there is too muoh reason to believe that large masses of tbe people are quite ripe for rebellion , and that even if their leaders were slow in coming forward they would drive t hem to insurreotion . ( Frem the _corrapondentg of tho Morning Chronicle . The _Limbhick Reporter announce 3 the arrival of Mr Richard O _' Gorman , jun ., the member of tbe Irish deputation , who remained in Paris to acquire knowledge in the erection of barricades . Mr _O'Gor . man has been deputed from head quarters to _ineptct tbo dubs in tho counties ef Limerick and Clare . Mr Butt , Q C , who addressed the juries on behalf of Mr Smi ' . h O'Brien and Mr Meagher , in the recent State trials , has bsen retained for the defence of Mr Duffy , at the approaching commission .

      Regarding the state of John Mitohel at Bermuda , the Limbhick Repobjer _coatains the following : — ' We are prepared to state , upon the authority of a letter received in thia city from the Cathoiio chaplain of Bermuda , the Rev . Mr M'Leod , that Mr Mitchel is not subjected to the usual convict severity ; his health continues pretty good , though his spirits are not the beat , and ho labours under asthmatic affection , to which he had been naturally much subject at home . From the day be entered the hulk at Bermnda , to whieh be is consigned , thc Rev . Mr M'Leod writes that every Catholic acd Irishman have been removed from it . '

      ( From the correspondent of the Morning Advertiser- ) Dublis , July 21 . —As yet tho proclamation ofthe city of Dublin bas only operated to the disadvantage and annoyance of _well-disposed parties , who were endeavouring to comply with the _provisiona of the law . On Saturday last several persons were arrested , and held to bail on the charge of being found with arms in the street . In erery instance it was shown

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      that the parties were actually on the way to deposit the arms with the authorities , previous to obtaining the necessary licence ; but it appears the magistrates have ns _discretion in each cases , and the unconscious deliEquents were bound over to appear before the Commission . Tho Coll ' . win- ; is from tho Mail th s 6 vs > , in «» ;—' Tho _squadrun _und-Ji Sir Charles _Miliar ba _^ been ordered fur service on the Irish coasr ., to co-operate with the authorities in the event of an ont break . 'An encampment is formed in tho Fiiorj :. ix-park , The 75 th Regiment was this day piac < -d under canvass . ' ( From the _correspondent of the Daihi News . ) lbat . thfi nftrrin « ware actuallv On the way to _denosifc

      The Belfast Vindicator gives a fl _uns-vim : ac « count of tho five Belfast clubs The same autimrity state * that the _organiuaf . ion goes on in the counties of Down , Monaghan _, Tyrone , and _Cav-iu . In Connaught also—nay , even in perishing _Majo—they have their clubs . A new _Bocietj , on a rcw plan , is about to be _ostabliuhed in Galway _^ Ir . in _called tha 'Faugh _a-B'illaugb , ' and no man is adm ' _asible who docs not present himself with arms . Galway had as well keep clear of thc pre claiming power . The suspension nf the Habeas _Corpun has excited Clonmel to en unwonted _decree . Ou _hcarit % the news yesterday , the John Mitchel , tho * crack' club * of Tipperary , v > as suddenly called to _coui'oil , Tie _clergy endeavoured to deprecate the ii _. ratuatidfrora dan _;* _jrous courses . Lectures were delivered from tho altar at the several _masaes , _though , I _bolieve with little effect . I have heard that De . in Burke was hooted in Ihe chapel when _fommeiifing to address word 3 of _pD-iee to the deluded .

      Dublin , _Jv , _lt ° , 5 . —Two or three l ersoir- wh _^ were charged by the police for selling the Fklon and Nation newspapers were held to bail at Co liege street Police-court yesterday , to stand their trial at the next Commission : Prison Preparations . — Preparations upon a scale _commensurato with the nece _sitiM _r , f the time are making , to render available tbe prison accommodation of the country , and to insure ihe _sa ' ety of tho prisons themselves from external cr other operations . The building in the Phoenix park , called Mountjoy Barracks , ia being fitted up _withbammecks and other accommodations for a considerable number of inmates , and rumour has it tbat it is intended for

      the safe _custody of onr expected political prisoners ' . A military cordon will be drawn around the barracks , which , together with the strength 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 in . vilation of the authorities , to consult For the safet y of the prisons , as well as for augmenting tbe accommodation they afford . Arrangements will bo made for accommodating within each a considerable number of troops , and the gates and Buch portions of the walls aa may present easier access , will be defended by barricades .

      mr sonn o'connbll . Mr John O'Connell conjures the _people of Ireland not to fight . If they do he will go to Americi , and take with him the benes of bis father . Tbis is the substance of a long published address bearing hia signature . [ As John ' s countrymen say : — ' Jyj go with him and a bottle of moss , If he never returns the'e'll be no great loss . ' ] ( From a correspondent ofthe Morning Chronicle . ) Dublin , July 24 . —There is areport here ( which I

      _ can scarcely credit ) that Lord Clarendon intends to have all the heads of the Youn ? Ireland party arrested , and detained in gaol , without any trial , until the expiry of the new act . If he does this , he will have them all as fresh as possible for the work in March . Failures in conviction can now do the government no harm ; they will only establish the inefficiency of trial by jury in tbe 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 fii * ht will inevitably be fought before one month passes should coercion bills be the remedy for Irish grievances . One hard war- * shop here sold seventeen euns on the day before the new proclamation tsoh . _effect . All the arms here—say 5 , 000—will be interred tbis week , unless the arrest of the leaders , under the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act , be acted upon . Not a gun or a pike will be given up in thi- * 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 _bundles—I suppose , to conciliate the people . All _spf ak of civil war as a thing unavoidable , and the children draw pikes with chalk on the pavements . It is hoped the clergy and the government will manage to ward off the terrible misfortune .

      ( From the correspondent ofthe 7 i '» im . ) The intelligence from the provinces it upon the whole rather meagre . All that can be gathered from it ia that the armament is _progressi p without any sign of abatement . Galway is becoming a nest of _elnbs . and in Louth , according to le al authority , the pike and rifle mania is at its height ex gr ,: — 1 We are happy to be in a position to state tbat the people of this and the adjoining counties _continue to prepare arms—such aa pikes and _riflae—with increased eagerness ; and we trust that in & few days there will not be a man in Loath who wi'l not be in a position , if necessary , to defend himself and the rights 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 force . The populace are in a state of the highest excitement . A gentleman who arrived _to-dsy from North Tipperary states that the whole Riding is ripe and ready for disturbance—that , in fact , it is a mistake te suppose that Waterford is the centre of the provincial organisation . Tipperary , he says , is one monster elub .

      The Roman Catholic Bishop of Leighlin ( Dr Helly ) is going through his diocese preaching peace , and exhorting his deluded flocks to surrender their arms and 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 oftbe right rev . prelate is treated with tbe utmost derision and scorn by the peasantry of Kildare _, Carlow , and the Qaeen ' s county .

      ( From the correspondent of the Times . ) Ddblin , July 25 —The course of action recommended by the ' Provisional Government'is said tobe this , —thatthe heads ofthe Executive should fall back upon the strongholds of tbe clubs in the provinces , and , safely _intrencbiog themselves under cover there , defy the government to proceed to extremities , thus throwing upon the latter the onus of commencing the insurrection . With thia object in view , Mr O'Brien has retreated to Wexford , Mr Meagher to Waterford , Mr O'Gorman , jun ., to Limerick , and Michael _Djheny to Cashe ! or Clonmel . If this be anything beyond tho merest brag , tbo way of government is as clear as noon-day .

      It would appear that the formation , of clubs in Belfast has been already on a scale sufficientl y extensive to excite somo alarm in the government , and ao * cordingly _, precautionary measures bave been takes to insure the continuance of tranquillity in that quarter .

      GOVERNMENT SECURITIES . There was a further fall to-day in the prices of gevernment securities . The Threft per Cents , opened and closed at So ; _Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent . Stock , _S 5 85 $ 85 8 H- J ; Bank Stock , 188 . Not a single bargain in railway or other shares . Business almost neminal .

      ( From th 9 correspondent of the Daily News . ) The liberty of writing from Newgate ia to be limited henceforth . The superintendents have ordered that the prUoners be not allowed to publish any articles dated from the prison , or with their signatures attaohed . A new ' Military , Political , and Felonious' publication , entitled the' Newgate Calendar / waB to have appeared to day , written by the inmates but the order of the board has stayed the issue , ' Clonmel Jul ? 24 th . —I have arrived thus " farm my progress through the Bouth , and must at once tell JOU that tho disaffected parly are manifesting a spirit , and a determined spirit , of resistance to the

      government . I do not wish you should infer from this that an insurrection is inevitable . 1 merely urge tha fact , in order to show how neceesary it is that the authorities should bs on the qui vivo , and how important that they ehould make a judicious disposition of the limited powers at their command , * * * * It' the disaffected succeed in surprising and overpowering any force , no matter how small , the c * _nsv _quences will be dreadful . Rumour will magnify the Success & hundredfo'd _. andthe whole country will rise en masse . It may be truly said that with them tho first blow will be , not merely the half , but the _whoio battle .

      ( From the third edition of the Morning Chronicle July 27 th . ) Wathrford , Jolt 25 , arrival of messrs meagher and o ' brien ai cabkick _on-suik—great excitement thkkk , akd at watkrfokd—flight of _l'vausts from waterford —open rebellion . _Intense anxiety prevailed in tbia city iast night and throughout to day , as numerous reports were afloat ; at one time it waa stated Mr Meagher was advancing against Watenord , atthe head of the

      _Carrick-on-Suir clubs , a di termined band of 2 , 000 men of a hardy darin <* character , suited to any doiperate enterprise ; at another time it was stated that the disaffected of Clonmel , _Caahel , Fethard _, Kt llenaule , Callan , and _Nine-nnk-h'iuse _, wero to Btorm our poor oity . These reports arose from the fact that William Smith O'Brien and Thcmas Francis _Meagher reached Carrir-k-on-Suir at half . paat five in the _eveniBgfrom _Kilkenny ; on their route to Callan , they addressed thousands , and told them for the present not to interfere with the police or soldiery , aa 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/ns4_29071848/page/6/