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      ' *• REPEAL" IN AMERICA . ( From ihe New York BerahLJ An enonnons meeting wm held on the evening of August 29 , in Washington Ball , of the United Irish Bepesl Ansodstioii , -which "was , perhapB , better attended than ujusI , is consequence ef ibe announcement that Robert-Tyler , Esq ., bod of-the President of thellnited States , "would address the Ass relation . By the time fixed for the commencsmsii * of the proceedings , ftelsrge Toom was filled to Its . utmost capacity , and the stairs , and even the vestibule were crowded by hundreds , ^ ho could rspproadi do nearer to the stand of tie speakers . Tbe orchestra was filled with beautifill females—a aovelty in these exciting assemblagesand rosny Hdies -were accommodated with seats near -fiie " ¦ platform .

      Mr . Ttleb entered the room in sompany with Mr . Alderman Pnrdy ,-Mi . Cfeailes O'Connor , the celebrate ^ cotincUlor , ssd many gentlemen of distinction in this city ; and as he took hi 3 seat he was welcomed by & load , long-contisced and joyous chser from the generous- ' hearted Irishmen there assembled . . 1 Mr . B . Cossob . one of the Secretaries , proposed that ¦ Elijah P . Prudy , Btq ., acting Mayor of this city , pre- \ liae ov « r the meetixg , which 'was carried by a respon- ! sive theex . . ' ,

      Mr . PrmDT , on taking the chBir , was warmly » cslved . He acknowledged ^ he honour the meeting j had eonfarrsd upon Mm , and he begged them to be- ' lieve that fce sympathised with them for Ihi oppressed sons of Erla ; and he also said be -was happy that an egression would go forth from that meeting which : would appr z * the GteTstsment of England ihat there \ ras one yiaes on earth "where a people dared to act , and ihliit , and speak , when occasion required . < Great Cheering . } ill . B . G 0 S 50 B then read the minutes of tbe last mfirtiE ? , ami tbij were approved , alter which

      Mr- aIcKeo" in a lew pertinent remarks introdneed fe > the meeting Robert Tyler , Esq ., sb a gentleman who had T )« n one of the most SistingoMicd champions of Irish R&j-sa . !—iGreai cheering , -which wns continued for several minutes , and accompanied with the waving of bats s t ; g t > s clapping of bands . It was indeed one of the most enthusiastic ^ bursts of cordial -greeting . No description could do it justice ) . Mr ^ cKeos continued . Although -he ( Mr . Tyler ) had nevt-r before had the pleasure of meeting them face to face , he tilr . IqcKbod ) thought that response -would convince him Shst at least they -were no strangers to his labotzrs . Ha ( M . McKeon ) w * s happy 3 n presenting

      Mr . Tylei to thai meeting , far be had been witness to many things in bis favour . That meeting beheld in him not osly ^ distinguished champion ef the rights cf Ireland , Tmt a gen&eman distinguished in the waits of Iitfeisture ; and lie also came to them not as a plain private citizen , but as the son of the Chief Magistrate of these United States —( Great cheering ) . He ( Mr . McKeonj need not ask for him a warmer reception , for they had already given bia many a hearty cheer , but he beggsd they would allow him ( Mr . SIcKeon ) on his own fiecoact , to propose " Xine cheer's for Robert Tjler . " ( The cheers We given with a hearty good will - ^ ith varieus other demonstrations of iindly feeling . )

      > Ir . Ttlsb , the aon nf the President , then came forward , and fee eheeriBg was renewed with great enthusiasm . When it bad subsided , he said ;— ] MB . Pkesidkst a ? td Gkntlejles . —This is the ' firs-i tims I have had the honour of meeting with my ; Irbh friards of the eity of Jfew York , and the pleasure ; of vsien&angisg wilh them a friecdly greeting . ( Here ; a tench broke , precipitating many persons to tfc 8 floor ) ., It has iffordcd me more than usual pleasure to accept 1 yocr kind invocation to address yon .-niider the circnm- ' £ t&oees under which I now present myself amongst you . ' I tppear before you this evening , fellow dUz ^ ns , to I dfiionnce agovErmnent which I tale —( great chseriag ;' —whose msL-y oppressions 1 detest , and to advocate j the cause of a people whem I have reason to respect

      acJ . tolcve , and whese woes and whose "eronES appeal to the sympathies -A mankind —( great cheering ) . * Pdlo \ r ciuzsns , npon Tbis subject I cacEot consent t » play . the psrt of a hypocrite—( fcra ^ o !)—and I candidly confess to J 3 Q that I abhor the history cf the British Go- ; Teramsat—( trcmenaous cheerinz ) . AlUiough there may be instances in tie historical record of that Government ' trhieh evince ilgh courage , stern determination , and most nnwsvsriii ? paipose in the prosecution and ao : cornplishmect d its splendid thongh selfish schemes of ¦ cor-qoest scd national aggrandisement , yet its mast ' parrial and delighted advocate eacnst point to one ' jungle instance in wMeh it evsr discoTered magna- ' aimity ^ or liberality to an antagonistic power —( loud j cheers ) . And how numerous are the examples of ! its petty insult and wholesale aggressions and tyrannies ' tcvFirss othsr nations . I have bat to refer you , in |

      order to establish eanc-nsiTely and to prove satirfao-: ' tority whit I here allege , to the conduct of England in former times towards Prance—to the invasion of her , terhtorJes—^ th » imprisonment of her legitimate sove- j reigns , asd in a later period , to her most illiberal , nn- j geLinms , nnjost conduct towards a great , thosgh { alien ' fce , Napolbon Buonaparte—( applause ) . I have but to j » fer yon to the speeches of Sheridan and of Broke to I convince you of the enormitiES practised towards her j East Indian possessions . I hava bnt to refer you to her ' ¦ 9 zz -with China , and to the principles on which she ! eoE-5 u « ed the war of the American revolution—to the ' grifTances set forth in the Declaration . of American 1 Inc ? 5 p « B < 5 ' 32 C 3 , and to the barbarities pract ced towards J Americas gjtizpns durisg that contest . I have but to . leftT you to the principles on which she made war with i the American States in 1812 : and if further evidence be '!

      ESC ' -ssary , I cave but to allude in yonr hearing , to the , « onanct of England towards Ireland—( $ r ? at cheering ) , i Pot seven long centuries Ireland has been suffering a j Btat-: cf bondage more intolerable than the tortured j p ^ chiTiftfl of the Roman slave . For seven centuries her j daughters have been exposed to rapine , and her sons to { jnnrder and false imprisonment , and her entire people j to the cold eontomsiy scd insult of a nation which j came in to give them proteetionj but which through I long ages has degraded and oppressed them , And this j has been done to a people whose noble spirit , thu »! docbly insulted , and whose generous service to the ! Bri ^ sh crown , " should have shiridbd them against a 1 eontnmelious -word or look—( Applause ) . Yes , sir , j I assert that the services of Ireland to England have ; been of the most exalted character ; and" I challenge a ! inc £ = ssfnl contradiction ef the fact . The courts of law ! have been filled np with Irish Judges and Irish law- ] whose talents have . j i ! j j j ; > j | i ; ! j i

      yers . always been made available to j Enrlsnd—who have reflected on the * bar of England i a lastre by then- intellect , and aided , glory to the i British ermine . The most splendid orators which the I ^ rorid has ever Been have been Irishmen—( cheer *)—and ! their Psriiainentary and forensic fame have illumined I Hie British Constitution \ nth almost ail tbe glories that i surround it . The best anri psrsst patriots that have ever \ fcrod British soil have been Irishmen ; and in the j darkest hour and deepest distress they hate forgotten ! their own oppressions , and have rallied in defence of [ ttie integrity of tbe Government— Japplansf ) . Thenavy of England has been manned with Irisbaiea , and they i lave ponrea forth tfeeir treasures and their blood to sustain the English msnne . The armies of England , too , have been recmited from the peasantry of Ireland ; sod those "who in the hour of battie have most eagerly ' TBsb-d on to death or victory , have betn Irishmen —rtremfindens suolanse ) - Aad Ireland , too , has ever !

      conrributed her revenue withont a nrarmnr to snpport H « - spendthrift £ xtrsv 2 i ? ance of tbe British G- ^ vernaect ; j snd ^ hat has bten the result ^ I refer yon to her his- tory for an aixonnt of the m * nstr&ns details : for imagination , evej . ' with her eye bolder than the ' eack's ^ -wiih her heart of gigantic proportions , and ; her ^ sourage of fiery energy , wiD shrink , pale ' and trembling , from the recital—( applause ) . N » ,: let thf historian , with his heart of steel and his j ley srd pnlseiess lip , speak to you of iDDocent people ! bntefcered by tfee force cf British laws , or who ba * e ' felt t >^ e fatal proficnpa- > n of the English martial power , i let him tell yon the d ^ taQs—let him tell you tow a j dac ^ nter has been ravished in the ^ ight and -srithin bear- ing nf a mother , -wfeoss chastity an » i life were sacrificed ¦

      Tnth their freedom—for an Irish maiden prefers chastity ' to fcre— ( great applause }—let him tell yen of eoaB igno- j XDb . zossly hung on tbe gallows before the tearless eyes j of ae-. d pircijts—; et the historian tell ytu , too , bow ber haVi = of ja&tice have been converted into j-= ae-s worse j Sk . 5 tae SamrnaiLin Orgies , yrlytie justici has been J pemdttd to Biocfc , a&J has , not been able to -ssitness the cans oal-iike Kgfe Tdth which Brifeh J ^ i ^ eB have caoLirf the requkiuyj of British law , aud have spr ^ iied the enniae cr then shoulders with ti-t- clotted > gort ^ r t aeir victia ^— . ipplausej . let the histr-rlan tell j you , yxi , how hti lamplcs of reliaion have bcec dese- " * .. hov * fiuJicg to force British observances of V 0 K 2- p en Irish rtligi . ^ n , they have pre > crfbf-d those Wic cuve prefers fr ^ dom of rofieciriw * i « tt- fejais .

      S ^ ^ tyx ^ ta , tOl half terriS . l i . v theLS ~^ SX ^ 5 S ^ 1 ^ .: ,, ¦ 5 ; pSS- ' SS . HS : Emssm ^ m infljcta wroaga too enormous to be dwelt BT > on ! ^ cheers ) . And fellow ^ ns , it is ^ i " aT "! American adzen-tapplause ) --that I enjoy , all the ' KesHiDgs of afree g . vem ment—that I am doubly sen- ! K&R to these oatogca audinsults . it is b ^^ the ' feelings ef that ancicBt day is ever present in my hearth i

      Won a victory in that great contest whieh involved ! principles that are the fonndation of those right * for 1 Which Ireland is now contending—( great applauae ) . It 1 fa because the spirit of that day , whjch now triumphs I Jn my breast , is ever mingled with an abiding and eon- ' omtrated aad inaaicible detestation of ' those who are I now the enemiai of Ireland—it is because I have been ! . © iosaJed among Uie pl » in and pure , though sablime ' .- « nd . gigantie _ JMtiintion * of our own free land , where ] " V tbeTEry aia which shines down on our heads , iand the j Ve ^ rtren which rc . ll their resistless course towardsthe octSn , and Hifi broad * nd green earth , amongst whose ! maj « tis mountains aid expansiva valleys the spirit of * freedoia has space to breathe—it is bseause we have aehkvcd th 23 s very i- stiiutiors , and this happy and ^ orious l-nd from a people that would have made serfs ; « r subjects of patriots—it a is this-two-fold aspect of ^ featred of the oppressor and eyiepathy fsr the ocprtEsed

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      who are nuwauffering indescribable oppressions , that I stand before yon m the friend of Ireland—( cheers ) And what , fellow-citizens , is this question of Repeal , with which Ireland is bow so much agitated , and for which the British Government have kept so angry and threatening attitude towards her . And what has been , the conduct of the Irish people to call forth the Tery harsh language whieh Wellington and ethers have used hi reference to this " Repeal" movement , and which has led to the degradation of the clergy and ( he magistrates of that oppressed land ? If I understand ll Repeal" aright , it is an attempt to obtain a peaceable repeal of an odious and oppressive act of onion—an aet which was passed without the formalities needful to the occasion which , it Is represented as intended confessedly to accomplish , and passed by bribery and public and private treachery : and yet it waa

      proclaimed in terms of the most absurd paradox that a union existed between the Independent states of England and Ireland by this Act of Union , by virtue of which forsooth , all power , executive , legislative , and judicial , theretofore exercised by tbe constituted authorities of Ireland , were to be either annihilated or merged for all time thenceforwrtd , in the omnipotent and emnisdent courts of England , the English Parliament , and the English Crown . And England , certainly with not a particle of right , claims that the Act of Union , so called in sheer mockery , la irrepealable , exsept at her own will and pleasure . N ow , fallow citizens , we as Americans , are directly interested in this question , ao far as this point is concerned ; for it positively contravenes the position which was taken by tbe American States in the Declaration of their Independence—( applause ) . This was precisely the language used by the British Government to the Colonies here before the

      Revolutionary war , and that contest was conducted by England on precisely the Batne principles on -which she would now carry on the contest with Ireland , and what was the result * Reason and justice , and the sympathy of the enligbtenei- world , and the voice and act of God , proclaimed and proved their fal : aty . —( Applause ) . Is admitting that Ireland lost her sovereignty by the act of treason—admitting that tbe act of union waa jost and fair—is to admit that one generation of men has the right to bind itself to chains and oppression , and also succeeding generations ; bnt not even the barbsrie Indian or the serf of a Russian despot , who feds an instinct of an jmrnortiil hereafter , will admit that one generation of men can sell the liberty of a dbtant posterity . It i » in vain to argue tbe question . Yon may produce tbe seals to yonr mnsty record of such moral degradation , to show that tbe

      terms bind and apply to all—you may attempt to enforce the contract ; but you will appeal , both to the man and to the law in vaiD . The sonl of man within him , conscious of his birthright of freedom , rises np and repels the insult . But I contend , fellow citizens , and in this position I am sustained by the ablest authorities , that sovereignty is indestructible except by the act of God ; and that it cannot be alienated . Now , has the sovereignty of Ireland bten destroyed by the actof God ? Has any canse which has produced the prostration of other nations led to her" prostration ? No , for she is stronger than ever , and her resources , though crippled by unjust laws , are greater ; indeed , Ireland appears to be like the camomile plant , for the more , she is trodden upon the greener she lias grown—( applause ) . It appears that the sovereignty of Ireland has net been lost Nor has it b * en alienated .

      Here Mr . Tyler gave way : the heat of the room was so oppressive that he could not proceed , and he observed that he feared he must close bis remarks . Bat after a short pause , he continned as follows : — Tattel , a great writer on the laws of nations—and his authority is admitted in all civilised countries—contends that sovereignty cannot be alienated . How , then , does it happen that on this question of contract between the two independent states or kingdoms of England a * d Ireland , as they stood before this net of union , that one—Ireland—should now be compelled to occupy a position towards the other of a felon endeavouring to escaps from the arm of the law , or cf a M&ve ee * caping from the hand cf a cruel master ? How dobs it happen , fellow-citizens , that Eria ' s proud banner ,

      which once flowed in the brctrs and flaunted to the sties , impressed with tbe broad seal of Irish sovereignty , is now only to be recogniz-d as an empty pageant in British hands ? How does it happen * It strikes Hie that , as both reasonable and right that no less a power than the power of the pc-eple—a sovereign and supreme power—could rightfully contract and enact that act of union , for the power which made the act mnst necessarily be superior to the act , as the creator xonst cf necessity be superior to the created . It could not bs , as the British Government contend ; for that would be an admission that Ireland was sovereign at the time of the union , and Tattel has It as an express and solemn rule , thst sovereignty cannot be alienated : and if eovemzn then , and if her sove .

      reignty was inalienable , why wus she not sovereign now?—( cheers } . According to tbe general principles of the law of nations—according to the principles on which the Declaration of Independence was based , and the union among the free States of tbis confederacy was eemented , she has tbe right to demand Repeal of the oppressive act of unien , or tbe right of a peacaable © fecession from that union as a sovereign power . If , however , a power wfeicb contracted this act of nnion was less than sovereign , it was clearly void db initio . for nothing less than Irish sovereignty could have annihilated for an inetant , much less for gene-rations , the power of the Irish legislature ; for sovereignty , and sovereignty alone , can make and unmake legislative power . ( Applause . ) I will not touch on tbe justice of

      " Repeal , " nor regard it as a question of expediency ; I choose rather to regard it &i a question of right and of principle . I will net Etop to inquire how much right the Irif h people have to complain , as a province misruled , of the system of Catholic proscription , hsr poer laws , her police system , her absenteeism , and other cause of e-: mplaint too tedious to mention , and disgraceful to the British Government ; no , aa the advocate of Irish liberty , I will not consent to assume the attitude of the slave , and supplicate for tbe leniency of a cruel Easter . ( Applause . ) No , in the name of a peopls who were once sovereign , and who cannot be dispossessed of { heir sovereignty , except by an a « t of God . I demand as a right tbe Repeal of tbe Legis lative Union . ( Applans *) . In the name of nine millions of people , who , even If they do form an integral portion of the British government , because of their immense number and their sufferings , they are not only entitled to it , but to redress for their

      wrongs ; and in their name I claim legislative emancipation for Ireland . ( Hear , and great spplau&e . ) I demand it in tbe name of tbe enlightened age in which we live . I demand it in tho name of the spirit of education and improvement which preside over the nineteenth century . I demand it in the name of ' the great political truths of the age , from whose power and light old dogmas sLrink . In the name of our republican institutions I demand her freedom . I demand it in the name of the sympathy of mankind . 1 demand ; t on the same ground—the irresistible ground on which Ireland demanded Catholic Emancipation—( cheers ) . The Act which imposed Catholfo disabilities , and that Act of Union , were dictated by a spirit comparatively barbaric ; and the spirit of enlightened freedom which demanded the repeal of the one now calls for the repeal of the otker , the equally odious and barbaric Act of Union . Yes ! the same reason which granted tbeRtform Bill for England , now demards legislative emancipation for

      Ireland-Mr . Ttxer now retired to the window xmmediatfly behind him , and then fainted away ; but the meeting , ignorant of thia fast , cheered him vociferously . Thiry then called loudly for Mr . Wallace , and other popnJar orators , but the beat of the room , which oppressed throngbout his whole speech , and finally overcame Mr . Tyler , was as unfavourable for reporting as speaking , and nearly incapacitated us for the discharge of onr ar * -: nous duty , which we fear we have here done very imptrf-fcOy , and therefore we left the meesing , which we understand continued together Borne time longtr .

      We learned sub > equently , that Mr . Tyler remained in the care of a physician , in much suff-ring , up to a late hour of the night .

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      THE " RENT" WARFARE . The Carlow Sentinel , a Tory paper , has , during the last three ox four weeks , givui occasional accounts of the carryingaway of crops distrained for non-payment of rent , by the peasantry , who were desciibed as assembling in considerable numbers tor the pnrpose of cutting down and removing the grain cut of thb reach of the landlords or their bailiffs . The last number « : f the same journal contains the following acconnt of the progress of thiB extraordinary movement : — * ' On the night of the 8 th instant , hetween the hour 3 of eleven and twelve o ' clock , about nf ty msn assembled on the lands of Coolmanna , in thiscennty , ana cut down about two acres of oata nndcr seizure for rent due to

      tbe landlord , Charles Davis , Esq ., of Clara , county Dublin . Mr . Sharps , the attorney for the landlord , having received intimation of the proceedings , collected some people In the vicinity , who came up in sufficient time to prevent the property being carried eff the Jand , The peiiee visited tbe place shortly after , but the crowd had vanished . We learo that bailiffs-were in charge of the property , but they were beaten on * , and the entire would have been carried away but for the timely arrival of the HacketBtowo constabulary . All the partita concerned in the outrage are known , and will be prosecuted .

      " On the morning of the 10 th instant , at an early hour , a number of men , principally strangers from the county Kilkenny , with several horses and cara , assembled on the Linda of Liscarvan , near Ballon , in this county , and cut down several aarea of prime wheat , which they carried away and itored in Ballon . Conaiaerable excitement existed in tbe neighbourhood during the Progress vf the work , which was tarried on withoot * T r * T ?* 5 atteiDPt * t concealment . Captain Watson , a * landlord , on bearing of the oecu . rence , proceeded Witt his « ervant » to the spot , and rocceeded in seizing !^? Bj n f f ttB enga 8 ed to ** " **»* away thi h 2 £±£ & £ S £ * four of " * - **> h 5 Te

      "On the night of the 8 th instant , a great numb . r , to-r ^ f ^ and ^ ars , aiatqfetd on the lands of Wuliomstown . held bj a man named Doyle from the Rev . Sir Richard Woiselc-y , and cut down and earned away all the crops , wh ) cb . were nnder se ' zare for rent dne to tke la : dl-wd . The bailiffs vftre ordered off the lands oa ptrii of their lives , and tuu

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      party succeeded in taking off th « property . Informations have been sworn , and warrants issued against the offenders , On the night of the 11 th instant , a great number of persons , many of whom were armed , assembled at KUlftlongford , in this county , and cut down and carried away a large quantity of corn , in order to evade the payment of rent About day-break their purposes were effected , and they marched off in different directions . The new system of opposition to the payment of rente la spreading with fearful rapidity . " The Nenaffh Guardian , a Tory journal , states that a similar system has commenced in the northern division of Tipperary , and gives the following instance : —

      " On Friday or Saturday night last , a number of men , about 400 , all atrangtra to the locality , went to the lands of Cranagb , the property of Maurice Meaf her , Esq ., of Nenagh , on which a distress had been placed for arrears of rent . They cut down the entire of tbe growing crop , and carried it away . At the morning's dawn , there waa nothing left for the landlord but the valueless stubble . Five of thia party were told off , for the purpose of shooting tbe bailiff—to deter others from acting in a similar capacity . There were five Btand of arms accordingly placed , aa they supposed , in a secure spot for that purpose , which happened to be discovered by the police , and seized . The loss to the party of their fire-arms saved the bailiff for the present .

      " A similar visit waa to have been paid to another tenant within a very short distance from town , whose crops were under seizure for two and a half years * rent ; but a compromise or settlement was effected between landlord and tenant the evening previous to the intended visit " SERVING NOTICES UNDER THE COURTS . — A short time B ' mce the receiver appointed under the courts , over the lands of Loghorn , within three mileo it Nenagh . the head landlord fit which is Mr . Bindon Scott , of Cahircon , and the lessee the representative of a Mr . M'Mahon , of the county Clare , having occasion to serve orders of tbe court on the tenantry to pay their rents and arrears to the receiver , the bailiffs sent for

      that pnrpose were turned eff , tbe door of each house or cabin being previously shut in their faces , On Tuesday last , that gentleman being obliged to attend in person , and having obtained a writ of assistance , was granted a strong police force , by the directions of Joseph Tabutesn , Eff ., R . M ., who aceompanied the party , which was commanded by H . Blake , Esq ., SI ., and they succeeded in protecting tbe bailiffs whilst the notices were being duly served . This property contains upwards of six hundred acres , and was originally let to thres or fonr respeot&blo farmers , and there is now but one tenant of subttance on the entire lands , and forty or fifty families of squatters in the oecujtaney « f the remainder .

      Just at tho dawn of day , on Tuesday morning lust , Constable M'Donough of the Bird-bill atation , having perceived a number of men , and about fifty horses and cars , pass the wall of the police barrack , aroused his men , and with three of hip party immediately followed to watch their movements . TbeBe Irish Rebeccas proceeded to tiie residence of a widow named Toohey , at Cool , in tbe barony of Owney a d Arra , and at the bead of three hundred persons there was a farmer name

      order of the hero of Waterloo , Up boys , and at them . ' Immediately the entire party rushed into the haggard , and commenced teariDg down the stack and ricks of corn , an « loading the cars , which they forcibly drove away . In endeavouring to resist the party concerned in tlra monstrous proceeding , several of the friends of the widow were cruelly beaten on the heads and bodies with heavy loaded sticks , which they designate by the name of 'the Molor . ys , ' or ' the two year olda . ' i A young man named Johu WaUb is dangerously wounded , bavins received a compound fracture on the bead , and of whose recovery there are no hopes . The father of the widow of James Hassett , an old man , was cruelly beaten ; and another relative , named John Hasset , also . Constable M'Donough and bis men are in possession of the names of several of the Rsbeocaites , some of whom were from Kilcommon , some from Keeper-hill , and the greater portion were strangers from the counties of Clare and Limerick . ' *

      Rents in Nokth Tifpebart . —The tenants on the lands of Loughorna , near Nenagh , are deeply in arrear . The landlord , Mr . Mahon , almost despairs of getting his rent ; but this in Tipperary is a matter of no very singular occurrence . Our correspondent in that locality informs us , that James Qaiu , a surveyor , a man who it seems is possessed of no small share of daring , offered to mn the gauntlet amongst the tenants , if be would be allowed six shillings in tbe pound for the collection of tbe rent aDd the arrears . Tbe offer was Boon closed with , under the impression , perhaps , that hnlf a loaf was better than no bread . On Tuesday last , Q'ain , accompanied by & man named Meehan , went to Loughorna with the intention of serving the tenants with notices to compel payment of rent Their reception was ratber routb , such aa might be expected

      on . th . 6 occasion . Qain an ? i Meehan had to trust to their heels for the safety of tb « ir heads . The crowd increased t very moment , and the pursuit became hotter ; Quin was overtaken , and , as we have been informed , compelled to take back tbe notices . Meeban , who seemed to be the more obnoxious character of the two , was eiill pursued , and at length obliged to take cover in the house cf Mr . James Otway , of Bullinware . So intent were tbe neighbouring peasantry in taking a dtad . y satisfaction of Meeban , that they searched Mr . Otway ' s kitchen and premises for him . Being b&ilsd they returned in no very pleasant mood . In about two hours after Quin and Meeban , escorted by a large body of police , horse and foot , again proceeded to the lands , where , under the protection or a hostile array they effected a . sortof service . —Leinster Express .

      Opposition to the Payment op Rents . —On tbe night pi the 8 ; b inst ., between the hours of eleven and tvrelve o'clock , about fifty men assembled on the lands of Coolmancs , in this county , and cat down about two Bcres of oats under seizure for rent due to the landlord , Mi . C . Davis , of Clare , county of Dublin . Mr . Sharpe . the attorney for the landlord , having received intimation of the proceedings , collected some people in the vicinity , who came up in sufficient time to prevent the property being carried off the land . The police visited the place shortly after , but the crowd bad vanished . Informations have been sworn against sixteen perscnB concerned in the rescue , and warrants have tefcii issued for their apprehension . From private letters received on Friday , we learn that bailiffs were in charge 6 f tue property , but that they were beaten off , and that the entire weuld have been carried away but for the timely arrival of the Hacketetown constabulary . All tbe parties concerned in tbe outrage are known , ana will be prosecuted . —Carlow SenlintU

      Wore Outrages—Oa the morning of the 10 th nstant , at an early bour , a number of men , principally strangers from the county of Ki ikenny , with several korsea and cars , nsBtmbl . d < a thu lands of Liscarvan , near Ballon , in this county , and cnt down several acres of ptiiie wheat , which they carried away and stored , in Ballon . Considerable excitement existed in tht neighbvurbood fituring the progress of the work , which was carried on withuut the slightest attempt at concealmeet . Captain Watson , the JaLdiord , on hearing of the occurrence , proceeded with his servants to the spot , and saccee-. Ud in se zine on the horses and cars engaged in carrying away the crop , acd also in capturing four of the party , who have been committed for trial

      Tumultuous Meetings—On the night of the $ th inst ., a great number ef nscn , with horses and cars , cisemblad on the lands of WUHanwtown , held by a man named Doyle , from the Rbv . Kir R . Wolseley , and cut down and carried away all the cr ^ ps , which were under s « zure fur rent due to ihe laaulord . The bailiffs were ordered eff tbe lands on peril of their lives , and the party susceeded in carrying off tbe property . Informations have been sworn , anil -wairauts issued against the offoiiiiers . On the night of the 11 th inst a great number of persons , many sf whoii were armed , assembled at KiHalongford , in tbis county , and out down and carried away a Iotbd quantity of corn , in order to evade tbe payment of rent . About daybreak their purposes were t ffiCtad , and they mart-hod off in different

      directions , blowing horns , sboniii'g for repeal , and crying out " tney v ? 9 Ulu pay no muro ivinis [ " The constabulary are ba-iiy engaged in bringing the leaders to justice . The new system of opposition to the payment of rents is apreadiag with fearfa-J rapiriity , and emissaries said to be from Dublin , are very where exciting toe population to resistance to the payment of any rent at all . This appear :- , unquestionably to be the preparatory step to the grand movement against tbe landed proprietary so long threatened ; and if tfeey do not umte ono and all to check its progress , no one can tell where it wii ! end . If not put down speediJy tbe social eriibce will bs shaken ta its foundation . On the night of the 11 th several horses and cars were brought to the lands of Rathrush , near Ballen , in tbiseonnty , for tbe purpose of carrying away the produce of two-and-a-half acres of wheat , which we ate informed had been taken bj conacre from the Mesaw . Cogblan , the tenants on the lands , who prevented the

      removal of the crop until the landlord waa informed of the circumstance . On the same night , about eleven o ' clock , a large number of persona , amounting to about 300 men and women , with several norses nod cars , assembled at Cowlaw , in the parish of Clonmore , near Hacketstown , in this county , and cut down and carried away five acres of oats , hilrt by conacre , from the tenanta on the lands , named Dowlirjg . Tfee person who had this crop taken from tbe Dowlings is a farmer named Patrick Carty , of Ballygaldnff , and the reason be assigns for this unusual and unlawful proceed : z is , that he was informed that Duwling ' s landlord ( a Mr . Cforge Braddell , of Belfast ) was about to seiaa on the entire crops fur xent * The conduct of thoss assembled on Uiis occasion was most violent , and created mudi nhirm in the neighbourhood . They bore away tLe property amiost shouts snd buzz is , and threatened vic-Iri ) .-.- i ^ ittis ; -: , ; ny person "who should oppose them . T . -v pa-sa ! i , u .. rds Lroir . il ttis houses of the D-iwlinys at-. : ' . ; -rs ? : ¦ U ' -. i c'vhlH'utliocGt , atid tS . r-. ater . ed tnu ii . u .. ' - "V ..:.. i . nbt . ini ti-re ^ i-Uv ' -i ^ o if they ulUiiipted to

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      « ome out until they had cat and carried It away . They stopped at a public-house at Clonmore , and drank a large quantity of spirits . PROGRESS OF THE ANTI-RENT WaR—The " pasalve resistance ' to tbe payment of rents inculcated by the Repeal legislators has extended its operations to the county of Meatb , wherej owing to the great excitement prevailing in the neighbourhood of Trim , it has been found necessary to despatch a large body of military to enforce tbe collection of rents . Two troops of the 11 th Hdssars have been detached from this garrison , and a company ef the Rifle Brigade , oa its march from Drogheda to Longford , was countermanded at Navan , and ordered to proceed to Trim , to aid the civil power , in conjunction with the HuBsara . The farmers are generally refusing to pay rente , and are removing the cropa off the lands , in order to evade seizures . —Correspondent of the London Times .

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      MR . O'CONNELL AND THE CHARTISTS . Mr . O'Connell cannot be quiet , and let the Chartists a-be . He must try to damage them , at every opportunity , either fitting or unfitting . Ha haa had . iija fingers trapped just now for so doing ; and in a quarter he did not expect . At the meeting of the Repeal Association holden at the Corn Exchange , on Monday September 4 , Mr O'Connell read a letter from .. tbe writer who sub-Boribe 8 himseifi" One who Whistled at the Plough /' and commented on it , mixing up the Chartists with the allegations of the writer . That commentary brought forth a reply from the writer , in which he Bnub 8 Mr . O'Connell very severely for so far going out of his way ] to do the Chartists wrong . Below are both letters of the Whistler , and Mr . O'ConnelTs commentary : —f MR . O ' CONNELI / S SPEECH .

      There wilb , indeed , one cause of apprehension , and he now wished to call the attention of the association to a letter that appeared in the last Weekly Register , from ) that very olever writer , the correspondent of ihe Morning Chronicle who wrote under tho signature of " One who has Whistled at the Plough . " Ho says : — " Sir , —I have just seen , for the first time , in the Register of last week , a paragraph stating that my account of the Tara- meeting had been suppressed by the Morning Chronicle Such is not the case . I had reasons for delaying it , which you will understand when you see it published , I saw something on Tara Hill which at first I was unwilling to believe , and which I did not wish to publish until I had inquired into , through letters to England . I now find that the . parties whom I 6 aw there , and whoso conduct attracted my attention , wvre really what I suspected them to be . Two or three i of them were Irishmen known in

      London ; the others were English . I am not at liberty to say much more , at least until next week ; but I would warn you , and the Irish people through you , to be cautious beyond all former caution . That some hundreds of men , or may be thousands , did not get drunk , did not fall out and fight , and caust general riot on Tara Hill , to which the military and armed police would have soon been summoned , was not the fault of the persons alluded to , nor the fault of those who paid them to come here ; who have also paid the same men and some others to { follow Mr . Cobden from town to town in England , from Norwich to London , from London to Maidstone , I from Maidstone to Winchester , and several other pJaces , to get up a riot and upset . nig anti-Corn Law ; meetings . On this subject I refer you to the next two of my letters which will appear in the Morning Chronicle , aad also to the Scotsman of to-morrow ( . Saturday ) . "

      He ( Mr . O'Connell ) entirely believed this gentleman He believed him to be uUerly incapable of asserting that for a fact Which ho did not know to be true—( hear ) . He spoke from his o ^ vn knowledge . He said that he had traced those people—that he knew them in England to be hired , and the question was , by whom ? Now this deserved the most serious consideration . T ^ iia was a su bject that could not drop ; and they must kuow from this gentleman who they were , and who hired them —( hear , hear ) . Could it be possibly supposed that they were hired by the British Ministry ? and yet if they were not hired

      by the British ! Minister , must they not be hired by some person in the confidence of the Minister ? Was it the mere bribt-ry of the police , or what was it ? What ; could be more terrific than that Government should be so ' constituted , that any of its underliugs should plan murder and massacre , and . seek to get up a not to commit slaughter , and that for that purpose they J should engage persons trom a great distance who were hackuied and trained disturbers of public meetings—( bear ) . They could nova see how the cause of Reform had been putdown in England by the interjereripe of persons pretending to be ChartislS : FOR THi ? GHEAT PRINCIPLE OF CHARTISM WAS

      NOT TO ALLOW ; ANV PUBLIC MEETING TO TaKE PLACE UNDisTBRBtD . i Sooiti of the persons wko were accused of that conduct mi ^ ht be innocent ; bat it was plain that' they Were mixed up with others who were guilty : and her ^ wero the servants of some police agent , if thpy were not authorised by direct ministerial influence , seeking to create a disturbance . They had this , gentleman ' s authority for it ; and he ( Mr . O . C . ) wjould make use of it as undoubted evidence of the I fact ( hear ) . He could not briDg himself to believe that this gentleman , whose name and character were known , though he used a fantastic j and fictitious signature , had stated what was untrue ; and he therefore must look upon this 'system as the most horrible mode of

      governing Ireland that ever was thought of —( hear , hear ) . The lives of innocent persons were to be sacrificed , where order and regularity prevailed , aye , and so much regularity prevailed that the attempt had totally failed —( hear , hear ) . But they should know who they were . He would tell this writer of the Morning Chronicle that he could not keep his incognita . He had now committed himself ; and he believed in the truth of his statements . He did not like tofdeal in any persecution at all , but if there was anyjshriuking on the part of this gentleman , there ( should be a summons issued to him , and he should be urged forward ; but he ( Mr . O'C . ) did not anticipate any unwillingness on his part to give them the information they required —( hear ) .

      He ( Mr . O Connell ) was sorry any person should be guilty of such a critee , but hs was delighted ' at tho discovery which had been made . Ho bad toiled there from day to day , from week to week , from month to month , to infix upon the mind ? of the Irish people that thev should seek for their rights- by no meanH except 'by peaceable and moral means . —They should work , not by physical force , but by the moral force of public opinion , that electricity that binds six millions of people in one unanimous sentiment . And was all this to be thrown away by the acts of hired assassins brought over from England—for he would call thf'in assassins ? There was no nation in Europe in which assassination would prevail to such an extent , or where such an act of assassination

      would be perpetrated as in Ireland if that plan succeeded . It could not remain as it was . They should probe it to the bottom . He cared hot who they were—the man who was at the bottom of puoh a plan as j that , was a wretch that should be dragged to the scaffold—( Loud cheering . ) Feargus O'Connor , when the Chartists were sore beset in England , propo-ed the absurdity of what he called " a Jsacred month , " by which he meant a month during the continuance of which all the working elates in England were to throw up their employments and remain idle What a notable piece of ingenuity was this —( laughter ) . Who , he should like to know , was to fe ^ d the tradesmen and their families during ihat month \—( hear , hear ) . At

      tho end of the month the number of the oppressed would no doijbt have scn * ibly diminished , and for this very obvious reason , that many of them in the interim would ] have gon ^ to another world . There would bo hut few survivors at the end of the month—( hear , hour ) . He (! r . O'Connell ) proposed no nrrposJeroiis Utopian measure like that proposed by Fi ; ar << uB . He di' not want a revolution —unless by sue '; a nan ; o an attempt to procure a return to the former times m ^ tu properly be designated . He w ;) t : tfd such a r « vo ! utj" . n as fchac of 1782 or that of 1829—(^ par , hear , and cheers ) . Ifwas a bloodless , ^ yinless revolution to which he aspired ; a political change for tha better , brought , about without ! u jury to life or to prom : rtv . Who

      would say that the Jri *!> people had not sufficient constitutional ) resourvfs to fall back upon , even if their present I plans wre defeated I Supoosn . g a very extreme case—^ uoposina that tho p ane uow proposed for the achievement of our national regeneration were faefciously thwarted and defeated , might not the ( Irish people acknowledge the wisdom of betaking themselves exi'luMvely to their potato crops , and leaving the harvest of Ireland uncm ? Who would tell him that i . he Repealers might not un an imously coiua to the determination of di-cjn tinuing altogether ihe consumption of all cxciseable commodities if ( Loud cheers ) . Tho harve « i was already cut , so that when he alluded to that . hevvas

      speaking a day after the fair—( laughter ) . The resolution for , ihe noti-consumption of exoiseable articles waa not now proposed , nor would n until a mure urgent emergency should arise ; bu' then he was very far fiom saying that it might not be proposed one day or other—( hear ) , lie would not shrink from aiiy thing that the laws of God and man would ap-provf , for the restoration of his country ' s rights . He trusted that the meeting would pardon him this digression , but the pira ^ raph which had given rise to it vvao of so ieij . ¦ •¦ rum , a nature that he was sure tho ; Jn > h people wouhi acknowledge that he was doing iijth ng mure tha . ii iuj duty iu offering these remarks IHE " ¦ WHlsTLER ' s" ANBWK 3 .

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      Cowardly and Atrocious Opteage . —On Saturday evening the following daring outrage was committed at Pentonville . Between eight and nine o ' clock , as a lady , named Townsend , residing at No . 8 , Claremont-plaoe , Pentonville , was walking along the sfcreef , within a few yarite of her own residence , she was met by an individual having the appearance of a Lasoar , and on passing him she felt herself suddenly wouaded by some sharp instrument in her thigh . Mrs . Townsend , as soon as sbe could recover herself , fpursued the ruffian , but he succeeded in effecting his escape before sbe could obtain the assistance of a policeman . On examination , ' was found that the instrument had passed through her clothes , and penetrated the flesh to some depth . The perpetrator of the outrage is described as . being a man of colour , dressed in a red and black cap , which fits c ! o ? e to his head , and a red tunic with white ! sleeves , which reaches to his knees .

      " Increase and Multiply . " —There is now in tbe possession of Mr . Thomas Jones , of Penny-lane , in the township of Fiixton , a saw which has farrowed , at twe ve different times , 165 pigs . Religious Persecution in Tckkey—Constantinople—An Armenian named Avoukitn has lately suffered death under the following circumstancsa . A ye * r and a half ago , having quarrelled , during a at of hitox vation , With his Mussulman neighbours , he was condemned to receive the bastinado on the soles of hia fee !; Almost overcome with the effects of wine and of fear , he made a profession of Mohammedisra , and was immediately released . No sooner had be regained the use of hia reason tbsm , repenting the steps be bad been induced to take , ha fUd to Syra and resumed his

      former faith . After the absence of a year ha returned to Constantinople , and concealed himself in a Christian quarter . Unfortunately , he waa recognized aa he passed through the city , by one Mn 3 taia Ai ? a , chief ot the euard of the quarter in which he resided before hia flight . He was seized and conveyed to the Seraskier's palace . Having formally declared his adherence to Christianity , he was thrown into prison . Threats and torture were aaed to compel him to retract , and these means failing , he was led out to execution . Intimidation being unavailing , he was reconducted to prison , an-5 allowed six days to re-embrace tie faith of Islam . All access to him wa . 9 denied , both to his relatives si » d the priests . On the seventh day he was bound , and dragged to the Boliuk Bazaar . The fish market

      is one of the crowded thoroughfares of the city , and consequently usually chosen as a , fitting spot for public deenpttation . Although thirty Cawasses accompanied tb < ' unfortunate man , on arriving at the placo of execution they all refused to strike the Wow , At length one AH of Tavok Bazaar , a Cawass belonging to the Siras * kerial , seized the scymetar . The naked weapon waa shown to the condemned man , with a last offer of pardon ; but be maintained an obstinate silence . The Cawass having compelled him to kneel , raised the sabre , and struck hinv on the neck , the ^ bope remaining unbroken . Threflineffectaal blows auccaeded . Tbe ' s ? baing too bluut , or the executioner being too inexperti to never the head in the usual manner , he was thrown down , and whilst several men knelt upon the body , Aii sawed the neck asunder , the miserable man filling the air with shrieks . The body was thrown upon tfie stomach into the centre of the street , the head , and W ite Bide the hat . being placed between hifl thig «*

      The Turks who stood around spat opon hi « corpse , arm reviled his Christianity . The Cawasse * retired to * neighbouring tobacconist ' s and eujoyeii their pipes . .. Wj : . the body was then placed the decree by whick henw been condemned , in these words : * - * 'iO . tt VP' ^ VZ Mohanem last year the Armenian slippewnaker Yv >* Oglar Avoakim , being in full posaeMibn of hia sens * . embraced the faittt of Ialam , and received the name « Mohammed . He afterwards escaped , and becaine * wnegade , Having been ^ invited to re-enter toe OTJ religion of Islam , he absolutely refased bo to do & * sisting in his refusal , he was condemned , accordu ««" the aacred fetwa , and baa suffered death . " The-PW was exposed during three days to the insults t > t ' fanatic multitude . On ths third day it ^ was dragg'ia ^ the sea-sbora , and , having been fastened to a p 0 » w . i . i c-. at into one of the currents of tho Bo ? pb oi ^ The Armenian patriarch having presented a P ^ . titio " , , eta Pjiio ioi- the corpse , it w * a torn up am ' , tmw ^ UC < itiI lOOt .

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      To ) Ihe Editor of the Freeman . : Tuesday Evsuing , eight o ' clock . SSE , —I have just read , in the Evening Post , the speech of Mr . j O'GonnuU , deK ^ vsied jesUrday at the Corn Exchange , in reference to ; i u'atement of mine in tho Weekly Register of Saturday . As yours will be the first paper published , I send thin to yea , anxious as I am that not & day ehoald be Hist until I give-tome explanation of the matter referted to . I txpected that it would attract notice , but O'Cij ^ jell pats a construction on it which I do not concnr in , and which I should not be answerable ( for . I do not charge the English Gh'ir > ' tista with the crime , of conspiracy against the Irish Repealers , or of lending themselves to somebody elBe who do , or may be suspected of conspiring . On the contrary , I know that the leading men of the Chartists in London utterly repudiate the personB to whom I alluded in the Register . I ' i

      Far less do lj act use or suspect tho Government ; or think for a moment ; even hypotbeticaliy , that the Government baa anything to do ^ ith them . I shall tell you all I know of the matter , which is not half aa much as Mr . O'Oonnell seems to believe I know . And I shall repeat here all that I ins-inu . ited , T ? hich is nut what Mr . O'Connell insinuates . ! First Fact—Iv my connection whh tho London press , I have been in thu baMt < f at ' enjiuj ; \ . ub'ie meetings , composui if p .-r- as if Ail ¦> i : •>> - ip j . -I-iljcs—ofailcuaditionaic iif-j ; and have , Uit i-. i .. . U voia familiar with

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      the features , abilities , and characters of many of those who attend London meetings . , Second Fact—I have been for these last eighteen months travelling in England , through the midland , eastern , southern , and western counties * , in connexion with agricultural affairs . During the same period , and particularly this last spring and summer , the Anti-Corn Law league has had meetings in many of the market towns of these counties , at some of which meetings I have attended when within reach of them . I have also been present at several of the League meetings in London . It has been . common , on such occasions , for several persons calling themselves working men to propose resolutions at variance with tke object of the meeting , and to attempt—sometimes successfully , but in most

      instances unsuccessfully—to divert the discussion to other topics than the corn laws . On one Occasion they took possession of the platform by force In London ; nn another © ccasion they got a mob , and , occupied all the lanes and passages leading to a place of meeting , the Riding School in Mary-le-bone , which the Anti-Corn Law Association of that parish had hired for the meeting , and a riot was created , which ended by the building and furniture being damaged to the amount of £ 50 . Some of the parties concerned in getting up that riot were afterwards at Norwich , and in various towns , east , south , and west , at which Mr . Cobden held meetings . Any one who has observed the reports of those meetings must have seen that attempts were made to carry resolutions condemnatory of Mr , Cobden ' s speeches ; and that Mr . Cobden in replying

      8 lid , almost on every occasion , that the movers of such resolutions were unworthy the confidence of working men , though they professed to be working men—inasmuch as they were persons who followed him about from town to town , from the north to the south—from tho east to the west Mr . Cobden has said , also , that they were not Chartists , though they professed Chartism . He has said that they must be paid by somebody ; but he has never said who that somebody is ; nor do I say who that somebody is , for I do not know . I have good reason to believe ^ however , that Mr . Cobden never for a moment suspected the government or tbe Chartists . If he suspected any class of persons , bis suspicions were fixed on parties who aa thoroughly hate and distrust Sir Robert Peel , and what they consider bis too liberal leaning towards free trade , as any one does who thinks him not liberal enough .

      Third Fact—I saw on Tara Hill , at several points on the outskirts of the meeting , persons attempting to draw off a portion of the vast multitude to listen to speeches , some part of which , so fax as I heard them , alluded to Chartism . Also at Tara , in a few of the many tents there spirituous liquors were offered for sale , and by some ot the people—by very few so far as I saw—were purchased and drunk . I saw several men , three of whom I knew by eye-sight , offering to treat varions groups of countrymen to whisk ; punch or brandy , also to " something to eat , " if they would drink . The men whom I saw spoken to refused to drink :

      and when I spoke to them afterwards and inquired what tbe strangers had been saying to them ; they told me that ' they had been talking abonfc the hardships endured by working . men in Ireland , and offered to stand a treat of something to eat and driDfc , but that they had gone away and given them nothing because they refused to drink . I saw tbe same parties again and again similarly engaged with the poorer-loakiBg Irish country labourers . What their precise object was I cannot say . Perhaps they were only on what in England we call a * ' lark . " when a fellow with plenty of money offers to treat everybody ; but whatever they might be doing , or intendins ? to do , I am certain of my at of

      Fourth Fact- ^ That least three them were persons whom I . have seen in London and elsewhere disturbing tbe League meetings . I shall now state a few matters of opinion . I do not think it is fair in Mr . O'Connell to make such violent charges against the English Chartists , even admitting these men to have been heie for the worst of purposes , and to have used for their purpose Chartist doctrines How would the Irish Repealers like to be burdened with the ownership of Bill Delany and Phil Murphy , the joint conspirators , murderers and informers of Kilkenny ? Yet these villains accomplished their purpose by assuming a character not their own—a character of benevolenca , of sympathy for a persecuted pet of tenants . .

      I tbmk . it is not proper to burden me with threats ol being dragged from behind my incognita if I do not dis « close the names of tbe persons whom I saw on Tara Hill , that they may be punished . Personally I care nothing about the incognita . When I assumed it I wrote one . letter on agriculture , intending to write no more , and so signed myself . That letter drew forth others ; and ao I have gone on . Mr . O'Connell most truly describes the law of libel in the speech I now refer to . So stringent is that law that I cannot publish anywhere the reports which I draw up relating to Irish landlords and tenants ; yet Mr . O'Connell holds out a threat to me , the tendency of which ia to make me produce a libel . He is pleased to compliment me for what I have written on Irish affdra ; but he holds over my

      head a threat that will make me more cautious about wfwt I write than even the law of libel makes me ; that is , if the dragging me from behind my incognita were in his power , or , being in his power , any detriment to me . I have no objection , if a serious inquiry be determined on , to state privately to any party properly authorised to inquire , the names of the men known to me ; but having mentioned the matter publicly in 8 merely general manner for a public purpose , for a warning to those who might by possibility be led Into error , I do not see that it is eithtr just or pplitio to give me tho burden of supporting sach charges aa Mr . O'Connell draws out of my statement , since those charges are carried far beyond what I have any proof to support . One Who has Whistled at the Plough .

      To this we need not add another word , except to direct attention to Mr . O'Connor ' s letter in this day ' s Star for an answer to that portion of Mr . O'Connell ' s speech which attributes to " FeargHs " the project of the " National Holliday . " It will be seen that he disposes of that charge most effectually ; and fixes it upon Mr . O'Connell ' s . Birmingham friends . Tnat answer was not intended for Mr . O'Connell ; but it exactly fits him .

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      [ THE ARMY AND NAVY . Warlike Preparations . —As if in anticipation of a general insurrection all the barracks and many of the castlis and private mansions in the country ate undergoing extensive alterations to fit them for efficient offensive and defensive operations . Walla are pierced for loop-holes , superfluous gates and other assailable points are closed up , drawbridges are erected , tbe magazines are crammed with ammunition , and that frightful enemy ot besieged troops—Famine—is provided against by stores of beef , pork , and rum , which arejiaily arriving . At the front gate of the Clonmel barracks a hiah platform has been raised for the

      accommodation of a patent ewivel-eun , and two dozan men . From this position the garrison could bkZ 9 away against the old and new gas-bouses , : ind cause no slight annoyance to a French armada in its passage up the Suir . In Cork , Fermoy , Limerick , Templemore , &c , similar formidable steps have been taken ; so that when "Young Ireland" arises to throw off her chains , tbe authorities are determined not to be like the foolish virgins who were found unprepared . Cart loads of beef , bacon , bread , and powder , and hogsheads of rum arid brandy are dally taken from the Government stores at Haulbouline to the barracks in tbe interior of the couutry , in many iuetanoes without tbe accompaniment of a single soldier oi policeman \—Dublin World .

      ; The Ballyshannon Herald , an Orange paper , says : — "We hear that the large infantry barrack is about to be repaired , in order to have a depot stationed here in future . We hope this may be found true , as thero is no place in Ireland where a military force could be more usefully employed in cutting off any communication between Ulster and Convaugbt , if found necc&sary to do so . " An Officer connected with the engineer department has arrived in Pursonstown , and tbe military barracks are at once to be put into a state of defence ;

      300 workmen are to be immediately employed , and the works to be completed with all haste . Upwards of 300 tops of coats have been laid in during tbe past week , and it is Baid a large quantity of provisions are to arrive here in a few days . The 52 . id depot , at Nonagh , hava put their barracks in order : they are now in a state of preparation to resist an insurgent Beige . On Thursday a dozon dray loads of provisions were laid up as storage . No civilian is admitted within the precincts of the barrack gate . The baker and the butcher must hand in their contracts from without . —Lsinster Express .

      " Preparations for the Repealers ''—One fact is worth a thousand assertions , and as an evidence of the chance Mr . O'Connell has of obtaining Bepoal , we need only state , that on Friday so ' nnigbt the bar ; rack-master , assistant , and a party of soldiers , were employed in receiving into Mill Mount Barracks several cart loads of provisions , rum , &c , for the use of the troops , in case that they may have to take the field during the ensuing winter . —Drogheda Conservative . , Doings IN the Army . — The following statement of " strange doings at Ballincollig '' appears in the Cork Examiner : —

      " A few days since a private in the Artillery stationed at Ballinooliig , named O'Brien , was put under arrest without any seeming cause ,, either alleged or proved , tending to criminate hia character as a man , a soldier , or a loyal subject of her Majesty . O'Brien re a Rowan Catholic , and for some time a strict teetotaller . He Was born in France , being tbe son of an Irish refugee , and from his infancy up to this moment has been constantly connected with the army . He has served in various parts of the world with honour , and there never was the shadow of a stigma on bis character . After years of hard service , and at bis time of life , being now pretty far advanced in years , he has been threatened with dismissal from the service , and to be shot like a dog , if anything could be proved against him .

      What is his crime ? As an Irishman , ho felt deeply for his country , and in the warmth of hia heart frequently expressed himself so , never dreaming of the ears of the barrack walls , which exaggerated his sentiments , and pnt a forced construction on his words . But tbe real inexpiable crime which he was guilty of Is this—h « was detected reading the Nation and Examiner newspapers . He has been shipped off to Woolwich , bandcuffed , without a moment ' s notice , or being allowed an interview with his wife , whether destined for foreign service or to be dismissed , we cannot say ; but poor O'Brien , for loving tha land of his fathers , has been punished as if he had committed some

      crime against military law , the law of the land , or the law of Gud . We may mention that one crime sought to be fastened on him -was , when reviewing the fortifications newly put up at Bolllncollfg barracks , being a man of sound military information , he said , With 100 soldiers he csuld take the whole fortifications . ' Thia was interpreted that he would , Jf opportunity offered , take tbe barracks with 100 men , whereas he only expressed an opinion generally of the unmilitary and weak nature of the fortifications themselves . A few days since his wife had a contribution made up by a few benevolent individuals for the purpose of enabling her to reach her friends , who reside in another province .

      " Is this all 1 No ; John Burn , belonging to the same station , a police-constable , also a Catholic and a Teetotaller , snd a man of unblemished character , was called up oa Wednesday night at nine o'clock , and upon tbe instant dismissed the service , without warning , without notice , without the shadow of a crime or fault alleged , when he had not a shilling saved , no clothes to wear but Bome lent by bis comrades—yet at that hour of night he was driven forth to seek his home as best he could in the county of Limerick . He , too , thought deeply for Ireland , and sometimes read the Examiner

      or Nation As a sample of the espionage and inquisitorial meanness and treachery of some of the responsible parties who govern these men , we shall quote one of the many questions asked this man by bis sergeant * 'Would you / said this functionary , if you saw Arcb * bishop M'Hale heading an army , fire en him , if you were ordered to do so ? ' Thus , by aTtful questioning , and listening to words uttered in the simplicity of honest men's hearta , are they entrapped , and crime sought to be fastened on them , and ultimate punishment heaped upon their hea < 1 s . ''

      The Cork Constitution has the following version of these " strange doings " : — " A sub-constable of : police has been dismissed from the force , in consequence of his using expressions favourable to the Repeal agitation , and caving stited , that in caw there was i \ popular outbreak , he would join the Repealers ; besides that , he ia believed to have been endeavouring to create a fealing of disaffection in the minds of the military . The circumstances which led to the dismissal are kept eeciet by those best acquainted with them ; however , we understand that the policeman , who had previously supported himself by following the trade of what is commonly called a " hedge schoolmaster" in the county of Limerick , was stationed at BMiucoihg ; that a few days since ha

      was in company with an artilleryman in a publichouse in that village , where they were overheard by a bombardier-corporal discussiog the strength of tbe fortifications erecting at Ballincollig barracks , in the course of which the eub-constable said that he bad a plan by which he cculd capture the barracks , and take the powder mills , with 100 undisciplined Repeulers , but that would be unntcetsuy , as he knew the soldiers would not fight against tbe people , for he had ' sounded' many of them . These and other expressions used by both parties , which showed that they were not to be trusted with arms , were reported to an officer , who felt it his dnty to acquaint tbe Government With the circumstances . An investigation having since taken place , the policeman has been dismissed , and the soldier removed to Woolwich . "

      Special Commission . —King ' s County . —It ia stated Jwre , in quarters likely to be acquainted with the fact , that a special commission will be issued for this county some time in the enduing month ; there are six persona charged with tbe awful crime of murder , at pre sent confined in the gaol here , viz : —One for the murder of Lord Norbary , one for Mr . Gatchell , the magistrate , the soldier for shooting his adjutant , and three for killing a man named Fuller , with several others charsed with very seriens offences , such as firing into and attacking dwelling-houses , posting and writing threatening letters , Rockite notices , &c—Leins ( er Express .

      Postponement of thb Execution of Noonah and Houlohan . —A letter baa been received by the High Sheriff , from the Chief Secretary foe Ireland , directing that the execution of Houlohan and Noonan , found guilty at the last assizes for the murder ef Mr . Shine , shall be postponed until the 20 th of November . The respite , we understand , is for the purpose of having the question raised on the trial discussed before the jadgea . —Limerick Reporter .

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      The Blind Traveller . —Lieut . HoJman , R . N . Knight of Windsor , the celebrated blind traveller , took his departure on the 3 d of September , from Malta for Maples . He will afterwards proceed to the Roman States , add thence to Trieste . During the few day b of his residence in thia island the greatest hospitality has been shown him- The veteran traveller had the honour of dining with his excellency the governor , and very frequency with the Admiral , Sir E . Owen . Amidst all tho vicissitude ? of his perilous life , and increasing age , he still maintains the same unabated thirtt for travel , aad his mental and bodily faculties appear to ^ row in activity and strength in . the inverse ravlo uf '< m <' e \ ining life and honoured grey hairs . — ^ lalta Time * .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 23, 1843, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1231/page/6/