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      ' " KEPJBAX" IN AMEKICA . ( From ihe New York Mould . ) An enormous meeting "wti held on the evening of August 29 , in Washington Hall , of the United Irish Bepeal Association , -which was , perhapB , better atisaded than usoal , in consequence ef the announcement tbat Botsert Tyler , Esq ., Bon of-the President of theTJnited States , would address the Ass-datlon . By thetime fixed for the cominencsnisii * of the proceed-JngB , fte large Toom vaa filled to its jitmcafc capacity woti the stairs , and even the vestibule were crowded by hundreds , * rho could ^ ppioadi ao nearer to the stand of t £ e ? p «* ers . Tbe orchestra "was SHed vrith beaatifal females—a novelty in tbtse exciting assemblagesand many Indies -were accommodated with seats near fee ¦ platform .

      Mr . Ttlkb entered the room in « omp » ny with Mr . Alderman Pardy , Mr . Charles O'Connor , Hie celebrated conncilJor , snd man ; gentlemen of distinction in toil city ; and as he took hi 3 seat he was welcomed by a load , long-continued and joyous cheer from the generousheartecl Irishmen there assembled . Hi . B . Cossoit . one of the Secretaries , propose th& \ Ejjah F . Pardy , 35 iq ., acting Mayor of this city , pre-¦ iae ov « r the meeting , which ¦ was carried by a raspon-B . T 6 theer . Mt PtmDT , on taking the chair , was warmly Wcslved . He acknowledged 3 he honour the meeting 2 nd conferred upon him , and he begged them to believe that he sympathised with them for thi oppressed sons of ErI-i ; asd he also said he was happy thit an expression would go f £ > rth from that meetiBg which would spr > r z * the GteTsrsment of England that there \ ras one yiaee on earth -where a people dared to act , » tic thini , and speak , when occasion required . { Great Cheering . }

      Sir . B . Coksob . then read the minutes of the last inertias ? , and tbij were approved , alter which Mx . McKeon in a few pertinent remarks introdneed telhe msetiag Boberfc Tyler , Esq ., ss a gentleman who hadljeen one of the most distinguished champions of Irish B ^ sa!—\ Great chterteg ,-which was continntd for several minutes , and accompanied with the waving of bats st-g t ' ls clapping of hands . It was indeed one of the most enthusiastic bursts of cordial -greeting . No description could do it justice ) . MiTxcKeos continued . Although-he ( Mr . Tyler ) had BETi-r before had the pleasure of meeting them face to face , he tilr . McKeon ) thought that response would eonviiice h 5 m thst at least they were no strangers to his

      labours . He ( M . SIcKeon ) w * s happy 3 n presenting 2 ir . Tyler to that meeting , far he had been witness to many things in his favour . That meeting beheld in iim not only ^ distinguished champion ef the rights uf Ireland , but a gentleman distinguished in the waits of lite-. Tatsre ; and lie also came to them not as & plain private citizen , but as the son of the Chief Magistrate of these United States —( Great cheering ) . He ( Mr . McKeoaj need not ask for him a warmer reception , for they had already given hisa many a hearty cheer , bnt he beggsd they would allow him ( Mr . ilcKeon ) on Mb own necoaEt , to propose " Xine cheers for Robert Tj ^ er . " ( The cheers were given with a hearty good will with varieuB other demonstrations of kindly feel-Ing . }

      > Ir . Tslsh , me boh nf the President , then came forward , and the cheering was renewed with great enthusiasm , When it bad subsided , he said ;—Mb- Pkesidkst xsd Gknilesles . —This is the firs ; time I have had the honour of meeting with my Irbh friards of the city of Jfew York , and the pleasure of vsteisiiangisg with them a friendly greeting . ( Here a bench broke , precipitating many persons to the floor ) . It has iffarded me more than usual pleasure to accept yonr Mud invicatjon to address you ,-under the rirenm . -staioes nnder which I now present myself amongst you . I tppear before you this evenlEg , fellow dUz ^ ns , to de-ounce agoTennneat which I hate—( great chsering ) —whose mar-y oppressions I detest , and to advocate the cause of a people whem I tare reason to respect

      acJ . tolcve , asd whese woes and whose "erongs appeal to the sympathies of mankind —( 5 reat cheering ) . * Pellov ? ciiJEzns , upon t-as subject I cauEGt consent t » play tht psrt of a hypocrite—( bra""o !)—and I candidly confess to J 3 Q that 1 abhor the history cf the British Go- ] T&ramsat—( trcmenaous cheering ) . Al ^ ougb there may be instances in t £ e historical record of that SoTernment ' vhieiLerisce high courage , stem delerraination , and : most on wavering purpose in the prosecution snd ac- ] cornplishment oi its splendid thongh stlSsh schemes of ' cor-quest » cd sationsl aggra-nnlrement , yet its msst ' parrial sad delighted adTocste eacnst point to one ' angle instance in which it ever discorered mngna- j nimity ^ or liberality to an antagonistic power —( loud ' eb ^ rs ) . And how numerous are the examples ofj Its petty insult and wholesale aggn&mons and tyrannies ' to"VFiras othtr nations . I baTe but to refer you , in ' order to establish canc-nsiTe ^ and to prore satijfae- ; tority what I here allege , to the conduct of England in

      former times towards f ranee—to -the inra&ion of her , territories—tht imprisonment of her legitimate soTe- \ reigas , acd in a later period , to her most illiberal , un- j gEE ^ rons , -unjust conduct towards a great , thongh fallen ' foe , Napolbon Buonaparte—( applause ) . I have bnt to ! lefer you to the speeches of Sheridan and of Burke to I eou-rince you of the enormities practised towards her j East Indian possessions . I hare bnt to refer you to her ' im with China , and to the principles on which she ! eoE-3 u « ed the -wzx of the American resolution—to the ' griFTasces set fortii in the Declaration . of American 1 InSspendascs , and to tbe bsrterities prscf'ced towards J Affivrcan eitizsus durisg that coclest . I have but to > lefer you to the principles on wiiich she made war with j the American States in 1812 ; and if further evidence be ! 3 iac--3 sary , I fcsTe but to allude In your hearing , to the , « ocauct of Etgland towards Ireland—( great cheering ) , i Pot seren long centuries Ireland has been suffering a j Bta ' .- of bondage mora intolerable than the tortured j f < S ^ aTiftA of the Roman slare . Per ssren centuries her

      Ciugbters baTe been exposed to rapine , and her sons to j marker and false imprisonment , and her entire people J to ths cold contumely snd insult of a nation whlib j eanse in to gire them protection , but wbich through i long ages baa degraded and oppressed them , And this j baa been done to a people whose coble spirit , thus ' dochJy insulted , and whose gscerous service to the 1 British crown , " should have siatldbd them against a ) contumelious word or look—( Applause ) . Yes , sir , i 1 assert that the services of Ireland to England have i l » en of the most exalted character ; and I challenge s ' zncc = 3 sful contradiction ef the fact . The courts of law i bave been filled up with Irish Judges and Irish law-j yers . whose talents have always been made available to j England—who have reflected on the * bar of England i a lastre by then- intellect , and added , glory to the 1

      British ernnne . Ths mest splendid orators which the ! World has ever seen have been Irishmen—( cheers )—and ! their Parliamentary and forensic fame have illumined 1 the British ConsStuSpn -snth almost all tbe glories that I surround it Tbe best anri purest patriots that have ever ; fcro > i British soil have been Irishmen ; and in the j darkest hour and deepest distress they have forgotten ! their own oppressions , and have rallied in defence of [ His integrity of tbe Government—Japplausf ) . Thenavy of England has been manned -with Irisbaiea , and they i liavt pcureft forth fcteeir treasures and tlieir blood to sustain the English msnne . The armies of England , too , tsve been Kcmited from the peasantry of Ireland ; and those who in the hour of battle have most eagerly Tusb-d on to death or victory , have betn Irishmen —itremfindcu 3 a-DBlause ) - And Irelmd , too . has ever !

      COEtri buted her revenue withont a nrarmor to support ( to * spendthrift axtrsvagance of the British Government ; and ^ b » t has bi-en the r ^ sultj 1 I refer you to her his- ' tory for an aixount of the monstrous oeUuIs : for imagination , exeu with her eye bo' . der than tbe ' eagle- ' a—with ber besn of gigantic proportions , asd ; her -courage of fiery energy , will shrink , pale - and trembling , from the recital—( applause * . N « , - let ths historian , with his heart of steel and his ! ley ard pulseless lip , Bpeak to you of innocent people j bn ^ efcered by tie force cf British laws , or who &ave ' lelt tbe fatal pnjBcnpi 3- > n of the English martial power , t let him tell yon the d ^ taQs—^ let him tell yon iow a ! dacsiter has been ravi = hed in tbe-sight and trithin bear- ing rn a mother , wtose chastity and life Were sacrificed ' ¦

      Tnth their freedom—for an Irish maiden prefers chastity to l ; rB— ( great applause )—let him tell yen of eonBizno- j Xob . z ^ u&lj hung on tbe sallows before the ieariess eyes j of aecd pvcutg—let tie historian tell yx-n , too , h-o-w her ha'l = of justice have betn converted into piae-s worse i tti 2 > 5 Tae SarnrnaiLiii O . rgies , where justic . has been ] perr S . « d * o stout , a&i tss Dot been abie to -sHtccES the ; cars bal-iite rage -aith which British Jad ^ es have Cioii y a xne Ttqukiuo ^ of British law , aud have ' * pr .- £ ied the ermiae ct their shoulders with u-t- clotted ' ¦ gort * f tlieir victias— . ^ pijmse ^ Xet the hi storian tell f TOT . ; X » , how hti temple of relision have been de ^ e- IT - how > fei 3 IEg to force British obsrr- ? ances cf WOKs-p en Irish : fcligivn , they have pn » cri )* d tbore » h-cuve prefema fr ^ dom of eofiEcimc * lo tt-

      Masn ^^ tf ^" ^^^ ** terria * . ! l < v tfceLOTV . ^ cts they h ^ vshataay retired Uv . u C e 5 bhuiDsa acd sjaflegicm work—igreat ehe « - It is = K £ tha n enough , uxm ds ^ for ttTi : " : ^* " S SToWr ^ - ^^ * fOT the heaJl A ^» to ! tSC % Sf ^ f ° man to fc ™* . * ^ '"t , andi np-ne , andsacnlcfe , ^ d murder , 8 ud nfcj- ^ t taw i &isis ~ a ? 5 : S £ if ^^ T ^ ^^ ilDposes tenneBtE iS : inflicts wrongs too enormons to bs dwelt noon—' Xcheer , } . And fellow . a ^ a . it is tj £ L \ ^ ^ Amenan adwn-tapplau ^ -that l afo all £ ; KessiEgs of afree g . vemment-that I am doubly ^!! jfliye to these oatogca audinsults . it is h ^ L the feelings ef that ancicBt day is ever present in mj heart . I — ¦¦¦¦¦ i 5

      • - » --o * - » " » "J «» , uivu ana jmadiy ! Won a Ticfcory in that great contest which involved ! pnnetiles that are the fonndation of those ri ght * for : which ireJaod is now cjntenCing —( great applause ) . It i Ubecause the spirit ol that day , which now triumphs 2 a znj breut , fa ever mingled with an abiding and eon- - centr&ied and iaaajcahie detatition of ' those who are I » ow the enemies of Ireland—it is because I have been © Jwatod amony the plain and pure , though sublime snd . gigaziti « JastitntioBa of our own free land , where the TEry « ua woica shines down on our heads , and the j "great riven wtich r&U their resistless course towardsibeocOTi , andtiiB kroid and green earth , aaongst whose ' 2 & > Jestis mountains sad expensive valleys the spirit of * Ireedoia has space to brsathe—it is because we have aehkvcd these Tery i : stituUors , and this happy and gjoriousl ' . ad freai a people that would have made serfs ; or subjects uf patriots—it ~ n in tbis- two-fold aspect of ' fcatredof the oppressor and sympathy fsr the ouprtEsed

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      who are nuw suffering indescribable oppressions , that I stand before you u the friend of Ireland—[ cheers ) . And-what , fellow-citizens , is this question of Bepeal , with which Ireland is now so mqch agitated , and for which the British Government have kept so angry and tbreateniog attitude t « wards her . And what has been , the conduct of tbe Irish people to call fortb the very harsh language which Wellington and others have used in reference to this " Bepeal" movement , and which has ' led to the degradation of the clergy and the magistrates of that oppressed land ? If I understand ll Bepeal" aright , it is an attempt to obtain a peaceable repeal of an odious and oppressive act of union—an act which was passed without the formalities needful "to the occasion which it is represented as

      intended confessedly to accomplish , and passed by bribery &nd public and private treachery : and yet it was proclaimed in terms of tbe 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 thenceforwtfpb , in tbe omnipotent and emsiscient 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 , is irrepealable , exsept at her own will and pleasure . Now , fallow citizens , we as Americans , are directly interested in this question , so

      far as this point is concerned ; for it positively contravenes the position which was taken by tbe American States in the Declaration of their Jpt ) fpsndeiice—/ spplause ) . This was precisely the language used by tbe British Government to the Colonies here before the Revolutionary war , acd that contest was conducted by England on precisely the same 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 enlightened vorld , and the voice and act of God , proclaimed and proved their fal : acy . —( Applause ) . In admitting that Ireland lost her Bovcr&ignty by the act of treason—admitting that tbe act of union was 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 ; but not even the b&rbsrie Indian oi tbe serf of a Russian despot , who feels an instinct of an immortal hereafter , will admit that one generation of men can sell the

      libi-rty of a distant posterity . It i » in vain to argue tbe question- You may produce the seals to yoar mnaty record of such moral degradation , to show that the terms bind and apply to all—you may attempt to enforce the contract ; but you will appeal , both to tbe man and to the law in vain . The sonl of man within him , conscious of his birthright of freedom , rises op and reDeis the insult . But I contend , fellow ciUzens , and in this position I am sustained by the ablest authorities , that sovereignty is indestructible exetpt by tbe act of God ; and that it cannot be alienated . Now , has the sovereignty of Ireland bten destroyed by the act of God ? Has any cans * which has produced the prostration of other cations led to her prostration ? No , for she is stronger than ever , and her resources , though crippled by unjnst laws , are greater ; indeed , Ireland appears to be like the camomile plant , for the more , she is trodden upon the greener she has grown —( applause ) . It appears that the sovereignty of Ireland has net been lost Nor has it b * en alienated .

      Here Mr . Tyler save way : the heat of the room was so oppressive that he cooid not proceed , and he observed that he feared be must close bis remarks . But after a short pause , he continued as follows : — Tattel , a great irriter on tbe 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 act of union , that one—Ireland—should now be compelled to occupy a position towards the other of a felon endf 3 VonriKg to escape from the arm of tbe law , or of a Mave ce * caping from the hand of a cruel master 1 How dot > s it happen , fellow-citizens , that Erin ' s proud banner ,

      which once flowed in tbe br « zs and flaunted to the skies , impressed with tbe broad seal of Irish sovereignty , is now only to be recogciz-d as an empty psgeant in British hands 1 How does it happen ! It strikts me tbat , as both referable and right that no less a power than the power of the pc-ecle—a sovereign and supreme power—could rightfully contract and enact that act of union , for tbe power which made the act mnst necessarily be superior to the act , as the creator xnnst cl necessity be superior to the created . It could not bs , as the British Government contend ; foi tbat would-be an admission that Ireland was sovereign at the time of the nnion , and Tattel has it as an express and solemn rule , that sovereignty cannot be alienated : and if sovereign then , and if her

      sovereignty was inalienable , why was she not sovereign now?—( cheers ) . According to the 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 this confederacy was gemented , she has the right to demand Repeal of the oppressive act of union , or the right of a peaceable Cfccession from that union as a sovereign power . If , however , a power wkich contracted this act of nnion was less than sovereign , it was clearly void db initio . for DothiDje less than Irish sovereignty could have annihilated for an inetant , znncb less for gene-rations , the power of the Irish legislature ; for sovereignty , and sovereignty alone , can make and unmake legislative power . ( Applause . ) I will ijot touch on the justice of

      " Repeal , " nor regard it as a question of expediency ; I cboose rather to regard it &i a question of right and of principle . I will net stop to inquire bow much right the Irirfi people have to complain , as a province misruled , of the system of Catholic proscription , hir poer laws , her police system , her absenteeism , and other cause of ccmplaint too tedious to mention , and disgraceful to the British Government j do , as tbe advocate of IrUb liberty , I will not consent to assnme the attitude of the slave , and supplicate for tbe leniency of a cruel master . ( Applauee . ) No , in the name of a people who were once sovereign , and who cannot be dispossessed of their Borereigaty , except by an act of God . 1 demand as a right tbe Repeal of tbe Legis lative Union . ( Applausa ) . In the name of nine millions of people , who , even if they do form an integral portion of the British tJovernment , 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 applause . ) I demand it in the name of the enlightened age In which we live . I demand it in ths 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 shrink . In tbe name of our republican Institutions I demand her freedom . I demand it in tbe nsme of tbe sympathy of mankind . 1 demand it on tbe same ground—the irresistible ground on which Ireland demanded Catholic Emancipation—( cheers ) The Act which imposed Catholic disabilities , and that Act of TJaion , were dictated by a spirit comparatively barbaric ; and tbe spirit of enlightened freedom which demanded ths repeal of the one now calls for the repeal of the otatr , the equally odious and barbaric Act of Union . Yes ! the same reason which granted tneRtform Bill for England , now demands legislative emancipation for Ireland .

      Mr . TTLER now retired to the window immediately behind bSm , and then fainted away ; bat the meeting , ignorant of thia fast , cheered him vociferously . Tht-y then called loudly for Mr . Wallace , and other popular orators , but the beat of the room , which oppressed throughout his whole speech , and finally overcame Mr . Tylex , was as unfavourable for reporting as speaking , and nearly incapacitated us for the discharge of onr arduous duty , which we fear we have here done very imptrf ^ cOy , and therefore we left the meeting , which we understand continued together some time longtr

      We learned sub > eqneat } y , tbat Mr . Tyler remained in the care of a physician , in much euff-ring , up to a late hour of the night .

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      THE " RENT" WARFARE . Tbe Carlow Sentinel , a Tory paper , has , during the last three or four weeks , given occasional accounts of tbe carrying away of crops distraiiitd for non-payment of rent , by the peasantry , who wer 9 desciibed as assembling in considerable numbers for the purpose of cutting down and removing the grain cut of thb reach of the landlords or their bailiffs . The last number t .-f tbe same jonrnal contains the following account of tbe progress of this extraordinary movement : — " On the night of the 8 th instant , between tbe hour 3 of eleven and twelve o ' clock , about fifty man assembled on tbe lands of Coolmanna , in this county , ana cut down about two acres of oata under seizure for rent doe to

      the landlord , Charles Davis , Esq ., of Clara , county Dablin . 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 preptrty-being carrnd off the Jand . The police visited the place shortly after , but the crowd had vanished . We learn that bailiffs were in charge of the property , but they wbt © beaten off , and the entire would have been carried away but for the timely arrival of the Hacketstown constabulary . All the parties 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 hones and cars , assembled on the lands of Liscarran , near Ballon , in this county , arid cut down several acres of prime wheat , which they carried away and stored in Ballon . Considerable excitement existed in theDelghbouifeood during the progress vf the work , which was earned on witboot u » » " « h-Uat attempt at concealment . Captain Watson , uw landlord , on hearing of the oeeu . reDce , proceeded » IUi his servants to tbe spot , and succeeded in seizing on the horses and tars engaged in carrying awaythe ssisaaes * four ° ¦* * - *> »*> *™

      • On the night of the stb instant , a great nuuioer % to * ! ¦ ^ bcBf , f d «« . assfcIub ; fca on the lands of Wuliamstown , held by a maa named Doyle from the Rev . Sir Richard Woiselc-y , and cut down and carried away all tte crops , winch were under se zure for rent dne to tke la : dl-. sd . The bailiffs -wtre ordered off the lands ca ptrii of their lives ana tuu

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      party succeeded in taking off the property . Informations have been sworn , and warrants issued against toe offenders , " On the night of the 11 th instant , a great number of persons , many of whom were aTmed , assembled at Kttlalongford , in this county , and cut down and carried away a large quantity of corn , in order to evade die payment of rent About day-break their purposes were effected , and tfaey marched off in different directions . The new system of opposition to the payment of rente is 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 strangers to the locality , vent to the lands of Cranagb , the property of Maurice Meafher , 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 was nothing left for the landlord but tbe valueless stubble . Five of this party were told off , for the purpose of shooting the bailiff—to deter others from acting in a similar capacity . There were five stand of arms accordingly placed , as they supposed , in a secure spot for that purpose , which happened to be discovered by the police , and seized . The loss to tbe party of their fire-arms saved the bailiff foe the present .

      " A similar visit was 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 " SBBviiro Notices under the Courts . — A short time Binee the receiver appointed under the courts , over the lands of Loghorn , within three mileo sf Nenagh , tbe head landlord fit which is Mr . Bindon Scott , of Cahircon , and the lessee tbe representative of a Mr . M'Mahon , of the county Clare , having occasion to serve orders of tbe court on the tenantry to pay their rente and arrears to the receiver , the bailiffs sent for

      tbat pnrpose were turned off , the 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 Tabuteau , Efq ., R . M ., who accompanied the party , which was commanded by H . Blake , Esq-, SI ., and tney 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 tares or four respeotablo farmers , and there is now but one tenant of substance on th « entire lands , and forty or fifty families of squatters in the oecujiancy ef the remainder .

      Just at the dawn of day , on Tuesday morning list , Constable M'Donough of the Bird-bill station , having perceived a number of men , and about fifty horses and cars , pass tbe wall of the police Barrack , aroused his men , and with three of hi * party immediately followed to watch their movements . TbeBe Irish Rebeccas proceeded to the residence of a widow named Toohey , at Cool , in tbe barony of Owney a d Arra , and at the be » d pf three hundred persons there was a farmer namert Gieeson . Timothy Gleeson was an uncle of the deceased Touhey , and alleges that prior to Toobey'a death he made a will in favour of his ancle , and to the exclusion of Mb widow . Anuther pretence for thia unlawful act- is , that GIe * Bon says he lent Toohey the sum of £ 10 to purchase the form from old Hassett , the father of ; the widow . On Constable M'D ^ nough and his little party coming op , he called upon the others in her Majesty ' s name to disperse ; upon which Gleeson , who was ' evidently the leodtr , gave tbe memorable

      order t , £ the hero ot Waterloo , Up boys , and at them . ' Immediately the entire party rushed into the baggard , and commenced tearing down the stack and ricks of corn , an « loading the cars , which they forcibly drove away . In endeavouring to resist the party concerned in tb'B monstrous proceeding , several of the friends of tbe 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 olds . '| A young man named Johu Walsh is dangerously wounded , caving received a compound fracture on thb head , and of whose recovery there are no hop < --s . The father of the widow of James Hassett , an old man , was cruelly beaten ; and another relative , named Johu Hasset , also , Constable M'Donough and his men are in possession of the names of several of the Bebeccaites , some of whom were from Kilcomnion , some from Kteper-biU , and the greater portion were strangers from the counties of Clare and Limerick . ' *

      Rents in North Tippkrart . —The tenants on the lands of Loughorna , near Nenagh , are deeply in arrear . The landlord , Mr . Mabon , almost despairs of getting his rent ; but this in Tipperary is a matter of no very singular occurrence . Oar correspondent in that locality informs us , tbat James Quin , a surveyor , a man who it seems is possessed of no small share of daring , offered to run the gauntlet amongst the tenants , if he would be allowed six shillings in tbe pound for tbe collection of tbe rent and tbe arrears . The offer was Boon closed with , under tbe impression , perhaps , tbat half a loaf was better than no bread . On Tuesday last , Qaln , accompanied by a man named Meehan , went to Loughorna with tbe intention of serving the tenants with notices to compel payment of rent Their reception was ratber rough , such as might be expected

      on . tb . 6 occasion . Q-ain and M&ehan had to trust to their heels for the safety of tbair heads . The crowd increased « very moment , and the pursuit became hotter ; Quin was overtaken , and , as we have been informed , compelled to takb back the notices . Meehan , who seemed to be the more obnoxious character of the two , wai eiill pursued , and at length obliged to take cover in the house cf Mr . James Otway , of Ballinware . So intent were the neighbouring peasantry in taking a dtad . y satisfaction of Meeban , that they searched Mr . Ot way's kitchen and premises for him . Being b&fllsd they retnrnad In no very pleasant mood . In about two hours after Quin and Meehan , eacoited by a large body of police , horse and foot , again proceeded to the lands , wbure . under the protection or a hostile array they effected a : sort of Bervice . —Leinster Express .

      OPPOSITION TO THE PAYMENT OP RENTS . —On the nigbti > f the 8 tb inst ., between the hours of eluven and twelve o ' clock , about fifty men assembled on the lands of Coolmanna , in this county , and cat down about two Bcres of oats under seizure for rent due to the landlord , Mr . C . Davis , of Clare , county of Dublin . Mr . Sharpe . tbe attorney for the landlord , having received intimation of the proceedings , collected some people in ihe vicinity , who cauie up in sufficient time to prevent tbe property being carried off the land . The police viBited the place shortly after , but the crowd had vanished . Informations have been sworn against sixteen peiscnB concerned in tbe rescue , and warrants have beta issued for thbir appi-eheosiun . From private letters received on Friday , we learn that bailiffs were in charge of the property , but that they were beaten ofij and tbat the entire weiild have been carried away but for the timely arrival of the Hacketstown constabulary . Ail the parties concerned in the outrage are known , ana will be piusvcuteti . —Carlow Sentintlt

      More Outrages—Oa the morning of the 10 th ; astant , at an early hour , a number of men , principally jslrangeTs from the uounty *> t Kilkenny , with several korses and cars , asstmbl . d « ~ thu lands of Liscarvan , near Ballon , In this county , and cut down several acres of prime wheat , which they carried away and atoreS in Ballon . Considerable excitement existed in tbt neighbourhood durmg the progress of the woik , which w&a carried on without the slightest attempt at concealment Captain Watson , the laLciiord , on hearing of the occurrence , proceeded with his servants to the spot , and succeeii ' . d in se zine on the horses and cars engaged in carrying away the crop , and also in capturing four of tbe party , who have been committed for trial .

      Ti'MULrTt / 'ous Meetings—On the night of the gth inst ., a gieat number ef men , with horses and cars , cisemblad on the lands of Willunistown , held by a man named Doyle , from the Rbv . Sir R . Wolseley , and cut down and curried away all the cr ^ ps , which were under se izure fur rent due to iho landlord . The bailiffs were ordered eff the lands on peril of their lives , and the party su-sceedad in carrying off the property . Informations have been sworn , ami wairaute issued against the cffttiiiiers . Oa ths night of the 11 th inst a great numbor of persons , many ef whoru were armed , assembled at Kilfalougford , in this c < muty , and out down and carried away a larue quantity of corn , in order to evade the payment of rent . Ab'mt . daybreak their purposes were i ffsctad , and they marched off in different

      directions , blowing horns , shonU ' . 'g for repeal , and crying out " they v ? 9 ulu pay no nioro rents ! " 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 fearful rapidity , and emissaries said to be from Dublin , are very where exciting the population to resistance to the payment of any rent at all . This appear :- , unquestionably to be the preparatory step to the grand movement against the landed proprietary bo long threatened ; and if tfeey do not unite ono and p . ! l to check its progress , no one can tell where it wii ! end . If not put down soeediJy the social eaitice vein fcs shaken to its foundation . On the night of the 11 th several horses and cars were brought to the land ? oi * Rathrusb , near Bailen , in

      this eonnty , for tbe purpose of carrying away the pro ' ( luce of two-and-a-half acres of wheat , which we are informed had been taken by conacre from the Messrs . Coghlan , the tenants on the lauds , who prevented the removal of the crop until the landlord Wa 8 informed of the circumstance . On the same night , about el even o ' clock , a large number of persons , amounting to about 300 men and woiaen , with several horses and cars , assembled at Cowlaw , la the parish of Clonmore , near Hacketstown , in this county , and cut down and carried away five acres ot oats , bciri by conacre , from tbe tenanta on the lands , named Dowlicg . The person who

      had this . crop taken from the Dowlings is a farmer named Patrick Carty , of Ballygalduff , and the reason be asbigns for this unosuul and unlawful proceeel ; z is , that he was informed that DawIiDg'a landlord ( a Mr . GbTge Braddell , of Belfast ) was about to seiss on the entire viopsfur tent . The conduct of thosa assetnbto'fl . on tcis occasion was most violent , and created much nUiria in the neighbourhood . They bore away tLe jiro ^ riy almost shouts and buzzis , and threatened * vic-Icti-. ~ : u' * . ; .: n , v person \ fho should oppose them . T . -v pit-cU i , u .. rds urou' -. d ths houses of the D-iwlinys ; it-. ..- ---s ;¦ if--. i .-f'vhlicurLocd , and ti-rt&tenoil tbe ii- 'U .. ' - a .:., iribi . au i ; T 8 ' rii > . U \; a if they uiUiiipted to

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      eome out until they had cut and carried it away . They stopped at a public-boose at Clonmore , and drank a large quantity of spirits . Progress of the Anti-Rent War—The " passive resistance" to the payment of rents inculcated by the Repeal legislators has extended its operations to the county of Meatb , where , 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 Hussars have been detached from this garrison , and a company ef the Rifle Brigade , on 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 Hussars . The farmers are generally refusing to pay rents , and are removing the crops off the lands , in order to evade seizures . —Correspondent cfihe London Times .

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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' , ty connexion with agricultural affairs . During the same period , and particularly this last spring and summer , tte 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 Lou don . Ifc 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 successf ully , bat in most

      instances unsuccessfullyr-to divert ; . the discussion to other topics than the com Jaws . Oa one occasion they took possession of the platform , by force In ' London ; on another occasion they got a mob , and occupied all tbe 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 ware 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 . Gobden ' 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 as thoroughly hate and distrust Sir Robert Peel , and what they con « eider bis too liberal leaning towards free trade , as any one does wbo thinks him not liberal enough .

      Third Fact—I saw on Tara Hill , at several polnts " 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 far as I beard them , alluded to Chartism . Also at Tara , in a few of the many tents there spirituous liquors were offered for sale , and by some of tbe people—by vt-ry 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 various groups of countrymen to whisky 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 the strangers bad been saying to them ; they told ma tbatthey had been talking about the hardships endured by working . men in Ireland , and offered to stand a treat of something to eat and drink , but tbat they had gone away and given them nothing because they refused to drink . I saw the same parties again and again similarly engaged with the poorer-Icwkicg Irish country labourers . What their precise object was I cannot say . Perhaps they were only on what in England we call a " latk , " when a fellow with plenty ofmoney offers to treat everybody ; but whatever they might be doing , or intending to do , I am certain of my

      Fourth Fact—That at least three of them were petsons 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 DeTany 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 benevolence , of sympathy for a persecuted set of tenants . .

      I tbink . it is not ; proper to burden me with threats of being dragged from behind my incognita if I do not discloss the names of the 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 myselt That letter drew forth others ; and so 1 have gone oa 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 is to make me produce a libel . He is pleased to compliment me for what I have written on Irish aff . drs ; but he holds over my

      head a threat that will make me more cautious about what I write than even tbe 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 ; bat having mentioned the matter publicly in a merely general manner for a publics purpose , for a warning to those who might by possibility be led into error , I do not see that it is either just or politic to give me the burden of supporting each charges as Mr . O'Connell draws out of my statement , since those charges are carried far beyond what I have any proof to support

      One Wbo 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 as answer to that portion of Mr . O'Connell's speech which attributes to " Feargas " the project of the " National Holiiday . " It will be seen that h 6 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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      Cowahdly and Atbocious Outbaqk . —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-place , Pentonville , was walking along the street , within a few yafds of her own residence , she was met by an individual having the appearance of a Lascar , and on passing him she felt herself suddenly wounded by some sharp instrument fa her thigh . Mrs . Townsend , as soon as sbe could recover herself , ^ pursued the ruffian , but he succeeded in effecting his escape before she could obtain tbe assistance of a policeman . On examination , it was found tbat 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 Moltiplt . "—There is now in the possession of Mr . Thomas Jones , of Penny-Vine , in the township of Fiixton , a sow which has farrowed , at twe ve different times , 165 pigs . Religious Persecution in Turkey — Constantinople—Ah Armenian named Avoafcim has lately suffers ! death under the following circumstances . A ye * r and a half ago , having quarrelled , during a flt of intox i cation , with his Mussulman neighbours , he was condemned to receive the bastinado on the soles of his feet Almost overeome with the effects of wine and of fear , he made a profession ot Mohammedisra , and was immediately released . No sooner had be regained the use of his reason than , repenting the steps he bad been induced to take , he fled 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 was recognized as he passed through the city , by one Mustaia A

      is one of the crowded thoroughfares of the city , and u consequently usnally chosen as a fitting spot for public decapitation- Although thirty Cawasses accompanied tb » - uufortunate man , on arriving at the place of execution they all refused to strike tbe blow . At length one Ali of Tavot Bazaar , a Cawass belonging to the Siras * kerial , seized the scymetar . The naked weapon wsa shown to the condemned man , with a last offer of pardon ; but he maintained an obstinate silence T& 9 Ca wass having compelled him to kneel , raised the sabre , and struck hinv on the neck , the .: bop . e remaining 0 ^ - broken . Tnreeineffectual blows succaeded , The s » ord baing too blunt , or the executioner being too inexpert * to sever the head in the usual manner , he was throjn down , and whUat several men knelt npon the body , AH cawed the neck asunder , the miserable man filling the air with shrieks . The body was thrown upon toe stomach into the centre of the street , the head , and by its side the hat . beine nlaced between bin thign *

      The Turks who stood around spat upon , hia corpse , ana reviled his Christianity . The Cawasse * retired feM neighbouring tobacconist ' s and enjoyed their pipes . W the body was then placed the decree by which henw been condemned , in these words :-- " Qa - ^ '' ' ^? . ? Mo&areem last year ther Armenian alipper-niaker xafla Oglar Avoskim , being in full possession ot hia Bettsei embraced the £ aitii of Islam , and received the name « Mohammed . He afterwards escaped , and bec aine » wnegade . Havir ^ been incited to te-enter the fl ^ religion of Isiam , he absolutely refased k > to do ^ . -F ** * Bisting in hia refusal , he was condemned , awording j " the Bacred fetwa , and has suffered death . " The « W was exposed during three days to the irsulta ¦ & fanatic multitude . On the third day it was dragra > £ the sea-shore , and , having been fastened to a pi * w . u c-. st into one of tbe currents of tbe So ? pStt 1 ^ Tho Armenian patriarch having presented a P . tiw ° , . cte Pj-i . 0 tor taa corpse , it was torn up sai \ tra ^ p ' UGtftir foot .

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      THE ARMY AND NAVY . Warlike Preparations . —Aa 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 . Walls are pierced for loop-holes , aupeifluoua gates and other assailable points are closed up , drawbridges are erected , the magazines are crammed with ammunition , and that frightful enemy of besieged troops— Famine—is provided against by storeB of beef , pork , and rum , which arejlaily arriving . At the front gate of the Clonmel barracks a hish platform has been raised for the

      accommodation of a patent ewivel-eun , and two dozan men . From this position the gatrison could bkza away against the eld and new gaa-housoa , und cause no slight annoyance to a French armada in its passage up the Suir . In Cork , Fermoy , Limerick , Tamplemore , &c , similar formidable steps have been taken ; so that when " Young Ireland" arises to throw off her chains , the authorities are determined not to be like the foolish virgins who were found unprepared . Cart loada of beef , bacon , bread , and powder , and hogsheads of rum and brandy are dally taken from the Government stores at Haulbouline to the barracks in tbe interior of the couutry , in many instances without tbe accompaniment of a single soldier ot policeman!—Dublin World .

      , The Ballyshannon Herald , an Orange paper , BayB : — "; We hear tbat the large Infantry barrack is about to be repaired , in older to have a depot stationed here in future . We hope this may be found true , as tbero is no place in Ireland where a military force could be more usefully employed in cutting off any communication between Ulster and Conuaught , if found necc&sary to do so . " An Officer connected with the engineer department has arrived in Ptursonstown , and the 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 tons of coats have been laid in during tbe past week , and it is B&id a large quantity of provisions are to arrive here in a few days . Tbe 52 . id depot , at Nonagh , hava pat their barracks in order : they are now in a state of preparation to resist an insurgent seige . On Thursday a doznn dray loads of provisions were laid up aa 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 Repual , we need only state , that on Friday Bo ' nnight the bar ; rack-master , assistant , and a party of soldiers , were employed In receiving into Mill Mount Barracks several cart loads of provisions , rum , Ac , 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 Easaminer : —

      • ' A few days since a private in the Artillery stationed at BallinooUig , 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 is a Roman Catholic , and for some time a strict teetotaller . He was born in France , being tbe son of an Irish refugee , and from big infancy np 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 tbe shadow of a stigma on bis character . After years of hard service , and at hia 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 7 Aa an Irishman , ho felt deeply for his country , and in tbe warmth of his heart frequently expressed himself so , never dreaming of the ears of the barrack walls , which exaggerated his sentiments , and put a forced construction on his words . But the real inexpiable crime which he was guilty of is this—he 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 bu dismissed , we cannot say ; but poor O'Brien , for loving tha land of his fathers , has been punished as if he bad committed sou : e

      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 Ballincollfg barracks , being a man of sound military information , he said , With 100 soldiers he could take the whole fortifications . ' This was interpreted that he wonld , Jf opportunity offered , take the 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 ? No ; John Burn , belonging to the same station , a police-constable , also a Catholic and a Teetotaller , and a man of unblemished cbnracter , was called up ou 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 ferth 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 tteacneiy o ? some of the responsible parties who govern these men ; , we shall quote one of tbe many questions asked this man by his sergeant ; 'Would you , ' said thisi functionary , if you saw Arcb < - bishop M'Hale heading an army , fire en bim , if you were ordered to do so ? ' Thus , by aTtful questioning , and listening to words uttered in the simplicity of honest men ' s hearts , are they entrapped , and crime sought to be fastened on them , and ultimata punishment heaped upon tbeir hea < is . ''

      The Cork Constitution has the following version of these " strange doings ' ; — * ' A sub-constable of ; poVico has been dismissed from the force , in consequence of his using expressions favourable to the Repeal agitation , and caving stated , that in caw there was n popular outbreak , he would join the Repealers ; besides that , he ia believed to have been endeavouring to create a feeling of disaffection in the minds of tbe military . The circumstances which led to the dismissal tire kept etciet by those best acquainted with them ; however , we understand tbat the policeman , who had previously supported himself by following the trade of what is commonly called a " hedge schoolmaster" in the couuty of Limerick , was stationed at BallincoiXig ; that a few days since he

      was in company with an artilleryman in a publicbouse in that village , where they were overheard by a bombardier-corporal discussing the strength of tbe fortifications erecting at Ballincollig barracks , in the course of which the sub-constable said that be had a plan h ; which he cculd capture the barracks , and take the powder mills , with 100 undisciplined Repealers , but that wonld be unnecessary , as he knew the soldiers would not fight against the people , for he had ' sounded' ninny « f 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 duty to acquaint the Government With the circumstances . An investigation having since taken place , the policeman haB been dismissed , and the soldier removed to Woolwich . "

      Special Commission . — King's Countt . —It ia stated here , 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 j there are six persons charged with the awful crime of murder , at pre sent confined in the gaol here , viz : —One for the murder of Lord Norbnry , one for Mr . GutchoII , 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—Leinsier Express .

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

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      MR . O'CONNELL AND THE CHARTISTS . Mr . O'Connell cannot be qaiet , and let the Chartists a-be . He must try to damage them , at every opportunity , either fitting or unfitting . Ha has had his 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 subscribes himself " One who Whigtied 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 snubs Mr . O'Connell very severely for so far going out of his way ] to do the Chartists wrong . Below are both letters of tbe Whistler , and Mr . O'Coaneli ' s commentary : — \ MR . O ' CONNELL ' S SPEECH .

      There was , 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 j that very clever writer , the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle who wrote under the 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 in quired into , through lettera to England . I now find that the . parties whom I saw there , and whoso conduct attracted my attention , w < . re 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 woek ; 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 hare soon been summoned , was uot the fault of the persons alluded to , nor the fault of those who paid them to come here ; who have also paid tbe same men and some others toifollow Mr . Cobden from town to town in England , from Norwich to London , from London to Maidstone , j from Maidstoae to Winchester , aad several other places , to get up a riot and upset nia 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 bo true—( hear ) . He spoke from his own knowledge . He said that he had traced these people—that ho knew them in England to be hired , and the question was , by whom ? Now this deserved the most serious consideration . This was a subject 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 bijibi-ry of the police , or what was it ? What , could be more terrific than that Government should be so ' constituted , that any of its underliugB should plan inurder and massacre , and . seek to get up a not to commit slaughter , and that for that purpose they jshould engage persons from a great distance who were hacknied and trained disturbers

      of public meetings—( hear ) . They could now see how the cause of Reform had been put down in England by the interjereripe of persons pretending to be ChartttilS : FOR THK GKEAT PRINCIPLE OP CHARTISM WAS

      NOT TO ALLOW ; ANV PUBLIC MELTING TO TAKE PLACE UNDisTBRBtD . ; Sooib of the persons wko were accused of that conduct mi ^ ht be innocent ; bat it was plain thatj they were- mixed up with others who were guilty : and herfl were the servants of some police agent , if they 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 . ) would make use of it as undoubted evidence of the ! fact ( hear ) . He could not bring himself to believe that this gentleman , whose name and character were known , though ho used a fantastic j and fictitious signature , had stated what was untrue ? and he therefore must look upon this system as the moat horrible mode of

      governing Ireland that ever was thought of—( hear , hear ) . The Jives 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 Morninq Chronicle that he could not keep his incognita . He had now committed himself ; and he believeji in the truth of his statements . He did not like toideal in any persecution at all , but if fchere was anyjsVirinking on the part of this gentleman , there ( should be a summons issued to him , and he should bft nr ^ cd 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 meann except 'b y peaceable and moral means . —They should work , not by physical force , but by tbe moral force of public opinion , that electricity that binds six millions of people in one unanimous sentiment . And wasall this to be thrown away by the acts of hired assassins brought over from England—for he would call them assassins ! There was no nation in Europe in which assassination would prevail to such an extent , or j where such an act of assassination

      would be perpetrated as in Ireland if that plan succeod'cd . 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 euoh a plan as j that , was a wretch that should be dragged to the scaffold—( Loud cheering . ) Feargus O'Coiiuor , whon the Chartists were sore beset in England , proposed the absurdity of what he called " a Jsacred month , " by which he meant a month during the continuance of which all the working clashes 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 doubt have scn * ibly diminished , and for this very obvious reason , that many of them in the interim would ] h ^ v « gon ^ to another world . There would bo but few survivors at the end of the month —( hear , hoar ) . He (! r . O'Connell ) proposed no niTposteroiiR utipjan measure like that proposed by Fi ; ars < us . He di' not want a revolution —unless by sric '; a nan < o an attempt to procure a return to the former times m ; -i , h ' , properly be designated . Me tvanfd . « ueh a r « volution as that ; of 1782 or that cjf 1829 —( hpar , hi-ar , and cheers > . It was a bloodless , ^ uinless revolution to which he aspired ; a political cha ;; t , 'e for tha betfer , brought about without ! u jury to life or to property . Who

      would say that tbe Jm ! i peopl'j had not sufficient constitutional ! resources to fall back ujjon , even if their present I plans were defeated I Supoosn . g a very extreme cuaa—^ uoposins that tho p ans now proposed for tlhe achievement of our national regeneration were factiously thwarted and defeated , might not the jlrish people acknowledge the wisdom of betaking themselves exdiii » ively to their potato crops , and leaving the harvest of Ireland uncu-: ? Who would tell him that ihe Repealers might not unanimously coma to tho determinatieu ot di-con tinuing altogether ihe consumption of all oxciseable commodities if ( Loud cheers ) . Tho barve ^ was already cut , so that when he alluded to that . hewas

      speaking a day after the fair—( laughter ) . The resolution fop the non-consumption of exeissable articles waa not now proposed , nor would it until a mure urgent emergency should arise ; bu' then he was very far fiom say tag that it might not bo , proposed one day or other —( hear ) , lie would not shrink from aiiy thing that the laws of God and man would approvf . for the restoration of his country ' s rights . He trusted that the meeting would pardon him this disres .- ^ iou , but the ptra ^ raph which had given rise to i ( j w&a of so imt :- < runi a nature that he was sure tho | Iri > h people wouli : aekno-. vledg . ; that he was doing i ; jth nc njyre than iiij dury in offering these remarks * IHE WHl . sTLEr . V' AUBWKB .

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      The Blijjd TaaVblleb . —Lieut . Hojiaan , R . ft Knight of Windsor , the celebrated blind traveller , took his departure on the 3 d of September , from Malta for Naples . He will afterwards proceed to the Roman Statei , add thence to Trieste . During the few days of his residence in this island the greatest hospitality has been shown him- The veteran traveller had the honour of uining with his excellency the governor , and very frcquent ' y with the Admiral , Sir E . Owen . Amidst all tho vicissitude ? of his perilous life , and increasing age , he still maintains the same unabated thirst lor travel , aad his mental and bodily faculties appear to ^ row in activity and strength in the inverse ra-fo of hte >' q lining life and honoured groy hairs . — Walta Time * .

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      To ) the Editor of the Freeman . | Tuesday Evening , eight o ' clock * SSE , —I ha ^ e just read , in the Evening Post , the speech of Mr . ; OConnoll , delivued yesterday at the Corn Excbnnge , in reference to a tr . ateruen ! of mine in tho Weekly Register of Saturday . As yours will be the first paper published , I send tliia to you , anxious as I am that not a day eh'jald be lost , until I give Some explanation of the matter referred to . I expected that it wonld attract notice , but O'O-E . ieli puts a construction oa it which I do not concur in , and which I should not be answerable [ for . I do not charge the English Ch ^ r' tists with the crime , of conspiracy against the Irish Repealers , or of lending themselves to somebody else who do , or may beaospeeted of conspiring . On the contrary , I know that the leading man of tbe Chartists in London utterly repudiate the personB to whom I alluded in the Register . j ' >

      Far less do I accuse or euspucfc the Government ; or think for a moment ; oven hypotbeticaliy , that the Government has anything to do v ? ith theai . 1 shall tell you all I know of the matter , which is not half aa much as Mr . O'Connell seems t *> believe I know . Aud I shall repeat here all that I inHnu-. ited , vrhich is not what Mr . O'Counull insinuates . First Fsct— lv Bjy connection wit !' , tho London press , I have been tn tbu baMt < f ai ' enHvis ; v nb . ic meetings , composed > f p . r .-asi . f , iil y i : ¦» - inp luics—ofaUconditiona io iif-j ; and have , tu < i-. i ¦ . . . U vme familiar with

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      £ TBE N ORTHERN STAR j . ^

  • 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-ncseproduct669/page/6/