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stand it. He had now to plead not guilty or to enter a 
general demurrer, whichever course he may be advised to 
adopt. But while in this application he admitted the dis. 
cretion of the court, he withheld any case for the exercise 
of that discretion. It was the unanimous opinion of the 
Bench that no case had been made out why the justice of 
the country should be delayed and the Attorney-General 
be refused the answer he made to the indictment. Mr. | 
O’ Connell must therefore pleadinstanter. The Attorney- 
General then required that the traversers should be culled 
on their recognisances to appear and to plead forthwith. 
The traversers were then called on by the Clerk of the 
Crown. ‘They respectively answered to their names. Mr. 
O’Connell sat at the side bar. His plea was first handed 
in. The following is a copy :—‘‘ In the Queen's Bench, 
Crown Side——Daniel O’Connell and others, at the Prose- 
cution of the Queen,—And the said Charles Gavan Duffy, 
in his own proper person, comes into Court here, and 
having heard the said indictment read, says that he is Not 
Guilty of the premises above laid to his charge, or of any 
of them, or of any part thereof. And of this he puts himself 
upon the country, and so fort Thomas O’Hegan; Peter 
M. E. Gartlan, attorney.” nilar pleas were handed in 
for all the other traversers. The Attorney-General then said 
that notices should that evening be served on each of 
the traversers of his intention to apply to the Court on 
Friday to fix a day for the trial of this case at bar in | 
this Court in the ensuing vacation, under the statute 4th 
William I1V.—Sunday last was the day appointed for collect- 
ing Mr. O’Connell’s tribute, and the result proved that 
the Dublin returns alone amounted to treble the average 
of the five previous years, the sum collected being no less 
than 3,577/.—The Roman Catbolic Archbishops and 
Bishops of Ireland assembled at their annual fe 
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Limerick.—The Limerick Reporter of Friday states 
that ® the hills and mountains of the adjoining counties of 
Limerick, Kerry, Tipperary, and Clare were again 
illumined on Thursday night, and the whole country was 
a e of light, extending over a distance of at least fifty 
miles. ‘he cause of this wide-spread illumination of 
hill and mountain and valley is the news which reached 
here of Mr. O’Connell’s plea of abatement being received, 
and his subsequent triumph over the law officers of the 
Crown. No sooner does intelligence of good or evil 
arrive from the metropolis than it spreads to the inha- 
bitants of the tains, and is i 1 instantly 
nearly throughout the entire province by means of these 
signal fires.” 
Kilkenny. —*This county,” remarks a local paper, “ and 
we presume the counties adjoining, were studded with 
bonfires or signal-fires on Thursday night; not only 
were the hills illuminated, but innumerous places fires were 
visible along the lowlands. Rumours of various kinds 
are afloat as to the cause, but it is supposed they were 
lighted in consequence of the motion for a postponement 
of O’Connell’s trial having succeeded.” 
Tipperary.—A local paper of Friday states that ‘‘ The 
entire country was literally in a blaze last night. On 
every eminence as far as the eye could reach fires blazed, 
and the yells of those who surrounded them could be 
heard, in many instances, in the vicinity of our town. As 
we remarked upon a similar circumstance before, the most 
perfect organization was observable in the lighting of 
those fires. All blazed forth almost at the same minute, 
and it was stated that the object of the incendiaries was 
to infuse dread and awe into the minds of the respectable 
portion of society by an exhibition of their discipline 
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in this city last week, resolved for the third time within 
seven years to publish a decided declaration against a state 
provision for the clergy, in an form whatever. They 
state that their determination remains the same as 
in 1837 and 1841, when a similar proposal was 
brought forward; and that they unanimously pledge 
themselves to resist by every influence they possess every 
attempt that may be made to make any state provision 
for the Catholic clergy, in whatever shape or form it may 
be offered.—The weekly meeting of the Repeal Associa- 
tion took place on Monday. Mr, O’Connell opened the 
proceedings by referring to the determination of the 
Roman Catholic prelates in reference toa State provision, 
aud moved resolutions approving of their conduct, declar- 
ing that the laity will support them on the ground ‘ that 
the control of the Church by the State is calculated only 
to degrade and contaminate the sacred offices of religion, 
to diminish the utility of the clergy, and to introduce hire- 
lings into the place of the sainted pastors of faithful flocks,” 
—and ‘‘ that all the bribes of England could not purchase, 
off one single Catholic clergyman from the people 
throughout their entire isle.’’ These resolutions were 
passed by acclamation. Mr. O’Connell handed in 103/. 
15s. from Providence, Rhode Island; 24/. 4s. 4d. from 
Canada; 21/. from Maine, Portland; and 23/. lls. 5d. 
from Mexico, the first remittance. At this stage of the 
proceedings a messenger from the courts informed Mr. 
O’Connell and the other traversers who were present 
that they were wanted in court. Mr. O’Connell imme- 
diately left the meeting, stating, amidst much laughter, 
that he would be back as soon as possible. Yr. 
O’Connell, jun., asked if Mr. Ray would have to go? 
Mr. O’Connell replied, amidst renewed laughter, ‘* Oh! 
all the conspirators’? Those of the “nine” wlio were 
present then left the hall, and proceeded to the Court of 
Queen’s Bench. Mr. O’Connell returned in about an 
hour, and having addressed the meeting on the subject of 
a federal Parliament, in reply to an address from Mr. 
Sturge, announced the weekly rent to be 932/. 19s. 6d. 
—Archdeacon Bathurst, son of the late Bishop of Nor- 
wich, has sent his name to Mr. O’Connell as a Repealer, 
so far as a substitute can be found in a federal union,” 
and announcing his willingness to support him in “ any 
lawful measure to effect a simple Repeal.”—The Historical 
Society, conspicuous in the annals of Irish eloquence, and 
which, after an existence of half a century, was dissolved in 
1815, was revived on Friday night. The Provost was in 
the chair. The opening address was read by Mr. W. C. 
Magee, ex-scholar and grandson of the late archbishop. 
The revival of this society, said to be the cradle of the 
genius of Burke, Grattan, Plunket, Bushe, Curran, Croker, 
North, Perrin, Doherty, and many others, suggests inte- 
resting reflections ; and the address of Mr. Magee, when 
published, will afford ample gratification upon the subject 
of its history. 
Finoe.—The last accounts from the scene of the late 
outrage at this place state that Mr. Waller is not yet out 
of danger, and that Miss Vereker died on Tuesday morn. 
ing. An inquest has been held on the body of the unfor- 
tunate lady, at which the following verdict was returned : 
** Died in consequence of wounds inflicted by some person 
or persons unknown.” Mrs. Waller has recovered, but 
Mr. Braddell’s case is still precarious. A letter from Lime- 
rick states that the writer was at Skinrone ten days before 
the attack, and then heard it reported as an event that had 
taken place. The writer says, ‘* I heard that Mr. Waller 
had been attacked, when he and his family were at dinner, 
and the report went on to say, that when the men fired at 
Mr. Waller, his servant rushed at him (the man that fired) 
with a carving knife in his hand and secured him. The 
cause alleged for the attack was revenge of a servant who 
had been dismissed. I was afterwards, on Monday week, 
in the neighbourhood of Finoe, and heard that the report 
was false; but I think it proves that the attack was 
planned, and even the very time it was to take place, and 
also that it was well known through the country.’ 
and good The fires and yells of last night 
reminded one more of a country of savages than of 
civilized human beings,” 
Cavan.—These mysterious but significant fires have at 
length extended to the north. On Wednesday evening, 
at about 7 o’clock, the inhabitants of Mount Nugent were 
thrown into a state of the greatest alarm by a simulta- 
neous appearance upon the hills of fires blazing in 
immense numbers, forming a circuit of several miles, 
accompanied by firing of shots and shouting, At Bel- 
turbet the town and neighbourhood were thrown into a 
state of great excitement, in consequence of fires blazing in 
every direction as far as the eye could reach. They com- 
menced about 9 o’clock, and from that time fire answered 
fire in quick succession, till the whole surrounding country 
was illuminated. Shots were heard from hill to hill, and 
several Protestant families fled into the town for protec- 
tion. A constable and three policemen went off to the 
nearest fire, distant nearly two miles, to learn the nature 
of the movement, and when they came near toit they saw a 
large party of men whom they desired to disperse; but 
they refused, and a shot was fired at the party, upon which 
the constable and his party rushed upon them, when they 
all retreated. ‘Two of them were captured, and they got 
upon the ground a pike, a shovel, and a pitchfork about 10 
feet long. The police bronght their prisoners and 
their trophies with them into the town. Soon after Mr. 
Gumley, J.P., took with him out of barracks a company 
of the 60th Rifles, commanded by Capt. Thomas ; but they 
could not obtain any trace of the former party, and returned. 
King’s County.—On Thursday night simultaneous fires 
blazed on the hills around Clara and as far as the eye 
could reach,—horns sounded and many shots were fired. 
The shouting and yells within the town were incessant for 
many hours, and repeated challenges were given ‘‘ for an 
Tory to show‘his face.” The fires and other disturbances, 
which with marching and counter marching continued 
throughout the night, are openly avowed to have been 
illuminations and rejoicings for O’Connell’s victory over 
the Government on Wednesday week in the Court of 
Queen’s Bench. The peasantry ridicule the idea of his 
being forced to a trial at all, but state that even if he be 
the Government will soon get enough of it, for that 
O’Connell hasithe:means of protracting it for years. 
Meath.—The neighbourhood of Dunsany, Killeen, Kil- 
missen, Dunshaughlin, and the far-famed Tara, in the 
county of Meath, exhibited the same demonstration of 
fires and shoutings as other places on Thursday evening. 
SCOTLAND. 
Edinburgh.—Lord Meadowbank has resigned his office 
as one of the Lords of Justiciary and Session. Mr. Alex- 
ander Wood bas succeeded him as Lord of Justiciary, 
and Mr. Patrick Robertson has succeeded him as Lord of 
Session. The situation of Dean of Faculty, vacant by the 
promotion of the latter gentleman, has been conferred on 
Mr. Duncan M’Neil, the Lord Advocate.—We learn from 
the Scotsman that the working men of Edinburgh have 
commenced a movement to establish baths ona large scale 
for their own use in that city. They are to hold a public 
meeting under the auspices of Lord Dumferline, who with 
many leading men in Edinburgh have resolved to en- 
courage the project. 
Glasgow.—The election of Lord Rector took place last 
week. The public are aware that although an election to 
the rectorial chair takes place annually, the Lord Rector 
is generally allowed to remain in office for two years, his 
re-election the second year being almost regarded as a 
matter of course. On the present occasion, however, a 
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Maule, 246.—At a meeting of the Senate of the Univer- 
sity, on the 7th inst., resolutions advocating the abroga- 
tion (except in the case of divinity professors) of the Act 
requiring professors to subscribe the Westminster Con- 
fession of Faith, and to conform to the worship and dis- 
cipline of the Church of Scotland were adopted. ‘This 
Act was passed for the purpose of preventing the possi- 
bility of an Episcopalian holding a Professorship in 
Scotland, and it is one of the peculiarities of the present 
movement, that it especially r to the admission 0 
Episcopalians as well as Dissent! The 14th resolution 
states ‘ That it is scarcely necessary to remark that the 
enforcement of a law which would have deprived this 
University of the services of the many distinguished 
members of the English Church who have filled these 
offices here, could produce no beneficial influence on 
education.” 
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American Repudiation.—Gen. Duff Green, an American 
officer now in England, published a few days since in the 
Times a reply to the Rev. Sidney Smith’s letter on American 
Repudiation. On that attempt to defend the conduct of 
the non-paying States the Times itself commented with 
considerable severity; but Mr. Smith has since entered 
the field with the following characteristic letter :—To the 
Editor of the Morning Chronicle. Sir,—Having been 
nwell for some days past, I have had no opportunity 0 
paying my respects to General Duff Green, who (whatever 
be his other merits) has certainly not shown himself a 
Washington in defence of his country. The General 
demands with a beautiful simplicity, ‘* Whence this morbid 
hatred of America?” But this question, all-affecting 48 
it is, is stolen from Pilpay’s fables:—‘‘ A fox,’’ say8 
Pilpay, “ caught by the leg in a trap near the farm-yard, 
uttered the most piercing cries of distress ; forthwith all 
the birds of the yard gathered round him and seeme! 
to delight in his misfortune ; hens chuckled, geese hissed, 
ducks quacked, and chanticleer, with shrill cockadoodles, 
rent the air. ‘ Whence,’ said the fox stepping forward 
with infinite gravity, ‘whence this morbid hatred of the 
fox? What have I done? Whom have J injured ? I 
am overwhelmed with isk t at these symptoms of 
aversion” ‘Oh you old villain,’ the poultry exclaimed, 
‘where are our ducklings ? where are our goslings ? 1 
I not see you running away yesterday with my mother 1 
your mouth? did not you eat up all my relations last 
week? Yqu ought to die the worst of deaths—to be 
pecked into a thousand pieces.’ ’? Now hence General 
Green comes the morbid hatred of America as you term 
it. Because her conduct has been predatory —because she 
has ruined so many helpless children, so many miserable 
women, so many aged men—because she has distarbed 
the order of the world, and rifled those sacred treasures 
which human yirtue had hoarded for human misery: 
Why is such hatred morbid ? Why, is it not just, 
inevitable, innate ? hy, is it not disgraceful to 
want it? Why, is it not honourable to feel it ? ‘ Hate 
I have loved and honoured America all 
my life ; and in the Edinburgh Review, and at all oppor 
tunities which my trumpery sphere of action has afforded, 
I have never ceased to praise and defend the Unite 
States ; and to every American to whom T have had the 
good fortune to be introduced, I have proffered all the 
hospitality in my power. But I cannot shut my eye 
enormous dishonesty ; nor, remembering their fore 
state, can I restrain myself from calling on them (thous! 
I copy Satan) to spring up from the gulf of infam 
which they are rolling. 
«© Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen.” 
I am astonished that the honest States of America do no” 
draw a cordon sanitaire round their unpaying breath 
that the truly mercantile New Yorkers, and the thoroug a 
honest people of Massachusetts, do not in their Europe ” 
visits wear a uniform with “S. S., or Solvent Stat fll 
worked in gold letters upon the coat, and receipts 1”, ae 
of all demands tamboured on the waistcoats, 20 4 9 
own property”? figured on their pantaloons. p 
Goteral sn auocked that I should say the Americans 
cannot go to war without money. ying 
by war ? Not irruptions into Canada—not the embo y 
of militia in Oregon, but a long tedious maritime wi 
four or five years’ duration. Is any man 80 foolish @ a 
suppose that Rothschild has nothing to do with such a 
as these? and that a bankrupt State, without the pe red 
of borrowing a shilling in the world, may not be CHE Maet 
jn such a contest? We all know that the Americans 
fight. Nobody doubts their courage. I see now ae in 
mind’s eye a whole army on the plains of Pennsy yi ae cy 
battle array, immense corps of insolvent, light inle cae 
regiments of heavy horse debtors, battalions! of or aie 
ators, brigades of bankrupts, with Vivre sans pay aie 
mourir on their banners, and ere alieno on to the 
trumpets; all these desperate debtors would fight to the 
and probably drive in a 
again, I have no doubt. 1 
fidence in their wisdom. But 1 believe t € 
intoxicated by the flattery of unprinelp: 4 
and instead of entering with us : ich 
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petition in making calico (the great object for 
the Angl race appears to have 
large portion of the students resolved, in q oO 
Mr. Fox Maule having ceased to be a member of the 
Church of Scotland, to adopt measures for his expulsion, 
and for the election of a person entertaining sentiments 
more in accordance with their own, and the Karl of Eglin- 
toun was accordingly fixed upon as the opposing candidate. 
The result was Mr. Maule’s return by a majority of 59 ; 
the numbers being for Lord Eglintoun, 187; for Mr. 
they will waste their happiness @ 
can get any) in years of silly, 
will carry farther than those of the Briti 
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a enue ‘repudiation’ to States which have not repue” 
