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Mr, O’Connell alluded to the proposed subscription of! 
the French Republicans, and to the promised visit of 
M. Odillon Barrot, as noticed in our Foreign News. 
He said the French sympathisers ‘‘ need only write to 
Mr. Ray, and the gentleman who proposed to come over 
could, instead of taking that trouble, write to him (Mr. 
O’Connell), or to the secretary. But with reference to 
any communications with ulterior objects, he would dis- 
tinctly say that they would receive no such communica- 
ions. When, the other day, they were threatened with 
civil war, they declared that they would not strike the first 
low ; and he now could tell them that there would be no 
second blow at all. In sympathy for civil and religious 
liberty, in sympathy for freedom of conscience, and in 
sympathy for those in France who wish to strike down 
the iron yoke of monarchical domination, where it pressed 
Upon popular freedom, they heartily united 5 but whatever 
Would throw the slightest taint on their allegiance, shake 
the connexion between these countries, or disturb the 
golden link of the Crown by which the empire was united, 
ad no sympathy whatever from them.’? Mr. O’Connell 
then announced the rent for the week as 1,464/. 19s. 73d. 
Tullamore.—The King’s County repeal demonstration 
took place in this town on Sunday, and was attended by 
between 40,000 and 50,000 persons, while some thousands 
more lined the main avenues of the town, finding it im~- 
Possible to get within hearing distance of the platform. 
The walls, the windows of all the houses and storehouses 
commanding a view of the speakers, their roof-tops, and 
even chimney-tops, all found ready and patient spectators ; 
but certainly not listeners, for they could not have heard 
what an absurdity to suppose, that, because the people of 
Ireland venerate you, you would allow them to be con- 
ciliated if the British Parliament conferred upon you 
titles which you already possess!’ He then touched 
upon the questions of the Irish church, landlord and 
tenant, unjust taxation, fiscal robbery, diminished fran- 
chise, limited municipal reform bill, &c., and observed 
that the British Parliament admitted them to be grievances, 
however, 
their admissions? In January next, or, at farthest, in 
May, he would have a Parliament in Ireland, as surely as 
the fising of the sun, unless the Irish people were untrue 
to themselves. The second step towards repeal was 
coming. A few more of these meetings, and be should be 
ready to proclaim the meeting of 300 gentry in the city 
of Dublin. He concluded by proposing the health of 
‘““The Right Rev. Dr. Cantwell, Bishop of Meath ;” who 
in returning thanks, challenged Lord Eliot to point out a 
single appointment by the grand jury of Westmeath, a 
county in which the Roman Catholics were 11 to 1, of a 
single Roman Catholic to any place, however humble, of 
profit, trust, or emolument. The Irish people were 
starving in the midst of plenty; the produce of their 
honest industry and toil was made to minister to the 
comforts and luxuries of men who resided in another 
country, and that was a state of things which he could 
not suppose it to be the will of. Providence to continue. 
In conclusion, he gave the “Irish Hierarchy, and one of 
its brightest ornaments, the Bishop of Ardagb.” Dr. 
Higgins, in reply, adverted to the proposed remedies for 
anything beyond the cheering, in which they 
assisted. Dr. O’ Rafferty, the parish priest of Tullamore, 
presided; and after several resolutions had been passed, 
r. O’Connell addressed the meeting at great length. 
He said, ‘The present Administration had proclaimed, 
trumpet-tongued, that the progress of repeal was irre- 
sistible ; while they stood with their arms folded, like the 
fool who waited at the river’s side for the water to pass 
by that he might walk across. Notwithstanding their 
declared preference of civil war to repeal—supported as 
that declaration was, at the time it was made, by 
Brougham, the most despicable of statesmen, and by a 
Creature named Beaumont, who called himself a Catholic, 
not one of those Ministers, during the recent debate of 
Six nights, dared to talk of coercion, or of civil war, 
or, indeed, of any plan whatever for crushing the ques- 
tion of repeal—they just came to the magnanimous deci- 
sion of doing nothing; thereby admitting the legality of the 
People’s conduct and their undoubted right to look for the 
Tepeal of an atrocious act of Parliament, But they ad- 
mitted more,—they admitted that the temporalities of the 
Irish Church could not long be continued. Under heaven 
there was no greater wrong than compelling the people of 
Ireland to pay a set of parsons for preaching doctrines to 
which they did not subscribe. A greater wrong, both 
to Presbyterians and Catholics, was never inflicted 
on a country than ferring those poralities t 
the church of the minority—a minority of one in ten of 
the population; and that wrong every one, blessed be 
Heaven, was now admitting. The first great benefit of 
repeal would be the allocation of those funds to the pur- 
poses of charity and education, and the British Parliament 
already threatened to give them up without repeal.’’ The 
dinner to Mr. O’ Connell (which was attended by about 
500 persons, consisting principally of shopkeepers from 
Tullamore, Athlone, Birr, Portarlington, Edenderry, and 
other towns, and farmers of the county,) took place in the 
évening. The decorations were few, but the inscriptions 
were numerous, and consisted chiefly of quotations from 
Speeches in favour of and against repeal. Over the chair 
(which was filled by Dr. Cantwell, the titular bishop of the 
iocese,) was Sir R. Peel’s opinion that civil war was pre- 
ferable to repeal, followed by Mr. O’Connell’s defiance to 
him to commence such a strife in Ireland; Dr. Higgins’ 
defiance to all the Ministers of England to put down repeal 
in the diocese of Ardagh; and Mr. Steele’s defiance of 
“let him try it if he dare.” Mr. O’Connell spoke at length 
©n repeal and other topics connected with Ireland. Refer- 
ting to the decision of the twelve judges in England on 
the subject of Presbyterian marriages, he declared that a 
More indefensible or wicked decision he had never seen in 
the annals of judicial folly. He thought that there was an 
Overweening respect paid in this country to my lords the 
judges. When at the bar be fought them, and now that 
he was from the bar he would say that a worse set of men 
Were not, he believed, in the community. As a member 
of Parliament he was ready to forego every other pursuit, 
and repair to. the House of Commons the moment the 
Presbyterians required it, to assist in passing a law to 
remedy this grievance, and reverse & decision which went 
to say that the ministers of their church were not clergy- 
men at all. Alluding again to England’s weakness, he 
Said that she dared not hold out a single threat either to 
France, America, or Spain, until she did Justice to Ireland. 
But what sort of propositions were made in the British Par- 
liament under that pretence? One said, “Abolish the laws” 
—therewereno such laws—‘‘which prevent your sendingan 
ambassador to the Pope.’” Another said, ‘‘Give the Roman 
Catholic bishops, whom the Irish people so much vene- 
rate, their titles.’’ Dr. Cantwell here interrupted him 
and said, “ We should despise them, coming from a British 
Parliament.’? Mr. O’Connell.—‘* You would, my Lord, 
and yet that Parliament denies you the privilege of sign- 
ing yourself ‘ Bishop of Meath,’ or my right rev. friend 
of writing himself down Bishop of- Ardagh.’’ Dr. 
Higgins.“ I am the bishop, though.” Mr. O'Connell. 
— Yes; you are the Bishop of Ardagh, in unbroken 
Succession from the days of St. Patrick, a succession that 
Shall last to the second coming of the Redeemer. But 
rish g As to the Ambassador to Rome, he 
said, he would be regarded and called an English spy. 
Let the ambassador be Protestant or Catholic, he cared 
not which if the Catholic were an Englishman, it would 
become the duty of the Irish bishops to select one from 
amongst themselves whom they would send to Rome as 
the real ambassador to watch the spy of the intriguers. 
He, for one, would look upon it as the first step towards 
the downfall of his religion, if any man, selected by 
the present Cabinet of England, were to be sent 
as ambassador to the court of the holy father, as 
his purpose would obviously be to bring the political 
weight of that detestable Government to bear upon 
the pure and simple character of their sacred reli- 
gion. The other proposition was, to give them titles 
and revenues. ‘The titles, thank God, they already 
had from a bigher source—they were of God, not man ; 
and as to the revenues, he believed he spoke the senti- 
ments of every Roman Catholic bishop in Jreland, when 
he said that the moment those revenues were forced upon 
them, they would—he, for one, at least, would—go before 
the holy father and say, “ Give me some means of escaping 
this pollution, or receive from my hands my crosier and 
my mitre.’ They knew what pollution there was in the 
connexion of church and state, and the day it was attempted 
with the Catholic Church in Ireland would be a day of 
agitation more frightful even than the present. He could 
not sit down without alluding to the gross ingratitude of 
the English nation towards the Catholic bishops of Ireland, 
whom they had called a demon priesthood, surpliced 
ruffians, and almost rebels, for taking part in the present 
peaceful agitation, But did they know that when the 
Catholic bishops of Ireland joined for repeal, instead of 
the aristocracy asking what they would do with the people, 
the people were asking what they would do with the aris- 
tocracy? or that before they joined for repeal nothing was 
more familiar amongst the exasperated inhabitants of the 
country than the notion of beginning an agitation against 
rents, and measuring the rights of landlords by the law of 
pature? Instead of encouraging that notion, the Catholic 
bishops of Ireland turned the feelings of the people into a 
peaceful agitation for repeal ; and if that repeal were long 
withheld, he was not the man to prevent an agitation 
against rents, which once begun would soon shake the 
empire to its very centre. The die was cast; onward they 
would move in peaceful agitation, and ke had now only to 
hope that the stupidity and cupidity of England woold 
not drive the people to that other agitation to which he 
had adverted.’”? After some other toasts, the company 
separated. 
Enniscorthy.—A lancholy case of ination is 
just reported from the county of Wexford, a districthitherto 
so tranquil. Mr. Fayle, who was postmaster, and also 
collector of county cess, has been assassinated. It appears 
that latterly a spirit of resistance to the payment of rates 
having arisen in certain quarters, Mr. Fayle was obliged in 
his public capacity to make seizures. The result of this 
was, that he received some threatening letters, and for his 
protection was obliged to carry firearms. On Wednesday 
he slept at Newtownbarry, driving there in his gig, and 
at five on the following morning, he was found lying in a 
ditch, within five miles of his home, and the horse grazing 
near him. Mr. Fayle was not dead when discovered, and 
he was enabled to state, that on passing a plantation on 
the road side, a shot, fired from behind, gave him an 
alarm, but the slugs passed through his hat without doing 
any injury. Three men then leaped out of the wood, and 
he could notsay what occurred after. The fatal wound is 
from a ball in. the front of his forehead, and Mr. Fayle’s 
pistol was found on the road discharged ; but whether he 
fired off, or it had been used by one of his assailants, 
cannot be ascertained at present. The object of the 
assassins had nothing to do with plunder, for his money 
was found on his person. 
hopes of his recovery. 
SCOTLAND. 
It is said that there are no. 
on Tuesday week, in the exercise of powers conferred 
upon it by the Free General Assembly, made the follow- 
ing appointments to the chairs of the college established 
in connexion with the church : Dr. Chalmers, to be Prin- 
cipal and Primarius Professor of Divinity; Dr. Welsh, 
Professor of Divinity and Church History ; Dr. Cunning- 
ham, Professor of Divinity ; Dr. Duncan, Professor of 
Hebrew and Oriental Languages. Dr. Cunningham 
does not commence his duties till the session of 1844, and 
the committee have requested him to proceed in the 
meantime to America, in order to become acquainted with 
the system of theological instruction followed in some of 
the most eminent American universities: The committee 
also agreed that teachers belonging to other evangelical 
coimmunions should be eligible to officiate as masters of 
schools, aided by or in connexion with the committeé. 
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to the 261. payment into Court 
coming to the University, amply sufficient to defray all reason- 
able expenses consistent with his station in life. 
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his father, thus creating, through thoughtlesshess and want of 
ordinary prudence, an embarrassme! 
would in all probability endure for years. 
a source of deep and painful reflection, that the tradesmen of 
this city shouid be instrumental in causing the misery and pain 
of which this was b; a solitary instance, and heavy 
indeed was the responsibility which they incurred in inviting 
ce, abd leading them by mos? fallacious 
promises to incur heavy ibilities, wholly i t 
in many instances with their position in life. In this case 
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whether, if he were so, the articles supplied were necessaries or not. 
the defendant baying been proved, and evidence having been 
given of his position in life, &c. i 
observing that he perfectly coincided with his learned friend as 
to the degree of courage requisite to put the present defence upon 
the record, for the defendant had by payment of 25/. admitted to 
a certain extent his liability; the question, therefore, for the 
éonsideration of the Jury, would resolve itself merely into one of 
amount, and they would only have to say whether the articles 
The trial of Edward Thomas and his wife, Mary 
double murder of her brother, Mr. William Howells, of Pantros- 
syla, and Jane Harry, his servant, commenced 
Guilty.” 
the principal witnesses. n 
housekeeper to the late Mr. Howells, the brother of the female 
prisoner. He was a respectable farmer and freeholder, residing 
at Pantrossyla, near Llaleston. 
some years, and remained in it upto the period of his death, 
which happened the morning after Good Friday last- Mr. Howells 
was a bachelor of about 53 years of age, and had no other near 
relative but the female prisoner, who was his only sister; the 
only persons residing in his house were the deceased, two boys, 
who were farm servants, and the witness, bis housekeeper. ‘The 
family were in the habit of drinking beer occasionally with their 
dinner, generally homebrewed, but when out of that, Mr. Howells 
used to send a gallon jar to Lialeston to a Mrs. Lewis’s for beer, 
she being a maltster and brewer. Mr. Howells was on terms of 
i ith Mrs. Lewis, and often di 
Edinburgh.—The general education of the 
Free Protesting Church, at a meeting held in Edinburgh 
intention of marrying her. In 5 
which va kept for the purpose of fetching the veer. On Good 
