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mark his contempt of the people guilty of such an out- 
rage. The poor policemen were but doing their duty, and 
it was barbarous to attack them. He now moved that 
Ahascragh should be blotted out of the map of Ireland, 
and that the name of every one belonging to it should be 
struck out of the roll of the association; nay, more: he 
moved that no inhabitant of that town should be admitted 
among them.” This motion was deliberately moved, 
third-class passengers by mixed or slow trains would 
respectively be 12s.,8s., and 5s. The report was received. 
—On Monday-week the two o’clock mixed train of car. 
riages on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway-line took 
fire. The carriages started from Dundee ac the usual 
hour, and were midway on the line to Broughty Ferry, 
when the fire was discovered by some labourers who were 
working at the road. Immediately behind the engine 
were four waggons loaded with flax, and one of miscella- seconded, and carried. A financial statement was read to 
neous goods, consisting of flannels, cloths, laces, and | the m ng, from which it appeared that in 1842 the 
similar articles; and lastly, another tier of flax waggons, | sums received in the quarter ending 4th July amounted to 
ending with those conveying passengers. The fire origi- | but 9992. 9s, 7d., while the total received in the cor- 
nated in some of the ashes being blown among the flax, | responding quarter of this year amounted to 15,7987. 11s. 3d., 
which readily ignited, as the day was very stormy ; and in | being an increase on the quarter of 14,7992. 1s. 8d. 
the course of a few seconds the first two waggons were in | O’Connell announced that he would have 10,0007. nyested 
a blaze, and were rapidly communicating to those behind. | in the public funds to the credit of the association. 
The damage done amounts to 300/. or 400/.—The special | had to acknowledge various sums from the county of 
train on Thursday-week from Southampton to London, Wexford, 84/., 51/., 212, and other large sums, amount- 
engaged for the conveyance of the Duke of Saxe Coburg | ing in the whole to 621/. lls. Next came acknowledg- 
and his relatives, performed the journey, 77 miles, in one | ments of money from America—31/. from New York, 
hour and 39 minutes. 100/. from Providence, Rhode Island, 207. from St. John’s, 
New Brunswick, from Albany, 1002 From Connaught, 
265/., from Ulster, 807, handed in by Mr. Duffy. From 
England, 72/. ‘The total amount of rent for the week was 
2,1987. 18s. 64d. 
Luam.—The Repeal demonstration in this district took 
here on Sunday. It was looked to with peculiar 
t, from the circumstance of the requisition con- 
vening the meeting having been signed by Dr. M‘Hale, 
titular Archbishop of Tuam, and the entire body of this 
division of his diocese. The procession, in which was Dr. 
M‘Hale, Mr. Bodkin, M.P., and Mr. R. D. Browne, 
M.P., met Mr. O’Connell about five miles from the town. 
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EELAND. 
Dublin.—Sir Edward Sugden has left town for Eng- 
land, to join his family at Boyle Farm. ‘The Master of 
the Rolls, Mr. Justice Burton, and Baron Lefroy are 
appointed Keepers of the Great Seal in the absence of the 
Chancellor. His Lordship, previous to his departure, / 
appointed three gentlemen to the commission of the | 
peace—viz., Mr. George Ruxton, for the county of Louth : 
Mr. Charles Webber, for the county of Sligo; and Mr. 
Edward Crips Villiers, for the county of Limerick. The 
following is Lord Lyndhurst’s Act for legalising Presby- 
terian Marriages, the whole being comprised in the fol- | pie place fixed for the proceedings of the day was the 
lowing words :—‘‘ Whereas marriages have in divers in- Gurrane racecourse, two miles from the town, on the side 
stances been had and celebrated in Ireland, by Presby- opposite to that by which the procession had to return— 
terian and other Protestant and Dissenting Ministers or and in consequence of the vast multitude who thronged 
Teachers, or those who at the time of such marr had | the road, it was half-past six before Mr. O’Connell and 
been such, between persons being of the same or differe his friends reached the platform erected in the middle of 
religious persuasions, and it is expedient to confirm such | the race-course. The immense number of persons col- 
marriages ; Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most lected it would be impossible accurately to estimate, The 
Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of covered an area of about seven acres, besides forming a 
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this continuous line from the place of meeting to the town. In 
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the | the outward circle, however, were horsemen and several 
same, that all marriages heretofore had and celebrated in | cars with females. On the platform they seemed dis- 
Ireland by Presbyterian or other Protestant Dissenting posed to fix the number present at above 100,000, 
Ministers or Teachers, or those who at the time of such | There were no military at this meeting, but a large 
marriages had been such, shall be, and shall be adjudged body of police were in the town, brought in from 
and taken to have been and to be, of the same force and | the neighbouring stations. Mr. Bodkin presided. Lord 
effect in law as if such marriages had been had and solemn- LFfrench moved the first resolution, deprecating the 
ised by clergymen of the said United Church of England Legislative Union, and pledging them to persevere in 
and Ireland, and of no other force nor effect whatsoever.” unremitting sertions to obtain the restitution of their 
—The Grand Jury of Armagh have published a declaration . pent. Mr. M. Blake, of Hrenchfort, 
condemning the Repeal agitation, and expressing an lution, which was carried with acclama- 
anxious hope “ that her Majesty’s Government will make tion. Mr. R. D. Browne moved a resolution of gratitude 
use of those powers which the laws and constitution afford | to Mr, O’Connell, and pledging them to co-operate with 
them, for speedily putting an end to proceedings so fraught | him in his struggle to obtain com plete national regenera- 
with mischief to the best interests of our country, and of | tion. Mr. T. Bodkin seconded the resolution, which was 
every individual of its community.”’? This declaration is carried amidst loud cheering. Mr. O’Connell then 
signed by the whole of the Grand Jury, and countersigned addressed the meeting, and said they would get Repeal if 
by the High Sheriff, the Duke of Manch. ster, and several they would act by him as he desired. They would get 
other gentlemen.—A meeting in opposition to Repeal has Repeal without a blow. Did they not know the advan- 
also been held at Belfast, and attended by the Duke tages Repeal would give, to induce them to assist him in 
of Manchester, the Marquis of Donegall, Earl O'Neill, | the way he requested? By Repeal they would be pro- 
Earl of Roden, the Earl of Erne, Sir R. Bateson, &e. | tected from English oppression ; they would be freed 
Bishop Hughes, of New York, who recently arrived in | from the slavery of paying the clergy of a church in which 
Dublin in company with several of his episcopal brethren they did not believe. If he got Repeal his first step 
from the far west, on business of a religious nature, has | would be to put an end to the poor-houses; and with the 
addressed to a friend a letter on the wrongs of his native 800,000/. from the church temporalities, he would build 
land, in the course of which he observes :—* Repeal the hospitals and houses of refuge for the poor. They would 
Government will not grant till the last extremity, and | next abolish the grand jury cess. The government should 
nothing short of repeal will satisfy the Irish people. But pay for the roads, bridges, and rails, and the land be 
there is ome melancholy consolation, that, until it be relieved from the grand jury cess. Then every house- 
granted, Ireland will continue in the eyes of all nations | holder and every married man should have a vote, and 
ngland’s weakness and shame. The Parliament and the should he protected in the exercise of that vote by the 
leading journals (he writes from London) speak of nothing | ballot. Every year nine millions of pounds sterling were 
else, and yet the question seems to make but little | obtained out of Ireland. Give him Repeal, and next year 
Impression on the iron-hearted people here. But the these nine millions would be spent in Ireland. There was 
truth is, the Irish must depend upon themselves. It had another evil. The rack-rent landlords were grinding the 
been my plan to visit Ireland after I had transacted my | people to powder. The tyranny of the landlords was 
business on the Continent; this I may still do; but my | worse than all the other evils put together. He proposed 
feelings got so much excited by the poverty and oppression, | that there should be no shorter lease than twenty-one 
the patriotism, the indifference, and the perfidy which years, Itmight beas much longer as the landlord pleased, 
I witnessed in that lovely land, that it is a relief to escape | but no lease no rent. To prevent the exaction of too high 
from the spectacle.”’_One of the murderers of the herds- rent, he would give an appeal to the assistant-barrister, 
man to Mr. James Scully was found guilty at Clonmel | from him to the judge of assize, and from him to a jury, 
Assizes on Friday.—At the meeting of the Repeal Associa- | to ascertain the value of’ the land—nay, more, every 
tion on Monday, Mr. O’Connell gave an account of the! tenant who laid out money in the improvement of the 
Tuam demonstration. He said that “ all the Bishops of | land, might register the amount he expended every year 
that province had declared themselves repealers. One in the Crown-office ; and, if his lease were not renewed, 
thing only had tarnished this bright prospect ; it was the | his landlord should repay him what he laid out. He then 
gross misconduct of the people of Ahascragh. It was | alluded to the condition of England, and her points of 
melancholy that the people should be ignorant of their weakness, to show that she could no longer resist Repeal. 
paramount duty to keep the peace. The people at! A resolution, expressive of sympathy with the superseded 
Ahascragh had erected a triumphal arch—and they were magistrates, and of a determination to resort to the 
ordered to take it down. Now everybody knew that no | arbitrators in all cases of difference, was then proposed, 
matter what outrage might be committed against them, it | and carried 3; after which the meeting adjourned. The 
was the duty of the people to obey the authorities. If dinner took place in a large room attached to the Mitre 
anything illegal be done against them, we can vindicate | Hotel, in which two galleries were fitted up which 
the law and punish the aggressors; but there must be nO | accommodated three hundred ladies. Mr. O'Connell 
assaults, no riots. In this instance there were but seven spoke at great length, and Dr. M‘Hale adverted to the 
policemen, and they did no more than obey the orders of | Jate discussions on the Catholic priesthood. He said, 
their superiors. Yet the people pelted them with stones, | the object for which they were met might require that 
and drove them into their barracks, wounding one man | the sentiments of the Catholic clergy, so far he might be 
seriously. Such conduct he declared was treason to Tre- | deemed their humble organ, should not be misunderstood. 
land. The persons who were guilty of it were traitors. | A strange change seemed to be coming over the minds of 
They would have broken up the Connaught meeting | some of their rulers. They proposed to throw open to 
altogether, but for the profound respect he felt for his 
d friend ‘ John Tuam,’ Yes, he would have 
the Catholic clergy the sanctuary of the British Treasury, 
returned to Dublin, and let the meeting be abortive, to 
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nay, even to open to their hierarchy high places in the 
British Legislature, if they would but bow down and 
worship Saxon ascendancy. But the virtue of the 
Catholic clergy was proof against the treacherous ordeal 
of their caresses. It would bea dangerous day for the 
liberty of Ireland, if the Catholic clergy entered into any 
arrangement which would withdraw them from the confi« 
dence of a suffering people. And he would tell the 
Government that until justice was done to the people, 
the clergy were the last persons for whose provision they 
ought to feel the least anxiety. Was it not time that the 
Government made the necessary concessions to them % 
The people suffered under many grievances. Was it just 
that the accumulated treasures of ancient piety should be 
monopolized, in a country entirely Catholic, by a few 
persons of another ereed? They were told of the con- 
cession of Emancipation. No thanks to them for that 
concession ; but what did it amount to 2 
Upon the 
principles of jurisprudence, as well as of Catholic theology, 
every wrong atonement would be 
tmade—a wrong having been inflicted upon Ireland by the 
Union, they would never rest satisfied until they com- 
pelled the English Government, by the institution of the 
irish Parliament, to make fall and adequate reparation to 
Ireland. ‘The Chairman proposed the health of the Right 
Rev. Dr. Browne, titular Bishop of Galway. Dr. Browne 
returned thanks, and expressed his strong concurrence in 
the efforts made to procure the Repeal of the Union. 
Enniscorthy.—The Repeal demonstration in this town 
took place on Thursday, and was attended by thousands of 
persons from all parts of the surrounding county. Mr. J. 
Hi. Talbot presided; and Mr. O'Connell, Dr. Keatinge, 
the titular bishop of Ferns, and others, addressed the 
meeting at great Jength on the prospects of Repeal. At 
the dinner in the evening, the Rev. Mr. Synnott acknow- 
ledged the toast of the Catholic Priesthood of Ireland. 
He said that the Catholic clergy rejoice that they have no 
hope but in the Repeal of the Union. ‘ If we had other 
hopes our minds would be distracted in the pursuit of 
those other objects—our minds by that distraction would 
be weakened—one set of men would encourage one mea- 
sure of relief, and another set of men would encourage 
another ; but now all our energies, and hopes, and deter- 
mination, are concentrated upon this point, and by that 
powerful concentration we must succeed in carrying our 
one object—the Repeal of the Legislative Union. The 
Catholic clergy have taken that position at your head, and 
am confident that you will not disown their leadership. 
They will not do any discredit to the sacred character 
they bear, for while they are your leaders the political 
triumph will bear likewise a sacred"character. That sacred 
character they do not forget—that sacred character they 
are invested with, and it is that character which guarantees 
to you that their advice, their exertions in co-operating 
with you, must be essentially directed to a legitimate 
object, and to attain a national end.” 
SMiscellaneous. 
A Nobleman's Country Seat— “Take a lord, now, 
and visit him to his country seat, and Vl tell you what 
you will find—a sort of Washington State-house place. It 
is either a rail old castle of the genuine kind, or a ginger- 
bread crinkum-crankum imitation of a thing that only 
existed in fancy, but never was seen afore—a thing that’s 
made modern for use, and in ancient style for show ; or 
else it is a great, cold, formal slice of a London terrace, 
stuck on a hill ia a wood. Well, there is lawn, park, 
artificial pond called a lake, deer that’s fashionablised and 
civilised, and as little natur in ’em as the humans have, 
Kennel and hounds for parsicutin’ foxes—presarves (not 
what we call presarves, quinces and apple sarce, and 
greengages done in sugar, but presarves for breedin’ tame 
partridges and peasants to shoot at), h’aviaries, hive-eries, 
h’yew-veries, hot-houses, and so on; for they put an “ h” 
before every word do these critters, and then tell us 
Yankees we don’t speak English.’’--Sam Slick in England, 
Opening of a Roman Tumulus.—A. most interesting 
discovery, illustrative of the faneral customs of the Anglo- 
Romans, has been made in the parish of Rougham, on the 
estate of Mr. Philip Bennet. At the corner of the two 
roads leading to Hesset and Bradfield Manger, and within 
a few feet of the highway, stands the half of a hill, called 
Eastlow-hill, and a slight distance therefrom were two 
semicircular mounds, about 50 or 60 feet in diameter, 
covered with herbage and shrubs. The men belonging to 
Mr. Levett’s farm were engaged in clearing away one of 
these mounds, to lay the soil upon the Jand, when, on 
Friday week, having come to the centre, the pick of the 
workmen broke into an oven-shaped cist or cavern, con- 
taining sepulchral remains, x 
four feet square, appears to have been first dug about three 
feet below the general level of the country. Four rows 
large fiat tiles. The whole was’ arched over with tiles, 
forming a chamber of about 2h feet square and two feet 
deep ; open at one end. Each tile was ornamented with 
two striated bands, placed diagonally from angle to angle. 
and crossing in the centre, In this chamber was a large 
A hole, between three and _ 
