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FAMINE IN IRELAND . Doblix , Oct . 3 . Every day adds to the certainty that the people of this country are about to pass through a fearful ordeal . It is only now that the extent and probable effects of the calamity are beginning to manifest themselves , for it is only now we are beginning to believe , that there is a deficiency of food in the country . Heretofore the potatoe failure was regarded as the sole evil of our condition ; but it is now quite ccriain that ; the supply of what the Americans call "bread stuns" is utterly and lamentably inadequate to our -wants and requirement ? . The abandonment of the depot system was more than a mistake , that system wrought well last year ; it acted as acnecK Upon the combinators and forestalled , and our rules sbenld have hesitated before they permitted abstract principles to interfere between them and the mes ef millions of her Majesty ' s subjects . Men ot all
_ creeds , parties , professions , are of opinion that the first andl most important duty o thej Omranm t » to provide food for tbe people . The tonuer tnis duty S £ -te £ d themore will the difficulties and dangers of out pwlti ' on increase and multiply . It is all very well to talk about non-interference with the rights ot trade but it is more than Wle-it is foohsh and absurd to do so , when an entire people , dmento madness by want , are on the point of breaking into ihsnrrection . Should the present state of things be permitted to exist much longer , the result will be a total disruption of society in Ireland , and probably a sanguinary war between the owners of property and those who have no property to loose . The peace of the country is at this moment in a very precarious state . Immense bodies of halt-starring men are perambulating the provinces , and the feeling is rapidly gaining ground among them that it is better to fall beneath the blow of the military than submit to the slow and torturing agony of famine .
THK OUTBREAK AT DDXGARVAN . The Cork Reporter gives a full and graphic account of the recent fatal affray at Dungarvan ; but , as the main facts are already ( before the public , it would hi superfluous to repeat them . A * description of the conduct of the rioters an 1 the authorities prior to the dernier ressori , with the latest particulars of the state of town , is , however , uot without interest . After detailing the previous proceedings of Monday , the report proceeds as follows : — Hatters bad arrived at this state when tbe magistrates deemed it advisable to clear tbe square , which was im . mediately done by the Dragoons , who drove tbe people into tbe adjoining streets , but tbe stone-throw jng being continued , an erder was given to tbe police to advance
and drive them off . They finding it impossible to do so , the troop of Dragoons were ordered to advance , upon which a shout was raited in Irish to "kill them , " and accordingly , a « they moved up the streets , they were saluted with a shower of stones , scarcely one of the cavalry having escaped injuries in some way or other . Thiags had arrived at such a serious pass that the officer in command of tbe Dragoons requested Mr . Howley to give the order to fire , but tbatgentlemin declined doing so . He then requested Mr . Howl-y to permit him to take the responsibility on himself , and to allow him to order his meu to fire ; bat Mr . Howl < -y replied , that there was an important trust reposed in him , and he would retain that trust , and would not allow any firing until he considered their lives were in jeopardy .
The infuriated people baring continued throwing tbe toneB , Mr . Howley read tbe Riot Act , and then waraad them of the consequence of perseverance in tbe course they were pursuing ; but his advice nras disregarded , and a volley of stones was tbe response thereto . Tbe officer in command of the Dragoons then said that lie would retire from the town with his men if they were not permitted to fire , on which the order was given for them to doso , with directions to cease the moment tbe populace discontinued throwing stones . Immediately on the order being given the Dragoons drew up in sections of fours , each four firing alternately , and in this way 26 shots were fired , and each round was followed by a volley ef stones .
After the firing had continued some time the crowd degistedfrom throwing stones , and retired from the town , followed by the Dragoons ; but as soon as they got outside the town they intrenched themselves behind walls at each side of the road , under the impression that the Dragoons would follow them into the country , and thereby become sure marks for stones thrown from behind those walls . However , it growing dark at the time , and the parties being driven from the town , the magiitrates deemed it most prudent to withdraw the military , which was accordingly done . The rumour rife in town yesterday was , that the peasantry had gone to all the farmers' and gentlemen ' s houses in search of arms , and were determined to return to the town to take summary vtngence on the military . However , the magistrates have taken every precaution to preserve tbe peace , and another troop of Dragoons have beta sentfor to Glonmel .
At present everything wears a tranquil aspect , and business has beea resumed , but it is hard to tell how longit will continue so . A troop of Hussars arrived at 2 o'clock last night from Caber , so that there is mv o . Iwgv disposable force at the command of the authorities , including Captain Sibthorp ' s company of the 1 st Dragoons , which were engaged in the conflict . The report that one of the soldiers of the 67 tL Hegiment was shot by a policeman in the riots on Monday is not correct ; several of the Dragoons , however , have rein very much injured by the missiles with -wiiicli the ; -were assailed before the Riot Act was read .
The country all around is still in the greatest state of excitement ; The officer of the Board of Worki cannot by the Treasury minute pay the labourers more thmn 1 O& . » -3 ay , and at this sum the ; cannot bay provisions . Indian meal in * he market is now worth double that sum per 141 b ; aor is this feeling ^ of dissatisfaction confined to the labourers and small farmers . Tbe gentry and magistrates are most leud in the outcry against Government for the length they have permitted matters to arrive at without throwing in food , paralyziug enterprise amongst the merchants , by the declaration
from the Lord-Lieutenant that food shall not exceed a given price , and at another time declaring that food will not be interfered with . A meeting of the county magistrates His thought will "be brought together immediately , as many are determined to throw up tbe commission of the peace , sooner than be the instruments of keeping down t > y bloodshed excitement caused by want or energy and foresight at head-quarters . This is not confined to the couuty of Waterford . The adjacent parts of tue county ef Cork are similarly circumstanced , and if matters go on much further , the country will be without an executive .
Two lighters of corn , the property of Mr . Richard Tatbot and Mr . O'Keefe , of Tallow , were loaded on Wednesday to carry eats toToughaL thereto be r « -sbipped on board two traders for the Channel . The boats were allowed to sail through the Bride quietly , but on Thursday , when they bad reached tbe Blackwater , near Cooneen-mSl , thousands of the countrypeople , of the parishes of Clashmore and Orange , flocked down the hill , threatening to sink the boats and drown tbe crews if tbe boats did not return . The men had to comply . The corn has eone back to Tallow .
TROOPS SOB . THE DISTUBBED DISTRICTS . The Duke of Cambridge steamer , with four companies of the 47 th Regiment , not being able to make Dungarvan , put into Youghal , and landed tbe troops there . The four companies of the 47 th , marched % t once for Dungarvan .
PROCLAMATION OF TBE LORD IIEriEXAXT . " Dublin Castle , Oct . 2 , 1816 . "Whereas it has been represented to the Lord LieuteBRnt , that in various parts of the country numerous assemblages of people have committed acts of violence , by attacking the shops of bakers and the stores of merchants , and by interrupting the free traffic in provisions , and otherwise disturbing the public peace : " His Excellency is determined , by every means in his power , to protect that lawful trade in the articles of food , the complete security of which is esseatial to-the subsistence of the people ; and he
earnestly warns all persons of the danger which they incur by taking part in these illegal proceedings . "The Lord Lieutenant has also been informed , that a disposition has in some instances been manifested by the labourers employed in public works to resist the arrangements which the officers of the board of works have made , in order to ensure their proper execution , by task or piece-work , as well as to endeavour , by violence , to obtain a higher rate of wages . These officers are acting under the express directions of the government , and if this improper interference is persevered in , the Lord Lieutenant will be compelled to order the works to be discontinued .
" TheLord Lieutenant confidently relies on the continued support of magistrates and others of station and influence , in the efforts to maintain tranquillity , as well as to mitigate the effects of the calamity with which it has pleased Divine FroyideDce to afflict tb . ia country ; and he desires , in an especial manner , to thank the ministers of religion , of all persuasions , for their useful and exemplary conduct on this trying occasion . " The Repeal Association have also issued an addr ss , in wliicli they conjure the people to be quiet , and promise every effort shall be made to give them food . The Cork Examiner contains the following : —
•• Macboom . —Our Macroom correspondent relates that , en Wednesday afternoon , large bodies of men . women , and children , presenting an awful appearance of destitution , mustered together in that town . The workhouse was the first place to which they went , exhibiting nothing bordering on tumult , notwithstanding their privations . * Work or cry' was their cry . A respectable inhabitant , Mr . Welply , osed all his influence to quell any disposition to riot which , appeared , with which view to show his sympathies for their distress lie marched himself into their centre . Our correspondent recognised several in the crowd , whom he knew to have been a long period without a morsel of food , yet the multitude did not betray the least s ymptom of disorder , though their frames seemed to sink from faistness . Even to the flowers of the garden attached to the workhouse , no damage was done to any kind of property . TtopbyaeiUj who happened to be present , remon-
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strated with them and pointed out ; the aPP ™** " * Sja-sBsaL'iJiitfa . ja * EHs' ^^»~^ ^ Sir 'What brought you to Maeroom ? ' 'To get emplovmcnt aud food . ' ' Had you no other objectot assem bling together V ' No . ' .. Mr . Little , satisfied of their sincerity , explained that the local gentry , lay and clerical of every denomination , were in emulation to serve the people , and had memorialed the government for a baronial sessions , although from the great pressure of similar
applications at the Castle , his Excellency , as it was stated in reply , was obliged to postpone complying with the prayer of it for a few days . Just as the crowd was separating , the Rev . Mr . Lee , who had been absent from town and returned , addressed the congregated people , in an eloquent and feelingly impressive manner- which confirmed the impressions made by the two preceding speakers , calling upon them to return to their respective homes quietly , and promising ere the lapse of many days they would be restored te cemparative comfort . The reverend gentleman ' s injunction was immediately obeyed , and the town resumed its wonted quietude . The Ballyshannon Herald contains the following particulars of the disturbance in Sligo : —
" We have this morning received a communication from our Sligo correspondent , which gives a frightful account of the state of that town ; he states that on Monday a vast crowd of the peasantry assembled in town and walked through the streets in a menacing manner . As a large quantity of cakes was conveying to a shop of Mr . Martin ' s they were rushed on and speedily devoured . They then went from one baker ' s shop to another , and carried off the contents of each ; as Mr . Moses MondY bread cart was passing with bread to his retailers , it was attacked and speedily emptied . Several provision stores were also plundered . On Tuesday they again paraded the streets with a large pole , and a loaf suspended from it—they took some bread , dec—and separated early . On Wednesday they again assembled , but the Mayor had arrangements made to prevent outrage , and they peaceably dispersed . "
8 TATH OP WPPERART . Murder and agrarian outrage are again rearing their hideous heads in this ill-fated country . Ihe Repeal local paper ( the Tipperary Vindicator ) brings accounts of a dreadful case of assassination in the broad glare of noon , a ferocious attack by an armed band on two ladies , atid an assault on a habitation , accempanied by violence on the inmates , one of whom was dangerously wounded by a gunshot wound . " That these excesses , " remarks the Vindicator , " breaking out in paroxysms , at a moment whes tranquillity , it was sincerely ' toibe hoped , was likely to last for a long time , provide food and employment be given the people , indicate a taint—show that' there is something rotting in the state of Denmark , ' cannot for one moment be doubted . " The following are the particulars of the cases above referred to : —
"Mysterious and Awjol Mckdbh . — It is oit sad duty te record one of the most mysterious , and at the same time one of the most atrocious murdci s , of which this country has been the theatre for a lone period , and which was perpetrated in the broad noon of Wednesday , on the person of a singularly inoffensive man , near Kilgarvan , the residence ot that excellent country gentleman , Solomon Cambie , Esq . The deceased , William Latchford , and a man of the name of Hogan , were going home from Kilgarvan , about a quarter-past twelve o ' clock at noon Latchford had been for some years gatekeeper at the Belle Vue , the residence of Edward Biggs , Esq ., and he was also employed as tutor by some of the neighbouring gentlemen , and , in fact , was returning from
Giving lessons at Kilgarvan at the usual hour , on the day he met Ms dismal death at the hands of the ruthless assassin . He had gone on for some time , when Hogan went a . short way before him , and soon afterwrads a man jumped out ot a lane which was near , and asked him ( Latchford ) what hour of the day it was . Latchford at once told him , and no sooner had he done so than the villain who asked the hour raised with both hands a quarter-staff or spade handle , struck it violently across the back part ol Latchford ' s neck , and instantly knocked him down . When down the atrocious miscreant hit the prostrate poor man two other dreadful blows across the left temple , which deprived him of all consciousness , and at ten o ' clock the same night of life . The
murderer walked off in the most deliberate manner ; no clue has been discovered as to the cause of the murder . Latchford was not only in no way connected with land , but he was looked upon as one of the most obliging and quiet individuals in the entire neighbourhood , and was greatly regarded by the country people generally as well as by the gentry , That he could have been mistaken for an obnoxious person at the time is scarcely probable . It was broad noon , the sun shining strongly ; the ruffian who acosted him went quite close to his person , and , if he had ever seen him before , could not be mistaken as to his identity . Hence the mystery that prevades this
most frightful crime , which has created a deep sensation of disgust and horror far and wide . After the inquest upwards of two hundred of the neighbourii g people proceeded to the house where the body lay , and by their sobs and tears and loud lamentations showed how deeply they deplored the cruel fate of poor Lachford . li is sincerely to be hoped , for the sakeofnumanity , thatno time shall be lost in looking out for and in discovering the perpetrator oi this desperate deed of blood , which , we trust , shall soon meet with its merited punishmint . A verdict of'Wilful murder against some person unknown ' was returned by the jury . "
Attack on Miss Gleeson , op Newtown . —An armed party , consisting of seven or eight men , proceeded on Thursday night , about twelve o ' clock , to the residence of Miss Gleeson , of Newton , within four miles of Nenagh , in the direction of Portroe ; after very considerable exertion they obtained an entrance into the house , by breaking in all the windows , and then thrusting in and exhibiting their fire-arms , which so alarmed the inmates that a male servant of the house , and the brother-in-law of Miss Gleeson . a man of the name of Mara , abandoned the
position they occupied in endeavouring to keep the door closed , when the Terry Alts immediately secured an entrance , on which they beat Mara very severely —broke every article of furniture and delf in the hoHse , and observed that If " Miss Gleeson did not deal fairly by her brother , they would kill all when next they came . " They then decamped . It appears that Miss Gleeson and her brother , Mr . Michael Gleeson , have not been on good terms for some time in consequence of the latter having been ejected from a lame farm which the former at present tenants .
Highway Robbery . —Birr , Oct . 1 . —Mr . Neville , clerk of petty sessions , was met on Wednesday night , as he was driving into town accompanied by his wife , by three men , who demanded that he should stand and deliver what money he had in his possession . He gave them all he had about him , namely , seven shillings . They then demanded his watch , which he also handed them , when the fellows decamped . There is but one opinion entertained here , that if the government do not hasten on the execution of public works that have been present for at the last sessions , and employ the people , the laws will be set at open defiance , and property will lose its value .
Attack at Capparde . —An armed party attacked the house of a man named Dwyer , at Capparue , on Wednesday night , and after posting sentinels on the doors of two houses in the immediate vicinity . effected an entrance ; when they searched for Dwyer , who , it seems , has become obnoxious on account of land he had been warned about , but not finding him , they fired a blunderbuss at two men who were in the house , one of whom they wounded in a shocking mar iner , the other partially escaping . After leaving a message for Dwyer , which it were difficult not to understand , they went off .
FOOD RIOTS IN LIMERICK . The following is from the Limerick Chronicle of Saturday : — " A horse and car , laden with corn of Mr . Edw . Maunsell , of Meelick , for the distillery , was stopped yesterday ( Friday ) morning on the road by several countrymen , who ordered the driver to go back ; but Mr . Maunsell , insisting that he should have a free passage , one of the party presented a gun , and shot his horse dead upon the road . Upwards of one hundred carloads of corn for this market were arrested on Friday morning , on the high road , at Sheaban ' scross , and ordered to return home . "
OUTBREAK IS QALWAY . The Galway ITcrcury says : — "We regret to state that the prospects of the people have become so alarming as to warrant the worst apprehensions for the tranquillity of the country . On the evening of Saturday last a quantity of flour , purchased from Mr . P . Regan , of this town , by a baker in Dunmore , was taken away from the carman in charge of it , at or near Killeen , by a party of persons who said they would not allow provisions to be brought into the interior of the country . The eatire of the flour was taken away , and no trace could be had of the perpetrators of the outrage . On Wednesday last , several cars coming into Gal way for provisions were stopped near Loughgeorge , and the drivers were ordered , under pain of personal injury , not to
proceed to this town . The carmen were obliged to return home . In the same neighbourhood , on the following day , a party of famishing and starving wretches attempted to prevent some carts , laden with flour and meal , passing towards Tuam . At an early hour yesterday morning , about forty loads of flour and oatmeal were about to be taken into the country , and on their arrival a little beyond the college a crowd had assembled , by whom their further progress was prevented . Mr . Kcrnan , the stipendiary magistrate , was immediately on the spot , and a party oi police , together with a company of the 49 th regiment . To sach an extreme had the threatened violence of the populace proceeded , that Mr . Kernan was obliged to r ead the Riot Act , but , as he assured the multitudes of the anxiety of the Government to afford all the assistance in its power , and that , in the course of ( hat d » 7 , measures would be taken for tbe relief of
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the people generally , there was no further attempt at outbreak , and the flour and meal were allowed to be brought to their destination . A letter from Oranmore , dated October 2 , and published in the Mercury , complains bitterly of the neglect of Government in providing employment for the poor , notwithstanding the dreadful destitution which prevails in that impoverished district : — "A very large concourse of persons assembled here on Thursday last—the Petty-sessions day—for the purpose of giving the magistrates formal notice of
their wretched condition , and that matters had come to such a pass with them that they could not longer remain without relief . . Certainly any person could see from the wretched garb and haggard and careworn countenances of the greater number oi them , that poverty and starvation had laid an iron grasp upon them . I have been told by several that they have been for weeks striving to subsist on one meal per day , and that of wet { and rotten potatoes . ; Is not this a melancholy picture of human suffering ? And yet the Government , unaccountably , shut their eyes in regard to it . "
FEVER IN TIIK COUNTY OP SHOO . The Sligo Champion contains the followin g : — Slioo , Oct . 3 . —We regret to state that fever is rife in Sligo ! thirty-two persons are now lying ill of this fearful disease in the workhouse , and in the town we have many bad cases . We attribute the prevalence of fever in the town to the want of proper sewerage , and to the unwholesome food the people are now compelled to consume . In the country districts fever is also very general , so that we are now attacked with both pestilence and famine . Truly this is , indeed , a much afflicted land ! It is rumoured , and generally believed , that a vast concourse of labourers are to visit this town upon Monday next , with the intention of demanding immediate employment . Of course tbe inhabitants of Sligo cannot procure it for them , and it is feared that disturbances will take place before the people disperse .
STATE OF THB COUNTY OF MAYO . The following is an extaot of a letter received from a magistrate of the county of Mayo : — " Nothing can exceed the deplorable state of this county . It rood be not procured , I fear there will be a terrible outbreak . This district ( Westport ) is generally tmiet , but this state of things ffill not long continue if the people are not fed . " COUNTY OF MONAOHAN . —BARONY OF TROUGH . On Monday the sessions for this barony was held at Glasslough . The business having concluded , the gentlemen were about dispersing when it was discovered that the mob had blocked the passage , shouting for immediate employment , crying " Down with road work , and up with draining . " The greatest detestation was expressed against task work , and they all seemed to think that it they were employed in draining the benefits would be double .
RENT DISTURBANCES IN TirPERARK The Dublin Evening Mail of the 5 th contains the following from a correspondent : — " Barrisokane , Oct . 3 , 1846 . " A Mr . Lloyd , having made & distress for rent , had the cattle removed to the pround in the village of Lurrah ; the cattle were bailed and returned to the pound-keeper yesterday , being the auction day , for the landlord to sell ( the tenant having refused to sign an adjournment of the sale , or make any terms with Mr . Lloyd . ) Long before the hour of one o ' clock , in the afternoon , being the time appointed for the sale , large bodies of men armed with stick * and spade handles , several with pistols , from different districts , the greater number being strangers , residing more than ten miles from the scene of action—were in motion towards the village of Lurrah ; and according as they moved along , they swelled their ranks by
pressing into their service labourers and workmen of every description ; aRd in many places on their route they made several respectable farmers and gentleman ' s servants leave their work , and join in their procession , and among others a very quiet and inoffensive dissenting minister , who was in the act of cleaning wheat for market , and resolutely refused to quit his business , when they immediately convinced him of the prudence of joining their ranks by a rigid application of an oak stick to his loins , from the effects of which he could with difficulty keep marching step with his company , Mr . Lloyd made no appearance at the time appointed , and the pound-keeper gave up the cattle to the owner amidst the enthusiastic cheering of the demonstrators . Tbe assemblage , consisting of upwards of one thousand men , filed off in companies , each district having a fifer playing some loyal air at the head of the party .
" The other demonstration occurred at Milford , the residence of Ralph S . Smith , Esq ., and arose out of the following transaction—Mr . Smith ' s grandfather made a lease of nine acres of land , part of his estate , adjoining the house of Milford , for three lives , at a nominal rent of a few shillings , to a retainer of his family . This farm passed into the possession . of a man of the name of Gaynor , who sublet seven acres to a person named Meara , at a rackrentof £ 14 a year . Meara , becoming embarrassed in his circumstances , and unable to pay the rent , proposed to Mr . Smith , within the last month , to sell him his Interest in these worn out seven acres , to enable him to emigrate with his family to America ; and although tho ground was so reduced by Meara , as not to be worth
one-half the £ M a year ( reserved to Gaynor during the term of his lease , now being for the life of one old woman , aged 12 ) . Mr . Smith gave Meara £± o for his interest and good will , and undertook the payment of the rent due to Gaynor . No sooner was the money paid than Mr . Smith received a Rockite notice threatening his life , should he interfere with the land , and requiring him to give up the same to Gaynor . Next followed an attempt , on last Sunday evening , to shoot his steward , and Mr . Smith being determined to support his rights , was preparing to plough the land on yesterday , and when about to . do so was informed that over three hundred men were on the land and its vicinity , the greater number of them armed , ready to oppose him to the death . Mr . Smith was then obliged to barricade his house and out-offices , and keep his workmen with their ploughs and horses within doors , and immediately sent an express to Colonel Dwyerwho was the _ next
, magistrate to him , and another to Mr . M'Grath the officer in command of the police in Bornsokane , informing them of the peril he was in , the multitude being within view of his windows , when he received a reply from the former that he had forwarded his communication to the police authorities in Borrisokane . Immediately after , an answer arrived from Mr . M'Grath , that he could not repair to the place of siege without a magistrate accompanying him . Mr . Smith was therefore obliged to keep his house barricaded all day , having been several times invited out , by the assailing party , to make the light shine through him . In the evening this party of demonstrators retired to their respective districts , making no concealment of their being fully armed prepared to meet any opposition . Mr . Smith is to make application this day to the authorities for a sufficient force of military and police to protect him for one day , while ploughing the land . "
At the weekly meeting of the British Association , a letter from Mr . O'Connell was read , reiterating his proposal for a meeting of land ; onls in Dublin . John O'Connell made the speech of ihe day , in the course of which he said , if the people were not at once provided with food , death must inevitably ensue , either from starvation or from the bullets of the soldiery . The government had already poured military into the country , but they should increase their numbers tenfold , they should deluge the country with blood or else relieve the distress . That was strong language , but the necessity of the case warranted him in making use of it . What man could guard his expressions at such a terrible crisis as the present ? It might be said that he was inciting the
people to violence . Fie cared little fur any such charge # for his conscience acquitted him of any criminality . He ( Mr . O'Connell ) did not know but at the moment he was speaking , the terrible scenes which , recently occurred at Dungarvan might not be re-enactinff . The English branch of the government , he felt convinced , were not aware of the extent of the distress . If the people were not fed , all the ruin and destitution that ensued would fall on the heads of those who refused to minister to their wants . There was plenty of food in the countryfoot ) , the produce of the soil . Was it not in the power of the government to buy up that food , to store it in depots , and let it out upon the market
when prices reached famine prices ? If they did not do so , it would necessarily be exported . The great thing was to check the starvation which existed . The people could not be restrained from violence if the government -were not wise in time—although , in matters of general politics he thought the present the best government that could be formed in England , yet still he thought that by their single act of not attending to the urgency of the Iwak distress—by the signal fact of their not saving Irish society from dissolution and the Irish people from death—thoy proved themselves unworthy of their station , arid ought at once to resign . The call would then be for Peel—for Peel , with all his hatred and aversion to Ireland—but Peel with bis supply of food to the
country . The rent for the week was £ 126 . The number of extraordinary presentment sessions convened by the Lord Lieutenant now amount to two hundred and thirty-six . The provincial journals are crowded with reports of presentment sessions , at which grants have been liberally made .
CONFLICT AT CASTLB CONNELL . Limerick , Oct . 5 . —Last night , a private of the 88 th regiment , and a civilian , named Gleeson , were shot dead at Castleconncll , within six miles of this city , during a riotous attack on the constabulary barrack , when the windows were broken . A draft of the 88 th , from Birr , en route , was billeted in the town . Colonel Maunsell , Assistant Adjutant-General , left Limerick this morning , to inquire into the circumstances of this untoward event . An official account of the affair was sent to the authorities at Dublin , and it is said that three lives were lost namely , one soldier of the 88 th regiment , one of the constabulary , and one of the country people . A anmtar of reports are current prejudicial to tho
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conduct of some of the military engaged in the conflict . . . . .. The Evening Freeman gives the subjoined cautious version : — . " Limsrick , Monday .-Very distressing accounts wore received this morning from Castle Connell , where a fatal riot took place last night , fh 8 accounts of the affray are very contradictory , but the fatal faets are . I fear , unquestionable , that a private soldier of the 88 th regiment is dead , shot , it is eaiu , by a random ball from a police carbine , a man named Gleeson dead , and another man badly wounded . The riot originated with the starving people , whose conduct under such circumstances should be regarded with forbearance .
EMPLOYMENT OF THE POOR . An important communication has been addressed to the chairman of the board of public works by tho Lord Lieutenant . It states that , acting upon the various representations which have been made to him as to the difficulty of finding in the greater number of baronies , " public works . " upon which it would be expedient or beneficial to expend money to the extent requisite to give employment for the people . His Lordship has come to the determination to authorize works of a reproductive character , and permanent utility under the following conditions : —
" 1 . The Presentment Sessions will estimate the sum which it may be necensary to raise off the barony for the purpose of affording employment . " 2 . They will alao ascertain the proportion of such assessment which , according to the last Poor Law valuation , may be chargeable upon each electoral division of an union , or portion of an electoral division ( if the whole shall not be included ) in the barony ; and they will obtain for this purpose , from the clerk of each I'oor Law Union , a copy of such valuation . " 3 . They will present for such useful and profitable works to be executed in each electoral division to the amount of its proportion of the assessment ascertained as above .
" 4 . In the case of drainage , however , and subsoiling , se far as it shall be connected with drainage , an undertaking shall be given in writing , and transmitted with the presentment , by the person , or persons whose lands are proposed to be drained ( being ' proprietor' in the terms of the act 5 th and 6 th Vic . chap . 80 , ) stating that the money so to be expended shall be a charge exclusively on the lands so to be improved , and be levied from the same , according to an award to be made by the commissioners , as under the last-mentioned act and its amendments . " Works so presented will be treated as if they were strictly " public works" under the act .
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At a meeting of the friends of freedom of opinion , convened by printed . circular , and held on Sunday , Sept . 20 , 1846 , at 212 , Brunswick-street , Wm . Brjan , Esq ., of Raheny , in the chair , Mr . P . Barry acting Secretary , certain resolutions were brought forward , condemnatory of recent proceedings in Conciliation Hall , which , after some discussion , were referred , for revision , to a Committee then and there appointed for that purpose . The Committee were further instructed to prepare a Remonstrance , which , for I general convenience , they beg to present in printed form , as follows : —
TO THE 'LOYAL NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION , THE REMONSTRANCE OF THE UNDERSIGNED REPEALERS OF DUBLIN . Whereas , the Nationality of Ireland is , of all thingB earthly , dearest to our hearts . To attain it ire have worked for years unceasingly—Cevotod our tune , our mienis , o » d our resources * and contributed by every means in our power to create and strengthen that great organiiation , which once astcmisbed Europe , and in itself almost gave to this country the place , and power , aud dignity of a Nation . Till lately we have reposed entire confidence in , and yielded implicit obedience to the Repeal Association , as ; henead of that organisation , the director Of its power , and the manager of its resources .
we arc fully sensible , that to differ with that body in matters immaterial , or not vitally important , would , in general , be wrong in us , and impolitic to the cause we cherish . But we are also sensible of the greater impolicy to that cause in the course recently pursued by the asaociation , and the still greater evils which must result from its continuance . We beg , therefore , respectfully to remonstrate with the association against the policy it has recently adopted . We beseech it to remember , that without freedom of opinion we cannot be free ; without freedom of discussion , itself is immoral and anti-national , and the teacher and exemplar of servility to a people too long ; md too grossly servile . We pray of It to change the system which has debased the Repeal movement into a war of internecine factions ; which has made itself contemptible abroad and powerless at home ; and which has flung Ireland again , iu her naked serfage , at the feet of her foreign master .
In justification of this prayer , we beg to submit the following as our matured opinions .
The " Moral Fobce Resolutions . " 1 st . That the recent resolutions , called tbe " Peace Resolutions , " however morally right or morally wrong they muy be , constitute a new test of opinion , differing from tho original rules of the association—that this test was not necessary for the legal safety of the association , and that it was introduced for the express purpose of driving from the national movement honest and able men , who disapproved of the conduct of the association in reference to the Whig government , and other matters , because they so disapproved . 2 nd , That the members of the association against whom this test was directed had broken no law of the association , had declared their adhesion to tke principle ! on which it was founded , had adhered firmly to those principles , and were perfectly justified in expressing their opinions , whether of dissent or assent , on every matter discussed in the association .
3 rd . That , therefore , the test is , as a test , unnecessary , and as a weapon of expulsion unjust , arbitrary , and destructive to the national movement ; and that , therefore , it should be abolished . 4 th . That , while we acknowledge the abstract truth , " u voluntary society can make laws for its own government , " we submit that the bar to delegation in Ir land , and the consequent representative want in the association , are reasons why its committee should have been more cautious in altering these original rules and principles to which , and to which alone , every member has , on his entrance , agreed , —and which were proved sufficient in the great aras of 'H and ' 41 for the legal safety of the association is a " voluntary society , " it is also a national one , —the committee of which has undertaken stern aud glorious duties , to he discharged for national purposes , and these only , —and to be guided in that discharge by judgment , reason and impartiality , aud not by arbitrary violation .
FBEEDOM OF DISCUSSION . 5 th . That in matters political we hold " Freedom of Discussion" to be a right—its protection a duty—its suppression a crime , Gth . That the association has suppressed free discussion in Conciliation Hall , in the cases of Mr . John Martin , Mr . Meaghtr , and other members . 7 th . That the Committee has suppressed it by arbitrarily and factiou 8 ly suppressing the correspondence Of members . Sth . That ' such conduct is directly opposed to the principles of the association , destructive of its moral power , and preservative ol the act of Union alone ,
rRZEDOM OF TBE PRE 33 , 9 th . That the national presa is our surest weapon for the regeneration of our country ; that to a moral struggle its support by the people is essential ; and that its freedom—in all lands a thing sacred—is doubly so in this . 10 th , That the association in its conduct towards the Nation , has made an attack upon the freedom of the rre 68 , more becoming a despotic cabal than a popular assemoly . 11 th , That the Irish peoplo owe much to the Nation newspaper , and that not , ' only in gratitude docs it deserves their thanks , but , as the sternest organ of national independence , they are interested in its support . 12 th . That the subscribers to the Repeal fund , whohave ordered the Nation , are entitled to its receipt .
13 th . That on these ground ! , of public liberty , public advantage , and public honour , the present resolutions by the society should be roseinded . TDK WHIG ADMINISTRATION . U . That an alliance with any English administration Which does not make Repeal a Cabinet question is unbecoming to a confederation which assumes US a Vital principle , that no foreign government whatever can fitly legislate for Ireland . TI 1 E COMMITTEE . 15 th , That the Committee , as the gowning power oi
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the association , has , in framing the moral force resolutions , in framing the resolutions against the Nation , in tho suppression of correspondence , &c , used the powers vested in it sincerely for the national good , or for other purposes ; if for the national good , it has established its incapacity , —if for other purposes , its dishonesty ; and in .-ither case , its unfitness to continue longer the govern , ing body of the association . 16 th . That not only has it thus failed in the discharge of the duties with which it is invested , but it has usurped other powers not vested in it by the constitution of the asRociution , viz . —the powers of declaring tlie expulsion or incapacity ot members . 17 th . —That , therefore , the present eomiaittee has forfeited our confidence , that it should he dissolved , and a new one elected .
18 th . And we further respectfully submit to the association , that to such new committee every individual should be declared incapable of election who receive ! a salary or stipend of any character from the funds of the association ; that a declaration of his duties , and his determination to perform them , should be submitted for the signature of each member of the new committee j and that such committee should receive and expend the funds , and publish the accounts of the association , in such manner , and at such periods as to it may seem fit . And whereaB , in submitting this , our remonstrance , to the Loyal National Repeal Association , we feel it necessary to d « clare our independence of all factious or personal motires whatever ; that we are impelledenly by the firm determination to nttain that which is dearer tons than all on earth besides ; for which we would gladly Bacrifi . ee all personal feelings and interests , round which are wo und the holiest aflections of our « oul—the National Independence of oub Natite
Land . William Bbtan , Chairman of Committee Patrick John Babby , Secretary .
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—^»^ THE CHARTER . IMPORTANT MEETING IN EDINBURGH . On Thursday evening , a meeting convened by the Chartist Association of Edinburgh , was held in the New Hall . Adam Square , for tbe purpose of advocating the principles of the Charter , and to prompt the working men of Scotland to take a more decided stand than hitherto in iha way of working out their political emancipation * Mr . A . Walker ( the chairman ) , in opening tie pro . ceedings , said that many would no doubt be wondering where the Chartists had been for some few years past , and what they had been about ; but without entering into any details upon these mattors . it would no doubt be more satisfactory to them to know what the ChartiBts meant to be after in time to come . It had been considered desirable at this time to collect into one fecus the democratic miad of Edinburgh , now that the apathy of the people was
beginning to wear off , and before the popular mind got filled with some other visionary nostrum which might prove fatal , for a time , to the gloriorious principles of political emancipation . Such being the opinion of a few old and tried friends , there soon rallied around them an additional number of the friends of liberty , wh ose opinion was that some organization should be entered into suited to tbe intelligence of the age . National associations were considered preferable to local ones , as beiog more popular and more powerful , and hence they unanimously agreed to join the National Charter Association of Great Britain . Now , a good deal has bten said about guns and blunderbusses in connection with the Chartists ;~ but ( as Paddy would say ) ' the devil a hit of a blunderbuss we ' ve got 'indeed , the most of you would no doubt give tbe preference to few bngs of potatoes and a barrel of meal . No , no : ull
the old wives and property . men in tbe country might rest assured that the Chartists wanted neither their lives nor their property— -allthat was desired beingthat the Charter b » made the law of the land . Now , the claim it a just one . By the constitution of Britain , representation and taxation must be co . equal . Let the Chartists all get into the same ship—let them pull the same way—let them clear their own decks—let them spread every inch of canvass , so that , on the firttbreeze of wind springing up , they may waft across the bar of class legislation . ( Cheers ) Let every quack be scouted ; let the CliartistB raise their voice 3 for themselves , for their children , and for tbeir country—for every Briton down through every age . Mr . Geobgh Mackat , letter-printer , then came forward to move the first resolution , which was as follows : — "That all men are entitled to an equality of political rights ; that the present system of class-legislation is unjust and unconstitutional ; and that immediate steps be
taken to secure its abolition . He said—Mr . Chairman , the object for which we are assembled is a just and a noble one ; and though our principles have been ridiculed and calumniated by the organs of titled ignorance and wealthy stupidity , we can console ourselves with the reflection , that there are among the advocates and defenders of our glorious cause , many of the brightest names that are recorded in the < bo"k of time ; ' and it our opponents can boast of their Pitt 3 and Castlereaghs , we , likewise , have our Washingtons , our Franklins , and our Buncombes . ( Cheers . ) Many imagine that our silence of late has been the silence of death , and that our slumber was the slumber of the tomb ; but in that they are mistaken . While they were engrossed with their feeble and factious agitations , we have been noiselessly adding iuuumiii < Js to our ranks . We have often buen stigmatised as malcontents—fellow who grumbled without a reason—disconted varlets—and so forth . But is
there no cause for this discontent % At the present moment , want and misery prevail throughout the Highlands and Islands of Scotland ; destitution every where abounds . Hundreds of individuals are entirely dependent on the charity of one man , who , like a god , holds witbin his hands the power of life and death . In England , all is not peace and happiness . There , the master manufacturers , instigated by the spirit of Mammon , have taken advantage of the repeal of the corn law , and , uader this pretext , have reduced the price of labour—at a time , too , when the price of food is on the increase . Is the condition of Ireland better ? Are the people of that illfated country housed , and clothed , and fed ? Is disease subsiding t The very contrary is the fact . There the people have reached the lowest depths sf moral and phy . sical degradation ; lower they cannot go , and exist . In
some cases , tbe people , driven to desperation and hunger , have appealed to arms , and , in the attempt to obtain food , have found a grave . The hospitals are crammed with diseased and famishing human beings . Is , there , then , sufficient ground for believing this country a paradise ? Some fondly point to it as such , though it ap pears rather an incarnation of demons than of rational beings . There is no effect without a cause . What is tiie cause , then , of the existence of this dreadful state of soeiely ? It is class-legislation . It is this which is the fruitful source of all ihe ills which affect the social and political condition of the people ; and until this monstrous absurdity ( which measures the souls of men by the weight of their money-bags ) be removed , all attempts to diffuse enlightenment , virtue and happiness
throughout the land , will prove unavailing . Why is this privilege—our birthright—withheld from us f If it is a jewel to those who possess it , is it not a pearl beyond price to us ? Ara we not men as they are ? Is not a labourer fed with the same food , hurt with the same weapons , subject to the same diseases , healed by the same means , warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as the merchant is ? If you prick us , do we not bleed ; if you tickle us , do we not laugh ; it you poison us , do we not die ; and if you wrong us , shall nut we revenge ? No!—interest and justice alike forbid it . Let us return good for evil . But let us persist in our demand , and never cease from peaceful and constitutional agitation , until we have emancipated every white slave in Britain . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Maekay sat down by again reading his motion ,
Mr . John Geant , letter-press printer , said , he most cordially seconded the resolution . It stated that class-Icgislation was both unjust aud unconstitutional . This truth , he had no doubt , was so self-evident to the meancapacity in the room , that he considered it unnecessary to dwell upon it , The political history it ! this couutry showed most clearl y that our legislators have been all along furthering their own interests , and that they have been sacrificing the welfare of the millions te serve that of the favoured few . Huw any measure will affect the condition of those who have the elective franchise—not how it will affect the millions of the unenfranchised—is the question too often proposed . Gentlemen , the working classes are now beginning to see their own interests in these important matters ; they are now beginning to develope their long dormant powers ; and nre at length determined to do something for themselves . In proof of this , they are comHning their efforts in forming
themselves National Societies , with various objects in view , towards effecting their emancipation . Chief amongst these stands the National Charter Association , which is destined to ameliorate the condition of the working population . Of late there had been extensive reformations going on which would yet do good to the people . But cheering as was all this , there was still the great evil of class-legislation , which steps iu awlman all efforts towards emancipation . However good ull our schemes are , we should never give up our . a « itation until we finaliy abolish this iniquitous system . It is that which constitutes the root of the evil ; and if we are to prosper , that root must ba avauicateu . He trusted that the meetl ing would cordially approve of the motion which had been submitted to them , nnd that they were prepared to do something tangible in this matter . He would sit down b y seconding the motion wh ich had been proposed , ( Applause . ) Motion put and carried uuani . mously .
Mr . Alex . GaasT . secretary to the local association , then proposed the second resolution , which was as foil lows : —•• That this meeting is of opinion that the only means whereby the political independence of the unenfranchised portion of the United Kingdom can bs se . cured , is by the immediate adoption of every means for obtaining the enactment of the People ' s Charter us the law of the land . " IIu said , that , in P r 0 , > osiii the People's Charter to the meeting , he was aware that he called up the fears of the timid portion of the community , who had a horror of everything ldemifted with hatin
w , genteel parlance , was ter med the " tuft-rag and iub . tail ; conceiving , in their wisdom , that such discussions must inevitably lead to such a state of things that a man could not go to bed without a dread of Uaviuj ? his throat cut by sonic uumon in the shape of u Chartist ; or the sacredness of his property infringed b y a general division ol'his acres , goods , and chattels and all this sanctioned and inculcated by an infamous document calUJ—Tko Charter . He verily believed those who most deprecated that document had never read it , far leni studied Us conttuto , What ato th « leading future *
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of this great measure of reform % First , It sets out with the importast principle , that political equality is tho birthright of every man , and that he only forfeits that right when !»• places himself in the position of a criminal ; second , Annual parliaments ; third , Vote by ballot ; fourth , No property qualification ; fifth , Payment of . members ; Bixtl » , Electoral districts . Some demur to the expediency of universality ot the suffrage , on the ground that the lower orders ( as they are pleased to designate the unenfranchised ) —that is those who labour hnrd and honestly for a precarious subsistence—are not intelligent enough to be safely intrusted with the making of those laws they are compelled to obey . Experience had proved the fallacy of this hackneyed objection . Thousands of educated men are abandoned and worthleis : and who ,
if education is held to be the best test of a man ' s fitness to make laws , rvould , in their , case , form as legitimate an argument against education being a test at all , aB the want of education in others . Tbe just exercise of the franchise is a moral duty : and the only essential re . quUite to its exercise i « exemption from all legal stain or blemish ? for , if w » seek for immorality , vf « neid not confine our rang * of observation to th « unenfranchised , He by no means undervalued the vast importance of education as an element in social and political progres . sion , but he aimed at establishing the proposition that the want of it was no argument to substantiate political robbery of any class in the state . Either a man has a right to the franchise , or he has not . If he has aright , then no Jesuitical or expediency doctrine can Justify the excommunicating him from tbe pale of legislation . It
sarourtd of barefacid and unblushing effrontery in these « rbo vaint go much about the necessity of education , and yet had themselves done absolutely nothing to pro . mote the spread of it among those nb » se ignorance they would affect to deplore . By the brijht names the 'lower orders' have added to the lustre ofgeaiusin all its walks , the great democratic ^ fact has been demonstrated , ' that God has made of one flesh all the nations of the earth , ' Judging by the past , the maBses m » j remain , for all that class-legis-latore will do in the matter for erer ignorant , unless , by their own efforts , they contest their fights , and poflse * s » fair control over thoge monies of tbe state which might be more intelligently devoted to the purposes of education than to the
build-Ing of palaces for royal horses and royal asses . A word as to property qualification . By the mere change in the v » l » e of property , a man who might be one day considered intelligent , and worthy of the suffrage * of tho community , may , in an hour or two , by » he slightest application of the magic wand of property qualification , be transformed into the personification of ignoranco ; and-« £ ee versa , a man may as suddenly emerge into the per . feet embodiment of an intellectual character , niio , th « previous day , had no legal pretension to knowladgs or fitness for the discharge of public duties . But if a pro , perty qualification fer the exerciie of political privileges be objected to , how would a religious teit do t Let us « es . A multitude of claimant ! at once appear fri the
pomession of the only true and unadulterated religion , who regard all who do not swallow their theological pills as unfit not only for this world , tut for the better part o £ the world to come . Myriads of churches and chapel , rise in every direction , with finger-posts , each of them stating that theirs is the only real-way to the heavenly country , and that they have no part nor lot with the damnable heresies given out in the meeting-house opposite ; and , out of all the confusion of creeds and cont ' esr ions of ia ' ith -with which the market i » glutttd . vrhicU of them would prove an infallible test to determine tho fitness of a man for the exercise of his political rights ! Are therenot good men of all shades of religious opin . ion—goodiaen , whocannotunderstand Euclid ' * Elements and who are unable to read the Moral Laws in the ori . ginal Hebrew or Greek—good men , who will never
believe in the divine right of kiogn or queens until ( as Lord Bolingbroke felicitously expressed it ) they ara born with crowns on their heads as cocks with their combs . ' ( Applause . ) With regard to annual parliaments , it might be stated that it was customary for tbe generality of business men to balance their accounts annually ; and no reasonable objection could be urged against the same principle being adopted in reference to the transactions between members of parliament and their constituent * ., Facilities would thus be afforded { or removing from office those who had betrayed their trust . As to the ballot , no one could object to voting on their principle who had no sinister or unworthy motives t « serve . As to payments of members , it was matter of surprise that this should he objected to , seeing that ^ ia this money-worshipping a < e , very little can be had with , nut payment . But this was not without its reason . A man when performing gratuitous services could find a hundred excuses for neglect of duty ; and , indeed , it was
not in human nature to expect undivided attention without proper remuneration for it . By the present political machinery , many valuable and efficient representatives may be lost to the country , who may be too poor to afford the entire ' devotion of their time to the service of the state without remuneration . And here stands out in all its depravity the gross monopoly of power and place by those possesied of the property qualification . Poverty is held to be a crime , and to unfit the most talented and the most gif ted of the advocates of huoaau . freedom to occupy the sphere which nature designed him for , because not p > ssessed of £ 500 a-year . But the aim of the property qualification is obvious . Corrupt men know that many a talented advocate of popular rights was poor and needy through devotion of principle , and , fearing to meet them on constitutional grounds , resorted to the expedient of making them show the coo . tents of their pockets , however excellent the contents of their heads might be . The propriety of equal electorial districts would recommend itself to all lovers of fair
play , who wish to give every man in the country his fall weight in politicel influence . The anomaly of a small and obscure borough sending a member of Parliament to represent 2000 inhabitants , while a town with a population of 20 , 000 could only have the same weight in tho political scale , was too flagrant an absurdity to require further illustration . The speaker concluded by calling upon his brother Chartists to cultivate habits of sobriety ; to devote their leisure hours to the promulgation of their principles ; and that the domestic . circle was not more the sphere of woman than was the political circle that of tbe man . Mr . Peter M'Intyre briefly seconded the resolution pro * posed by Mr . A . Grant
Mr . James Cribbes next came forward and proposed the following motion : — " That this meeting is of opinion that the system of organization adopted by the National Charter Association iB the best and only means whereby the spirit of th « foregoing resolutions can be effectually carried out . " He laid , that the meeting had given a just verdict against class-legislation ; the People ' s Charter had been brought forward , and on it also & just verdict had been given . As the rich and the poor were governed by ths same laws of nature , the same political justice ought to be meted out to them , He hoped they were determined to use all constitutional means to be free . Much bad been said , and continued to be said , about slavery ; bat certainly that was the greatest slavery which involved the dejjredation of the mind . When a man had the political franchise denied him he was en . slaved . ( Applause , )
Mr . Gumming , in seconding the resolution , said—That the suffrage was tbeir inherent and inalienable right ; and that to possess it effectually and permanently , fhey must be effectually organized and united . Without organization it was impossible to achieve any great object ; The spirit of poliical freedom was now abroad amougst the people , and beneficial results would certainty be the consequence . The meeting then separated .
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Having been honoured with an invitation to assist at the inspection of the corps of cadets of St . Petersburgh , by the Grand Duke Michael , previous to their departure for Peterliof , -we met on the Champ de Mars , in uniform , where we found the Grand Duke just entering the great palace . Two thousand five hundred young soldiers , composing the firat and second corps of cadets and the corps of pages , varying from the ages of ten "to eighteen , were drawn up in a hollow square . They were first closely inspected by his Imperial Highness , and then went through a number of evolutions in excellent order , the Grand Duke giving the word of command himself . After having niancouvred for two hours , they marched
past in quick and slow time , and returned to their different academies . The size of some of these future officers aroused me greatly . The Grand Duke kindly kept back four or five of the smallest to show us separately as curiosities . These little urchins weie not more than three feet and a half high , mere infants ^ nevertlieless , they went through the manual exercise as well as possible ; and on . beinj ; ordered to march , set off in every sense of the word like men , for each stride was the fall regulation Step . Aftev the main bodv of the young gentlemen had finished their manu « vres , cieht gam , worked entirely by cadets , were brought forward , and fired several dozen rounds while retreating and advancing , going through the entire exercise with great
pvecipion . rhe whole thing lusted about four hours , and was a very intercstinj ; and amusing ceremony , as these boy s played at soldiers with perfect exactness , and must be in every way prepared for the duties of their profession by the time they enter 4 he regular army . At Peterhof , where they went a few days after , they are encamped for some weeks in the neighbourhood of the palace , in order that their exercises may be conducted under the eye of the Emperor , who takea a great interest and pride in these tiny regiments . Tbey go through all the cvehitions of a regulnr army , and partakeof ; ill the toils and hardships of an imaginary war . They are wonderfully steady , and only one instance is known of these vouns gentlemen having failed in the
performance of their duty . Some years ago ,, a body of the smallest among them were drawn up in a hollow square , and charged by cavalry . They stood their ground' very well for some time ; . but when tho regiluiuit of dragoons got quite close to them , their liHlo iiciivis failed them , and they fiiirly took to their heels , scampering off in every direction . They were with difficulty brought back ; some of the officers present made them a speech , telling them that such was not conduct becoming the characters of the futnre officers of the Imperial army , and begged of them not to run away again . Thoy promised faithfully to stand firm for the future ; and certainly no soldiers could have been steadier than were " tha entire body that we saw inspected on the Champ dft i Mars . —Sfwkt ' t Si , DtKnlmrg and Motwv k
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REMONSTRACE OF YOUNG IRELAND . TO TBB IDITOft Or THB K « lTHEttH « TiE . Dublin , Sept . 28 , 1846 . Drar Sir , —Although the refusal to publish in the columns of the Nation newspaper , tbe address of four millions of British Chartists , honest mea and lovers of political liberty and free discussion ; yet I hope that you will publish the subjoined remonstrance to tbe Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland . It is . you may perceive , an exceedingly well written document , mild , and unassuming in its tone , and perfectly innocent of any political principle whatever . It is , however , what it professes to bea remonstrance . But the idea or hope that the O'Connell faction will act honestly , or that the hungry vultures of CONCILIATION HALL will forgo their grasp on prostrate Ireland , is perfi ctly childish . None but some good well-meaning boy could imagine such an absurdity .
The Repeal pledge at the Repeal Elections of 1832 was— " That any administration which would not make the Repeal of the Union a Cabinet measure should be opposed . " This is very different from the terms of the fourteenth ' proposition in the remonstrance . I am , very truly youra , Patrick O'Higoins .
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* . - ¦ :, THE NORTHERN STAR . _______^ October 10 , 1846
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