According to the Castlebar Telegraph, Colonel M`Alpine, an extensive landlord,
"has, in the noblest spirit of charity, commanded his tenantry not to thrash their grain, or to dispose of it; and should they want straw to thatch their dwellings, they have it to get at his farm-yard."
A banquet in honour of Mr. Archdall and Mr. the recently dismissed Orange Magistrates, was given in the Town-hall Watson,f Enniskillen on Tuesday evening; the Earl of Enniskillen chairman. Mr. Edward Archdall was kept away by illness. About one hundred and sixty sat down to dinner, among whom were a great number of clergymen. The speeches were not remarkable, except one of a very fiery character from a Colonel Dickson. We string together a few sentences culled from this oration, which was much cheered— He declared that nothing but Protestant fidelity had saved Canada from the rebels under Papineau and Mackenzie; a service requited with indignity and insult. He warned the meeting that the worst consequences would follow if they tamely submitted to the reckless policy of the Government: at no distant time they would be obliged either to recant their faith or leave their ccuntry : their aristocracy would be prostrated in the dust and trampled under foot by a sanguinary rabble, stimulated to courage and fury by the priesthood, and led on, as the monster meetings, by their reverend and very reverend commanders. The result would be that their nearest and dearest female relations would be dragged to the confessional. Ent the men he saw around him would never consent to such degradation. No; they would form themselves for the fight, and go forth strong and beauteous, ranged with their "assembled powers" under the banners which once floated over the heads of their ancestors. He would advise them to keep their arms ready and their powder dry. God grant they should never have occasion to use them, but it was well to be prepared ; and come what would, they could defy Peel, O'Connell, the Devil, and all his imps.
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