IRELAND.
Three of the Anti-Tithe offenders have been convicted at Tralee. There were four tried—the Reverend Mr. O'Sullivan, Jeremiah 0 Connor, Gerard O'Connoreand W. S. M'Carthy.
The trial commenced on Thursday; Judge Moorepresided, and the Jury was composed of nine Protestants and three Catholics. The Crown made only four . challenges. The indictment consisted of twentv-nine counts. Mr. Bennett, K.C., stated the case for the prosecution ' • Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Pigott appeared for %w - the traversers Six itnesses, all policemen, were examined on the part of the Crown.
The first, a sergeant, named Giles Sullivan' deposed that he saw Jeremiah - O'Connor, one of the traversers in the chapel of Ballyduff, on the ad of July. Ile addressed a large number of? persons assembled there, telling them that a' tithe sale would take place at Ballyduff on that day week ; that he would brand, with infamy any person who should purchase the cattle ; if a tailor, he might as well give up his lapboard ; if a publican, he might take down his sign. On' the 10th July, he saw J. O'Connor at- the sale ; where he heard him say he would rather his head was severed from his body than par tithe : he further ' said, those who paid tithe privately were real Paddy l‘Pliews, and should be marked out for public scorn. Witness deposed, that on a subsequent occasion' he heard J. O'Connor address the people in Irisl..
Mr. O'Connell insisted that the witness should give this part of his testi- mony in the mother-tongue, as well as in English • and he did so. The trans- lation was—" Brothers, do you know what the varnish of your tyrant's' cairiages is made of? It is made of the marrow of your shins." The Reverend Mr. O'Sullivan merely said, that the ministers would not giver up their livings as easily as the people thought, and he advised the people to be peaceable.
On his eross.examination by Mr. O'Connell, witness acknowledged that Jeremiah O'Connor also advised the people not to violate the- law.
Other witnesses heard the Reverend Mr. O'Sullivan advise the people not to pay tithes, but to allow their cattle to be sold. - • •
On Friday, Mr. O'Connell contended that there wa4s not a particle of evidence, • even supposing it to be true, to support the indictment. If the Anglesey Govern- • ment wished to torture the case into a conspiracy, he would demonstrate it to. Us a conspiracy on their part to trample on the rights of men who had the. courage to assert them. The moment the people got an -intimation of the leged illegality of those meetings by the publication of the Gossett proclamation,. through `the Tralee paper, the meetings were instantly discontinued. No st,vnger arge:ilent could be adduced to prove that they had no intention to con-, spiee against the laws. They readily gave up their meetings, although they had h::en held to petition the Legislature. . Mr. Woulh, on the part of the Crown, replied ; and judge Moore charged the Jury. After an absence of two hours, they returned With a verdict of Guilty against the two O'Cohuors and M'Carthy, but acquited the Revered- Mr. O'Sullivan.
In the course of Saturday, Judge Moore pronounced sentence. J. O'Connor. and M'Carthy to be imprisoned one month, and fined 101. each; G. O'Connor. to be imprisoned two weeks, and fined 101.
The opinion of O'Connell's law will suffer from the result of these trials. It is to be remarked that the Liberator -has never joined in an. Anti-Tithe meeting himself; this looks as if he • feared to put his opinions to the test. • Hunt and Cobbett, and indeed all the English. Reformers that we can at present recollect, have been always ready to lead the people. O'Connell contrives invariably to send his followers before him ; so that if their footing fail, he may draw back in safety.
The desperate affray at Moncoin, which still wears, from all the evidence examined, a very doubtful appearance with respect to the Po-- lice, is still under discussion before the Inquest ; but no new facts have been elicited, or old ones disproved. The only novelty is a letter from Burke, who commanded, to .Major Browne ; setting forth the affray in his way, as provoked entirely by the people ; whom, however, lie ac-
cuses, • cases not of actual, but of threatened violence, and in words only. This letter fully confirms the first accouet of the killed and wounded, though the pending inquest is held on only two individuals. It stood adjourned, when the last accounts were received, to Thursday the 25th.
An attack was made on the 15th instant, upon one of the Doneraile coaches, in which were several witnesses proceeding to the Assizes,- to- give evidence against the Anti- Tithe offenders. One man, named' Warren, the clerk of the Doneraile Petty Sessions was severely handled ; and at Killavullen the mob threatened to drown him. lie had presented, it is said, a blunderbuss at them. - On Tuesday evening, four of the Park rangers came up with a partY of men, one of whom had just shot a buck in a solitary, part of the Fifteen Acres. The keepers immediately closed With them, and the poachers took to flight ; upon which the former fired upon the fugi- tives; and one of them, a man named Fitzgerald, received three slugs In the shoulder, cheek, and bead.—Dublin Evening -Post.
A duel took place, on Tuesday sennight, near Sligo, between Mr. I, Wynne, of Hazlewood, and Mr. .T. Martin, candidate for the borough of Sligo. The original quarrel was between Mr. Wynne and a Mr. Scott; which, by the interposition of friends, was made up. On this original quarrel Mr. Martin had made, some . remarks, for which *Mr. Wynne • demanded explanation:; and beingrefused, the second quarrel was fought. The parties fired once, without effect, and were then interrupted by the.. Sheriff; and left the ground without reconciliation. There is some- - thing very Irish in all this. •
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