The .Niwthern Whig observes, in reference to the Repeal gathering
of the province of Munster—" We, together with sonic of our contempo- rules, have given great offence to the Repeal journals, because we ventured to question the respectability and influence of the great Con- naught meeting; and the authority of the Dublin Evening Mail was quoted against us in triumph. It has been the policy of that journal to represent the Repeal agitation as being of a very formidable character, and to goad the Government into making a demonstration against it, with the view of causing Mr. O'Connell to attack the Government, so that there may be division, and consequent weakness. Hence the rea- son why the Connaught meeting was so magnified."
The Repeaters throughout Ireland are to be known by their dress— a pepper-and-salt coat, velvet collar, and repeal buttons; which garb Mr. O'Connell has already adopted.—Tipperary Free Press.
The Marquis of Londonderry having been recently applied to by the Newtownards Total Abstinence Society for the grant of' ground to erect a hall for the accommodation of the members, declined granting the ground, for the following among other reasons- " Lord L. has aided in every manner in his power the efforts made by Tem- perance Societies to establish sobriety and order amongst the lower classes of his tenantry. But he is not disposed to permit or aid any organized society to be carried too tin.; nor can he approve of the extent and concourse of people who have assembled in Ireland wider the specious pretences of Tenmerance arrangements." Part of the new barracks at Fermoy is to be converted into a Work. house for the Union. The sum of' 7,80o/, will, it is alleged, be required to effect the necessary alterations. The sum originally stated as likely to be called for on this account was only 4,4001. ; and the difference between the two sums has created not a little discontent amongst the rate-payers. A man named John Moore, who was convicted at the last Waterford Assizes for the murder of Edward Casheen, at Lismore, was executed at Waterford last week. To the last moment he protested his innocence; and on the scaffold he made a speech to the assembled mob, asseverating, that, "as he was about to appear in the presence of the great God, lie had never hand, act, or part in that murder : he had never touched a hair of his head ; nor had he ever received, or made away with, one farthing of that man's money. Four persons had sworn falsely on his trial ; but God enabled him to forgive them, and he hoped it would not be visited on their heads." He added, that he was neither guilty of this nor any other murder ; and he requested the prayers of his hearers. (The people hnmediately prayed.) The Reverend Mr. Larkin then stood forward in front of the drop, and declared his belief in the truth of what the wretched victim had just said, and expressed himself morally certain of his complete innocence of the crime for which he was then about to suffer. A letter from the Lord Lieutenant to a gentleman at Waterford
who took an interest in Moore, states that himself and Judge Perrin, before whom Moore was tried, had gone over the notes of the trial, and there was no doubt on their minds of the convict's guilt.
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