The Middlebury People's Press

Irish Repeal.

A great—perhaps the greatest demonstration which has yet been made in favor of repeal, took place at Tara hill—a memorable spot in the early history of Ireland and its kings, and celebrated even in late years by the resistance which was made there to the king's forces by the 'Croppies' in the rebellion of 1798—on Tuesday last. All the accounts concur in representing this as the greatest of all the monster meetings.' The reporters of the various papers, whig, tory and radical, alike agree with O'Connell's description of this being the crowning gathering of repeal agitation. The day selected being a strict holiday in the Roman Catholic Church—the festival of the Assumption—all the ceremonies of religion were brought to bear on the enthusiasm of the meeting. Mass was celebrated three or four times before the commencement of the proceedings, and prayers were offered up for the repose of the souls of the 'Croppies' whose bones were mouldering beneath, and who fell, according to the notions of all present in the cause of their country. O'Connell's speech was in his best style—more earnest and impassioned, and less flippant than usual. 'I feel' said he, 'the awful responsibility to my country and my Creator which the part I have taken in this great movement imposes upon me.' We regret our inability to do justice to this speech, owing to the many demands upon our space; it is more remarkable, however, for the deep and subdued spirit of earnestness which marked it, than for any thing novel or striking.

This meeting has excited greater alarm on this side the water connected with the repeal movement than any former one—or indeed, all put together. The Times of yesterday has the most desponding article that has yet appeared in its columns on this now alarming subject of repeal. A crisis, it is admitted on all hands, is not distant.—Willmer & Smith.