... POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—TeE TRADES I UNlONS.—Yesterday a powerful-looking Irishman, named John Harrigan, was brought before Sir. F. ROE, the Reverend Mr. BusnY, and Mr. MALLARD, by Goddard and Fletcher, the officers, on a warrant, charged with ...

... constitutirrnal freedom in Ireland—when the Government had 120 , 0 00 armed troops—when martial law was proclaimed, an d . the wholesane and just laws of the realm were huihed amid the clash of arme—when every officer was a judge, a nd thattudge wag drged by a ...

... that period about 78,000 men under arms in trelpna. In 1799 the force amounted to 90,000, and in the year ot me » nion to 1 25,000. Those troops were not bad lookeri-on, -*nd were not brought in vain to Ireland. The arm) , -mployed in the service it was ...

... Richard Bulkeley Mr. Edward Lytton • Bulwer Mr. Calley Mr. Cobbett Sir John D arymple Mr. Daihwood Mr. Dick Mr. Thomas Dundas Mr. Esteourt Mr. Fancourt L•ud James Fitzroy Mr. James Grattan Mr. Hallyburton Mr. lieneage Sir Robert Heron Sir Alexander Hope Sir ...

... referresh to ~aos liw,, I Grattan. If any doutbt of the corruption of the Parliaienst inq~ I tion existed, it might he reiaoved by the testiienyt of thai t dual. If ever there was a witness above suspiciuon, that s was Henry Grattan. What did he say of that ...

... understood, be no imrnediate—the word is put in italics too— no immediate interference by arms. Now, as the Times stated yesterday, there would be no armed interference at all, either immediate or remote. This correction, of what was erroneously ...

... of the volunteers of Ireland. What were , the facts connected with that armed body, whose conduct throughout excited the admiration of the world ? Why, in the year 1782 an armed convention, consisting of the • heads of the volunteers, sat at the Exchange ...

... them, it ceased to be the alarm and became the admiration of all Eu- rope— he meant the general arming of the population. The object for which the arming had been resorted to having been accomplished by the solemn recognition of the principles of Irish ...

... no harm could result from armed associations in these times, and the people might be allowed to assemble in arms in Dublin now with safety. In 1782 the case was different. Then there were such men as Charlemont, and Grattan, and Brownlow to render a popular ...

... favourable as to induce the Irish people to wish to revert to it. To be sure the armed association, of that day was controlled and guided by such men as Lord Charlernont and Henry Grattan; but was it not just possible that if thelrish Parliament again took its ...

... them look a little further beyond Dr. Lucas's evidence to what Henry Grattan said of the Parliament after 1782, and he was a witness whose testimony was beyond all doubt. Henry Grattan, in a speech made on the 26th Feb. 1787, says— What has our renewed ...

... to contend against it; and accordingly it gave way in 178-, when the Irish people] not the Irish Parliament, observe, with arms in their hands, took advantage of a moment of England's debility to demand and obtained an amelioration of their con- dition ...