Monthly Chronicle.

the standard of rebellion . —The following Address from a respectable meeting ofthe County of Armagh to such of their Koman Catholic brethren as were driven from their homes by the late persecutions , will give some idea of the general sentiments of the principal part of the kingdom : ' Friends Brethren , and Fellow-Citizens , " " 'In this unhappy country , the designing emissaries of a venal and profligate Administration have , will ] impunity , too long scattered amongst us the seeds of disunion and religious persecution : they saw , that if the people were once

united in the bonds of social love and alleciion , that system of corruption , which they have substituted for the pure spirit of the Constitution , ti ould have perished forever . Hence , Brethren , they adopted the diabolical maxim , divide el imbera . In their hands the religion of the most High God , the spirit of which is peace , iove , union , and social order , has bv . ccr . ie the instrument of discord and bigotry — -of persecution , bloody and resistless . —We lament that infatuation , that ill judged and misguided zeal , which _ drove from their habitations many of our most useful citizens , and rendered our country odious to tiro world . From this moment we wish to bury for ever all religious contentions , and all animosities that may separate us from our fellow-citizens .

In the union of love , in the spirit of universal benevolence , we invite you , that are now forlorn and friendless wanderers through the kingdom , t ..- return to your habitations . At your return , you will find us united as one man , and ready to receive , without religious distinclions , our countrymen into a holy and religious and exalted compact . Our aim is to procure a Re . orm in Parliament , and Catholic Emancipation ; and to the attainment of these grand objects , our progress shall be moderate , yet firm—and temperate , yet irresistible . ' It is unhappily too certain , that the spirit of discontent is not confined to the

north of Ireland . The plan of association extends to the souih , and discoveries have been made that fill the Castle of Dublin with the most lively alarms . A noble Lord has detected-the steward upon a gentleman's estate near Bandon , administering the union oath to the tenants ; he apprehended him and his accomplices . Several thousands iu the county of Cork are said to have taken the oath within a fortnight , and the badge of Defenderism , a green cravat , had appeared in the streets . - It has extended even to the army . Two companies of the Wexford militia almost to a man have taken the . oath . ' The principal facts relative to the alarming state ofthe country our readers will find detailed under the head of

DUBLIN , API ' . IL 24 , T 797 . An alarm , we are to suppose on justifiable grounds , has reached the seat of government . The Yeomanry of Dublin have been called upon ; picquets from every corps , to the amount , collectively , of three hundred men , have , in consequence , mounted guard in various parts of the city and its liberties ; patroles are established ; tocsins are appointed at the Royal Hospital , St . Michan's , the College , and St . Mary ' s ; signal guns are stationed at the grand canal , Stephen ' s-

green , and the Barracks . An eight-inch howitzer , for throwing cannister shot , was on Friday taken from the arsenal , and pointed from the Armoury-gate to bear on the entrance by the ! lower castle-gate , while all the guards of horse , foot , and artillery were reinforced . There are at present five regiments of Militia and Fencibles in our garrison , each possessing two brass field pieces . May 1 . A very unusual crowd of people having assembled to attend the funeral of a man of the name of Ryan , from the liberty , it was judged expedient to order the military to disperse them , which was effectually done without the least

resistance on their pan . During the whole of last week a patrole of 30 men from each corps of yeomanry in Dublin have mounted in their respective districts , with thirteen rounds of ball and cartridges each man , and were regularly visited three times each night by a Field Officer . Parties of military , horse and foot , paraded the streets yesterday , and pulled down a number of May bushes . At four o'clock ihey took down one in Charles-.streei , about which a number of little children were playing , and threw it into the Liffey . A man named Peter M'Garry , in a state of intoxication , stripped himself , and went into the water to bring the bush out , and was drowned