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    1. 22-9-1848 From the Times
    2. Mary Heaphy
    3. 22-9-1848 Ireland. The Electric Telegraph Compamy's Express, received this morning, contains the following extract from the Dublin Pilot of the 20th inst:-. " At a late hour yesterday we received a communication from out correspondant, giving details of the meeting of the peasantry on the hill of Mealiff after the withdrawal of the troops on Monday. We are assured that the hill was covered with people. "An immense meeting was to take place yesterday at Drombane, and a gentleman who travelled that part of the country yesterday assures us that the Chapel Bells of the districts were ringing for the purpose of assembling the people. Other meeting s are spoken of in the district of Castle Otway, etc. We have heard that many of the persons at yesterdays meeting were armed. The guards of the train report everything quiet" Mary

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