Star. — London, England, 1830-04-10 00:00:00

• COBBETT AA'D THE COURIER. THE KING. It has been a subject of deep regret to temperate wen WIN E3U It, APRIL 9.—This forenoon the KING, RC • t lii parties, that an individual endowed with such :Le:l• co x IttPled by the Lord Steward, Lord and Lady Strathaven, and his Vti powers :is CORBETT unquestionably pos:. CSR'S, ail0::!ti b ow I. old suite, attended Divine Service in the Grand Music Room. stare disparaged his own great talents, and rendered his • The Bishop of Chieheitar officiated. The Rev. 3lr. Seymour as r stmisive inform .tion and vigorous intellect conaparativelY sisted in reading the lessons of the day, and the party of the private ..,eless to his country, by the instability of many of his band selected on the occasion performed the hymns and other pieces 4i:feta - Mee, and the manifest inconsistency of his writings. of sacred music appropriate to the day. Yesterday afternoon, at It is oulv just, however, and may not be unprofitable, to half-past two o'clock, the limo, accompanied by the Lord Steward, , Alit the gltr ing incongruity of one of his most ritu- left the Castle, in his pony phaeton, followed by part of his distin punitive censors—on points wherein it might fairly have guished avendants„ in another phaeton. His MAJESTY, on leaving Steen presumed that the servile creature of of had re- the Castle, proceeded by the Home Park and the private drives, by seined his instructions from his task-masters before he Frogmen: Lodge and the new plantations, to the Royal Lodge, presumed to utter an opinion of any kind. We are in- whets he inspected the improvements carrying on; and from thence slated to the vigilance of the Gl o be f or the exposure of proceeded, by the Obelisk, to Virginia Water and Belvidere, re the .. desti-tOicial organ," and thus we reiterate it ; turning by China Island, Sandpit-gate, Queen Ann's Ride, and ' merely premising, that the question—the Emancipation Sheet-street-road, to the Cattle, where His MAJESTY . arrived at 4 the Jeus —which has involved the unfortunate tool of half past five o'clock, and at F c yen o'clock honoured his distin- 1 power in this dilemma, its, in itself, of a nature to excite guished attendants with his company to dinner. Lord and Lady consuleiable suspicion as to the motives by which the Strathaven will have the honour of passing the Easter holidays with Cotiri.-r was actuated, in originally applauding a mea- His MAJEST Y. The Bishop of Chichester will continue his visit * iute, u Lich he has since received orders to condemn : until Monday next, and will administer the Sacrament with the On the 10th of February last On Wednesday last, the 7th of I:0 t'oarier said April, the Courier says— " 31r. R. Grant has given no- " Those who maintain that dee of his intention to bring in a there is a strong feeling in this !sill for the removal of the civil country either for or against the disabilities of the Jews. removal of the disabilities of the • If we could anticipate that Jews, are quite in error. The this question would be attend- country at large interests itself ed with any part of the vche- very little in the matter, and even menee, the Irritation, the devotion the party affected are not only of public men, and the absotn- divided amongst themselves on don of public time, which mark- the subject, but, as a body, are ed the discussions of last year, very lukewarm and careless we should view it with a feeling whether the proposition for their somewhat approaching to horror. relief succeeds or not. The • But we have far different fact, we believe, to be simply hope—and these hopes arc this i--The country has no oh. founded upon a belief (continued jection against the Jews possess. by the feeling with which the ing all the rights and privileges ;1 . 06:2 was received by the house) of subjects; and the Jews them. that the proposed measure will selves wish for nothing more. All occasion no excitation, and little they desire is the right and pri wosition. Parliament has vilege of holding their property, thought tit (whether rightly or and exercising the influence of it wrongly it matters not) to de- in the game direct way that we dare that religious opinions shall do ; and this no intelligent Chris no longer operate as a bar to civil tian is disposed to refuse them. rights, and has extended that The more exalted privilege of principle to Catholics and Dia- legislative and ministerial power semen—sects containing within is one to which neither they as. themselves the elements of ex- pine, nor we consent. The cere tension and encroachment. This monial clanship (if we may so call having been yielded, why should It), which would sacrifice any Jc I—a small, an inoffen. thing to preserve the distinctness rite, a decreasing body of people of their sect, indisposes the Jews —remain ex:laded 4 We can generally to identifying them. .cc no principle upon which selves so directly with us; and their continued exclusion can we, on the other hand, arc still, Le contended for ; and, on the as Christians, too zealous for .:ontrary, justice and consis. the uniformity and integrity of !envy call for the removal of it. a Christian constitution, to force That the Jews should be upon them a participation in its subject to civil disabilities, from management. Notwithstanding which all other natural born the Samaritan feelings of Mr. miticcts are now free, would be Grant, and the studied philan- IA absolute anomaly in legisla. thropy of Mr. Macauley, the opt 'ion ;it would constitute a stain nion we now give speaks more ond blot upon the mantle of tole. to the purpose—inore in accord. ration thrown by Parliament awe with the views of both par. over the religious institutions ties—than all their thousand of the country, from which we apostrophes. should wish to see it freed; and those who haw been most strongly opposed to the innova tions of the last tiro years, must, we think, join in this sentiment. "Our HEARTY WISH, there fore, we repeat, IS, THAT THE PROPOSED DILL MAY PASS, as a natural mid almost necessary rider to that of the last session." usual solemnity, to his MAJESTY, on tNundity. H IS MAJ ESTY, we are happy to state, is daily improving in health. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. The Duke of Dorset, in Harley-street, from Windsor ; Colonel and Mrs. Dickenson, in Brook-street, from Paris ; Captain Henry Baring in Belgrave-square ; the Earl and Countess of Wilton, in Grosvenor-square, from Grantham, in Lincolnshire ; Mr. Rowley Lascelles in Upper Grosvenor.street ; Colonel and Lady Francis Higginson in IVilton-creseent, Beigrave-square ; the Hon. Lady Murray in Wimpole-street ; Mr. and Mrs. Duval, in Park-lane, from Florence; Mr. Thomas Duncombe in Queen-street, May}- fair; Mrs. Theobold Hanham and Miss Hanham, in Hyde Park place, Oxford-street ; Mr. John Hope, in Green-street, Park-lane ; Lady Anne Ludlow in Green-street ; Major-General Sir C. Grant at Talke's Hotel, Jermyn-street. DEPARTURES. The Hon. Colonel Tynte, for Burnhill, Surrey ; Lady Georgians Cholmeley for Norton-place, Lincoln ; Lord Charles Somerset for Newmarket; Lady Hales or Hales-place, Canterbury; the Hon. the Misses Walpole for Hampton-court; the Earl of Abergavenny for Tunbridge Wells ; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scott Murray for Hambledon-house, Kingston upon Thames ; General Cameron for Brighton; Major and Mrs. Hustings for Brighton; Lieut.-Colonel Hill for Newmarket; Captain Gwatkin for Newmarket; Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair for the Grove, Watford ; Mrs, and Miss Dc Grey for Brighton ; Captain and Mrs. Egerton for Newmarket • Capt. Fitz- Clarence for Bushy Park; the Hon. Frederick Byng for Sussex. ...._ , r• This is " blowing hot and cold," with a vengeance ! On the 20th of February, it would be " an absolute ano maly in legislation" to hold the Jews any longer " sub ject to civil disabilities from which all other natural-born subjets are now free." "It would constitute a stain and blot upon the mantle of toleration, thrown by Parliament over the religious institutions of the country !" And on the 7th of April we are told of " the exalted privilege of Legislative and Ministerial " power to which they (theJ ewe) neither aspire, nor we consent l ►" What ! " We," (w a of the Courier,) whose" hearty wish" it was " that the pro posed Bill should pass, as a natural and almost neces 3ary rider to that of the last session,"—are now forsooth, " Christians, too zealous for the uniformity and integrity of a Christian constitution," to consent to any such mea sure !—Never let CO R ETT be taunted with inconsistency Again. MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE. On Saturday morning, at Aghada church, by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of CLOTHE, the Lady SARAH O'BRIEN, daughter of the Most Noble the Marquess of THOMOND, to the Hon. Major TAYLOR, nephew of the Earl of CHATHAM. On the 2.2 d of February last, at Florence, according to the dis pensation of his Holiness the POPE, by the Right Rev. the Lord Archbishop of FLORENCE, and afterwards by the Rev. EDWARD APTHORPE, in the presence of his Excellency the Right lion. GEORGE Lord BUROHERSH, FRANCIS Marquis BOCELLA, Che valier di COMPAGNE, &c. &c. to his Royal Highness the reigning Dukc of LUCCA, to JANE DOROTHY, only surviving daughter of the late Rev. HORACE HADIOND, of Great Blassingham, in the county of Norfolk. The Duchess of CLARENCE came to town yesterday morning from her residence in Bushy Park. Her Royal Highness attended Divine Service in the Royal German Chapel, St. James's, where a sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. KUPER. Countess MUNSTER visited ha Royal Highness, at her residence in the King's Palace, St. James's. The Royal Duchess left town in the afternoon, on her return to Bushy. The Princess AuoUSTA attended Divine Service yes terday, in St. Philip's Chapel, Regent-stmt. The Duchess of GLOUCESTER and the Princess Sonata partook of a dejeune with the Princess AUGUSTA, at her residence in the Ring's Palace, St. James's. The Duke of WELLINGTON inspected part of his MAJESTY'S New Palace, in Sr. James's Park, yesterday afternoon. Mr. PEEL left town on Thursday evening for Brighton, to join Mrs. PEEL. Prince Sw naTxtlismito has been settled at Paris during the winter; a leading in the fashionable circles of that gay metropolis. Miss r i cra n y, on the contrary, has been residing in the strictest seclusion in afrontier town.—Courf Journal. The Prince of ORANGE insists rigorously on frugality and hardiness in the education and bringing up of his sons. When the writer of this was at Brussels two years ago, the only food the Prince allowed them was cold beef and vegetables. They slept on a hard mattress on the floor, with no other covering than the sheet and courte-poink, even in winter. They were not allowed the luxury of gloves in the most inclement season, until one day of extraordinary cold, when the youngest of them had his fingers frosen, and serious apprehensions were entertained as to the cense. quences. From the recent proceedings of the Horticultural So ciety, , we are led to suppose that the members are anxious to cul. tivate the" passion flower" in all its varieties. The Magncos, who have got houses on the site of the late gardens of Carlton Palace, deem it quite degrading that John Bull and his " carnal," should think of claiming a passage into St. James's Park, so near to their superb retreats !!! Nothing can exceed the magnificence of decoration with which Lord HERTFORD has completed the internal arrange. ments of Dorchester House. The suite of state rooms is hung with crimson Genoa velvet, relieved with gilt mouldings and eneoig nures ; and the ceilings . sae profusely enriched with carving and gilded cornices. In the music room the ground of the ceiling is of gold, fretted with bas reliefs of flowers. Sir Jolt*r 111.ti.coLm will resign the Government of Bombay on the Ist ofJantiary next ; by which time the Earl of CLARE, who starts overland for that Presidency in August, will have arrived there. The Earl of CLARE goes to Mount-Shannon next month, and will remain until his Lordship embarks for India. There is no truth in the report of 31r. SPICING Rick's appoint. ment ; but it is now stated that the Hon. Captain Urrow Ilf the 60th Rifles, will accompany the Earl of CLAix u his Lordship's principal Aide-de-camp. PARIS, APRIL 6.—The AlAnGnAvv. LEOPOID, of Baden, upon whose head the crown has devolvid by the death of his brother, is thirty-nine yeaus of age. He is said to be an en , lightened Prince, of benevolent disposition, and a friend of consti tutional liberty. He was married two years since to the Princess Sorra* WitataLut /lA, daughter of GU/TAMS IV. ex-King of Sweden, who having, been educated in the school of adversity, com. bines with all the graces of her sex a loftiness of sentiment rarely to be met with. THE KNIGHT OF KERItY.—Mr. M. FITZGERALD succeeds Sir G. HILT., as Vice-Treasurer of Ireland. The Right Hon. Gentleman, of course, vacates his seat for the county of Kerry. There never ham been an opposition to the Knight in his native country, and his friends will once more have the satisfaction of witnessing the unanimous choice of the county of Kerry, in the return of a gentleman who has so many public and private %blues to recommend hint.—Dublin Evening Post. IRISH DISTILLERS.—At the last interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the deputation from the Irish distillers were attended by Mr. Pierce Maliony, as their agent. They pressed their case with reference to the proposed increase of duty on net rta with great earnestness, and with so much effect, that eons t i he intentions of the rifht hon. gentlem an will not be 'mamma in—particularly the applscation to the stock on hand. The inter. view with the Chan t lasted nearly two hours, after which the deputation waited upon Mr. Herrin, at the Board of Trade, and with this interview also, It is said they have reason to be oathhad. The Chancellor will communicate further with the deputation yam he shall have considered attentively the representations and stal► menu submitted to him. GAOLS IN IRELAND.—It is Curious to observe the difference in the value at which the prisoners have been dieted in some of the gaols in Ireland, as contrasted with others, and this dif. ference is the more remarkable, as the description of the diet is classed under the same head, namely, "mixed." Thus while the rate in the county Cork gaol has been fosse pence per bead, per day, it is so low as two pence hat/penny in Donegal, Leitrim, and Mo naghan; while in Carlow and Cavan it is sin the diest there, however, being " bread," it la 4 " o l 'ut A tf f e ital toll. SMITHFIELD BAY.MARKILT, Avast. 10. Cork, w h er e the sue is only Jour issumAra l iess. rbessimos Coarse Heavy 'Lowland Modeler Hap s AI is. so stlft IN Uoef• panties may, and doubtless can, be aeleepoed for; but they impost Meadow lity, 411 les. to. LI list Pine Wind Malin" L. to be very considerable, as net elm atetinalod for by the eye Grim MY. to AS Os. Clow Hay, Somers 46 Ard 4 /. variance in the market prices of t>tah ain the dillhnent parts of as in is. Eatraordinary- hie ditto s 41..- Os. Oat straw; At de.' the country.—Meretrag Register. .T.edi Gell In. Wheat Straw, OS p.. to h len per load 451461 Ni :c..)04,0• .'4Trof.:l desneowsuese e,tt', „ . , . %...J.lll 4,1 4031101041....; ifikET,W34,4l.ll LtAi Arit'llit.lP:b rev I aw!stir,.. , . Iwito sissia,xsaliritrob Unseen , ass ,,.. looctrate st :', At v. ylilanst A number of emigranta have shipped within these few days for Canada, on board the ship Margaret Balfour and brig Sprightly. Among those who have thus abandoned their native home for the wilds of Canada, were a great many families from Pertlii.hire—Disisdee Courier. NEW FARRINGDON NIAR.KRT, APRIL 10. There was a good supply at this market to-day. Lamb, which is now come fully into seam, was very fine. Prices per IL to the consumer. Baer—Fines! Roasting, 71. and . 7lcl. Do. Boiling, 4id. Rqual quantity of eacb, Sid. Rump Steaks. 9d. Rump of Beef, Id. Bert Steaks, 6d. Wausau Murrwo—Lag,7d. and 74d. Ilauneb, aid. and 7J. Saddle, 6d. and Sid. Loin, aid. Shoulder, Sid. and 6d. Neck, 544. Breut, 4d. VtAL—Les, 7d. and 7id. Fillet, pd. and 9id. Loin, eid Breast. hid. Shoulder, Sid. anal LIMN ilid. 9d. and eid. Nan, dd. to 7d. NEWOATE AND LILADENHALL, Aran. 10. There was an abundant supply of Meat at tine Markets to-day. By the earoaae.—Jar stone of Alba. Beef, 2s. ed. to 3,. 14. Mutton, as. 2d. to 41. 04. Veal, 3a. 04. to as. 4d. Pork, 2a. Id. to 44. 4d. Lamb, as. Sd. to 61. ad. • ST. JAMkrll MAT-MARKET, Aran 10. Coarse Heavy Lowbend 3/kodow Hay, 411 Ss. to AV 15s Useful ditto, 42 151. to 45 151. Floe Upland Meadow and By. Gnaw Hay, 44 Os. to 15 Os. Clover Hay, 43 101. to 45 51. At Straw, 13 44. to 42110. Wheat Straw, AIM. to /4 141. per load Q MI tresses. THE ARMY. WEYMOUTH, Arkin 7. In consequence of the election of a representative for the town of Ihnchester being fixed, on Saturday that distinguished regiment, the 6th Carbinetrs, was removed therefrom to this place. This fine body of men arrived here this morning, commanded by Major Ste phens, and preceded by their delightful band. Our numerous fashionable belles ar.d beaux contemplate many a high treat from the performance of this elite and wellappointed corps de musiciens luring their short stay with us.—Dorset Chronicle. On Moutt.v the head quarters detachment of the 14th Light Dra goons, under Lieut. Col. Townsend, left Leeds for Brighton ; they arrived Sue ea Tuesday and departed on Wednesday. They are to be succeeded by the 10th Hussars, expected to march in on the 16th Init. The 4th Dragoon Guards, under Col Rosa, have 9uitted York for Scodand , and the 3d Light Dragoons are on their march thither from this place, which they left on Monday and Tuesday. Their place will he occupied by the 10th Human. A Division of the 75th Regiment of Foot arrived in Devizes on Tuesday afternoon, on their roette from Ireland to Canterbury. The hea,l-quafters onliednnd ay wSre fixed for Ludgershall--a miserable villages few :piles this side of Andover. One of the officers, on being told that they would scarcely find a bed in the place fit to lie upon, replied, However bad it say be, it cannot be worse than re have had its Ireland." LIMERICK, APRIL 7. The hend.quarter division of the 75th itegiment, under the corn. nand of Lieutenant-Colonel England, sails this day from Cork for Chatham, winnee they embark for the Cape of Good Hope. Captain Stanway, Commanding Engineer in the Waterford dis trict, is ordaed to England on promotion, and is succeeded at Dun. cannon Fort by Captain Matthew Dixon, R. E. Major Broke, thc new Aaistant Qua rter Mason General, is ar rived at Cori. Lieutenant Nunn, 66th, succeeded lAent. Now lan, 73d Regiment, on the Recruiting Service, the 28th of last month, at Kilkenny. In consequence o 1 the high price of straw, the Commander of the forces has directed that the radon of that article to the horses of cavalry regiments in Ireland shall be considerably reduced from the ilth hart. The new Irish Constabulary ;Bill was read a first time in the Rouse of (;omnions Friday ee'nnight. Henceforward the appoint emit of the entire Constabulary force of Ireland will be exclusively in the hands of Government. the following officers in Dublin garrison have hones entered for -lac Steeple Chase at Ashburn next Monday :—Lord Crofton and 'tir• Bathurst, 7th Hussars; Messrs. Hankey, Ponssnby, Wods. haus4 Shcddon, Christmas, Thomas, and Shewell, Bth Hussars 3 1:ssrs. Rubbing, Lawrenson, Tongo, Sbeddon, and Williams, 17th L"lcat ; Messrs. Cletheroe, and Forbes, of the Coldstream Guards ; Captain Wellesley end Mr. L'Estrange, of the Vice Regal Staff; Leat-General Sir John Byng is appointed Judge. The Earl of llowth and Captain Sulivan are Stewards. The Earl of Mar has presented a petition to his Ma jestY, clAirnkg the titles of " Earl of Hellas. Viscount Fenton, and Lord DUhon." The King forwarded the petition to the House of _,Lords, sad their Lordships have directed the petition to be coml. " er ell by the Conunittee of Privileges. TRADE BETWEEN QI.TEBBE AND IRELAND.-.-Pre vious to 1812 scarcely one vessel cleared from Quebec for Ireland; and during last year, 1829, the number of:vessels that cleared for Irish poets was 234, the tonnage of which amounted to nearly ; 0 ,000, exceedi ng one-t hi r d o f t h at of all tbs shipping which left Quebec that year for the United Kingdom. A large portion of the wcisels thus engaged in the Irish :trade have been built in the pro. vincr...9idobee "apex. - CRIMINAL EXECUTIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. St n,—l presume to solici• the notice of the pah!:c. •hr nigh the medium of your valuable Journal, to o•tc of tint, t a!;!..:1 .aerie ee< of human life which have their origin i:t the reler savort:vn: cur criminal code. The case to which I refer is ti•::t JAMES BUTLEa, who was executed in July, ►art year. for setting tire to the floor cloth manufactory of Messrs. Downing and Co. at Chelsea. This man was convicted upon %hat is called eircurtsta n'irt tri dents, by which phraseology 1 understand. that when an individual is violently suspected of a crime, the lau steps in to construe facts and circumstances into an absolute proof of guilt. Such violent suspicion was attached to Butler; and upon the strength of it he was arraigned at the Old Bailey, condemned, and executed. During the whole course of the proceedings--from the time of his appre hension up to the last moment of his existence—Butler made the most solemn protestations of his innocent:. These aueverathas, I admit, are not always to be relied upon ; for it must happen, in many eases, that they are dictated by sinister and unworthy motives, rather than by the smart of calumniated innocence. But there was this peculiarity in Butler's case, that the asseverations were uniform and consistent; and were reiterated with a fearless confidence which one seldom meets with from a knavish and impenitent culprit. It is no wonder, therefore, that his friends made every exertion to pro long his life, in the hope that the truth might be elucidated. But the criminal law, which is as summary in its progress as it is relent. less iu its terrors, would not be cheated out of the victim which it had clutched ; and Butler was hurried out of existence while a thick cloud of suspicion rested over his innocence. An anxious desire to set these doubts at rest induced me to take up the case. I was always opposed, in principle, to the capital enactments in our criminal code ; but I confess that my antipathy rose into abhorrence as the light began to amen upon the subject of my enquiries. I almost shudder to tell you, that the result of these enquiries has led me to the conviction that Butler was WHOLLY INNOCENT of the crime for which he suffered. This conviction, I assure you, Mr. Editor, I Lave not taken up upon light or trivial grounds. I pursued the investigation under a full sense of the responsibility which I incurred by assailing the recorded judgment of a legal tribunal, and by holding up this branch of our jurispru dence In a very exceptionable point of view. I was sensible, too, of the obloquy and reproach which would fall to my lot fur standing in the breach between the law and its victim. But nelthcr of these considerations could over-rule my fixed determina don to probe the case to the bottom, and to publish to the world my unequivocal condemnation of the system, which wantonly sports with human life, as the wind plays with the thistle-down on the common. Whether the public will sanction the verdict, at which I have ar rived, yet remains to be seen. 1 have already made my appeal to their understandings. In a little work (" Criminal Executions in England," dcc.), which has just been published, I have aimed to es tablish the fact, that the conflagration of Mr. Downing's premises was occasioned by spontaneous combustion. I need not tell you that linseed-oil, tow, and lamp-black, are largely used in the process of the floor-cloth manufacturing; in addition to which, scrapings arc often permitted to accumulate on the floor. These substances' (quantities of which lay in Juxtaposition in the rooms in which the cottflayration fleet appeared) ignite spontaneously; and there appears to me every reason to believe, that to this spontaneous ignition the calamity may clearly be traced. The fire occurred under circumstances highly favourable to this conclusion. In the month of June the heat of the sun was reflected through the spacious sky-lights, and sash-windows, which being open at the time, ad. mitted a-free access of air. Of the:probability of such an occurrence, I have the testimony of two Chemists, of unquestioned knowledge and experience. That testimony has been corroborated by Dr. Gordon Smith (whose pro. fessional talents require no panegyric from me), as you will Ise by the extract from his letter, which I have taken the liberty to sob. join to this communication. I will not trespass upon your columns by referring to the ans. lysis I have given of the defective evidence upon which Butler's conviction was founded, or to the extraordinary circumstances which have come to light since his execution, and which go to establish the principle for which I have long =tended, that between the CT!. urinal bar and the gallows no opportunity is afforded for a deliberate review of the circumstances of the individual case adjudicated upon, or for setting on foot those enquiries, without which the suspicion must often be substituted for the reality of guilt. These points I respectfully submit to the impartial judgment of the public. Apologising for the length to which this letter has extended, Ism Mr. Editor, Your very obedient servant, ALAN NEWMAN. Bolton House, Queen's Elm, Chelsea, April 6, 1830. . EXTRACT FROM DR. GORDON SMITH'S LETTER TO A. NEWMAN. " I was present at the nisi of Butler, whose case has been taken up by you. I sat upon the bench near to, and for a considerable time next to, the Duke of Sussex, who also paid great attention to what was going on—from the time that Mr. Downing began to give his evidence until the prisoner was removed from the bar, exclaim ing that they had found an innocent man guilty. • • • • I had nothing whatever to do with the case : I do net know that I can even say with truth that any particular curiosity about it led me to the court. I went there to take whatever practical lesson on the subject of evidence any important trial might offer ; the testimony of medical men being a subject in which I have long taken a deep Interest, and which, upon several occasions, I have, in the same court, had the happiness to rebut, when erroneous. I say it, without the slightest desire to boast, that there are four persons now alive (and three of them are at large in London), who would have been hanged upon unfounded charges qf murder but for this interference; and all these cases occurred at the Old Bailey last year, in the space of three or Jour months ! • • To my dying hour I shall regret that I did not send a note to Butler's counsel, requesting him to examine Mr. Downing as to the nature and quantity of the mate. rials used in his business—as to the circumstances in which they were placed at, or previous, to the lime of the conflagmtion.—and to the attorney, to desire that some experienced chemist should be brought into court : or I might have been called myself to speak to the tact that certain substances, of a combustible nature, when allowed to lie in juxta.position, will ignite as a matter of course. B u t I was so convinced, from the evidence about the matches, the phosphorus box (or whatever it was) the positive statements con cerning Butkr's movements at the time of the fire, &c. that I re. mutiny] a mere observer. Nor do I new think that all the exertions which scientific flies, could have made, at the moment in question, could have done any good. The lad might have been saved had his counsel and attorney been in conference with intelligent persons of this description previous to the trial." -~-~,--- • PUBLIC MEETING IN DUBLIN, FOR 7'He REPEAL OF THE UNIOY. — T - - A society has been organised in Dublin, under the auspiees of Mr ()Co.' nell, tailed ;he " society of the Friend:. of Ireland- et ell religious ele: emirs.' a," which promises to he a new alal rroitti , : source of 4,:itation. They held a meeting the other dm, and adored the report ie the committee, in which arc arranged, under :trent,. fire brad., the national objects to be attained, and tile grievances to be redeemed, among which are the repeal of the Union—the repeal of the Irish malt duty—repeal of the duty on wets la:ported into lailluel —repeal of the Irish excise on paper--repeal of the Subletting At t—repeal of the Vestry 13:11—abolaion of the Grand Jury ;Laws—abolition of tithes, and new arranganteet of Church property —abolition of Corporate monopolies—resistance to the proposed increase of stamp duties—consideration of the whole scheme of the poor Imes, with a view to ascertain the propri-ty or unfitness of their introduction into Ireland—to discourage secret and illegal associations—to obtain a reform of the .ystean of pleadiegs and proceedings in Courts of Equity and law, and to preemie the eatablishntent of a cheap, expeditious, and intelligible ace, of pro cedure and jurisprudence—to procure a radical reform in the Rept:- Natation in Parliament—to promote the liberation of the slaves in Ourcolonies—nrd to terminate party feuds by a great rational corn. blnation of Irishmen of every class and creed. At the Meeting Mr. O'Cox NELL spoke at great le.tgrit, and skew the following contrast between Ireland with the Proe,:aut as cendancy in 1782, and emancipated Ireland in 1333. No country In the world is circumstanced as Ireland at this moment is. Her population equal to one-tenth of the free states of Europe, her sail keine and genial, her commercial resources (without which uo wealth can be useful) boundless, and her people merry, peaceable, and industrious. There is no country on tart!: wale' proeuces mom of the things with stuck man cannot dispense than tins island does, and no nation stands less in need of the aid, in any point ut view, of foreign states. And yet such a loecly country, blessed by Heaven, and prolific in every thing t h is useful or omainen ' sal to man. indented with harbours large enough to contain the ship. ping of the world, and protected from every wind, beautiful and enriched by nature—that country is the poorest and most wretched In the ciehized world ! After 1782 Ireland began to revive fast.— Villagee became towns, towns became burghs, burghs became cities, mountain'. became verdant, and the very bogs were turn e d i n t o r i c h and iodic plains—(cheers.) Oh, there was never know/ such a spring in any nation on earth as Ireland made in the slier: slut.t• of ten years. And what a ?melancholy picture does this extraor dinary land now present ! Trade at a stand, the noise of com merce hushed, the loom idle, the shuttle still, the labourer unent. ployed, the rich flying out of the country, the pool emigrating whenever and wherever they can, and typitto• fever taveging with deadly stride the provinces, desolating the cottages of the poor, and filling the mansions of the rich with calamity and mourn ing—(hear). This is not, I ant sorry, the language of ex.:ae ration—lreland has a heart bleeding at its very cure; those re sources which should help hat through the crisis are flowing fast away from her, and she is noutly becoming l i k e a bloat e d hectic-- animation is a lmost fled, and death inevitably must ensue if proper support and nourishment be not in time atfurded to the deelinie; State- - (cheers). (Another part of the Learned Agitator's speech is worthy of particular notice for the curious portraiture which it gives of the political character of the " Liberal" Representa- Seta of Ireland," and the avowal of the gratitude which he feels to. wards them for their votes in favour of the Roman Catholic claims.) %Veil, how is Ireland at this moment represented ? The Repre sentatives of Ireland are composed of two classes—one which is called Liberal, and the other anti-Catholic. The alai-Catholic member was returned solely because he vowed and swore he hated Popery ; and for this pledge he was considered a patriot by his party. This is certainly a species of political fame I should not much admire. (Hear.) The othcr patty of patriots are equally bad, and equally contemptible in my judgment. (Hear.) I confess I don't know which of the two 1 would prefer—the man al,. voted against me in order to get a mat in Parliament, or the man who supported our claims for the purpose of securing the interest of Catholics.—(cheers.) These men Frac us, like true patriots, their annual vote, and for this would claim our confidence and esteem—although I know that many of them we:c exceed ingly delighted at the defeat of the question which they pretended to support. These, gentlemen will, I suppose, feel greatly an noyed and astonished at what I say; but 1 have made it a rule always to speak what I feel; and I must observe that since I went to Parliament I received less support from Irish Liberals than from English Taies.--(hear, hear.) I feel it my duty to speak out—it is my political conscience to tell the people the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.—(cheers). The people of Ire land require a radical change in their Representatives. I tell 'he protestant. and the dissenters of the North it is idle any longer to isi ert Mum useless men a s their tatives, meetly because tile) say entertain poilthal to their catholic fellow-subject:— mil ee tbs sabellet et t and Munster I say ; " be re. WON the ar at Ilbetdameeamt no man as your representative who Le alit Ihine la pensive your interests, and the honesty to =lllelfee-(10m1 chasm.) This is the time for exertion, and big ; and the folly of supporting a corrupt or an iner tia/NA ive is, or at least ought to be, manifest to ever) mar in Irelaad at this moment. Ireland now wants useful, and active, and well-informed persons to really represent her wishes, and maintain her interests in parliament ; and the man is a rogue u. a fool who would any longer vote for an anti-catholic blockhead or alibaal knave. (cheers.) Several other gentlemen addressed the assembly —among the rest Mr. Lawestes, whose speech contained the following observations : I heard with great, but unusual pleasure, the eloquent picture lb . O'Connell had given to the meeting of the past sufferings—the causes of these sufferings—the inexhaustible resources, physicai and intellectual, and the cruel injustice with which these resource, have been beaten down and trampled upon. I have followed hint through that miserable history of humiliation and torture which the last thirty years exhibit to the eye and imagination of the world; but atter all the animated description—after all these eh:- Tient and pathetic appeals to the herd and heart of the meetins— how surprised was I to find in the teputt, which so elaborately give, us a litany of the grievances of Ireland, that the great, the para mount, the master grievance of Ireland is thrown down so low as the 21st allele, whoa in my mind it should ever hold the first place in :he contemplation and abhorrence of every Irishman. What matters It whether the coal tax, and the vestry act, and the subletting act, and the grand jury system, and all those minor evils be alleviated and softened down, when the grand master evil, the fruitful and primary source of all national calamity, still remains ? I will admit, for the moment, that every grievance enumerated by Mr. O'Connell, we struck out of the list by the justice and wisdom of the Le. &filature. Would all this reconcile Ireland to the Union, or stake atonement for the daily and hourly mischief which this ac cursed measure is bringing on the country ? Our Nobility and Gentry banished—our beautiful metropolis a collection of splendid MNalatimes—our magnificent mansions the abodes of poverty or abilil...ld yet that sapient ground-aud-lofty tumbler, 'Wetherell, lit egimented Mime declared, in his place in the House ut Caralecee, that he would consider it treason to propose the Re peal of the Union—acknowledged by all to be the fountain ut all calamity; but he was not heeded but to be laughed at Well, if the Constitution Is dead, the repeal of the Union will not bury I. deeper—we will, I say, go on in despite of Sir C. Wetherell, and make our appeal to the juz . tire, the common sense of hob countries, to put an end toe measure pregnant with injury to bleb. Mr. O'Connell has urged with great power the propriety an* ever obliterating from our memories the acts of our old oppo- ANL I agree with him • I *mat I shall have the honour of elides on the same benches with Orangemen whose talents and ohms station will be devoted to the regeneration of cur common memay. I trust they will see with me that we are all reduced to MIS common level—that sectarian ascendancy should be no the object of any denomination—and that Protestants, ies, Dissenters, and Quakers, and all other divisions to Christians, should maim common cause to recover for their country the station she ought to bold in the stale of surrounding rations - (cheers). This is the great and leading object of our Society ; ate( i am consoled by the reflection that the Committee you, appointed the last day of our meeting have presented a petition for the rapt al of the Union, which 1 shall read to you this day— (cheers). A Committee was finally appointed to submit a petition to the Society ; and thanks having been voted to the Chair m an, tke Sleet. ing adjourned. The Middlesex Sessions commence on Monday at Clerkenwell, the London Sessions on the folios ing Wednesday at Guildhall, and the Old Bailey Sessions on Thursday next. The calendar is unusually heavy, and presents • fearful catalogue of crime. 'llse increase of offences of every inscription is much greatir in the county of Middlesex than in the city of London, and the number of persons committed by the lord Mayor and Aldermen is trilling, as compared with the number committed by the county Magistrates. 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