The Sun. — London, England, 1829-10-29 00:00:00

bINNE R GIVEN TO MR. SHELL BY THE LOUTH FREEHOLDERS. It having been understood that Mr. Sheil would attend the registry of Freeholders of Dundalk, it Was determined by a large body of Freeholders to give him a public dinner, in order to express the popular feelin g in his regard. Accordingly, upon Thursday last, he was invited to dine at Magrath's Rooms. Although there were only two days' notice, 119 persons sat down to dinner, of which up wards of 100 are registered Freeholders. Mr. RICHARD VERDON took the Chair. Mr. Sheil sat 'Ton his right hand, and Mr. Fitzgerslsl, of Fare Valley, who has given all his interest to Mi. Shell, sat on the left. After the cloth had been removed, the following toasts were giv en : " The King —who derives his power from the People." " The People." " The D u k e o f Cl arence an d t h e N avy. " " The Duke of Sussex and the rest of the Royal Family." " The Lord Lieutenant, and Prosperity to Ireland." " Our guest, Mr. Shell, and may he, upon the next racancy, represent the county of Louth." This toast was I received with loud and continued plaudits. Mr. SHELL sa id—Th ese p roo f s o f t h e popu l ar feeling amount to demonstration. There are up- i wards of 100 Freeholders in this room who thus pledge themselves to my support. The gentlemen to whom I am opposed will never bring to the hust ings as many voters as are collected here this night. But enough upon this topic. I throw myself and Mr. Bellew out of the scale, saying no more than this —that as the republicans of the United States, in the selection of individuals for office, uniformly gave the preference to men who had been contri butors to the independence of their country, so the persons who had signalized themselves in the achievement of the liberty of Ireland have some title to the predilection of their fellow-citizens. Whether I was one of those to whom the Roman Catholics of Ireland owe some obligation, it is for you to de termine. —(Loud cheers.)—The next election will n ut put your gratitude, but my deserts, to the te st. If you should repudiate me, I shall not conclude that you are thankless, but that I am s elf unwo r thy. B u t p utt i ng a ll consideration of ndividuals aside, (and I have, perhaps, ex ceeded the habitual limits, wide as they are, within Which the egotism . of a candidate ought to be cir cumscribed), let us inquire a little what cast of per t.ioris Ir e l and ought to return to Parliament.—( Hear, bear .)' —Let us estimate the qualifications of the trustees, by determining the exact nature of the mist. If the measure „ill work its own way, and the tide of circumstances be so much in its favour, that no sort of skill or effort be requisite in direct mg it, you will not deem it necessary to retain the mariners wh o mantled the vessel in tempestuous lime'''. Many a storm has been weathered, and we bave got th e s h ip within the lights, and beyond the bar, at last ; hut the V% heel is not yet to be placed in inexperienced hands, and you perhaps stand as much jq need of pilotage as ever. But I ought to abandon this cast of illustration. Plain things ought to be e xpressed in a plain fashion. How stands the coun try ? %lot has been done, and what remains to be accomplished ? The first que s ti on i s not very : ifn eldt to answer—the second is one w hi c h de serves the attention of the Government fully as much as it does your own.—(Hear, hear.)—l go back for a iliOn lent to the preliminary int e rrogatory. Wh a t & I s las been d one ? Th at w hi ch w i l l con f er everlasting 14r ne upon the man who has achieved it—conceive his tiatee in the sanctuaries of history—give to his mili tary reputation the consummation of a sacred and P a cific celebrity, and place him foremost not only an a • the benefactors of his country, but amongst 'Ho se who, by the inculcation of lofty principles, ‘ 8 " 411 have d eserve d we l l of mank i nd. That has been " n ne, Which, while it rescues the island and its peopl e from the imminence of the most dreadful of all dangers, and tears it almost out of the gulf of civil War, has also tended to impart solidity and perma nence to the majestic empire of which Ireland con stitutes so important a part. I might pursue this in• te crogatory, and the responses to it, but it is untie eaessarY• There is little n e ed of ex pati a ti on u p on w h a t ."asbee n accomplished, w ben seven millions of our fel 'ow-citizens carry in their own throbbing hearts the ele 14ting consciousness that they are at last in the poss eftion of liberty,—that their ignominious thral deal has be en s h a ken off, and that they have be e n exalted to the majestic level upon which, in the coatemplation of the law, we all at present stand. *-- (Hear, hear.) A far more important question re- Mains --what is to be done ? I said that this inter rogatory equally concerned the Government and the peopl e ; let me begin with the latter. To them I P r ietly submit that Catholic emancipation, by open ing the avenues of legislation, has afforded them the theyof d o i ng j ust i ce to themselves; an d t h at if In ' e Y feel n , th out of the enal e there arose abusesat which require p correction, cod those abuses ' Hot terminate with the cessation of their re it ft c all*e, but it will be indispensable to use mea tojes of great strenuousness and vigour, in order to euectuate their remova l. It i s no t necessary that I : 41 ,_ °111(1 go into an y l engt h ene d d e t a il o f th e ev il s Qynien remain to be corrected; it is enough to say, that if the people are truly solicitous for their re- M l n"al, they w i ll take care to put into Parliament o en who will at once be able and willing to co erate for this salutary purpose.—(Cheers.)—But e most important question remains. That the People will do what it behoves them, for they are seldom false to themselves, 1 make no doubt, but what part does it become the duty of the Govern tneot to perform ?—(hear.)—l have not unfre 'Newly had occasion to refer to the relative state of the Creoles and the Spaniards, as illustrative of that of th e I r i s h R oman Catholics' and the class who *ere placed in asc en d ancy a b ove t h em. Th e a ulnity has not as yet completely ceased, and it is Stated by H um b o ld t, t h at although laws were passed r the emancipation of the Creoles, yet they were ; •Ploperative, because they were counteracted ti v i a spiri t more power f u l t h an the enactments of , a G overnment, and rendered virtually void and of effe ct. - -(Hear.)—Let the men who hold the t T in s of authority, and who superintend the des ,;llleB of the nation, beware lest they should not li m a v it to embody in a wise execution what they tha: ° wisely and benevolently conceived, and th an it t eoder our condition more disastrous m a i - " w as before. Let me not, however, ,be mis to erstonil. I am not imputing any sort of blame tr an Y Memb er o f t h e l oca l government of this coun 07arbecause I am firmly convinced that the Duke Northumberland and Lord F. L. Gower are both actua te d by the best int e nti ons w ith res p ect t o Ire (Cheers.)-1 he r ecen t answer o f t h e L or d in Lieutenant to the Presbyterian Synod put his feel ,usout of all sort of doubt. Neither have %ye any 13 :e to discredit the assurances given by the mem p_rS of the Cabinet, and especially by Mr. Secretary e a e l) that Catholic Emancipation should not remain i _u_,ead letter in the statute book, but should be cos i:nu jilt° an effectual and practical completion. I " in u ylot disguise my own surprise and regret, that (.e the measure has been settled, some exceed ;,' u ntoward appointments have taken place; Mill nit er can we hide from o urse l ves th e f ac t, th a t a Yet up on t h e R oman Catholic has any of the 10 a nna of p atronage casually dropped. But al re`‘Toces oug h t to be made, and are made, for dif u.lties, and we reco ll ect that as yet a su ffi c i ent a e l ci d of gest a ti on h as not b een al l owe d to t h e t h e u vernment, to give the conceptions with which w e Y oct doubt are teeming birth.—(Laughter.)— ss _ do net mean to quarrel with men who have toiresseti themselves to be devoted to the good of th 'e and ' because, before the lapse of nine months, b oys designs with which their minds are pregnant t _ 4 te not been brought forth;—still I think it tine s _u, candour to tell them, and to warn the man to ri‘v.,lttorn the happiness of this great country is con d, that they must-1 repeat the word—that must give some practical proofs of their deter- It ation to give to t h e measure o f re li e f a sub , n r tial effect ; or els e a d eeper , an d darker, an d :1e formidable discontent will arise, from the l otration o f the nation's hopes, and men will "fl be found perfectly competent, and not at • all unwilling, to administer to the passions of the people that aeitation which they know so well how to apply. It will be asked of me what I mean perhaps ; toy answer shall be perfectly frank. The Irish Catho!ics expect to see an utter extinetioe of the ascendancy system. They expect that no prefer ence shall be given to men upon account of their re a ligion, in any profession or walk of life, excepting those which are associated with the religion of the State. They demand that all distinction between Cathac and Protestaut shall, in the eyes of Go vernment, disappear, and that neither at the bar, nor in any other purauit in life, any sectarian differences I should be remembered.--(Loud cheers.)—l repeat I that I do not attribute to the Government any deli berate design to perpetuate the system of exclusion; but I would strongly admonish them that they should have a care not to relapse into their former habitudes, and from either carelessness, or allowing the underlings of authority—men of red tape and sealing wax, to assume too much controul, and abusing of the official nonchalance of their superiors, to become the virtual, although they be not the os tensible distributors of the honours and emoluments of the State. Matters must not he permitted to go on in their old fashion. The political Pactolus must be diverted from its ancient channels, and for this end an effort must be used, for, if left to itself, it will continue to flow on in the course which it has won for itself. If lam asked what proportion of the pa tronage of Government ought to be extended to the body which is now no longer alienated from the State, but which cannot be strongly fastened to it except by the links which have human nature for their rivet, I answer that the measure of distribution should be a mean between the property of the party and the numbers and the power of the others.— These observations may be regarded as indicative of a great thirst for office on the part of those who made it their vaunt that they looked only to eligi bility. To this insinuation, so far as individuals are concerned, I pay no attention. I am not referring to individuals, for whether certain men be passed by, or others be promoted, is of little interest to the nation ; all that I intend to convey is the abstract proposition that, in order to conciliate a community which has been so long kept apart from the constituted au thorities, the impression that they are still under a ban, and that a fall at present exists between them and the class to whose level they have been legally raised, must be utterly effaced. Of this lam con vinced, that if the system of sectarian preference is to be still either purposely or from inattention al lowed to be carried away, the old animosities will be revived with greater force, and the Catholic body will look upon the injustice practised in their regard as embittered by the mockery of a valueless and abortive law. But let it not be thought that it is only by a just allocation of patronage that I conceive that the effect is to be given to emancipation: al though I have mentioned it as one of the ingredients of conciliation, I am far from looking upon it as the main one. There are many other measures which are still more indispensible. The education of the people, through the medium of the Catholic clergy, and a proper application of the Parliamentary grants for instruction of the peasantry, would lead to the most beneficial results; for while it would tend to diffuse better habits among the lower orders ;it would also attbch a powerful intellectual co-operation to the Government, by the honourable confidence which would be reposed in them. Many other means cf giving reality to Catholic emancipation might be suggested, but the matter which beyond every other deserves the deep consideration of the Irish executive, is the administration of justice. There are many per sons who imagine that whets the manner in which jus tice is administered is impeached, it is intended to assail the judge to whom it is committed. Nothing of the kind is intended. The Catholics in their complaints of what takes place in our public tribunals mainly object to the exclusive Protestant constitution of the juries. This is a great evil, because it excites sus picions almost as baneful as the actual impurity upon the part of those who ought not only to be above guilt, but above surmise. The Government are bound to adopt efficacious means to get rid of this source of matured injury. It will not be difficult to have it remedied in other parts of Leland, but in the city of Dublin it will require no ordinary energy and determinetion. The Corporation of Dublin is the seat of great evil. The power of nominating Sheriffs gives that body the appointment of juries, and thus the most important of all public tribunals where political cases are necessarily tried, is con verted by a ferocious faction into the means of per petuating their ascendancy.—(Hear.)—Lord Plun kett, when Attorney-General, had some experience of this dreadful domination ; to obviate it, he intro duced an Act of Parliament, enabling the law offi cers to lay the venue in the county instead of the city, and thus to escape from the corporation. But to the defendant there is no privilege afforded. Let men cavil as they will, I fearlessly assert it, and I am convinced that DO unbiassed men will contradict me, that not only is there a general conviction amongst the Catholic body that there is unfair dealing in their regard, in the nomination of Dublin juries, but that in point of fact a factions spirit influences their appointment, and men are often selected who are not only exclusively Protestants, but emi nent for the ferocity of their partisanship. What, let me ask, has Catholic emancipation done to re move this cause of deep and festering animosity ? Nothing whatever. The strongest political antipa thies now rage in the heart of the corporation. The sheriffs are compelled to pledge themselves to offer a periodical insult to the feelings of the people.— (Loud cheers.)—Witness the late orgies, in which the officer intrusted with the return of juries took so conspicuous a part. Is this system then to lie endured? Are the Government to stated by the passive spectators of those enormous abuses ? Will they allow the Corporation of Dublin to continue the arbiters of our rights, and to make their awards upon our characters, our properties, and our free dom ?--(Cheers.)—ls this Corporation to he per mitted to stand as a hold from which the Orange flag is still to be unfurled, as the emblem of an ascendancy which has been only nominally im paired '?—(Cheers.)—ls it—in the name of con sistency, of decency, of truth, and of honour,—is it from the Corporation of Dublin that justice is to flow, and in place of the pure fountains, to use Lord Mansfield's expression, from which it ought to be drawn, are its streams to be derived from this reser voir of the basest faction, which is to be kept as a cistern for foul toads " To knot and gender in ?"—(Loud cheers.) This system cannot be permitted to continue, or if it be, farewell to the good effects of emancipation. If the Government act with a strenuous sincerity in carrying it into operation, it will, before much time goes by, have accomplished a complete reconcilia tion, and achieved all the good which the prophets of prosperity had announced ; but if, upon the other hand, its spirit be not embodied in the measures of the state, and if it be not stamped upon the whole proceedings of the Government,—if it be not recol lected that the great 7,000,000 arc still the natural objects of conciliation, and that they constitute the people of Ireland, then, instead of an improvement in our condition, I foresee an augmentation of our antipathies, and a renovation of our national disasters. The consequence will be, that the Catholics, with out having been reconciled, will have acquired new means of enforcing their complaints. They will rally under their old leaders, who will have been fur nished with new weapons from the armoury which the Legislature will have supplied. They will enter again into the coalition,—not religious, perhaps, but Anti-anglican,—in which they have in their former organization so formidable a model, nor will they be in want of standard-bearers. Individuals who would, under other circumstances, be di .posed to adopt a different course, will be driven by the Government itself into the receptacles of intemperance. Those who believed they had escaped from the vast whirl pool of faction will be sucked back into the tremen dous vortex. There will the same appeals be made to the popular and religious passions of a commu nity, Whose power will have greatly increased, while their sense of their wrongs will have proportionably augmented. The peop!e will 1i ro'l that cm.ree'. pation has only given 'h. Incites of re‘ires;, and thr-: will be invited to its attain:nem. Ti;ey w'll then he taught that by admi,sion to the Howse of Com mons emancipation has only thrown open the door,. of the Augean stable, and opened the inlet by which the great tide of popular emotion is to he turned into it, and !;I: , Lirdened 'leaps of utxesei-nee are to be swept away. It is, then, for the Go,.ernmero to determine, for it depends on them whether they will excite those sentiments in the country, and raise up another and a still more powerful confederacy than that which had existed, and the recollection of which is sufficiently alluring to unite a second of the experiment, and let not the individuals be condemn ed. The latter only follow the public feeling : wise measures will produce amongst the people a dispo sition which would render the efforts of the roost vehement and adventurous politicians quite abor tive ; while injudicious and exasperat ilia . proceedings would for ce even th e m o d era t e into violent r courses. For my own part (for I should revert to myself ), if you shall select me to represent you in Parliament, you will find me always anxious to contribute to the pacification of my country, but determined at the same time to follow the dictates of our constituents. —(Cheers.)—On no other principle could I offer myself to you. I cannot select a better model than Alexander Dawson, and in fidelity to your interests, ' as well as in compliance with your wishes, I shall endeavour to emulate him. I need say no more touching myself than that my opinions are his; upon the question which occupies the attention of the empire, we have no difference. I should find it difficult to stand in the town of Dundalk, and . to bear the name of Roden in my remembrance, without being a zealous advocate of reform. It is in my judgment monstrous that we should be told that the 40s. franchise was justifiably abolished, but that the pious proprietor of this most putrid borough cannot be disturbed in his Parliamentary possessions. But I have trespassed at too great a length upon your patience; I thank you for the kindness with which you have listened to me, and conclude with the as surance that you shall always find me the devoted and enthusiastic servant of my country. Mr. Shell sat down amidst loud cheers. After Mr. Sheil had concluded, several other toasts were drank. The health of Mr. O'Connell was drank with reiterated cheering. Mr. Sheil pronounced a high panegyric upon the Liberator of Ireland. The health of Mr. Fitzgerald, of Fane Valley, was drank with great acclamation. He declared himself, in a short but emphatic speech, to be determined to give all his interest to Mr. Sheil. We have not space to report the rest of the pro ceedings, and we mealy state that Mr. Anthony Marmion made a very able speech upon Parliamen tary reform, which was loudly cheered, and that the description given by Mr. William Sheeran, of Major Frood, the agent to Lord Roden, produced repeated roars of laughter, at the expense of the worthy dis ciple of the apostle of Dundalk. CORK SPECIAL COMMISSION. On Saturday :norning the Court re-assembled to proceed with the trial of the other prisoners, against whom the Grand Jury had found bills, upon charges similar to those for which four were con demned at ten o'clock on Friday night, but upon the Solicitor-General's stating That the next trial must, if then entered upon, last unto the Sabbath, the Court adjourned till Monday morning. From the following question and answer between Counsel for the Crown and the prisoners, these trials are likely to occupy several days:— Mr. F. M`CARTHY—I would wish to know from the Solicitor-General, which and how many of the prisoners he may be prepared to proceed against on Monday, or does he propose to try them all to gether ? The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—It is, as I said be fore, my firm resolve to try the seventeen prisoners, and this determination has been strengthened by the result of yesterday's trial; but I am not now dis posed to say which I shall put forward first. As to trying the whole seventeen together, of course I shall not do so, as such a complication of circum stances would be elicited as would harass and per plex a Jury. I intend to classify them in groups, and so proceed until they be all disposed of. While the Judge was on Friday night preparing to pass sentence of death upon the prisoners then convicted, one of them (Shine) alone, of all pre sent, seemed to be reckless of his condition, and unmoved by what was passing. He tehemently exclaimed that his lawyers had not done their duty ; that he knew well that they had been bribed by the gentlemen at Doneraile, and that they had not pro duced any witnesses who could speak in favour of him. He then pulled out of his pocket some money, and began to count it very deliberately. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Earl and Countess Gower, at the Marquis of Stafford's seat, Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, from the Earl of Ssirrey's seat, Worksop Manor, Nottinghamshire; the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Howard, at their seat, Castle Rising, Norfolk, from Staf. fordshire ; Lord le, at the Brunswick Hotel, Jennyn-street, coin Ireland; William Campbell, Esq. at ditto, from his seat in Kent; Captain, Mrs. and Miss Harcourt, at Crawley's Hotel (late Cook's), Albemarle-street, from St. Leonard's; Earl Fitz_ william, at his seat, Wentworth House, Yorkshire, from North amptonshire; Captain and Mrs. Ridley, in Regent-street, from the Continent; Mr. and Mrs. H. Vivian, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Paris ; Edward Parratt, Esq. at ditto, from ditto; S. S. Prime, Esq. at ditto, from a tour; Mr. and Mrs, Garnett, at ditto, from Paris ; Lord William Montague, at the Berners Hotel, Berners-street, from the Continent; Vincent Biscoe, Esq. at ditto, from his seat, Hookwood, Surrey; the Rev. J. Raikes and J. Raikes, Esq. at ditto, from Gloucester ; Osgood Hanbury, Esq. at ditto, from his seat, Holfield Grange, Coggleshall; the Key. S. Halford and Mrs. Halford, at ditto ; the Rev. John Watts, Mrs. Watts, and family, at ditto, from Brighton ; Mrs. Warren, at ditto, from Seven Oaks ; the Rev. Mr. I'ayler, at the Bath Hotel, Arlington-street, from Kent; Miss Payler, at ditto, from ditto; Captain Western, at ditto, rom Bristol ; Col. W. C. Madan and Mrs. Madan, at Marshal Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish square, from Brighton ; Mrs, Batson, at ditto; Wilmer Field, Esq. and Miss Field, at ditto; J. Thelluson, Esq. and Miss Thelluson, at ditto. DEPA RTURES. Princess Augusta Sophia, from the Stable.yard, St. James's, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Arran, at their seat, Bog nor, Sussex ; Sir Thomas and Lady M'Mahon and family, from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-strot, for Brighton; Mrs. Col. White, from Warren's hotel, Regent-street; Sir Richard and Lady Phillipps, from Portland-place, for their seat, Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire; the Hon. George and Lady Georgiana Agar Ellis, from Spring-gardens, for their father's, Lord Clif den's seat, Roehampton ; the Earl and Countess of Sefton and the Ladies Molyneux, for Newmarket; Captain and Mrs. Ram say, from Dover-street, for Brighton; Captain Bagot, from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, on a tour; Captain Mickle thwait, from the Bath Hotel, Arlington-street, for Hants; J. Farrell, Esq. from ditto, for Cambridge; Captain Burton, from ditto, for Bath ; Captain Williams, from the Berners Hotel, Berners.street, for Northampton ; William Wood, Esq. and Mrs. Wood, from ditto, for Oxford; Osgood Gee, Esq. and Mrs. Gee, from Marshal Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square; Capt, Robert Lindsay, from ditto ; N. Strickland, Esq. from ditto. Viscount MELVILLE has arrived in town from Scotland. His Lordship visited the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday, at the Treasury. The Noble Viscount also transacted business at the Foreign Office. We arc happy to state, in contradiction to the reports which were in circulation last week, that his MaJEszr enjoys unabated health and spirits, The KING'S sight has been no doubt affected ; but this has happily not affected his general health. According to present arrange ments, it is supposed there is not much room for hope as to any probability of the KING'S visiting Brighton this year; but since one change has taken place, it does not seem very unreasonable to flatter ourselves that there may yet be an other. We happen indeed to know that scarcely more than a week back his MAJESTY gave personal directions that the baths in the Pavilion should be forthwith put into an efficient state for use, and that a person has been sent down from London in consequence to make the necessary arrangements. This seems at least to countenance the idea that his MAJ ESTY'S first intention is not entirely aban doned.—Brighton Gazette. Among the distinguished visitors by whose presence the Exhibition of the Society of Arts was last week honoured, were Mr. Secretary PEEL and his Lady; and it gives us pleasure to hear that the Right lion. Gentleman, who is a warm patron of the Society, was pleased to express his appro!iation in the highest terms. — Birmingham Gazette. F; TING INTELLIGENCE. NESS MIOZKET HOUGHTON MEETING. NEWMARKET, TUESDAY NIGHT. Ilanditap Sweepst.&,s far 2-yr-olds. The first race, as w, sta:cd in oar account sent from the r ice.course this afteruooo, was to be a false start ; the second rail f;:r the Sweer takes took place as fol lows, under a protest fr:oo . :Vr. H.:l,ion, the owner of Suf folk Punch Duke of Richmond's Aranda Mr. Wilson's c 2 Mr. Roberts's f. Mr. Thornhill's f 0 Lord Anson's Sister to Sontag 0 Mr. Batson's Suffolk Punch 0 Only two placed. Before the first start, the odds were 2to 1 agst Mr. Wilson's-3 to 1 agst Mr. Roberts's ; and 4 to 1 agst Aranda, Suffolk Punch not being is the bet ting. After the start, the odds became 2to 1 agst Suf folk Punch-3 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's (taken)-4 to I agst Mr. Roberts's (taken)-5 to 1 agst Mr. Wilson's —8 to 1 agst Sister to Sontag, and Nothing said about Aranda. The race was exceedingly severe all the way, all being nearly abreast till within 50 yards of ending, where they all set to work, Suffolk Punch looking well, till just at the finish, when he ran out a little, and came in last. Tlr others came in so lose that mine but the judge could have placed the horses. Aranda won by a _head. The case was afterwards brought before the Club, whu decided in favour of Suffolk Punch. Mr. Batson therefore received the stakes. Match-50, sous. a AT. Mr. Greville's Vortigern Mr. Pettit's Prue filly 2 to 1 on Vortigern.—A fine race, and won by half a length. The winner role by Arnull, the loser by Robinson. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each. Ab. Mr. Greville's c %Ir. Vansittatres Magawiska Duke of Richmond's Gtilnare Duke of Rutland's Oppidan Mr. Thornhill's Mariner Mr. Flinthatit's Anti-Catholic... ........ Mr. Bigsby's Navarin Only three were placed by the judge. 5 to 4 agst Sycorax-4 to 1 agst Mariner-6 to 1 agst Gulnare ( - taken)-6 to 1 agst Oppidan, and 6 to 1 agst Magawiska. Syc,rax made all the running, Mariner and Magawiska being close at his quarters; he kept a-head throughout, and won cleverly by a length—rode by Pavis. Fifty Pounds, last Three Mile of B.C. The winner, with his engagements, to he sold for 300 guinea, &c. Lord Clinton's b. f Duke of Richmond's The Alderman Mr. Bigsby's Aaron 3 The following also started, but were not placed by the judge:— Mr. Greville's Vortigern. Mr. Rawlinson's Pet. Lord Worcester's Maresfield Duke of Portland's Brother to Emiliuc. Mr. Headley's Blinker. Lord J. Fitzroy's Lancastrian. Mr. Maynell's b. c. Mr. Weatherley's ro. f. Betting-5 to agst Maresfield, and 20 to 1 agst the winner. Mr. Maynell's colt made the m tinning to the turn of the lands followed by Brother to Etnilius, at a good steady pace. The Whalebone filly then came out with The Alderman, and won very cleverly by two lengths— she was rode extremely well by a boy, named Joseph Moore, from Lord Exeter's stables, he appears under 10 years of ago, does not weigh four stone, and displayed patience and talent that would reflect credit on the most experienced—his riding created quite a sensation, which was not diminished when he replied to repeated expres sions of astonishment, " did you never see a man ride be fOre !" The Alderman was rode by Boyce. The winner was claimed for the Duke of Richmond. In the match between Taurus and the Miss Cantley filly, for 100 each, h. ft. the latter paid. In our quotation of the odds this afternoon, Ilrunswicker was, by mistake, put at IS invead of 20 to J. Without possessing any importance, the races to day gave general satisfaction from the close manner in which they were contested. The betting was very heavy. NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY At rERNOON. —The sales this week are unu,ually important, and have attracted many of the great Breeders from all parts of the Kingdom. This day's sale finished at one o'clock as follows: The Property of a Gentleman. Yearling Colt, l.y Polygar (own brother to Partizan).- . ._ Charcoal, by Sir Peter—sold to Mr. Theobald for 20 guineas. The Property of the Duke of Grafton. Borman, 3 yrs, by Pari . zan—Minuet--bought in-180 gs. Orbit, 2 yrs, by Centaur—Whizgig— ditto 94 gs. Gem, 3 yrs, by Wrangler—Coquette— ditto 46 gs. Yearlings (the property of Mr. Payne). Colt, by Blacklock—Tears's dam, engaged in the Bil deston Stakes, 100 sot's each, h ft; in in a Sweeps. 200 sous each, h ft; colts, Set 71b; if by untried stallions or out of untried mares, allowed 31b; if both, 51b ; P. M. ; nine cubs ; Craven Meeting and in the Derby, both 1831 —sold for 400 gs. Colt, by Sinoiensko—Sabrina, by Juniper—Selima, by Selim. (Mr. Arthur)-215 gs. Chesnut colt, by Blacklock—Pincushion, by Sorcerer or Williamson's ; engaged in a Sweepstakes 100 sow; each, h ft, Craven Meeting, 5 subscribers ; in the Craven Meet ing, Wednesday ; Bildeston Dinner Stakes, 100 sovs, ft, 11. M. ; and in the Derby, 1831 (Mr. Robinson, of Manchester)-100 gs. Ch e snut filly, by Blacklock, dam by Sorcerer (sister to Bourbon), grandam by Precipitate, Highflyer, Tiffany, by Eclipse ; engaged in a Produce Match with Lord Orford's Stays, by Whalebone (covered by Perchance), on Tuesday, in the Craven Meeting, 1831, D. M., 100 soya, h ft; and in a match with Mr. Shard's hl f, by Waterloo—Vale Royal, Sst 41b. each, T.Y.C. 100 sovs, h ft, and in the Oaks—bought in-145 gs. Filly, by Blacklock—Helena, by Rubens , grandam Sprightly,'by Whiskey; engaged in the Oaks, 1831 (Mr. Maher)-100 gs. Colt, by Tramp—Sister to Sultan (mare untried); en gaged on Tuesday in the First Spring Meeting, 1831, in the Underley Foal Stakes of 100 each, li ft, colts Bst 71b, fillies, Sst 31b ; then 3 yrs old last mile, of B.C. ; on Thursday in the same Meeting, in a Sweepstakes of 100 ft, colts Sat 71b, fillies Sst 41b; then rising 3 yrs old, untried stallions or mares allowed 31b, both 51b, D. M. ; and at Ascot is a 2-yr old Stake, 50 each, 30 ft, 16 subs, 1830 (Captain Roue)-100 gs. Brood Mares and Foals (the property of Mr. Payne.) Quadrille, stinted to Partizan ; produce engaged on Monday in the Craven Meeting, 1833; in the 19th Rid dlesworth Stakes of 200 soya each, for the produce of mares covered in 1829 ; colts Sat 71b, fillies Sst 4114 Ab. M. ; untried stations or mares allowed 31h, if both 51b ; no produce, no forfeit ; produce on failure to be de clared in 1830, July Meeting ; and in the Anson Dinner Stakes (Mr. J. Scott)-650 gs. Colt foal, by Partizan—Quadrille ; engaged at Ascot 1832, in a Sweepstakes, 100 sovs each, h ft, for the pro duce of mares covered in 1628; colts Sat 7lb, fillies Sst 31b, Old Mile ; in the Column Stakes, 50 sovs each, h ft, for the produce of mares covered in 1 828, colts Sat 71b, fillies Sat 41b, R DI. ; also, with 11 others, 50 h ft, to be void unless one of them run ; also, with 3 others, 100 h ft, to be void unless one of them run ; also, with 2 others, 150 It ft, to be void unless one of them run ; also, at Bi bury, 1832, in a Sweepstakes, 100 sovs each, h ft, for the produce of mares covered in 1828, colts Bst 71b, fillies Sat 41b ; at Winchester, 1832, in a Sweepstakes, 50 sovs each, h ft, for the produce of mares covered in 1828, colts Bst 71b, fillies and geldings Bst 41b, New Mile. (This colt was sold without these last two engagements.) Mr. Houldsworth-210 gs. Sister to Sultan, stinted to Partisan—Produce engaged in 1833 in the nineteenth Riddlesworth, 200 soya each, h ft; for the produce of mares covered in 1829, colts Sat 71b, fillies Bst 411,, Ab M; untried stallions or mares allowed 31b, if both 51b; no produce no forfeit; produce or failure to be declared in July, 1830 (His Majesty).- 330 gs. Filly Foal, by Whalebone, out of Sister to Sultan : en gaged in 1832, in a Sweepstakes, 100 each, h ft, for fillies then 3 years old Set 41b, New Mile, the winner of the Oaks to carry slb extra; and in the Column Stakes, 50 sows each, h ft, for the produce of mares covered in 1826, colts Bsc 71b, fillies Bst 41b, R M, those got by untried stallions or out of untried mares allowed 31b, if both 51b ; also with 11 others, 50 soya each, h ft, to be void unless one of them win at Ascot, 1832 ; in a produce Sweep stakes of 100 sows each, h ft, colts to meet colts, and fillies to r•.ieet fillies, and both to carry Bst 71h each, untried stallions or mares to be allowed 31b, if both 51b, Old Mile (allowed 31h) ; in the First Spring, 100 h ft, D.M., 5 subscribers, at Winchester; in a sweepstake of 50 cove each, h ft, for the produce of mares covered in 1828, colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 41b, New Mile, untried stallions and mares whose produce never won at the time of naming allowed 31b, but only one allowance (allowed 31b) ; at Bibury, in a sweepstakes of 100 sous each, h ft, fir the produce of mares covered in 1828, colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 41b, those out of untried mates allowed 31b, Last Mile (allowed 31b) ; to be sold with or without the last two engagements (Mr. I=louldsworth)-160 gs. Mares by Haphazard out of Web, stinted to Sultan (Count Halin)-200 gs. Filly, at her toot, by Merlin : engaged in the eighteenth Riddlesworth, 7200 soy); earn, I: ft, for the produce of mares covered in 1828 ; molts, SA - . ; Sat 411) ; Ab i4i ; untried stallions or mares allowed 311), if both Si!,. Also in the Column Stakes, 50 sore each, II It, for the pro duce of mares coverd in 1828 ; colts, Sst 71b ; Bst 41b ; R M ; those by untried stallions or out of un tried mares allowed 31b, if both Sib_No bidder. The property of General Grosvenor. Day Star, 3 yrs old, by Phantom out of Moonshine— bought in at 115 gs. _ _ Two year o;tl,L Chesnut filly by Little John, out of ShepLer,lcss's tbun, by Partisan out of Bizarre—sold for 17 gs. Bay colt by Phantom, dam by Young Soothsayer, grand-dam by Giles—bought in, 100 gs. Yearlings. Chesnut colt by Blacklock, dim by Camillus Offa, Dyke's darn by Beninghrough—bought in 100 gs. Brown filly by Troy; Troy was by Filho Briseis, her dam Darling hy Patriot-40 gs. Brown colt by the Flyer, darn by Teddy, grand-dam by Trumpeter-49 gs. The competition was very spirited for sonic of the lots. Two new matches have been made for to-morrow, one for 200 each, h. ft. T.Y.C., between Lord Vernlam's Brocard, Bst. 121 b., and Lord Chesterfield's Carthusian, Sst. 3114 ; and the other for 100, h. ft. last half of Al). M., between Lord Tavistock's Taurus, Sat. 71b. and Sir M. Wood's Rosar ,, , Sst. 411). The sport to-day, in consequence of the sale, was limited, nor did the stakes possess any intrinsic import ance. The following is a correct return : Subscription Plate of 50 sovs. T.Y.C. The winner to be add for 350 guineas. Mr. Dilly's Harold.... 1 Colonel Yates's Versatility The following also started but were not placed : Lord Jersey's f. Duke of Portland's b. c. Lord Exeter's Pers. Mr. Forth's h. f. Lord Southampton's Augur • Lord Egremont's Sister to Lapdog. Five to 2agst Pera, 4 to 1 agst Cobweb, 5 to 1 agst Versatility, 9 to 2 agst Sister to Lapdog, and 8 to 1 agst the winner. Harold und Versatility were in front all the way, the former winning very easy by two lengths—the ethers were tailed. The winner (who was claimed for the Duke of Richmond) was rode by S. Day. •Match-200, h. fr. T.Y.C. 9st. 71b. each. Mr. Greville's Glenfurlas Lord G. Cavendish's c 2 Even betting, a very severe race, and won by Sycorax— rode by J. Day, and Espagnolle by Arnull. Match—l 00, h. it. Ab. M. Mr. Gully's Trample 1 Mr. Stonehewer's Kildare Eleven to 8 on Trample, who won by a head, after a hard race. Kildare was rode by Robinson, and Trample by Buckle. The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE came to town yesterday morning, from tht-ir residence in Bushy Park. The Princess SOPHIA visited their Royal High nesses at their residence in the King's Palace, St. James's The Duke and Duchess left town in the afternoon, en their return to Bushy. The Duchess of CLARENCE came to town on Monday afternoon, and in the evening honoured Covent garden Theatre with her presence, for the purpose of wit nessing the performance of Miss FANNY KE3IBLE as Juliet. After the performance, Miss Kxstimir had the honour of being presented to the Royal Duchess by her father. The Duke of WELLINGTON left town yester day afternoon for his residence at Strathfieldsaye, Hants. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Foreign Office, by a Messenger, for Sir ROBERT GORDOIs", our Ambassador at Constantinople; Lord STuART na ROTHSAY, at Paris ; and Mr. Dewicnis, our resident in Greece. The messenger also took despatches from the Colonial Office for Sir FREDERICK ADAM, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—We are happy to hear that the Directors of the Royal Academy of Music have decided upon giving, this Winter, a series of Italian Operas, at the New Concert Room, King's Theatre (which has been lately Sued up as a Theatre. for this express purpose.) The performances will be under the exclusive Direction of the Committee, assisted by Mr. C. POTTER (the conductor of their Orchestra) and the Professors of the Academy. The sanction which was given for the performances at Brighton by the Pupils of the Academy has been withdrawn. PAPER CURRENCY.—We have now lying before us a thing, of which the following is a copy : " No. 0790. " Blaenavon, Iron Works, 9th Octr. 1829. "Messrs. Hill, Wheeley and Morgan, " Abergavenny Old Bank. " Pay to Self or Bearer, " One Pound for Hills and Wheeley, £1 0 0. John Saunders." This is an attempt to evade the Act for the Suppression of Small Notes; which, if net illegal now, we hope Parlia ment will deal with it as it deserves early next Session. We are informed that the part of the country where this note bears date is almost deluged with them, and that they are pretended to be issued " for public accommodation," forsooth. Our readers will please to observe, that the note is very like what in this neighbourhood is cdlled "pig upon bacon ;" and all we shall further say is, that if people will encourage the issue or circulation of such " filthy rags," they will deserve the worst that can befal them in conse quence. There are notes for 11. 10s. and 2/. as well as for 11.—Manchester Mercury. A New York Paper of the 30th tilt. gives the following comparative official statements of the amount of revenue and the value of exports and imports in the United §tates, from the year IS2I to 1526, both inclu sive, as a proof that the commerce of the country has been materially benefitted by the restrictions imposed by the new tariff. The writer of that article appears not to have observed that the causes of the progressive amelioration here exhibited must have existed long before the prohibitions established by last year's tariff had been thought of. He omits, however, to show the value of the exports and im ports of 1826 : Years. Revenue. Exports. Imports. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. 1821 13,001,477 64,974,38 9 62,585,124 1822 1823 ......19,088,433 74,699,030 • 77,579,267 1821 17,073,325 75,996,657 80,549,007 1825 20,098,713 99,535,388 96,340,075 1826 23,325,476 75,535,322 84,794,477 1827 22,606,290 82,324,829 79,484,068 1828 24,094,863 JAMES HAMILTON, AUTHOR OF THE " IMPROVED SYSTEM OF TEACHING LANGUAGES."-- The death of Mr. J. HAMILTON occurred in Dublin on the 15th of last month, two days after violent sea-sickness, and is supposed to have been occasioned by spasms. A widow and four children have to deplore the loss of their dearest friend and best protector ; while they have to thank the successful exertion of his talents and ardent zeal in the propagation of his system for the competence they inherit by his books. The names most distinguished for im provements in the art of teaching, since the days of As- CIIAM and LocKE, not to mention the living (as LANCAS-. TER, BELL, FELLENBERG, JACOTOL, PERRY, and others), are PESTALOZZI and HAMILTON. The former, by seeking to unfold the latent powers of observation, has done most of all educators, from ARISTOTLE down to OWEN, to effect a change in the matter of instruction. The intuition which PESTALOZZI makes the ground-work of education takes for its object, first, the individual, as consisting of parts and properties; and then proceeds to examine, in a never-ending succession, the dmdalean net-work of created things—the fittest instrument to call into play all " the faculties and slumbering energies of man." (" PESTA LOZZI'S Letters to GREAVES," letter 22.) The efforts of HAMILTON, on the other hand, have been directed to a great practical improvement in the manner of instruction, applicable chiefly to the study of languages. It is easy to judge of the value of his method so long as public opinion continues to require scholarship as the test of fitness for certain professions. Should that condition cease, the va lue of the liamturoNlA NI system will he of a different stamp ; it will have less of a commercial, snore of an in tellectual, character, regarded as affording ready access to the literary treasures of foreign nations and remoter times. We hope that time will establish that conviction of its usefulness which personal experience, in spite of pre judice, h as f orce d upon us; an d whi c h calls for this tri bute to the author's fame, as a man who risked his all to promulgate, in the face of long-consecrated routine, a bless ing to the rising generation. SPIRIT OF THE PlitiLlC JOURNAL 3. We gave two days ago the report of an ap peal from a bench of local Magistrates to the county sessions of Cambridge, on behalf of an individual who had been refused a licence to keep a public-house, when the conduct of the appellant was proved to be such as justified their Worships in rejecting his claim to a licence. With greater satisfaction we now present a case in which an appeal was broughtbefore the county sessions of Devonshire, when the decision of district Magistrates was reversed, and a second . hotel established in the growing town .of Tor quay, to the overthrow of a monopoly which had hitherto been enjoyed by a person named Poul ton, tenant to Sir Lawrence Palk, a Baronet of large fortune in that country. It appears that a confectioner, by name Merchetti, applied at the petty sessions for a licence, under which he might be enabled to open a second hotel at Toe quay, and was refused by a bench of Justices, among whom ; Sir L. Palk waa not formally act ing, he was undoubtedly in the room at the time, and witness to all the proceedings. It ap pears further, that Torquay had nil:kit . ) , increased within a few years, and at the period of ' Merchetti's application (and now) was more populous, and more productive of taxes, than Teigninouth, where several hotels have been opened : that Merchetti is a person ad mitted to be of unexceptionable character, and that the sole reason (or rather motive) assigned for disappointing him of his licence,was its being agreeable to the Magistrates resident near the spot that the licence should not be granted. Mr. Kitson, a Justice, is reported to have said, that " by courtesy the opinion of the neighbour ing Magistrates was relied on," and this com plaisance towards each other's personal preju dices or interests Nvas actually bandied about among their worships as a sound exercise of thy " discretion" vested in them by Act of Parlia went. But with this word " discretion" there seems to have been connected a curious medley of notions and sentiments in the minds of the worshipful Magistrates, and of their professional advocate, who ought to have known better. The question, quoth Mr. Crowder, the magisterial counsel—the question is, whether any undue influence had been proved (!) on the part Of Sir Lawrence Palk ? Indeed, the Worthy 13a ronet must have had a skull more adorned by the bump of o it iunduei f his worshipful influencee ol°;(si l(leis those )as etaln to withi place p:s lasithan against e thl eveniee whomnp the ave ragefg e t do l, fll - as 1 1 exerted. A u.OO whisper foledv at:o;lec evidence. s b w r \ o e%r t r li ld e a r t e J In. ouorsnyt nonsense, er z . : " proofs!" Wh y , t h e A uc t s t p h h o i s ' n t e l abt oof but that were proveable, were notorious, and ample. Sir Lawrence Palk's tenant was enabled to pay a higher rent for his hotel, by having a »monopoly of the whole fashionable prodigality of Torquay. Another person prays for a slice of the business, and the more distant Magistrates answer, " Oh, impossible ! for by courtesy (mark, not by law), the neighbouring Magistrate determines for those more remote from the scene under controversy." And who is in this case the neighbouring Magi strate ? Why, Sir Lawrence, to be sure, whose property, if not his person, is at Torquay. If this does not speak for itself to any man of plain un derstanding, the deuce is in the Act of Parlia ment, that is all we can say to the busi ness. Yet Mr. Crowder, good man, in the sim plicity of' his heart exclaims, prove undue influ ence, or there is an end of your appeal ! And adds this very alarming question—Whether the Magistrates are to have " any discretion ?" W e object to every part of the - view taken by the Learned Advocate, both to that affirmed in his proposition, and to that which his interrogatory supposes. There is, or ought to be, no end to an appeal, merely because corrupt influence can not be demonstrated. The object of the Act of Parliament was not confined to care for the de licacy or official reputation of country gentlemen. The chief solicitude of the law,—so at least we may assume,—is for the public. If a petty bench of Magistrates has acted stupidly or ca priciously, or even with good intentions has worked inconvenience to the community, and loss to a deserving individual, the County Ses sions ought not to make an end of an appeal, except by repairing the consequences of the ca price, or stupidity, by removing the inconve nience and redressing the wrong. A discre tionary power must not be abused through folly or incompetency, more than through positive corruption ; and a county bench of Justices ought to despise the shallowness of him who de precates their casting a reproach on the judg ment or sound discretion of particular Maps crates, which effect would be of less than no im portance compared with that of leaving either the public or the appellant to bear an inconve nience, for the redress of which time law has in stituted time valuable right of appeal. Iu this instance we are happy to find, that without eon descending to notice the trashy talk of counsel about corrupt influence, and so forth, the County Sessions of Devonshire reversed the monopoly decision, and established the appellant's case by granting him his licence.—limes. The account of the proceedings yesterday at the London Sessions forms an admirable com mentary on the objections which have been lately urged by some of our contemporaries to the en croachments on the liberty of the subject by the New Police. lii truth, we are altogether a strange people. We allow ourselves to be de prived of a hundred innocent enjoyments, for nu conceivable reason ; and while we are as patient as asses under real encroachments on liberty, we task our wits to discover in measures neces sary 'to the security of person and property, and therefore calculated to add materially to our hap ness and comfort, a possibility at some future period, and under certain circumstances, of being made use of in opposition to our liberties. We turn from immediate and pressing evils to evils of speculation. In applying for a music license for the Queen's Arms Tavern, Cheapside, Mr. Adolphus stated, that under the existing law, if at the London Tavern the Duke of York's band play " God save the King" without a music license, a penalty is inevitable ; and he instanced the case of Mr. Munns, against whom two ac tions had been brought because his daughter played the pianoforte in his house. Mr. Adol phus a o d o d 4 e b d y , a info t r a m i a n t a i ns had of tmadethis k b i n e d t conse quuence of the unfortunate communication which he had happened to make in that Court respecting the state of the law on the subject. exceedingly ei Mr. dstoo as shi to disclose t Adolphus osn(clit his ili characteristic. re; a‘o pic , ocsitf e etelwra e of English iocisipteliicecdir:aetini legi have sltally, ation is • the sub ject so un -and—unaatned • thus to he the means of drawing into effect a most inju ious and unnecessary piece of legislation—was; enacted on account of the robberies committed in Henry Fielding's time, in the reign of George the