The Sun. — London, England, 1829-02-26 00:00:00

TRIAL FOR GRIM. CON. IN DUBLIN. .. _ . JuBLIN, FRB. 23:--The Court of . King's Bench is now occupied in the trial of a very singular case of Ciins. Con, which has attracted a vast degree of interest here, in consequence of the great novelty. of the-circumstances. The Chief Justice presides, and the trial is a special jury, of which Alderman M'Kenny is the foreman. The following is a brief narrative of the case, as taken from the statement of Mr. Sergeant Goold. The plaintiff, Mr. Coffee, is a calico-merchant, residing on ' Merchant's • Quay. In 1 - 813 he married a lady ramed Keane, who had been educated at Renelagh Nunnery, and by whom • he had three children, the, eldest a female, almost 'afters old. The defendant, Joseph Joy Magee, is a native of the north of Ireland, and was born in a little island called Port Magee. He is the nephew cf a very respectable Catholic clergyman,- the. s'sverend Joseph Joy Deane, who is master of a seminary at Blancherstown, to which place the de fendant was sent, at a very early age, for edu catifus. At the age of sixteen he was placed as ap prentice with an apothecary, in Bridge-street, with whom he served part of his apprenticeship, when, with his uncle's aid, he went to Edinburgh, where he obtained a medical degree. Shortly after his re turn he became physician to the Meath-street In firmary, and obtained some practice in his profession. Dr. Magee lodged at - this time in the house of the plaintiff, who, it appeared, had been very happy in his domestic state, and enjoyed the affectionate attachment of his wife. The defendant, too, was regarded by him with the strongest feelings of friendship; and when, in April, 1827, Coffee pro- Peed to visit his elder daughter, who was placed for educatioi at an Ursuline convent at Boulogne sur-Me,., Magee offered to accompany him, if he could obtain the means of -defraying his expenees:'. Coffee readily o9aserited to. give any ..money that would be required, and they both set out 'to gether. From -Boulogne-sur-Mer they repaired to Paris, where-they remained three weeks, and on their return " to Dublin, Magee pve Coffee a bill for 881; for the money lent; Tharbill, as well as another, had never been paid, and Counsel deemed it proper to anadelo them, in Order to shOw that' the kindness ,of the'plaintiff deserved better treatment at the hands of 4h e d e f en d ant t h an t h e se d uct i on o f hi s ,wife.. Oil the 3d April, 'lB2B, Coffee was obliged in e Onsequence of the dangerous illness of his brother, to Proceed to Castlebar ; and during his absence M agee dined tete-a-tele with Mrs. Coffee, took her ° "t iu the plaintiff's gig to see the reception of a n un at a convent in the neighbourhood of the city, and to the Curragh of Kildare, to see the races. On the last . occasion they stayed out till twelve at ni ght, when they came home dripping wet. They remained up some hours after, eating oysters and drinking launch. On' the Bth of. A pril - Coffee re turned, and, f rom t h e susp i c i ons regard i ng hi s w if e ' s fidelity, communicated to him by a male and female servant, and hi s sa l esman, G eorge T ay l or, al though be was unwilling to believe that he had been betrayed by 'his wife and his friend, yet he determi ne d on strict watchfulness. ON the 30th June, in the day time, Magee came iu, and ascertaining that Coffee was out, he went up stairs followed by Mrs. Coffee • The rooms of Magee were over the ware-reom, and Taylor, the salesman, who was in the place, beard footst e p s. over-head, and such a noise as in t-410a him to suppose that something improper was proceeding. Shortly after Mrs. Coffee came down, ,81Vateritly ." v er y muc h flushed ;" she was f o ll owe d . by the poctor, wh ose appearance was s i m il ar. Tay lor then went up stairs, and found Magees bed very !lineh tossed, although it had been made in the morn '7,9l. On Sund ay , t h e 20th of July, at night, aftet Magee went to bed, Taylor.sa w him coming down starts in his,bhirt and night-cap; he went into the P ar lour, where Mrs. Coffee was. Taylor was in the D' re- rOom,' and thro ug h a g l ass door' he saw the octor embrace Mrs. Coffee, when they both fell, sad vanished from his sight. On the Wednesday —l° lving,, at night,.Taylor again saw the Doctor e d ._ _ l iter the parlour 112 his shirt and nightcap. - Mrs. s ‘ ju dree . went up to • her - husband's bed-room, and — uitli _afteiwards came down s and said to the L'illtivnt s "'Upon my word and honour, Mr. Coffee iti tiattasteep, ' Taylor then saw them embrace, ' ' -7144 # 1 _ his further observation, be was quite con vineekthat.the act for which the plaintiff sought re- P ar lt, ti,"illa . 41 been committed . Coffee then obtained auttge vita, on. which Dr. Magee was arrested, and he has.sinee remained in prison. Mr. Sergeant %old c onc l uded by mak i ng a very feeling a pp ea l t o 414 ' Jury,, calling, upon them to show, by their verdict,. their' detestation of the shameless duplicity (4 the defendant, and their determination to punish a MM. whichs fortunately, was of novel occurrence hi. this Country, . L George Taylor, and sever a l ot he r w i tnesses, w ere 'll ,eifexamined. The statem en t o f t h e C ounse l was 4 1;borne out by the evidence. , 4 41 r. GS BENN E T T a dd resse d t h e J ury on t h e part Qt the defendant, who he said, was prevented by his Prittonmi- eta from using that diligence and inquiry . t w , h ich would be necessary to rebut a charge, the ;: n h of which he' utterly denied. Mr. Bennett then erirn v iewed the evidence, remarking that the proof of e • .. Malay rested solely on th e t e stimony of one wit 'si, the salesinnn Taylor. e p ll i s LOansnta then summed up at smile length; i re tn K n him si the Jury, a f ter con i u l t i ng f or a b out 12 mijiutes, i a n d ed.a verdict for the plaintiff,' —t/amages 1001., c ' - tt. - Di lI IINISHMENT OF POOR DEBTORS. - Or R 4 ' considerable time Alderman Wood has been h_Ned in aninvestigation into the state of the ' — 'l,6 l2t ors l Priso ns i n , and abput .the metropolis; and the keen eye has detected the most flagrant abuse of wh.Nwet - which the law gives to creditors, even ~°lutl the p a l try sum o f one • shilling is the whole 7 1 , 11 1 t due t o t h ep l a i nt iff . V ery f ew are aware of a „ t ha° been dev e l o p e d i n the course of this in t4en "kipticiii • and Alderman Wood jntends, the mo hav t t h e question of Catholic Emancipation shall e been decided, to. propose a measure tp the ter 0. Vstpmons, for: rescuing • the poor from poet otheartless and vindictive creditors, The b k i n c, l , instances of the effect of Court of . etest cases -have.-been represented. Will it b e believed, that a person whci - swears be . Le the CoMmissioners of the Court of Requests, another owes him a shilling, or a sixpence, is :40*ed with the privilege of taking his debtor in Veation and looking him up for twenty days jr!.. ;',... 4 iteeroBB:Str ' eCt . r hyery day presents in• t eell of this description. Alderman Wood as iitiained from the Governor and his Deputy, who is been acquainted with the whole of the preceed fOrP oases of the kind in-London and Middlesex tioi:oe last eight years, that at• the lowest compute bl,soo p ersons h ave b een i mpr i sone d annua lly . li tt 7 h itecross-street Prison fqr trifling sums, each es: 5 Z , ---that the 'majority of those were made e th 7Plea of from a vindictive feeling—and that boder creditors did not 'hesitate" to seize upon the N A , I " of their 'debtors, in the expectation that the 4i,;l,,e i tY for the Relief of Persons Imprisoned elfe" would come for Ward and satisfy the b c : : ‘• There are at this moment several poor la ei"3l; men in Whitecross-street Prison confined tae of t hem, for the sum of two or three shillings, e (1 041 P nees upon the execution being more than the amount of the debt. They are doomed by :Woe this probably ItniiVOidable want of means (1 10 : i vi ehV days of idleness, amongst several indivi tl4 s wito are accustomed to gaols; and in many cases t n°ral feelin g t o t a lly perisheS, and with it the sp ti t of industry, the enl secwitx tp the dependent c a ll ' at I P what is ..ergendies: . A.woman, who keeps .- et so a rally-shop (a shop in which goods are given li % Itch a week tO•thelower orders, and on which p 44 1 2 of 100 per cent. is received) near the East rlouse, has sent'a &eat number of labourers I % Rs : i ll'the Hon. Colupany!s Stores to White- I treet. Prison. Z, m ost cases th e i n e v it a ble effect of thus depriv 'Le Poor l a b ourer of h i s l ib erty i s d rea df u l . Th e his t tlhis Means of subsistence is stopped, off go and child ren to th e workhouse, and a new scene of wretchedness is disclosed to the unhappy family. When hii twf , .t.y.cia-r; Jiave expired, he leaves the prison, .:Lice of a liveli hood without slivriiir liarol, fur -it, With regret, to look for employincii! witl4 . till the pioipects of f-t al Va. . . tion before him. following is the sum of pu nishment annexed to the crime oe owing Money to a creditor who takes his debtor in execution :--- . . Confinement. Debtors who owe under I/. - 20 days Do. who owe ender 2/. and above 2L 40 days • Do. who ewe under 3/. and aboKe 21 60 days Do. who owe under 5/. and above 31 10(1 days As far as can be. accomplished in this most in commodious of prisons, a classification has been 'Made—that is, the refractory and those who are known to be bad characters, are kept distinct from those who are not known to have blemishes upon their names. It is difficult to attempt to do any thing of this kind, but within the last few months there has been adopted a sort of friendly dis c ipline, which is likely to prove most advantageous to the prisoners. The expence arising from the arrests in execution to the Corporation, who solely support Whitecross street Prison, is considerable. Each of the unfor tunate fellows who are locked up for a shilling or two costs the City of London half a crown a-week, so that a double penalty is inflicted for inability to liquidate a debt of a shilling; twenty days' impri sOnment to the offender, and 7s. Gd. fine upon the Corporation. Too much praise cannot be given to a man who uses every effort to draw public atten tion to so injurious a system. Alderman• Wood has ascertained that the tally-shops, by giving credit to poor labourers, have crowds of them in constant dread of being arrested, and that the articles fur. nished to them could, often be purchased with ready money for one quarter of the money demanded and screwed but of then:). LIVERPOOL, FEB. 24.—Our Cotton market continues very dull, and the sales to-day do not amount to 1,000 bags. CHARACTER OF IRISH SOLDIERS.—I must confess I do love to be on duty or any kind of service with the Irish. There is a promptness to obey, a hilarity, a cheerful obedience, a willingness to act, which I have rarely met with in any other body of men ; but whether in this particular case, those qualifications have been in. - killed into them by the rigid discipline of their corps, I know not, or whether these are characteristics of the Irish nation : but I have also observed -in that corps (I mean the Sith Regiment, or Prince's Own Irish) a degree of liberality among the men I have never seen in any other corps ; a willingness to share their crust and drop on service with their comrades ; and an indescribable readiness in obliging and accommodating each other ; and an anxiety to serve each other, and to hide each other's faults. In the corps there was a unity I have neverseen in any other; and as for fighting, they were very devils. During the Peninsular war, some General Officer observed to the Duke of Wellington how unsteadily that corps marched. The Noble Duke replied, « Yes, General, they do, indeed ; but they fight like devils." In some situations they are, per 'haps, too impetuous; but if I know any thing of the ser vice, this is 'a fault on the right side ; and what at this moment was thought rashness and madness, has gained England many a glorious vietury.—Shipp's Memoirs. MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE.--Yesterday (Friday) evening, between the hours of four and five, a gentleman walking along the Queensferry road observed, just at the farm-house where the road from the Corstor plane-bill, crosses it in the direction of Stockbridge, a hackney coach suddenly pull up, and a female demand immediate release. This being denied, an elegantly formed young woman, babited in the most fashionable attire, sprung from the vehicle, clambered ever the dike at the foot-path, and plunged into the ploughed field to the eastward. A honnat, handsome shawl, and veil, were immediately thrown out after her ; but they were disregarded, and left in the mud, when the coach man, and another man on the dickey, who in vain endeavoured to prevail on the young lady to re-assume her seat, picked up the rejected articles, and put them into the carriage. While this was passing, another female who retained her place inside, sedulously attempted to conceal herself. In the meantime, the chaise drove off. The unfortunate girl paced the field, wring ing her hands, and giving vent to other symptoms of grief. Several persons beheld her from a distance, but no one ventured near her. We are ourselves inclined to believe this an attempt of some infamous procuress to de bauch an unfortunate country girl. Be this at it may, we are afraid, unless the poor creature in question had been relieved by some charitable interference, she must have perished during the inclemency ofiast night.—Edin burgh Evening Post, Learning raises up against us many enemies among the low, and more among the powerful, yet does i invest us with grand and glorious privileges, and confe- on us largeness of beatitude. We venture on our studies and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises •no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands hefore us, speaks, or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure. Nothing is past which we desire to be present ; and we enjoy by anticipation somewhat like the power which I imagine we shall possess hereafter, of sailing on a wish from world to world.—Landor. THE LEA R NED C A TS.--An ingenious person, Signor 'Cipelli, is now exhibiting in Regent street, a few pupils, whose attainments will surprise the world, even in these " March•of-Intellect" times. A tortoise-shell cat, with five of her children, assisted by a great black mouse, perform at the word of command, either in French or Italian, a variety of hicks, in which the use ful is blended with the entertaining. While the young ones jump through an iron ring, or climb on the master's shoulder, the elders turn a spit, strike hammers on an anvil, grind rice, and roast coffee. Mamma puts a set of church bells in motipn, and her eldest daughter draws water for the family from a well. One of them will not work until she is promised a few minutes' rest, and ano ther sensible individual refuses to turn the spit until she gets a slice of the meat herself. There seems to be a per feet understanding between the Signor and his young col legians ; and it is not the least amusing part of the exhi bition to- observe the watchful eyes of the whole brood following, him in a few legerdemain tricks, which he plays off to vary the entertainment. ChW of the most celebrated soldiers of the French revolution was Latour d'Auvergne, who to the qualifications of a soldier added no slight knoWledge of literature. Traits of courage and noble actions abound in the life of this extraordinary man. Disinterested and modest, like one of his celebrated contemporaries, the Learned An quetil do Perron, he supported poverty with rare courage, and' preferred it to an opulence which might have corrupted the simplicity of his life. The Minister of War offered him 400 crowns on his return ft.( m lisseland ; he took 1 ; ?q francs, and said, " If I have furt' er o casion, I will come again." He carried into camp aSp rtan sobriety. He refused the presents of the Prince du Bouillon, as he had refused those of the King of Spain, and the first Consul Napoleon. He always preserved his republican frankness and dignity. " I offer you my credit," sa.id one of the re presentatives of the people. " arzept it." " Well then,. doou want a regitnent " No—l want a pair of shoes." In England, when married ladies are caught in equivocal situations, a divorce is sued for, and the gallant, if not shot through the bead, or disposed of in some manner equally terrible, is sued for damages, which, it the evidence is not very strong agaicst him, he will escape, and then the cacmitol husband will be the only sufferer, the lady will liye among her relations, and he, poor soul, will have to allow her a separate maintenance. In India the frail fair one would be burnt, in Persia beheaded, in Turkey loaded with stripes, or kept in perpetual imprisonment, which is also the case in Chine. In Aussie the wife pro- mises her husband never to let him see her transgressions, and he, promise% whenever she is so detected, to beat her without. mercy, so they both know what each has to expect—the lady transgresses, is beaten, taken agaiu into favour, and all goes on as before. When a Russian young lady, therefore, is to be married, her father, with a cudgel in his hand, asks the bridegroom whether he chooSett this virgin for his bride, to which the other re plies in the affirmative. Upon which the father, turning her three times round, and giving her three strokes upon the back, ". My dear (cries he), these are the last blows you are ever to receive from me. I resign my authority and :ny cudgel to your husband." The bridegroom refuses it, and assures the father the lady will never want it, but the father, who knows what the lady may want, insists upon his acceptance. Upon this a scene of Russian politeness ensues, while one refuses, the other offere the cudgel. The whole, however, ends with the bridegroom taking it; upon which the lady drops a curtsey in token of obedience, and the ceremony proceeds, THE MODE OF INSTRUCTION IN !TA IS: EAST LONDON CATHOL IC INSTITUTION - .. -• • • - . In the beginnit e g of this year I. Wa4 at Salt-none, 1 The - friends of this Institution (in number up famous for having given birth to Ovid, 'and for the . T w a ai l ds of 300) A1x t s: i e d .s e t r ett p l%y cs d s i o n n e , d ..... at sg theeemasons' k; ~ M.P.al for the best sweetmeats in Italy. As lam accustomed to county Louth, was called to the . Chair.• On his tarry several successive days in the places I visit, E w a - b e was s u mmi t s (' by Mr.. O'Gorman, and on that. I may liss'e time to see and examine every . his left, by Mr. O'Connell. At the same table we thing, I rentaiiied fur a whole week in thi,:i town. I noticed Mr. Ileinv 11.0 Mr. Lawless, Mr. Rosson, shall not say a word about the aqueduct, which, Mr. Wheeble, and severs(' other Catholic ge ntl emen I I though built while It a ly was th e w or ld's mistress, of respectability. ' - I is, in gond pteservation, nor- about several other I . In the galleries were assembled several elegantly raticient monuments--for these have already beezt l attired ladies, who remained in the room.during the sufficiently dissitsired ; .Imit - I shall confine :my ob- 1 whole evening. They waved their handkerchiefs - servations to- a very interesting subject—public when the speakers • were 'cheered, and appeared to instruction. Amongother establishments for ' this' participate in the proceedings: - - purpose, I visited one where the Director; thsow- The cletl - ehaving.been drawn, ing off the trammels of -antiquated .rules and pre- * The CHAIRMAN said, on the list of toasts which judices, had the courage to teach according to would that evening be proposed, none was scecon s reason, and pursue the method pointed out by spicuons, and none would be drank with greater en experience as the' best. I was surp r ised to hear thusiasm, he was persuaded, than the health of his the pupils speaking with an .ease very rare even most gracious Majesty.—(Cheers.) in the first colleges, the languages of Cicero and Toast—" The King." Three times three. Air— Demosthenes,—albeit the study of those - languages " God save the King." was but a secondary thing. The professors being ' ToaSt-2" The Doke of Clarence, and the rest of fundamentally acquainted with them, and ac-' 'the Royal Family." Three times three. - customed both to speak and write in theni, teach One gentleman proposed " one cheer more," them absolutely as living languages. They use which was given with enthusiasm. Air—" Rule, no other medium in conducting the business of Britannia !" their classes, conversing in Italian only 'with be- The CHAIRMAN then proposed the " Atmy and sinners; and even then they uniformly . repeat Navy of England," in which, he said, consisted our in Latin or Greek, the phrases, which they may glory and our defence. Air—" The Sprig of have used in Italian. I had the curiosity to attend Shillelah." the classes.• After having pronounced the customary "The CHAIRMAN then gave the health of " His prayer in Latin, the Professor read - over the cor- Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex," whose con rected copy of one of the themes,- and one of the duct he highly eulogised. That illustrious Duke, he versions, which had been given out - the day said, by his perseverance in the cause of civil and before, and had all been handed in to him religious liberty, was deserving of the thanks of his two hours previtius, to the lesson, that he might country. He had on one occasion, in that very hpve time to correct them 'before meeting' room, displayed a knowledge of history seldom to the class. Those which he reads . are usually bet i ms w i t t i. such as contain the greatest number of errors, that The health of his .Royal Highness vas drank with he may have a wider .field for making observations three times three. Glee—" The Red-Cross Knights." and putting questions : for he does not say-what Toast—" The health of the Right Rev. Dr ; corrections it is necessary to make, till he has asked James Yorke Brampston, the Patron of the Charity." Some of the pupils; and I remarked with astonish-. The children were now introduced, and paraded meat, that heseldom had any thing to add to their , round the room. replies. The scholars were exceedingly attentive, Mr. O'CONNELL then delivered an eloquent ad and consequently understood and remembered what attention between the tables meanwhile. dress on behalf of the Charity, the children standing was said ; ' for that which is acquired by is generally retained with ease. This pra c ti ce gives . rise to quotation and repetition, and to th e applies- After the address, which was not very long, the children retired. Lion of most of the principal rules of grammar, which after are not learned by heart,—the Profe ssor s being A collection was then made, which was wards ! stated to amount to 2061. 10s. persuaded that the time spent in acquiring a mere rote knowledge of the grammar is a l mo st- entirely Toast—" The Duke of 'Wellington and his Ma jesty's Ministers."—Three times three. Air—An lost, and the-labour a useless fatigue. The lecture Irish Melody. on the themes and versions being terminated, the Toast—" Success to the East London Catholic Professor reads a passage in Latin from an Italian Institution." book, followed by the pupils. When he changes Mr. HUNT then rose. The Stewards, 'he said the construction, he assigns a reason for it, and cites it justification one or two a n ci en t a u th ors ; and bad done him the honour of requesting him to pro hispose a toast. He felt particularly gratified that they when any word occurs allusive" to a peculiar custom , is e or fact, he makes an obser va ti on to th a t e ff ect :, all should nave selected him--a Protestant—to propose a toast at a Catholic Meeting—(hear)—a meeting which furnishes him with frequent opportunities of assembled for the purpose of promoting public eh saying, and making others say, many things which . r.ty t He had the gratification of proposing—" The are necessary to the complete study of languages. Two or three pupils then perform the s a m e office. health of the Chairman, Alexander Dawson, Esq., the free Representative When they get wrong, the Prof e s sor s e t s th e i r of the county of Louth, with fellow-pupils to put them right, and never does it three times three." The CHAIRMAN returned thanks. himself till he has seen that no one ,else is able. Afterwards, he makes the most p r ofi c i en t pupils The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of `c Da niel O'Connell, Esq., M.P." translate an Italian author into Latin. Th e c la ss The toast was received with loud cheers ; after concludes with the reading of a Latin author, trans lated by three or four pupils into Italian from the open book. The Professor then gives out the vhiell Mr. O ' CONNELL said,—Gentlemen, my friend, ‘ Mr. Dawson, was quite right-110°11g as I theme and version for the next day, and pronounces have known him he has had the knack of being ge the usual prayer. The lessons learned by heart are literally right—he was quite right when be said that repeated previous to the meeting of th e cl a ss my former address had one-merit, that • it was con to a person appointed to hear them, and con- eise. - But now that I come. to speak to you of my list of a verb, a dialogue, and a passage in prose or self, I have a great inclination to take my revenge. in verse, which the pupils are expected to deliver in both languages. The facility with which the —(Hear, hear.)-1 will give you an Irish reason for it. The reason I mean to be long is, that I ant Profeeitsts - spoke the languages th e y were teac hi n tired and weary. Literally I am. I am tired of g, was a very great advantage to th e p u pil s ; f or we doing nothing. I have been in London a full fort may 'safely place the inability of mos t masters to night, and I have done nothing at all. I declare to converse freely in the learned l a n guages , among t h e yott solemnly that, since I was high enough to look other causes which make the English almost exclu- over this table, I don't remember a fortnight in my sively consume eight or nine years in obtaining, after . life that I ever spent so idly. Yes, there is utility all, but an imperfect knowledge of the Greek and in agitation. _Let no man tell me that he is too Latin. humble to be of use to his country. Few men in I have said that the study of the ancient inn- the community stand more humbly than I do. I guages is but secondary in the establishment of am nothing more than the son of a gentleman—the which I speak : the principal studies are Italian, descendant of gentlemen—that is all, except that I mathematics, and the natural sciences. All the a m a stuff-gown barrister, working for my clients.; pupils study Italian grammar and rhetoric. They yet, humble 'as I may be reckoned in society, by have a book entitled " Italienßhetoric," perfectly agitating - for my country and liberty, I stand well written, and full of examples, ' selected with organ of the voice of ,seven millions ofthe Representative of an independent country, much taste and judgment from the numerous works—the • that enrich Italian literature. Arithmetic, algebra, p Yes ; I call upon every man Who hems People. geometry, trigonometry, the application of algebra my voice, or may read What I say, to struggle for to geometry, the infinite series, and I mechanics, are liberty. No man deserves to be free, no man - taught in so many different classes. n the arithmetic can be free, who will not struggle for constitti class two lessons a-week are devoted to the theory, t i o nal libert y . Let the stru gg le • be what I trust, and three to the practice, (Friday being the Italian what I know it has been—founded upon a fixed and holiday.) In the algebra, geometry, and trigono- immutable principle—the principle of civil and reli metry classes, three lessons are devoted to the grows freedom' to all mankind. Let that be the theory, and two to the practice; and on holidays, principle as long as blasphemy is uttered against When time permits, the pupils are exercised in the God by a man daring to interfere between his• art of drawing plans, which they consider as a diver- Cteator and his fellow, and venturing to judge the sine, and do voluntarily, and consequently well.-- servant of another. Let us recollect that a man does The Director has all the instruments necessary for not belong to judgment, but to the God who creates. this purpose. In the mechanics class, the Professor The principle of religious liberty is one that-equally makes continual references to the arts, so that this: abhors the penal law when it inflicts torture and in study is not one of mere curiosity, but is rendered of -, flicts penalty, as when •it interferes, in the shape of very great utility, an end which the Directors .pro- a bribe or an inducement, to seduce the conscience pose in every branch of their establishment. The from its own native rectitude, and give an unworthy courses.of physics and chemistry are attended by all, motive to that which ought to be left free as the the ptipils: Those who are advanced in mathematics, breath of air, and untainted as the stream from the form a distinct class for the study of the theory of mountain. My original motto to the people of Ire land was— P For experimental physics there is but one " Hereditarrhondsmen ! know you not class. Chemistry is particulaily applied to the arts; Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?" the laboratory is a very fine one and well furnished. And if I - see the people upon which the laws unjustly All the students also, practise the art of design, the Director being of opinion that it should be taught press, and who, if not Christians, were ' the pre cursors of Christianity—if I see them struggling for . to all children, like the art of writing : some, he themselVes, whatever co-operation can be given observes, are better writers than others; but the art is useful to all, and the same may be said of draw- shall be given, so that the conscience of every one shall be frees If I were not afraid of trespassing , ings__ _The drawing-master likewise gives lessons in upon your attent i on —( cr i es o f " N o , no , ')-1 perspective and descriptive geometry. I observed that they did. not follow the method usually adopted, would say this, that.the principle of religious liberty which I advocated was a principle which I inherited, of first making copies of the different parts of the and which I believed from the most thorough con , figure, and then of the head ; but that they . began : victions, because I am able to say that the Catho by drawing geometrical figures, then the components , an ca of landscape, d last of all the individual human or lies, after the Reformation, first Commenced the reer of liberty of conscience; and 1 am enabled .to other form. Experience is in favour of this method, though there be masters who do not approve of it. add to that history the fact, that at this moment there is not one single Catholic Government on the face of 'Nor is architectural drawing neglected; two days a the earth, which has within its boundary native PrO week are specially devoted to it, whets the princi ples ofarchitecture and the cutting of stones are ex- testent inhabitants, that has not fully, completely, and unconditionally, emancipated them. fset the plained to the pupils. London Press, if it condescends to- notice what I The site of this institution is remarkably adapted to its object. There is a spacious court surrounded say—the bribed, foul, and maniac Press, that cries out lest a good principle 'should be establiShed— hy a double row of trees, which afford in summer en listen to this fact. Some of. those impertinent fel agreeable shade from the hot sun of Daly. lows called Reporters have put in the newspapers The Director of this establishment is .a man of e that one of the ways in which the people are de- xtensive ,knowledge in almost all the arts and luded tosign Catholic petitions is by a representa sciences that are taught,_foined with a degree of tion of Irish Catholics burning Protestants. What, urbanity, which, at' first sight, might make you take are they ignorant of history ? When Henry VIII. him for a man•of the world. He treats his coauju- burnt Protestants and Catholics with indiscrimi tors with all the respect and courtesy due to learned nate cruelty—when Edward VI., by the advice of men ; and the Professors are not, as in most private Cranmer, burnt women as well as men—and when establishments for education, the slaves of their the evil councils that tainted the ill-blooded Mary head and the servants of the scholars, to the great made Protestant victims during her reigne . -many of detriment of all, Morals, and religion its proper them took refuge, many of them fled ;—where did basis, so far from being 'neglected, form a principal t h e y fly to ? To the Arminians of France,.or to the object of attention to the Director, who is well Antinomians of Holland ? No ; they fled to Ire persuaded that to make a man accomplished, it is land, and sought protection from the Irish Catlio not merely necessary that he should be learned, but, tics. What becomes then of the wretched delusion above all, that he should be good.--i/thenwum. that would represent the Catholics of Ireland as per secutors? Again, I would refer to the reign of James 11., when a Catholic Parliament - sat in Ire land, and when three-fourths of. that Parliament meat were Catholics and one-fourth Protestants, because the people thought fit to elect that number; and I say they never made a single law infringing on the right of conscience. The principle I advo cate in 1820 is the principle the Catholics have always advocated and supported-that of giving to .every human being the right' of selecting his own religion. .Let me not be confounded with those who imagine that a difference of faith is of no , importance. I think there is great and vital im- ON AND UPON.—We have two words which we use indifferently ; on and upon. It appears to methat those who study elegance, by which I always mean preci aion and correctness, may chow it here. I would say upon a tower; on the same principle, I would say ou a marsh. There would, indeed, be no harm in saying on a tower; but there would be an impropriety in saying upon a marsh ; fur up, whether we are attentive or inattentive, whether we have been a thousand times wrong, or never, means somewhat high„somewhat to which we ascend. I should speak correctly if I Bahl " Dr. Johnson flew upon me," in correctly, if I said "he fell upon me." Custom is a rale for every thing but contradiction:—.Athenceum. .~• a:.f~ ~~Y Form. ~a: ~'~ portanee in religions beli e f. My own mind ( wou ld that my morals:were equal to !) strongly inibved with religious truth ; but •:this . I know, with equal certainty, that sincerity ''and Caution are all that a man is:to recommend to fellow- m in, and ottliat - . his God alone can judge. But it i s on ly one por tion of liberty to lea . \'e" thi. - cOn - icienve free. There are Other thinas necessary to the welfare of States. Tha British Constitution is, in my mind, the model upon which a Government may be regulated, and under which the greatest possible portion of liberty rnay. be enjoyed. I . love that fixedness of . 'll Tone,. which gives- a- stability .to liberty—,a cer tainty to the succession of property,,and rakes away •fr•o:li illegitimate ambition that immense priie in the lottery of life Wbieh may make. a man throw his country and his kindred into the Wheel, to draw at their expense. I love that reward for patriotic am bition—the .hereditary Peerage of the land ; for who dots not '194 . with pleasure at the Norfolks and Bedfords, and the great names that ornament the pages of the histoly. of England ? Bat there _ _ is one — branch of the British -(2onstitotion that I love still more—that which gives to the people the appointment of their RepresentatiVes. Upon thiS point my opinions are-7—M% Hunt will permit me to say—ever have been—unequivocal ; my opinions have ever extended to what is' called Radical Re- I shall be told I am indiscreet in making that avowal under the present ciretimstatices.—(Ni, no.) Gentlemen, I don't want to steal into the temple of the Constitution, to obtain any advantage whatever, lam indiscreet if you please, but Lain honest and candid. I revere the Throne, I love and duct of Mr. O'Connell. It had been said that one Gentleman hrid suffered for his love of liberty. Look at my friend Mr. Hunt (continued he), who has been two years and a half in a dungeon. But Illy friend •Mr. O'Connell comes from a mu c h greater - clungeon-.1 . Mean Ireland—in which he has been • confined forty years--(Cheers, and a laugh.) After this Mr. HINT addressed the Meeting in explanation of the cause of difference between him self and -Mr. O'Connell; -He said that it all con- . sisted in a " little- word," which the latter gentle man had substituted for the term "Radical Re form." !fad Mr. O'Connell adopted that expression . which was . intelligible to every body, there could then have existed no ground of difference of opinion between them. - But the word." Constitution," which Mr. O'Conntll had thought proper to adopt, Was so vague, according t 9 Mr. O'Connell's own `showing that night, that nothing could be known of ) -the real principles of tho•-•-e gentlemen who used_it. • Mr. STAPYLTO:S a Member of the English Ca tholic Association, protested against what had fallen from Mr. O'Connell, respcctin i r his determination of desisting from partaking of exci. , able articles should the forty-shilling freeholders be disfranchised. Such language he considered was highly improper, and unfit to be made use-of on any occasion. After the healths of the Stewards and the Com mittee hid been drunk, the company.separateci. respect the hereditary Peerage of the land, but when I have got these two ranks distinct, I see an uni versal plane of equality amongst the rest of the people. All, fictitious distinctions should be done away, and every man have a claim to vote whe is unstained by crime. Gentlemen, in these details I am making to you my public profession of faith. - I have acted upon one stage for some twenty-eight years. I am coming for Ward upon a new theatre now—and, although twenty-eight years have elapsed in this part orthe struggle, I can assure you I feel perfectly ready for twenty-eight years more of ex ertions. The next fixed principle of my mind is, that the elections should_ be frequent. If I were asked my choice, I would say once a year; but I would not quarrel with any man who should say they might to be biennial. The experiment has been made, in universal America, of biennial parliaments. Lord Eldon talks of the Protestant Constitution of 1688 ; Lord Redesdale repeats a kind of Amen, in the corner; Lord Bexley turns up the whites of his eyes; Lord Colchester, with the same drawl that he once • cried " aye" and " no," re-echoes their opi— nions; but I will tell them that one of the benefits of the Protestant Constitution of 1688 was, that it directed expressly that there should be Parliaments every third year.—(Hear.)—The third principle of Parliamentary Reform is the absolute necessity of voting byirallot. It renders bribery impossible. A fellow may take his bribe, and, with as good a con science as Lord Eldon with respect to the Constitu tion of 1688, put the money in his pocket and 'the black ball in the box. These are my principles and ever were.—(Appluuse.)—ln 1817 I saw the first opening in Ireland to speak of reform. I called public meetings in imitatien of those in England.— , The same hand of violence that dispersed the meet ings here, and threw into a gaol and a dungeon the man who had the boldness to look for reform, reached us more easily, and the' people soon shrunk from the struggle. In 1821, when the King was in Ireland, his Majesty addressed the people of Ireland in a letter, to which the name of Lord Sid= mouth was affixed, proclaiming peace to the country. For eighteen months we. ceased our struggle-1 mean the struggle for an equalization of civil rights, called Catholic Emancipation, and in that period I again addressed the people of Ireland, and for a Re form, but I found no responsive voice. _ Those 18 months—mark it well !--were characterized in Ire land by the breaking out of dissension in different counties ; by the peasantry being unable to bear the weight and affliction of oppression—for oppression stalks with a giant's tread through Ireland, and its ramifications extend beyOnd the comprehension of those who may view it—the people, from that op pression, were in every part of Ireland breaking into crime. The day was deformed by mur4er, the night was disgraced with conflagrations—houses blazed—baggards and corn stores were burst—the owners of them were shot—the men who gave evi dence at the Assizes were • murdered on their way home—our fields were full of crime, and our cities of pillage ; that was the state of • Ireland when I thought it advantageous to establish the Catholic Association. Gentlemen, lam tedious, but this is instructiye. There were 11 counties proclaimed and outlawed ; eight more counties under. the Peace Preservation Bill, the next stage to being proclaimed. This made 19 counties, leaving a balance of 13 out of 32. I always knew that the people of Ire land wished fur nothing but a dear stage and no favonr, I formed the Catholic Association, and I formed the safety=valve of the State; for in less than nine months from that period there was not a single county in , lreland under the Peace Pre servation Bill. Nay, more—before ten'months were out there was not a single county in Ireland . under the proclamation. - 1%11.;0'Connell then adverted to the proceedings of the Association, and defied their enemies (though Government had constantly three known reporters) to show, from their archives, a single word unbecoming the friends of-civil and re ligious liberty. As to the conduct of the people, Mr. Shiel had proposed simultaneous petitioning all over Ireland ; and in no instance, though thousands met, had the public tranquillity been disturbed.—, Not a single act was done which the Orange Ma gistrates could distort into a crime. Notwithstand ing this, in the English Legislature, the Dukes and Lords, and Bishops above all, had been abusing this poor Association, and saying it was guilty of all manner Of crime, "And wtiat," asked Mr. O'Con nell, " isthe.Catholic Association ?—lt is a*room which extends from the Giants' Causeway, in the' north, to Cape Clear, in the south—from Dick Martin's territories of Connemara, in the west, to the Hill of Howth, in the east." It was said the forty-shilling freeholders were t 6 be abolished. —Let them attempt it. It would destroy the entire grace and effect of the •concession. In the next place, within a fortnight after the Bill was passed, there would not be a single bank-note in cir, 'cidation in Ireland, nor fifty pounds' worth of exci sable commodities consumed. For his own part; if such an Act passed, he pledged himself not to taste or consume any article that paid until it was repealed —neither tea, sugar, wine, nor spirit, should ap proach him, It might be said that he had not in fluence to persuade the people of Ireland to so act ; but let it be remembered that 5,000 Irishmen came every day in the week into the town of Ennis, in the heat of summer, and remained with lips dry and parched until victory was proclaimed. By giving Emancipation, with conditions as to the forty shilling freeholders, it only gave them more power He had injured the forty-shilling - freeholders, and he would make them compensation bylleyoting his life . to their service. Mr. O'Connell concluded by say ing that he should not enter the House of CominOns . for the purpose. of making only a single speech, and then returning to Ireland ; he should be a constant attendant ; and, above all things, keep in view a reform . of the - English law, that, instead a the hocus-pocus which it now was, it might become cheap, intelligible, and expeditions, The Learned Gentleman was loudly cheered at the conclusion of his speech. . The.CHAIRMAN proposed the health of the Pam tronesses of the Institution. Mr. LAwJ.Ess concurred in what the not!. Chair man had said, that the ladies were foremost in works of charity. He had been in a perilous situa tion, when on a mission to which he need not more than refer, and who helped him out of his difficulty ?—lt - was the women of Ireland. He always knew that if the women were f o r them i n any caus e , that the men would naturally follow.— (A laugh.) He then proceeded - to eulogise the cot,— +!!~Fi~1~.r~;.R~. ~.~ A_~ - - LONDON UNIVERSITY. Yesterday the General Annual Meeting of the Proprietors of the London University was held in . the theatre of that establishment. Amongst the numerous persons of rank, or for eminence of talent, we distinguished Earl Grey, Lord MiltOn, Lord Auckland, Lord. Durham, Lord Calthorpe, Lord Dundas, Sir George Philips, Mr. J. C. Hobhousi, Mr. Fazakerley, - Mr. Tennyson, Mr. Warburton, Mr. Sturch, Mr. Hume, Mr. Baring, Mr. Brougham, Mr. Monk (of Reading), Colonel Jones, and many Gentlemen of the ., Bar. and of the. Learned Profes sions. - Lord Milton was unanimously voted to the Chair. Mr. Fazakerley moved that the Report -of the Council be .read, which .was seconded lay Mr. Baring. The report was then read by Mr. Horner, the Warden. • . It set forth the general prosperity and rapid pro gress of the Institution, and the measures of the Council, with respect to its funds, its library, mu seums, and other incidental departments. The re ceipts in the year. amounted to 59,803/. 12s. Its expenditure 47,5681. 14s. 3d., leaving a balance in hand of 12,2341. 17s. 9d. The donations in the year had amounted to 7721. 10s., and,the receipts from students applicable to the University were, 1,9021. ss. 10d. Amongst numerous presents to the University, we noticed the Works of Swedenburgli, in thirty-six volumes, presented by the Sweden burghian Society.—(Loud laughter.)—The Report calculated the annual current expellees of the ITni versity at 5,5001. per annum, which would be pro duced by eleven hundred students. At present there were 557, of which one hundred were of the Latin, 77 of the Greek, and 91 of the Mathematical classes. It was calculated that the students would be three times as numerous in the next year, and four times as 'numerous in the yel.r following. It was deemed necessary to establish a Clinical Hospital near the University. The Dispensary had relieved in the last six months 914 persons. The books of the library were to be lent to students at their residences, and the reading-rooms to be opened from five o'clock till nine in the evening, as well as from ten o'clock till four in the day time. The museums of Minera logy and Geology were not yet formed, and that of Zoology not yet complete. Great importance was attached to public examinations, and to the prizes in the different classes. The chairs ollogic and moral philosophy were not yet filled—the Ricardo lectures, and a professorship of juridical science divided into classes of civil . law, the law of 'real properly and equity. FA2AKERLEY moved the printing of the Re port. Mr. BARING seconded the motion. , After a few words relative to the management of the library, BROUGHAM wished for the fullest discussion, and for the most free intercourse be tween the Council and the Proprietors. The Coun cil had no intention of deviating from the great prin ciples on which the University had been founded. All regulations Iyotildhe subOttinate to those prin ciples. - Colonel JONRS had seen an advertisement in the" newspapers, that divinity lectures were established for the benefit of students of the Church of Eng land. He wished to know whether that advertise ment had been inserted with the knowle:lr:e of the Council, and whether it had been paid i'or out of the funds of the Society. The principles of the University were, to patronize no sect whatever in preference to another; and he had friends who were not Christians, being Jews, who had sold their shares, conceiving this to be a deviation from the plan of the establishment. Mr. BROUGHAM said,: that the Connell had no knowledge of any such alvertisements. The prin ciple had been a non-interference with any religious instructions within the walls of the University ; and consequently they could not interfere7with what took place without those walls. As no religion-was taught by the University, it was desirable that there should be means of instruction in. the vicinity. It would be an advantage if they embraced every sect, and he should wish even to see a Jews Synagogue amongst others; the principle being the abolition or disre, • Bard of all such distinctions. , Mr. WARBURTON wished the Minutes of the Council to be read on this subject. These being read, it appeared that the Rev. Dr. Lardner and Mr. Dale having applied to the Coun. cil relative to those . divinity . leetures. in the vicinity, the. Council had considered them as individual un• dertakinas with which they had nu concern. 1 1 On the motion of Mr. flumE, a similar minute was read relative to the application of Drs.. tox and Fletcher, on the part of the Dissenters. Mr. BARING was one who had subscribed for the establishment of these religious lectures ; but if any man imagined it was done on the principle of a pre ference of sects, he was mistaken. It was better to leave each sect to its instructors outside the walls of the University. He doubted whether the cause of religion was promoted by the way in which it was, mixed up with other studies in the two great Uni, versities of the. country. A GENTLEMAN said that the Dissenters were per , fectly satisfied with the conduct of the Council. . At half after four o'clock the proprietors pro, ceeded to ballot for the new members of the Cowd en for the ensuing year. asrnifectiPsi°)/viiiilu-egtt Carnac, UNIVERSITY OF LONDONT rie f o ll ow i ng members of the council were re-elect:et) :—,flis Grace the Stephen Lush are new i ll Er n7 u cim l t i .o e :nw o , ir f isiDs Norfolk, Gerae .e —Henry 5tJ an.he Li aSmith,iluklThete ts.h James 4 teinster. Samuel Jones Lloyd ; Esq. as Auditor. A meeting of the clergy of the arcitdeaeonry of Lon ion Was 1 4eld yesterday in the vestry of Saint Se- Potelwe's e.linteh, pumant to the invitation of the vene rable artilideaeon of London (Dr. Pott), to consider the prOrktty of pfetenting petitions to both Houses of Par liament against fitrther concessions to the Roman Catholics. Out of a very large number assembled, only three clergy men were found to bold up their hands against the propo sed measure of petioning.—llforaing Joneurtl. SOIREES rRANIAISES.—ENGLISH 0744}1A HousE.—Mademoiselle Jenny Colon closed her.eery suc cessful engagement at thisibeetre last night, 'Afore an ex tremely crowded audience ; the performed in, thr9 differ, ent pieces,. and. was received ,throughout with reiterated applause. Among the fashionabies who honoured the per formances with their presence die noticed the following : His Royal Highness the Duie of Sussex, his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, the Mirquis of Worcester, the Mar quis of Ailesbury, Lord Sefton,. Lord Bury ; Count Lo doff, Colonel Fitzgibbon, Captain Southeby, Major Webster, Mr. De Roos, Mr. Drummond, Mr. Fitzgibbon. Lady Forbes, Lady Gage, Lady Coates, Lady Gifford, Lady Merrell, Countess Ludolff,' Mrs. Rottichild, &e.