The Sun. — London, England, 1837-01-23 00:00:00

BRIGHFO - N-SUNDAY. In consequence of the continued damp state of the at mosphere and the prevalence of the influenza, the King does not intend to go to town to open the Session of Parliament. The Royal Speech will be delivered by Commission. We understand that their Majesties and the Court, generally, have resolved upon leaving Brighton for St. James's on the 23d of February ; but this will depend chiefly on the health of the Duchess of Gloucester. His Majesty continues in the enjoyment of excellent. health. Yesterday the King, accompanied by Lady de Lisle, drove out for an airing before luncheon.. His Majesty, accompanied by Sir Horace Seymour, also took a carriage drive this afternoon. The weather was very unpleasant. The health of the Duchess - of Gloucester is rapidly im proving. Yesterday's bulletin announced that her Royal Highness had had an exce ll ent n i g h t , an d was go i ng on favourably ; and there is a similar report issued to-day. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence quitted the Palace yester day morning for town. The dinner invitations on Friday evening w ere —th e Ladies Corny. allis, Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. Pringle, Lord G. Seymour, Mr. Bayley, Sir W. Cotton, Col. Diggens, and the. Duke of Argyll ; and yesterday evening the Duke of Argyll, Major -Gen. Sir Willoughby Cotton, Gen. Phipps, Lord awl Lady James • Hay, Earl and Countess of Kinnoul, and Sir George Sinclair. The calls at the Palace yesterday included Sir H. Sey mour, Lieut.-General Sir NV. and Lady Pringle, Major- General Sir W. Cotton, Earl and Countess Somers, and Mr., Lady Sarah, and Miss Bayley. This day the calls in cluded Major-General Sir W. Cotton, on leaving Brighton ; Sir M. J. and Lady Tierney, Key. Dr. Everard Sir Robert and Lady Kennedy, General Phi pps. , Mr. Robert Keate, Surgeon Extraordinary, arrived last night at the Palace to attend the Duchess of Gloucester. Mr. Keate gave a favourable report to their Majesties of the state of her Royal Highness's health. Having dined at the Royal table, and passed the night at the Palace, he left again to-day for town. The Hon. Captain Curzon also left the Palace this morning for town. Mr. Herring has had the honour of showing his large pic ture of " The Start for the Derby" (Plenipotentiary's year) to his Majesty, who expressed himself highly pleased with the performance. • Lady Oswald intended to have left Brighton a day or two ago, but her Ladyship was prevented from doing so in con sequence of a severe attack of influenza. The Royal Chapel was opened this morning for Divine Worship, but was not attended by any of the Royal family. .Prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Everard, and the Rev. 11. M. Wagner preached from Acts, c. 16, v. 30. Sir R. Winter had a splendid ball on Thursday evening 'at his honse, 47, Grand Parade, which was a tt en d e d b y most of the fashionables - here, and dancing was kept up late with that spirit of perseverance which is generally evinced in bachelors houses. • Lady Otway, two of her daughters, and Mr. Otway, are suffering most severely from influenza. Sir Robert Otway will shortly be obliged to leave Brighton in consequence of his new appointment. The Countess Dowager of Guildford is indisposed with the prevailing influenza. Her Ladyship's daughter, Lady Susan Doyle, is confined to her room by a severe attack of it. At the Bedford Hotel there are now suffering from the influenza the Rev. Lord Frederick Beauclerk, Captain Aubrey Beauclerk, Mr. Bond, Sir John Wright, Hon. Charles Abbott, 'Miss L. Sheridan, Mr. Lodge, Lady Keane, and some other visiters, besides several attendants belonging to the parties. COURT CIRCULAR. Viscount Morpeth, Chief Secretary for Ireland, has ar rived in t own . His Lordship had interviews on Saturday with Viscount Melbourne and the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, in Downing-street. His Excellency the United States Minister visited Lord Palmerston, on Saturday, at the Foreign Office, The Cabinet Council, appointed to be held on Saturday, was postponed till to-day. Mr. Charles Purton Cooper had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Saturday. Despatches from our Minister at the Court of Holland were received yesterday at the Foreign Office, The King's picture of the naval battle of Trafalgar (the ), painted by M r . H uggins last of the series , marine painter to his Majesty, has been sent to the British Gallery. A deputation of licensed victuallers had an interview with Viscount Melbourne, on Saturday, at his residence in Soath-street. • The Speaker of the House of Commons, and the Hon. Mrs. - Abereromby, arrived on Friday last in Carlton Terrace, from their seat Stubbing Court, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Mr. Clifton, who has let the mansion tenanted by the Right Honourable Gentleman to Government, for a term, has taken, for the season, the magnificent Hotel at Paris, formerly occupied by the late Ex-Emperor, Don Pedro. The Right Honourable Henry Hobhouse has ar rived in town, from his seat in Somersetshire, to attend his duty as one of the Church Commissioners, having last seek. presided as Chairman at the Somerset Sessions. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ormond and the Ladies Butler have arrived at Rome, from Nice. Lord and Lady Suffield are expected to return to the Clarendon on Friday, from the Duke of Beaufort's seat, Badminton ; their Graces are expected in Park-place at the Same time, for the season. Lady Brougham and her (laughter, Miss Brougham, are at present residing at Worthing-, for the improvement of the health of the latter. Lady Malet, her Ladyship's daughter by her first marriage, has arrived at the Hague, '.there Sir Alexander is Secretary of Legation. The Earl of Lichfield, from continued indisposition, is unable to join in the sports of the fi e ld at B unton, where the party had abundant sport, it being the first battue of the season. The Earl and Countess are expect e d t o arr i ve in St. James's-square in a fortnight, from Shugborough, for the season. The Earl of Kilmorey is still staying at Shavington Park. His Lordship has for some time past employed a great number of labourers in beautifying his e x t ens i ve grounds. The poor of the neighbouri ng di stricts have not been forgotten by this considerate nobleman during the late disastrous weather ; coals, &c., havi ng b een liberally distri buted amongst them, by his Lordship's orders. The marriage alluded to by the paper s as b e i ng in contemplation, is that of Lord Glandine, son of the Earl of Norbury, with Lady G. Russell, dai!ghter of the Duke of Bedford. The other intended marriage is repo r t e d to be that of L or d M arc us Hill a nd the beautiful Miss Blake. Aynlioe, near Brackley, the beautiful seat of W. R . Cartwright, Esq., M.P., was on Wednesday night a scene of unusual gaiety. The rooms of this elegant mansion were most brilliantly lit up, and the company continued arrivin g until 10 o'clo c k, w h en d anc ing commenced. Shortly a f ter 12, a supper was announced, which was of the most ch o i ce description. • In addition to the Peerage creations already an nounced, we are enabled to state that the Earl of Charle . Mont is to be raised to a British Peerage. The Russian Ambassador gave his first diplomatic , (limo ! . on Thursday evening, since his arrival from the Con tinent, to Prince Esterhazy and Prince Nicholas, Count Wal!stein, Baron Maltitz, Prince Paul Lieven, and the Secretaries to the Embassy. His Excellency's new elm riot was sent home yesterday, and he drove out for the first time since his return. . Amongst' the distinguished persons who have been entertained by the M arqu i s an d Marchioness of Abercorn, ; 0 t _ aronscou r t, have been the Duke and Duckess of Bed- L rZ Lord Alexander Russell, Lord and Lady Powerscourt, It ae Z et Peorgi ana R usse ll, C o l one l C ono ll y , M.P., Lady a }I. Y - Russell, Lo r d Cl au d e H am ilton, Sir Edward Rev. 'Lord Glandinc, Hon. and Rev. Mr. Douglass, Nash, r . &c. T he Earl and Countess of Sefton and the Ladies c k _,9 l Yaeux have arr i ve d i n A r li ngton - street , f rom Croxteth nall, Lancashire xii T he E ar l of. Ossory has arrive d a t th e family seat henuy Castle from a tour. The Count ess o f Sandwich has arrived at Hinchin brook a ._ House, f rom a v i s i t to the Earl and Countess Brown -IOW,t Belton House,. near G rant h am . The H on; of Dorset, passed - d F Ponsonby, Member for the county Wednesday he afterno through this town (Basingstoke) on green, where on, f or t h e Wellesley Arms, Murrell- ordered his dinner rived in a p parent good health, and hav i ng , u axnpdired.--• back in his chair and P e' taking his scat at the table, fell Lord Churchill, Berkshire chronicle. einvfleral branches of his family, have been attacked by the B Nr. cial miss V ion from the an de Weyer, thgeofßelgi an Mi n i ster, on a spe- Kin Donna Maria, has arri ve d in Fi_Lzeroßye lsgians to her Majesty, uare, from Lisb. The King and Queen of Greece left Teaensee on on the 14th for Trieste, where they are to embark on board his Majesty's ship Madagascar. Lord Lyndhurst quitted the French capital on Tuesday even i ng on hi s re t urn to London. His Lordship's departure was rather unexpected. The. Earl of Clare left Mount Shannon the week before last for Grimsthorpe Castle, in Lincolnshire, the seat of Lord Willoughby d'Ereshv. • Viscount Burahersh left Bolton House, the seat of .Earl Brownlow, la b st week to make a tour of visits. The funeral of Lady Farnborough took place on Saturday last, at Worinleybury, Waltham-cross, Herts, the seat of Sir Abraham Hume, her fatherkliere a superb mausoleum bad previously been erected, SUN EXPRESS EXTRAORDINARY SUN EXPRESS.—The spirited proprietor of The Sun has fairly outdone all his previous wonderful achievements the art and mystery of expressing The speech of Sig Robert Peel (which, by the bye, was scarcely worth print ing), delivered at Glasgow on Friday evening (400 miles from London), was actually received at The Sun Orrice within tw en ty- e i g h t h ours after, printed, published, and re el:pressed to all parts of the kingdom, and being read 200 miles from town on Sunday evening !—Leicester Mercury. We must not omit stating, that we are indebted for thc report of this grand banquet, to the proprietor of The Sun Newspaper, who, by an extraordinary express, was en abled to publish his report at half-past one o'clock on Sunday, a copy of which he kindly forwarded to our office, and reached us on Monday night. In expressing our acknowledgements for this unsolicited act of kindness, we cannot but highly commend the industry and unprece dented dispatch which it exhibits.. We arc also indebted to the llforning Herald for a like favour, which did not, however, arrive as:early as The Sun.—Carmarthen Journal. Through the exertions of the proprietor of The Sun Newspaper, Sir Robert Peel's speech at the grand Con servative dinner at Glasgow, on Friday, was published in London at half-past seven on Sunday morning. The com pany did not sit down to table till five o'clock, and allow ing, for the time occupied in discussing the feast, in the toasts which preceded that of their distinguished guest, the Right Hon. Baronet's address, and the subsequent speeches —then the copying the short-hand notes, the distance ac complished (400 miles in about twenty-four hours, and full half the time in darkness)—when, we say, all these are taken into consideration, gratification gives place to won der at the excellence of their arrangements, and the as tonishing celerity with which the task was accomplished.— Cambrian. THE SUN EXPRESS.—The Sun London evening paper of Saturday, from which we have made our abstract of Sir Robert Peel's Speech at the Glasgow dinner on Friday evening, contained eight and a half closely printed columns of the speeches delivered on that occasion. The proprie tor of that spirited Paper had his report of the speeches sent to London by express ; and, although we have seen on former occasions, the greatest dispatch and energy ex ercised by the proprietor of The Sun, yet the present in stance is decidedly the greatest effort he has made. It was half-past twelve o'clock on Fiiday night before the proceedings of the dinner terminated, and the account of them arrived at The Sun office by half-past one o'clock on Sunday morning —a distance of 400 miles in twenty-five hours.-IVorth Derbyshire Chronicle. THE LONDON NEWSPAPER PRESS.—Among all the cir cumstances connected with the late splendid banquet to Sir Robert Peel in this city, few of them deserve more at tention than the wonderful exertions that were made by the London Morning Papers to have a full and early report of the proceedings at the dinner. As we formerly men tioned, there were about twenty gentlemen connected with ;hese papers in Glasgow at the time of the festival. Sun used formerly to be the journal which excelled all the others in the quickness with which it was forwarded through out the country every thing of public interest, but on the present occasion that paper has been visibly eclipsed by the Morning Herald. The dinner proceedings concluded here. about half-past one o'clock on Saturday morning, and at half-past eleven on Monday forenoon we received a copy of the Morning Herald, containing six closely-printed columns of the speeches, the report being brought down to the close. This unprecedented dispatch has given rise to a strong sus picion that the report, as it occupies \ just a neat page, may have been printed in Manchester or Liverpool, a quantity of the Heralds containing the other three pages being sent to either of these places to be thus filled up. This theory is corroborated by the silence of the paper in question regarding the matter in the following publication. Had it been a bona fide transaction, we imagine there would have been, at the earliest opportunity, a little puffing on the subject. The whole period occupied here is fifty eight hours, being fourteen miles travelling per hour, with out either stoppage to print or stoppage on the road. The Sun, the Morning Advertiser, Post, Chronicle, Times, &c., had also most capital reports, published with great speed. The whole of these journals are loud in their praises of the grandeur of the banqueting-hall, the whole arrangements (which indeed can never be too highly spoken of), and the excellent demeanour of the immense company. Since writ inn. the above we have taken a look at the illorning Herald, and can now say that the dinner page in that journal alluded to has been printed by itself, wherever it was done. —Glasgow Herald. We were indebted to the proprietor of The Sun Even ing Paper, for the first report of Sir Robert Peel's speech at the Glasgow Dinner, which reached this town on Mon day evening, having been forwarded express out of London on Sunday. This is another instance of the extraordinary dispatch for which the spirited Proprietor of The Sun is celebrated. But for the bad condition of the roads they would have accomplished their object many hours earlier.— Dcvonport Telegraph. EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS.—The spirited exertions of the proprietor of The Sun, to obtain and circulate the earliest intelligence of public events, have won universal admiration. On Friday evenin g c , Sir Robert Peel a n d o th ers addressed the guests at the dinner in Glasgow, and by Monday evening, six o'clock, we received a copy, and read their speeches in Devonport, they having had, in that time, to be fairly written out from the reporter's notes, trans mitted to London, composed, printed, and distributed through the Post-offices, and by other conveyances.—De vonport Independent. The rider who was sent off express by Paton & Co., Black Bull Inn, with the report of the Peel Banquet, for The Sun Newspaper, reached Beatock Inn—a distance of 56 miles from Glasgow—in the short period of three hours and 17 minutes. Had it not been that he was detained at a toll-bar, he would have reached his destina- tion in less time.—Ayr Advertiser. SIR R. PEEL AT GLASGOW.—Among the numerous public occurrences that have recently taken place, none has excited so much general interest as those of the instal lation of Sir Robert Peel as Rector of the University of Glasgow, which took place in that city on the llth instant, and the grand banquet on the 13th. Our readers may form some idea of the intense interest of the latter, when we inform them that an account of the dinner, with Sir Robert Peel's speech on the occasion, was published in the Morning Herald, London paper of Saturday, an instance of expedition unprecedented in the annals of the press. They were also published in an edition of The San on the following morning ; and those papers were kindly forwarded to our office. We have not space this day for Sir Robert's Speech, but shall give it in our next.—Enniskillen C'kro nide, and Erne Packet. It is not a minor proof of the interest attached to the exposition of Conservative principles by its leader, that The Sun, a Liberal paper, made the extraordinary effort to sup ply the metropolis with a copy of the speech, within forty eight hours of its delivery, expressing it a distance of 400 miles.—Hampshire Advertiser. TrIE SUN EXPRESS.—ThrOUgh the spirited exertions of Murdo Young, Esq., we were favoured, on Monday last with an expressed copy - of The Sun, containing ten columns of the report of the dinner given to Sir Robert Peel, at Glasgow, on the previous Friday evening. This wonderful expedition in expressing, reporting, printing, publishing, and re-expressing, is witliout parallel or example in thehistory of newspaper management ; and we hope the proprietor will meet with the reward which is justly due to his indefatiga ble exertions.—Northamphm Chronicle. THE HERALD HOAX. We copy the following from the Morning Herald : EXPRESS OF SIR ROBERT PEEL'S SPEECH AT THE PEEL BANQUET. Our Contemporary of The Sun is sadly at a loss to dis cover how we managed to provide the good people of Glasgow at half-past eleven o'clock on Monday forenoon with a full report of Sir Robert Peel's celebrated speech, delivered at the banquet in that city late on the preceding, Frid a y night. Had our Contemporary civilly asked for in formation on the iubject, perhaps we might have told him enough to convince him, that although the thing was un precedented in the history of newspaper enterprise, and threw even the boasted doings of The Sun itself into " dim eclipse," yet it was accomplished without the aid of pigeon expresses, Green's balloon, or the " art of magic," as some Journals have surmised, which would have placed us in con siderable danger had the laws against witchcraft been still in existence. As our Evening Contemporary has chosen, however, to address us in a tone more becoming a lamplighter than the polished " god of day," we must decline to give reasons " open compulsion," and we are therefore compelled to leave The Sun in its original state of darkness. We have never boasted of our rapid expressing, though we have done many things worth boasting of in that way. It has been no subject of triumph with us that we have left far behind the " horses of The Sun." When the mechanical arrangements adopted by newspapers for giving the public accurate and rapid intelligence are satisfactory, they speak for themselves. We have upon important occasions done extraordinary things in expressing news from the Continent at vast expense, but we have not vaunted such achieve ments, nor do we now. We have never troubled ourselves about the expresses of The Sun, though perchance they may sometimes illustrate the maxim of " far-fetched and little worth." Neither have we troubled ourselves about the expikics.s of any of our contemporaries. We have at tended to our own business. We request our "luminous" contemporary to "go and do iikpwise." 4.s to thos e p rov in c i a l j ournals wiiien veptured con jectures q 4 fp our secon d ed i t i on of the 14th inst. having been printed at Carlisle or Manchester, we can assure theta they ,are Ti k e Kornini &raid was ex- The THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 23. 1837. pressed to both those places, as well as to Liverpool, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Edinburgh, and other places. They can see that the Herald, which brought a report of the Peel banquet, of six closely printed columns, to Glasgow, at half-past eleven o'clock on theOlonday forenoon, and to Edinburgh, at six o'clock on the Same Monday, contained the London news, and Continental arrivals, of the Saturday morning. Is not that enough to know ? and, we ask, whe ther, under any circumstances, that conld be effected with out the most extraordinary efforts and the best-comhinod arrangements? [The best answer we can give to the above, are the fol lowing extracts from our Morning Contemporaries. We must, however, add one word. In his tame and trem bling answer to our Saturday's brief remarks on his " Ex traordinary Glasgow Express," our Contemporary (the Morning Herald) is pleased to say, " We have never troubled ourselves about the expresses of The Sun, though perchance they may sometimes illustrate the maxim of far fetched and little worth." Now this can scarcely apply to us on the present occasion. Our express was, indeed, " far fetched," for it was fetched all the way from Glasgow to London, and re-expressed thence throughout the country. We worked hard, and fortunately succeeded in our effort to obtain the earliest intelligence of the Peel banquet. We did not print at Manchester, or at any rate, half way, between London -and Glasgow ; and then call that. Edition a London Edition, of our Journal. We did not shirk the labour and the expense of an express, and then take credit to ourselves for our enterprize. We did not perpetrate a fraud, and then lay claim to honesty. 'We did not fall asleep, and then swear roundly that we are all diligence. In a word we played a part the very reverse of the Morning Herald. Our respective claims arc now be fore the public, ani we leave that public to judge between us. With respect to our Contemporary's sneer that we are but " lamp-lighters," we take it in excellent part. We shall never quarrel with him for his sarcasm, though we may at times fall asleep over his twaddle. A "lamplighter" is at any rate one who diffuses light, and the Herald may be honourably acquitted on this score. The only light we ever knew him throw on a subject is in the present in stance, where he has been the clumsy means of throwing a broad radiance on his own " fraud" by the attempt to prove an impossibility.—En. SUN.] (From the Times.) HUMBUG EXPOSED. Our attention has been attracted by several extracts from Scotch papers contained in the Morning Herald, with a view to puff off the alleged " extraordinary exertions" of the proprietors of that paper in the transmission and publi cation of the report of the dinner given to Sir Robert Peel in Glasgow on the 13th inst. If any merit is due to the proprietors of the Morning Herald, it would be for trans mitting to London, and printing there, and returning to Glasgow, Edinburgh, and places equally distant, a report of the proceedings on the 13th inst. at Glasgow. If they have not done this—if the report in question did not arrive in London on Saturday the 14th inst.—if it was not printed in London on that day—or if it was printed in any town between London and Glasgow, or nearer Glasgow than London, they are not only not entitled to any praise for their alleged " extraordinay exertions," but, upon the con trary, deserve severe censure for having imposed on the public by uttering and publishing, as printed in London, a Paper which was not printed and published in London on Saturday the 14th inst., with the report of the dinner to Sir R. Peel on the 13th inst. The Morning Herald of Saturday the 14th instant, pub lished in London, contains the report of the installation of Sir Robert Peel as Lord Rector of Glasgow, occupying, together with other intelligence, the six columns of the third page. The Morning Herald which appeared in Glasgow on Monday last purports to be also the Morning Herald of the,l4th instant, containing in a " second edi tion" the report of the dinner given to Sir Robert Peel on the previous day, Me 13th instant. To make room for this alleged " second edition" of the 14th, the whole of the six columns of the third page, including the report of the in stallation-of Sir R. Peel, arc omitted, and in lieu thereof the report of the dinner on the 13th is inserted. How was this magical performance accomplished ? Some of the num bers of the Morning Herald of the 14th were printed with the third page left blank. These papers were forwarded to Manchester. The report of the dinner of the 13th was sent to Manchester, and having been set up in type there, the third page of the alleged Morning Herald of Saturday, received on Sunday, as a second edition, the report of the banquet, which was returned by the next mail to Glasgow and Edinburgh as the result of " the extraordinary exer tions" of the proprietors of the Morning Herald. We know that the report published in London in the Morning Herald of Monday last did not reach London till a late hour in the night of Sunday last ; and what are the remarks in the leading article of the Herald of Monday the 16th inst. ? Of course, if they bad succeeded in publishing in London a second edition of their paper on Saturday, containing the report of the dinner to Sir Robert Peel, they would have modestly mentioned the success of " their extraordinary exertions." They would have stated that they had pub lished a second edition containing that report. No, they do no such thing ; they merely say—" On Saturday we laid before our readers the report of the inaugural speech of Sir Robert Peel, upon being installed Lord Rector of Glasgow, &c. To-day we give a report of the speech of the Right Hon. Baronet at the great banquet given in his honour by the citizens of Glasgow." Not one word was said about this celebrated second edition, and why ?—because no second edition 'of Satur day's Herald containing the report of the banquet was printed or published in London, either on Saturday or Sunday. After all their trickery, what do their "extra ordinary exertions" amount to ? They have published in Manchester, or some place nearer to Glasgow than London, a report of Sir Robert Peel's speech—they have dated their paper on a day that it was not printed and pub lished—they have represented it by the imprint to have been printed and published in London, when it was not printed and published in London ; and have even imposed upon the public by tendering for sale and selling as a Lon don paper, containing a particular and important report, a paper which was not published in London with that report.* What have they done that could not' have been done by the proprietors of any other paper if they had been equally re gardless of the law ? The proprietors of this journal, or of the Morning Post, might as well have published their re spective papers in Glasgow, where, we have no doubt, ar rangements might have made for that purpose, but they would have been Glasgow papers for the time being, and not London papers. And why should the Glasgow and other local papers, who really made great exertions to pre sent their readers with an accurate report, be subjected to a competition in every respect so unfair ? Competition is out of the question. The person who undertakes a r ace to a given point and back again, but who runs only half Way and returns, does not complete his task, but commits a fraud, and in this instance it is not only a fraud upon the public, but a fraud upon the revenue, which we suppose the Commissioners of Stamps will not suffer to pass un noticed. (From the Morning Post of Saturday.) Upon the subject of the above extracts (copied from Me Sun of Saturday) we feel no other interest than that which arises from our desire to be deemed, as we were, second to none in cur sympathy with the character and objects of the great Glasgow festival, and second to none in our le gitimate efforts to diffuse throughout the country-a full and accurate report of the proceedings at that magnificent and glorious celebration. That a Contemporary of the metro poitan press was so far intoxicated by the splendour of the the occasion as to play a game of masquerade ; to divest himself for the moment of the character of a London jour nalist ; to invade in disguise the domain of our valuable provincial journals ; to violate the express letter of an Act of Parliament recently passed, after consultations with the Minister of the Crown, in which he took a part ; to place himself at the mercy of the Ministers of the Crown as to the enforcement of penalties to an enormols extent ; to raise a question even as to the future valility of the copyright in his own journal, which must be a London journal or nothing ; are circumstances which, however, we may be disposed to overlook and forgive them, so far as they may be supposed to affect ourselves, we cannot but lament when we regard them in reference to their probable influence upon the character and permanent interests of the London press. It is our unalterable persuasion that the character and permanent interests of that press are never exposed to so much danger as when any important part of it condescends to resort, for sake of momentary eclat, to the mean and vulgar expedients of charlatanerie and fraud. And we pronounce with unfeigned regret, but without the least doubt or hesitation, that these, and these only, are the qualities which the Morning Herald has ex hibited upon the occasion to which we refer. The terms may sound harshly ; but we shall show that they are not misapplied. It will not be disputed that there is an ex hibition of ellarlatanerie and fraud when, for the purpose of gaining a real or supposed advantage over competi tors, a publication is presented to the world for that which it is not. Now the fact is undeniable, that the paper circulated in the north of England, and in Scotland, in the manner which the above extracts describe, and which purported to be a second edition of the London Morning Herald of Saturday, " printed by John• Ryan, printer, at No. 104, Shoe-lane, Fleet -street, in the city of London, and published by Edward Robert Hearn, publisher, of 103, Shoe-lane, aforesaid, at the office in the said place last mentioned, and at No. 18, Catherine-street, Strand, in the county of Middlesex, Saturday, Jan. 14, 1837," was any thing but what it purported to be, This paper was not printed by John Ryan, printer, at No. 104, Shoe-lane ; nor was it published by Edward Robert Hearn, at 103, Shoe-lane, or at 18, Catherine -street, Strand, on Saturday, jan,uary the 146,1837. These statements are absolutely and ent rely fafsg. The thing dispersed throughout the north of` , „, Engian and SpOqand vas printed only in ilart, and never &dished at all in Lon lon. Sheets of the Mornirg Herald of Saturday, the 14th of January, 1837, containing three pages of printed matter with one page left blank, were sent to some town in the north, to Carlisle, or more probably to Manchester, in order that the blank page should there be filled up with a report of the Peel Banquet at Glasgow, and that the papers, thus made com plete should be published in the northern part of the island ‘6th a loud flourish of trumpets, in celebration of the ex traordinary enterprise, diligence, talent, and so forth, of the conductors of the Horning Herald. The performance, in truth, affords no evidence or presumption whatever of ex traordinary enterprise, diligence, talent, or of any other use ful or honourable quality. It was a trick, the contrivance of which implies no ingenuity, the execution of which re quired no effort. It might have been performed quite as well by any other London journals, had the conductors of any other been equally prepared to set the law at defiance, or equally equally eager to snatch a momentary and un fair advantage, at the expense of the local press. But we have yet exposed only part of the merits of this extra ordinary case. The Morning Herald of Manchester or Carlisle, for we arc yet uncertain as to the local habitation of our new provincial contemporary, introduces its report of the ban quet to Sir Robert Peel by the following modest tribute to its own surpassing merit : " By the most extraordinary and unprecedented exertions we are enabled to gratify our readers by a report of the pro ceedings at the dinner given to Sir Robert Peel at Glasgow. yesterday. Sir R. Peel's speech is given at length ; but we are necessarily obliged to abridge the other speeches in this edition. A full report of the whole proceedings, however, will be found in our Monday's publication." The Morning Herald of London (and this alone is suf ficent to negative all idea of identity in the two journals) has not ventured as in truth it had no pretensions, to utter any such boast. Our metropolian contemporary had the misfortune, owing probably to its exertions on behalf of its ephemeral namesake in the north, to be some hours later than most of its competitors, in its first publication in London on Monday last, of the proceedings at the Glas gow festival. For sake of an advantage in the north, which we believe to have been an illegal and know to have been an unfair and dishonourable one, the legitimate claims of the south seem to have been in a great degree disregarded. The coaches which set out from London early on the important morning of Monday, the 16th inst., deeply freighted with copies of every other Morning Paper, each containing a full report of the Glasgow dinner, de. parted to the east, the west, the north, and the south, with out a syllable of the proceedings at the important celebra tion, conveyed through the columns of that particular Journal which pretends to have outstripped every compe titor. To play the impostor on the shores of the Solway and the banks of the Tweed, and to discharge at the same .• . . time with diligence and success the honest duties of a Jour nalist towards the inhabitants of the home, the midland, and the western _circuits of England, are found by experi ence, we suspect, to be incompatible avocations. We, en tertain, indeed, very little apprehension that the feat of jugglery practised in this instance by our Contemporary will ever be repeated. DUBLIN-SATURDAY. . _ (FROSS OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Another opportunity presents itself. for proving the truth of that Tory re-action, so much talked of and desired of late by a certain party. Intelligence reached town this morning of the death of Mr. Kavanagh, one of the Members for the county of Carlow. This has been for some time a Tory county—(l reject the terms Conservative and De structive, as alike inapplicable to the parties so denomi nated)--but very little doubt now exists of its being re stored to the people. Mr. Vigors is generally mentioned as the sure successor of Mr. Kavanagh, and it is very ques tionable whether any perion will even attempt to oppose him on this occasion. In fact, the faction have lost their greatest support there, in the death of the late representa tive. Mr. Kavanagh was, a good landlord ; and, notwith standing the unpopularity of his politics, and the general dislike of those with whom he associated, his tenantry and neighbours were bound to him by many ties, which are now relaxed, and will probably remain so for ever. His son and heir is a minor, and cannot for many years claim the„benefit of his father's character in the country. In this state of things all doubts, as to the conduct of the electors at the next contest, are removed. They have no difficulties to contend with, while following their own in elinations, or the example and suggestions of their fel low-countrymen. Should there be a contest at all, there fore, Mr. Vigors will be sent to Parliament by a triumphant majority. Anil in his return the cause of Re form, and the advancement of civilization, will have a most able and efficient supporter. He is a gentleman of well known liberal opinions- 7 -was the personal friend of the late Doctor Doyle, who entertained a high o pini on o f his • • ac quirements, and of the advantages which they would one day assist, in, conferring on his country. His lit e r a ry an d scientific knowledge has procured for him a high character also, among the.literati of England, as well as in different parts of Europe. His accession to the liberal party in the House of Commons must consequently enhance the opi nions of that body in the estimation of the most intelligent part of the world. Already are the Tories here beginning 'to look confounded. The death of the late Master of the Rolls has been very, opportune, in strengthening the posi tion of the Liberals on a point where hitherto it had been weakest. The Bench had been almost exclusively Tory before Earl Mulgrave's viceroyalty. With the exception of Justice Crampton, the Bailey of the Irish Bench, there was not an able lawyer, wearing the ermine, whose polities were not contrary to those of the nation. The change which is to take place in consequence of Sir Wm. Mac Mahon's death will afford universal satis faction..l havegood reason for believing, the following is the arrangement. Baron O'Loghleti to be Maiter of the Rolls. Mr. Richards the prese n t Att orne y -G enera l, t o be Baron of. the Exchequer. Mr. Woulfe, Attorney- General, Mr. Maziere Brady, Solicitor-General, and Mr. Pigott, Counsel to the Chief Secretary. By this ar. rangement the country will have. gained another able, pure, and independent judge in the person of Mr. Richards. Indeed, the public have assigned him the Mast e r s hip o f the Rolls as the proper reward of his public and private virtues, Ids great experience in the practice of that Court, and his present position as Attorney-General. And it is to be regretted that a collision of merit should keep any man from the station to which he has so many claims. But the recency . of O'Loghlen's claim on the very same grounds, and the impression that the place of Puisuc Baron was not a reward for all his public services, are, it seems, prevalent with Government. The period is, perhaps, not far dis tant, when both gentlemen shall have received a full and adequate compensation for all their p. ofessional sacrifices, and for their unquestionable love of country, at a time when it was not fashionable to admit such a penchant among the higher ranks of the profession. IRELAND. GENERAL ASSOCIATION.-The following are the resolutions which we alluded to on Saturday, as having been proposed by Mr. O'Connell at the Association last Thursday:— " Resolved—That it is the opinion of this Association that it is the first duty of the representatives of the Irish people to realize, if possible, entire religious freedom for the Irish nation in the next session, by obtaining, if that be practicable, the total abolition of the blood-stained impost of tithes. " That if it shall prove impracticable to obtain the entire abolition of tithes in the next session, then it is the bounden and sacred duty of our representatives to fall back upon the next best measure—the abolition of part, provided the same be accompanied by the appropriation clause. That in thus supporting the Ministerial plan of last ses sion, or a more enlarged one, if practicable to enlarge it, the Irish Members do assert and maintain that the entire should be abolished upon the first practicable occasion." Mr. O'CONNELL spoke to these resolutions in substance as follows :—" There is not a man amongst us, or at least there are but few, who at 'some time or other of his life has not pledged himself to seek for the total abolition of tithes. That has been my principle all along.—( Hear.) I was the first man to proclaim that principle to the Irish nation, and, as has been my practice, not only in that but in other instances, I have repeated the assertion over and over again. Now, with regard to the question of instalments of benefit, I have never for a moment concealed that I would require a greater concession when the time was ripe. A concession of the entire at once is always accompanied—and such is human nature—with a species of heartburning and dissatisfaction, that it would be almost better to get things gradually than leave such a corroding reflection of compulsion and superiority behind. ,I am, therefore, for doing good, or effecting beneficial changes gradually, but effectually ; l am for instalments of benefits. The very fact of the payment is an acknowledgment of the debt. Taking an instalment is no compromise of principle; it is rather an assertion of it, and though this may be something tedious in working out, yet the practical utility of it is the surer from its gradual and natural progress. It has been asserted that the Catholic question was gained at once.--(Hear.) Now, that position I at once deny. The first instalment of it, for it was gained by instal.. ments, was granted in 1775, the year I was born, abont 61 years ago.—( Hear.) The Learned Gentleman then alluded to the laws relating to hereditary property with regard to the tenure of it by Catholics in Ireland under the penal code, and detailed the history of their circumstances until 'B2, when they were permitted to enjoy freehold property. Upon • all occasions it was only by instalments I got anything. I want to know your prospect now of getting a total abolition of tithe. A full attendance of the House is 450; if I get 1.50 to vote for the total abolition of tithes, I'll not take an Instal ment. jr. IleatiMont is announced to move the amendment to the address, Mr. Fitzstephen French to second it. I have pledged myself in this room, and since by letter to Mr. Beaumont, to divide him upon this occasion. It may be said that an amendment to an address to the Icing i,Y 4re gatory to the diznity and respect due Monarei ; but I give our, etiernics the tkeircfite Of this 'faltacious argume..t. I will, i f 9.0 q 9 12. ,Menat•er 'for Duntl4l4 Mow such fesolution, 1,t7 second it.—( Hear.) I stood against him last season because I thought it impracticable and mischievous; but after the re solution to which the Association has come, I cannot restrain from expressing my determination to pursue a different course. If we do not get 150, what chance have we ? Every Tory is opposed to us—the majority of the Whigs are opposed to us— an overwhelming majority of the House of Commons is against us. Ido not think we can muster 50, Radicals and all—cer tainly not 70. We will have 99 out of the 100 opposed to us in the Lords.--(Hear, bear.) Is it to be said that we arc not to take off 30 or 40 per cent. because we cannot get the en tire off? Have any of you failed to read the speech of Sir Robert Peel at Glasgow a He insists upon not giving a par ticle of the instalMent. Do you rely upon the English Radi cals? D. W. Harvey says he will not consent to the aboli tion of tithes. He declined to vote for the appropriation clause with the Hon. Member for Dundalk. The Hon. Mem ber refused to vote at the third reading for the measure, be cause it did not take away all the tithe. Mr. Harvey would not vote for it, because it took away sonic, and he would vote for none. The Radicals are decidedly opposed to take away anything. We introduced into the resolutions the determi nation of the people of Ireland never to be contented till we have all the tithes abolished.—( Hear.) What differ ' ence exists between us ? Nothing more than the mode of abolition. We will take, in accordance with our principle, a portion, and leave to future events the fitting time and oppor tunity of calling for the remainder. The existence of the present Government depends upon the support that the appro priation clause gets in the House of Commons, and therefore lam anxious to have the question set at rest. It was upon this clause that we turned out the Peel Administration. He who endangers the Administration by anything except by something. which involved the violation of his oath is an enemy to his country. There is no mincing the matter. I have often considered that a repeal of the Union was necessary, and one thing convinces me more than another that a repeal of the Union is necessary. Fathers of Ireland, tell it to your chil dren—mothers of Ireland, tell your sons as they lisp into rea son, and you are able to understand their words, that there is a brand of degradation upon them so long as Ireland is a piti able paltry province.—(Loud cheers.) Young blood'of Ire land, here in this room—hero, even I help you to strike the fetter off your souls, and bid ye stand forth disenthralled and emancipated. I struggled through many a debate, with many amen coming across my path, attacking my motives, libelling me in the newspapers, and mis-stating and misconceiving my sentiments.—( Hear, hear.) lam here, I admit, the advo cate of the Government, the unsolicited one of course—per haps they may treat my advocacy with contempt. That advocacy may do them injury in other quarters, but my thorough conviction is, that the present Administration is essential to the prosperity of the country.—( Cheers.) Does any man suppose I mean to impute the slightest improper mo tives to the Hon. Member for Dundalk ?—(" No.") Have I said one word which had the tendency of even raising the sus picion that I impeached his honour or political integrity ?.. (" No.") I did not, for it is my positive conviction that he would not do wrong intentionally. While be could not avoid deprecating the error of judgment which that Hon. Gentleman had committed, he was bound to say that he had the most per fect conviction of the purity and integrity of his motives.-- (Hear.) If he had said anything in his absence which could be construed into, and thing like an offence, he had:ouly to say that he did not intend to offer it, and to apologise to him for it. The interests of the country had often been sacrificed to good in tentions; and if, through the error of Mr. Crawford, the Tories were to come into office to-morrow, although the shield of his high character might protect him, what was to protect the people from the consequences ? He implored of the meeting, therefore, in the name of the country for which he had so long struggled, and for the sake of the people, who were be ginning to understand that moral and peaceable combination was superior to secret and violent associations, and was the only sure means of attaining constitutional freedom—in the name of that long-suffering and oppressed, but now politically educated people, he implored and intreated of them to put ari end to their feuds.by adopting the resolutions he had prepared. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD then addressed the meeting. Ile said—Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen of the Association,—l stand before you under peculiar circumstances. I acknowa ledge, Sir, that I came here under very deeply wounded feel. ings ; but the Hon. and Learned Member for Kilkenny has, upon the present occasion, stated that be did not intend to im pute anything dishonourable to me, and I am not at all dis posed to doubt or impugn the sincerity of his statement. But certainly the report of his speech, as published in the papers, did convey that feeling to my mind, and did also convey it to the mind of all those with whom I had the opportunity of speaking. When I read the report of the speech, I determined upon adopting the course of defending myself upon the same ground where I considered the attack had been made upon me. My friends said to me that I should not go, as there would be a packed meeting to oppose me.—( Confusion, and cries of" No, no.") To some of my friends it appeared as if the Hon. Member by his conduct wished to excite the public feeling against me before the meeting..—(No, and hear.) I h ave put under diff ere nt head s t h e crimes which I considered were imputed to me by the speech of Mr. O'Connell. I am charged with indifference to the Government, with an implicit hostility to Earl Mulgrave, and with a violation of the principles of the resolutions which I seconded. lam also charged with the breach of an implied contract, and with indifference to the peace of Ireland. With respect to the charge of , my giving opposition to his Maje s ty' s Government—when fcould not support the Ministry I abstained from voting, and the moment I could conscientiously support them I returned to Parliament. From what I have said, all will not have imputed to me that I wished the present Government to be displaced from power. I attended the House to the latest hour, ready to give my sup port to all measures which I considered it practicable for me to vote for without any breach of principle.—(Hear.) Me. Crawford then passed a high compliment upon the Earl of Mulgrave, and said he always desired to give his support to that Government of which he was a member. In supporting the Ministry, there were two systems by which it might be proposed that they should be supported —one by a slavish sub. mission to whatever Government dictated, and by the repress ment of public minds and of public feeling. I say, however, that they should base their popularity upon the approval of the people. By the one mode they would raise a building upon the sand, which would be blown away by the tempest, but by the other they would build upon a rock whcih could ne, be destroyed ; and if the tempest should come strip - off the roof, it wou ld b e rep l ace d mom I:`ecurely. It was said in Mr. O'Connell's speech, tl' it was probable the Judges might resign, and be rer e i taced by'. others, if the present Government was to be d ],splaced ; but in my mind that consideration ought nod .te be regarded for an instant when contrasted with titO demands of the people. lam of opinion that wo need not fear the Judges, or be apprehensive of what they clan do, when we have a House of Commons the repre sentatives of the people, and a Government acting with im partiality. What would be more frightful to me than having the Judges alluded to by Mr. O'Connell on the bench would be to have the people slaves, and the Ministry not re stored with honour to themselves.—( Hear.) I now come to the charge against me, of a breach of the resolutions which I seconded. It is an important point as respects my honour. I referred to the letter in the ^Freeman's Jour nal, in which paper, after quoting the fifth reso lution of the Association on the subject of the tithe question, it stated, " the adopting such prudent and wise course as shall enable them to realize for the Irish nation the greatest posssble quantity of good." The Freeman's Journal did not say that we were to be pledged to take an instalment, but that we were to be bound to take the Go vernment reinsure of church reform. I say that there was ne such thing in the resolution, either expressed or implied. Show me if there is any thing in the resolution conveying such a pledge. Mr. O'Connell is represented to state that the Freeman's Journal was right in its construction, and he says we ought to take an instalment. But even if we concede that we are bound to take an instalment, we are not sbliged to ac cept the Government Bill. Mr. Crawford referred to a senti ment expressed by the- Hon. Member for Kilkenny upon the subject, and continued by saying, that the resolution in guess tion did not contemplate any pledge with respect to the Go. vernment Tithe Bill. I will come to another point. It seems to be alleged that I committed a •breach of private contract, and lam referred to what passed in committee. It was said that the resolutions were proposed without any objection ; but I ask Mr. O'Connell to recollect, if upon the first day of meet ing he did not propose to reject the whole of the first resolu tion, pro tempore. I agreed that it should be rejected, and it was accordingly so.--(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Circum stances occurred which prevented the Hon. Member for Kil kenny from attending the next day, or for two or three days subsequently, but I had a private interview with him, in which I pressed that the latter part of the resolution ought to be asserted. The Hon. Member the next day proposed the resolutions as they now stand, and the additional ones. I agreed to them. because they contained no pledge that I consi dered was adverse to the great object of the resolutions, which was to convey an expression of kind feeling to the. Adminis tration. I did not wish to enter into any hr . :stile opposition. The way I construed the resolution "Stliuded to was, that it neither declared for nor against instalments, leaving it to the discretion of the representatives, either to accept or to refuse an instalment. If I found an instalment would be the only means of getting something without preventing me from get ting much more, I would take it, but I complain that the au thor of the Government Bill wished to impede, and not to pro mote the object we have in view.--( Hear.) The lion. Mem ber writes a letter which should of itself immortalize his name. It inculcates the principle of total extinction of tithes. I joined with him heart and hand for this great ob ject. We attack the enemy—we storm the entrenchment— and when we are on the point of capturing the citadel it self, is the Honourable Member to come to me and say that we must not fight any more? The Learned Gentleman is reported to have said that he would make the Tories a present of Sharman Crawford. Correcting that expression, he said of his vote he. meant. I do not think any man has a right to make a present either of me or my vote. Ido not hold it at the will of any individual. I hold my seat in Parliament inde pendent of any one. I hold it by the influence of no one, save the good-will of my own constituents. Ido the Hon. Member justice to say, that he never interfered with my vote. If he had, I well know how to answer such an attempt. I reserve to myself the right of forming my own opinion, and the right of exercising my vote on the opinion conscientiously formed.—( Heal, hear.) The last charge against me was hos tility to Ireland. I trust it is unnecessary for me to say more on that subject, and whether I support this Administration or that Administration, hostility to Ireland will never be urged against me as as a ground for it,s.,(Hear, hear.) My country will not attribute wrong to me for honestly acting according- to tely ounielence, a n d openly avowing my condnes..- s —(Hear, hear.) There is no recreant lilocict in my veins: Sir, I cannot bring myself to agree with the rosolu slims, lam sorry that my clergy ge t eel much connected wida the State already, and I will not consent to their having a regium V 0 04,1g0 1 11' 1 tmul ytal far e i4ctocd, to servo ~ ~..,t. my Catholic and Dissenting . NllB*.Country men , b ut I e never be a trait or to my own Church—a( Hear, hear, hear.) I do not want to promote my religion by claiming any thing cox. elusive for it ; bat I want fair play. The other religions are keeping themselves as distinct as possible frinn the State, and I wish mine to be the sarne.a-( Hear, and cheers.) When I say I cannot agree to the resolutions, I do not say so in any spirit of hostility to the Hon. Gentleman who proposed them. but from a distinct feeling that they do not bear out my great prineiple . .—c liver, and cheers.) The resolutions were then severally put and agreed to, with the single dissent of Mr. Sharnian Craviford. Mr. O'CONNELL.—I heard with pleasure some portions of the speech of the Hon. Member for Dundalk.e Other parts of it, however, did give me the utmost pain, as they showed us that when the day of trial should come we Oiall want his sup port, and that he prefers still to adhere to the infallibility of his own opinion in preference to, t 'Udine, the general senti ment of so many good and honest Men assembled here this day. The Member forDiaadalk say s th a t I .never i nter f er e d with a si ng l e vote of his, Now, I tell him that I did; and that, too, upon more decasions than one. Yes, I did interfere with him elaewheao as to his vote-_I did so by arguments and appeals to bis judgment and reason, but never otherwise. The Hon. Member tells us that the payment of tithes is completely extinguished. Now, I wish that he would but attend at the Committee -rooms—he would then see what quantity of tithes:were paid—Otway Cave had even paid. It was said, too, that the Hon. Member for Dundalk himself had paid his tithes. Is it so ? I would ask him if this be the case ? I am told it is. Mr. CRAWFORD—I shall answer you when you are done. Mr. O'CONNELL—The Hon. Member says that you have nothing indeed to do but merely stretch out your hands and pull down the tithes altogether. Mr. CRAWFORD—As regards Mr. O'Conmell's observation about my paying tithes, I hold my land tithe free, and there fore pay no tithes. The question was then put from the chair and carried, there being only a single dissentient voice—that of Mr. Crawford. Mr. O ' CONNELL—It is now too late to proceed to any fur ther business to-night. I shall b e h ere t hi s day-week, and I will then propos e that every parish in Ireland, at least so far as may be practicable, do meet on the 29th of January, for the purpose of voting addresses to his Majesty, praying him to afford protection to the people of Ireland against those who looked upon protection to themselves as giving to them the right of oppressing others. I shall also move on the same oc casion a vote of the unlimited confidence and most ardent thanks of the people of Ireland to Richard Lalor Sheil for his long, brilliant, and triumphant services in the cause of his country.—(General - and enthusiastic I cheering.ut why should not move it n ow ? Hi s success i n the Ho ) use B of Com mons is more perfect and undeniable than that of any mairthat has gone from Ireland. The mew; &villa was his.-( Loud cheers.) It has been said that Upon some occasions I have been successfnl, that my plain common sense has been listened to; but it was he alone who did honour to our country by the bright efforts of his fancy and the beautiful creations of his imagination.__( Checri. ) The motion was then put and carried by acclamation. Mr. O'CONNELL announced that the Justice Rent for the week amounted to 2171. Bs. 7d.--(Cheers.) .Tho Association then adjourned to Thursday. MASTER OE THE is now known that Baron O'Loghlen is to be the Master of the Rolls. Mr, O'Connell stated the fact at the last meeting of the Assooiation. The King's letter only is wanting to have this art the other legal appointments which we mentioned yetierday officially oh nounced. No appOiritinent for a laangth of time has given more genera Rolls l sa . isfaction than the elevation of B aff i n - O'Logh- len to the DEATH OF MR. KAVe:NAGH —One of the Tory Representa tives of Carlow is vmu more. Mr. Kavanagh died yesterday about one o'clock, Mr. Vigors, there is no doubt, will walk over the cotr:ae. This is another vote lost to the Orangemen. ___Dubliat.E.vening Post. POOll LAWS.---MEETINO IN CORE. —The Mayor of Cork • has convened a meeting of the citizens, to take into coesidera tion the propriety of petitioning Parliament for a legal provi sion for the poor of Ireland. The Town Commissioners of Galway, at a special meeting on Tuesday, determined to memorialize the Lord Lieutenant to transfer all the powder in hands Of private venders . there, to the charge of the Ordnance or Military Magazine, in conse quence of the late fatal catastrophe in Limerick. Within the last fortnight no less than ninety tons weight of gunpowder passed through this city for shipment, from 13allin collig. Now, if any one of the waggons in which this quan tity was conveyed, 'broke down on thelParade or South Mall, and that an explosion took place, the calsequenees would 'be appalling.—Cork Standard. On Wednesday evening the Reformers of Carlow. -enter tained Mr. O'Connell at a public dinner, which was given in the large building adjoining Hanlon's hotel. INSURRECTION AT STRA.SBURG. COURT OF' ASSIZES OF TH PL LOWER RHINE. SITTING OF TIIE iBTH INST. ACQUITTAL OF THE PRISONERS. At nine O'clock the CP:art was still more crowded than on former occesionrs. in the inner court of the Palais de Justice the military force was doubled. The sitting opened at half-past niP26. - • President --Have the prisoners anything further to say in their drAri ce ? The prisoners bowed. . The President then announced that the proceedings were terminated and summed up. :A number of persons left the Court. After the translation the President read the ques tions which' the ,Jury were called on to decide. Those questions were 24 in numbers, six of which related to Col. Vaudrey. The Jury retired at half-past 11, to deliberate on the evidence, and on their quitting the Court, one au ditor exclaimed, " Acquit them, aequit them-:' The Pre&dent—Expel every individual who excites slightest di s t ur b ance i n t h e C ourt. ... M. 'Parquin rose, and turning towards the tribune whence the interruption had proccedec, said, " You will injure th e cause of the prisoner s instead of se rv i ng it." M. Thierret—W e most strenuously protest against such exclamations. (This incident caused some sensation in the Court, the greater part of the auditory blaming the demon stration that had been made.) In about twenty-two minutes to Jury returned into Court, and the President declared that he would order the immediate arrest of any individual who should manifest aloud either approbation or otherwise. The foreman of the Jury, M. Vaiss, read the following declaration :—" On my honour and conscic,nce, before God and man, the answer of the Jury, to all the questions put to them is no ; the prisoners are not tuilty." As soon as the verdict had been pronounced, the most unequivocal tokens of satisfaction were manifested f rom every part o f t h e Court. The prisoners were then brought in, and the smil ing countenances of all around them at once proclaimed to them the deckion of the Jury. Madame Go.licrn trembled violently, although she was directly made ac quainted with her acquittal. The other prisoners, how ever, restrained the expression of their feelings till the Re gistrar announced the verdict, when they embraced each other with great emotion. Each of them warmly pressed the bands of his Counsel. All eyes were filled with tears, and, notwithst.mdin g the warnings of the President, the Court resounded. with shouts of " Vive le Jury I" " Vive le Jury &Alsace !" The same feeling was displayed in the Court-yards and environs of the Palais de Justice. The Jury had the greatest difficulty in making their way through the crowds, who applauded their decision. The populace. afterwards moved to the Rue du Fil, to the gate of the prison. The prisoners, in order to escape the im pediments by which they would have been delayed, got into a carriage, which was followed with continued accla mations, and thus proceeded to their respective homes. Durinc , the rest of the day the town displayed the appear ance of a file, and even the garrison participated in the general satisfaction. - It ►vas reported in Court that the verdict was returned by a majority of 8 to 4. INFLUENZA.—Thr, metropolis yesterday (Sunday) presented a melane,tioly spectacle of the mortality. now so .generally prevalent. Funeral processions might be seen proceeding 'in all directions to the numerous burial places in and. around London, each with a long train of relatives or i'riends, and presenting an unusual and extraordinary ap pearance, the undertakers not being able, to supply the de mand for mourning cloaks. The St. Pancras-Road was crowded between the hours of three and five o'clock, and so numerous were the funerals that at one time they ex tended nearly the whole distance from King's Cross to the large burial-grounds beyond the turnpike, near the Old Church. Within the two hours no less than forty-seven coffins were borne along, attended by a vast concourse of persons. At the gates of the grounds crowds collected, and it was found necessary to statio❑ policemen to prevent the ingress of the numerous persons who followed. None but mourners were admitted. Many of the coffins were borne by the friends of the deceased, who relieved each other at stated intervals. For the last three days and nights the sextons have been obliged to employ excavators and gar deners to dig graves. St. Pancras has been mentioned more particularly as coming under the direct notice of the writer, but similar melancholy evidence of the facts above stated, were more or less observable in the various parishes within the suburbs by the mortality occasioned by this alarming epidemic. Whilst, however, the churchyards were crowded, the churches were but thinly attended. The awful circumstances were impressively dwelt upon from the pulpit. Yesterday twenty-four funerals took place in the burial-ground of Christchurch parish. Men were em ployed since four o'clock on Saturday afternoon in digging the graves, and the Minister was engaged in performing the funeral services until six o'clock. The Influenza, or epidemic Catarrh, which is now raging in Landon and other parts of the kingdom, is also exceedingly prevalent here, but we have not heard of any case in which it has been fatal.—Norivich Mercury. On Wednesday, the 11th inst., Henry Burton, of Hotham Hall, Esq., Member for the lobrough of Beverley, had a dinner given to him by tho gentlemen of biN Com mittee, at the Qrecn I nn , 'Beverley.