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astituott into 2cl to overcul king the laso ispitals, so le nuance to the , t and safety' at any persoe cannot believe are satisfied or env other 41, you Knoll VStley Cooper hat .this aany interest" horn it cot" ild not thro o have not been tack he muds eted himself I considering law, I feel om him, fo r •ouble. lied upon t° r were pre' ;eon to Guy'' ieckssat y, fOr wn 3sed to elect ousa I don't and mortar le meant the materials so t it ia a veil Bransbl pointed con' IrgeOn at the hat bad sur de work ape would starve )—lt seeing into Gity'a aerations of nary to elect at the same d. laughter.) , ver on the dte surgeons Er. Bian , lo,,V rere two 01 surgeon, the circunt al is matter y'sliospitalt 's Hospital , ear► come to ire!) , owing xu• stood lit of surgeon aid he e ver luted to Sir h you 5110 motives the well sails- newts. Ob, ertisenunts tent to the • Gentle ',t said, that lent hotu I Humber ; I would be nkAv Avheil and forward to men of 0' at to teara ifortune knowledge d go there Hest intel- fifluali are e more in ,#r the dig' lope of kit ty of enICI hrit bp"' Hospita/p 8 praCtite d such ofh af the 44 ; es irect your case—be- tn, I be- 1 will be t!l'llatation—aof, the reputation of Mr. B. Cooper, but I ' t ' k the Learn e d C ounse l, w he n a pp ea li ng t o y ou , must have dot the story of lago "refutation is oft without merit, and Without deserving"—but in this case there was none to I; Gentlemen, I know not that he had ever acquired fo : ii it iat. o lni n uroaaf il sit s tsi a moru.t 6 , ll l: l 36., . .: C I , n lo e p v t e .r r a l s lea a rd i of rg i e t o ; n a of nd G it u h y a .s s ° ; 11 Y painful duty- in the Lancet again and again to although on.one occasion it was stated, at least that he had performed the operation .. I Yiag the seficlavian artery in a masterly manner, and. re nie.the greatest possible pleasure to communicate ~_fact to th e p u bli c . I'villi. n i I e r t a o n o ssboy Cooper, l et. m e mut,h ; has been saidask youaboutwhat. itt. you reputation v h e ''' r'espec'ting the miseries of the individual on whom l i peration was performed ? Not one word has escaped ,11 'Ps of the Counsel on that subject, not one word from ', 4 Outh of on e o f th e witn e sses. No, Gentlemen, they for the greater part, hospital surgeons themselves ; and k nOtv, too well, what the practices of our hospitals • soil the sufferings patients are in the habit of en -1 at their hands, to feel for this man, er for any man placed in a similar situation ! Gentlemen, %limit(' like to know upon what principle it was the Mau was kept hound upon the table when he int- P 'f to be loosened. Vas he not a free agent ? He 1 :' , what the sufferings arising from the stone were, and a d had b ut a too horrid experience of what the suffer arising froni the operation were. Thus experienced, he anxious to choose the lesser evil ; he said " Let me 14 God's sake, let me go !—I pray you let nie go; "4iet—let it keep in." No, no, says the operator, . 411 not l et i t k eep i n. I must remove t h e stone — my alation is concerned in its removal. You were brought tt ? have the stone extracted, extracted it shall be, and it k, ' b e , if you die upon the table ! Gentlemen, will you l o ur verdict sanction such things as these ? Will you ) ' sll r verdict this day approve of the conduct that has 4 attempted to be justified in this ease? And in I ask you to lay your hands upon your hearts, and /Ourselves after the evidence you have heard in that fr om my witnesses, the uncontradieted.evidence—put . 1. heeds on your hearts and ask yourselves, if you afflicted with the stone, you should apply to b a by Cooper to c ut y o u? If y ou wou ld n ot, th e n u pon llts principl e i s it you can sen d t hi s man b ac k t o G u y' a , P i ,tal to mutilate your fellow-creatures? Ask that tlOl 3 Of yourselves, and if you would not have him as , Perato r upon you, if you were afflicted with. this dis. You are bound upon every Christian principle to re [4.llli.h a ve r di c t as no t only shall acquit me of having 41 htal this report falsely and maliciously, but at the same L 4 as should have the effect of preventing Mr. B. Cooper c ornmittingsimilar injuries upon any of his fellow-crea ,4htthat institution. _How can you return a verdictagainst 4 11 Pon the ground that I have published this report % when you have heard from uncontradieted testimony, I Was assured the report was true from the writer of report b e f ore I wou ld insert it? I was not assured of Mast from that i n divid u al alon e , - I was assured of it by 7i although th ose i n di v id ua k have not been placed in ; . * . itoess' box, th ere f or e y o u ca n only r ega rd th a t as a de glon fr om use, and not as evidence. ;But the reporter has be forward, and stated openly and boldly, that he assured ! t he report was true. -Gentlemen., attacks have been made i: 4 th e rort, b a i le nd ! I w y h a m sure ? ecause it Learned Gentleman, t b , moment lie made that. charge, had forgotten trim- Ile must have been beside himself at the moment he de it l hut I say no more upon that now. That indi - ~4' Stated to me that the report was, true before I pub -1 it ; he has stated to you that he .had stated to me, I s it was published, that it was true. Gentle- have any other persons come forward to '"itatiate that report ? Yea and who are those indi titls Mr. Alderman Partridge, of Colchester, a sue-. hues. Gentlemen, greatest reputation in the neighbourhood where v 4. Gentlemen, there is one witness, and what was t 1 'ltitnony of that witness? That the greatest violence k • 4 sed in the operation—that lie considers the operator l t ° , 3 i unskilf u l surgeon . M r . C a llaway has come for ay al on th e o th er s id e , w h o i s co unected.with the Hos- Was the apprentice of Sir Astley Cooper, is the li nt-surgeon of the Institution, . and looks higher, ili 40 9 C Ilaway looks to the office of surgeon, ,1."1 Y heard that 111 r. Pi`rtridge was an honourable man, Oa he was present at. the operation, and I put him ie witness-box that you might know the truth of the Without asking him a single question ; not one ques -41 p before he went into the box, did I put to him. There : 1 10ther witness wh om I s h a ll spea k o f h ere —M r . L ee , Dinate-merchant... (Much laught e r. ) he aril was: Oat at the opersticah an honest man, and that he was a , Of Branaby Cooper, under the highest oblige.- to the Cooper family, and that he had a on i without asking him a single question, I put him the box as I was most anxious you should hear all evidence you could have adduced, and adduced too. I have' unsttspeuted" and, untainted , quarters. , Gentl e men We cloca-' ; .• 1 „ .. 1 Should have met at places with a view to persuade the beat" , }r° either one way ar other, reject the i n - Irom the' 4 :-I, 4 tion with contumely. No such, thiyg has been from k:by me. I have acted openly. from .the commence f the alr I have not . acted covertly in any one re s p e c t, d regarding . this case, and if a justification of my S a r vi ktt , ei tl llet is to be found in any siugle respect, look—look only s ea erd ' ar !i ehsence of all the spectators of the operation on be )7; ' t ‘ 1 0 1 : p oi th e plaintiff, save the Assistant- surgeon .of Guy's yr'y tal. Why, Gentlemen, if you are ta be so blinded— k my. ° „ e eeived--and so duped—as t o imagine that this operas Was performed in a .stilfol _manner,. when entirely Y one out of two hundred spectators comes forward gxes me att est that the report is untrue, I know not bow by the k' l laracterise your blindness or the obliquity of (together 1 n judgment. Gentlemen,. when I published, this re if he has q I published it advisedly ; I thought before I did it, ourselves 4 4 deliberated while- I was doing it. I was certain, mony h 4 1 told, the reporter so, that in consequence of I to - your I, Itransby.Ceoper must either leave Guy's Hospital Theratelf 1, /l ee or institute an action against nie. Gentlemen, It is in- , ease-( was satisfied .that the public would be the hundred d er• Brom the publicity which the proceedings of yes-, deny its aY and those .of this day will .reneive, persons who ie.; the to our alimonary institutions_ will have an that one • T. 4 tunity of knowing the manner in which the funds did not they give for the benefit of their distressed fellow ;allaway -e i t 'eres are applied, and to what purpose appropriated. rget had , t 4( 4, that. all must be gainers by it. I have never way ad.' col - the; truth. I was satisfied that if Mr. Bransby - ler could prove that the report was false that he Wand ras not ; tOx pIib4FORR kpew that Icoold Rot be inilared, heliev.r4 i', 4l e wiL4 satisfied that . what I Tie doing was correct, . 1. do not believe - that any ;nazi ultimately ever experiences it was ‘ l l !'itiry from doing that which he conceives to be right. If ientiuo- , t 1(1 1. , not believed the Report to be true, nothing on earth rear the have induced me to publish it ; no consideration in t 1640 world could. have induced rue to pubish a ,statement ,of the ' ~ would be injurious to Mr. Branshy Cooper, or any cc been P' man, unless I had the most substieptial reasons; for fry flit t t hug that that tybicli 4 wai l ~:opyclkwicatiug to the pub- Id - 4 1 '., ui founded in truth. Gentlemen, the evidence that r ofh t teenin duced before you shows that I was justi fi ed in reason e and that 1 lied good grounds . for believing that ,raction O tt was true. The absence . of 199 out of QOQ wit, ne f or . niutit, X ishoold suppose, eopyitice xou y *hp same en fhe :'% Who'd., Mr. Biansbv Coopers winless to prove, yOu the . 4 the report is false? And yet that individual failed to is 4, 44 it 50... He felt inclined to give his testimony in an nephew , ~'°urable manner, bot seeing that his situation was un atl the Ziet, he said all that he could fut Mr. Coo, v o i er--,that irgeous (Laughter.) Who were my wtness:li ? titer, at leen whom I had trained and lectured on models and in, yet anions and drawings. Has it been shown to you that I ige• at' Ztlaseted with any person or persons? Mr. Pearl, in, ladder', : 1 1 stated that I had shown good reasons for believing skilful fr ' opening had been made between the bladder and hotex-,: 4 fp ; vfhat Ra,s.led at that t .. ,iina tva4 in the q nef eve of conversation , an d it coma not be with a view to ' ~' de- .ng whatever valiWan d why not ? Because in my report, there is sse ; said o f an opening between the bladder and „ whose ' ' ,,:tectum; iris that the cellular membrane there was easily Id not 0, (Able. Why easily lacerable, does that not itoplkt h At . a seer- •• b ells before the touch, and that there is not an ope nin g ? "Y S h.j Id l use the words easily lacerable—why should Ntlie t term cellular membrane was easily lacerable where was no cellular membrane ? If there had been merely t tit I s hould have said a hole—that there was a hole :*(en . the bladder and the rectum. But, Gentlemen,. h„-, i 00.4 t'o'll that the gorget was i n trochieed after bad . antl that aj ')4lth . the gorget was intioduCilektiPon fianthiation t ile preparation there was no cut to be detected. Y ou !II from all the witnesses that the gorget was introdeiA t „?! 114 —you. 'wail.' from all the witnessa that the cot " 4. • ii:isrott, therefore, knife 11 4 h •t e .ctee the other. That the knife pole awe in rst !el th e blid..Aer there can. be no doubt, whether at first lastk but what evidence have you that the don't i k.f.t penetrated the bladder ?, If it did. not, where did te? Remember this, the gorget is not as wide as !ie.er and that it is not .an uncommon thing for an 1104. pe „ tor ttia gnigri io betWTI the er ' • 'Mr. "Key' hiniself, you saw 5 ' guarded he was, e xceedingly guarded indeed was he, ' 1 1 4 , w very frequent the twitches of his facial nerve s t o at the, momen t he was giyiog his evidence ; 1 . 1, ad 'ed that it the incision with-the toci Wei? rnAtIN and the 4Ri,ge; [To intoiavved pro- ng gratuiteu;ly . Guy's Hospital at the present ma y became cessity of en air.--. e same to the ties to tahle, Atracf ud I, „nos aid be feel it yak o~ tuF report y been but I deal- Vi perly, the incision of the gorget must have inter_ sected the wound firmed with the knife, and yet nothing has been said Of :hat ;' but still, though this stone was shelved, was in a orvity, shelved op, turned, and twisted, so that it walked off fioro the opera,- (and Uhl, can wonder at it, plied as it was), it was ill the end ex tracted with the straight 1-aceps. Gerrtlemen, I bee you -to consider this question Weil. lam appealing ro a .ito'y'af surgeons—this is a surgical question. For God's rake don't decide it hastily—don't decide it against Mr. Bransby Cooper, if you think lie has acted properly. I care not for the consequences. I would - rather - die in a dungeon than injure any man ; hut if it is true, I would rather expire in a ditch than I woukl refuse publishing the truth, I have published the truth, and I shall pUblish the truth come when it may. Well, Mr. Bransby Cooper says he could not tell where the stone was when the bladder was Contracted_ Gentle men, the bladder has but one fixed point—it is fixed by an unyielding ligament to the pubis, and that's the position of the patient when the operation is being performed. IMr. W. chewed the position by the pelvis of a skeleton on the table before him.] You heard a good deal in the progress of the case of the tuberosity of the isehium ; now these are the patty, and when the operation is performed, an incision is made from towards the scrotum, about half-Way down, below this part. Why,- you are told that this stone was shelved above the pubis and behind the pubis ; but, gentlemen, this is the position of the patient (adapting the position of the pelvis), and 0 stone cannot be lodged above the* pubis, because- the pubis happens to be above the bladder, and the stone is lodged below this ; a tendon proceeds from it to the pubis, and no force, not all the force or all the strength of the body can drive it beyond it. Had there been a shelf here, had there been a crooked passage, had there been a cavity, or any place for the deposition of the Stone, do you suppose that shelf would not have been produced ? Had there • been any thing particular in the formatiOn of the pubis, would they not have cut out the man's bone as well as the bladder ? No, Gentlemen, the bone is not pro pueed, but the bladder is produced, and produced in a bottle of dirty spirits. I tried last evening to see that bladder, but I could not. I had no opportunity .of-seeing it. I never saw it till this morning, and even then I did not see it properly. They did not like to ex , pose-that bladder--wby not? Because to surgeons there is in it undisputable proof that' Bransby Coope - r - did :lot perform that operation as he ought. Alr. Callaway knew it—Mr. Key knew - it. Mr. Key admitted that if a gorges was introduced as admitted, in a horizontal pJ. sition, it must have intersected the first incision. You heard all the witnesses yesterday state that after an attempt made to introduce the forceps; another knife was introduced after the forceps were used, and yet I am ashamed of it—l really am ashamed of it—l have not lan. guage to express my shame relative to these gentlemen— these Hospital surgeons—who have come forward to state that this operation was performed in a scientific man ner ! It is impossible—it is utterly impossible—that I, or that any other man who knows how the operation should be performed—it is impossible that Ivor auv other man who knows how the operation should be performed, can express what we must feel relative to these surgeons l But they are ;nterested parties ; they have come here in a song to swear down those disinterested spectators wheat I have brought forward ; they have come here to swear dowti, and outweigh by the influence of their names, and not by their talents, because talents are not always • accompanied with great names, neither are great names always accompanied with great talent, but they' have come here to swear down and outweigh the testimony of persons per- feetly disinterested—persons perfectly disinterested either as regards me or Mr. Bransby Cooper, they care not one straw for MP, nor do they eare one straw for Mr. Bransby Cooper ; I dare say I may never see them again ; they have gone into the box and spoke honestly, with the ex-', ception of one only, while a whole gang of hospital sur geons have come forward who are daily committing the same 'bungling operations that Mr. Bransby Cooper perforMed, aye, and as bunglingly performed. Gentle men you may be aware, from the state of the avenues leading into the Court, that this case has ex -cited the most intense interest is the public mind. I en treat you, therefore, tu consider well your verdict. Weigh well the consequences. I care not for the consequences. If you are satisfied of the manner in which this operation was performed; and think he performed it as it ought to have been performed, give him your verdict. I would with my family give tip every thing—l would give up the Lancet—l would give up all, and expire on the spot, before I would injure Bransby Cooper or arty other man under the sun ; but if you are satisfied that it was not performed as it ought to have been performed— . That if it had hcen performed properly, the man might have been living,: and a 'comfort to his wife and family,— then give such a verdict as" will satisfy the poor, us will shew that men are not to go into offices of this Sort where the poor are to be killed, and that they shall not be at 'liberty to wade and ride through blood up to their neck to crei;ence in their profession, like great generals. Alt, gentlemen, return the verdict which shall satisfy the poor,- which shall degrade for ever, and cast eternal disgrace on these hospital surgeons who have had the hardihood to_ come forward here to-day, and swear that the operation'was performed as it -ought to have been, and that they should have acted themselves in a similar way. I have done, Gentlemen. At the' canclusion of this address, which was spoken in the most emphatic manner, Mr. Wakely was applauded from various parts of the Court. This ebullition of feel ing wee at length checked by Lord Tenterden, threatening the partieS with committa Lord TENTERDEN then proceeded to sum up the ease, and recapitulated the evidence of the Jury. With respect to the desire of the man to be released, he belieied that it was pretty generally understood by surgeons, that Unless a man was of extraordinary nerve, he often wished to be released from the operation ; to which wish the-surgeon of course ought not to attend, as "long as there was a reasonable expectation of releasing the patient from his suffering. As to the report, lie thought that there could be no question that it was drawn up in an unprofession manner—in such a way as no one would have done with a real sense of propriety. The defendant had objected that only one of those who were present at the operation had been called by Mr. Cooper ; but he (the Chief Justice) did not see whom he could, with propriety, have called, besides Mr. Callaway : the others were all young men only pupils--and probably too young and inexperienced to form any judgment -on the case that could be rea sonably relied upon. The question was one of the greatest interest to the public, and to Mr. Branshy Cooper himself. ' It appeared on nearly all hands • that the operation was one of great difficulty—one in which the most able surgeons were liable to failure. It also appeared that the length of time occupied, and the number of instru ments used, were no criterion of the want of skill of the operator. All these circumstances the Jury were to take into their consideration. If they thought that the de fendant had proved the unskilfulness or unsurgeonlike conduct of the operator, they were bound to give him their verdict, whatever their opinion might be as to the form of the report, or the motives Mr. Lambert might have had in writing it. If, on the other hand, they were of opinion that that had not been made out, they must return their verdict fur the plaintiff; and in that ease they would have to consider what damages the ease required The report certainly placed an imputation on the pro-* fessional character of the plaintiff; and as the work was in large circulation ; if the :Jury believed that the defendant was in fault, they were bound to give the plaintiff such compensation as should meet all those circum stances; lint he (the Judge) could by no means go the tenths of the Learned Counsel, in saying that the Jury, ought, by their damages, to mark theic indignation of what bad taken place. They were to look at the whole of the circumstances with coolness and consideration, turd that would lead them to the proper amount of damage.. At a iparter to nine o'clock the Jury retired, and did not return into Court till five minutes to eleven o'clock, when they delivered a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1001. PROPOSED SUBSCRIPTION. A Correspondent who signs himself " a Surgeon," has sent us 51., to beapplied towards a subscription for paying, the amount of the Yerdict in the above case. He at the sarce time v-orp.litmte. 'lcv Suzi upon its exertions in gjyWg the proceedings of the trial as it went on. We thank our correstaotttleot for his good opinion, but as we have no Wish to, do toms than our duty to the public, we cannot ir.,;-; - ;rt any letter apparontly having a partial tendency. We are perfectly willing, at the same film., to receive any subscription, and to hand it over, along with the Si., to the proper quarter. Impartiality is our motto.—Editor of The Sun. It is our melancholy duty to resort, that the Wellivoo4 of (txd be‘ie) kcincardine, was, lost on the bao4s of Tay on Supday, and every soul on, board kreriahed, s4'l .. ad a great many swipe on board, wiAch , she was g oing %o carry t o the Eoglish market, many of which reached the kh",e it? s*fety. Sotur- Wats from BrOglity Ferry at tempted to reach the vessel, but were forced by the heavy "4 4 ild OnAug gale wbieil blew at the time to return with out getting near her.—Fife Herald. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1828. We are again compelled, by the pressure of more interesting matter, to curtail our comments upon political as well as domestic matters. The French Papers contain the trial of M. DE BERANGER, the poet, for libel. He w as sentenced to nine months' imprisomnent, and a fine of 4001. The bookseller was fined 20/. and six months' imprisonment. We shall give the particulars to morrow : The Messayer des Chambres, the French official Paper, says—The raising of the siege of Silistria, the retreat of the Russian troops from the two principalities, and the movements of Hussein Pacha, are represented in twenty different ways. There is aothing snore to say on this sub ject. The details received at Berlin from Constantinople entirely agree with the last letters front Vienna. They dwell principally on the "efforts which the party in favour of peace is Making to prevail upon the Sultan mot to let his armies have a winter campaign, by endeavouring to point out to hire the disasters which a failure would bring upon the empire in so critical a moment. A memorial, extremely well drawn up by all the Mini sters in concert, has been presented to the Sultan by the Kiaja Bey. They represent that it was an established cus tom among the Turkish soldiers to return home during the bad season ; that another innovation, ordering them to .brave the inclemency of the season, would not only discon tent the soldiers, but would entirely discourage them. It was added in this memorial, that the winter already ren dered the roads impassible, and it concluded with intreat ing the Sultan to yield to the wishes of the nation by tak ing advantage of the interval to endeavour to lay the foun dation of a solid and durable peace. The only answer to these remonstrances was a formal order to send immediately to the Balkan all the troops that were not absolutely necessary for the security of the capital, and immediately 15,000 men set out for Adrianople. A few days after their departure, news was received that the Russians had abandoned their position at Shumla, and that Hussein Paella was in pursuit of them. This gave a new impulse to the martial ardour of the citizens, and the friends of peace have less chance than ever. The want of provisions is not yet felt at Constantinople. It is affirmed that the agents of North America are on the point of concluding a commercial treaty with the Ottoman Porte. FRANCH FUNDS.—Five per Cents., 106 f. 95c. ; Three per Cents., 74. f. sc. ; Bank Stock, 1,850 f. ; Naples Stock, 78f. ; Royal Spanish Luau, 79 ; Haytian Loan, 6071. 50c. Exchange on London--one month, 251. 80c. ; • three months, 25f. 10c. The Allgeineine Zeitung of the Bth instant says—" For some time past neither the St. Petersburgh Journal nor the Prussian, States Gazette have contained any news from the theatre of war. The Austrian Observer, received to day, is also without news." VIENNA, DEC. 5.-111etalliquo, 95 5-16; Ban Shares, 1,092. We have received Lisboii Gazettes to the 7th inst., but they contain no news. « His MA JEST x continues without change." So says the Gazette, and- long may he continue so, say we. " The waveless calm—the slumber of the dead." THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCX. There is no improvement to state in the business of the English Funds to-day, and the same languor continues to pervade the market which has existed for these last few days ; Consols opened this morning at the same price they closed at on Saturday, 87a ; and up to the present hour there has been no variation. India Bonds, 62 4 pm. ; and Exchequer Bills, 61 S pm. The Foreign Funds hav e not improved ; Brazilian Bond s are 63A 4 ; Buenos Ayres, 47i Si ; Portuguese, b3i 4 ; Russian Stock, 95i ; and Danish, 624 S. To-morrow will be the Account day in the Foreign Funds. In Shares there is nothing doing, and prices nominaL Three per Cent. Consuls, ;hut ; Ditto, for Ac count, 87i ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 861; India Bonds, 62 4 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 61 3 pm. huninors.—Brazilian. 63i 4; Buenos Ayres, 474 8i; Chilian, 264 7i ; Colombian, 224 3 ; Danish, 624 3 , Greek, 17 18; Mexican, Five per Cent., 25 6 ; Ditto, Six per Cent., 32 ; Peruvian, 184 194 ; Portuguese, 534 64; Russian. 951 ; Spanish, 101 4. _MitiEs.—Anglo Mexican, 774 6 die. ; Brazilian, 38 40 pm. ; Bolanos, 100 110 pm. ; Colombian, 14 13 dis. ; R ea l Del Monte, 140 160 per share ; Tlalpusallua, 10 20 per share; United Mexican, 232 dia. TWO O'CLOCK. Conkols have risen # per cent., and are now 1571 The failure in the City, alluded to in a Morning Paper, for 80,0001., turns out to be less than the half of that amount; report states there will be a dividend of 10s. in the pound. THREE O'CLOCK Consols for AccoNat, 8711; Monday morning, about one o'clock, the wind, from blow ing strong at S.W. came suddenly round, and blew very hard from E.S.E., and continued so fur about six hours. The tide at Leith, (supposed in conse quence,) to,e upwards of 4 feet above what it had been the tide previous. he following was the depth of water of the three successive tides, at the pier head c--Sunday, r. m. 11 feet 7 inches ; Monday, e. Mt. 16 feet 2i inches ; Monday, P.M. 12 feet 111 inoltes. —Edinburgh Observer. SHOCKINZ: MURDEIt.-011 Thursday a dreadful minter was committed in Carrickmaeross, A man named Flanigan. on coming home from his work to bre.ikfust, beat his wife in so inhuman a manner, that she, expired almost instantly : her liver was dreadfully lace rated, in consequence of the abuse she sustained. On the following day an inquest was held, when the prisoner %vas fully committed to abide his trial. It came out irrevi dence, that the monster •had been in the constant habit of beating the deceased. The parties were little more than a year`married—they had one child. Flanigan is about 21. years old ;- the poor wife was not more than seventeen... — Dublin Freeman's Journal. , Lance, the artist, nas nearly finished the two fruit pieces, painted expressly for the Duke of Bedford ; and after they have been exhibited at the Royal institution, they are to be deposited in the Noble Gallery at Woburn Abbey, amongst the splendid. collection of the works of Alodern English Artists male with so utuch taste by the Duke himself, There never were so many salmon seen at this season in the Almond, bear Perth, and its tributaries, as within the 1!- 4 t two. er three weeks, and on those fords which have been examined the spawn appear to lie very thick. The vigilance 'of that new, but muc h w a nted, class of men, the water bailiffs, has compl ete l y c h ec k e d the operations of the poacher in that neighb our h oo d, and a successful fishing is naturally looked for t owar d s the .ter mination of next, and in the course of the following season. —Edinburgh Evening Courant, PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank )4ock 3 per Cent. Ned. ....... 3 per Cent. Cons shut 314 per Cent Dia') Rol • 9-ky t A 4 per Cent. -tlitt 10 ;1," It 5 Bankl. Ann. India Stork Oat° is~ndh PRICES OF IRISH S'COI Bank Stock • 2513$ Consols, 3 per celtt Gov. Stock, :-1% per cent 94% Ditto, New 04% 4 per Cent. lOl% Gov. Deb. 3!gi per cent Royal Canal Stock 4Y% Grand Canal`Stoil 'City Deb. 4 per cent_ Ballast Office Deb. 4 p. c , HAY AT ONF J . CI °CF:. ilmith S,ta i:tuck Old Amount:, . 'New Ditto — !Ex. Bills, ..*:1,00 , 1 ad. hi 63 pm. Ditto 5430 2d. hi 61 ion. Ditto Saudi lijilViCbramerclat ......... —l.-ol Rank for Accouut - India for Av.,)tilli ... : ..... 1 iCuilii. fix' .A.Jci 8"; q :"KS, DUBLIN, pre. 12. St. Patrick Insur. (per sh.) lloy.al'lrlsh Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Hibernian Bank Provincial. Ditto Royal Irish Mine nitieri al Mine Mining. Co. of Ireland .. . Coinmercial Buildings ... . , TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Communication of our liberal Correspondent at New astle-upOu-Ti,rua has been received, and shall be at tended to. ? . - rbr • „ - SHIPPING IN TE LLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROAI LLOYD'S. MAL, Dec. 13 and 14.—Wind W.S.W.-- . —The Mary Ann and Andromache turned away this morning: he rest of the outward-bound remain: The whule of the vessels haund to the westward have saih 1. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. IS, and 14..-:-.Sailed his Majesty's ship Weymouth, for Bermuda ; his Majesty's ship Chal lenger, for the Cape; his Majesty's ship Pallas, with sealed orders. The Caroline, Campbell ; Flora, L'F:veque ; Vietor, Sadler; Clara, Hall ; 4nd Arundel, Ford ; for • Jamaica ; • Eudora, Crawford, for Calcutta ; Withuu and Ilenry, for Grenada; Olinda, Robinson, for the Cape ; Anii Parry, Jones, for Cadiz ; Robert, , Montserrat.; Fife hire, Win -- son, for Brazil ; and Lord Melville, -Brown, :tor New. South Wales. FALAIOOTH, DEC. 18.—Wind S.W.—Arrived from London, the Everthorp, Bell, for Jamaica ; Eagle, Hea ney, for Leghorn ; and Hope, Sinclair, tio. the South Seas. Arrived the Duke of Kent packet, from Lisbon, sailed the '7th inst. Sailed the Magnet picket, for Lisbon. CaEtx, DEC. 14.—Arrived the Amazon, Blues, from Trieste; Lady Frances, arid Henry arid Sarah, from Messina ; and Pule, Tender, from Aquilas.: Cowes, DEC. 14.—Arrived the Weasel, Todd,. from Port-au-Prince; and Mary Ann, Faulkner, from. Btlboa. LIVERPOOL DECIAIRE l 2!. -Wind W. S. Wa t er 59 minutes past two.—Arrived the John Welch, from Jamaica; Gem, Scotland, from Fayal ; M a tild a , Moore, from Malaga ; Active, Ash, from Fi guera ; Susannah, Carpenter, from Gallipoli ; Ceres, Miller, from Marseilles ; Acadia, Hutchinson, from Que bec; Nautilus, Jacobs, from Nova Scotia; Helen, Robin son, from Savannah ; Youug, from Santa Martha ; Duncan, from Waterford ; Sir James Kemp, Martin, from Philadelphia. CLEARSO OUTWARDS. —The Experiment, Tessier, for Jersey. SATURDAY, DEC. 13.—Arrived the Helen, Russell, from Dundalk ; Swan, Pringle, from Glasgow ; Richards, from Dublin ; Rose, Still, for Havre-de , Grace ; Jane and M'Keay, for Havanna,' ; L'Arniable, Ray, for Bordeaux; Robert Burns, Ridley, for Mobile ; Itowa, Rimmerss, for Elsineur. The Phoenix, Phillips, from London to the South Seas, was totally lost, near Penzance, on Friday; the master, and second mates, and twelve men, drowned. REPRESENTATION OF CUMBERLAND. Died, on Tuesday night last, aged 72, at his seat, Workington Hall, J. C. Curwen, Esq., the popular and highly respected Member of Parliament for the county of Cumberland. Mr. Curwen was representative for Carlisle for nearly 40 years, and in 1820 was elected for the county, on the resignation of Lord Morpetb, now Earl of Carlisle. By the death of Mr. C. a vacancy occurs in the Repre ,entation for Cumberland ; and Sir J. R. G. Graham,Bart., of Netherby, the present Member for Carlisle, has offered himself as a Candidatii. No opposition is expected ; and, as Sir James is highly popular, there can be no doubt of his being elected. No successor to Sir James, as Member for Carlisle, has yet offered himself; but rumour points to W. Lawson, Esq., of Brayton Hall, a gentleman of indepen dent principles and ample fortune, .who was the unsuccess ful Candidate at the last election. We subjoin the ad dresses which have been issued by Sir James Graham : TO THE FREE AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF CARLISLX. Gentlemen—A vacancy having occurred in the Repre sentation of the County of Cumberland, I have resolved to offer myself a Candidate. This► resolution of necessity involves the imme diate surrender of the trust with which you have honoured me, and •I announce to you the step which I have already taken, of resigning my seat for Carlisle. • I am most grateful for the confidence which you reposed in me, and for the indulgence with which you received my services; that confidence, I would hope, has in no respect been abused, and your past favour I never can forget. I shall best evince my gratitude, in whatever situation I may be placed, by an endeaVour to promote your inte rests, and to merit your good opinion ; for though no longer your Representative, still,- as your neighbour and obliged friend, I can never cease to be deeply interested in your prosperity.—l have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your obliged and faithful servant, Netherby, Dec. 11, 1828. J. R. G. GRAHAM. TO THE GENTRY, CLERGY, AND FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, Gentlemen—The death of Mr. Curwen, who throughout a long public life, both merited and enjoyed your favour, creates a Vacancy in the Representation of our County, and opens the highest object of antbitien to which a Country Gentleman can aspire. • From my earliest youth I have ventured to hope that in due season this honour might be attained by me; and the desire not to prove altogether unworthy has long actuated my conduct, and has animated every exertion. The present opportunity appears fit for an appeal in fa vour• of my pretensions. You have lost a tried and faith ful Member, whose superior clai►xs I have inva► iably re cognized; and having acted for . ten years in strict concert .with hint, both in the County and in Parliament, I nat►►- rally am led to believe, that the public principles, which you approved in Mr. Curwen, will in me also receive your decided sanction and support. ' I have therefore resigned my seat for Carlisle ; and I throw myself absolutely on your suffk age, iv the hope that I may not be rejected, as unworthy of your con fidence. 1 will not insult you by any empty professions ; my whole life is before you ; it has been spent on my paternal inheritance which binds me to the County of Cumberland by every tie that can sway the heart of man ; and perhaps I may be allowed to appeal to my public conduct as the test of my public principles. With warm attachment to Civil and Religious Liberty, tempered by a firm determination to uphold our Establish ments in Church and State, I shall endeavour, if chosen your Representative, to discharge my duty faithfully, to transact your business diligently, dispassionately to exercise an independent judgment, and on all occasions to prefer your wishes and interests to my own. lose no time in soliciting personally your votes ; and I have the honour to be Your most obedient humble servant, Netherby, Dec. 11, 1828. J. R. G. GRAHAM. The Duchess. of Kent, the Princess Victoria, and the whole of the Royal Daches's Household, attended divine service , yesterday in the private chapel, 'in the King's Palace,,Kensington. The service was performed by the Rev, Mr. Davies. The Neapolitan Minister transacted business at the Colonial-otEce, Downing-street, en Saturday. Sir Geo. Murray and Mr. Secretary Peel vi shed the Duke of Wellington on Saturday. Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald came to town on Satur day, from the seat of Mr. Hope, at Dorking, Surrey. Mr. Secretary Peel and Sir George Murray left town yesterday for the seat of the Marquis of Chandos, at Wootton-house, Buckinghamshire, where a large party of the Nubility and Gentry are expected to assemble. A King's messenger was sent off' at a late hour on Saturday night, .from the Foreign-office, with despatches for Lord Cowley, our Ambassador at Vienna. Mr.:Herries arid Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald visited the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday at the Trea sury. CAPT. Silt WILLIAM HOSTS, R. N.—This truly distinguished officer, and most amiable private Charae ter,.departtd this life on the 6th instant, nost sincerely and deservedly regretted, at the early age of 49 yea's. Brought up in the school of the immortaCNelson, lie made it his invariable practice to imitate his bold and daring spirit, and every one who felt interested in the naval concerns of the last war must well remember the name of Haste, in the Amphion and Bacchante,- coupled with some of the best concerted and most gallant exploits ac hi eve d in the scenes of his services, chiefly in tile Mediterranean, capture of ships, pl ices, convoys, batteries, &c. in a word, adding to the naval dignity of his country, and covering himself and gallafit.companions" with glory and admiration—they nui. !brolly received their reward from a gratethl country. The exploits of Sir William Haste in the Mediterranean gained him the name of " Young Nelson :" after such a compli ment, and this from the highest source of judgment, any addition from the pen would be superfluous. Calm and resolute in command, cool and - deliberate in action, mild and humane to the vanquished, kind, dignified, and un assuming to all around him, lie lived beloved and died la mented. Sir 'William Hoste was a Baronet, K.C.8., K.M.T., Captain of his Majesty's yacht Royal George, made Captain in Jan. 1802. —Devonport Telegraph. A respite, during his Majesty's pleasure, ar rived on Saturday - evening , at Newgate for Peter Fenn, convicted of forgery at the September sessions. Yesterday finenoon, a wine and spirit n:1F.4% ,31, 1.• in the High Street, aft er a s i c k ness of itpa days, expired o." the measles, Sco NEWOATE AND LEADENI-lALL MARKETS. At pes stone, by the Carcass. e. 4. too. d. cl. toe. d. Beet 2 2 3 6 Veal 3 0 410 Mutton 24 3{i Pork 44 58 TILE NIARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE. - The-supplies of Enelish Grain and Flour last week were toler.hly goo , l, ;wit of Fut - ell - fa Wheat large. This morn hig flout. is•a betzrr supply than has re.:ently appeared of Wlie.it, Perm:, aa.l Fea.c frour Essex, Kent, and . There ate - several mor e V. sst•ls fresh up from the north anti fofeign'ports. More aroney was again minded for Wheat this morning, but the buyers not being willing to follow the advance, sales were made at about 2s. per qUarter on English, and 4s. per quarter on the licit t fort it n, more than on this day se'sirright, which is very Friday lit last. 1 terr ca t i r o4r y lr i .l o e tn e - t„) t l a ie e i t t r t i t 7s sa i t e h a t t iuNnVeoref late, o i : , le hur: . Itered: 'Beans and Peas both remain dui I ,st quotations. There is not much doing rie at present, and thetermsotilast Monday arc unaltered. There is et large stork of Flour in Lou dun, and the It than of late. ices are unaltered, with railer more doing PRIM OW BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old White —Red (lb`, Super: White (i Fine.. Super) --PP— Foreign I)j—s. —3. 01d)... —s. —s. 28) . ... Ws. li6s. rrine.. 68s. '7ls. ;1828). 603. 723. 13eans, Sn - .all (new) -s. -s. (old) .... 465. 51s. - Tick (new) .... 335. 365. - (old) .... 40s 425. Harrow (new) 38s. 40s. (old).. 41 s. 46s 245. 26e. 225. 265. 19s. 21s. 245. 30s. 20s. 275. 255. 295. 235. 275. 295. 955. 231. 295. ck) 70s. 755. 50s. 665. itry 58s. 635. 7s. Ss. 745. 765, 803. 84s. I free 62g. 1751, 18s., 423. New 3is. 243. S7s 40s. 41s. 445. 603. 653. Brank Oats, Feed New .. Poland New , Potatoc New Barley ---- Fine Superfine Malt --- Fine Pease, Grey Maple White -- Boilers 70s. 725. - Scotch Flour Town --- Seca Nort Bran 331. 4Us. 41s. 425. n (per ta th Com 40s. 445. 40.5. 48s ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST wkEK. g ° w e'l From Whence. FD . • - - Uri. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Scks. Alemouth — 441 Boston Chichester Clay — 400 545 :owes — C Colchester l7B 97 460 80 480 208 80 Harwich 1025 140 • Leigh LiZt 74 — 4 B, I+s • Mhldon 49 b 41 190 Grangemouth — Hull — 460 60 lswicli lO 82 913 15 320 ent 412 572 935 234 391 448 1095 Lynn 1341 25 870 Newcastle — 432 Newhaven Poole 64 73 96 Scarborough Southampton 11 25 419 Southwold Spalding — 260 160 Whitby Woodbridge 290 up Yarmouth — 642 311 695 Aberdeen — 2300 Berwick Banff IOU 980 Dunbar — 63 Dundee — iSU Montrose — 50 136.5 34150 3137 8382 1.418 1031 5415 IRlsn Cork 320 940 400 Dublin Waterford — 300 570 Youghall — 512 FOREIGN. Alexandria — Antwerp 5157 1030 120 -- Archangel Bremen Dantzic Elstieth 2BO . .110 Hamlatrgh Harlingen I-layre Nyburg Ostend 5OO 56 Petersburgh 2BO 265 Rotterdam - Spain 15511 80 Total AGGREGATE QUANTITY OF OTHER RINDS OF PULSE. Rye, 300—Tares; o—Linseed,lloo—Rapeseed, o—Brank, 722 Mustard, o —Seeds, 293. SAIITHFIE D MARKET. At this day's market, which exhibited what is termed " the great Christmas. supply," embracing the greatest number of well-made-up Beasts we, who have been ac quainted with it nearly 40 years, ever witnessed in it ; the Bullocks of various kinds not only filling the . market's area, but also Ouiltspur-street, half-way down on the St. Sepulchre's Church side of Skinner-street, and, in brief, every avenue leading into Smithfield, and was, in other respects,- moderately well supplied ; the ordinary run of meat sold tardily at about Friday's prices; but with highly-fattened Beef, Mutton and Veal, the trade, owing to the salesmen aiming at advanced prices, was very dull, with the former at a depression of from 2d. to 4d., the two latter at an advance'of from 4d. to 61 per stone.— The prize Beasts were sold in the store-yard, the former at bs. the latter at ss. 4d. per stone. PHICES PER STONE OF 81.E.5. To SINK THE OFFAI,S. s. d. to s. d. s. d.tos. d. Inferior Beasts 2 0 2 6 Large Lambs ....... 0 U U U Second quality ditto 210 3 2 Prime small ditto... U 0 0 0 Prime largo Oxon.— 4 0 4 8 Large coarse Calves 4 4 41U Prime Scots, 4 4 4 Prime suiall ditto... 5 4 5 8 Inferior Sheep 2 8 3 ' Large Hogs ..... 4 8 5 4 Second quality ditto 3 2 3 6 Small Porkers 5 4 5 8 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 0 4 8 Suckling Calves 12s to36s. each. SouthaiuMWetbers 4 "c 5 0, Quarteradrigs 16s to2os.each. SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. I Pigs. I I 4,813 • 20,440 154 I 140 About 3100 of the beasts came up the different North lloasd; about. SOO from the western and in Ntrtolk, Sufi°lk, Essox, an C Kent and Sussex ; and most of ti &e., in the neighbourhood of L unsold on Friday. iidQid districts; about 200 froni 'antbridgeshire ; about 290 from he remainder from the marshes, .cindon, including .about 300 left MANCHESTER CORN MARKET.—Dee. 12. We have had a fair demand for the manufactured articles of Flour and Oatmeal during the present week ; and about Is. per sack advance has been obtained on the former. The attendance on 'Change this morning was small ; the show of Wheat was limited. The prices in this market are stated to be quite disproportionate to those obtained in the London and other principal markets. The merchants were careless in making offers, and but little business has been done. Fine English and Foreign Wheats are about 3d. per bushel dearer ; but It - Lit will not realize more than 2d. above last Saturday's prices; grinding Barley as last noted; Oats are held at an advance of Id. per 421bs. ; Boiling Pease are more in request at the quotations. Hav ing a good supply of both old and new Beans, last week's rates are barely supported. We have had many maltsters in town this week ; and the Brewers and Publicans complain of a short consumption of ale; consequently Malt is diffi cult to sell, even at Is. below last Saturday ' s p r ices; Flour is full Is. higher; and Oatmeal about 6d. p er l oad dearer. Customary Bushel. Qum'. of 8 Imp. Bush. Wheat ('701b.) s. d. to s. d. s. J. to s. d. English, Old----....,.....- 11 6• 12 0 82 9 86 4' Fine New-......... 10 9 II 617 4 82 9 Second liking—JO 6 10 672 0 75 7 Scotch & Welch 11 3 11 9 81 0 84 7 Irish, Fine Old .........-,...10 6 11 075 7 79 2 ___—. New _ 10 4 11 0 74 4 79 2 —. 1nteri0r.~............. , 9 4 96167 -2 68 4 Foreign, Dee 11 6 12 2 82 9 g 7 7 Barley (60lb ) English, Fine Irish --.- ~...-. 5 4 6 0 --Inferior for grinding 5 0 5 3 Oats (45ib.) English, Fine P01and.....,- Scotch, Putatoe -. Irish, Mr Mealing -............ ----Pr0vender............. Foreign Old gii_ ln ......___ Herior- 48 47 0 0 'Pease (trap. Rush.) Blue, (boilers) .........,--...„..... 7 6 8 0160 0 64 0 White (ditto) ..--,,-,,,_.,,,,,, 56 ° deans (Imp. Qr.) 11. d. to s. il. P er s ac k 2809 0 ) s • d. to s. d. English, Fine.........., 49 0 50 0 Flour, N • -folk - 4;nd Irish, 01d.........--- 43 0 -44 9 y ks :Fine 58 ° 49 ,1 a ° 4 5 9 0 : Malt (per load of 6 Imp. Bush.) , Irish, Fine, 59 "' Nottingham, tine., 50 0 52 0 ' sivla4tine 03 U 65 0 ---- Forei Y0rk5hire....,.......,., 48 0. 50 0 1404:i..a.ur stale 51/ 052 0 Irish and Inferior- 36 0 42 0 — Per load of 2401 b. _ EngliSsl.. , 36 0 re - 0 Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. Oainical, Flour Notts. Fine :`,9 0 ' .61 0 sc ' tell & sd lnsh 3.7! U :* ° ----""-----* Stip. 65 0 6 4 0 . r ..............- Ito-iN; 26 U 3040 1 .S'uott.rt,Lk.c.Fnind.e., 59 0 t o ) , t . '; .) o . 0,,(1 43 4 46 9 : 36 11 41 '7 3k 8 36 4 45 4 7 43 4 6 42 4 5 4 3 4 6 32 11 at ;2 31 8 3.1 31 1 3t 11 31 $ 33 7 28 '1 31 8. 310 4 3 S'„, camg. F, N 1 1 . .. a o t t o h r i s a b n e , - fo s r o e l of Admiralty, ha s the High Court Sir John Connell, Judge of It i l l i n e in o t idi i n r. ar) ,l i a n t • l o r Ct e l: the evening of Sa turday last, the 6th inst ., h cam e on to blow very hard from the S.S.E., witioh increased during the night to a : very ats of many of . the .ll whorl between four and - five o'clock on Sunday mottling it s power rather abated ; but its violence had rose such a tremen w d j o i j u 4 s ti s , e ap o ou n t t i l n ie g o i u n tii x t v le it o h ft t lr e nt s o p u r t in li g of ti A d l e i , lf e o a r t d ts l l l d a t: . choonnisiderably to overreach its usual bou r. i.:cl o ar k ) e , c t i v e itt i i i ‘ riea - ak i e. i; n houses at }Lakin, al cayrxkg from their swellpipill, l and: in run i i o i f g tidethanthe lower wasalleTwe moorings a kre m number of Ve;m/s{-hauleti up at high water m winter), in various directions across the Pill marls fQ: ran foul of each other, with some dainatrl, to. most W4ich an their spars and bulwarks. A great quantity t f of them in . 0 wreck has been seen floatirl o Calkly Islans/ C • .. ,-- uptiori un „ v i o le n t at i crihitati Otiricoe,autvbt.ylei.::_ii:pest,l(ee:llo,lseat)e.(:.7kiole:. MR. O'CONNELL'S DEPUTATION: (From the Dublin Morning Post of Friday. We have every reason to be of opinion that the new scheme has - received the coup de_ grace. On Saturday last we said, " Air. Wyse declines the honour, Mr. Sheil also, and we have no doubt that the events of the last 'deputation (the ever_memorable deputatio n of 1825) are fresh in the recollection of Lord Killeen." At the Asso cietion yesterday, Mr. Secretary O' Gorman stated that he bad letters from Lords Killeen, Menai, and Gormane town, and also from Mr. Michael Dillon Bellew, d ec li n i ng to accompany the ,mission to England. These letters were not read—for what good purpose we are at a loss to eon jecture; but we think it would be only common justice to the writers of the letters, and common decency towards the public, to make known the grounds on which- they have declined. This system of cushioning public documents is did re they al really disgrac e f u l. Did t h ey di sapprove o f th e Mi ss i on , or hold the political quack who planned it in too much contempt to obey his commands, or in too much doubt to trust themselves under his leadership? Whatever may have been their motives, w e cannot but admire their pru dence, for assuredly had this itinerant deputation pro ceeded to England, headed by a man who has rendered himself so obnoxious to every educated and noble mind by his vulgarabuse of all those, however respectable in society, who ever had the honesty to disapprove of. his . fully, the consequences would Jae , most dangerous to the Catholic cause. We are glad to observe that the more intelligent portion of the catholic body are at length beginning. to judge for themselves, and to take a right view of things,_,_, We hail this event as a proof of returning good sel l s, —We give Mr. O'Gorman credit .for his manly sentiments, in reference to the .opinions expressed by the writers of a letter from Waterford, who pour - forth their indignation against all those who are guilty of • the heinous crime of opposing the virtues, as they are pleased to say, of Mr.- O'Connell. We would be glad to know what they mean by his virtues.. Mr. O'Gorman said, he " considered that all gentlemen had a right freely and fully to express, their opinions; but,. certainly, he did not . think there was any right whatever to load with anything like opprobrium, men who acted honestly in their labours for the public good.. He felt most anxious. that all their sentiments should be public ; but he, at the same time, had ua idea of the propriety of using such words as ma lignant opposition,' and therefore could not move fur the insertion of them on their minutes." These, we repeat-, are manly sentiments, and are creditable to the public spi rit of Mr. O'Gorman. Mr. O'Connell told a story about a Bishop's lady, and a New Emancipation Bill.; which nobody heard any thing qf but himself: We now entreat the Catholics to be on their guard, and to keep a strict eye on the progress of events; aecresy in affairs which concern the nation at large is at all times suspicious. THE LATE LEEDS MEETING. (From the Leeds Mercury.) The Brunswickers of Leeds have been driven ..quite to. their end by the defeat of yesterday week: .For time they pretended to dispute-the victory, but seeing that this was of little use, when the- - prize was actually in.the bands of their opponents, they have resorted to one of those. ludicrous expedients, to which persons are sometimes driven by the shame of defeat, and which. only, expose them still more to public ridicule. • Not content with .the Hole-and - Corner Meeting at. the Music-Hall, the results of which they have had so much cause to toe, they oiled another at the Court-house for Wednesday last, and there a .few of the routed troops of bigotry assembled iu sad rendezvous, to consult " What reinforcements they might gain from "If not, what resolution from despair." • .; Hut hope, alas! had no. reinforcements to offer them; and the resolution of despair is shown in, that irregular, unpre cedented, and silly ". Protest," which they ,intend to send up to his Majesty, with a string of names collected by, 1)4- sons, constables, and sextons, it t of clubs and workshops. The first and most promineui..feature Ott this .proceed ing is—Acknowledgment of Defeat, Its authors do nGt - evenpretend to victory. The numbers present at the meeting have heervvariousiv estimated from 15 to 25,000. Our own op;;n1 0u is, that they were about 16 or 18,000. It has been asserted, with an utter disregard to truth or - decency, that the stones which were thrown so atrociously at the close of the meeting, proceeded first ti-out the side of the Liberals. This is so manifest and notorious a falsehoo .l, that it is scarcely worth noticing. But every person at the meeting must have seen that the missiles proceeded front the Biunswicker side of the Cloth-hall, and that a conti nued volley was poured front the roof by persons who must have prepared a quantity of nminynition beforehand, at the Liberals, both on the hustings' and in the crowd. A few stones were thrown back in self-defence •but not one ' tenth of the number whick, had been flung from the roof of the Cloth-hall; and we have not heard that a, single Bronswicker was hurt, n hilt many of the gentlemen on the Liberal side, both on the hustings and ;trate yard, were seriously cot and wounded.. 'This ahotninable transaction illustrates the spirit of the " party ; whe n they Sod them selves defeated, they display an almost franti c violence. A statement has been put forth in the intolerant papers, to the effect that, at the meeting in the Cloth-hall -void, at Leeds, whatever might be the disparity in nitiohe ts , the Binnswickers h ad the superiority i n po i nt o f property as. five is to one ! This is one of . those bold mendacious as sertions which unprincipled men are accustomed to make when they know that, from the ruttore of the subject, there can be no demonstrative evidence to cOntradik them. But in order to put these boasters to the test, n, will under take to prove, if they will go with us into the inquiry, that the 402 inhabitants, who signed the rrqiiisition to call the meeting in support of the Address to the King in fa vour of the tatholic Claims, occupy property, and wa way fairly infer possess property, to a larger amount than 800 out of the I,ooo' of those who last week signified their intention to oppose that proceeding, by what i s called " the Protestant Declaration and A4.ess." If the Brunswickets do not take up this challenge, the pithlic will know libui in future to estimate their vairoglotious boasting. Our firm conviction is, that i u point of pro perty, (no very good test of truth), the . 402 Liberals woutki outweigh the 1,000 Itliberals ; and we si z e quite sore that the former gre a tly preponderate over the latter in inieth genes and disinterestedness, thongh not so muc h as the. athnethoaruitthoryoifty of Mr. oosPittt those two dMprr.ofPotid tx l p s r e t , a p t o e n s ta l, tes m o l v „ . ; " Hall, Esq., and the Rev: Thomas G a ll an d , 111 r. Alderman Halt laid down at t h e Leeds 'Vesting of a yesterday t n h ' e ee t k h , r otnhtewaves highly novel pression of opinions on doubtful m easures of policy, by ghly doctrine, that the ex injutlfeious and indelicate," and added, " that i t a ppear e d to him, that addresses to the King were only p roper on subjects of con gratulation, on which there W as no ditierence of opinion." This is a very King, on w hi c h the absurd n o ti on, an d Mr. Hall will findon e xamination, that there have be en h un d re d s an d t h ousan ds of addresses to the public opinion has been very much divided. B ut if i t i s improper f or a public m ee ti ng , d u l y convened, to approach the Royal presence through their Chairm an , w ith a loyal address, what lutist Mr. H a il thi n k of the "indelicacy" of a pr_ vats meeting, at which only one side could be heard, voting an "address and protest" to it about . from door to door to obtain This is not only indelicate, hut it is unprece sigtatures ? hinclined to thin • dented, and we are very touch of Mr. Secretary Peel presenting such an address to tin. be will tend it back to " the place from whence it Kitor, came." the King antlltal%king _ . TRIBUTE TO MR. BEAN.--It has already been stated, that this gentleman mast liberally gave op the profits of his performances at the Engli s h O pera H ouse to the general fund. The rest of th e p et f ormers, feeling grateful for this handsom e d ona ti on; deter Mined upon spewing their gratitude iu a more substantial form tbau that of mere worda. Yesterday, immediately after Air. Kean's rehearsal of Virginius, a handsordie tortoiseshell snuff-box was presented to him. It is a large box, and lined throughout with pure gold. On the inside of the inl is the following inscription :—" To Edmund Kean, Es,„; as a trilling but cordial acknowledgAnt of his vala.A. assistance-, , and most liberal conduct, at the Theatre niwol Euglish Opera House, in November, ises, on the sudde4l closing of Covent Garden Theatre, this Box is prerwou'd , by his Brother Performers." It was presented 4 Mr, __eats returned auk Bartley, in a neat speech, to which 31r. K 011 the day of Lord E appropriate acknowledgment. . . Great Seal, a certain little hvoryer, afte f r etxhpattialstg, n le atrl diuner-party, on the pulAk' m erits o f o f hi s kindness and Learned Person, pratve" to 'sp eak barristers of his Court. "To eondescensior k tc.wards Idon's resignation of l i s ar . i l t . ;epa_ra . ble, ,, fer , .!.. l o , r e d s. E ” l sa do inci. Alwityo behaved to me quite company, I understand of the " Brougham, who was oue . like . 1 ,i . ted you quay a chi d. —Literary that he always - trea Gazelle, e lilac a father. u 16 ," atlAil be, "the Itol:41 Tho lute Earl of Guilford's valuable and ex t,„ive library, the result of many years' laborious collect in in every part of the Continent, and is the Greek L+lan,lH, by she Noble I.crd himself, will commence selling this day by Evans, in Pall-mall. The second portion of these books, which are equally rare and Lotions with the first, will. he 4014 after Christmas. •,