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the hearts of good men, and the arms of brave ones, will make common cause against a treacherous and malignant enemy.—Times. We received last night, per Silas Richards, from the North and South American Coffee-house, Ame tient! Papers to the 10th of liecember last. They contain the Speech of the American President on the opening of the Congress. After expressing a warm sympathy with the French revolution, the President enters on the important negociations con cluded with this country. His language is concili ating in the extreme. "It gives us unfeigned plea sure," he observes, " to assure you that this negoci ation has been throughout characterized by the most frank and friendly spirit on the part of Great Britain, and concluded in a manner strongly indicative of a sincere desire to cultivate the best relations with the United States." He dwells with much satisfaction on the Treaty concluded with Turkey, and speaks of the enlightened disposition of the Sultan. The res moval of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians be yond the Mississipi, rather than submit to the laws of the States, furnishes the President with an oppor tunity for lamenting the fate of this Red Race, and at the same time extolling :he liberality of the Go vernment towards the Indians. The President winds up his Message with some observations on the tariff. He enters into an argument to show the tariff is not unconstitutional, bitt he observes, " it taxes some of the comforts of life unnecessarily high ; it undertakes to protect interests too .local and too minute to justify a general exaction : and it also attempts to force some kinds of manufacture for which the country is not ripe." He suggests that the fairest way of determining whether a par ticular interest ought to be protected would be to submit the question singly for deliberation. tie deprecates combinations of small minorities for mu tual assistance in measures which, on their own merits, could never be carried, In short, the Pre sident wishes to give a triumph to no principle in this business. On the whole, however, the Message is a good, statesman-like document, written in a moderate, conciliatory spirit.--3lorning, Chronicle. The Belgian nation has conquered its indepen dence in a manner so honourable to itself as consti tutes the best evidence possible of its aptitude for the right enjoyment of the inestimable blessings of civil freedom. A people who can throw off the de gradation of a foreign yoke with the courage, energy, and union, that marked the Belgic revolution, and, in the midst of perils and the din of arms—with the threats of foreign invasion and vengeance ring ing in their ears—can reconstruct the social state out of political chaos in a spirit of moderation and wisdom, contain within themselves the elements of enlightened and glorious self-dependence. Such are the people whom the Duke of Wellington, through the no - dium of a King's Speech, denounced as revolted sub jects against the " enlightened Administration" of the King of the Netherlands I .—a sentiment, indeed, which was only an echo of almost the whole of the " enlightened" Press of London; so little knowledge did it display upon matter of contem porary history ! But we imagine both our state-- men and our journalists are better acquainted with the character and capabilities; of the Bel gians at present, though they did accuse them of deep ingratitude in throwing off the ponderous pro tection of their Dutch masters, after having expe rienced the " tender mercies," in exhaustless abund ance, of the mild and liberal policy of such benefi cent statesmen as Van Kyff and Van Misanen. When the Councillors of the " enlightened" King were raining down prosecutions in bounteous succession upon the opposition Press of Belgium—no doubt from the same kind motive as actuated the ex-qfficio informations of Sir James Scarlett in this cone try ; namely, to "preserve its respectability"—few, in deed, could have foreseen that the Belgian people would be guilty of conduct which proved that they were stupidly insensible to those instances of Royal favour; particularly as the same "enlightener;" Sovereign manifested his regard for the " respecta bility" of the official Journal of Brussels by placing a liberated galley-slave at the head of it, that Dutch liberality and Dutch literature might flourish toge ther in congenial union to the end of the chapter. The other gracious marks of Royal attention which the Belgians bad received in being al lowed to co-operate in paying off the Dutch debt, the price of the " military glory" of the he roes of Holland, and to pay more than their propor tion of taxation to support the Dutch placemen who kindly took upon themselves the car es and duties of all situations of honour and emolument, ought to hare bound them in chains of eternal gratitude to the Government which afforded them such oppor tunities of esrning, by their humble but useful ser vices, the high approbation of the Holy Alliance — the Lords of the system in which the new kingdom of the Netherlands " lived, and moved, and had its being." But political calculations are often doomed to be mistaken ; and, though our liberal journalists and cur sagacious statesmen thought, only a few months ago, that the incorporation of Holland with Belgium was to be as immortal as Lord Castlereagh intended it should be, yet the king dom is to-day dissolved, never to be re-united. We are confident the Belgians are so perverse as to prefer to be exterminated to a man, rather than pass under the sceptre of any one of a family who have such favours to bestow upon their sub jects as the mercies of Van Maanen and red-hot balls 1 There being an end of that question—the great Powers having acknowledged the independence of Belgium, which some of them were so recently about to invade, and our own Government having declared for the principle of non-intervention—what remains to be done ? Nothing but to act strictly on that principle, and leave the Belgians to settle their own affairs, both as to the choice of a Sovereign amid every thing else, as they please. Yet it would seem, from various indications, as if some, if not all, of those Powers were engaged in intermeddling intrigues, for the purpose of dictating a Sovereign to that people. What would this be but to disclaim open dictation, but practice it in secret ; or, in other worth, to disclaim interfering with national independence by force, but destroy it by undermining ? We are glad, therefore, to find that the Belgic nation i s resolved to support its own dignity, and that it an nounces its feelings and determination in such lan guage as the following :—" If the foreign Powers abuse the office of mediation, which was conferred on them for the purpose of ensuring the execution of the armistice, and, without consulting us, impose a Sovereign, an alliance, or any other arrangement, we shall reject any settlement under such auspices. The Belgian nation must not again be subject to the mercy of Cabinets ;—we have brought about our re volution without Europe, and Europe has sanction ed our revolution by recognizing our independence." By acting up to this language the Belgians will make it necessary for the great Powers to respect the principle of non-intervention, which they them selves have laid down ; and they will secure the stability of their new state on immutable founda tions.—Morning Herald. NATIONAL LIBRARY, VOL. V.-It is rather extraordinary that the Festivals and Pastimes whi , th in all countries and (luring all ages have bee❑ indulged in by man, should not have been hitherto adequately described in any one work, delightful and inspiring as the theme is. Here and there, indeed, a dry and learned quarto, confined to the sports of one country may be found, wherein, while dates are accurately chronicled, the spirit of the subject has been missed ; but, until the publication of Mr. IlonAcs " Festivals," in the National Library, the public have not been generally informed as to the festive recreations of all times and nations, from the grand religious holidays of the ancient Jews', the poetical games and celebrations of Greece and Rome, to the hearty and social pastimes of merry old England. No library, circu lating or private, should be without this little volume, which best teaches us how to be " merry and wise." The Glasgow Chronicic mentions with merited condemnation the conduct of a parish officer, who, on the death of a poor Irishman and Irishwoman (not relates!)• in the same lodging, bad both bodies forced into one coffin for interment. The people of the neighbourhood expressed their reprobation of the officer's conduct, notwithstanding which he persevered and finally saved a coffin to the parish. REFORM-REPEAL OF THE UNION. PUBLIC ENTRY of O'CONNELL into DROGHEDA. (Abridged from the Dublin Morning Register of Friday.) Mr. O'Connell, who, with Mr. Steele, Mr. NI. O'Connell, Mr. Ronayne, and other friends to a Repeal of the Union and Itidical Reform in Parlia ment, had been invited to Drogheda, to attend the Reform Meeting and dinner, left Dublin on Wed nesday for that purpose. It was little more than nine o'clock in the morning when Mr. O'Connell was on the road to Drogheda, and as he passed along the various groups that were collected toge ther, loud cheers burst from them as they recognised him by the green and orange trappings which deco rated his horses' heads and the carriage. At a few moments past eleven o'clock, Mr. O'Connell reached Duleek, where a magnificent triumphal arch was erected, which was surrounded by about two thou &aid persons. Mr. O'Connell was, however, reluct antly obliged to drive on, and in about half an hour afterwards lie arrived at the hospitable mansion of Mr. Mathews, of Mount-Hanover, where an elegant breakfast had been prepared for him and his friends. Upon quitting the house of Mr. Mathews, Mr. O'Connell addressed a few words to the peasantry collected round the house. He cautioned them, particularly, against illegal oaths and secret societies, and told them that no man but he who wished to prevent a Repeal of the Union would endeavour to entice the people into ribbon societies. The ad vice which Mr. O'Connell gave the people was lis tened to with the most marked attention, and he had scarcely entered his carriage when the people on horse and on foot began to gather on the road, and before he had got a quarter of a mile front the house of Mr. Mathews, he was surrounded by five thou. sand persons, having in their hats orange and green cockades. When within a mile and a half of Drog heda, the cortege of Mr. O'Connell came up with the baud of Drogheda freeholders. At the rear of the freeholders were to be even along the road, far as the eye could reach, the hardy peasantry of Meath, and of the neighbouring counties, and every man of them having orange and green ribbons either on his hat or in the breast of his coat. Here there could not have been in view less than from forty to fifty thousand individuals—it would be impossible to give an adequate description of the enthu-iastic joy of this vast namber of persons as soon as they de scried Mr. O'Connell, who was conspicuous by wearinL , round his neck a broad orange and green ribbon, to which was suspended the medal of the " Order of Liberators," arid above which lie also wore the medal of " King William the Third," at tached to the tri-colour of France. So dense became the crowd from thence to Drogheda, that there was not space sufficient to accommodate the population collected, and hundreds had to betake themselves to the fields, where they ran along with the procession. At one p lace rather a ludicrous instance occurred— about fifty young men were running for a quarter of a mile upon a wall which was terminated by two cabins—there was a pause for some time, but perceiving Mr. O'Connell's carriage on a line with them, and determined that they should not be outstripped, they ran across the cabin roofs to the great dismay of the inhabitants, and dropped upon the other side, they continued their course as before. As to hedges, ditches, and walk they formed no obstacle to the people who traversed the fields and who surmounted them instantane ously. To those who are tniacquainted with Drog heda, it may be necessary to state that the ap proaches to it on the Dublin side are encompassed by steep acclivities, in some places so high as one hundred feet. At those particular spots could best be seen the immense crowds that assembled to wel come Mr. O'Connell, and thus to give expression to the deep interest they take in the great question of the repeal of the Union. In the hollow could be viewed the Liberator, with the freeholders in front, the trades of Drogheda with their orange and green banners, an immense population before, be hind, and around him, while the hills and steeps which encompassed the valley were like the area of an expansive amphitheatre covered with thousands rising gradually over each other to the very topmost height. It was evident that such a body of people could not gain entrance into the town, and many abandoned the idea, while the more hardy and strong pushed on with Mr. O'Connell to Drogheda. In that town a fresh scene of enthusiasm presented itself : with scarcely one exception every house was decorated with laurels, intermixed with orange rosettes; triumphal arches, too, were extended across every street, and the windows and the very roofs of the houses were crowded, while loud cries of " O'Connell and Repeal of the Union" burst from the mouth of every one who took a part or was a spectator of this awful and magnificent exhibition of popular enthusiasm. Mr. O'Connell at length reached the main street; he was obliged here to stop, and to address the im mense assemblage, to whom he expatiated upon the advantages and beneficial consequences of a Repeal of the Union—that great measure which, he said, could be carried by those means only—the people determ . ning cordially to unite with each other—Orangemen and Catholics forgetting their past feuds, and sinking the distinctive appellations of former factions and parties in the common name of Irishmen. When Mr. O'Connell had con cluded, it was determined at once to have the Radical Reform Meeting, which it was previously . . _ . arranged should take place in the Linen Hall. To that place the people betook themselves, but in a few minutes it was crowded to excess—thousands were striving to gain admittance, and Mr. Whit worth, finding that it would be impossible to ac commodate all, suggested that the meeting should be held in the open air; this suggestion was re ceived f‘vith acclamation, and the people betook themselves to the Mall. THE MEETING. - In order that the immense multitude who were collected on the Mall should have an opportunity of hearing the different speakers, the chair was placed on the steps of Mr. James McCann's house, and the door being opened, accommodation was made for those who had to move and second the resolutions. It was proposed, and carried unanimously, that N. WHITWORTH, E4q., should take the Chair. Mr. Peter Verdun was appointed to act as secretary. Mr. WHITWORTH rose amid loud cheers. He felt, he said, deeply obliged for the honour that had been conferred upon him by appointing him to preside as chairman at so great and important a meeting. It sheaved that the people knew their rights, and were determined to maintain them—in order that Irish men might procure their rights, they should take what, in his opinion, was the only way to procure them, and tliSt was, to look . for a Radical Reform in the Commons House of Parliament.—(Hear.) — Several resolutions were then proposed and seconded by different gentlemen, inhabitants of the town. D:. DONEGAN moved a resolution, censuring the establishment of septennial Parliaments. At pre seat the taxation exceeded any thing ever known in the world.—(Hear and cheers.) A petition, praying for radical Reform and vote by ballot, was then proposed, and carried unani• mously. The Rev. Mr. CORCORAN said, he would use the liberty of a Priest, and call upon the King to pro tect all classes of his people, and he would be listened to, because their gracious Monarch was a good and generous Sovereign.—(Hear.) Why was not Drogheda a great shipping town, and filled with riches and with trade? Because they had not a voice in Parliament, and a native Legislature. — (Loud cheers.) It was for that reason Liverpool, though so inferior in situation, was so much more prosperous. The Rev. Gentleman concluded amid marked approbation from all parts of the meeting, by proposing a r esolution in favour of the vote by ballot. A petition against corporation abuses was unani mously adopted. Mr. M. O'CoNNELL, in a most powerful and able speech, advocated the necessity of Reform, and dwelt on the abuses which exist in all corporations,' and among these he was not forgetful of Drogheda. Mr. J. A. CURRAN next addressed the meeting, and was received with loud cheers. Mr. STEELE then addressed the meeting, and con cluded his speech by expressing a hope that they could all retire home peaceably, having first given three cheers for Daniel O'Connell and a repeal of the Union—three cheers for the Catholic Primate, Dr. Curtis, and three cheers for the Orangemen of Ireland. Mr. Steele's wishes were at once complied with, and in a few minutes afterwards the town. was com pletely cleared of the thousands of strangers with which it had been filled. THE DINNER. At half-past six o'clock in the evening the friends to a repeal of the Union, and radical Reform in Parliament, assembled in the Free School-rooms of Drogheda to dinner. These rooms were not capable of accommodating, with comfort, more than 250 persons. Although above one hundred others ap plied for tickets, that number of tickets only was given our, and were immediately ptsichased. Over the head of the Chairman was the motto, " Radical Reform and Vote by Ballot ;" and at the opposite end of the room, " Repeal of the Union." A gal lery was erected for the accommodation of the ladies, which was fully occupied by them. Tuomas STEELE, Esq. acted as Chairman. Upon the cloth being removed, the fallowing toasts were given : In rising to propose the first toast," The People," the Chairman congratulated the assembly on the tri umph of popular rights and liberty, now in rapid progression throuch the world.—(Loud cheers.) " The People."-11ynheer Van Dunk. Th e Ki n g and Queen."—God save the King. The CHAIRMAN, in rising to propose this toast, said, that he felt great pleasure in proposing the health of King William IV. and his illustrious con sort. his present Majesty was a man fitted by na ture to be a Kiug in the present age of the world; for he was a man who appeared to be a good deal inspired by the spirit of the times, and was not un conscious of the state of intelligence of the age. The proposing, therefore, of leis Majesty's health, was a natural emanation from die last toast, " The People," who were the source of legitimate power; for lie appeared to be happiest when associating and in the society of his people, in stead of secluding himself, like au oriental Serdana [malt's, in an oriental palace upon the waters of his fish-pool*. The lives anti characters of Kings are the property of history, and, therefore, said the Chair man, I treat with derision that sickly affection which withholds public men from speaking as they de serve of departed Sovereigns, however recently they may have died; or to use the technicality of time ex pression of the English law, however lastly their crowns may have been " demised" in their succese sors.—(Hear.) I cannot be supposed to hold his Majesty in any higher veneration than just that to which he is entitled for his natural good intentions and good nature. With respect to his illustrious consort, of her there is, and there can be but one Opinion : that in all the relations of I.fe she is a model of perfection.—(Enthusiastic cheering.) It was well for England that the late King died when he did ; it was, 1 believe, in the same year in which his courtiers had to deplore the departure of the spirit of the caraelopardel.—(Continued cheering.) " The Duke of Sussex and the rest of time vir tuous part of the Royal fatnily." The next toast on the list, said Mr. STEELE, is " The Repeal of the Union." 'this toast was drank with enthusiastic joy ; and when O'Con nell rose to speak to it, the tremendous cheering which greeted his rising was unequalled by any thing of the kind we ever heard. Mr. O'CONNELL said, I deny that any nation upon earth is our superior. I know of no people who are more virtuous, I know of no nation pos sessed of superior talent, and I deny that any country has a right to be master of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) I know of nothing in our composition which should make us grovel to the earth before others, and I, for one, can never consent to be a slave.— (Chieers.) We are too good, too stout, too strong, to wear fetters, and we are too unanimous to endure them„—(theers.) Are Irishmen such fools as to believe that 513 English gentlemen will pay more attention to the concerns of Ireland than 300 Irish gentlemen would do ?—(Hear, hear, hear.) No man of sense could believe it—it is of little conse- qwJice to the English gentleman what we suffer here; but it is of importance to him that the com forts of his own people should be increased, that the income from Ireland should be increased, no matter how little the English people return to us.—(hear.) What, on the contrary, would be the interest of 300 honest men in Ireland, legislating for this country ? Surely it would be to manage their own property and thatof the people, in such a manner as that the wealth and prosperity of both should he increased, no matter how the rest of the world gorged.— (Hear, and cheers.) Why is it, that Ireland should not be as dear to Irishmen as England is to English men ?—(Hear.) If it were proposed to John Bull to form a Union with France—to say to him, you do not know what you are at—you should have an Union with France—your Parliament should be transferred to Paris, and you should leave to the French Deputies to manage your affairs—(Hear, hear) —if you offered such an advice to John Bull, it is probable he would send you into a mad-house, and if he took your advice he would deserve to have a straight-waistcoat put upon him.—( Laughter.) We were in a state of madness; in the time of our insa nity, Catholic was turned against Protestant, and Protestant against Catholic. The time of Ireland's • madness is, however, gone by—the people are re turning to reason, and as they begin more distinctly to understand the delusion into which they had been seduced, they become more determined to regain the rights of which they have been deprived.— (Hear, hear.) Why should not the Irish people regain those rights ? The British Government has recognised it in its several dependencies. Jamaica has its domestic legislature; almost all the islands of the West Indies have their domestic legislatures; the Cape of Good Hope has its domestic legislature; and, so help me heaven I I am told that Botany Bay is about to have a domestic legislature.— (Hear.) Can I endure to think that Irishmen are to be in an inferior condition to the convicts of Bo tany Bay ?—(Cheers.) No, no, Irishmen, I trust I shall live to see the day when your freedom shall be established and your independence acknow ledged.—(Cheers.) Am I to be told that we are not strong enough to be independent—the inac curacy of the census of the county Mayo, so mi serably proved by the famine of 1822, when it ap peared that 40,000 more received charitable relief than the census gave to the entire county, shows this fact—that the population of Ireland has been tinder-rated. When the census returned the num ber of Irishmen but as seven millions, we wera at least very nearly eight millions. Ten years have since elapsed—we should have the credit of the growth of those ten years in addition, and I am cer tain I under-rate the inhabitants of Ireland, when I calculate them but as eight millions.—(llear.) Is there not in Ireland then a sufficient number to con stitute us an independent nation ? It was a maxim of Grattan—and it was one which has long since sunk deep into my heart—" let no country submit to be a provinc?, when she is strong enough to be a nation."—(Cheers.) Portugal has only two mil lions of inhabitants, and she is an independent na tion. Spain, wide as she is, has not above six or seven millions of inhabitants, and site is an indepen dent nation. Naples is art independent nation, and she has not above three millions of inhabitants, Sicily included. Switzerland, which is now turning into one republic, has not above a million and a half of inhabitants. Prussia, one of the most power ful States of the Continent, and which has not above six millions of inhabitants, is dreaded by all the nation , , of Europe.. Sweden has not more than three millions of inhabitants—site, too, is an independent nation. Poland, blessed be God for it, for it, with her four millions, is an in dependent nation again. Do I forget Belgium ? I believe not ; it is a mistake 1 am not likely to corn mit. She has something under three millions of in habitants, and she has dissolved her legislative union, and despite of the despots of Europe, she has been proclaimed independent.—(Loud cheers.) How superior is the situation of all those countries to Ire land ? They are, most of them, divided from each other by mere ideal lines—they are open to the in cursions of every enemy, and cavalry, artillery, and hussars can, without impediment, cross their wide and extensive plains. Need I say that Ireland is differently situated ? If the infantry of France or Spain were to land here, the cavalry could not do scewithout the horses being sea-sick.—( Laughter.) But if any enemy to us, or to England, should land upon our shores, it would be soon found that ever y field and enelty.ure would form a redoubt, and that Ireland had the strongest military positions of any nation in the world.—(Hear and cheers.) With a people so good, and a nation so situated, I trust SOON to see Ireland as prosperous as she will be in dependent in her legislature.— (Hear.) I cannot be mistaken—l do not wish to sever the connection be tween England and Ireland.—(Hear.) I wish to preserve that connection ; but I also wish that the countries should have distinct legislatures, and be united with the golden links of the Crown.—(Hear.) It cannot be said that distinct legislatures could tend to the separation of England arid Ireland. New York has a distinct legislature—she makes laws for her own States in all matters of life, death, and property—so do the other States of North America, and yet never were a mass of men so un dissoluhly amalgamated and connected as the people of the United States.—(Hear.) We have a cheaper expedient than they have in their executive—ours would be the golden link of the Crown—at once more simple, and having much more fixity.—(Hear.) I am anxious to preserve the connection, and there fore am I determined, if life be given me, to Re peal the Legislative Union.—(t leer and cheers.) — How is this to he done ? By conciliating all classes of Irishmen !—(Hear.) I, at least, am doing my utmost to conciliate my Protestant brethren, and I have great pleasure in telling you, that the green ribbon, which now encircles my neck, was yesterday kissed by members of orange lodges.—(Loud cheers.) Nearly sixty Orangemen shook hands with me, and said, " heretofore we thought you were our enemy—we are now certain that you are seek ing only to do good to Ireland— may God bless you!" Mr. O'Connell sat down amid load, long con tinued, and enthusiastic cheering for many minutes. Ihe CHATIMAN proposed— " A Thidical Reform in the Commons' House of Parliament." Other toasts were then given, after which the meeting di Tersed. SPECIAL COMMISSION. BERKSHIRE, READING, MONDAY, JAN. 3. James Cook was put to the bar, being indicted for having feloniously assaulted and robbed Thomas Mathews of one sovereign. Henry Day, John .Bur gess, Edward Everett, William Taylor, Thomas Taylor, John Stockzvell, John Church, James Wilkins, George Dobson, and Barlow Page, were put to the bar, being respectively indicted for similar offences. Cox, Anthony Edwards, and James Bennett, were at the same time arraigned for having destroyed two threshing-machines. All the above-mentioned prisoners having been placed in the dock together, Mr. UURNEY, addressing the Jury, said, they had now arrived at that stage of these proceedings at which he found that he could, consistently with his duty to the country, and to the Government, ab stain from any more prosecutions for felony in this place. Against the prisoners at the bar he should offer no evidence whatever. He trusted that there had been made a sufficient number of examples to ' ensure the peace of this part of the country, and he felt much pleasure in being able to allow these men to return to the bosom of their families. The Jury would of course acquit the prisoners. Mr. Justice PARK then made a very feeling ad dress to the prisoners, who were acquitted and dis charged upon entering into their recognizances to keep the peace. The prisoners expressed their gratitude for the course that had been pursued towards them, and promised to lead peaceable lives for the future. Thomas Hicks, Edward Harris, George ifll liams, Daniel Hancock, Luke Brown, Charles Vince, Stephen Williams, Thomas Brown, John Naylor, James Burges, James Hutchins, John Cook, and Joseph Quartcrman, were put to the bar, being in dicted for having conspired, with many other evil disposed persons, on the 19th of November, at Brisipton, in this county, to raise and create a tu mult, and terrify his Majesty's peaceable subjects, &c. Other counts charged them with having com mitted assaults upon persons named Arundell, Tull, aad Stroud. The Rev.Edward.Cove, examined by Mr. SHEP HERD—I am vicar of Brimpton, and a Magistrate of the county. In consequence of what was going forward, I, on the 19th of November, finding the far mers most desirous of putting a stop to the alarm ing riot, went round to them, and we assembled to gether. About four o'clock on that day we were at Brimpton, prepared to arrest the progress of the mob. Mr. Arundel), Mr. Tull, Mr. Edward God dard, Rivers the constable, and his son, were with us. Mr. Aldridge, Mr. Adnams, and many other persons, were also with us. I observed a mob coming before us. They were in front, about three abreast. Some had half-sledge-hammers, some full sledge-hammers, also such weapons as that now produced (it was part of the spindle of a thresh ing-machine) were in the hands of some. I did not see any of the mob that were not armed. The prisoner Hicks appeared to me to lead the party. In the front rank with him was, I rather think, " Staffordshire Jack" (George Williams). The two Browns and Stephen Williams were among them. These are all I can identify. The others whom I could have identified have escaped. I endeavoured to persuade them to desist, but they would not, and I read the Riot Act. Then they commenced an attack, but they did not attempt to strike me. t never saw a more furious attack than that made upon Mr. Arundel} by Hicks: Hicks made the attack with a sledge-hammer. The men were in such a state of excitement by liquor that I apprehended the most fatal consequences. I de sired that the leaders might, if possible, be taken ; and directed the attention of those about me parti- cularly to flicks. I was then so engaged in taking care of the secured prisoners that I saw little more of the fight. Luke Middleton examined by Mr. GURNEY—I was with the mob when Mr. Cove and others met them at Brimpton. I had been with the mob since the afternoon of the (lay before. We had kept together all night and that morning. They had horns. They had gone to a great many houses. They had broken a great many threshing-machines. Thomas Hicks was at the head of us. Edward Morris, George Williams, D. Hancock, Luke Brown, John Naylor, Charles Vince, Stephen Williams, Thomas Brown, James Burgess, James Hutchins, John Cook, and Joseph Quarterman, were with the mob. Some of them had weapons. Hicks had a sledge hammer and an iron pin out of a threshing-machine. Harris had a sledge-hammer. Hancock had a stick and an iron ball at the end of it. Stephen Wilifams had that ball on the table.—(Witness stated that all the prisoners at the bar were armed in one way or other with sticks or hammers, &c.)—l saw Daniel Handcock strike Mr. Aldridge with a hammer. All the prisoners at the bar engaged in the fight. Most of the mob, which consisted of about 150, ran away. Ido not think that more than 20 fought. By Mr. RIGBY—I did not engage in the fight. I was standing 5y with a " leetle bit of a walking stick." I went to the " Blade-bone" public-house with the mob. I had half a pint of beer there. We broke about 14 machines, and collected money. Nobody gave us money, except on compulsion. By Mr. SALMON—There was more than Staf fordshire Jack who kept the mob together. He told me that he had been all over Kent, and that he was employed by Government to break machines. He said that Government was to give him ss. for every machine be broke. Edward Harris was fight ing, and afterwards ran away. 1 saw him with the biggest hammer of the lot. This hammer was al. lowed to be the biggest, and he was always called for to break the machines. He was called " the Great Lunnoner." By the COURT—We broke 14 machines. All the prisoners at the bar were not with us when we broke all the machines. George Arundel!, examined by Mr. BLACKBURN -I am a farmer at Brimptoa. I was there with Mr. Cove when the mob came up. I saw Hicks among the mob. As soon as he came in sight of us he pulled off his hat and huizaed. He had a hammer, or something else, in his hand, which he flourished about. He was in the fore part of the mob. I never saw a man come on more brutal ; and if a set of tigers had been turned upon us they could not have come on more furiously. Mr. Cove wished them to stop, but they would not. The flourishing of the weapon by Hicks was while Mr. Cove was reading the Riot Act. I received a blow on the head. The blow beat the crown of my hat in, and drove the rim of my hat over my eyes, so that I could not see who struck me. I received other blows on the head and body, one of which was on my arm, and drew a pint of blood in the sleeve of my coat. Mr. Richard Tull, examined by Mr. TALFOURD— On the 19th of November I attended at Brimpton to arrest the progress of the mob. Some of my labourers went with me. I saw the mob advancing. flicks led them. We were arranged in a line across the road. While Mr. Cove read the proclamation the mob approached, and I ordered my party to advance, thinking Mr. Cove was in danger. The leaders of the mob had iron weapons. I desired my men to act on the defensive. The mob made the attack. I received four blows; two were very severe. I was just recovering from the effects of one when I saw Hicks rushing at me with an iron weapon, raised in the act of striking me. I dropped my head and closed with him. I fell from weak ness. Hicks stood over me. In rising I received another blow which prevented my using my stick. Cross-examined by Mr. RIGBY—The mob were well marshalled. They came on three abreast, in order to have full room for the use of their weapons. The mob certainly attacked us. lam certain that the mob were the aggressors. Hannah Cripps, examined by Mr. TALFOURD— am the wife of the parish clerk at Brimpton. I live close to where the fight took place. I saw the tight. .The mob began the fight. I saw old Mr. Adaams knocked down; and when he was down, I hesrd one of them say, " He is done," and gave him another blow. I saw the blcol running from his head, arid he appeared senseless. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners, recommending Burgess, Cook, and Quarterman to mercy. David Garlick, Thomas Dance, and Charles Rosier, were charged with having riotously assem bled at Hungerford on the 22d November. The Jury convicted all three prisoners. Jacob Gater, Thomas Arnold, Peter Knight, Geo. Gaby, Jonathan Sandford, William Randall, Ilenry Cater, Thomas Edwards, Join Carter, and John Cashorn, were indicted for a conspiracy to riot—also for a riot on the 21st of November, at Kintbury. The Jury acquitted all the prisoners, except Jacob Gater, whom they recommended to mercy. James Fuller was acquitted on a charge of riot, no evidence being offered by the Counsel for the prosecution. Frederick Gater was acquitted on a charge of robbery no evidence being offered to sustain it, and he entering into recognizances to be of good be- haviour. The case; being all disposed of, The Court wilt sit at ten o'clock to-morrow morn ing for the purpoie of passing sentence upon the prisoners who have been convicted during the Com mission. Thomas Hanson, Charles Milton, Edmund Viccus, Joseph Edney, James West, Wm. Witherall, and John Witherall were charged with having destroyed a threshing-machine, belonging to Jason Austin, on the 23d of November, at Baselton. The Witheralls, who were out on bail, surren dered to take their trial. They are remarkably decent-looking men. An individual of the name of Crichfield, also included in the indictment, and out on bail, was called, but did not appear. The Jury acquitted West and the two Witheralls, and found the rest of the prisoners Guilty. . . . . The same prisoners were then put on their trial, being indicted with having, on the 23d of Novem ber, destroyed a threshing-machine, the property of Thomas Walter. _ . The Jury acquitted the two prisoners, and the Court ordered that they should be immediately die charged. The case waq then proceeded with against Han son, Allison), Viccus, Edney, and West. The case was fully proved, and the Jury found all the prisoners Guilty. REPEAL OF THE UNION. (From the Dublin Morning Register.) The has an article on the Anti-Union agita tion, which is entitled to attention, not merited by the general writings of the London Editors on the question, in as far as it submits to the public some thing like reasoning, instead of a mere scolding of individuals. It expresses regret that this agitation should have acquired fresh vigour at the accession to office of a Ministry whose first principles are those of conciliation to the wishes of all classes of his Ma jesty's subjects. The Anti-Unionists are by no meana disposed to embarrass the present Govern ment. They rejoice in the overthrow of the Wel lington administration as heartily as any portion of the British community. It is not to perplex the councils of the King, but to avail themselves of what they regard as a golden opportunity of effect ing a vast national good, that they pursue their ob ject now with renovated energy. They feel as Mr. Grattan did in 1782. Burke used to ask, in the agony of his solicitude for that sort of repose which is desired by the Unionists at present, whether there was any person in Ireland who could stop " that madman, Grattan." The kind, complying, and good intentioned politicians of the time, used their personal influence to induce him to postpone the immortal effort to regenerate Ireland even for a season. " Not an hour:' was the reply of Grattan to every entreaty addressed to him ; and he at length locked himself up in his house to avoid the annoy ance of fruitless and ill-judged importunity. The result was that he took the tide at the flood, and it led on to the fortune which he desired for his country. If he waited for the ebb, the great chance was that the world would never have heard of the brightest writ in the history of Grattan and of Ireland. Our cotemporary does not suppose that the con dition of Ireland could be ameliorated by a repeal of the Union. That is his justification for depre cating a repeal. But we, in Ireland, who have given to the question far more consideration than be can afford to give it, and who have all the advantages of local knowledge and personal observation, hold the very opposite opinion, and why should we not desire a repeal, and use our best efforts to bring it about ? Our cotemporary apprehends that if we had a Parliament " it would be come, as of yore, a bye-word for jobbing and corruption." He does not appear to be aware that it is for a reformed Irish Parliament that the Anti- Unionists are seeking. He fears that the repeal would " interrupt the operation of those commer cial laws which have established a perfect freedom of intercourse between the two countries." If those laws are wise and good, as they assuredly are, why, we would ask him, should a congregation of Irish senators b e more insensible to their benefits than a congregation of English senators ? The commercial propositions of 1755 were founded upon the most enlightened principles of commercial inter course. They originated in the Irish Parliament, and were ultimately defeated through that same spirit of English mercantile jealousy, which had for so many ages, according to the acknowledgement of Pitt, " deprived Ireland of the use of her own re sources, and rendered her subservient to tke interest and opulence of Britain." Our cotemporury generously and wisely declares hat " to attempt to put down the Irish dema gogues by external force, is an expedient not for a moment to be thought of." He suggests far more ust and rational remedies to which, as we publish his article elsewhere, we may refer the reader, adding just this much as to one of them (a re duction of taxation), that it would require a diminution of the demands of the Exchequer to the extent at least of four millions, to restore us to the condition . in which wo were placed before the Union. Two millions have been added to the absentee drain since the Union, and the taxation on all the necessaries of life have been raised to the standard of England. The tea tax is nearly four titm s what it was before the Union. The wine tat, sugar tax, coffee tax, spirit tax, tobacco tax, and malt tax, have been encreased—the majority of them receiving their augmentation since the war was virtually at an end. In 1823, eight years after the battle of Waterloo, an Act of Parliament raised all the customs' duties of Ireland to the elevation of the duties of a country which has at least eight or ten times our capacity of paying taxes. While our taxes were encreasing, and in some instances receiv ing an addition of entirely new items, the British taxation was diminishing; and now, approaching the seventeenth year of peace, we find ourselves placed under a load of taxation fully equal to that borne in the most arduous times of the war, though it was a boast of the late Prime Minister of Eng land, that the burthens affecting the people of Great Britain have been diminished to the extent of thirty LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. 'The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10d. for the 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from 4d. to lid. below that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—Jan. 3. !cew English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —s. —s. fine —s. —s. Old Ditto Ditto —s. —O. fine —O. —O. New Foreign Ditl Old Ditto - New White Clover. s'2s. 70s, fine 955.1053. —s. fine 60s. 705. fine --s. —s. --s. —6. fine —6. —6. :).os. 50s. Ilne —5. —s. —s. —s. fine -e -e . IN. 30s. fine 255. 30. —s. —6. 50s. fine 5.1 g. —s. —s. 555. fine 57i. 275. fine 355. —s. 425. fine 435. 468. 2.05. 335. new 358. 458. COAL MAR Adair': Beaumont .2 • l3ensham Main 31 0 kleblourn Main 34 6 33 6 Rillingivorth 34 3 Ord's Redhugh 32 0 ['claw _ 34 3 Pontop Windsor—...— 30 0 Canfield ----. 30 0 Taniield Leo _ 30 0 ". Old Ditto Dittc New Trefoil Old Ditto lib Grass English Carraway Foreign Ditto c!oriander Foin Rye Grass Pi;_cey Ditto —.... 40s. 455. new --s. --s. Linseed, for feeding —s. 3.93. fine —s. 465. Ditto, for crushing.. . 445. 465. —a. fine --s. Canary Seed, New , —s. 465. fine —s. 545. Ditto 01d..---.......„.. . --s —s. —s. fine --a. White Mustard Seed—(per Bushel)— —a. 16a. 18s. fine —4l. Brown Ditto —6. 105. 14a. fine —6. Turnip Seeds, Roundi Green anti Red Ditto 'fares, Old Ditto N W . —O. —e. —s. fi ne 14s, —B. —a. —3. tine 18s, —s. 25e. Ws. tine —6, —s. —s. fine 425. 4&s. R. eScC4I, English, fine (per Last) 324 351...... Foreign S2l. 44e, PRICES OF HOPS.—Jan. 3. 8/ Os. 91. 9a. to 14! 14s. 71 15s. FV. Si. to Pt. 15s. 81. Os. 9/. Os. to 10/. Os. 0/. N. lel. Os. to 20/. Os. 0/. Os. 91. Os to 151. Os. 31. Os. 81. 84 to 111. 03. 01. Os. 01. 03. to 0/. Os. Kent Pockets Stierex Ditto .-- Eittyx F,rni,ain Ditto, Fine , Seconds _ Rcnt Bags„ Essex Ditto gioisex Ditto 71. 108. to, Si. 08. Old Duty on last year's growth announced to be £88.047 8 1%. PRICE OF OIL. ape Oil, brown Refined inseed Oil 33 0 Linseed Oil C,ko at the Mill, per thousand 11 :0 Rape Cake, per ton 8 0 WHITECIIAPEL HAY MARKET.—Jan. I. Et ty 504. Od. to 84s. Od. I Clover Od. to 100 s. ed. Od. to 31,. Od. PRICE OF POTATOES.—Jan. 3. Kidneys Scotch Reds Marsh Champions Oxnobles and Shaws 01. N. to 5/. N. per ton. 41. 10s. to 0/. Os. ditto. 41. IN. to 01. N. ditto. 3/. 55. to 3!. 105. ditto. RAW HIDES. Per Stone. e. d. to s. d. Per Stone. e. d. to e. d. Best Ileitiorg& Steers 2 10 3 0 Ordinary 110 2 0 Middlings 2 4 2 ti Market Calf 6 6 each. SHEEP Polled —,....—...., as. 6d. to 4s. Cd. Welch .....-.......... SKINS. Is. 6d. to 2s. W. 111.0 d. to le. 44 PRICES OF - Per th. d. to d. Butts Ato 561 b.... 15 23 Ditto—)lo to 66ib.— 16 23 Dressing 16 18 Fine Couch 14 16 Crop Elides, 35 to 401 b. 13 141 Ditto 40 to 451 b. 14 16 Ditto TIIOA The followii lat.—That severe distress las for years I the comrnunit3 merry and de: poverty and ITO'S misgove country in a E fectly appallin and in the pre 2d.—That had its origin branch of the of tbi House for the aggrat to the entire' this country. 3(l.—That can only he warded off, b tutional right guards as sha tation in the that represen direct or indi. LEATHER. feat that all ti Per lb. d. to d. tence and con Tanned Horse Hides.. 15 IS that all work Spanish Ditto ---... 50 23 Per dozen. have a voice Calf Skina....:l6 to 401 b. 15 19 Commons. Ditto ...v....50 to 701 b. 20 26 sth.—Tha Ditto 70 to 801 b. 18 21 Small Seals. Greenland 20} 21f to be exercise .K tit' :he- at therefore Walls End Hotspur—. 345. 6d. election of II Walls End Hilda ....—. 33 0 Berate over tl Walls End Nevriusreh.... 35 0 Ditto Northumberland 34 9 ten, corrupt, Ditto Perkins and C 0..... 34 3 groi,e, more Ditto --...... 36 6 kilo su jb . ec Walls End Russell's—. 36 9 Ditto Walker 35 6 elected by a 6th.-ITh th e country Lambten Primrooe--. 35 6 %Valhi End Eden -32 0 Wails End Hetton ..... 38 6 31 9 Walls End Lambton—. 37 0 West Hartley ........-- 31 0 Walls End Lyons—...... 35 6 Wtllington Wylarn 33 0 W. E. Russell's Hetton 33 0 Walls End Bell and Co. 36 0 Ditto Russell's Lyon's—. 35 6 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 35 0 Ditto Adelaide *. 35 9 WallsEndßewicke&Co. 37 0 W. E. Butter Knoll ... 34 0 Ditto Blake &I 0 W. E. Cleveland* 31 3 Walls End Boundary.. 32 0 W. E. Etherley un,cr. 33 0 Walls End Brown's ..... 33 9 Cowpen ..... 32 0 Ditto Brown's unse...— 33 9 Culin Trimearam 27 0 Ditto Burraton 34 3 Hartley 33 0 Ditto Callerton ----. 31 6 Warde's Llanelly 36 0 Walls End Carr and Co. 33 0 Wall's End Elgin 30 6 Ditto Clarke and C 0.... &I 6 Tanneld Trader*. 29 6 Walls End Gosforth— 37 3 Ellison small ----.. 20 0 Ditto Heaton----- 36 0 Walls End small 2J 0 ships at market, 113—S1 ins sold. 67N —Unsold, 46. and conscien which thus t and importt which a Gov fore, to be p the elective effectually to I direct or in ' acting upon ao f rt o e r bn l tte l: ballot. 7th.—Th People is ale character of I tio t n u e l From an authority, on which we have always their prede, found much reason to rely, we have received an account of violation of t the real origin of the recent attacks on agricultural pro -Bth.—Tl duce and farm-buildings. It goes entirely to refute the in a state people of t notion of premeditated plan. The first machine-breaking Majesty's la originated in a dispute in a small village in Kent, not between the farmers and the labourers, but among the farmers themselves. The most influential farmers con- meat upon demned the use of a machine which one of their neigh ampled. bours had set up ; their sentiments were echoed by a Ma gistrate in the neighbourhood ; and thus its destruction 9th.—T came to be looked on by the peasantry as a meritorious, country up, into pow er and, relying on the opinion of their betters, a judicious talent in the act; they destroyed it accordingly. The same Magis eentation of trate, who had joined in condemning the machine, pu emery to t wished its destroyers with more severity than, according to themselves his own showing, they deserved ; their anger was roused we trust in against the inconsistent Judge, and they fired his ricks in expectation revenge. This was the true origin of the machine-break - 10th..—' ing and fires, which have since become so general. A volent into farmer in another village, in talking of the distress of the nisters cam labourers, said, " Alt! I should he well pleased if the the cordial plague were to break out among them, and then I should therefore tl have their carcases as manure, and right good stuff it present im would make for my hops." The speech, which perhaps Ministers was only intended as a brutal jest, was reported ; it ex borough fa cited rage instead of mirth ; and the stacks of the jester were soon in a blaze. This act of incendiarism seas open Parliament and deliberate. The incendiary is known ; and not only come tweet has he not been tried, but he has not been even charged . 11 th. The Isle of Thantt rioters were a s et of larking boys, wlO lotions, be that the I were influenced neither by anti economic nor revengeful principles. It is needless to trace the evil farther —we Earl flat William E have been employed in that ungrateful task for marl weeks past. There can be no d o u bt that the thousand vote by ba petty wrongs of the labourer had long been rankling in 12th.— in th e " I his breast ; the destruc ti o n of a kind of property whic h he had been led to regard as injurious in its effects gave s• the Chai n special regard to his outraged feelings ; public right an d 13th.— pr i va t e revenge seemed for once united—he destroyed, hi Thomas P burned, he plundered, and he suffered.—Spectator: ..2 TH'' . sop Sore Thi Typhus F twist ,fro: Where Fh .sposi ally iirs, by e , valuable. J 1 And turi glieturbast to the. di mingle ins brorris, is requested Norris's !` Thome Wished a (yard ; AI &nd lir. CforalPill ; Pd.. BIRTHS. On the 2d inst. at Woolwich, the lAdy of Lieu'. 50 Adjutant Brown, Royal Marines, of a son. On the 3d inst. in Upper Gower-street, the .icIY of L H. Cancellor, Eq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the Ist inst. in the chapel of Warwick Castle, J• Neeld, Esq., of Grosvenor-square, M.P. for Chipp e nhain• to Lvly Ctrohne Ashley Co o p er , d aug ht e r of the Earl of Shaftesbury. DIED. On the 2d inst. at Shepperton, James Living, Eq.. aged 84. On the 30th ult. in the neighbourhood of Egbam, Coin wander R. Charoberlayne, R.N. On the Ist inst. at St. Leonard's, Mr. G. J. Woods aged 17. 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