The Sun. — London, England, 1830-10-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUIITAC JOURNALS. It will be avmembered by the readers of Italian poetry that . Dante, in his Purgatory,—the most divine part of his Divina Comedic,--has represented the inmates of that unhappy region as animated with all the anti-social passions, hatreds, and jea lousies, which actuated them in their previous more fortunate condition upon earth. The common suf ferings had not produced a common sympathy : their endurance of tortures, inflicted by a common enemy, had not allayed their mutual animosities.— The purgatory of the Italian poet has, we are afraid, been too faithfully realized in the exile of our peninsu. bar patriots, both as regards the depth of their common sufferings, and the violence of their intestine quar rels. Hence we have seen most excellent men, and sincere patriots, among the Portuguese and Spanish refugees, denouncing each other es traitors to their common country, while their patriotism was ad mitted by all the world but themselves ; and quar relling about rank and precedency which could only be enjoyed after their common success, while they abandoned that concert and union on which their success depended. Hence, at the present moment, the Marquis of l'alm e ll a ims not probably a more titter enemy at the Court of Lisbon than among the friends of Saldanha at Paris ; nor Mina a more zealous detractor from his (sine and renown than among his countrymen along the line of the Pyre nees, now attempting to recover their rights by efforts, to the success of which, probably, his name, counsels, and conduct are indispensable. It is now generally known that the latter distinguished chief had been the object of serious suspicions with some of his countrymen, before they arrived near the fron tier line of Spain,—that their mutual jealousies had prevented their military combination, for the common purpose of invasion,—that while one party declared for Valdez, and the General whom lie acknowledsre another looked to the fortunate star of superior direction ;—and that their g un arrel about rank had led to their disagreement al . jo• Ut a new loan to aid in commencing the camr e eign, Such would appear to have been the ste. l .e of matters before the 16th or 17th instant—a, state which we frankly re presented on Tuesde4., without attempting to con ceal the suspiciwis which were attached by his rivals to the chara" . rer and proceedings of Mina. We are now hapr; i y to state our hope that these suspicions have !Sot been justified,—that Mina has not been deferred from the performance of his duty by the reluctance of some of his countrymen to confide themselves to his direction, and that, disregarding the jealousies of Valdez and his friends, he has en tered Spain to support a movement which be did not suggest. This must decide the question of Mina's fidelity to the constitutional cause, and silence for ever those who have hitherto doubted his patriotic devotion to liberty, or misrepresented the motives of his delay in attempting an invasion to restore it.— " The chief obstacle of the success of the refugees,' says the Messager des Chambres," is their intestine dissensions, their jealousies, and their unbridled pre tensions to rank and honours. The proclamation of Valdez represents them less as deliverers than as the .conquerors of their countrymen." The same paper says that the movement is general along the whole line of the Pyrenees, from Bayonne to Per pignan. A few weeks or a few days will therefore decide the cause of the Spanish Constitution for the present. If the exiles are received with favour by the Royalist troops, and supported with zeal by their countrymen on the frontiers, disaffection and revolt must soon shake the Throne of Ferdinand, though surrounded by the Camarillo and guarded by a triple line of Monks anti Apostolieals. If, on the contrary, the country is neither prepared for their exiled friends, nor for freedom, they must soon be driven back over the frontiers as the Army of the Faith was, by the superio r f orces an d a bl e generalship of Minn, immediately before the French invasion in 1823. A rumour was prevalent yester. day in London, that Corunna had declared for Mina and the constitutional Caine. Mica was at One time, during the Constitutional Government, Captain- General of Galicia, and confidence in his principles and talents may be one reason for this early move ment in this important place.—Times. The late Anti-Union Society in Ireland, strangled at its birth by the Lord Lieutenant's proclamation, has already re-appeared under another form—viz., that of the " Association of Irish Volunteers for the repeal of the Union." The " Irish Volunteers" are unknown to history but as an armed body, raised for one class of military purposes, and gradually rendered applicable to another. But we are told that the new volunteers are to proceed legally, con stitutionally, and above all, "peaceably," for the overthrow of the laws and constitution of the United Kingdom. " Petitions from every county, city, town, parish, village, and hamlet, in Ireland, tire to be got up in favour of a repeal of the Union. Every male person is to sign these petitions, or affix his mark (I); and the unanimous voice of the people of Ireland, thus expressed, will convince England that t is absolutely necessary to repeal the Union !" There is no doubt whatever that Mr. O'Connell may, whenever he thinks fir, produce an entire unanimity among the " marksmen" of Ireland for a repeal of the Union, or any other equally en lightened and patriotic object. Ilis having recourse to them on this occasion is a proof, as well of the wisdom of the end be aims at, us of the legitimate and pacific means lay which alone it is to ha accomplished. ilis industrious allusions to France and Belgium afford pretty fair inferences re specting the scope and nature of the Learned Gentleman'e undertaking. All hie proposals tend to operate upon the mind of England, and on Irishmen of property, through n system of direct and over powering terror; and this is what be calls " peace!" Nor is the thing itself meditated by this aspiring in cendiary to be mistaken for a moment, lie seeks to get rid of an Imperial Parliament, which distrusts or despises him, and to establish a little Irish Par liament, returned by Catholic voters, under the half bullying, half-cajoling influence which has already been set in motion by him and his agents throughout large districts of Ireland. The scheme, in fact, is one of daring revolution. The results of it—the intended results—are to make Mr. O'Connell the virtual Sovereign of the Island, by so attenuating the tie between her and Great Britain, that the rocking of the first political storm will snap it, and leave the O'Connell politics anti faction to swing clear of every embarrassment from the pre-existing and heterogeneous institution of two legislative bodice, acting on sentiments of reciprocal jealousy and defiance, yet each demanding as a necessary completion of its measures the official sanction and concurrence of one and the same King. The op. polite courses of policy pursued by the Parliaments • of Great Britain and Ireland, on the great Regency question of 1789, furnish ample' illustrations of the impossibility of securing the supremacy of the same Sovereign, when the other branches of the legisla tive body are distinct. This danger to the con nexion must be foreseen, at least as clearly by Mr. O'Connell as by many other contemporary politi cians in both countries; and, foreseeing it, the learned gentleman hiss no doubt prepared his remedy --to vitt, a separation of the person of the Prince, as well as of the other branches. of the Legislature. This, too, is to be effected by " peaceful means," and without the slightest shock to property or order ! Verily, the proselytes to such a plot will be just commensurate with the dupeseegendering faculties of the learned projector. We repeat, Idler full consideration, that such an atrocious attack upon the State must be met without flinching by the strangest and most uncomproinisiog hostility. We may examine briefly, when wa have time, whitt are the means on which Mr. O'Connell tam reckon for assistance in this illsomened enterprise, just hint' Ina our present conjecture to be, that exc e p t t h e phyer. cAI force of the mob, and their destitution and despair of relief, his warlike resources are little worth ; but possessing them, in Ireland, in times like these, the power that he wields is frightful.— Times. The great safeguard of order in a country is the diffusion of property, and this should be always keFt in mind, and strenuously inculcated. In the Ap pendix to Pinkerton's " History of Scotland," under the Stuarts, there is a Report of an Englishman on the condition of Scotland:— " The defect of the commonalty (he says) is, that there are so few of the middle rank of subjects among them that are able to live competently and honestly of their own, and by that means are a band to tie t ►gether the two ex tremes, viz. the higher sort and the rascality, and so sway with the better and more peaceable part as having► some thing to lose, is another cause of the distemper anti dis quietness of the realm. For by that means 'the whole conm►onalty, iu u manner, a few excepted, which are of no reckoning in comparison of the whole, being beggarly and rascal, are ever apt for faction and tumult, when oc casion serveth." This may allow US topless the future with regard to Ireland. On Saturday last Mr. O'Connell, at a meeting of Volunteers for the Repeal of the Union, declared— " I have been talked to of Poor Laws in Ireland (Hear)--1 have thought of it long anti deeply ; they would be but as it were one meal for the country ; they wetdd destroy the value of property in one year. It is this' conviction that makes me consider they would do injury to Ireland, rapid and decisive.--(hear, bear.) But something must be done t the people will not lie down in a ditch and die, as they have frequently done in years of fanine,._orar.) They did so before it was proved to them that military power cannot crush the blight of the people,— (Clieers)—and they will never again do so. They will not be down in hopeless mistry to expire, and it is to prevent their excesses that men who now stand aloof should join us.--(Bear, hear.) If redress be not granted, and the people are not restrained by the influence of the good and wise 'when famine occurs, I'll tell you what they'll do —ll :.ey'll adopt tire system lately acted on at Kegs, and take possession at once of the best lands in defiance of force, for the people cannot starve, and will not submit. --(Cheers.) Suppose, for instance, that Lord Fitzwilliam perseveres in his intentions towards his tenantry in the county Wicklow, as was done by Mr. Trench, the Arch bishop of Tuam's brother, on General Monek's property, I would not feel astonished on the let of next May, to see the Wicklow hills in as great a blaze as ever they were.— (Hear, hear.) I call on those gentlemen who apprehend convulsion to come forward at once and prevent it— ( Hear)—to manage the interests of the people, and protect their own. The repeal of the Union is now inevitable." —(Cheers.)" We foresee that in Ireland the English Aristo cracy are destined to experience ere long a sad hu miliation. The Irish are brave—they have nothing to lose; we leave the conclusion to be drawn by others. The Captain is a bold man; but the wrongs of centuries will prove too much even for him. But let there be no mistake. A people never have recourse to these extreme means without a ne cessity. The necessity in the case of the Irish is, that they have nothing,—and that a proud and un feeling Aristocracy will not allow them to have any thing. They cannot be worse, whatever may turn up, and this consideration is not calculated to allay apprehension. Mr. O'Connell advises peace and order; but he points to Belgium.—/Ihrn. Chronicle. When men who hold high office in the Govern- I ment set examples of gross violation of the laws of their country, we cannot be surprised that those laws should be held in little reverence by society in I general. When men who constitute what is called the Executive Authority of the State—that is, the authority to which the execution of the acts qf the Legislature is intrusted—are the first to set those legislative enactments at defiance, and to prefer the gratification of their own petty passions to the obe dience due to moral and legal restraints, we cannot wonder that their conduct becomes contagious, and makes others ambitious of sharing in such criminal distinction. The laws against duelling in this country are exceedingly severe, inasmuch as they declare that offence, when attended with fatal consequences, I to be murder, and attach to the act of the surviving duellist the guilt and the penalties of a felon, as well as to all who were present aiding turd abetting the perpetration of the crime. These laws, or any other enacted against the deliberate shedding of human blood in what are called "affairs of honour," will • always be disregarded as long as our Legislators and Statesmen are accustomed to seek this mode of settling personal or political disputes, and go forth to the field of combat, armed with mortal weapons, to seek each other's blood ! The most recent in stance of this "statesmanlike" appeal to the " or deal of battle," by the way of refuting the charges or calming the temper of a political antagonist, is, if the Dublin Journals are correct, that of Sir Henry Hardinge, the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and, as such, the principal functionary next to the Viceroy in the Executive of that part of the United Kingdom. It is true the appeal which this " Statesman" showed him self prepared to make to other laws than those of the land came to nothing; but had Mr. O'Connell been what is called a "fighting man," it might have been otherwise, and one, or per. haps two families, might now have to de plore the most cruel of till deprivation. Our au thority for stating that Sir Henry Hardinge con templated a duel, when he sent Colonel D'Aguiler to demand an explanation from Mr. O'Connell, is the copy of what purports to be his own letter to that officer, published in the Dublin Evening Post, and which contains the following passage :—" 1 enclose you the Freeman's Journal, in which you will perceive that Mr. O'Connell has used expres sions towards me, which, proceeding from a person who may be supposed to have the claims of a gentle man if I were to insult him, entitles me, therefore, to call upon him, first, to ascertain whether he avows those expressions ; and, next, whether he is disposed to maintein them, affording me, in such case, the remedy which one gentleman: has a right to expect from another." This language cannot be mistaken ; —it is an offer of the alternative of retraction or fighting, and, if the letter be not a forgery, impli cates its writer in the guilt of the intention of going out with mortal weapons to violate the laws—and this, too, in a country where the public peace is pe culiarly liable to be disturbed by acts of lawless vio lence, and where the highest and most sacred of his duties is to preserve tranquillity, and cause the sanctity of the laws to be respected. He had, how ever, before his eyes the example of the Duke of Wellington. We presume the 'coded improvement of Ireland will proceed with rapid strides under such a process of civilization l It is curious that Sir Robert Peel, though not a military man, had, when holding the same office as Sir Henry Hardinge, his " affair of honour" also with Mr. O'Connell. At that time Mr. O'Connell bred not made the vow against lighting which has been since " registered in Heaven," and both parties, being interrupted by the police in Ireland, were proceeding to Preece to termi nate their quarrel, when, by some means or other, it became known to the preservers of the pence in London, that Mr. O'Connell was in this metropolis, with the apparent intention of proceeding to Calais, whither the Right Hon, Secretary had led the way, and he was taken into custody turd brought before Lord Ellenborough, then Chief Justice of the King's Bench, who bound him in heavy recOgni zances to:keep the peace to all his Majesty% subjects, wherever they were to be found. There was no I necessity for taking any such step in the present in- I stance, because Mr. O'Connell had repeatedly and openly declared that be would not, under any cir curnstances, fight a duel ; and Sir Henry Harding° knew that he had made this declaration so lately us the last session, in the rave of the assembled Par- • !lament, when some personally offensive language plowed between him and the Solicitor-General for Ireland. We quite agree with those who think that such an avowal ought to make the Learned Agitator scrupulously cautious of saying any thing to insult turd provoke the feelings of others ; at the same thou it is quite obvious that to call up him to "give the satisfaction which one gentleman is expected to give to another" is ridiculous, and cannot obtain for any man the credit of possessing the vulgar attri- ' bute of personal courage; for,. every person whom Mr. O'Connell offends knows beforehand that he will not fight, and consequently the most arrant coward on the face of the earth would be safe in challenging him. If, therefore, Sir Henry Hardinge had not established his claim to this sort of bravery upon other grounds, his demanding '' gentlemanly satisfaction" in the present instance would not have added a particle to his reputation for personal harer; hood. He has vainly made a display of that courage which was not put to the proof; and he has set an example to the duellists of Ireland highly eneourag• ing to their sanguinary pastime, as it shows that the Executive takes the first opportunity that offers itself to sanction the shedding of blood in resentment for a real or imagirmy offence, and to make still more fashionable in the eyes of an ardent and sensi tive people a practice to which the law ascribes a fe lonious character, and to which it has annexed an ignominious fate.—Morning Herald. We perceive, from the columns of an evening co . emporary, that one of those disgusting exhibi tions, denominated prize fights, took place on 'lnes day last. We had hoped that they were at an end, in consequence of the repeated exposures which we had made of the infamous brutalities, and equally infamous swindling, invariably practised on such oc casions; and in order the better to early our wishes on that subject into effect, we have, for many months' past, purposely omitted in our journal all notice of such disgraceful gambling in men's blood ; but it appears that we were mistaken, and we are sorry for it—not that the omission on our part can do any harm to us ;„ but that attention to them on the part of others is calculated to encourage a continuance of them. Let the press be silent respecting them, and they must die—let it follow the movements of the Fancy, and the Fancy, as it is called, will again spring up, and grow into the same disgraceful ex crescence which it lately was. In the name of hu manity and honest . dealing why should it exist ? Morning Advertiser. READING SCHOOL MEETING. Last Tuesday, being the day of the .50th School Meeting since Dr. Valpy became master of Reading School, was appointed for presenting to him the splendid service of plate subscribed for by his pupils. The office of presenting the plate was as signed by the committee to Mr. Baron BoHand, who was one of Dr. Valpy's earliest scholars, and who had written the inscription, but he was prevented from attending by the necessity of visiting some very aged relatives in Yorkshire, and Mr. Talfourd was requested to fill his place. The entire area of the spacious school-room was laid out with an ele gant breakfast, to which 160 ladies and gentlemen sat down at ten o'clock. Atter breakfast the plate was arranged on the desk which has been for fifty years occupied by Dr. Valpy at the head of the school; the scholars of the school were all admitted and lined the room on each side, and Mr. Talfourd being called for, to express the feelings of the sub scribers, advanced to the desk and addressed Dr. Valpy nearly as follows r--- " In the absence of your distinguished sch o l ar , w h o should have been the organ of our sentiments to-day, but who has been detained in a distant part of the country, I have been suddenly called to the high and unmerited honour of representing that large body of your pupils, who now offer to you this little token of their affection and gratitude. In this pleasure there are more than 250 sharers,—men scattered through different parts of this and of other countries, but all acknowledging one home of their early hopes, loves, and joys, to which their thoughts have often delightedly reverted, and to which they have them selves been ever welcomed with boundless hospitality and unfailine. kindness :—of ages ranging through a large por tion of human life, yet all alike young in the vivid percep tion of the happy days they spent under your care ;—of far different avocations and degrees in this world's wealth and esteem, but all equal in that great treasure of imperishable recollections over which its chances have no power, and in those principles of integrity and honour which have been instilled into them here ;—of opinions various as those of free men will be in a free country on the greatest subjects of speculation, but all animated by one sentiment of regard for the institution in which they were fostered, and fur bier who has raised and adorned it throuii .50 years. In your kind and partial eyes (ever used to look indulgently on our imperfect performances), this gift, we well know, will not he esteemed lightly ; but weoffer it with un almost painful sense how inadequate it is to betoken our feelings towards you, and how powerless are all words to express them. if in any place we should feel the insufficiency of words to convey our thoughts and wishes, how must this sense press upon our mind's, in the place where I have the pleasure to address you I Here, all around has a silent eloquence beyond that of words, every old familiar object has a speech and a language ; the years long past are rush. ing by us, and more than echoes talk along the walls.' Here have your peaceful victories been won, here have we shared in the blessings of an education in which learning anti charity met together ; here have our minds been led on, not by the straight and barren march of intellect, butits easy, varied, and delightful journey ; here, have we listened, on how many Sabbath evenings ! to pre cepts which the virtues and labours of the week exemplified, and which fell upon tke heart of joyous and unthinking boyhood, in tones fit to awaken its first sympathy with human infirmity and sorrow. Here, do we hail and wel come you on the close of 50 years of honourable toils on which the seal of time is already set ; and we rejoice to believe, that here that system of instruction, in which the charities of life are interwoven, will yet long be v:tal, or administered by one who is endeared to us by a double tie, as our schoolfellow and your sun ; who has emulated your learning and your fame, and who, we trust, through warty years will here impart to others those lessons which be has learned so well, anti infuse into our children, and our children's children, the principles and the feelings which he, together with us, has drawn from his father. And now, dear and honoured master, accept with this little offering, our earnest wishes and prayers, that you may y e t long be spared to us ! As your season of labour has been protracted beyond the usual period in which num is called to work, so may your season of repose be lung and happy Long, very long, may you live to enjoy the store of triumphant recollections which y our active life has gathered ! Long, very long, may you live to share in our success, and rejoice in our joy Long, very long, may you exult in the consciousness that you have done its much good, that you have diffused as much happiness, and, allow tout to add, that you have excited as much veneration and love, as any individual of your time ! May Gad preserve and bless you ! _ The plate consists of a set of three silver salvers, richly chased, and an elegant soup-tureen and cover, after the pattern of the Warwickshire vase. When the cheering which followed Mr. Talfourd's eloquent speech hail subsided, Dr. Valpy rose. The vene rable gentleman was so much affected that for some moments he was unable to proceed. " Great griefs," at length, he said, " are silent,--so are peat joys. There are occasions on which the re membrance of friends snatched from us recurs with fresh bitterness. Some years ago a similar tribute was paid to that dear saint in heaven, my lamented wife. If ever there was a woman adored by all who knew her, it was this object of my affection. I appeal to you who knew her, whether I hive overcharged this picture. If spirits have any sense of what is passing below, that blessed spirit is now hovering over you whom she loved. I do not kno.v that I can prove that spirits of departed fri m i s are s e n sible of our actions, but it is art idea from which I have gained rnuct► comfort in many a trying hour. I heartily wish those husbands and wives who hear toe, will never feel such a privation, until they reach a ripened age. I cannot accept this tribute of your affection without sensations such as no language I have ever learned cuts describe. My pilgrimage has been accompanied with many thorns, and illuminated with some few flowers, but this is the fairest Hower, the brightest rose that has ever Shone on toy path. I cannot say more. You say this is a tribute of your gra titude, but on the present occasion, the debt of gratitude becomes due, not trout you to tae, but from me to you. —Dr. Valpy finished his affecting address amidst the deafening applause of the company. The whole scene was most impressive and affect ing ; almost all the company were in tears, and the enthusiasm of the schoolboys seemed quite boundless. A new provincial journal contains the follow ing phasing specimen of editorial naivete :—" How to multiply the Mends of this paper. Speak and write of its leading facts to your friends; try to augment file number of its subscribers among yonr acquaintances; communicate to its editor all the valuable information io your own immediate neighbourhood ; and, when they are good for any Ming the lucub rat i ons of your own friends LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, OCT. 27. KEISALL V. MACKWORTII. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is a cotton-manufacturer at Rochdale, against the de fendant, who is the son of Sir Digby Mackworth. the banker, to recover the sum of 2001., the amount of a bill of exchange, drawn by a person named Mar shall, and accepted by the defendant. Mr. Se►jeant WILDE opened the defendant's case. The defendant, a young gentleman only 23 years of age, having incurred some expenses at college, with Which he was unwilling to acquaint his father, was induced by an advertisement in the newspapers to apply to a person in Manchester•square, for the loan of 3001. This person undertook to raise the money, and after obtaining .5/. by way of travelling expenses, and made Mr. Mackworth sign some papers, which were to be his authority, he said, for raising the money, he promised to introduce him to Mr. Mar shall, who hail a shop in the Poultry, as the person from whom he was to receive the money. After various appointments made and broken, the defend ant at length saw Marshall, who told him that the person for whom be had signed the papers had filled them up as bills of exchange; but he (Marshall) would destroy them, and let him have the 300/. upon signing other papers as an authority for raising the loan. This was accordingly done; and it after wards turned out (the Learned Serjeant stated) that this second batch of papers, which were blank ac ceptances, were filled tip for various sums, amount ing• altogether to .5,8001., and were now out standing with► this young gentleman's name upon them. The circumstance having come to the knowledge of the defendant's friends, bills of dis cover), were filed in the Court of Chancery against the several holders of these acceptances, to compel them to disclose under what circumstances they had come to their hand.; and amongst the rest, a bill having been filed against the plaintiff, that gentle man put in an answer, setting forth all the particu lars which had led to his becoming possessed of the acceptance in question. That answer was neatly the whole evidence relied on by the defendant. It stated that Marshall, who was most respectably connected in Yorkshire, had been strongly recom mended to him by a relation of his (Marshall's), whereby he had been induced to employ him to sell goods for him on commission; but having applied some of the proceeds of such sales to his own use, he became indebted to the plaintiff to the amount of 1451., for which he sent him his own acceptance. It became due at the end of September, 1829, and was dishonoured ; upon which, after some further correspondence, in the course of which the plain tiff threatened Marshall with legal proceedings, the latter transmitted to him the bill in question, stating that it was accepted by Mr. Mackworth, son of the banker of that name, who had accepted it in con fidence to oblige him (Marshall). : The plaintiff continued to press Marshall for payment, and in the mean time kept the defendant's acceptance by way of a security. He was only enabled, however, to extract altogether 70/. from Marshall, whose house was soon afterwards shut up, and he therefore now brought this action against the defendant upon the bill iu question. The .Jury, having retired for some time, returned a verdict for the defendant. ADMIRALTY SESSIONS, OCT. 27. (Concluded from our Paper of yesterday.) Henry Hammond, a seaman of the Inglis, was then called by Mr. CLARKSON, and sworn. The Learned Counsel, before be commenced kis exami nation, requested that any l a dies wh o were p resent should be required to withdraw. Several ladies took the hint, and immediately retired. A question was then put to the witness by Mr. CLARKSON, as to his recollection of a particular expression used by Mowat to Rose, while he poured some cold wa ter down his trousers. The witness repeated the expression,which was of a moat indecent description. William Dobson, boatswain on board the Ing lis, was then examined by Mr. CLAtucsoN, who asked the witness with reference to the exertions used to save the boy Howes when he fell overboard. Mr. ALLEY rose and objected to the question. The Counsel for the defence, he contended, had no right to introduce matter which was foreign to the result of this inquiry, and daily made use of for the purpose of raising a prejudice against Captain Dud man and his officers. The Learned Counsel (Mr. Clarkson) had no right upon the present issue to bring forward evidence tending to prove that the crew were goaded to mutiny in consequence of the alleged improper conduct of Captain Dudman and those who acted with him. If any of the seamen had cause to complain of particular acts of cruelty or injustice, the courts of law were open to them. M. CLARKSON contended, on the contrary, that he had a right to call witnesses, and examine them upon all points tending to contradict the evidence of Captain Rudman, and the other witnesses who tsp pcared for the prosecution. He would, however, wave the point, and call no more witnesses except. ing the police-officer, who waited upon Captain Dudman, at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, on his ar rival in England. Moody, an officer of the Thames police, was ac cordingly called forward, and deposed to the fact of his having waited upon Captain Dudman, at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, to apprise him of fact that his men were waiting at the office, to see if he had any charge to prefer against them. Mr. CLARKSON here intimated that the case for the defence was closed. _ LUSIIINGTON then rose to reply to the evi dence produced on behalf of the prisoners. The question for the Jury to decide was this—Have the prisoners at the bar been guilty of the crime of con spiring together, to resist the lawful commands of their masters. With respect to the offence of mu tiny, it might by possibility occur, that a justifica tion could be pleaded for such a crime, when men were goaded into insubordination by a long-con tinued course of rigour and injustice. But what were the facts of this ease, and how was the act of mu tiny to be justified, when the Jury were reminded of this simple circumstance,—that the last punish ment which took place on board the vessel, occurred in February, while the mutiny did not happen until the June following? The Learned Counsel, after commenting upon the discipline necessary to be ob served on board merchant ships employed in distant voyages, referred to the opinion of Lord Tenterden, that it was lawful in the master of a vessel to correct those who were placed under him : even a parent might correct his offspring. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to advert to the particular case of the Inglis, and said that during the seventeen months that vessel had been at sea, only ten punishments had taken place on board, amongst a crow of 126 men. Mr. Justice BosANQuET then went over the evi dence, and left it to the Jury to return such a ver dict as should not only do justice to the prisoners, but satisfy the public. At half-past ten o'clock the Jury, after referring to the Learned Judge upon some points of evidence, retired. A lew minutes after one o'clock, the Jury re turned to the box, and the clerk having asked them whether they had made up their minds to find the first prisoner, John Harrison, Guilty, The Foreman replied, that the verdict of the Jury wits vt , ritten down, and he wished to know whether he might not read it. Mr. Justice BOSAWJET saw no objection. The Foreman then read as follows :—" We find John Harrison and John Murray Not Guilty ; and Samuel Cole, Joh we find John Lalley, John Jordan, Stephen Ro se , o G rr e i o s rg M e g( W en e r i t l a s, n Guilty of havin g , on ‘ t (T h .joi e thrrt fi le t r h 'Sat o en f elli,e l l%, u l ne last, when off the Cape of Good H o pe, riotously assembled and assaulted the master, but under all the circumstances in which they were placed, the Jury recommended them to the merciful consideration of the court." The prisoners were then called up for judgment, and Sir C. Rou►Nsov having 4ddressed etch of them rby name, told them that the Court had now the painful duty of apportioning the punishment which was due for their misconduct, and in doing so, it was desirous of paying all possible respect to the sug gestion of the Jury. The Court considered also, that they (the prisoners) had been held in confine ment since their return from the Cape, and wishing further to see them return to their livelihood at as early a period as possible, the Court felt anxious that the meed of punishment should be us light as the circumstances of the case would allow. The sentence of the Court was, that they be respectively imprisoned in his Majesty's gaol of Newgate for the space of two calendar months, and t ha t at the expiration of that period they each be directed to pay a fine of Is. to the king, and that their im prisonment be continued until the fine be paid. One of the prisoners, on being removed, said he hoped the Court would consider that they were entitled to their wages. Sir C. ROBINSON—This court can give no opinion upon that point. The Court was then adjourned to Thursday the 4th of November. ASSOCIATION OF IRISH VOLUNTEERS FOR TIIE REPEAL OF THE UNION. On Saturday a meeting was held at the Parlia mentary Intelligence Office, St. Stephen's-street, for the purpose of forming an " Association of Irish Volunteers for the Repeal of the Union." THOMAS STEELE, Lsq was called to the Chair. Mr. O'CONNELL moved that the Society be called an " Association of Irish Volunteers for the Repeal of the Union," and that the subscription for members be 1/. each. Th s was agreed to, and books being opened for the purpose, several gentlemen gave their names and paid their subscriptions. The members ad mitted during the day amounted altogether to about 100. Mr. O'CONNELL next " moved that the object of this Association be for the purpose of obtaining the repeal of the Union by legal, constitutional, and peaceable means." There should be, he said, peti tions for a repeal of the Union from every city, town, county, village, parish, and hamlet in Ire land, signed by every man who can write, and by those who can only af fi x their mark. This manly expression of the universal feeling that is abroad here will soon convince the Government of the im possibility of keeping things as they are in Ireland— in fact, of withholding a repeal of the Legislative Union.—(Cheers.)—Let us direct the feelings of the people in the proper channel; let the rich, and the high in rank, and the educated, join us in keep ing the popular passions and feelings within due bounds. The drub; of absenteeism is the original sin of the Union. It has blighted and blasted the entire country. The starvation of Ireland is on the increase. Some persons talk of poor laws as a re medy. lam satisfied such a measure would only complete the measure of our Union. It would give the people one meal, and then bring about a convul sion. —(Hear.)—lt would destroy the strength and wealth of every man, and convert all Ireland into a vast mendicity.—(Hear, hear.)—ln 1822 the poor people lay down and died the lingering death of want. Would they do so now ? I apprehend they would not. They then were not aware that popular strength, excited by rage growing out of misery and famine, was superior to military force. The pro blem was riot then solved, how an undisciplined multitude, without order or arrangement, could beat down disciplined organised soldiers. France and Belgium have taught a terrible lesson. If the landlords, with their Sub-letting Act, will turn the people out upon the highways, what guarantee have they that the poor starving creatures will not seize upon the best and fattest lands, and endeavour to retain a forcible possession ? Can they vouch for it that the people will prefer dying by inches, by famine, to a speedy termination of their life arid cares in dreadful conflict ? Let landlords beware of the Sub-letting Act.—(Hear.)—lf Lord Fitz william will turn out at November 800 families, where will they go to ?—what will become of them ? Every creek and cranny has been filled up by the dis possessed tenantry, whom Trench, an Archdeacon of the Establishment, the brother of the Archbishop of Tuam, and a land -agent of Lord Monck, turned out under the Sub-letting Act, and for religion's sake ! of their holdings. 'Where, then, will the sufferers whom Lord Fitzwilliam is about throwing upon the world, go ? The people, driven to madness by such cruelty, may make some desperate resistance. I therefore call upon all men of every rank, and creed, and party, to come forward and take the lead of the people. I will readily give the lend to any man.— (Cheers.)—l would much rather see u Protestant leading to myself.—(Cheere.)—l have no fancy in the world for the leadership in this cause. I'll be the pioneer —let any other become the General.— (Cheers and laughter.)—But no matter who is leader, the excitement cannot, ought not, will not, be put back.—(Hear.)—Every friend to Ireland, every lover of liberty and justice, every'udvocate for national prosperity, should at once join the new Irish Volunteers.—(Cheers.)—See how affairs are going on in another country. The King of the Netherlands, only a few weeks ago, refused to listen to the entreaties of his Belgian subjects. Now, see this tyrant, insolent Prince, of the bad house of Nassau, on his knees, imploring the mercy of the insulted, injured Brabanters ; and in vain, too, as the case ought to be.—(Hee.r.)—And why is this ? Because his Dutch counsellors—his phlegmatic law yerlings—advised him to turn a deaf ear to the de mands of the brav e B e l g i ans .— ( H ear, hear.)—One thing is essentially necessary in the present state of Ireland. We should, above all things, avoid secta rian animosity, or religious strife.—(Hear, hear.) — I therefore mean to move, that any member of the " Association of Irish Volunteers for the repealing of the Union," as the new society is to be called— (Tremendous cheering) —who attempts to revive religious discord, or at all to allude to the disastrous time that is gone by, and to the battle that has been bloodlessly fought, shall, ipso facto, be expelled.— (Cheers.)—The Hon. Gentleman then moved the two fundamental resolutions, and sat down amid long-continued applause. The first was seconded by Mr. MOEGAN, and the second by Mr. MURPHY, and passed unanimously. Mr. COSTELLO (Barrister) gave, by anticipation, a sketch of the several speeches that he intends de livering in the North of Ireland, if he shall succeed in finding an audience there. Mr. J. REYNOLDS addressed the meeting, and said that they had been told by Mr. O'Connell that illegal societies were on the increase, and emissaries were abroad for the worst of purposes. Under these circumstances, he was about to suggest to Mr. O'Connell that he should, before his departure, ad dress a letter to the people, cautioning them of the dangerous precipices over which they were about to plunge themselves. He (Mr. O'Connell) could do as he liked with the people. No matter what he recommended, whether peace or war—and thank God it was for peace —they were willing to oh , .y. It should be trumpeted throughout Europe, and made known to the world through the public press, that in this country there are 7,000,000 or 8,000,000 ready to take his advice.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. O'CoNtstELL—My particular friend, Mr. Reynolds, is under a mistake in thinking that the people always take my advice; they never do so but when that advice is in unison with their own. It was also because he was not to be found in the pur lieus of the Castle, the neighbourhood of St. James's, or basking in the smiles of a Court, that they hearkened to his advice. He commenced the Catholic Association with seven members; to-day they commenced the Association of Irish Volunteers by 80, paid. At the meeting on the next day, a plan should be submitted from him for the collection of a fund which would be necessary to carry on their proceedings; they should call it by its proper name --the give An n otice, that ti-u Union , Re atnt. —(Great cheering.) Ile would the meeting of that day week, his son would bring forward a motion and plan of arrangement for Committees in each coutuy; and he had great satisfaction in saying, that bok many weeks passed, his son would be the Ai Member for Drogheda.—(Enthusiststi•ltherftisl He should attend to his Parliamentary &deal some time, till he could see whether it watidal in the new Parliament to get justice for hiseettbir but if he despaired of obtaining that, he its communicate with his constituents at WstriThl make his bow to the Honourable House, and rels to Ireland.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Thereat now, he understood, about 10,000 signatures tot requisition for a meeting in the city of Dublin , O'Connell then stated that the funds were nor such an amount as would enable them to have per accommodation. Mr. Motets moved that the Secretary slim issue tickets of admission to the members. Mr. O'CONNELL—I now second the Moan tl Mr. Dwyer do issue cards, bearing on them thembedt 1782, and the motto, " Resurgion."-4 Mr. O'Connell then observed , that wheo he shaa return from Parliament, he wculd move tbst tl members of the Assoc iation should wear 'OO of Irish manufacture. Mr. REDMOND always wore Irisb arauficTrO' The meeting adjourned till Saturday .D,P$ 4 giving three cheers for. the Society,' tad Mr. O'Connell. C THE MARKET& COAL. MALI Adalr's I:Cat:n.1011 t 31 0 Ikan's Ptioinve... .31 6 Heh'..turn Main Holywell 32 li Kenton West Killingworth 3:1 PeIAW Percy Ilenshaut.--..... 33 t 1 Pitt's South Moor 24 0 1'411004 Tantield I sw 31 3 Willington 33 6 W)latn ft 2 0 Walla End Bell and Co. 33 9 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 211 6 Ditto Be wicke and Co,. 33 0 Ditto Blake 31 0 Walk End Brown's 32 ft Walls End Boundary » 31 6 Ditto Callerton 31 6 Walls Dui Carr and t: au. 31 9 Ditto Cramlington...... 30 6. Ditto Gosforth 35 a Ditto 34 6 Ditto Hilda 3." .. 9 33 6 ships at market, 137—.61111 K Walla Mid Pon Ditto Notthn Ditto reartt...... Ditto Perktne and , Ditto Itiddeirs..••,"• Ditto Moon Ditto %W het.. Eden bleln . larnbtPlgenommi".••••••,""". StabstW2rooll°° Welk aid Lsottldon«. Walls End 140 111 . 0 ': Pd Motor' 31 Dwitt. fdlisseittilslnlll4omilltetd3.l. 3)31, C° °Yds Irey SAADI* field 'Stone 14 Drisn.....• n6Cold ldilfordlitti d E W 0 Ditto Ilendessed Old Ethetley DOS" r d l'anfieldrradr,,..... d Ellison Mel 91 out Eth A y L .ol,.77 si sold, Ism , ,-----11146 17°1".... Batley. I :N MARK Wheat. •. (0 I. 55 EV 53 65 56 66 56 74 48 65 54 Pi 48 74 M 64 6 4 62 66 65 6 4 56 76 48 80 56 ns COUNTRY COR Per Quarter. Britiport Cirencester flutlilford Hereford Hithn•orth Maidenhead Oakinghain Reading r b 4' 4 Southampton .—... f,4 ,r -- Stroudu ; r4 74 31 303 , 0 2.2 L'eiv..elour • ' Uxbridge ) .- 115 .7' 44) '‘l - . 1u .......... 4 ,1 74 ill LT 2 ID ., .4 ‘Vantage—,...--.... 54 7.1 '2O 35 I : 2 '.' e l yarminater r'iinctstir--.... .tv S 4 '.61 31 15 . ..Ili - i :__...- i'rrester cA) 63 32 nei 94 -:--- ------ - HULL mAit lc rr.—oc t. 26- ~ „f Ne . We have again to notice a very lint ted snuve -,. time Wheat from the farmers, the condition Of which eet ° A n lidO n' to 11111)1'0T ; the best samples have experienc. a.. - u of full is. per quarter, and a fair extent of birdae.tr ',-I have hero done, had the supply been adequate t ° t l i i mond ; the secondary qualities arc Letter sale, alt" . no amendment in price . During the week 0 0 '1 there has been more business pa,sing in Old hel tl ' ... best parcels of Ilattiburgh have been sold at Is. to 2,daili quarter above the currency of last work, and run, have made is. per quarter more. There is eel:. Peeing in Oats, and pricfs sante as last week. new. dull sale, and may be noted the turn cheaper.. l'l''re very little. Barley offering, but all last • le e lteram good parcels OK)! sveek's prices ;in other articles there la I • Rapeseed, of which there is scarcely any her e, S fid i ' ll'''' support the aarance noted iii one lot. ...4 Mu .) ......Whett, (11,1... ............ ....s. r0xitti.......,Nurvn.:1...... ...i: .... s. .. Foreign —s (Si. 04. ...... „.1,, ' ...4.....e, 0 o.ets, Poland ............ ..-.4 . 901, 04'.......,'" ........ ....1, .-4... q ..... •••• • , . mall or Feed.... —,, go+. Na. ••"-.." ............0. —4. _ Foreign Baxley, Norf. .1, S --. 4. ~.. • ...., c w o w ...a...". _ Forei gn .. ut „,............. .... ~. . .....6.36 4: Beans•vii ens. 4.2 i. foreign ...... . ....,....., , Pease, White —e, 445, 9.15, (3rey ............ .....4. 2 , !'aces —s sos 'xia. foreign ...... .....4 471 ;, ItAl'esced, to s•ond n0ne............ frea.Pee la' t ' citi-EITFt4------11A111 MA it 11 . pct. 915' i ' l'"I r ~, Per Bushel. a. d. to 5. d. rt ---• . ..„ 6 . . ,neat :1 3 ! i r t ley .... ......... ..1 ti 4 A Veal 0!,..- ...... 11 ‘; Bean. Poase ~. .......... 9 8 015 Ittrulta):: ....... .. ...... :3............„.".°.. 5 ti Hai' ..... .31 lA, to:31. 151.1,e, lul .*._:f.L.:2---:--------------;;-j. 1K Ori. "• 7, (1(1, e' t i Wheat (biliht.i..•,,' Morley .......... . .... 3 0 oats ............. ..... , i , oi t 800 ...... ; ....... ; 0 11 Ater g 1 1) •..""...0 0 1 0 : 11.:4114 O.) ..r.,':!;" (1 0 Pot %toe* (pcsiq ". ai 4' EXKIER MATT Beef (score) 7s. •M• 8 0 .. 04.1 Mutton (lb. ) M . . 0 Vent and iamb 0 6 0 7 Pork 0 4 0 Geeve (each) .. . 6 5 0 Ducks (coup'e) 3 0 4 6 Fowls 0 8 4 0 DUMFRIES MAlllarD.. d. Wheat Imp Barley ' .Bush 70to 8 0 11utter,1801.....r. . 4 0 4 1 E. doom ~„ .. ....... Oats ..... . ...... '' 9 3 3 Bea, per 1b,.......,, Oatmeal Flour, I Ob. '2 430 to ..... ...... :::.,.,. 2 0 2 4 Veal... ...... ..,,....„„ Potatoes, cwt. ....... --"'";:" GLASGOW MARICF,TS. . . , (From the Glasgow fieratd of ifona4:lo,4, i 0 11 ria ln the early part of the week there I/Ok i' . ori' I. w Sonam. market, without any variation ill i l in pr it Latterly the demand increateil coirrideralilyi fi nd „itrei were realized. The sales amount to 820 h0r',4,,.. I brown Denier/m.la and Trinidad. at 470. ii r a oil low middling 511. ; middling 525. 4 b 56 t i ; iistAtlitrs _ o small a lot of good at 61s. Ten piin chWl art sllier'-'c AI 1 %Iles were told at 29e. Refined Stlfell 4.- r $ fi„ SOP 4 prices are without alteration ; brown Loa vee dv iGli"; 6 : 1 - ; middling 83s. uil to fiso. for fine ; Cr for atiolik li i' l • ; crivilird is selling at 595. a 05s. Bd , ~ ,ill andan d good middling ; good 665. A 68i. ; O r tS i .S. MO IIBI 19e. very fine whites at 725. a '7ss. Ilritit bd. a 20 8 . No sales maile i n (30Frgy, Gistors., or 1,0011: Sixty bags East India Met were 1°41,01,3,7a MI, The transactions in Rust are so trilling o . s p. unsvorthy of remark ; prices, of 2r. f!d. a " o ofh 8 Jamaica 18 0.P., and Le,,warti, 20i1. for P without alteration Nothin; done it; ..Or . are ° lli moons. hil'en i Ain - . i n - ' I ' s are dull, and the recent itnVr••:-; g, Pcts at 325. 6d., and Pearls saga P. n'i'fareilollit 160 hide. TOBACCO have been ok stild‘ I , o f Y. up to bid. for good inc. were ro le .. ~, the beginning of the week so les 6d. 4 ii. has TA A LL t ow at 43a. 64. ; latte rly i 3 , * ed. 10 Paid. and the market is . theta r at "' i,ga 0 now fir m A. sea l ball - he FISH 011.4 are still !stoking up, halts ', iiiti I ° ' at 43/., and it now held at 45/. ; 5 ,11 cleared of Cod at 411. No Whale at inI I/--(t. ,..........' ' _ ---------- , hi BIRTHS. On the 26th inst. at Pelham Crescent. 11059°1114 G. W. Wainwright, of a son. ~.e , IM I ' j. On the 26th inst. at Upper .nsoor- 8 ,- t slacguire, of a son. Sr. ) MARRIED. ikir. On the 25th inst. hat Stanniore, atinille4l, lcrof It Riviera, of Ba t h , to Eliza Sarah, Med i ' lAugh C. Pegler, of Stanmore. DIED. I ts tr!°' On the 16th inst. Dorothy Barrett Leonard, I f itell) wife of Sir Thomas Barrett Lennatil, DO I "' " 111 01C 41# Es , ex, and daughter of Sir John St. 4101,113' - Cornwall. 1, klervll On the 213th init. at Wargrave, Vor a ' in a ° year, Catherine, daughter of limos Steiu, PT place, Portinan-sqnare. I es, WO On the 26th inst. at his Isther's, or - 1:01 ,0 Frederick, fifth son of Thomas Hale PlitrP's Leighton House, Wilts. m i t e01i 1 1,,,,' On the 26th inst. at St. Margaret % ''', - - i i;arri i, Ifonottrable Charlotte Juliana, wife of Co p°. Cornwall. De 'gun 11 On the 26th init. Jane, wife of T. --132 Store-street, Bedford-square . of 0 C c" On the 26th inst. Elizabeth, wife of . .- ,c ' . ~,, of New !Oilman-street, Brunswick.rquare• , _ to o "- Of / the 26th inst. in Newington-phice, E1.'30, only daughter of the late G. Harts E't°lrili, Vl r ' IA At fle!gaum, Aprilholy of "p" nee, 50th Regiment, N1.N.1. of a daughter. 11.4. ii o 0 "c , n v c 01, c n ± c 4. c 07 ir - 010 44) PRINTICD AND PUBLISHED BY MVO Lospeir° TUX Sus 0111C1C, 112, WASP; 0.-