The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-11 00:00:00

though a nation cannot ilispense with soldiers and sailors, it may discover, that if an establish ment for religion be necessary, it is not neccs sary that the Church of Ireland should require a million of beautiful acres, besides tithes, to attend to the souls of a few hundred thousand Protestants. Even in Church matters, however, private property will always be respected. When ever the public exigencies shall demand that the Clergy, like other public functionaries, should be placed on a new looting, the property of Lay Impropriators and owners of Advowsons will be held sacred ; no individual in possession of a benefice will suffer any diminution of income. The property of the Church is public property of course, and subject to such regulation as may be found most conducive to the national ad vantage ; but irnpropriations anti advowsons are private property, and is also the life interest of ail incumbents. Whether the necessities of the country will compel recourse to be had to Church Froperty with a view to the placing the religious establishment with every other on more economical footing,, we know not. But this we know, that if the slightest dis position should be manifested to invade any one description of private proporty in particular, an cera of violence would succeed to that of law. In the struggle to which a sense of common in security would give rise, the result might be very different from the anticipations of those who provoked it. Let country gentlemen ask themselves what property is without law, and whether there is any more necessary connection between a Baronet and his park and any other man and the same park, and they will pause on the brink of the abyss. When law gives place to force, the landowners of England are only forty or fifty thousand individuals ; and any other forty or fifty thousand individuals in the county can scramble as well as themselves. Let them remember, too, that when London was not larger than Glasgow now is, its apprentices beat the nobility and gentry of England, with their tenantry, and the King at the head of them. The Presbyterians and Independents of that day did not form the twentieth part of the inhabitants of England, but they were strong in London and some other Corporations. In the French Revolution, whoever possessed Paris gave law to France. We throw out these hints, that the Country Gentlemen may not allow themselves to be led away by the idea, that after trampling on all law, they would still hold the power the ) now possess under the law. We call the attention of our readers to an excellent article in another column, or, the Irish Post Office, taken from the Scotsman. It is a masterly exposure of the working of the system of corruption (of which Irish ascendancy may be considered the ne plus ultra) in one depart ment of Government. Take the following as a sample :—'• In making contracts for the mails, it is admitted that there" was eldom more than one e'er, and that they were not held out to any real competitor ;' in other words, they were jobs I The cont aciug party on the part of the Post Office was sometime the Secretary, some times the Chief Clerk, sometimes the one Post master, and sometimes the other. It is no doubt odd that a Postmaster. who never intermeddled with the other parts of the business, should make contracts for mails without consulting any other person ;' but so it is. We leave Ithe reader to solve the mystery for himself I The contractors seem in no case to have had a very hard bargain, for the mails are carried in Ireland at an ex• pence varying from 61. to ls. 3d. per mile, while in England they are conveyed at 3d. ; and Mr. Johnston, an excellent authority, states, that ' a mail or stage coach might be worked cheaper in Ireland than in England, on account of the cheapness of provender and labour.' This, we think, speaks a pra!ty intelligible language ! The ei4ht mail coaches belonging to the Dublin establishment worked 1,450 double miles. In En(land, saes the Report, the expence of this would be 7,5001. ; in cheap Ireland it is 30,4381. Irish money !" Again—" A second Cork mail was tried, and found to be a bad concern. Lord Rosse, the usual acting Postmaster, then issued directions to give it up ; but in his absence his colleague, Lord O'Neil, had signed an agree ment with a contractor to run this losing mail for 21 years, upon terms (says the Report) as ad vantageous to the contractor as they have been in jurious to the public.' It was, in short, a job which the party refused to give up for an indemnity of 20,0001." Our contemporary concludes this ai title with the pithy declaration that " the whole establishment, in fact, is an unweeded garden, where idleness, negligence, waste, favouritism, and jobbing, run riot !" and that " it would be no great error to describe it as an aggregation of places and pensions for the benefit of indivi duals, the public business which it performs being merely a sort of accessary in its constitution, and that the Press should not be silent when such_ evils are brought before it. It should raise its voice, and call for the correction of abuses which the Government has honestly exposed to public c,oiure." When we are asked what good Eman cipation has done, it would alone be a sufficient answer to say that it has enabled the Govern ment to attempt with safety the reduction ofjob bing in Ireland to the average level of the Empire. We are not simple enough to suppose that Go vernment can be carried on in this country with out bribing the Aristocracy with the public money ; but then, in Ireland, there was no measure; the Jobbers there were insolent a nd shameless, presuming on the dependence of Government on their services. There is an excellent remark on the subject of the benefit to be expected from strengthening Government, in a pamphlet published by the late Lord Sel kirk, so far back as 1808 :—" The harshness (he observes) with which the lower orders in Ireland are too frequently treated by their im mediate superiors can never be effectually checked, till the Government is rendered stronger than it has hitherto been—strong enough to maintain its own authority, indepen dently of the aid of any party. It is with great injustice that the English Government has been accused of encouraging a system of proscription and rigour in Ireland. On the contrary, the Cabinet has, for a long time back, shown a dis position to mild and conciliatory measures ; and if our Ministers have erred in not following up these principles with sufficient steadiness and system, the failure is to be ascribed to the pre judices of persons to whom they felt a necessity of yielding. They could not shut their ~yes on the dangerous situation of Ireland, ario sg from the extensive prevalence of a refractory spirit, not to be repressed, except by the strong hand of power; they were not in possession of a military force adequate to the maintenance of tranquillity ; and no choice was left but to have recourse to the aid of those among the inhabitants most immedi ately interested in the preservation of order. In this way a powerful force was obtained to assist in repressing disturbance; but it was composed ofmen too much under the influence of ancient prejudices, and too much goaded by the irritating circum stances of their situation, to act on all occasions with coolness and moderation ; nor was it an easy task to curb the violence of men on whose as sistance the preservation of the country appear to depend. Such is the mutual rancour of the different classes of people in Ireland, that while Government are under the necessity of compro mising their principles, and of propping up their authority by the aid of a party, they never can maintain a steady system of impartial justice and moderation. By the establishment of a large military force, sufficient both to repel invasion and to overawe the disaffected, Government will be freed from the trammels in which they have hitherto been entangled, and will he left at liberty to pursue the obvious policy of imposing a re straint on the violence of all parties in that dis tracted country. The effectual protection •of such a force as that which has been proposed will relieve the Protestants in Ireland from a harassing state of insecurity ; the feverish jealousy which attends their present situation will be diminished ; and they will then have less difficulty in opening their eyes to the perfect safety with which the political claims ofCatholies may be admitted." From every quarter we learn that the ofd distinctions of Ireland are breaking fast up. It is no longer necessary to bribe at so extravagant a rate any set of men to keep the body of the people down. By degrees, measures of domestic administration and police will re duce the population to order, and the mis government of Ireland will subside to the common level.—lbid. A sensible, if not also a very clever pamphlet, from the pen of sir. Dance, the Provisional Assignee of Insolvent Debtors in England, has just been published by Ridgway, on a subject with which the author has enjoyed pecu liar facilities of becoming intimately acquainted, and, which we hesitate not to add, is of the very first importance to the whole of the commu nity—we mean the practicability of reducing the present enormous expenses of law proceedings, and of selling justice to the country as cheaply as possible. The remedies which Mr. Dance points out are all of a practical nature, and have the additional recommendation of not materially interfering with the law itself as at present esta blished. The first grand error in the present system to which which Mr. D. adverts, as tend ing to increase the costs of law proceedings, is the paucity of the Courts of Justice compared with the wants of the community, and at the same time the immense number of trifling actions which by their constitution may be brought before them. " There can be no possible reason," says he, " why a matter of account disputed between two persons, for a balance of a few pounds, should be seen to occupy the Chief Justice of England and his Court during several hour. Yet such cases are common enough to give us a title to reason upon them; and if we were to divide the sum of the an nual expense of this Court by the average number of days in the year which it devotes to business, we should ascertain very neatly the cost to the country of providing two such litigants with the splendid arena in which they are to decide their trumpery battle, at a further price (to be paid in some way between themselves), of about twenty times the value of their stake. " So far we can calculate with accuracy enough for our purpose. But there is yet another conse quence of all this which is much more undefinable, both in its expense and in its inconvenience. From twenty to thirty other causes appointed for the same day, must each have suffered the delay, and incurred the costs of one day more than they otherwise need have done. The attorneys, the witnesses, and the auxiliaries in all these causes, have many of them to be paid, and many more to lose their time without pay, always to their detriment, and often to their great loss. " Undoubtedly the number of cases for trial in the superior Courts is much greater than in fot riser times ; and when we allow for the increased and increasing population and internal trade of the country, it is impossible not to see that further and continual additions must be expected. Yet centu ties have not increased the number of superior Courts, or of Judges. Possibly they were ton many formerly; certainly they are too few now for the business. " Actions for the value of forty shillings or up wards are still generally permitted to be brought in these Courts, and indeed, except in certain districts, where inferior or summary Courts have been esta blished, there exists no other remedy for a forty shilling demand. Now, unless we can suffer our selves to be persuaded that the relative value of money has undergone no alteration since this sum was fixed, here is another most cogent reason for the increase of business. This portion of the in crease takes place too, let it be recollected, at the bottom of the scale, in the causes of the least im portance to the public at large; although from the general situation of the parties it is precisely in such as are likely to be conducted in the keenest spirit of litigation, and when decided, to cause the loudest complaint of the expences." Another great source of the enormous in crease of law expenses, is the mode in which, in almost every case, evidence of facts must be given in a Court of Justice. Every fact must be proved, according to the present arrangement, in open Court, and the witnesses, at whatever distance they may be residing from the place of trial, attend in person ; while, as Mr. Dance has shewn, there are many facts of merely minor importance which might as satisfactorily be proved elsewhere, and without either loss of time or expense. " There are," says he, " instances to which relaxa tion, by the introduction of a less expensive substi tute, might, I think, be extended with perfect safety. Such are all matters of what may be called mere official proof, as of the service of a notice, of the delivery of a letter, of the execution of a deed when no fraud is imputed, and many others, which in fact are often agreed on as admissions between the attorneys. Upon this subject I should propose, that some one of the officers of each Court be appointed, before whom the attorney of either a plaintiff or a defendant (notice being previously given to the opposite party) might attend with any witnesses, and for a small fee on each, the officer might swear them, take their evidence, and give a certificate (to be used on the trial) of the docu ments and facts proved. " It seems to me, that all possibility of inconve nience resulting from this rule would be prevented if the adverse party, either after cross-examining any such witness or not, might cause him to be ordered by the officer to attend the trial of the cause, on the condition of being paid such expellees as the officer should then settle. It would be well to add to this arrangement, that subpoenas for this purpose might be made returnable before the officer, so as to com pel the attendance of witnesses in the same manner as before the court. There are many instances, par ticularly at the Assizes, where such a provision as this would save from ten to twenty pounds, or even possibly more, for a single witness, whose testimony, though comparatively unimportant, it might yet be imprudent to forego. And I am well assured that very many proofs would be taken at this small ex pense, which parties now omit altogether, at the risk of consequences that sometimes prove most serious. It may be added too, that every substitu tion'of a certificate of proof for the calling, swear ing, and examining a witness, tends also to econo- mize the time of the Court, the importance of which ' I have already shown." Another mode of procuring justice cheaply :And satisfactorily, proposed by Mr. Dance, is that of admitting the plaintiff and defendant to call his adversary as a witness. At present this can only be done by filing a bill in equity, the expense of which, as every one knows, is enor mous ; yet it often happens that there are facts within the knowledge of either the plaintiff or the defendant which are essential to a right understanding of the case, and which cannot be elicited unless the one is allowed to call the other, and put him upon his oath as a witness. With regard to actions for debts extending to 501. or 1001., Mr. Dance thinks that, with a few easy arrangements, they might have the benefit of a trial in a superior Court; and for this purpose he proposes that— " The Lord Chief Justice be freed altogether from the necessity of holding any sittings within Term; but instead of these, that one or other of the Puisne Judges should sit for trial of the class of causes in question, every day during the Term, and afterwards if the number should require it. In order to diminish the expense of witnesses and parties in attendance, these causes ought, as they are set down, to he allotted in succession by a certain num ber to each day, the notice of trial being given to the defendant after the cause shall have been so fixed for a particular day; and I apprehend, that if the number for each day were not to exceed twelve, it would very seldom happen that more than two days' attendance would be neeeL=sary in any case. I will venture to assert, that this arrangement would of itself go far towards a sufficient indemnification to the attorneys for a considerable reduction in the r charges on other parts of the proceeding•, their sa crifice of time in watching and waiting for a cause on the eve of trial being now a positive, and some times an intolerable loss to them. _ _ _ " Costs might in these cases be reduced further, without any inconvenience, if the brief and fee to one counsel only on each side were to be allowed on taxation, ntld certainly the Court fees on this class might very reasonably be diminished. " In connection with this part of the subject, it is impossible to pass over a suggestion made by Mr. Brougham for the establishment of a Court of Arbi tration. Such a Court appears to me susceptible of being rendered a most valuable part of the system. " The best mode of carrying this proposition into effect, would probably be to appoint a certain num ber of Commissioners of Arbitration, leaving it to parties to agree on the one to whom their cause should be referred." The greatest evil, however, in the present system is that whether a case be or be not dis puted, the same costs and the same expellees must be incurred ; in every case without any benefit to either party, and in most with decided loss to the party whose cause has most justice on its side. " But let us look," says he, " to the effect of costs arising in cases of debt, which are neither dis puted nor disputable. Such costs are in truth most fearful and double-edged weapons, wounding as often those who strike the blow as those at whom it is aimed. In cases wherein the debt is actually recovered, the costs add to the misery and oppres sion of the debtor, and by tending to disable him om meeting other engagements, their recurrence very commonly drives him to bankruptcy or insolvency. " When, on the other hand, the debt is not re covered, the costs operate in aggravation of the creditor's loss; and therefore all such parties, per ceiving nothing in the expellees of law but un engine of mischief to themselves, must be expect ed to look upon it, as they actually do, with great abhorrence. . " It seems, therefore, most imperatively necessary to do something towards reducing most especially the costs of this class, or at any rate, of enabling debtors to submit honestly and cheaply to such de mands as they have no wish to dispute." Such are a few of the remedies pointed out by Mr. Dance for abridging the expenses of law proceedings. They do not, perhaps, go quite so far as the evils of the present system would au thorize ; but they are practical and well meant, and we trust will not pass wholly unnoticed by those who are now employed in a revision of the law. An arbitration court, as suggested by Mr. Brougham, would, if based on sound regulations, be unquestionably a great improvement ; and we would fain hope that that learned person would find leisure, in the course of the ensuing Session, to bring forward a Bill upon the subject.-- Morning Advertiser. It is rumoured that an intention exists of ap plying to the Preachers at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, the same pruning-hook which has lately been used towards the Whitehall Preachers —that is, by abolishing the greater part of them, and dividing the whole of the duties and emolu ments among the few who may be selected to re main. We know not whether this feature of Church reform has yet been determined upon; but that it has been in contemplation we have good reason for believing, and the reason as signed for it is the same as in the other case— viz., that the frequenters of the Chapel do not like such a constant change of Ministers, and that the Chapel itself would be better frequented by the Courtly circle if its spiritual wants were supplied from a purer and less copious fountain. These Reverend Gentlemen consist of 48 per sons—viz., four for each month ; and, on running our eye over the list of them, as pub lished in the Court Calendar, appear to consist, for the most part, of persons dis tinguished alike by name, rank, and talents, Of their mode of preaching of course we cannot be supposed to be much aware ; but we remember that George the Third and his family constantly frequented the Chapel ; that he and Queen Charlotte were not only eminently pious themselves, but esteemed as excellent judges of clerical merit—Bishop Porteus, we believe, as well as others, having been selected for preferment by the satisfaction they gave here. His present Majesty, too, it is generally admit ted, has as regularly attended this Chapel when in town, and is well known to have exhibited a no less correct taste in these matters, and to have have raised persons to eminence in the Church by much more elevated tests of merit than gene rally appear to influence similar selections, when made by his Ministers.' It strikes us, therefore, we must confess, as rather singular, that it is not till a time when the Royal Family have, from a variety of circumstances, almost ceased to attend this Chapel, that this deficiency should be dis covered among the Preachers, and that we should on a sudden witness what we must be allowed to call a plebeian fastidiousness where Royalty itself has listened to the Ministers of religion with content and edification.— Mornin i Herald. It appears from a letter of the great agitator O'Connell, that he has contrived a scheme by means of which he imagines the law of last Ses sion for the suppression of Political Associations in Ireland may be evaded, and an Anti- Union Society, as efficacious for the purposes of agita tien as the late-Catholic Association, may carry on its operations without violating the letter, or incurring the penalties of the law. This Act of Parliament, which prepared the way for the Catholic Relief Bill, and formed one of its in dispensable conditions, we now hear the Hon. and Learned Member for Clare, the most bat- ' encial and powerful leader of the Roman Ca tholics of Ireland, denominate, with characteristic mildness and gratitude, " The doubly Algerinc Act," and find him exulting in the notion that it may safely be defied and effectually defeated by a happy decree of his own. We fear the ques tion will bring down upon us the charge of illiberality ; but we cannot refrain from asking if this device of the HOn. and Learned Gentle man is to be taken as one of the proofs of Ca tholic loyalty and respect for the laws and con stitution which were to follow, and which we are daily told have in fact followed, the removal of religious distinctions ? The. establishment of an office in Dublin for Parliamentary purposes, to be maintained by subscription, and managed by Mr. Edward Dwyer, " the Gentleman who has been for some years the laborious and exemplary Secretary of the late Catholic A ssociation," is the ingenious contrivance by which Mr. O'Connell teaches his fellow-countrymen that they may safely violate the spirit of the law. That this is the object the institution really has in view, there can be no doubt. Mr. O'Connell indeed avows it as explicitly (perhaps more so) as is at all consist ent with prudence. We quote his own words. " The subscribers will, I trust, form themselves into a Parliamentary Society. I love perfect candour, and therefore I frankly avow that I look on this body of subscribers as most likely' to form the basis of that great National Society which I contemplate in order to render the repeal of the Union peaceable and tranquil, as it is 1 think inevitable. I would instantly com mence the formation of that Society but for the existence of the doubly Algerine Act of the last Session. This Act it is that makes it wise to have the 'subscriptions paid in to a single indi vidual. Mr. Dwyer will publish monthly ac counts of the receipts and disbursements." Mr. O'Connell is here plain and candid enough. He evidently has no wish that his project should be misunderstood ; but as the law cannot be out raged unless under a disguise, he adopts the most flimsy he can imagine. An Anti-Union Association—an Anti-Union rent—the Se cretary of the one, and the receiver of the other, being the laborious and exemplary Secretary of the • late Catholic Associ ation, are features of the project over which it is not thought necessary that the veil should be thrown, and these being seen all the rest may surely be inferred, It is the impe rious duty :of the Irish Government to watch with the most anxious care and circumspection the proceedings of the Roman Catholic leaders. To urge them to the adequate and effective dis charge of this duty, and, so far as we can, to assist them in its performance, is the object of that attention which we have paid, anti shall continue to pay, to whatever is going on in Ire land. It is no part of our object to stigmatize or discredit the important measure recently adopted by the Legislature, but we must be per mitted to say, that if the advantages anticipated by its advocates are to be realised, or _ the evils foretold by its opponents to be avoided, the cor rective and repressive laws which accompanied it must be enforced and upheld according to their true spirit and meaning. And how, we would ask, is a law to be upheld, if Mr. O'Connell, or any other man, be permitted to arouse the passions of the people against it ; to expose it to their contempt and abhorrence by the most vio lent and intemperate abuse. To call a recent Act of the Legislature, " a doubly Algerine Act," is perhaps temperate and allowable dis cussion, or perhaps it is an inflammatory and seditious libel. Upon this legal question we would willingly defer to the opinion of the Irish Attorney-General. But should the expression be pronounced an inflammatory and seditious libel by competent authority, we would then ask the Members of his Majesty's Government if Mr. O'Connell hare any longer an apology for such a crime, and if the impunity of such a crime, when habitually committed by such a man, be consistent with the character and dignity of the Administration, with a determination on its part to uphold the law, with the tranquillity and welfare of Ireland, with the advantages ex pected to follow the admission of Roman Catho lics to political power ?—Morning Post. DUBLIN. COMMISSION COURT—TursDA r. Margaret M'Daniel was indicted for manslaugh ter, by throwing Mary M'Daniel, her mother, into the Grand Canal, on the 19th of December. Margaret Cummins examined—l live beyond Leeson-street bridge. I knew Mary M'Daniel ; she is dead. The prisoner at the bar is her daughter. I was in the company of the deceased the 19th of December last, about eleven at night. We went to look for her daughter. She overtook us on the new road, near Fitzwilliam-square. Her mother turned round and called her a night-walking —. The prisoner said she was no such thing. She appeared intoxicated. When we came near the Canal the prisoner got into handy-grips with the deceased. The prisoner's arm was round the mother, and she fell into the Canal. The prisoner then said " Now she's gone !" The prisoner said she would go the same ground herself, meaning that she would drown herself. She did not seem in despair, but was going to throw herself in, but I stopped her. The mother cried out, " Margaret, Margaret !" as she floated on the water. I screemed and screeched. She said nothing but " Now she's gone." By the COURT—What manner did she say it, with regret or exultation ?—she said " she's gone," and then said "she'd go the same:ground herself"— shc was going to drown herself, when I stopped her —the mother cried out " Margaret, Margaret !" She did not sink at once, but floated. I was scream log, the prisoner was crying. I screeched out, she did not. She said nothing at that time but " now she's gone." The body remained four or five mi nutes over the water, and then sunk. I took the prisoner to where I live. She went freely with me. I told a woman in the neighbourhood what had happened, and then told her husband. Her husband lives in a little house 30 or 40 yards from the place. As we went along, the prisoner said to ale "nobody knows but ourselves both, and you may discover if you like." She gave me leave to tell. I saw the body on Monday morning again. I left the prisoner locked up in my house. She remained with me all night until morning. Next morning I saw the body on the Canal, and in about half an hour afterwards she was taken into custody. She made no attempt to get away. She might have escaped if she wished. No other evidence was adduced. Judge ;MORE briefly charged the Jury, who re turned a verdict of Guilty. Huddersfield market has, during the three last weeks, been unusually brisk. On Tuesday last a very considerable quantity of cloth was sold, and a great deal more would have been disposed of, if the assortment of goods hail been suited to the demand. This not being the case, some of the, orders were given by the merchants to the manufacturers for such goods as the market did not furnish. The demand for duffils is now neatly over for the season, and the trade in the neighbourhood of Horbury and Osset has in consequence fallen off so much as to oc casion several good workmen to be out of employment. The two first markets in the year at Halifax and Bradford have both been very flat, and little buying si was done in either.—Leeds Mercury. TO THE PEOPLE OF IREL AND. LETTER FROM MR. O'CONNELL. Merrion-square, Jan. 3, 1830. FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN,—The Parliamentary Ses sion approaches—we should endeavour to make it as useful to Ireland as possible; or to demonstrate the unfitness of a British Parliament to attend to the wants and transact the business of this country. It is supposed that command of language and the higher order of eloquence are all-powerful in the British Senate. That is a mistake obvious to any body who will consider the materials of which the British Parliament is composed. The Parliament is to be moved by quite different springs from those which mere mental faculties can operate upon. I possess but little command of language, arid no eloquence at all. I can be useful only as a practical pains-taking man of business; and it is in that capa city alone in which I devote my self to the good of COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats, Besal*, Per Quarter. s. to P. P. to S. P. to s. s. to Carlisle _ 55 TY 21 Carmarthen 56 42 14 VI 52 72 n 41 22 29 51.1 Jturyseth 46 53 23 39 19 24 34 Penrith 60 3 1 Slietlield — 73 -- 29 i Winchester 50 61 , 22 33 17 29 42 Per Bushel. s. d, s. d. s. d, s. d. s. d. s. d. s.d. 0 11 Coventry 7 0 9 0 4 8 5 4 3 6 4 0 5,6, Newcastle (Staff.) J 0 96 56 II 0 36 40 5 6 %i Northallerton 7 0 9 3 3 6 4 6 3 9 40- 5 9 2 1 Stafford '9O 4 5 9 62 3 40 72 A i Swansea --...... 7 9 84 44 46 84 26 00 ":1 Warwick 90 100 46 50 33 40 73 ' Per 8011. Zarnardcastle.-- 13 0 15 0 8 3 9 0 5 6 6 6 9 6 I n g Durham ---... 12 6 150 86 96 49 86 90 l;$ Richmond 120 160 90 106 70 86 11 0 J' A d Stockton tht 6 11 6 S 0 9 0 4 8 7 6 0 9 0 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—Jan. S. There is a short supply of Wheat here to-day ; fine terd's., kits being searoe obtain Friday's prices, but general t. and all middling descriptions meet exceedingly dull u 5 at rather less money, as the buyers, now that the motif tion is open, look for a large arrival next week. 0/00s re without alteration. The best samples of Barley ars2 . ° , l demand at late prices, but the middling sorts are very - O r sale. Beans are much the name. Alalt is very dull. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and SuWolk 525. 555. to 575. line 616 , New .5-15 Ms. to 61s. fine 646. White Old 555. 575. to 625. 6ne 665. my country. I intend to be in London on the 28th of January, six days before the Parliament meets. My wish is to be furnished with as many petitions as pos sible upon each particular subject of Parliamentary relief. There is no time to be lost in getting up those petitions. In order to facilitate the preparation and forward ing of petitions, and the transacting all other Par liamentary business in Ireland, I consider it absolutely necessary to have an office for these purposes in Dublin ; en office where can be obtained, by per. sons resident in Ireland, information on all subjects connected with proceedings in both Houses of Parliament, and through which all proceedings and other documeets can be transmitted to Loudon. Such an office as this has been long wanting. Everybody was desirous that it should be esta blished—nobody would take the trouble of esta blishing it—l determined to do so. Accordingly, I have taken the house, No. 26, Stephen-street, for that purpose. I shall make the experiment by paying the rent of it 'for at least one year. If the experiment succeeds, it will am ply pay for itself. I am rejoiced to say that I have prevailed upon my friend, Mr. Edward Dwyer, to undertake the management of that office. I mean the gentleman who has been for some years the laborious and exemplary Secretary of the late Catholic Associa tion. It is impossible to have any man more suited to the duty. His Parliamentary agency will be general. He will form such connexions in London as will en able him to transact as well business connected with public grievances as the carrying on of Ap peals before the House of Lord., and as the pass ing of Private Bills, so as to diminish to a compa rative trifle the present enormous and overwhelm ingt, expense of such proceedings. But his public duties sill be more extensive. They will include every thing that relates to the preparation arid transmission to Parliament of peti tions, and to the mode of seeking for Parliamentary redress for Irish grievances. He will take care to give the Irish public informa tion through tire Pilot newspaper of all the Bills and Motions relative in apsy way to Ireland, which shall be brought before Parliament. There will be an accurate list of such Motions and Bills published by him at least once a week, from the commencement to the close of the Session. He will also give the public, once a week, as accurate a list as possibly can be obtained of the names of the Irish Members who attend Parliament—with the days of their ac tual attendance at the House, and the manner in which they vote on each particular question. My eldest son, who accompanies me to London, will assist- in the formation of this list. The Irish people will thus be thoroughly informed of the dili gence and conduct of their representatives. Mr. Dwyer will also be able to supply to the public in this country an abstract of all such pro ceedings relative to Ireland us shall appear to have been mutilated or neglected by the London news papers. The local affairs of Ireland being uninte resting to the majority of English readers, the Par liamentary proceedings which relate exclusively to them are either abbreviated or totally omitted by the London editor's. ,I should hope that the Morning chronicle, an excellent journal, to which the people of Ireland are greatly indebted, will be induced to give more publicity to the debates relating to Ire land. If not, my son will assist Mr. Dwyer to make up the deficiency. A subscription will be necessary to defray Mr. Dwyer's expenses, including compensation for his trouble. I need not say that my son will give his services. The subscription in Dublin will be one pound a year ; that for persons residing in the country, ten shillings. Every subscriber will be entitled•to the use of the rooms, which are extensive and commodious. They will be supplied with Irish and English news papers, and with the Parliamentary Papers, reports, and other documents. I myself will be in constant communication with Mr. Dwyer, and the subscribers will thus be in pos session of my views of Parliamentary affairs. The best mode of transmitting information to me will be through Mr. Dwyer. Any petition or document intended for me or any other Member of Parliament, will be certain of reaching its destination speedily and safely by being transmitted to Mr. Dwyer. It will be necessary to become a subscriber in order to correspond with Mr. Dwyer. This is in evitable, in consequence of the necessary expenses. But any subscriber can communicate with Mr. Dwyer for as many others and upon as many sub jects as he pleases. The subscribers will, I tress, so form themselves into a Parliamentary Society. I love perfect cat,- dour, and therefore I frankly avow that I look on this body of subscribers as most likely to form the basis of that great national society, which I con template, in order to render the repeal of the, Union peaceable and trenquil, as it is, I think, inevitable. I would instantly commence the formation of that society, but for the existence of the doubly Algerine Act of the last Session. This Act it is that makes it wise to have the subscriptions paid in to a single individual. Mr. Dwyer will publish monthly accounts of the receipts and disbursements. Here then is an opportunity for all those who have Parliamentary business to transact to have it done satisfactorily and expeditiously. Here is a place where all Parliamentary information can be cheaply and sa tisfactorily obtained. Here is an office from which the public will receive full information of the con duct of their Representatives. There is a large and strongly-built store in the rear, and making part of the premises which I have thus taken. I propose converting it into a shape suited to be a " Mechanics' Institute. It will also serve for public meetings assembling to petition Par liament. The charitable societies that support or phanages by a public dinner, will have the use of it gratuitously. In short, it is calculated to serve many benevolent and national purposes. From what I have said of the " doubly Algerine Act," it may be necessary to add that no society is illegal until its continuance shall have been prohi• heed by public proclamation of the Lord Lieutenant. Tire anti-union societies which have been already formed in the country need not therefore dissolve themselves— -on the contrary, they ought gradually to increase and extend themselves, observing that there must he no species of obligation taken or pledge made, nor any secrecy whatsoever. These are precautions of the utmost importance to Ireland. I have now, I trust, commenced an establishment which may be eminently useful. I have endeavoured to place it in the most practical shape. It ought to assist in Procuring parliamentary redress. if my country continue under oppression and in a state of grovelling inferiority, it shall not be the fault, fellow --- A 1 countrymen, of your faithful servant , PAINTED AND PII.IILISNED ay YOUNG, - D. O'CONNELL. E TUX StrN OIVIDS, 11 t, 8914 A LONDO.• - --- New 50s. 565. to Ms. fine 6.31. --- Foreign, Red 47s Us. to Stk. fine OS , White S46. 595. to 636. fine tlss• Barley, Norfolk anti Suffolk 266. to 326. fine 344. Lincolnshire 24s. to Nis. fine fib• Yorkshire Wold -u---- Foreign —s. to —e. fine — . 4 , Beans, Old -- New 30s to 335. line 3M• Oats, Potato Ws. to 1355. fine 2110. Poland 20s. 22e. to 245. fine 250. Friesland and Small lB6. 20s. to 9•ls, fine 2 Mealing lld. to 12%d. per Stone. Shelling 28s. to 30s. Od. per Lead , Mal' 36s. 40s. fine 411 s. per Los& Rapeseed Aberdeen —.., Berwick Coldstream .... Cupar --..... Dundee --.. Elgin --...... sco Wheat. I n v ern ess.- Kelso Kirkaltly .. Perth The size 0 82 148 54 '36 40 160 '76 50 '74 of the in Beang, l()Atme oi ; as 96 s° 33 22 21 22 2.5 27 32 26 V 10 21 19 20 34 27 30 34 26 32 I ;bout the eountrl• 'CH MARKETS. Barley Oats. 23 98 IS 90 18 19 95 28 27 90 20 25 22 27 19 90 33 XS 19 91 asure va 20 22 15 17 14 18 22 95 21 24 20 23 18 91 15 17 26 32 19 21 throng]ice 40 .^' - HADDINGTON CORN MA lIKET.—Jan. S. Barley and Oats were rather quicker to-day thaw lsol Friday. Top of Barley ls. and average Bd. up; quarters sold, 22 unsold. Oats stand at last day's II and average ; 200 quarters sold, 67 unsold. Wheat se' readily ; top as last day, average Is. ld. down. Pess e are Is., and Beans sd. above the averages of last market• Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beane• First s9s Od 32s Od 24s 04 99a Od 218 Od Second s2s Od 29, Od 226 Od 28a Od 29s Od Third There were 4M qrs. of Wheat in ►narket, 425 whereof were sow 8 Umsold.-18 Grey , 21. 12s Average 6.l2the. E: r.—Jan. at this lan those [TH COR all kinds ices rather N 1 MARK of Grain r h;glier t 1 ay s ' rola' )f this tOf DALKE The supply of ket was large ; pr ennight. Wheat. Barley. Oats. rease. Beans• First fl3F. Ott 31s 9d 2is Ott 32s Od 32s Second Third 506 Od 26s Od !Ss Od 26s QI 26A 041 /t CORNWALL MARKETS. TRURO.—Wheat (average) 235. 13s. Oil .—Oats, litturrox—Wheat, 285. M.—Barley, 125.8 d. ST. AusTmu,—Wheat, 215. to 245.—Barley, 115. to 134.-00 ° 85. to 95. &I. 13onatui—Wheat (average) 235. Od.—Tlarlei, 145.—Oats, 85. LA UtICESTON—W heat (average) 235.1/rt.—Barley, 125. Al—Os. Od.—Beef, (id.—Mutton,l , 4l. PIiKZANCR—Wheat, 231. to :A.s.—Barley, --o. to 185.—Oa ts ' Ss. to his. Ort—Beef and Mutton, 441. to 51d.—Pork, 3141.. to Od• Butter, lid. per lb. LISK EA Ra—Wheat,22s. dd. to 25s.—Barley. 13s. Ed.—Oats, to 1 Is. Od. ST. Cocums—Wheat, 20s. to YU—Barley, MR. to 135.—'43 ,44 and Mutton, 4d. to bid.—Veal and Lamb, Oct to Oct. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. CI Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thursday 1,954 Average Produce .s ll6 ; Quantity of fine Copper 153 .; Amount of. Sale, 10,9535. o.l.—Average,Stwalard 106/. Is. u'" HAMBURG, JAag. 1. Oar corn tnarket hass been, during the week, in a stsig of almost total inactivity, and all the prices marked belo? must therefore be considered nominal. One lot of VP' land Wheat was sold, to be delivered as soon as the rill % is open:— Weight. Rix clollatl Dantzie Wheat 122 to 136......120 to 11 1 Pomeranian Anhalt, white llB to 124 118 to 126 -- rod 111 to 123 114 to 11 1 Danish 120 to 128 llO to 2$ Potersburgh and Riga 120 to 129 to --' Dantzic Rye llB to 121 63 to 0 Upland 116 to 121 64 to 11 Magdeburgh Barley 93 to 106 SO to be Aahalt 9B to 104. 6O to 0 Mecklenhurgh Oats.... ..... .. .......... Pomeranian Malt —to 52 to L 1 Pease, yellow, Upland ... —to —...... 70 to 0 Holstein Rapeseed —to -- , ......150 to 10 The liquidation yesterday passed off in a satisfastel manner. Fundy, which were yesterday in demand, Issifi improved to-day, and indicate a dityosition to a farthe r rise. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 pet cent. 744 Anglo-Russian Loan ........... ............ IOISX Hamburg-Russian Loan lOl Polish Bonds ll5 Austrian Bank Shares .... 12941 Austrian Meta!lives 1044 . New Austrian 4 For Cents. „„,..... ...... Anglo Neapolitan Falconets XICHANGES ON LONDON. AMOTENDAII, JAN. b.-12. 25. t o 12. 22. 5-JO.; two months, 12. 1 7. 5-10 . to 1 2. 15., lA f London a ua'jA t 2 N' i months, lm.—onAh°lyday ; N o li s t p u bli s hed; d on e 13. 10i money. Littresc, Dac. 24.—Three months, 6. 181. BEtux, Dsc. 31.—Three months, 6. 28 BREMEN, Dac. 2U.—Two months, 6. 18. Hamburg Reporter, Jan. I. BIRTHS. egav On the Stli inst. at Bush- co tt age , W ans t ea d, Esse n env tl oingsntl' Mrs. E. Williams, of a son. T. Larrrenc On the 7th inst. in llarley-street, the lady of Dr. Se'' tfo ta. they, of a daughter. au , T 1 ' On the 10th inst., at Upper Clapt on , M rs . J. B. Iltfoeo ella as 1 of a daughter. On the 9th inst. in Bernard-street, the lady of G. Pitman, Esq. of a daughter. On the 9th inst. at Camberwell, Mrs. J. R. Payne, °I a daughter. Cohtsinß i t 1 :11 , I) ta th e in , . 1 — heci ut 1g MARRIED. On tie 7th inst. at Walcot Church, Bath, by the Re/' Dr. Barry, the Rev. Wm. Coyte Freeland, of Coggeshallf Essex, to Mary Catherine, youngest daughter of the lei Rear-Admiral Bingham, and grand-daughtea of the WI Vice-Admiral Sir Wm. Parker, Bart. On the 9th inst. at St. Mary'ts Bryansfene-square, J. Twins, Esq. solicitor, Cambridge, to Laura Maria, youtv ge.i daughter of the late Money Hill, Esq. Waterdeor Norfolk. Oa the sth inst. at Alarylehone, R. B. Clayton, Esl' only eon of Lieut.-General Clayton, of Felwood-hall, Lao' cashire, and Courtaile, Wexford, to Catherine Jane, Oa child of the late Rey. R. Dobson, of Fursieux Pelhatot Herta. I This volt t it h tltil l t oi w onu oir r e k r n s e g n c th, dit B i . is r ll ' L„tie, h eat . ter, ','''ltii , f . j ,g stilt 411 u ~ li t ,. 1 , V , lit 121.110111 z o f( New J l io N With es i . lit e n SII ''' 6d. froP:4l!)ellis nt Zu o ravvi: . d %ha ttkvl: " Mr , 14°%Cleegi8 by lit 12 eb r Ac st ains 161;, 4 , hot, at 15 4tly "Ltt joa '4; h ea ‘l!"`inp tf ord, ; „Zkc t i vi t, 4 , 1, 4tl DIED. On the Stlt inst. in Davies-street, Berkeley-square, Anne , Countess Dowager of Galloway, in her 88th year. On the 10th inst. at Surbiton.place, Surrey, of fever, AO Hodson, daughter of Mr. Alderman Garratt, in the 14 0 year of her age. On the 9th inst. at his house in Russell-square, Willia o Pratt, E , q. On the 9th inst. at her house in Rnssell• place, Fitzror square, at an advanced age, Mrs. Knox. On the Bth inst, at Croydon-lodge, Surrey, Thoto o Bainbridge, Esq. On the sth inst. at Richmond, Surrey, J. Quilter, On the 6th inst. at Epsom, after a short illness, Si C James Alexander. On the 4th inst. Cruttell Pierce, Esq. of Bath-place , Peckham. On the 28th tilt. T. Blenham, Esq. late of Newport, S3lop, aged 31. On the 28th ult. at Southampton-place, New-ro d ' Mrs. Ashlin. On the 4th inst. at Croydon, George Steinham, E.g. On the let inst. Mims Mathews, sister of Mrs. Andrews, of Stan►nore. Oa the sth inst. James, only son of Mr. J. Griffin, o f Hatton-garden, aged 34. O ❑ the 4th inst. Sophia, wife of Mr. Lyndon, ° I Gerrard-street, Soho, aged 41. F POR THE 12 HOOP VICT UI TH E C Majesty AI TUESDAY, t Tenders ita wri NUFACTURI moors as ina at Deptford, to Months' notice Contract. And also wil (on separate Co as may be dew for Oae Year , notice. Samples of I (laced with the The Conditi Office. Each Tend, longtit, and b appointed; an, by two respon with the part the due perfori tare of Iron I tracts for True Tho Person en hie behalf, LICEIS T " G the SU Cie ANNUAL at the CROW (Dancing to c 4 no doubt will nage bestowed 15, Old Brom Jan*B, IE IMPEL BUN-COURT, JOHN /ENEA Charles Bate Michael Blan Cornelius Bu Andrew Colv Charles Dani John Henry Simwe( Drew atorge Hibb Two-thirds Periodically a( life, without tithed to Soc A division after which tl Deed of Sett] npon which fi becom e Claim Rates and I pany's Officei *wise tiarou; TO BI Pennant to ] of CHAD THOMPS FORD, E the Publie ton Build' DAY, tl2O SUNDJ A MANS. hid LANDS Beatwfrth, Pursuant to Barns Caw at the )144 A FREEI and Pieeo Dragon Pul the County , Particular Master's Chi of T. H. I Lusa., Soli London ; ai and Messrs. stoke ; also, the &tem W • H, a few of the forc e hi, graitede far Lae received, tied at a skeet in prol Bound in celebrated l at IsB. p, Contains by ♦arious lashed at 21 Embellished bound in Nil] I Superbly Inott beautil 1(0 : from pa t himent Ar Im m , far la gr tr at ing sf --e4 w7 supe