The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1844. new turn to my Protestant fellow-countrymen, those mon them who have not yet had the spirit of man liness evinced by the gentlemen near me to unite with their Catholic countrymen for their common intereete And I ask them, are they timid or doubtful of our inte grity after all that has hitherto been done by us to show them our real feelings. Oh, if we were strong enough to shout, ought we not to be strong enough to do some violence, or rather, what but the re-animating spirit of affection and conciliation towards each other could have brought them together without some violence taking place ? Nay, more, were we not in the midst of our strength, with more power than any monarch in Europo possesses in his hands ?—(Tremendous cheering.) How did I acquire that power ? I acquired it by the cone viction that rested on the minds of every man, woman, and child who obeyed me, that I would not abuse it. I acquired that power because I coincided in opinion with them, and guarded against the contingency of any crime whatsoever.—(Hear, hear.) My Lord Mayor, I never could attain that power without the assistance of the Catholic clergy, and they would not have given that assistance to me if they had not known the use which I would make of it. Oh, my Protestant fellow-countrymen, listen to this—they knew that I was the first apostle of that political sect that proclaims the possibility of effecting all great changes by moral means alone, and that there is no human revolution worth the shedding of a single drop of human blood to obtain.—(Hear, hear.) No, human blood is not a cement to the public station, it possesses rather a crumbling than a binding property, and it brings down to the ground any public edifice in the erection of which it has been expended.--(Hear.) We proceeded without crime ; we shuddered at the shedding of a single drop of humon blood. The Catholic clergy saw these were our principles, and that there was no danger to the laws, either of God or man, being violated by those who united with us. Protestants of Ireland, what objection can you have to our principles ? and why not seek to carry them out ? But have I not to boast of this, that even yesterday my revered friend the Most Rev. Dr. Murray, the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin (and lam almost ashamed of using so familiar a term in speaking of him), at the head of the clergy, stood before the altar offering up his hands together to the God of all, in grateful recollection and thanksgiving for the triumphant assertion of the mercy that the Al mighty had vouchsafed towards us? If we had acted dis loyally, immorally, or illegally, is not Dr. Murray loyal enough to refuse to sanction our acts ? Is there, con fessedly, a more loyal man in the nation than he is, and is not his entire life a continued instance of his loyalty and wortk ? Oh, I feel a pleasure beyond expression, that, yesterday, we had his testimony in our favour.— (Hear.) Yes, when the moment came, in which the conspiracy was hatched in the purlieus of the Castle when the Attorney-General used the foul language that had fallen from him, of calling us foul conspirators— when we were bringing in argument after argument for our defence—though, after all, what can argument do under such circumstances as we were placed in ?—how was the heart of your leader—shall I call myself so ? (Great cheers)—oppressed with anxiety for your future conduct, and how grateful that heart can now be for obe dience and confidence that it can never merit ! At that moment, at that time when your leader was torn from amongst you, his beloved son was also most scandalously included in the same charge. Would it not have been punishment enough fur my beloved John to see me im prisoned, without being himself sentenced to captivity Oh, malignant vinegar-cruet on two legs—(Loud cheers and laughter'—it was John O'Connell's opposition to you at Yough - al—his defeat of you at Youghal—his op position to you before the Committee, and his overthrow of you there, that caused him to be placed in the indict ment !—(Hear, hear.) I saw that he had reasonable grounds for his animosity to me. I had impeached his father, and I succeeded in one stage of that impeach ment, and I respect his filial piety—(Great laughter)— that made him persecute me ; but the very spirit that would animate such enmity should make him leave out my son.—(Hear.) But, could there be anything more unstatesmanlike than the conduct of the Government throughout ? They knew their danger, and they crowded troops over here ; but they doubted that they were, even then, sufficient to keep the country, so they boxed the troops up in barracks, and put loopholes in the walls, every one of which appeared to possess a tongue telling them that they were not able to keep th e coun t r y, and m that they required something to keep themselves. Bat could anything be more foolish than the expressions that fell from the Minister on the occasion ? Think you that they bad no effect on the old diplomatist Louis Philippe ? or that if they had not been used, and if the weakness of England with regard to Ireland were not known in France, that Tangiers would not have re mained untouched—that Mogadore would not still be uninjured—and that the plains of Ouchda would not be untainted with Moorish blood ?—(Hear, hear.) But what could be more peaceable than our conduct through out ? When an occasional outrage was committed against us we did not prosecute ; we behaved kindly to those who were opposed to us ; and have I not these facts and the conduct of the people throughout all Ireland to appeal to in support of my calls for concilia tion and union ?—(Cheers.) Oh ! the people have conducted themselves admirably.—(Hear, hear.) Every confidence can now be placed in their peaceful determination. We can repose on their good con duct, and they have most completely shown fitness for self - government.—(Cheers.) More particularly have they done so in giving up the only vice which prevailed in Ireland. They have thrown themselves into the tem• perance movement, and the blissful result of abstaining from intoxicating liquors is now known to millions.— (Hear, hear.) 0 ! here is a people, Protestant brethren, fit to govern themselves and worthy of your support and confidence.—(Cheers.) I have conclusive evidence that Pe are beginning to f ee l so . L oo k, h ere i s M r . G rey ' orter's pamphlet : the work of a high Protestant gen tleman—high sheriff of a Protestant county.—(Cheers.) What does this book say ? I will give you three sen tences The union of 1801, the 41st of George 111., cap. 47 (all on one side), does, and always will, draw away from Ireland her men of skill, genius, capital, and rank—all who raise its strength and distinguish a nation." "A federal (the only fair) union bostween Great Britain and Ireland inevitable, and most desirable for both islands."—(Loud cheers.) These are the principles on which this gentleman sets out. The first shows the evils of the union, the second advocates its repeal.— (Cheers.) I want to know will Sugden, that cursed, con tumelious little English dog—(Cheers and laughter)— will that currish„ contumelious little gentleman, I ask, venture to supersede Mr. Grey Porter ? (Cheers.) I call him a cur, becau-e ho barked at us when he dared not bite.—(Cheers.) He has not the courage to supersede Mr. Porter. lie wen't venture to act towards a gentleman of that high station as he has done towards some poor county magistrates.—(Hear, hear.) I admire this pamphlet ; for, though mistaken in some of its facts, it contains the genuine principle of nation ality—that spirit which I wish to pervade the people, and which seeks Ireland for the Irish.—(Cheers.) I invite that gentleman to join us,and I tell him that he will get that leading place among us which his talent, rank, and patriotism deserve. Nay, more, I undertake to dis solve the Association if he does not approve of our con duct, or can detect us committing one single act affect ing our loyalty or allegiance.—(Cheers.) From this place I call upon him to join us. Perhaps he may hear I me yet, and though he may think the present time toe • soon, I think the day will come.—(Loud cheers.) This, I then, is the time for conciliation. By it you may gain such men as Mr. Porter ; and is he not worth concilia ting ?—(Cheers.) What would I not do to persuade him ? Would I not give a portion of my heart's blood to gain him over ? I say, that the man is not honest who does not wish to see Grey Porter at the head of this national struggle.—(Cheers.) As for myself, I do not want to he a leader ; I am willing to work in the team, and I will cheerfully resign to Grey Porter the reins and guidance of the whole.—(Loud cheers.) The question for us now to consider is,—what are we to do ? The principle of conciliation is admitted, but we are not the less ardently to persevere in working for the repeal.— (Cheers.) In answering the question more fully three different subjects arise to my mind. The first relates to the meeting at Clontarl.—(Cheers for some minutes.) That meeting was called legally. It was illegally sup pressed.—(Cheers.) We are bound to adhere to prin ciples, and it is now to be considered whether that rule extends so far, or whether it has been sufficiently vindi cated without calling the meeting. For sonic time I did think that it was absolutely necessary to call it to vindicate a great principle, but on reflecting deeply on what has occurred in the House of Lords, and the vin dication of its legality put on eternal record by Denman —(Cheers)—Cottenham—(Cheers)—and Cam pbell— (Cheers)—l began to doubt that it was necessary. It might create ill-feeling, and be construed into a wish to insult, and it might alienate friends. What I mean to do is, upon this day week to propose that it be referred to a select committee whether or not it is necessary to hold the Clontart meeting.—(Cheers.) I do not a ish to prejudice their decision, but I must say that my opinion is against the calling of that meeting. The next point I wish to lay before y ou i s w ith re f erence t o a pl an which I frequently proposed last year. I mean the collection of the P res ervative Society for Ireland, consisting of a body of 300 ;entlemen sitting in Dublin.—(Great ap plause.) This point is surrounded by legal difficulties, and must be approached with serious considerations, which we were last prevented sub from applying to it by the proclamation and segment proceedings. My plan, which I have dee plyconsidered, is shortly this— that 300 gentlemen from taous counties in Ire land should meet on a certain dayv Dublin—(Cheers) and that their title to meet should be the handing in of 1001. each—that they should have e a te r i e r asure; of their own, and have the working r funds,—(Cheers.) I do not intend th at they shall initiate anything , but that the y shall con'rul every thing, and that the Repeal Association shall becom-t pletely governed by them , and not vent ure upon any ne without their previous sanc tion.— ( Cheers .) A body of this kind would comprise so many of the wealthy and influential of Ireland, that it would he an effectual cheek outbreak, and would b e a to any rash revolutionesrY steady drag upon the wheel of the movement. It would be of that - bearing on society and hig h station that it could enter into treaty with Government.—(Cheers.) It could arrange its own plans with Ministers, and stipu late terms.—(Great cheering.) No handover-head work, but steady, deliberate agreement.—(Cheers.) And here let me say that I quite agree in making the expe riment of a federal Parliament. I want any Parliament which will protect Ireland, and ask for no more. If we arrive at the period of repeal without some body of this description, Government may dictate a plan to you, per haps, which may fall short of justice, though it may satisfy some of you. They can never do so with this Preser vative Society of three hundred.—(Cheers.) The terms of any treaty must be well considered—financial as well as political—and it seems to me that we shall here have the workmen to build up the palace of justice to Ireland. —(Cheers.) I will this day week move for a Select Committee to con`sider the possibility of such an assem blage, and to prepare cases to have laid before the most vir em e in w en ia t lawy e r; of England and Irel an d.—(Ch eers .) notsate to bring a single individual within the power of the law, and we will see whether Nee cannot get a second managing body fot the people—not a House of Lords, indeed, but a body possessing more power, as representing the whole Irish people.—(Loud cheers.) Three hundred wealthy Irish gentlemen would make such a body as would bring about the repeal of the union with the greatest ease.—(Cheers.) I am not a person of overweening confidence in my own judgment, but I have so matured this plan in my own mind, whilst in prison, that I rely strongly on it, although prepared to abandon it on the instant, if found to be at all dangerous or i m practicable—(Cheers)—whilst it must be embraced, if found calculated to bring back our Parliament to College- green.—(Loud cheers.) I have addressed you at great length, but I owed you for three months' rent.-- (Much cheering and laughter.) I am now like an honest man, paying my debts.—(Re newed laughter.) And now I come to my third plan, and it is one to which I am greatly attached. I want to procure impeachments of the judges of the Court of Queen's Bench and of her Majesty's Attorney-General in this country, on these grounds—(Great applause fie. some moments;—on these grounds, I repeat, which I shall set before you, as briefly as I can, consistently , with clearness. The first ground is that of the mon ster indictment which was preferred against me— thirty-six yards of an indictment.—(Cheers and laughter.) Lord Denman has well described it as a document calculated to prevent a man from defending himself. Such an indictment no poor man could escape from. We were backed by the repeal rent—(Cheers) —but if such an indictment were preferred against a poor man, where could he get a brief of it for his coun sel? Why it would cost him ten times more money than ever he saw to do so.—(Cheers.) My excellent friend Richard O'Gorman (the dissentient grand juror) ought to be a proud man this day. He alone was right as to this unjust indictment, and had the manliness and honesty to maintain his opinions in open court. He said, " We have spent five days over this bill, and not one of us can understand it." To be sure they did not care much for that.—(Groans.) They found it a true bill. I am much obliged to them.—(Cheers and laughter.) Now, this is no idle act of the Attorney- General. Sugden planned it—Peel has adopted it.—(Groans and hisses.) Impeachment, I say, then is our only remedy.--(Loud cheers.) No man is safe from such a monster indictment. What ought the Court to have done with it ? I say an honest court should have quashed it again and again, if necessary, and have said to the Attorney-General in the words of Lord Denman, Pick out your counts, and do not suffocate them be neath the number of your accnsations."—(Cheers.) The judges of the Court of Queen's Bench did not refuse to receive it ; nay, more, they countenanced it ; and, pro ceeding as they commenced, refused us copies of the witnesses' names, the caption of the indictment, and other privileges which we should have received as a matter of course in England.—(Groans.) By their conduct they made this monster indictment a babe of their own luck, and I say there is no use whatever in the doctrine of im peachments if we have not the jddges of the Queen's Bench brought before a proper tribunal to answer for their conduct.—(Cheers.) I assert this, and I shall be able to prove it by competent witnesses, that the Lord Chief Justice—(Groans)—had the air of a counsel fur the prosecution throughout the trials, and might have been taken for such but for the place he occupied. It may be said I am rash in taking this up. Ah ! I do not fear their prisons.—(Tremendous cheering.) I am a freeborn British subject, standing in this place defending my rights, and I do accuse those men of injustice.— (Renewed applause.) I am here to call upon the people of England to aid me in impeaching those men.— (Cheers.) I have to complain too of their manner to wards me. Mr. Justice Crampton—(A laugh)—used to squeeze up his face at me, as if to strike me with terror at his lion aspect.—(Roars of laughter.) Now, I ask you all, did it ever occur at any trial before this, that the Chief Justice borrowed the Attorney-General's brief to make out his case and charge from?—(Cries of " No," and groans.) You saw him do so.—(Loud cries of " We did," and groaning.) Now, I do say that this is a fact which must and shall be heard.—(Cheers.) I care not— not I—for the authority of the Lord Chief Justice.— (Loud cheers.) I call upon the English people to join with me and Ireland, and drag him before a proper tri bunal, and ascertain whether such conduct as this is to be tolerated.—(Loud cheers.) My next ground of im peachment against him, in particular, is his factious, his indecent charge.—(Cheers.) It was one-sided and un just. In the House of Lords, in the House of Commons, no one could be found hardy enough to defend it.— (Cheers.) It was impeached by all, and admitted to be indecent. I want to know, does it not deserve impeach ment ?—(Cheers.) Who is safe from such a charge ? We have no remedy against the injustice of such a charge, for it was not upon the record, and so we were deprived of the advantage of its influencing my appeal.—(Cheers.) There is no other redress or remedy for this wrong but impeachment. The next ground I have against them is, that they admitted newspapers as evidence of facts against me, and brought in my friend Barrett's paper, and the Na tion, allowing them to be used for the purposes of the pro secution. They allowed them as evidences of facts, as if witness got into the jury-box and swore, " We heard O'Connell say so and so." Judge Perrin—though cer tainly, poor man, he was asleep during great part of the trial—(Great laughter)—did, however, vindicate his character on this point, and refused to sanction this evident illegality.--(Cheers.) I will not go into all the wearisome details of the packing of the jury, for it is now universally admitted that it was fraudulently packed. I shall be able to prove, I tell you, that not only were pro per names omitted, but names which ought to have been omited left on.—(Cheers.) That will be one of my facts. I want to know, too, if the doctrine is to be sanctioned that Anti-Repealers only are fit for the jury-box ? If so, they will soon have to make short work of it, and try all their cases with the same jury, for there will not be more than twelve Anti-Repealers in the whole country shortly.—(Cheers, and laughter.) They'll have to pack their twelve men into a box like the Wizard of the North. and carry them about Ireland.—(Laughter.) It was alleged that fraud had been committed ; and what was then the duty of the Court—their sacred duty?— (Cheers.) To discountenance such proceedings and such a jury, and to put off the trial over and over again. One of the articles of impeachment shall be this fact : Perrin did well here.—(Cheers.) But, here, I have something for you. I know a man who was offered to have his fortune made if he would give some par ticular information.—(Sensation.) The information did not exist, and therefore he could not give it • but, I shall be able to prove that the expres sion, " Your fortune shall be made," was used on the occasion in question, and that by a witness of the first credit and respectability.—(Cheers.) Again I say that if that jury had been left to itself, it never could have returned such a verdict. I say it emphatically that some one helped them in making up this verdict.— (Cheers and groans.) I do not wish now to detain you in this place, but I may remind you that judges, if not accessible to bribes, are not superior to favour. Well, the Lord Chief Justice's nephew has got a place in the Castle of Dublin.—(Loud cheering.) Young Penne father has been placed, and it is said Lord Heytesbury is to do more for him. Now I say that there should be no suspicion in such a matter, and that the Chief Justice ought to have seen his nephew provided for in some other way.—(Cheers.) He should have taken care that no inference—and here I declare I believe that inference, however natural, to be untrue—should be drawn from the judgment of the judge, and the promotion of the nephew.—(Loud cheering.) I do only protest against the example set by a public man, and the insecurity of public opinion in a public officer, consequent upon such conduct.—(Cheers.) There is also some story of a relation of Mr. Justice Crampton's having been provided for, but it is not sufficiently authenticated for me to dwell urn it. Well, to proceed now—l have been three months in gaol.—(Cheers and laughter.) I want to know, do they think I am to submit pa tiently to this ? I am not acting from any feeling of resentment or revenge. I spent an exceedingly plea sant three months—(Cheers)—pleasanter because after the first fortnight I was secure from those ap prehensions of an outbreak which had disturbed my rest for five months previously—(Cheers)—during which time I never slept quietly.—(Renewed cheers.) I do not complain of my imprisonment—pleasanter companions no man ever had. We had, too, the blessing and the honour of the sweet companionship of our fellow-cap tives' wives— the talent and power of facetious entertain ment. No set of men ever lived in more social harmony. Well, I am not vexed for this, but I am determined on atonement.—(Cheers.) I defy Vinegar Smith to wipe away his injustice. I defy England to do us justice here, or compensate for the harassing of our families and our and their hours and days and weeks of suspense. Will they do nothing to remedy these things ? Are these things nothing, which have now admittedly been done contrary to law and justice ? Who did so ? It was the act of the Irish Government that imprisoned us, and Crampton had his mother wit about him, and put it to the Attorney-General to let us stand out till the result of the writ of error was known. Now, I charge the At torney-General for not consenting to this proposition. I charge him and the Government with the crime, with the sin of refusing to accede to it, and thereby running the chance of punishing innocent men. In their conduct was a most plain, palpable want of honest intention.—(Loud cheers.) How did the At torney-General know but that the judgment would be re versed, as it has been ?—(Cheers.) He did not care for that. He punished us upon the chance of its not being so.—(Groans.) During the trial he was in con stant consultation with Government. I do not know that poor what's his name—the shin-of-beef Lord— had much hand in it, but his Government is responsible for the evil. When Mr. Moore proposed to let the names be put upon the list by consent, which Mr. Justice. Burton said might readily be done, the At torney-General had not a word to say for himself, but he would not do it.—(Groans.) Now, I want to know, will not England join me in impeaching these men ? They have had us three months in gaol ; we are pro nounced innocent, and they might have avoided that crime if they would.--(Cheers and groans.) From this spot I call on England to join me. I mean to propose that a Select Committee be formed, of which I shall cheerfully ma k e one, to go through all the principal towns of England about two months before the meeting of Parliament, to obtain an answer to this appeal. We will say,. " Her e is injustice done. A packed jury, an unjust judgment , a sentence inflicted before its right is ascertained, and i nnocent men imprisoned. English- men, I will test yo u I will see whether you will join me, n one • if not, I w ill come back, and say to countrymen, r y end at all." if Look no more to the pretences of John Bull; look alone to your Parliameet in College- green."—(Hear, and cheers.) If they did not approve of this, I will go at any rate. Curiosity to see the lion who had been caged for three months would bring many together, and collect crowds around me; and I look for and to success. But here, I ask you, are the Ministers to escape?—(Groans and yells.) Is Sir J. Graham to escape?—(Loud cries of " No, no," and groaning and hissing.) He who had the unparalleled impudence in the absence of two Members of the House to call them convicted conspirators.—(A voice, " He's a liar." Cheer- I ing.) Why, you seem to be AS uncivil as Sir James him self.-=(Laughter.) I do not called him that, but I do term him a foul-mouthed letter-breaker.—(Shotits of ap plause and laughter.) I come to what Shell did in the House. He produced Sir R. Peel's declaration before his face. He had that paper before his eyes, and yet he had the power of farce, the audacity, the intensity of falsehood to say, according to the newspaper reports, that he bad a fair trial.—(Several voices—" He's a liar.") To be sure he is. —(Great cheering, and loud laughter.) There's a British Minister for you—the Premier of the first country in the world.—(Groans and laughter.) With a packed jury, a one sided Chief Justice, the excluiion of jurors and evidence of justice, he ventured to say we had a fair trial. Oh, a very fair trial, sweet Sir Robert! Ah, my good man, you were wrong to call him a liar. He thinks what we got was a very fair trial for an Irish Catholic.—(Cheering and groans.) That foul falsehood, however, identified him with the whole of the proceed ings here, and the union is but a mockery indeed, if the English people do not join us in hurling Peel from office, and driving him from power as a Ministerial leader in Parliament.—(Cheers.) I have done. I want to consider the affair of the Clontarf meeting.—(Cries of " Have it.") I want to consider the assembling of the Preser vative Society. I see, I know I can rely upon the people. —(Cheers.) There will be no revolt, no riot, no tumult, or violence. They would not be the shrewd people that they are, if they did not perceive the advantages they have already derived from the same course at the time of the emancipation and other agitations.—(Cheers.) I tell you, repeal is irresistible, if you continue peaceable. —(Cheers.) Oh, how my heart throbs with delight when I see the O'Briens, the Butlers, the Hutchinsans. the Mocklers, the Porters rallying round old Ireland.—(Great cheering.) What a day will we have round King William in College-green.—(Great laughter.) What a triumph we had on Friday, when the news of tardy justice done at last was spread through the country. Oh, it is a proud feeling, a noble hope, an endearing anticipation for us to look forward to the day when we shall have old Ireland free and a nation again—(Tremen dous cheering)—to have her commerce spring to life, her agriculture crowned with riches, to make her merry maids and brave men more merry and cheerful and happy. Old Ireland for ever—hurrah for the repeal ! [The Hon. Gentleman resumed his seat amid ap plause nearly as protracted and quite as enthusiastic a; that which greeted his opening address.] Several sums of money having been handed in by Mr. O'Connell and Mr. D. O'Connell, jun., Mr. J. O'CONNELL came forward, and after handing in some subscriptions, proceeded to address the Associatioa amidst great applause. He stated that he regarded the glorious triumph that they had just achieved as but the harbinger of the still more glorious triumph of repeal. He fully concurred in what his father had stated of the pleasure and comfort they had experienced during their confinement, and wished to take that opportunity of re turning thanks to Mr. Butler for the present which he had sent them, of some fine Kilkenny venison. He was delighted that the Attorney. General had included him in the indictment, for what higher honour could a young man, or any man, desire than the honour of suffering for old Ireland—(Loud cheers)—but he had more—he had the deepest and the sweetest pleasure that a son could have, of sharing and of endeavouring to mitigate the captivity of a beloved parent.—(Cheers.) They had also given him the further pleasure of sharing the cap tivity of the fearless, devoted, and true- hearted men who were in prison with them ; and he would tell the people of Ireland to cherish these men in their heart of hearts, for he had an opportunity of knowing how de-- serving they were of every honour that could be con ferred upon them. After referring to the decision in the House of Lords, and promising to redouble his efforts with renewed energy in the cause of Ireland in future, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud applause. Mr. 'l'. STEELE, who was loudly cheered, said that he had never enjoyed such a high honour as on the pre sent occasion, and that the greatest glory of his exist ence was being included in the martyrs fur Ireland. The people had heard his last words at their parting, and by no act of theirs had violated the awful tranquillity of the country—that tranquillity which had struck horror into the hearts of their enemies. —(Cheers.) Having passed some high eulogiums upon the perfection of the repeal organisation under the guidance of Mr. O'Con nell, which he compared to that of the steam-engine in the hands of Watt, Mr. Steele proceeded to refer to cir cumstances connected with the State trials, more parti cularly to his protest against being put on his trial by the Attorney-General, on the ground that he would re ceive no justice from that gentleman, and referred to the result as verifying his predictions. He concluded, amid loud applause, by expatiating on the necessity of repeal. Mr. S. 0 BRIEN, in handing in 421. from the county of Limerick, said, that he was anxious to congratulate them upon their liberation from their imprisonment, for their proud position as vindicators of Ireland, for their noble and manly bearing.—(Cheers.) He tendered his gratitude to them.----(Cheers.) Was he at liberty to tender the gratitude of that meeting also ?—(Loud cries of "You are, you are," and cheers.) lie regretted that the scene of Ireland's vindication was not Ireland herself, and that it had been reserved to English judges to do justice to Irishmen. To Lord Denman alone were they indebted, and to him they were indebted through an ac cident for the liberation of the friends of Ireland.— (Cheers.) He did deeply regret that their liberation had not been effected by an Irish jury ; but the worst features of their provincialism had prevailed over the spirit of justice. It was a subject of sincere regret to him that the character of the Irish bench had been so seriously impeached.—(Cheers.) Ile had hoped to have found judges upon the bench in Ireland who would not have had to go to school to their brothers in England for the merest instruction in the first principles of law and equity.—(Cheers.) As to the proposed impeach ments, he would not venture to say more than that he believed the parties threatened most richly deserved them.—(Cheers.) But the imprisonment, the sin of the premature imprisonment rested with the English Go vernment, for it was distinctly suggested to the Attor ney-General by Mr. Justice Crampton, that the impri sonment of the traversers should not take place until the result of the writ of error were known.—(Cheers.) It was a most fortunate thing that that result had been suc cessful, for he would not answer for the conduct of tke Irish people if they had beheld their leader imprisoned throughout the long winter, whilst a foreign war was impending.—(Cheers.) They were now, however, tri umphant, and he implored them to be as calm and dig nified now as they should be in the hour of their danger bold and defiant.—(Cheers.) Let them persevere in their course, and assist their great leat:leader in his soon to-be-successful struggles for theFiberty and happiness of fatherland.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. BARRETT (rising in obedience to a call from va rious parts of the meeting) said, that though he was not a member of the Association, he would not refuse the expression of his sentiments which the courtesy of his fellow-countrymen had called for. He was delighted that he had had an opportunity of sharing the martyr. dom of the father of his country. He proceeded to ex patiate upon the iniquity of the State trials and the in nocence of himself and his quoadam brother prisoners. They had, he said, administered justice as they would have read Hebrew—they commenced at the end.—(Loud cheers.) They first inflicted the punishment dictated by injustice, and then they proceeded to investigate that injustice.--(Cheers.) Could Irishmen be insensible to the wrongs of their country ? Did they not see their brethren aliens and exiles, their name a mockery, and a subject of gibes and insult ? They must unite. Let them do so, and they would triumph. Let them hesi tate, and they would fall.—(Cheers.) Dr. GRAY then came forward amid loud applause, and having tendered an apology for addressing the meeting similar to that given by the last speaker, proceeded to say that there was a difference of opinion between some of the conspirators. His friend Mr. Steele had said that he had had no redress. Was not that redress ? Was not that hour redress enough ?—(Tremendous applause.) They had sought for redress, for inquiry from England. They had been refused.—(Loud cheers.) Like that un righteous city, wherein 50 good men were sought for in vain, wherein 40, 30, 20, 10, aye, even 5, were looked for fruitlessly, and Sodom was destroyed—(Loud cheers) —so had it been with England. Well was it that there were three men of probity and of honour—all praise to them—who declared that a packed, fraudulent jury was not an instrument of justice.—(Great applause.) Mr. O ' CONNELL came forward, in answer to loud cries for Mr. Duffy, and assured the meeting that that gentleman had been obliged to retire from illness. The Hon. Gentleman proceeded to hand in numerous contri butions to the repeal rent. Mr. Scorn brought in 201. from Edinburgh, which was, he stated, altogether contributed by Scotchmen. Mr. N. BOYLAN, ex-justice of the peace, handed in 201. from the county of Meath.—(Great cheering.) Mr. S. O'BRIEN gave notice that he would move, on the next day of meeting that Messrs. Hutchinson and Butler should be added to the general Parliamentary Committee. Mr. O'Coatarzu. formally entered his notice of motion for a Committee to inquire into the expediency of hold ing the Clontarf meeting, and to inquire into the mate rials requisite for the impeachment of the parties he had named connected with the recent state trials. Several sums of money having been handed in, some letters read, and a few speeches made, amid great noise and confusion, Mr. O'CONNELL announced the rent for the week to be 5751. 6s. 6d. —(Loud cheers.) The usual vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman,i the meeting, which was very turbulent after Mr. O'Connell's speech was over, then adjourned. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.- We have to acknowledge the courtesy of our Contemporaries the Evening Free man, The London Sun, and Dublin Monitor, for placing at our disposal the proceedings on the Writ of Error in the House of Lords. By an extraordinary edition of the Freeman on Wednesday the public were put in pos session of the opinions of the judges delivered on Hon day; and yesterday, through The Sun and Monitor, we had the result of the judgment as delivered by the L. inl Chancellor, after the voting of the law Lords on Wednes day. The Dublin Evening Post also brought the intelligence to town yesterday.; From these journals we have made extracts which will be found in another column.— Tua'n Herald. The following distingnished persons have visited Astley's Royal Amphitheatre during the past evenings, to witness Mr. Carter, the American Lion King, with his wonderful trained animals, the French in Morocco, Scenes of the Circle, Chinese War, Feast of Lanterns, &e.:—His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his Serene Highness the Prince Mecklenburgh Strelitz, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Lord Combermere, Lord Head ford, Lord Stannes, Lady Seymour, Sir Wm. Martins, Sir M. Fleetwood, Hon. De Lacy, Hon. Mrs. Wyndham, Cu].. Wyngard, Col. Angerstein, Capt. Forbes, &c., &c. In consequence of the prosperous condition of the building trade in Glasgow, the in,,ster masons have una nimously come to a resolution to raise the rate of wages I of their workmen to 19s. a week. THIRD REPORT OF THE COM MISSIONERS ON THE FINE ARTS, WITH APPENDIX. We resume our extracts from this important docu ments. With the terms of the papers Nos. 1,2, and 3 of the Appendix (a list of the contents of which Appendix we gave in a former paper), our readers are already too well acquainted to make it expedient here to re peat them ; but No. 4 is a "Letter from the Right lion. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., respecting Public Monuments to Men distinguished for Civil Services," addressed to Mr. Eastlake the Secretary to the Com mission, and dated " Whitehall, August 17, 1843." This letter does appear to us to contain the germ of all the absurd blunderings and inconsequences which have hitherto marked the progress of the two New Houses, and their decorative embellishments. It is also eminently characteristic of Sir Robert's egotism. By his own showing it was the wish of Parliament that he should do one thing. He takes it noon himself to do another ; and Mr. Barry—distracted as it seems to us between his homage to some not very fortunate suggestions on the part of Prince Albert (to which we have already referred), and this patronis ing expression of the wishes of the Premier—does not substantively carry out either object; but expatiates, in the attempt, into the costly and ill-judged excres cence of the new Queen's Gallery: Sir Robert com mences his letter to Mr. Eastlake thus— " Dear Sir,—A proposal was recently made in the House of Commons that the Commissioners should be empowered by her Majesty to inquire into the best means of doing honour by public monuments, in sculpture or painting, to be erected at the public charge to the me mory of men entitled to the gratitude of their country by eminent civil, literary, or scientific services." A very intelligible proposal, surely ; a proposal on which (one would have thought) any body of men, uninformed or uninspired by that royal a fflatus that constitutes A, B, and C into "a Commission on the Fine Arts," might very well deliberate and report. But Sir Robert, like some pedagogue fearful of over taxing the powers of his promising pupils, reduces and alters the " theme" which the House of Commons would have set them, and recasts it after his own diluted and wordy manner, thus— " I was unwilling to devolve on the Commissioners a general inquiry of this nature, not immediately con nected with the original object for which the Commis sion was appointed; but I willingly undertook to recom mend to her Majesty to give to the Commissioners full authority to consider whether there is any portion of the edifice intended for the accommodation of the Houses of Parliament, ur of the buildings connected with that edi fice, which could with advantage and propriety be allotted to the reception of monuments such as those to which I have above adverted, and to report their opinion to her Majesty, not only with regard to the particular site of such monuments, but, inithe event of an appropriate site in connexion with the New Houses of Parliament being recommended by the Commissioners, with regard to the principles generally which should govern the se lection of the names to be honoured by so distinguished a record of national gratitude, and to the best mode of combining the public acknowledgment of eminent service with encouragement to the arts in this country." Now, the reader will not fail to bear in mind that the one object common to the proposal of the House of Commons, and Sir Robert Peel's recommendation to her Majesty, was the erection of monuments, either in sculpture or painting, to the honour of those men whose services to the country had entitled them to such a manifestation of the national gratitude. Mr. Barry, who was clearly referred to only for informa tion, and his opinions as to the capacity and means of location possessed by his buildings for such statues, &c. in his "Report" to Mr. Eastlake addresses him self other and very different matters ;—on which, we contend, it was never meant he should be consulted. The consequence of this mistake, on Mr. Barry's part, is to commit him to the expression of much nonsense, and suggestions at utter variance with all good taste and propriety. He is also betrayed into some re marks on the highest branch of the poetry of art, which it !sad been much better for his reputation had he kept to himself. There was no necessity, at any rate, for his announcing them to all the world. The first instance of Mr. Barry's supererogatory advice to the Commissioners occurs in this passage : " I may, however, mention that, in addition to the statues of royal and military personages, which I recom mended to be placed in the niches forming part of the architectural decoration of the several halls, those of emi ment men of this country, who have at various periods distinguished themselves in the advancement of art, science, and literature, but whose services have not hitherto been specially recorded by any public acknow ledgment, might form part of the series. Of what possible value can these eclectic notions of Mr. Barry's, as to the parties to be "singled out from all the world" for the posthumous distinction here contemplated, be, to a Commission numbering among its members men so profoundly read in all the branches of learning and tradition connected with the history, and institutions of this country, as Lords Lyndhurst and Lansdowne, Aberdeen, J. Russell, Melbourne and Palmerston ; as Hallam and Macaulay, Knight and Rogers 1' Far more seemly and to the purpose is the professional statement which follows : " The following is an enumeration of the niches pro vided for such purposes in the several parts of the build ing:—ln Westminster Hall, 12; in the Victoria Gallery, 106; in the Queen's Porch, 4; in the House of Lords, 18; in St. Stephen's Hall, 12; in the Central Hall, 68; making altogether 220 niches, averaging seven feet in height." But perhaps Mr. Barry's taste for " sculpture" was of so elevated and classical, and pure a character, that it is well to have elicited from his informed and critical judgment some hints for the judicious execu tion and arrangement of this portion of the national records to be raised to the memory of our great men. We think, involuntarily, of heroic ages and heroic statuary; of the divine, but simple forms, which Grecian art chiselled from the unconscious rock into immortal legacies, to be bequeathed by the inspiration of antique genius to the passionate reverence of the remotest posterity. Alas ! Mr. Barry seems to have imagined himself in Sir Robert's crowded saloons in Whitehall .gardens among the gilded castes of modern Parisian foundry. He would debauch our reviving taste, nourished as that has been for years past, by such wholesome nutriment as the contemplation of the simple forms of the Theseus and the Illyssus, or the draped compositions of Phidias and Lysippus—still extant in the virgin purity of their original marble— by the vile and barbarous accessories of the declining ages of Greek and Roman greatness. This abomina tion, be it remembered, was one of the most shameful indications of debased genius in the most degraded and brutalised ages of the lower empire, and the most superstitious darkness of the Greek Church, when coloured stones were used to repair the disappearance of architectural design, and the vestments of the Virgin and the Saints were profusely gilded, to amuse that indolent and lifeless worship of the senses, which was no longer genuine or pure enough to be able to fix its contemplations on less obtrusive symbols of celestial piety and innocence. " Those in the Victoria Gallery, Queen's Porch, and House of Lords, might be of bronze gilt, but in order to gilding should be matted o av r ( u 'i r d ib f u a r ls n e is i l i fed h " In other parts of the building above adverted to, the . ts an d effects, the statues might be of coloured marbles, in harmony with the prevailing tone and colour of the architectural decorations." And then, again, as to the drawing-room " conven tionalities" (as General Fladdick has it in " Martin Chuzzlewit"); if Mr. Barry imperatively insist on the glitter and the gilding of the statues that are to come into contact with the well-bred company assembled within the walls ; the others, which are to be placed out of doors or any where—about and all over the building—these statues " of the lower classes," as it were, he remits in the nakedness of their ungilded bronze to the pelting of the elements, with as little compunction as if he were giving them orders for ad mission into a poor-law union-house. " The statues should invariably be of bronze, on ac count of the imperishable nature of that material; those on the exterior of the building might be left to the natu ral colour of the metal, but in the interior, where the light will be much subdued, I would recommend that they should be coated with matted or u nburnished gold, as being best calculated to render the statue most effec tive, and allow of its being seen to the greatest ad vantage." But Mr. Barry recollects that he has got an " Om nibus" confided to him ; and in the most business-like manner he thus determines to consult the " accommo dation" of his metal and marble pas sengers. (These do appear to b e i n - s id ers. ) Th ey are, actually, too, to be subject, like drivers and cabmen, to regulations for their standing !" " The principle which he would adopt for the location of the mneuments generally, is that of confining them to such portions o f th e building only as might, at all times without inconvenience, be open to the public, under proper and efficient control, and such regulations as might be deemed expedient. This principle, and the amount of accommodatio n th a t co uld be provided for public monuments, as we ll as the i r arrang ement, is illus traced in the accompanying p l an ; by which it appears that Westminster H a ll m i ght conta i n 58 statues; St. Stephen's Hall, 16; the Central or Octagon Hall, 24; the Corridors leaning to the Houses of Lords and Commons, 20; and the Public Corridors and Waiting-rooms con nected with the Committee-rooms, 69; making in all, accommodation for 187 statues. The Crypt of St. Stephen's Chapel, which is proposed to be restored, and to which convenient access will be Node from Westminster Hall, which would also afford accommodation for about 14 monuments." He thus proceeds to recapitulate his plan and dispo sition. The reader cannot fail to be struck with the insignificant, nay paltry, proportions of 220 niches (see preceding paragraph) for statues, averaging each about seven feet high ! The fact is this adaptation of the edifice can have formed no part of the design ori ginally contemplated by Mr. Barry. It is an after thought, and it is clear the means have no proportion to the end. Now, for Westminster Abbey : " The cloister of the chapel, which is n .l co to he re stored, and will be connected pith the ball and the :_,r) pt. might atlbrd accommodation for thirteen statues, placed externally ; and a surface of wall for mural monu- ments and tablets, under cover, 330 feet in length, and 20 feet in height. The accommodation in the proposed quadrangle on the site of New Palace-yard, would be for 56 statues ; and for mural monuments and tablets, under cover, a surface of wall 369 feet in length, and 16 feet in height. Thus the entire number of public monuments that the building and its quadrangles could accommodate would be, in isolated monuments or statues, 270 ; and in mural monuments and tablets, about 400 ; or in the whole, 670 monuments of all kinds. In Westminster Abbey, the number of monuments of all kinds, forming a collection commenced (with a few exceptions) from the end of the thirteenth century, amounts to 357 ; of which 63 are table and other monuments, with figures in a re cumbent or devotional attitude ; 15 are isolated statues in an erect position ; 98 are mural monuments, with sculpture fur the most part allegorical ; 122 are tablets with inscriptions only ; 20 are busts ; 8 are brasses let into the pavement ; and 31 consist of table monuments, slabs, and stones, with sculpture either decomposed or defaced to such an extent as to be nearly obliterated." We have all heard that the great Nelson, in leading, with his resistless intrepidity, one of his most mag nificent and successful attacks on the enemy's fleet, exclaimed, " A peerage—or a tomb in Westminster Abbey." Mr. Barry repudiates this' " longing after immortality" in sculptured marble, if the record is to be raised in our cathedrals. We have been amused with his reasons for this discouragement of an ancient practice, founded, we suspect, in part, on the caprices of his own somewhat apocryphal taste in such matters; in part, on the pharisaical prudery of certain prelates and parsons of the Established Church. Of St. Paul's, he thus discourses : "'ln St. Paul's Cathedral, the number of monuments, being a collection of the last fifty years, amounts to 43, of which, 14 are isolated statues of the men they are de signed to commemorate ; 5 are historical reliefs ; 3 are partly historical and partly allegorical ; and 21 consist wholly of allegory. Of this number, those which have been erected at the public expense amount to 36. From the above statement of the existing monuments in St. Paul's Cathedral and in Westminster Abbey. it may safely be inferred, that the accommodation afforded by the New Palace of Westminster, for public monuments alone, would suffice for ages to come ; and if the feeling which now very generally prevails in favour of the ex clusion of all monuments from places set apart for Divine worship, which, from their character, are not calculated to excite in the mind of the beholder emotions of piety and devotion (in which number would be included, above 200 in Westminster Abbey, and with two excep tions, the entire collection at St. Paul's Cathedral), should ultimately lead to their removal, the New Palace of Westminster might afford accommodation for those of a public character, either in the open arcades, or in gal leries to be provided above them in the proposed addi tional quadrangle, on the site of the New Palace-yard. But whether this removel and transfer of monuments should or should not ultimately take place, it might per haps be worthy the consideration of Parliament, whether it would not be advisable, both for the sake of encourag ing art, and evincing a renewed and grateful remem brance of services rendered to their country, to order statues to be erected in the New Palace of Westminster, at the public expense, to the memory of a certain num ber of the most eminent of its public characters and be nefactors of bygone times, in order that a collection of monuments, to the memory of all whom the country de lights to honour, msy be at once commenced, and be ever after maintained and increased within the walls of one and the same public ediffce." We have lamented the apparent absence of all the poetry of art from this gentleman's conceptions of a scheme of decorative illustration for the New Palace at Westminster. He first recommends the adoption of such devices for portraiture in sculpture as we see resorted to by the Bubbs and Bacons of bygone years, who represent Britannia weeping over an unintelli gible mask of a decayed hero, on a sort of marble dish-cover, and then very coolly, ex cathedra, de nounces that true poetry which ancient and modern sculpture and peinting have embodied or transferred in.their most sublime productions : " With respect to monuments which may hereafter be decreed by Parliament to be erected at the public ex pense, to the memory of not only those eminent men who have Ciistinguished themselves in the civil and military services of their country, but also of those who have pro moted its honour and advantage in the cultivation and advancement of urt, science, and literature, no building can, in my opinion, with greater propriety or effect, be appropriated for their reception than the Palace of the Legislature, whose site is hallowed by the most interest • ing historical recollections connected with it from the most remote periods. Such monuments might be ar ranged with considerable effect, both within the building, as well as in the New Quadrangle, which l have ahead) , suggested as au addition to it, on the site of the New Palace-yard ; and in order that due importance and effect may be given to them, they should not, in my opinion, be confined by, or form part of, the architectural arrangement of the design of the interior; but should be wholly detached from the walls, and be restricted either to the statues of the men they are designed to comme morate, or simply to mural monuments and tablets, with likenesses of the deceased in the form of busts or me dallions, with suitable inscriptions ' • BUT ALL ALLEGORY, and its absurdities, should be carefully avoided." " Likenesses of the deceased or medallions !" 'Why not cheap profiles, scissors cut, in black paper? But here is a wholesale exile pronounced against that allegory in which, not to remount to antiquity, Michael Angelo in sculpture as well as painting, Raffaelle and Rubens in painting particularly, have left such terri ble or beautiful, such rich or impressive, ex amples. With this flippant condemnation by Mr. Barry, let us contrast, for a conclusion to the pre sent article, the following eloquent passage from a paper by the accomplished and gifted author of the "Middle Ages" (Appendix, No. 8. Mr. Hallam s Letter) : " Would there not be something ridiculous in covering the walls of our Houses of Parliament with Caesar or Caractacus ? that is, if we determine to exclude all that religion, or mythology, or poetry, or classical history, would offer, and at the same time are compelled to ex clude, by the infelicity of recent times, which prefer utility to picturesqueness, and choose what is convenient to themselves, rather than what would look well on a wall, the most important events, and the most distin guished personages of our annals. In a larger view, that is, if we give full scope to the artist's genius, neither Caesar nor Caractacus need be set aside." And what does Mr. Gaily Knight—fresh from his memorable tour devoted to the pictorial illustration of a magnificent school of Ecclesiastical architecture on the Continent—what does he propose among his "Resolutions ?" (Appendix, No. 9.) " That if allegorical figures should be 'excluded from the halls and galleries of the Houses of Parliament, yet it might not be improper that in the Queen's porch, the eyes of the Sovereign should first be met by statues em blematic of religion, justice, mercy, and fortitude." With these extracts we shall close our notice of Mr. Barry's paper. CITY OF LONDON ASSESSED TAXES.-COURT OF APPEAL. Yesterday a general Court of Appeal for the City of London was held in the Land Tax- room, Guildhall buildings, before the Commissioners appointed fur the execution of the 48th Geo. 111., c. 141, called the Assessed Taxes Act, for, the purposes of hearing ap peals against the first assessment for the sth of April, 1844. Pursuant to the provisions of the above Act, duplicates of the first assessment of the duties of the said taxes on the inhabitants of the City of London and its liberties, was given by the Commissioners to the collectors appointed to receive the same,'on the 13th of July last. A number of appeal cases were entered for hearing in the Court, most of which were disposed of withnut any material points being elicited during their -he:tr ing. Out of the number of appeals which had been made, in thirty-five cases the applicants were suc cessful. The Court, having disposed of the business of the day, adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A man named John Brown, who was without a coat, and appeared to hare suffere.l in a conflict, was brought before Alderman Gibbs, charged with having committed a daring robbery. The case was made remarkable by the display of extraordinary spirit and energy upon the part of a lady, of rather small stature and delicate appearance. Mr. Hobler appeared for the prisoner Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Bradshaw, wife of Mr. Brad shaw, of No. 103, Bishopsgate-street Within, hosier and glover, stated that, about . ten minutes past eight o'clock on Tuesday night, a man came into the shop, dressed in a green shooting-coat and yellow buttons, and asked to look at some ribbons. Witness showed him some, and cut off a yard and a half. While she was engaged in cutting, the prisoner entered, followed by the shopman, who had been out, and whom sLe desired to serve him. The moment she saw the pri soner she suspected that he was a thief, and she ob served his motions. The shopman incautiously placed upon the counter, near the prisoner, a bundle of hand kerchiefs, and the man with the shooting-coat and yellow buttons at the moment exchanged glances with the prisoner, who took up some of the handker chiefs in the bundle, put his own handkerchief over them while the shopman's head was turned another way, gracefully wiped his nose with them, and put them into his pocicet.—(Laughter.) When I ob served that, said the lady, I lifted up the flap of the counter. I said to him, Don't any of these handker chiefs please you, Sir ? No, said he. Then said I, interrupting him and preventing him from going out, allow me to look at those you have in your pocket ? He declared that he had none, and that he was a gen tleman, and had a cab waiting for him at the door, and out he rushed into the street: I ran after and caught hold of him, and he struck tue ; but I would not let him go. The fellow with the green coat seized me by the wrist to disengage me from him, but I kept my hold, and the prisoner and I were up and down together three times, he struggling to get away, and I struggling to hold him. The fellow in the green coat then kicked me in the hip, and the prisoner struck me a blow on the neck, and then he ran off. I followed him along the street, an(' caught hold of his coat, which gave way, and Vie tails of his coat remained in my hand. He then escaped from me, but was soon brought back in custody. He denied that he was the person accused, but there he was, with the upper part of his coat on his person, and the lower part of it in my possession. James Kinnaly, of Hoxton, bookbinder, stated that at about a quarter past eight o'clock he was in Bishopsgate-street, a few yards from the shop of Mrs. Bradshaw ; that he heard her cry out, and saw her and the prisoner struggling on the ground ; that the prisoner ran away, and that he ran after and secured him, without losing sight of him. The witness added that the handkerchiefs were picked up near the London Tavern, where he secured the fellow. Nicholas Merry stated that he picked up the hand kerchiefs at the time. Mrs. Bradshaw identified four silk handkerchiefs, by the private mark of the house. The prisoner here stated that the handkerchief which covered the others was his property, and he re quested the Alderman would cause it to be restored to him. It was stated that the handkerchief which the pri soner called his was unhemmed, and in all probability had been stolen by him. The prisoner very coolly said that it had been washed two or three times, and nobody but himself could lay claim to it. John - Scott, City policeman (626), stated that he heard_the cry of "Police" near the shop, and saw the prisoner escape from the grasp of Mrs. Bradshaw. As the prisoner approached, witness asked him what was the matter, supposing it was an assault affair, and the prisoner said " That man struck me—take him for God sake." Witness said, " What man ?" "That man in a buff waistcoat," replied the prisoner, and when witness looked in the direction pointed at, ran off. Witness followed and apprehended the prisoner. Mrs.:Bradshaw—A jeweller in the same street was robbed of property on the same evening, and nodoubt by this prisoner, assisted by the fellow with the green coat. He has no doubt that this prisoner was one of the thieves, but as he has no proof, he does not wish to come forward. The prisoner —Now don't say that. Don't say that things are worse than they really are. Mrs. Bradshaw—When •he came to the shop he had a black patch upon his lip, but he tore it off be fore he got to the station-house. Alderman GIBBS committed the prisoner for trial, and congratulated the lady upon such uncommon self-possession and courage as she had exhibited throughout. The green-coated gentleman will, in all probability, be very soon in custody. JUDGE'S CHAMBERS. APPREFIENSION OF GAMBLERS.—Yesterday, Frede rick Pemberton, alias Frederick Joseph Pemberton, was brought before Mr. Baron Gurney, in the custody of Inspector Aggs, of the C division. The prisoner was described of 31, St. James's -street. The court was crowded with West-end gamblers. It appeared that the prisoner was engaged gambling at the last Gorhambury races, and an indictment had been preferred against him at the St. Alban's sessions, Mr. Baron Gurney having granted a bench warrant for his apprehension. A man named Mo Jacobs, de scribed as a lawyer's clerk, and living at 101, Ber wick-street, met Pemberton yesterday afternoon in Regent-street, and took him to the Vine-street station, where he was given into the custody of In spector Aggs. Jacobs told the prisoner, on the way to the station-house, that there was no occasion for him to go, as it could be " settled." On arriving there, Aggs, well knowing the whole of the parties concerned, at first refused to entertain the charge, when Jacobs became so abusive that he was threatened with removal. After a short " consultation," Mr. Mo Jacobs consented to the bail, and the prisoner was liberated on entering into his own recognizance in 801., and finding two sureties in 401. each, to appear at the next assizes at Hertford. James Hollick Davis, otherwise Hollick Davis, of Hendon, was then brought np in cu s tody o f S ergeant Maris, A 50._ It appeared that the prisoner was pointed out at the Middlesex Sessions Court on Friday by a man named Randall to Mo Jacobs, and formerly livery servant at a gambling booth at which the prisoner acted as one of the principals. An indictment had been preferred against the prisoner at the Croydon sessions in 1843 for gambling on Ascot Heath race course, and Mr. Justice Coleridge had signed a war rant for his apprehension. The prisoner had been residing for some time at Guernsey and Jersey. Mr. Russell, the solicitor in the qui tam actions against Lord George Bentinck, attended on his be half. Bail was tendered, the prisoner in 801., and two sureties in 40/. each. Mr. Baron Gurney said, in such a serious case he could not consent to take bail :or less than 2001., and two sureties in 1001. each. The prisoner then thenentered into his own recogni zances in 2001., and two sureties in 1001 . each, to ap pear at the next assizes at Abingdon. The parties avowed that Lori George Bentinek was connected with the prosecutions , but it is very u do p u w bt i f th ul t w he h m et . her his Lordship is in any way mixed MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE.—In th i s j ournal of yester day under the above head , appeared an account of a suicide committed by a youna man, on board the Wa. trrman steam-boat, No. 7. The name of the Unfortu nate young man is Henry Terry. His parents, with whom he WAS residing, are in affluent circumstance,, and live in Clarendon-s.quare, Somers' -town. and not at Horton New-town, as incorrectly stet( d. The deceased is twenty4_,ur yars of age, and had he lived, would shortly have come into the possession of considerable property. - THE CASE OF THE SOLDIER'S WIFE.—We are glad to state that Mrs. Dynan and child are duing well, the child quite recovered, and the mother in excellent spirits, and that it Wits arranzed, on Saturday, that both LCIOD B illg Potter, and Co., which will sail in about a week.—Ltver pool Albion, CLERKEN WELL. Anne Rhodes was brought up for final examina tion, charged with stealing an immense quantity of wearing apparel, house linen, tea, sugar, spirits, books, and almost every other portable article ofa well furnished house, being the property of her master, Mr. Cross, residing in York-plats, Stoke N3wington. James Gibson was charged with receiving the same, well knowing it to have been stolen. It appeared from the evidence, which was very voluminous, that the female prisoner, a demure-look ing person, advanced in years, has been in the employ ment of Mr. Cross during the last five years, and has, from the first day of her servititle, carried on a whole sale system of plunder, but so artfully and secretly effected, that up to this time she was believed to be " a faithful servant." The male prisoner was in the same service about two years ago, and since then it appears that Rhodes. has kept up a constant com munication with him. He lodged in Norfolk-street, Islington, and thither the plunder was conveyed ; in fact, it clearly appeared that she was his paramour, for with the landlady of the house she went by the name of Mrs. Gibson, and whenever her employers were out of town, she came there laden with plunder, and they passed the night in the same apartment. At length Maria Woodgate, her fellow-servant, who had been induced to convey some tea, sugar, brandy, &c., in hampers to the prisoner's lodgings, informed her mistress of the tact. The female prisoner was forthwith given into custody, and made a full con fession of her guilt. She declared she would stab herself, and soon after became so ill that she lay for several days in the workhouse in a very precarious condition. At Gibson's lodgings a very large quan tity of the stolen property was found, stowed into every hole and corner capable of containing it ; there were bottles, jars, and even pails filled with tea, sugar, and spirits of every description. Mr. COMBE decided on committing the prisoners for trial, and depositions were taken down ac cordingly. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Thomas Chaffcns, well-known to the prize-ring and a frequenter of Ben Caunt's sporting-rooms, in St. Mar tin's-lane, was charged with committing an unprovoked and violent assault on a private in the Scots Fusileer Guards. The complainant was quietly standing in the street when the defendant came up to him, and, without saying a word, struck him with his clenched fist be neath the left eye, cutting his cheek to the bone. The defendant alleged that the complainant had in sulted his wife, but this was clearly disproved by wit nesses. Mr. MALTBY said the assault was a most gross one, and he should, therefore, impose a fine of 4/., or one month's imprisonment with hard labour. The defendant said he was unable to pay the fine, and he was, accordingly, sent to gaol. Frederick George Pemberton, a young min of very fashionable appearance, described on the charge-sheet as of " No. 31, St. James's -street, gentleman." was brought up, on a Judge's warrant, on in indictment found against him " for unlawfully and ingeniously keeping c,rta!n common ganuing-roomq, gaming -booths, and mart; to-e , it CA. ie.4rish of St. A nn " s , i n th e lib erty o f a t . Alb ans , in the Comity of Peel' r„ " Mr. MALTBY directed that the prisoner should be im mediately taken h,fore one of the .Tudes at chnnibers. The off-nee for which the prisoner stands indicted was COMmittcd at the last Gorharebury races. Indictments Of a similar nature against several other well-knowß sport ing characters have also heen found. IINION•11A LI.. Frederich Spicer, gr,,otn. in the of Li ird p I un tingtower, was charged with stealit:g a suit of livery, the property ~ f his Lordship. Pron, Lord iitinti•lgtower's statement it appeared the prisoner lifal been in his service M::y. On rm,, n ,1,,, he absented himself, and inqu i r ies being made, the pri soner was found in a public house intoxicated, and when he subsequently became sober he refused to deliver up the livery. His Lordship therefore gave him into custody. The prisoner saiil that tie !!iont_rbt h Lad a rip•ht to the livery, as hi master hal to boy him tvhen.they ca:Le not keep. Lord ihntingtower said that he had no wish to press the charge of :'elony, and wily wanted the restoration of his clothes. After some difficulty the prisoner at length cons to return the livery, and he was discharged. CORONERS' INQUESTS. SUICIDE.—Last evening Mr. William Baker be ' an inquest at the City of Paris, Bethnal-green , na t, ht body of Mary Upson, aged 56. It appeared tl ~" `' t ceased gaineqa living, by washing, for herself and three daughters, but had lately failed, and got into arrears for rent to the amount of ten shillings- T he tax-collector subsequently called, which apparently preyed much upon her mind ; and on Saturday even ing she went out, as she stated, to take some l inen . t° be mangled. She was unusually low spirited. returning, hor daughters became alarmed, and filler.° great deal of -inquiry her body was fount floating 111 the Regent's-c.anal, near the Eastern Counties Rail way, bndge, by Clark, the lock keeper. There Leith no other evidenoe, the jury returned a verdict " Found Drowned.." Last evening the same coroner held an inquest the Ili:4w Sun, Glabe-road, Bethnal-green, on`the body of Mrs. Eliza.hoth Duncraft, aged 74. Ir. George Frances, of No. 4, Chester-street, stated tho deceased lodged in his house. On Sunday evenini witness's daughter went out to spend the evening, , 1 1; in consequence uf the rain was detained till 't, hour. The deceaseci hewing her knock at the do°,l got up fur the purpose co,' letting her in, and wluis in the act of descending . th e stairs she fell head ioll to the bottom. .Witness im,-nediate!y went to her e_s,;, sistance, when he found her dead doubled up ben n, her body, and bleeding proftklely from her nose IS mouth. Mr. Griffiths, a surje on, was sent for, boil" she expired before his arrival. Verdict, ,‘ Ace iden Death." LLOYD'S SHIP PING. LONDON, SEPT. 11.—Wind N., fre ‘sh breeze, a nd fin g. e. DEAL, SEPT. 10.—A.M. Wind N.N. W. to N.N.E. P%,. N N.W.—Arrd. John Watt, Donova n, China ; el o f rienced a succession of hard gales ab. ut the middle. e June ; Lucy Sharp, M'Fee, , Manilla ; Murdoch, Pa Valparaiso ; Ocean, Antigua. - for after FRESWICK, SEPT. s.—Fergus, Quebec , after striking on Guisner's Island off Hoy. INVERKEITHING, SEPT. B.—The Belle, o f Bonet ken from Charleston to Malmo, was stranded on Mac yes!erday, has lost rudder, and iv bilged--cargo air charging. CLYDE.—Arrived Eclipse, Michigan, St. Joh n 's, S' l3 d : LIVERPOOL. SEPT. 10.—W ind N. W., D lOtTerat2.--"Lrr Kingston, Burt, Calcutta ; Rosalind, t3a.lee and "'ie. Bride, Bomba ; Kathleen, Africa ; Stirl Burns, . bile ; Samuel y Hicks, New York ; Scotia, • . Richibtict(); Troubadour, and George Ramsey, Qui i. net.. The l • r n `,l, Duke, steamer, from Dublin, was in contact th is morn near Bcaumaris, with the Parana, Wilson,. hen Montreal, when the latter foundered ; master an s e , men drowned, five saved ; the former lost benve,Pr' hd " • ), SINGAPORE, MAY 23.—The CNarles Woed, hence to Manilla, was lost off the coast of 0 1 7, •• Feb. 17. The Johanna. Young. from Sams ra n g ,be port, struck and grounded on a reef t o • the S.E. Habit and .n-y, Bth inst., but floated oecf, anche,r- C. n ut with the tide off Taiyong Rue on the WO, wit h much damage. n s but t, BOMBAY, JULY 31.—The Royal Admiral , — o % t o from Newport to Aden, was wrecked upon. the re d; near to Culaba Light House, 31st inst. Mats ri ale 515 ship and cargo sold. v „fordf CALCUTTA, JULY 6.—The Thomas Young, . 011 1 ; 0' hence to London, and Firth, Powell, hence ..to bay, 'have put back from Kedgeree leaky. The Cswariea Bo- nett, from Liverpool to this port is lost off the ,`"•' at Kedgeree. CALCUTTA, JULY 14.—The Time, Grisewold, J.-hence to China, has put buck from Kedgeree leaking. la ry HONG-I ONG, JUNE 18.—The Amelia, from o 'l il' •n t. - to Manilla, was totally lost on St. Bernardino .4,.0 April 30th, during a severe gale at E., owner snap-. en.•n drowned. The Bencoolen, lust sails. The .go. tescue, Hall, cast away fore and ma i nmas ts in the 0 - , • gale. MARKET NE WS.-(YE STERDA I COILN..EXCH.A.NGII. Sine' , Monday, the arrivals of Eneish Whes fr f the been only moderate, and the show of s staple s (3 .; dett grain was limited. The finest parcels were quite "- 10 as on Monday ; but other kinds were a m ero drug . t o. Foreign Wheat, next to nothing was doing, at , bite ra _ o r Barley and Malt were a dull at barely e prices. Oats, Beans, and Peas. were quite as sear, ARRIVALS.. H o ur I y). Earley. Oats. 4 O- 110qrs• 680 qrs. , L tation. Wheat Eng1i5h.......... I 1,530 qrs. 1ri5n...."." ..... Foreign.. ... 2..530 Malt. :110 'VIIMETECHAPEL. 11 0 Although the supply of each kind of Meat NW re if moderate, the general demand ruled heavy, at ( 133 tto a. previous rates. Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 4d 1 - 1"-114,1 to 2s 6d to 3s Ed • Lamb, 3s 44 to 4s 8d ; Veal. 3 the 4s 4d ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 10d per 81bs, bj carcase. 500 .I.° We regret to learn that the accounts receive: f r i ; Drayton Manor on Tuesday morning are of an unfil"oo - tenour, and the most alarming apprehensi_,T D ogla entertained of Miss Peel's eventual recover n'-' ,a - „e it is impossible to foresee how soon a f avou rable , --- a t may develope itself. We understand that thro n gii - ff,.. yesterday the youthful patient experienced gre at ..teel culty in breathing, and her throat was much ule e '.., o te; The subjoined particulars are extracted from a t he letter received from Fazeley yesterdiy afternoon ',al three o'clock train :—" Miss Peel continues ins.,:ted;- alarming condition, all the symptoms remaining un ei u' she has passed a very restless night, and the W s /4a tense anxiety is experieneed by Sir Robert and Ledi ge it for some favourable change. There is reason to bell e i t d ie is a fever of the worst form that the youthful ler / keel suffering from, it having originated from a cold. Mis s ,ar was taken ill on Thursday last, and the disorder ba s .sr o ee dually increased ever since." Mr. Stevenson , P" f or secretary to Sir Robert Peel, received letters fro m iro Right Hon. Baronet yesterday afternoon by exPre 6s ' te oe which Sir Robert writes—" We continue in the gr eti o d anxiety." Their Royal Highnesses the puk e t he Duchess of Cambridge, the Duchess of be nt ' e s• Duchess of Gloucester, and Princess Sophia sent , sengers to the private residence of Sir Robert Pee l . I ,:d terday afternoon to learn if any fresh information that been received from Drayton Manor, and to reques,„of all particulars regarding the health of Miss Peel sus,"era be transmitted to them respectively. The inquiri es , a nti very numerous, the Earl of Jersey, the Mare u i l Marchioness of Ailsa, the Earl of Shaftesbury, an d his - Harriet Corry, his Excellency the Dutch Minl ster iata , Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, the Countess of Ve r ru a r Sir George Murray, Viscount and Viscountess ',i n "' c lf den, Mr. and Mrs. H. Twiss, the Lord Mayor On '- Mayoress, &c., being among the personal calls. leswicu GRAND STEEPLE CHASE .--W e ha , h oef• certained, from good authority, that this steepl e c f the which has been so long postponed in consequenc e ° f its lamented death of the late Lord Hill, who was 00 1 Oa chief patrons, will come off about the middle 0 re j„ month of November. Several crack horses are e n .., te hich and are now in training and the arra ngement s ; or are being made are upon such a footing, as cann",t_t te ici; insuring amusement to the lovers of this sport. P s Express. DEAFNESS. f lOr TESTIMONIAL from John Sawyer, Egli - $0 1 °: wood Lodge, Maidenhead, Be r k s , to M essrs . S. and „ mons, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Gentlemac, frlr been deaf for some time, I was induced, in the sn ood , c co rs. vember, 1839, to make trial of your Invisible Voice COO 77t1s , and, although at my advanced age, at that time Pas t _ A is ltelf year, I had no hope of obtaining any reli e f, yet irattm"-d applied them I could hear the general conversation, l e i ese hearing has become so much impr ove d by th e ir use, th at ; oaf now hear acutely without their aid. I am, G e ntleale ° ' r sas most obedient servant, J. Sawyer. 22d June, 1 842 ,c;th the late Henry Cowper, Esq., of T ewen Waters, v do' Messrs, S. and B. Solomonst—Gentlemen, haviag, b citoic . for many years, I was induced to try your Itivisiw offi rsaf j ' Conductors. They enable me to hear persons in 1 0 and at a place of worship most distinctly. The Spects„ c ,, t star Handglass which you have sent me are very rove - 'brir i suit my sight perfectly, the transparency of which is, lad liant, that although I have passed my 86th year t" . . h' May last, yet they enable me to read, and by ca ndle -lig h l,bet C the greatest ease and comfort to myself. I return Y, 06 .,„ e 1ni thanks, and remain your obedient servant, Henrt" ° ; c oe 22d June, 1839.—Telescopes , Opera Glases, lui cr A - 11.r k &c. of the same kind of Lenses.—Caution.—Messrs. S.e . tdoiT lomons, Opticians and Aurists, arc not in any way cone's,_ a person of the same name in their immediate neigilD 9* be tat' Nor n any part of the country. To prevent mistakes: ort ett tious, and Observe r —Only to be had at 39, Albemarle- Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. 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