The Sun. — London, England, 1844-02-14 00:00:00

Clontarf were 'of a far worse character.—(Hear.) At Clontarf n ,at only were those attending to be marshalled, but they were to be marshalled in military array—and those who attended . on horseback were to be forme I into troops, each one with `it it officers at its head.—(Loud cries of Hear, hear. ) It was true that after these first arrangements had been pro raul,gated from the Corn Exchange, they were withdrawn — iced Mr. O'Connell had repudiated them.—(Hear, hear. ) Another order of proceedings was issued, in which " group" was substituted for troop," and " wards" for " wardens." Then it was that the chain of evidence desired by the Govern ment was perfected—then it was that they knew the time had arrived when, with sureness and safety, they might pro cced.—(Loud cheers.) They bad then evidence, and evi dence enough, of seditious words and seditious inten tions to complete a charge of conspiracy. And when the time had arrived at which they knew they could safely proceed, they had had time to bring to bear such a force as might enable the Government to vindicate the law, and put down that vile agitation and conspiracy, without shedding one drop of blood.—(Loud cheers.) Th Now, with respect to the lat en essof the proclamation. e first notice given of the in tended meeting at Clontarf was on the 28th of September, and at that time the Law Officers in Ireland thought the time for action was come. On the 30th appeared the proclamation of which be spoke. As soon as it was issued, it was sent over by post, reaching London on Sunday, the Ist of October. Lord De Grey was at that time in England on account of bad health. He was in the neighbourhood of London, and was immediately sent for to town. He arrived, and a consultation took place of all those Ministers who, being in or near London, could be get together. They determined to place the whole proceedings of the Attorney-General of Ire)-nd before the Attorney-General for England. That learned func • tionary took exactly the same view as the law officers for Ire land, and Lord De Grey at once quitted London for Dublin. In eonsequence, however, of the alteration in the wording of the order for the proceedings at Clontarf, to which ne had already referred, it became a matter for consideration whether some alteration would not be thus necessitated in the proclama tien. On Friday all proceedings were determined on and adopted, by which an end was to be put to the meetings, and prosecutions commenced against the chief conspirators. It was necessary to proceed very guardedly, in order that they might do so safely and effectively. The moment the procla mation was issued persons were sent into every part of the city of Dublin to give circulation to, and information of it ; and for thirty miles round Dublin, persons were sent on horseback, in every road and direction, to warn the country people of the intentions of the Government. They also took care that they should have a competent force en the spot, and the meeting was prevented without a single accident. Before he proceeded to the trials, he must say a few words of the Attorney-General. He had no acquaintance with him ; before he was appointed he had not seen him—he had not even heard of him.—( A laugh.) It was his ignorance of Ireland and the Irish bar ; but when he was appointed they heard, even from their political opponents, the highest praise of him—that they had chosen the best man they could have taken for the office. The dismissal of the magistrates was not put by the Chancellor entirely upon the question of re peal ; but on the declaration of the Ministers in this House. They were fairly answered, and though it had been said that they might not read the newspapers, he thought that such agitators were not likely to refrein from doing so. He then came to the trials, and he defied the Noble Loreto lay his fin ger upon one part of the transaction that betrayed a disregard of justice. With respect to the construction of the panel, it was the traversers who objected to it; they objected to the old one, because they thought it unfavourable to them. It had to besciade out by the'Recorder ; there might be great negligence on his part, but the Government had nothing to do with it. It was true some of the slips were lost, but in whose charge were they ? In that of Mr. Magrath, and, he happened not to be a partisan of the Government, but a Catholic. He then came to the choice of the special jury. He apprehended that the right of challenging the jury was given to the Crown for tke purpose of enabling the Crown to strike off such persons as they might think unqualified or unduly bia sod. Now, they had it on the affidavits of the traversers themselves, that two of the twelve struck out were Protestants, ten were Catholics. Of these, one was a Mr. Henrick, and it so happened that, when Mr. Kemmis struck him off, he was under the impression that he was a Protestant. Another was a Mr. Michael Dunn, he belonged to St. Patrick's parish, and St. Patrick's parish was fruitful in Michael Dunn's ; there were no less that four, and it was believed that this one was biassed. He denied al together that the striking off of the names arose from any feeling that the Catholics were not to be believed on their oaths, but because it was supposed that persons who had already declared themselves on one side were not to be placed on the jury. He hoped they should hear no more of their having a packed jury, since all their object was to secare to the accused a fair trial before God and their country. So much for the trials upon which the Noble Marquis had founded almost all his attacks on the Government. They stood upon their defence here, and he said that this trial was conducted with as much fairness as any trial was ever con ducted. They had done nothing unfair to procure a con viction, and the jury had only done their duty in returning their verdict against the prisoners. He would leave it to the judg ment of the people of England, who, though they did not actually hear what was passing in that House, were made acquainted with it in a very short time. He would leave it to the people of England to say whether they were not acquitted upon this point. One word of Mr. Smith, the Attorney-General. He lamented that he should hive placed himself in a position in which he could be justly accused of indiscretion ; but he would leave it to their Lordships whether there was not a point beyond which provocation could not be borne, and whether this gentleman was not sub- jected to it ? And now, all this having passed, the majesty of the law having been vindicated, let them look forward and see what could be done in the way of improvement.— (Loud cheers.) With respect to the system of letting land in Ireland, there was a necessity for inquiry; it would be desirable that in letting land, the landlord should do justice to the tenant. The next great question as to Ireland was that of the registration. With respect to counties, a new consideration of what was considered the beneficial interest, would probably lead to a diminution of the number of voters in counties. With respect to the towns, what the Government intended to do was this : at present it was necessary, in order to be able to vote, that the voter should have paid the poor rates, the taxes, the borough-rates, and some other rates. They proposed to remove this restriction, and to enable the person to vote if he had paid only the taxes and poor-rate. With respect to the question of national education, it was con templated to take measures for the better education of masters and mistresses, and also for the better visitation of schools. The next question to which they meant to direct their attention was to alter the existing law so as to enable money to be lodged in trust, to be applied to the purchase of houses and glebes for the Roman Catholic clergy, so that if a person wished to make an endowment of lands to a certain priest officiating in a cer tain chapel, he might be enabled to do so. This led him to the question of religious equality—putting the Roman Catholics of Ireland on a complete footing of equality with the members of the Established Church. Now at the time of the Act of Union, the Established Church was acknowledged by that great instrument, and this country was therefore bound to support that arrangement, It was also acknow ledged, at the time of the passing of the Emancipation Act, and the present Government were not prepared to take any steps that might endanger the Established Church. They would afford every facility to the Roman Catholics, consistent with the maintenance of the Establishment ; but with respect to producing as equality, how, he asked, was it to be effected ? The Noble Lord then referred to the various modes which had been pointed out of producing that result, and stated that the present Government could not give its countenance to any of them. There was one subject which he had almost forgotten, it was that of Dean Holt Waring. His Noble Friend had spoken of that person as having gone to attend a meeting surrounded by a great crowd—a description which would apply well to the manner in which the Romish (and he did not use that term in an offensive way) clergy went to the tepee' meetings at the head of their parishioners. But if Mr. Waring did act in that manner, on the occasion of a meeting in favour of the Legislative Union, why, all he could say was that he had acted improperly. Another accusation against the present Government was that the majority of the Irish people were not well disposed to the present Government. He admitted it. But England and Scotland, which constituted the majority, supported them, and they did not rule by a minority. They had done their utmost to gain their favour ; but they (the Irish people) did not like them, and would not support them. He was glad that his Noble Friend had brought forward his motion, as it gave him an opportunity of stating the views of the Government. They were the Minis ters of the Crown, and it was their duty to maintain inviolate the union between the two countries, to preserve the authority of the Throne, and they were determined to support her Ma jesty in her resolution to preserve the supremacy of thel aw. After a few words from the Marquis of NORMANBY in explanation, Tile t tarquis of CLAN RICA RDE said that there was much in the tone of the Noble Lord (Wharncliffe), with whom he was highly gratified, but he regretted extremely that he could not go further, and agree with the greater portion of what the Noble Lord had said. He was pleased with the tone of the Noble Lord's remarks, but he could not forget that a similar tone had been often observed before, and that the deeds that followed were by no means consistent with the words. With respect to some of the appointments of the present Go vernment in Ireland, the Noble Lord said thet he had never heard of them. • Lord WHARNCLIFFE—I said I had not heard of Mr. Smith, as I did not frequent the law courts. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE—The Noble Lord might have frequented the law courts without hearing of Mr. Smith. But be must say the Noble Lord had made a most inefficient answer to the charges brought forward by his Noble Friend (the Marquis of Normanby ). The policy of the pre sent Government was to exclude Catholics, and there • fore the Irish, from a perfect equality with the rest of the inhabitants of the empire. If these meetings had been illegal, he thought that it was foreign from the spirit and principles of the British Constitution to allow them in the first instance to be holden without reproof, and then to pounce upon the holders of them without any previous notice or intention. He certainty thought that the jury had found a conscientious verdict. Although he felt perfectly convinced that the jury returned an honest verdict, yet he should say that he was sure some of those gentlemen oho were indicted for a conspiracy had not the slightest notion that they were guilty of it; and he was sure that this was the opinion of the great majority of the people of that country. He should next allude to the celebrated Clontarf proclamation, and he considered that to be, in the manner in which it was issued, most unjustifiable. If the Government could not have issued it at an earlier date than the day before the meeting was appointed to be held, he thought it would be much more becoming of a Christian Go vernment to have allowed one meeting more to be added to the number which they had previously permitted.—( Hear. ) If her Majesty's Ministers were determined conscientiously to uphold the present system of national education in Ireland they ought to appoint to Church preferments those persons who would act in harmony with such a system of national edu cation. But he thought it was evident, by recent appoint ments to Church p re f erment , that those who were thus lately appointed were the very persons most opposed to the system—persons distingui s h e d b y t h e i r hostility to national education, as at present administered. As long as Government gave their patronage thus, he (L or d Clanr d that the system of national educatio n in Ir e land lear ec)u riasnot be sure properly carried out. With respect to Noble e e Le o nd ( lordand same eb on timeh a d t n it eo Tenant Commission, it was stated by a N injustice should be done to the landlord ; at th e should be remembered that no injustice ought t o to the tenant.—( Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord refe rred to the relative position of landlord and tenant in Eng land. It gas said that the proportion of rent from the soil in land was one-third of the produce , and in Ireland two-thircl g s. . Now he (Lord Clanricarde) would engage to show that there were tenants in Ireland, not one here and there, but many, very many, and of a class, too, not holding beneficial leases, who had made considerable sums of money, paying cheerfully and comfortably to their landlords the rent agreed upon. He did not allude to farmers having their hundreds of acres, but to cotters renting thirty, twenty, and even twelve acres of land. Now e hen. he knew these facts from his own experience, he, for one, neither would join the outcry raised against the land lords of Ireland, nor permit that outcry to go uncontradicted. Why, had the landlords of Ireland no higher motive—were they actuated by no nobler feelings—their own interest would binder them from pursuing any course that might be of in. jurious tendency to their tenantry. Therefore, be did say that the Landlord and Tenant Commission, having been issued at a time when great crimes had been committed in Ire land, those crimes being in eonnexion with the holding of land, that such was a most rash proceeding on the part of the Go. velment, subjecting the landlords of Ireland—as it did — .to THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1844, imputations of a very serious character, and which they did not, by any means, merit. He would say a few words, and a few only, on the subject of the Poor-law Inquiry, in which was recommended a series of measures which, if acted upon in a combined form, would be of the most essential service in remedying some of the most crying afflictions of Ireland. He alluded to all the remedies suggested, for they were all valuable, but he especially regarded with favour the recom mendations as to emigration and a sustained system of public works.—( Hear, hear.) These reports were in their Lordship?' library, but he very much doubted whether many of their Lordships had taken the trouble to consult them—he doubted even if any of her Majesty's Ministers in that House had done so.—( A laugh.) Let but those recommendations he put in force contemporaneously and on a clear intelligible principle, and they would soon be satisfied that they had hit upon a most efficacious remedy for many of the most deep-seated grievances under which the sister country suffered. In conclusion he would say, that no one could consider Ireland at the present time to be under any civil government whatever, and the Ministry were not going the right way so to place it. The only way in which they now kept it tranquil was by animmense army—that army rendered necessary by their own intolerance and misgovernment.—( Hear, hear.) The Earl of RODEN said, when he entered the House he had no intention whatever of taking any part in the debate, and now that he did so, he was urged to it only by the personal allusion which had been made to him by the Noble Nlarquis (Clanricarde). That Noble Lord had charged him with find ing fault, on former occasions, with the late Government on account of the various agitations which existed under them, and of not finding the same fault when those agitations existed under a Government carried on by his own political friends. It was his duty, disapproving as he did of those agita tions, to call t heir Lordships attention to them, and he had ever done so, without any regard to what Government was in power, if that Government, in his opinion, did not exert its powers to discourage and suppress those great evils. In these respects he had never been influenced by party views, but solely by a desire to benefit the country in which he lived. On the very first day of the last session he had given notice that he should put a question to the Ministers on account of the agita tion for the repeal of the union. He had done so, and the mat ter passed by. Towards the close of the session, however, he again found it his duty to follow that course which he always , had followed, and to call the attention of the Government to what was going on in Ireland. Ile could appeal to his Noble Friends behind him as to the consis tent course he had ever pursued in these mat ters—(Cries of " Hear, hear")—and therefore there was not one single ground for the charge which had then been brought against him. He would now beg to say a very few words indeed on some of the remarks which had fallen from the Noble Marquis (Normanby) who introduced the question. He had listened to his very aLle speech with great a ttention—a speech of great talent and much information, with respect to that country with whieh he had for so long a time been eon nected. Throughout the whole of his speech the Noble Mar quis seemed to have taken it for granted that all the people of Ireland approved of the course he had taken when Lord-Lieu tenant of that country. The Noble Marquis laughed, but that was the drift of all he said. But he (Lord Roden) would tell him that a very large and influential portion of the Irish people differed widely from him in the estimate which he had formed of his own Government, and who now traced the miser able condition in which Ireland was to the unhappy course pursued by him. They considered they were now reaping the effect of that wholesale discharge of the gaols—(Loud laughter)—which had been the distinguishing feature of his painful reign in that unhappy country. The Noble Marquis had also used very strong language towards the Government in the course they had pursued in removing from the Commission of the Peace the magistrates who had made themselves parties to the agitation for the repeal of the union. But had the Noble Marquis dismissed no magistrates? Indeed, he had ; and for no conduct which involved or compromised the integrity of the empire as repeal did. One magistrate was dismissed from the Commission of the Peace by the Noble Marquis, simply because his lady appeared in public with an orange riband round her neck. Returning to the subject of the conduct of the present Government, he must say he was one of those who greatly censured them for their inactivity. But after what had fallen from the Noble Lord (Wharncliffe) he was willing to admit that he might have been wrong, and that the Government had in the end acted most effectively. There was an old adage, "better late than never," and he was willing to acknowledge that the results of the trial would produce the best effects on the tranquillity of Ireland, and ma terially conduce to the strength and happiness of the empire. The worst of all was that the question of repeal had been made a Roman Catholic question—the effect of which in Ire land had been, to engender the belief among the masses, that the upshot of the whole would be the downfal of the Pro testant, and the ascendancy of the Roman Catholic religion. He wished to say one word as to the conduct of the Irish Attor ney-General, and then he would no further trouble their Lordships. On the grand jury, in the recent trials, were three Roman Catholics, and they of course, before commenc ing their important duties, had taken a solemn oath to keep their own and their fellows' counsel. No sooner was the bill found than one of the Catholics thus sworn to keep his own and fellows' counsel came into the bus, and said he was dissentient to the finding of the Bill.—( Hear, hear.) Was not this sufficient to make the Attorney-General doubly careful in the striking of his other jury? Had he not been so, after such conduct, people would have said he was not an honest man nor an honest functionary, and that in his heart he did not desire to get a verdict against the tra versers.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Marquis (Clanricarde) having alluded, in somewhat taunting terms to his (Lord Ro • den's) opposition to what was ealled the na'ional system of education, he would just state in reply that he had taken the course he had done without any party feelings whatever, and solely because by that system it was proposed to rob them of their greatest treasure and their truest blessing—the unmutilated copy of the Bible. The Earl of DEVON said he wonld state very shortly the course which had been adopted by the Commission of which he was the head. On the Ist of December he went to Ireland, and remained actively employed until the meeting of Parlia ment. The course they had taken to obtain information was to issue circulars to all bodies of jurors, and to every Protest ant and Roman Catholic bishop, requesting them to aid and lassist in procuring information ; and he was happy to say that in every quarter they met with most kind answers from all par ties, and all parties seemed disposed to assist them in their inquiry. They had felt it their duty, whilst sitting in Dublin, to exa mine a number of persons there, but they had issued their circulars, by which they had made it known that it was their intention • • • the examination to visit various parts of the country, and to make examination on the spot. He hoped to be again in Ireland in March to proceed with the inquiry; and the relations of land ' lord and tenant would then receive their closest at tention. He did not go to Ireland to ascertain whether the landlord was wrong, or the tenant was wrong, but to ascertain what there was in their subsisting relations which led to such a lamentable state of things. It would be their duty to point out to the Government the best means in their judgment of removing and alleviating the dis tress which pressed down the agricultural population. With regard to the appointment of a secretary, they had chosen one who, though perfectly unknown to the Commission, was well informed on the subject of inquiry, and it was but justice to say that they had reason to be pleased with their choice. The Marquis of WESTMEATH defended the conduct of the Government, and thanked them for the course they had adepted in putting down the agitation. As to the objections with regard to the striking the jury, the Government had no thing to do with it. He defended the Attorney-General, stating, that he opened his case in a calm and temperate man ner; his speech was a plain statement of facts—free from any flowers efeloquence. He thought 105 Members were enough to represent the interests of Ireland; and expressed himself indignant that an English Marquis, having no connexion, by property, with Ireland, should get up and read them a lecture on the state of that country.—(Hear, hear.) He repelled the insinuations that ha .t been made against the Irish magistracy, and thought they did not come from the Noble Marquis with a very good grace. '1 he Noble Marquis had alluded to the increase of the burdens of Ireland caused by the poor-law, but he did not tell them that it was a Whig measure, originated by a very confident ex-Minister—( A laugh) —whose reliance on himself had been very well described by the Rev. Sydney Smith.—( A laugh.) That measure had come to a complete stand still. He had opposed that measure, which was only suited to a country where there was a money pay ment for labour. lie described the land let on the system of " con-acre" to the peasantry as let entirely by the middle-men, and not by the landlords. He reminded the House that the ' history of Irish grievances had been entirely, or almost entirely, taken from the great leader of the agitation himself. It was by him the people were told how to think and feel on the question of their grievances. He knew the people of Ireland, and he was sure that many of the humbler classes looked for nothing more anxiously than for protection against the extortions of the repeal exchequer. He described the people as quite under the control of their priests, and these had almost all joined the agitation. He knew one honourable exception—he was a priest who was educated on the Conti nent, not at Maynooth ; he refused to allow the rent to be collected in his chapel, and he was suspended by his Bishop. The agitator boasted of his connexion with the clergy, and used it as an additional means of gaining influence over the people. 'Hie Noble Marquis described the opinion on the Continent to be almost universally against the policy of the Government with respect to Ireland. This arose from the fact that all Europe took their information and opinions on this subject from the French press, influenced by the Catholics. He wished that some one abler than himself would take the pains of informing the people of Europe, by the same means, of the true state of the Protestant interest in Ireland. The only authority on the question at present seemed to be the his tory of Ireland by Mr. O'Connell himself. Their Lordships, therefore, might judge of the degree of authority to be attached to it, as to matters of fact. He concluded by thanking their Lordships for the attention with which they had heard him. Lord HOWDEN said that connected as he was by birth with Ireland he could not refrain from expressing his regret that the Noble Marquis had thought it his duty—or he would rather say had thought it expedient—to brief( the present mo tion before the House. As he had brought it on, he (Lord Howden) should feel it his duty to vote against it, not that he did not agree entirely with the Noble Marquis in his wish that Ireland might share every equal right and equal benefit with England, but because he thought his motion was ill-timed, and being ill-timed it was mischievous. It was particularly mischievous at this moment, when he might say that it was backed up in Ireland by circumstances which might—he did not say that its object was to—embarrass the Government.—( Hear, hear.) And knowing, as the Noble Marquis did, the acuteness and intelligence of the people of Ireland, he must be aware that no other result could spring from it. At that late hour of the night, it was not his inten tion to follow the two Noble Marquises through the details of their brilliant speeches. As the Noble Lord on this side of the House had said he should only make some general observa tions—(A laugh)—and these he should confine to a few of the remarks made by his Noble Friends. They were mischievous in this, that they laid all the crying evils of Ireland to the door of the present Government; and that every thing wrong, even to the faults in the management of the late trials, ought to be imputed to them. He had no doubt that his two Noble Friends would give their strenuous support to the motion, from an idea, perhaps, that it was necessary by a parliamentary vote to awaken the fa culties and stimulate the slumbering energies of the Govern ment. They thought, perhaps, they were supported by one man in Ireland, who had never allowed an opportunity to escape, when he could by any chance express his hatred and contempt of their party. It would be disagreeable to himself and to them, and at the same time offensive to the House, were he to repeat the expressions, the course and illiterate epithets—. (Great laughter)—by which that individual had designated the Whig party.—(Cheers.) But, perhaps they would allow him to state something that individual had said of the same party in a festive moment, and as it was of the nature of an anecdote, it might perhaps relieve the tedium of debate.—( Laughter. ) He said that the party to which his Noble Friend belonged _ g were au like old hats th a t th e y s t o pp e d windows with—( Great laughter)—that party—that theyo out. were lfh t nothing , Noble Lords but were served with satisfiedt o keep it i the h this description, h e did not wish to diminish that satisfaction, lie hoped the feeling might shed its charming influence over them while they continued to git on the shady side of the g ia h j t e e a r t . y ) , s Government, still he should o n t H ih o h u w se i . t — h erniTe (hLera°ll He (lo ld Howden) had n the two accusations brought against it ; one of them w o a l s c , e ttiat there was a total indifference to the affairs of Ireland in those constituting the Government—that, as far as Ireland was con cerned, it was a do-nothing Government ' • the second accusa tion was, that there existed in it an actual hostility to Ireland; this was asserted by the Radical portion of the opposition party sow, could any man believe, that at this time of day, and at such ajnucture, in the otate to which that country had been brought by the inflammatory speeches made both in Ireland and in that House, by persons who were not responsible in situation, and, therefore able to say anything that suited their views. While the Government was responsible for all they did, and anxious lest even their indiscreet expressions should produce mischief, at such a juncture, did not their Lordships think that Ireland must be the last thought at night and the first thought in the morning, of any Government whatever?—(Cheers.) There could not be a more insidious manner of agitating a high and noble spirited people than by telling them that they were neglected by the Government of this country. Why, at pre sent, two-thirds of the business of Parliament consisted of Irish business, to the exclusion of many pressing matters of their own. He did not find fault with this. He thought the state of Ireland, and the happiness of the people demanded and required all their consideration.—( Hear, hear.) But was it possible to conceive that there was any object in the minds of the Government, even for the sake of their own security, and their own peace—he would put it even on the most selfish ground—could they have any permanent object, both for their own welfare and that of England, but the tranquillisation of Ireland and their own consequent security ?—( Hear, hear.) He would ask them what could be the use—there might, in deed, be a party use ; but that he would not impute to the Noble Marquis—what use could there be in adding, under any pretext, agitation to agitation, and embarrassment to embarass ment?—(Loud cheers.) The wording of bis Noble Friend's motion was much more inoffensive than he could have ex pected : nay, he would go further, he believed that it was much more inoffensive than the Noble Marquis intended it to be three or four days ago.—( Cheers and laughter.) The Marquis of NORMANBY—No, no. Lord HOWDEN—He assured the Noble Marquis he was merely expressing his opinion. He believed that the motion of the Noble Marquis was generated and carried out even to a very protracted period of his gestation—(Laughter)—under the idea that the late proceedings in Ireland would have had a consummation very different to what they had.--(Hear, hear, and great cheering.) put now that the law in Ireland had vindicated herself, by helm own right hand, he did hope with his Noble Friend, and with the utmost sincerity, that all just complaints would be attended to and removed from that country, and that its happiness might be promoted by every means. But he believed' ' that a necessary condition of the hap piness of the people of that country was the insurance of its tranquillity. He had no hesitation in following what had been said by the Noble Earl who moved the address in reply to her Majesty's speech, though he then highly disapproved of any allusion to such a topic as impolitic, but he had now no hesitation in saying that, that if by any chance, at any future time, any 'measure were wanted for securing the welfare of Ireland, by giving strength to the Crown and peace to the subject, that call would be responded to. It appeared to him that the people might be divided into two classes, the deluders and the deluded. Among the latter there were many persons full of the purest love of country, and to whom alone was wanting the instinct of self-preserva tion which nature seemed to have given to every other crea ture. For it was his opinion, that though the union was de sirable, it was but a secondary question to England, whereas it was, in his opinion, a question of vital importance to Ireland, for he was sure that if they cut the tie which bound them to England—if England should leave them to themselves, not fifty years would roll over before " that flower of the earth," would be plucked by some not friendly hand ; and that " gem of the ocean," would be set in the crown of a stranger. —( Hear, hear.) He asked their pardon for trespassing upon their time, but there was something so unfortunate in the time chosen by his Noble Friend for his motion, that it forced him (Lord Howden) to express his opinion in condemnation of it. After a few words from the Marquis of NORMANBY and the Marquis of WESTMEATH, Lord BEAUMONT said that when his Noble Friend (Lord Wharncliffe) sat down, he felt great pleasure and satisfaction at his speech. He felt pleasure at the proof his Noble Friend had given of the intention now entertained (for now was the time) of proposing a remedial measure for Ireland ; and this pleasure was increased by the reflection that the Noble Lord had satisfactorily exploined a circumstance which had been often alluded to. By that explanation the conduct which he (Lord Beaumont) had thought proper to pursue was justified. The explanation he alluded to referred to the jury panel in Ireland. That explanation rendered him (Lord Brougham) satisfied with the conduct he pursued towards his co-religionists, in persuading them not to attend the meeting which had been called on that subject. He regretted, however, that he must say that feeling of satisfaction was shaken by hat had fallen from the Noble Earl ( Roden) opposite. The Noble Earl justified the Attorney-General for challenging the men on the jury -list, not because they were repealers, but because they were Roman Catholics. The Earl of RODEN said that what he had stated was that the Roman Catho:ics were taught to consider the repeal ques tion as a religious question—that if they got the repeal the Protestant religion would be destroyed and the Catholic re ligion established in its stead, and that that being the general opinion of the people, the Attorney-General was bound to take care not to have put into the jury box to try the question any person who had imbibed such a prejudice. Lord BEAUMONT—Does the Noble Earl mean to say that if the jury had consisted of Roman Catholics, there would be no difference in the verdict? The Earl of RODEN would not say that. Lord BEAUMONT justified the Attorney-General in ob jecting to every person tainted with repeal. He would go fur ther. He was not quite certain that a person being a Roman Catholic, might not be considered as a repealer, because some of the repealers had boasted that the majority of the Roman Catholics were with them. But that objection was made to the persons on the list previous to their being sworn. He did not believe that the Attorney-General would imply that they were sworn they would not act contrary. The Noble Earl would not go so far, and that was his (Lord Beaumont's) ground of complaint. With regard to the questi tself, he disagreed with his Noble Friend (Lord Howden , for he thought this was the fittest time for the present motion, when the dignity of the law had beer. vindicated. With regard to the proposition of payment of the Catholic clergy, he could not say he approved of it.—( Hear. ) He should briefly advert to the subject of the Commission lately appointed to inquire into the tenure of land in Ireland. Upon that matter it was possible that a spirit ought to be awakened which would extend to England. The same thing might be re quired at the hands of the Anti-Corn-law League.— (Hear, and laughter.) He fully agreed in the principle of his Noble Friend's motion, and he thought a more fitting opportunity could not have been selected than the present one to decide upon the; merits of a measure to ameliorate the condition of that country.—( Hear, hear, hear.) Lord CAMPBELL rose amidst much noise and confusion, and said, that it thought it would be much more convenient to their Lordships if this debate were to be adjourned. Lord BROUGHAM said he should most cheerfully assent to the proposition of his Noble Friend. Still he thought that as a was now twenty minutes before twelve o'clock, and as their Lordships were not a very over-worked body— ( Laughter )—he thought that they might afford to devote to the consideration of such an important subject as this their time until at least one, or perhaps two o'clock ; perhaps they would doso if they did not imagine that some Noble Lords, who might imagine they - could enlighten the House upon the sub ject, were absent. Eventually, upon the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, after a few words from the Marquis of NOIAMAIRBY in explanation, and;from the Duke of WELLINGTON, concurring in the pro priety of adjourning the debate, the House stood adjourned to next Thursday. IMPORTANT NEWS FROM PORTUGAL. Lisbon papers of the sth inst., with letters of the 7th, have been received. These papers contain very important intelligence. For some past the Septem brist party have been collecting money for the pur pose of bribing the troops, in order to effect another revolution. News was received at Lisbon, on the 6th inst , of the revolt of the 4th Cavalry at Torres Novas, who have declared against the present Ministry. It appears that the revolted troops have left that town, headed by Cezar de Vasconcellos, and pro ceeded in the direction of Fundoo. It is re ported, too, that the garrison of Elvas have revolted and killed the Governor, and similar rumours are in circulation respecting the troops at Santarem Abrantes, and in Algarve, but all these want confirmation. Last night the troops in this city were under arms, and an extra number of sentinels were posted in different places, who loudly challenged every passer-by, and obliged him to walk on the other side of the street. During the night a number of arrests took place. Amongst the persons arrested were Rio Tiuto (lately the editor of the Nacional), Baron da Foscoa, Leonel Tavares (formerly a deputy, and a leading man of the Septembrist party), and the Colonel of the sth Cacadores, all of whom are now secured on board the Diana frigate. As a measure of precaution all the arms in the naval and military arsenals have been removed, and placed on board the ships of war. The Government are taking the most energetic measure, and have applied to be armed, Ist. With extraordinary and discretionary powers. 2d. Suspension of the habeas corpus. 3d. Suspension of all newspapers except the Diario. 4th. Authorisation for the loan of 2,000 contos. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY The arrivals of English Wheat having been very scanty since our last report, the show of samples was small. Al descriptions met a steady demand, at fully Monday's ad vanced rates. In foreign Wheat, a fair business was tran sacted, and the quotations had an upward tendency. The Malt trade was somewhat inactive, yet previous rates were supported. Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour were quite as dear. ARRIVALS. P lou r 480 sacks. Wheat. Barley. Oats. English 2,630 qrs. 7,440 qrs. 3,260 qrs. Irish - 270 11,020 Foreign 1,960 080 - Malt, 5,380 qrs. WIECITECH.A.PEL. We had only a moderate supply of each kindof Meat, while the general demand was steady, on the following terms : Beef from 2s 8d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and Pork 2s 8d to 3s 10d per 81bs, by the carcase. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, FEB. 14.—Wind S.NV., light breeze and hazy. SCILLY, FEB. 10.—Arrd. Black Cat, Patras, for Liverpool, with loss of sails, &c., and two men overboard; Invincible, Newman, Marathousie. DARTMOUTH, FEB. 13.—The Mantura, Weekes, from Pa lermo to London, which put into this port on the 9th inst., with loss of bowsprit, &c., is ready to proceed. GRAVESEND, FEB. 13.—The David, of Newburgh, was in contact off the Shears 9th inst., with the Whitton Castle, Butcher, and received some damage. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 13.—Wind, E.N.E. to S.E.—Arrd., Oriental (steamer), Alexandria. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 13.—Wind, E.—Arrd., Hymen, London, for Lima. LtvEnroot., FEn. 13.—Wind S.S.E., light.—Sld., Severn, for Bahia; Enterprise New York. HULL, FEB. 13.—Wind, S.W., light breeze.—Arrd., Ganges, Blyth, St. John's, New Brunswick.' HARWICH, FEB. 13.—Arrd., William Savarick, London for Middlesborough, with damage, having been in contact, off the Nore, with a brig. GUERNSEY, FEB. 10.—Sid., Louisa, Havannah. JERSEY, FEB. 10.—S1d., Courier, Madeira. The Hon. Francis and Lady Ann Charteris =rived al Farrancel Hotel, 13e1graye-etr3et, on Monday. Immediately, in 3 vols post Bvo., H A T SWOR T OR, THE ROMANCE OF A WEEK. Edited by R. PLUMER WARD, Esq. Author of " Tremaine," " De Vere," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. COMPLETION OF TIIE SIIAKSPEARE NOVELS. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THE SECRET PASSION. By the Author of .. SHAKSPEARE and his " The YOUTH of SIIAKSPEARE!".. Earl of DEVON, the Marquis of IVEsTmEartr, and Lord HOWDEN. The debate, on the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, was then adjourned till Thursday. In the Commons Mr. WALLACE postponed his motion on the judicial establishment for Scotland, till the 27th inst. Lord Joni MANNERS gave notice that, on the 29th, he should move an address to the Crown in favour of the liberation of Don CARLOS from cap tivity. Sir E. COLEBROOKE gave notice of a motion re lative to the treatment of the Ameers of Sinde, for the 27th. In answer to a question from Mr. LEADER, Lord STANLEY said Sir CHARLES METCALFE did reserve his consent to a Bill for suppressing Orange Societies in Canada, but the Bill had not been transmitted to Government, and he could not, therefore, give any further information on the subject. It would lie re ceived probably by the next mail. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in answer to a question from Mr. C. BERKELEY, said a Bill on Charitable Be- quests would be introduced this session at the instance of the Government. Mr. Hume suggested, in reference to adjourned debates, and particularly to the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL on the state of Ireland, that before the ad journed discussion commenced, time should be given for disposing of the regular business of the day. A conversation took place between Mr. HORSMAN and Sir J. GRAHAM relative to the number of troops in Ireland, when the Home Secretary said that on the motion of the Member for Coventry a return would be laid on the table of the rank and file sta- tioned in that country from January, 1835, to January, 1843. Lord JOHN RUSSELL brought forward his motion for a Committee of the whole House on the state of Ireland. That country, he said, was not governed as it ought to be. The Government of Ireland should be a Government of peace ; now it was a Govern ment of force. After adverting to the verdict re ceived that day against Mr. O'CONNELL, the instru ment of Catholic Emancipation, he said, if the favourite of the Irish nation were imprisoned, would that cir • cumstance be a guarantee for the peace of the country. The Noble Lord entered at great length into the grievances of which Ireland had just reason to com plain, and more especially to the exclusion of Catho lics from juries and all places of trust, as well as to the-undefined and imperfect state of the Parliament ary franchise. The exclusion of Catholics from high offices, whether on the bench or in the State, was a glaring injustice, and could not be palliated even by the present Government. Sir ROBERT PEEL had de clared that after the passing of the Catholic Bill all classes would be placed on the same foot ing; yet, though he had since his return to office had the appointment of five or six Judges, not one was a Roman Catholic. The conduct of the Go vernment, in regard to the late prosecutions, was quite . in ,keeping with all their other proceed ings towards the Irish people. The Noble Lord con cluded by moving for a Committee of the whole House, to take into consideration the state of Ireland. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in a long speech, opposed the motion, and when he concluded the debate was it done to the " destitute wibild child" by the mo ther of a bastard son or dati#ll, r and her illegiti mate offspring being placed itt- , 44ittle better position than they have been placed in' by the stringent new poor-law for the last ten years and upwards ? Are the morals of society outrapd by such tardy hu manity on the part of the Legisliture ? Cannot virtue be satisfied with its own immaculate conduct without insisting that vice shall be placed without the pale of redemption, and never be allowed the slightest op portunity of retrieving itself ? We do not find this doctrine enforced in the New Testament, or that our SAVIOUR visited the erring woman with the severest pains and penalties, out of consideration to the vir tuous sensibilities of the widows of Judaea. No, he regarded her, despite her frailty, as a human being still deserving the kindness and clemency of her fel low-creatures, his divine nature teaching him that to press on female vice with disproportionate severity is to pay but a poor and doubtful homage to female virtue. By ameliorating, in some degree, the con dition of the mother of an illegitimate child, Sir JAMES GRAHAM has increased her chances of reformation, and has thereby strengthened, in stead of weakening, the sacred interests of morality. ,Pith respect to the Right Hon. Baronet's proposal :o limit the time of application against a putative father to forty days from the birth of a child, we agree with the Post that such a proposition is as un- just as it is absurd. The time should be consider ably extended, for the mother's confinement may happen—no uncommon case—to have been a danger ous and protracted one ; the fortieth day may still find her lying on the bed of sickness, unable to stir hand or foot ; and because her sufferings have been thus severe and tedious,. is she, therefore, to lose all the benefit of an application against the seducer who has brought her into such a condition ? The proposi tion is not only cruel, but it is partial and one-sided, for it gives a chance to the strong and healthy fe male of obtaining something like a compensation from the man who has wronged her, while it effec tually closes the door of relief on. the weak, the [ sickly, and the delicate. The time of application must be very considerably extended; otherwise, in many cases deserving of the most clement consideration, it will wholly fail of , a good effect. We agree also with our COntemporary in his remark—" We cannot perceive the justice of fixing the maximum of main tenance recoverable from the father at four shillings a week. Cases may easily be supposed in which four pounds a week would not be too much." The maxi mum should certainly in some degree be proportioned to the means of the seducer, otherwise justice will be made a mere mockery, and while the poor offender will be strictly dealt with, the rich one will escape with comparative impunity. The intelligence from Madrid is to the 6th instant, and if we may judge from reports which prevailed, the BRAVO Government could not last even till the arrival of Queen CHRISTINA. The resolution to dis arm all the National Guards had excited great dis content. Other places, in 'addition to Alicant and Carthagena, were known to have revolted ; among others the city of Murcia, Algesiras, in the bay of Gibraltar, and Ponte Vedra, in Galicia. A great, many persons had been arrested in some of the pro vinces, and much discontent prevailed. The disarma ment of the National Guards, owing to the stern, measures adopted by NARVAEZ, had been effected.in a number of towns without resistance. The Three per Cents. were done at 28 5.16, at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents.. at 20i-, at 60 , days. ' The Paris papers of Monday are chiefly occupied with discussions on a motion of M. REMUSAT, now before the Chamber of Deputies, the object of which is to disqualify all placemen from sitting in the Chamber. " A Cabinet Council was held on Sunday; when it was resolved to oppose, if possible, the info,- duetion of . the Bill ; but the Ministerial party in. the bureaux were unable to prevent it from being adopted in three committees out of nine.. It will, conse quently, be brought forward and discussed in the course of the week. It appears, from some of the journals, the rising in Spain is spreading in all di rections, and causes great uneasiness to the French Go vernment. The Cabinet have come to a determination re lative to the construction of railroads, by which private companies will be allowed, on certain conditions, to take part in the execution of the works. The Go vernment is to fix the minimum contract for the com panies, and if that is not acceded to, the State will take the management of the lines. The leases are to he from 28 to 30 years, and 8 per cent. of the profits to be shared between the companies and the State. The funds remain nearly stationary, the Three per Cents. closing on Monday at 81f. 90c. ; the Five per Cents. at 125 f. 20c. ; Orleans Shares at 850 f.; Rouen, 832 f. 50c.; Havre, ; Avignon, 760 f. THE BOURSE--MONDAY, FEB. 12. First Fliglest Lowest Last Price. P7ice. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. •• 125 20 .. 125 35 .. 125 20 • • 125 20 Four per Cents. 106 25 .. 106 25 106 25 .. 106 25 Three per Cents. •• • • 82 • • 82 05 - - 81 95 • • 81 95 Bank of France.. . ..... 3280 3280 • .3280 • • 3280 Laftitte Bank, 1,000. f. Shareslllo • • 1110 • • 1110 —lllO 5,000 f. Sharesso7o • .5070 • • 5070 —5070 Belgian Bank Belgian FiVes ... •• • • ....• .• 107 • • 107 • • 107 • • 107 1840 •••• • • • • 10911 .. 1091 • . 109 i • • 109 i 1842 1101 110} .. 1101 1101 Spanish Active Passive .• •.•••• • • • • 5i • • 5i • • 511 .. 5i Neapolitan lO6 106 106 •• 106 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R.B. - L. 8.. ••• •• •••• •• 190 .. 191 25 .. 187 50 .. 187 50 Rouen 840 .. 842 50 .. 842 50 .. 842 50 Rouen to:Havre. Orleans .... •.. Strasburg to Bal e•• •• .• •• •• 250 .. 253 75 .. 250 .. 253 75 Montpellier to Cette ••••• • • • 495 .. 495 .. 495 .. 495 Avignon to Marseilles•• •• •• 770 • • 770 •• 762 50 •• 762 50 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. Versailles, R.B. L.B Rouen •• • • •• •• •• • . Rouen t0,Havre....... Orleans . 855 .. 855 .. 850 .. 850 Strasburg to Bale— 250 .. 255 250 • • 252 50 Avignen to Marseilles— • . 765 .. 765 .. 760 • • 760 MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, yesterday, were 5,000 bales, 2,000 being on speculation. Prices were without al teration, and the market was quiet. A fair business was done in Railway Shares, but they had still a downward ten dency. Eastern Counties, Registered, were 12 ; Grand Junc tion, 227 ; Great North of England, 91; Great Western, 110 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 224 ; Birmingham, 234 ; Brighton, 434 ; South Western Eighths, 3 9-20 ; North Mid land, 94 ; Paris and Lyons, 2/. 17s. • Paris and Orleans, 32i ; South Eastern, 34A ; Ditto, Scrip, 34. , The Exchange from Hamburgh comes over at 13 Bi, and the price of gold at 433 i. _ As the foggy state of the atmosphere, and according to the advices received from the outports, the rather tempes tuous character of the weather has prevented a large number of homeward-bound vessels from arriving within the last few days, it is probable that some may require aid or supplies which steamers would be usefully employed in conveying to them. The West India steamer, it has been suggested by some, may have been detained at Vera Cruz, for Government dispatches, seeing the rather involved state of our political relations with Mexico ; but it should be borne in mind that the contract with the R oyal Mail Company does not justify any lengthened detention, as this would disarrange the whole service. The position of affairs in Spain still engrosses & goad deal of attention here, and the accounts periodically arriving are expected to bring intelligence of further insurrectionary movements. There are, indeed, few Spaniards in the City who can venture to predict where the matter will end, and for the moment the vaunted financial projects that were to resuscitate credit are no more thought of. The Bonds have been fluctuating, the Five per Cents. at from 23i to 23i ; and the Three per Cents. at from 31* to 32. The English Funds have been quiet to-day, but prices are sustained. Consols have realised 97* to 97 for Money, and 97i to A for Account. Bank Stock has been firm at 193 to 1931. Exchequer Bills have been 695. premium ; and India Bonds 83s. to 84s. premium. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 102 to ; and the Reduced 103 to A. The Three per Cents. are 98 to *. The Foreign investments are also dull. Portuguese Con verted at 46 to 46i ; Mexican at 34* to j ; the Deferred at 11* ; and Columbian at 12g. Brazilian have been dull, but firm at 791. Danish Bonds are 87* ; Russian, 114 ; and the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 55 to *. Business in the Share market has been very restricted, and the quotations below will show that the Railways are all — BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Oflicial List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities O7 BS4M 3 % per , eenntt.. Reduced Annuities, Annuities lBl 103 10:4 India Bonds,l,ooo B3 Ditto under 1,000 - B3 84 Consols for Account 97% Exchequer Bills, , lad. I%d 1,060/. 500/. Ditto 5ma11....... ........... 69 FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Columbian Bonds. Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent. 6 ,7 Mexican 80nd5,1037, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account gl 3 4 Ditto Deferred Stock lll4 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted 46% 46] Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent llB% Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1 Ditto for the Account 323 32 23! Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the Account Dutch 2% per Cents lOl it Dutch 5 per Cents New Loan 1837, E. per Cents.... ............... _•_._ _ _1012:- PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY _AT ON E PAID. PT SITAR ILAILWAXIL 23 ......... 10 Eastern Counties Great Western . Hull and Selby . .. . ................... .. London and 3 3 nstiton ... ............ Dv 711 s°-a 'mom 6° ' A '''.lass W t. 4-4 Ditto then Notes lO - London and Blackwall - to 24S London and Binningljam Stock .... 242 ..,, London and South Western ...... 41% - Manchester and Leeds 7O - • Ditto 4 Shares ,. 2 Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 15 Northern and Eastern 45 154 ....... to Paris and Orleans South Eastern and Dover Ditto Scrip York and North Midland Ditto Scarboro' Branch 20 1 4 ..... . to 20 JOINT STOCIS, BANKS. London and Westminster - MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE,. FEB l3.—Consider able business has been transaoed in ourmarket to-day, and (with the exception of Manchest'ir and ,Birmingham) at a o slight reduction in price. Eastern Counties, registered, 12 t 12 1-16 ; Edinburgh and Glaspow4 59 k; Manchester and Birmingham, 39i to 40 ; Manchen`cr and Leeds, Halves, 50i; Paris and Lyons, 2i ; South Easte.rn, Scrip, 34/ ; Shffield and Manchester, 64 ; Ditto, Quartel:s, 7 13-16 ; Manchester Assurance, 10 1-16. CRIMINAL COURT......(TZIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE and Mr. Justice C..cE s s Wrth.) CHARGE OF MURDER.— Charles .111 4 Donald was the bar, charged with the wilful murder of Thomas The prisoner was charged in another count with aiding Ph' abetting another person in committing the murder. anal The ATTORNEY-GENERAL conducted the prosecuti on plaCed At stated the case to the jury. The prisoner at the bar w as f l charged with the crime of murder. He was the captain the vessel Cleofrid, and the deceased was one of the crew e'L. the same vessel. In August last year the prisoner was from °III the Coast of Africa, and anchored in a river not fa r Fernando Po. On the 31st of August it was stated by the, prisoner that the deceased had taken a cask of palm oil fr,,,, ° 7:: the vessel in a native canoe. The prisoner seeing ordered the boat of the vessel to be got ready and to hac e his pistols loaded. He then followed in pursuit of the! es t - ,. ceased, accompanied by a person named Boyle. In a 0-O°,;E: time some shots were tired, and there seemed to " no doubt that the deceased came by his death in coo' sequence of a shot fired from the boat, either the prisoner or by Boyle, who died since. Green liv e e , for four weeks and three days, but he died at last. When the: for prisoner returned to the vessel he exclaimedlthat he had ia Green. He expressed his regret for what had happened, a ' a , said he would not have done it for 5,000/. He afterw ar 5 . denied that he had shot Green. The Learned Gentlereol then explained the law of the case for the jury. If the n sr , were of opinion that he was the cause of the death of Gre e ; they would consider whether their verdict ought not to be verdict of anslugher, instead of murder. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said the Court had looked over the depositions, and they were of opinion that it might shot the case, if the surgeon who attended the deceased vrea examined. a Di Mr. Thompson, the surgeon of the vessel Susan , th en in the river Cameroon, was called, and examined by o" Adolphus. It appeared from his testimony, that the d e ceased vr...1 getting well of the wound; but having a chronic comp t; t ; in the lungs, the treatment for the wound might ha l r e —,... celerated his death. The wound was found to have no nexion with a vital organ. Under the direction of Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. THE LATE FATAL DUEL—TRIAL OF CAPTAIN GRANT. Captain Duncan Trevor Grant was then p l ac ed at the beri; charged with aiding and abetting Alexander Th °ll l ' i ' le Munro in the wilful murder of David Lynar Faw cett, was killed in a duel which took place in the parish Mary, Islington. The The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated the case to the jug': e of prisoner at the bar was charged with th e serious all' ; murder. The prisoner was charged with alt-ling and.ahlipetdrilluel in the murder of Lieut.-Col. Fawcett, as secceld took in which Colonel Fawcett lost his life. Tlle the place on the first of last July in Camden-town, An",. t vii re" 3d of that month Colonel Fawcett died of the wo und r e sent ceived in that duel. The law was, that all who were l " ti 's be at the duel, aiding and abetting, were guilty. it 111° ., i d he proved that the prisoher at the bar was so present, . — d u el would be traced from his lodgings to the place where tll,e as was fought. and he believed there would be little done the • t to his identity. If the jury believed he was present wi th label criminal intentidertatputed to him in the indictment, it wou„,ide their duty to find him guilty. He believed it would also that the prisoner at the bar wore moustacheos whe n the otio was fought, though he did not at present ; but they ar' consider upon the evidence, whether he was the saln,e,t'oot son. He had a solemn cluty to perform, and he Tire?'" ~,me go beyond the facts. It would be their duty to decide h those facts. John Holland was then called and examined bY, s `"CYADDINGTON—I was in the employment of Mr . Cea'eitto livery-stable-keeper at Chelsea. On the 30th .._° f „, t ioet Colonel . Fawcett ordered a carriage, and left auThieff that it should come to his house at five o'clock next ra°, e r I went to Col. Fawcett's house and drove him to a 11 . and' No. 27 or 29. Col. Fawcett went in:tett another gentleman came out with him. The g entlema a t ,tes me if I knew the Brecknock Arms. The gentleman „t bar is like g. I tliink the gentleman bar has darker hair ; entleman I will not say positively that thatilaroce gentleman. Another carriage soon came up. Th e y 31 0 04 . to the Brecknock Arms. I saw all the gentlemen ..eor out. .. ,1 cannot say that the gentleman at the bar Was son 1 them They went into the field. I lost sight of thelri heard a report of a pistol. I heard but one report. driv er short time two gentlemen came up. They ordered the 7.01 , of one of the carriagies to drive them to the barracks. ode called into afield, and I saw Col. Fawcett lying on the gr° He was taken to the Camden Arms. Cross-examined by Mr. Wthitairs—l did not tin''' Munro before. I did not know Col. Fawcett. I onlY them from what occurred afterwards. Charles Longman was next called, and examined bd: CHAMBERS—I was servant to Mr. Munro. On the nr'soo of the let of July my master ordered me to get the eallip, ready, and to drive to the Brecknock Arms . I did so. „he Gulliver was with my master. They breakfas ted togs at my master's. When we got to the Brecknock Acores) waited for sometime. A brougham carriage and a stree v ,„. ceme up in a short time. I did not know any of the t gentlemen who came in them. I only knew my master Ir st Mr. Gulliver. I don't think I saw the gentleman at the i v o there. There was a gentleman like hun, but his hair darker than the hair of the gentleman at the bar. dg elf Mrs. Amand, the person with whom Captain Grant I°oo.fr was then called and examined by the Arronzrzy-Grirort -I know the prisoner at the bar ; he lodged with mein cc land-street. I don't see any change in his appearance' ge cent that he does not now wear hair on his upper lip' s ite left my lodgings on the 30th of June. Mr. Munro o °' • him on that day. Mr. Munro was in the h abit of .1 6 „ I to see him. He gave me no notice of leaving. his things at m house for several months. the la Sarah Langha y m gave testimony corrobora ti v e of witness. th° John Wm. Hankey was called, and proved tha .w r -41, - 30th of June he saw Captain Grant, and a pers° 2 pointed out as Lieutenant Munro, together. divisio! ;° er e ; John Jones, a policeman belonging to the S mined by Mr. CitslertEns—The witness was no t able t tify the prisoner at the bar as being present at the d'l_49ot Davis, the toll-keeper, was called, but was P e j to identify the prisoner at the bar. c 10121113 Mr. Gulliver, the surgeon, was then called an d ore• by the ArronNEY-GENERAL--I know Li e uten.all.t p , r nisp do not remember being with him on the night t oiog* c. 30th of June. I was with him on the following 0 1 °_, to 8 , got up before five o'clock. Mr. Munro applied to 13 ,7; . company him. I did so. We went from the barra c e pl o , started about five o'clock. We went to the Bretk, ° ,, 1 . 40 A brougham carriage came up after some tl r°- 'tt not certain, but I think it was Colonel Fa lq „ c y t was in it. I knew Colonel Fawcett / i ' ie uteaqie Colonel Fawcett was there that morning. I knevr „ r e 1 0 0, Grant. I was acquainted with his person. iroelf,,r tachios at the time we are speaking of. I saw five rta I did not see any person get out of it. There oe i r i . - eu te, sons there, including myself, Colonel Fawcett, ', O be Munro, Grant, and a gentleman I understood ..„1,00, Cuddy. They went into a field very near the iv:we'e, Arms. I followed them. I stood with rriX hen r_„ e P e te them. I heard the words "Ready—fire." 1 n, n vieh'oa of a pistol. I heard a shout of " Doctor." — an ud, so Colonel Fawcett. I found him lying on the g ou ty eies , „„ t et in the right side. Lieutenant Munro was nea r mr. ° b oa Lieutenant Cuddy. I don't recollect seeing '"i it id there. I heard some person say n ot 1 ;0 0 levelling at him." Colonel Fawcett said I W fs"„ o tii levelling at Lieut. Munro. Lieut. Munro and (Iw °- ble~ L ' let i shook hands, and Lieutenant Munro said , " 0, Fawcett." I put Colonel Fawcett in the best positio_cett. Munro went away. I saw him leave Colonel ST, 1 cp. don't know that I saw Mr. Grant. lam not certal7bie I lo t not call to my recollection that I did ; but it is Pe s o th° 1 01 I saw Mr. Grant going down to the field. That 01 0 r . time I saw him, to the best of' my recollection so . a eft , b e o • Fawcett was removed. to the Brecknock . Atins,died o a wards to the Camden Arms. I understood 12° 0 1 s wounds. It was not possible for him to survive , tit as he received. distan t i ,eor ds t Cross-examined by Mr. WiLeurs—l w as „, the twenty yards from the place when I hear"' e i Fs j ot. "Ready, fire.:' When I went up I heard Colo 0. say he was not coolly levelling at Lieut. Ala' de°3 Munro said he was. ed t e ° Mr. Liston, the surgeon, examined—He Prc'vood 1 lo pe l of Colonel Fawcett was produced by a bullet w,,, o f Ca right side. He extracted the bullet after t he del" eta Fawce Mr. M andd ro atthew Leonard Coleman was called , Lieut.-Col. Fawcett's commission. h I;; . e Mr. Isidore Blake, Assistant-Surgeon in the St , e d the examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL — H e p ro for the of Col. Fawcett. cam The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said this was se Crown. The jury having retired for a short time, 3-r• aict dressed the jury for the defence, and to ad s ver The jury after consulting for a s h or t time of Not Guilty. our le° (For the remainder of our Day's News 8— • _ Ai Page.) Mr"- ----- pe ster ert The Runcorn correspondent of the C _ c i s fg„ort , says—" There cannot be a doubt that Lord Fro ,. ,ere V ot ~.Cliell i n r i 5 : l ei is either, or will be shortly, in possession of docks and warehouses ; the ' term known, but we believe very great changes 9 -r e ,d pass 13 contemplated, both in the transit of good a ' between Liverpool and Birmi h '' ng am. _...-- ( , of o of proprietorisovediesgeo .=_ BIRTHS. %/ a, the - , On the 10th inst., at Pakenham Lodge, Stu' -- - ' Of Thomas Thornhill,jun., Esq., of a daughter. o f Ri c On the 10th inst., at Spring-gardens , - ardens, the WY' flis's Brinsley Sheridan,Esq.,-of a g da g ughter. Sel On the 10th inst., at Widmore, Kent , Mrs. tile of a son. rert lls o l3 . ll* 0 f On the 10th inst., at Castle Strathallan, lady of the Hon. Wlliam Henry Drummond, of ii_ c 6e c ochi e, On the 11th inst., at Orset t, Essex. ' ". Di' .of a son. . goil ls On the 11th inst., the lady of the Rev- G eerg ' `'" Sarisbury Parsonage, near Southampton, of Hon.son- Dip. JO' On the 11th inst., in Sussex-square, the Gellibrand Hubbard, of a son. • ye n' MARRIED• r otsji l f r r et'? On the 12th inst., at St. George's, the Non. --- to vv -a e ll, man, Royal Navy, second son of Lord Denro ti o ll i won ''' youngest daughter of J. Watts Russel" Egl', Staffordshire. e DIED Dforglicllt On ec. 19 143, at Ard. , East Indies, °Jape Fraser D Galbraith, B wife of Lieutenant Thomas IlaY es i i pe, Madras Artillery. o ..th ' . 0 On the Ist inst., at Ho b g r Frankfort -0 John Mayer, aged 61. In er-'llea f GralO ri On the sth inst., at Nice, Frances Julia, wif e °- Harcourt Vernon, Esq., M.P. ___ ii YOV . 6 'tli l London : Printed and Published by MIJRI),-,ci 00,0 No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office N0. 12 ' 1 1. 4 16 44 County of Middlesex, Wednesday, ' adjourned. The time of the House of Commons last night was almost exclusively devoted to the debate on the ques tion of Ireland, which was commenced by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who rose, pursuant to notice, to move for a Committee of the whole House to consider the state of that country. His Lordship's speech, as in deed was to have been expected from him, was re plete with strong common sense, without the slightest attempt at lofty or impassioned eloquence ; and its object was to show that Ireland has never yet been allowed to participate in the benefits promised her by the Act of Union ; and that the equality which the Tories are constantly insisting that she possesses with England, has up to the present moment been nominal rather than real. The Whigs during their period of authority made every effort in their power to ameliorate the condition of the sister country, and in some degree were successful, but they were hampered and thwarted by the Tories, and were in consequence unable to carry out their remedial schemes to the extent they could have de sired. "In 1841," added the Noble Lord, " the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite had Ireland delivered over to him in a state of political tranquillity. Ido not wish to exaggerate; I do not say those evils which had been accumulating for a century had been dis pelled by five or six years of just administration ; but I do say that the temper of the people had improved —that there was a greater confidence in the adminis tration of the law—and that if that confidence had been fully confirmed we should have expected from it the most sensible increase in material wealth." In re ference to the state of the sister country at the present moment, Lord JOHN RUSSELL emphatically re marked—" Facts clearly establish that Ireland is only occupied, and not governed, by those who now hold the reins of power. In England the govern ment of the country is, as it should be, a matter of opinion ; but the government of Ireland is notori ously a government of force." Sir JAMES GRAHAM did not attempt to controvert this statement—indeed how should he ?—but contented himself with observ ing—" most certainly we do occupy Ireland by a military force, when a demonstration is made clearly showing an intention to wrest that country from her MAJESTY by a military force." This is very shal low sophistry—in fact, it is a virtual begging of the h f a r s om eve h r er ex i‘, h l ib A i J t E ed sTy an ? in l t s en i t t ion m o r f . wresting Ireland Who O'CoNNELL ? Why, he has always denounced in the s trongest possible terms the idea of a separation from the Crown ! Indeed, he has explicitly stated —not once, but a hundred times—that his great object in seeking a domestic Parliament is to consolidate, rather than weaken, the union between the two countries, and to establish it on a broader, safer, and more enduring basis than that on which it now stands. Then, how preposterous in Sir JAMES GRAHAM to allude to the " mi litary force" intentions of the Repealers ; when he must know that, following the example of their chief, they all, to a man, repudiate the bare idea of having recourse to military force ! The Right Hon. Baronet had far better have held his tongue on the embarrassing subject of " military force," than have justified its adoption by such misinter pretation and downright perversions of fact as this. In noticing the question of the striking the Ca tholic jurors off the panel, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, to do him justice, was much more suc cessful, and certainly placed the matter in a far less obnoxious light than that in which we have till now regarded it. He closed a heavy and, on the whole, unsatisfactory speech by stating that it was the intention of Government to propose a considerable addition to the vote for national education in Ire land; an extension of the county franchise ; and an alteration in that of the cities and towns. This is a beginning—though a very tame and meagre one—of the great task of Irish improvement, and as such we receive it with thanks ; but more—much more must be done—and this in a far bolder and nobler spirit—ere Ireland can be said to be placed on a footing of perfect equality with England. A creditor to whom a heavy debt is owing, though he is of course ready to receive any instalment, no matter how small, has still abundant cause for complaint. if, instead of getting a half or even a third, he is put off with a twentieth part of his demand. Among the alterations which Government intend making in the new Poor-law Bill, Sir JAMES GRA HAM stated that he proposed to relieve it of the whole weight of its connexion with the question of bas tardy, and to place the mother of a bastard child and her illegitimate offspring as a destitute widow and child, the latter having been born in wedlock. In commenting upon this just and humane provision —humane certainly when compared with the clause as it originally stood—the Post observes:—" What ever the Right Hon. Secretary may intend, we think that respect for the destitute widow and child might have prevented him from saying that the mother of a bastard child and her illegitimate offspring should be held by the law to stand exactly in the same position." There is a very prudish, lady's maid sort of spirit in this remark, and the sense of morality that suggested it—however it may gratify the nice, ultra-rigid sticklers for conventional respectability seems to us to be at best but equivocal, What possible injury is FRIENDS,' ; &c, " The Shakspeare Novels arc now generally known and justly ap preciated. They are valuable additions to our literature ; and the two preceding divisions of the design are rendered doubly valuable by this completion of it, which carries us on to the close of the bard's felicitous career. ' The Secret Passion' is fully equal in spirit, vivacity, and truth of painting, to its popular predecessors."—Naval and Military Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL. On FRIDAY EVENING Next, February 16, 1844, will be repeated HANDEL'S ORATORIO, " .TEPHTIIA." pitmetrat, VOCAL PERFORMERS, Miss Rainforth, Miss Towers, Miss Poole, Mr. Young, Mr. Braham, and Mr. 11. Phillips. The Band and Chorus will consist of above Five Hundred Performers. Tickets, 3s. each ; Reserved Seats, 55., may he had of the principal Musicsellers ; of Mr. Howley, 53, Charing-cross; Mr. Mitchell, 39, Charing-cross; and of Mr. Reis, 102, Strand, opposite Exeter Hall. THOMAS BREWER, Hon. Sec. ER MAJ E SEA S s ' O r N Y'S THEATRE. ■ 1844. The following outline of the arrangements for the ensuing season :s respectfully presented to the Nobility', Subscribers, and the Public. ENGAGEMENTS FOR TILE OFEB.A. Madame Grisi, Madlle. M. Favanti (her first appearance at this Theatre), Madame Dellini, Madame Dai Fiori, and Madame Perslani. Signor Mario, Sig. Correlli (his first appearance at this Theatre) , Dai Fiori, sig. Felice (his first appearance at this Theatre), Sig. Fornasari, Sig. F. Lablache, and Sig. Lablache. Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor, Sig. Costa. The Repertoire will consist of a Selection of the Most admired Works, and amongst the Novelties will he presented Persiani's New Opera " La Fantasma," produced with great success at the Italian Opera, Paris ; and Ricci's New Opera, " Corado D'Altamura," pro luced with great success at the Scala, Milan ; and now In rehearsal at the Italian Opera, Paris; and an entirely New Opera, composed by M. Costa, expressly for the company, entitled " Den Carlos." THE BALLET. Madlle. Carlotta Grisi, 3fadlle. Adelaide Frasi, of the Teatro di Pergola, Florence (her first appearance at this theatre) ; Mad. Guy Stephan ; Madlle. Scheffre, Afadlle. Ferdinand, Madlle. Planquct, Barville (their first appearance at this theatre) ; 3ladlle. Fanny Elitsler, and 31adlle. Cerito ; M. St. Leon, M. Montassu (his first appearance in this country), M. Coulon, M. Gosselin, M. Gottriet, M. Venafra, and M. Perrot, and a numerous and efficient Corps de Ballet. Arrangements are also pending with 31adlle. Taglioni, and there is every probability that the talent of this eminent artiste will he se cured for a limited number of representations. The Orchestra will consist of the same combination of talent which has entitled it to the distinctive merit of being the first in Europe. The Choruses will be numerous and effective. Leader of the Orchestra, M. Tolbeque. Principal Artiste of the Theatre, Mr. W. Grieve. Maitre de Ballet, M. Perrot. Sons Maitre de Ballet, M. Gosselin. Regisseur de la Danse, M. Coulon. Leader of the Ballet, M. Nadaud. •- Madame Persiani and Signor Fornasari will appear on the First Night of the season, in Herold's chef d'oeuvre of " Zampa." The debut of Madlle. Favanti will be forthwith arranged. Madame Grisi; Signor Mario, and Signor Lablache, will appear at the re-opening of the theatre, immediately after Easter. Madlle. Carlotta Grist will arrive in town in a few days, and will appear on the first night of the season, in a New Ballet, founded on Victor Hugo's celebrated work of " Notre Dame de Paris," entitled La Esmeralda." The part of Esmeralda, by Madlle. C. Grisi ; the part of Pierre Gringoire, by 31. Perrot. Madlle. Cerito will arrive in town at the end of April.. Among the novelties in the Ballet Department will be produced a New Grand Ballet, entitled " Jeanne d'Arc." Jeanne d'Arc,- Madlle. Fanny Elssler. The Theatre will Open in the first week of March, when will be produced Herold's celebrated Opera of " Zarnpa :" Camilla, Madame Persiani ; Zampa, Sig. Fornasari. To be f ollowed b y a New Ballet, by M. Perrot, with New Scenery, Dresses, &c., entitled " La Esme ralda." The Music by Sig. Pugni. The Scenery by W. Grieve. The Principal Characters by Madlle. Carlotta Grist, Madlle. Adelaide Frasi, Madame Guy Stephan, Madlle. Scheffre, Madlle. Planquet, Madlle. Ferdinand, and Madlle. Barville ; M. Perrot, M. Coulon, M. Gosselin, and M. St. Leon. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, Will be performed Shakspeare's Tragedy of HAMLE C. Claudius, Mr. Diddear ; Hamlet, Mr. Charles Kean ; Firt Grave-digger, Mr. Harley ; Gertrude, Mrs. Warner ; Ophelia, Miss Romer. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEI'IN ; or, VALENTINE AND ORSON, Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum nine, Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M, JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. ' THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING=PART L Overture, Zampa—Herold. Quadrille, on Chinese Airs, including t he National Hymn, composed by Confticius—Jullien. Symphony, C Minor, Andante, Fugue, and Triumphal March— Beethoven. Silo, Clarionet, Mr, Lazarus—Lazarus , Valse, The Garter—Koenig. the Destruction of rompeli—Roch lbe Art. PART 11. Duet from William Tell, performed by M. Prosier and Herr Koenig Rossini New Quadrille, The Irish Echoes—Jullien, Solo, Bassoon, M. Baumann. Valse, The Wreath of Roses—Jullien. I he English Quadrille—Julllen. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE. RE-ENGAGEMENT OF MR. JOHN PARRY. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, Will he performed WHO'S YOUR FRIEND? or, The Queens. berry Fcte. Giles Fairland, Mr. Charles Mathews ; The Countess of Rosedale, Madame Vcstris. After the Drama, Mr. JOHN PARRY will give " La Lezione di Canto," accompanying himself on the Grand Pianoforte. After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonus Leech, Mr Tilbury; Wurzle, Mr. James Bland ; Mary, Misa Julia Bennett ; Lady Clutterbucit, Mrs. Hamby. To conclude with a New hairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora, Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, Will be repeated, by permission of Charles Dickens, Esq., THE CHRISTMAS CAROL. Principal Characters—Messrs. 0. Smith, Wright, Lyon, Maynard, Forman, Miss Woolgar. Mrs. F. Ma' hews, Miss Chaplin, and Miss Lee. After which, the Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD. Ri. chard, Mr. Wright; Lady Anne, Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with THE WRECK ASHORE. Principal Cha. ratters—Mrs. Yates, Miss Woolgar, Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, and Wright. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Under the Management of Mr. Batty, Proprietor. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, Will be performed the Grand National Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Napoleon Buonaprirte, Mr. Gomersal, his ori ginal character New Scenes ITS the Circle, and Unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with THE HORSE BANDITTI OF BAGDAD. -------; DA viDGE T S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Enormous hit h a i t t trT o a f cHt ;: os S n t E e o l fv la t: R e l ib tt Ne e so r t id i ,o Fa r l f t ' Bo i — mß m iurn o Ae re ßin c y rn un d , ed don t , ha o n ve e r v il e o r z. ing with fun. d , e A n i t r i s t . led ii. S v T i E n L in L a A . RITTERS. DORF. Supported by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Homier, Neville, Vale, Smith, Johnson, L ew i s, i eslop, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. Daly. ". which,ilughesA, CHRISTMAS CAROL, by " Boz," with splendid Appointments. Will be repeated To conclude with an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with M a iss N T ew err D ey, rarn aw a Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and Tricks, Columbines (alternately) Miss M. Fair. every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Munaband AEIO U. Harlequin, Mr. w . H. Harvey ; Grotessue, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller • Panta blrontherMarn. dflMaiwsskSinhsar;pe. -------- 110YAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, Will be per f or med A CHRISTMAS CAROL Principal Cha. racters—Messrs. Freer, Nantz, Gardner, Paul, Seaman, Miss Vin cent, and Miss Arden. Alter which, THE VV , Miss ILD IRISH GIRL Sh e l a h O'Sh a y Vincent. To conclude with THE GNOME OF THE GOLD MINES. sup ported by Messrs. Freer, Nantz, Miss Vincent. &c. THE WEATHER.-Sux OFFICE, FEB. 14. THEnsIOJIETER, t, 2 onl ; ; Noon, 36. the Thermometer denotes the BAR E ER, 30 I .—NVIND, S.W. f reez i n g point, and 55 tem perate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain. at 29. e e 3 s 2 HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 8 minutes after 10 I Evening .. 56 minutes after 10. . . - .. ~..., N I-r. . 4-741, ° 4 l . - ''' ~,,, 0 li I . / 44 , _ i. l Of r . , . . :st , fe ' - , !it . i l %, H,J ;,, 7 1r 7 ,PAIl lk , - ' ~,, 5 , . .. - ' .. , 7°'4.0-11130° „, . - t --,--- , .•: • ~--._ 0 - SECOND EDITION.. Ant LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1844 Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that on Thursday next he should bring under the notice of the House of Lords the inventions of Lord DUNDONALD, and ad vert to the expenses he had been put to in bringing them to perfection. Lord STOURTON gave notice that on Friday he would call the attention of their Lordships to the mode in which Catholic oaths were interpreted. The Marquis of NORMANBY brought forward his motion on the State of Ireland, and justified the course he had adopted, on the ground that all ad mitted the affairs of that country imperiously de manded the immediate attention of Parliament. The conduct of the Government, instead of conciliating the people, had been the very reverse, and it had roused up against them many who were formerly their supporters. A fter commenting on the mistaken policy of the Government, with respect to the cry for a repeal of the union, he said the best way to repress the agitation was to remove the grievances. With respect to the payment of the Catholic clergy, he thought the present moment was a:most unfortunate time for such a proposition. If the clergy, too, were to be paid they should be paid an in come for religious duties, and not have a bribe for poli tical apostacy. After paying a high compliment to the Irish nation for their domestic virtues, and their gra titude for the due administration of justice, he ad verted to the state of the franchise, to the character of he Irish Attorney-General, and the egregious injus t ice and impolicy of excluding Catholics from juries, and more especially that jury which had condemned the traversers. The Noble Marquis concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that the House would ex amine into the cause of discontent prevailing in Ire land, in order to secure to all classes of her MAJESTY'S subjects the practical enjoyment of equal rights. Lord WHARNCLIFFE replied to the:charges brought against the Government, and was followed by the Marquis of CLAErucAltps : the Earl of Rom, the N ° A I fro n , LoNt, h . - 'I I p i 0 104 , rfAltatio Ili li t . tp 41 6 ., " lb ; Put th, fri t hPletel wai tt4 W l If tti .44 NEW NOVEL BY MRS. THOMSON. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., T" W HITE MASK. An Historical Romance of the Seventeenth Century. By Mrs. THOMSON. Author of " Widows and Widowers," " Ragland Castle," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. :.Jj Ce 1.) ) , 04, ' t N I ay, ttv.i Ia p' ll Ll 4 e tit k it ll ty 4t 4ll 414 ti l ! 21k ttb 1 * ' ' 4l Ztoil